Brett Henry is President Director of MG Group. Before being named President Director in February 2019, Brett held leadership roles in product marketing, business development, strategy, planning and sales.

As a President Director, Brett does more than wrangle commas. With more than 20 years of B2B travel technology industry experience, he thrives on opportunities to lead dynamic and diverse teams working on customer focused, innovative, growth opportunities.

Prior to joining MG Group, Brett was CEO of Travel Daily and was responsible for creating a dedicated platform to informing, connecting and developing the worlds travel professionals. He also served as Vice President Sales at Sabre Corporation for more than 5 years.

Brett has a big passion to educate and share his experiences at global travel technology events including Digital Travel Summit, Aviation Summit, Webintravel, EyeforTravel, China Travel Distribution Summit, as well as speaking at industry regional and global events.

Bryan Choo started TSL from his bedroom 5 years ago with a simple mission – to prove Singapore was not boring.

Today, TSL Media has grown to over 100 employees across 5 companies. The company produce over 5,000 original articles and videos for millennials yearly, and create branded content for the biggest brands in Singapore.

Byron Perry is the Founder and CEO of Coconuts Media, an alternative online news publisher reaching an audience of millions each month.

The Coconuts.co news and lifestyle website produces in-depth coverage of what’s happening in Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bali, Yangon, and beyond.

Under the Coconuts TV brand, the company produces original documentaries exploring the weird and wondrous stories of Asia, which have been sold to Netflix, iflix, Fusion (USA), RTL (Germany), and ABS-CBN (Philippines).

Byron previously worked at Variety magazine in Los Angeles and attended Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is a board member of the Society of Publishers in Asia.

Carolyn Corda is a data industry leader with extensive experience in driving transformational marketing for travel companies.  She has built successful businesses by applying advanced analytics to large sets of consumer transaction data; the resulting insight powers customer engagement for marketing, loyalty and experience design and delivery. Her clients, who span the breadth of the travel and hospitality industry, rely on her to help them establish a competitive edge and boost revenues by increasing customer wallet-share and by penetrating new customer segments.

Carolyn is joining ADARA, the world’s largest travel data co-op, as CMO. She’ll have responsibility for aligning the brand with the company’s expanding mission to provide clients with a solution that enables travel brands to collaborate and share insights in order to deliver personalized experiences, improve customer loyalty, and maximize revenue at the customer level. She will lead global brand and product marketing initiatives including positioning, product marketing, public relations, social media presence and demand generation.

She brings to the role extensive travel industry experience along with a strong track record in accelerating the growth of B2B brands and data services solutions. Prior to ADARA, she was a Managing Director at Accenture where she was the led Applied Intelligence for the travel practice in N. America. Previous to that role, Carolyn was a senior executive at Epsilon with responsibility for developing and launching new data solutions as well as building the brand’s presence in the travel sector. Her previous positions include executive roles at Fair Isaac and Sabre. She also pioneered the first travel data co-op, Vistrio.

She has been recognized for her thought leadership and has spoken on the subject of customer insight at industry conferences—including Skift, Phocuswright and EyeForTravel. Carolyn earned a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University, an MBA from UCLA and a Master’s from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration.

Charlie currently leads media in APAC for Digitas, a modern data-inspired agency who specialize in driving digital marketing transformation for companies of all shapes and sizes. Charlie is passionate about bringing together data, technology, media and creativity to build unique solutions for their clients. As well as leading the media discipline for Digitas, Charlie plays an important role supporting key Publicis Groupe accounts. He is currently Publicis Groupe Lead for Visa in APAC, and heads up digital strategy for GSK.

He previously headed up the media operation for Red Fuse in Asia where he led the establishment of their programmatic capability in Asia. Prior to moving to Hong Kong he was the Global Strategy Lead at Starcom for Emirates Airlines in Dubai, where he led a re-brand campaign for the airline and won global recognition at the Festival of Media. Charlie also headed up the Mondelez and GSK businesses across the Middle East and North Africa.

In the UK he was a Senior Brand Manager at News International for three years and prior to that the head of the Mastercard account at Universal McCann, having historically worked on launching Egg (the financial services brand, not the food).

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Clement founded BeMyGuest, a travel technology provider for activities, tours and attraction operators, connecting them to the vast spectrum of travel verticals – airlines, accommodation providers, online and offline travel agencies.

Previously, Clement held roles with some of the world’s leading travel companies, airlines, hotels, online travel agencies, tour operators and car rental companies, assisting them in building powerful strategies, supported by extensive market research and insight.

Clement has also acted in an advisory capacity for blue chip banks and venture capital firms throughout the acquisition process in the travel space, and was the head of research for the EMEA region at Phocuswright.

With Travelport, Clement worked closely with airlines on their advertising and marketing strategies in Marketing Solutions, and also as a Strategy Analyst leading global hospitality, car hire, travel agency and tour operator research.
While with Euromonitor, Clement managed clients, research analysts and budget for EMEA travel and tourism research.

Clement’s strategic industry analysis and input is consistently sought after from a variety of global media and blue chip clients.

Da Yu is a veteran in the luxury business, with prior experience in luxury fashion and furnishings, and currently leads the Quintessentially Singapore team. He spends his work day helping some of the world’s best brands create and execute strategies on how to best engage their most important clients in Singapore and internationally.

With more than 20 years of global marketing and technology experience, Dominic spent the last decade as International Managing Director, growing Europe and Asia Pacific for Epsilon, a world-leading marketing services companies which he saw expand from US$250m to just under US$2.8bn. He is now an investor, advisor, and connector, helping brands, agencies and technology companies navigate and disrupt the world of consumer engagement. Among his many appointments, he is Advisor to the CEO and the Board at CtrlShift.

Edward Bell is responsible for the development of brand strategy, the development of commercial, operations and consumer insights, loyalty marketing and marketing communications for the group globally.

Originally from Melbourne Australia, Mr Bell trained in psychology and later marketing. He is married with three children, he happily calls Hong Kong ‘home’.

Elfrida Szeto left the agency world after a decade working with companies that include Microsoft, HP and P&G. She joined R3 in 2008 and has worked with marketers like AB InBev, BMW, Cathay Pacific, Fonterra, Suntory, Standard Chartered Bank, Unilever and Visa. While the R3 Principal Consultant isn’t working, she’s busy planning her next holiday after conquering the Seven Wonders of the World and over a hundred UNESCO sites.

Based in Shanghai, Ethan is TripAdvisor China’s Commercial Solutions & Strategy Manager and was previously TripAdvisor APAC’s Strategic Insights Lead, supporting the regional sales team with data trends, insights and measurement.

Prior to joining TripAdvisor, he was working on agency side, servicing major consumer brands across APAC – Google (Japan, Australia, India), Unilever (South-East Asia), UEFA Champions League (India, Japan).

As a consultant with Mavens of London, he worked in-house with Unilever, playing an early role in helping them to define and roll-out their digital research transformation (People Data Centre). He was responsible for developing research insights and frameworks that harnessed search data, social listening and business data at scale to drive new generation market research insights. Some of his biggest highlights include identifying and tracking industry-level disruptions.

As a senior account executive with Essence Global, he managed the digital media buying budgets for Google’s B2C marketing with end-to-end oversight from planning, measurement to execution. Some of his biggest highlights include successful B2C campaigns in Japan that exceeded both brand awareness and direct response KPIs.

Outside of work, he consistently volunteers with meaningful, strategy-related causes. He was previously an ad-hoc mentor for EntrepreneurFirst (an accelerator with Reid Hoffman and Greylock among its funders) and a research volunteer for Just Cause (a non-profit consultancy focused on elevating the social sector’s impact).

Ethan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics & Multilingual Studies from Nanyang Technological University. He is fluent trilingual speaker of English, Mandarin and occasionally, Singlish.

With almost 10 years of experience in embracing digital marketing, Evangeline is the Founder & CEO of Kobe Global Technologies Pte Ltd. Established in 2016, Kobe Global opens new market segments for consumer brands with their 4,500 relevant celebrity, macro, micro or everyday influencers reaching 30M audiences.

Kobe’s revolutionary use of Artificial Intelligence tools in influencer marketing platform has achieved an international PCT patent that provides speed of access and measurable influencer solutions for brands. Within the 1st year, Kobe has crossed 7-digit in sales and has worked with over 200 brands including Pepsi, Changi Airport Group and Calvin Klein.

Evangeline remains as a partner of PurpleClick Media, the 1st and only partner of Google, Facebook, Baidu in the region and has managed over USD$10 Million annual ad revenue across Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines in the region.

Garick is the Executive Director for Consumer Insights in Nielsen Singapore. His vertical experience includes banking, FMCG, government, hospitality, retail and technology.

Prior to Nielsen, Garick was the Regional Insights Director for Asia and General Manager for Singapore at Isentia (An ASX 200 Media Intelligence Company). Before Isentia, Garick headed the Market & Consumer Insights function for BlackBerry in Asia Pacific. His research experience cuts across qualitative to quantitative methods, local to global initiatives and consumer to enterprise studies.

Garick was in academia before joining the industry. Recognised by the industry, Garick has won awards and has often been invited be a speaker, panellist, award judge and guest lecturer. He is an Associate Fellow with the Institute on Asian Consumer Insight at Nanyang Technological University.  He is also a reviewer to several journal publications and conferences.

In the community domain, he is a District Councillor for North West Community Development Council in Singapore.

Garick holds a Master of Philosophy (Marketing) and has also completed a Harvard Leadership program.

Gianluca Armando is a director at Expedia Group Media Solutions where he drives business development including the creation and implementation of digital media campaigns for travel marketing partners across Asian and Pacific Coasts. He started his career as an intern at Expedia Group, and over the last 10 years he has gained global experience working in a variety of countries including Italy, Spain, the UK, Australia, and Singapore. Gianluca graduated with a master’s degree in tourism economics and management from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, and now lives in Singapore with his family.

As Changi Airport Group’s (CAG) Group Senior SVP of Corporate Marketing & Communications (CMC), Ivan Tan leads the brand marketing, PR, social media, online/offline advertising and corporate reputation programmes for Singapore Changi Airport.

Serving more than 65 million passengers each year and over 100 airlines, Changi Airport’s stakeholders are many and varied. Besides publicising Changi’s myriad offerings which will include Jewel in 2019, the CMC team must also be prepared for crisis and issues management. Ivan and his team have the unique challenge of communicating with various and numerous stakeholders across multiple channels and round-the-clock.

Prior to joining CAG, Ivan was Deputy Managing Director at the Singapore office of Weber Shandwick. At the agency, his clients included Singapore blue chips as well as IPO candidates. He also supported the pitch by Genting International for the Sentosa Integrated Resort licence.

Ivan’s career started at SingTel where he was Director (Corporate Communications) for six years following a two-year secondment to Belgacom, the Belgian telco based in Brussels.

Jalean is an award-winning editor and journalist based in Singapore with years of international experience leading teams, editorial direction and content creation in digital and print media. She serves as the Executive Editor of SilverKris – Singapore Airlines’ monthly inflight magazine which reaches 1.6 million passengers each month – published by Ink.

Jalean joined Ink in 2018 as the Editor-in-Chief of SilverKris and led the revamp of the magazine, which consequently won a host of awards. Prior to that, she was the Managing Director at Gatehouse Publishing, which produced award-winning titles including SAKE: The history, stories and craft of Japan’s artisanal breweries and The HUNT Guides travel series.

Jalean has lived in the US, Australia, Indonesia and China, and has worked with global clients such as Condé Nast, Dell, Audemars Piguet, Miele and Julius Bär, as well as publications including Wired, Time Out and Where Magazine.

Hong Kong-born Kiri Sinclair is a highly regarded thought leader in the Greater China PR industry, Founder and CEO of leading Integrated PR Agency, Sinclair, and Chair of PRHK, Hong Kong’s public relations association. A strong advocate and regular commentator for the PR and communications industry, she is also on the Board of The Marketing Society and an active advocate and member of AMEC.

As agency leader, Kiri is responsible for Sinclair’s organic growth, team first culture, talent development, and the innovative business and client strategy Sinclair is renowned for across its offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. In 2018, Kiri was named PR Agency Head of the Year at Campaign Asia’s PR Awards and Agency Leader of the Year at the Mumbrella Asia Awards.

Kiri has directed and implemented PR strategies and advised clients across the luxury, consumer, corporate and government sectors. She is an expert at developing creative brand growth strategies on both a global and local level and managing sensitive issues for world-leading clients. Her forward-thinking and creative approach to communications marketing has seen Kiri lead her teams on countless award-winning campaigns, with the agency’s industry-leading reputation reconfirmed when Sinclair was named Greater China PR Consultancy of the Year by Campaign Asia’s and Independent Agency of the Year by Mumbrella Asia in 2018.

Kiri earned her MBA from the University of Hong Kong.

Lynda Williams is Founder & Managing Director of VIM & VIGOUR PR, a leading boutique communications agency based in Singapore which specialises in travel, wellness and hospitality. Lynda has over 15 years of international experience, working with some of the world’s most prestigious travel and wellness brands including Swire Hotels, Capella Hotels and Resorts, Scott Dunn and many more. V&VPR spans across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong with a strong team of 12 creative, experienced PR professionals who work across holistic brand campaigns including public relations, marketing and social media.

Mar Pages is the founder and editor of Once in a Lifetime Journey, a luxury travel blog with a monthly readership of 400,000 and a social following of 200,000. She regularly speaks at conferences and consults to brands on the topic of influencer, content and digital marketing, helping to bridge the gap between bloggers/influencers and brands.

Before deciding to focus full-time on her online travel platform, Mar worked for Google where she held a global role. Prior to that, she had a long career as a senior strategy consultant for multi-billion dollar businesses in the telecoms industry across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

An avid traveler, Mar has worked in over 50 countries, traveled to 107 and lived in 8. She currently lives in Singapore and has been an expat since leaving her native Barcelona in 2006.

Mar holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business & Finance and an MBA.

Chen May Yee is APAC Director for JWT Intelligence, the trend-forecasting and consumer research arm of J. Walter Thompson.
Since starting the APAC unit of JWT Intelligence in September 2017, she has published reports on female Muslim millennials in Southeast Asia, the changing face of Chinese global travellers, health and wellness trends in Asia Pacific and more.

She draws on two decades’ experience as a journalist, including stints at Agence France-Presse, the Wall Street Journal and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She has also edited stories for the Singapore Straits Times and written on business and culture for the International New York Times and Forbes.

She is based in Kuala Lumpur.

Meutia Adryana, Vice President of Media Consulting at Leverate Media becomes one of the youngest country business head in the multinational agency at the age of 26. Meutia started her career at Leverate Media as the very first employee who introduced the performance-driven business model from Germany to Indonesia in early 2015. During her first role as Business Manager, she single-handedly launched and nurtured Leverate Media from scratch into one of the leading media agencies in the country with over than 100 employees within only 3 years, which then made her being promoted as the Vice President of Media Consulting on her second year. With her extensive experience in 360 offline – online media campaigns as well as brand and creative strategy, she managed to acquire new businesses across different categories. Meutia has also been appointed as a keynote speaker and conducted a lot of digital workshops for big brands such as DBS Bank, Burger King, Mitsubishi, American Standard, Indonesia Stock Exchange, Prudential, startup communities, and many others. She leads the Business Development and Consulting team and in charge for all Leverate top notch clients, which make her winning many business leader awards as well as Mumbrella Asia Top Achiever 30 Under 30.

With a passion for brand positioning and digital marketing amplification, Naomi has a proven track record of producing positive change in building and evolving the market reputation for corporate and media organisations, their products and services. Naomi has 15+ years industry experience spanning the UK, Australia, Hong Kong & Singapore, where she has been responsible for devising and implementing marketing and public relations strategies both nationally and internationally to support corporate priorities; increase stakeholder visibility and understanding; position companies as market and thought leaders; reinforce brand values; and foster brand growth and loyalty. Naomi was named as one of Campaign Asia’s 2018 Women to Watch.

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Neil joined Facebook in 2015 in the newly created role of Head of Agency for APAC. The Agency team works closely with the ad agency community – media, creative and digital agencies to ensure the successful use of the Facebook platform to drive brand and business success.

Prior to joining Facebook, Neil was most recently at Maxus, one of the GroupM media agencies for the past six years. APAC CEO for five of those years saw Maxus triple in size, and win significant new business, awards and industry recognition. Neil also spent a year as the Global Chief Client officer, working with some of Maxus’ top multi-market clients across the globe.

Neil has also had senior client marketing roles in the technology space – he was CMO of Motorola Mobile devices from 2004 -2008 for their High Growth Markets, and was at Compaq in Australia as Customer Communications Director. A long long time ago, straight out of university Neil was in brand management in the FMCG space in Sydney.

Rounding out his Marketing and Communications experience, Neil also spend over 10 years in creative agencies in Sydney, Singapore and Taipei – many of those with Ogilvy and Mather and the WPP group. Neil has managed some of the largest advertising clients including Telstra (Australia’s #1 Telco) IBM and Vodafone.

A married father of two avid Facebook and Instagram using teenagers, Singapore based Neil continues to try and improve his golf handicap despite all the evidence that this is as good as it gets!

Paul is Skyscanner’s Head of Growth for Asia. He is responsible for leading the company’s growth activities across Asia Pacific and is based in Singapore. He has been working with Internet companies since the industry’s formation and is experienced at scaling businesses in both start-up and corporate environments. He has previously been General Manager of the Internet Advertising Division for Yellow Pages Australia, VP for a telecommunications start-up in New York City and Business Manager for MSN in London. He has been working in Asia since 2007 where, amongst other roles, he held senior roles at Yahoo!, leading product, editorial and engineering teams across the region and was Chief Operating Officer for the ASX listed company, iProperty, based in Malaysia.

Paul is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD Singapore where he provides coaching and advice to students interested in entrepreneurship.

Priya brings over 15 years of regional and local experience to her role as the head of PHD Singapore. Prior to this she led the Global Unilever Strategy team for over four years across a portfolio of brands at both Mindshare and PHD.

Priya’s agency experience spans three networks and several global brands including MasterCard, Discovery Networks, Audi, GSK and Unilever. Priya also has extensive client-side experience through her stints at P&G’s Prestige division and the Singapore Tourism Board, where she spearheaded both pre- and post-arrival marketing efforts for several high profile events including the Singapore Grand Prix.

Priya’s favourite PHD value is curiosity. She loves learning anything about everything and her brain is full of useless trivia that every so often comes in handy. A proud Singaporean, she spends her weekends discovering new food spots with her husband and three children, then complains about the whole thing.

Raymond Teoh is currently General Manager, Southeast Asia (SEA) of iClick Interactive Asia Limited. A veteran in the media industry with over 20 years of experience in online, print and TV advertising, Raymond has successfully launched numerous digital marketing campaigns and mobile content initiatives in the APAC region. Based in Singapore, Raymond is responsible for leading iClick’s business operations in SEA as well as developing and driving the company’s businesses across the region.

Before joining iClick, Raymond was General Manager for Greater China at Innity during 2011-2015, where he formulated business strategies, established publisher connections and major client and agency accounts, as well as developed new digital advertising formats and pricing models for the company in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Raymond had also been Assistant Vice President at Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. (SPH) for four years. Heading the Interactive Business Unit, he led the company’s initiatives on internet advertising, interactive services and new product development in the interactive space, and SPH’s internet and mobile business grew more than three-fold during his tenure with the company.

Other positions previously held by Raymond included senior management roles at Reebonz, PropertyGuru and Pudding Media, where he was responsible for driving business growth and leading sales initiatives in different parts of the APAC region. Prior to joining the digital advertising industry in late 1990s, Raymond had worked in the Information Technology sector for six years.

Raymond holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

After starting his advertising career as a trainee copywriter, Rob has worked and lived on five continents and is now the Group Chief Creative Officer of ADK Global, based in Singapore.

He’s worked at numerous agencies including McCann in South Africa, JWT in London, FCB in New Zealand, Asia and North America – and ADK since 2014.

He’s judged at the major creative award shows and has spoken at various global communication forums, including the IAA and Cannes.

Rob’s been a board member and president of both agencies and industry bodies in Asia, New Zealand and the USA.

His main focus is transformation, collaboration and growth – making sure that the new wave of communicators are ready for the reality of what’s next.

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Tony is an energetic and highly experienced media and marketing professional, with over 18 years of multinational agency experience in international markets, including the United Kingdom, the USA and Asia Pacific.

Having held leadership roles across Omnicom Media Group, Interpublic Group, as well as the world’s largest independent barter company, Tony has developed a well-rounded perspective on the entire communications landscape. His passion is a driving force for innovation in the industry – a trait Tony has consistently been recognised for throughout his career.

Following seven years spearheading Active International’s APAC division as Managing Director, he moved to New York to run IPG’s specialist capabilities division for North America and LATAM throughout its period of highest growth.

Tony returned to Sydney in 2014 as Omnicom Media Group’s Chief Investment Officer for Australia and New Zealand, and was subsequently elevated to take on an Asia Pacific remit in 2016. In this capacity, Tony has furthered Omnicom Media Group’s evolution and productization of its agencies’ capabilities, allowing them to unlock even greater value for clients from their media investments. He has also been responsible for expanding capabilities across inventory optimisation, return on investment modelling, data and addressability, and increasing efficiencies through automation.

In line with his various achievements in driving the business forward for the Group and its agencies, Tony was promoted to CEO of Omnicom Media Group Asia Pacific in 2018.

Wesley has more than 15 years of experience in public relations and events management in various PR agencies & private organisations.

Wide portfolio of clients from various industries apart from F&B such as Healthcare, Information Technology, Lifestyle and Education. Some of the major projects and clients managed include Club Med, Shred-it, The Israel Embassy, Milipol Asia Pacific and Moet Hennessy Diageo.

Winnie is the founder of TripZilla.com, Southeast Asia’s leading digital travel media company which reaches an audience of over 25 million travel consumers every month. TripZilla inspires the wanderlust in its audience with authentic travel stories, guides and tips, and helps the audience make these travels a reality by connecting them to the travel suppliers.

A “doer” by nature, Winnie is passionate about pulling limited resources together to create something of much greater value. She enjoys making things happen and constantly moving her business forward. Having built and sold off two businesses, she understands the importance of building a sustainable business – one with real users, paying customers and a clear revenue model. With TripZilla, she continues to focus on building a useful product and growing TripZilla into a recognized travel brand in South East Asia.

A travel and lifestyle social media content creator from Singapore, Xin Lin takes on almost any adventures from a relaxing getaway to an adrenaline pumping backpacking trip. She shares all her travels through various social media mediums, catering for almost all kinds of young travellers out there.