Cheo Ming Shen @ Tong Ming Shen, or Ming, has 2 decades of experience as a serial Entrepreneur and Investor in South East Asia, and in 2006, co-founded the Netccentric Group and its well-known subsidiary, Nuffnang.
The Netccentric group, Nuffnang and its 21 regional subsidiaries, pioneered the concept of advertising on blogs and social media influencers pages, introducing a new marketing channel for brands, and professional career opportunities for bloggers and social media influencers.
In 2013, Ming conceived and launched the popular mobile blogging platform and community, Dayre.
In 2015, he successfully led Netccentric Ltd as CEO, through an Initial Public Offering on the Australia Stock Exchange.
He exited Netccentric successfully in 2020, and in 2021 was appointed as CEO of one of his investee companies, the Vemimo Group, which owns popular fashion and lifestyle label, Our Second Nature and sustainable label, Atlas Kind.
Ming is also an Angel Investor in several startups and SMEs, actively advising them in an official and unofficial capacity.
Ming was recognized by Businessweek as one of Asia’s Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs. In 2015, he was awarded the Spirit of Enterprise (Singapore) Award. Ming graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science (Honours) in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics.
An avid collector of timepieces and contemporary art, and a lover of food and travel, Ming is happily married to his Thai entrepreneur wife Patty with whom he shares a long awaited daughter, Mila.
