ONG YE KUNG

Ong Ye Kung is the Minister for Health. He was elected Member of Parliament for Sembawang Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in September 2015 and was re-elected in July 2020 in Sembawang GRC. He had held the positions of Minister for Transport, Minister for Education, Second Minister for Defence, and board member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and the Institute of Management Development, Switzerland.

RACHEL LIM

Rachel Lim is the co-founder of Southeast Asia's leading womenswear brand Love, Bonito. Having started the business online at 19 when e-commerce was in its infancy, she revolutionised the spheres of online retail, redefined the fashion scene in Singapore, and grew her business into a multi-million dollar international label. Rachel has headlined at notable international conferences and was honoured by Forbes as Asia's 30 under 30 in 2016 and by Tatler Asia as Asia's Most Influential in 2021.

EVY WEE

As Head of Financial Planning and Personal Investing, Evy is heavily involved in projects that aim to help customers manage their personal finances better, including planning for their retirement or making wise investment choices. Some of Evy’s more recent notable projects include launching DBS Nav Planner – a tool in the digibank and iWealth apps that delivers personalised financial advice to customers based on their income, expenses, investments, and other financial commitments.

JERRY SU

With 15 years of experience in the Housing & Development Board, Jerry had the privilege of meeting countless Singaporeans and guiding them in the sometimes overwhelming process of buying a flat. Throughout his career, he has given more than 50 public talks to prospective flat buyers and played vital roles in the streamlining of key processes which helped flat buyers make informed housing and financing decisions.

CHRISTOPHER FORBES

Christopher started his career on the Morgan Stanley graduate scheme, where he rotated across job functions and specialised in ETFs, Custom Baskets, Sector Swaps/Futures and Financing across asset classes. He was also the Head of Trading at the Clermont Group and led the Capital Markets and minority Private Equity Investments. Before joining CMC, he founded Zavian Capital, a wealth management business in Singapore, and was in charge of asset allocation and performance to its HNI client base.

HELEN SHEN

Helen oversees the development and implementation of end-to-end integrated solutions at Singlife. She joined Singlife in June 2022 from Ant Group, where she served as Country Manager for Alipay Malaysia and Singapore. Prior to Ant, Helen spent over 10 years at DBS Bank, focusing on ecosystem partnerships and digital transformation and was part of DBS China’s integration team of ANZ Bank’s wealth business into DBS. Helen holds a BS of Business Administration from Boston University United States.

WALTER DE OUDE

Walter is the Founder of Chocolate Finance – a new way for you to save your spare cash. Forget fixed deposits, Chocolate Finance offers almost anyone anywhere great returns on their savings without needing to jump through hoops. It is built on the belief that people are looking for better returns on their cash & allowing them to make their lives richer. Before founding Chocolate, Walter founded Singapore Life (Singlife) in 2014 and grew that business to a value of S$3.2B by 2020.

MICHAEL WONG

Michael started his career in 1988 as an insurance client adviser, ascending to the most senior position of Financial Services Director within 15 years. He also served as an affiliated consultant for investment products & services to IPP Capital Advisory from 1990, & in 1998, he was made equity partner. He is currently IPP's Chief Business Officer, looking at various strategic business and partnership collaborations for new business verticals to advance financial advisory & investment services.

LING SENG CHUAN

Ling Seng Chuan joined DBS Bank in 2020 as the Head of Bancassurance, where he oversees the bank's Life and General Insurance businesses for Singapore. He has extensive experience in leading the Bancassurance, Deposits, and Investment businesses at financial institutions, and driving quality and business performances across industries. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He graduated with a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering and holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD Business School.

CHEW SU MING

GAVIN CHIA

Before joining Moomoo, Gavin held key roles as the Head of Corporate Development (B2B) in UOB Kay Hian, Head of Business Development at Haitong International Financial Services (Singapore), and Head of Corporate Development (B2B) and Wealth Management (B2B) in Phillip Capital. As a financial industry veteran of over 14 years, he believes in creating "High touch and high tech" products and is skilled in developing system infrastructures and trading platforms for businesses.

LO SAN JOHN

A refugee from New Zealand, San dreams of growing organic vegetables in New Zealand and taking the time to enjoy the great outdoors. San has been working now for 25 years of market experience. He currently manages the Citigold advisory team. In previous incarnations, he has worked for prominent family offices, hedge funds, and too many years as a corporate treasurer. He brings a wealth of experience across multiple asset classes and portfolio disciplines.

JEFFREY YAP

Jeffrey is responsible for delivering wealth products and solutions for clients in Southeast Asia. With over 26 years of experience in global financial markets across many asset classes, he is a well-recognized investment professional who has built and managed investment, trading and advisory teams for global financial institutions, including hedge funds and private banks. He is unique among financial experts with experience across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, debt and alternatives.

KELVIN LEE

Kelvin started his career as an Equity Analyst prior to going into advisory roles. Engrossed in technical analysis, Kelvin sees Fibonacci lines, Elliot Waves and chart patterns above his bed, just like Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit. He also enjoys culinary shows where chefs and pâtissiers ideate to create beautiful masterpieces using simple, unassuming ingredients, similar to building an investment portfolio. As a pastime, Kelvin indulges in quality time with family/friends over dart games.

JENN ONG

Jenn oversees the retail lending business at GXS Bank (GXS), bringing over 15 years of experience in credit, card and payment technology. Before her role at GXS, Jenn headed Mastercard's Credit Product business for Asia Pacific and is also part of the Asian Financial Leaders Programme; a course developed for senior talent in Asia’s financial sector. On the weekends, Jenn, who is certified in counselling & psychology, volunteers her time to counsel seniors & at-risk youths.

DANIEL LIM

Daniel Lim is the co-founder of Qanvast. The company was first started in Singapore in 2013 when the founders discovered how difficult it was to find a reliable interior firm for their renovation. Since then, they have helped more than 70,000 homeowners in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong creates their dream homes to unwind, forge memories, or even start new life chapters in.

JAMES SOH

Prior to starting Renopedia, James dabbled in the multi-level marketing industry and worked as a sales representative at a publishing firm. In the pursuit of financial freedom, he decided to quit the rat race to start his own business venture - an online magazine for interior design. This business venture then bloomed into Renopedia, which became one of Singapore's leading online renovation media portals for homeowners to find the best interior firms, and clocked a revenue of $3 million in 2022.

DAVID BAEY

David Baey is the co-founder and CEO of Mortgage Master. Mortgage Master is a mortgage brokering platform for homeowners and home seekers to secure the best home loan rates tailored to their needs. Since its launch, Mortgage Master has transacted more than $2.5 billion in home loans and delivered unbiased advice for over $12 billion in mortgages. David has over a decade of experience and has been featured in various media such as The BusinesTimes, The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, CNA & MoneyFM.

THOMAS KAPELLER

Thomas leads the insurance and insurtech arms of Hyphen’s businesses across 5 markets in the Southeast Asia. As an industry visionary dedicated to giving value back to customers, Thomas pushes for innovation, transparency and improving the efficiency of Insurance. He has held several leadership roles in Digital Growth & Transformation in Asia, Europe and Oceania and is an advocate to make insurance simple, relevant and more affordable.

SEOW KAI LUN

As the Managing Editor for The Simple Sum, Kai Lun manages a young and vibrant team that believes in empowering the next generation with a strong personal financial foundation. Kai Lun has over a decade of content creation experience across various media and industries as an established digital content strategist. With her expertise in content, Kai Lun has worked with international brands and government clients to craft strategies to meet their business and marketing goals.

DEANNA LIM

Deanna Lim is the Head of Commercial of DollarsAndSense. She leads sales and partnerships for DollarsAndSense. Deanna has three young children. Communication is key when it comes to organising her finance and time as a parent.

LEE YONG SHERN

Prior to joining Moomoo Singapore, Yong Shern held roles that dealt with equities and derivatives, including the management of an investment portfolio with a proprietary trading firm and dealing with global equities. He specialises in options, equities, futures, and other financial products, and is responsible for the development of the business in areas such as sales & partnerships. Yong Shern started his career as a consulting analyst and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration

AUDREY HO, CFA

Audrey is an Investment Consultant with Citi and joined the bank in 2014. She provides portfolio advisory across a wide range of asset classes, guides Relationship Managers on investment direction, and is a CFA charter holder. Additionally, she loves New Zealand and hopes to migrate there one day to rear sheep and be an adjunct professor of finance. She hopes to fulfil this dream by 45.

LOO CHENG CHUAN

When he was younger, Loo developed a financial strategy to maximise his CPF funds. He professes to be an ordinary Singaporean with an extraordinary CPF investment strategy that he believes could help many Singaporean become millionaires at retirement. Through many of his free public talks and 1M65 content, he hopes to help many Singaporeans become financially independent. He was also one of the few non-civil servants to be awarded the 2018 Public Sector Transformation award for his 1M65 efforts.

GOH WEI CHOON

Wei Choon is one of the co-founders of The Woke Salaryman (TWS), a personal finance webcomic and blog that aims to make the complicated subject of personal finance more accessible for young people and newcomers. He mainly draws and makes videos for TWS, but he also writes sometimes, usually about the less technical side of personal finance. Things like passion vs selling out, envy, the hedonic treadmill, etc.

KEL VIN TAN

Kel Vin Tan is the founder of Kelvin Learns Investing, one of Singapore's biggest Personal Finance YouTube channels with 85,000 subscribers. He makes a myriad of content on topics like investing, CPF, savings, credit cards and all things personal finance. Through his content, Kel Vin hopes to help people make better personal finance decisions and live their best life.

AARON WONG

Aaron Wong is the Founder of The MileLion, Singapore’s authoritative source on airline miles, credit card points and hotel loyalty programmes. Each month, The MileLion teaches more than 350,000 readers how to travel better for less, with tips and tricks for getting the most mileage (literally) out of their spending.

ALVIN CHOW

Alvin is the CEO & Founder of Dr. Wealth, a financial education firm which provides trusted financial education to individuals. They teach researched and actionable investment methods, so their graduates succeed in their investment journey and achieve market-beating returns. Personally, Alvin is a deep value investor with 12+ years of investment experience and a Quant at heart. He believes the financial industry can treat their customers better.

DAWN FIONA

SG Budget Babe, otherwise known as Dawn, is Singapore's top female personal finance and lifestyle blogger with over 18 million reads and counting. Her work has also been featured by many government statutory boards, as well as in mainstream media including the Straits Times, Channel News Asia, AsiaOne, MoneyFM, and more. Dawn writes on personal finance issues that strike home for many Singaporeans, including how to save more money, and earn extra income, CPF, insurance, and stocks.

RUSMIN ANG

Rusmin Ang is the co-founder of The Fifth Person, an award-winning investment site that focuses on Asian and U.S. equity research. The Fifth Person has been featured in national media, including Channel NewsAsia and Money FM 89.3. The Fifth Person also won best independent investment website at the SGX Orb Awards organised by the Singapore Exchange in 2018 and 2020.

WILLIE KENG, CFA

Willie Keng, CFA, is the CEO & Founder of Dividend Titan, a financial blog for investors growing their wealth safely. He was a former research analyst covering emerging market bonds for financial institutions like Deutsche Bank, Bank of Singapore, & DBS Private Bank. Before that, he worked at Phillip Capital Management, where he helped manage the biggest retail Singapore dollar money market fund. His articles have also been featured in major financial outlets like Investor One & Investing Note.

DR KAREN POOH

Dr Karen Pooh is a clinical psychologist at Alliance Counselling. She uses a compassionate approach to empower individuals to tap into their strengths and boost their resilience. As an adjunct professor at Yale-NUS College, University College London, and Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Dr Pooh shares her expertise with the next generation of psychologists. She firmly believes that mental health is more than just the absence of illness - it's about living a fulfilling and purposeful life.

JASON HO

Jason has always been a 'hacker' and has devoted over 15 years of his life to finding the best way to hack performance, discovering his peak performance, and those of his clients. Jason's clientele includes MNCs such as DHL, J&J, Coca-cola, Visa, TikTok & Adobe. He has a life mission to influence the world positively and has an active Tiktok base of 40,000 followers. He spends his weekends “hacking” parenthood and together with his wife, they try to be their best for their 6 children.

JOSH TAN

Josh holds a degree in Accounting from NTU. In 2016, he co-founded the financial education website TheAstuteParent to provide detailed insurance plan analysis and financial planning tips. In 2019 he started his youtube channel Josh Tan - TheAstuteParent to teach investing and wealth building. Today, he is one of Singapore's best-known financial advisors.

CHRISTOPHER CHONG

Chris Chong founded HoneyMoneySG as a YouTube Channel in 2021 to share personal finance knowledge. Today, his YouTube Channel has grown to over 20,000 Subscribers with 2.5M views as well as a community Telegram group with over 4,000 like-minded individuals discussing Personal Finance, Credit Cards, CPF, Retirement Planning and Money Saving Hacks. He has also been featured by mainstream media, such as CNA & TODAY, in finance topics like F.I.R.E. and saving money amidst high inflation.

SARAH CHENG-DE WINNE

Sarah wears multiple hats as an entrepreneur, realtor, award-winning singer-songwriter, and mother. Juggling multiple roles as a realtor with PropNex, founder of phone sling brand Taizjo and content creator-consultant, Sarah X. started producing videos documenting her family life to show what family could be. She has garnered over 80 million Tiktok views and 100,000 followers across her social media channels. She is also an award-winning singer-songwriter and ex-CNA938 DJ.

SARA WEE

Sara is co-founder of The Weeblings, a sibling duo documenting their journey to $1,000,000 on the internet. They started posting short-form videos on TikTok in November 2021 and have since amassed a humble following of close to 30,000. Their content centres around the successes, mistakes, and learning lessons of their million-dollar journey in real-time, touching on topics such as investing, trading, macroeconomics, personal finance, and entrepreneurship.

YUMIKO KAYAHARA

Born of Singaporean and Japanese heritage, Yumiko had her first hosting when she was 15. Fluent in English, with a curious appetite for knowledge, Yumiko is always on the ball, waiting to spring in a word of wit to entertain you with her charm. Her achievements in 2016 would include standing in as a radio DJ for 91.3FM and winning the runner-up title for 987 Star 2016. She was the show producer for Class 95’s “Muttons in the Morning” and she is now on-air on Class95 on Saturdays.

GLADYS YUEN

Gladys is an experienced Singapore-based professional freelance emcee who discovered her passion for hosting ever since she won her university's emcee talent competition in 2016. Since then, she has built an extensive repertoire while honing her craft. Her eloquence and quick wit have landed her emceeing opportunities for corporate functions, product launches, sports events & live streams. Her experience in the startup space also made her a popular choice for tech conferences and festivals.

YEAP MING FENG

Prior to joining Seedly, Ming Feng was a professional trader at Bloomberg. He's passionate about everything personal finance and interestingly, he started as an intern at Seedly. Over the years, he rose through several ranks to lead various teams and is currently the Head of Seedly.

ANKITA THAKUR

Ankita is the Head of Marketing at SingSaver. Being a marketing leader with over 12 years of experience working with international brands and start-ups, Ankita is well-versed in various topics including finance and wealth. She also has various accolades under her belt, including and not limited to the Google Leaderboard 2019 Award.

CHIA SIHAN

Sihan is a content manager at SingSaver. She started her career as a features writer at The Singapore Women’s Weekly and has written on a variety of lifestyle interests including personal finance topics. She dreams of a future where regardless of age, most Singaporeans are financially aware.

JOHN YONG

John is a content manager at SingSaver with over 10 years of experience in the creative and automotive industry. Helping others has always been his passion, which is why he hopes to cut through the clutter and simplify personal finance for everyone.

JOEL KOH

Joel is a passionate and experienced content marketer who loves telling stories and wants to help people live their best life by taking control of their personal finances.

KANG YEN JOON

Yen Joon is a content writer at SingSaver with six years' experience writing content in Times New Roman. He also hyperlinks his content and ensures that they're SEO-optimised to ensure that they rank. He hopes that his content can help you make better personal finance decisions, so that you can avoid keeping your money in Milo tin cans.

NEO HUI JUAN

Hui Juan started her career in the Civil Service to resolve social issues such as problem gambling and mental health. She's sensitive to retail prices and is always on the lookout for the best deals in town. She sees herself as both a Maven and Connector and wants to help you understand the different concepts surrounding money.

JUSTIN OH

Justin is a content strategist at Seedly with prior editorial and marketing experience at TheSmartLocal, Queensland Magazines and more. With experience in stocks investing and a keen interest in the future of cryptocurrencies, he hopes to educate and make investing approachable for the next generation.

DEBORAH GAN

Deborah has always had that "aunty" in her to find the best deals around & to never pay full price if she can help it. This was exactly what led her to SingSaver, as she strives to help others (and herself) make the best personal finance decisions through her content. But if there's anything stopping her from being financially free, it's mahjong, when she's on a losing streak.

EMMA LAM

Emma is a content writer at SingSaver who is allergic to most things at retail prices. As your typical Z-llennial, she hopes to help her fellow peers dip their toes into the daunting world of personal finance and uncover what being financially savvy means in your own terms.