Speakers | Adobe Experience Forum 2017

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The top thinkers and leaders in digital are coming to Adobe Experience Forum. Learn from innovators and marketers who continue to push the boundaries of digital marketing and advertising to make businesses more successful.

Pearlyn Phau (潘燕明)

Managing Director & Deputy Group Head of Consumer Banking Group and Wealth Management
DBS Bank Limited

In her capacity as Deputy Group Head, Pearlyn has direct management oversight in the 6 markets that the Consumer Bank operates. She drives the business agenda in growing wealthmanagement, secured lending, deposit, insurance & investment products, credit card and unsecured lending, etc. In addition to the individual product lines, the sales & service, branding & marketing and customer experience delivery of the Consumer Banking network in the region also come under her purview.

In aligning to the overall DBS group strategy, a key priority of Pearlyn’s scorecard is to embrace the digital world in conquering mobile, social and data. As such, Pearlyn also drives the digital transformation in the markets with the extensive use of data analytics and contextual marketing to develop digital assets and roll out DBS Digibank in India, China and Indonesia.

Pearlyn joined DBS in 2003 and has assumed numerous leadership roles within DBS Group. Pearlyn was most recently the Head of Consumer Banking Group and Wealth Management, Hong Kong and before that, Regional Head of DBS Treasures and Treasures Private Client.

Her previous roles included being Head of iBanking and Head of Treasures Singapore. She also played a key role in the development of the Treasures Private Client proposition, the launch of the DBS Wealth Continuum and the set-up of DBS Asia Treasures – a premier rewards recognition plaform for the bank's wealth management clients.

Pearlyn has more than 20 years of extensive experience in consumer banking industry. Prior to joining DBS Bank, Pearlyn held various senior positions at Citibank N.A in Singapore. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and an Associate Financial Planner (AFP). She holds a Bachelor of Economics and Statistics degree from the National University of Singapore.

John O'Sullivan

Managing Director and CEO
Tourism Australia

John O’Sullivan commenced as Managing Director of Tourism Australia, in March 2014.

Tourism Australia promotes the country internationally through a broad range of trade and consumer marketing activities – all underpinned by the global positioning of message There’s nothing like Australia.

Since joining TA, John has overseen the successful evolution of There’s nothing like Australia through its most recent campaigns iterations, Restaurant Australia (launched in 2014) and Aquatic and Coastal (2016). Significantly, John has focused on growing the organisation’s partnership marketing effort and partner contributions to more than $65 million annually, while building Tourism Australia’s digital capabilities to reflect changing visitor’s behaviours.

Howie Lau

Chief Marketing Officer
StarHub

Howie is responsible for charting StarHub’s brand and marketing strategies across all marketing functions and ensuring overall marketing synergy and brand consistency. Customer value management also falls under his purview. In addition, he oversees StarHub’s Mobility, Pay TV and Broadband businesses as well as its Content and Local Production teams.

Howie was the Vice President, Corporate Development of Lenovo's Worldwide Finance Organisation, where he oversaw Lenovo's end-to-end Post Merger Management and related Merger & Acquisition matters. Previously, he was Lenovo’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Emerging Markets Group, and was responsible for the strategy and execution of marketing and communications in the China, Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, Taiwan and ASEAN markets.

Howie is the current President of Singapore Computer Society’s Executive Council, and serves on the boards for NUS Institute of System Science and Singapore Science Centre. He also serves on the IMDA TechSkills Accelerator Governing Council and the advisory committee for Nanyang Polytechnic Business school.

Howie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.

Charles Debonneuil

Chief Marketing Officer
Lazada Group

As the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of the Lazada Group, Charles Debonneuil oversees the planning, development and execution of Lazada’s marketing, advertising and communications activities in Southeast Asia – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He is responsible for promoting Lazada to strengthen its market leadership in Southeast Asia as well as helping brands leverage Lazada’s marketing platform to connect with digital consumers.

Charles has been with Lazada since 2012, joining as co-founder and Managing Director of Lazada Vietnam. He moved to Thailand end of 2013, joining the marketing function as an Executive Vice-President.

Charles began his career with Bain & Company in France and Brazil, after graduating with a Masters in Management from HEC Paris.

Winradit (Win) Kolasastraseni

SVP Innovation – Asia Pacific
Discovery Networks

Win leads the innovation team and efforts across Discovery’s business across Asia to a progressive digitally native product and services company with additional responsibilities as Discovery International’s Centre of Excellence for data strategy & adtech/monetization efforts. Key initiatives will include the incubation of new digital businesses; extensions of existing brands into online communities; a strong push into big data and analytics; adtech/monetization launches. Win is no stranger to the industry, having founded Thailand’s premium OTT service PrimeTime Entertainment. During his stewardship as CEO, PrimeTime amassed over 3 million registered users within a year of its launch. Win was also the CEO and founder of technology and media companies Ploenjit Media and Fly Digital Media in Thailand. Prior to this, he was with Microsoft Thailand, SAS Software, Total Access Communication or Dtac & Cisco Systems. Win holds a BS in Information Technology from Assumption University, Bangkok.

Thomas Barta

The world’s premier expert, author, and speaker on marketing leadership

Thomas is a former partner of McKinsey. His pioneering research brings a fresh perspective to the customer organization: leadership

– including the world’s largest study, with over 68,000 assessments
– on what makes for an impactful marketing officer.

Thomas’s work helps executives make lasting, profitable improvements to their customer experience—by becoming highly influential leaders inside their organizations.

Thomas has consulted and marketed for over 20 years, in 14 industries, in 45 countries. His clients include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including over two dozen from the Fortune 500.

Thomas is the author of the leadership book The 12 Powers of a Marketing Leader (with Patrick Barwise, McGraw-Hill). He writes for numerous publications from Forbes to Marketing Week.

Thomas provokes and inspires his audience. Each year, he gives more than 30 keynote speeches and masterclasses for companies, associations, and universities--including Advertising Week New York, Financial Times Summit, Adobe Summit, and Ad:Tech Asia.

For a select group of global CMOs, Thomas serves as their personal advisor.

After a fast-track marketing career at Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex), where he led the growth of large international brands, Thomas joined McKinsey to help CEOs deliver profitable growth in a bigger way. He later became the client strategy advisor to McKinsey’s global board of directors. As a dean of the firm’s highest-rated internal program, Thomas trained over a thousand McKinsey leaders on driving change without authority.

For the CMO Fellowship (a McKinsey and Marketing Academy program to
prepare CMOs for a CEO role), Thomas serves as its long-standing leadership dean.

Thomas holds an MBA from London Business School and a Master’s in Clinical Organizational Psychology from INSEAD Business School (France and Singapore).

John Mackenney

GM, Digital Transformation
Tourism Australia

John is the Head of Digital at Tourism Australia and understands the need for digital solutions to solve critical customer challenges and enable the Tourism Industry to meet the vision of making Australia the most desirable and memorable destination on earth for leisure and business. He leads the next phase of Tourism Australia Digital Transformation which includes distribution platforms like Aussie Specialist and our Digital Marketing channels such as Australia.com and Australia.cn which communicate to millions of consumers across the world. He has a keen interest in data as well as new customer experience technologies demonstrated in the recent release of 360 and Virtual Reality assets supporting the recent Aquatic and Coastal campaign.

Jayaram Gopinath Nagaraj

General Manager
Blaze Digital

Jayaram has spent the last 15 years making his mark in the growing Malaysian digital scene. He started off in Astro Radio at the tender age of 19 with Malaysia’s Premier Teen Community, xfresh.com, and progressed quickly into a leadership role with Malaysia’s No.1 English radio station, hitz.com. As Astro Radio became more focused on the digital delivery of Content, Jayaram was asked to head the Digital Department, during which he developed 22 Award winning mobile radio apps.

He then took on the role of Specialist, Mobile Application Development and Device Testing with one of Malaysia’s Big 3 telcos, Maxis Berhad. He was the lead technical liaison with all smartphone vendors (Apple, Samsung, HTC, Blackberry, Huawei) for device engineering and mobile application development.

In may 2013, he rejoined Astro Radio and was tasked to transform the digital department into a fully independent commercial and production unit. So far, he has successfully increased revenue by 36% YoY and has won the company numerous advertising awards.

His ability to drive results has led him to his most recent venture - Blaze Digital. As General Manager of Blaze Digital, Jayaram’s focus is on new technology development and commercial opportunity for clients and advertisers across all of Astro Group’s digital properties.

Peter Pohlschmidt

Head of Digital
Malaysia Airlines

If you love the airline industry, then there is no more exciting place right now than working for Malaysia Airlines.

Pete is heading the Digital Department of Malaysia Airlines at a pivotal moment to help turnaround the business to be a profitable and stock listed airline by 2019.

Digital @ Malaysia Airlines encompasses the entire digital customer journey including E-solutions, Digital Marketing & Merchandising, Innovation & Digital Transformation and a newly established Data Sciences unit.

Pete has spent nearly 20 years in E-commerce and online travel. Having started off with Microsoft MSN and Expedia in Germany, he was part of launching two online travel agencies, Opodo in Europe and Zuji in Asia. He then headed off for 10 years to the Middle East, starting-up the E-commerce department for Qatar Airways before taking up the role with Malaysia Airlines.

Anil Nihalani

Head of Connected Media
Mediacorp

Anil Nihalani serves as Head of Connected Media at MediaCorp Pte Ltd. Mr. Nihalani oversees Toggle, OTT and DVB-T2, digital transmission business. He serves as General Manager of Business Strategy & Analysis at Nucleus Connect Pte Ltd. Mr. Nihalani leads the Business Strategy and Analysis group at Nucleus Connect where he is responsible for business planning, evaluating business opportunities and the development of new services. Additionally, he oversees the management of the Program Office which is responsible for planning and coordinating the activities across Nucleus Connect Pte Ltd., while in its start up phase and taking it to launch.

Prior to joining Nucleus Connect, Mr. Nihalani has been at StarHub since 2000, where he held various leadership positions. He served as Vice President of Mobile Services, responsible for strategic planning, development and management of StarHub's portfolio of mobile products and services. He led StarHub's Network Architecture & Technology Strategy group with responsibility for evaluating technology development trends, setting the future technology direction for Nucleus Connect Pte Ltd., and planning for their introduction. He was instrumental in the planning and introduction of several new technologies including StarHub's 3G and HSPA networks.

Mr. Nihalani has 24 years of extensive experience in the media and infocommunications industries, having previously worked in leadership positions at British Telecom (Singapore) and at Singapore's former telecom regulatory agency, Telecom Authority of Singapore, where he served as Deputy Director of Interconnection. He graduated with a Masters of Science in Communications & Signal Processing from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, UK and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Jean-François Legourd

APAC Strategy, Operations – Head
Samsung Electronics APAC

After a few years at Microsoft and Gartner in France and the UK, Jean-François (JF) joined a US management consulting firm to grow their B2B Sales & Marketing practice in Africa and later EMEA. In 2012, he completes his MBA at INSEAD before joining Samsung Global Strategy Group and Global CFO department in Seoul, Korea. He spent there 3 years working on multiple growth initiatives ranging from energy infrastructure, healthcare, consumer finance and - expectedly - consumer electronics. In 2016 he transferred to Samsung Electronics APAC to lead strategy and digital transformation under regional CEO direction.

Jessica Chuang

Director, Regional Marketing G. China, SEA & IN
Hotels.com

Jessica joins Hotels.com since Q4 2009 and she manages marketing activities in Greater China, Southeast Asia and India markets. Prior to her appointment at Hotels.com, she has worked for Citibank, eBay, HSBC and Mio (MiTac) corporation.

Saurabh Singhal

Senior Director, Marketing
Asia Pacific
GN Audio A/S
Jabra

Saurabh Singhal joined Jabra three years ago as the head of enterprise marketing for APAC. Since then he has also taken over responsibilities for Consumer and Small business marketing for Jabra Asia pacific. He is a part of the global marketing leadership team and the APAC management team. In his role he is responsible for demand generation, brand management, PR and media relations, retail and partner marketing and digital marketing.

Prior to joining Jabra, Saurabh has worked for a multiple high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya and Juniper in different roles such as sales, business development, product management and solutions marketing. With over 17 years of experience and insights, Saurabh provides the Jabra organization and its partners with strong marketing support helping to grow the business and brand reputation in Asia pacific.

Saurabh holds an MBA in marketing and corporate strategy from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is also an Electronics and telecommunications engineer by training.

Edward Bray

Director of Marketing - APAC
LinkedIn Sales and Marketing Solutions

Edward leads the field, demand generation content and product marketing teams for LinkedIn Sales Solutions and Marketing Solutions across the Asia-Pacific region including China and Japan.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, Edward spent eight years in marketing at Fairfax Media - a leading Australian publisher, where he worked in a number of roles across newspapers, magazines and digital media.

Edward has also held roles in media buying and sales over his 17-year career in the marketing and advertising industry.

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Vira Douangphouxay

Head of Tracking
Lazada Group

Vira is the Head of Tracking at Lazada Group with over 7 years of experience and a strong passion for tracking & digital measurement. Executing the long-term vision of the company to be data-driven, Vira is responsible in implementing 3rd party and in-house tracking for all existing and new features across the entire SEA ventures (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam). Vira oversees end-to-end data needs of the organization and in doing so, is scaling the business in a systematic data driven manner.

Ryan De Melo

Lead Product Engineering and Solutions Architecture
MediaCorp Pte Ltd

With an extensive background in engineering, high end product development, digital strategy, data analytics, and ad exchange economics, Ryan has designed and built geographically dispersed products and operation teams from ground up. He has significant industry experience working with some of the big names across the advertising landscape namely vertical Ad networks, DSPs, Ad serving platforms, Agencies and Publishers.

Anthony Marquette

Marketing Automation Lead
IAG

Anthony is a highly experienced Marketing Manager and Marketing Technologist. Currently leading the Marketing Automation team at IAG, he is responsible for delivering the Direct Marketing Transformation initiative – which will enable a data lead, digital eco – system driven by Adobe Experience Cloud.

Siddhant Singh

Manager, Digital Strategy & Monetization
Digital Innovation
Discovery Networks Asia Pacific

Siddhant Singh comes to Discovery with a background in Digital Strategy and broader Strategy Consulting. As a member of the Digital Innovation team, he builds Digital Strategy and Monetization strategies for Discovery worldwide. He is deeply involved in helping the organization as a whole move towards a more data-led approach, and is passionate about bridging the gap between data insights and creative content.

He is also currently leading the implementation of Adobe Audience Manager for our Nordics business.

Oliver Eriksson

Regional Head of Global Advisory
VML SEA & India

With over 20 years of digital industry experience, Oliver's love affair with digital started back in 1995—when he wrote the code for his first website. A true global citizen, Oliver has lived and worked all over the world. His experience includes leading the digital strategy for clients such as Bentley, Bridgestone, Dell, News International, Colgate and Singapore Tourism Board. Today, Oliver leads the Global Advisory practice for VML Southeast Asia and India. He collaborates with senior clients, VML’s client engagement leadership, as well as its Strategic Planning & Insights teams, to better understand the business landscape, develop strategies to meet clients’ digital transformation objectives, and activate the agency team to deliver the new offering to clients.

Lillian So

Digital Transformation Specialist
Enabling cloud adoption at Amazon Web Services

Lillian has been helping companies in Singapore accelerate their cloud adoption, with a focus on digital and fintech companies. She has worked with local brands to expand their regional footprint in Southeast Asia while ensuring that their architecture remains secure, scalable, and cost-optimized.

Phil Townend

Chief Commercial Officer
Unruly APAC

Phil joined Unruly in 2010 when it was still a startup in a leaky office in East London’s emerging tech hub. As EMEA/ UK MD, Phil grew the European business to 6 offices before leaving for Singapore to launch Unruly APAC in April 2014. Unruly now has offices in Singapore, Japan, Australia, South Korea and India with another 3 to open across South East Asia in 2017.

Before joining Unruly, Phil held various roles within ad agencies, broadcasters and ad technology start-ups. A digital ‘early adopter’, he moved from TV into digital marketing in 1999 and remembers his then boss at Carat telling him that ‘internet advertising will never take off’!

Phil is a board director of the Singapore/ South East Asia IAB and passionately believes that great branded content and non-invasive ad delivery will be key to preserving the future of the ad funded internet.

Sanchit Sanga

Chief Digital Officer
Mindshare - APAC & MENA

Sanchit is the Chief Digital Officer for Mindshare in APAC & MENA where he consults world’s top marketers on establishing their digital businesses for future ready business models keeping consumers at the heart.

His passion is using digital data streams & tracking consumers’ trails to inform marketing strategies of the world’s top brands. Sanchit is a self-professed stalker of Google’s business & loves fast moving data.

Jeffrey Seah

Partner and Industry Veteran
Mettle and Salt Partners

Jeffrey Seah left the marketing and advertising technology corporate world in June 2016 to focus his time fully in the development of the Data, Tech, Media and Content industries. He fulfils his non-compete leave with his last employer on June 2017.

From his domain and industry knowledge, Jeff works with Asia business organizations/western MNCs, Venture Builders/Private Equity/Family Offices/Sovereign Funds, Corporate M&A units, Start-Ups and Individuals to realise potential of People and their Ideas, Investments and Businesses.

His current projects cover Industry Development facilitation, commercial Go-To-Market advisory and Digital Transformation/Corporate Reorganization implementation in Asia Pacific and Middle East markets.

Jeff works as a Board Member, Management Advisor and Investor to 5 businesses: 3 of which have been courted by Corporate VC funds in the last 6 months, 1 invested by Sequoia, and all are on their way to being going concerns.

Relatedly, he designs and implements short-mid term corporate Digital Transformation programs for Asian MNCc embarking on self-disruption to future-proof.

Jeff also serves as a Venture Partner at IncuVest and Quest Ventures. Both VCs operate out of Singapore, with interests in China, Russia, USA, Israel and partnerships across the global stage.

IncuVest is a group of successful serial and corporate entrepreneurs with experience starting, building, and operating valuable companies. We invest in and mentor technology startups in the IOT, Smart Cities, Big Data, AI and Fintech spaces.

Quest Ventures is a leading venture fund for technology companies that have scalability and replicability in large internet communities, with a specific focus in Digital Commerce.

Pankaj Khushani

DoubleClick Adx - APAC Head
Google

Pankaj is a digital evangelist, Programmatic expert and a thought leader in APAC. He is a high performing entrepreneurial executive with over 17 years of experience in Internet/Telecom/IT domain. Pankaj has held various leadership positions at Google, Nokia & Airtel.

Pankaj currently works with Google as Business Head, APAC for DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Prior to that, he was managing DoubleClick Ad Exchange buyside relationships for SEA, India & Korea. While at Google, he has also managed APAC partnerships for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and successfully ran the Google’s location platform business (Google Maps & Google Earth) for Asia. He had previously worked with Nokia as APAC Product lead for ‘Here Maps’, and Bharti Airtel for 8 years in various leadership positions.

Pankaj has expertise in building businesses from scratch to large multi million dollar business and scaling them further. He has proven his skills time & again by taking various challenges, providing innovative solutions and building organizations at scale with limited resources.

Daniel Rowlands

Supply Operations Director
GroupM

Daniel Rowlands, Supply Operations Director for GroupM, is responsible for streamlining the inventory supply chain across the APAC region. With a focus on creation of the framework and establishing the GroupM Trusted Marketplace across SEA, he is also accountable for the development and execution of the GroupM brand safety strategy.

Chua Enlai (蔡恩来)

Actor / Comedian / Host
Fly Entertainment

Enlai was born in Singapore and grew up in New Zealand. Since returning, he has worked on over 50 theatre productions with groups such as W!ld Rice, Dream Academy, Theatreworks, The Necessary Stage, SRT, Toy Factory, Spell #7 and Action Theatre.

The versatile actor is equally captivating on TV, the silver screen and the stage. Enlai is probably best known for his work on the International Emmy-nominated series The Noose, playing the well-loved characters Jacques Ooi, BB See and Pornsak Sukhumvit. The show is screened on terrestrial television channel Mediacorp Channel 5, as well as Comedy Central Asia.

Currently, Enlai fronts the all-new flagship programme on Mediacorp Channel 5, Not The 5 Show. It is a weekly programme that features topical stories and studio guests who matter to the everyday Singaporean.

2013 saw Enlai’s foray into Mandarin-speaking programs with Laughing Out Loud (笑笑没烦恼), I’m In Charge (小子当家) and Say It (好好说慢慢讲), the highest-rating variety programme in Singapore that year. His acting credits on television include WAH Singapore, Scrum, Say the Word, Random Island, Silver Lining, Sayang Sayang, Parental Guidance, My Sassy Neighbour and Daddy’s Girls. As a host, Enlai has presented these programmes - Same But Different, Heartland Getaways, Global Picnic and Look Who’s Leading on Mediacorp Channel 5, as well as his early work on Kids Central, such as Jobs for Juniors, Science Guy P.I. and Hobby TV.

For his work on the small screen, Enlai was named Elle Magazine’s Actor of the Year in 2008.

His film credits include Wayang Boy, Judgement Day, The Ghosts Must Be Crazy and Already Famous, as well as cameos in Everybody’s Business, Taxi! Taxi! and Greedy Ghost.

It is little wonder why Enlai has also become one of the most watched faces on TV as part of the Local Upsize branding campaign by Mediacorp. His popularity, topped with a warm and vibrant personality, and his distinct and hearty laugh, has also made him the choice host for numerous roadshows, functions and gala dinners.

A veteran in the theatre scene, Enlai has worked on over 50 theatre productions. Some of the highlights include Monkey Goes West, The Importance of Being Earnest (2014, 2013 & 2009), Ah Boys To Men: The Musical, Army Daze (2013 & 2012), Happy Ever Laughter, Cinderel-lah! (2010 & 2003), Boom, Titoudao, Fundamentally Happy, Connect the Dots (Hong Kong), Separation 40, Bent, Plunge, Shakespeare’s R+J, Shopping & F***ing, Lovepuke, Meena and Me and Snakeskin. Enlai has twice received a Life! Theatre Award - Best Actor (Shopping & F***ing), and Best Supporting Actor (The Importance of Being Earnest). Enlai is honored to be invited as a juror for the 2012 International Emmy Awards.

John Mellor

Vice President of Strategy, Business Development & Marketing
Digital Marketing
Adobe

As Vice President of Strategy, Business Development, and Marketing for Adobe's Digital Marketing Business, Mellor leads strategy for the industry-leading Adobe Marketing Cloud. With over 25 years of enterprise technology experience, Mellor is responsible for growth and market leadership initiatives for Digital Marketing, one of the world's largest enterprise SaaS businesses and Adobe's fastest-growing business unit, driving over $1B in annual revenue.

Passionate about partnerships, Mellor creates and executes strategic relationships with Adobe’s partners – the leaders in digital marketing, advertising and publishing, social media, competitive intelligence and customer relationship management systems.

Mellor joined Adobe through the company’s acquisition of Omniture in 2009 where he served as Executive Vice President of Marketing and drove all marketing efforts to strategically advance the largest standalone web analytics business. Previously, he served as senior leadership for RichFX, an online merchandising company for high-end retailers. Mellor also co-founded and led strategy and business development for Viewpoint, a provider of interactive media technology and services for websites and enterprise applications, which was acquired in 1998 by Computer Associates.

An experienced public speaker, Mellor presents at numerous conferences and trade shows on topics such as digital marketing, advertising, media and business optimization.

Mellor holds both a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Brigham Young University.

V. R. Srivatsan

Managing Director, Southeast Asia (SEA)
Adobe

“Always understand what customers need,” is Sri’s unwavering belief through his 26 years of leadership in the IT industry. An intuitive and visionary leader, Sri possesses an in-depth knowledge of the Southeast Asia and India markets, and is passionate in challenging the norm together with his team, to deliver the best possible experiences for customers.

As the leader for Adobe SEA, Sri is driven by the exciting opportunities to make a meaningful impact on customers and employees, working with top brands across the region on their digital transformation towards an experience-led business.

Prior to joining Adobe, Sri was Managing Director for SAP in Malaysia, Vice President for South Asia region at Business Objects, and had also held several senior positions at Oracle.

Sri has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Sri is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the School of Informatics & IT at Temasek Polytechnic.

If Sri were not at Abobe, he would be traveling around the world and watching world-class sporting events.

Follow Sri on Twitter: @srivatsan31

Scott Harris

Sr Dir, Demand Marketing, Corporate Marketing
Adobe

Scott Harris has been at Adobe over nine years and works as Senior Director of Enterprise Marketing. As a leader of Adobe’s marketing efforts for the enterprise, Scott has a unique perspective as a marketing platform provider and a leader looking after the enterprise approach to demand generation. Major areas of focus have been demand generation, modeling/measurement, marketing automation, search marketing, sales/marketing alignment, media optimization, operations and database marketing. Previous to Adobe, Scott held marketing positions in financial services and internet media companies. Scott has a BA from Brigham Young University and a MBA from the University of Southern California.

Tamara Gaffney

Principal Analyst – Adobe Digital Insights
Adobe

Tamara leads the team of analysts responsible for providing marketers with research and insights captured through aggregated and anonymous data from the Adobe Digital Marketing Cloud, one of the world’s largest marketing technology platforms with over 1.24 trillion transactions per quarter. In her role, she is frequently quoted on television, radio and in thousands of press articles on a variety of data-oriented technology, and digital marketing topics where she uses big data to identify key trends and predict the future. Tamara was named one of the Top 20 Big Data Analysts in the US by Fortune Magazine and one of the Top 100 Data Influencers in the UK by DataIQ Magazine.

Prior to joining Adobe, Tamara worked in the media research and advertising industries. She has spent the majority of her career building data-oriented products at start-ups as Director of Product Management where she has brought a number of new products to market and been granted two patents for her work in mobile data collection.

Tamara earned her MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern and her BS in business and minor in computer programming at the University of Southern California. Tamara describes herself as a futurist with love of data and passion for tangible business results. Fearless, bold and ready to change the world, she admits that she is usually out on a limb and tends to ask impertinent questions. She believes data must be useful and the art of storytelling needs to be strengthened within the data community.

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Siva Ganeshanandan

Director, Adobe Experience Cloud, Asia Pacific

“I’m the person who helps bridge the gap between the business objectives of marketing professionals and the increasingly amazing but confusing technology that has the potential to help them do their jobs more successfully than ever before.” explains Siva Ganeshanandan, Director, Adobe Experience Cloud in Asia Pacific.

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.

Siva has fourteen years experience in the industry, eleven of these in Asia Pacific. He joined Adobe in 2011, having held senior roles for many years with companies including Interwoven, where after running APAC marketing, he led the regional Optimost business. He started his career with Cisco Systems in the UK before joining Mirror Image, the content delivery provider, in a role that brought him to Singapore.

Michael Stoddart

Director, Market Development
Adobe APAC

Michael Stoddart leads the Market Development team for Adobe in Asia Pacific, supporting Adobe's enterprise customers as they undertake digital content transformation. Michael's longevity, industry knowledge and strategic vision have built significant awareness in the business and creative communities.

Ron Nagy

Senior Evangelist
Adobe@Adobe

Ron Nagy is a senior evangelist with the Adobe@Adobe team. His career at Adobe has spanned 20 years and a variety of roles within IT and Product. Currently he showcases the Adobe digital evolution story along with solutions built by Adobe@Adobe - a small digital agency innovation team. Being part of a digital agency within Cloud Technology allows us to work with the latest unreleased versions of Marketing, Creative and Document solutions as customer zero. Nagy helps customers and prospects understand the Adobe story as one example of a large enterprise managing through change from the people, process and technology perspective.

Mark Szulc

Principal Solution Consultant
Adobe Asia Pacific

Mark Szulc, Principal Solution Consultant, Asia Pacific, works with Adobe's leading customers & partners as they take advantage of Digital Marketing. He has more than twenty years of experience assisting large organisations increase their market share, improve operational efficiencies, automate processes and drive revenue growth.

Specialising in digital experiences, he has held various positions from creating some of Australia & New Zealand’s first online web presences, working on the leading magazine publications, to managing development teams, system admin and consultancy services.

Aside from being an evangelist for Adobe’s solutions & technologies, Mark can be found blogging at www.markszulc.com, exploring the world or tinkering with technology.

Kenneth Chow

Commercial Director, Southeast Asia
Adobe Advertising Cloud

Kenneth Chow is Commercial Director for Southeast Asia at Adobe Advertising Cloud, managing the growth and strategy for the DSP business, formerly known as TubeMogul, an industry leading technology platform focused on cross-channel programmatic buying.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Kenneth first joined TubeMogul in 2013, after obtaining his MBA from the Smith School of Business, where he managed and grew the Sales and Client Services efforts. Tapping into his passion for data-based decision making and being at the fore-front of Programmatic technology, he’s consulted top brands and agencies looking to adopt and incorporate technology into their digital business, with the aim of achieving greater efficiencies and driving ROI.

Leveraging this experience and seeing the tremendous growth opportunity in Asia, he packed his bags and moved to Singapore in early 2016 to help continue growing the footprint of programmatic advertising in Asia.

He joins a team of passionate professionals, who he’s already learned so much from, and looks forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions on how technology and digital transformation are helping brands identify their audiences to improve ad relevancy and measurement.

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