Apr 2023 — Present · Palo Alto, California, United States
We help other founders operate their companies, by providing a single point of contact 💁♂️, for all their back office operations including company formation, compliance, FinancialOps (like accounting and bookkeeping), and PeopleOps (including payroll, hiring, benefits etc.)
Think of it as a VP of Ops or an Ops Manager — as a service.
Stellar is also a single source of truth 💡 for the company.
Most founders have important company data and documents all over the place, and they don’t have time to organize them well. So — each time they do something new, like due diligence for a fund-raise, or form a subsidiary company, or apply for insurance, they have to spend precious time, under tight deadlines — to assemble the information.
Stellar pulls in information from multiple sources, keeps a thorough record of the company’s operations— and synthesizes the info to get what needs to get done, done.
👉 www.hiStellar.com
Jan 2020 — Present · 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
Aug 2022 — Present · 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 2017 — Jul 2018 · Melbourne, Victoria
Jan 2015 — Jan 2017 · 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
Apr 2011 — Sep 2015 · 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.
In July 2013, Ruckus Wireless acquired YFind Technologies - the indoor positioning company I co-founded.
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 · 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.
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. :)
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
Independent Consultant (Social Media & PR)
Independent
Jul 2007 — Dec 2007
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.
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.
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).
I managed media relations for pharmaceutical clients include Pfizer, technology clients including Nokia (oh, those were the days!), and beverage giant - InBev.