Primary Job Title Founding Partner, CEO & CIO Primary Organization Serendipity Capital
Location Singapore, Asia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia Gender Male
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Rob is the Founding Partner, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer of Serendipity Capital. Serendipity Capital invests in Financial Services companies that are either focused on disruption or are significantly undervalued due to macroeconomic or company-specific factors. In FinTech our investments are from seed through to growth
stage. Rob is the Chairman of Pollination and a non-executive director of Deep Labs, Cambridge Quantum Computing and Tyme.
He has led businesses in retail banking, sme, insurance and investment banking as well as digital banking and blockchain. He has significant experience in both m&a and investing in financial services and technology companies.
Previously, he was was the President of Block One responsible for scaling operations globally. Block.one is a software publisher specializing in high performance blockchain technologies. Its first project, EOSIO, a blockchain protocol designed to enable secure data transfer and high performance decentralized applications.
Prior to that he was Group Executive, Financial Services and Chief Financial Officer of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, he was responsible for CBA’s financial management frameworks, incorporating the areas of finance, audit, group treasury, security, property, procurement and investor relations.
Rob joined CBA in 2011 as Group Executive, Group Strategic Development, where he was responsible for the Group Strategy and M&A teams. From 2015, he was the Group Executive, International Financial Services based in Hong Kong. In this role, he was responsible for managing the Group’s offshore growth in retail and commercial banking, digital banking and life insurance in China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and South Africa.
Prior to CBA, Rob worked at Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, McKinsey & Co and GE Capital.
