Jeanette has over 18 years of significant experience in top general and financial management positions with responsibility for operations, strategy, business development, sales, marketing, mergers & acquisitions, investor relations, and growth for companies. She started her career in ophthalmology with the intent to become a doctor but became more interested in the operations and business development of various businesses especially technology, which led to working with multiple start-ups. She has both corporate, start-up, and restructuring experience for international companies. Gaining diverse experience from private equity, TPG Capital, in San Francisco to wealth management in Singapore, which led her career into Fintech companies, which includes Blockchain and cryptocurrency companies since 2014. She has successfully helped in fundraising efforts of over 100 million USD and has been with several start-up companies from inception to exits at various stages in the U.S. and Asia. She has strong leadership skills combined with team-oriented style to generate significant contributions to results, as well as, working alongside C-level Fortune 500 executives, board members, management team and outside professionals. She has worked with Ministries of Finance and Central Banks in discussions around future financial infrastructure plans for countries especially pertaining to digital identity and CBDC. Her passion is entrepreneurship, startups, and innovation. She is currently the Global Partnership Managing Director for WorldPay by FIS – Crypto & Emerging Business based in London. She has held positions as the Chief Business Officer for Everest.org and Blockshine SG, and has continued as an advisor/consultant to those companies and to Vesto.io, Fado Go, Prasaga, Dealogikal, OMvino, and Neon Vrcade. She also held other C-level positions for various startups and corporations.
She is of Chinese, Vietnamese, and French descent, and can speak Vietnamese and Cambodian fluently, along with some knowledge of other languages, with business experience and connections globally from the US/North America, LATAM, UK/EU, ME, Africa, and especially in Asian/SE Asian countries having lived in Singapore for 7 years. She has a vast network of friends and acquaintances from all over the world, and has chosen to make London home. She was part of the German Dragon Boat Team in Singapore, enjoys playing tennis regularly, and running. Other interests include being a wine connoisseur (collecting wines since 2005), into gastronomy (cooks and bakes; friends with top Michelin chefs globally; regular attendee of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards and other food and beverage industry events), single malt scotch, fine art (regular attendee of Art Basel, Frieze, Sotheby’s, art exhibitions; art collector with commissioned artworks) and F1 and classic race cars. She is heavily involved in non-profit/social impact work mostly around education for children, food for the elderly, and is currently on the Advisory Board for Young Founders School to help inspire young entrepreneurs and a Board Member of VietYouth Entrepreneurs. She has been on several fundraising committees helping to organize events and galas raising $150,000 to $6M per event. She actively volunteers in her spare time to local causes she supports. She would love to work on a social impact enterprise to help the billions of unbanked globally with financial inclusion through income generation via Fintech.
