Desmond Chin Ye Foong

Desmond Chin joined Touch ‘n Go in November 2020 as Head of Tech Design & Solutioning. He was promoted to Chief Technology Officer on 20 May 2022. He has over 17 years of experience in application, system, infrastructure, enterprise, and solution architecture design.

Prior to his role in Touch 'n Go, Desmond was Director, CIMB Group Venture & Partnership division. He was responsible for the delivery of digital product solutions. Before that, he spent 11 years in the CIMB Group Technology division, in leadership positions across multiple roles from PMO, technical architect, integration, digital solution architect to regional enterprise architect. During his tenure in CIMB, he contributed to the success of multiple vital programs and projects, such as CIMB Malaysia & CIMB Niaga (Indonesia) Core Banking migration, CIMB Vietnam Digital Core Banking implementation, CIMB x Touch 'n Go micro-lending platform solutions, and many more.

In the earlier years of his career, he was a solution engineer working on business processes outsourcing solution technologies such as POTS, PABX, routers, firewalls, windows, and UNIX systems.

Desmond holds a egree in Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Multimedia University.