Our Advisors
Richard Eu | Advisory Board Member
Mr. Eu is the Chairman of Eu Yan Sang Group (“EYSG”) where he guides, corporate governance, group strategy and acts as a counsel to the Group CEO. Mr. Eu served as the Group CEO of EYSG from 2002 to 2017 and was instrumental in transforming it into one of Asia’s largest TCM groups today.
Mr. Eu was named the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 (Singapore) and in 2010, he was recognised as the CEO of the year by the Singapore Corporate Awards 2010, for SGX-listed companies with a market capitalisation of under SGD300 million. In 2016, he was lauded as the Brand Leader of the Year by Influential Brands.
Mr. Eu holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of London.
Olivier Glauser | Advisory Board Member
Mr. Glauser has over 20 years of experience in technology and innovation development, management and investment in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Glauser is the Chairman of Cellap Holdings and Vice-Chairman of Shankai Sports Group.
Prior to this, Mr. Glauser was a Venture Partner at Steamboat Ventures in China. Prior to this, he was with Qualcomm Ventures. He began his career as a Product Engineer at Qualcomm where he authored several US patents on wireless communications systems and methods..
Mr. Glauser holds a MSc in Communications Systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology & an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Nikhil Kapur | Advisory Board Member
Nikhil Kapur is Head of Investments at Strive Ventures and leads the fund’s portfolio across Southeast Asia and India. After building a profitable B2B media-tech venture named TommyJams in India, he completed his MBA in Finance from NUS Business School.
A Computer Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, he previously developed the first version of Excel for mobile while at Microsoft. He was listed as Forbes 30-Under-30 in Asia in 2018 and maintains a popular VC blog, grayscale.vc.
Lovina McMurchy | Advisory Board Member
Ms. McMurchy has 20+ years of experience working across product development, strategy execution and P&L management.
She is currently a Partner at Movac, New Zealand’s largest venture capital company and is responsible for identifying investment opportunities and providing strategy and operational advice to Movac portfolio companies
Prior to Movac, she has held positions such as GM & Director for Alexa Shopping at Amazon, and multiple positions at Microsoft such as GM of Skype and CMO of Latin America
She holds a MSc of Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Auckland and an MBA from Harvard Business School
Charles Wong | Advisory Board Member
Charles Wong is the Co-founder and CEO of Privé Technologies, a leading innovator in the financial and wealth management industries
Prior to founding Prive Technologies, Mr. Wong held several senior positions across large financial services institutions such as Managing Director at JP Morgan in Asia and most recently as Managing Director and Asia Head for Coventry Capital . In 2017, Mr. Wong was awarded the “Fintech Changemaker of the Year’’
He holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Esther Go | Advisory Board Member
Ms. Go has 20+ years of experience across banking, product development, payment innovation, corporate strategic planning and entrepreneurship.
Ms. Go currently serves as the President & CEO, MediLink Network Inc., the largest electronic transaction service in the PH (processing close to 100M transactions monthly for many leading HMOs and insurance companies. Prior to Medilink Network, Ms. Go was a Vice President at Citigroup’s Payments Innovation team in New York. Ms. Go currently serves on the Board of Equicom Savings Bank and Maxicare, the largest HMO in the PH.
She holds BA degrees in Economics & Computer Science from Smith College & an MBA from Harvard Business School