Ian Sikora
ASEAN at Amazon Web Services
Ian Sikora
ASEAN at Amazon Web Services
Singapore
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Startup BD, ASEAN
2024 - Current
Supporting our customers to build the next generations of companies with AWS
Executive Director
2022 - 2024
Seventh employee of the firm and first member of the Portfolio Success team. Worked closely with technical and commercial leaders in the portfolio across Southeast Asia to solve problems and grow their businesses. Board member for Igloo Insurance, Datature, Beleaf Farms, Broom.id, iSeller, Pathao, Zenius. Led investments in Pluang, Kinetic, NSC Innovation, Thryve.earth, GoPlay.
Director
2020 - 2022
Vice President of Technology
2016 - 2020
Head of Product
2015 - 2016
The first member of the tech team and right hand to the CTO. I recruited, hired and led HOOQ’s product & engineering teams. In a year of work the team rebuilt HOOQ’s entire system from scratch.
Partnerships Manager
2014 - 2015
Early member of a fast-moving startup where I wore many hats. My longest area of focus was building up the marketing and sales infrastructure.
Project Manager
2011 - 2014
Built products that drove up Internet adoption in the Philippines. Most notably I collaborated with Facebook on the global launch of Internet.org. After only six months in the market, we brought 1 million people online for the first time.