Our members

Jitendra is a prominent figure in the fintech and decentralized finance (DeFi) sectors. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of HELIX, a Real-World Asset Finance (RWAFi) protocol that bridges traditional finance with DeFi by offering institutional-grade yield opportunities across various asset classes. Prior to HELIX, he served as the Founding CTO of Helicap, a leading fintech platform in Southeast Asia that disbursed over US$500 million in private credit without a single default. His extensive experience also includes over a decade at Goldman Sachs across Tokyo and Singapore, where he built and managed platforms overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets under management

Serena Lam has a strong technology and business background. Before founding Fuzzy Sequence, she spent seven years at IBM in strategic roles across the U.S., China, and India. Her experience at IBM helped her develop deep insights into technology and business strategy, which she applied in building Fuzzy Sequence.

Bui Hoai Nam is the visionary Founder of UrBox - Digital Rewards & Loyalty Solution, a groundbreaking digital rewards and loyalty solution that's taking businesses to new heights! 💪 With an awe-inspiring journey at Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VPBank) as the Cards Life Cycle Management & Partnerships Manager, Nam brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success in building B2B tech companies. Over the course of seven years, he has built UrBox into an incredible network of brand partners, including more than 350 top-notch brands and 1,000 partners across various industries like entertainment, shopping, food, and travel.

Joan Low is the Founder and CEO of ThoughtFull. Prior to ThoughtFull, Joan was a banker at J.P. Morgan, Hong Kong, and managed a portfolio of USD 1.3 billion in assets. Having been a mental health caregiver for more than 20 years, Joan experienced first-hand the gaps in Asia’s mental healthcare ecosystem and was compelled by the experience to advocate for real change and solutions in Asia’s mental health ecosystem through ThoughtFull.

Sherry is the CEO & Co-Founder of Bluejay Finance, a decentralized finance company bringing local stablecoins to Asia. Prior to founding Bluejay, she was at Google for 6 years, with most of her time spent in the emerging markets and payments teams.

Zenos Schmickrath is a tech enthusiast, a polyglot, and a serial entrepreneur. Starting from humble beginnings, he became a Microsoft nerd at 19, a Globetrotter at 25, then went on to build a company with his brother before founding several other companies of his own, including Hmlet – SEA’s largest co-living company. Now he is a Co-founder of LensAdvizor.

Tomas, a serial entrepreneur, and a seasoned executive, Tomas has built and scaled four ventures in Asia and Central Europe over the last decade. While making his own company HotelQuickly, he raised a total of $15M in funding and grew the company to $100M+ in revenues, with 120+ employees across offices in 12 countries.

Sara Zhu is a serial Entrepreneur and Founder of LeapIn and Evenor. She founded LeapIn in February 2019, bringing her a wealth of global leadership expertise across multiple geographies and industries. Sara has held many senior-level leadership roles within some of the world's most influential technology and manufacturing companies.

Andrew is a seasoned CTO, entrepreneur, speaker, and advisor. He has over 18 years of experience founding, growing, and exiting startups and major companies. Working across government, media, hospitality, and blockchain-related industries. He has secured partnerships with the world's largest companies and driven over $100 million in growth. Andrew has architected, launched, and grown platforms to support hundreds of millions of users globally.

She is the Founder of Gnowbe. With rising technology and AI, So-Young is concerned with questions about what it means to be human in the digital age. So-Young is passionate about addressing questions of ethics, values, and humanity in the age of AI.

He is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures. He has spent 25+ years in this space and made difficult decisions, can feel this pain strongly. He believes VCs’ roles are more than just capital support. VCs should understand and find a way to mentally assist founders before they go into the cycle of burnout and weariness.

Rob Liu is a 500 Startups and Startmate alumnus and the founder of Contactout.com, backed with best-in-class contact data, helping recruiters find deep insights into their talent pool and source candidates faster. Rob also dedicates his time at Hustle Fund and Blackbird as an investment partner, finding different investment opportunities in fast-growing startups in Singapore, America, and Australasia.

Colin is a CEO and Founder of Skills Union, working with leading tech employers and universities to provide live online skills coaching and training to help bridge the tech skills gap. He is a tech enthusiast, and has been in the industry for the last 2- years, founding and running multiple business including Drive, an award-winning digital agency that was sold to Major Tom in 2015 and RED, a leading design and technology school, growing to three campuses in Canada and the UK.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Alexis was an expert in the FMCG industry. He led the luxury group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, where he handled 27+markets across Asia and Australia. He has enriching experience living and working in 6 different countries and speaks 4 languages! Alexis was also selected in 2013 out of 50,000 contestants to participate in the reality TV business show "The Apprentice Asia with Tony Fernandes" and finished 3rd, after which he got hired by the business tycoon himself.

Leon is the Co-founder & CEO of MORNING - a coffee tech startup making specialty coffee more accessible to home brewers through the development of a marketplace that unites the world’s best coffee capsule roasters. Leon is also the chairman of PPP Coffee - a pioneer of specialty coffee in Singapore.

Carlos co-founded Nimble in 2014, aiming to build software products for startups, scaleups, and fast-moving innovative enterprises. Prior to that, Carlos was the Head of IT and Product Management of Lazada in Thailand. He also has extensive experience working and leading in e-commerce, energy, software services, and FCMG across South America and Southeast Asia.

Suresh is a 2nd-time entrepreneur, an evangelist of AI, big data, and analytics, podcaster. He is the Founder and CEO of Crayon Data, a fast-growing big data and AI company with a vision to simplify the world’s choices by delivering digital, personal experiences centered around taste.

Charles is a co-founder of CoderSchool in Vietnam in 2015. Prior to that, he spent a decade in Silicon Valley consulting for Walmart Labs, designing courses for CodePath, and mentoring for Bloc. With the ambition of filling in the gap of shortage of engineers in Vietnam, Charles has built CoderSchool into Vietnam’s largest Silicon Valley-style technical school with 2000+ alumni to date.

JJ Chai is the Co-founder & CEO of Rainforest.life - Asia’s first eCommerce aggregator based in Singapore. Before Rainforest, JJ worked for the top startups in the region, including Carousell and AirBnB, where he grew and scaled up businesses across Asia. Previously, he was a Junior Partner at McKinsey, focusing on telecoms and technology. JJ is an NUS alumnus and an MBA holder from INSEAD.

She embarked on the entrepreneurship journey in 2010, turning around a company facing bankruptcy to lead it to be the market leader in the industry through innovation and process automation. Besides speaking at conferences like the Singapore Fintech Festival, her digital and business transformation work has been featured in CNBC, Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, The Business Times, Berita Harian, and Today.

Yong Yi Sung is the co-founder and CEO of Grain, which describes itself as an "online food company that believes in improving lives through meaningful food experiences." He is also honored by Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

He is the Founder of Genius Group, GeniusU & Entrepreneur Resorts. He is a social entrepreneur living in Bali, where I'm growing three businesses I founded. He believes that the entrepreneur movement - predicted to develop to 1 billion entrepreneurs globally by 2020 - is the best driver to solve our most significant global challenges.

Alex is the Managing Director and co-founder of Gogoprint. As a managing director, his primary role is to steer the company in the right direction with David Berghaeuser, which means growth and achieving their mission. Whereas David coordinates the Production, Development, and Marketing aspects of the business, he is responsible for Sales, Customer Service, HR, and Accounting.

David is the Co-founder and CEO of Helicap, an alternative lending platform and sustainable lender backed by leading financial institutions and venture capitalists. Before Helicap, David founded tech-focused investment firm 33 Capital, investing in Fintech and e-commerce startups in SEA.

Ravi is an experienced professional with over 20 years of track record in investment, banking, venture capital, and tech. He co-founded Qapita in 2019 to build the next generation of startups and private companies. He has previous corporate experience, including 17 years in investment banking and corporate development in Asia Pacific.

Since 2013, Elena has led the team in partnering with the early-stage technology startup ecosystem to build teams for growth. In doing so, she has met, coached, and made a robust community of entrepreneurial-minded individuals. She is well known for her generosity in mentoring startup founders, teaching at accelerators/incubators, and doing career transition coaching.