Biography
I am currently in the private sector mainly on interactive digital media space, both as an entrepreneur specializing in online social networks and investor under Thymos Capital LLP on online social networks (Eteract & iHipo), mobile and web applications. My experience is mainly in product and business development of online social networks (former COO of SENATUS) & web-mobile apps.
Formerly an academic and research scientist, specializing in computational biology, theoretical physics, economics and strong interest in public policy. I have published papers in prestigous journals on these fields (ApJ, Physical Review D, Cell). A former biotech entrepreneur and advises startup companies in bioinformatics and biotechnology related areas. Experienced business plan competition organizer and also finalist in business plan competition wih knowledge in venture capital, private equity and a wide network of UK, US and Singapore entrepreneurial community. An experienced conference organizer and an ex-producer in various drama productions.
My first degree began from NUS and ended with my doctorate degree in Cambridge University. I am also blogging at SG Entrepreneurs and Singapore Angle .
I prefer to call myself a pragmatic idealist, because I believe that if you believe in an idea, you should invoke your passion and energy to pursue it and at least make small changes with the environment such that someday it will hit the tipping point and turn it into a big change.
You can contact me via bleongcw (at) either mac or gmail, or find me via twitter or skype thru @bleongcw.
Speaking & Social Media Engagements:
2009
- Moderator on Panel "Budgeting for Innovation/Experimental Marketing", Ad-Tech Singapore, 9-10 June 2009
- Speaker, "Self-Organization, Economics and Football Managers", TEDx Kuala Lumpur, 3 June 2009
- "Much Ado about Social Networks in Asia", a talk and breakout session in Unconference 2009, Biopolis, Singapore.
- Invited by Nokia to attend Nokia Developer Summit 2009 in Monte Carlo.
- "The Importance of Being Social - a talk about social networks", Barcamp Kuala Lumpur 2009, Inti College, Subang Jaya 3-5 April.
- "The Undercover Technologist - new ideas in social networks and voice recognition", Barcamp Singapore, 28 Feb.
2008
- Challenges & Opportunities in Interactive & Digital Media Investments, organized by Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, April 2008.
- Singapore Facebook Developers' Garage: Marketing and Monetization of FB Apps: Hype or Gold Mine?, Microsoft Singapore, March 2008.
Specialties:
- Interactive Digital Media (Online Social Networks, Rich media sharing and Mobile-Web interfaces, Social Media)
- Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship & Due Diligence on Technology Companies (IT and Biotech Based Companies).
- Computer knowledge of operating systems (Mac OSX, Windows, Linux), languages (Java, LaTeX, C++, C, Perl, MySQL, XML and HTML, CSS), Content Management Systems (Drupal, Joomla, Python-Django).
- Theoretical Physics and Computational Biology
Disclosure Policy: I do not get paid when I write reviews about products and events I attended (invited by PR agencies or companies). If I do, I will disclose it, like my policy in SG Entrepreneurs when I disclose the companies I & my firm invest in. For advertorials from blogger advertising agencies (which I often put them to test their services), I will usually declare that it's a sponsored review.
