Amos Avner is the Chief Executive Officer at StartUpEast, a cross-border early-stage incubator based in Israel and is also the senior management professional of SEAMO Ventures, the group's subsidiary in Singapore, an accredited accelerator partner of NUS Enterprise Singapore. Amos is a Captain (in Reserves) in the famous 8200 Intelligence Collection Unit of the Israeli Defence Forces, where he served for 5 years, eventually leading the School of Electronic Intelligence. The company is actively helping overseas early-stage start-ups in their go-to-market activities across South East Asia. Amos holds a Bachelor Degree (Magna cum laude) from the Steve Tisch School for Film, TV and Media at Tel Aviv University, and also holds certifications in Social Media Marketing and Commercial Law. He likes to volunteer as a lecturer and a mentor for different programmes, most recently ICE71 (an NUS and SingTel Innov8 cybersecurity accelerator).