Business Owners / SMEs

Cultivate a network that is built on mutual professional aspirations and personal ventures with other business owners.

This confidential group provides a supportive forum to uncover and discuss key issues that confront business owners and SMEs.

Business owners may often find that the issues they really need help with and the type of discussions they want are of a different level and scale from what their regular employed counterparts face. This group allows members to finally attain the information they have been missing by delving into key issues and developing shared solutions that have been established through experience from an ownership perspective. The group also regularly shares their experience in areas ranging from strategy development to effective execution with a view of identifying “best practice” and creating “next practice.”

The current key topics that are being explored during our meetings, and we regularly seek our members’ input to flex and change these as situations change:

Singapore Grants

How to Fund Raise – Key tips

Transfer Pricing – What is best practice and how does it really work?

Founder Wellness – The Forgotten Employee

Upcoming Financial and Macro Economic Challenges to be prepared for

Funding Raising – When is it needed and how to qualify an Investor

Converting a Micro Business to a Macro one

Privacy and Security for SME’s – What do we really need to know?

How and when to source an Employer of Record for your Business Expansion

Brand Growth while removing yourself from full control

Macroeconomic review – what should we be aware of?

All things Future: Meta, NFT, Crypto, Singapore 5G

Fundraising – What? and How?

The use of a Board of Advisors & Directors

Building Customer Excellence

Marketing: Customers (Lead generation) & Branding

Building Cultural Awareness – improve business and teamwork

From strategy development to effective execution, this is a peer group that will exchange ideas to identify the best practices for tomorrow.
Members of this group are from small Singapore-based companies and include the Regional Director of 3SC, Founder of Wasabi Consulting, Co-Founder & Chief Executive of Intellistride Technologies, Founder of kimbocorp, Managing Director of Avernor Pte Ltd, Chief Executive Officer Relo Network Asia, Director of Codestream, Owner of Fortis Law Corporation, and many more.

Meet the group’s chair

More about Ronald Soh

As a seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of success in multiple startups and established businesses across Singapore and Malaysia, Ronald has honed his skills as a growth hacker, business process optimizer, and digital transformer.

Meet the group’s chair

More about Lisa Askwith

Lisa is the owner of small business, Apex BRS. She is also currently the Chair/Director of See Global Media paired with 25 years of experience in working at multiple successful companies such as Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, Dnata/Emirates, Sanofi-Aventis, NUS, and Cambridge.

Peer Group Details

Confidential peer group with 30-35 members
6 Meetings per year
Multidisciplinary events and networking seminars
Access to a virtual global network with more than 15,000 members in 15 countries

To give you a feel of EGN, listen to how our members have benefited from their membership:

Maarten Van Den Bos

Founder & CEO - KVP Solution

Ian Wu

Group CCO, Co-Owner & CEO at Huone Events Hotels

Our networks operate within the following frameworks:

You can participate in six (6) peer group meetings each year for a half day at a central Singapore location with dates set a year in advance.
You’ll enjoy access to 36+ Members Only virtual Cross-Functional events per year including focus groups on digital transformation, innovation, human capital, future of works, developing markets, personal development, and networking evenings.
You also get access to 12 in-person Cross-Functional events and 4 Economic Forecasts and 4 speaker panels.
You’ll also get access to our online tools via the EGN Members Universe Mobile App, where you can post queries and connect all global members.
Knowledge sharing in the group is in the strictest confidentiality.
EGN will provide an experienced, certified facilitator to run all aspects of the group and meetings.
The group has its own website with contact data, calendar, documents, and presentations.

Frequently Asked Questions

An EGN membership varies in price, depending on your locality, seniority and the specific benefits applied to the EGN Group.
Our Network Advisors can help you find the right group based on your managerial level and professional needs.
Enter your contact info here and one of our Network Advisors will get back to you.
With the support of a professional network, you get the opportunity to exchange experience on a high professional level, strengthen and develop your own skills within management and specialised areas.
As a member of EGN, you get direct access to Top Executives, Business Leaders and Specialists in most parts of the world via our online Members’ Universe where you can ask questions, join debates and network with more than 15,000 other members.
Your personal EGN group represents a confidential forum where all ideas and challenges can be discussed with peers at your own, professional level. To ensure confidentiality, no competitors or significant customer relationships are allowed in the same group.
All our peer groups are managed by a professional and experienced EGN Chair, who facilitates and mentors the peer groups, ensures output both at and between meetings and focuses on your professional and managerial development.
We also offer events and seminars, networking tours, an Between Jobs Scheme, mentoring programmes, CEO coaching and much more.
Contact us for more information
You can apply for membership by filling out this form
When we have received your application, you will be contacted by a Network Advisor for a more in-depth interview to find the right peer group for your managerial level and/or professional need.
All candidates must be approved by both the Chair and specific peer group members before joining a group. This is done both to match relevant peers and also to avoid private friends, customer relationships and competitors being placed together in the same network group and to help facilitate honest and fruitful discussions.