Acquiring mission-driven small and medium businesses from owners seeking to hand it to sell to a hands on entrepreneur

• Recipient, ASEAN Fellowship/Scholarship for outstanding academic and professional achievement• MIT Start up Sandbox Funded Recipient • MIT National Science Foundation ICorp Fellow

• Led and won US 74.5m multi-year NASA Contract for Electric Propulsion Flight Demostrator • Buildout and oversee the Program Management Office (PMO) to ensure strategic initiatives and projects meet organization goals and objectives. • Program managed concept to production, product development, engineering operations, supply chain, special projects, business operations, IT and business intelligence. • Successfully delivered 2 aircraft prototype test flight program within 12 months • Implemented Agile methodologies throughout the organization that automated program visibility within 24 hours• Led the operational data analytics team that designed, programmed, and automated company level dashboards (OKRs) that included real time program schedules, cost and target vs actuals budgeting forecast using excel, tableau, SQL Scripts and Python.• Spearheaded development of product cost models to track electric propulsion system weight and price targets • Member of the leadership team and scaled up the operations from 5 RnD engineers to over 65 employees and was responsible for leading the recruitment, training and company structure design of 90% of the company’s employees • Led portfolio business processes such as long-range planning, annual budget, program strategy reviews, dashboard reporting, corporate goals and Board of Directors preparation

The Clermont Group is an international business group with its headquarters in Singapore. Our purpose is to harness the goodness of business to create a better world. Clermont builds industry-leading businesses in healthcare, financial services and aerospace. These businesses employ over 6,000 people around the world.Recruited by Group Chairman, Richard Chandler as a special projects manager managing distress investment projects that required accelerated recovery turnarounds• Responsible for Special Program, Late project turn around in various countries• Projects included Acquisition Due Diligence, Property Development, Government Policy Makers Interactions and new markets

• Serve as key projects manager in the organization; head global projects through working directly for the principal; projects range from personal to commercial interests.• Navigate complex and distressed issues in the capacity of a broad problem solver to bring a comfortable solution to projects. • Employ strong skill set as a creative problem solver and entrepreneur; identify short-cuts to achieve objectives.• Utilize expertise garnered through exposure to many elements that have required discovering and implementing interesting solutions to myriad problems.

• Determined business strategy and directed business development. • Formulated and implemented new programs every year for companies as well as wealthy individuals. • Orchestrated events in Europe as well as in Asia.• Attracted local and international news coverage for services of Global Racing Alliances and personal celebrity.• Cooperated with Mass Media strategically as entrepreneur including publications like The Straits times, Sunday Times, Tatler, Mens Health, Millionaire Asia, Asiaone etc • Handled large accounts such as Microsoft, Fujitsu, Tony Robbins, Mobil 1, McLaren, Clarkson, McCann Erickson Worldwide, DDB Advertising Group, Ford. • Recognized as the youngest ever winner of Singapore Spirit of enterprise award at the age of 21.

IT consultancy SME company in Singapore.SALES DIRECTOR• Directed overall project management and planning. • Drew on extensive sales experience to advance creation of new products and attract new clients.• Supervised internal and external parties to ensure successful projects contribution and to manage risks. • Fulfilled the firm’s objectives on time and on budget. • Spearheaded staff streamlining process to reduce staff expenses by 34% without compromise to project quality and delivery time schedules.• Maintained zero late delivery of projects from first month of employment, down from previously 1 out of 5 projects being late for delivery.• Guided the team to create a patent pending software technology for the customer service industry that attracted a multi-million-dollar acquisition bid.• Contributed to company achievement of first $650,000 sale in the first month of employment.

FOUNDER and DIRECTOR• Functioned as the South-East Asia Distributor for CRG Karts; one of the top brands of chassis in the world for kart racing. Sold products to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Australia.• Procured 50,000 in sales revenue in first month, handling high level of capital exchange necessary in a product-based business.• Established and directed this company at the young age of 18, while in college.