BIO: DAVID ROSA

A sign of the changing times

David Rosa is a fintech entrepreneur. He is the CEO and COFOUNDER of Neat, Asia’s alternative to a traditional bank account for startups and young SMEs. Rosa started his career at Citi where he became its youngest managing director in Asia.

He then co-founded the

Asian arm of Integral Capital Management which he sold in 2014 to focus on FINTECH. Throughout his career he has been exposed to the extremes of managing teams across times zones in complex corporate environments all the way to agile business development for startups and related pivots to find product-market-fit.

Rosa holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and is a Responsible

Officer (Types 1, 4 and 9) under the Hong Kong SFC. He has been based in HK for the last 17 years.

of entrepreneurs easier. Everything we do and any feature we add is aimed at making this happen. For instance, we are planning to roll out several cloud tools to automate accounting. This allows entrepreneurs to save time on admin and focus on what matters most: growing their business.

Additionally, while our customers can already transfer funds around the world, we are also planning to add multi-currency accounts to make our product even more appealing to our customers, whose businesses often have a global nature.