University of California, Berkeley

Boston University

Entrepreneur, CXO/Business Builder, Coach, Investor, Asia/US Tech Leader

Skills: Venture Financing · Cross-Functional Team Building · Innovation Development · Online Marketplace · HR Transformation · Business Development

Stealth

Founder & COO / Venture Building in Leadership Space

Venture building, incubation and investment practice focused supporting promising tech entrepreneurs and start ups.  Partial list of portfolio companies include:

Glean - B2B SaaS - An all-in-one intelligent solution for managing vendor spend. Their platform helps companies to save money by analyzing the drivers of vendor spend and discovering non-intuitive insights (USA - Jul '21). https://www.gleancompany.com/

SEPPURE - B2B Sustainability Material Science - "The Sustainable Solution to Industrial Chemical Seperation".  SEPPURE has created a filtration process which enables chemical separation at a molecular level without heat (Singapore/Canada - Oct '18). https://seppure.com/

OSOME - B2B SaaS - AI and machine learning company automating company registration, regulatory compliance, secretarial and financial processes (Singapore - Jul '20). https://osome.com/

Peakflo - B2B SaaS - Managing accounts receivable, collections & payment automation for businesses (Singapore - Feb '21). https://peakflo.co/

Intellect - B2B SaaS - A modern mental health company providing employee mental-health services and resources to businesses (Singapore - Mar '21). https://intellect.co/

The Yield - Sustainability B2B SaaS  - An agri-tech company on a mission to transform food and farming practices with scalable digital technology (Australia - Jan '22). https://www.theyield.com/

digital.direction

Founder & CEO

Mach49 helps Global 1000 companies and family offices develop a pipeline and portfolio of successful new ventures by Disrupting InsideOut™ — creating, building and launching new ventures generated from within their organisations — and Disrupting OutsideIn™ — designing and managing world-class corporate venture capital teams/funds who invest in, and support, entrepreneurs and start ups.

Responsibilities: advising the leadership of Mach49 on topics such as GTM strategy, ecosystem development, corporate development and partnerships. Leading corporate venture initiatives as Executive-, Board Member- and Senior Entrepreneur- in Residence.

Mach49

Executive-, Entrepreneur- & Board Member-, in Residence

Taskworld is an award-winning team-collaboration SaaS platform that seamlessly combines visual project management, enterprise messaging and project reports.  Performed as Director, CEO and COO in restructuring and refactoring Taskworld's backend and end-to-end operations.

Taskworld Inc.

CEO & Director 

Helping entrepreneurs build & scale world-class organizations.  

Providing coaching and mentorship on leadership skills, defining culture, building high performance teams, and enabling sustainable cross-functional collaboration.

Trellis Asia

Entrepreneur in Residence

Jirnexu (formerly Saving Plus) is South East Asia's leading Fintech solution for customer acquisition, management and retention.

Jirnexu

Non Executive Director

CtrlShift is a global technology company that is taking a unified single-login approach to simplify digital advertising.

The Hub, its flagship product, is an enterprise advertising software for unified media planning, activation and insights. It aggregates platforms (social, search, native, programmatic and more) so that brands and agencies can advertise anywhere and achieve more.

CtrlShift is headquartered in Singapore, with offices in KL, London & Sydney.

CtrlShift

Co-Founder, CEO & COO (Exited)

AdzCentral merged with Better and ADV to create CtrlShift.

AdzCentral ("adz")  is a Scientific Media Buying company.   adz manages clients' audience profile data as well as digital advertising budgets and allocates media spending across multiple platforms, formats, devices, and channels through an algorithmic-driven approach. adz leverages various tools and its proprietary platform in order to maximize client and agency ROI.

AdzCentral

Part of a 3-person team which founded IAB Southeast Asia: Singapore Chapter.  Served as Vice-Chairman of the IAB from 2011 to 2013.

IAB Southeast Asia and India

Co-Founder & Vice Chairman

MOL Global (acquired by Razer) is a digital and card-based payments company focused on SE Asia and India.  It has partnered with Facebook, Paypal, and Zynga across SE Asia.  It is also the holding company of Friendster Inc.

MOL Global

Friendster was a pioneer in the social networking space.   In 2008, it had a strong following in SE Asia and managed to retain a disproportionate volume of users from SE Asia.

Co-led the investment into Friendster as a Venture Partner at IDG Ventures in 2008. Facilitated the exit of Friendster to MOL in 2009.

Friendster

A Venture Capital and incubation practice focusing on Technology, Media, and Telecommunications in South East Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines).

IDG Ventures Vietnam / SE Asia

Venture Partner

National University of Singapore

Executive Mentor

Responsible for end-to-end strategy and operations for Yahoo! SE Asia (based in Singapore), including media monetization, product/service launches, engineering, marketing, business development, sales, staffing, HR, legal, and finance.
- Established and expanded Yahoo!'s operations into the Southeast Asian countries of Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia.  
-  Crafted Yahoo!'s 5-year investment plan for SE Asia.
-  Grew team from 35 employees in 2005 to 100 employees in 2007.  
-  Grew revenues by over 100% in less than 18 months.
-  Led the launching of Yahoo! products/services in 6 countries.

Yahoo! Inc.

Managing Director, Southeast Asia

Responsible for global alliance/partner strategy and solutions delivery, including alliance partners such as Sony, Philips, HSBC, HP, and Travelocity/SABRE. 

Led the creation and formulation of Yahoo’s “Digital Home Services” strategy which subsequently culminated into the “Yahoo! Go for TV” product suite; credited as one of the lead architects in the various US patents.

Director of Strategy, Business Development & Solutions

Viant is an e-business consulting and incubation company focused on delivering strategy and implementation of new business models or transforming existing business models into the digital age.

Viant, Inc.

Strategy Lead Consultant

Skills: Strategic Planning · Cross-functional Team Leadership

Intel

Senior Marketing Scientist & Research Manager

Modeled consumer behavior as a data and marketing scientist.  Applied results to help determine marketing, pricing, communications, and product strategy.   

Conducted pricing analysis, feature trade-off studies, conjoint models, choice models, structural equation models, segmentation analysis, data-reduction techniques, predictive analysis, etc for large Fortune 500 companies across many sectors.

Reza Behnam