Senior Director, Connected Ecosystem, APAC, Lumen Technologies

Based in Singapore, Wai Kit leads Alliances, Business Development, and Connected Ecosystem strategy for Lumen Technologies across Asia Pacific (APAC). He is responsible for building and scaling strategic partnerships with hyperscalers, cybersecurity leaders, system integrators, and industry ecosystems to support enterprise growth and regional gotomarket execution.

His work is distinguished by a strong focus on operationalisation—turning partner capabilities into production ready architectures that bridge strategy, technology design, and daytoday operations, particularly in the areas of cyber risk, resilience, and largescale digital transformation.

Wai Kit regularly engages Csuite leaders and boards on ecosystem strategy, cybersecurity and resilience, and the evolving trust and governance challenges introduced by AI adoption across regulated and critical infrastructure sectors in APAC.

In parallel, he represents the APAC CISO office, where he has played a key role in shaping the region’s cybersecurity roadmap and advancing public private partnerships to strengthen regional cyber capacity.

With more than 30 years of experience, Wai Kit is a seasoned technology and security leader with a background spanning IT and OT, risk and compliance, cybersecurity, automation, and AI. Beyond Lumen, he serves on the 9th Cyber Security Awareness Alliance (CSAA) and Fortinet’s MSSP Customer Advisory Board and previously served on the founding board of the Cloud Security Alliance (Singapore).

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wkcheah/