{"id":32622,"date":"2018-07-20T10:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T02:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=32622"},"modified":"2018-07-20T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T02:46:11","slug":"adrian-chng-to-succeed-andre-hesselink-as-gobears-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/07\/20\/adrian-chng-to-succeed-andre-hesselink-as-gobears-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Chng to succeed Andre Hesselink as GoBear\u2019s CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobear.com\">GoBear<\/a> has appointed Adrian\u00a0Chng to succeed Andre Hesselink as its new CEO as of July 16th. 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.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32623\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Adrian-Chng-GoBear-CEO-Photo-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32623\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Adrian-Chng-GoBear-CEO-Photo-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Adrian-Chng-GoBear-CEO-Photo-copy.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Adrian-Chng-GoBear-CEO-Photo-copy-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Chng, CEO, GoBear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Adrian Chng is one of Asia\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Adrian is also well known for leading Asian jobs portal <a href=\"http:\/\/jobsdb.com\/\">JobsDB.com<\/a> and a key achievement was their AUD 1 billion merger with <a href=\"http:\/\/jobstreet.com\/\">JobStreet.com<\/a> in 2014. \u201cThere is no doubt that faster, cheaper and easier access to basic financial services improves people\u2019s lives,\u201d Adrian said. \u201cThat 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 \u2013 we are reaching more and more people every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Vietnam and, soon, Indonesia. The company now employs over 100 people with 19 different nationalities. Andre said, \u201cI am proud of how much GoBear has accomplished, becoming a leading Asian financial comparison platform. I would like to thank the employees, partners, and users of GoBear for making this possible. I will definitely miss my day-to-day involvement with GoBear, but I am assured that the company is in very capable hands to make it even more successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andre will move back to the Netherlands and continue to be involved as a Special Advisor to GoBear and its shareholders, Aegon and Walvis. The shareholders would like to thank Andre for his great entrepreneurship and contribution to the development of GoBear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoBear has appointed Adrian\u00a0Chng to succeed Andre Hesselink as its new CEO as of July 16th. 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.\u00a0 Adrian Chng is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6201,6178,4590,856],"class_list":["post-32622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-adrian-chng","tag-careers","tag-gobear","tag-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}