Michael Ang

Singapore, Singapore

Member since August 16, 2016

An MIT MBA graduate, Michael served large corporations at Bain and helped build new businesses at firms backed by top-tier VCs (Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Softbank). He's led pricing work at a Silicon Valley firm acquired for $185 million and joined Toptal to work on challenging business problems. His work has led to the discovery of multimillion-dollar business optimization opportunities and contributed to a client’s multi-fold revenue increase.

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Career Highlights

Managing Director
IVPL
Senior Vice President, Asia
The NewsMarket, Inc.
Senior Associate Consultant
Bain & Company

Education

Master of Science degree
University of London (Imperial College)
Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT
Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors
University of California, Berkeley

Case studies

Financial Analysis and Performance Improvement
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Online Business
Pricing Model Using Multivariable Regression
- Data Analysis
- Real Estate
- Pricing Models
Social Media Marketing
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Social Media

Industry Expertise

Technology

Software Expertise

IBM SPSS
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

Other Expertise

Data Visualization
Financial Modeling
Singapore
United States

Employment

Managing Director
2008 - PRESENT
IVPL
- Engaged in technology product innovation and digital marketing.
- Published a niche marketing blog and has grown its social reach to 40,000+ professionals to date.
- Performed pricing and unit economics analysis.
- Performed market sizing and competitor analyses.
- Built a financial model that tied key revenue and cost drivers to financial projections.
Focus areas: Social Media Marketing, Business Plans & Model Development, Technology Product Innovation
Senior Vice President, Asia
2006 - 2007
The NewsMarket, Inc.
- Led its Asia expansion and tripled revenues in twelve months.
- Won blue chip clients including Alibaba and Hyundai.
Focus areas: New Market Entry
Senior Product Manager
2006 - 2006
Pinger, Inc.
- Managed wireless application development.
- Took the concept to product in seven months.
Focus areas: Product Development
Director of Application Products
2000 - 2006
BeVocal, Inc.
- Developed business cases, cost models, and product pricing.
- Led product into the customer self-service market; the business was later acquired for $185 million.
- Led the then-largest multi-million dollar product sale in a customer solutions role.
- Reduced third-party product costs by more than 40% in a business development role.
- Attended a 1-year MSc computing science program from 2003-2004.
Focus areas: Pricing Analysis, Product Development
Investment Banking Associate (MBA)
1999 - 1999
Donaldson, Lufkin, & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse)
- Performed company valuation, comparable company analysis, and other support for M&A (retail), debt (telco), IPO (satellite), and investment (communications) deals of more than $1 billion.
Focus areas: Financial Modeling & Valuation, Due Diligence, Comparable Company Analysis
Senior Associate Consultant
1996 - 1998
Bain & Company
- Earned the top performance bracket evaluation at Bain.
- Helped retail, airline, and telco businesses in strategy and implementation projects including new market entry, customer segmentation, and process re-engineering.
- Managed a complex financial model in a reengineering project for a $3-billion telecommunications company.
Focus areas: New Market Entry, Financial Modeling, Customer Segmentation, Strategic Alliances, Process Re-Engineering

Education

Master of Science degree in Computing Science
2003 - 2004
University of London (Imperial College) - London, UK
Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Financial Management
1998 - 2000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MIT - Cambridge, MA, USA
Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors in Economics
1991 - 1995
University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA, USA