Douglas Abrams

Bio

Mr Abrams is the founder and CEO of Expara and Expara IDM Ventures, a business accelerator for interactive and digital media companies and a mentor in the iJam Micro-financing scheme.. He is also a founding partner of Parallax Capital Management, a funds management company. All three companies are based in Singapore. Prior to coming to Singapore, Mr Abrams managed information technology at J.P.Morgan for 14 years. From 1997 to 1999, he was Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and from 1991 to 1997, he was VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology. Mr Abrams is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Business School, where he has taught New Venture Creation and Technopreneurship for graduate students since 2001. He is on the organizing committees for the Start-Up@Singapore and has previously served on the organizing committees for the Global Start-Up@Singapore Start-Up Asia and Stanford Global Entrepreneurship Challenge business plan competitions, and was a judge in the Wharton Business Plan Competition, the Lee Kuan Yew Global business plan competition, and at INSEAD's MBA program business plan presentations. Mr Abrams is co-deputy chairman of the South East Asia Business Angel Investor Network (BANSEA). He was previously a member of the steering committee for the NUS Venture Support Fund (VSF) and is currently on the steering committee for the NUS FUSE Fund for student businesses. He has also served as an External Examiner, School of Business & Accountancy at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and is a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship for the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Mr Abrams graduated from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Communications and received an MBA from The Wharton School.