Singapore

Ryan Lim

Regional Partnerships Lead, East Asia

Website

Problem-solving

Empathy

Organisation skills

Leadership

Deal strategy

Stakeholder management

Communication

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

Founded in 2014, the Harvard Business School Club of Singapore represents the vibrant and growing HBS Alumni community in Singapore, with over 1,000 alumni members. The Club strives to create a strong sense of community with a focus on personal and professional development, social impact, continuous learning, and enabling business and social relationships.

As the Outreach Coordinator of the Harvard Business School Club of Singapore, I work closely with the Marketing Team to drive core initiatives such as the Mentorship Program, New Ventures and SME Programs as well as Community Engagement and Alumni Outreach.

Open Scout is a turnkey solution for deal sourcing and initial due diligence. We present active Pre-Seed to Series A funding deals to investors based on their specific interests, specially curated by the Venture Scout Network. 

We scout for firms such as 1517 Fund, Accel, Afore Capital, AirAngels, Bessemer Venture Partners, CRV, General Catalyst, Insight Partners, Lerer Hippeau, OpenView, Pear, Rarebreed Ventures, Republic, Rosecliff, Sequoia, Softbank, Susa Ventures, and TechCrunch (not an investor, but still good exposure).

If you are an investor looking to get access to these exclusive deals or if you are a startup founder looking to pitch your startup for funding, reach out!

As the Community Manager, my role is to engage with the GEI Alumni, organising events and programmes to maintain and upkeep the network. I act as the liaison between the Global Innovation Alliance Office (NP) and Graduates from the prestigious Global Entrepreneurial Internship Programme, advocating for youth entrepreneurship, upskilling, personal and professional development.

Riding on the global startup scene, GEI immerses talented and passionate students in overseas entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems. It allows students to experience startup life and enjoy its fast-paced culture while learning in a new environment.

I act as the Executive Producer for the category-defining podcast in the RetailTech industry, where we engage field experts/ key stakeholders and exchange insights surrounding the Future of Retail within APAC and beyond to drive business objectives.

If you are a key opinion leader within the retail space and have insights, stories or opinions about the Future of Retail, do get in touch! Our booking team will reach out.

Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and YouTube!

Aimazing is the retail analytics platform of choice for mall management to make data-driven decisions with complete transactional data visibility, leading the charge for offline RetailTech innovation.

As the Marketing Manager, I oversee all Digital Marketing initiatives, Account-Based Marketing (ABM) functions, Product Marketing functions, Strategic Projects and Brand & PR Management for B2B Corporate Clients and Retail Brands within the APAC region. 

My core role is to ensure all marketing related projects are delivered on time and up to standard, working closely with the Product, Business Development and Customer Success Department Heads to deliver the best experience to all our clients.

Day to day, I work with C-Level stakeholders, Department Heads and other Management to drive Business Planning, Performance Measurement (Department OKRs) and Operational Excellence (headcount, budgets, processes).

As a Business Development and Marketing Executive, I spearheaded the launch of the Aimazing Brand Ambassadors, a team of contract staff that are involved in offline B2B lead generation. My core role is managing all of Aimazing's Brand Ambassadors, ensuring that the team meets performance expectations.

A secondary role I played was as a core member of the Marketing Team, responsible for executing Social Media Campaigns as well as managing Marketing Analytics and reporting for existing lead generation channels.

Funded by Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Sandbox, a Tertiary Education School in Singapore.
A Reactor School and Global Innovation Alliance Alumni Startup

Hire Top Student Design Freelancers. 
Low Cost, Low Risk.
We match Businesses to the most Talented Student Designers. Vetted our Expert Panel, for your peace of mind.

The FinLab is United Overseas Bank’s (UOB) FinTech Innovation Lab and Accelerator:

-  Taking care of the operational and technical aspects of all of The FinLab’s webinars
-  Coordinating and managing pre and post-production of all Video Content 
-  Editing & animating videos and other content for The FinLab and UOB 
-  Sourcing, Assessing, and Implementing online tools for The FinLab’s online course and training on Business Models
-  Sourcing, evaluating and shortlisting various Tech solution providers eg: webinar platforms, marketing agencies etc
-  Assessment and Implementation of a CRM and Marketing Automation tool for The FinLab 
-  Managing analytics and reporting of The FinLab’s contact database and lead generation channels
-  Liaising with partners and counterparts both in Singapore and Thailand
-  Other miscellaneous administrative matters; including scheduling of tasks and meetings & my beloved meeting minutes taking

Business Development Associate, sourcing for new solutions to improve the Business Productivity, in aspects of Marketing, Strategic Sourcing, and Implementation of new Technology. Gained exposure to the F&B Industry, mainly in Operations and Innovation.

Led a project of Sourcing and Implementing a new Point-of-sale system that made use of QR Code Technology. Facilitating and organizing the claim of the Business Productivity Grant of Enterprise Singapore. 
Managed the Company’s Social Media presence and revamped the branding on Instagram increasing the following by 4x
Sourced products from overseas suppliers to reducing the cost of products by 75%

We're SG's leading lifestyle app with Deals, eCards, FavePay, FavePay Online & FavePay Later! 
Meet the easiest way to discover and enjoy exclusive promos from your fave merchants with the Fave app today! 

Represented Fave to promote the brand and provide Customer & Merchant support for the FavePay app, E-Card promotions as well as the Table Ordering service. Dispatched to Events and Merchant premises to carry out these responsibilities.

The intent of the Harvard Business School Club of Singapore Mentorship Program is to pair motivated mentors and mentees in order to provide an opportunity for personal and professional growth as well as building long lasting relationships.

Over the course of the 8 months, I have gained much Experience and Insight into Personal and Professional Preparation and Development, unlike anything I could ever learn in School or Online. Both my Mentors shared such great advice that could only have ever come from the wealth of experience that they have gained many years in the industry. Forever grateful to have been able to be apart of this wonderful programme.

Ecommerce passion project in selling the Tech Trinkets and Custom Apparel on Shopify. At its peak, it brought in about $3k a month in sales! This was where I gained exposure to Marketing, Logistics and Business!

Telemarketer for an Agency in AIA Singapore, facilitating calls for outbound contacts as well as nurturing leads of existing customers, scheduling meetings and updating client information. Achieved 25% in successful meetings scheduled from warm leads, a considerable percentage for the insurance industry.

“Empowering2Billion aims to empower teens to learn about entrepreneurship through workshops conducted in schools as well as develop them in a Pre- Accelerator. 
An issue nowadays is that Teenagers with creative and innovative ideas cannot develop the idea due to lack of skill or resources. We as an Educator trains them and provides them with the relevant knowledge and skills in launching a startup, mentorship from industry experts and startup-veterans, working space, chance to pitch to a panel of investors and seed capital infusion.”

The above was the description of the dream I had in providing fellow young entrepreneurs the sandbox to learn, grow and achieve success. To see how far i’ve come since those days is remarkable!

The Pinterest for News, an aggregator of the top news sites into a seamless experience.
A Marketing Agency that aims to create Headlines with Guerrilla marketing, Aggressive Influencers and Public Campaigns.

Working with clients across multiple industries and countries ranging from flower delivery startups to development agencies.

An interesting idea - before news apps from popular papers turned up and we were made irrelevant.

A Hardware Startup that aimed to disrupt the Wireless Charging industry. 
- But really a front for me to have a business card to be let in to networking events with other startup founders and learn by talking to them about their businesses!

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