Yee May Leong is responsible for leading the company’s business strategy in Singapore. She focuses on facilitating digital transformation of businesses to support the government’s plan to establish Singapore as the digital hub in Asia and helping global multinational companies execute their digital strategy in Asia-Pacific and globally.

During her tenure, Yee May has led the team to expand Platform Equinix in Singapore while driving other important people and environmental initiatives. As a diversity, inclusion and belonging ally and a global executive sponsor of WeAreEquinix, a company-wide initiative to create a place where our employees can say “I’m safe, I belong, and I matter,” Yee May supports equality and underrepresented groups within the company and the local community.

In line with Equinix’s Future First sustainability vision, Yee May also played a pivotal role in signing Equinix’s first renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) in Singapore, contributing to the scaling and improvement of the quality of energy resources. She has also fostered public-private collaborations, including the partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS) to study alternative green hydrogen fuel technologies and the collaboration with Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Dell Technologies to spearhead innovation and green practices in digital infrastructure deployment.

Yee May joined Equinix in 2019 with more than 35 years of ICT experience across Asia-Pacific at leading technology companies, including IBM, Lotus, F5 Networks and Orange Business Services. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, with a major in computer science and a minor in management studies, from the University of Waterloo in Canada. She also completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School