{"id":1702,"date":"2019-03-18T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/?page_id=1702"},"modified":"2019-03-22T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T16:38:43","slug":"violet-lim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/meet-the-experts\/violet-lim\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Lim | MECM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 BackgroundAboveFold nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:130px;--awb-padding-right:5%;--awb-padding-bottom:130px;--awb-padding-left:5%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h1 style=\"text-align: center; color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/meet-the-experts\/\"><strong>MEET THE EXPERTS<\/strong><\/a> \u00bb VIOLET LIM<\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-color:#f6f6f6;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:2%;--awb-padding-bottom:4%;--awb-background-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" id=\"invite\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_5 1_5 fusion-one-fifth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:20%;width:calc(20% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.2 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" title=\"Circle-VioletLim\" src=\"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Circle-VioletLim.png\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-1637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Circle-VioletLim-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Circle-VioletLim-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Circle-VioletLim.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_4_5 4_5 fusion-four-fifth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:80%;width:calc(80% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.8 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>Violet Lim, MECM, is the heart and soul of Lunch Actually \u2013 a matchmaking company that she founded with her thenfianc\u00e9, now-husband Jamie Lee back in 2004. Her inspiration came from observing her friends and colleagues who did not have time to date, due to their busy lives around work.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Lunch Actually is Asia\u2019s biggest premier lunch dating company with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Together with Jamie, Violet also founded esync to fill the gap in the market for trusted online and offline dating service platforms, LunchClick, the dating app for serious singles to help them meet offline as soon as possible, as well as Lunch Actually Academy, the date coaching service to maximize singles\u2019 dating success. Her most recent venture is Viola.AI \u2013 the world\u2019s first blockchainpowered lifelong love AI to help singles and couples across their relationship stages.<\/p>\n<p>Violet was the first Asian to be certified by the Matchmaking Institute in New York City, and she is the pioneer in her field. She has appeared in over 4,500 media coverages in top local and international media such as FOX, Forbes, CNN, BBC, Bloomberg, Mashable, The Straits Times, ABC News 20|20, CNBC Asia and Radio Australia. She\u2019s also a renowned public speaker, recently spoke at TEDxNTU in Singapore, PR Asia 2018, Southeast Asia CFO Vision, Asian Women in Leadership Summit, and more.<\/p>\n<p>On top of her role as CEO and spokesperson of Viola.AI and Lunch Actually Group, Violet is active in Entrepreneurs\u2019 Organization (EO) Singapore where she previously served as its Chapter President. She\u2019s\u00a0also a Winner at Women Entrepreneur Award 2017 in Singapore; for her achievement in demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial qualities.<\/p>\n<p>She also sits on the board of Matchmaking Institute and is the Executive Director and the Principal Trainer of Matchmaking Institute of South East Asia where she trains matchmakers and aspiring matchmakers from all around the world. She is a past President at the Rotary Club of Suntec City and a current Committee Member of Shirin Fodzar.<\/p>\n<p>Violet has a master\u2019s degree in industrial Relations and Personal Management from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom and she read law at the University of Manchester from 1998 \u2013 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Violet is happily married to her university sweetheart cum business partner Jamie, and they have two young children, Corum and Cara. Having been blessed with a fulfilling marriage and enriching family life, Violet\u2019s life goal is to create 1 million happy marriages. She believes that Viola.AI will transform the global dating and relationship landscape by helping billions of people create better lifetime relationships.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\"><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat button-xlarge button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.securechkout.com\/violetlim\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Book Your Consultation Today!<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1634,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1702","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702\/revisions\/1753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchmakinginstitute.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}