Prior to his appointment in muru-D, Paul Meyers already had over 25 years of experience in media and tech industries in Asia

Paul Meyers, Head of muru-d Singapore

Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D today announced the appointment of Paul Meyers as the new head of its Singapore operations.

His appointment follows the resignation of previous head Jamie Camidge in March.

Prior to joining muru-D, Meyers is already well-known as a media and tech industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in the Asian market.

His most notable works including heading and developing Asia Business News (now CNBC Asia); bringing CNET, E!Online, Sports.com and DoubleClick to Asia with localised versions across eight countries; founding and running MTVAsia.com; co-founding and running business development for AsiaContent.com, helping to take it public on NASDAQ in 2000; founding and running Acme Mobile for more than seven years, before selling it to Mexico’s Binbit; and running business development across Asia for mig.me.

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Before moving to Asia in the early 1990s, Meyers was an award-winning television producer and director in the US. He had created documentaries, commercials, and corporate films for Apple, IBM, HP, Motorola, Visa and other Silicon Valley companies.

muru-D was launched in Singapore in April 2015. Singapore is the accelerator’s first location outside of Australia, where it has presence in four cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.

It has accelerated 73 startups to date; it partners with 500 Startups, HAX, Chinaccelerator, The Junction, and The Icehouse.

The accelerator is currently opening submission for the third cohort of its Singapore programme. Applications will be closed on August 7, and the programme itself will run from September 2017 to March 2018.

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