Meet select team members

• Mario Aquino   in 

  Mario has 20 years of investment, business building and entrepreneurial experience in big data and advanced analytics. He brings a wealth of experience in digital innovation, fintech, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. As FutureLabs Ventures' Managing Partner, he leverages his expertise to build scalable, next generation digital ventures and tech investments.

  Prior to FutureLabs, Mario was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he founded McKinsey Solutions and McKinsey New Ventures in Asia-Pacific. While leading McKinsey New Ventures, Mario invested, built and scaled a portfolio of 20+ fintech, consumertech, healthtech, and energytech start-ups that have become global players in their fields. During his tenure, he also spearheaded the growth of McKinsey New Ventures' team to over 500 professionals in Asia-Pacific.

  Mario was also the Managing Director and board member of risk analytics firm Moody's Analytics in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; where he was instrumental in making a number of transformative acquisitions and internal investments within financial technology and advanced analytics. During his nine years stint at Moody's Analytics, the firm grew into a US$1 billion revenue company.

  Previously, Mario was a financial analyst at Lehman Brothers in London, focusing on high-tech and high-growth sectors.

  Mario obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business and Finance at Milan's Bocconi University summa cum laude, before obtaining his MBA at University of Chicago Booth, Graduate School of Business in 1999.

  

  Mario Founding Partner & CEO

• Philippe Mauchard   in 

  A seasoned intra/entrepreneur and start-up investor with over 25 years of innovation & corporate venture building experience, spanning from consulting, to building ventures, and investing in tech start-ups especially in the B2B tech space.

  Philippe was a McKinsey Partner and co-founder of McKinsey Solutions, a new part of McKinsey that focused on building and launching a portfolio of 30+ digital ventures, and that he grew to more than 1,500 dedicated professionals globally

  Philippe is a Founding Partner of FutureLabs Ventures which he launched in Europe with fellow McKinsey Venture Partners in 2018.

  He is also a Marketing Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, and a founder of Teach for Belgium. He holds a Master in Commercial Engineering from Solvay, and an MBA from INSEAD. Philippe is currently a board member of various start/scale ups.

  

  Philippe Founding Partner

• Usman Lodhi   in 

  Ex-FoodPanda, ex-Rocket Internet, seasoned professional and serial intra/entrepreneur with 15+ years’ experience in digital consumer, telecommunications, software and infrastructure sectors in Europe and Asia.

  Business leader and entrepreneur with 15+ years experience in digital consumer, telecommunications, software and infrastructure sectors in Europe and Asia.

  More than 10 years leadership experience in establishing and growing new digital businesses (in corporate and start-up settings) across South-East Asia, leveraging technology, ground-breaking strategic partnerships and data-driven execution.

  •	SVP & Group Head of Indosat’s Digital Strategy & Investments, launching corporate ventures like PayPro and Eureka.ai (raised US$ 20M Series B in Feb 2020)
  •	Director & Venture Partner.of an Indonesia-based award-winning tech-accelerator, IdeaBox
  •	Managing Director of FoodPanda Indonesia (Rocket Internet, SEA)
  •	Co-founder & Managing Director of a EasyTaxi Indonesia

  
  Demonstrated success in delivering customer and shareholder value through product innovation, building high impact teams and unlocking new revenue streams.

  

  Usman Venture Partner / EIR

• Gautam Barua   in 

  Experienced Strategist, Venture Builder, Investor. Based in Silicon Valley.

  Gautam is a seasoned investment, strategy, and corporate venture building entrepreneur and adviser, committed to addressing the world's most pressing needs.

  Over his 20+ year long career, Gautam has amassed a track-record of building businesses, driving growth through organic & inorganic initiatives, and leading new business creation from planning to launch & go-to-market. A specific area of Gautam’s interest and focus has been identifying and pursuing new business opportunities in ESG and decarbonization, healthcare, and technology.

  His successes stem from a combination of cross-functional capabilities - Product Management, venture financing, and team building – that he developed in roles at several of the world's most pioneering organizations.

  His career profile include:

  •	Leadership roles at Noble.ai and Zymergen, respectively a Silicon Valley Start-up pioneering the creation of science-based AI tools for research & innovation; and a Pre-IPO synthetic biology firm, which secured $800M+ in funding.
  •	Co-Founder and Member of the Board, California BioEnergy.
  •	Advisor to McKinsey Ventures, with a focus on establishing a strong network of VC and start-up relationships in Silicon Valley – as well as help grow the expanding group of McKinsey Ventures’ portfolio companies.
  •	Principal at Medley Capital, a firm Gautam helped scale to $1.2 billion in senior lending to middle-market private companies. Focused on cleantech and sustainability investment opportunities.
  •	Senior Manager & Product Lead at AOL and Zyng Networks
  •	Management Consultant at McKinsey

  
  

  Gautam is a Harvard Business School grad (1997) with distinction.

  

  gautam Venture Partner

• Giuseppe Manai   in 

  Giuseppe has over fifteen years of experience and is skilled in executing big data strategies in start-ups, governments and corporations. As a Venture Founder at FutureLabs Ventures, he is driven by a passion to create businesses underpinned by social values, which he does by seeking the confluence between science and products.

  He is also one of the co-founders of the ACM SIGKDD chapter in Singapore. A strong advocate in providing professional advice to tech teams who are driven to excel, Giuseppe focuses on building products that leverage techniques such as optimisation, time series analysis and forecasting, trajectory data mining, anomaly detection, network analytics, collaborative filtering, supervised and unsupervised learning, nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory and numerical simulations.

  Prior to joining FutureLabs, Giuseppe was the Data Science and Product Director at Dataspark, a spin-off of Singaporean telco firm Singtel that focuses on mobility intelligence and other telco products. He also worked at various data science roles at organisations such as SAS and the Irish Revenue Authority.

  Giuseppe holds a PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin. There, he specialised in experimental and numerical studies in nanotechnology and material science, working on low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy.

  

  Giuseppe Venture Founder

• Tamanna Dahiya   in 

  A highly motivated innovation and change leader, Tamanna possesses over 15 years of experience in innovation, strategy and talent management with corporates and start-ups. As the Venture Director at FutureLabs Ventures, she provides hands-on experience and coaching in building corporate ventures and startups, effectively bridging the best of both worlds together.

  Before FutureLabs Ventures, Tamanna was the Director of DHL’s Asia Pacific Innovation Center. There, she was instrumental in setting up the Innovation Center platform and defining its customer-centric innovation approach. She led customer engagements and trends research projects on topics of relevance to future of logistics including robotics, augmented reality, omni-channel and blockchain with close collaboration of business units and start-up partners. Over a period of three years, this center engaged with more than two hundred customers from across industries on innovation relevant to their business operations.

  Growing up representing her state in five different sports, Tamanna instinctively relates to the game-changing potential of high performing teams. She started her career with a talent management start-up in India that got acquired by Manpower Inc. She then moved on to join a Fortune 500 company where she was involved in different areas ranging from internal consulting on operations and strategy to new product development. Among other things, she developed and launched a new global product focused on warehousing services that has since grown into one of the most profitable products for the business world-wide. She has lived and worked in the United States, Europe and Asia and is well-versed with the innovation ecosystems and work-cultures across these continents.

  Tamanna holds an MBA from Emory University, Atlanta and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Relations from the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon, India.

  

  Tamanna Venture Director

• Ananda Motte Falisse   in 

  Entrepreneur with extensive experience in establishing and growing commodities & fintech businesses across SEA. Managed all aspects including sales, marketing, technology, logistics, and financial arbitrage to create strong impact and value. 10+ years track record in SEA – expertise in identifying opportunities in physical trading, e-commerce, SME financing.

  •	Co-Founder & CTO of GoSwiff, (exited to Payswiff)
  •	Managing Director & Founder, PnD – boutique commodity trading house connecting UTZ cooperatives in coffee to mid sized coffee roasters in Europe.
  •	Managing Director & Founder Mount Nathan Trading – boutique commodity and macro hedge fund trading physical (coffee, cassava, rice, MGO, cocoa beans) and interest rate/exchange rate financial arbitrage.
  •	Director Vybes – Responsible for Product and Sales Strategy and execution for Influencer Commerce company funded by Sequoia

  
  

  Ananda holds an MBA from INSEAD and MSc Aerospace Engineering

  

  ananda Venture Founder

• Selma Ayuanshari   in 

  Selma comes with experience in both startups and the venture capital sector across South East Asia. She joined FLV in 2020 as a Venture Analyst and she focuses on creating and scaling multiple ventures. She worked and supported in multiple departments from HR, Business Development, Legal/Compliance and sourced and nurtured strategic platform-wide partnerships across synergistic industries.

  Before FutureLabs Ventures, Selma worked both in the startups and venture capital. She also like to volunteer her time in NGO’s and Impact focused projects. She focuses in fintech, healthtech which allowed her to develop an extensive network in the startup industries. Selma holds a Law Degree from the University of Indonesia majoring in Private Law. With extensive research on both legal tech and also public private partnership.

  

  Selma Partnership Lead

• Amrita Deol   in 

  Amrita joined FutureLabs as a Venture Architect in 2020. Amrita is passionate about innovation and enabling positive change and she supports founders and early stage ventures in their efforts to create, validate and scale their ideas.

  Prior to joining FutureLabs, Amrita spent three years as an Associate, and subsequently Senior Associate, at EY Parthenon strategy consulting group in Singapore. During this time, Amrita executed projects focused on growth strategy, transformational strategy, digital strategy, and operational efficiency.

  Amrita graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics (with associated minor in Political Science) from Middlebury College, USA.

  In addition, Amrita has taken a personal interest and has been actively involved in fighting human trafficking through a variety of non-profit organisations.

  

  Amrita Venture Architect

• Joanne Tham    in 

  Joanne has over 15 years of experience in both corporate sector and startup, As an Office Manager in FutureLabs Ventures, she is responsible for overseeing the administration and operations initiatives, including streamline areas of Finance, Marketing and Human Resource.

  She has an avid interest in culture, mixed media art and loves music.

  Joanne graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor's degree in Business (Banking & Finance).

  

  Joanne Office Manager

• Alessandro Astore   in 

  Alessandro has a deep interest in startup investing and joined FutureLabs in 2021 to develop new strategic initiatives and support the venture building activity.

  He was an investment analyst in Italian Angels for Growth, the main seed phase investor and biggest Business Angel Network in Italy, carrying out all the investment process: from scouting to investing.

  Alessandro graduated with a B.S. in Economics and Finance from Bocconi University in Milan and is currently attending a MSc in Finance at ESSEC Business School in Singapore.

  He looks to further understand and contribute to the SEA startup market by being active in several associations, gathering both entrepreneurs and investors to improve the startup ecosystem in Italy.

  

  Alessandro Venture Architect

• Kit Wong   in 

  A veteran of Southeast Asia’s innovation and entrepreneurial scene, Kit is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive who built and scaled unicorn ventures (OVO, Lu-Global), and led fast-growth of notable tech players in the region (Google). Among others, Kit brings a unique set of capabilities -- from deep Product expertise, to Strategy & Scale-up experience. He has also deep knowledge of Fintech, Fin Services and Asset Management sector and innovation landscape.

  Kit’s career include being:

  •	CEO & Board advisor of Lu-global.com (based in Singapore), the Asia ex-China wealth management platform of Lufax.com (PingAn Group), one of the largest internet finance, investment marketplace in China and currently valued at US$ 18.5 billion with over 30 million registered customers.
  •	Chief Product Officer of OVO (based in Indonesia), the leading digital payments and smart financial services platform in Indonesia, co-created with the Lippo Group and valued at $2.9B+ as of Oct 2019 --- where Kit led it from the early idea-conception & incubation stages in 2015 up till the fast-growing scaling of 2017.
  •	Director at Google where he was responsible for the development and execution of strategies for Google’s commercial business.
  •	Advisory Board member, Untapt, a start-up focused on solutions to hire technologists into financial services.
  •	Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company (based in Malaysia)

  

  Kit Advisor

• David R. Hardoon PhD    in 

  David is the Senior Advisor for Data and Artificial Intelligence at UnionBank Philippines.

  Concurrently David is an external advisor to Singapore's Corrupt Investigation Practices Bureau (CPIB) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) and to Singapore's Central Provident Fund Board (CPF) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Data Science).

  Prior to his current roles, David was Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) first appointed Chief Data Officer and Head of Data Analytics Group reporting to the agency Deputy Managing Director for Financial Supervision and subsequently Special Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) reporting to Deputy Managing Director for Markets and Development. In these roles he led the development of the AI strategy both for MAS and Singapore’s financial sector as well as driving efforts in promoting open cross-border data flows.

  David has extensive exposure and experience in both industry and academia and he has consistently applied advanced technology with an analytical mindset to shape and deliver new innovation. David holds a PhD in Computer Science in the field of Machine Learning from the University of Southampton and graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London with First Class Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Out in the "field", David is more likely to consider himself a data artist instead of a pure data scientist.

  

  David Advisor

• Tito Costa   in 

  Tito is a consummate VC investor(Global Founders Capital) and experienced entrepreneur (Zalora, Rocket Internet) in the global and Asian tech scene.

  •	Partner, Global Founders Capital, the $1B+ tech global Venture Capital firm.
  •	Managing Director, Zalora Group, where he led the build-out of the leading South-East-Asian fashion e-commerce Unicorn for ~6 years.
  •	Managing Director, Rocket Internet, where he helped start several internet businesses in Europe and Asia.
  •	Investment Manager, Synergo, where he sourced, conducted due diligence, and execution a number of mid-market private equity transactions.
  •	Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company

  
  

  Tito has an MBA from MIT and a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering.

  

  Tito Advisor

• Kiren Tanna   in 

  Serial Entrepreneur with multiple multi-$100M+ exists (FoodPanda, Zen Rooms), Kiren possesses incredible business acumen and expertise across both technical and commercial domains.

  Built and scaled FoodPanda and Zen Rooms; Managed Rocket Internet S.E.Asia

  •	Co-founder & Managing Director, Zen Rooms, scaled to over 500 employees (acquired for multi-USD100M by Korean Hotel franchise Yanolja)
  •	CEO, Asia Pacific Internet Group | Rocket Internet S.E. Asia
  •	Managing Director, Rocket Internet, where he helped start several internet businesses in Europe and Asia.
  •	Co-Founder & Global/Asia CEO of FoodPanda, the leading global online food ordering platform, led & expanded in 28 Countries (acquired by Delivery Hero in 2016 for USD 500M)
  •	Snr Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Co

  

  Kiren Advisor

• Wong Su-Yen   in 

  Su-Yen serves as an Independent Director of several public, private, and not for-profit organisations in Australia, Asia, and the United States across a range of industries including telecommunications, media, professional services, agriculture, real estate, education, and FinTech / HRtech. She is an active member of Women Corporate Directors, and the Young Presidents’ Organization

  •	Chairman of a listed company and of the Governing Council of theSingapore Institute of Directors
  •	Professional speaker who engages audiences globally on leadership and the future of work
  •	Adjunct Professor of Global Leadership at the National University of Singapore. Over nearly three decades, Su-Yen has helped some of the world’s largest, most innovative, and complex organisations navigate organisation transformation at the intersection of technology, strategy, and people
  •	CEO of the Human Capital Leadership Institute, Chairman for Marsh & McLennan Companies (Singapore), and Senior Partner and Managing Director, Southeast Asia at Mercer
  •	Asia Managing Partner for the Communications, Information & Entertainment practice at Oliver Wyman

  
  

  Su-Yen holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) in music and computer science from Linfield University, and an M.B.A. from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina

  

  su-yen Advisor