Chris Birrell is Founder and Managing Partner at Func Ventures. Chris has been based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia working as the head of APAC for Silicon Valley based tech companies that generated over US$6BB in returns via exits. He was CIO of Blue Coat Systems then acquired by Symantec in 2016 where Chris became SVP of Infrastructure. He was involved in over 20 acquisitions as part of the due-diligence teams. Chris Director of the Founders Institute Malaysia chapter, the world's leading pre-seed tech accelerator, has a degree in Computer Science from Curtin University and an MBA from the University of Nottingham.