Helping Asian SME founders and licensing professionals scale beyond their local-market ceiling — with AI-driven workflows, real deal architecture, and a decade of pan-Asia operator intelligence.
Most operators in Asia compete at a local level with a local-sized budget. Ivan helps them compete at a regional level — using deep Asia business intelligence, licensing deal strategy, and AI-driven growth frameworks built for Hong Kong, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
You see the deals others can't — because you've built the map.
A decade of pan-Asia relationships across Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, and Southeast Asia — tourism boards, government officials, group CEOs — turned into a practised discipline for finding opportunities at the edges of conventional industry categories.
The best AI model money can buy shouldn't be the only one that works.
Closing the widening gap between what large enterprises do with premium AI and what SME founders can realistically access — with specific tools, real workflows, and honest assessments from someone who built the stack himself.
The streak is visible proof. The neuroscience is the reason it works.
Behavioural psychology, habit-loop research, and decision-making under load — applied directly to deal-making. Not a morning routine for its own sake, but the operating system running underneath every deal and every conversation.
IP is the most underrated growth lever in Asia. AI is the multiplier.
Eight years of media IP across film, web drama, animated characters, TV, and music — combined with a live practice of building AI into licensing workflows. Two credentials almost no practitioner in Asia holds at once.
Not teaching from the summit. Documenting the climb — in real time.
A live, unfiltered record of building your own brand and company while still operating inside someone else's — carried by a worldview that positive reframing is a competitive advantage you can train like a physical habit.
Not for everyone — and that's the point. This is for people who've already proven they can win locally, and now need a framework to win across Asia.
Aged 28–45 in Hong Kong, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Proven local success, but plateaued — shallow network outside their home market, and a sense that AI is reshaping their industry faster than they can adapt. They track metrics, consume content seriously, and are ready to invest in growth.
Aged 22–32 in licensing, entertainment, and brand strategy across Asia — hungry for a mentor with real industry wins, global perspective, and the energy to make complex strategy feel executable. Their core fear: being left behind by AI, by competitors, or by their own limited thinking.
"I help Asian SME founders and licensing professionals scale beyond their local-market ceiling — so they can compete at a regional level without a regional-sized budget."