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Allen L. is a seasoned executive with expertise in international expansion, artificial intelligence, and business strategy. With a strong educational background in Industrial/Systems Engineering and a specialization in Artificial Intelligence, he has worked with various startups and established companies, including 1982 Ventures, Lummo, and Revolut. His experience spans multiple roles, including Operating Partner, Growth Lead, VP Growth, VP Product, and Interim Head of Risk.

Experience

  • 1982 Ventures
    • Singapore
    • Operating Partner
      • 2024 - Present
      • Singapore

    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Investor
      • 2020 - Present

      Investing in early-stage startups (pre-seed - series A) alongside top VC firms (YC, First Round, Sequoia, a16z, General Catalyst, Craft Ventures, QED, EQT etc).Portfolio includes Collective, Copy.ai, EquityList, Foundation, Freetrade, Howbout, Machina Labs, Maven, Mercury, Moneybox, Nothing, Terraformation, Yummy, and others.

    • Advisor / Fractional Exec
      • 2023 - Present

      Helping startup founders and executives with product, GTM, and growth.

    • Angel Squad Member
      • 2023 - Present

    • Founding Member
      • 2023 - Present

    • Indonesia
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Growth
      • 2021 - 2023

      SMB SaaS. Backed by Sequoia, DST, Hedosophia, Google, Jeff Bezos. VP Growth. Built and led the Growth team (product growth, product marketing, growth marketing, new products). Focused on driving new user acquisition, activation/onboarding, retention, revenue conversion and expansion.

    • Product
      • 2021 - 2023

      VP Product. Led Product, Design, and Research teams across all verticals: marketing (storefront, marketing automation, analytics), support (omnichannel inbox, chatbots, collaboration workflows), and finance (bookkeeping, POS, digital account, payments, credit).

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Growth
      • 2020 - 2021

      Fintech Superapp. Backed by Index, DST, Ribbit, TCV, Lakestar. Head of Growth. Led the Growth team in Canada (product growth, product marketing, growth marketing). Focused on driving new user acquisition, activation/onboarding, feature adoption, and retention.

    • Risk
      • 2020 - 2020

      Interim Head of Risk. Built the Risk function in Canada from the ground up. Designed and implemented policies and procedures, governance models, and controls to manage local financial, operational, regulatory, and legal risks.

    • Operations
      • 2019 - 2020

      Early member of the North America team. Led bizops efforts across market entry and go-to-market: licensing, regulatory approvals, local partnerships, product localization, and recruiting.

    • Canada
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Growth
      • 2019 - 2019

      Enterprise SaaS. Acquired by Square. Backed by Fidelity and Sweat Equity Ventures.Growth Lead. Worked with the founders to monetize our internal MLOps platform and launch new markets (US, APAC).

    • Product
      • 2018 - 2019

      Product Lead. Worked with Fortune 500 companies to translate cutting-edge AI research into real-world applications.Enterprise applications: ML systems that help companies accelerate growth, streamline operations, and mitigate risk. Use cases include personalized marketing, process automation, fraud detection, and credit underwriting.Developer tools: MLOps tools that help data scientists develop, deploy, and monitor ML applications at scale. Features include experiment tracking, centralized feature store, model risk management, and model orchestration.

    • Research
      • 2018 - 2018
      • Toronto / Boston

      Supported research projects at the University of Toronto (Rotman School of Commerce) and MIT (Initiative on the Digital Economy). Focused on understanding the emerging role of AI in the global economy and its applications across different sectors.

  • Mozilla
    • Toronto / San Francisco
    • Product
      • 2017 - 2018
      • Toronto / San Francisco

      Worked with the global product teams (US, Canada, Germany, Taiwan) for the Firefox browser. Built a real-time, interactive analytics platform that uses machine learning to search, analyze, categorize, and synthesize customer feedback.

  • TD
    • Toronto
    • Product
      • 2017 - 2018
      • Toronto

      Part of the Enterprise Advanced Analytics team (AI CoE). Worked with researchers, data scientists, and engineers to incorporate machine learning into the bank's products and systems. Focused on enabling personalized banking experiences for Canadian and US retail customers.

  • Deloitte
    • Toronto
    • Management Consulting
      • 2016 - 2017
      • Toronto

      Worked with Fortune 500 companies on a range of topics, including applied AI, digital transformation, and risk management.

  • CIBC
    • Toronto
    • Operations
      • 2015 - 2015
      • Toronto

      Designed and implemented various process improvement initiatives in the Retail Risk Management department.

Education

  • University of Toronto
    Bachelor's Degree, Industrial/Systems Engineering

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