Ken Tan, Paypal Singapore, “Using Paypal as a World Currency”

Ken Tan. Ken manages business development initiatives for PayPal in SEA and as part of his BD plans, Ken has been identifying win-win partnerships for PayPal with various Marketplaces, Payment Solutions Providers and Carts Providers in this region.  Ken spend the last 15 years of his career managing channel partnerships for IT companies like Cisco Systems and Internet companies like Yahoo SEA and Friendster Inc.  In the course of his career, Ken travels extensively across APAC and is no stranger to Philippines having bee working with many channel partners here throughout his career.

Ken brings along insights into the regional ecommerce developments and the challenges faced by each country and how PayPal is set up to address these challenges and facilitates ecommerce growth in SEA.  Ken is based in SG and educated with a business bachelor degree in the National University of Singapore and a Business Master degree in the Nanyang Technological University.