2023 Speakers

Elveena Cornelio

APAC Digital & Media Lead, CBG

Soumik Chakraborty

Digital Marketing Native, Trainer, Consultant, Entrepreneur

AAR Consultancy

Gautam Narang

Head - CX & Digital

Abbott

Charline Boccara

VP Digital, Distribution & Loyalty – Asia

Accor

Sumit Ramchandani

Group Head of Omnichannel Marketing

AIA Group

Adil Sanwari

Regional Head – Digital and Ecom

AkzoNobel

Garrett Teoh

Regional Enterprise Architect (Data & AI)

Allianz

David Lim

Co-Founder

Avante Strategies

Michelle Yang

General Manager, Marketing & CRM

BMW Eurokars Auto

Sudhir Tiku

Vice President (Singapore Asia Pacific Region)

Bosch Energy & Building Solutions

Ranya Arora

Senior Strategic Business Consultant

Braze

Ravi Shankar

Chief Marketing Officer

CARSOME

Valerie Loy

Vice President, Marketing - East, South Asia and Pacific (ESAP)

Club Med

Krisha Dy

Brand Experiences Director

Colgate-Palmolive

Nikolaus Ong

Chief Operations Officer (COMO Group)

Comoclub

Olivier Girard

Head of Services, APAC

Digimind

Manisha Seewal

Former CMO

Ebay

Jason Huan

Chief Marketing Officer

Endowus

Alvin Neo

Chief Customer & Marketing Officer

FairPrice Group

Chua Ke Wei

Head of Marketing

Fitness First

Bandana Kaur

Marketing Director

Foodedge Gourmet

Meredith Hasko

Head of Performance Measurement, Data and Strategy, APAC Go-to-Market

Google Asia Pacific

Gaurav Lalwani

Sr. Director, Global Content and Marketing Operations

GSK

Shayan Hazir

Chief Digital Officer, ASEAN

HSBC

Shailesh Hegde

VP, Product

Hubilo

James Gilbert

Senior Director of Partnership Marketing

HubSpot

Adam Cowlishaw

Head of Marketing

Johnson & Johnson

Andrew Ridsdale Smith

Head of Analytics, Southeast Asia

Kantar

Kartikeya Varma

Head of Media APAC

Kantar

Vanessa Yeo Barger

General Manager, Marketing

Lenskart

Alyce Erikson

Head of Product Marketing, APAC

LinkedIn

Nafees Khundker

Managing Director

Lush Singapore

Milind

AI Scientist - Heads AI Product Development, Operations and Maintenance for Region Overseas

Mercedes-Benz

Anish Chadda

Global VP, Product

MessageBird

Lee Sook Han

Facilitator & Coach

Mind Transformations Consulting

Nikhil Rao

VP Marketing

Mondelēz International

Benjamin Goh

Marketing & Communications Director, South East Asia

Montblanc

Clara Lee

Chief of Data Science Practice

NUS-ISS

Cedric Dias

Group Head of Marketing

OONA Insurance

Louie Lui

Head of Digital and Marketing

PHS Hairscience

Jayss Rajoo

Director of Marketing & Innovation

Pizza Hut

Ankit Madhogaria

Head of Ecom, SEA

PUMA South East Asia

Rajesh Sreenivasan

Partner & Head of Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Belinda Clark

CX Strategy Director

RAPP Singapore

Sushmita Mohapatra

Global CX Strategist

Reckitt

Kelferd Hor

VP, Squad Lead of Investors Digital Experience

RHB Banking Group

Suhas Awasthi

Senior Assistant Director, Data Analytics

Sentosa Development Corporation

Jana Marlé-Zizková

Co-founder & CEO Meiro & She Loves Data

She Loves Data

Patricia Mulles

Director and Global Head of Partnerships

She Loves Data

Melissa Shannon

Managing Director and Global Head, Digital Sales and Marketing

Standard Chartered Bank

Gary Liu

Co-founder & CEO

Terminal 3

Kenneth Phua

Global Digital Director, Owned Experiences

The Coca-Cola Company

Neha Khullar

Digital Lead, APAC

The Hershey Company

Norman Tan

Global Marketing Strategy Leader

Zespri International

Candina Weston

Independent Consultant

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Elveena Cornelio

APAC Digital & Media Lead, CBG

3M

A marketing and advertising leader with Digital specialisation, delivering profitable solutions through consumer-centric experiences driven by data and use of innovative technologies, Elveena Cornelio has 15+ years of experience across multiple geographies including APAC and MEA. With experience in B2C and B2B verticals in Retail, Luxury and BFSI, Cornelio is currently leading the Digital and Media team at 3M focusing on performance marketing and content personalisation initiatives, with a transmedia storytelling approach, fuelled by AI & automation.

Soumik Chakraborty

Digital Marketing Native, Trainer, Consultant, Entrepreneur

AAR Consultancy

Soumik is a seasoned digital marketer with 14 years of experience and a proven track record of success. Featured in Straits Times, Asian Entrepreneur, CNA, Amazon, and more, his expertise spans Startups, SMEs, and Fortune 50-200 Companies. Soumik is not only a respected consultant and trainer but also a generous mentor, offering pro bono training to those eager to embark on a digital learning journey. He has successfully spearheaded campaigns for over 60 companies and has enriched the skills of more than 7,000 participants through public and corporate training. For the past 6 years, he has been steering his own consultancy and training firm, mentoring students and startups, and making a real difference in the digital marketing landscape.

Gautam Narang

Head – CX & Digital

Abbott

A Marketing and commercial leader with expertise across multiple categories and business models in regional and local emerging as well as developed market roles, Gautam Narang has more than 17 years of experience leading share growth innovation initiatives, driving digital transformation and nurturing partnerships teams.

Narang currently heads the Consumer Experience & Digital team at Abbott Singapore and is responsible for the profitable growth of the nutrition business portfolio by driving meaningful consumer experiences across the digital marketing funnel through performance marketing campaigns.

Charline Boccara

VP Digital, Distribution & Loyalty – Asia

Accor

Charline Boccara has spent her career within Accor – a worldwide hospitality leader – across various roles & countries for close to 15 years. Her experience and passion for discovery and travel have led her from New York to London to Paris all the way to Asia.

Currently based in Singapore, Boccara is responsible for the overall e-commerce and digital performance of Accor in Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and India. Her scope covers commercial and distribution strategy for online travel agencies and connected clients as well as e-commerce, digital marketing and customer Engagement for ALL (Accor Live Limitless).

Focusing on travellers’ behaviours, her Digital & Distribution team oversees maximising Accor’s digital ecosystem and web performance across a network of 400+ hotels across 15 countries and Points of Sales in Asia by building locally relevant strategy to recruit, retain and activate clients across all digital touch points.

Sumit Ramchandani

Consultant

Sumit Ramchandani is a commercial-driven marketing leader with deep expertise in omnichannel marketing, lead management and revOps, across fintech, Web3 and technology sectors. Currently as the founding partner of XL-Asia, he serves as the chief of growth at aarna.ai, an AI-driven web3 digital asset management protocol. His leadership in previous roles at AIA Insurance, Blueshift, AirAsia Media Group and eBay has consistently delivered significant growth, across APAC and North America.

Adil Sanwari

Regional Head – Digital and Ecom

AkzoNobel

Adil Sanwari has 14+ years of digital marketing experience, driving transformation and media strategy, with a focus on customer engagement, data-driven marketing and automation capabilities, that strengthen the funnel, and help achieve effective ROI. Sanwari was featured in the list of 100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders in APAC by World Digital Marketing in 2020.

Garrett Teoh

Regional Enterprise Architect (Data & AI)

Allianz

Garrett Teoh is a passionate data science strategist with over 23 years of professional experience and serves a key mission in empowering business leaders to navigate uncertainties with confidence by interlocking data, artificial intelligence and human ingenuity. Teoh has spent most of his professional career providing data consultancy services and building enterprise-level data analytics capabilities as well as worked with various global clients across Singapore and APAC regions to deliver impact with AI initiatives.

David Lim

Consultant

Armed with more than 17 years of regional marketing experience spanning various verticals, David Lim is a cross-disciplinary senior marketer; with expertise in brand and content strategy, digital and performance marketing, communications, as well as CRM and loyalty marketing. He has created multiple award-winning and results-driven campaigns that achieved business objectives across the entire conversion funnel.

Lim has also built and led successful teams with his unique combination of strategic thinking, business acumen and leadership skills. He led the group marketing practice and the HappyFresh Thailand business as SVP and managing director respectively before becoming a fractional CMO now. Prior to that, Lim led performance marketing and CRM in Scoot, retention marketing in Singtel and digital marketing in Starcom, where he worked with brands such as Heineken, Samsung, MSIG Insurance, Singapore Grand Prix and many more.

He also conducts marketing masterclasses and workshops, including functional teams across the APAC region.

Michelle Yang

General Manager, Marketing & CRM

BMW Eurokars Auto

With over 23 years of invaluable experience in the fashion, lifestyle, retail, corporate, and FMCG industries, Michelle Yang has honed her skills in crafting highly effective marketing strategies and establishing robust brand foundations. Her expertise lies in dynamic storytelling and creating compelling content that captivates audiences and drives engagement.

Throughout her career, Yang has successfully led cross-functional teams and implemented strategic marketing plans, consistently surpassing profit goals and delivering exceptional results. Her deep passion for transforming brands and challenging the status quo is what truly sets her apart. Yang is driven to make BMW Eurokars Auto a true powerhouse in the automotive industry, revolutionising the way luxury cars are perceived and experienced.

Sudhir Tiku

Vice President (Singapore Asia Pacific Region)

Bosch Energy & Building Solutions

Sudhir Tiku is an Automation Expert, Technologist, and Certified Futurist. For work, he is Vice President for Asia Pacific and China at Bosch Singapore for the Building Technology Division. Tiku has over two decades of diverse experience in the automation industry and joined Bosch from GE, where he held a senior Management role and handled a large portfolio of detection and automation products. He is a badge holder of AI Ethics from the London School of Economics and is a regular at TEDx circles in the Asia Pacific on topics of the Future of Technology, especially AI, and its impact on humanity. He is a Global community member of Singularity University, USA.

Ranya Arora

Senior Strategic Business Consultant

Braze

A part of Braze‘s Strategic Consulting team, Ranya is specialise in unlocking the potential of customer engagement. Her role involves collaborating with both new and established clients, crafting strategies tailored to their specific business requirements. Previously, Ranya have worked across marketing roles in advertising, media buying and branding.

Ravi Shankar

Chief Marketing Officer

CARSOME

Ravi Shankar is a versatile branding and marketing professional with 15+ years of experience driving growth and improving customer satisfaction for companies in the APAC region. He possesses a unique combination of marketing, business, and technical expertise, allowing him to develop effective marketing strategies that align with business objectives.

With strong commercial acumen, Shankar effectively uses data to inform business decisions and communicate the business impact of marketing initiatives, making him an effective leader and partner for cross-functional teams. His unique skill set allows him to bring a fresh perspective to marketing efforts and deliver tangible results.

In addition to his professional achievements, Shankar is passionate about mentoring young marketing professionals and staying up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI and technology.

Valerie Loy

Vice President, Marketing – East, South Asia and Pacific (ESAP)

Club Med

Valerie Loy joined Club Med as VP Marketing East, South Asia and Pacific in November 2022. In her role she leads the marketing team in the region, leveraging on her experience as a digital and social native, employing the art and science of storytelling with a focus on data-driven integrated and omni-channel marketing. In her role, she is responsible for brand impact on business goals and driving the Club Med story across the 11 markets in her remit.

A familiar personality in the industry, Loy is also sought after for her insights and has been on the panel of conferences, addressing key thought-leadership topics of interest such as the future of Influencer and Social Media Marketing. She has also led various teams to garner a variety of awards and was also a judge at industry awards.

Krisha Dy

Brand Experiences Director

Colgate-Palmolive

Krisha Dy, the Brand Experiences Director at Colgate-Palmolive, is a seasoned business leader with nearly two decades of expertise in marketing transformation. With a global perspective and deep insights into regional and local dynamics, she has honed her skills in digital innovation, customer experience, and omnichannel strategies. Notably, Dy spearheaded successful e-commerce ventures within the fashion retail industry, showcasing her prowess in building and revitalizing online businesses. Her wealth of experience solidifies her position as a trailblazer in navigating the ever-evolving landscape of brand engagement.

Nikolaus Ong

Chief Operations Officer (COMO Group)

Comoclub

Nikolaus Ong, a seasoned digital business builder, is at the forefront of shaping business agendas. His role centres on driving growth through innovative solutions to critical customer and business challenges He’s led global initiatives involving diverse teams across various geographies, spanning Multi-Marketing, Partnerships, Digital Product Development, Data & Analytics, and Technology. His focus is unwavering: business strategy, accelerating growth, and delivering impactful solutions.

Ong brings a rich professional history, managing global roles from Silicon Valley to prestigious digital agencies and multi-national companies. His impressive clientele includes industry giants such as Wells Fargo, BlackRock, and Intel. He returned to Singapore, where he spearheaded digital transformation for Fortune 500 companies like Dell EMC and Aviva Financial Services, and now leads a growing business in Comoclub, a COMO Group company, with full P&L accountability.

He thrives in high-performance settings, recognised for his natural leadership abilities, where businesses benefit from his commercial acumen and unwavering commitment to foster excellence within diverse teams where he skillfully melds executive vision with hands-on execution to uphold overarching strategies.

Olivier Girard

Head of Services, APAC

Digimind

With a focus on data management and business intelligence, Olivier Girard is deeply passionate about helping digital marketers deploy the best strategies for competitive and market intelligence within their organizations.

At Digimind, he oversees all client relations across the Asia Pacific region and supports the strategic development of the projects, harnessing social intelligence for their business goals. He is also a regular guest speaker at INSEAD and ESSEC Singapore’s MBA and EMBA programmes, where he advocates the power of competitive and market intelligence for business development.

Manisha Seewal

Former CMO

Ebay

Manisha Seewal is the Group President of Redhill Communications Pte Ltd – world’s second fastest growing PR agency (PRovoke 2023 rankings) with offices in over 20 countries. She oversees the agency’s global business functions and operations. She has 20 years of Marketing experience ranging from Banking, Insurtech, start-ups and marketplaces.

Before Redhill she was the Chief Marketing Officer of eBay’s 3 portfolio companies in Australia – Gumtree, Carsguide and Autotrader where she led the digital transformation of the entire Marketing and Editorial function for the three brands.

Seewal is a leader in the Digital Transformation space. She has led several “Singapore’s first” digital transformation initiatives, which include Singapore’s first “Netflix for Cars”- a car subscription-based service and Singapore’s first ChatBot from a life insurer.

She has been featured in top media like Channel News Asia, Business Times, Techerati, Spotify Podcasts, Marketing Magazine and several others. Seewal is listed amongst the world’s Top 100 Most Influential Communicators, Top 100 Chief Marketing Officers and Top 50 Women leaders in Asia.

Jason Huan

Chief Marketing Officer

Endowus

Jason Huan is the Chief Marketing Officer of Endowus, a leading digital wealth platform in Asia. In his current role, he drives the growth strategy of the fast-growing fintech startup as he oversees the business’s branding, performance marketing, public relations and content verticals.

Huan has over 15 years of experience across various sectors, mainly in finance and technology. Under his leadership, the Endowus marketing team has grown by more than 3X in less than two years. Collectively, the team has strengthened the brand’s leadership with several awards under its belt and cemented Endowus’ positioning as a trusted and leading investment platform that offers access to the best-in-class funds at a low fee with expert advice aligned with clients’ best interests.

In 2022, Huan was named one of the top 30 most influential fintech marketers by The Fintech Marketing Hub, among recipients from other well-established, high-growth startups.

Alvin Neo

Chief Customer & Marketing Officer

FairPrice Group

Alvin Neo is the Chief Customer and Marketing Officer (CCMO) at FairPrice Group and the Managing Director of NTUC Link. He is responsible for driving strategic marketing, customer, partnership and communications initiatives to achieve business growth, uplift customer experience, customer-centricity and loyalty across the group. Prior to his current appointment at FairPrice Group, Alvin has over 20 years of local and international brand, business and marketing management experience.

Chua Ke Wei

Head of Marketing

Fitness First

Chua Ke Wei brings over 12 years of experience in marketing across various industries. Passionate about enabling businesses, her expertise goes beyond traditional marketing, using insights to achieve commercial goals through marketing strategies that combine storytelling with data-driven approaches. This blend of creativity and analytics marks her position as a marketer who thrives on integrating hard data with soft creativity for positive business impact and audience engagement, as she aligns sales and marketing goals.

In her current role as Head of Marketing at Fitness First Singapore, Chua leads marketing transformation initiatives with a sharp focus on aligning strategies with business goals, building lasting brand connections, and shaping innovative customer experiences that drive growth and loyalty.

Bandana Kaur

Marketing Director

Foodedge Gourmet

Born into a family with a deep-rooted history in the Singapore business landscape, Bandana displayed an early affinity for entrepreneurship. After completing her MBA from Babson College, where she honed her strategic thinking and leadership skills, she made the pivotal decision to join her family’s business, Foodedge Gourmet Pte Ltd.

Stepping into her Marketing and Brand Manager role at Foodedge Gourmet, Bandana wasted no time implementing her transformative ideas. She recognised the shifting landscape of retail and the growing influence of digital platforms, and drawing from her MBA education, she guided a strategic overhaul of the business model, integrating e-commerce solutions and revamping the in-store experience to align with modern consumer preferences.

Under her guidance, Foodedge Gourmet expanded its market reach to embrace brick-and-mortar retail stores under Melvados. Today, Bandana manages Melvados’ presence in Singapore and is working with a strategic team to expand into Malaysia.

Meredith Hasko

Head of Performance Measurement, Data and Strategy, APAC Go-to-Market

Google Asia Pacific

With over 15 years of experience in the digital ads industry, Meredith is integral to developing Google APAC’s go-to-market strategy for its measurement and data products, while also ensuring that the voice of APAC advertisers is represented in the process of product development. She and her teams are on the front lines of solving customer business challenges with privacy-safe and Google-AI powered solutions.

She’s a Fulbright scholar, presentation and career coach, and is passionate about flexible, fast-paced work.

Gaurav Lalwani

Sr. Director, Global Content and Marketing Operations

GSK

Gaurav Lalwani is a Global Marketing leader with 20 years of expertise in building and transforming brands across Biopharma, FMCG, Luxury, Financial Services, Healthcare and Automotive. He currently leads the Content and Omnichannel Marketing Operations team for GSK Globally.

Lalwani has been featured in Campaign Asia’s 40 under 40 in 2017 and won multiple marketing, data and creative awards, including Effies and Cannes. He believes in the power of bringing people and technology to solve real problems.

Shayan Hazir

Chief Digital Officer, ASEAN

HSBC

Shayan Hazir brings 18 years of leadership experience across HSBC’s footprint markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. As chief digital officer, ASEAN, HSBC, Hazir is responsible for developing and implementing the enterprise level digital strategy for HSBC in South East Asia. Hazir continues to build on HSBCs strategic imperatives of “digitizing at scale” and is an industry thought leader for core and emerging technologies.

Shailesh Hegde

VP, Product

Hubilo

Shailesh Hegde is the VP of Product, Design and Product Marketing at Hubilo, where he is determined to make webinars better for B2B companies. He loves working with people – users, engineers, designers, managers, data analysts, marketers, customer success, sales and chief executives to dream up, define, develop and demonstrate products that make people more productive, while improving business revenue and customer love. With a mixed background in quality engineering, technical architecture, design, leadership and product sense, he wishes to spend the majority of his working hours learning about our history, how humans and technology can co-operate in this fast-changing world.

James Gilbert

Senior Director of Partnership Marketing

HubSpot

James Gilbert is the Senior Director of Partnership Marketing at HubSpot, a leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform that provides software and support to help companies grow better. He runs partnership marketing at HubSpot including the HubSpot for Startups program which is designed to help millions of startups scale in a cost-effective manner. Prior to HubSpot, Gilbert led commercial and growth teams at start-ups, mid-size as well as large companies across Asia Pacific. He is a mentor and investor at Startmate, one of the top accelerators in the world. Outside of work, James is a self-described data nerd with an insatiable curiosity for business growth. He regularly speaks at industry events around Asia Pacific, and is often approached to share his expertise on small business growth. His happy place, however, is deep in a spreadsheet, coming up with insights that will drive growth for HubSpot.

Adam Cowlishaw

Head of Marketing

Johnson & Johnson

Adam W. Cowlishaw is Head of Marketing at Johnson & Johnson Vision Care in Singapore, home to the world’s most trusted brand of contact lenses, ACUVUE®. His current remit includes commercial strategy, brand marketing, integrated communications and campaigns, CRM, eCommerce, and product management.

Under Cowlishaw’s leadership, the business has delivered record-breaking market share growth, enabled by a programme of transformative business model and patient access innovations that have helped more and more patients see and live better.

As a global citizen, Cowlishaw is a people-centric leader who is committed to diversity and inclusion, and since 2021 he has served as a member of Johnson & Johnson’s DEI Council and co-lead of the Open&Out employee resource group.

Andrew Ridsdale-Smith

Head, Kantar Analytics Practice SEA

Kantar

Andy has been with Kantar for almost 25 years and is based in Singapore. For the last 20 years he has worked in a variety of regional APAC roles and across a broad mix of industries and clients.

In recent years, his role has focused on helping our clients make better decisions with their existing data through both the application of more advanced, predictive analytic approaches as well as a more critical human perspective.

He currently leads Kantar’s analytics practice in APAC which focusses on using AI-based approaches to help maximise marketing ROI, extract insights from digital data and bringing sense to large, siloed datasets.

Kartikeya Varma

Head of Media APAC

Kantar

A passionate media researcher, Kartik brings in-depth expertise in audience measurement and media effectiveness to tailor solutions to the media industry’s diverse needs. He has worked extensively with large digital publishers and advertisers in Asia Pacific and heads the Media domain for the region. Kartik brings with him extensive experience working with platforms and publishers including Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Twitter and Amazon.

Vanessa Yeo Barger

General Manager, Marketing

Lenskart

Vanessa Yeo is currently the general manager for marketing at Lenskart, Asia’s largest eyewear company with over 2000 omnichannel stores across India, Singapore and Dubai. Yeo is the strategic and creative force behind their marketing campaigns, creatives, social media, community experiences, and communications. Her customer-centric approach allows her to make each interaction with the brands and products she helms both inspiring and meaningful.

Alyce Erikson

Head of Product Marketing, APAC

Alyce Erikson leads product marketing for LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions business in APAC living in Singapore. Partnering with global customers and product teams to develop industry-leading solutions and narratives in B2B marketing, Erikson has the best of both the marketing and product worlds. Having spent over eight years at LinkedIn, she has seen first-hand the role of technology in marketing develop overtime, having produced tools that improve optimisation, data collection and processing, and advertiser engagement.

Nafees Khundker

Managing Director

Lush Singapore

Nafees Khundker has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and investment banking, with Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered covering clients in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He held several leadership roles and has built businesses in the region.

Khundker is currently an Impact Venture Capital Partner and an entrepreneur with a proven track record and investments/board representation in various companies in retail, distribution, finance and Information Technology. He has a special interest in sustainability initiatives and works with small non-profit organisations. Khundker is an avid sportsperson with particular interest in tennis, golf and cricket.

Milind

Product Owner Data Science – Heads AI Product Development, Operations and Maintenance for Region Overseas

Mercedes-Benz

Milind has close to two decades of experience in business leadership and consulting roles. He has advised governments on policy and regulatory matters, worked with private companies on strategy and growth initiatives, been a core team member of a successful start-up, and has turned around a loss-making business. At present, Milind heads the AI product development and operations function at Mercedes Benz for Region Overseas, covering more than 40 countries globally.

Milind holds three Masters’ degrees, in Business Management, in Transport and Logistics, and in Artificial Intelligence and serves on the advisory board of ‘AI for Good Foundation’.

Anish Chadda

Global VP, Product

MessageBird

With a passion for empowering CMOs to drive tangible business impact, Anish Chadda, Global VP of Product at MessageBird takes pride in serving as a consultative advisor to some of the world’s most accomplished marketing executives and leading brands.

A seasoned leader in the MarTech industry, he holds a wealth of experience in both Enterprise and Mid-Market/SMB segments having crafted innovative advertising, marketing automation, content marketing, and analytics products that resonate globally. His distinguished career has seen him shape the MarTech landscape at industry giants like MessageBird and Sprinklr.

Armed with a stellar educational foundation in Computer Engineering and Economics from Carnegie Mellon, Chadda blends technical acumen with a keen understanding of economic dynamics, making him an invaluable asset in the ever-evolving world of marketing technology. He stops at nothing less than groundbreaking solutions that drive your marketing initiatives to the impact you wish to create.

Lee Sook Han

Facilitator & Coach

Mind Transformations Consulting

Sook Han Lee is a facilitator and coach, specialising in sensemaking and turning complex data into insights, learning and actions for a broad audience. She facilitates workshops using design thinking principles, community engagement and fact-finding through focus groups, interviews, surveys, and training.

As a life and executive coach, Lee journeys with individuals and leaders as they gain a deeper appreciation of themselves and empowers them in taking strategic yet practical steps to break through their limitations to progress towards their desired outcomes.

Lee has worked for over 20 years in telecommunications and technology in Singapore and multinational enterprises across roles spanning product management, marketing, business analysis and strategy. She also established the advocacy, research, marketing and PR function at Singapore’s largest association for the tech industry.

Nikhil Rao

Chief Marketing Officer

Mars

Nikhil Rao is a seasoned senior commercial leader with 25 years of FMCG experience spanning global, regional, and business unit roles across India, Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, and Europe. Currently, he is the CMO for Mars Wrigley India with iconic brands like Snickers, Galaxy, Bounty, Boomer and Orbit.

Rao brings substantial expertise across marketing, creative strategy, digital transformation, product innovation, sales, and ecommerce, with specialised knowledge in categories such as chocolate, bakery, beverages, gum, candy, and meals. An adaptable and results-driven business leader, he has a proven track record of driving growth and unlocking brand potential. He is deeply passionate about strategic and creative ideas that elevate brands and enhance consumer lives.

Benjamin Goh

Marketing & Communications Director, South East Asia

Montblanc

Benjamin Goh currently oversees all Marketing and Communications for Montblanc in Singapore, Malaysia and emerging markets in Southeast Asia. He is a 19-year marketing veteran, starting his career with a local creative agency and working his way through leading global agencies, representing a mix of regional and global clients/brands.

With Montblanc since 2017, Goh has steered the internalisation of Australia and Malaysia in the region and continues to drive all aspects of Marketing for the Maison with a consistent approach of growing brand desirability and impact and increasing marketing competence in Southeast Asia with authorised retailers.

Clara Lee

Chief of Data Science Practice

NUS-ISS

Clara Lee has a distinguished career marked by excellence in technology and operations leadership across diverse sectors. With a relentless drive for growth and value preservation, she has excelled in leveraging global resources, empowering staff, and forging strategic partnerships.

Lee’s board credentials include a Board position at Beyond Social Services and the IT Management Association, underscoring her commitment to leadership roles. Her professional journey encompasses pivotal roles such as Chief of Data Science Practice at NUS-ISS, where she shapes data science initiatives and academic programs.

Lee’s career is a testament to her ability to drive innovation, deliver exceptional results, and contribute to operational excellence across a broad spectrum of organisations.

Cedric Dias

Group Head of Marketing

OONA Insurance

Cedric Dias is Group Head of Digital and New Growth at Oona Insurance, a Warburg Pincus sponsored company focused on building the most customer-driven general insurer in SEA. He assumes the responsibility for the Oona Brand as well as driving customer centricity and direct-to-customer initiatives including CX and customer growth. Dias has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Telecommunications and a Masters in Management Studies, both from Mumbai University.

Louie Lui

Head of Digital and Marketing

PHS Hairscience

Louie Lui is a seasoned digital marketing leader renowned for guiding businesses in leveraging emerging technologies. With a performance marketing foundation and diverse industry experience, he thrives in the startup space, navigating agility and creativity and has led multiple companies to enormous growth. Lui’s always passionate about collaborating with marketers focused on impactful success metrics.

Jayss Rajoo

Director of Marketing & Innovation

Pizza Hut

Jayss Rajoo, an accomplished marketer with 20+ years of diverse business acumen, excels in commercial management, strategic marketing, and brand innovation. A trailblazing entrepreneur, Rajoo pioneered patented packaging designs, fostering unique brand identities. Rajoo thrives on unorthodox thinking, leveraging digital trends and pop culture to spark conversations. She notably propelled Pizza Hut as Singapore’s pioneer consumer brand to integrate AI into campaign creatives.

Ankit Madhogaria

Head of Ecom, SEA

PUMA South East Asia

Ankit currently the head of ecommerce for PUMA South East Asia since and is responsible for driving SEA Ecom Sales and EBIT through technology adoption, operations, performance marketing, customer service, marketplace business development and content initiatives in line with PUMA’s brand strategy and product stories. He was previously attached with PUMA Sports India as Head of Demand Generation. During his 5-year stint at PUMA India, he was responsible for driving traffic on puma.com, ensuring it is the most visible sports and lifestyle brand across ecommerce platforms as well as driving repeat business from online and offline customers.

Rajesh Sreenivasan

Partner & Head of Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Rajesh Sreenivasan is a Partner and Head of the Technology, Media, and telecommunications Law Practice at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP and the Coordinating Partner for the firm’s multidisciplinary and cross-practice Data and Digital Economy (DDE) Legal Services. He is a Director and Co-founder of Rajah & Tann Technologies Pte Ltd and Rajah & Tann Cybersecurity Pte Ltd, the legal tech arms of Rajah & Tann Asia. With over 20 years in practice, he has been universally recognised as Singapore’s leading technology, media and telecoms lawyer by all significant professional ranking agencies. He is noted as one of the top TMT lawyers in the Asia Pacific region.

Sreenivasan has been at the forefront of legal, regulatory and policy matters relating to technology procurement, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data protection, analytics and governance, telecommunications, electronic commerce, cloud computing, distributed ledger technologies, digital forensics and digital media in the region. He has since built a team of over 50 lawyers with significant depth.

Belinda Clark

CX Strategy Director

Rapp Singapore

Belinda Clark is a Customer Experience Strategy Director at RAPP Singapore, a data-driven marketing and creative agency, part of the global Omnicom network. She is a skilled Customer Experience, CRM and loyalty strategist with over 16 years of experience across APAC and the UK/Europe. She has been with RAPP for 7 years, first in the UK and now leading strategy in Singapore.

Clark works with APAC & MENA clients in the Automotive, Luxury, Travel & Retail industries, and is also part of the RAPP Global Leadership team, enabling her to tap into the global network for sharing and collaboration. She is adept at omnichannel customer experience planning and loyalty, understanding how to execute first-party data strategies and supporting businesses in their digital transformations.

Originally from New Zealand and having worked in Australia and the UK/Europe, Belinda has a good understanding of the unique needs and experiences of customers around the world.

Sushmita Mohapatra

Global CX Strategist

Reckitt

Sushmita enjoys being the consumer voice in marketing teams, trying to find the consumer’s reason to engage, within the deluge of data, business objectives and campaign performances. Having worked across sectors, from Proptech, Consulting to FMCG, in growth and consumer marketing teams, she loves finding a good story to tell!

Kelferd Hor

VP, Squad Lead of Investors Digital Experience

RHB Banking Group

Kelferd Hor is a seasoned digital product manager with over a decade of experience in the technology industry. He is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP) and Certified Professional (CP) with a Professional MBA in Entrepreneurship. He is currently the VP of Investors Digital Experience at RHB Banking Group, where he is responsible for the development and delivery of digital wealth management solutions and conversational banking.

Suhas Awasthi

Senior Assistant Director, Data Analytics

Sentosa Development Corporation

With a multifaceted 17-year career in banking, insurance, gaming, and public sector tourism, Suhas Awasthi has grown into a versatile data practitioner, adept in technology, architecture, and solving complex business problems. Currently, as the Senior Assistant Director at Sentosa Development Corporation, he leads a team in weaving data-driven strategies across various domains including marketing, strategy, and operations.

Educated with a Master’s in IT in Business (Analytics) from Singapore Management University, and pursuing a Geospatial credential from NUS, complemented by a business credential from Harvard Business School Online, Awasthi’s journey underscores a deep commitment to strategic data utilisation for tangible business impact.

At Sentosa, he and his team are at the forefront of GenAI initiatives, focusing on enhancing marketing strategies and guest experiences. This encompasses AI-driven guest feedback systems, a recommendation engine for personalised experiences, AI chatbots for efficiency, and a crowd forecast engine to optimise island experiences.

Jana Marlé-Zizková

Co-founder & CEO Meiro & She Loves Data

She Loves Data

In 2015, Jana Marlé-Zizková left her corporate career to start a data consultancy, soon followed by a Singapore-based Customer Data Platform (CDP) tech start-up, Meiro where she is the CEO. At the same time, she co-founded the non-profit global movement She Loves Data.

Since 2016, over 16,000 women have attended 200+ free data and tech workshops, certification programs and webinars. She Loves Data has chapters in 17 countries on 5 continents and received the 2019 “Diversity Initiative Award in Asia” by Women in IT.

In 2009 and 2010 she was named one of the “Top 25 Businesswomen” in the Czech Republic and was also featured on the inaugural 2020 “Singapore 100 Women in Tech” list.

Marlé-Zizková is a volunteering mentor of non-commercial projects for future female leaders, My Odyssey & Women in Business (National University of Singapore), and she collaborates with the European Women on Boards on the C-level program.

Patricia Mulles

Director and Global Head of Partnerships

She Loves Data

Patricia Mulles is an independent consultant frequently sought for her expertise in marketing, customer experience strategies and data governance, as well as her views on the future of work.

She also serves as Director and Global Partnerships Head for She Loves Data, a 25,000-member non-profit that focuses on data literacy and helping more women co-drive a data-and-AI-influenced future.

In 2019, She Loves Data was recognised with the “Diversity Initiative of the Year” award by WiT Asia. Mulles has been featured in Forbes Asia and Business World and recognised as one of Asia’s Women Leaders (CMO Awards, 2019).

Melissa Shannon

Managing Director and Global Head, Digital Sales and Marketing

Standard Chartered Bank

Melissa Shannon is the Managing Director of Global Digital Sales and Marketing at Standard Chartered where she is leading the bank’s digital sales and marketing transformation. She has 24 years global agency and client-side digital sales, product management and marketing experience.

Having started in digital around its inception, she had to roll up her sleeves and assume responsibility for a variety of digital roles, growing as the industry was learning and maturing. She considers herself lucky enough to work with some terrific mentors that believed in her and invested in her development.

Her experience spans over 30 countries, where she has been responsible for unlocking new revenue streams both in mature and emerging markets.

Shannon’s personal mission is to create and deliver experiences that empower the user, enrich client relationships and achieve the desired commercial outcome. She loves creating opportunities from a blank canvas, and is most comfortable when she is pushed to think ‘outside of the box’. One of the things Shannon has become known for is her ability to leverage technology to innovate and unlock new revenue streams.

Gary Liu

Co-founder & CEO

Terminal 3

Gary Liu, Co-Founder & CEO of Terminal 3, pioneers decentralised user data infrastructure to enhance privacy and reduce corporate compliance and security burdens. He also established Artifact Labs, creating historical NFTs to ‘preserve and connect history’, and is the Founding Chair of Web3 Harbour, fostering Web3 development in Asia.

Formerly the CEO of the South China Morning Post, he led a significant overhaul, boosting global reach and revenue, securing its position as Asia’s premier news outlet. At Digg, he drove the transformation into a data-centric news platform, and at Spotify, he progressed from Global Director of Ad Product Strategy to Head of Labs. His career also spans roles at AOL and Google.

A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Liu has served on notable media boards and been lauded by prominent publications. An Economics alumnus of Harvard, he’s lived across the globe, now residing in Hong Kong with his family.

Kenneth Phua

Global Digital Director, Owned Experiences

The Coca-Cola Company

An experienced global digital leader cutting across marketing and commercial functions, Kenneth Phua has more than 12 years of experience in developing and pushing the digital agenda from the lens of a start-up, agency and corporations. He has led digital initiatives across the globe and currently leads strategic global digital initiatives for The Coca-Cola Company.

Neha Khullar

Digital Lead, APAC

The Hershey Company

With 13+ years of experience in digital marketing and strategy with Global FMCG brands, Neha Khullar has led partnerships, branding, marketing, and measurement across APAC. As a digital evangelist with strong analytical and critical thinking skills, she has constantly pushed for deeper integration with platforms, startups, and content creators to ensure Hershey’s generates data-based insights to stay ahead of the curve.

Having worked in agency and in-house roles, she believes the future lies in the confluence of marketing commerce, and she is excited about the role content is increasingly playing in this!

Norman Tan

Global Marketing Strategy Leader

Zespri International

Norman Tan is currently one of the Global Marketing Strategy Leaders at Zespri, a Kiwi Fruit Brand that punches above its weight in the global Fruits category. He is a hands-on, innately entrepreneurial digital-first marketer who thrives on continuous learning, innovation, developing teams and enabling cross-functional integration.

Candina Weston

Independent Consultant

Candina Weston is an international technology executive with experience across the United States, Europe and Asia. She is experienced in marketing, sales, strategy, operations and change management, and has led multiple global marketing, go to market, transformation and scale initiatives for Microsoft across B2B and B2C customer segments leveraging AI driven insights to drive scale, growth and transformation, leading with both data and creativity. Now as an independent consultant Weston advises the C-suite on transformation of the customer experience, and how to leverage data in this process. She draws from her own experience working with AI based data, coupled with input from thought leaders to inform this process.