Kevin Teo

Kevin Teo is a Volans Founding Partner and Director.  He runs Volans Asia and currently lives in Singapore with his wife Grace and four month-old baby William.  Kevin was previously Head of East and Southeast Asia at the Schwab Foundation of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum (2006-2008).

Prior to that, Kevin had an eight year stint in the enterprise software arena; he held senior positions at Bay Area software startups funded by Sequoia Capital - CenterRun Inc (2001-2003) and Clearwell Systems (2005-2006).  Through CenterRun’s acquisition by Sun Microsystems, he became Principal Engineer (2003-2005) in the N1 Software Integration Group.  Kevin also learned many priceless lessons from failed startups like Fisix.com (2000-2001) and ApplianceOrder.com (1999-2000). Prior to that, he was a member of Trilogy Software’s development team (1998-1999).

In 2003, Kevin co-founded the Southeast Asian Service Leadership Network (SEALNet), a California-based 501(c)3 organization that focuses on building a community of service leaders who are passionate about development in Southeast Asia.  He currently sits on SEALNet’s board and is an active mentor to the student chapter at Stanford University.  Every summer, you will find Kevin in some part of Southeast Asia working with a group of student leaders to dream up and execute plans that positively impact the region.

Kevin graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a MS in Information Networking, and holds a BEng with Honors in Computing from the Imperial College, London.

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