Head of Venture Investments since 2024. Prior to joining CSB, Sou was at L.E.K. Consulting in Japan where he supported various life science, pharmaceutical and consumer goods projects. Sou has also worked at one of Southeast Asia’s biggest startups, Shopee, as Japan cross-border business development and operational lead and was a founding member of Shopee Japan. He also has experience as an academic at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (Singapore), where he studied the microbiome of humans, laboratory and farm animals. Sou gained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol, U.K. and MSci. and PhD. from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, on molecular microbiology.

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