TY Shao
Co-Founder & Country Manager - Singapore & Malaysia @ FreedomX (Freedom Systems Singapore Branch)
About
I’ve spent more than three decades working with organizations across industries, supporting over 100 companies as they navigate leadership decisions, technology change, and digital growth. Over time, one pattern has become clear: AI does not drive transformation. People, structure, and execution do. I work with business leaders who want more from AI and technology than incremental efficiency. AI Transformation & Growth I help leaders translate AI from concept into execution—embedding it into decision-making, operations, and organizational workflows to drive productivity, insight, and competitive advantage. Strategic IT Outsourcing Growth-oriented IT outsourcing that reduces internal complexity while providing the technical foundation required to scale AI, cloud, and digital initiatives—without overloading internal teams. Cybersecurity & Digital Trust As digital and AI adoption accelerates, I help organizations build security and risk frameworks that protect data, brand reputation, and long-term business resilience.
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Singapore
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Sales Management, Team Leadership, Business Strategy, HR Consulting, Market Research, Macroeconomics, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Marketing, Management, Sales, Analysis, Strategic Partnerships, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Strategy, Project Management, Team Management, Competitive Analysis, Team Building, Management Consulting
Experience

Co-Founder & Country Manager - Singapore & Malaysia
Singapore
• Co-founded FreedomX, establishing the Singapore branch from the ground up. • Managed all operations in Singapore, focusing on IT outsourcing AI Agent Service, and digital transformation. • Spearheaded AI deployment initiatives to enhance service offerings and drive innovation. Industry Case: - Recruitment Agent for resume sourcing and screening - Accounting Agent Agent with OCR for automating the entire manual monthly report generation process integration

Senior Consultant - Career Coach
Singapore
Career Coach for multiple tech talents in the tech and internet industry. Support career transition in mid-age talents LHH Taiwan is a brand under the Adecco Group specializing in coaching leadership training and professional transition services. We offer "Leadership Development Programs" and "Career Transition - Active Placement" to companies in Taiwan, with a total of 875 branches worldwide. Leadership Development Programs: Through coaching leadership training, we provide 1:1 tailored training for senior managers and Team Coaching, reducing the gap between organizations and employees. This enables employees to exert influence through coaching leadership, thereby creating a better organizational culture in the medium to long term. Career Transition & Mobility - Active Placement: We offer counseling services for client employees undergoing career transitions (dismissals), providing 1:1 coaching in the job market to assist in reemployment, entrepreneurship, retirement planning, and related guidance.

Head of Investment & Research
Singapore
Leading the investment for global crypto projects. Deal sourcing, investment evaluation, and portfolio support for seed stage startup in web 3 industry. If you are a founder/founder-to-be/fellow investor, feel free to contact me at s@outliers.fund! Led investment in XREX and Syndicate

Investment Lead
Singapore
A collective of research-driven funds, accelerator and fellowship for turning science fiction into scientific facts! - Led fund raising strategy in South East Asia - Led deal sourcing for best-class blockchain early stage companies in SEA for Blockchain Fund III - Analysed and conducted in-depth research of GameFi products and Blockchain Technology Foundation. - From macroeconomic and microeconomic forecasts to individual Gamefi product & blockchain technologies analysis, to provide valuable insights to venture investment. Led investment in - DeSyn Protocol - DMail - dPrism - Quantum Temple

Incubator Program Lead
Singapore
- Responsible for building up first outliers labs in San Francisco in 2018 - 2020 - Incubated 11 startups in total and invested $2M into 6 portfolios in 2019, which are Harmony, Ultra, XYO network, Kmabria, Ampleforth, Quantstamp - Turned $2M to $23M in 10 quarters after the investment, return 1123% in 10 quarters.

Head of Technology Recruitment, SEA
Singapore
- Direct P&L responsibility for strategic desk in Cloud and Cybersecurity sector in SEA - Re-engineering the existing team to drive productivity and revenue - Key account holder for Chinese Technology company accounts - Led a 10 person team to hit the productivity benchmark in the first quarter and 140% over achieved Q1 budget / 131.97% over achieve Q3 budget in 2020 with entire commissionable team. - Manager of the quarter in 2020 Q3 in Asia Pacific

International Future Leader Program
- Elite member of 2 years Group Global Leadership program sponsored by executive committee and Global CEO - Worked with global team on France digital transformation project and rollout in Aug 2019 in Paris - Global leadership training in London, Switzerland and Lisbon

Regional Manager of Technology Recruitment
Singapore
Member of Adecco performer club in Asia Pacific in 2018 & 2019 Regional No. 3 Top biller in Asia Pacific in 2018 Report to SG Country Director Expertise in Infrastructure & Security and IT leadership hiring. - Manage IT recruitment desk P&L and drive business growth with team, covering Singapore, Philippine and Vietnam - Lead tech recruitment consultants and covered from software, infrastructure, data science to security - 360 degree recruitment, building Technology recruitment Desk from scratch, developing # of clients from 0 to 40+, and # of candidates from 0 to 10,000+ in 2 years - Regional key account holder for Fortune 500 technology companies and multiple Chinese accounts Achievement - Member of Adecco performer club in Asia Pacific in 2018 & 2019 - Regional No. 3 Top biller in Asia Pacific in 2018 - Regional No. 5 Top biller in Asia Pacific in 2017 - Regional No. 10 Top biller in Asia Pacific in 2016 - Member of Adecco Group International Future Leader Program, 35 members global elite program - Personal average placement fee: SGD$28,690

Singapore IT Technical Senior Consultant
Singapore
Regional Top 10 biller in Asia Pacific in 2016 Regional No. 5 Top biller in Asia Pacific in 2017 Singapore No. 1 Top biller award in Adecco Group in 2017 Report to SG Country Director Expertise in application, architect, data science, IT security talent and IT leadership hiring. - In charge of recruitment business in IT technical sector in South East Asia. - Lead and drive business growth with team member and cover application development, infrastructure, IT security, data analytics, digital application, software development fields for clients in different industries. - Launch IT technical practice in Singapore office and build the desk, client, candidate and team from scratch to top biller in Asia Pacific. - Intensive business development by cold calling, networking and use Salesforce.com as the platform to drive candidate and client database locally and regionally. - Manage regional key accounts.

Senior Consultant, Spring Engineering
Taiwan
Report to Taiwan Country Director Best performer award in 2015 - Led and developed team and in charge of HR recruitment business and business development covering key enterprise accounts in Taiwan/ China/ Hong Kong. Asia Regional HR Project execution. - Strong result-orientation: 102% quota achievement in Full Year 2015 and 143% quota achievement in Full Year 2014. Key signing contract value and project close value over 550K USD. Top No. 7 biller and member of performer club across whole Asia region among 150+ consultants in Spring Professional Asia - Managed complex sales-cycles and presenting to C-level executives the value of our enterprise suite of applications and built and grew client base from zero to 30+ client in 2 years Spring Professional is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Adecco Group. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Adecco is the world’s leading provider of HR solutions. We focus on the mid to senior level recruitment covering engineering and technology sector in Asia Pacific.

Consultant, Spring Engineering Team
Taiwan
Report to Taiwan Engineering Team Manager Sales & Business Development - Responsible for starting up Automation & Construction division in Spring Taiwan and worked on business development from scratch in Asia market and provided talent solution for industrial automation, robotic industry in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. - Open new accounts within 1 month and conducted client needs assessments, scoped prospective engagements, developed proposals and negotiated contracts with clients. Recruitment – In charge of mid to senior level positions recruitment: 1. Client expectations & requirements understanding 2. Candidate Search 3. Candidate interviews, assessment & recommendations 4. Offer management, 5. Post on-boarding feedback 6. Credit control - Provide key account service, to maintain relationships and source for best-fit candidates locally and regionally through thorough cold calls and interviews. Billing in 2014 - Top 10% across North Asia offices among 70+ consultants.Top biller consultant in 2014 in Adecco Group Asia. Rising Star award in Adecco Group in 2014.

Management Trainee/ Associate Consultant, Greater China
Taiwan
- Conducted market research, targeted talent mapping, identifying target sectors and customers, opening and managing accounts by approaching and interacting with C-level decision makers for effective enterprise service delivery of results and returns. - Work closely with the C level account manager to provide HR business solution and marketing intelligence in an intensive daily/weekly engagement. - Successfully placed China GM, Finance Director, Finance Manager, Assistant Manager, APEC regional FAE. National key account manager, Regional sales manager, Head of R&D and complete R&D engineer team in food & beverage, industrial and solar energy industry in China, TW and Singapore. Set up full function RD engineering team in Taiwan. Sales turnover in HR solution is around USD$133k.
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