Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Technology and Business professional having over ten years of high-quality experience in entrepreneurship, sales, strategy and business development with Facebook and three innovative start-ups across Asia and USA. Worked on Operations, Data & Analytics, Product Management now leading Client Relationships at Facebook. Unique experience as Founding Team Member of one of Singapore’s most well known startups and as Country Head and Business Development Manager for one of Asia’s fastest growing startups. Undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore and a minor in Technology Entrepreneurship from Stanford University, USA.
Building Meta’s Internal CRM tool for the Sales Organization. Patented a Feed Ranking algorithm.
Technology start-up headquartered in Singapore, offering cloud-based email backup solutions to individuals and small businesses globally; Rapidly growing with over 650,000 users in just a few months; Offices in 7 countries • Managing the online and offline marketing, sales, business development and customer acquisition (India and SEA) efforts for the company, including Optimization of online marketing and customer acquisition strategy, Collaborations with telecom partners, Mobile Value-Added-Services and solution providers and Relationships with tech blogs, print media companies and affiliate partners. • Assisting the CEO in fund-raising activities by identifying key venture capital investors in the region and pitching the company’s investment proposition to them. • Collaborating with the Product Manager to determine the product roadmap based on technology feasibility, market research, customer feedback and competitor analysis.
Technology start-up headquartered in Singapore, focused on developing innovative data security products and solutions for global markets; Awarded prestigious industry recognitions; Raised over US$5 million in Series A and B venture capital investment rounds. Techno-commercial role with responsibilities across product development, marketing and sales functions; More specifically: • Designed the back-end infrastructure for the company’s flagship data security product, iTwin, for the Amazon cloud platform; The product’s architecture was chosen as one of the featured examples in Amazon Singapore launch’s PR collaterals. • Led the web development team to create a comprehensive eCommerce solution by integrating the third party fulfilment center and shipment tracking systems. • Framed and implemented the Singapore launch followed by the global launch for iTwin. Managed to secure reviews and product mentions in some of the elite technology blogs, newspapers and magazines such as TechCrunch, Engadget, NYTimes, WSJ and PCWorld. • Collaborated with the VP. Of Marketing & Sales to create a sales plan and tracking process for distributor and retail based sales in America, Europe and ANZ region. • Setup the Customer Helpdesk and Feedback department of iTwin to handle customer issues and feedback globally.
• Assisting the Proferssor in a masters level course at NUS School of Computing named "The Business of Software" • Managing and contributing on the blog of the course to help facilitate discussions on the topics taught in the class.
• Conducted a lecture on the current software engineering practices in Start ups and Agile methods of software engineering. • Evaluating the student projects and providing regular feedback to further improve on them. • Managing all the administrative tasks for the module including scheduling tutorials, group meetings, managing the teaching materials and monitoring the module forum.
• Conducting lab and tutorial sessions for the Human Computer Interaction module at the School of Computing. • Contributing to the materials for the lab and tutorials sessions.