Richard Tan is the General Manager with SHUI ON Group, and the Chief Executive of Shanghai ChuangPai Investment & Consulting Company. Part of the core team to develop a new product line for the Group – Knowledge Community (KC), Mr Tan is directly responsible to create a robust and vibrant enterprise ecosystem within the Community; to enhance interaction and transaction between companies, and other partners. He has also put in place a total solution set-up, ranging from providing talent solutions to enterprise solutions and even international business connectivity. Mr Tan spearheads and manages InnoSpace, an incubation platform, which is now touted as one of China’s most impressive cradle for innovation and entrepreneurship. Through its effective incubation services, InnoSpace has produced 8 star ventures (each worth >Rmb100mn within 12 months of their inception).
Adopting an incubation+investment model, Mr Tan also started SHUI ON Group’s first US$6mn Angels’ Fund. Under his leadership as Managing Partner, prominent players such as Prosperity Investment (China’s largest FoF) and CITIC Capital also participate in the Fund. Through acute business sense, this Angels Fund currently enjoys a bookgain IRR of 73% in a 24-months investment horizon. Under his leadership, Shui On Knowledge Community is well positioned as the most effective launch-pads into China. Overseas governments such as Korean and technology giants including Siemens and BMW are now engaging InnoSpace to accelerate startups etc. Given this strong track record, Shui On Group recently approved Mr Tan to set up its 2nd Technology Fund of US$30mn.
Mr Tan’s key responsibilities also include building up the Knowledge Community for the US$4.3 bn Dalian Tiandi project in Dalian. This is a 3.6 million square meters integrated mixed use development comprising of software offices, retail malls, hotels, residential, international schools, parks and gardens.
During his 4 years tenure, Mr Tan successfully launched this mega software hub project. Phase 1 of the software offices is fully taken up. Some of Dalian Tiandi’s Fortune 500 clients include IBM which has set up their China’s largest global delivery center there. All the three companies
in Dalian that are listed in New York Stock Exchange will also be setting up their 10,000 staff-strong bases Other prominent clients include China Soft and Kingsoft. With his vast experience in developing software hubs, Mr Tan also help build up technology platforms such as cloud computing and internet datacenter in Dalian.
Mr Tan is also charged of establishing International Strategic Partnerships for the Group. He has helped set up SHUI ON’s first overseas center in USA. Some of the strategic partners formed by Mr Tan also include Mitsui Fudosan in Japan, Cyberport in Hong Kong, Hanwha Group in Korea, Los Angeles Economic Development Council, and LACI in USA.
Prior to joining the SHUI ON Group, Mr Tan was the Vice Consul for the Singapore Consulate in Mumbai, India. He was double-heading as the Regional Director for the Singapore Economic Development Board. Mr Tan was instrumental in attracting US$200million of investment from India into Singapore. He was also part of the core team in negotiating the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (ie free trade agreement) between India and Singapore.

Program Director, Chinaccelerator
- Longest running accelerator in Asia, largest mentor network (240+) and founding member of GAN (Global Accelerator Network)
- Backed by SOSV. (#3 Seed Investor worldwide, running 8 accelerators across 4 verticals: Hardware, Biotech, Digital and Food in three continents, Europe, America and Asia))

Guest lecturer in Top Universities and Business Schools
- Topics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Venture Capital, Design Thinking, Digital Strategy, China Market Entry
Product and Strategy, Co-founder
- Firefly Life Technologies
- IoT Startup disrupting the travel industry with a platform to allow any luggage brand to launch their own "smart" line

CEO, Co-founder
- DaD Asia – 亚洲搭档
- Consulting and Investment firm specialized in technology and Digital Business in China. Started operations in China, managed a team of 15 people in two departments
- Investment: 15+ investment in China based startups. Adviser supporting strategy, product launch, marketing, sales, financing and M&A
- Consulting: 10+ Projects (Market Entry, Digital Strategy, Turnaround, M&A) for SMEs and Fortune 10 customers.

R&D Engineer
- Research centres for of Ericsson, Telefonica, Comitas Communications

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Masters in Engineering (MEng), Telecommunications Engineering

William is a Partner at SOSV and the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, China’s the first startup accelerator based in Shanghai.

William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 where he was Managing Director supporting China investment activities. While at Innov8 he led investments in Yodo1 (mobile games), Gmobi (Android platform), Lekan (childrens video platform), and Massive Impact (mobile advertising) among others. Previously William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, an early stage venture capital firm backed by Softbank of Japan and Cisco. While at SoftBank he led investments in Silk Road Telecom or SRT (mobile enterprise cloud SaaS), Playspan (payment platform acquired by Visa), Punch Entertainment (mobile game developer acquired by DeNA) and Peacesoft (Vietnam eCommerce and payment platform).

William began his career as an equity research analyst most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for Internet and Telecom Equipment across Asia and China technology, media and telecom. In addition he covered Digital Media and Telecom Equipment companies at Bank of America Securities in San Francisco and PCs and Enterprise Hardware at Bear Stearns in New York. William began his technology investment career 18 years ago as a technology analyst in Taiwan.