The Team
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.
Terence LEE - Assistant Editor
Terence is an online media nut that is obsessed with writing and publishing for the Internet. Recently, he took up photography to expand his repertoire, and hopes to learn videography soon. He has worked in both online and print publications such as The Straits Times, Today, Mind Your Body, The Online Citizen, and Funkygrad. In 2010, he co-founded New Nation, a current affairs online magazine for young adults with a couple of like-minded folks. Terence can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Isaac Timothy T - Lead Developer & Partner
Isaac has spent the last four years designing, building and coding systems for financial institutions. His last position was as the technical lead at a Singapore IT firm. Now, he is recovering from enterprise outsourcing hell by coding with Ruby and Python. He plays football and is eagerly awaiting the day he can support Singapore at the World Cup.
Joyce HUANG - Contributing Writer
Joyce is a Mobile Consultant at 2359 Media and is an evangelist for mobile marketing solutions. She is a closet feminist and is currently trying to master Starcraft 2. She can be found on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Egi SEPTIADI - Intern
Egi is currently pursuing Chemistry at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. While not mixing compounds in the lab, the Indonesian is always on the hunt for recommended "makan" (Malay for "eat") places for local food. But the true blue foodie admits that "as long as the food tastes good, he'll go for it".
Sharon Lourdes Paul - Contributing Writer
Sharon is currently pursuing her final semester at the Singapore Management University, and co-leads the StartupRoots Singapore programme 2012. Apart of these formal pursuit, she's fascinated with the harmonization of separate components to form palatable creations. Current raves include UX, customer development, architecture/space design, and cooking. Spot her at her blog and @sharonlourdes.
Bernard Leong - Co-Founder
Dr Bernard Leong is the co-founder of Chalkboard where he currently serves as the chief technology officer and is the architect behind the solution to help small and medium enterprises to market promotions. Formerly a partner at Thymos Capital where he does early stage investments, his portfolio and specialization includes online social networks, mobile-web applications and games that leads to iHipo being acquired and also Lunch Actually (Eteract) raising next round of financing. His accolades include the Young Professional of the Year Award for the Singapore Computer Society 2010 and Outstanding Young Alumni for National University of Singapore 2007. His expertise includes technology and social media. Currently, Bernard also serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with INSEAD Business School and also teaches entrepreneurship in NTU.
Nicholas Aaron Khoo - Investor, Advisor & Contributing Writer
In his early 30s, Nicholas has tasted both success and failure working on more than 10 companies in various positions ranging from founder, principal, to investor and advisor. With a passion for everything tech, Nicholas blogs for CNET Asia and devotes more than 30% of his time on non-profit work trying to make a difference in the gaming industry. This geek is a digital nomad who lives out of a suitcase working with regional governmental and financial institutions. You can also catch him presenting at local and regional conferences quite regularly or talking about gaming and new media in the news.
WeiChang - Co-Founder
A seasoned entrepreneur despite his youth. Armed with the experience of tossing snowballs in Europe during his Polytechnic exchange programme at ESIEE (Paris), Lai founded his first company (PINKCUBE) at the turn of the millennium in his mind when he was in his late teens. However, he only formalized it 2 months after he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004. The illness was so serious then that no one even dared to ask for a prognosis. Knowing that he had nothing to lose, Lai tried and failed many times in his entrepreneurship endeavors during his chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions. But he never gave up, and with the help of his partners, he founded one of the biggest tuition agencies in Singapore - ManyTutors.com. His interest for business does not stop here though, and Lai is currently managing numerous businesses including retail outlets, Umbrella Box Umbrella Vending Machines and Internet projects to build the next Google.
Larissa THIA - SGE Alumnus - Editorial Intern
Larissa is a fresh graduate who has a love for the irreverent and outré. She is highly fascinated by culture, thought processes and human nature in general.
