Nicholas Chan is a Singaporean serial entrepreneur turned early stage Venture Capitalist in Azione Capital Pte Ltd and Managing Director of Fredrik Marine IT Services Pte Ltd. Having started work at 12 and his first business at the age of 16, his ventures has taken him into the villages of Viet Nam, the factories of Thailand and in the high seas of Europe, experimenting with new technologies, trading exotic products and figuring out new ways in making sure things get done with nearly nothing in hand.

Nicholas is one of the eight co-founders of Project:Senso Ltd, a non-profit entrepreneur volunteer organization operating in the Asia Pacific region that encourages local entrepreneurs in contributing back to society of their value creation skills, personal connectacific region that encourages local entrepreneurs in contributing back to society of their value creation skills, personal connections and wealth to mentor budding entrepreneurs and social enterprises within charities to better serve the community by empowering them with the spirit of enterprise, embodying the organization's motto of "Enterprise for Good". Nicholas is a graduate from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Singapore) holding a Diploma in Film, Sound and Video, year 2000 batch and has never been through university.

Siraj has over 15 years of experience in the IT and Telecomunications space having been instrumental in the design and implementation of several large projects such as the Singapore Technologies Mail Services, Singtel Y2K compliance and the launch of the Blackberry services for StarHub.

As Managing Director of Dizilife, Siraj’s current mission is to provide the strategic and organisational roadmap as well as the development of the Dizilife services portfolio.

Previously as Director of Products and Operations for Foosti, he has defined and delivered the Foosti technology platform and along with his team, he has been responsible for the smooth delivery of service, every day of the year.

Prior to joining Foosti, Siraj worked on pfingo a new Fixed-Mobile convergence service which was successfully launched and saw rapid subscriber growth.

If you are looking for a Gen Y role model, Eileen Feng is your girl. She loves to make things happen.

At 20, she raised S$150,000 within 7 weeks to set up a well-received fashion brand and business that operates out of the trendy Haji Lane. Her fashion merchandise sold worldwide and have been featured in numerous magazines and websites, such as Men’s Folio. Her opening fashion show, which showcased in Singapore’s biggest club, ‘St. James Power House’, was attended by over a thousand people. On top of her business, she was a pioneer in many social campaigns – i.e. “Pick Me Up”, which raised $50,000 for Make A Wish Foundation. Her story has been featured in books, TV show “Good Morning Singapore”, Radio 938Live and overseas papers “The Sabah Times”.

Her dream is to set up speaking schools- to help youth turn into confident and charismatic speakers so that they can be change makers. Last year, she founded a public speaking training company. Within 7 months of operations, she reached out to 74% of the tertiary institutions and was awarded the Merit Award in Shell Livewire.

Her recent campaign, Singapore Can Speak 2010, which reached out to half a million Singaporeans, inspired many to pay attention to social issues (i.e. poverty) happening around us and take action!

Dynamic, vibrant, and a firm believer of helping individuals and organisations alike to grow, Prehalath Cleetus started his career as a Training, Human Resource Development and Organisation Development practitioner in 1993.

Holding various HR and Corporate Development appointments in the course of his career, Cleetus embarked on his entrepreneurship with a leap of faith into the Management Training Consultancy Field. Currently, he is the CEO of Perform@ International Pte Ltd (Singapore), Perform@ International Sdn Bhd (Malaysia), Performa Learning Pvt Ltd (India), Managing Director of Pi Corporation Pte Ltd, Orange & Blue Pte Ltd, Phyllis’Riccia School Pte Ltd and President Corporate Development for Total Learning Services Pvt Ltd (Myanmar), Total Kids School (Myanmar) and Brainworks School Pte Ltd (Myanmar).

He has been working with leading organisations in Singapore in areas such as Organisation Development and Strategic Media Relations. He was responsible for conceptualising and cascading the Mission, Vision and Values in some of these organisations, and was one of the key persons involved in implementing numerous programmes, such as the Structured Training and Training Road Map Programme and Crisis Management Programme.

An engaging facilitator and consultant, Cleetus is comfortable with – and capable of – managing small groups of participants, as well as large-scale sessions with 700 people. In addition to having trained the middle and top management of companies, he has also facilitated senior managers from other countries, such as Malaysia, Australia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, and the United States of America. Not only is Cleetus a certified People Developer Standard assessor and consultant, he is also accredited in administering the MBTI and DISC profiling. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship as well as a Change Management Certificate from National Training Laboratories (NTL).

As one of the founders of Perform@ International, Cleetus brings with him extensive experience as a strategic and visionary thinker and mover. He is undeniably the driving force behind the company, being well known for his charisma and energy to deliver results. He is truly committed to the SPIRIT of growth and in REACHING OUT TO IMPACT LIVES.

Tom Abbott is the author of the forthcoming book “The SOHO Solution: 25 Selling Strategies For Growing Your Business” (foreword by Don Hutson, co-author of “The One Minute Entrepreneur”), president and founder of Soho Sales Coaching, and creator of the Soho Sales Fundamentals - 5 Pillars of Personal Selling® methodology. Over the last ten years, he has been working exclusively with small office and home office entrepreneurs to help attract their ideal customers, differentiate themselves in the marketplace, gain the trust of prospects, and convert more leads into sales.

He is a member of the International Coach Federation - Singapore Chapter, trainer with the Marketing Institute of Singapore, and Associate Consultant with the Enterprise Development Centre in Singapore. Prior to that, he was an instructor of Sales and Marketing with Sprott-Shaw Business College in Canada, worked in ‘Global Brand Integration’ with the Canadian Tourism Commission and as a sales representative of the Canadian Scholarship Trust Plan, had a closing ratio of 100% with zero policy cancellations.

Tom is always exploring and discovering new sales tools that can benefit entrepreneurs. His optimism is contagious and he believes your future is something you can control, despite these challenging economic times. Clients also value his perspective on sales and his way of looking at things that makes sense to entrepreneurs.

He recently spoke at International Coach Federation, Asia Professional Speakers - Singapore, Marketing Institute of Singapore, Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, ST701, and the Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Tom was also the featured cover story for a recent issue of Make It Business magazine, a recent guest on Business Insanity Talk Radio and has authored sales articles published in The Straits Times and The Singapore Marketer.

Joseph Wong is currently the Founder and Principal Trainer of his training firm TrainingGearAsia, and holds Directorship for Training and Programmes for Project:Senso Limited - a high-impact non-profit organization for entrepreneurs, where he played a pivotal role in spearheading the organization to a social enterprise model with a niche events management. A dynamic individual with a heart for personal development, he prided himself as a crusader for pioneering new ideas and putting thoughts into action.

To date, Joseph has trained more than a thousand sales professionals in the areas of sales, products training, team-building interventions and NLP Performance Coaching. He specializes in creating niche programs like the EntrepreneursBootCamp (EBC), Career Hunting with an Entrepreneurial Attitude (CREATE), TeamBuilder and Social Enterprise Training programs. He was also invited to speak in Ngee Ann and Singapore Polytechnic as the practical subject matter expert in his program - CREATE.

Joseph is a certified Master Neuro Linguistic Program (MNLP) practitioner, and a certified Personal Value Profiling (PVP) C-Vat practitioner. He earned his Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) and Accredited Estate Planning Practitioner (AEPP) while he was within the financial arena prior to his venture.

Joseph also spent considerable months under the wing of the United Nations in their Peace-Keeping Program - United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET), by being actively involved in their peacekeeping mission through a rigorous and stringent selection process.

Joseph believes in placing people first, constantly looking to value-add to his counter-parts, and maintains a consistent creativity to his training program to challenge himself to the next level in unconventional ways. He greatly utilizes and integrates his prior business experiences into experiential learning within his program, creating a niche curriculum that gives him a competitive advantage in his field.