The short version
I've spent 15+ years building, operating, and investing in tech and AI businesses across Asia-Pacific. I co-founded Lazada Singapore as part of the founding team that built Alibaba Group's e-commerce footprint in Southeast Asia, and served as COO running end-to-end operations: finance, HR, supply chain, logistics, last-mile delivery, and warehousing. Today I lead a $3B+ P&L with +86% Operating Profit improvement and an enterprise AI transformation in payments. I built and launched a multi-tenant agent-based AI framework on track to deliver $110M+ in projected savings. Across these roles, I've led teams up to 400 across multiple regions.
The thread across all of it: I do the work. I've sat in P&L meetings on Monday and shipped production code on Tuesday. I think senior executives who still build — actually build, not direct people who build — make sharper decisions and get radically better at their jobs over time. This site is part of that.
What I'm known for
The wedge is: builder, operator, investor — applied to the frontier of business and tech. Not a vendor. Not a consultant. Someone who's lived through scaling tech and AI businesses and is willing to write down what works.
The arc, in chapters: BNP Paribas Investment Banking analyst (Paris-Singapore) · Rocket Internet regional marketing across 8 SEA markets · Lazada Group Head of Payments & Fraud (6 markets) · Lazada Singapore co-founder & COO (operations across finance, HR, supply chain, logistics, last-mile, warehousing) · Lazada Group CPO and Chief Marketplace Logistics (6 countries, 100k+ sellers, +4B GMV) · CAXE Technologies CPO/COO (VC-backed fintech across Philippines and Indonesia) · Amazon Payments Japan (Product Lead → Head of Gift Cards → Applied AI Product Lead) · angel investor with a 33% IPO rate (3 investments since 2020, 1 IPO with successful exit).
What I'm working on
Day job: leading enterprise AI transformation in a regulated payments business. The hardest, most interesting problem in AI right now isn't capability — it's absorption. The gap between what AI can do and what enterprises can actually deploy and sustain. I write about this in Where AI Is Heading and AI-DLC.
Side: this site, the S&P 500 StockPicker, and a multi-agent research pipeline that produces every article in Thinking. All built personally with AI tooling. The site you're on is the proof of the "Builder" claim.
Education
MBA in Banking & Finance (Summa Cum Laude) from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), and Master's & Bachelor's in Corporate Finance from Université Paris Dauphine. Exchange year at Sogang University in Seoul (Dean's Scholarship; LG Electronics HQ placement). Earlier: Prépa Franklin and Lycée Les Chartreux in Lyon — the French elite track from high school onward.
Languages
English (fluent) · French (fluent) · Spanish (beginner) · Japanese (beginner).
What I'm interested in
Conversations about:
- AI executive / CAIO / VP AI roles, especially in APAC or with APAC presence
- Board director / advisor positions in tech, AI, fintech, or scaling APAC businesses
- Co-founder roles in AI-native companies (selectively)
- Speaking on enterprise AI absorption, scaling tech in APAC, builder-operator-investor frontier
Best path: LinkedIn DM.