Founder Institute Singapore Adds More Mentors

Founder Institute Singapore has already accepted over 30 applicants but will still be accepting applications for just one more day! Final application deadline has now been set to March 14th. So apply now if you haven’t. On another note, the big news is the whole new expanded list of mentors that have been added to the Singapore/Asia Pacific programme. We can’t wait to meet these guys!

Alex Rampell, CEO, TrialPay

Alex Rampell is founder and CEO of TrialPay (http://www.trialpay.com/), a leading online payment service with over 15 millions users, where he is responsible for general management and building corporate infrastructure. Prior to TrialPay, Alex co-founded FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company, which merged into SiteAdvisor and was acquired by McAfee in April 2006. Alex began his career writing and selling consumer software on bulletin board systems and the nascent internet, creating a successful company with hundreds of thousands of paying consumers worldwide, with products featured in Forbes, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Today Show, CNBC, and BusinessWeek. He holds an AB in Applied Math and Computer Science, cum laude, from Harvard University.

Andy Zain, Managing Partner, VentureX

Andy Zain is regarded as one of the mobile industry pioneers. Since 1999, he had involved in numerous ‘industry first’ initiatives, such as the first ringtone service, the first mobile portal, first mobile banking and m-commerce service in region. Founder of Elasitas, a leading content aggregator in Indonesia and solution provider with deployments across telcos in Asia Pacific. Andy is now the Managing Partner of VentureX, a private equity boutique focusing in telecommunication, media and technology sector in South East Asia and overseeing operation of several mobile services in Indonesia. Actively involve in the Indonesia Chambers of Commerce and Trade as Vice Chairman in Content & Application Committee (ICT), and a founding member of IMOCA (Indonesia Mobile and Online Content Association). He also run the local chapter of MobileMonday in Indonesia, part of the global networking forum for mobile professionals.

Batara Eto, CEO, Etolabo Corporation

Batara Eto, was born in 1979 in Indonesia. He graduated from Engineering Department of Takushoku University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the co-founder of mixi, the largest Social Networking Service in Japan. He proposed mixi in December 2003, and he was in charge for the development of the site. He served as Chief Technology Officer in mixi until 2007. He is a well known for advocating the use of the open source LAMP stack, Perl, MySQL and the Apache web server, especially in Japan. In February 2008, he set up his new company called Etolabo Corporation. His new company is developing a couple of web applications that have not been released.

Bob Rosin, Serial Entrepreneur

Bob has built two companies from scratch and raised over $117M in venture capital from Sequoia, Atlas, Azure, Paladin, AsiaTech, Motorola, Wasserstein, Marc Andreessen, Nicholas Negroponte, Ron Conway, and other investors. Bob was previously SVP Sales and Marketing, OQO, developer of the first pocketable PC, and brought the company from zero to over $25M in annual revenue. Previously, Bob was Founder and President of Bang Networks, a pioneer in realtime messaging on the public Internet. Previously, Bob worked at Sony Corp. in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, where he incubated Navio (now Liberate Technologies) and led Sony’s involvement with WebTV Networks, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft). Bob received his MBA from Harvard Business School where he won the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship, and received his BA from Cornell University Magna Cum Laude with three majors. Bob received Red Herring Top 100 for two companies, is first author on 9 granted US patents, has a Black Belt in Aikido, is fluent in Japanese, and is an avid underwater photographer.

Bryan Thatcher, CEO, Empressr, LockerBlogger

Bryan Thatcher is CEO of Empressr, a leading Web application that allows users to create, manage and share rich-media presentations. As CEO and Founder of Fusebox, Bryan applies his mind for innovation to some of the most revered brands in finance, media, and pharmaceuticals—Discover Financial Services, JPMorgan Chase, MTV, CNN, ESPN and Pfizer—helping them increase profits and stay relevant in an ever-changing world of marketing opportunities.

Dave Parker, CEO, 9Spaces

Dave Parker is a seriel entrepreneur in International Business and currently the CEO of 9Spaces, Inc as well as a board member for three other companies. I was introduced to the funded while an Entrepreneur in Residence for a venture fund in San Jose. That three years of EIR expernience gave me the “other side of the table” view of the world and confirmed what I knew about myself as an Entrepreneur. I’m a founder that is good and connecting ideas to business models on the front end and positioning companies for sale and the back end. I’ve founded four companies as CEO. Sold Four, closed one, and sit on the board of four compnanies today.

Joshua Konowe, Serial Entrepreneur