From Boardroom to Classroom: A Mother's Mission

Priscilla is a mother of three who has navigated the complex education landscape firsthand — in the last 20 years, across Singapore, UK, Australia and Japan. She guided her eldest daughter through Singapore's full education system, from primary school to university applications — ultimately receiving 7 offers including the University of Edinburgh, University of Melbourne, and University of Amsterdam. For her two sons in Tokyo, she went through it all again — hoikuen, international preschools, and school selection in a completely different system. She knows the anxiety, the conflicting advice, the sleepless nights wondering if you're making the right choice.

But Priscilla isn't just any parent. Before becoming a mother, she built a career at Goldman Sachs and Deloitte, then became Chief Investment Officer at Reapra, a Singapore-based venture builder. She sits on the board of a Nasdaq-listed company and has taught at General Assembly.

At Reapra, Priscilla supported 50+ entrepreneurs and managed a 100+ company portfolio, using interdisciplinary frameworks to understand their fit for entrepreneurship — exploring their motivations, childhood experiences, personal narratives, and motivation and decision making. It was through this deep work with founders that she developed a profound understanding of human development, career alignment, and what drives people to thrive.

She realized the same frameworks that help adults find their path could be applied much earlier — to children and teenagers standing at the crossroads of their education. The patterns she saw in entrepreneurs who struggled because their degrees confined them to limited roles in their career with little or no satisfaction became the foundation of BrightKey's approach: help families, students make a more purposeful choice the first time.

Today, Priscilla combines this rare expertise — the analytical rigor of a CIO, the human insight of someone who has coached hundreds through life-defining decisions, and the lived experience of a mother — to guide families through the education decisions that shape their children's futures.