Anthony Tan
Senior Strategy & Operations at 
Aspire
I am a generalist working in strategy & operations (BizOps). I help teams to get stuff done. I'm originally from Singapore 🇸🇬 and relocating to New York City 🇺🇸 in Feb 2026.
I'm at Aspire (a B2B fintech), where I work on complex cross-functional projects like entering new markets, securing payments licenses, and helping take launches from plan to reality.
After hours, I tinker with side projects. I run an H-1B1 visa site used by thousands, and I previously co-founded Kindlespark, a social enterprise that supported hundreds of students at scale. I'm also a CFA Charter Holder.
Experience
- Led Aspire's first global investment license (CMS), enabling yield product that reached >$80M AUM in 6 months, 4-8x target.
- Led end-to-end regulatory licensing for 3 new markets (Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong), managing cross-functional coordination with global heads of Legal, Compliance, Product, and Operations.
- Handpicked by CEO to join founding expansion team; co-created the market entry playbook, increasing licensing application throughput from 1-2/year to >5/year.
- Built financial, P&L, and unit economics models; presented go/no-go recommendations to C-suite (President, CEO, CPO, CSO), influencing $1-10M budget decisions.
- Analyzed distressed bond portfolio for sale, determining market pricing that informed $10-20M transaction within first month on desk.
- Owned weekly EM fund flows publication distributed to 1,000+ internal and external stakeholders; rebuilt data pipeline from manual Excel to automated Python/R scripts.
Certifications CFA Charter Holder · CFA ESG Certificate
Projects
Research tool for Singaporeans looking to work in the US with an H-1B1 visa. Discover which US companies have hired Singaporeans and the roles they typically sponsor.
3k+ visitors
Kindlespark
CofounderCo-founded social enterprise connecting volunteer tutors to underserved students. Accredited under raiSE Singapore.
3,000+ sessions · 200+ students · 300-400 tutors over 5 years
Partnered with 3 Social Service Offices and Visit.org, bringing corporate volunteers from Crowdstrike, Fitch Ratings, Dolby, and others.
Writing
I write deep dives on fintech and product companies.
All pieces here