Julian Foo

CEO

Singapore, Singapore9 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led strategic partnerships with major banks and payment schemes.
P&L owner for innovative payment solutions at ShopBack.
Expert in M&A and corporate law with significant deal experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong capabilities in strategic partnerships and financial services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial ServicesBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsBusiness GrowthOperations ManagementTeam LeadershipSales StrategyData AnalysisStrategic PlanningCorporate LawMergers & AcquisitionsBanking And FinanceCommercial LitigationInvestment AdvisoryMarket Analysis

Other Skills

Business IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCorporate GovernanceEnglishEquity Capital MarketsGamificationLegal AdvisoryMerchant AcquisitionMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointP&L ManagementPartnership ManagementPayment SolutionsPowerPointPrivate Equity Funds

About

ShopBack - APAC’s Largest Shopping and Rewards Platform Helping you make the smarter choice when shopping online and in-stores!

Experience

Shopback

6 roles

Regional General Manager, Financial Services

Promoted

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

General Manager, Financial Services

Jul 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

- P&L owner and founding member of payments at ShopBack (Online and In-Store), spanning across Vouchers, Card Linked Offers, Buy Now Pay Later, and Pay Now

Financial ServicesBusiness Development

Strategy & Partnerships Lead

Promoted

Nov 2019 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

Led a team of talented individuals to solve problems, acquire strategic partners and grow the business as a whole
Planned, secured and implemented various ventures with Banks, Payment Schemes, Malls and Telcos involving: DBS, OCBC, UOB, Citi, SCB, HSBC, Visa, Mastercard, Singtel etc
Strategised various gamification mechanics to help with partners' agenda and goals of driving incremental spend and loyalty for their user base
Led, initiated, and executed the DBS PayLah! wallet integration with ShopBack GO

Strategic PartnershipsBusiness Growth

Strategy | Operations Lead

Feb 2019 – Oct 2019 · 8 mos

Led the Operations team of ShopBack GO involving:
(i) Merchant Onboarding Ops;
(ii) Merchant Marketing Ops;
(iii) Customer Service Ops;
(iv) Rider Ops; and
(v) Finance Ops
Set up end to end processes to solve various issues in all 5 sub-functionalities
Managed a team of 5-7
Point person between external technical partners with Visa and Mastercard
Onboarded and managed over 500 merchant partners
Planned and implemented mass migration of system providers involving business model changes

Operations ManagementTeam Leadership

Strategy | Business Development Manager

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 · 4 mos

Started the ShopBack GO team with 4 others
Planned and implemented the sales strategy to grow our merchant base from 0 to 500 merchant partners
Constant iteration of the product to better serve our merchant partners and our users

Business DevelopmentSales Strategy

Strategy | Data

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos

Bridge between the business and strategic planning to use data in order to align with company goals of reducing CAC, and increasing CLV
Tools used: Redshift / Excel

Data AnalysisStrategic Planning

Dentons rodyk

2 roles

Associate

Jan 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Singapore

Mergers & Acquisitions / Private Equity / Debt Capital Markets
Areas of work: M&A, DCM, joint ventures, corporate amalgamation and restructuring documentation
Acted for and advised Global Premium Hotels Limited (“GPHL”), a major hotel conglomerate and SGX-listed company in Singapore, in JK Global Capital Pte. Ltd.’s public acquisition of GPHL for approximately S$383.98 million.
Acted for and advised Jun Jie Development, on the private acquisition of shares pertaining to Cityvibe, a four-storey commercial building, in a deal that values the property at S$71 million.
Acted for Fragrance Group Limited in drafting the supplemental information memorandum in connection with the S$1 billion multicurrency debt issuance programme, and the subsequent note issuance of the GBP45 million 3.25% fixed rates notes.
Advising a leading fintech-focused venture capital fund which focuses on fintech-ecosystems across the world, in connection with its fund management licence, and the drafting and amending of their investment management agreements.
Acted for a multinational corporation with a chain of fast food restaurants, with an estimated market cap. of S$6.9 billion, in a joint venture with a Singaporean-based company, to establish its presence in Europe.
General Corporate / Commercial / Employment / Restructuring
Areas of work: (i) distributorship, supply and services arrangements, (ii) consultancy agreements, (iii) non-disclosure agreements, (iv) joint venture agreements, (v) corporate governance issues, (vi) charities, (vii) private educational institutes and (viii) corporate secretarial work.
Advising a registered charity and private educational institute, in the provision of on-going general advisory work in connection with the Charities Act, Private Education Act and employment law etc.
Acted for a registered charity and private educational institute, in its group restructuring.

Corporate LawMergers & Acquisitions

Legal Intern

Jul 2013 – Jul 2013 · 0 mo

Internship with the Corporate team - Assisted in drafting non-compete contracts and other corporate agreements. Researched on non-governmental organisations (NGOs), IP law, contract law and corporate governance issues.

Corporate Law

Wongpartnership llp

Legal Intern

Jun 2013 – Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Singapore

Banking and Finance

Banking and Finance

Rhtlaw taylor wessing

Legal Intern

Jun 2013 – Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Singapore

General Corporate

Corporate Law

Rajah & tann asia

Legal Intern

May 2013 – May 2013 · 0 mo · Singapore

Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions

Rhtlaw taylor wessing

Legal Intern

Jul 2012 – Jul 2012 · 0 mo

Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Commercial Litigation

Julius baer

Analyst Intern

Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Singapore

Internship with the Investment Advisory Services team - Assisted with management of portfolios subject to daily market outlooks. Handled various projects which involved researching and analysis of finance graphs and statistics.

Investment Advisory

Withersworldwide

Legal Intern

Apr 2011 – Apr 2011 · 0 mo · Singapore

Internship with the Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution team - Assisted with research regarding cases of defamation, land acquisition appeals and disputes etc.

Market Analysis