Jing Shuting Ng

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Partner at Hawthorn Growth · Climate · climate tech, energy

Hawthorn Growth
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
8+ years experience
Ateneo de Manila University
English, Mandarin
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Overview

Partner at Hawthorn Growth, backing climate companies. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Naver and Alibaba Group. Jazz piano, badly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in payments infrastructure
  • Questions about payments infrastructure
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Courses and coaching offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
energyventure capitalhardwareclimate tech
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 4 months

Writing $2M cheques into seed climate in the UK

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Payments infrastructure, AI applications
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Singaporeenergyclimate techventure capital

Experience

  1. Partner
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Hawthorn Growth · 6 mo · Contract · Singapore
    • Shipped 20 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 12 a week to 3.
  2. Controller
    Oct 2024 - Apr 2026
    Naver · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 4 straight quarters.
  3. Controller
    Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
    Alibaba Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 14.
  4. Controller
    Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
    Recruit Holdings · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 17.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Jan 2019 - May 2020
    Sony · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Ran diligence on 4 acquisitions.
    • Saved $1 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.

Projects

Payments infrastructure benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing energy and hardware on real workloads.

Write-up: payments infrastructure in practice
2025

A long-form guide to payments infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Ateneo de Manila University
    BS, Economics
    2001 - 2005

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