At COO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Singapore based COO’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Praveen Thakur
Chief Operating Officer of Unscrambl
30+ years of experience, with key leadership roles with top technology service providers including Oracle, IBM & SAP.
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About Unscrambl: An augmented intelligence company that is creating AI-powered cognitive agents for the enterprises.
Aki Ranin
Co-Founder & COO of Bambu
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About Bambu: Bambu is a leading global provider of digital wealth technology for financial and technology industries.
Ajay Bulusu
Co-Founder & COO of Nextbillion.ai
Ajay Bulusu is the Co-Founder and COO of Nextbillion.ai.
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About Nextbillion.ai: Nextbillion.ai develops AI-powered hyperlocal solutions for business mapping and data management.
Shankar Narayanan
Co-Founder and COO of Active.ai
A serial entrepreneur and payment professional, Shankar has founded a number of companies including Cazh (an Internet payment company) and Tagit (an enterprise mobility company). He has a track record in innovation, technology, operations and product development and has worked on developing mobile banking initiatives for the leading banks. Shankar holds 4 patents, including the patent filed for link generation technology (digital emulation) A movie buff, Shankar spends his time outside of work watching movies and writing movie scripts. He also loves to travel and is into photography. sg.linkedin.com/in/shnkr8
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About Active.ai: Active.ai is a service platform that connects consumers with their banks via micro conversation.
Sam Ng
Co-Founder and COO of Vfluencer
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About Agentbong, Vfluencer: Vfluencer is real-time competitor intelligence for China social media.
Villence Kang-Ran Yu
Co-Founder & COO of Silot
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About Silot: Silot is a Singapore-based Fintech startup that empowers banks with a fast and scalable AI platform.
Prerna Pant
Co-Founder and COO of Radarr
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About Radarr: Radarr platform uses AI to convert billions of social and digital conversations into actionable insights for brands in real time.
Andrew Ang
Co-Founder and COO of AIDA
Andrew is the former director of the industry development group, A*STAR. Having more than 20 years overseeing companies spanning from start-ups to MNCs. Andrew has extensive experience in developing new businesses in Asia leading regional teams of up to 400 staff and managing a few hundred million P&L and budgets. Andrew Ang currently serves AIDA Technologies as a co-founder and COO. Andrew was awarded the “Asia CIO 100” award in 2003. Spearheading hundreds of millions worth of corporate R&D labs, enterprise innovative centers, and national programs from Data Analytics, Robotics, and all areas of Infocomm and high-tech technologies. Dr. Ang currently advises SMEs, Startups, and VC/Angels in the Medtech, electronics, robotics and ICT arena. He is a technology committee member at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, Mentor at ACE, and SMU.
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About AIDA: Aida designs and develops an artificial intelligence platform that uses predictive analytics and intelligent systems.
Charlotte Lim
COO & Co-founder of JobTech
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About JobTech: JobTech collects and analyses labour market data with proprietary AI technologies.
Shaun Kwan
COO , Co-Founder of Trakomatic
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About Trakomatic: Trakomatic enables businesses and organizations to discover the ways people interact using video and sensor technology.
Yin Yin Chan
COO of BotDistrikt
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About BotDistrikt: Empowering individuals to create highly-engaging chatbots. No coding required.
Saif Farooqui
COO & Data Science Lead of Deepo
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About Deepo: Our mission is to make data science accessible for marketers.