Ethan Siew
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Valtimus · MINAS/ Card

Ethan Siew

Valtimus · MINAS SINGAPORE
Founding Partner
IPI Singapore
Former Principal Consultant
Lab to market
15+ years

Commercialisation · AI adoption

We use AI only where it solves a clear business problem.

SEC.01 Profile/ Experience

From lab to market, to AI adoption.

  1. 15+ YRS

    CommercialisationLab research → products that sell

    15+ years turning lab research into products that sell.

  2. BEFORE

    IPI SingaporePrincipal Consultant

    At the innovation arm of Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, guided 15 companies into collaboration projects.

  3. NOW

    Valtimus · MINAS SINGAPOREFounding Partner · Commercialisation and AI adoption lead

    Leads Valtimus’s AI consulting, which uses AI only where it solves a clear business problem. Valtimus and MINAS work as one team; he co-teaches AI programmes with Zhang Yulei, including an in-house programme for TechX Ventures.

15+ yrsLab-to-market commercialisation 15Companies guided at IPI 4 daysTXV in-house programme

SEC.02 Teaching/ Programmes

We teach what we build.

In-house programme · Singapore

SEC.03 FDE/ Selected work

Start from the most blocked business loop, not from the technology.

Note: clients anonymised; figures from project reviews, see each case for definitions; images from Unsplash, for illustration only.

SEC.04 Work/ What we can do together

Decide what to change first, then build AI into the business.

01 —

AI training

Start from roles and real tasks, so teams learn to use AI.

02 —

FDE transformation

Map the workflow, then build and validate it together.

03 —

New ventures

New technology, new business, new teams: start small.

We don’t start from concepts. We start from one concrete problem you have.

SEC.05 Company/ Valtimus · MINAS

An AI-native consultancy.

Valtimus and MINAS work as one team across Singapore and China, on AI transformation, commercialisation and AI-native training for clients in China, Singapore and Southeast Asia.

We teach what we build: every workflow we teach comes from AI work we design and run for clients in Singapore and China.