Alex leads our Southeast Asia and Taiwan teams, overseeing the delivery of our client projects in these markets. He’s developed and executed revenue-generating market entry strategies for clients, established partnerships and won ‘design-ins’ in the software, energy, medtech & life sciences, materials, and automotive fields. Originally from the UK and raised in Belgium, Alex has lived in Asia for over 15 years and is a fluent Mandarin speaker. He has a BA in Chinese studies, an MA in international business and an MBA.

Vanessa worked in Shanghai as part of our Greater China team for three years, before relocating back to her home country of Singapore. She has extensive experience in the medtech, foodtech, automotive and energy sectors, securing channel partnerships, customer deals and supplier agreements in Asia on behalf of our clients. Prior to joining Intralink, she held a number of management and business development roles in Singapore and she has a degree in Business Management from Singapore Management University.

Nicole is based in Singapore and develops regional partnerships with Asian corporates, multipliers, investors and governments on behalf of our western clients. She also oversees management of GBx Asia – a private community of senior tech executives in Asia with UK connections. Born in Malaysia, Nicole has spent her career helping western scaleups expand in APAC. Prior to Intralink, she held various APAC roles, including one for Tech Nation – a UK government-backed accelerator for British scaleups. Nicole has a Bachelor in Electronics & Engineering from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.

Charles is a highly experienced, multilingual medtech and life sciences specialist, devising and implementing Asia market expansion strategies for our clients. His work spans cellular and gene therapy, biologics, novel vaccines, drug delivery systems, diagnostics, precision oncology, digital health, NGS, protein engineering and synthetic biology. Charles is a Filipino national who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in biological and chemical engineering from Japan's former Imperial university at Nagoya. He has also worked for a top five global pharmaceutical group.

Paula (better known as ‘Inna’) hails from the Philippines and graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans with a degree in Forensic Chemistry. She has a significant track record in the foodtech, medtech, government services, software and digital media sectors, securing partnerships, customer contracts and supplier agreements in Asia on behalf of our clients. Before joining Intralink, she held a research role with the New Orleans Police Department and worked as a laboratory analyst at Eurofins Central Analytical Laboratories.

Ferin helps western medtech and life science firms to expand in Asia. Born and raised in Thailand, she gained a BSc in medical technology and an MSc in immunology from Thailand’s Mahidol University, before securing a scholarship at the Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology. Before joining Intralink, she worked as a researcher in Tokyo’s National Center for Global Health & Medicine and at Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital in Bangkok.

Born in Vietnam, Thao Tran (better known as ‘Lee’) helps western scale-ups expand into Asia, either supporting them directly or as part of government-sponsored programs. Lee has been part of our Trade & Investment team since 2022 and has worked across a wide range of industries, including edtech and greentech. Besides her native Vietnamese, Lee is fluent in Japanese and English. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations in Japan.

Mustafa lives and breathes the Singapore SME and Startup Ecosystem. Over the span of his career, he has enabled over 3,000 businesses through Enterprise Singapore's SME Centre, ING bank and KPMG. He is also well versed in Singapore's government assistance programs for business such as grants, tax incentives and schemes. Mustafa sits on the advisory boards of a few ventures and is an active angel investor in the region. He’s based in Singapore and holds an Executive MBA and a Bachelors Degree in Business Management.