Team Members
Melvin Ho
Melvin is an award-winning serial entrepreneur. Practicing Management Consultants (PMC) from SBACC recognize by SPRING, Enterprise SG and WDA.; and a SGtech Business Mentor.
Melvin started young as an entrepreneur in F&B sector when he is 18, running a yogurt shop. He sold off the business after 4 years (at a 10x valuation) and started his corporate working life as a corporate banker in DBS bank. He is a credit analyst and doing credit approval work.
He then pursues his next bank job in Bank of America in 2009 where he is the Team lead of the credit team. He then moved to UOB as a Senior Business Financial Manager, dealing with SMEs of Singapore on getting financing for the SMEs. He deals with trade financing, business loans, commercial property loan and other financing requirements required by the business owners.
After 5 years in the corporate world, he decided that he has a bigger mission in helping the SMEs in Singapore to succeed. He decided to take the leap of faith and quit his corporate job and started his 2nd Venture – Bizsquare Management Consultants Pte ltd in 2013.
In 2014, he also started an IT and branding company, Aquarius 21 Solutions Pte Ltd (where it has changed its name to Mattherns Digital Pte Ltd now).
Since February 2016, he has been awarded by SBACC (Singapore Business Advisors & Consultants Council Limited), a Singapore Government Organization, for being Practicing Management Consultant (PMC) under SPRING Singapore, IDA Singapore, WDA Singapore and IE Singapore. This has given him opportunities to do consultation work for government bodies. Since young, he always had a burning passion for finance, and it motivates him to create success in this industry.
After receiving PMC, other than advising Small and Medium Enterprise, Bizsquare has since begun doing many advisory works for MNCs and government related bodies as their clients.
Melvin Ho also work as an Executive Director in Xingang Investment Pte Ltd in 2016; where he specialized in managing multi-million funds of credit investment portfolio and assessing the emerging SMEs, each under SGD100 million assets. He exited Xingang in Dec 2017 after making strong profit for the company. He also started a SME loan company in Jan 2018 called Fundopia Pte Ltd where they fund the SMEs in a short-term basis to help SME on cashflow management; he has also started a crowdfunding business called Capmarket and has successfully exited.
In 2019, he was awarded certificate of Mentorship where he became a certified mentor in the SGTech community. With his efforts, Bizsquare will be able to help SMEs improve their cashflow and provide a turnkey to improve their business – as seeing companies grow is always Bizsquare’s goal.
Melvin Ho has more than 11 years of banking and financial experience in the local SME and Corporate banking market. The past career history of Melvin has exposed him to carve many niches in the regional financial market; from managing clientele relationship to an outstanding team leader in business units situated in the local and foreign banks. Melvin Ho is an expert in the industry for loan origination, structuring, syndication, relationship management, credit risk as well as fund management. His understanding of how companies deliver objectives and sensitive business acumen has been invaluable to his numerous clients.
Melvin Ho holds an MBA and has a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) and is also a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic programming. Melvin believes in constantly upgrading oneself and lifetime learning. He has been attending many courses to enrich his knowledge and skills in all areas such as business management, investments strategies, digital marketing and so forth, spending a total of over $50k on these courses.
In his free time, Melvin plays squash competitively and enjoys spending time with his daughter.
Recently in Early 2020, he joined Seed Venture (a seed-stage Venture Capitalist firm) as a Venture Partner. As a personal side interest, he enjoys mentoring and incubating SMEs to see them grow into successful businesses. Melvin Ho leads his advising companies to new milestones, by providing business advisory for turnkey in their businesses. He is also a property lover and very familiar in how to invest in property in the most profitable way. In 2020, he has also obtained 3 more awards for Bizsquare, namely, Asia Excellence Award 2020, Singapore Entrepreneur Award 2020/2021 and Business Trust Award 2020.
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Melvin Ho
Founder and CEO
Jamie Tan
Jamie embarked on her design career as a fashion designer and merchandiser for many homegrown brands. Within 2 years in the industry, her strong determination and aspirations then led her boss and mentor to rope her into the existing business and venture into a new company to operate the core business and further expand their services into uniforms design and supply.
Jamie has been running her kids fashion business for the last 12 years, and the brands that she has created, were supplying well to many departmental stores such as OG, Isetan, Kiddy Palace and many more.
With over a decade of business management and creative design experience, she then entered the creative branding market, as she sees the need to help local brands grow through successful branding.
Today she is the Chief Marketing Officer of Bizsquare, leading the marketing team to serve more SMEs in creating impactful and effective branding and marketing strategies to achieve their business goals. She is also undertaking the role of CFO, where she oversees the internal finance department.
For leisure, Jamie enjoys spending family time and planning for family trips to unwind herself and recharge to ride bigger miles in her career path.Jamie Tan
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Bill Ho
Bill Ho is a Chartered Accountant certified in both Singapore and Australia. Prior to this, Bill was the Business Development Director at Nanyang Technological University | Nanyang Water and Environmental Research Institute (NTU NEWRI) from December 2016.
Bill has extensive regional experience in the environment, digital, property, and various industries, including five years driving key projects in China (Shanghai and Dongguan). He has also been CFO of several Singapore listed companies, such as Memtech International, Suntec REIT, and Lee Kim Tah. He successfully led the public listing of a local company on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2014.
Following his graduation from Deakin University in 1994, he joined KPMG Singapore as a financial auditor, followed by stints in US and Australian multi-national corporations. Bill’s other achievements have been fund raising, financial and business modelling, mergers & acquisition, and most importantly, his ability to return a loss-making company to profitability. To date, he has facilitated in raising more $100 million and engaged with more than 100 start-ups and small businesses in scaling up both product and business development.
He is in charge of all Strategic Management Consultancy Project undertake by Bizsquare. We believe that with his strong experience, all Bizsquare Clients are able to benefit and grow.
Bill Ho
Principal Consultant and Chief Strategy Officer
Helen Nyugen
Due of her passion with heels and shoes, Helen ran own shoe shop for almost 4 years. Whenever we asked her what gave her to courage to run a shoe business, she always humbly mentioned that it’s because she has a small feet size, and always has difficulties searching for her shoe size; that’s why she decided to open her own shoe business.
During that time, she gained experience in marketing, logistics, customer service, also analysing sale figures and interpret trends to facilitate planning.
She has also worked with a finance firm for almost 3 years as a PA to the manager.
Today, Helen has joined Bizsquare as their operations manager. She will be overseeing handing operation matters and administrative tasks of the company while also acting as a PA to the CEO. She also mentioned that she is excited for the opportunity to be part of Bizsquare.
Helen has lovely husband and a beautiful daughter and she has also been successful at raising a family and attributes this success to her ability to multitask and efficient planning systems. She enjoys meeting new people to learn about their life, background, experiences also skills.Helen Nguyen
Operations Manager
Desmond Heng
Desmond graduated from Loughborough University in Business administration with 2nd upper class honours.
Desmond used to work in the financial industry for 4 years. He was a Personal Banking Associate in DBS for 2 years and also a Financial Advisor for an Independent Financial Advisory firm thereafter.
He is specializing in direct sales and customer acquisition unsecured lending.
He is the business development manager of Bizsquare and is in charge of the loan consulting arm of Bizsquare.
Desmond has always been passionate about customer service. He believes in helping his clients to his best abilities and seek to have a long-term working relationship together here in Bizsquare because he believes that Together, Everyone can Achieve More.He loves watching NBA and is a Basketball player himself representing a Singapore Basketball Club.Desmond Heng
Business Development Manager
Chung Li Anne
Li Anne used to study media and communication in the UK.
Li Anne brings along experience as a former Cards Usage Executive in OCBC in which she worked with multiple merchants to produce marketing collaterals. She studied media and communication in Loughborough University, one of the top 10 university in the UK.
She has been in leadership positions throughout her academic years such as being Media & Marketing Officer of Loughborough University’s Department Sport program and President of Loughborough Student Union Malaysian and Singaporean Society.
In addition to these credentials, she has a variety of media skills ranging from skills like videography, graphic design and social media management to public speaking.
Her other notable achievements include being national university champion in kickboxing and cheerleading.
Chung Li Anne
Account Manager
Adeline Fan
Adeline graduated from SMU with a Bachelor’s in Business Management with a double major in Marketing and Strategic Management. She has a deep passion for Branding and Marketing, as can be seen in the many Branding and Marketing positions she held during her education.
This includes a student consultant role with UOB-SMU Asian Enterprise Institute and an Assistant Marketing and Communications Director position in SMU Broadcast and Entertainment (SMUBE). These experiences led her to work on opportunities such as a Brand Consultancy project with a Bespoke Jewellery Brand as well as organising various marketing campaigns for SMUBE, which saw an increase in 200 followers on Instagram.
Other than Marketing and Strategy Consulting, Adeline also has previous work experience in the technology and e-commerce industry. Prior to joining BizSquare Group, she worked at SGTech and Shopee, where she organised and executed various brand activation campaigns.
During her free time, she enjoys a good workout, such as running and playing squash. She also likes hands-on crafts such doing embroidery and making clay figures.
With her diverse background and skills, she hopes to help businesses strengthen their market position and differentiate themselves with a strong branding and marketing strategy. She is the Lead Brand Strategist of Bizsquare and also involve in the Strategic Management Consultancy project of Bizsquare.
Adeline Fan
Lead Brand Strategist
Eileen Po
She is currently pursuing a diploma in Information Technology at Ngee Ann Polytechnic and does onsite and offsite SEO, website design for the marketing team with Bizsquare Group.Eileen Po
Digital Marketing Associate
Cheryl Yau
She is currently pursuing a diploma in Mass Communications at Ngee Ann Polytechnic. She has a strong flair in design and she enjoys the creation of creative collaterals for the marketing team.Cheryl is also passionate in filming and editing “light-hearted” videos that are interactive.
She enjoys eating Mala even though she can’t really take spicy food.
Cheryl Yau
Media and PR Ambassador