Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Singapore

• Shaping the next generation of marketplace platforms—AI-native, data-driven, and built for durable advantage.
• Accountable for end-to-end Product and Technology across Southeast Asia’s leading digital property marketplace, serving millions of consumers and tens of thousands of agents and developers. In a Private Equity owned environment, I lead the integration of product strategy, platform architecture, data, and AI to accelerate growth, improve monetisation, and strengthen marketplace trust.
• Key focus areas:
• Unifying product and engineering into a single operating model anchored in context, metrics, and customer intuition
• Building scalable platform capabilities across listings, pricing, identity and data
• Embedding AI into core workflows—from personalisation and pricing intelligence to internal productivity
• Elevating leadership bench strength and organisational design for long-term resilience
• Partnering with CEO and Board on technology strategy, capital allocation, and value creation

Jan 2023 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

• From “platform builder” to “business operator”.
• Led the technology and business transformation of PropertyGuru’s Fintech and Home Services portfolio, focused on simplifying access to home financing and trusted home services. As Managing Director, accountable for strategy, P&L, and execution across digital mortgage brokerage and services marketplace.
• Highlights:
• Built and scaled a digital mortgage platform connecting borrowers, banks, and advisors
• Reduced friction in loan discovery, eligibility assessment, and application workflows
• Integrated fintech offerings into the core marketplace to deepen monetisation and lifetime value
• Strengthened partnerships with financial institutions and service providers
• Elevated operational rigour, metrics, and governance across the business

Nov 2017 – Dec 2024 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

• Turning complexity into coherence—building a scalable technology foundation that positioned the company for regional leadership and public-market maturity.
• Joined PropertyGuru during a period of regional expansion and led the transformation of the company into a scaled, platform-first, product- and technology-led organisation. Over this phase, I focused on building durable foundations—organisational, architectural, cultural, and operational—that enabled sustained revenue growth, profitability improvement, and public-market readiness.
• Platform & Systems Modernisation
• Modernised infrastructure, DevOps, and SRE capabilities to improve resilience, deployment velocity, and reliability
• Strengthened cybersecurity posture and governance frameworks in line with public company expectations
• Embedded data and AI capabilities into core marketplace workflows
• Scaling & Organisational Build
• Built a multi-country technology organisation, including an offshore GCC, capable of operating at scale while maintaining speed and ownership
• Developed leadership bench strength across engineering, platform, security, and data
• Introduced structured operating rhythms, performance frameworks, and product-aligned team models
• Cultural Transformation
• Shifted the organisation from a commercially-driven feature factory to a product- and technology-led growth engine
• Positioned innovation, platform leverage, and data insight as core drivers of revenue and profitability
• Elevated engineering from execution partner to strategic growth enabler
• Complex Integration & Regional Unification
• Led the integration of acquired entities including Batdongsan.com.vn (Vietnam) and iProperty Malaysia
• Unified technology platforms while respecting local market strengths
• Drove cultural integration—aligning teams, leadership expectations, and operating models across geographies