Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Hong Kong based CEO’ operating in the SaaS space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Charles Wong
Co-Founder and CEO of Prive Technologies
Charles Wong was former Managing Director and Responsible Officer, Asia Head for Coventry Capital. Based in Coventry Capital’s Hong Kong office, Charles Wong directed the capital markets efforts throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to his role at Coventry Capital, Charles Wong was with J.P. Morgan in Asia, holding senior positions managing the bank’s development and marketing of its structured investment products in Asia. Charles Wong currently sits on the Advisory Board of National Chengchi University (Taiwan) Risk Management and Insurance Research Center. Charles Wong holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Prive Technologies: Prive Technologies is a leading innovator in the financial and wealth management industries.
Julian Schillinger
Co-Founder and CEO of Prive Technologies
Julian Schillinger was a former Director and Responsible Officer, Structuring for Coventry Capital where he played a senior role in developing and marketing Coventry’s longevity-linked transactions. Previously, Julian Schillinger worked at JPMorgan Chase Securities in Asia where he led product development for quantitative indices and gained in-depth experience in product placement of alternative investment products. Prior to his experience in finance Julian Schillinger was founder and CEO of a company specializing on software development. Julian Schillinger is a graduate of the University of Regensburg, Germany where he majored in business computer science.
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About Prive Technologies: Prive Technologies is a leading innovator in the financial and wealth management industries.
Sam Allen
Chief Executive Officer of Hyphen Group
Before joining CompareAsiaGroup as Chief Executive Officer, Sam spent 9 years at KKR where he was a Director in KKR’s portfolio operations team and a member of the Asia Leadership Team. Sam worked with KKR’s portfolio companies across Asia, acting as an advisor and interim executive. Prior to this, Sam worked at McKinsey & Company and at AT&T Wireless. Sam holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Hyphen Group: Hyphen Group is a leading fintech company in Greater Southeast Asia.
Teddy Chan
CEO & Co-founder of AfterShip
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About AfterShip: We help e-commerce businesses grow and make buying and selling accessible to everyone, everywhere.
Zvi Schreiber
CEO of The Freightos Group
Zvi has founded and led multiple high-tech companies, including Tradeum (acquired by VerticalNet), Lightech (Acquired by General Electric), Unicorn Solutions (acquired by IBM) and G.ho.st. Zvi studied in the University of Cambridge and Imperial College, earning a PhD in Computer Science. He has written and spoken widely.
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About The Freightos Group: Freightos makes global trade frictionless, combining the largest online freight marketplace with powerful freight digitization tools.
Theodore King
CEO & Co-Founder of Faria Education Group
Responsible for the overall business, strategy & planning and product design.
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About Faria Education Group: Enhancing Efficiency in Education Globally
Greg Sung
Co-Founder and CEO of OneSky
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About Anobii, OneSky: OneSky provides easy solutions to translate mobile apps, websites and documents to fit an agile development cycle.
Takus Lo
Founder and CEO of TradeMonday
Takus founded TradeMonday in 2016 after 10+ years in finance with Citibank, JP Morgan and China Construction Bank Asia. He regularly serves on committees and judging panels with retail innovation organizations in Hong Kong and holds an MSc in eBusiness from the University of Warwick, UK.
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About TradeMonday: TradeMonday is an AI-Powered Retail Experimental Platform.
Koen Munneke
Co-founder & CEO of Intrinsik Technologies
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About Intrinsik Technologies, UCreate3D: Intrinsik Technologies is a B2B SaaS Workflow solution for bespoke medical device producers.
Benjamin Eberle
Founder and CEO of Topo Solutions
During his tenure as Chief Engineering Officer for an American high-volume sourcing business, Benjamin found himself with a problem: How to gain real-time insight into non-automated manufacturing and make the information available? This question led to the founding of Topo Solutions in 2012 which then grew into the most flexible data collection and processing platform on the market with a focus on supply chain. With more than a decade of experience in manufacturing and technology, Benjamin has an unparalleled ability to deliver efficient solutions by bridging business and technology. He holds a master’s degree in Mechanical/Industrial Engineering, writes software for more than 23 years, is a Six Sigma Black Belt and has been working on lean transformation projects in China. Benjamin is fluent in English, German and French and has been living in Asia since 2007.
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About Topo Solutions: Topo is a SaaS mobile data platform that enables highly efficient solutions for mobile workers in supply chain businesses in any industry.
Nate Emerson
Chief Executive Officer of InvestLab
Former Head of Greater China Equities, Deutsche Bank, CEO ABN AMRO Asia Equities and most recently Co-Head of Institutional Equities at Yuanta Securities – the largest retail securities firm in Taiwan. Nate has successfully built three institutional equities businesses over the course of his career. Being fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he brings a wealth of operating experience and relationships within the Greater China region. At Yuanta Securities, Nate was instrumental in sourcing and building the technology needed for the retail branch network to offer global execution.
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About InvestLab: InvestLab is an on-demand financial services technology company serving the global investment market.
Christoph Wagner
CEO of Scanbot
Christoph Wagner is a Founder & CFO at RealLifeConnect.
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About Scanbot: Scanbot is a German B2B start-up that offers modern scanner SDKs to capture documents, barcodes, ID-documents and more.
Deniz Tekerek
CEO of Portier Technologies
Co-founder of Portier Technologies, former e-commerce entrepreneur, University of Leeds graduate
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About Portier Technologies: Portier actions the world’s richest traveler data via an eco-system that’s built around Portier Phones placed in hotel rooms.
Claus Christensen
CEO & Director of Know Your Customer
An experienced entrepreneur and executive, Claus has been active in the software industry for more than thirty years. Prior to co-founding and becoming CEO of Know Your Customer, Claus founded Servolutions GmbH, a company that develops email server infrastructure products for more than 60,000 global customers, and served as Vice President of Electronics at Thielert Aircraft Engines. A native of Germany, Claus studied computer science at the University of Hamburg.
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About Know Your Customer: Know Your Customer is a digital solutions for stronger KYC & AML compliance and exceptional client onboarding.
Ben Wong
Co-founder & CEO of DimOrder
Ben Wong is the Co-founder and CEO at DimOrder.
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About DimOrder: DimOrder develops and provides an all-new electronic platform in the food and beverage industry.
Vince Poon
Co-Founder & CEO of ZhenHub
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About ZhenHub: ZhenHub is a cloud-based inventory and order management system for eCommerce retailers to automate logistics.
Robert Ciemniak
Founder and CEO of Robotic Online Intelligence
Operating for 20+ years on the intersection of research, business and technology, Robert brings in his earlier 13-year international corporate career at Thomson Reuters in strategy and new venture roles, and the recent 7 years of startup experience. In 2012, Robert started Real Estate Foresight Ltd (www.realestateforesight.com), an independent analytics and financial technology firm, based in Hong Kong and focused on China housing markets.
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About Real Estate Foresight, Robotic Online Intelligence: ROI is a market research and data collection through SaaS-based automation, custom search tools and AI-powered text analytics.
Katherine Pei
Co-Founder and CEO of Latticespace
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About Latticespace: Latticespace is a unified workplace and tailored chatbot maker for robotic process automation, boosting operation efficiency in enterprise.
Lucas Fong
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Simplus.IO
Co-founder & CEO at Abtitu
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About Simplus.IO: Simplus.IO provides the best integration btw UI and native code by HTML only, it is the advanced & combined version of bootstrap & GitHub.
David Strohm
Founder & CEO of Phrenzi
David Strohm is the founder and CEO at Phrenzi, a SaaS marketing technology company that develops software for businesses to create loyalty games.
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About Phrenzi: Phrenzi is a SaaS marketing technology company that develops software for businesses to create loyalty games.
