Doctor, Entrepreneur, Designer, Traveller, Writer, Wife and Mother.
Dr Elaine Kim is a medical doctor with a background in the palliative care space, looking after terminally ill patients in hospice care settings as well as serving as a clinical consultant for the Singapore Ministry of Health.
Currently she is the co-founder and CEO of Trehaus, a company on a mission to bring best-in-class early education to millions of children across the globe, raising the next generation of changemakers.
Trehaus is an early education business behind the leading, premium Trehaus School preschool brand, powered by Littlelab.com, an AI- enabled ed-tech platform that delivers the proprietary Littles’ Programme curriculum and teacher training. The holistic, whole- child-focused, research-based and project/play-based content and “The Trehaus Method” pedagogical framework has been developed by leading international early education experts.
The ed-tech platform has an intuitive interface that helps teachers in preschools, daycares and homeschooling communities with widely varying skills and training to deliver high quality child-led and customised education, provide easy reporting and communication to school parents and track each child’s learning progress.
The flagship Trehaus Schools are leading Preschools and Childcare centers that are changing early education, focus on building character and future skills, and let parents be present for their children’s learning journey. Trehaus was the first in the world to bring top preschool, childcare and co-working space for parents under one roof, providing work-life balance for the modern family in its physical spaces.
Trehaus is mission-driven, driving impact by creating teachers and closing the gap in education inequality.
Her entrepreneurship experiences have led her to become a co-founder of CRIB,
a social enterprise that empowers women by helping them to become successful entrepreneurs.
As a pilot project for CRIB, she embarked on another business venture,
an event design company called Milk and Honey.
Actively involved in philanthrophy causes, she has led awareness-building and fund--raising initiatives for charities such as the Bone Marrow Donor Programme, Dover Park Hospice, HCA Hospice Care and RiverKids, raising over a million dollars for causes that support patients with cancer, the terminally ill and protect at-risk children from trafficking and abuse. She is an ambassador for SNOW (Say "No" to the Oppression of Women"), a UN Women initiative that enables programmes which prevent violence against women. As CEO of CRIB she also launched CRIB's philanthropic arm CRIB Gives Back, which helps raise funds for charities, supports social enterprises and engages the philanthropic community.
Elaine is a member of the Milken Young Leaders Circle, actively involved in the Young President’s Organisation and was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
Elaine enjoys travelling and writing, and thus freelances as a travel journalist.
She has regular luxury travel column in Tatler, and contributes stories to various magazine publications.
You can see some of her published articles on the Travel Stories in the Press page.
Most importantly, she is a wife and mother, married to venture capitalist John Kim of Amasia VC,
who blogs here and vlogs here. They have 3 little boys, Kyan, Luke and Nate.