BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

Ser En is a film producer, and also the co-founder of Sendjoy, a Singapore-based startup that allows consumers to book content creators to make video messages for their loved ones. As a film and TV producer over the past 10 years, her live action and animated short films have been screened and won awards at over 100 international film festivals, and one of her animated short films, "Poles Apart" has won the BAFTA (dubbed as the "British Oscars") in 2018, and she is the first Singaporean to win the award. She has completed an MA in Producing at the National Film and Television School, with a scholarship from the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore and mm2 Entertainment. In 2018, she was also conferred the Outstanding Young Alumni Award by Nanyang Technological University. Ser En was named as one of the Prestige 40 under 40 in 2020, and have been profiled in the Straits Times, Yahoo! Lifestyle and Women's Weekly. A passionate storyteller, Ser En is concerned with social impact, building communities, and creating meaningful relationships through innovative ways, whether it's film, TV, or a tech product. She believes that the medium doesn't matter, the message does. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/ser-en-low

Derek Handley is a futurist, entrepreneur and an aspiring civilian astronaut signed up to visit space with Virgin Galactic. He created the Aera Foundation in 2014 as a charitable studio catalysing social innovations to reframe the status quo for a sustainable future. Global venture fund Aera VC followed and has been backing global radical climate solutions and frontier breakthroughs for humanity since 2017. Prior to establishing Aera, Derek alongside Sir Richard Branson, was the Founding CEO of The B Team, a non-profit alliance of global business leaders acting as a catalyst for bold dialogue, courageous leadership and brave action toward a fairer, greener and more human economy. Prior to The B Team, Derek spent 10 years founding and growing an early mobile-phone tech company The Hyperfactory, which he built to be a global success and later exited to Meredith Corporation/Time Inc. Returning to New Zealand with his wife and family, Derek founded Wiser Conversations, an online conversation and podcast series helping people ask better questions to develop self-knowledge and purpose in their lives. Wiser programs run at AUT University in Auckland where he is an Adjunct Professor; through workshops for family offices and elite athletes around the world. Derek is currently studying towards a Masters in Religion at Harvard. Previously he studied at MIT, Singularity University and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/derek-handley

Cherilyn is driven by her quest to empower people and businesses and to help them make better decisions to emerge stronger. The companies that she has founded are testaments to this fact. As Founder and CEO of Interstellar Group, she started Asia Law Network in 2014 out of frustration at being unable to find a suitable and affordable lawyer at a time when she needed one the most. Over the last six years, Asia Law Network’s service offerings have included a lawyer-vetted legal blog, lawyer directory, flat-fee legal consult and quick contracts. Four years later, in 2018, Tessaract.io was launched to empower businesses across Asia Pacific by digitising their operations and introducing them to new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and data analytics. Today, Tessaract.io is a powerful and flexible business management tool that is powering countless businesses, big or small. Tessaract.io has become a cash-flow positive business and has launched operations outside of Singapore. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/cherilyn-tan

Andrew Senduk started his career in both consulting and banking at top-tier firms but found a true passion in e-commerce. He holds 12+ years of entrepreneurial experience building ventures across Europe and Southeast Asia. He co-founded Orami, Southeast Asia’s #1 online destination for mums & babies. Orami raised $20M+ in venture funding and employed 600+ people. Prior to this, Andrew spent 1 year building one of the fastest-growing digital agencies within the region, Lion & Lion where he acted as Country Managing Director Indonesia. He currently holds several strategic roles as an advisor to both startups and corporates and is a highly sought-after keynote speaker on entrepreneurial leadership, digital transformation, and growth. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/andrew-senduk

Ren Yi Hooi is the Founder and CEO of Lightning Social Ventures, a Fintech for Good startup which enables charities and public sector institutions to verify and accelerate support for people in financial hardship. A globally recognised impact award winner, Lightning launched in Feb 2021 and is now revenue generating with multiple national partners in the UK. Prior to this, Ren was the Product Director and Director of Financial Inclusion at Railsbank, a leading FinTech platform. Ren has also held a number of different roles at companies and social sector organisations across four continents, including Bain & Company, BIMA (a global InsurTech provider) and The Rockefeller Foundation. Ren graduated with an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. She is a recipient of the UK’s Tech Nation Exceptional Talent Visa. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/ren-yi-hooi

After starting her first storytelling company as a teenager, and then sailing around the world with a UN Global Climate Expedition as a documentary filmmaker; Jacqui came to realise that the best ESG solutions exist already, but these visionaries needed more visibility. Hence, she moved to Singapore to become a serial systems entrepreneur — building B Corp certified companies that work with multinational clients & visionary social enterprises around the world on their Strategy & Storytelling. Now a Forbes 30 under 30 and 2 time TEDx speaker, she hopes to be remembered for being on the forefront leading businesses to become the solution for the world’s problems and not the cause. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jacqui-hocking

Tammie is the CEO and co-founder of Revery, a Sequoia Capital and GGV Capital backed startup using mobile gaming to deliver mental wellness. Revery’s mission is to make mental health affordable, accessible, and fun. Prior to launching Revery, she was an investment associate at Sequoia Capital and a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/tammie-siew

Elena is the Founder of ConnectOne who since 2013 have partnered the early stage technology startup ecosystem to build and optimize teams for growth. In doing so, she and her team have met, coached and built a robust community of entrepreneurial minded individuals. Prior to ConnectOne, she had spent 15 years at Procter & Gamble. She is a proud mum of 4 kids aged 14 to 24. Outside of work, she teaches the youths in church, sits on a board of a kindergarten and is an advocate of functional training. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/elena-chow

Daniel is founder & CEO of Nimbus, an office facilities management platform. He is a former LSE & Oxford philosopher turned entrepreneur. He aspires to build a company that impacts lives and helps the most vulnerable in society. He was recently featured in the 2021 Gen.T list of young leaders shaping Asia for his work in social entrepreneurship. His company, Nimbus, helps office decision-makers to run their office well. Nimbus handles office cleaning, maintenance and supplies end to end. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/daniel-thong

Elaine Kim is a medical doctor, entrepreneur and educator. With over a decade of medical practice in palliative care, caring for terminally ill patients, she now serves as a clinical consultant for the Singapore Ministry Of Health. A passionate advocate for involved parenthood alongside career success, she is the CEO of Trehaus, an integrated co-lifestyle space for families with a preschool and childcare, office space and family club. Elaine is also the co-founder and CEO of CRIB, a social enterprise that empowers women to become successful entrepreneurs. Actively involved in philanthropy, she has led awareness-building and fund-raising initiatives for charities such as BMDP, HCA Hospice Care and Dover Park Hospice raising over $1 million for causes that support patients with cancer, the terminally ill and and victims of trafficking. She also launched CRIB's philanthropic arm CRIB Gives Back, which helps raise funds for charities, supports social enterprises and engages the philanthropic community, including through its "Holiday for Hope" programme which supports local communities in need in Cambodia and Nepal. Elaine was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (WEF YGL). She is also a member of the International Women's Forum (IWF) , a member of the Milken Young Leaders Circle and actively involved in the Young President's Organisation (YPO). Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/elaine-kim

Gita Sjahrir is the Co-Founder and CEO of RFitness, Indonesia’s largest online and offline boutique fitness brand. She started her journey into wellness when she was diagnosed with Still’s disease, an autoimmune condition that affected her joints and lungs. She began a fitness community in 2015 after wanting an inclusive, equitable and non-judgmental space for those who exercise for the joy of movement, and not to achieve a societal standard of beauty. In 2017 it became the first boutique fitness company in Southeast Asia to ever raise venture capital funding. Gita has been in the startup space for 11 years, and has previously held positions in finance and business development. She is a graduate of the Wharton School (MBA) and the University of Chicago (BA). Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/gita-sjahrir

With more than 10 years of experience in impact investing, consulting, and most recently venture capital, Samantha has worked with over 200 founders and social sector leaders to help them achieve their vision and goals. She is currently the founder and CEO of Stonesoup Partners, which helps build companies that do well by doing good through connecting them with funding and talent. She was a founding member and CEO of Conjunct Consulting, a 1000-member social change consultancy in Asia. Samantha has a Master’s in International Policy from Stanford where she was an Asia Pacific Scholar, a Bachelor’s in Social Sciences (Honours) from the National University of Singapore, and spent a year at Yale University as an International Visiting Fellow. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/samantha-lee-sl

Rachit Dayal is the Founder of Happy Marketer. Born in India, educated in NUS Singapore and based in Singapore. Rachit Dayal started his marketing agency out of the gate of University with minimal funding before growing it to $10 million in sales in 9 years and later acquisition by Japanese media conglomerate Dentsu. Happy Marketer is Singapore’s most awarded digital agency, clients and partners including Google, Singtel, ING, Grab and BCG. He now serves as APAC CMO of Dentsu’s interactive division Merkle. Rachit is Singapore's first Google certified advertising and analytics professional, he help brands in Asia drive significant results from their digital marketing by using the latest technology and creativity. At Happy Marketer’s Consulting Practice, he handles all business relating to Search Engine Marketing, Web Analytics, Website Usability and Online Marketing Strategy. Rachit is also a Master Practitioner of NLP certified by Dr Richard Bandler, the founder of NLP. He is also an Advanced Communicator in the Toastmasters International Public Speaking program. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/rachit-dayal

Jiezhen is a connector, collaborator, and changemaker. She was most recently an Equity & Inclusion Fellow and part of the Mindful Leaders Collective at Harvard University - where she completed her Masters in Education with a focus on leadership, inclusion, and organizational transformation. Before Harvard, she worked in social innovation and social impact - leading The Hidden Good, a social enterprise and media platform in Asia, and facilitating global summits and spaces for wellbeing for changemakers and collaborators. She also serves on several national committees and nonprofit boards in Singapore, and is a global facilitator and changemaker for Ashoka’s ChangemakerXchange initiative, and holds a degree in Positive Psychology, is a certified yoga teacher (RYT200) and positive psychology and possibility coach while being a mother, wife and community advocate. She currently coaches and consults with Linden Leadership and The Possibility Playbook for organizations and leaders looking to build more conscious, inclusive and impactful organizations. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jiezhen-wu

Dom Clonen is the Founder and CEO of TechBridge Market, a tech-enabled recruitment services company Headquartered in Singapore. Their mission to reinvent traditional recruitment services. Instead of charging large commissions for a role, they have developed a highly optimised talent acquisition process that guarantees predictable hiring outcomes at a fraction of the usual cost. Dom is from the UK and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelors in Modern History. He spent the better part of 14 years as a Managing Partner for MICE companies, developing and commercialising niche technology conferences and exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific. After moving to Singapore in 2006 he co-founded a global peer-to-peer community for leading enterprise technologists before becoming the sole Founder of TechBridge Market. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/dom-clonen

Raymond is the CEO and cofounder at Lumina, a hardware company building AI-powered devices that make you look and sound good. Raymond is also the founder at Scalable, a 300-person ecommerce infrastructure company that empowers sellers in emerging markets. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/raymond-lei

Liyana Sulaiman is a Singaporean entrepreneur who has been a technology advisor, mentor and founder across the US and Southeast Asia startup ecosystems. Currently, she is the CPTO and Co-Founder of Pollen, Asia’s first B2B Liquidation marketplace designed for sustainability. She is recognized as a technology product leader in Singapore, Top 30 Women in Product Management for APAC 2019 by PMF, and ‘Woman of the Year’ category finalist for the 2020 Women in IT Awards APAC edition. As a technology advisor and mentor, Liyana has served on several steering committees which include the Media Development Authority, Science Centre Singapore, and Yayasan Mendaki on Digital Transformation for Malay Muslim Organizations(MMOs) in Singapore. She is a startup mentor at the Founder Institute - Kuala Lumpur and has been a zero to 1 product mentor at several technical hackathons across the region. Liyana is passionate about bringing more diversity and inclusion into the technology and innovation spaces. Previously she was a founding board advisor and Managing Director for global non-profit organization Girls in Tech Singapore (2012-2016). As a recognition of her early contributions and achievements, she has been appointed a UN Women Singapore Ambassador in STEM for the Girls2Pioneers Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/liyana-sulaiman

Jane is the CEO and Founder of Pawjourr (Powered by Woof Agency), the world’s first self-serve marketplace created to reward pet owners to co-create with their favorite brands. Pawjourr is supported by Antler and alumni of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Sandbox. Prior to starting her own business, Jane spent 3 years in top advertising agencies, working closely with clients such as Tiffany & Co., Borneo Motors, Qantas Airways, and TAFEP. She later moved on to the consulting space, where she helped to manage the PayPal Global & TATA Communications accounts. Since its inception, Pawjourr has more than 6,000 pet owners under their network and worked with global brands like Nestle, MARS Food, Crayola and featured on the local national TV, newspaper, and an upcoming episode with BBC World. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jane-peh You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jane-peh

Cliff is a serial entrepreneur of enterprise & tech startups. He’s currently a Cofounder & CEO of Multiverse.ai, a blockchain-powered ideation & funding platform for early-stage startups. He previously was at Merrill Lynch, IBM, mobile engineering lead at Google and founder of Fanpop. He’s a Stanford graduate in Computer Science. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/cliff-szu You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/cliff-szu

Zabrina Chew was previously the Co-Founder and CEO of Soda, a community-centric social discovery platform. Prior to that, Zabrina spent almost a decade in thought leadership, gaming, and start-ups. At Singapore's Economic Development Board, she has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies, McKinsey, BCG and The Conference Board. At the global gaming giant, Ubisoft, she led and guided strategy, operations and growth of APAC teams, before taking on the role of Head of Operations at a rising startup building a blockchain-enabled energy ecosystem. As a creative, she performed internationally and taught the violin, as well as ran a blog with 1.5k subscribers on travel, food, and literature. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/zabrina-chew You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/zabrina-chew

Sean Si does speaking engagements throughout the Philippines. He is the CEO and founder of SEO Hacker and the host of the LeadershipStack podcast. He has led his team through a decade of the chaos of starting up and the upward slog of scaling up. Today SEO Hacker is a multi-million peso company that has weathered times of crisis time and again. He has shared the stage and worked with some of the biggest names in the public speaking industry. Namely: Francis Kong, Chinkee Tan, Randell Tiongson, Anthony Pangilinan, Carlo Ople, former president, Joseph (Erap) Estrada, former president, Fidel V. Ramos, and Manuel V. Pangilinan to name a few. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/sean-si You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/sean-si

Gaby is the cofounder and CEO of Bolu, a Jakarta-based social enterprise that empowers MSMEs in Indonesia to sell online by providing them the education, mentorship, and support they need to grow their businesses through WhatsApp courses, webinars, and mentorship sessions. She is passionate about education and sees its potential to help overcome socioeconomic inequality, especially in Southeast Asia countries like Indonesia. Prior to Bolu, Gaby was a consultant in Bain and Company and had graduated with a degree in Economics and Sociology from UC Berkeley Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/gaby-wantah You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/gaby-wantah

Jonathan Ng is the CEO and Founder of Iterative Scopes, a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence-based precision medicine to gastroenterology with the aim of establishing a new standard of care for the detection, and ultimately, treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases. Iterative Scopes is a startup that spun out of MIT, recently raised $150 million in Series B financing to accelerate development of its core algorithmic innovations. Jon has spent over 10 years working in various healthcare systems around the world and training at top healthcare institutions such as Massachusetts General Hospital. Through his work and experiences, he has been inspired to bring an appropriately focused application that could potentially eliminate the barriers within healthcare around the world. Prior to his work at Iterative Scopes, Jon has established two large pediatric facilities in Cambodia, as chairman and founder of Children of Cambodia. Children of Cambodia is a philanthropic organization that provides valuable healthcare training programs and establishes advanced pediatric facilities throughout southeast Asia. The foundation has helped establish Cambodia's first neonatal ICUs, pediatric burns units, and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery units at Angkor Hospital for Children. Jon is the Strategic Director and Founder of Optimimed, a medical services startup in Singapore which works in partnership with large public hospitals to deliver optimized healthcare solutions through technological advancements. Jon also serves as a Medical officer in the Ministry of Health Singapore in hopes to transform healthcare delivery in Southeast Asia. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jonathan-ng You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jonathan-ng

Benjamin Loh is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) and Professional #Millennial Speaker. As the youngest Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) in Asia, an accolade accorded to top 12% of professional speakers globally, an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), Benjamin has empowered over 120 senior leaders individually in topics like strategic communications, public speaking and presentation skills as their Executive Presenting Coach etc. In the role of a Professional #Millennial Speaker, he has also partnered over 55,000 executive clients and entrepreneurs, professionals, directors and CEOs from over 9 countries in Asia from corporations like ANZ Bank, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Porsche, UOB Bank to enhance their performance on stage and communicate effectively across generations. His work in entrepreneurship and activism has also been covered on over 70 occasions on the following media platforms like The Huffington Post, Channel News Asia (CNA), Straits Times (ST), Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), and BFM89.9 Malaysia Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/benjamin-loh You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/benjamin-loh

Vinay Palathinkal is Regional Head, Wise Platform at Wise. Formerly known as TransferWise, Wise is a leader in cross border money movement, processing nearly $100 billion every year and employing 2300 people across 14 global offices. Wise Platform is the third and newest pillar of Wise’s products, allowing platforms like Google Pay and banks like Monzo to integrate and benefit from Wise’s powerful global payments infrastructure. Previously, Vinay was Director, USA, at Arcus, a Y Combinator and a16z backed payments fintech based in NYC, focused on lending and merchant payment processing across Latin America and USA. Vinay helped Arcus scale its processing volume to $1B annually, a 1000x year on year increase. Vinay runs a SEA-focused angel investment syndicate, Fintech Angel Operators, with Chia Jeng Yang (Principal, Saison Capital) and Keng Low (Founder, Finantier) and Rachael Defoe (Founder, RDF Strategies). He likes writing about fintech in SEA in his weekly newsletter called Island Fintech Weekly, and he writes long-form ‘think’ pieces on his personal website. Vinay studied at NUS and NYU, plays in a band on the weekends and is a cycling and fitness enthusiast. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/vinay-palathinkal You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/vinay-palathinkal

An avid triathlete, Bernard is the co-founder of Hatio Group - a technology business based in South Korea specialising in digital warehousing & network distribution. Since 2012, Hatio has a proven track record of envisioning and delivering major transformational change, cost reduction and operational improvement programs in a KRX top 5 blue chip organization. As the group COO, Bernard plays an instrumental role in expanding the Hatio brand across Southeast Asia with a mission to help local SMEs digitise. He currently leads a strong team of software engineers, project managers, designers on large scale digital transformation projects in the telecommunications, healthcare, supply chain & logistics industry. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/bernard-hor You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/bernard-hor

Farand Anugerah is the cofounder of Segari, an Indonesia-based fresh produce grocery commerce upstart that he founded during the onset of COVID outbreak. Started with a simple mission to help his mom - who suffers acute asthma - to buy groceries, Segari later got seed funded and has been growing at a high double digit growth rate month to month since then. Segari is well positioned to enable thousands of households to get their daily quality fresh produce needs in the most affordable and convenient fashion. In his own tiny way, he aspires to be able to disrupt the legacy food supply chain, which is tainted with multiple layers of middlemen. Prior to founding Segari, he headed various departments at Grab Indonesia and the Philippines. Farand received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University and is currently taking gap years from Harvard Business School. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/farand-anugerah You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/farand-anugerah

Sadaf is the Founder of Finprojections.com , a financial modelling resource hub for startup founders. Finprojections seeks to make financial modeling accessible by providing standards-based, rigorous Excel-based templates that can be used to build any kind of startup projections irrespective of industry. Sadaf brings his extensive experience working as an investor and advising startups in the region. Sadaf worked for DWMarkets, a private equity firm focused on investing in financial services. In a personal capacity, Sadaf mentored startups in SEA as a 500 Startups mentor. Sadaf started his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and transitioned into his investing career with the IFC, the private investment arm of the World Bank. Beyond investing and financial models, Sadaf is passionate about expanding education access through technology. After IFC, Sadaf took a break from his investing career to return to his home country of Bangladesh to work at BYLC, a social enterprise promoting leadership education for his nation’s youth. He helped BYLC adopt digital channels of dissemination to make leadership education more widely accessible in his country. Sadaf completed his MBA from INSEAD Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/sadaf-sultan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/sadaf-sultan

Michi has spent over five years working in social enterprises across the United States, Africa and Southeast Asia, with a focus on education and the future of work. Her most recent full-time role was at the African Leadership University, where she was part of the founding team that built and launched a 6-month intensive work readiness program for recent college graduates in Kenya. Currently, Michi is helping to set up an early-stage education fund in East Africa before starting her full-time role as a consultant at Bain and Company. She is the co-founder of KadaKareer, a start-up non-profit that provides career development support and resources to underserved Filipino youth hoping to enter the digital space. Michi recently graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Horace Goldsmith Fellow, and received a BA in Sociology, cum laude, from Harvard College Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/michi-ferreol You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/michi-ferreol

Adzmel is one of the Co-Founding Partners of Piva Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco investing in deep tech and climate tech companies across North America and Europe. The firm is currently investing from its inaugural $250 million fund, backed by PETRONAS. As one of the founding Partners of Piva, Adzmel was instrumental in setting up the firm’s investment strategy. Piva focuses its investment activities in early stage breakthrough technology companies that are changing the way the world works and consumes energy; companies at the intersection of product-market fit and demand inflection for faster scale-up. Prior to his investing career, Adzmel spent more than a decade in the energy sector across various engineering, technical and business management roles. Before he left for San Francisco, Adzmel was instrumental in launching PETRONAS Ventures, the corporate venture arm of PETRONAS. Adzmel grew up in Malaysia, spent 7 years of his early childhood in boarding schools before going to read Mechanical Engineering at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland where he graduated with a MEng. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is currently completing his Kauffman Fellowship under the mentorship of Robert E. Siegel. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/adzmel-adznan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/adzmel-adznan

Zelia is the Co-Founder of PraisePal - The Peer Recognition tool for companies with global teams to grow employee engagement and build stronger culture. No matter where or how their employees work. She also co-founded travel curator Anywhr, which was part of Google For Startups' Blackbox Scholarship and Google Demo Day Asia. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/zelia-leong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/zelia-leong

Co-Founder and CTO of Strive Education (YCS21), teaching K12 math through code via live 1:1 online classes. Tamir is a 3x startup founder, namely Quillo South Africa's largest online 2nd hand textbook marketplace and Insupply, where Tamir worked with the South African presidency to get PPE to front line workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/tamir-shklaz You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/tamir-shklaz

Amra is Co-Founder of Accelerating Asia and General Partner at Accelerating Asia Ventures, an award-winning startup accelerator that scouts and propels the best founders in the region and provides pre-Series A startups with the resources and investment to scale their growth. Amra is passionate about working to close the gap between commercial and social sectors and supporting for profit businesses to exceed commercial KPIs while driving social impact. She is the Asia Pacific lead for Shaper Impact Capital, a Singapore Global Shaper, an initiative of the World Economic Forum and is the host and creator of the Doing Good Podcast. For close to a decade this passion has driven Amra’s innovative approach to program execution and partnerships that intersect both business and social objectives. Amra has spearheaded high-impact partnerships local, regional and globally. Her successful campaign and project outcomes consistently achieve results. Previously Amra led the award-winning UN Women Singapore global social entrepreneurship program, Project Inspire and was a key contributor to muru-D’s wide recognition as one of the top startup accelerator programs in Asia. She has been interviewed and featured as a guest author on industry blogs, including The Straits Times, Techcrunch, Reuters and named as one of Harpers Bazaar’s Women Who Inspire Others. She also is a regular guest on 938Now’s drive-time show – Singapore’s national English news radio station. Amra regularly speaks about the intersection of business and impact, including at global events such as Money 20/20 (Singapore), Singularity University Impact Challenge (Poland) and the Asia Corporate Sustainability Summit (Philippines). Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/amra-naidoo You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/amra-naidoo

An established Market Research expert and a known face amongst Asian clients, Rajiv Lamba holds an invaluable accumulative experience of more than 20 years in the field of market research spanning across the FMCG segment and with proven records of building ‘Quality Leaders for Tomorrow’ Rajiv founded Neurosensum in 2018 which led to an impressive transformation in the world of market research by combining conventional methods with a neuroscience-based approach. A year later, with an intent of making consumer insights real-time and affordable for enterprises, Rajiv also built an AI-Enabled Customer & Employee Experience Measurement and Improvement Platform called Surveysensum that analyzes customer feedback and any unstructured data in real-time, enabling enterprises to get meaningful insights at an affordable price in no time. A truly positive person who considers his employees as the biggest asset, Rajiv has pioneered the use of Neuroscience and Artificial intelligence for consumer research in Asia and continues to empower innovative solutions to create customer-centric mindfulness. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/rajiv-lamba You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/rajiv-lamba

Calvin Chu Yee Ming is Managing Partner of Eden Strategy Institute, an award-winning strategy consulting firm that specializes in social innovation. Over the past decade, Eden has advised corporations like Bell Labs, General Electric, and Samsung; multilateral organizations such as UNDP, UNESCO, and UN Women; as well as governments in Singapore, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia co-create sustainable value propositions, develop strategic roadmaps, and assess the impact of their interventions. Passionate about the interplay between businesses objectives and societal impact, Calvin is also Associate Lecturer in Strategy and Organization with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has served on the boards of Biofourmis, Conjunct Consulting, Credence Labs, Rotary Club, the World Toilet Organisation, and as President of the Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Singapore. He was inducted into the International Who’s Who of Professionals in 2009 and recognised as a NetImpact Changemaker in 2014. Most of his free time these days is spent exploring nature trails with his two young children. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/calvin-chu You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/calvin-chu

Joseph is a 1x exit founder, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and a father of a beautiful daughter. He runs his family business that operates in technology, infrastructure, bio-technology, and natural resources industries. He is also involved as an advisor to several startups, as well as launching his own new startup venture in the social commerce space to help non-formal ecommerce sellers sell easier. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/joseph-simbar You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/joseph-simbar

Raimie is the Co-Founder and CEO of dateideas , a mobile app that provides couples with unique date experiences for their every date. Today, Raimie runs the largest community of couples in Singapore. Raimie graduated with a double degree in Engineering and Business from the National University of Singapore. As an NUS Overseas Colleges Scholar, he spent one year in Silicon Valley working with the brightest minds while taking classes in Stanford University. Passionate about disruption, Raimie dedicates his life towards solving extremely challenging problems which uniquely sit on the crossroads between deeply-entrenched social problems and technological innovation. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/raimie-tang You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/raimie-tang

By leveraging his experience as a former investment banker and FMCG corporate manager, David co-founded Red Ideas to create JaGaApp. JaGaApp is a mobile application product developed and distributed by Red Ideas Sdn. Bhd., a tech startup company based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since its launch in December 2015, and subsequent listing on Bursa Malaysia LEAP board in 2017, the company has reached more than 500 neighbourhoods with its total solutions for neighbourhoods, namely JaGaSolution. JaGaApp helps neighbourhoods to enhance their security, communication and convenience by offering features like Emergency Assist button, Wireless Intercom, VMS, Notice Board, Facility Booking, Bill Payment and many more. After graduating with a Master of Commerce at the University of Melbourne, David began his career as a Fixed Income Analyst with HwangDBS Asset Management (now known as AffinHwang Asset Management) in Kuala Lumpur. He subsequently joined Credit Suisse in Hong Kong as Debt Capital Market Analyst. David left Hong Kong to join Malaysia's top food manufacturing company, Mamee-Double Decker in 2010 as Business Development Manager, before rising the rank as Head of International Business, Head of Strategy and Commercial Director for Beverage & Chilled Division. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/david-foo You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/david-foo

Nellie Wartoft is the CEO and founder of Tigerhall, a social learning platform that helps professionals — regardless of their backgrounds and circumstances — achieve their career and life goals by learning directly from Asia’s most successful people. As CEO, Nellie is responsible for planning and executing the overall strategic direction, growth and expansion, leadership and future vision for Tigerhall. She also works closely with C-suite executives and people leaders to develop their leaders and propel their teams to new heights. Tigerhall is currently supporting organisations such as HP, Cisco, P&G, IDEMIA, Bank of Singapore and more in their leadership development and digital transformation efforts. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/nellie- wartoft You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/nellie-wartoft

Prantik Mazumdar is an award winning Entrepreneur, marketer, venture investor and acts as a Digital Transformation Catalyst in organizations to drive sustainable change and impact. He started his entrepreneurial journey with Happy Marketer in 2011 where he spent a decade building & scaling up one of the best and most awarded independent digital marketing services firm in the region that served brands like Standard Chartered Bank, Income, Great Eastern Life, Royal Brunei Airlines, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Starbucks, Ping An, Grab, Shopee, GoJek, Kimberly Clark, PropertyGuru, PegiPegi, Starhub, Singtel, Nanyang Business School, Kaplan, INSEAD amongst many of it's prestigious clients. In February 2019, he had a successful exit when Happy Marketer was sold to an American digital enterprise called Merkle, which is part of dentsu International, the largest Japanese advertising conglomerate. He is currently serving as the Managing Director of the CXM Group at Dentsu Singapore. Apart from his corporate role, he is an active angel & venture investor, mentor, advisor and speaker through organizations like Quest Ventures, Tie Singapore, HealthXCapital, NUS Angel Ventures and is an Entrepreneur-In-Resident at INSEAD. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/prantik-mazumdar You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/prantik-mazumdar

Aaron is the co-founder & CEO of Privyr, a mobile CRM built for salespeople who work off their phone and use apps like WhatsApp, SMS, and iMessage to interact with their customers. He's a third-time founder across Silicon Valley and Singapore. Prior to starting Privyr, he built and launched CRMs at the world's leading financial institutions, as a Vice President at GIC and APAC CRM Lead at BlackRock. Aaron graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley. He was born in Singapore, raised and educated in California, and has been back in Singapore for the last 13 years. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/aaron-lim You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/aaron-lim

Mo is a serial entrepreneur, Goldman Sachs alumni and a guest lecturer at Monash University department of computer science discussing AI & entrepreneurship. Mo holds several degrees and is an alumnus of London School of Economics, UCL and King College London. His work has been featured in Forbes, Billboard, Adage and Mindshare and has won awards at Cannes Lion. He is currently the co-founder of Metapair and has spent the last decade running startups across Europe, the US and Asia, in addition to being an advocate and conference speaker on the practical applications of NLP. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/mo-jalil You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/mo-jalil

Tulika is the co-founder of SunGreenH2, a startup disrupting green hydrogen production with its high performance, low cost electrolyser technology. Originally an electrical engineer who started out working on offshore oil rigs in Kazakhstan and Norway, she pivoted towards clean energy in 2007 and has never looked back. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/tulika-raj You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/tulika-raj

Hayley Bakker is a Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Diversely, an HR SaaS platform that helps businesses attract more diverse applicants and remove bias from their hiring with smart (AI driven) tools, diversity analytics and bite-size unconscious bias training. Prior to that she founded Colibri Growth, a Tech Offshoring company that helps tech startups in Singapore to set up and manage their tech teams and development in Vietnam. Hayley’s passion and drive for diversity in the workplace was sparked from her experience working in traditionally male dominated industries (M&A, banking and tech). She led non-profit Girls in Tech's Singapore chapter for a number of years and recently helped to set up the Vietnam chapter - both working to empower, engage and educate women (with an interest) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Hayley graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering and Management and is Certified in Agile Scrum, Human-Centered Design and Lean Six Sigma. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/hayley-bakker You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/hayley-bakker

Yuk Chi is a published space lawyer, startup founder, On Deck alumnus, and former Army logistics officer. He is currently working on a stealth-mode project that will democratise access to orbit by uncomplicating the space mission planning process. He is also (in no particular order) a high school dropout, the survivor of a ruptured lung from his days in the Service, and a published science fiction author. As a space lawyer, Yuk Chi focuses on space sustainability, orbital debris mitigation policy, and smallsat regulation. His work has been published by Springer Nature and the European Space Agency, and he is one of the youngest Singaporeans to speak at the United Nations. Yuk Chi heads two research and advisory teams in the Space Generation Advisory Council, and recently led a group to advise the government of the Republic of Uganda on their draft national space policy and legislation. He is also currently working with Donaldson & Burkinshaw LLP, Singapore’s oldest law firm, to help them establish their groundbreaking new space law practice. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/chan-yuk-chi You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/chan-yuk-chi

Vu Trong Nghia (Vince) is currently CEO and co-founder of Bizzi, a VC- backed startup providing intelligent accounts payable & receivable automation platform. Before his MBA in the US, Nghia had an established career with different positions at multinational companies, including brand manager at GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever, and marketing manager at Dairy Queen where he successfully led the launch of Warren Buffett’s brand in Vietnam. He also has a passion to work with early-stage innovative startups as an angel investor and mentor. Vince holds an MBA (with Honor) from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, where, as a Thunderbird SHARE Fellow, he was proudly funded by the Fulbright scholarship program. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/vu-trong-nghia You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/vu-trong-nghia

Jonathan Eg is the Founder & CEO of Partipost. Partipost is a platform that allows brands to connect with influencers across all tiers, from your nano influencers aka everyday people to your macro influencers, at scale and with speed. Since the launch of the Partipost platform in the beginning of 2018 till 2021, Partipost now has over 500,000 influencers and worked with more than 1700 brands on over 5,000 marketing campaigns. Prior to this, Jonathan worked at United Crest Healthcare, taking care of the product and operations. Before that, Jonathan was actively involved at United Crest Capital, a boutique private equity managing largely funds of private families. Jonathan serves on the board of directors for United Crest Capital and United Crest Healthcare. Jonathan has a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He enjoys reading, playing basketball, and watching TED Talks. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jonathan-eg You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jonathan-eg

All his life, James has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world’s first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia’s first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today’s Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major/quadruple minor. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/james-norris You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/james-norris

Bernadette is the General Manager at Entrepreneur First (EF) Singapore, the world’s leading talent investor, helping the most impactful people build startups from scratch. Before EF, Bernadette served as the Chief of Staff at Funding Societies and at Grab. She started her career in Australia at the Boston Consulting Group, before moving to Singapore with Linkedin to lead Product Marketing. Bernadette was also the State Director for Australia’s largest youth-run non-profit, where she worked with volunteers under age 25 to fundraise for development projects across APAC. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/bernadette-cho You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/bernadette-cho

Ilya Kravtsov is an experienced professional within the mobile/internet space with more than 15 years of experience split between TMT Management Consulting, Telecoms and IT Startups He was formerly Founder and CEO of PouchNATION, a Singapore based tech company specialised in guest management solutions.Ilya is currently a Mentor at Plug and Play Accelerator Indonesia, Advisor at Antler whilst remaining a BOD member and Advisor to PouchNATION Previously, Ilya worked as Head of Commercial Strategy for XL-Axiata, 2 Bln USD in revenue Telecom operator and as a Management Consultant for Delta Partners, a leading advisory firm in emerging markets focusing on TMD (Telecoms-Media-Digital) industry. Other experiences include: advising several Venture Capital funds in South East Asia (Ruvento, InvestIdea) and a stint at General Electric. Ilya holds 2 Master of Science Degrees in International Management (Rotterdam School of Management – CEMS and Bocconi University) and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics (Bocconi University). Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/ilya-kravtsov You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/ilya-kravtsov