Smart Business Structuring for Entrepreneurs
EntreBoss Panel: Smart Business Structuring for Entrepreneurs
Overview
Choosing the right business structure is one of the earliest — and most consequential — decisions entrepreneurs make. It shapes tax exposure, personal liability, fundraising options, and how easily the business can scale or exit. Yet many founders default to whatever structure is fastest to set up, without considering how it will hold up as the business grows.
This panel brings together practitioners across legal, tax/accounting, and entrepreneurship to unpack how founders should think about structuring — not just at incorporation, but as an evolving decision tied to growth stage, risk, and long-term goals.
Key Discussion Areas
Choosing a structure: sole proprietorship vs. partnership vs. private limited company — trade-offs in liability, compliance burden, and credibility with investors/clients
Tax implications: how structure affects tax treatment, and common mistakes entrepreneurs make early on:
Raising capital: how structure affects your ability to bring in investors, issue shares, or take on co-founders
Restructuring for growth: when and why businesses outgrow their original structure — holding companies, subsidiaries, group structures
Risk & liability: protecting personal assets, especially for founders in higher-risk industries
Common pitfalls: mistakes founders make when structuring too early, too late, or without proper advice
Target Audience:
Early-stage entrepreneurs, first-time founders, and small business owners exploring incorporation or restructuring for growth.
Panel:
Speakers:
Jacqueline Low has over 30 years’ experience, helping businesses establish, operate and grow confidently in Singapore. Through JBL Corporate Services, she provides practical guidance and services on incorporation, statutory compliance, accounting, tax, immigration, payroll, trademark, corporate governance, etc.
Having her own business, she has practical experience of starting and running a business, and as such, delivers trusted, pragmatic, commercially focused solutions.
Prior to starting JBL Corporate Services, Jacqueline played a key role in growing Janus Corporate Solutions, a corporate services firm that was later acquired by Hawksford, a Jersey-based corporate, private client, and funds company.
She holds an MBA from De Montfort University, UK, and is Vice Chairman of CSIS and volunteers at Women of Courage Asia.
Sean Koh is a Singapore-based Strategic Business Advisor and Certified Business Coach, accredited by the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC, RCC™ Registered Corporate Coach), with over 30 years of senior leadership across Asia Pacific. He has led C-suite mandates spanning mergers & acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures (JV), cross-border expansion, and business structuring across Southeast Asia, India, and Greater China, covering sectors including technology, semiconductors, automotive, aerospace, and telecommunications.
Drawing on decades of hands-on experience structuring entities for growth and cross-border operation, Sean today leads an independent advisory and coaching practice and serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) with a Singapore-based deep tech venture capital firm, working directly with founders on commercial strategy and market entry across APAC.
He is an Industry Mentor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), and is committed to supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders on the real decisions of building and scaling a business.
Fu Fei is a Global Workforce Consultant at Deel, helping founders and growing businesses across APAC hire and pay people globally. He has worked with 150+ companies, guiding founders through the big early decisions: Employer of Record, contractors, or setting up their own local entity.
Deel supports global workforce operations in 150+ countries and serves 45,000+ customers, with more than $1 billion in payroll processed every month. Fu has seen what works, what gets expensive, and what to ask before you hire abroad.
Moderator & Emcee:
Kerry Chung is Co-Founder of Bridgely, which bridges the gap between smaller businesses and C-suite level leadership support. He believes consulting is only valuable when it can be acted on, which is why Bridgely’s proprietary business health diagnostic system looks at both the business and its leadership as a whole, revealing blind spots and opportunities before any advice is given. Bridgely’s hands-on action plans leverage his fractional and other resources to help businesses improve and grow.
He is a Chartered Accountant with three decades of CFO experience across Asia-Pacific in medical devices, life sciences, biotech, and consumer goods companies including CooperVision, Illumina, Genzyme-Sanofi, Mars, Energizer and Kimberly-Clark.
Kerry has also worked with Singapore family-owned businesses and was formerly Group General Manager of the SUTL Group overseeing both the consumer goods and marina divisions (with marinas located in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand & the U.S.)
He is on the Singapore Council for CA ANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand).