Syed is a Sustainability and Engineering veteran with over 30 years of proven experience in leading the change within organizations to adopt technologies, innovation, business process improvement, and stakeholder engagement to future proof assets, and achieving triple-bottom-line goals – People, Planet, and Profit with Purpose. He has held several senior leadership positions at various organizations in Asia in leading diverse group of teams, and deliver multi-million-dollar projects across commercial, industrial, hospitality and corporate real estate assets.

He has managed multi-million sq. ft of facilities in Asia to lead teams in delivering Facilities Management, Engineering and Sustainability services to improve asset performance, risk mitigation, improve health & safety of environment, realize carbon reduction, cost savings, water conservation, waste minimization, and engaging stakeholders for common goal. He has raised multi million in funding to execute asset improvement and green initiatives which includes process improvement, digital transformation and adoption of low carbon technologies.

He has implemented several management systems such as ISO 9001, 18001, 45001,
55001 and 21021 to overcome operational challenges, improve quality, eliminate wastages/mundane functions, increase productivity and common data environment for system visibility. He has pivoted the execution of SDGs, ESG and ERM reporting adoption of standards/requirements like CDP, GRI, SBTi, GHG, AA1000, TCFD, ISO14064, SGX, HKEx and so on.

He has been pivotal in forming consortium to develop blue and green hydrogen projects in SEA of multi megawatt scale. Also providing advisory, consulting, engineering design and technology selection to facilitate the project intent.

He holds qualifications in Business Sustainability, Financial Management, Electrical & Electronics Engineering. He is the recipient of the CSR Award, ASHRAE Technology Award and published several papers on decarbonization and technologies. He is an alumnus of S P Jain Global Institute of Management and CISL, UK.