Prof Vinesh Thiruchelvam has over 27 years of experience in engineering education/academics, ICT, operations & maintenance, facility management, design and project management in various industries ranging from building services/property, oil & gas, district cooling plants, co-generation power plants and the port industry.

He has managed deliveries of international projects in the US, Maldives, UK, Hong Kong, Macau, China, India, Russia, Iran, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia for the property sector, ports, oil & gas and power plant industries.

Since 2012 he has moved fulltime into academia and after stints as head of school, Dean, Deputy Vice Chancellor and is now the Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer (CIEO) at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), Malaysia.