Chalkboard Enters Malaysia With Alliance Bank Partnership
March 31, 2011 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Fresh from attending and exhibiting at South by Southwest (SXSW) in the US, mobile ad network Chalkboard just announced a partnership with Alliance Bank in Malaysia. Co-founder of Chalkboard, Bernard Leong (who also co-founded this site you’re reading) announced the news at a workshop for retailers he held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia two days ago.
This deal enables Alliance Bank to distribute promotions by its 500+ merchant partners to customers that are within a 2km (1.2miles) radius of any of their 90 branches across Malaysia.
Chalkboard places targeted ads or real-time promotions in 3rd party mobile applications and websites and has over 1,100 businesses in Malaysia using its services.
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Gwendolyn Regina T - Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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