Grab, the leading Online-to-Offline (O2O) mobile platform in Southeast Asia, announced it has appointed Mark Porter as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Transport. In this newly created role, Mark will oversee Grab’s technology infrastructure and teams dedicated to its transport business. In his role as CTO of Transport, Mark will also oversee the development of agile platforms and machine learning, AI, and data science capabilities to deliver a safer, more seamless and personalized transport experience. Based in Seattle, he will lead and work with engineering teams across Grab’s global network of 6 R&D centres in Singapore, Seattle, Beijing, Bangalore, Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta. Mark joins Grab after five years at Amazon, where he was most recently General Manager, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. Mark brings to Grab deep technology expertise and leadership experience from a career that has included stints at NASA, Oracle and Caltech.

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