Learn to Create and Scale Tomorrow’s Technology Enterprise with Leslie Loh

As a leader of an emerging enterprise, you face several challenges as you attempt to navigate your company through its various stages of growth. In this seminar by Litan Hall, they bring you special guest speaker, Leslie Loh has won several awards and is both an entrepreneur and investor himself. In this 3-hour seminar, Leslie will share with participants the many lessons and insights learned from his experience in building and scaling his companies through various stages of growth from small startups to large MNCs with operations across many countries.

Date: Monday, 26th October 2009
Time: 2-5pm
Venue: 3 Anson Road, #32-00 Springleaf Tower

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Mr Loh was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of System Access since its inception in 1983. Mr Loh played a major role in leading System Access from being a one-man outfit to a publicly listed global banking software organization with 10 offices and 500 staff in Europe, Middle East and Asia. The company was acquired in 2006 by SunGard Data Systems INC, USA, a leading global financial services software provider.

Under his leadership, System Access has received various awards and recognition in Singapore. The company’s flagship product, SYMBOLS, has received the Singapore 1998 National IT Award, Asia Pacific 2003 IT Awards (‘Special mention’) and IBS UK “Top 10” universal banking software ranking for 5 years. System Access was ranked amongst the top 50 most enterprising companies in Singapore for 4 times.
Mr Loh was selected the winner of the 1998 ASME Rotary Entrepreneur of the Year in Singapore. In 1999, Mr Loh received the National Youth Award (Individual) for his success as an entrepreneur. In 2006, Leslie was awarded the “Person of The Year” IT Leader Award by the Singapore Computer Society.

Mr. Loh was an IDA Board Member (Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore) for 2 terms from 1999 to 2003. Mr. Loh always finds time to contribute to entrepreneurial and ICT development in Singapore. Mr Loh is a frequent speaker at various corporate seminars or local academic events sharing his entrepreneurial experiences. He has also been invited as judges to various awards committee including ASME Entrepreneurial of the Year and National Infocomm Awards.

Mr Loh is currently a private equity investor with direct investment portfolio including Nextview Pte Ltd and Lithan Genovate Pte Ltd from Singapore where he is major shareholder and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for these companies.

This profile was taken from Extream Ventures, where he is a Partner.

Leslie believes that having differentiated products are fundamental to your success in business. He will share with you how his companies created innovative products that enabled them to compete against global leaders many times their size.

However, differentiated products will only be best kept secrets unless you can bring them to the customers and markets that best appreciate their value. Leslie will share with you how he established distribution strategies that enabled his companies’ products to gain acceptance in 40 countries across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Scale your Initial Success

There are 160,000 SMEs in Singapore but only a relatively few manage to scale up into larger high-growth companies. Emerging enterprise leaders need to grow beyond their initial successes by building all-round capabilities that can escalate their business into competing within the premier league of their market place.

Leslie will share the initiatives taken and insights gained on developing the strategic enterprise capabilities that serve as the growth foundation of his businesses.

Financing for Growth

Financing is a major growth enabler for an emerging enterprise leader.

From a S$5K seed funding from his grandmother to start his business, Leslie executed various financing initiatives to secure more than S$200m of aggregate funding including growth financing, pre-IPO financing, IPO and M&A financing.

Leslie will share with participants his financing initiatives and how he was able to leverage on appropriate financing strategies to support his company’s growth and deliver optimum value to the stakeholders of his business.

From Entrepreneur to Entrepreneurial Leader

Leslie learned that you would need to have different leadership capabilities to support each major growth phase of your business. As a fresh graduate without any relevant working experience when he started his business, Leslie will take you along his learning journey to become an entrepreneur, manager and leader as he scaled his businesses through the various phases of growth.

For Entrepreneur and Managers of Emerging Enterprises

Owner-managers, directors and managers of emerging enterprises will appreciate this seminar. Through the seminar, they will receive practical advice, tips and insight that would be useful input to growing their business.

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