r3i Ventures
Managing Partner
Leesa Soulodre
Venture Builder. EiR. VC. Board Advisor. Adjunct. Author. Xennial.
Venture Builder. EiR. VC. Board Advisor. Adjunct. Author. Xennial.
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Experience
CoVentures
Advisor
Stratificare
Advisor
MGA Thermal
Advisor
Rubens Technologies
Advisor
Singapore Management University
Adjunct Professor
Teaching Critical Thinking, Masters vs Robots, Digital Transformation, Design Thinking, Think like a Refounder.
GOAMA
Advisor
Runway Geelong
Board Member
Raiven Capital
Partner
RL Expert Group
Founder, Managing Partner
Inspirit IoT
Chief Innovation Officer
Advanced Digital Science Centre AStar
Innovation Advisor
(Probono)
European Commission - Research Executive Agency (REA)
Expert Evaluator
Grant evaluator for SME ICT Disruption Stream of Horizon 2020
Bundies
Advisor
Advisor
Australian Alumni
Chair of Digital Transformation and Governance, Chair of Ethics Committee
Member of the Board/Management, Committee Chair of Digital Transformation and Governance, Chair of Ethics Committee
Singapore Alumni Chapter.
Vice Chairman
Asia Alumni Steering Committee.
Autoscout
Advisor
Cornerstone Capital
Global Advisory Council
Financial services firm based in New York offering investment banking and strategic consulting and investment management capabilities.
Management University
Adjunct Professor, Corporate Communications
Lectured on Risk Issues and Crisis Management and Content Strategy for Creative Communications in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. Awarded Dean's Teaching Honour List... more Term 2 AY2013/2014. 164 Undergraduates Graduated.
Reprisk Ag (Ch)
Senior Advisor to the Board
Business Intelligence for Environmental, Social and Governance Risks.
ModArt International
Adjunct Professor, Marketing
Lectured on MBA Program in Luxury: Luxury Advertising, Luxury Marketing Management and Professional Development. Ranked among the top 20 Business Schools in France. * 142... more MBA Students Graduated. 3 Dissertations supervised.
Ecole Superieure de Gestion
Adjunct Professor, Marketing
Lectured on Digital Communications, Reputation Risk Management and Public Relations on the MBA in Fashion and Luxury and Master II in Economy and Management Fashion and Luxury... more programs. * 238 Masters and MBA Students Graduated. 5 Dissertations supervised.
Telstra Global United Kingdom
Business Manager Systems Integrator
Telstra is a $27 Billion Australian telecommunications and media company. Developed Joint Go to Market for Deep Computing on Demand with IBM for the Financial Services Sector... more with 36M GBP in first rights of refusal contracts. Delivered a £1.3M, 3-year services deal BBC iPlayer project.
Bluepedal Group
Founder, Founder
A full-service agency supporting APAC. Made Trusecure profitable prior to its merger with Ubizen market entry, business development, and Betrusted to become Cybertrust, 2004.... more Delivered frontier technology programs and business international multinationals. development for Hitachi Data Systems and Radware securing first technology footprints with key customers and governments in Australia. Recognized as Finalist in Lifetime Achievement Awards by Women in Technology.
Telstra
Strategic Alliance Manager / National Account Executive
Incubation of tech startups and their acceleration via an SME portfolio. Channel reengineering of a global telco. Telstra Annual Winner for Consistent Superior Performance.
Direcdial Allianz
Team Manager
A start up - Australia's first digital insurer. Challenger to the incumbent industry. Sales management of team of 10 staff for home and car insurance e-commerce provider.
National Call Centre Manager
One.Tel Pte Limited
Seed capital - $5M. IPO float at $2 per share - initial One.Tel was the Challenger Telco during the market cap: $208 million. deregulation of the Australian Telco Industry.... more In our heights, we generated. Supported in the raising of USD20M in venture capital $100M in revenues per month. Awarded Best in Class Call Centre Telesales Award.
Royal Australian Army
Soldier
139 Signal Squadron
Founder
Employee
Advisor
Board Member
Projects
Academic Advisor and Corporate Research Partner BASF · Development of research plan for new product development of ESG business intelligence products… · More for global supply chains with ZHAW. Delivered 275,000 CHF in funding from the Swiss Centre for Technology and Innovation for product development.
Innovator · FashionMatch is a technology that efficiently organizes a large apparel database according to various visual, fashion-specific attributes… · More (e.g. color, cut/style, and pattern), in addition to traditional text-based attributes (e.g. price, size, etc). Remaining faithful to the traditional shopping process, we chose these attributes based on what shoppers believe to be the most important features in this process.
FashionMatch technology can be used in an API backend framework, where various applications can be built on top of it, including:
A self-organizing solution for online catalogs, which can use FashionMatch technology to allow for a more intuitive apparel search and for more fashion relevant recommendations. This technology can be used in the catalogs’ online presence.
A mobile application that allows smart-phone users to upload pictures of apparel items that are NOT in online catalogs and to get relevant recommendations for these uploaded pictures. For example, these pictures could be of celebrities from magazine or mannequins in a store’s windo
FashionMatch technology can be used in an API backend framework, where various applications can be built on top of it, including:
A self-organizing solution for online catalogs, which can use FashionMatch technology to allow for a more intuitive apparel search and for more fashion relevant recommendations. This technology can be used in the catalogs’ online presence.
A mobile application that allows smart-phone users to upload pictures of apparel items that are NOT in online catalogs and to get relevant recommendations for these uploaded pictures. For example, these pictures could be of celebrities from magazine or mannequins in a store’s windo
Innovation Mentor · In June 2009, AutoScout was conceptualized in Champaign, Illinois. A team let by Narendra and Shaunak Ahuja conducted initial… · More research and development for 19 months which resulted in a proof of concept prototype. This prototype was taken to and validated by the market as useful and needed.
In December 2010, AutoScout research and development efforts shifted to the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), a research arm of the University of Illinois in Singapore. The “Semantic Analysis of Sports Video” project was officially approved in August 2011. From August 2011 through Spring of 2014, the senior management team conducted research and development for AutoScout as well as other computer vision applications. Efforts resulted in, among other things, three different solutions for (American) football video analysis backed by one patent (pending), three technical disclosures, and eleven top conference and journal publications.
In December 2013, AutoScout Inc. was officially formed. As of Summer 2014, full-time research, development, and commercialization efforts are underway in the University Of Illinois’s noted incubator EnterpriseWorks.
In December 2010, AutoScout research and development efforts shifted to the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), a research arm of the University of Illinois in Singapore. The “Semantic Analysis of Sports Video” project was officially approved in August 2011. From August 2011 through Spring of 2014, the senior management team conducted research and development for AutoScout as well as other computer vision applications. Efforts resulted in, among other things, three different solutions for (American) football video analysis backed by one patent (pending), three technical disclosures, and eleven top conference and journal publications.
In December 2013, AutoScout Inc. was officially formed. As of Summer 2014, full-time research, development, and commercialization efforts are underway in the University Of Illinois’s noted incubator EnterpriseWorks.
Project Director and Academic Organizer · The Singapore Management University #SMUCOMM246 Industry Forum brought together thought leaders from across… · More Asia Pacific industry to discuss, debate and share insights on reputation and risk issue management in a digital world with students of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. Speakers at this year's event included Harvard University, Bayer, ANZ Banking Group, Procter and Gamble, CLSA Capital Partners, DHL and WWF
Project Director and Academic Organizer · The Singapore Management University #SMUCOMM221 Industry Forum brought together thought leaders from across… · More Asia Pacific industry to discuss, debate and share insights on Content Strategy in a Corporate Context with 100 students and Alumni from across the region. Speakers at this year's event included AXA, Google, MoneySmart, Nielsen, Procter and Gamble, TMEMIS, Unruly Media and SocialBakers.
Deloitte Smart Governance Conference
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator · The problems we face today are larger and more complex than our ancestors could have ever imagined and our… · More institutions, designed for a different age, have failed to keep up with the scope and the pace of change. We have often relied on remarkable individuals with significant courage, to lead the way forward.
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Serial Entrepreneur - 1 IPO, # Exits. Raised 40M+ in venture capital and generated M's in revenues 500 Startups Mentor and Corporate/Government Accelerator EIR accelerating international market access, product open-innovation, strategic alliances, channel reengineering, and customer experience strategies. Deep domain expertise in masters vs robots.
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