Kin Wai Lau is a technology entrepreneur in Southeast Asia and founded his first technology company when he was 23, and has since taken three technology companies public.
He began his career as the co-founder and managing director of Viztel Solutions Berhad (Viztel), a telecom and mobile Internet software startup. By the age of 28, he had led Viztel to IPO and was one of the managing directors of a public company in Southeast Asia.
In 2007 he co-founded Cellsafe Biotech Group, a regional biotechnology business group focusing on non-controversial technologies for harvesting and cryogenic preservation of stem cells. Cellsafe is now a stem cell bank network in Southeast Asia, with operations across four countries.
In 2008 he led a takeover of the Oriented Media Group Berhad (Omedia), a publicly traded digital media company in Malaysia, of which he was later appointed its executive chair.
Mr Lau was a scholar of a Malaysian government-controlled corporation. He was also a faculty research staff an a PhD candidate at the Imperial College, London. He frequently supports entrepreneurial campaigns in colleges and universities, and is a regular judge at innovation and startup competitions in Singapore.
