Adriana leads the Consumer Insights Analytical Consulting team in Nielsen which focuses on Quantitative customised research, bringing to the role 16+ years experience in market research. Previously leading up the financial vertical in Nielsen Singapore, she is well-versed in the financial and payments space, providing clear strategic direction based on research and data and brings a high level of strategic thinking and research expertise to her clients.

During the course of her career, Adriana has been actively involved
in an extensive range of projects including brand health studies, segmentation, customer experience studies, product and concept studies as well as continuous tracking studies.

In additional to Financial services, Adriana has worked extensively across other industries including Government, Education, FMCG & Durables. She is known not only for her research expertise and her ability to sieve out insights for her clients but also for her keen eye for detail and developing a deep understanding of the services and market dynamics of her clients.

Alan Soon is at the intersection of media, technology and startups. He is Asia’s leading expert on newsroom operations, digital transformation and building the new business of media.

He’s the Founder & CEO of The Splice Newsroom, an editorial consultancy that builds, develops and transforms newsrooms. He also advises early-stage media-tech startups.

For more than 20 years, Alan has worked in radio, TV, news wires, magazine and online across Asia. This gives him a 360 view on how various newsrooms get things done — and how things get stuck. He started out as a reporter and grew into other operational roles including producer, editor, newsroom manager and eventually a business leader. Alan led one of the largest digital news teams in the industry as Yahoo’s Managing Editor for India and Southeast Asia. He’s also worked at CNBC and Bloomberg across Asia.

Alan is a regular speaker at international media conferences where he discusses culture change in newsrooms, the evolving business of journalism and distributed content strategies.

He is also a co-founder of the Online News Association in Singapore. He publishes The Splice Slugs, a closely followed weekly newsletter on industry trends.

Andrew Thomas joined Ogilvy in 2005 as Managing Director of the Singapore office.  He was appointed Regional Managing Director SEAsia in January 2010 and then President of Southeast Asia in January 2014.

Prior to joining Ogilvy, Andrew worked in the publishing arena for 20 years, managing the business operations of the International Herald Tribune in South Asia, and Communication Management, producer of society magazine, Singapore Tatler.

Having managed a number of successful regional businesses, Andrew understands the complexity of the communications business from both the agency and client perspective.

Andrew has used his public relations expertise to counsel a wide variety of Singapore and regional CEOs from crisis management counsel and media coaching to working directly with business leaders to shape their strategies. In the last decade, he has supported senior leadership teams from many of the region’s most dynamic public and private sector organisations as they seek to build their brands in the fast-growing markets of Southeast Asia

He is a frequent speaker at industry and business events and brings energy, humour and insight when moderating conferences and panel discussions involving many senior political figures and business leaders from the region.  The goal put everyone at ease and create a connection between the audience and speakers.

In his decade+ with Ogilvy, Andrew has led Ogilvy to become the largest and most awarded PR firm in Singapore and Southeast Asia region.

Andrew is also a trained auctioneer and has auctioned some of the region’s leading contemporary art.  Understanding and engaging an audience, storytelling and presentation are always tested in the quest of getting an individual to part with their own money!

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Ange Clowry is Director, Asia-Pacific Brand, Marketing and Communications Leader for Financial Services at EY and has more than 17 years of international experience across Sydney, London, Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong.  Ange specializes in B2B marketing and has worked in a number of global professional services firms supporting various lines of business to build reputation, develop relationships and increase revenue.  She is passionate about using data and analytics to drive greater personalization and enhance impact with customers and is a passionate advocate of marketing technology.  Ange has an MBA from Charles Sturt University and when she’s not working or out running, focuses her attention on raising her four boys.

Anirudh Shivapuja is an experienced digital marketer with over a decades worth of experience. In this time he has lived in 3 countries and worked across verticals such as FMCG, Technology, Telecom & Financial services, specialising in data driven marketing and digital sales growth.

He is currently AVP – Digital Acquisition for Citibank Singapore. He’s currently working on exciting projects in the analytics, personalisation and automation spaces. He has a keen interest Ad tech & Mar tech and has horned his skills by working across ad agencies, publisher and client side roles.

Anna Haotanto is the CEO of The New Savvy. She is part of the founding committee of the Singapore FinTech Association and heads the Women In FinTech and Partnership Committee. Anna is the President of the Singapore Management University Women Alumni. Anna invests and sits on the board of a few startups. Anna is also part of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry Career Women’s Group executive committee.
Anna’s story is featured on Millionaire Minds on Channel NewsAsia. She is the host for Channel NewsAsia for Challenge Tomorrow, a FinTech documentary.
Anna was awarded “Her Times Youth Award” at the Rising50 Women Empowerment Gala, organised by the Indonesian Embassy of Singapore. The award was presented by His Excellency Ngurah Swajaya. She was also awarded Founder of the Year for ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards. She was also awarded the Women Empowerment Award by the Asian Business & Social Forum.

Anna has been awarded LinkedIn Power Profiles for founders (2018, 2018), Tatler Gen T, The Peak’s Trailblazers under 40 and a nominee for the Women of The Future award by Aviva.

She was nominated and selected for FORTUNE Most Powerful Women conference in 2016 (Asia) and 2015 (San Francisco, Next Gen).
Anna has been featured on CNBC, Channel NewsAsia, Forbes, The Straits Times, Reuters Money, Business Insider, The Peak Magazine, Tech In Asia, Tatler, INC, The New Paper, The Edge Singapore & Malaysia, Oxford Said Business School, AsiaOne, Singapore Computer Society, Vulcan Post, e27, eFinancialCareers , Her World, Singapore Women’s Weekly, 8Days, Asian Entrepreneur and Singapore Management University. She headlines the info commercial for Lifetime Asia: What does a boss look like? with over 1.7 Million views

Anna is on the panel for Singapore Computer Society for Best Tech Company to work for and Digital Proficiency Program.
Anna conducts workshops on personal finance and had given talks on finance, women issues and empowerment for organisations – Singapore Exchange (SGX), ASEAN Women, Citi Group, DBS, ShareInvestor, UBER, Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Symposium, UBER, General Assembly, Singapore FinTech Association, REITs Symposium, Next Money, CRIB Society, Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW), SG50 Singapore Female Leaders, Singapore Women Network, ESSEC MBA, etc.
Anna raised mid-six-figure funding for The New Savvy within 1.5 years of operation. The New Savvy is Asia’s leading financial, investments and career platform focusing on women. With the aim of empowering 100 million women to achieve financial happiness, The New Savvy delivers high-quality content through education, media and conferences.

She is passionate about finance, education, women empowerment, and children’s issues.

She regularly teaches and mentors children and adults on financial prudence and investments, facilitating their ability to be better informed when making financial decisions.

Anna is involved in various charities supporting women and children causes. She was one of the main donors in the building of a library for underprivileged female students.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

Anna has 10 years of experience in the financial sector including wealth management, private equity, research as well as corporate and investment banking. She was a Director at Tera Capital, a private investment firm with investments in China, Singapore and the United States. She has held positions at Citigroup, United Overseas Bank, a regional role in Business Monitor and a boutique private equity firm based in Shanghai.

Anna is proficient in managing assets and providing advice to high net worth clients. Among the numerous awards Anna had received, she was the Top Offshore Senior Client Advisor for 2 years running, within just 3 years of entering the industry.

Anna provides wealth management consultancy to select high net worth clients.

She is proficient in English, Mandarin, Indonesia and Melayu.

EDUCATION

Anna was awarded Top Student (Salutatorian) for UOB-SMU Private Banking course. She completed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) FinTech course.
Anna spearheaded and founded the Women Alumni group at Singapore Management University.

She graduated from Singapore Management University (Finance and Quantitative Finance), Hwa Chong Junior College. She held leadership roles – she was the founding member and Vice-President of the Quantitive Finance club, the Soccer Captain and the Vice-President of the Dance Society.
Anna seeks meaning in focusing her entrepreneurial career on financial literacy as she firmly believes that continuous learning empowers people.

Ben Byrne – better known to his online fanbase as The Smiling Afro – is an entertainer-turned-entrepreneur based in Singapore. Employing his acerbic wit and an uncanny, almost innate knack for comedy, Ben has proven himself adept at creating fun and engaging content for an array of corporate clients.

Eschewing traditional methods in sales and marketing in favour of a more personable approach, Ben is a firm adherent to his mantra, “Keep it Simple,” and has applied this principle to great effect in his work. Cognizant of the need for authenticity in order to be effective at social media marketing, Ben makes consummate use of comedic effect to produce tangible results for his clients.

Head of Yahoo TV, Southeast Asia at Verizon Media
Carey is Head of Yahoo TV, Southeast Asia, where she leads a team of millennials creating relevant content for millennials via mixed reality, motion capture, virtual characters and live streaming experiences.

A firm advocate for digital disruption and new technologies, she forged a career working in traditional advertising agencies, start-ups, and digital media. Her repertoire of skills includes content marketing, business development, editorial content and product management – while her decade-long career in digital media has armed her with a potent blend of cross-industry experience encompassing insurance, travel, healthcare, and e-commerce.

Establishing the Yahoo TV team and AR-enabled studio in Singapore from the ground up, Carey’s work has led to original productions such as The Smiling Afro, Singlish with Dr. Gwee, Can Make It Make-up, In The Know Singapore and eSports in Southeast Asia. Carey’s blend of shrewd business know-how and an eye for engaging content has helped build a base of over 1.3 million monthly viewers since Yahoo TV’s debut in April 2018.

Carey joined Yahoo 9 years ago, moving from servicing North Asia markets to Southeast Asia, before helming the Media Solutions and later the Yahoo TV team.

Venturing into the online writing and media industry in 2014, Cheowster developed into a platform to share my life perspectives, travel guides and daily chronicles – the pursuit for individualism and creative content. Part of my day-to-day hustle consists of events management, brand marketing communications, and social media content creation. With several years of involvement in the digital, media and event industries, I am constantly yearning for growth and greater opportunities to learn.

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• 30 years experience in establishing and operating agencies and businesses in the media and marketing space
• Managed over $800 million of brand investments into marketing and media services –  experience across most industry verticals
• Across multi markets – Australia, Asia, Europe and North  America
• Board Member – ACMA – Asia Content Marketing Association

Darren is considered a thought leader on all aspects of marketing management. A Problem Solver, Negotiator, Founder & Global CEO of TrinityP3 – Marketing Management Consultants, founding member of the Marketing FIRST Forum and Author. He is also a Past-Chair of the Australian Marketing Institute, Past President of the Melbourne Advertising and Design Club. Ex-Medical Scientist and Ex-Creative Director. Father of five. And in his spare time he sleeps.

David is one of Asia’s most established agency leaders with a strong track record in building business, marketing teams, skills, brands and driving business results.

David came to Asia in 1994 from London to join Bates in Hong Kong. He was then hired by Ogilvy & Mather in 1997 principally to run their signature Guinness business. In the time since, he founded creative boutique, RedCard and after selling it to Ogilvy in 2006, he went on to hold several key senior roles at Ogilvy, including the Presidency of Ogilvy & Mather Advertising and Ogilvy & Mather ASEAN.

In 2012, he established BatesCHI & Partners which by 2015 had become one of the fastest growing advertising agencies inside WPP Asia. At the start of 2016, David was invited back to Ogilvy & Mather as Asia CMO, to lead the resurgence of the Ogilvy brand and was appointed to the Malaysia Head of Country for WPP in January 2017.

David stepped down from Ogilvy and WPP after 21 Years in order to build his involvement in a battery of businesses including as the APAC Non-Executive Director of Grace Blue, a global executive search firm specialising in retained searches for leadership roles in the marketing, media and communications industry.

16+ years of experience in delivering sustained results and effective change across the Publisher ecosystem. Areas of expertise include SSPs, Ad Tech, Ad Serving, Content Syndication – Distribution, Native, Exchanges & Marketplaces, Search

Coming from legacy Aol, has experience in Business Development, Account management, Strategizing and Leading cross-functional teams to bring about improvement in strategy, process, and profitability – both as a leader and expert consultant.

An avid investor in the US stock market since the early 2000s, Clemen realized that the average investor is constantly lagging behind in the flow of market information and therefore trades at a disadvantage to the big players in the market. That led to the genesis of Spiking, the first fintech tracking app that helps the average trader to follow the big investors as they buy and sell shares on the stock market. Spiking was supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office under the Interactive & Digital Media Strategic Research Programme’s i.JAM Reload initiative. In October 2016, Clemen collected a gold for Spiking at the SiTF Awards 2016, for Best Innovative Start-up (Early Stage), by the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation. Nielsen//NetRatings survey in 2006 showed that Clemen was Singapore’s leading money and stock options investment coach. Today, Clemen is an active member of ICObench community as a leading ICObench expert.

An engineer by training, Clemen graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Management from the University of Canberra, Australia, in 2017, an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Louisville, U.S.A, in 2002, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil & Structural from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000. He was awarded Chartered Fellow at the Chartered Management Institute, UK, in 2012. He was qualified as Chartered Marketer with the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, in 2004. Other awards include Shah Family Prize by Professor Haresh C. Shah of Stanford University for outstanding leadership and entrepreneurship qualities through extra-curricular activities and good academic standing in 1996; recipient of the Singapore International Foundation-ASEAN Visiting Student Fellowship in 1996.

Emily is Marketing and Communications Director, APAC, for ad tech firm Unruly. In her current role, Emily is responsible for all external communications across the region – ensuring Unruly has a strong industry voice, and enabling commercial teams to meet their goals. She specialises in distilling complex information and technical solutions into client friendly narratives.

Prior to Unruly, Emily has worked across the global telco and banking industries – with roles at Telstra and Credit Suisse.

Hari oversees strategy for all VMLY&R markets in Asia. He has been a part of (VML)Y&R since 2007, working on clients including MetLife, OCBC, AXA and more.

Hari has been instrumental in:

• Creating transformational plans and processes for the markets
• Creating new business models for the agencies in collaboration with the local CEOs
• Creating proprietary data assets for countries to use, including pioneering BAV for the region
• Pioneering new strategic models and tools for each market to bring to bear on clients
• Providing thought leadership which provides direction for the planners in market.

Beyond this, Hari also works with each offices’ planners to work specifically on new business pitches, briefs and strategic presentations.

Harish heads CX & Segments at Prudential Singapore where he focusses on delivering better experience across every customer episode. He is driving a culture of customer centricity at Prudential Singapore and is creating an alignment between achieving excellence in customer experience and strategic business priorities. He is responsible for segment management with a focus to expand the core segments, increase customer lifetime value and long-term brand loyalty.

In the past, he has led the marketing function at Prudential Singapore with a focus on performance marketing and brand management. He has produced multiple award-winning marketing campaigns over the years for Prudential in Asia. Harish has spent close to 10 years with Prudential in various leadership roles across multiple markets. He has lived and worked in India, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong in local as well as regional roles.

Hazel Low is Head of Marketing, South East Asia for Aberdeen Standard Investments. She is responsible for directing a highly experienced and dynamic team across four markets in the region. Hazel joined the company in April 2018 from Fidelity International. Prior to her asset management experience, she spent more than 15 years in consumer banking, having worked in ANZ and Citibank in senior Marketing and Sales capacities.

Hazel graduated with a Communications degree from Monash University.

Herbert R. Sim, is the Head of Business Development at Broctagon FinTech Group. Herbert is the founder of TheBitcoinMan.com and Crypto Chain University, established in 2010, the oldest repository for compilation of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency research papers.

Herbert is also currently Investor & Advisor to the following projects: TEVEL.io – Location-based social media platform; TaoDust – World’s first Equity Crowdfunding platform powered by blockchain technology; DIYBlockchain – World’s first zero code Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) Company; and Future1Exchange – Estonian Licensed Digital Assets Exchange.

Herbert was also formerly the Chief Marketing Officer at Cryptology.com; and Global Operations Director at Huobi Global. And former contributor to top publications such as Forbes and HuffingtonPost.

Currently, Herbert is among the less than 25 verified ‘blue tick’ public figures across all major social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) in Blockchain industry. Herbert has a MBA from University of Wolverhampton, and BA in Mass Communications from Oklahoma City University.

Jayesh Easwaramony brings several years of building digital, media and telco business in Asia.

Jayesh scaled InMobi’s AsiaPacific business multifold in the last seven years as the Managing Director . He recently also launched Trufactor an intelligence as a service data business in Asia for InMobi. He brings a lot of in-depth hands-on experience in the mobile advertising industry and has struck partnerships with all leading digital publishers across OTT, gaming, news and helped all top advertisers such as Unilever, Shopee, Samsung extract the best value from mobile as a medium. Under his tenure , InMobi won over 43 awards in mobile innovation and he has been a strong advocate of creating alternatives to the duopoly in several public forums.

Jayesh has earlier worked with Frost and Sullivan as the leader of its TMT practice. He has advised several large companies in the mobile and media space including Samsung, SKT, Axiata and Telkom. He was widely respected for his views on the ICT industry having provided several interviews to CNBC, BBC, Channel News Asia and leading publications. He has spoken at several conferences including GMIC, LTE Asia and Carrier Ethernet World. Prior to Frost and Sullivan, Jayesh has worked with Newscorp in India to set-up their pay TV business and other media investments and with the prestigious Tata Group to enter the telecom business.

Education

Indian Institute of Management MBA

University of Mumbai, BA in Engineering

Laura Quigley is Managing Director, Southeast Asia at Integral Ad Science. She is based in Singapore and in her current role, she is building strong partnerships with clients, agencies, and publishers and helping them solve their pressing business challenges with the use of cutting edge IAS technology solutions. She’s leading IAS’s regional expansion efforts as part of a larger global initiative taking place within IAS.

Previous to her current role, she held multiple positions with IAS (in ANZ and APAC) managing all commercial and business efforts for Southeast Asia.
Over the last decade, she has worked in driving digital transformation in Australia, New Zealand, EMEA and APAC having worked at companies such as Google, ZenithOptimedia among others.

She is an accomplished speaker and enjoys speaking and attending trade conferences to share her insights and is a member of the Programmatic Committee of IAB SEA+India.

Laura holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Otago and in her free time, she enjoys the local F&B scene in Singapore.

His research stream focuses on consumer information processing particularly in relation to branding (brand transgressions, brand relationships, brand loyalty) and financial decision-making (money, saving, gambling). Mansur’s research has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Cognition, and Handbook of Strong Brands, Strong Relationships. He has been recognized as a 2017-18 Rising Star by the American Marketing Association’s Consumer Behavior Special Interest Group as well as a 2017 Highly Commended Doctoral Research Award recipient by Emerald/EFMD.

Mansur’s research and opinion pieces have been quoted and featured by The Business Times, The New Paper, MONEY FM 89.3, Mumbrella, National Affairs, Asia One, NewsRx, Science Daily, Phys.org, and Atlas of Science among others.

Prior to starting his Ph.D., he spent several years working in fast-moving consumer goods and the pharmaceutical industry. His industry experience is mostly in branding and marketing management, including work as a senior product manager at Polpharma and a brand manager at Procter & Gamble, where he managed such brands as Oral-B, Blend-A-Med (Crest), Camay, and Safeguard. Mansur also has experience teaching and guest lecturing Integrated Marketing Communications, Principles of Marketing, and Advertising and Marketing in Emerging Economies at the Nanyang Technological University, University of Western Ontario, and KIMEP University. 

I have spent the last 15 years happily lost in Asia building, managing, selling and integrating digital businesses in over 20 markets that have been regional and global in scale.

I have been beyond fortunate to have worked with some incredible people, shareholders and boards across the planet whilst building teams and operations in some of the most exciting and demanding markets & regions in the world like China, India, Australia, Korea, South East Asia and many more. With the help of my amazing teams I launched Twitter’s business in Asia, set up multiple strategic partnerships with the likes of Facebook and Google, led a management buy-out, went through 5 integrations and trade sales, oversaw 3 turnarounds & multiple business pivots, delivered over 100% year on year growth, worked with direct report sizes ranging from 10-200, managed over half a billion dollars of revenue … and came out the other side alive and kicking! I learned a lot along the way.

That learning process never ends though and the collision of technology and the internet have brought about a period of incredible change and I enjoy joining the debate through public speaking, various boards and committees, industry columns … and over a coffee. I’ve advised hundreds of businesses on all things digital and this has fuelled my fascination with business transformation in a digital world. That is the biggest influence on the businesses I choose to advise, invest in, set up and work with. I get all hot under the collar about growth, progress and innovation.

Travel has changed my life and I’m hopeful that globalisation can do the same for many more. I’m fascinated by the human condition and the power of positive-thinking. I believe in limitless potential. I’ve set up a real estate company with my dad in Lancashire. I love my family. I also love sport, people, travel, music, clothes and wine.

Neal is a content strategist and storyteller with 20 years experience in TV, publishing, advertising and film across the UK, USA and Asia, where he is currently based.  Trained originally as an actor then as a journalist Neal co-founded Click2View, Singapore’s first dedicated content marketing agency in 2010, which served world class clients including AIA, Ben & Jerry’s, Canon, Cisco, Citibank, Google, HSBC, Panasonic, Singtel & Visa.

In 2017 he sold his stake in the agency and spent a year writing, developing and producing two short films, a sitcom and a podcast series, before taking a role as Head of Content & Business Development with Southeast Asia’s largest independent production company.

Finally, in January 2019 Neal launched Moore’s Lore Media – Content Strategy & Storytelling Solutions with the goal of helping people and organisations tell better stories for business impact.

As Head of Group Digital Engagement in UOB Group Channels and Digitalisation, Nick is responsible for driving digital engagement across the various delivery channels to deepen customer engagement and connectivity to achieve UOB Group’s vision to be a premier regional bank in Asia Pacific.

Collaborating with Business and Technology partners, he leads the transformation of customer engagement across omni-channel through data analytics, customer insights and foresights. He is also involved in the FinLab Programme (an accelerator programme between UOB and SG Innovate) over the last 3 years embracing Innovation and partnership with eco-systems partners to drive better outcomes for the Bank and its Customers.

Prior to joining UOB, Nick was the Deputy CEO for Mekong Development Bank in Vietnam and General Manager for Fullerton Guarantee in South West China under Fullerton Financial Holdings (subsidiary of Temasek Holdings). He was also part of the pioneer team to launch Fullerton Myanmar Micro-Finance in 2014.

Nick has over 23 years of banking experience of which 13 years was with HSBC Singapore and Vietnam. He was the first to deploy biometric debit cards and ATM in Vietnam and led HSBC Vietnam to win the Best Internet Banking for 2 consecutive years during his leadership. Of the numerous awards which UOB has won, he led the deployment of the cardless cash withdrawal on the ATM through the UOB Mighty app.

Nils Michaelis is the Innovation and Digital Lead for the Products Operating Group at Accenture.
In this role Nils advises clients in their digital and innovation strategies and supports their growth and business transformation through to execution across three speeds of innovation – transforming their core business, growing their core business and driving new business across products, services and experiences.

Nils brings more than 20 years of experience in growing businesses and leading transformation – across industries and geographies.
Prior to Accenture, Nils has worked in strategy consulting and global leaders in consumer facing industries, such as McKinsey, American Express, and Bertelsmann.

Outside of work Nils is the proud father of two children and loves travelling and exploring together with his family and friends. Nils enjoys sporting and culinary experiences. He currently resides in Singapore with his family.

Norliza Kassim is a data driven marketing professional with specific interests in Digital Acquisition and Content Marketing. Norliza is presently the Global Head of Personal Segment Marketing & Digital Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank. Her global role in Standard Chartered involves being a Digital Marketing subject matter expert to drive growth of Credit Cards and Personal Loans, using timely market and customer data as well as conversion funnel insights.

Norliza joined in 2010 from Visa International as Head of Regional Marketing, for Middle East and North Africa based out of its regional headquarters in Dubai. Norliza has lived in 4 countries and speaks 3 languages.

Prior to that she has had the privilege of working for really inspiring brands such as VISA, VIRGIN MOBILE, DELL, CITIBANK and UNILEVER.

When asked to share one life changing experience, Norliza said it was the time she was employee no.6 in a Singapore based start up and working for Sir Richard Branson.

Norliza is a Singaporean and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pure & Applied Physics from the National University of Singapore.

Since graduating from Durham University in the UK, Richard has amassed over 20 years of experience working with digital marketing and social media. In that time, he has created and implemented marketing and commercial strategies for both B2B and B2C clients in APAC and EMEA. Before moving to Singapore in 2010, he worked for MNCs such as Ernst & Young, Boots The Chemist, Molson Coors Brewers, and SoftBank.

In Singapore, Richard set up a business creating mobile apps and digital solutions: clients included Courts Asia and Apple. In 2013, he was a finalist on the Channel News Asia ‘Start-Up’ television series, after which he was asked to join Appsmakerstore, a company that was building a global SaaS platform to provide mobile apps to SMEs.

In 3 years, Richard took Appsmakerstore from the beta stage to 500,000+ registered users, with 80+ white-label resellers and 6 franchise partners across the globe. During this time, Appsmakerstore was awarded the ‘Best Global App Development Software’ and won the ‘Most Innovative Service Award’ at the Mobile News Awards in the UK.

As an accredited trainer in the disciplines of Social Media and Digital Marketing with SkillsFuture and Spring Singapore, Richard regularly conducts courses for and delivers lectures to SMEs.  Richard co-founded IMMedia Content in 2017 and has been an integral part of the company’s expansion across APAC to include clients such as Standard Chartered Bank, UOB, Hilton Group, Rohde & Schwarz, ENGIE Services and Singtel. Richard is currently leading development of IMMedia’s new AI and ML-driven automated content marketing platform, IMMediate. Launching in June 2019, IMMediate is an innovative service that will make content marketing data-driven, reliable and ROI-focussed, through the delivery of multi-country workflow management, real-time analytics, prediction of content marketing trends and recommendation of future content requirements.

Rosheeni Dobbie is Marketing Director for SingSaver, which helps people save money and make better choices about personal finance with comprehensive, free and independent online comparison tools for insurance, credit cards, personal loans and other financial products. SingSaver is part of the CompareAsiaGroup, the leading online comparison platform for banking and insurance products across Asia Pacific, whose investors include Goldman Sachs, Alibaba and International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Prior to joining SingSaver, Rosheeni spent over 12 years driving growth across major international brands, leveraging insights-driven marketing strategies and integrated marketing expertise. Before moving to Singapore, Rosheeni was the Head of Marketing for Deliveroo Australia, where she scaled the business from start-up to market leading brand. Prior to this, she managed various brands at leading FMCG businesses, including Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and Coty.

Rosheeni holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Technology Sydney and is currently completing an Executive MBA through the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Ryan Pestano, the General Manager of International Markets for IPONWEB, is a passionate technologist and digital media professional. He has a proven track record of architecting innovative solutions for multiple enterprise and agency clients through the consultative application of advertising and marketing technologies. Ryan is a trusted advisor and has fostered deep partnerships with a breadth of leading technology companies and strategic Clients.

Ryan was previously the VP of Product and Operations in APAC for Amobee working closely with Singtel Group businesses across SEA and Australia. He was formerly the VP of Product at Brandscreen and Director of Platform Services at Media Innovation Group (a WPP company) all based in Singapore. He started his career in New York where he worked in multiple roles at Microsoft.

Ryan is a recognized thought leader with his contributions to the digital advertising

technology industry across APAC. Ryan was a board member of IAB Singapore and co-chaired the Marketing and Advertising Technology committee. He is driven to progress programmatic advertising and create innovative technology solutions.

Sara is in charge of partnership and sponsorship activities at DEALSTREETASIA in Singapore. She has a background in business journalism covering emerging economies. Prior to joining DEALSTREETASIA, she gained experience helping a digital startup expand across Europe. Sara holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

A performance driven marketer with strong local and global exposure. Prior to becoming the Managing Director of The Studio, Syahar has led the global digital transformation and acceleration of Malaysia Airlines as well as Nestle Malaysia to grow digital investment and eCommerce revenue share to a significant level greater than most organizations regionally if not globally. He’s progressive and forward thinking driven by the passion of integrating the science and arts to develop Return on Investment anchored marketing strategies. He also actively contributes to the Malaysian marketing industry by being a past Council Member of Malaysian Advertisers Association as well as Malaysian Audit Bureau of Circulation Board Member.

Timothy Ho is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of DollarsAndSense. He writes regularly on a wide and holistic range of personal finance topics including investing, insurance, properties and policy related matters. Like most entrepreneurs, he is very passionate about start-ups. In particular, he is keeping a keen eye on the developments in the FinTech space in Singapore. Timothy is a frequent speaker and panelist for personal finance events organized in Singapore.

Vikas Jain is the Senior Director of Marketing & CX at Funding Societies. He works closely with key clients, strategic partners as well as industry influencers focusing primarily on Marketing, Partnerships and Customer Experience. Prior to Funding Societies, Vikas has worked with ING, Citi and HDFC Bank managing large consumer and SME loan product portfolios. He also had a stint with Singtel developing mobile based financial products for the underbanked segment. He has a graduate degree in Commerce (Honours) and is also an MBA in Finance.

Vikas has participated in multiple industry and school engagement events as a speaker or panelist, including Singapore Business Review’s 20 Hottest Startups Panel Briefing, Innovfest Unbound, Financial Inclusion Summit Asia, FinTech Accelerator Event by SuperCharger and Finovate Asia (Hong Kong) in recent months. He has also been featured and quoted by TVB (Hong Kong), Business Times and Digital News Asia amongst many others.

Vivian – Weiying Pan is the Head of Marketing in Southeast Asia since July 2016, before that she leads AP Cross Border & Channel Marketing based in Singapore from August 2014.  She has been with Visa for nine seven years, prior to coming to Singapore she was Head of Marketing for Visa Greater China based in Shanghai.

Vivian started her career as a management trainee at Unilever China with Oral Care Business Category. She was seconded to Unilever Thai Holdings Ltd. (in Bangkok) for 12 months in 1998-1999, to be exposed in the regional innovation center, and became Marketing Controller of Unilever China Oral Care Category in China upon her return to China.  She stayed with Unilever for 8 years with mass consumer experience spans across retail and trade marketing.

After Unilever and prior to Visa, Vivian worked for Citibank China for 8 years started as the Head of Country Marketing Director for the retail banking business, and then moved on as Citigroup China Country Marketing Director to look after franchise business. This allowed her to work on a broader and more strategic level to strengthen the franchise reputation in China as well as the company’s tie with key stakeholders.

Vivian holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration from Shanghai University.  She also holds an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) Shanghai, graduating in Oct. 2011.

Yiwen is the co-founder of Content.co, which matches brands to the top talents and experts in marketing and content. Content.co has delivered talent solutions at scale for hundreds of brands globally, including Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies and fast growth companies. Previously a business journalist, Yiwen was featured Forbes 30 Under 30 for Media, Marketing & Advertising.