Tze Meng graduated with a BSc(Eng) in Computer Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1986 and has been in the IT industry for more than 36 years. He had roles in data communications, electronics design, and software development in his early career.

In 1988 he started a career with Telekom Malaysia’s IT Division and was involved in TM’s data centre deployments and OSS capacity planning. In 1994 he was recruited into a special team which resulted in the launch of TMnet in 1996. In 2000 he left his role of managing TMnet’s international networks to lead a data centre consulting startup which was contracted to design a data centre in Cyberjaya and secure two major local banks’ Internet banking facilities. The dotcom crash and decline of the DC industry in the late 90s prompted Tze Meng to venture into another startup in the Apple enterprise support business In 2003.

In 2007 the prospect of guiding MSC Malaysia’s infocomms strategy and policy brought him to MDeC. Today he heads the Digital Infrastructure Department, which is responsible for the development of the digital infrastructure industry in Malaysia through the facilitation key components such as data centres, cloud, terrestrial and submarine connectivity as well as related enablers (water, power, renewable energy, policies, regulations and legislation). Since the end of 2023, the new focus is on facilitating the infrastructure to meet the demands of artificial intelligence.