Contributors

Satish Bakhda

Satish Bakhda is an entrepreneur and investor with a proven track record in private equity, venture capital, and asset-backed lending. He has founded and led companies that became industry leaders, including a successful environmental business and a premier corporate service provider in Singapore. Satish currently leads two ventures: RIKVIN Capital, which specializes in bridge funding, and RIKVIN Ventures, a single-family office fund that invests in and scales companies across Asia. With a commitment to entrepreneurship and value creation, Satish is always seeking new opportunities for collaboration and growth.

Scott D. Michel, Esq.

Scott Michel is internationally recognised for his extensive experience in matters arising from the U.S. government's crackdown on undeclared foreign accounts. As a partner and President of Caplin & Drysdale, a DC-based law firm, Mr. Michel advises individuals and corporations on voluntary disclosures, U.S. tax compliance for U.S. citizens living abroad and foreign entities doing business in the U.S., and civil and criminal tax examinations arising from unreported foreign assets.

Scott Nelson

Scott Nelson is the CEO of Sweetbridge, a global alliance that is leveraging blockchain to accelerate trade-financing and offer low-interest loans. Prior to Sweetbridge, Scott founded and led Trax Technologies as CEO as it evolved from a small logistics consulting and software firm over 22 years into a global SaaS and services company operating on four continents.

Scott Robertson

Scott Robertson is the Vice President of WatchGuard Technologies for APAC. He took over as WatchGuard's vice president of sales APAC in 2012, after leading the turnaround of the company's ANZ region with over 40% year-over-year growth. Robertson has a combined MBA from the University of Washington and Macquarie Graduate School of Management, with a concentration in entrepreneurial studies.
 

Sean Lim

Sean Lim is a happiness coach for corporations and individuals, helping them to achieve higher productivity through happiness. He is the author of self-help book Happiness Within Your Reach: 52 Ideas to a Happier You, a director in a financial advisory company, and an adjunct lecturer at The School of Positive Psychology.

Sean Lim LS

Sean is the founder of FindaHomeLoan.sg. He specialises in mortgages provided by banks based in Singapore.

Sean Pea

Sean is a cybersecurity expert with over five years’ experience in the field specialising in malware analysis and threat hunting. As the Head of Threat Analysis at Darktrace, Sean oversees the cybersecurity analyst team in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). He also works with strategic customers to help them investigate and respond to threats.

Prior to his current role, Sean was with the Singapore’s national defense research agency - DSO National Laboratories - working on various cybersecurity projects. He holds a Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and taught Computer Science modules during his undergraduate studies.

Sean Seah

Sean Seah is an investor and financial author as well as a sought-after speaker at conferences and book fairs, on value investing and smarter methods to invest and manage your personal finances.

Sean Tan

Sean Tan is Singapore General Manager and Chief Business Development Officer at iProperty Group. He has extensive overseas exposure and has worked in several multinational and cross-culture corporate environments. Sean holds a Master of Project Management from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Sebastien Walker

Sebastien WALKER is currently Head of Business Development – Mixed use and Real Estate at ENGIE South East Asia, part of the ENGIE Group, one of the largest independent power producers in the world and a leader in energy efficiency services worldwide.

ENGIE partners with and assists large corporations, businesses and local governments in meeting their energy needs with affordable, reliable and sustainable solutions as-a-service. Sebastien oversees business development activities across Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia to support and accelerate the journey towards carbon neutrality in the real estate sector.

Prior to this appointment, Sebastien was in charge of managing a portfolio of operating energy production assets. He also worked on the development of new and existing district energy schemes in France. Sebastien is an experienced strategy consultant for the energy sector, skilled in helping
companies navigate the sector’s permutations and bringing new ideas to the market.

He holds a Master’s Degrees in Political Science and Business Administration, as well as a PostMaster’s Degree in Energy Management from Mines Paristech and Tsinghua University