Nicholas Tan

Career Tan first joined the Singapore National Team when he was 15. At the age of 18, Tan broke the open national record of Ang Peng Siong in the 100 butterfly and 50m butterfly. He competed in the Singapore National Championships in 2007 and won 3 titles in 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m butterfly.

Tan's major breakthrough came during the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, where he won a gold medal for Singapore in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 54.79 sec In that year, he also competed at the World Aquatics Championships and 2007 FINA Swimming World Cup.

In 2010, Tan participated in the Asian Games and took part in four events including 100 m butterfly, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, 50 metre butterfly and stood 4th position in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay together with Lionel Khoo, Rainer Ng and Clement Lim.

Recent life and work In 2014, Tan started modeling after being selected by European brand Dolce & Gabbana for its international advertising campaign. He also appeared in various magazines including Esquire, GQ, Men's Folio and August Man.

Tan was also a founding team member of Garena(Shopee), an e-commerce platform based in Singapore which later became Sea Ltd and IPOed for $1 billion USD.

In 2015, he co-founded East Ocean Capital, an investment holding and business incubator firm.

In 2016, Tan worked on a shopping mall project in South Africa called Home Africa.

In April 2021, Tan became the Chief Financial Officer of Ace Global Business Acquisition Limited, a NASDAQ listed SPAC.

Tan was included in Forbes China's list of 30 under 30 in 2019.

Research works Tan, Nicholas Xue Wei et al. "Towards A Serum-Free Medium: Growth Receptors And Signaling Pathways That Regulate Multipotency In Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells." World Congress on Engineering (2007).