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Paul Rogers

Investor (co-founding), NED @ Message My Customer (Payemoji) | Transforming customer engagement with OMNI-Channel messaging

📍 Malaysia🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
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Investor (co-founding), NED
Jan 2022
Payemoji is a conversational engagement, payments & commerce company. Payemoji enables businesses to engage customers, sell products & services, accept digital payments, book appointments, provide any customer journey through everyday messaging apps like WhatsApp. With Payemoji, businesses can provide a better customer experience, without the complexity and cost of a mobile application. We sell our services to B2C industries that engage customers on four main use cases with integration to their IT systems: 1. Conversational Payments in everyones preferred communication channel e.g. WhatsApp, SMS, email. 2.. Personalized, Interactive and Secure notifications: Complementing existing communications i.e., business tick vs. fraud & spam. 3, Super charge Web eCommerce with Conversational Commerce: Open a conversation with a customer with 98% Open rates, 45-60% CTR and 4X conversion of Email. Works with all major eCommerce platforms. 4. Conversational AI support: Support your customers where they chat with their friends and customers. No more annoying wait for a web chat. For more information about Payemoji, visit www.payemoji.com.
Asavie Investor Team & VP APAC
Jan 2009
Asavie’s on-demand mobility and IoT services provide increased productivity, valuable insights and enhanced security for the digital business. Strategic distribution and technology partners include AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Singtel, Telefonica, Verizon and Vodafone. Asavie is an ISO27001 certified company. Recognized by Deloitte and the Financial Times as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies, Asavie is a company on the move. We value teamwork, innovation and people who go the extra mile. These values have been the foundation of our success and will drive further growth as we enter a hugely exciting time for our organization. Asavie is an inclusive work environment where diversity is embraced for the value it brings to us all personally and professionally.
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2022
Investor (co-founding), NED
Jan 2022
Payemoji is a conversational engagement, payments & commerce company. Payemoji enables businesses to engage customers, sell products & services, accept digital payments, book appointments, provide any customer journey through everyday messaging apps like WhatsApp. With Payemoji, businesses can provide a better customer experience, without the complexity and cost of a mobile application. We sell our services to B2C industries that engage customers on four main use cases with integration to their IT systems: 1. Conversational Payments in everyones preferred communication channel e.g. WhatsApp, SMS, email. 2.. Personalized, Interactive and Secure notifications: Complementing existing communications i.e., business tick vs. fraud & spam. 3, Super charge Web eCommerce with Conversational Commerce: Open a conversation with a customer with 98% Open rates, 45-60% CTR and 4X conversion of Email. Works with all major eCommerce platforms. 4. Conversational AI support: Support your customers where they chat with their friends and customers. No more annoying wait for a web chat. For more information about Payemoji, visit www.payemoji.com.
2019
CEO, Co-Founder
May 2019
Based in Malaysia, our goal is to help Malaysian Enterprises and Consumers significantly reduce the consumption of single-use plastic, starting with Plastic Water Bottles.
2009
Asavie Investor Team & VP APAC
Jan 2009
Asavie’s on-demand mobility and IoT services provide increased productivity, valuable insights and enhanced security for the digital business. Strategic distribution and technology partners include AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Singtel, Telefonica, Verizon and Vodafone. Asavie is an ISO27001 certified company. Recognized by Deloitte and the Financial Times as one of Europe’s fastest growing companies, Asavie is a company on the move. We value teamwork, innovation and people who go the extra mile. These values have been the foundation of our success and will drive further growth as we enter a hugely exciting time for our organization. Asavie is an inclusive work environment where diversity is embraced for the value it brings to us all personally and professionally.
2005
Co-Founder
Jul 2005
Tec-Surf is a systems integrator and consultancy focussed on the mobile Telco market in Asia. We prime Telco-grade projects and services on a turnkey or managed service basis. Established in 2004 by an experienced management team from the international vendor and operator community, our core strength lies in the deployment of new technical solutions, guiding these solutions through the Requirements Matching, Proof-of-Concept & RFP phases, as well as working with the end customer to develop the relevant internal procurement models. Over the years, we have developed significant competence in SS7, integrating service platforms to a number of CS and PS networks (including LTE) from all major network vendors. We also have experience in the manipulation of Large Data Sets (typically Subscriber Databases). We have successfully completed projects for operators in Malaysia, Philippines and Afghanistan, whilst we have provided technical and commercial support to partners for projects in Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We have provided consulting services for a number of Blue Sky commercial viability studies including: cdma450 (technology from Norway) for East Malaysia, HAPS (technology from Russia) for tropical latitudes, MVNO models for New Market Entrants (Media), Network-centric VPN Blackberry replacement service (technology from Ireland), water-cooled servers (technology from The Netherlands) in DataCentres. We complement our full-service approach with a combination of investment and strategic partnerships in Asia, Australia and Europe.