Our Team
Douglas Gan
CEO & Founder
Douglas Gan is a technology entrepreneur and angel investor for startups. Currently, Douglas is the CEO and founder of GBCI Ventures, a leading smart city solutions provider. GBCI uses artificial intelligence (AI) as the backbone and weaving together AI, robotics, virtual reality, big data and IoT to build smart cities all around Asia and connecting them to offer borderless urban services.
In 2008, Douglas founded ShowNearby, a location-based mobile application that won multiple awards in Asia and became the top 3 apps in the world in 2010.
His achievement can be marked by winning the Young Professional of the Year by Singapore Computer Society in the Year 2011. In addition, his alma mater, Ngee Ann Polytechnic recognized him with an Outstanding Alumni Award, given to the Top 25 Alumni since the schools inception 50 years ago.
Between 1997 and 2018, Douglas sold six of his companies to multi-national corporations.
