About Dan

As a practitioner, I am the Founder of Lightbulb Capital in Hong Kong and Singapore. Previously, I was the CIO of the Modular Blockchain Fund at Modular Asset Management and the COO of HSBC Securities in Singapore.

As an academic, my research work investigates emerging technologies and their use in finance, and has been published by various academic journals by Springer, Elsevier, MIT Press and others. I was also the Founding Associate Editor-in-Chief of World Scientific’s Annual Review of Fintech journal. I taught courses for graduates at ESSEC and IE business school. and spent close to ten years in executive education at Singapore Management University.

I am completing my PhD in Finance at Erasmus University, and hold Master degrees in Innovation (SMU) and Finance (IE).

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