Shareable Asset is an asset investment platform that everyone can access.
Shareable Asset is one of the few MAS licensed asset tokenization platforms to be able to issue asset-backed security tokens in a regulated environment which is both legally and economically acceptable.
Our mission is to provide high-quality investments - especially those previously accessible only to sophisticated and institutional investors - to everyone through technology.
Increased Non-face-to-face Interaction/Asset Purchase
Traditional Financial Institutions Broadening Acceptance of Tokenized Assets
Increased Money Supply and Disposable Income
Regulators Opening up to Embrace Technology
Founder and Chairman of the Board
Will is a serial entrepreneur who started his entrepreneurial journey in Silicon Valley in 2011. With his knowledge from studying Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, Will is on a mission of building a human-centered platform through the newest technologies.
Prior to Shareable Asset, he established Blue Whale Foundation and Verlocal. Blue Whale Foundation is the organization of realizing a decentralized sharing economy system. On the other hand, Verlocal is one of the largest skilling sharing platforms in the U.S. Verlocal was featured by one of the largest and most well-known VCs, a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) as one of the most remarkable marketplace platforms in 2020 and 2021.
He moved to Singapore in 2017 to realize Shareable Asset’s vision.
CEO
Michael Chin is a seasoned investment banker and asset management professional with over 3 decades of experience, working for global financial services companies.
Before joining Shareable Asset in Mar, 2021, Michael spent 22 years in various locations and functions in UBS AG. Michael ran UBS Asset Management Singapore as CEO and was Head of UBS Asset Management South East Asia from 2015 to 2018. He also chaired UBS Asset Management Hong Kong/Singapore Management & Risk Committee and was an integral member of UBS AM APAC Management Committee as well as UBS Group Singapore Management Committee. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2015, Michael was CEO of UBS Hana Asset Management in Korea, a joint venture with Hana Financial Group with AUM of over $20 billion.
Prior to this appointment in 2010, based in Hong Kong, Michael was responsible for managing UBS Investment Bank's Asian cash equity distribution business as Global Head of Asian Equity Sales and was a member of Global Cash Equity Management Committee. Before this role which began in 2006, he was Branch Manager and Head of Equities in Taiwan, having transferred in 2005 from his position as Branch Manager and Head of Equities in Korea for UBS Investment Bank which started in 2002. Before joining UBS in 1997, Michael held a number of positions at Lehman Brothers, Schroders and Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Seoul and Hong Kong in investment banking and equity sales & trading. Michael graduated with a BA degree in International Relations from University of Virginia, USA.
Michael is currently an Independent Director, BOD of Vingroup JSC, the leading Vietnamese corporate group as well as BOD of Pepper Savings Bank, the 3rd largest Savings Bank in Korea. In addition, since 2018, he also serves as BOD member of SEO-Vietnam, a non-profit organization to help Vietnamese students to learn and experience global learning and training. He was Vice Chairman of Lumen Capital Investors from 2019-2020, developing its private equity/venture capital business. He also served as an Independent Director for Kakao Bank, one of the largest mobile-only banks in the world, from 2019 to 2021.
Chief Operating Officer
Former Head of Asian Telecoms at Macquarie, Head of Thai Research at UBS Securities, VP of Product and Technology at Unni Telecom. BS from Harvard. MS Computer & Information Technology from University of Pennsylvania.
Global Head of Engineering
Former lead software engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank. Proven track records of delivering scalable, resilient and secure trading and asset management platforms. Leading cross-regional development teams at Schroders Investment Management and Macquarie Group in Singapore and Australia.
Chief Compliance Officer
Operating experience of launching and running regulated financial services businesses. Lead responsibilities in areas of Operations, Finance & Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, Capital Raising and Investor Relations.
Chief Financial Officer
Former Executive Director at UBS responsible for APAC Wealth Management, Asset Management and Net New Money reporting with centralized support out of Singapore and Hong Kong.
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Cheng Chih is the Chairman of Advisory Board of Shareable Asset.
Cheng Chih was CEO of Avanda for 7 years, one of the biggest multi-asset strategy HFs in the region.
Cheng Chih started his investment career at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) in 1993 and retired as Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer in 2011. After that, he stayed on as an advisor for 4 more years. While at GIC, Cheng Chihworked to build up the firm’s risk management capabilities in both public and private market investing. He was also instrumental in enhancing GIC’s capabilities in asset allocation, currency allocation, active management, portfolio rebalancing and treasury management.
In late 2014, Cheng Chih co-founded Avanda Investment Management, a global asset management company based in Singapore with an initial AUM of over US$4 billion. He retired from Avanda at the end of March 2021. During the intervening years, Avanda’s AUM has more than doubled to around US$9 billion across a range of investment strategiescovering global multi-asset, Asian equities and global fixed income, all with an absolute return orientation.
Outside of Avanda, Cheng Chih is currently serving as investment advisor to the Singapore Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Finance in Norway and the Bank of Thailand, and as board member of the MIT Investment Management Company, the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy, and the Wealth Management Institute Limited, Singapore.In addition, he is serving on the CareShield Life Council under the Ministry of Health in Singapore. Previously he has served in variousboard and advisory capacities at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, International Monetary Fund, Markit Ltd, Temasek International Advisors, Singapore Exchange Limited, NTUC Income Insurance Co-operative, Ministry of Home Affairs,Singapore, and National University of Singapore.
Since retiring from Avanda, Cheng Chih has taken on multiple board and advisory roles in various startups in investment management,fintech and advanced materials. Cheng Chih studied mathematics at the University of Waterloo where he received his BMath and MMath degrees. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Minnesota.
Member of Advisory Board
Former Senior Investment Manager at J.P Morgan Investment Management SG/Asset Management HK and Senior Development Officer at MAS.
Member of Advisory Board
Jimmy Chua is a finance expert with more than 30 years of investment experience, most notably at UBS Asset Management as Head of APAC Equity Trading where he managed all trading-related matters and staff within APAC as well as Portfolio Manager at SBC Private Clients.
