Our People

Ian SorekIan Sorek
CEO & Founder

Mr. Sorek has extensive experience in managing marketing and sales for technology start-ups. Previously Mr. Sorek has acted as Regional Director for Comverse Networks Systems (NASDAQ: CMVT), CEO of Emblaze APAC (UK:EMBL) and Sales Director APAC for ECTEL (NASDAQ: ECTX).


Mark StephensMark Stephens
VP Product Development & Founder

Mark is the founder and chief technology officer. Mr. Stephens has over 20 years of financial industry experience and has provided the vision for the SENTRYi solutions suite.


Joel BarelJoel Barel
VP Sales, Solutions

Joel is one of the founders of Tersus Software Ltd., a visual development platform (www.tersus.org) that enables codeless development of enterprise systems. Prior to founding Tersus, Joel served as Managing Director North America and before that Managing Director Asia Pacific for SunGard Business Integration. Joel Barel earned his Bachelor of Science degree in physics at Tel-Aviv University.


Raymond CheeRaymond Chee
VP Sales, Products

Ray began his career in the banking industry where he spent 8 years in business development for Maybank, Citibank and BNPParibas. For the past three years, he was responsible for the sales of the Meridea product suite in the Asia Pacific Region. Raymond Chee earned his bachelor of business/banking at NTU Singapore.


Randall MaxwellRandall Maxwell
VP Marketing

Randall began his media career in Canada and moved to the Asia Pacific Region in 1994 with the TIME Warner organization as VP Time Inc. - Asiaweek magazine. Mr. Maxwell later joined MTV Asia (Viacom) as VP/General Manager of new media ventures. Randall Maxwell earned his bachelor of economics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.


Nixon LeeNixon Lee
Director of North Asia

Nixon started his sales and marketing profession for IT industries since his MBA graduation the Chinese University of HK in 1985. In the past six years, he has extensive experience in product and business development in providing IT solutions to the wealth management industries. Nixon is also one of the founders of Wealth Bridge Asia Limited (www.wealthbridgeasia.com), a business process outsourcing provider for the fund administration.


Wong Chee BoonWong Chee Boon CPA – CFO
Chief Financial Officer

Chee Boon has more than 13 years of finance and accounting experience. He has worked in real estate, shipping and in the IT industry. Chee Boon has more than 8 years of work experience with US MNCs in the IT industry and he was the Financial Controller with EMC, Novell and Comstor. He is a Fellow with The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.


Mark Madhavan BatumaliaMark Madhavan Batumalia
Sales Manager

Mark started his sales career at a Singapore branch of DS-MAX delivering advertising and promotional campaigns for SMEs. He later moved to the banking sector where he spent 3 years selling Consumer and Corporate banking products for HSBC and Standard Chartered respectively. Mark earned his Bsc (Honours) in Business & Management specializing in Marketing at the University of Bradford, UK.


Yaniv CohenYaniv Cohen
Director of IT and Support

Yaniv has 10 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. He is a Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) and have served in the Israeli Airforce. He is also well versed in basic programming and SQL database.


Kaden LaoKaden Lao
Director of Research & Development

Kaden has been in the IT and software industry for the more than seven years. Starting his career in software solution space for the regional telecom industry, Kaden subsequently served as the chief designer and architect for one of the leading local enterprise mobilization solution provider. Kaden earned his MSc in Computer Science at National University of Singapore.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Gearing Up

Dear Readers,

Greetings from the SENTRYi group!

For those of you visiting us for the first time, here’s a little introduction of what in the blue world we are all about.

Established in 2004, SENTRYi Marketing Pte Ltd is a software company focused on providing innovative solutions to the financial services and wealth management industry. The SENTRYi solution suite provides financial advisory firms, fund promoters and private banks with software utilities that increase their product sales, strengthen their customer relationships, and reduce processing costs associated with portfolio lifecycle management.

It has certainly been a very exciting 1st quarter of 2008 for all of us at SENTRYi! With the worldwide marketing venturing on a corrective curve, we have managed to continue our growth via the acquisition of new clients, and the launch of new, exciting products and applications!

We’ll go the extra miles for you.

To fulfil our quest of developing client oriented products and services, our marketing team sought feedback from our existing customers. In doing that, we were able to develop an understanding on possible upgrades and features, of which would be instrumental in enhancing our clients in their areas of responsibility.

Acting upon these areas of feedback, we provided our existing client with an upgraded version of the Portfolio Designer™. For users in Singapore, we have added in extra functionalities, including functionalities that will allow for the handling of hybrid CPF and cash accounts, scaling of fund history with highly graphical timeline measurement tools, as well as other efficient applications.

On this note, three cheers for our partners for their valuable feedback! We hope that the additional functionalities are beneficial, and continue to welcome their suggestions and feedback. Kudos to our technical teams for their immaculate planning, and execution of a flawless upgrade plan for our valued clients, and for turning out these upgrades in record time!

Enlarging our tents

SENTRYi has also experienced growth outside the sunny islands of Singapore. Within this few months, we have been able to secure several new accounts, including top tier IFA, and insurance clients in Hong Kong!

We attribute the exceptional response to our Portfolio Designer™ to the fact that the solution has now established itself as a necessary optimal tool for customers in Hong Kong. As of now, we are supporting over 50 investment products and the capability to be able to fully report in Chinese- increasing efficiency, transparency and compliance. We believe this to be the key in ensuring greater demand, and acceptance for our solutions.

Our immediate neighbour feels the heat, too! Our partnership with one of Malaysia’s largest advisory firm is progressing way ahead of schedule. With the completion of the successful trial, we are optimistic that this partnership will manifest its full glory for over two thousand users of our award winning Portfolio Designer™!

End Credits

We would like to take this opportunity to publicly congratulate our sales team for their outstanding efforts and achievements. Without many of them going the extra miles, SENTRYi will not be where it is today- servicing over ten large scale corporate clients in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. This translates into over ten thousand prospective users of the Portfolio Designer™!

That said, we know that we cannot be content with what we have now- there is a continual need for us to do more to capitalise on the growing markets in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. We remain optimistic as more and more companies are introduced to our wealth of solutions, and for those who have yet to experience for themselves the increased efficiency, transparency and compliance that our award winning solutions have to offer!

Stay with us!