Asian Business Series – From School to Scaling across APAC: A Learning Journey by ShopBack CEO Henry Chan

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Friday
22
September 2023

Time:

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Venue:

Shaw Foundation Alumni House
, Lavender Room
11 Kent Ridge Drive Singapore 119244 (Map)

Dress Code:

Smart Casual

Join Henry Chan, the CEO and Co-founder of ShopBack, as he shares his journey from being an NUS student to starting and growing a business that now operates across 10 markets. He will share the important lessons that influenced him as a student and entrepreneur, which can be helpful in your own journey too. In 2023, ShopBack has recently launched its 11th market, Germany. Henry would especially be interested to meet students across the different markets at this second edition of the Asian Business Series this semester.

Refreshments will be served after the event to cater for networking opportunities.

A/Prof Joel Goh, Director of JY Pilay Comparative Asia Research Centre, Dean’s Chair and Associate Professor, Analytics and Operations, will moderate this event.

About ShopBack

ShopBack was founded in Singapore in 2014 to make shopping more rewarding, delightful, and accessible. Being live now in 11 markets across the Asia-Pacific and growing, ShopBack continues to offer smart shopping experiences, while helping brands and retailers in the region increase outreach and engage shoppers.

Hosted by JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre X NUS Business School Strategic Relations

The JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre (CARC) was set up in 2012 under the Global Asia Institute (NUS GAI) to pursue comparative research into key development issues facing Asia, in particular its three giants – India, China, and Indonesia. The Centre focuses specifically on cross-national comparative studies within Asia and is named in honour of Professor J.Y. Pillay, renowned Singaporean policy maker and corporate leader.

Please RSVP by 21 Sep 2023, Thursday, 1200hrs.

*This event is only open to faculty, students, alumni and staff of NUS.

Speakers

Henry Chan

CEO & Co-Founder, ShopBack

Henry Chan is the CEO and Co-Founder of the ShopBack Group.

In 2014, Henry and his co-founders launched ShopBack, leading the charge in transforming the shopping landscape in Asia-Pacific. Today, the ShopBack Group is Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform, serving over 40 million shoppers across ten markets, and powering over US$3.7 billion in annual sales for 15,000 online and in-store merchant partners.

A customer-centric entrepreneur and serial problem-solver at heart, Henry’s passion for eCommerce and entrepreneurship were rooted in his college days at the National University of Singapore and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to co-founding ShopBack, he was instrumental in driving eCommerce in Asia-Pacific forward as Director of Strategic Partnerships at leading eCommerce logistics solutions provider SingPost, and Regional Head of Partnerships at leading fashion eCommerce platform ZALORA.

Joel Goh (Moderator)

Joel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Analytics and Operations. His research interests are in the domains of Healthcare Analytics and Supply Chain Management. In the first domain, he is interested in understanding how mathematical models can be applied to real-world problems in healthcare in order to inform, improve, and enhance medical decision-making and health policy. In the second domain, he is interested in understanding how new business models, enabled by digital technology, can be harnessed to unlock hidden efficiencies in supply chains. He also has methodological interests in the optimization theory. He is the co-creator of Robust Optimization Made Easy (ROME), a software package for modeling robust optimization problems.

He received his PhD in business administration from Stanford GSB. Prior to joining NUS, he was on the faculty at Harvard Business School as an assistant professor of business administration.