Russ Neu is the Founder and CEO of Social Collider, an aggregator of resources for impact organisations. In 2018, Russ published 'It Made A Difference To This One', a book about an NGO that has helped more than 20,000 children impacted by AIDS in China. 

Russ is also a Venture Partner, Impact, at Quest Ventures, a leading venture fund for technology companies that have scalability and replicability in large internet communities. The impact fund, the first in Asia from a venture capital fund, focuses on the base of pyramid issues in Southeast Asia.

Wearing multiple hats, Russ was appointed Chief Impact Officer at Sg Assist, Singapore’s leading resource aggregator for seniors and caregivers in 2025. Russ looks into the programmes and bridges Sg Assist’s work with overseas partners.

As part of the UNDP programme to share and teach social entrepreneurship, Russ was appointed as a Visiting Professor to carry out the movement across Southeast Asia in 2020.

Russ is also heavily involved in mentoring students at the institute of higher education. Since 2021, Russ has been appointed as sociopreneur-in-residence at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, mentoring students in social entrepreneurship. He also lectures and mentors at the Masters of Venture Creation at the National University of Singapore. 

Russ initiated the diversity and inclusion strategy at Flex where he increased the hiring of persons with disabilities from five to 400 in Zhuhai, China. This was his portfolio as the global lead for diversity and inclusion at Flex (formerly Flextronics). 

Prior to Flex, Russ was with the Ministry of Education in Singapore, where he was seconded to Laos as part of a Singapore International Foundation program to improve access to education for senior public officials. 

Russ is a graduate of the National University of Singapore, and was a Korea Development Bank scholarship recipient for his MBA from Tsinghua University in partnership with MIT. Russ graduated as valedictorian for this MBA in 2014.

For leisure, Russ enjoys reading and writing. His travel notes have been published in The Straits Times and other publications, while his chronicles of Laos were published in a well-received book.