Audrey Tan
Living in California, working in a super star start-up, Qik. Currently studying in Stanford and loving every moment of the Bay Area!
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://audreytan.net/blog |
| Industries: | Education, Entertainment, Gaming, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Retail, Sports, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, Chinese, Design, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Guerrilla marketing, Human-Computer Interaction, Investment, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Retail, Sales, Viral marketing, Web design |
| Location: | Silicon Valley, California |
| Groups: | BASES, E-Challenge Competition 2008, E-Challenge Competition 2009, Global Entrepreneurship Competition 2011 - bizBarcelona, NUSEA, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], Start-Up@Singapore, Women 2.0, [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010 |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Creating a group, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | children, education, financial literacy, games, kids, money management, moolah, playmoolah, qik, silicon valley, singapore, twitter |
| Schools: | National University of Singapore (NUS), Stanford University |
FULL BIO
Inspired explorer on a mission with the vision in mind to love and empower the children of the world, beginning with Financial Literacy. Dedicating her time, energy and passion to creating an educational tool that teaches children financial education. Audrey Co-Founded PlayMoolah, an online tool to teach children to master their money in a fun way!
Audrey loves children, they bring tremendous joy! Much enjoy the beauty of Technology for it enables, intrigues and adopts creative solutions that aids learning. Passionate about learning, education and developing principles and designs for effective learning outcomes.
Keen in alleviating issues surrounding Poverty in parts of the world, GiveMoolah brewing in our labs!
Research areas includes,Triggers in Persuasive Technology and Persuasive Games in Savings and Money Management. Keen about the foundations set in place by Maria Montessori in her methods for child development and learning.
Having spent time in California and studying Technology Entrepreneurship in Stanford University. Audrey pursued a degree in Communications and New Media, at the National University of Singapore.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | PlayMoolah |
| Position: | Co-Founder |
| Time period: | January 2010 - Present |
| Description: | PlayMoolah is changing the financial futures of the next generation of children. Imagine if kids could learn how to save, manage and invest their money in a fun and interactive online world. Instead of earning virtual points and linden dollars, they could instead earn real money from smart financial decisions that directly contributes to their savings. Since they are spending so much time playing games anyway, there is no need to reinvent the wheel, but to simply channel their time and energy to something much more meaningful to their future personal growth. |
| Employer: | Qik |
| Position: | Product Marketing manager |
| Time period: | June 2008 - December 2009 |
| Description: | Previously, rallied product marketing at Qik, now Skype after recent acquisition of USD$150 million. Audrey had a hand in product design, partnership distributions and had a hand in bringing in the first revenues.
Provided web and print design, A/B testing on user flow and experience, market research and data analysis, user-acquisition, business development and led partnerships. |
| Employer: | Alpha Paw |
| Position: | Marketing |
| Time period: | December 2007 - July 2008 |
| Description: | Entrepreneurial start up in Singapore, Alpha Paw, the trendsetter for fresh and innovative products of sterling quality. A patent-pending dog bowl for its unique and novel design that solves the problem of indigestion among pets.
Customer research and development. Had a hand in distributor outreach at Inter-Zoo, Nurnberg, Germany and Forida, USA. |
| Employer: | My Wardrobe Parade & Sale For A Girl |
| Position: | Co-Founder |
| Time period: | December 2006 - June 2008 |
| Description: | Founded Two E-Commerce Businesses, Singapore.
Responsible for managing and formulating the business & market strategies for the operations. |
EDUCATION
| University: | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| Time period: | 2005 - 2010 |
| Degree: | Communications and New Media, BSc |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Technopreneurship: Management Science and Engineering, None |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Research Thesis on Triggers in Persuasive Technology & Games in Savings & Money Management |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Swimming, Adrenaline pumping sports: Wake-boarding, Flying, Jet-Skiing, Diving. |
| Hobbies: | Acquiring the wisdoms of the world through reading, couch surfing and traveling the world! Keenly interested in the pursuits of Theological Inquiry. Also an avid Maranatha meditator. |
| Awards: | Top Student for College Examination, Literature
Eagles Leadership Award |
Audrey's Startups (2)
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Qik
A mobile application that allows you to stream live video from your cell phone and broadcast your life to the world LIVE!
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Moolah_Moolah
Imagine If the children of America could learn How to save, earn and invest their money In an engaging, interactive online world …
Audrey's Contacts (27)
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Clayton Miller
Bachelor’s of Science from University of Nebraska (2007), pursuing Master of Science from National University of Singapore, Building Energy Engineer at Sensus M.I., Omaha, NE, USA, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Singapore.
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Sruthy Parvathy Kumar
Singaporean, 3rd Year - Industrial & Systems' Engineering student at NUS, prolific reader, occasional writer, aspiring entrepreneur , treehugger
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Gean Chu
Singaporean based in Silicon Valley, specialize in recruitment, event management, operation, administrative work, project management, Business Development and etc