Mr Agarwal joins the cybersecurity company’s illustrious advisory board, alongside BG Rami Efrati, Ted Tan, Professor Annie Koh, and Henry J. Sienkiewicz
Flexxon appointed former Intel and Microsoft executive Ravi Agarwal to its advisory board on 25 October 2023. With over three decades of global technology leadership, he advises the company on business growth, market expansion, brand strategy, and innovation in hardware-based cybersecurity. Flexxon currently lists Ravi Agarwal as a Strategic Advisor.
Singapore, 25 October 2023 – Hardware cybersecurity solutions pioneer Flexxon (the “Company”) today announced the appointment of ex-Intel and Microsoft executive Mr Ravi Agarwal to its advisory board. An industry veteran with over three decades of experience, Mr Agarwal will lend his extensive expertise to the Company’s strategic growth and innovation strategy across its markets of operation.
Commenting on his appointment to the board, Mr Agarwal said, “I am delighted to accept this role and bring Flexxon and its innovative cybersecurity solutions to the fore of our industry’s development. Cybersecurity is one of the greatest necessities in today’s digitized society, and I look forward to playing a part in hastening the process through my work with the forward-looking and dynamic team at Flexxon.”
Ms Camellia Chan, Co-Founder and CEO of Flexxon, said, “We are thrilled to welcome Ravi to our distinguished advisory board, an invaluable sounding board and source of insight as we take the company to new heights across the globe. With Ravi’s extensive and proven depth of expertise and experience, I have no doubt that we will be able to strengthen our efforts in bringing truly effective, intelligent and impactful cybersecurity solutions to organisations and individuals across the globe – and change the state of play in our favour against hackers.”
Mr Agarwal, is a well-respected global technology executive with deep experience in strategy and brand development, and business transformation. In his capacity of Intel’s Director of Marketing, he conceived and launched the “intel in it” branding initiative in Japan. A landmark initiative which was then leveraged to create the worldwide “Intel Inside” campaign. For his contribution, Ravi received Intel’s most prestigious Intel Achievement Award.
An active contributor to the community, Mr Agarwal spearheaded a mentorship program for under-privileged college students in partnership with the Ministry of Education in Singapore. He is also an active member of the Harvard Club Singapore and lent his time as a professor at Singapore’s Nanyang Business School as a Practice Faculty specializing in emerging markets strategies. He also served on the board of the Singapore American School for five years.
Headquartered in Singapore and with offices in the US, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Flexxon continues to expand on its novel hardware-based cybersecurity solutions portfolio. Its X-PHY Cybersecure SSD was unveiled in 2021 and has since been integrated into laptops from leading PC manufacturers including Lenovo, HP, ASUS and more. This secure endpoint offering is also available as an option in Singapore’s largest telecommunications provider, SingTel’s, SME cybersecurity solutions suite of offerings. In the coming months, Flexxon will build on the X-PHY’s success and officially unveil its latest innovation, which will deliver another industry first. This time, in its approach to securing data centers and servers.
