Mei Lin Fung

A Singaporean in Silicon Valley has a pioneering track record as a visionary leader at the intersection of technology, finance, and people-centered innovation. Mei Lin began her career as a computer programmer and operations research analyst at Shell and then joined Intel. There, she learned to apply the principles of Andy Grove’s “High-performance Management” and “Only the Paranoid Survive” first as a financial analyst and customer marketing engineer at Intel’s Distribution Channel. She brought this grounded experience to Oracle, as one of the 2-person team who designed the proto-CRM system OASIS — laying the groundwork for what has become the largest software category today: Customer Relationship Management used in all industries, and especially banking.

She is one of the rare individuals who studied under the founding architects of modern finance—Fisher Black, Robert Merton, and Franco Modigliani—while at MIT and went on to apply those lessons to real-world transformation. As Socio-Technical Lead for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Federal Health Futures initiative, she helped shape the strategic digital modernization of public health systems.

Mei Lin has worked with two of the fathers of the Internet—Douglas Engelbart, who invented the graphical user interface, and Vint Cerf, who co-designed TCP/IP protocols. She co-founded the People-Centered Internet and serves as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Sustainability and co-chairs the IEEE 2026 World Technology Summit. She is also a founding advisor to GovStack, the GIZ-funded ITU initiative to accelerate Digital Public Infrastructure globally. She has published policy briefs for the German, Japan, Italian and Canadian G7 Think7 process. As ACM’s Delegate to the United Nations Financing for Development process, she is now helping lead regional and global efforts to align digital tools, open finance, and AI with MSME growth, inclusion, and long-term resilience.