Douglas Abrams

Douglas heads the overall strategic direction of First Meta. He brings to the company 7 years of experience as an entrepreneur, venture investor and entrepreneurship educator in Singapore and 13 years as a corporate entrepreneur at JP Morgan in New York. founder and CEO of Expara and Expara IDM Ventures, a business accelerator for interactive and digital media companies and a mentor in the iJAM Micro financing scheme. He is also a founding partner of Parallax Capital Management, a funds management company. All three companies are based in Singapore. Prior to coming to Singapore, Douglas managed information technology at J.P. Morgan for 14 years. From 1997 to 1999, he was Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and from 1991 to 1997, he was VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology. Douglas is the co-Deputy Chairman of the Business Angels Network South-east Asia (BANSEA) and sits on the steering committee of several NUS venture funds. Douglas graduated from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania with a B.As. in Communications and received an MBA from The Wharton School.