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Revised Nov 2026

Dr. Clemen Chiang

EntrepreneurBoard DirectorPortfolio ManagerEducator

Dr. Clemen Chiang is a Singaporean serial entrepreneur and engineer who is CEO of the company Spiking, which he set up in 2016. He sits on the boards of listed companies, manages a portfolio, and has taught options trading since 2003.

This is the record of an engineer who became an investor: the companies, the boards, the appointments and the dates behind each, with his journal on markets, finance and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Clemen Chiang, Singaporean entrepreneur, board director and educator
Fig. 1 — Clemen ChiangScale 1:1
2000
Began investing
2003
Began teaching options
50K+
Students taught
4
Books published
SEC. A

Four roles. One record.

What he does now, and where. Each role is current as of November 2026.

A1 · Entrepreneur

Founder & CEO

Spiking · Aly Pte. Ltd., Singapore

An AI fintech platform that tracks institutional money flows and options activity so retail investors can see what the largest holders are doing. Founded 2016.

  • Best Innovative Start-Up (Early Stage), SiTF Awards 2016
  • Singapore’s hottest start-ups to watch 2017, Singapore Business Review
  • Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award 2021 and 2022
  • Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies 2023
A2 · Governance

Board Director

Travelite Holdings (SGX: BCZ) and others

Independent director who guided Travelite from SGX-SESDAQ to the SGX Mainboard. Senior Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of Directors and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.

  • Mentor, SID Director Mentoring Programme 2026–27
A3 · Capital

Portfolio Manager

Lucerne Asset Management

Manages a US equities and options portfolio built on the same disclosed-record method he teaches: filings, option chains and money flows before narrative.

  • Cboe Options Institute trained, correspondence from 2000
  • Options Trading Championship, Singapore, 2006
A4 · Teaching

Educator & Author

Teaching options since 2003

Among the first in Asia to teach options, with more than 50,000 students. Author of four books, including The Disclosed Record, a series on options, Singapore property and Bitcoin.

  • Founder, Long Island, a Singapore property education brand
  • Founder, the Bitcoin Institute, 2020
SEC. B

The dated record

Twenty-six years, by the year each thing happened.

2000

The letter

In his final year of civil and structural engineering at NTU he wrote to the Cboe Options Institute about the equation an entire market rested on. The correspondence set the course.

2001

First company

Founded Colemen International, a distribution and online marketing agency for StarHub’s info-communications services, after national service as an infantry officer in the SAF.

2003

Teaching begins

Began teaching options in Singapore, among the first in Asia to do so.

2006

Championship

Hosted the Options Trading Championship, a live-trading event on the third floor of Parkview Square, covered live by CNBC.

2011

The PhD begins

Started the doctoral journey that led to a PhD in Management at the University of Canberra.

2012

Dîner en Blanc

Hosted the first Dîner en Blanc Singapore.

2016

Spiking

Founded Spiking. Named Best Innovative Start-Up at the SiTF Awards the same year.

2020

Bitcoin Institute

Formed the Bitcoin Institute, and on 12 May reversed eleven years of public Bitcoin scepticism, in public.

2023

APECO

Appointed International Representative for Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology at the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority, Philippines.

2025

Knight of Malta

Invested as a Knight of Malta, Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Appointed Diplomatic Correspondent, International Organization Diplomatic Relations, the same year.

2026

The Disclosed Record

Published three books in one year: The Wall Came Down, Long Island and Nine Pages. Launched longisland.sg, optionstrading.sg and capacity.sg.

SEC. C

Boards, appointments, credentials

Boards & appointments

SGX
Travelite HoldingsIndependent director · SGX: BCZ
SID
Singapore Institute of DirectorsSenior Accredited Director · Mentor, Director Mentoring Programme
CMI
Chartered Management InstituteChartered Fellow
PH
APECOInternational Representative, Cryptocurrency & FinTech · appointed 2023
2025
Sovereign Order of Saint John of JerusalemKnight of Malta
2025
International Organization Diplomatic RelationsDiplomatic Correspondent

Companies founded

2001
Colemen InternationalStarHub distribution and online marketing
—
CozyCotCo-founder
2016
SpikingAI market intelligence · Aly Pte. Ltd.
2020
Bitcoin InstitutePlatform for investors in Bitcoin
2026
Long IslandSingapore property education · longisland.sg

Education

PhD
University of CanberraDoctor of Philosophy in Management
MBA
University of LouisvilleEntrepreneurship
BEng
Nanyang Technological UniversityCivil & Structural Engineering
Cboe
The Options InstituteOptions trained, from 2000
VJC
Victoria Junior CollegeAlumnus
SEC. D

Entrepreneurship

Clemen began his national service as an infantry officer in the Singapore Armed Forces, where he received awards for Basic Parachutist, Marksmanship, Jungle Survival and Taekwondo. He founded his first company, Colemen International, in 2001 as a distribution and online marketing agency for StarHub’s info-communications services.

He went on to co-found CozyCot and, in 2020, to form the Bitcoin Institute as a platform for investors and those interested in Bitcoin. As independent director of Travelite Holdings, an investment holding company providing management services, he guided the business from SGX-SESDAQ to the SGX Mainboard.

Spiking, which he set up in 2016, gives retail investors real-time information on what institutions and insiders are doing in the market. The company won Best Innovative Start-Up (Early Stage) at the 2016 SiTF Awards, was named by the Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore’s hottest start-ups to watch in 2017, received the Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award in 2021 and 2022, and was named among Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2023. The company has been supported by the National Research Foundation, a department within Singapore’s Prime Minister’s Office, under the Interactive & Digital Media Strategic Research Programme.

SEC. E  ·  The books live at clemenchiang.com

Four books. One rule.

Every claim in The Disclosed Record points to a document the reader can open. The series, the live events and the book sites are at clemenchiang.com and Amazon.

Visit clemenchiang.com
  • The Wall Came Down Options · Book One · 2026
  • Long Island Singapore property · Book Two · 2026
  • Nine Pages Bitcoin · Book Three · 2026
  • Spiking To The Moon Crypto whales · 2018
SEC. F

The journal

Notes on markets, finance and artificial intelligence.

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Boards, speaking, media

Board appointments, speaking invitations, press and mentoring enquiries are received on LinkedIn. Questions about the books go to clemenchiang.com. Common questions are answered on the FAQ.

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