Our members

Apichai Sakulsureeyadej is a major force in driving e-Tourism in Thailand and the ASEAN region today. An award winner for Thailand in the Information Technology field, Apichai was the first from Thailand to win an “Industrial Applications” category award in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2007.

Don is a Co-founder and CEO of Everest Education (E2). He began his career in management consulting with Bain & Company in California before becoming an investor with Red Mountain Capital.He moved to Vietnam in 2007 and has helped build several finance, technology, and consumer businesses. Prior to founding E2, Don served as Director, Head of Corporate Strategy & Finance, for Viet Thai International, one of the largest consumer marketing and multi-unit retail operators in Vietnam including Highlands Coffee and Pho 24. Before that, he first served as Director, Institutional Markets, for Mekong Securities.Don was instrumental in developing Sponsors for Educational Opportunity – Vietnam (SEO-Vietnam) and served on the board of directors for several years. Now, Don remains an active mentor and trainer.

An entrepreneur based in Bangkok since 2010, with a software engineering background. Started 2 tech businesses in Thailand, Property Flow and Seven Peaks.

Founder @ VOX is on a mission to democratize AI. I've led scale-ups (OneDay Group $40M+), enterprises (TROSCO $110M+, DCG $25+), and most recently my startup (Sharly) in EMEA and APAC.

Bui Hoai Nam is the visionary Founder of UrBox - Digital Rewards & Loyalty Solution, a groundbreaking digital rewards and loyalty solution that's taking businesses to new heights! 💪 With an awe-inspiring journey at Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VPBank) as the Cards Life Cycle Management & Partnerships Manager, Nam brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of success in building B2B tech companies. Over the course of seven years, he has built UrBox into an incredible network of brand partners, including more than 350 top-notch brands and 1,000 partners across various industries like entertainment, shopping, food, and travel.

Yoga began his career as an oil and gas engineer. He went to Germany to get his Master's and then worked as a researcher. After some time, he decided to go home to Indonesia to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations: helping smallholder farmers in Indonesia find solutions to increase their livelihood. Yoga then joined a waste treatment company, PT Biokonversi Indonesia, where he worked as an engineer and helped the marketing team sell USD 10M in organic fertilizer in under two years. While doing this work, he learned the complicacy of the Indonesian agri space and the opportunities to improve. He then quit the company to start his own, which, in 2021, would become Semaai.

A serial 2-x exited entrepreneur (ex-Enso, European proptech → $100M GMV annually, and ex-Tiggy, #1 q-com in Canada → $6.5M ARR, $10.5M raised), Google alumnus.

Joan Low is the Founder and CEO of ThoughtFull. Prior to ThoughtFull, Joan was a banker at J.P. Morgan, Hong Kong, and managed a portfolio of USD 1.3 billion in assets. Having been a mental health caregiver for more than 20 years, Joan experienced first-hand the gaps in Asia’s mental healthcare ecosystem and was compelled by the experience to advocate for real change and solutions in Asia’s mental health ecosystem through ThoughtFull.

Co-founder and CEO of AI COMMUNIS. LLB from University of Tokyo, and MBA from Duke University. 17-year experience at MUFG bank includes corporate banking and staff to the chairperson and president. MD at Japan Post Capital, covering AI, agri tech and prop tech. Founded an AI startup in singapore in 2020.

Anuvrat Rao is the founder of 1Bstories, an international Generative AI start-up that auto-converts and creates with AI interactive web stories, videos, social posts and websites for creators, brands, publishers, and platforms. With 9 years of experience at Google, Anuvrat has expertise in launching new products and building ecosystems from scratch, including Google Assistant, Progressive Web Apps, Accelerated Mobile Pages, YouTube and Firebase. He holds a triple masters in Engineering, Economics, and Management from the University of Oxford

Viet Pham is a managing partner and co-founder of Devtify Technologies, a company that specializes in creating, developing digital products and providing insightful consultancy in the retail & tech industry, and Artcific, a online contemporary art trading platform. With years of experience in the tech industry, Viet has co-founded and exited several start-ups in Europe and Asia. He is highly skilled in software engineering and product management and is passionate about using technology to solve complex problems and improve people's lives. Viet is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, and actively works to support underrepresented groups.

Sherry is the CEO & Co-Founder of Bluejay Finance, a decentralized finance company bringing local stablecoins to Asia. Prior to founding Bluejay, she was at Google for 6 years, with most of her time spent in the emerging markets and payments teams.

Frank Hu is the COO and Co-founder of ByteTrade Lab, a leading blockchain technology firm dedicated to bringing financial services to the unbanked through innovative solutions for cross-border payments and decentralized finance. With a Master's degree in Computer Science and over 10 years of experience in the tech industry, Frank is a visionary leader with a proven track record.

Daan is the CEO of Dreamplex in Vietnam. He leads a team of strategy, design, hospitality, employee experience, and tech specialists to create flexible, engaging workspaces that help companies recruit, engage, and retain the best talents. Prior to Dreamplex, Daan ran his well-being startup Bright and spent 15 years working as Regional Strategy & Innovation Director for marketing firm Ogilvy where he took care of some of the largest brands in Amsterdam, New York, Chicago, Singapore, and then Ho Chi Minh City

Zenos Schmickrath is a tech enthusiast, a polyglot, and a serial entrepreneur. Starting from humble beginnings, he became a Microsoft nerd at 19, a Globetrotter at 25, then went on to build a company with his brother before founding several other companies of his own, including Hmlet – SEA’s largest co-living company. Now he is a Co-founder of LensAdvizor.

Tomas, a serial entrepreneur, and a seasoned executive, Tomas has built and scaled four ventures in Asia and Central Europe over the last decade. While making his own company HotelQuickly, he raised a total of $15M in funding and grew the company to $100M+ in revenues, with 120+ employees across offices in 12 countries.

Saim has over a decade of experience in financial services and consulting. He was involved mainly in the corporate digital transformation program before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey in 2019. He is currently the CEO and board member of CardsPal.

Sara Zhu is a serial Entrepreneur and Founder of LeapIn and Evenor. She founded LeapIn in February 2019, bringing her a wealth of global leadership expertise across multiple geographies and industries. Sara has held many senior-level leadership roles within some of the world's most influential technology and manufacturing companies.

She is Co-founder & CEO at Wifkain. Before Wifkain, she co-founded two other companies through which she found the inefficiencies in Indonesia’s textile supply chain. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Sara spent nearly five years at HSBC, where she became AVP for Global Banking and Markets.

Andrew is a seasoned CTO, entrepreneur, speaker, and advisor. He has over 18 years of experience founding, growing, and exiting startups and major companies. Working across government, media, hospitality, and blockchain-related industries. He has secured partnerships with the world's largest companies and driven over $100 million in growth. Andrew has architected, launched, and grown platforms to support hundreds of millions of users globally.

He co-founded Dagangan - a rural social eCommerce platform for local traders/farmers to sell their products and help households quickly deliver their daily necessities. Before Dagangan, he built a thriving tech start-up in Indonesia, Qerja - the first online community portal in Indonesia for insider information about companies across Indonesia and Malaysia.

Boyd is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience working in the logistics, supply chain, and E-Commerce industry. He’s currently a partner at Unfold Venture, helping build, create, and invest in technology companies.

She is the Founder of Gnowbe. With rising technology and AI, So-Young is concerned with questions about what it means to be human in the digital age. So-Young is passionate about addressing questions of ethics, values, and humanity in the age of AI.

Showbhik is the CEO and Co-founder of Hobnob. Previously, he held product and sales roles at global asset management firms PIMCO and Schroders. Earlier in his career, he worked at the intersection of media and technology and co-founded a movie restoration software company that Da Vinci Inc acquired.

Sean is interested in long bets and problems worth solving. Through Ordinary Folk, he aims to transform healthcare in Asia. Previously, he co-founded YBCO - a crowdsourcing platform for entrepreneurs looking to invent, build and scale ventures and products. He graduated from the University of Melbourne, majoring in Finance and Economics.

He is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Monk’s Hill Ventures. He has spent 25+ years in this space and made difficult decisions, can feel this pain strongly. He believes VCs’ roles are more than just capital support. VCs should understand and find a way to mentally assist founders before they go into the cycle of burnout and weariness.

Rob Liu is a 500 Startups and Startmate alumnus and the founder of Contactout.com, backed with best-in-class contact data, helping recruiters find deep insights into their talent pool and source candidates faster. Rob also dedicates his time at Hustle Fund and Blackbird as an investment partner, finding different investment opportunities in fast-growing startups in Singapore, America, and Australasia.

Matt De Luca is the Managing Director for JobNet.com.mm. Before co-founding JobNet in 2015, he worked in the Management Consulting division of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he was explicitly dealing with the impact of technology on banking in the Netherlands. Before joining JobNet, Matt was with Rocket Internet’s Job Portal developing their business in Myanmar.

Colin is a CEO and Founder of Skills Union, working with leading tech employers and universities to provide live online skills coaching and training to help bridge the tech skills gap. He is a tech enthusiast, and has been in the industry for the last 2- years, founding and running multiple business including Drive, an award-winning digital agency that was sold to Major Tom in 2015 and RED, a leading design and technology school, growing to three campuses in Canada and the UK.

He is the Co-founder & CEO of Fonos - the best-selling audiobook in Vietnam, providing audiences with various offerings across all genres, including entrepreneurship, self-development, business, book summaries, and more. Before founding Fonos, Oscar spent six years in marketing roles for US & UK startups - as a growth hacker for WP Curve (exit to GoDaddy) - Marketing developer at ScreenCloud.

Amarit is the Partner of Unfold Ventures, Venture Partner at Mandalay Venture Partners (MVP), formerly the ASEAN Director of Impact Collective (IC), ... His passion for the startup community and to help entrepreneurs grow has led him to angel invest in many of the top Thai startups and actively coaches over 1000+ different startups founders over the past decade. He is a Techstars All-Stars Community Leader and has been an active Startup Weekend Global Faciltator for the past 8 years, organizing and facilitating over 20+ Techstars related event such as the 1st community-led Startup Weekend in Thailand, Startup Next, Thailand Startup Week, and hosting the Techstars APAC Community Leaders Summit. He continues to be involved at an early stage with more than 40 investments during the past decade as an angel or advisor. He has also coached and consulted ecosystem hubs and leaders in over 30 cities on how to build tech communities.

Gabriel built CrediBook in 2020 after years of experience building tech products at leading tech startups, including Traveloka, BAMMS, and Kudo. Previously, he graduated from Institut Teknologi Bandung, majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Kushal is a Co-founder & VP of Investments at Una Brands. Before founding Una Brands, Kushal was Deputy Head of Regional Partnerships at Ninja Van, helping to scale the start-up across Southeast Asia. In his early career, he spent several years as an Investment Banker at UBS across the UK and the Middle East.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Alexis was an expert in the FMCG industry. He led the luxury group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, where he handled 27+markets across Asia and Australia. He has enriching experience living and working in 6 different countries and speaks 4 languages! Alexis was also selected in 2013 out of 50,000 contestants to participate in the reality TV business show "The Apprentice Asia with Tony Fernandes" and finished 3rd, after which he got hired by the business tycoon himself.

Leon is the Co-founder & CEO of MORNING - a coffee tech startup making specialty coffee more accessible to home brewers through the development of a marketplace that unites the world’s best coffee capsule roasters. Leon is also the chairman of PPP Coffee - a pioneer of specialty coffee in Singapore.

Former McKinsey consultant, and head of Lazada’s strategy department, Benjamin developed a deep passion for people management in a career that spanned continents and industries. Noticing a pattern among companies that wanted to help their people achieve their full potential, he created BrioHR in 2018 together with a fellow INSEAD alumni in the hopes of transforming the workplace stories of millions around the globe, and improving corporate performance for companies big and small at the same time.

Carlos co-founded Nimble in 2014, aiming to build software products for startups, scaleups, and fast-moving innovative enterprises. Prior to that, Carlos was the Head of IT and Product Management of Lazada in Thailand. He also has extensive experience working and leading in e-commerce, energy, software services, and FCMG across South America and Southeast Asia.

Oswald is the Co-founder & CEO of Glints, the leading talent ecosystem in Southeast Asia. Oswald has been recognized as one of the 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia. He is also an Endeavor Entrepreneur and a Young Presidents Organization (YPO) member.

Suresh is a 2nd-time entrepreneur, an evangelist of AI, big data, and analytics, podcaster. He is the Founder and CEO of Crayon Data, a fast-growing big data and AI company with a vision to simplify the world’s choices by delivering digital, personal experiences centered around taste.

She is the Co-founder of GoGet. She is passionate about the future of work and believes business operations will be more modular and connected to a community of workers. Every day at GoGet, companies are already adjusting how they work, using a flexible workforce to do core operations for the business without incurring full-time costs.

Ching is the co-founder of Vault Dragon. Prior to that, he is an ex-PwC operations consultant specialising in business process management. He also worked as an investment advisor at Philip Securities, where he was awarded the "Top Rookie" title in 2008 for his sales performance. Ching holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore Business School.

Grace is the Co-founder and CEO of Unravel Carbon, an enterprise software that helps companies track and reduce their carbon emissions, backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator. Grace was a VC who invested in early-stage tech startups and is a Kauffman Fellow.

Charles is a co-founder of CoderSchool in Vietnam in 2015. Prior to that, he spent a decade in Silicon Valley consulting for Walmart Labs, designing courses for CodePath, and mentoring for Bloc. With the ambition of filling in the gap of shortage of engineers in Vietnam, Charles has built CoderSchool into Vietnam’s largest Silicon Valley-style technical school with 2000+ alumni to date.

JJ Chai is the Co-founder & CEO of Rainforest.life - Asia’s first eCommerce aggregator based in Singapore. Before Rainforest, JJ worked for the top startups in the region, including Carousell and AirBnB, where he grew and scaled up businesses across Asia. Previously, he was a Junior Partner at McKinsey, focusing on telecoms and technology. JJ is an NUS alumnus and an MBA holder from INSEAD.

Brett is a Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the technology and hospitality services industries. Considerable experience within Start-ups (from launch), Corporate Development, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions and Product Development.

She embarked on the entrepreneurship journey in 2010, turning around a company facing bankruptcy to lead it to be the market leader in the industry through innovation and process automation. Besides speaking at conferences like the Singapore Fintech Festival, her digital and business transformation work has been featured in CNBC, Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, The Business Times, Berita Harian, and Today.

She co-founded Agate in 2009 as a programmer. Then she stepped up for the of Chief Operating Officer in 2010. Shieny's tactical approach to operations would motivate her to learn more about a business's inner workings so that she would take on several roles in Agate.

Yong Yi Sung is the co-founder and CEO of Grain, which describes itself as an "online food company that believes in improving lives through meaningful food experiences." He is also honored by Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

Krish is the Managing Director of KNOW, a Singapore-based startup. He is an expert in corporate strategy and digital transformations - advising CXOs and as a hands-on technologist. Besides being a corporate venture builder, he is a mentor and advisor to multiple companies.

He is the Founder of Genius Group, GeniusU & Entrepreneur Resorts. He is a social entrepreneur living in Bali, where I'm growing three businesses I founded. He believes that the entrepreneur movement - predicted to develop to 1 billion entrepreneurs globally by 2020 - is the best driver to solve our most significant global challenges.

Alex is the Managing Director and co-founder of Gogoprint. As a managing director, his primary role is to steer the company in the right direction with David Berghaeuser, which means growth and achieving their mission. Whereas David coordinates the Production, Development, and Marketing aspects of the business, he is responsible for Sales, Customer Service, HR, and Accounting.

He is the Founder and CEO of Hiip. He is an experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing technology industry in multiple markets in South East Asia.

David is the Co-founder and CEO of Helicap, an alternative lending platform and sustainable lender backed by leading financial institutions and venture capitalists. Before Helicap, David founded tech-focused investment firm 33 Capital, investing in Fintech and e-commerce startups in SEA.

He is Co-founder & CEO at Goama. Apart from performing management roles in different companies, he and his partners built Goama Pte Ltd in 2018. They have 500000 active paying subscribers across seven countries & they have the tremendous possibility to grow faster worldwide.

Benjamin is a tech enthusiast and an entrepreneur who had extensive experience working at two Asian tech unicorns: Grab and Huobi. Benjamin is also chair to the youth sub-comiitee at Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and a co-opted council member of the Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (ASME)

Ravi is an experienced professional with over 20 years of track record in investment, banking, venture capital, and tech. He co-founded Qapita in 2019 to build the next generation of startups and private companies. He has previous corporate experience, including 17 years in investment banking and corporate development in Asia Pacific.

Since 2013, Elena has led the team in partnering with the early-stage technology startup ecosystem to build teams for growth. In doing so, she has met, coached, and made a robust community of entrepreneurial-minded individuals. She is well known for her generosity in mentoring startup founders, teaching at accelerators/incubators, and doing career transition coaching.

Ms. Anna Gong has over 20 years of global technology experience in enterprise software (5 startups and 3 MNCs). She was listed in Top 100 Women in Tech 2020 in Singapore and winner of the Singapore Women Entrepreneur Awards 2017, Anna is a TedX speaker, and was also featured in the LinkedIn CEO Power Profiles 2017. Anna is a frequent keynote speaker on leadership, technology, digital transformation and entrepreneurship, for large corporates and global conferences such as C2 Montreal, SaaStock Dublin, InnovFest Unbound, RISE, and European Business Leaders’ Convention.

He is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to deliver an outstanding residential property rental and buying experience in South East Asia. Previously, he co-founded and exited an online travel agency with USD 150m in sales and 125 FTEs. He also worked as private equity and venture capital investor and investment banker.

Ryan Manafe is the Founder of Dagangan. Ryan is an enthusiastic entrepreneur and rural development activist. He founded Dagangan in 2019 as a rural social eCommerce platform for local traders/farmers to sell their products and help households get their daily necessities delivered with ease. Before Dagangan, he co-founded and managed SUN.