INTERCOM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Advisory Board
- Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital
Antoine Blondeau is Founder and Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital, a global venture capital fund focused on deep Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technology companies. Antoine has 25 years of experience in the technology industry, having held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce.com and Sybase. Antoine's career highlights include founding Sentient Technologies, as well as leading Dejima as CEO, the company that powered DARPA's foundational CALO project that later evolved into Apple's Siri. Antoine was also COO of Zi Corporation, whose smart text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, Head of Crypto.Com Capital
Extensive experience in investment banking, corporate development, investor relationship, and named Forbes Asia's 30 under 30 leader in 2018. Head of Corp. Development at Ensogo, investment banker at China Renaissance, Deloitte, Merrill Lynch.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer at Sitehands
- Trading Technology
Chris Corrado is Chief Executive Officer at Sitehands. Prior that Sitehands, he was Group Chief Operating Officer and Group Chief Information Officer of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Prior to LSEG, he was a Managing Director at MSCI, responsible for technology, data services and program management, CIO/CTO, since 2013. Chris has held a variety of senior CTO roles in leading banks, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS. He has also worked for high growth technology companies such as eBay as CTO and AT&T Wireless as CIO.
Job Titles:
- Partner at Eric Salmon & Partners
- Talent
Dimitri Tsamados is Partner at Eric Salmon & Partners, a leadership advisory and executive search firm. Drawing from over 20 years of experience in Asia and a long history of working with high growth companies Dimitri advises technology players across Asia. Before joining Eric Salmon & Partners, Dimitri was a founding partner of DTCA and a partner at CTPartners. He also founded Amhurst Gordon International, a search firm which he grew across East Asia and sold in 2005.
With 16 years of experience in strategy, product, and sales in Financial Services, Retail, and Technology, Eric enjoys building world-class teams to drive impact and innovation at scale. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and PayPal in London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Executive Team
A seasoned company builder based in Hong Kong, Kris has grown multiple companies from $0 to $100m in revenue. Kris served as CEO at Ensogo, and Founder of BEECRAZY (sold for a reported US$21mm to iBuy Group in 2013).
15 years' experience in finance, deep understanding of risk, compliance and Mobile Payments ecosystem in Asia. Led fundraising efforts as CFO at ASX-listed Ensogo, securing strategic investment from VIPSHOP (NYSE:VIPS) and raising over A$50m from blue chip institutions like Fidelity, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Managing Partner of Trellis Asia, Hel
Rob Bier is Founder and Managing Partner of Trellis Asia, helping entrepreneurs develop high-performing teams and build hyperscaling organizations. Rob also serves as the non-executive chairman of MoneySmart. Rob began his business career at Monitor Group, where he rose to Senior Partner and head of their London office. He co-founded antfactory, one of Europe's first digital venture capital firms, and founded and led SPARCK. After the acquisition by Citigroup, Rob became an Operating Partner at TowerBrook Capital Partners, a US$10b private equity Firm.