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Min LEECo-Founder, CEO
Tech Entrepreneur | Design Thinking | Behaviour Change | Social Impact | Venture Finance
Min is a master facilitator and change architect, passionate about combining the power of business, design, and technology for a better world. She started her first business at 17, and has been a serial entrepreneur ever since. She has held positions in banking, healthcare, and education, was also part of the team at Qik, a Silicon Valley startup that sold to Skype for $150M. She later founded PlayMoolah, a social enterprise that developed a unique model of game-based financial education using technology for behaviour change, and reached over 100,000 children and youth through partnerships with the government, major banks, schools, and community organisations. Min has a degree in Finance and Technology Entrepreneurship from the National University of Singapore and Stanford University. She approaches life and work with the intentionality of a designer, and sees every conversation, every event, and every business, as an opportunity to be precise and thoughtful about shaping outcomes.
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Natacha EMILIENCo-Founder, Managing Director
Business & Community Builder | Operational Excellence | Engineering | Global Finance
Natacha combines operational excellence with a deep understanding of people. The relationships she builds and her empathy for people have served her in building world-class teams and lifelong customers. Being a perfectionist by nature and an engineer by training, has given her a natural flair in understanding systems and an insistence on quality. She has worked on the strategy and operations in building two companies (in Engineering and Global Finance) from zero to fifty employees with a global vision and outlook. Two times laureate, Natacha holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Microelectronics and Automation Engineering from the Polytechnics Institute of Montpelier and an MBA from IAE, Toulouse. She is also a professional trainer and facilitator since 2007, a public speaker, a certified agile product owner and a scrum master. She believes in building a company culture where fun and work can co-exist, and where everyone can bring their full humanity to work.
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Alam KASENALLYCo-Founder, Chief Product Officer
Exponential Thinking | Digital Platform Strategy | Product Management | Data | Economics
Alam brings a passion for digital product to the team, combined with strong agile process, and a knack for data. He learnt to code before coding was cool, joined Oracle, and then became part of the mobile team at Yahoo! that built the first pre-installed App for the first iPhone. His experiences in hiring and managing large-scale engineering teams taught him the value of customer empathy and agile methodologies. Later, he co-founded a venture-funded prediction markets startup, and joined a non-profit that used big data and visualization to predict per-patient outcomes in oncology. Alam loves bringing the right team together to reimagine solutions to tough problems, especially intractable ones. He has a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and loves improv! When he’s not trying to delight customers, he keeps out of mischief by writing, reading, swimming, and bringing good people together.
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Noorie KARIMBOCUSData Whisperer
Systems Thinking | Data | Scientific Method | Human Behaviour | Biochemistry
Noorie is passionate about systems and information flow. She is particularly interested in how systems can be designed, with data and with humans driving decisions, to remain resilient to disruptions. She started her career teaching Data & Decisions, Research Methods and Mathematics at the African Leadership University (ALU). Noorie holds an Undergraduate Masters in Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham (UK) and a PhD in human stem cell biology from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany), Europe’s premier institution for life science research. Both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies were supported by generous scholarships from her host institutions to reward her excellence as an international student. To complement her understanding of the world, Noorie completed her MBA with the ALU School of Business in Rwanda. She is keen on bringing her multiplicity of perspectives and experiences to serve customers and to build healthy business ecosystems fit for the modern world.
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Caroline FLORECustomer Engagement Ninja
Customer Service | Business Administration | Legal and Accounting | Diplomacy
Caroline believes that customer service should not be a department, or a nice value to have on the wall. Her dream would be that the culture of good customer service, in its widest definition, should form part of the Mauritian way of life at all levels of society. Caroline experienced unique customer service at its core after spending 9 years working in Australia, a country known for its exceptional customer service across all industries. Caroline holds a Bachelor of International Relations (Business) from Bond University and a Master of Commerce (Advanced) from the University of Western Australia. With a multi-disciplinary field of studies, she can understand how a business works its strategy, structure and management. With an acute business acumen and a desire to deliver exceptional customer service consistently, Caroline was nominated for Best Employee of Year 2017 for Subway Australia for the entire state of Western Australia. She was praised for her strong work management ethics, her display for attention to detail and most importantly to her customers.
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Noéline ADAMEntrepreneur In Residence
Entrepreneurship | Startup Operations | Community building | Public-private partnerships
Noéline is an entrepreneur who believes that wilful collaboration is at the heart of technological breakthroughs and paramount in solving major societal problems. For her, the startup mindset is one that nurtures employee up-skilling and bottom-up innovation. Her experience working with governments and hustling in the Silicon Valley has taught her about strategic public-private partnerships and exponential growth through hyper-productivity. She believes that technological tools help us be more productive, yet she thinks it is important to keep reinventing ourselves not to become a tool. In Mauritius since September 2020, she built the first community-driven marketplace of “makers & growers” on the island. She seeks to prove that when given the right tools, skills, and confidence any individual is a star in the making, awaiting to glitter. She holds a Bachelor of Political Science from Laval University in Québec City and a Master’s degree in International Business and Minor in Disruptive Innovation from Hult International Business School in Boston.
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Quentin ADAMEntrepreneur In Residence
Entrepreneurship | Data | Human-Centered Design | Storytelling | Social Impact
Quentin bridges the gap between “saying” and “doing”. He loves connecting the dots, weaving compelling stories and shining a warm light on actionable data. Though a fervent data nerd, he acknowledges that numbers are only part of the story and believes in high-quality human connections as the recipe for thriving organisational communities. Starting off his studies in the Medical path at the University of Western Australia, Quentin’s DNA is rooted in studying humans in this complex ecosystem we live in. In understanding our creation of value in the system, he completed a dual Master’s Degree in International Business and Business Analytics in Boston and San Francisco as part of the Hult International Business School. His experience working in a booming Silicon Valley startup and building the first government marketplace has sharpened his entrepreneurial acumen. Starting the first community-driven marketplace in Mauritius has taught him valuable market insights, and left him with an insatiable appetite for greater positive impact.
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Roslina CHAIA keen intuition to sense, draw out and articulate the essence of any situation is Roslina's calling card. Artfully refined over 2 decades as a 6-times entrepreneur, lawyer, innovation-practitioner, lecturer and life-coach across 15 companies and 10 industries - including private equity, Formula 1, education, shipping, F&B, urban design and technology. For as long as Roslina remembers breathing, she has been a student of the quintessential question "what does it mean to be human?", and an incisive observer of how each person, organization and community live out their response to this question. Insights distilled has enabled Roslina, and her clients, to build highly resilient and impactful teams. And as life has gently persuaded Roslina that humans are polymath in essence, she loves to weave wisdom from quantum physics, neuroscience, culinary arts, philosophy, ancient traditions, and management theories to create learning spaces and embodied experiences that enable every person’s essence and innate creativity to flourish. When Roslina is not pouring her heart into advising and mentoring founders, accelerators and start-ups, she can be found either creating recipes that delight the eyes, tickle the senses, and soothe the soul. Or on stage opening eyes, stretching minds, and engaging hearts.
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Ragu BHARADWAJ Ragu is the founder of Nyrasta, and has decades of experience developing data science and algorithmic solutions using a mix of crowdsourcing and systems thinking methods for agriculture, space, transportation and logistics, biotech and healthcare, which have led to complete implementations which saved clients millions of dollars per year. Previously, Ragu led the Data Science group at Topcoder, a competitive crowdsourcing platform, where he designed and implemented contests involving predictive analytics, optimization, graph theory, and image recognition for Fortune 1000 clients including IBM Watson, NASA, and Pfizer, among others. Prior to Topcoder, Ragu headed Babbage Analytics and Innovation. Ragu is trained as a biochemist (Ph.D Columbia University, New York) and systems thinker (SM, MIT, Cambridge, MA) with experience in the pharma industry (Vertex Pharmaceuticals), cheminformatics and crowdsourcing.
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Raven CHAIRaven Chai is the founder, principal consultant at UX Consulting Pte Ltd, has over 17 years experience as a technologist, experience designer and usability practitioner. He has been involved in implementing UX practices in more than 170 projects across various industries and of different products – eServices, bank applications, large corporate websites, e-commerce, lifestyle, B2B portals, TV and mobile apps. He has been providing advisory to various government statutory boards like SPRING Singapore, EDB and IDA in the areas of User Experience practices. Raven co-founded a local UX Community, UXSG as a platform for UX professionals, designers, developers and business owners to share knowledge and connect people within the industry. They have since organized three user experience conferences in Singapore since 2013. Raven held the position of Regional Director for Asia region within User Experience Professional Association International (UXPA) from year 2012 - 2014, to promote professional learning and collaboration among design and research practitioners. Raven holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science, major in Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization from University of Queensland.
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Sylvain MAHEAs an Enterprise Agile coach, Sylvain has worked with both established companies and startups across diverse industries, ranging from banking and telecommunications, to government agencies. He has trained, coached and mentored over 1,000 people from every level of the corporate ladder. By helping organizations grow an agile mindset, his clients become more innovative, quicker to respond to change, and are better able to attract and retain talent. Taking a non-dogmatic approach, Sylvain focuses on culture and models new behaviors that foster trust, learning, safety and collaboration in order to achieve high performance. Sylvain is also highly involved in the Agile community and brought the Agile Tour - the largest series of Agile conferences - to Singapore. He is regularly invited to be a speaker at Agile and Innovation events. Sylvain is also a life coach, with a focus on relationships and transformation. He helps clients explore their true nature and find fulfillment and joy in both work and life.
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Amelie DE SPOTAmelie is a serial entrepreneur, consultant, certified LUMA instructor and SCRUM master. With a knack for entrepreneurship and a stint in venture capital, Amelie has experience across multiple startups and established companies across HealthTech, FinTech, Telecommunications, and a wide variety of internet ventures. Most recently, she helped shape the human-centered design practice at Standard Charted Bank as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the eXellerator innovation lab, training 1000 bankers to become practitioners using the LUMA method, to co-creating new business ideas, and support various countries on their fintech engagement strategies and implementation. Amelie’s sessions are known for a high level of fun and energy, combining a deep entrepreneurial leadership, focus, and business savvy.
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Michael BERTRANDMichael is an Executive and Agile Leadership coach and the founder of Epicoaching Pte. Ltd in Singapore. He works with senior leaders and teams globally looking for long-lasting impact and powerful connections, who want to thrive with agility in very dynamic environments and become the influential leaders of tomorrow. Michael is dedicated to holding the space for people to explore limiting assumptions, to embrace challenging perspectives and to provoke powerful shifts that will generate deep and long-lasting transformations. Michael’s specialities are executive coaching, team coaching, facilitation and team performance. He holds an ICF PCC certification and has been trained in neurobehavioral coaching, Systemic coaching, adult developmental coaching, Immunity to Change and co-active coaching. Michael has held senior leadership roles, led large teams across multiple continents and drove large organizational transformations. Entrepreneur at heart, Michael has been in the start-up scene since early 2000’s and explored cutting edge topics such as Artificial Intelligence. To this day, he is still exploring new ventures and supporting entrepreneurs fulfil their dreams.
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Sidhartha MekaSidhartha is a technologist with experience in architecting information systems for startups to fortune 100 companies. He was Senior Architect at EY San Francisco Bay Area for 8 years, before moving in 2007 as Senior VP and CIO of SEW Infrastructure Ltd, one of India's largest infrastructure development companies. Sidhartha founded Cloudseed Technologies in January 2016 and led the development of the cloudseed.io application configuration platform (aPaaS), a platform deployed as a cloud service to design, build, deploy and manage custom enterprise applications, e-commerce portals and IoT solutions without having to write any code. Sidhartha's current focus areas include Cloud, IoT, Digital Asset Management and Ux.
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LeRoy RatnayakeWith over 25 years of experience in the Technology space, from the San Francisco Bay Area to Africa, LeRoy enjoys bringing Leadership to use an Entrepreneurial approach to solve the most complex business problems that an organization needs to address in order to bring value to its customers and evolve its competitive position as a successful business entity. LeRoy's experiences and interests range from bringing Executive Leadership to create and manage organizations with a specific business mission, Product Strategy and Innovation in Enterprise and Customer Oriented Software, Operations Excellence and Process Innovation in complex Business Processes and Program Discipline in Execution. LeRoy has led large teams of over 100 team members on strategic, muti-year, multi-million dollar budget endeavors delivering solutions across complex organizational structures, although some of his personal favorite experiences have been in working with highly focused lean teams of subject matter experts and specialists in iterating to products and business solutions to market, rapidly and incrementally. LeRoy is the Head of Digital Innovation and Digital Transformation Strategist at Cloudseed Technologies.
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