Melvin YuanFounder

United States - Palo Alto, California

Melvin is a 3rd-time venture-backed founder who has successfully built disruptive companies and products in several industries. He is also advisor to a Web3 startup that is building new, blockchain-based solutions for eCommerce.

Melvin founded Starboard with the vision of a Company Operating System™ that enables founders to start and run global companies with ease. It provides a comprehensive range of corporate services — starting with company incorporation, accounting, bookkeeping, payroll and will soon offer a full ‘stack’ of corporate and financial services for companies in Singapore and the US.

Before Starboard, Melvin co-founded YFind Technologies — an Indoor Positioning Technology company that enables precise targeting of location-based advertising content, and provides detailed indoor location-analytics to retailers and mall operators. The company was acquired by NYSE-listed Ruckus Wireless, Inc. in 2013.

Earlier in his career as a marketing professional, Melvin used emerging ‘Web 2.0’ technologies to define new strategies and techniques in marketing and communications. He started and ran the Asia Pacific digital business unit for global communications agency — WE Communications — growing it from zero to a team of over thirty professionals, serving Fortune 500 clients, banks and Singapore government agencies before he left the firm.

Melvin graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication, and started out his career as an Infantry Officer.