Eric is the well seasoned Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Permata Venture, a Singapore asset management consulting firm who works with High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth families in SE Asia, including Singapore and Indonesia in wealth management and private capital funding. As part of the marketing team, he actively works to grow and expand the firm presence in the SE Asia region in the private wealth, debt and equity markets.Prior to his joining of the firm, Eric was actively involved in marketing projects in Malaysia and Singapore. A major part of his specialty is in the research, strategy design and implementation of high-risk marketing turnaround projects for MNC brands in the Commerce and eCommerce industry. Having spent more than 15-years in the marketing industry, time has refined his ability to spot hidden dangers and gemstones of commercial opportunities that quietly lay to be discovered.As a professional marketer who grew up in the 90s and early-2000s Apple, he too admired Steve Jobs as the one-of-a-kind genius in the world of branding, product design and development. And if there was an advantage to the experiencing the magic of Jobs, it would have been the opportunity for him to appreciate Jobs' earlier philosophical quote as a more experienced Gen-Y: “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future".And life is certainly full of surprises, when he able to connect Jobs' professional quote with the theological version of the same quote “We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” - Romans 8:28Traveling to new parts of the world is part of what makes him feel alive. And his most recent adventures on Java and the surrounding islands have opened a whole new world of culture and culinary experience for him. Stay tuned for more travel diary updates as he completes his Nusantara adventures through 3-time zones and 33-provinces. For the time being, if you’re lucky enough on sunny day, you might just catch him jogging at the Gardens by the Bay.For more information, please visit www.permataventure.com.sg