Advisors

  • Yoon Choi

    Yoon is a partner at Muirwoods Ventures, focused on investments in the auto-mobility space. She also founded Forest Ventures backing early stage start-ups. Prior to founding Forest, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim, where she led multiple strategic acquisitions and venture investments. Earlier in her career, Yoon was one of the founding members at Samsung Ventures America, where she was involved in business development, sourcing of strategic investment opportunities and the financial and business analysis of venture transactions.

  • James Stewart

    James Stewart is a Startup advisor & angel investor, skilled in Strategy, Innovation and Marketing (having worked at FiberSense, Interactive, IAG, George Weston Foods, BCG and GKN Aerospace, UK Ministry of Defence). He is an experienced strategy consultant, advises Startups directly and mentors for several accelerators (Moonshot, NZ Gov REWA, Antler Sydney, Remarkable, The Impact Accelerator, USyd Incubate, UNSW 10x and CSIRO ON & D-Start), he is a part time Venture Partner for Loyal VC, a global venture capital fund. James studied engineering at Cambridge, an MBA at INSEAD, is a Marketing Academy alum and a Graduate Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a very active advisor and angel investor supporting founders in a range of startups

  • Simon Olson

    Simon Olson is the CEO and founding partner of XY ventures; a Swedish based VC fund focusing on digital disruption across Scandinavia. He is also a venture advisor for the Founder Institute (the world's largest pre-seed accelerator), Singularity University and MIT (Launch program).

  • Nicholas Ashby

    Nicholas Ashby is Founder & CEO Celadon Capital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Principal of Eaton Square: An investment banking and equity capital markets since 1981, Nicholas has been running his own advisory practice which he founded in 1996, with focus on strategic cross-border M&A, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Sectors covered have ranged from manufacturing to consumer, education, healthcare and TMT, they include privatizations, equity capital market placements, buy-outs and raising growth and early stage capital. He has lived and worked extensively in UK, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Korea and Philippines.