Primary Job Title Director of Business Development (Global Expansion) Primary Organization LianLian Global
Location Singapore, Asia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia Gender Male Also Known As 戴文彬
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Leonard is an entrepreneur, angel investor and business development executive. He has spent a decade as an early employee at unicorns in the US, UK, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore. He is currently the first commercial hire the fintech subsidiary of a global payments firm that processes over USD 500 billion in transactions annually, the top cross
border transactions firm in China
To date, he has sold and implemented over USD20m of software, and been directly involved in over USD200m in funds raised. His most prolific partnership deals include Sui, GameStop, Meta and an undisclosed Hollywood IP valued at USD1b
A law graduate from a top 10 university globally, Leonard began his career by training at the biggest American private healthcare technology company before joining an American SaaS unicorn. He then joined a Hong Kong web 3 startup which crashed the Solana blockchain during their token launch and was later recognized by HSBC and KPMG as the fastest growing blockchain company in Asia. He also led business development and operations at a Dubai web 3 unicorn which sold a record breaking amount of NFTs and is the first web 3 company to ink a Hollywood deal
Leonard has served as a keynote speaker at prominent compliance conferences. He was also a strategic advisor to prominent DeFi, data analytics, market making, venture capital and layer 1 companies. His latest role before moving to a more hybrid web 2-web 3 role was at the head of business development at a web 3 group consisting of a layer 1, hedge fund and perp DEX
