I've built and run organisations: the team, the technology and the structure behind them.
I still remember walking past grand hotels, and the people in suits who would open those big doors for me. For that moment, I felt like the most important person in the world.
Every patient who walks through our doors should feel like the most important person in the world.
I didn't become a hotelier (yet). But that feeling has bled into everything I've done since.
Many years ago, I took a crazy bet on myself, and I've kept betting on myself ever since. I hope that as you explore my journey, it inspires your own, gives you courage, and takes you behind the curtain of the organised chaos — that is my life, so far.
Medicine, technology, education and philanthropy.
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I started out in emergency medicine residency at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Then, in 2015, I went to Kathmandu after the Nepal earthquake, and it changed how I saw my career and shifted my mindset.
I'm very, very fortunate that I get to do this.
National Service gave me my first EMR implementation, and my first taste of building for the many. In 2017, I stepped away from residency to go all in on tech: a master's at Johns Hopkins and informatics with IHiS. It wasn't a popular decision.
During the trying times of finding myself, my eagerness to prove everyone wrong often got the better of me. That arrogance, that youth.
(To the many people I made things difficult for along the way: I'm sorry!)
It was something of a coming of age.
Building a business in primary care wasn't my first rodeo, but I became a first-time founder when I started A Medical Group, anchored in the principles of Will Guidara’s Unreasonable Hospitality. I wanted to practise medicine on my own terms, and show like-minded people that it's possible to focus on the provision of continuing, comprehensive and collaborative care.
Alongside it, I worked on remote patient monitoring, clinic management systems and medical devices at HeartVoice, started my adjunct position in healthcare informatics at the National University of Singapore, and set up a bursary in my father's name to give back.
I was headhunted to join EVYD Technology, headquartered in Singapore and Brunei, with a strong technical team in Shanghai and Beijing, and met some of the best people I've worked with. I led the team that built Brunei's national digital health platform, used by every citizen, worked with international partners in the US, and took a home-grown digital therapeutics product through FDA 510(k) clearance.
At EVYD, I had spent two years shuttling in and out of the country, but I always said I'd come back if my country needed me. A serendipitous conversation opened the door to Sheares Healthcare, where I was part of the leadership team building a primary care platform, and I exited A Medical Group in the process.
Having given more than a decade to medicine, I'm now ready to explore what's outside of it! (And finally having the time to put together this little website project of mine.)
Who knows? Maybe I'll write a book that goes into the details of the organised chaos — that is my life, so far.
Riding the AI wave, I'm now solo-building an AI-forward health tech company to align the payer, provider and patient, amalgamating my decade of experience in health tech and starting again as an ∞-time founder 🚀. (If you're keen to collaborate, invest or bounce ideas around, feel free to contact me below 👇)
LFG!
Three principles I bring to every team, product and patient.
Bringing the best people together.
It's the same whether the product is medicine or technology, and whether the end user is a patient or a technology user. At the end of the day, as Maya Angelou put it: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Outwork anyone.
