GENGIS
About Gengis

A Singapore-based tech startup, set up by founders with global experience

Singapore gives us what we need: a mature AI and technology ecosystem, and serious IP protection. The right place to build the kind of infrastructure we're building.

Founders

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Karen Seah

CEO & Co-founder

Showrunner, executive producer, and director. Seventeen years of unscripted television: Asia's Next Top Model, The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition, Man of The Hour, SupermodelMe. Founded Refinery Concepts (F&B, sold majority stake to Far East Organisation in 2014). Co-founder of Refinery Media and X3D Studio, the largest LED volume in Southeast Asia. Founding partner of Sygnum, the digital-asset bank that turned unicorn in 2025.

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Joel Lim

CCPO & Co-founder

Engineer trained at UCL, with a master's in information systems from Brunel. Then a fashion and celebrity photographer. Then a commercial director, with campaigns for Samsung, Audi, DBS, Shiseido, and La Mer. Former Regional Director of Video Programming & Creative Strategy at Tatler Asia. Directed Dead End, the short that launched Singapore's first virtual-production LED stage at X3D Studio, and Spirit Slayer: Rise of the Apprentice, shot end-to-end on the volume.

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Tan Sian Ju

COO & Co-founder

Co-founder and Executive Director of Refinery Media. Producer of Mothernet, Dead End, and Pommel. Eighteen years at Viacom International Media Networks across MTV and Comedy Central in Asia.

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