James Chan

I remain as Director of my personal investment holdings and led our partial sale (to Grab), spin-out (to 7-Eleven Vietnam) and withdrawal from Vietnam.

Local director for Pivotal Labs Singapore, and remained as director for New Context Singapore after it was acquired by New Context, Inc. (a Digital Garage company). Company underwent rebranding to Neo for better mental brand retention in Nov 2012.

Served my 10-week notice with IDA HR, studying and proposing refinements to IDA's succession planning and talent retention initiatives.

* Previously known as Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore. ( * Formulation and implementation of supply-side and demand-side policies to stimulate growth of infocomm industry in Singapore * Business development and operations in support of Singapore-based infocomm businesses to export their products and services in the Americas and Europe * Startup ecosystem analysis.

Director of a subsidiary of Silicon Straits; our group's product and software development foundry based out of Singapore, with agile/scrum and a stack selection that is largely RoR, Phoenix/Elixir, Electron, React/ReactNative, Kubernetes/Docker/Terraform, so that we cover the gamut across all screens and nearly all devices.

I help out at a portfolio company with their growth and acceleration in China, Japan and rest of Asia. I am a seed investor in Formlabs through Neoteny Labs since 2011.

I am one of 3 directors at E14, an independent, non-profit incubator fund with strong affiliation to MIT and MIT Media Lab. I helped with the initial setup before joining the board.

I advised the company for APACJ region during its earlier days, and helped close their first Butler sale in HK.

Member of the investment team at Walden International Singapore Pte Ltd (WIS), managing Seed Ventures IV Pte Ltd (S4), a new fund organized under the National Research Foundation's Early Stage Venture Capital Fund Scheme with a focus on investing in early stage technology companies in Singapore. (on secondment from IDA & Infocomm Investments)

1) Series A/B venture capital-styled co-investments with private sector VCs into Singapore-based infocomm companies out of S$200M developmental fund (2) Portfolio management, reporting, valuation (3a) Formulation and implementation of new policies/promotional tools to enhance engagement with overseas VC-backed startups (3b) Business development & account management to attract overseas venture-backed tech startups to set up R&D/engineering centres in Singapore, so as to jumpstart Singapore's tech ecosystem.

Burpple is a smart and beautiful way to remember, organize and explore food moments with your friends. Burpple empowers people to remember special dinner dates, share home-cooked creations, explore what’s good in places and organize these great finds.

Started Neoteny Labs with Joi Ito (General Partner) and raised a US$5M early-stage venture fund that had been investing since May 2010; I run lean as a 1-man fund operation. Neoteny Labs invested in 24 internet and open hardware startups across the US (12), UK (1) and Asia Pacific (11) over 2 years. The fund is now in passive, non-investing mode. We have since returned more than capital to LPs, with significant unrealised portfolio positions.

I drove Grey Orange's APAC growth and expansion, with a focus on Greater China, Japan and Southeast Asia. I built the Singapore office and team, formulated and executed the company's Japan and China market entry, as part of expanding the company's presence across key markets in Asia Pacific.

James Chan is founder and Chairman at Silicon Straits - an innovation tribe that makes early-stage investments and helps tech entrepreneurs and startups with strategy, financing and go-to-market. Its subsidiary Silicon Straits Foundry is a leading product development foundry that works with startups and enterprises to design, develop, co-create and launch B2C and B2B products for the Southeast Asian market. Silicon Straits makes early-stage investments and helps technology entrepreneurs and companies with strategy, financing and go-to-market. Its investments include Burpple, Neoteny 3, HipVan, Caarly (acq. by Carousell), Ztore, Carro, OneEight Technologies, PolicyPal, Udu, Pixel Labs and SurePark. Its subsidiary Silicon Straits Foundry is a leading product development foundry that works with startups and enterprises to design, develop and co-create B2C and B2B products for the Southeast Asian market. Partners include entrepreneurs, startups and enterprises such as SingPost eCommerce, Starhub, Blue Bird Group, 7-Eleven Indonesia and 7-Eleven Vietnam.

Vice-Chairman of RJC Computer Science Society SO1A Activities and Societies: Cross Country, Computer Science Society

Management Science and Engineering (MS) at Stanford University

Activities and Societies: Singapore Students' Association (Executive Committee), The Carnegie Pulse (Staff Photographer)