Founder Institute Singapore Adds More Mentors
March 13, 2010 by Gwendolyn Regina T
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Founder Institute Singapore has already accepted over 30 applicants but will still be accepting applications for just one more day! Final application deadline has now been set to March 14th. So apply now if you haven’t. On another note, the big news is the whole new expanded list of mentors that have been added to the Singapore/Asia Pacific programme. We can’t wait to meet these guys!
Alex Rampell, CEO, TrialPay
Alex Rampell is founder and CEO of TrialPay (http://www.trialpay.com/), a leading online payment service with over 15 millions users, where he is responsible for general management and building corporate infrastructure. Prior to TrialPay, Alex co-founded FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company, which merged into SiteAdvisor and was acquired by McAfee in April 2006. Alex began his career writing and selling consumer software on bulletin board systems and the nascent internet, creating a successful company with hundreds of thousands of paying consumers worldwide, with products featured in Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Today Show, CNBC, and BusinessWeek. He holds an AB in Applied Math and Computer Science, cum laude, from Harvard University.
Andy Zain, Managing Partner, VentureX
Andy Zain is regarded as one of the mobile industry pioneers. Since 1999, he had involved in numerous ‘industry first’ initiatives, such as the first ringtone service, the first mobile portal, first mobile banking and m-commerce service in region. Founder of Elasitas, a leading content aggregator in Indonesia and solution provider with deployments across telcos in Asia Pacific. Andy is now the Managing Partner of VentureX, a private equity boutique focusing in telecommunication, media and technology sector in South East Asia and overseeing operation of several mobile services in Indonesia. Actively involve in the Indonesia Chambers of Commerce and Trade as Vice Chairman in Content & Application Committee (ICT), and a founding member of IMOCA (Indonesia Mobile and Online Content Association). He also run the local chapter of MobileMonday in Indonesia, part of the global networking forum for mobile professionals.
Batara Eto, CEO, Etolabo Corporation
Batara Eto, was born in 1979 in Indonesia. He graduated from Engineering Department of Takushoku University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the co-founder of mixi, the largest Social Networking Service in Japan. He proposed mixi in December 2003, and he was in charge for the development of the site. He served as Chief Technology Officer in mixi until 2007. He is a well known for advocating the use of the open source LAMP stack, Perl, MySQL and the Apache web server, especially in Japan. In February 2008, he set up his new company called Etolabo Corporation. His new company is developing a couple of web applications that have not been released.
Bob Rosin, Serial Entrepreneur
Bob has built two companies from scratch and raised over $117M in venture capital from Sequoia, Atlas, Azure, Paladin, AsiaTech, Motorola, Wasserstein, Marc Andreessen, Nicholas Negroponte, Ron Conway, and other investors. Bob was previously SVP Sales and Marketing, OQO, developer of the first pocketable PC, and brought the company from zero to over $25M in annual revenue. Previously, Bob was Founder and President of Bang Networks, a pioneer in realtime messaging on the public Internet. Previously, Bob worked at Sony Corp. in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, where he incubated Navio (now Liberate Technologies) and led Sony’s involvement with WebTV Networks, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft). Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he won the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship, and received his BA from Cornell University Magna Cum Laude with three majors. Bob received Red Herring Top 100 for two companies, is first author on 9 granted US patents, has a Black Belt in Aikido, is fluent in Japanese, and is an avid underwater photographer.
Bryan Thatcher, CEO, Empressr, LockerBlogger
Bryan Thatcher is CEO of Empressr, a leading Web application that allows users to create, manage and share rich-media presentations. As CEO and Founder of Fusebox, Bryan applies his mind for innovation to some of the most revered brands in finance, media, and pharmaceuticals—Discover Financial Services, JPMorgan Chase, MTV, CNN, ESPN and Pfizer—helping them increase profits and stay relevant in an ever-changing world of marketing opportunities.
Dave Parker, CEO, 9Spaces
Dave Parker is a seriel entrepreneur in International Business and currently the CEO of 9Spaces, Inc as well as a board member for three other companies. I was introduced to the funded while an Entrepreneur in Residence for a venture fund in San Jose. That three years of EIR expernience gave me the “other side of the table” view of the world and confirmed what I knew about myself as an Entrepreneur. I’m a founder that is good and connecting ideas to business models on the front end and positioning companies for sale and the back end. I’ve founded four companies as CEO. Sold Four, closed one, and sit on the board of four compnanies today.
Joshua Konowe, Serial Entrepreneur
Joshua Konowe is a full time consultant helping The Public Interest Registry (the company that owns the license for “.ORG” domain names) as their chief strategist and is the head of infrastructure for the MindShare Alumni group. Prior to that he was the Founder & CEO of BrandClik.com, an in-text advertising network that was sold to Frazoo, LLC in June, 2009. Before BrandClik, Josh was the President and CEO of e-Agent, a successful and profitable internet business in the residential real estate marketplace which also ended in a profitable exit to a competitor. Josh has a BA from the University of Kentucky in Ancient European Civilization which took him only 5 yrs and 3 summers to barely complete an under grad degree…perfect for being an entrepreneur! Feel free to reach out to jkonowe@gmail.com – just be sure I know who you are.
Kong Wai Cheong, Managing Director, Conversant Pte Ltd
Kong Wai, 37, is the CEO and Founder of the Conversant Solutions Pte Ltd. He has hands on responsibilities and experience in managing the business of Conversant and Conversant’s wholly owned subsidiary TBC Solutions. Conversant is focused on providing Software as a Service (”SaaS”) in the areas of office productivity, security and content distribution to Consumers, SMEs and Enterprises, in partnership with telecommunication service providers while TBC focuses on turnkey projects and infrastructure software for telecommunication operators. Kong Wai has successfully grown the business since inception to over 40 people currently in Singapore with significant revenue growth and sustained profitability. In 1998, Kong Wai started his venture capital career with SingTel Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of the SingTel Group where he was primarily responsible for establishing the corporate venturing practice of the SingTel Group from scratch. At SingTel Ventures, Kong Wai was responsible for investments of over S$100 million into start-ups in United States, Israel and Singapore, with a particular focus on telecommunications and software technologies. In 2000, Kong Wai joined Viventures, the venture capital arm of Vivendi Universal, as part of the founding team for Viventures’ office in Asia. With Viventures, Kong Wai made investments in Singapore and China and spent time in Viventures’ San Francisco office. Kong Wai graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration (First Class Honors) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Lennard Ng, Consultant, Astute Pte Ltd
Lennard founded Astute Pte Ltd in 2003, and served as its CEO until March 2009. The company provides electronic payment solutions and consulting services to banks and payment processors. Astute has grown from a 4-man start-up to a 90-strong company with enterprise clients throughout SouthEast Asia and the Middle East. Lennard began his career by joining Singapore’s Ministry of Finance. Subsequently, he entered the private equity fund management industry by joining SEAVI Pte Ltd as an investment manager in 1997. Then, in 1999, he joined a regional venture capital fund, Crimson Asia Capital Pte Ltd. As an investment manager, he was responsible for the entire range of investment and divestment activities in relation to portfolio companies across Asia. The following year, Lennard joined KPMG Corporate Finance, where he started and led a team providing incubation services to early stage technology companies. Lennard obtained a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) in 1992. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst.
William Sutjiadi, CEO, Mahjongtime Inc.
William has more than 10 years experience founding and growing start-ups companies into multi-million dollar enterprise and more than 15 years experience in creation of successful Internet software and numerous best selling games. Currently he is the CEO of MahjongTime, the premier mahjong software for entertainment and gaming company. William also co-founded companies such as FractionPrice, Merchandising Avenue, and CashPile.com. William served in various roles at Mnemonix and for Midway Home Entertainment, where he managed and produced 14 games, which brought combines revenue of more than $200 million.
Yen Lu Chow, MD, WholeTree Technologies
Yen-Lu Chow is the managing director of WholeTree Technologies, a voice and language technology solutions company, executive director of BAF Spectrum, a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government focused on early stage investments in technology and digital media; and a director of Business Angel Network SEA. A successful entrepreneur, Mr. Chow had founded AsiaWorks, a technology start-up that developed the first multi-modal speech dictation, pen input recognition, and keyboard input solutions for Chinese computing. He assumed the position of CTO Lernout & Hauspie Asia, overseeing all of company’s R&D activities in the region including Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and was involved in a turnaround situation during the dotcom era with WholeTree.com, a Nasdaq-listed digital globalization company. Mr. Chow is a holder of 6 international patents, and received his MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, and successfully completed Apple’s MBA and Mentoring programs for senior managers and executives.
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