BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech: Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand & Malaysia Startups, Founders & Venture Capital VC (English)

Jason is the founder of Strengths School™ and Performance Capital™, who has over 13 years of Training and Coaching Top Leaders in MNCs, SMEs; to optimise team development and drive PERFECT PERFORMANCE™. His work spans organisations across Asia, Canada and the UAE. Some of many include Ubisoft, DHL, Johnson & Johnson, Lee Jeans, Vans, VF Corp, National University of Singapore, NUS Business School and Singapore’s Ministry of Education. As SouthEast Asia's 1st Gallup Certified StrengthsFinder® & Platinum Coach, Jason was invited as a keynote speaker for an ASEAN Future Leaders Summit. He also sits on the Singapore’s NUS Business School panel as a StrengthsFinder® Advisor. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jason-ho You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jason-ho This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Mark Shmulevich is a senior executive in technology business and early-stage investor. He is an avid supporter of education, talent development, science and technology as key drivers of societal progress. Mark’s professional track record includes both public and private sector experience, while the industry domains he has worked in range from space and quantum technologies to artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Mark Shmulevich has been COO and SVP at TAIGER, an NLP AI software company, since 2018. Headquartered in Singapore, TAIGER pioneers AI products that use human-like logic to automatically read, understand and extract information. Previously, Mark was Chief Strategy and Operations Officer at Acronis, a global software and services company working on efficient data storage, protection and security. Acronis achieved the $2B+ valuation and serves over 500,000 customers worldwide. In 2012, at the age of 29, Dr. Shmulevich was appointed Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) of Russia, responsible for policy making in IT and IT industry support. He suggested and implemented changes to legislation allowing small and medium IT companies to enjoy a tax regime more beneficial for innovation, as well as simpler employment schemes for highly qualified foreign talent. Dr. Shmulevich is an advisory board member of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Innovation Centre (ICT branch). SMART supports entrepreneurship in Singapore, providing grant support and mentoring to the project teams. He is also a board member of SGTech, the largest technology business federation in Singapore. In 2020, Dr. Shmulevich was appointed Chairman of its Digital Transformation Chapter. He is married and has two daughters. Mark resides in Singapore with his family since 2016. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/mark-shmulevich You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/mark-shmulevich This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Wally is an award winning filmmaker and runs a brand content company www.bigredbutton.com.sg As an ontological coach and organisational development practitioner, Wally uses storytelling to help people/corporations/government agencies tackle emergent and persistent issues in Singapore. Wally also leads a ground up initiative: https://m.facebook.com/StandUpForSG/, to find ways to contribute to Singapore’s narrative on what kind of country she could be and how are the best ways to contribute to one another. In his spare time, Wally likes to look at global problems and help out in his own little way. He has built Indonesia’s first Haze Clean Air Shelters, crowdfunded aid in Sri Lanka after the bombings in 2018, crowdfunded 20 tonnes of rice to the Smokey Mountain community in the Philippines. See the projects here: https://fb.watch/6f1jAW29xV/ Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/wally-tham-3 You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/wally-tham This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Stefanie Irma is currently Co-Founder of DishServe - an asset light network of ghost kitchens in Indonesia, which took the opportunity in the midst of pandemic to start the company. She is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and with the others 3 co-founders she build DishServe since October 2020. Prior to DishServe she was a Country Head in RedDoorz Philippines, started the first expansion there since 2017 until managing the whole country business and operations, and grew the Philippines to become the second biggest country operations for RedDoorz in South East Asia after Indonesia. She graduated from London School of Public Relations- Indonesia with Bachelor's Degree of Communications majoring Public Relations. With her various skills and experience in marketing and also communication, she also mentoring some startups together with New Energy Nexus focusing on Marketing Communication module. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/stefanie-irma You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/stefanie-irma This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Jun Yong is the Protocol Lead at HaloDAO- Enabling the next phase of crypto expansion via asset backed stablecoins issued by regulated emoney issuers by providing decentralised infrastructure that other innovators can build on to optimise crypto trading, fx and payments. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jun-yong You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jun-yong This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Michelle led the product growth team at South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based news media company owned by Alibaba Group. Before that, she was the founder of Weava, an ed-tech productivity tool startup that allows users to highlight, organize, and create their own research documents all in one place. Before that, she did UX design at Amazon in Seattle, where she worked in the Core Design team focusing on Amazon’s core shopping experience on web and mobile. She was also a venture fellow at True Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/michelle-chan You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/michelle-chan This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Rahul is the host of the Understanding VC podcast where he talks to Venture Capitalists to learn how they work. The aim of the show is to provide entrepreneurs with experiential and actionable insights to have a collegial working relationship with VCs. He is also a serial entrepreneur who has built multiple startups in the E-commerce and 3D printing industry and has spent time with a Venture Capital fund, Cocoon Capital as an Associate. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/rahul-thayyalamkandy You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/rahul-thayyalamkandy This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Mark Johnson is Co-Founder of SEED Strategies, a communications and public relations consultancy for startups and companies that are scaling. Founded in 2019, since its inception, SEED Strategies has worked with a range of companies seeking to deliver a positive impact across a multitude of industries and geographies. Prior to establishing SEED Strategies, Mark worked as Head of Customer Experience at INSEAD, where he helped drive digital transformation in the degree programmes and implemented structures that helped embed the need to focus on the customer in all levels of decision-making. From 2011 to 2017, Mark worked across Asia within the public affairs and communications space. He helped drive the global communications strategy for Masdar and the Zayed Sustainability Prize whilst working in the UAE, formulate strategy and advise clients such as Mars and RB in Indonesia on the opportunities and challenges of the forthcoming government, and led the communications for clients such as Audi during his time working in China. Mark started his career as a communication adviser and political strategist in the United Kingdom and European Parliament. During his 6 year's in politics he helped devise and implement comprehensive grassroots communications strategies to ensure electoral success for the Labour Party. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/mark-johnson You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/mark-johnson This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Jeraldine Phneah (彭嘉琳) is a Millennial Content Creator who cares about the challenges and aspirations of her generation. To empower them, she creates content around how Millennials can cope with the high cost of living, build rewarding careers, strive for the best for their families, and lead meaningful lives. She also pushes for policies to uplift her generation.  When Jeraldine first graduated, she quickly realized that the job market, economy, and the world we live in today are just radically different from that of the previous generation. Jobs were being displaced due to technology, there were cases of discrimination against Singaporeans in our own country; and our starting salaries have not grown as fast as our cost of living.  From talking to her peers, she learnt that many were dealing with similar challenges. They were anxious about falling behind and not being their ideal self; fearful of not being able to find a career which they could thrive in and overwhelmed with the steep learning curve of adulting.  Through her content, she hopes to share her experiences, learnings and advocate for her generation.  Ultimately, she believes that all hard working Singaporeans should be given the right tools and support to pursue their dreams, to strive for the best for themselves and their families. Jeraldine Phneah was listed as the youngest honoree on LinkedIn Top Voices 2020. She was also profiled by Her World Magazine as part of their 60th Anniversary. She is also a recipient of the Women Leading Change Award (Rising Star) by CampaignAsia. She has been featured on Forbes, Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, and Cleo Magazine.    Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/jeraldine-phneah You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/jeraldine-phneah This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.

Bradian is the Co Founder & CEO of Hawksight.co, an AI Trading Assistant for retail investors to make smarter investment decisions in stocks, cryptocurrency, and forex through crowdsourced & AI-optimized trading signals. For his latest venture, the three-time startup founder is backed by a global deeptech accelerator called Entrepreneur First, but prior to this, Bradian has bootstrapped global technology businesses from Indonesia - one of which got acquired, and another scaled to profitability. After immersing himself in the B2B startup scene in Los Angeles and graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Business Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Bradian returned to Jakarta to co-found IconReel, an influencer marketing platform that became the largest in Indonesia in three years before it got acquired by a publicly-listed Southeast Asian consumer goods company. With a focus on scalable impact and being global from day one, Bradian then founded a social analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) for Instagram and TikTok analytics with an all-Indonesian team that scaled to 50+ countries profitably with clients ranging from Warner Media and Boston Consulting Group, to small-to-medium businesses and solopreneurs. Today Bradian is based in Singapore, while building a remotely distributed team across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, to scale Hawksight.co into the world's largest platform for crowdsourced trading signals. Show notes at: https://www.jeremyau.com/blog/bradian-muliadi You can find the community discussion for this episode at: https://club.jeremyau.com/c/podcasts/bradian-muliadi This episode is produced by Kyle Ong.