Team Members

overseeing more than $60m in both income and expenditures for a wide range of human services catered to the marginalized and the vulnerable. 4 years prior, Marcus was concurrently the founding partner of Qr8 Advisory; a company that provides corporate advisory and strategic consultancy to founders and enterprises backed by analytics solutions. Before joining The Salvation Army, Marcus served as Assistant Director of Strategy Development and Industry Analysis in the Media Development Authority (“MDA”) where he spent much of his time and energy in the construction, articulation, persuasion, and tracking of various industry development plans. One notable piece was the Infocomm Media 2025; the blueprint that set the ground for the eventual merger between the IDA and MDA. In parallel to the work relating to strategy, Marcus was also a primary quantitative analyst in his organization and was often involved in all matters relating to economic, statistical, and consumer data analysis that were crucial to the agency’s decision-making process. Within the 13 years spent in the MDA, Marcus managed R&D programs governed by the Interactive Digital Media R&D Programme Office (“IDMPO”), a cross-agency outfit that was funded by the NRF. Marcus was part of the pioneering generation of public officers that actively facilitated the establishment of Blk 71 at Ayer Rajah; which is now a symbolic icon of Singapore’s tech start-up ecosystem. Besides strategy and R&D, Marcus spent his initial years in the MDA working on competition policies relating to the media sector. Before life in public service, Marcus was an equities analyst covering the telco and Internet space with JPMorgan where he was part of the research team that helped took a local telecom software company to public listing on the Singapore Stock Exchange.  Marcus deems himself a keen student and advocate of innovation and entrepreneurship.