An engineer who lost money backing startups. Then I learnt what a company is worth.
I advise on M&A, valuations and due diligence, and I have given evidence before the Supreme Court of Singapore. My work is one obsession: value. I created it as an engineer, and I price and fund it as an M&A adviser and venture specialist.
Every founder I meet is somewhere on the same road. So am I.
Survival, sufficiency, significance, then paying it forward. My life has run through them in that order, and so has the life of almost every investor I sit across. That is why I read founders the way I do.
- Survival. The engineer who lost money working in and investing in startups, friends and businesses.
- Sufficiency. The adviser who learnt what a company is worth, in deal advisory at KPMG, then at VALLARIS™.
- Significance. The seat in court and on the standards bodies, where my reading of value is tested.
- Pay it forward. My judgment written into Verdict™'s Scoring Engine, so founders I will never meet are read on merit.
Built.
Engineer, B.Eng., NTU. From 2002 to 2007, the first shareholder in a satellite earth-station business grown to 13 countries.
Sold.
In M&A since 2007, including five years at KPMG, across engagements with aggregate transaction value exceeding US$2.5B (as of 2026). SGX approved my valuation report without amendment. HKSE accepted my fairness opinion for an HKD 46.5M listing.
Judged.
Expert witness before the Supreme Court of Singapore. My forensic-accounting evidence was preferred at first instance and affirmed on appeal.
Every line here can be checked. Ask the body that issued it.
Certified Patent Valuation Analyst (CPVA), Business Development Academy, 2021
Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore (FCA)
Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA)
Fellow, Asia Pacific Institute of Experts (FAPIEx)
Bachelor of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Standards & Technical Working Group, Institute of Valuers and Appraisers, Singapore (IVAS)
Lay member, Inquiry Panel under the Legal Profession Act, reappointed by the Chief Justice for 2026–2028
Financial Reporting Surveillance Programme, ACRA, through IVAS
Joint WIPO–IPOS List of Experts in IP Valuation
Appointed by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center as expert in a WIPO Expert Determination for IP Valuation, 2023
Co-chair, IP Financing & Valuation Committee, IIPCC Singapore
SkillsFuture Study Award for the IP Sector, IPOS, 2021, for the Certified Patent Valuation Analyst programme
Below US$10M ARR, judgment can be written down. Above it, judgment needs a name on it.
Below the line, my reading of founders is encoded in Verdict™'s Scoring Engine, so founders are scored at scale on what investors actually fund. Above it, a valuation or a due-diligence report has to be signed by a credentialled professional who carries the liability. That is VALLARIS™: an independent M&A and capital advisory studio where a named Chartered Valuer and Appraiser signs every valuation and report. It stays a separate firm, because independence is the asset and it cannot be shared with the platform that scored the deal.
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