HANS DE VILLIERS

RICH co-founder & business development

Co-founder and business development officer of  RICH, a Singapore based fintech company that provides integrated full cycle delivery of net-zero modular essential products & services. Founder and CEO of EVUNI, a global electric fleet management solutions provider. 

Previously RSE College Co-CEO where he pioneered e-learning for the Seta retail learnership programmes at Street Fever and delivery of the W&R Seta sponsored HURP rural blueprint.

Previously CEO & co-founder of E-Prove that established the CIPC online payment system as the DOCEX back office system provider and facilitated ECT Act signature by president Mbeki in joint venture with the South African Post Office. E-prove shareholders included ST Engineering & Vickers Venture Partners.

Previously CEO and co-founder of TrustMarque SA. a subsidiary of TrustMarque International, a Trust Centre and E-commerce company that’s founding shareholders include the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Previously CEO & founder of Improtech that built & operated the largest legal network in Africa and formed the LegalNet joint venture with LexisNexis & MWEB. Were awarded the pilot project for the South African court filing system with Singapore Network Services who acquired a minority equity. Billcad, a JSE listed company acquired a majority stake in the company.

Awarded several investment mandates that included MPA to acquire or concession of the South African Port terminals, MTN/Shanduka in partnership with Merrill Lynch to acquire majority shareholding in MTN and Econet to acquire a majority stake in VMobile Nigeria.

Originator of UBICS, the Universal Basic Income Catalayst System, powered by Central Bank Digital Currency Capital, a financial instrument that addresses the flaws of the current financial system and UBITRUST, a modular, Ai powered, open, inclusive, delivery engine for the UBICS programs. UBICS addresses unsustainable debt, growing inequality, pollution, climate change and unemployment at grass roots level. Originator of Life!, modular business units delivering essential products, services & local jobs and Super Village, an incubator program to deploy Life! modules in sectors that include housing, agriculture & sustenance, water, clean energy, mobility, healthcare & tourism.

TEAM SINGAPORE

MIKE LIM

RICH co-founder & CFO

Co-founder and CFO of  RICH, a Singapore based fintech company that provides integrated full cycle delivery of net-zero modular essential products & services.

Executive experience
SNS (Finance & international business director)
Digital (Regional controller ASEAN)

M & A Mandates
Thai Express, PSA , MTN, Econet, ST Engineering

Board appointments
MNS (Mauritius), Hicom (Malaysia), BC tel (Canada), Ayala (Philippines), Tradevan (Taiwan), Beijing & Guangdong Network Services (China), Mahindra Network Services (India)

James Kang

Amaris & RICH co-founder & CEO

Former Singapore Government CIO. Spearheaded the national masterplan. Transformed Singapore to 1st Smart Nation. No 1 in global e-Government rankings

Dr. Patrick Chan

Amaris co-founder & CTO

World class data scientist and Kaggle Master. Average of top 2 percent placing. Gold rank in Kaggle’s (2020). Track record spans across multiple industries Big data, middleware and Ai search.

Prof Yu Chien Siang

Amaris Chief Innovation Officer

Cybersecurity Hall-of-Famer. Previously with Ministry of Home Affairs. Certis Cisco as a Chief Innovation Officer. Pioneered trusted ,low power, low-cost Ai. World’s first driverless data diode.