Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Member of the Singapore Chapter since 1991.
• Transferred to the US Chapter (San Francisco Bay Area) in August 2022.
• Intelligence and perhaps more critically - Intellectual Humility - exert a profound, invisible influence on much of our endeavors as a species. These — combined with other qualities including emotional and adversarial quotient — are critical to personal and organizational growth.
• As a (company) builder, and a father, these are important topics — And my participation in Mensa is driven by my aspirations to build useful things, prepare my children to excel, and to serve others well.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · United States & Singapore

• Starboard is a technology platform that automates and simplifies corporate governance, administration and entity management.
• With workflow automation tools, integrations with ACRA and MyInfo — corporate secretary and accounting firms can manage their clients with ease, and scale efficiently.
• Resolutions are automatically generated, from easy-to-build, reusable templates. From within the platform, they are sent for signing; and when done, they are automatically retrieved, tagged and filed.
• Jobs that used to take hours, are now eliminated, or completed within minutes on Starboard.
• Starboard also provides a beautiful-looking, white-labelled client portal — so that our partners can transform into "Online, Digital Corporate Service Providers"... effortlessly.
• www.StarboardHQ.com

Jan 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Melbourne, Victoria

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• The Commissioned is Your Online Art Commission™ - a web service that connects you with talented artists from all over the world, enabling you to commission a piece that’s truly yours.
• The company is based in both San Francisco and Singapore, with a curated community of artists from all over the world.
• We envision a world where commissioned art is made accessible and affordable… where no one will ever say “I wish I could find the perfect art piece”, or “I wish I could paint”; a world where art is not just beautiful, but also deeply personal and meaningful.
• For more information, please visit www.TheCommissioned.com

Jul 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo

• In July 2013, Ruckus Wireless acquired YFind Technologies - the indoor positioning company I co-founded.

Apr 2011 – Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Singapore

• Designing Social Business & Communication Strategies. Training & Building Organisational Capabilities...
• Omnifluence consults and trains Fortune 500 companies and the Singapore government in Social Business and Social Media Strategy, enabling organisation-wide adoption and deployment of Social Media and Social Computing Technologies.

Oct 2010 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Creating Location-Intelligent Buildings & Cities...
• YFind Technologies is a pioneer in Indoor Positioning Solutions with a proprietary “indoor GPS” technology. The company develops Location Based Services and Applications that (accurately and reliably) locates people and places indoors or in dense urban environments.
• I led product strategy, business development and marketing at YFind Technologies.
• The company was acquired by Ruckus Wireless in July 2013.

Mar 2010 – Oct 2010 · 7 mos · Asia Pacific

• Built and Led the Asia Pacific Digital Practice for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide...
• Before starting Omnifluence and YFind Technologies, I founded and led the Digital Strategies Group (later renamed WE Studio D™) for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide (Asia Pacific).
• In the three years I was there, I built the firm’s digital capabilities in the region from ground-up to a team of more than 30 integrated communications specialists in markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea.

Jan 2008 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Asia Pacific

• Built and Led the Asia Pacific Digital Practice for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide...
• Before starting Omnifluence and YFind Technologies, I founded and led the Digital Strategies Group (later renamed WE Studio D™) for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide (Asia Pacific).
• In the three years I was there, I built the firm’s digital capabilities in the region from ground-up to a team of more than 20 integrated communications specialists in markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea.

Jul 2007 – Dec 2007 · 5 mos

• In the early days of the Social Web's growth, I helped agencies without "Social PR" capabilities to develop their strategies and build their capabilities internally.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• As an "early" blogger who focused on the emerging technologies that we now call the Social Web, I authored a blog on "PR 2.0" and my articles were syndicated by the Social Media Collective. I was one of the few Asians that were part of the community of global thinkers and enthusiasts who saw great potential in emerging social technologies. I later did some contract writing for them - covering events including the World Cities Summit 2012

Mar 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

• I managed and worked on technology and public sector client accounts, developed and implemented publicity programs. I also developed programs that addressed a then-unmet need - digital communications strategies and tactics for clients.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs

• Build it together with a good friend as a hobby. We wanted to disrupt something... But we were a little too early. It remains a hobby site that we don't spend time on. We've been too slack to shut it down. But you must admit... it's a nice domain name. :)

Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos

• I worked on, and managed publicity and media relations programs for consumer technology clients like eBay, and enterprise technology clients like Microsoft (also consumer technology) and EDS (later acquired by HP).

Dec 2002 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• I managed media relations for pharmaceutical clients include Pfizer, technology clients including Nokia (oh, those were the days!), and beverage giant - InBev.