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GoBear appoints new CEO

One of the fastest growing Fintech start-ups in Asia, GoBear has appointed Adrian Chng to succeed Andre Hesselink as its new CEO.

The appointment will see Adrian lead the management team with Ivonne Bojoh, Frank Stevenaar, and Marnix Zwart as GoBear continues to build on its successes and rapidly scale the business into new products and markets.
 
GoBear was started as a partnership between Aegon, a global insurance company, and Walvis, a Dutch venture capital fund, in 2015. Since its inception, GoBear has grown from its home market of Singapore to serving millions of users across Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and, soon, Indonesia. The company now employs over 100 people with 19 different nationalities.
 
“There is no doubt that faster, cheaper and easier access to basic financial services improves people’s lives,” Adrian said. “That is why I am so excited to join GoBear right now; we are in the middle of launching new products and expanding into new markets like Indonesia – we are reaching more and more people every day.
 
Adrian is one of Asia’s foremost FinTech startup entrepreneurs, co-founding two FinTech startups so far and sitting on the board of many others. Most recently, Adrian was CEO of Fintonia, a merchant bank he founded in 2015 that invests in FinTech companies in ASEAN and Hong Kong. In addition, he co-founded Credolab and AsiaKredit in 2016 and 2017 respectively, driven by strong commitment to helping customers and the community thrive and creating employment for people.  Adrian is also well known for leading Asian jobs portal JobsDB.com and a key achievement was their AUD 1 billion merger with JobStreet.com in 2014.

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