Ian lives his life through application of design thinking and an entrepreneurial mind set.
Nurturing people, problem solving and travelling are his greatest passions.
At the age of 5, he was already hawking his second hand toys illegally at a public park, which grew to more mini projects in a pursuit to satisfy his thirst for starting a business. As he got exposed to entrepreneurship through the NUS Overseas Colleges programme, he has relentlessly sought to be engaged in the field. He has interned in startups, joined a Venture Capital, done startup consulting, spoke at, mentored and judged at conferences, with experiences spanning around the globe, in USA, Israel, China and Asia.
Jian Liang has been in the business of Cultivating the Galaxy's Best Young Founders, as the Co-Founder of Reactor, since 2011 and in 2015 also Founded Trabble, a seamless automated B2B guest engagement SaaS platform for the travel & hospitality industry. Intent on using data and technology to better serve travellers through conversations, he taps on his extensive experience in startup consulting and venture capital across the region, to spearhead the growth of Trabble through especially challenging times during the Covid-19 pandemic for the hospitality industry, expanding the company and making inroads into major East Asian markets. Currently he leads the Innovation Element in MtJs within DBS bank to ideate, explore, qualify, prioritize and validate the WOW ideas for every business unit, in all the 6 DBS markets, to bring them on a pathway to production.
Apart from the diverse network built, he strives to actively contribute back to the community, mentoring in numerous organisations and as part of the NUS Overseas Colleges Alumni Executive Committee. In his free time, Jian Liang explores his interest in design thinking. He believes that Human-Centric Design is a mind set that can be applied to all aspects of life. He also loves drawing the use of starting up as an analogy for everything.
For leisure, Jian Liang plays basketball, scubMore...