Startup Grind Singapore Hosts Cameron Priest (CEO and Co-Founder at TradeGecko)

Cameron Priest, CEO and Co-Founder at TradeGecko Born out of a friend’s battle to manage inventory for his apparel business, TradeGecko’s inventory and multi-channel platform has become the central core of operations for thousands of small and medium businesses. Through partnerships with accounting software such as Xero, QuickBooks Online and e-commerce stores like Shopify, Amazon, and others, TradeGecko optimizes businesses to provide a real competitive advantage. With thousands of customers and having helped process billions of dollars in transactions to date, Cameron has scaled TradeGecko into a global company. TradeGecko has raised over $10M to further expand on this success. Agenda   6:30 Networking and Food 7:30 Fireside Chat 8:30 Networking Hosted By Son Le Thanh, Singapore Chapter Director Community and Tech are at my heart. My full-time job is the Cloud Technology Evangelist at IBM Bluemix, an open standards, cloud platform for building, running, and managing apps and services. On the side, I am working with an awesome team to run Startup Grind in Singapore - a monthly event series featuring successful founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Email: son@startupgrind.com | Twitter: @thsonvt Global Partners Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products. Local Partners Impact Hub Singapore is the nation’s largest community of entrepreneurs, creatives and techies. We are a co-working space and community in Singapore, located in the heart of the museum, arts and design precinct. Impact Hub offers mentorship, incubation, workshops, inspiring events, networking opportunities, and corporate innovation labs. DBS HotSpot Pre-accelerator is a 3-month programme designed for digital startups, social enterprises and DBS intrapreneurs to grow concepts into prototypes. The programme aims to cultivate entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in Singapore through experimentation, mentorship and entrepreneurship awards of SGD 25,000 each without taking equity from the startups. Visit http://www.dbs.com/hotspot/default.page to learn more about the next intake! Padang & Co provides our private, public and people sector partners the space to adopt a range of open innovation practices to solve problems and develop new opportunities, with one another and with the start-up, civic, data, maker and creative innovation communities, such as UP Singapore and DEXTRA. Through our Hackathons, coLABs, cloud-enabled Challenges and Matchmaking, we provide a stimulating environment and the conditions to develop meaningful, impactful outcomes for business and society in general. That’s what we do. We create the conditions for creativity and innovation to emerge and grow. What is Startup Grind? Startup Grind is a global startup community educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. For more information visit StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind. Disclaimer: Startup Grind event ticket sales are non-transferable, non-refundable, and final. If an event is cancelled due to weather, speaker availability, or any other unforeseeable event you will be refunded automatically. If a speaker moves the event date you will have 48-hours to request a refund if you are unable to make the new event date. Please direct any additional ticketing issues to customerservice@startupgrind.com.