Krishnan is a serial entrepreneur originally from India. In 2015, he founded Fabelio.com,, a design centric furniture ecommerce company in Indonesia which dominates the online furniture space. Previously Krishnan worked with Lazada Indonesia, Zalora SEA, and Freecharge.com which got acquired by Snapdeal.com, , India's largest M&A exit in online space. Krishnan has a Masters in Chemistry from BITS Pilani and also pursued a Masters in Management from a European Business School - ESCP Europe. Krishnan and team started Fabelio in April 2015, with the aim of beautifying homes and to enable people across the region to furnish their homes with great designs affordably.

James helps online retailers improve conversions and revenue with patented learning technology that enables online shoppers connect to the products they’re most likely to buy. He is an experienced digital professional with a successful track record in consulting on e-commerce strategy and digital marketing. Prior to SLI, James was a Peak Performance Consultant, authoring the book The Wellbeing Revolution.

Mark has a master’s degree in Marketing and started working in online retail in the Netherlands in 2005 before moving to Australia in 2007 to work in the Search Engine Marketing space before moving to CBS Interactive. In 2013 Mark relocated to Singapore with CBS interactive and managed the media sales team in Asia before joining the Oracle Marketing Cloud to help some of the largest online retailers in Asia to adopt MarTech & AdTech technologies such as cross-channel marketing automation & DMP, to achieve a unified view of your customers and to create customer experiences that drive conversion and online revenue.

Ashish Wadhwani is the Managing Partner at IvyCap Ventures. He has over 19 years of experience in Venture Capital, M&A, Strategic Consulting and Start-ups. During his career, Ashish has led and managed investments of US$ 100M+ and has led strategic sales and also a NASDAQ listing of a USD 50m company. In addition, he has also worked on about 15 M&A transactions. Ashish has worked with companies across the investment lifecycle, from incubation to exit. During his career, he advised over 40 companies on business strategy, growth, implementing new business models, mergers and acquisitions across Asia, India and Europe. 

Natali Ardianto – A serial entrepreneur and one of the prominent leader in the startup industry in Indonesia. He is also awarded the most intelligent CIO at the iCIO Awards 2015. Natali is the co-founder and CTO of Tiket.com, an online travel and entertainment system. Natali with the other co-founders have transformed the startup into a very successful and profitable company. With over 5000 tickets sold a day, Natali has scale the technology and startup into an enterprise company. He will give us an insight on what customers in Indonesia prefer and how players can best fulfill their product preferences during the Indonesia country clinic.

Rahul is an experienced brand builder and business professional with nearly 14 years of work experience with the biggest consumer packaged goods companies in the world. Having worked in both modern retail and general trade environment, he has extensive knowledge in launching new brands, growing established brands in a declining category and defending competitive launches. He will be joining a panel discussion on brands can re-engage their customers in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

Mukesh is responsible for overall company strategy, product and engineering.Mukesh loves building products that delight customers. He is a seasoned product and technology executive and a passionate entrepreneur. He was founder of IntentHub, a content curation startup before jumping into the ad-tech domain in 2012. Prior to that, Mukesh spent about 10 years at Microsoft, USA in various product and engineering leadership roles for products like Bing, CRM and Office. He launched a small business CRM product as part of Microsoft Office suite and led innovations in solving the complex problems related to measuring quality and relevance of search engine algorithms. 

Vikram Bhat is the Chief Product Officer at Aditya Birla Online Fashion - a fashion ecommerce company started by the Aditya Birla Group where he drives the strategy and roadmap for customer-facing and internal products and solutions. Prior to this he was the VP of Products at Myntra, India's largest online fashion store where he drove products and solutons for Marketplace, Planning, Supply Chain, Fulfillment and ERP areas. He has over 15 years of experience, primarily in B2C and B2B Product Management.

Thomas is the founder of See Chic, an e-commerce start-up that gives consumers access to the best-curated brands of eyewear (contact lenses, sunglasses, and optical glasses) at incredible value across South East Asia.

Minh has worked in different senior marketing roles for both startups & corporates focusing on Southeast Asia Travel & eCommerce. Minh is also a Southeast Asia eCommerce guest columnist for some Asia tech/travel news portals. His interview articles are featured on Yahoo News Singapore, WebinTravel/Tnooz, e27.co, and some local tech news sites such as Thumbsup.in.th and Action.vn. Currently Minh is based in Bangkok, Thailand and has frequently travelled through Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam to explore the eCommerce space in this active digital hub of Asia.

Sophia is a seasoned marketing professional with extensive experience in all aspects of marketing including Affiliate marketing, Search marketing, Media buying, Social media, Email marketing, Mobile marketing, Branding, Product marketing, Data analytics and CRM. Solid track record of success in generating strong ROI via various marketing channels throughout APAC. Direct experience in leading integrated marketing strategy for high growth global brands, e-commerce and consumer products for different industries including Media, Gaming, Retail, F&B, FMCG and Travel.

As CMO for SLI Systems, Tim is focused on driving sales growth within the e-commerce sector and increasing SLI’s market share with its SaaS-based search and navigation offerings. Tim previously served as CMO at RetailNext, a leading provider of in-store big data and analytics solutions, and as VP of marketing for online security leader Verisign, where he led the creation and launch of the Verisign Secured seal. Tim currently sits on the board of IT security company DigiCert and has served on the board of the Online Trust Alliance, a vendor-neutral organization dedicated to creating a more trustworthy online ecosystem. A 20-year technology industry veteran, Tim has also held marketing executive positions at Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services and Caere, which later became Nuance. Tim earned a bachelor’s degree with the highest honors from UCLA. 

With over 15 years of experience in the digital and mobile industry, Fabrizio has established strong partnerships with top-tier brands and agencies, mobile operators and media companies in Asia. Before joining Appier, Fabrizio served as Senior Vice President Asia at Opera Software, a leading mobile internet and advertising company. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific & Vice President for Business Development at Out There Media, and held senior management positions at Buongiorno and Amdocs. Fabrizio earned his master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from University of Catania.

Punit is the Director of Digital Marketing for Jabong, a leading e-commerce company in India. His expertise lies in increasing visibility, profitability, and performance for diverse organizations ranging from SMBs to large reputed organizations in retail, fashion e-commerce, travel, IT, health, and internet sector. He will be giving us an insight into the Indian e-commerce industry and on how players can bridge the gap between customer engagement and paid conversions.

Tito Costa is the Regional Managing Director for Zalora Group, the leading online fashion e-commerce destination in Asia Pacific. He joined Zalora after launching two internet companies in Italy and four ventures in Pakistan as Rocket Internet Managing Director for Italy and South-east Asia. With a wealth of knowledge about the e-commerce space in not just Asia but internationally, Tito will be sharing his insights on how to create a marketing strategy that combines the best of online and offline.

Hrishikesh is an entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of vakilsearch.com, the leading online legal services provider in India. His major focus is to make the website perfect and find more and more ways to reach out to customers. He believes that a relentless focus on customer satisfaction, a wide range of offerings and a technology focus is the key to differentiating the firm from other players. Hrishikesh will be sharing the Vakilsearch’s story and how the firm has become one of India’s leading online players.

Patrick de Courcy is Head of Asia Pacific for Payoneer Inc., a leading online payments company transforming the way businesses and professionals send and receive cross-border payments. Patrick joined Payoneer in 2014. In his role Patrick leads business activities in Asia Pacific markets, collaborating with the Payoneer team globally. He drives Payoneer’s business in the region by establishing partnerships, developing and implementing new focused strategies, and building out the Payoneer team. Patrick has extensive experience in the Asia Pacific region and expertise in global payments, B2B trade and global banking. Prior to Payoneer, Patrick spent more than 20 years at global banking cooperative SWIFT, holding numerous positions at the company, including finance, product management, marketing and sales roles. At SWIFT in Hong Kong, he was Deputy Chief Executive, Asia Pacific. Patrick is a British national, and a graduate of the Solvay Business School in Brussels.

Founder and CEO for a regional food delivery business in South East Asia. Raised $5M from European and Asian venture capitalists; acquired the leading food delivery companies in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Launched new Ruby on Rails adaptive website, iOS and Android Apps, opened regional sales offices, and grew sales 50% in 9 months after consolidation. Successful exit to Food Panda in February, 2015.

Douglas angel invests and mentors budding startups from his Alma Mater Ngee Ann Polytechnic. He is also the Co-Founder of VanityTrove, a social commerce platform to help women discover beauty. Always thinking ahead, Douglas is best suited to lead a roundtable discussion on the impact of the O2O business model on the future of E-Commerce in Asia.

Siva’s role at Adobe provides him with insights into how marketers are applying new technology to traditional techniques for results that drive their business growth. “Adobe’s marketing customers across Asia Pacific are engaged in some incredibly innovative digital and social marketing programs. Listening to our customer base and ensuring our technology and solutions are closely aligned to their needs is a constant inspiration.”

As part of his regional duties, Siva also leads Adobe’s industry specialist team that provides executive level consulting and digital roadmaps for Adobe’s most strategic customers.

Khanh is the co-founder and CEO of CungMua.com a leading discount e-commerce platform that specializes in local, travel and flash-sales. His team bootstrapped the company to profitability and in 2014 merged with the once-market-leader NhomMua.com to form the largest discount e-commerce player in Vietnam. Prior to that, he co-founded 2 startups in professional social networking and loyalty management. In his life before startups, he was an investment manager at Mekong Capital, a private equity firm based in Vietnam.

As Chief Operating Officer of Luxola, Ronan is responsible for the day to day management of Luxola and is directly responsible for Luxola’s logistics and customer service. Ronan joined Luxola over 2 years ago as CFO & COO and has overseen Luxola’s rapid growth in becoming South East Asia’s number 1 destination for Beauty. His experience makes him best suited to join a panel discussion on the benefits of investing in an end to end logistics.

A seasoned hotelier, Andhy has hands on experience on range of management, operation and sales & marketing in hotel operation. In his current position as the Managing Director of Dafam Hotels, he is responsible for 32 hotels, including 10 existing properties and 22 projects in pipelines, ranging from 2 to 5 stars. He also oversees the development and growth of Dafam Hotels in other cities by actively marketing across all channels. He will give his expertise of the Indonesia market in the Indonesian country clinic.

JerukNipis (meaning “key lime”) is an Indonesian gadget news and e-commerce site that’s well known locally and is one of the few trusted online sellers for exclusive gadget pre-orders.

With over 14 years of online experience, James has worked in a variety of industries and roles including strategy and optimisation, omnichannel selling, product development and project delivery. James has worked in a range of organisations such as Michael Hill, Virgin Australia, Allianz, Fusion Retail Brands and Ernst & Young. James is currently Director Customer Success & Retail Practice for Demandware, the category defining leader of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, empowering the world’s leading retailers to continuously innovate in the complex, consumer-driven world. 

Frank is a Korean startup executive with a proven track record of building scalable e-commerce businesses in Asia. He has vast experience in expanding brands across borders in Asia and has recently launched Althea, a cross border e-commerce company that focuses on beauty products. He will be presenting a case study on how players can best optimize internal processes to deliver higher value to customers.

Satoko is the General Manager of Rakukten Marketing Asia, the global leading digital marketing company which offers a variety of  services such as display ads, affiliate, paid search and attribution. Satoko provides solutions to reach quality users, generate traffic effectively and convert users with Rakuten Display; the engagement based optimization service for advertisers. She is also investing aggressively for affiliate publisher development  in South East Asia creating the conditions for a strong digital market for all.

Kai is Managing Director of Asia Venture Group (AVG), a 100% founders-owned, hands-on internet holding company which engages in both venture building and early stage venture investments across South East Asia. Kai has been co-founding and co-funding companies such as HappyFresh, iMoney Group, iprice Group and TrustedCompany.com. AVG also invests and supports rising stars like KFIT. He currently serves on the boards of iprice and TrustedCompany.com and as CCO for HappyFresh.

Momchil Kyurkchiev is the CEO and co-founder of Leanplum, the leader in mobile marketing automation. Leanplum combines personalized messaging, A/B testing,and analytics to shape meaningful experiences for mobile users — at scale. Momchil co-founded Leanplum in 2012, graduating from Techstars Seattle. Before founding Leanplum, Momchil spent five years as a lead engineer at Google optimizing video ads. There, he realized the opportunity to reinvent marketing for the mobile world.

Momchil has spoken at top industry conferences, such as Mobile Shopping Summit, eTail Asia,and Mobile Apps Unlocked. Leanplum has also been recognized as a leader by VentureBeat's GrowthBeat Innovation Showdown and Developer Week’s Top Innovator in App Testing. Both Momchil and Leanplum are considered experts in mobile app marketing, sought after for opinions on the evolving digital relationship between brands and consumers, and the future of marketing in a connected world.

Leanplum is trusted by top brands like Expedia, Tesco, and Lyft, and has received $17MM in funding from top-tier VCs like Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. Discover more at https://www.leanplum.com.

 

Betty is a seasoned professional in e-commerce and digital marketing for brick-and-mortar businesses in Hong Kong, China and Asia Pacific region. Currently, she is the Vice President, E-Travel Retail for DFS Group and has hands-on solid experience in building and managing online businesses and their marketing strategies and implementations, both large and small scale. Prior to the DFS Group, Betty was in senior positions at various leading global and regional retailers, including Fossil Group, Walmart China and Sasa.com, starting up and developing their e-commerce business.

Ori manages all aspects of direct customer acquisitions ensuring consistent growth in revenue and client reach. He is a seasoned sales executive with a deep understanding of customer acquisition and retention, and development of strategic partnerships. Before joining Dynamic Yield, Ori held numerous senior management roles in leading mobile and Internet companies. Most recently, Ori was VP of Sales at Comigo, and prior to that he was VP of Mobile Strategy at Conduit. Ori holds a BA in Computer Science from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzilya, Israel.

Bernard Lee has more 10 years of total experience in the sales management; regional business development and digital commerce exposure in several disciplines and different environments have outfitted him with a sound commercial and business acumen. His current portfolio as the Head of Sales (Classifieds) in one of the leading digital media platform, a technology driven organization and the largest on-line marketplace in Malaysia. He is best suited to join the Malaysia country clinic to give his insights on the market.

David has over 20 years of experience in digitize the retail industry, covering all aspects of sales, marketing and business development; in the area of product, merchandising, pricing, marcom, PR, alliances, channel, e-loyalty, etc. David is currently the Head of eCommerce- Electrolux Asia Pacific. His experience includes growing eTailing revenue 100% training staff to engage branding & social media with customers confidently. He is best suited to present a case study on how players can better engage with their customers beyond the final conversion.

Shaun is currently operating MilkADeal, a Cashback portal for online purchases. Our business is in giving cash away, literally! He enjoys the thrill of being in business, creating value, solving one problem at a time and hopefully making a profit whilst at it. With extensive experience in running e-commerce businesses in Malaysia, he is best suited to join the Malaysia country clinic to share his insights

One of the six founders of ShopBack, Joel Leong takes on the responsibility of bringing merchant partners online to expand the array of brands available on ShopBack. Within the short span of a year, he has on-boarded over 500 local and global merchant partners such as Taobao, Lazada, Groupon, ZALORA and eBay. Joel holds one of the key portfolios in the company. The online stores form the backbone of a Cashback site as the presence of these reputable Internet giants help to build ShopBack’s brand credibility. As the online Cashback concept is still relatively fresh in the Southeast Asia, strong merchant partners form a solid foundation for ShopBack to build consumers’ trust and construct the brand within a short span of time. This facilitates quick scaling of business and accelerates income generation for the merchant partners. Apart from sustaining a stable base of online stores, Joel seeks to introduce new merchant partners to refresh the offerings for consumers. He just secured Taobao in August 2015, crowning ShopBack as the ecommerce’s first Cashback partner in the Southeast Asia. Joel was the Regional Head of Partnerships in ZALORA Southeast Asia under Rocket Internet and Senior Officer of the Singapore Economic Development Board prior to his journey as a start-up founder.

Wee Jonn is the CEO of Photobook Worldwide, one of the largest and fastest growing online photo book players in Southeast Asia. He is a Co-founder and former Managing Director for Malaysia at Zalora, the largest online fashion mall in Southeast Asia, where he oversaw marketing, IT and customer operations. Wee Jonn is an expert in all things e-commerce and consumer related.

Christina drives the branding and marketing strategies for the various retail banners under the Fairprice umbrella. She has successfully spearheaded and revamped the conventional retail marketing model dominated by tactical promotion with robust go-to-customer strategy, to trans-media customer engagement and deployment of new media and technology Christina has transformed a home-grown grocery retail brand into a progressive name that has become a leader in its industry – as evident in various award-winning, multi-channel marketing initiatives.

Jeannie Lim is Retail Lead for APAC at Worldpay. With over 14 years of experience within global payments, Jeannie has worked for a number of the largest payment acquirers and cards schemes within the industry. Prior to joining Worldpay, Jeannie worked for Orbitz.com, now Expedia, where she was responsible for global payment strategy and for achieving cost reductions in excessive of $1MM in 1 year. Jeannie was previously nominated into the is an existing Merchant Risk Council executive board member where she frequently participated in roundtable discussions and consulted on eCommerce fraud and payment strategies for cross border merchants.

Yi Ning is the Acquisition Marketing Manager for RedMart, Singapore’s leading online store for groceries, household essentials and related products. She is responsible for user growth in the business, covering both online and offline channels. On the digital front, she handles search and social marketing, affiliate management as well as programmatic buying for desktop and mobile.

Prior to founding Rubikloud, Kerry was one of the early employees of Strangeloop Networks, which was acquired by Radware in 2013. Strangeloop was a web acceleration business that was most well known for being the site acceleration product for global Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai, Limelight, Level 3, and Telefonica. Kerry led the channel sales team, which was responsible for over 70% of Strangeloop’s revenue. His responsibilities included overseeing the global partnership and product launches to all the major CDNs and other channel partners. 

Subir Lohani is the Managing Director of Carmudi Philippines, a Rocket Internet backed firm and the fastest growing car classifies platform in emerging markets. Carmudi.com.ph is the #1 vehicle marketplace in the Philippines, they provide the highest quality cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles online to make the search for your dream vehicle accessible with a few clicks or taps. He will be joining the Philippines country clinic to share his market insights and expertise.

Pei Fen first joined Challenger in 2004 and her chief role is in charting the new direction of Challenger's ValueClub membership programme with over half a million paying members to date with an emphasis in the digital space. She also oversees Challenger’s Group Marketing portfolio, comprising public relations, online marketing and e-commerce, visual merchandising, private label/marketing concept development, in-store A&P, customer service and strategic vendor relations.

As a Chief Revenue Officer for Lamoda, Benjamin manages all sales related activities across the numerous platforms spanning Lamoda's markets, as well its product management. He has successfully implemented an integrated view on trading that bridges the topics of inventory management, merchandising, marketing, and product management with the customer at its very core. Before joining Lamoda in its early stages, Benjamin was a member of the Investment Banking team at Goldman Sachs in Germany. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Corporate Management & Economics and Politics from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Thanawat is an internet entrepreneur with over 10-year hands-on experiences in the online business. He founded Priceza, the leading Price Comparison shopping site for SEA currently operating in Thailand and Indonesia and expanding to cover all six major countries in South-East Asia. He built Priceza from scratch to now serve over than 40 Million active visitors yearly. He was leading Priceza to raise fund from CyberAgent Ventures in 2013 to help support Priceza to expand across SEA.

As Head of Digital Marketing for Target my role is to lead the strategy and delivery of all Digital Marketing activity for both target.com.au and physical stores (300+). Areas of focus and responsibility include Performance based marketing (SEM, Affiliates and digital media), Mobile and App (acquisition and retention), Social Media strategy across all platforms, Supplier funding and revenue opportunities via owned channels, Digital Advertising, Digital Innovation and Content development and distribution. With Target's objective of being the #1 connected Retailer in the Asia Pacific, Digital Marketing plays an integral role in achieving this goal in line with the turnaround of the entire business.

Matthew Richardson leads Uber's Strategy team for SE Asia. He focusses on growth, operational and product improvement to bring the benefits of Uber to an ever wider base of riders and drivers in one of Uber's most dynamic regions. He previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group in the media and technology practise in London and South East Asia.

James Hansford has been working in eCommerce for Nespresso for the past 6 years. He has held multiple managerial positions in the Headquarters Team in Lausanne, Switzerland and was most recently responsible for the transformation of the company’s commercial eCommerce activities across the globe. In addition to this he held the ad-interim position of Regional eCommerce Manager SEA & is currently the eCommerce Manager for the Singapore market.

As the COO of the Lazada Group, Pierre is responsible for Customer Service, Supply Chain, Logistics, Last Mile Operations & Content Production across the six operating countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. In this case study, Pierre will be sharing how Lazada have launched their marketplace operations and what was unique about the structure which brought on hundreds of sellers seamlessly.

As the CEO of Tarad, Pawoot is responsible for managing Thailand’s largest “B2C” e-marketplace with over 101,000 merchants. Since Tarad joined Rakuten Inc. (the biggest eCommerce company in Japan) in 2009, Pawoot is spending more of his time driving the eCommerce ventures in Thailand and advocating the progress of the industry. As the President of the Thailand eCommerce association, he will be sharing his domestic knowledge of Thailand as well as discussing the implications of the industry currently in an e-commerce bubble.

Narendrata is co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Telunjuk.com, a leading shopping search engine and price comparison portal in Indonesia. Starting telunjuk.com as a price comparison for mobile phone, laptop, and airplane ticket only, now telunjuk.com can be used to discover almost 15 millions products from hundreds online shops in Indonesia. Narendrata leads the team to run various campaigns engaging Telunjuk.com with Indonesian online shoppers and also with various e-commerce players in Indonesia, such as Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Bhinneka, Lazada, and many others. He will be joining the Indonesia country clinic to share his insights on the market trends and challenges that the Indonesia market poses.

Paddy is a senior marketing consultant on strategy, branding, go-to-market plans, and training. With 26+ years’ experience across marketing disciplines, he was previously the regional VP of FMCG (Procter & Gamble) and retail (McDonald's) companies in India, Indonesia, Singapore and the Asia Pacific Middle East region. His major strengths are in strategy, marketing, branding and building marketing capability & developing people. He is also the author of Been There Bungled That (Random House) and a columnist at The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper.

Venkat Nott is experienced in creating startups and building them into successful global companies. He is passionate about creating high power teams and SaaS (Software as a Service) based path-breaking software products. In Vinculum he focusses on Corporate Strategy and Global Business Development. He aims to see Vinculum as a well-known software company enabling multi-channel retailing in 30+ countries in the next 3 years.

Pavel Rebrov is Technical Consultant for Brightcove, bringing over 15 years of experience in both engineering and entrepreneurial fields. A frequent speaker in online video solutions for online publishers and digital marketers, Pavel is passionate about the customer experience. A proponent of digital and social, Pavel specialises in UX design, social media and marketing automation.

Max is a founding partner at Alps Ventures and works with companies to improve their overall results, especially marketing efficiency. He is lead partner and Marketing Director of FALCON Agency.Prior to founding Alps, Max has co-founded DailyDeal, the leading daily deal platform in the German-speaking region of Europe, where he was Managing Director in AT and Entrepreneur in Residence in DE until its USS114m exit to Google Inc. in 2011.

Eli Schwartz is the Director of Marketing, APAC for SurveyMonkey, the world’s largest online survey platform. He oversees SurveyMonkey’s marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, he leads the company’s global SEO efforts and strategies across 17 languages. SurveyMonkey serves over 25 million customers worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 500, and collects over 3 million online survey responses daily

Kei co-founded and runs Venture Republic Inc., that owns Japan’s largest online travel search engine and online travel guide media “Travel.jp”. As CEO, he took the company public in 2008 (2177. JASDAQ) after 7 years of operations and had also built one of the largest online shopping search engines in Japan “coneco.net.” A seasoned executive with his extensive knowledge of online media, online travel and e-commerce, Kei is responsible for driving the company by shaping its strategy, making commercialization efforts and building organization.

Joe is an experienced strategy and execution professional, going online from brick & mortar world. After his MBA at London Business School, Joe joined Central Group, the largest retail conglomerate in Thailand with over 4,400 physical locations and US$7.5 billion annual revenues. Currently, he is GM- Strategy & Development for Central Online, the budding online unit of Central Group. He will be joining the panel discussion on creating a marketing strategy that combines the best of the online and offline world.

Greg was appointed CMO in 2012 to develop the Co-op's multi-channel marketing and digital strategy and build its e-commerce and membership value proposition. Since then he has helped to break new ground and transform the Co-op into a modern omni-channel retailer, spearheading its repositioning and rebranding and shaping it to become a customer-centric retailer. He will be sharing this amazing transformation journey of how a university bookshop has grown to become an omni-channel retailer.

Bjorn is the CMO of Asia’s leading online property portal group visited by more than 12 million property seekers, viewing over 89 million property pages and generating over 350,000 enquiries for real estate developer and agent advertisers – every month. He has a solid marketing skill-base, both traditional and digital, BtC and BtB, across European and Asian markets.

Anil currently heads up the e-commerce initiatives for Levi Strauss covering Asia, Middle East & Africa. His expertise is in marketing performance measurement including building multi-channel attribution models and E-Commerce P&L Management. With over 13 years of marketing experience, Anil is best suited to join the panel discussion on how players in Asia can successfully and sustainably scale up their e-commerce business.

Patrick heads up the product innovation, marketing communication planning, content strategy, and is responsible for overall user experience as Regional Director for ZALORA Southeast Asia in 9 countries across all platforms (mobile/desktop/app). With immense experience in marketing strategy, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, product management, user experience design & optimization, (web) analytics, Patrick is best suited to join the panel discussion on how players can improve customer experience on & off the website to increase customer retention

Before becoming Founder and Managing Director of GlassesGroupGlobal, Christopher was a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Zalora. Prior to this, Christopher was Co-Founder and Managing Director Rocket Internet in the UK, and spent the beginning of his career at Morgan Stanley in London, and Citigroup and Greenhill & Co. in Frankfurt. Christopher holds a degree in Corporate Finance and International Management from the International School of Management in Germany.

Sanjeev Sularia is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Intelliegence Node. He focuses on client acquisition and the business vision- driving the strategic direction of the product offering and customer experience. He brings deep retail industry knowledge, having previously worked as CFO for Exclusively.In (a multi brand ecommerce luxury fashion portal) – now acquired by Snapdeal and CFO for SherSingh.com (privatelabel ecommerce fast fashion brand) –now acquired by Myntra.com. He has also worked as Head of Research and Analytics for ClientKnowledge UK - now acquired by ICAP. He was also the Co-founder of CIBnode, the precursor to Intelligence Node. Sanjeev is a graduate of London Business School.

 

As the Head of Marketing of Fashion Valet, an independent online fashion and beauty retailer with 200+ brands and 10,000+ products from South East Asia, Veen Dee is responsible for the marketing implementation and administration for the firm. She is in charge of online marketing such as Website, Social, PPC, SEO, Display, CA, Analytics reporting, and Email Marketing. She will be joining the Malaysia country clinic to share how Fashion Valet has become one of the largest e-commerce websites in Malaysia.

Viola is the co-founder of the home grown online fashion retailer Love, Bonito. Just like Sweden has H&M and America has Forever 21, Love, Bonito is the local version of fast fashion, catering to 20somethings who want trendy wear without having to break the bank. A former teacher who now heads its business development, finance and logistics team, Viola has immense expertise on growing a company from a modest blog shop to a full fledged online retailer.

Currently the VP, Asia Pacific Operations and Expansion for leading comparison-pricing engine Shopbot-Inc. A long-time successful entrepreneur in the online advertising space, I understand how to “connect businesses to customers” in meaningful and profitable ways. Capitalizing on intricate knowledge of real-time bidding (RTB) and pay-per-click (PPC) marketing models. Working with e-commerce clients around the globe to connect them to their audience and ensuring that their marketing budgets provide the maximum return.

Stuart began his career in 1996 in London and spent the next 17 years in the telecommunications industry. In that time he has worked across multiple sales channels within the service provider space and across various geographies encompassing US, Europe and Asia Pacific. This included stints living in the UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Australia and Singapore. Before joining Worldpay and the payments industry, Stuart ran the APAC Solutions team in Vodafone Global Enterprise working with some of the worlds largest organisations. Prior to this he ran the APAC region for KPN for 5 years. Today he is responsible for leading the APAC Business Development team focusing on growing our existing regional business by enabling ecommerce companies to succeed. He lives with his wife and daughter in Singapore.

Qiuyan Tian in 2010 started Sold.sg with her brother and best friend. She sold Sold.sg to migme in Dec 2014 and has since moved on to her 2nd started up, Art Loft Asia (www.artloftasia.com), an art e-commerce marketplace. As an online platform that provides direct and preferential access to a curated selection of Asian contemporary artworks. She will be joining a panel discussion & sharing her thoughts on how e-commerce players can improve the experience of the customers on & off the website for a higher customer retention.

He has more than 10 years of experience from the fashion retail industry, and after majoring in international politics Martin took on fashion e-commerce in Thailand in 2011. With the WearYouWant-concept he has built a unique position in the market with a fast growing preference within the Thai population. Since the beginning, Martin has established large partnership campaigns with among others Line, Samsung, K-bank and Dtac, and has also been responsible for acquiring both local and International brands from the major fashion retailers.. He is best suited to join the Thailand country clinic.

Simon Torring is the Head of Special Projects at Luxola, Asia's leading online beauty retailer. With a background in technology and digital marketing, Simon is now overseeing large-scale projects as a part of Luxola's strategy team. Before joining Luxola in Singapore in late 2013, Simon lead the SEO and Content Marketing efforts of Lion&Lion, a digital agency in Kuala Lumpur. Prior to moving to Asia he held various marketing roles at digital marketing agencies in Denmark. Simon will be sharing his insights on how to build a long term relationship with your customers.

Launching Lamudi Philippines in 2013, she created the leading online real estate website in the country, featuring over 90,000 properties and serving over 1,000 brokers and developers. She has effectively harnessed online to provide a revolutionary experience to customers and in doing so has led Lamudi to the top of the market. Prior to Lamudi Jacqueline worked for 3 years as an investment professional in a leading private equity firm. Prior to HAL Investments she also founded a non-profit company which now employs over 100 students in three countries.

As the Group Digital Manager for the Norbreeze Group, Allan is Responsible for various areas within the digital space across the brands under Norbreeze Group including CRM, Ecommerce and Digital Marketing. Allan is strong in all aspects of Etail and Retail with a flair for numbers, digital marketing, analytics and business development. Allan will be sharing how Norbreeze Group has successfully expanded in an increasingly competitive world.

Hadi Wenas is currently the CEO of MatahariMall, #1 eCommerce in Indonesia owned by Lippo Group. An alumni of Stanford university he worked with Mckinsey and oracle before becoming founder of Zalora Indonesia. He continued his career as Co-CEO of aCommerce, a startup that assists the acceleration of e-commerce business in Indonesia. During his time at aCommerce, Wenas was also the one who sealed a deal between the startup with the well-funded MatahariMall.com. By having him on board at MatahariMall, Lippo Group aims to build the largest eCommerce site in Indonesia offering the widest and most complete product selections.

Karl is the CEO and Co-founder of Evergage. Passionate about helping businesses improve conversion rates through relevant, in-context communication, Karl leverages his background to support leading companies in retail, financial services, technology, travel, media and gaming drive measurable benefits from real-time personalization. Prior to Evergage, Karl spent 10 years as a product and marketing innovator at a variety of companies including RSA Security and Red Hat. He led the development of next-gen software businesses in security, cloud-computing and marketing technology. 

Joining Gmarket Korea in 2006 as its Group Leader of Global Business Group, Hyun Wook Cho moved to Singapore in 2008 to commandeer the e-marketplace’s foray into the Southeast Asian market. With Qoo10 Singapore’s modest beginnings as a one-man outfit, the platform has emerged from its infancy to establish a strong foothold as the No.1 Singapore-based e-commerce platform today. With more than 14 years of marketing experience under his belt, Cho has worked for leading pharmaceutical brands GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck.

Jonathan is currently the Marketing Head at roKKi and also the winner of the very first “The Apprentice Asia” in 2013. Jonathan recently launched his first book, From Grit to Great which shares his life journey from growing up with humble beginnings to becoming Asia’s first Apprentice. Jonathan will be taking his strategic marketing experience and share with the audience how roKKi is connecting and entertaining passengers of AirAsia, the world's largest low-cost airline.

Having worked in the ecommerce/digital sector for close to 10 years, Laura has a broad understanding of Australia’s online retail and digital media sector. Her unique experience however lies in her current role as Country Manager of ShopStyle.com.au- the Australian arm of the world’s best style-centric search engine. ShopStyle aggregates 400 local and international retail heavyweights such Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue and Selfridges as well as leading pureplay retailers like ASOS, Net-a-Porter and The Iconic.

Grace is responsible for driving hyper revenue growth for Microsoft Online Store for Southeast Asia and Korea by defining and implementing regional online store growth strategy and managing both Microsoft Direct Online Store and indirect Store-in-Stores within marketplaces such as e-Bay and Lazada.

Dyson is currently the Director, eCommerce Channels, Asia Pacific at Marriott International, responsible for driving Marriott’s e-distribution business growth in the region. He has extensive experience working with multinational corporations across functions such as e-commerce, television and technology and is best suited to present a case study on how players can get their customer to the end of the customer conversion funnel using mobile.

Roger’s passion for online, interactive media and mobile business has been a cornerstone of his 30 years of sales, marketing and operations experience. Roger in his role as the CEO of Clozette, a leading social commerce platform in the region takes care of the overall business strategy of the firm including all online and offline marketing channels. He will be sharing his expertise on to best engage & acquire the new digital native customer.

Warren Hayashi joined Adyen in 2015 and spearheads the company's continued expansion in Asia-Pacific.  With over 20 years of experience in the payments and technology industry, Warren has a deep understanding of the needs of fast growing global businesses in the complex Asian payments landscape. In his role, Warren works with customers across Asia-Pacific to build payment solutions that truly reflect the changing demographics and uniqueness of the Asia-Pacific markets. Under Warren’s leadership, Adyen has grown rapidly in the region adding customers like Cathay Pacific to the growing list of online retail, travel and financial services companies which use Adyen to exceed customer expectations for frictionless payments.  

Roberto D‘Elia is responsible for the sobu online service (social media & business network) at Swiss Post, which he launched in 2012. sobu is the largest referral platform in Switzerland, which combines word of mouth with social media. It is a way for online shops to increase their traffic, reach more buyer segments and attract new customers.

Vedanarayanan aka "Veda" is a multi-faceted personality who juggles his various passions in life - Marketing, Public Speaking, ecommerce, startups, writing & martial arts. He currently heads marketing at Simplilearn. Prior to this current avatar, he set up the marketing function ground-up at Stayzilla, which is today amongst the largest and fastest growing players in the burgeoning Indian online travel eco-system. He has a penchant for public speaking and has spoken at various international forums across New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sweden, Barcelona amongst others on topics such as - e-commerce, digital marketing & branding. Veda also happens to be a fiction author with dreams of making it big. He has created a fictional character - Prince Surya and published 4 books as part of the "Adventures of Prince Surya” series. He is an alumnus of SPJIMR, Mumbai. 

Kuik Xiao Shi is currently the Chief Operating Officer of VanityTrove and Vanitee. She co-founded VanityTrove, a community to share and discover beauty products, in 2012 and oversaw multiple aspects of the business, including beauty brand sales and partnerships, product, marketing, operations, and finance. Her latest project, Vanitee, is an Airbnb-like app for booking beauty services that was created during BattleHack 2014, a hackathon organised by PayPal and Braintree in September last year.

As CEO and Co-founder of HotelQuickly Limited, Mr. Tomas Laboutka has built the #1 mobile app for last- minute hotel booking in the Asia Pacific Region. HotelQuickly Limited has grown to 15 countries in Asia including Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia in the last 2 years and is set to change the way people travel spontaneously in the region.

Prasanna Vee is the VP of products at HotelQuickly - a Starutp that focuses on last minute hotel booking but eventually expanding into fulfilling a broader spontaneous travel experiences.

Rajen is the Senior Business Leader, eCommerce & MasterPass for MasterCard in Asia/Pacific. In his current role, he is focused on enabling Banks to provide great online payment and checkout experiences to consumers across Asia using MasterCard’s products and services.

After 7 years in the management consulting industry, Alexis joined an Internet company providing online ticketing solutions for large event organizers. He was responsible to establish and develop the company's operations in Asia. In 2014 Alexis co-founded Hong Kong based online luxury marketplace Luxify.com. He is responsible for the overall company’s operations and international expansion. Luxify.com is an online luxury marketplace where buyers and sellers of luxury products can meet directly online to buy and sell new, pre-owned and vintage luxury goods. The platform showcases more than 20,000 luxury products across 15 product categories worth US$ 7 billion. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and has offices in Singapore and London.