Ang Sean25665

Throughout my career, I’ve been obsessed with providing the best customer experience for everyone I serve and building strong support networks through community building. As co-founder at Poko, I work with my team to build the platform and legal infrastructure to create Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (or DAOs). DAOs facilitate cross border collaborations in an organised structure that saves time, cost, and administrative hassle. ____________________ Starting my career as a community pharmacist, I discovered that “It’s not the side effect of the drug that matters, it’s the impact of the side effect on the patient’s life that matters”. This has led me to go beyond my traditional role to truly understand what really happens in my patients’ lives. In my practice, I’ve nursed a patient at his home till the wee hours of the morning when he suffered two epileptic attacks, spent numerous hours providing warmth and comfort to a sexual abuse patient, and saved the life of a patient who came within 5 minutes of dying when fluid started to fill her lungs - none of which are part of the typical "job scope" of a community pharmacist. While I was not able to care for every patient on a daily basis, I realised that the patients who performed well had an extremely strong, supportive community to support them. I set out to build those communities so that care was more sustained. In 2014, I founded Success Alliance Enrichment to work with the government and private organisations who want to enhance mental wellness and reduce health costs by building mental health competencies, especially in our youth. We have now built a supportive mental health community through our work with more 70 organisations and impacted thousands of individual through our programmes in smoking cessation, youth peer support and mental wellness. I designed a nationwide youth smoking cessation counselling programme and trained more than 10 batches of new smoking cessation counsellors for the Singapore Armed Forces. Winner of the prestigious Singapore Retailers’ Association Young Executive of the Year Award, proud believer in 2nd chances as a volunteer at the Singapore Prisons Service, and former captain of the Singapore National Junior Squash Team. Passionate competitive squash player for 24 years (and counting!). Born in Singapore, living in Vietnam.