Justin Chin spearheads the business development team and sales at e27, where he expertly manages revenue and key clients.

Chin is an accomplished business professional with over a decade of experience in partnership and sponsorship sales. He has a proven track record of successfully closing deals with Fortune 500 companies and collaborating with various organisations such as governments, startups, corporate accelerators, and trade embassies.

He specialises in leading strategic partnerships and driving revenue growth in highly dynamic and rapidly changing environments. Chin is an NTU graduate and holder of an accelerated Honours degree in Economics and a double minor in Business and Entrepreneurship.

Chin regularly contributes articles for e27 (you can read his thought leadership articles here).

In this candid interview, he talks about his personal and professional life.

How would you explain what you do to a five-year-old?

At e27, my team and I help companies achieve their goals, and they would pay us for our time and effort. Simply put, if an ice cream shop owner likes more customers to come to his/her shop, we make it famous and bring customers.

What has been the biggest highlight/challenge of your career so far at e27?

The biggest highlight would be the opportunity to head the revenue team at e27. That’s where I meet and engage some of the largest fortune 500 companies worldwide to work and partner with us. Challenge and breakthrough would be negotiating and “closing a six-figure deal with a customer”.

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How do you envision the next five years of your career?

I would love to close mega deals using automation while sipping a glass of pineapple malibu in Hawaii (half joking)! Ideally, I want to drive e27 to be APAC’s leading tech media company. I would lead a team of ten passionate business development personnel to achieve eight-figure revenue numbers!

What are some of your favourite work tools?

Asana and Pipedrive, or any tools that enable automation and make our lives easier and more productive.

What’s something about you or your job that would surprise us?

Every call I have is an opportunity to make friends, make money and enjoy cups of coffee/beer.

Do you prefer WFH or WFO, or hybrid?

WFH is great, with travelling time being saved! But hybrid would be wonderful, too, with an opportunity to mingle. It’s fantastic to meet all the partners f2f too, and that’s where we get to know them much better on a level.

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What would you tell your younger self?

Experience and embrace life to its fullest. Along this angle, aim to go out to experience the world, whether you would like to work at Starbucks or Mcdonald’s or even travel to Morocco or hike to Everest. We can always earn money but never bring back our youth.

Can you describe yourself in three words?

Making things happen!

What are you most likely to be doing if not working?

Playing tennis with Roger Federer, pool with Efren Reyes, and soccer with Steven Gerrard (I wish)!

What are you currently reading/listening to/watching?

How I Built This with Guy Raz, or any podcasts sharing about investments and growing companies.

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