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Min LEECEO
Min is a master facilitator and systems thinker, 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. It was in Silicon Valley that she really understood that design was in fact a mindset and practice, which has the power to transform business models and disrupt entire industries. Min has a degree in Finance and Technology Entrepreneurship from the National University of Singapore and Stanford University. She also runs PlayMoolah, a social enterprise that delivers financial education through game-based learning, and volunteers at ServiceSpace, a non-profit that believes in the power of small acts of kindness to change the world.
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Natacha EMILIENManaging Director
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 from zero to fifty employees with a global vision and outlook. Natacha holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Microelectronics and Automation from the Polytechnics Institute of Montpelier and an MBA from IAE, Toulouse. She is also a member of the Mauritius Institute Of Directors (MIoD), has been a professional trainer qualified by the Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA) since 2007, and a Business and Life Certified Practitioner Coach. 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 KASENALLYChief Product Officer
Alam brings a passion for 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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Dishina WOODHOOLead People Consultant
To Dishina, creating a better future for today's children and love for her country come first. Dishina is our Lead People Consultant, with a background in Human Resources, Executive Coaching and Corporate Training. Her passion is Talent Development through continuous learning. She began her career as an HR Consultant to large organizations in Leisure, Insurance, Export and Manufacturing Sectors under the mentorship of the late Dan Bundhoo. Dishina then served Ceridian, a leading global HR Capital Management software company, as Leadership & Learning Consultant, based in the Mauritius office. She has a BA in Human Resources Management from Middlesex University, UK; an M.B.A from University of Technology Mauritius and a Certification in Executive Coaching from University of Cape Town, SA.
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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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Zi Huan WEEZi Huan (Zwee) is the founder of Savant Degrees, a leading digital innovation studio in Singapore that helps business leaders across different sectors deliver successful digital experiences and innovations. Zwee has spent time in Silicon Valley and has led numerous business leaders and executives through digital transformation across industries ranging from banking, telecommunication, F&B, retail, to hospitality. Together with his team in Singapore and Jakarta, he has helped entrepreneurs and leaders from start-ups like RedMart, Give.asia to larger organisations such as P&G, PayPal and the Singapore government. Zwee has been described as “inspirational” and a “rare breed”- someone who is highly tech savvy and yet, able to fully understand real-life issues and provide innovative, impactful and simple solutions. He is also recognized as a great connector of ideas, people and organizations. Zwee is also the founder of a second venture Eunoia, a ready-to-use F&B e-commerce platform. Zwee has been actively involved in government panels, committees and initiatives. He has also spoken at events, forums and universities on leadership, entrepreneurship and digital innovation.
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