John Sharp

John Sharp

Managing Partner, Hatcher+
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Speakers at this event:
Trang Tran
Principal, B Capital Group
Singapore
Eddie Ler
Partner, Vantage Venture
Singapore
John Sharp
Managing Partner, Hatcher+
Singapore
Wayne Soh
Director, Investments (Singapore), Plug and Play Tech Center
Singapore
Shwetank Verma
Co-Founder, Leo Capital
Singapore
Alvin Cai
Acting VP - New Ventures, Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
Singapore
Speakers at this event:
John Sharp
Managing Partner, Hatcher+
Singapore
Milan Reinartz
CEO, iVS
Singapore
Prahlad Jaya
Podcaster
Singapore
Karthik Vaidyanath
Product Lead at Facebook | 3x Entrepreneur
Singapore
Lavinia Iosub
Managing Partner, Livit
Bali, Indonesia

More about John Sharp

John is a Partner at Hatcher Plus, the leading data-driven venture capital investment firm. John has extensive commercial experience at the senior management level, having been the Chief Executive Officer of Authentium, Inc. the Managing Director, Asia, of WorldSpace, and CEO of Hatcher, the precursor company to Hatcher+. A tenacious and driven executive with longstanding board-level and C-suite level management experience within high-growth companies, John also brings a strong history of capital raising from an extensive network of investors globally.

As Chairman and CEO of cybersecurity pioneer Authentium (acquired by CYREN in 2010), John co-authored three US patents and developed and sold cybersecurity solutions to some the largest organizations in the world, including the US Department of Commerce, NASA, AOL, British Telecom, Comcast, Cox Communications, Google, McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec, and Telstra. As CTO at Hatcher+, DocDoc, Heardable, and ThoughtRiver, John has designed and developed several highly-innovative technology platforms using cutting-edge approaches to data processing, user interface design, and workflow optimization.

John is a frequent blogger and an in-demand speaker at venture events globally, and has extensive experience implementing ESG solutions as Chairman and/or board member of numerous start-ups, including director roles at trade finance provider ASYX and payment aggregator Mozido, and roles as Chairman of MENA-based financial services pioneer Telr, and the leading Cambridge-based legal services technology company, ThoughtRiver. 

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