Peter Ho

Peter is one of the Directors at HOPE Technik Pte Ltd, a company he co-founded in 2006. HOPE Technik is an engineering solution provider specializing in niche areas of high-tech engineering, with departments in Unmanned systems, Defence, Bio-medical, Smart Logistics and Special Vehicle arenas.

Peter serves as CEO where he guides the company towards long-term technical and business goals, and has seen the company grow from a start-up in 2006 through to a multi-million dollar group at present employing over 60 teammates.

Peter graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2003 with a Second Class (Upper) honours in Mechanical Engineering. For his final year project, he was responsible for setting up and leading the first NUS Formula SAE team, and in his short stint as a staff with NUS, supervised the second NUS Formula SAE team and also secured a contract for Robotic Exploration at the Great Pyramid in Egypt with the National Geographic Society.

Peter subsequently joined Team Petronas Touring Cars, a racecar engineering team that competed in the British, German and Asian Touring Car Championships, and rose quickly from an entry mechanic through to his final appointment as Chief Engineer.

Having satisfied his decade-long thirst for racecar engineering, he returned to Singapore and co-founded HOPE Technik (together with Michael Leong, Jeff Tang and Ng Kiang Loong). He has been involved in nearly all of the 250+ projects the company was contracted to execute, for a plethora of global clients in the defence, aerospace, medical and commercial arenas.

Peter was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award from NUS in 2009 and HOPE Technik was awarded the Innovator Award for the Emerging Enterprise Award from OCBC/ SPH in 2012.

Peter is part of the Consultative Committee to the Department of Mechanical Engineer at the National University of Singapore, where he also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment. Peter is also a member of the Singapore Science Centre Sub-committee for Programming and is a Board member of Composite Cluster Singapore Pte Ltd and Airgo Design Pte Ltd.