Serene Sia is the Vice President of Cloud Platform Sales for Singapore & Brunei, and also the Country Managing Director (MD) for Oracle Corporation in Singapore. At Oracle, Serene is responsible for charting sustainable growth strategies in the organisation as a country MD and advocating customer digital transformation through Oracle Cloud, driving sales for the Cloud Platform. Serene joined Oracle in 2018, as Vice President.
As a leading female leader in the technology sector, Serene is taking on a double role at Oracle and is also regularly invited to speak and champion women leadership activities within the organisation such as the OWL program (Oracle Women Leadership).
Prior to her tenure at Oracle, from April 2014 to Jan 2018, she was the Managing Director at Presence of IT Asia, where she was responsible for overall operations and business leadership across all business functions and business groups of the Asia region. From November 2012 to March 2014, she held the position of Area VP, Enterprise Strategic Sales, APAC, at Salesforce. She was responsible for strategy and execution of Top & Strategic Accounts in the region.
From April 2011 to June 2012, she was also Managing Director of SAP, Malaysia & Brunei, where she provided country leadership across all business functions and business groups, Enterprise and SME software and services business. Responsible for overseeing the company’s operations, full revenue (P&L) responsibility for the Malaysia & Brunei markets. Serene managed a team of over 130 dedicated sales, business development and solution professionals.
Serene holds a BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (MANAGEMENT), BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES, 2 ND UPPER CLASS HONOURS from UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.