JIAKAI JEREMY CHUA

Global M.B.A

• Dean's Scholar & ROMBA Fellow

Global Pre-MBA Leadership Program

• Highly-selective & intensive summer business program for young global leaders 
• Winning team of Audubon Case Competition

B.A. in Global Business Strategy, Communication Studies, and English & History

• Graduated Cum Laude, with Dean's List Honors
• Highest Honors for History Thesis, The Heavens Were Not Free: A Comparative History of Aviation Deregulation in the US, EU, & ASEAN
• Honors for English Thesis, Meaning/Imagination: On T.S. Eliot & The Unchallenged Image
• Henry L. Swint Award for Top History Research Paper (2011)
• Thomas Weser Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Community as an International Student (2011)
• Not bad for a high school dropout

SG, Singapore | HK, Hong Kong SAR | HCMC + HAN, Vietnam

Co-Founder, Managing Partner

We love code - and that's why we teach it! We are one of Asia's first Tech Entrepreneurship academies for K-12 students. Through our "Play, Experiment, Create, Pitch" framework, we inspire the next generation of hackers and startup ninjas. We are proud to continue expanding our education programs in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vietnam.

TechSociety is currently driving coding education for girls and other minorities through our CodeForASEAN campaign under President Obama's YSEALI program. We were also National Champions in EO's Entrepreneur Awards 2016 (Hong Kong). Our work in the region was also recognized by St. Gallen's Symposium and we were invited to share as Leaders of Tomorrow. We also received the SPRING ACE Grant and the SMU Innovation Award 2014 - and we were semi-finalists and the Singaporean contenders of the World Startups Summit 2014 (Seoul, Korea) and finalists of the NTU ideasInc accelerator program.

SG, Singapore | Asia-Pacific Region

Senior Seeker | Innovation Gunslinger

Nobody knows how the future would look like - so we have to make it. Starhub i3 Future Services is a power collective of thought leaders, startup hotshots, and industry mavericks who are not mere fortune tellers but destiny makers by combining the hotpot ingredients of Innovation, Investment, and Incubation to take new businesses and ideas beyond what we know we do not know - and what we know we know.

SG, Singapore | Asia-Pacific Region

Director of Partnerships

Kairos Society (ASEAN) is an invitation-only entrepreneurial community of the brightest new generation leaders across ASEAN solving problems and changing the world through high-impact ventures.

We are the ASEAN regional hub of The Kairos Society, a non-profit organisation founded in 2008. The Kairos family works to discover and empower the young pioneers who will push the world forward through entrepreneurship and innovation

Purchase, NY

Intern Analyst

I spent the glorious summer structuring financial ecosystems for developing countries. It was an exhilarating experience melding mobile and alternative payment technologies, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, and financial literacy programs to create novel banking/payment paradigms with our NGO/NPO, government, academic, and corporate partners.

Financial Inclusion, FTW.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Intern

Despite not speaking an ounce of Vietnamese, I spearheaded market research, capital budgeting, & corporate branding intern projects for British-American Tobacco & Coors Light in the Indochinese markets. I also got my hands dirty with copywriting & moodboard work for GlaxoSmithKline. During my time in Grey, I also facilitated 2 behavioral change (Anti-Drunk Driving) campaigns for the WHO in Hanoi. My proudest moment was when I snuck into the core team to help pitch for the Vietnam Airlines retainer. I ended up with a lot more friends, experience, and Vietnamese phrases than when I first began. 

SG, Singapore

Chief Scriptwriter/Master of Ceremony

Over my 2 1/2 years of service, I advised on communications delivery, conceived scripts, and acted as the Master of Ceremony for more than 250 military and international diplomatic events. Working on high-level projects such as the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Conferences, Asia- Pacific Military Intelligence Meeting, and the Royal Singapore Air Force Open Houses imbued me with a special insight into diplomatic operations and exigences.

During my service, I also hosted 80 National Education programs in schools and developed public outreach strategies in Singapore. I also helped to design and present over 25 cultural diplomacy events in Australia, Thailand, & Malaysia. It was an honor serving the country in such a key position at a very young age.

Singapore/Las Vegas, NV

"From my observation, working with Jeremy over several years, he has
an inherent leadership talent and the ability to motivate and develop those around him through a team oriented approach. I believe that Jeremy has the potential to be a highly successful member of the new millennial generation of leaders. He is very adaptive with technology, has the ability to rapidly absorb information, is very effective in organizing teams for impact, creating strong customer relationships and can analyze challenges and evolve solutions from a multi-dimensional perspective."

Singapore

"A nation’s spirit and our fortitude is shaped by crises. As Jeremy Chua, the 25-year-old who started SG Haze Rescue wrote... “It has been an incredibly inspiring week for me, working with a community of Singaporeans and PRs overseas and at home to make our country a bigger, bolder and better one. I am humbled by the volunteers and donors, who have contributed time, effort, money, and whatever they could – they embody the new Singapore Story… In a crisis, there is no public/private divide – we are an entire community, together in this.”

MPs rightly ask: can Singapore withstand the next national threat, the next big one, one even a more severe? I believe so but only if we maintain the trust and care for one another. Trust and care between leaders and the people and for each other. Our collective response during this haze, where Singaporeans came together, trusted and cared for each other, adds to my confidence."