Richard Koh Seoh Leng 许小龙 Singapore Citizen, based in Singapore Tel: +65 62258991 ext 33 Mobile: +65 81820989 / +61 404 712 121 Fax: +65 62253372 E-Mail: [email protected] Curriculum Vitae Richard Koh has over 28 years of industry experience in Infocomm, Treasury (FX) and eCommerce covering the Asia Pacific markets. Richard is a well sought after public speaker on topics in eCommerce within the Financial Markets, having shared his thoughts in many international conferences. He has two patents to his name as part of his entrepreneurial pursuits. He is the Group CEO/Founder of M-DAQ Pte Ltd, a financial technology group and the IP owner of Multi-Denomination Automated Quotation (M-DAQ) – the World’s First and Only FX-overlay “Disruptive Innovation” solution catering for national securities exchanges globally. The company received a generous 2-year grant in May 2010 from Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to cover half of the qualifying manpower costs. The company reached a valuation of SGD95 million (USD76 million) is in its Series B round in late 2013 and has a paid up capital in excess of SGD30 million. He started his own consultancy practice in 1986 (at the age of 14) and obtained a Price Waterhouse scholarship to pursue Accountancy after having obtained straight distinctions in his pre-university examinations and was the valedictorian for his cohort. He went on to serve his bond with PricewaterhouseCoopers and obtained his Chartered Accountant qualification, before being headhunted by his then client – Chase Manhattan Bank (eventually merged to become JPMorgan). Over there, he was responsible for having started the entire Asia Pacific eCommerce function for the Treasury division and left as a Regional Head of eChannels. The bank as part of its management development program sponsored the Executive MBA. Throughout his career, he has consistently been rated “1” or at the top 5% of his peers. Richard is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA)1 and holds an Executive MBA2 in International Business (First in Class/Valedictorian), Graduate Diploma in Techno-entrepreneurship2, Graduate Diploma in eCommerce2, Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours)3 with specialization in Banking and Finance, Group Diploma in Accounting4 (1st Singapore Gold Medalist) and Diploma in Computer Studies5. Richard holds a patent P-No. 177236 [WO/2012/008915] on “Method and System of trading a security in a foreign currency” dated 13 July 2010. Institute of Chartered Accountants, Singapore Helsinki School of Economics, Finland 3 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 4 London Chambers of Commerce, United Kingdom 5 National Computing Centre, UK 1 2 Updated on 1 June 2014
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