Timo is Vietnam's leading digital bank. As director, I primarily serve as bridge between the Board of Directors and the company's executive management with a specific focus on long-term strategy & investor relations.Since June 2021, I have additionally taken on the role of CFO in which I oversee the finance, data, strategy and corp dev functions of the business.

Bykea is Pakistan's leading motorbike taxi, delivery and payments business. I helped lead Bykea's $5.7m Series A round, at the time the largest in the country, joining the board as part of the investment. Since, I actively work together with management on areas like strategy, scale-up, technology & fundraising, having spent about a week a month in Pakistan pre-CoVid.

Protenga is an agritech company that develops scalable insect technology and produces high-quality & sustainable insect-based nutrition for pets, farmed animals, plants and humans on a mission to Making Insects Work For You - for our customers and for a more sustainable food system.

Advisory work on how to leverage technology to redefine convenience using 7-Eleven Vietnam's offline store network and the various newly developed technology assets that are being developed in-house and during my tenure as CEO of Silicon Straits.

Personal holding company focusing on investing into and growing early stage ventures as well as select consulting engagements.Specific consulting engagements include:- Vietnamese mobile payments market entry analysis with subsequent analysis of the required technology components for developing digital economies in emerging markets on behalf of one of the largest global Internet companies- interim Chief Product and Technology Officer for a Vietnamese mHealth startup backed by leading healthcare investor enabling the company to become the largest Vietnamese tele-consultation platform in its space- business model definition and support during Series A capital raise of a Mobility-as-a-Service spin-off of Singapore's largest mobility operator

Remy Infosource specializes in two solutions under the iSpec brand.(1) An industry-leading solution for tender and procurement management of large CAPEX projects used by leading ports around the world overseeing billions in procurement volume annually.(2) An active document management system with section/clause-level permission and tracking control, automated reminders and full e-signature integration with specific applicability for contracts, policies and other business critical documents.

BravoHR provides the tools for companies to engage with their employees in a personalized way at scale. We help reduce the gap between employees and employers by offering companies the ability to engage with their employees, run various internal activities and provide attractive and flexible benefits.In my role as advisor, I primarily focus on helping shape the long-term strategy and help support strategic Business Development and Corporate Development opportunities.

Silicon Straits is a regional group building and investing into technology products, companies and communities.During my tenure, major achievements included:- scaling the organization to almost 100 people in Saigon office- initiating complete process revamp around hiring, career development and roles and responsibilities as part of organizational scaling- establishing Silicon Straits as a leading employer in Vietnam with a highly innovative and growth-driven culture- growing annualised company revenues by more than 300% as Head of Business Development (see below)- becoming profitable within 4 months of appointment and operating profitably till eventual company saleFurther, I was deeply involved with selected products and businesses including:- digital transformation of a major Indonesian transportation conglomerate- advising an early stage big data e-commerce logistics startup on product development and organizational scaling- overseeing product delivery of a tourism app launched by a Singaporean telco as innovation & emerging business initiativeExited after successful restructuring including the sale of one of the largest teams at a double digit profit multiple generating significant Return-on-Equity.

- growing annualized revenues by more than 300% during tenure- strategic key account with MNCs in Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore and closing multiple strategic partnerships with listed billion dollar companies- signing four of the five largest contracts by value in history of company- building up equity collaborations in multiple VC-funded (or exited) startups

A holding company for various business interests, most notably:(2014) CloudFarms - aquaponics & sustainability operations and consulting- design and construction of various scale aquaponics systems in SEA- white paper on integrated aquaponics as a market-driven solution for providing clean, affordable food while mitigating urban poverty in emerging markets (http://bit.ly/distribap)(2014) Homegrw Pte Ltd (Smartgrow), an aquaponics technology company in SG:- assembled initial team for founder, monitored product development until proof of concept, brought in first company revenues, raised additional funding at significant multiple 6 months after initial round(2014) The Co-Foundry Pte Ltd, a startup accelerator and venture builder- development of acceleration methodology from Seed Stage to Series A- screening of potential investment targets- mentoring for affiliated startups(since 2013) CargoBase Pte Ltd, a premium logistics management platform- responsible for product development through a self-assembled team of developers delivering the launching version in 3 months and at less than 20% of cost and only 60% of time quoted by other providers

Managing the product team behind www.tripvillas.com (vacation rental platform) and www.holidayhometimes.com (second home real-estate platform). Grew the team from 1 developer and no working product upon joining to a fully functional product development organisation in Singapore with 7 developers creating a sector-leading product outperforming competitors with significantly larger technology teams. Afterwards, further scaled team by setting up a captive product development centre in Bangalore, India.Strong involvement in BD including forming multiple strategic partnerships with other stakeholders including various property developers, channel managers, operators and agents in the various key markets like Thailand, India, Philippines, Indonesia. Closely involved in overall strategic positioning of the company and identification of further growth opportunities.

Product management for a revenue sharing solution for airline joint ventures. Directly responsible for product sales and resulting projects exceeding low 7-digit figure in USD (up from a low 6-figure value for previous year) and support of ancillary product sales of same business unit worth almost double that figure.Championed and spearheaded the creation of a new separated business unit for airline joint venture technology solutions, the first new unit to be formally created within organization in over a decade

Crafting the transition plans and strategy to reposition the company as a shared service center within the Lufthansa Group with further responsibility for creating a formalized business intelligence strategy for the company. Directly reported to the managing director and acted as assistant representing him in various meetings and committees, supported the annual senior management review process and held responsibility for the corporate communications team

Lecturer for seminars on Business Model Generation & Entrepreneurship.Key components of the seminars include introduction to the business strategy canvas as well as various aspects of entrepreneurship.Participants develop a canvas for a case study / business of their choice and pitch the project at the end of the course. Furthermore, a range of different questions related to being an entrepreneur and entrepreneurship in general are discussed.

Consulting work during founding and establishing of a successful youth hostel in Singapore, exited in 2010.

Oversaw the development of a semantic search engine for travel destinations on a shoestring budget raised from private and public investors with the final product clearly outperforming existing competitive offers. Acquisition interest in the team from a leading online travel conglomerate and the IP from a Russian investment group.

- Software testing project (regression testing)- System testing and integration project coordination- design and implementation of an MIS system

Project manager for a global IT development project at Hawker Pacific Aerospace, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik AG.