What We Believe in
At Modern Strategy we believe in strong business fundamentals - companies that can benefit from external funding but are not beholden to it.
We use protocols, frameworks and systems that help your team develop better insights and effectively access the power of scale, automation, tech, education and smart capital.
We work to reach your desired outcomes and to develop your team to be able to achieve more.
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We believe in our methods. Subject to an assessment, we occasionally work on a profit share basis.
Our Team
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Partner
Ming Wang, Lim
Ming Wang has co-founded several businesses, most recently being Opal (opalpayment.com), a neo bank for international trade that was a licensed Major Payments Institution with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He was formerly the Chief Business Officer of GBCI Ventures with oversight over business and legal activities of the group. GBCI was a $100M venture fund focused on technology initiatives. Concurrently, Ming Wang was the Chief Executive Officer of a consumer FinTech startup licensed by the National Bank of Cambodia. Prior to that, Ming Wang worked in law, banking, and private equity. He has invested, advised and worked with businesses across the value chain (payments, food and beverage, roboadvisory, hardware, education, Web 3, crowdfunding platforms, and insurtech startups). In his free time, Ming Wang pours his energy into his family, books, content creation, football and handstands.

Principal
Stuart Thornton
Stuart brings over 25 years of experience in industries ranging from telecoms, fintech and ecommerce across Europe, Asia and Australasia. Originally from the UK, and based in Singapore Stuart has held leadership roles within both large enterprises and start-ups - including companies such as Verizon, Vodafone and Worldpay. Stuart was Co-founder and CEO of hoolah, Asia's first buy-now-pay-later company that eventually exited to Shopback in 2021. Most recently, he has been working in a variety of global consultancy and advisory roles helping businesses to focus, grow and scale. He has a significant track record in start-up mentoring, go to market & commercial strategy, leadership and likes to get his hands dirty executing.

Principal
Jeffry Chan
As founder and CEO of SalesCandy, he scaled SalesCandy to serving customers all over Southeast Asia including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies with teams across Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia. Prior to SalesCandy, he has handled up to 4M USD advertising ad spend per month, & scaled 6 of his own e-commerce stores to 2.5M USD revenue a year with a 10% CAC and an average 200USD cart size. Jeff helps b2b and b2c businesses scale as a Chief Revenue Officer/Chief Growth Officer with hyper-localized knowledge of markets in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Malaysia.

Principal
Ming Li, Low
With over two decades of international experience, Ming Li has excelled in creating tech-enabled experiences for the future of education, financial services and Web3. As the former CEO of 8VI Holdings Limited and Chief Operating Officer of 8IH Holdings, she played a pivotal role in steering the company towards operational excellence and growth. This includes business strategy, optimizing operations, navigating mergers & acquisitions, and incubating new business units in financial advisory & Web3 Ming Li is particularly adept at helping leaders navigate complex situations with investors, customers, creditors and key stakeholders.

Principal
Attlee Hue
Attlee Hue was the CEO of 8BIT Global Pte Ltd, a wealth-investment platform responsible for its overall strategic performance, risk and compliance and overseeing tax and legal matters. He was then a licensed financial adviser approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to provide financial advice concerning securities and units in collective investment schemes. Prior to that, Attlee was one of the founders and managing director of a private equity company which was involved in regional commercial building acquisition, maximizing value and exit of its investments with AUM at USD500 million. In that role he was responsible for legal, tax, structuring, investment and leverage strategies that required knowledge on a wide spectrum of financial instruments. Prior to that Attlee was the managing director of his own law firm established with a few partners where a significant part of his work involved advising clients on the Financial Advisers Act as well as the Securities and Futures Act and the Companies Act. Attlee was a Council Member of the Economic Society of Singapore until 2014 as well as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder since 2015. He holds an MBA (Investment and Finance) with the University of Hull and a LL.B (Hons) with the National University of Singapore

Principal
Colin Allison
Managing Partner at Konnect Partners, a venture incubation & advisory firm focused on FinTech with web3 & AI. Colin was a Partner at Rainmaking Venture Studio (acquired by Bain&Co), where he built 15 startups with F500 partners and built one of the largest early-stage FinTech investment portfolios globally with Startupbootcamp FinTech & InsurTech. Colin was also an Advisor at the venture building arm of ENGIE Group, the world's leading developer of sustainable energy solutions.

Principal
Andrew Stott
Andrew advises technology companies on their growth strategies, with a focus on adtech, e-commerce, fintech, regtech and media. He provides development capital stage companies with inorganic C-level / management experience to compliment the subject and business expertise of that existing team. Andrew also provides strategic advice based on in-depth knowledge of the relevant sector landscape across the US, Europe and Asia with a contact book that reflects 20+ years working across all three regions at board level. He's invested into 24 ventures with 8 successful exits. Andrew has also been on the boards of listed companies, an advisor-mentor to several programmes including Accenture Fintech Lab, DBS Hotspot Accelerator Programme, Startupbootcamp, Neonvest and trustee to the UK-Singapore Intergorvernmental Technology Committee.

Our Unique Process
Modern Strategy is not a one-off consultancy. We co-execute on the strategies with our team as your long term business partners. We work on revenue share, equity, fees or a hybrid. Your success is aligned to ours.​Schedule a call at no charge to see if we can help you.