Mr Suresh Sachi

Biography

 Suresh Sachi joined A*STAR in April 2002. He is a qualified lawyer admitted to practice law by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore and is also a qualified Patent Agent. As the Deputy Managing Director, he oversees the corporate functions for the Agency and supporting the Research Councils and Exploit Technologies in performing the functions of Human Resources, Finance, Corporate Communications, Administration & Procurement, Infrastructure Planning & Facilities Management, and Information Systems & Technology. His role is to ensure that the Corporate Group provides value-added services to support the Agency’s R&D and other operations and that A*STAR’s resources are deployed in an efficient and integrated manner. Suresh Sachi concurrently serves as the Agency’s General Counsel, taking charge of all legal and intellectual property matters. He is responsible for establishing, implementing and maintaining A*STAR’s legal, intellectual property, risk management and compliance policies. Before joining A*STAR, Suresh Sachi was in private legal practice in a leading law firm where he was a partner in the Technology and Intellectual Property Department where he represented many public and private organisations, including A*STAR Research Institutes, local and foreign institutes of higher learning and has significant experience working with multi-national corporations, public listed companies, small and medium enterprises as well as hi-tech start-up companies. Suresh Sachi has spearheaded a number of national efforts to coordinate and streamline legal and IP terms across Singapore’s public agencies, including the Public Sector Master Research Collaboration Agreement, bringing together more than 18 public sector agencies in a single master agreement; the Master Clinical Trials Agreement across all public sector trial centres; streamlining and aligning public sector RIE Grant Terms & Conditions, and establishing a National IP Protocol for Singapore. Suresh Sachi has served on a number of national committees, including the Committee on the Future Economy, the IP Hub Steering Committee, the Intellectual Capital Working Group and the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) Mentorship Funding Scheme Committee. He currently serves on the board of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore as well as the boards of several of the A*STAR research institutes. He served on the board of governors and is now an adviser at the IP Academy. Suresh Sachi is a founding member and past president of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Singapore. He served for more than 10 years on the Ethics Committee of the Singapore Eye Research Institute and is now a member of the SingHealth Centralised Institutional Review Board. As a specialist in intellectual property and technology transfer, Suresh Sachi is a frequent speaker at various forums, including the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Licensing Executives Society, the IP Academy, the Law Society of Singapore and the Global Forum on Intellectual Property. He is an active coach and trainer in the IP landscape in Singapore. He was named in the 2017 IAM 300 magazine as one of the World’s Leading IP Strategists (IAM 300). Suresh Sachi holds an LLB from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, Fontainebleau in 2016.          

Research Interest

 Business Administration, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, genome