Jing Shen is an entrepreneur, engineer, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Paktor. Jing Shen was infected by the engineering bug by his father at a young age, writing his first text-based game in QBasic when he was 12. At 14, Jing Shen created a graphical role-playing game where one builds tanks to destroy other tanks. In college, Jing Shen created a web portal for the Life Sciences Institute to document proteins and worked part-time in the startup CircleLink to create a content management system for display ads. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Jing Shen joined Amazon.com in Seattle. In Amazon.com, Jing Shen reduced the client side latency of the world’s largest online retailer by 300ms, developed and launched AWS Marketplace and was part of the team that re-architected one of the world's first cloud computing services, S3. Prior to Jing Shen’s transition into the CEO role, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Paktor for 4 years. Under his leadership, Paktor Group moved from a Singapore-based technology startup into a position of strength. He delivered record user growth propelled by 2017’s market entry into Korea and global revenue has tripled, which resulted in Paktor Group’s business becoming profitable for the first time since its inception in 2014. In his spare time, Jing Shen goes wandering in the wild.

Violet Lim is the heart and soul of Lunch Actually – a matchmaking company that she founded with her then-fiancé, now-husband Jamie Lee back in 2004. Her inspiration came from observing her friends and colleagues who did not have time to date, due to their busy lives around work.

Today, Lunch Actually is Asia’s biggest premier lunch dating company with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Jakarta and Bangkok. Together with Jamie, Violet also founded esync to fill the gap in the market for trusted online and offline dating service platforms, LunchClick, the dating app for serious singles to help them meet offline as soon as possible, as well as Lunch Actually Academy, the date coaching service to maximize singles’ dating success. Her most recent venture is Viola.AI – the world’s first blockchain-powered lifelong love AI to help singles and couples across their relationship stages.

Tiang is currently serves as a partner at SeedPlus, where he is actively looking to invest in and partner with seed stage start-ups in Asia. Prior to becoming a VC, he launched and managed Evernote’s presence in Asia, and had worked on mobile, fintech and SaaS at various early stage startups. He currently serves on the board of EngageRocket, Qoala, Evie.ai and CardUp, amongst others.

SeedPlus is a Singapore based early stage VC fund, investing in product-focused, deep tech startups across Southeast Asia with the potential to be globally disruptive. Our investments include the likes of Moglix, Homage, CardUp and Travelstop.

Pocket Sun is an investor, entrepreneur, and futuristic thinker. She founded SoGal, one of the largest global entrepreneurship and venture capital networks for women, and grew it to 14 chapters worldwide. At the age of 24, she co-founded SoGal Ventures, the world’s first millennial venture capital firm to invest in early stage companies in the US and Asia led by diverse teams. Pocket and Elizabeth have invested globally in 50+ startups that are shaping the future of how the next generation lives, works, and stays healthy.

Dr. Damian Tan joined Vickers in 2005 as a Venture Partner. He has been a Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee since July 1, 2014, and is based in Singapore. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of IT in companies such as Hewlett Packard, Digital, Far East Computers, Olivetti, Oracle and Apple. Damian also has extensive project management experience, having been involved with the direction of large, complex technology projects in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the U.S.

Damian earned his professional degree from the British Computer Society, and holds a Doctor of Business Administration from the California Intercontinental University and a Master of Science with Distinction from Middlesex University.

Satveer's vision has always been to enable impactful ideas. He is committed to doing so by leveraging his strengths to support entrepreneurs who aim to bring about fundamental change.

Satveer graduated from the University of Virginia (UVa) with distinctions. He is a founding member of McIntire’s Global Commerce Advisory Board.

Ritu Marya is the Editor- in- Chief for Entrepreneur Media APAC and Franchise India Media, a group company of Franchise India Holdings Limited. She leads the editorial desk comprising of business magazines including Entrepreneur, The Franchising World and Retailer together with Digital arm of Entrepreneur.com, Franchiseindia.com among others. In her 16 years career with Business Journalism, Ritu has widely covered Startups and Entrepreneurship, Retail and Consumer Businesses in the region.

In her role as the Group Editor she meets and interacts with Leading Indian and Global Entrepreneurs and thought leaders while tracking Startup and Entrepreneurial and consumer business landscape in the region. She is a regular speaker at the leading Leadership Summits around the World including RISE Technology Summit July 2018 at Hong Kong, Web Summit Lisbon November 2018 to name a few.

Grace Park is a professional with 19 years of experience, 13 of which have been spent in Asia leading pharmaceutical, medical device and digital health companies.

Prior to DocDoc, Grace was the Managing Director, Medtronic ASEAN. Grace began her career as an Army officer after graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point and served for five years, leaving as a Captain. Grace has degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She arrived in Singapore 14 years ago on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Dr. Snehal Patel moved to Singapore from the US in 2008 to found and lead the healthcare team at the Chandler Corporation, a multi-billion dollar investment fund. Prior to practicing law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP in New York, Dr. Patel was offered a Fulbright scholarship to study the differences between health economics in the US and Singapore. He received an MD and a JD from Columbia University and served as a Clinical Fellow at the Harvard Medical School.

A venture capital professional and entrepreneur with investment and operational experience in a range of markets including the United States, India, and Southeast Asia, Dr. Patel has a unique combination of medical, legal and business experience and qualifications.

Vikas possesses over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience. Before starting Validus Capital, he served as the Joint Managing Director of Urbana Bengal NRI. There, he drove one of the Eastern India’s most ambitious township projects; which includes building the largest residential township which spread over nine million sq ft to house over 2,000 families.

Additionally, Vikas co-founded four different start-ups in the financial services, telco and manufacturing sectors. With Validus, Vikas leverages on his experience to help accelerate Southeast Asia’s digital financing revolution. He is also a founding member of Singapore FinTech Association’s

Marketplace Lending Committee; of which he is currently the Co-Chair. Vikas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with a Bachelor of Sciences in Strategic Management & Economics. Vikas also serves on the Board of Directors for Centre for Fathering-Dads for Life (CFF-DFL), a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2000 to promote active and involved fathering, and address issues of fatherlessness in Singapore.

Bio: Carmen Yuen joined Vertex Ventures Singapore office in 2014. Her focus is in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Carmen has served many years in Singapore’s government-backed venture capital initiatives including EDB Investments and Spring SEEDS Capital where she worked closely with many start-up companies in Singapore.

Prior to joining Vertex, she was with Majuven, a Singapore angel fund. Carmen currently serves on the Board of TickledMedia (dba TheAsianParent.com).

Carmen received her BBA from Simon Fraser University.

Chin Chao brings with him more than 18 years of experience in the venture capital and venture debt industries, including entrepreneurship, company building, business operations and strategy.

Prior to Innoven, Chin was most recently the Co-Managing Director at Sirius SME, a venture capital firm he co-founded in 2008. And prior to Sirius SME, Chin was a Managing Director of Venture TDF Singapore and Venture TDF China. Notable investments from Sirius SME include Heptagon, Ong Joo Joo Food Industries and Reebonz. Notable investments from Venture TDF include AAC Acoustics, Alibaba, Baidu, Focus Media, Mediaring, Redback Networks and Savi Technologies.

During his time at Venture TDF in Singapore, Chin also co-founded the TechFinancing Centre, a joint-venture between KeppelTatLee Bank, Venture TDF and the Economic Development Board of Singapore. The TechFinancing Center provided innovative debt solutions to growth-oriented companies in Asia.

Chin received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He also received his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and is the author of three publications on technology and business law.

Mr. Gowdey is currently a Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures, a Singapore based venture capital firm focused on internet and technology investments in South Asia. Prior to Jungle, David spent 3.5 years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the TPG Growth fund. Prior to TPG, David spent 12 years at Yahoo! Inc where he was the Head of International M&A on the Corporate Development team. In this role, he was responsible for driving all transaction activity and the investment strategy for Yahoo! outside of North America, including their expansion in to new markets, such as Russia, Turkey, Middle East, Africa and SE Asia. In 2011, David was also the Managing Partner at Xplorer Capital, a growth equity venture capital firm which spun out from Yahoo! to focus on internet and digital media opportunities in the emerging markets.

David continues to be an Advisor to TPG Capital and represents them as a non-executive director on the board of Propertyguru, the largest online real estate platform in SE Asia.

David holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Radford University and a Master’s Degree from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney. He has lived and worked for over 20 years across Asia, but currently lives in Singapore with his wife and three children.

Jeff is Business Advisor / Investor / Lecturer involved with incubation and acceleration of innovation and entrepreneurship in the tech startup space in Southeast Asia.

Venture Capital Funds invested: 500 Startups I Extream Ventures I ACP Ventures I Blue Cloud Ventures

Lecturing I Mentoring I Judging:
Lecturer – Nanyang Technological University / Future China Advanced Leaders program
Mentor – National University of Singapore Lean LaunchPad program
Mentor – SMU Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Judge - Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition
Judge – StartUp-O platform
Judge - e-27 TOP100 APAC competition
Mentor – various accelerators

Jeff also consults with SMEs on innovation, internationalization, leadership & talent development to drive business growth and expansion. He is a Registered Management Consultant (RMC) with the Institute of Management Consultants Singapore (the Spring Singapore recognized certification organization).

His business experience spans over 3 decades as Banker, Entrepreneur, and now Business Advisor/Investor/Lecturer.

Jeff is a strategic thought leader with 3 decades of General Management, Sales, Marketing & Operational Management experience across Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand.

In the 16 years as an entrepreneur, he built the Southeast Asia operations for Teleperformance, now the world's largest CRM Call Center outsource provider with over 200,000 employees in 70 countries.

Prior to that, he spent 15 years in corporate & institutional banking (Deutsche Bank & Bank of America) in account management, product management and, payment and cash management roles.

Initial 3 years of career were in market research and brand management roles in airline (Singapore Airline) and F&B (Tiger Beer) sector.

Alex Medana is the co-founder and CEO of FinFabrik, a Hong Kong-based fintech firm that creates financial technology to reinvent capital markets, empowering businesses to transform the way individuals trade, invest and build wealth. Alex is a founding board member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong and sits on Digital Economy Task Force of the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network.

Previously, Alex had spent 17 years in various Tier 1 global financial institutions overseeing operations across diverse asset classes, client segments and business lines in Europe and APAC. He has become a serial entrepreneur and angel investor since 2015, and he has been advocating technology-driven innovation to bring forward more user-friendly financial services and broader participation.

Beyond his business acumen, Alex is a martial arts practitioner, hence the passion for simplicity and aspiration to share his knowledge have shaped him to be a sought-after mentor, advisor and speaker. He has been recognised as one of the Top 100 Fintech influencers in Asia and Top 9 in Hong Kong.

Rina Neoh has more than 20 years of experience in both the corporate and entrepreneurial world. Her first real work experience started out at the age of 14 when she served as a shampoo girl in her mother’s salon, a job that allowed her to learn the rudiments of small business development and the importance of understanding the human side of business.

With a solid foundation in B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science and a keen business sense acquired through an overseas MBA (International Business), Rina has delivered multi-million dollar returns from small business enterprises, which she has incubated, coached, invested in or promoted. She has developed her own expertise in solutions selling, complex tender bids and managing A-list accounts in her early careers, including winning prestigious accounts from the government and private sectors. Rina is also instrumental in two IPOs in Australian Stock Exchange and have executed complex cross border mergers and acquisitions.

Rina has a long track record and proven expertise in strategic marketing, product branding, information systems, business development, venture capital financing, investor relations and high-level business negotiations -- skills which she brought to every business she acquired or advised during her long career.

A seasoned executive with an operations and systems perspective, Rina is well known for setting up and developing companies across Asia Pacific, including brick-and-mortar and technology-enabled enterprises. She has a knack for incubating new businesses, finding new markets, creating unique value propositions and creating sustainable revenue streams.

Rina co-founded Mercatus Capital Pte Ltd, a homegrown incubator based in Singapore and a venture accelerator since 2006. Through its angel networks, Mercatus Group provided seed capital to promising new small ventures, with more than 60 startups seeded and incubated in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, India, China and Hong Kong.

Rina holds strategic management roles, directorships and equities in Mercatus Capital, Synapse Global, Unlimited Brands, MindChamps International PreSchool Philippines, Ficus Venture Capital & Fintech Lab. In addition to managing various companies as director or investor, Rina find time to serve as business coach and adviser to several business advisory boards, NGOs & Universities.

Rina spends most of her free time advocating "greenfield” businesses, promoting social entrepreneurship, women empowerment and volunteerism work. She is an avid photographer, a curious traveller, and a passionate mountain trekker and wellness practitioner.

Mr. Kawee Chong is the CEO of Kino Biotech Group, and co founder of both Kinofy and the kinochimitsu brand.kawee has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth in the health and beauty industry

In his time as the Co-founder of the Kinochimitsu brand, he led the expersion of the brand in over 6,500 point of sales across the world, in like singapore, malaysia, indonesia, China, Canada and dubai. he further established the brand as the No. 1 selling collagen brand in South Asia, winning numerous local and international awards, like the Singapore media Awards world being innovation awards and monde awards.

Prior to joining kino biotech Kawee was cheif financial officer and executive vice president of international sales and sourcing for TR networks limited, a company listed on the singapore stock exchange in 2002. At TR network he led the transformation into an enterprise -focused company while growing sales 40% year over year.

A well respected thought leader among the entrepreneurial community, Kawee has contributed as a keynote speaker on over 20 conventions, symposiums and seminars worldwide.

Kawee graduated with a BS degree in Accountancy at the Southern lllinois unversity at carbondale, USA. he is certified public Accountant the USA and a Member of the institute of certified public Accountants in Singapore.

Justin Hall is partner at Golden Gate Ventures, a Series A fund investing across Southeast Asia. He is focused on portfolio management and deal sourcing, and invests in consumer-facing technology companies, such as payments, marketplaces, media content, and verticalised e-commerce.

Some of his investments include eldercare marketplace Homage, medical content portal Alodokter, and Bangladesh's leading ride-hailing platform Shohoz. Outside of his responsibilities at Golden Gate Ventures, he's an avid tech community evangelist and event organizer, having co-founded events like SuperHappyDevHouseSG and WalkaboutSG.

Karena Belin co-founded W Hub out of passion for entrepreneurs and to foster the growth of the startup ecosystem. W Hub showcases startups and helps bring their business to the next level by making meaningful connections to talent, other startups and investors. She holds a double diploma in business and administration from the University of Mannheim and the MBA business school ESSEC in Paris. Previously, she has worked 15 years for Procter & Gamble in various roles throughout finance, sales, strategy and management across Europe, North East Asia and Greater China.

WHub WHub (whub.io), Hong Kong’s startup community platform (over 22,000 members), community builder and power connector, showcases startups to accelerate their business through making meaningful connections to the resources they need and fosters the growth of the entire ecosystem.

W stands for Why. Everything starts with "Why": The Mission, Passion and sense of Purpose. WHub is based on 3 pillars:

• Connect Key Players and the Community
• Empower Recruitment, Startup-Corporate Co-Innovation and expansion into other ecosystems
• Educate through insights, news, white-papers (HK Startup Ecosystem Toolbox) and events.

AngelHub AngelHub (angelhub.io) is the only SFC Licensed Platform (Approval in Principal) vetted startup Investment platform for Professional Investors. It provides access, time and know how to startups and Professional Investors to democratize the fundraising process that was reserved to a small exclusive group of people. AngelHub combines the professionalism of Venture Capitalists, the flexibility of Angel investing and the power of key strategic partnerships.

Jakub is currently responsible for launching operations of the British fintech unicorn Revolut across Asian markets. Before Revolut, Jakub was Head of Growth at Easyship, a 500 Startups VC portfolio company that won Hong Kong’s Technology Company of the Year Award in 2017, joining as one of its early employees in 2015. Prior to joining Easyship, Jakub worked at Lazada as a first employee in Singapore, where he established business intelligence and online marketing departments at the company. He holds a Master of Science in Finance degree, awarded from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, where he wrote his master thesis on "Cases of Angel Investing in Europe".

Shankar is a fintech entrepreneur with a successful track record in innovation, technology, operations and product development. In 2000, he founded Internet payment company Cazh, in 2005 he founded enterprise mobility company TAGIT, and in 2012 he founded Social Payment company, Fastacash.

Caroline Stokes is a human capital entrepreneur and author of Elephants Before Unicorns (Entrepreneur Press, out Sept 2019). As an executive headhunter, certified executive coach, and certified EQ.2.0 practitioner, Caroline helps culture-first innovation leaders prepare their teams for the AI revolution. Caroline has spoken at World Bank (Washington DC), CPHR (Vancouver, Canada) and SHRM (Cleveland, US) on the need for talent to develop emotional intelligence and resilience in the face of technological advancements.

After a career at Sony, Virgin and Nokia, Caroline founded FORWARD, which holds the distinction of being the first executive search and coaching firm to incorporate executive coaching. In addition, FORWARD provides training to talent seeking new career pathways and/or leadership development, plus coaching for the first 100 days for all talent placements.

In addition, Caroline is course curator and podcast host of The Emotionally Intelligent Recruiter, a training and learning platform which helps recruiters adapt their emotional intelligence and leadership abilities in the AI age.

Caroline Stokes is a sought after speaker for CPHR Canada, SHRM and leadership development events including Recruiting Trends, ERE and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. Caroline has talent and culture development columns in Forbes, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, Venturebeat, LinkedIn and The Undercover Recruiter and she has been quoted by the New York Post, DICE, Fast Company, TechRepublic, Business News Daily, Monster, Recruiting Daily and ERE.

A Programmer by training and a Venture Capitalist by profession, Aaron founded his first startup at 13 and has already sold two companies before turning 21. He is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Carro, an automotive marketplace that offers a fullstack service for all aspects of car ownership. Aaron leads the venture-backed company with years of experience in the startup scene and is committed to setting new standards for the used car industry, with professionalism at the heart of Carro’s ethos.

Prior to Carro, Aaron spent close to five years with Southeast Asia’s leading venture fund, Singtel Innov8 Ventures. Aaron was instrumental in the starting of Blk71– Singapore’s largest startup ecosystem. He subsequently relocated to the United States and started Block71 San Francisco and the firm’s operations there before returning to Singapore in 2015. While at Innov8, Aaron oversaw the fund’s investments in South East Asia.

Aaron matches his drive to pursue excellence with commendable loyalty. As a returning scholar, Aaron served his country in a homegrown enterprise. He also represented Singapore in international programming competitions globally and was formerly awarded IT Youth of the Year.

Aaron was also most recently awarded the ITMA Future IT Leader Award. Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSc from Singapore Management University’s School of Information Systems, and subsequently accepted a scholarship from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore to read Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he graduated with an MSc.

Dr Siaw Tung Yeng is the founder and CEO of MaNaDr. He is a practicing Senior Consultant Family Physician with more than 30 years of extensive experience in healthcare and medical informatics.

Dr Siaw sits on various Ministry of Health task forces and advisory committees involved in the strategic planning of medical informatics programs. He was also a member of the National Telemedicine Advisory Committee (NTAC) that charted the nation’s first telemedicine guidelines.

Dr Siaw was therefore well-qualified to found MaNaDr - an innovative all-in-one healthcare mobile app that provides teleconsultation via text chats and video conferencing, as well as home care,amongst other services.

MaNaDr is well-positioned to cater to the ageing demography of the Singapore population, and the need for accessible, affordable quality healthcare for countries in the region. Previously an ASEAN Scholar to Singapore, Dr Siaw is well-respected in the medical community and has been involved in the teaching and training of family doctors both in the public and private institutions. He has also been actively involved in the design, development, evaluation of tenders for both public and private healthcare projects.

Dr Siaw is a director of UVH, a group that runs a chain GP clinics in Singapore. He is also the Medical Director of Gloco which provides a wide range of innovative IT healthcare and medical imaging systems throughout ASEAN.

Currently, Dr Siaw is a member of Singapore Medical Council’s Disciplinary Tribunal. He is also an Examiner and Adjunct Lecturer for post graduate Family Medicine Training and Accreditation.

Dr Siaw speaks frequently on healthcare and health IT forums. Recently, he spoke at the “NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia (NIHA) 2018 Digital Health Forum” in Singapore; as well as the "China Chain Clinic Development Forum" in Chengdu, China.

Anna Gong is the CEO and Founder of Perx Technologies Pte Ltd, a leading mobile loyalty and customer engagement SaaS company, backed by the co-founder of Facebook Eduardo Saverin and Golden Gate Ventures. Previous to joining Perx, her 5th startup experience, Anna was Vice President of Channels Sales for Asia Pacific & Japan at Infor where she’s responsible for the go-to-market strategy and execution of the channels sales business.

Anna brings 20 years of technology experience in management consulting and enterprise software, spanning the U.S., Asia Pacific & Japan.

Prior to Infor, she was leading the Cloud, Virtualization, and Service Automation business units at CA Technologies, Asia Pacific & Japan. Anna has held multiple leadership roles, based out of San Francisco. She established and managed the Asia Pacific business for Wily Technology, the pioneer of web application performance and diagnostics, before CA Technologies acquisition of Wily in 2006 for US$375M.

Anna started out in management consulting at PwC and with various technology startups prior to Wily, playing a key role in implementing large scale SAP ERP systems, fund raising, developing and executing successful operations in direct sales and partner driven models.

A winner of the Singapore Women Entrepreneur Award 2017 and LinkedIn 2017 CEO Power Profiles, Anna has also been featured in CNBC, Bloomberg, and Forbes. Anna, a TEDx speaker, has also spoken at many key tech conferences including Cloud Connect, CommunicAsia, ASEAN CIO Summit, CIO Academy, Echelon, InnovFest Unbound, CIO & CXO Leaders Summit, Endeavor, Tech In Asia, and numerous Fintech and InsurTech conferences. She has also spoken as a keynote on leadership, digital transformation and entrepreneurship for large corporates and conferences such as C2 Montreal, HSBC, VMware, and Aviva.

Anna serves on the Advisory Board of Duke CE Asia and GeniusU.

Anna holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

David Jou is co-founder and CEO of Pomelo, a leading omnichannel brand in Southeast Asia. David previously co-founded Lazada, where he served as Managing Director. During his tenure, Lazada Thailand grew to be one of the leading online shopping sites in Thailand. Prior to Lazada, David was at Bain & Company in New York and New Mountain Capital, a $10 Billion Private Equity fund based in New York.

Samantha is the Landing Pad Manager, supporting Australian start-ups and scale-ups to access South-East Asia through a 90-day residency program in Singapore. Samantha has more than six years of experience working with entrepreneurs to develop go-to-market strategies. Prior to the appointment as Landing Pad Manager, Samantha was the food and agribusiness specialist in Austrade. A highlight of that stint was profiling Australian agtech start-ups and technologies to the then-nascent Singaporean agtech market. Her interest in entrepreneurship and start-ups spiked when she co-founded an edutech startup in 2016 as a side hustle. Like most co-founders of early-stage start-ups, she had multifaceted responsibilities including vendor acquisition and building a customer pipeline.

Samantha holds a Bachelor of Business Management from Singapore Management University, and speaks native English and Mandarin, conversational Cantonese and elementary Russian.

Having started her own online fashion business at the tender age of 19 when e-commerce was minimal, Rachel and the brand was immediately propelled to the forefront of the industry, revolutionizing and headlining the spheres of online retail and redefined the fashion scene in Singapore. She continued to garner a strong following among women with her innate ability to engage, relate and connect with them.

In line with Love, Bonito's mission to empower women's confidence through helping them dress well and dress right, she is able to further touch and impact the community of women she and the brand have created. With a personal mantra to live life on the edge and in seizing every opportunity, Rachel left school to grow the business. Today, Love, Bonito remains to be the leading fast-fashion label in Asia, designed specifically for Asian women and has grown beyond Singapore to Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Australia.

Rachel was honored by Forbes as Asia's 30under30 in 2016.