Joel Neoh Eu-Jin

Neoh was a fashion model during his adolescent years. He walked the runway for various brands in Malaysia, such as Guess, Esprit, Adidas, Nike, Quiksilver and Levi's. During his modelling stint, Neoh was also frequently featured in fashion lifestyle magazines including Men's Health, FHM, New Man, August Man, CLEO, Female, Seventeen, Marie Claire and has been interviewed by local publications in Malaysia including The Star, New Straits Times, Malay Mail, and The Sun.

Neoh is the winner of Malaysia's first corporate reality television programme The Firm (Season 1) in 2007 and was the youngest of 10 contestants at the age of 23.[13]

Neoh's first startup was a student agency which matched fresh graduates with employers.[14] In 2008 he started a business venture called Youth Asia, responsible for running its flagship annual youth event, The Youth Festival - Malaysia's Largest Youth Festival. The Festival was known as YOUTH'08, YOUTH'09 and YOUTH'10 respectively, and gathered over 100,000 young Malaysians within 3 years.[15]

Neoh's team started YouthSays Sdn Bhd, an online youth opinion community under the Youth Asia umbrella, based in Malaysia. The company was responsible for a few other flagship events and campaigns, including Southeast Asia Youths for Change (SEAChange), a 2 days summit held in Putrajaya International Convention Center, Kuala Lumpur. Some of the speakers involved in SEAChange were Biz Stone, Garry Kasparov and Randi Zuckerberg.[16] YouthSays later rebranded as SAYS.com and joined Catcha Media in a merger in 2013.[17]

As a result of SAYS.com merger with Catcha Media, Neoh was appointed to the board of directors of the newly rebranded Rev Asia as a non-executive director.[18]

In August 2010, Neoh's team in Youth Asia started GroupsMore, a social e-commerce startup mimicking the Groupon business model. Within 4 months, the company joined Groupon via acquisition in an undisclosed amount and rebranded itself to Groupon Malaysia.[19]

Neoh served as CEO of Groupon Malaysia. In 2012, his role expanded to the Taiwan market, where he stood in as CEO of Groupon Taiwan on top of his role in Malaysia.[20] He, later on, stepped up to be the Regional Lead for the Southeast Asian markets, responsible for operations in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and India. In 2013, Neoh became the Vice President of Groupon Asia-Pacific, directly responsible for the 12 markets: Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Philippines, and Indonesia.[21]

In May 2015, it was announced that Neoh's next entrepreneurial venture was KFit, a platform that connects users to fitness studios, classes and gyms across Asia Pacific.[22] It was also announced that KFit has raised a seven-figure US-dollar seed funding round from 500 Startups, SXE Ventures, and Founders Global. Two angel investors also joined in – Daniel Shin, founder and CEO of Ticket Monster, and Danny Yeung, the former CEO of Groupon Hong Kong.[23]

KFit has since acquired Groupon Indonesia followed by the acquisition of Groupon Malaysia and Groupon Singapore. Since the acquisition, KFit has since rebranded itself as Fave Group, which now consists of Fave, KFit, Groupon Singapore and Groupon Indonesia. [24]

In September 2014, it was reported that Neoh was part of a group of investors who invested $750,000 in Snaptee, an app that let users turn their smartphone photos into T-shirt designs.[25] Neoh is also limited partner investing into 500 Durians, the South-East Asian fund started by Silicon Valley's 500 Startups.[26] He is also the co-founder of the mobile medical application BookDoc.[27]