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Kuala Lumpur, My

Malaysia

Responsible for launching programs in new strategic markets. Led the hiring, training, and managing of local program teams in the new markets.Oversee and delivered 15+ programs ranging from corporate innovation programs to tailored programs for ideation, seed stage, and growth-stage startups in Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, and Egypt.

500 Global is a venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in assets under management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth.As the Program Manager for 500 Global, I design and manage startups programs that enable and accelerate the growth of startups ranging from the idea stage to Series A and above across APAC.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Working together with AWS to support early-stage tech startups. If you would like to apply for technical support or cloud credits to scale your platform, please drop me a message!

Asean

Provide mentoring to early-stage startups to discover their customer segments, validate problems worth solving and prove their concept in the shortest possible time while minimizing the business costs and risks.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is a global innovation education workshop in 200+ cities changing the lives of 25,000+ entrepreneurs in building new businesses.I am responsible in managing and growing the Lean Startup movement in 14 countries (ASEAN + Hong Kong, Taiwan, Nepal & Maldives). I work closely with the local Lean Startup practitioners to organize and successfully deliver Lean Startup Machine workshops in their cities.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator is a 12-week program dedicated to both start-ups and more established global FinTech companies aiming to capture the Asian growth market. The program leverages on financial centers and key partners to provide access to go-to-market resources, outstanding mentorship, as well as unrivaled technology and expert advice in areas such as market entry, regulatory obligations, and joint-venture opportunities.The Malaysia accelerator works closely with financial… Show more SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator is a 12-week program dedicated to both start-ups and more established global FinTech companies aiming to capture the Asian growth market. The program leverages on financial centers and key partners to provide access to go-to-market resources, outstanding mentorship, as well as unrivaled technology and expert advice in areas such as market entry, regulatory obligations, and joint-venture opportunities.The Malaysia accelerator works closely with financial institutions like Standard Chartered and Allianz, as well as government entities like Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). I am responsible for the curriculum design for 2 cohorts of our startups to successfully secured 14 proof of concept (PoC) with financial institutions (Allianz, OCBC, RHB, Khazanah, PNB and few others financial institutions). The PoCs are recorded to generate an estimated MYR15mil+ of business value for the financial institutions by end of our second cohort in 2018.Within SuperCharger, I oversee the programme direction to make sure we successfully achieve the outcome we are looking for by having regular reviews and incorporate our learning feedback to reiterate our key activities to better achieve our key results using tools like OKRs and Scrum. Show less

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Lean Armada is the consulting arm of Code Ar.my. Through partnership with General Electric, we consult and design program for corporate striving for innovation excellence based on FastWorks, the proven model of General Electric (GE) and startup best practices from Silicon Valley, Lean Startup methodology.Responsible for the design and delivery of innovation transformation to middle and senior management and employees for Khazanah, Khazanah linked companies and Axiata subsidiary holdings… Show more Lean Armada is the consulting arm of Code Ar.my. Through partnership with General Electric, we consult and design program for corporate striving for innovation excellence based on FastWorks, the proven model of General Electric (GE) and startup best practices from Silicon Valley, Lean Startup methodology.Responsible for the design and delivery of innovation transformation to middle and senior management and employees for Khazanah, Khazanah linked companies and Axiata subsidiary holdings to achieve understanding of innovation and ultimately adapt behavior and mindset change that promote innovation from within the companies. Show less

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Code Army were appointed by Khazanah Nasional to launch Project Brainchild in 2015 as an initiative to unearth and develop entrepreneurial talents within Khazanah and Khazanah-linked companies.I worked closely with the Program Director in delivery of the curriculum, lessons, training sessions and contents in the form of interactive and experiential training workshops for Khazanah Project Brainchild 2016 Cohort 2 to Cohort 4, Ministry of Education Malaysia's Superb Higher Education… Show more Code Army were appointed by Khazanah Nasional to launch Project Brainchild in 2015 as an initiative to unearth and develop entrepreneurial talents within Khazanah and Khazanah-linked companies.I worked closely with the Program Director in delivery of the curriculum, lessons, training sessions and contents in the form of interactive and experiential training workshops for Khazanah Project Brainchild 2016 Cohort 2 to Cohort 4, Ministry of Education Malaysia's Superb Higher Education League 2017 and Khazanah Nasional Entrepreneurship Outreach 2017.Throughout these programme, we delivered transformation of 1,000 entrepreneurs and professionals, validated 500 products, combined valuation of RM15mil (USD6.3mil) startups and RM3mil (USD722k) funding raised. Show less

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

At CodeAr.my we consult, guide and teach how to manage a tech business, throughout the whole process, from the idea validation, to the MVP and technical development. Responsible in generating new businesses to grow the company, establish and strengthen business partnerships.