Norhalim was the Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC). MTDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional, the investment arm of the Malaysian Government. He retired on 31 Dec 2022.He has extensive experience in the commercialisation of public sector universities’ research results, early stage technology ventures, innovation policy development and fund management. He is one of the pioneers in the public universities/research institutes R&D results commercialisation in Malaysia and has played many roles related to the overall development of the Malaysian technology commercialisation ecosystem; as a venture capital fund manager, government grant manager, incubator manager and as industry expert in various public sector innovation-related committees. He joined MTDC a few months after its formation in 1993 and has had the opportunity to be deeply involved in the Malaysian innovation ecosystem development. From the early beginnings of working with local universities to commercialise their research results, to introducing various funding schemes to assist entrepreneurs to start companies, to the creation of the first university-based incubator and various other innovation initiatives that have been introduced in Malaysia for the past 20 odd years.