Speakers & Mentors

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  Carl Coryell-Martin
  {new context} Managing Director, Singapore
  Carl Coryell-Martin is the Managing Director, Singapore at {New Context}, a leading lean software consultancy in Ruby on Rails and Agile development. {new context} is dedicated to bridging the divide between design and technology while helping build new companies and improve the software side of existing ones.
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  James Chan
  Neoteny Labs, Principal
  James is Principal at Neoteny Labs, which manages an early-stage venture fund that invests between US$50K to US$500K in consumer Internet startups in Asia and the US. James works closely with General Partner Joichi Ito on the fund and its portfolio companies and runs investment and fund operations out of Singapore. Since May 2010, Neoteny Labs has invested in more than 18 startups in the United States, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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  Hugh Mason
  JFDI.Asia, Co-Founder and CEO
  Hugh is a serial entrepreneur. He mentors and invests in marketing, media and technology businesses.
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  Jeffrey Paine
  Golden Gate Ventures, Founding Partner
  Jeffrey Paine is the co-founder of Battle Ventures, a technology studio/incubator based in Singapore with a portfolio across Asia. Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Asia where he is currently overseeing its expansion in the region. Since 2010 the Founder Institute has graduated over 40 companies in Asia.
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  Phil Morle
  Pollenizer, Director
  Phil is a co-founder of Pollenizer, a venture services business that launches 10 new businesses per year in Singapore and Sydney. Phil has been practicing lean startup principles for 4 years and teaches them all over the world. Before Pollenizer, Phil was the CTO of Kazaa.
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  Isaac Souweine
  Pollenizer, GM Singapore
  Isaac is the General Manager of Pollenizer Singapore. As Head of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, Isaac drove product strategy and orchestrated go-to-market for Yahoo’s product portfolio in the region. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Isaac was a product manager for educational technology and web gaming at Scholastic, the largest children’s publishing company in the United States. Isaac lives in Singapore, where he has been based since 2008. He has a BA in Religion from Columbia University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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  Kristine Lauria
  Mission Street Media, Digital Media Consultant
  Kristine is a community builder, digital media dynamo and world explorer. She began her career promoting truth and reconciliation at the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation in NYC and took her messaging digital as the Community Evangelist at PBworks.com.
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  Vinnie Lauria
  Golden Gate Ventures, Founding Partner
  Vinnie Lauria co-founded Lefora (acquired by CrowdGather, Inc.), a forum hosting service for over 100,000 communities on the web. Vinnie also started the SiliconValley NewTech meetup in 2006, critiquing and reviewing hundreds of startups. Vinnie has spent the past year mentoring startups in Singapore and across Southeast Asia, working with i/o ventures, the Founder Institute, and JFDI.
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  Gwendolyn Regina Tan
  SGEntrepreneurs, Co-Founder
  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.
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  Mohan Belani
  e27, Director
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  Daniel CerVentus Lim
  ENTREPRENEURS.MY
  Daniel CerVentus is a web producer that engages in all things web. He is currently involved in the online magazine Entrepreneurs.my and This Week in Asia, a weekly podcast of technology news in Asia. He is also the organizer behind cool tech events in Asia such as Open Web Asia, TEDxKL and many more.
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  Eugene Fabian
  Microsoft BizSpark
  Eugene Fabian is a Program Manager in Microsoft Singapore handling the startup audience for the subsidiary. Since 2008, he has been handling the BizSpark program in Singapore providing support, connections, and opportunities for startups. An active member of the community, Eugene has supported institutions and events like DEMO Asia, Echelon, Founder’s Institute, Startup Weekend, SGEntrepreneurs and others throughout Singapore and the region.
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  Darius Cheung
  BillPin, Founder
  Darius is the founder of WaveSecure (acquired by McAfee), and was most recently Director of Consumer Mobile Technology at McAfee. He focuses on product design, marketing strategy, marketing, sales, team building, fund raising.
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  Steven Goh
  mig33
  Steven is the CEO and co-Founder of mig33, a leading Social Entertainment Services company for emerging markets. He has extensive experience in developing and commercialising compelling internet services for consumers & fundraising. Over the past 18 years, Steven has also founded Sanford Securities (Australia's first online stockbroking company and a leader in its time), established Bell Direct (one of Australia's largest online wealth management companies), advised a number of Startups, been involved with a number of Incubators, and many other organisations.
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  Xiao Dan Wang
  ThoughtWorks, Experience Design Lead
  Xiaodan Wang works at Thoughtworks as an Experience Design Lead, helping clients to develop design strategies and deliver world class design solutions. Prior to this, she headed up Yahoo! Southeast Asia design team in Singapore, with a track record of delivering successful international products. Before moving to Singapore in 2008, she worked at Microsoft MSN international product R&D team, and at Yahoo! Europe as design manager and lead designer, based in London.
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  Phalgun Raju
  InMobi, General Manager, SE Asia, Hong Kong & Taiwan
  Phalgun is the InMobi Regional Director and General Manager for Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Phalgun spearheads the company’s business strategy, sales, business development, and marketing for the region. Phalgun has joined InMobi from Google, where she led sales and business development efforts for strategic new advertising products with Fortune 500 brands and top agencies.
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  Scott Bales
  Movenbank, Chief Mobile Officer
  Scott defines the Movenbank mobile-centric bank technology vision and implements the mobile technologies that will enable Movenbank customers to spend, save and live smarter.
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  Efraim Pettersson Ivener
  eKita, Founder & CEO
  Efraim is the Founder & CEO @ eKita and also a Founder of 3 Day Startup Israel. 3 Day Startup is an international event franchise and community that runs intense full-3-day events, coupled with University communities to help young entrepreneurs create startup companies. He has been a tech lead at 7+ successful startups. Efraim is also a mentor at Founder's Institute.
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  Benoit Pagotto
  Ignition Factory, Strategist
  Benoit has a deep, fluid knowledge of brands, the video games industry, mobile apps, start ups, art and contemporary creation. Former fine Arts student, now evolving in the nonetheless conceptual world of brands and advertising. He is also Parisian incubator Le Camping's Season 2 mentor.
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  Michael Smith Jr
  Spuul, Chief Product Officer
  Michael is the Chief Product Officer of Spuul, an ad supported subscription service that legally provides online Indian content to anyone in the world. He has been plugged in to the startup scene in Asia for more than six years. He led Yahoo’s acquisition of Indonesia-based location based startup Koprol. This, along with Travelocity’s acquisition of Singapore-based travel search startup Sprice, provided a huge boost to the thriving startups in this region.
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  Benjamin Joffe
  +8*, Founder
  Benjamin Joffe is a leading expert on Asia's digital scene. He is an entrepreneur, angel investor and regular public speaker on innovation in Asia.
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  Calvin Chin
  Transi.st, CEO
  Calvin Chin is a Chinese-American entrepreneur living in Shanghai. He runs a social impact incubator and investment fund called Transi.st. Previously, he worked on a P2P lending site for Chinese student loans called Qifang. Chin was born in Michigan, went to Yale, and worked in banking and a few tech startups before moving to China. He founded Qifang in August, 2007.
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  Justin Fulcher
  Kinda International, CEO
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  Sebastiaan Decker
  Cofounders Pte Ltd, Frontend Cofounder
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  Bernise Ang
  Syinc
  Bernise is a recovering consultant from a former corporate life in change management. She's now full time at Syinc, the co she founded which works with young/aspiring social entrepreneurs to get there.
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  Shaun Koh
  Syinc
  Shaun is the cofounder and chief troublemaker of Syinc. He's a product design generalist best at recombining and repurposing things.
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  Teddy Zmrhal
  IDEO
  The newest member of the Leadership Team at the burgeoning IDEO Singapore Office, Teddy is a serial entrepreneur, designer, and teacher. He's co-founded a number of startups and non-profits over the years including Learning Productions, a learning simulation company that successfully exited (sold to SmartForce for $16m) literally days before the crash in 2000 and most recently, B!, a social health and wellness startup...well, that didn't!
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  John Fearon
  Dropmyemail
  John Fearon is a lifelong entrepreneur. His 33 years have taken him from selling sweets as a child, to global digital marketing, to founding Dropmyemail.com, one of the fastest growing cloud companies today.
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  David Goh
  Singtel Innov8
  David is MD at Singtel Innov8 in Singapore. He has over 10 years of experience investing in companies in Asia and the US.