Zhihan is the group CEO of BagoSphere, an award-winning social enterprise that has developed a revolutionary model for disconnected youth to go from poverty to professional, transformational careers in the Philippines.
Before BagoSphere, Zhihan worked at a medical-tech start-up in Stockholm before venturing into rural India to work with a social enterprise involved in rural IT outsourcing. Zhihan graduated from the National University of Singapore’s Engineering Science Program and studied entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship & The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He was the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox Network – the leading global network of innovators under 30, and a 2016 Global Good Fund Fellow. For his work, he was named as an Ashoka Philippines Fellow in 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious network of social innovators.
Before BagoSphere, Zhihan worked at a medical-tech start-up in Stockholm before venturing into rural India to work with a social enterprise involved in rural IT outsourcing. Zhihan graduated from the National University of Singapore’s Engineering Science Program and studied entrepreneurship at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship & The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He was the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox Network – the leading global network of innovators under 30, and a 2016 Global Good Fund Fellow. For his work, he was named as an Ashoka Philippines Fellow in 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious network of social innovators.