Stu Garrow
Saola
CEO and VP Sales
Stu has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Studies from the University of South Australia. He worked in the defense industry after university in the areas of navigation, radar, weapons, and command and control before making the jump to the commercial sector. He has spent more than 25 years running different software businesses across Asia Pacific—building teams, driving go-to-market, expanding revenue, and making customers successful.
He has worked with a variety of co-working spaces and incubators in Singapore to mentor founders of more than 300 startups over the last 15 years, helping specifically with messaging, sales, go-to-market (GTM), partners and ecosystems, board management, and recruitment.
Stu is currently running his own enterprise software startup based out of Singapore called Saola (pronounced sow-la).
In his personal time, you’ll find Stu supporting his son—who is one of the top go-kart racers in Asia—in the Malaysian jungle in his 6×6 Land Rover.