JAMES KANG

Co-founder & Chief Executive

Co-founder and Chief Executive of  RICH and Amaris. RICH is a Singapore based fintech company that provides financial engineering solutions and integrated full cycle delivery of net-zero modular essential products & services.  Amaris is a deep learning Artificial Intelligence company and a world leader in Smart City Ai military grade security and Ai attack defence systems. 

Singapore Government
Former Singapore Government Chief Information Officer. Spearheaded the national masterplan. Transformed Singapore to 1st Smart Nation and  No 1 in global e-Government rankings.

Harvard Business School
Project Director for the TradeNet, a highly successful nation-wide technology implementation that was adopted as a case study in Harvard Business School MBA Programme.

HANS DE VILLIERS

Co-founder & Business Development

RICH co-founder, head of business development and founder and CEO of EVUNI,  a net-zero fleet mobility solutions provider with a modular suite of ready-to-operate business solutions.

Executive Experience
As co-CEO of RSE College pioneered e-learning for the Seta retail learnership programmes at Street Fever and delivery of the W&R Seta sponsored HURP rural blueprint. Previously CEO & co-founder of E-Prove, TrustMarque & Improtech. CIPC online payment system,  ECT Act signature facilitation for president Mbeki in joint venture with the South African Post Office. E-prove shareholders included ST Engineering & Vickers Venture Partners. TrustMarque, a Trust Centre and E-commerce company that’s founding shareholders include the Royal Bank of Scotland. Improtech  built & operated the largest legal network in Africa and formed the LegalNet joint venture with LexisNexis & MWEB. 

M & A Mandates
Awarded several investment mandates that included MPA to acquire or concession of the South African Port terminals, MTN/Shanduka in partnership with Merrill Lynch to acquire majority shareholding in MTN and Econet to acquire a majority stake in VMobile.

MIKE LIM

Co-founder & CFO

Co-founder and CFO of  RICH, a Singapore based fintech company that provides financial engineering solutions and integrated full cycle delivery of net-zero modular essential products & services.

Executive Experience
SNS (Finance & international business director)
Digital (Regional controller ASEAN)

M & A Mandates
Thai Express, PSA , MTN, Econet, ST Engineering

Board appointments
MNS (Mauritius), Hicom (Malaysia), BC tel (Canada), Ayala (Philippines), Tradevan (Taiwan), Beijing & Guangdong Network Services (China), Mahindra Network Services (India)

Dr. Patrick Chan

Amaris co-founder & CTO

World class data scientist and Kaggle Master. Average of top 2 percent placing. Gold rank in Kaggle’s (2020). Track record spans across multiple industries Big data, middleware and Ai search.

Prof Yu Chien Siang

Amaris Chief Innovation Officer

Cybersecurity Hall-of-Famer. Previously with Ministry of Home Affairs. Certis Cisco as a Chief Innovation Officer. Pioneered trusted ,low power, low-cost Ai. World’s first driverless data diode.