Advisor · Speaker · Founder — Singapore
Founder of Unicorn Labs, building Noetika — speech-based cognitive assessment for hospitals, memory clinics and pharma. I advise teams shipping AI into regulated care, and I get on stages to talk about what actually works.
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About
I spent eight years building software — at Nokia, then running engineering teams — until Alzheimer’s pulled me somewhere else entirely.
Today I’m CEO of Unicorn Labs, where we build Noetika: AI that listens to how people speak and helps clinicians catch cognitive decline earlier. Voice turns out to be one of the most honest signals the brain gives us — our detection reaches 0.96 AUC, in five languages, with seven research and clinical partners across Europe and Asia.
Getting there taught me what no playbook covers: validation, regulation, procurement, and the thousand small decisions between a demo and a deployment. That’s what I advise teams on, what I mentor on at Google for Startups and Startupbootcamp, and what I talk about on stage.
8 yrs
shipping software before founding
7
research & clinical partners
5
languages supported
30 min
to get on my calendar
What I do
For health-tech founders and clinical innovation teams who need AI to survive contact with the real world.
Keynotes, panels and workshops that make AI in healthcare concrete — for conferences, boards and teams.
Selected work
Speech-based cognitive assessment. AI that listens to how people speak to help clinicians screen for Alzheimer’s and cognitive decline earlier — 0.96 detection AUC, five languages, MMSE and MoCA supported, with a clinician always making the final call.
The deep-tech company behind Noetika. Startupbootcamp DeepTech & Robotics cohort, Google for Startups Accelerator, and pilots with partners including A*STAR, NTU Singapore, University of Groningen and VinUniversity.
Mentoring founders in the Google for Startups Accelerator — AI product strategy, getting from a working model to something a customer will actually deploy.
Mentor to deep-tech and health-tech teams, after going through the DeepTech & Robotics programme with Unicorn Labs and pitching at Impact Day in Amsterdam.
Speaking
What changes when a model has to satisfy regulators, clinicians and procurement — not just a benchmark. Where the evidence bar actually sits, what slows a deployment down, and the decisions worth making early.
I also speak and advise on
Where it genuinely works, where it does not, and how to tell before you build.
Building from zero — finding the buyer, earning the first pilot, surviving the middle.
Getting new technology past the pilot and into the way an organisation actually works.
Writing
AI, healthcare, and companies built from zero. A weekly letter — published on LinkedIn, archived here.
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Weekly notes on what is actually changing in AI and healthcare — every issue gets archived here.
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A focused first call: your product, your market, where AI fits, and whether I can help. No deck required.
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