Ray Pang Si Heng grew up in an Asian culture in Singapore. He graduated with a Bachelor of Business, Majoring in International Business and Marketing from Monash University. Though mischievous as a kid, he was good at academics and was constantly in the top 3 in his primary school years. As he grew up, he came to realise that academics wasn’t everything. He then started playing sports as well. “I started feeling that more friends and the experiences with a bigger social circle were better than always being the top few in class.” Ray says.
After school, Ray usually visited convenience stores that sold sports merchandise, cards and many more. Soon he started stealing rare cards from convenience stores and sold them at school, with this being his first point of “entrepreneurship”. However that didn’t last for long. He was ratted out by his school mates and was severely punished, even thrown out of the house at one stage.
Ray discovered his quality of being a leader when he began playing football in the teenage years of his school. “I had to go through training, understanding team chemistry, communication, decisiveness, and having an unbeatable mindset. And that honed me to understand the importance of leadership.” he said. From just a hobby, he became addicted to it.
In Singapore, after finishing college, every single male has to be enlisted into the Army for at least 2 years. During his first year in the military, he did all he can to apply to different universities but couldn’t get into any due to his poor grades in the college graduation exams. “With a traditional Asian background, all that I was thinking in my mind was “If I don’t finish university, I would be at a big disadvantage when it comes to job-seeking opportunities as my competition are people who graduated university. At that moment in time, that was the only route that I knew. I felt like I couldn’t progress. I just had no idea where I was going in life. I was lost.”
Soon then he went to Australia, Monash University and got a full-time job in a FinTech Start-Up. He took on the role of so many things – operations, finance, partnerships, executive meetings, strategy sessions and many more. “I was working in a start-up company directly with the co-founders and began to learn the ropes on how I can start building my own business from absolutely scratch as well – what needs to be done, what kind of people you should be looking for, and being introduced to the many variables that a business owner should be focusing on. It was great!” Ray stated.
At present, the 25 year old is a serial entrepreneur and own/co-owns multiple businesses.
“We help coaches, speakers, thought-leaders, build, grow, and dominate in their industry online using relationship-driven business developments, marketing, sales strategies and teams.” Ray remarked.
He says he chooses entrepreneurship as his career, “Because it’s a perfect space for me to never be in a place where my current state and future are at the mercy of someone else.”