Umar Abdul Hamid Email & Phone Number

Singapore

We are a team of entrepreneurs who are dedicated to developing early-stage digital ventures into market-leading companies. Our primary focus is on building revenue generating business models in the SaaS, online and mobile space. However, we are not limited to these parameters and seize other opportunities as they arise. Our past successes have lead to the foundation of numerous digital companies as well as many industry awards.Venture Building:Here at Spark we are driven by the search for high-growth business opportunities. Prior to entering the market, we take into account all necessary factors by consulting our network of industry-leading partners. Our team is 100 percent operationally involved in building our ventures into best-in-class businesses. Venture Acceleration:We contribute to the growth of start-ups by teaming up with their founders. Spark covers every essential service such as engineering, product development, online marketing, CRM, business operations, HR, and finance. We believe that the key to growing a successful business starts with having the right environment and the right team. Being entrepreneurs ourselves, we understand and respect the independence and self-reliance that motivates those in our field.

Asia Development Fund is a private equity firm focused on investing in companies that are at the forefront of product, idea and technology development for the next stage of Asian growth story - Asia 2.0.Asia Development Fund's principal objective is to identify and invest in high-quality companies with a niche-market position within strategic industries that support the sustainable growth of Asian economies. The Fund's philosophy focuses on forming long-term, value-enhancing partnerships with the management teams of its portfolio companies, with the aim of cultivating the next generation of "best-of-breed" companies. The Fund is committed not only to improving the global competitiveness of its portfolio companies, hence generating superior returns for its investors and stakeholders alike, but also to playing its part in creating sustainable solutions that support Asia's long-term development.

The Company specializes in providing International business advisory works, pre and post M&A works, turnaround management, operational strategy, performance improvement project management and fund raising.

The Company specializes in fund raising and investments in start-up and distressed small to mid-size companies.

Boardvote.com had a successful launch and is currently experiencing strong traction with investors community and public companies. The social communication and analytical SaaS platform is ready for next level of aggressive growth. Exciting journey not be missed in my lifetime.Boardvote offers public companies the analytical and communication SaaS platform to track and measure every dollar spent on their social media IR activities. The monitoring and analytical capability is computed through data from Boardvote’s communication platform uniquely designed for investors and management of publicly traded companies to engage and interact based on every information released (through press releases, SEC Filings, Q&A, video conferences, offering documents etc.) from the company.

New York, New York, Us

Partnering with the Founder & CEO of a start-up to implement operational strategy from its concept to first dollar revenue.BoardVote is a communication platform targeting investors and publicly traded / pre-IPO companies. Through BoardVote, companies get to directly engage the investment community and investors get to discover new opportunities in the public capital markets. It's all about achieving fair valuation for all stakeholders of public companies.Boardvote provides an interactive two-way communication platform between management of corporations and their investors. It is a platform that enables users to check on active dialogues of public companies, investor relations materials (documents and videos) and financial information.

Serving as a Member of the Board, audit committee and remuneration committee.

Oversees Management turnaround performance of a distressed company and eventual divestment to a PE fund.

Oversees Management turnaround performance of a distressed company for eventual divestment to a PE fund.

Project and Financial Advisory works for green field infrastructure projects.

M&A transaction, turnaround management and operational strategy functions.

Fund raising, business development. M&A and preparation work for company's IPO.

Opm 35, Management

Mba, Finance

Master Of Education (Edm), Administration, Planning & Social Policy

Bsc., Electrical Engineering