About

Formerly general counsel of cloud-based platform start-up doxIQ in the Silicon Valley, Christopher Y. Chan joined RedMart in mid-2015 and has established himself as one of the foremost up-and-coming general counsel in Singapore since, playing a major role in the company’s acquisition of the company by Lazada (Alibaba Group) in 2016 and taking on a role as a director of the Association of Corporate Counsel of Singapore in 2017. He mentions ‘being on the executive committee and helping create the LiveUp Lifestyle Loyalty program to drive business and beat out our competitors’ as among his main highlights at his current company, and also provided some insight into how he has built the legal function since joining the company: ‘Because this company is young and I’m the first lawyer, legal has had the ability to assess and minimise risk in all its processes early on. All the contracts and standard operating procedures are practically written and electronically signed, freeing up bandwidth for more strategic work. We have the ability to try new things and also reshape how old processes are done with technology and modernisation’.