Christopher Yeo

Current

CTO at SPH Search Pte Ltd
Founder at Peristera Pte Ltd
Executive Advisor at Cadi Scientific Pte Ltd

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Past

Associate Director at NUS Enterprise
Assistant Vice President at Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd
Senior General Manager at Four Soft Ltd

CTO at Comex Frontier Pte Ltd
CEO at Information Fusion Pte Ltd
Staff Officer (Captain) at Republic of Singapore Airforce

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Education

University of Waikato
National Junior College
Willow Avenue Secondary School

Kwong Avenue Primary School

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Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

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Christopher Yeo’s Summary

In 1994, a few friends and I started Information Fusion Pte Ltd. I was responsible for product development. Nurturing the Company from a start-up to one of the fastest growing e-Business Solutions Provider. From year 2000, I assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of iFusion and steered the company towards realising its vision, to be a world-class player in Value Chain Integration. In 2003, the intellectual property rights (IP) and the company was sold to one of its early investors.

I then moved on to be the CTO of Comex Frontier Pte Ltd. There I managed the entire product management of its range of Supply Chain Execution software, taking it from predominantly a local player into an Asia Pacific-wide product company. In 2005, Comex was acquired by Four Soft Ltd, a listed company based out of India. Towards the end of 2006, working in Four Soft has broaden my perspective as to how software products are successfully commercialized globally. I then decided to devote my efforts in helping Singapore based technology companies commercialize their products and grow their markets globally. To that end, I joined A*STAR Singapore, a government funded organization. There, I worked in the commercialization arm whose charter is to identify promising technologies created by research institutes under A*STAR. This includes analysing the strength of the IPs and working with companies to commercialise the technologies.

Taking technologies commercialisation to the next level, I was motivated to move into venture capital and private equity. In Oct 2007, I joined the National University of Singapore (NUS) to re-boot its venture capital arm to create globally competitive technology based companies.

In June 2008, I decided to create an early stage venture fund to invest in high growth early stage companies in the digital media industry. At the same time, I work with some of these companies as an executive advisor to bring them to the next level of their growth.

Christopher Yeo’s Specialties:

Product Architecture, Database Architecture, Web2.0 Development, Data Mining, Semantic Technologies, Marketing, Sales, Management, Mergers and Acquisition, Venture Capital

Christopher Yeo’s Experience

CTO

SPH Search Pte Ltd

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Local search, directory and classifieds as a combination is still an evergreen growth area in the internet world. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all not fully tapped into this market because of the diverse geographical nuances. SPH Search's Rednano.sg is going to be a leader in this domain around the region. My role is to take the Rednano search and directory platform to the next level in scalability, reliability and productisation.
Founder

Peristera Pte Ltd

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Peristera was founded to promote Cloud Computing. With the internet world fast moving from Web 2.0 to the next level, many enterprises such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are investing into cloud computing platforms. Around these large companies, a fairly rich and diverse ecosystem of startups are starting to form which specialises in cloud computing. Peristera was founded to harness and harvest the technologies from this ecosystem.
Executive Advisor

Cadi Scientific Pte Ltd

(Medical Devices industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Cadi Scientific is a high growth medical devices company which has invented a highly innovative wireless health care sensing platform. As executive advisor, my role is to bring Cadi to the next level of its growth by improving its sales and marketing strategy and mentoring its management team.
Associate Director

NUS Enterprise

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)

In this position, my objective is to create globally competitive technology based companies. To do this, I will be creating a pipeline of deal flows from research and technologies coming out of the National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as mentoring and grooming existing investee companies; bringing them global. I will also be looking at good opportunities to invest in startups that are not NUS related; they do not even have to be located in Singapore.
Assistant Vice President

Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd

(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2006 — September 2007 (1 year )

In this position I am responsible for the commercialisation of technologies that are developed by the science and technology research institutes which form part of the Agency for Singapore Technologies and Research (A*Star). As part of my job, I will need to understand the technologies, the patent and IP landscape, as well as the potential market of such technologies.
Senior General Manager

Four Soft Ltd

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 6 months)
CTO

Comex Frontier Pte Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 1 month)
CEO

Information Fusion Pte Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1994 — May 2003 (9 years )
Staff Officer (Captain)

Republic of Singapore Airforce

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

December 1982 — May 1994 (11 years 6 months)

Christopher Yeo’s Education

University of Waikato

BCMS , First Class Honours in Computer Science , 1986 — 1990

Studying in Waikato was one of the best times of my life. We had good faculty members who were experts in their field. At the same time the university environment was very friendly and beautiful.
National Junior College

1979 — 1980
Willow Avenue Secondary School

1975 — 1978
Kwong Avenue Primary School

1970 — 1974