Jennifer Chen

Fintech Startup CEO | Retail & Corporate Banking | Risk Management | ABS | Innovation & Disruption

Singapore

About

An experienced FinTech leader with over 15 years of experience covering Lending, Payments, Securitization, Global banking (retail and corporate), Risk management in both early phase and large institutions. Accomplished multilingual speaker with deep experience in South-East Asia, Greater China and NEA geographies. I am passionate about how technology can accelerate financial inclusion and economic development in emerging markets around the world. As the first female FinTech founder and CEO in the Indonesian lending sector it took resilience and determination to be successful and be accepted by the industry, regulators and customers alike. I believe in creating a team culture that is curious, hungry for growth, continuously learning and optimizing, agile and driven by the same purpose which is to serve the customer. Thereby, building a product that answers the gap in need and leading to our speedy execution. Along the way, I have built a network of entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, capital providers, corporates, and some government agencies which gave us the opportunity to contribute at the beginning of the CoViD pandemic by launching Lightup.id. We repurposed our KYC, Fraud and Disbursement systems and partnered with YCAB and Indika foundations, PLN (National Electricity), Tokopedia, Grab, OVO, Metro, Net. TV and many more to collect and distribute assistance in the form of electricity credit to the right recipient contactless. In 4 months, we helped 100,077 families to pay their electricity bills. Throughout the years, I also enjoy giving back through medical missions in remote areas, sponsoring vulnerable children, building schools / sustainability programs for orphanages and singing for fundraising.

Experience

  • Monee (Singapore, Singapore)
    • Director - LatAm Fintech Lead
      Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Manager
      May 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Leading SEA Group’s financial service arm in Latin America building from ground up, driving rapid growth and expansion. Credit, Insurance, Wealth Management, Payments, Wallet, Funding (ABS), Neobank.

  • Operating Partner at Velocity Ventures
    Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

    Consulting and mentoring tech-enabled start-ups in Hospitality & Travel Sector in SEA for growth and success

  • Founder/CEO at PT. Glotech Prima Vista
    Feb 2018 - Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Serving 2.8 million MSMEs and consumers by bringing the offline market online, leveraging Chinese tech and experiences with local operating expertise. The company is profitable, covered all 34 provinces, grew to 350 people, and attained ISO standards within a year.

  • Head Of Investment at HJF INVESTMENTS
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Investing in lands, setting up JVs, capital restructuring and process building in Property Development

  • Portfolio Management, Wholesale Banking at Standard Chartered Bank
    Jun 2013 - Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Satellite team managing the Greater China and NEA global and local corporates portfolio through loan syndication, secondary loan sales and issuance of synthetic CLOs.