Paddy Tan

Expertise: Southeast Asia, Business Strategy, Investment Advisory

Paddy advises business leaders on strategic planning, rapid scaling, growth and positioning, helping them increase profitability and pivot their businesses to gain a competitive advantage in their respective industries.

He specialises in Southeast Asia, which comprises hypercomplex and complicated markets. Together with his team and its wide network of partners and affiliated companies, Paddy helps foreign companies navigate the treacherous markets using smart and innovative strategies. These includes tactics and approaches in structuring company, scaling business and selling product or service offerings.

Paddy was the technical founder of a mobile security software startup, which he sold it in 2011 after 6 years of operating. His vast experience (>20 years) working with startups, government authorities and deal makers have made him the go-to person for fixing and solving challenges in the IoT, FinTech, Education, and Platform ecosystems.

Paddy is also known in the industry as a Fixer, leading a team to solve complex challenges within a 100 days’ timeframe.

Paddy is also a mentor and advisor in several international and regional accelerators namely SOSV, IAPS (Center of Industry Accelerator and Patent Strategy), and GCamp. He was also a mentor for BASH (Build Amazing Startups Here) a project by the Singapore government agency, where he offers advice to commercial accelerators, corporations, and institutions of higher learning.

Other accelerators that he mentored at are UOB FinLab, AIRmaker, and SIM Platform E in Singapore.

Speak to Paddy: https://startupstorm.asia/course/paddy-tan