Jessie Tang

Co-Founder & General Manager

AkoCommerce  •  2021 - Present  •  Taipei, Taiwan

Business partner of Shopify in Taiwan. Click here for more information.

General Manager, Malaysia

FunNow  •  Oct 2019 - 2021  •  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Manage business operations at the Kuala Lumpur office and lead a team of 13.
• Execute daily operations, project management, budget control (P&L), and partnership development.
• Retain and maintain the relationship with major partners.
• Execute the company's M&A strategy for local market expansion.

Market Expansion Manager

FunNow  •  Oct 2018 - Sep 2019  •  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Developed strategic and collaborative partnerships in SEA. Including Grab, UOB bank, Maxis, and 15 more corporate partners.
• Led and managed the Account Management team of 3.
• Internally led strategic projects from planning, coordinating, scheduling, evaluation, and working with stakeholders cross-functionally to achieve 450% GMV growth and increase 500% of SKU.

Business Development

Bitmark Inc.  •  2017 - Oct 2018  •  Taiwan

Bitmark is the property system for the digital environment that allows people to record and transfer the property rights to their digital assets and data using the blockchain.

• Research on the potential industry can adapt to Bitmark blockchain.
• Pitch, maintain and manage key accounts, understand their needs, and advise professional solutions.
• Plan and build up blockchain protocol/applications for key accounts, work with a cross-company and cross-functional team, and generate 90% of the company revenue.

Cases - MUZEUM

The Muzeum Protocol is a public-domain database and decentralized copyright tracking framework for the creative community that Bitmark co-develop with KKFRAM (KKBOX group).

Business Development, Startup Community

Taiwan Startup Stadium  •  May 2015 - Sep 2017 •  Taiwan

Jessie handles the recruitment of startups and assists entrepreneurs to reach global markets through Taiwan Startup Stadium. She is an experienced event planner and coordinator.

• Project Management: TSS Programs x 500 Startups, BIG Camp 2016, GEEKS ON A PLANE 2016, BIG Camp 2015
  
  
• International Conferences:
  • RISE conference 2016: Leading 8 Startups, which were selected by judges from our Rock the MIC XL pitch contest to 3-day RISE Conference in HK
  • Tech Crunch DISRUPT 2015: Assisting with the program and coordinating with Taiwan Startups that TSS has brought to.
  • Echelon Asia Summit 2015: Assisting
  • RISE conference 2015: Assisting
    
    
• Community Management:
  • Developing and interviewing 200+ Taiwan startups to find their needs.
  • Managing several TSS startup groups
  • Holding 30+ entrepreneurial community events
  • Coordinating with Startups and TSS
  • Design communications strategy for startups that TSS helps with

Business Development & Project Manager

Taiwan Startup Stadium  •  May 2015 - Sep 2017  •  Taiwan

• Business Development:
  • Initiated TSS membership system and successfully selected ~100 early-stage startups to become premium members of TSS, offering overseas training programs.
  • Conducted outbound business development and reached more than 300 startups since 2015.
  • Developing and working with a number of accelerators/ VCs/government.
    
    
• Customer and Community Management:
  • Managed TSS members, online community, and organized more than 30 small to medium-sized community campaigns.
  • Increased community engagement rate from 30% to 85% by analyzing customer business model and behavioral pattern.
    
    
• Project Management:
  • Planned and organized 4 large-sized international business forums.
  • Planned and led 32 startups to attend 4 international tech/startup conferences. Contributed to more than 61 global media coverage and helped match more than 190 business meetings and 115 investors meetings since 2016.