OmiseGO
Fintech · Series B+
VP Commercial & Business Development
Bangkok 13°45′N 100°31′E / Jakarta 06°12′S 106°50′E
Dennis Keller
Co-founder & CBO, Seaplane Asia Group
Commercial exec & business builder
Startup mentor & advisor
Private pilot
Photographer & globetrotter
Technology is the enabler, not the point. I build commercial engines for companies that move people, money and goods — then hand over the controls.
- Home base
- Thailand & Indonesia
- Local time — Bangkok
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- Status
- Open to consultancy & not-for-profit
WPT 01 Manifest HDG 118°
A business person who understands tech and is fluent in numbers — building in aviation, fintech and e-commerce, after a decade inside telecoms, banking and advisory.
Start-ups taught me speed; institutions taught me why things survive. The interesting work sits between the two — taking an idea with real physics behind it and giving it a commercial spine: pricing, partnerships, unit economics, regulators, the first hundred customers.
These days that means seaplanes and aviation in Southeast Asia. Before that it meant a blockchain fintech, a retail platform, and mobile financial services across emerging markets.
- Sectors
- Aviation · Fintech · E-commerce · Telecoms · Banking
- Working languages
- Commercial strategy, fundraising, go-to-market, board work
- Currently
- Full-time entrepreneur and advisor
- Also
- Private pilot. Photographer. Chronic globetrotter.
WPT 02 Logbook — founded & co-founded 6 entries
01 Seaplane Asia Group
Co-founder & Chief Business Officer
Seaplane operations across Southeast Asia — point-to-point flights to the islands and resorts that runways can't reach. I own the commercial side: network and route economics, pricing, partnerships, fundraising and the regulatory path.
02 Kopak
Partner
Manufacturing and service business operating across Southeast Asia. Details on request.
03 Station 1862
04 ROOMOOMO
Co-founder → CEO → Chairman of the Board
Built from pre-launch through to exit in July 2019. Co-founded in December 2015 across business, finance, technology and marketing; CEO from 2016 to 2018; Chairman until the sale.
05 Airclub Asia
Co-founder
Aviation venture in Asia. Information on request.
06 Dionos Services
Founder & consulting partner
Development, NGO and IT advisory across Western Europe, Africa and Asia.
WPT 02b Before that Corporate hours
Telenor Group
Telecoms & financial services
Director, Head of Commercial
Millicom / Tigo
Telecommunications
Global Investment Strategist
EBRD
Development banking
Advice for Small Businesses
OECD
Multi-government organisation
Public Finance Consultant
WPT 03 Advisory Selective
Founders hire me for the unglamorous half of the idea.
0Ventures founded or co-founded
0Sectors worked in depth
0Exit, start to finish
0Home bases in the region
The pitch deck is usually fine. What's missing is the model underneath it: how the money actually arrives, what it costs to serve the hundredth customer, which partner unlocks the market, and what the regulator will say in month nine.
I work with a small number of teams at a time — mostly early-stage in Southeast Asia, mostly where hardware, regulation or physical operations make the business harder than software alone. Not-for-profit engagements welcome.
- Where I'm useful
- Commercial strategy · Pricing & unit economics · Fundraising narrative & numbers · Partnerships · Board and governance
- Formats
- Advisory retainer · Board or observer seat · Short diagnostic sprint
WPT 04 Aviation PIC
Attitude · move your cursor
Flying isn't the hobby. It's where the business ideas come from.
A private pilot's licence changes how you read a map. You stop seeing countries and start seeing the gaps — the islands four hours by road and forty minutes by air, the resorts with a jetty and no runway, the routes that never get flown because nobody did the economics.
That's the whole thesis behind seaplanes in Southeast Asia, and it started in a cockpit rather than a spreadsheet.
- Private pilot
- Seaplane operations
- Route economics
- Aviation regulation
- Southeast Asia
WPT 05 Frames Travel & photography
Seventy-odd countries, and the camera is still the heaviest thing I pack.
Raja Ampat · East Java · Gili — full archive on Flickr
WPT 06 Destination
Let's talk
Advisory work, board seats, not-for-profit projects, or a coffee somewhere between Bangkok and Jakarta — the inbox is open.