CEO & Director, New Business Development

• Aug 2018 - Present

Director, New Product Development

• Jan 2007 - Aug 2015

Led cross-functional project teams (in Operations, Marketing, R&D, Quality Assurance) to develop and commercialize innovative herbal extract ingredients. •Led team to successfully develop and market weight loss herbal supplement. Set up customers in US and Australia. Product obtained 20 international patents. Product increased company’s revenues by 50% in first year. •Conceptualized and executed project to move downstream in the supply chain and sell products directly to consumer brand companies. Established new customers in Philippines, Malaysia, and South Korea. •Orchestrated backward integration project to reduce dependence on suppliers by producing our own raw material for majority of products. This greatly reduced volatility in raw material availability and quality, leading to better forecasting and planning. •Envisioned need for and established new departments for Purchases and Quality Assurance. Hired, trained, and assigned responsibilities to 8 employees. Instituted a reporting system to oversee teams. Show less

Analyst

• Aug 2011 - Jan 2013

Functioned as a liasion between in-house foreign exchange traders and software development team. •Worked with clients to gather requirements for foreign exchange trading application. Explained functionality of financial products to software developers. •Created and executed analytical tests to verify functionality of financial products. •Won two SPOT awards for excellence in taking ownership of project workflows and in effectively contributing to the finance knowledge database of the project. •Undertook Finance training courses in Derivatives, Structured Financial Products, Foreign Exchange Operations and Markets. Show less