Experience

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  Bank of america

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1989

  Assistant vice president

  Loan Officer with the Bay Area Technology Group. Responsible for managing lending relationships with Silicon Valley-based technology companies most of which were start ups.Credit Examination Officer with the Northern California Corporate Credit Examination Services Division. Responsible for reviewing the loan portfolios and operations of corporate lending and private banking units in California. Participated in a month-long review of the private sector debt portfolio of the Mexico City office. Show less

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  Silicon valley bank

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1993

  Vice president, senior credit officer

  Senior Credit Officer, Credit Administration Division. Responsible for working with lending staff in Northern and Southern California technology lending offices to structure new transactions, review transaction risks of lending relationships and to assist officers in managing troubled transactions. Also responsible for reviewing lending policies, recommending new policies. Served as a voter and secretary of the technology and directors loan committees.Lending Officer, Technology Division. Responsible for managing a portfolio of technology loan relationships and managing troubled assets for the group. Show less

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  Greater bay bancorp, venture banking & abl

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  Senior vice president, divison manager

  Founded the Venture Banking Division of Greater Bay Bancorp creating our own unique brand and identity in the technology community..Created the Asset-Based Lending Division of Greater Bay Bancorp by establishing a unique relationship with Concord Growth and Pacific Business Funding (later acquired by the bank), which resulted in an outsourcing of the operational management of ABL and factoring transactions to our partners while the bank provided low cost capital to the transactions.Combined, these units provided the bank with one of the most profitable operations in the bank and generated one of the largest, low-cost deposit bases for the bank. Show less

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  Bank of the west

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Regional vice president, manager

  Responsible for managing the Technology Lending Division and SBIC investment subsidiary.

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  Far east national bank/sinopac

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  Rvp, divison manager, technology divison

  Created the Global Technology Lending Division for the bank (the US subsidiary of Bank SinoPac in Taiwan), served as CEO of the bank's SSBIC investment company and managed the San Jose branch.Successfully integrated the operations of the branch and lending activities of the US and Taiwan banks resulting in the unit becoming the second most profitable unit in the bank and the most integrated unit of the US subsidiary into the Taiwanese holding company.

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  Pangaea international pte. ltd.

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2012

  Co-founder

  Served as the original founder and creator of a start-up supply chain finance company looking to fund high technology companies manufacturing in Asia and selling globally.

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  Whisper rock ventures pte ltd

  Jan 2011 - Feb 2023

  Managing director

  Provided corporate advisory services to companies located in Southeast Asia and the United States with a focus on technology SMEs.

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  Redlink communications co., ltd.

  Mar 2013 - Aug 2013

  Chief operating officer

  Served as interim Chief Operating Officer for Redlink Communications Co., Ltd. (now known as 5BB Broadband), a communications firm located in Yangon, Myanmar, which provides a full range of data communication services across a WiMax-based broadband network (fixed and mobile) including: internet access services, data services, voice services, and corporate VPN services.

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  Parami energy holding

  Oct 2013 - Apr 2014

  Senior consultant financial services

  Providing assistance in the development of policies and procedures, advising on capital formation and accounting matters.

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  Burst myanmar co ltd

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2020

  Founder

  Responsible for the design of a Tier IV (Uptime Institute certified) Datacenter and the procurement of a NFS-I telecommunications license.

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  Singlife

  Feb 2021 - May 2022

  Project management consultant

  Managed the consolidation of IT systems in support of a merger of Aviva Singapore and SingLife and support software applications development from a project management perspective. Advised on restructuring of the IT procurement and financial reporting functions.

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  Asphaltica llc (wa)

  Jun 2022 - Feb 2023

  Board advisor

  Advised on fund raising and joint venture partnerships and was responsible for constructing financial forecasts, strategy document and corporate valuation.Negotiated the acquisition of Intellectual Property, which was acquired by Certainteed, a subsidiary of Saint Gobain, a public company located in France.

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  Hsbc

  Feb 2023 - Mar 2024

  Project manager

  Advised on business and IT integration in support of the AXA and HSBC insurance businesses (post-acquisition) as well as providing advice on cost optimization strategies for overall business operations.

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  Pangaea financial group

  Apr 2024 - now

  Founder