My work has moved across several different environments over the years.
I started out in game design and interactive media, including work connected with the Singapore–MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. Later I co-founded Inzen Studio, a game development company that eventually became part of iCandy Interactive.
Game design trains you to think in systems. You learn quickly that small changes in incentives or feedback loops can shape behaviour across an entire environment.
That way of thinking stayed with me as my work gradually moved beyond games into venture building and ecosystem work across Southeast Asia.
Working with founders reinforced the same lesson. Ideas matter, but systems determine whether those ideas survive.
Around the same period, my wife Audrey was building PlayMoolah and working closely with students, families and schools. Through that work she began observing how financial decisions were often shaped by deeper emotional and behavioural patterns.
Over time our conversations around these observations expanded. The same questions that appeared in youth financial education also surfaced in the lives of founders, professionals and families navigating responsibility.
Those conversations eventually contributed to ideas such as Financial Emotional Resilience, and later the broader concept of Wealth Resilience.
Another dimension became clearer through family experience. Watching my grandparents age, and later helping navigate transitions with my own parents, brought many of these questions closer to home.
Health, finances and family relationships often intersect in complicated ways during later life. Some families move through these transitions with clarity and support. Others struggle because the systems around them were never designed with the long arc in mind.
Over time I began seeing many parts of life through a similar lens. Health, family, organisations and capital are all systems that evolve over time. They respond to attention and discipline. Left unattended, they weaken. Tended with care, they strengthen.
Much of my work today sits around these questions — helping founders and institutions navigate complex environments, and exploring how individuals and families steward responsibility across generations.
"The Lord's is the earth and its fullness."
— Psalm 24
