Pang Heng Soon

Heng Soon brings with him 30 years of in-depth knowledge and experience in technologystartups investments. At SGInnovate, he leads the Venture Building team that is focused onlaunching new startups that have research and intellectual property at their core.To increase the success rates of these early-stage deep-tech startups, the Venture Buildingteam also provides business building advice and works closely with them in areas such asuse case and customer identification, talent recruiting, and strategic priorities.Prior to his current role, Heng Soon was active in sales and business development, havinghad leadership roles in the precision manufacturing and automation equipment sector.Heng Soon started his career at Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) where heled efforts in identifying promising Singapore companies for targeted development. While atEDB Investments, Heng Soon was involved in direct investments into high-growth US-basedtechnology startups.He graduated as a Diplom-Ingenieur from Hamburg, Germany in 1985.