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 Mobile 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.
Gang Ye
Group Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Sea
Gang Ye is our co-founder and has been a member of the board of directors of our company since March 2010. Gang has served as our group chief operating officer since January 2017 and served as our group chief technology officer between March 2010 and December 2016. He previously worked at Wilmar International and the Economic Development Board of Singapore. Gang holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Sea: Sea is the leading consumer internet company in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
Aadi Vaidya
Chief Operating Officer of Zilingo
Aadi is part of the founding team and the COO of Zilingo. He started his career as a banker with Citibank after completing a degree in Management from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He has worked extensively across Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia setting up various business units of Zilingo. Outside of work, Aadi loves Jazz music and writes Urdu poetry.
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About Zilingo: Zilingo is a commerce platform that is making the fashion and beauty supply chain more efficient through technology.
Eugene Lee
COO of GoGoX
Eugene Lee is the Chief Operating Officer of GoGoX.
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About GoGoX: GoGoX is an app-based platform providing delivery service for different countries in Asia.
Wooi Siang
Founder, President & COO of Jewel Paymentech
Wooi Siang serves as the President & COO and is a co-founder of Jewel. Most recently, he was the Asia Pacific Head of Credit Settlement Risk for Visa, responsible for several billion in settlement exposure generated by more than 900 clients of Visa, and sat on several key committees including review of new product and services, incentive deals and new client approval. He had also served as a bank supervisor at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Wooi Siang has an MBA from Boston University and holds a BSc Economics from NUS.
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About Jewel Paymentech: Jewel Paymentech is a FinTech company.
Chee Kong Chan
Co-founder & COO of GlobalTix
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About GlobalTix: GlobalTix is an online electronic ticketing platform for merchants and travel agents.
Grace (Xiaoting) Su
Co-founder & COO of ZumVet
Grace (Xiaoting) Su is the Co-founder and COO at ZumVet.
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About ZumVet: ZumVet provides access to affordable and convenient veterinary care through video calls and medication delivery.
Tedo Esmu Ziraga
Chief Operating Officer of Tinvio
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About Tinvio: Tinvio is a B2B transactions platform that helps merchants manage orders, invoices, and payments with suppliers via a chat-led interface.
Urvashi Gupta
COO of Reboot
Urvashi has over 10 years of experience in the US and APAC in a variety of business roles such as business operations (LinkedIn), M&A (BHP Billiton) as well as strategy consulting and due diligence for private equity funds (Bain & Company). She previously worked at a start-up that focused on helping companies in the affordable healthcare and clean energy space in Asia raise capital and scale their operations to widen their impact. Urvashi holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Reboot: Reboot has democratised executive coaching by making it affordable and scalable, so people can thrive personally and professionally.
Thiha Ye Tint
Founder & COO of OneKyat
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About OneKyat: Myanmar fast growing C2C mobile marketplace.
Sow Chun Leong
Chief Operating Officer of Heptagon Advanced Micro Optics
Sow Chun brings more than 25 years managerial experience to the job, having worked in management positions with global companies including Fairchild, Conner Peripherals, IBM and Hitachi. He was vice president and site general manager at IBM and Hitachi. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore.
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About Heptagon Advanced Micro Optics: Heptagon provides intelligent micro optics systems for smart devices.
Arvin Tang
Chief Operating Officer of Temploy
Arvin Tang is responsible for business development in AKïN and is Techlyon’s Co-founder. AKïN’s vision is to humanise brands. As the lead strategist, he champions integrated brand campaigns and go-to-market strategies for clients. With international work experiences across finance, marketing and VC domains, Arvin seeks to engage partners and clients alike through storytelling. His entrepreneurial motto is to mould partnerships with like-minded individuals to create an empowered eco-system in Asia.
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About Temploy: Temploy is a web application that matches part-time workers to employers automatically.
Gavin Lock
COO of Senjō Group
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About Senjō Group: Senjō Group is a leading privately-held investment company.
Saki Kobayashi
Founder & COO of LCO-CREATION PTE.LTD.
Saki Kobayashi is a Founder & COO at LCO Creation.
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About : Location big data and Mobile backend as a service company. Our business was completely transferred and acquired by TSE listed company.
Nathan Sun
COO of Qbao Network
10+ years experience of IT industry. Senior consultant and manage in Capgemini China and Yum. The co-founder of ethchinese, qtumchinese and blockchain classroom. Senior blockchain expert.
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About Qbao Network: the Key to the Blockchain Cosmos