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Georg Chmiel
Group Executive Chairman, Juwai IQI
Georg Chmiel
Group Executive Chairman, Juwai IQI
Proactive and results-focused business leader with strong background in growth companies and the capital market with special focus on real estate groups, online and media companies. Acknowledged for creative, consistent and balanced contributions in steering business strategy, value creation and management over 25 years. Highly experienced change agent and consensus builder whose candid and motivating communication style has been cited as the catalyst that unites individuals with diverse agendas into cohesive teams with common goals. Extensive international exposure in Australia, Asia and Europe has allowed Georg to develop the ability to appreciate cultural differences and view issues from a global perspective. Enjoys delivering the “big picture” via a combination of analysis, collaboration, leadership, and in-depth industry knowledge.
Gadiy Lim
Co founder and CEO, Bumbung.co.
Gadiy Lim
Co founder and CEO, Bumbung.co.
I think the real estate journey for buyers/tenants and sellers is broken, I'm an enthusiast when it comes to technology and I see a vision of where ML & AI can help solve some of the most difficult part of real estate.
85% of the sellers and agents time in many SEA cities are spent on manual administrative work for marketing and lead gen.
In the era of the iPhone Xs' of the world, I believe we shouldn't be doing the same things as how we've done them 20 years ago.
Jared Lim
Founder, Finology
Jared Lim
Founder, Finology
Jared is the founder of Finology. Finology is a Fintech company with a mission to simplify lending for everyone and operates Loanplus - The #1 mortgage pre-approval platform in Malaysia.
Since 2018, Loanplus has completed more than 5,000 mortgage pre-approvals, and now runs a Straight-thru digital application process with 3 leading banks in Malaysia.
Cheah Kar Fei
Founder and Lead Coach, Life Redesigned
Cheah Kar Fei
Founder and Lead Coach, Life Redesigned
Kar Fei is the founder and Lead Coach of Life Redesigned, one of the go-to millennials development company in Malaysia and the Resident Coach of Mindvalley, one of the fastest-growing personal growth companies on the planet.
Stanley Chee
CEO, SalesCandy
Stanley Chee
CEO, SalesCandy
SalesCandy® is a SalesTech startup that focuses on delivering cutting edge solutions to improve sales team performance. We have raised 1.6M USD in total within 2 years of operating and with presence in 5 countries - Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. Our clients range from Global Fortune 500 companies to Public Listed companies.
Chen Chow
Co-Founder, Fave
Chen Chow
Co-Founder, Fave
Yeoh Chen Chow is the co-founder of Fave, next generation merchant digital platform in South East Asia. Fave helps to digitize tens of thousands of local businesses, from restaurants, cafes, retailers, spas, beauty and wellness studios, service providers, tourist attractions to hotels. Fave acquired 3 of the Groupon subsidiaries in South East Asia -- Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. He is also the co-founder of KFit, regional fitness sharing platform in South East Asia.
Prior to that, he was the Regional Operations Director for Groupon Asia Pacific, Product Manager for JobStreet.com and Management Consultant for Accenture. He is an Eisenhower Fellow and an alumnus of Cornell University. He is also an angel investor, who has invested in numerous early stage startups in the region.
Navin Sinnathamby
Senior Principal Lead, Malaysia Digital Economy
Navin Sinnathamby
Senior Principal Lead, Malaysia Digital Economy
Navin is the Senior Principal Lead, Data Ecosystem Development Division (DEDD) in MDEC, overseeing disruptive technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analytics (BDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as key innovation enabler across identified industry verticals to drive digital adoption towards realizing the Digital Economy in Malaysia.
Navin leads key national initiatives under the Industry Development pillar; bridging both the demand and supply side towards adoption of digital technologies to deliver new value across industry.
Freda Liu
Producer. Presenter. Speaker. Author
Freda Liu
Producer. Presenter. Speaker. Author
Freda has conducted over 5,000 interviews with prominent names which include author Stephen Covey, motivational speaker Nick Vijucic, former GE CEO Jack Welch, the Duke of York HRH Prince Andrew and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Covering the gamut of communications, she previously worked for Edelman PR and IBM Asia Pacific and also as a news presenter on national radio & TV. Award-winning Freda is highly sought after for moderating corporate events and training.
Nabeel Mungaye
Group Chief Operating Officer, Juwai IQI
Nabeel Mungaye
Group Chief Operating Officer, Juwai IQI
As Group CTO at IQI, Nabeel is responsible for group wide operational strategy and ensuring risk management systems are in place, and that strategic, financial, operational and external risks are managed. With his background in complex IT financial risk systems, Nabeel is also responsible for aligning group IT objectives and programmes.
Before IQI, Nabeel worked at Lloyds of London on the strategic implementation of Solvency II prior to which he was based at HSBC, Barclays and other UK financial institutions on Basel II, UK Asset Protection Scheme and various other Risk Management systems. Nabeel is British and has a degree in Computer Science. He is based at our head office in Kuala Lumpur.
Imran Sheik
CEO and Founder of Ombre
Imran Sheik
CEO and Founder of Ombre
Imran Sheik is a Malaysian entrepreneur and filmmaker. He is best known as the founder of one of Subang's favourite's secret sanctum, Jibril, which he founded back when he was still studying Law at UiTM, and the director of Malaysian political thriller film, Daulat. Imran is the Founder and CEO of Ombre, a tech startup offering fashion styling software through its app and Shopify plugin. Ombre was one of the few Malaysian startups selected to participate in the 2016 e@Stanford programme organized by the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC). This startup also clinched 1st place in the 2018 Malaysian Seedstars.
At only 30 years old, Imran has 4 business and arts ventures at his helm: Jibril, Mona, Ombre and Daulat
Tejas Kirodiwal
Head of Growth, ZALORA Group
Tejas Kirodiwal
Head of Growth, ZALORA Group
9 years of insightful experience in all flavors of Digital Marketing viz. Performance Marketing (paid digital media), Search Engine Optimization, Data & Analytics, Media Planning, Process & People management. In my career so far I had the fortune to anchor Omni-channel Digital Marketing Campaigns for eminent clients’ viz. Nestle, L’Oreal group, IKEA, Guardian, Panasonic, Astro Go Shop, Compare Asia Group and et cetera. Being a curious professional my zeal to grow enabled my success and in different stages of career I had been entrusted with the responsibility to lead large teams. In my present association I am shouldering responsibilities as Regional Head of Growth with Zalora.
Aaron Foo
Digital Evangelist, Digital Fire Starter
Aaron Foo
Digital Evangelist, Digital Fire Starter
Aaron Foo, The Digital Fire Starter is an author, speaker, content creator and product & tech guy who strives to inspire people through technology. He actively produces LinkedIn videos and was listed as Marketing in Asia 70 Rising Personalities 2020. Aaron holds a Master’s Degree in Coaching Psychology and has co-authored the book Habitudes: 21 Days to Change Your Life. He is currently the Group Head of Product Strategy at iCar Asia where he strives to innovate the way people buy, own and sell cars within the ASEAN region.
Ben Sim
Director of Sales Copy, Crazy Ants Academy
Ben Sim
Director of Sales Copy, Crazy Ants Academy
Ben Sim is the Director of Sales Copy at Crazy Ants Academy and former Senior Sales Copywriter at Mindvalley. He has written copy for product launches that generated over USD10MM. In this talk, he will be sharing with you how to create content that sells and converts your target audience into loyal customers.
Benjamin Croc
Founder and CEO, BrioHR
Benjamin Croc
Founder and CEO, BrioHR
Former McKinsey consultant, and head of Lazada’s strategy department, Benjamin developed a deep passion for people management in a career that spanned continents and industries. Noticing a pattern among companies that wanted to help their people achieve their full potential, he created BrioHR in 2018 together with a fellow INSEAD alumni in the hopes of transforming the workplace stories of millions around the globe, and improving corporate performance for companies big and small at the same time.
Leo Ming-Yan Lo
Founder, AsiaPropTech
Leo Ming-Yan Lo
Founder, AsiaPropTech
Mr Leo Lo is a surveyor-turned-serial entrepreneur. He is a founder of a real estate blockchain company (PropBLK) which is working on blockchain applications in the real estate sector. He is a trailblazer in the PropTech industry and actively forges partnerships with PropTech companies in the US and Europe and building up the Asia PropTech ecosystem: Asia PropTech. Leo is the CEO of Fonto Holdings, which is an integrated corporate based in Hong Kong, dedicated to asset investment/ financing with technology innovations with futuristic and entrepreneurial views. Fonto delivers solutions in the Asia-Pacific Region for real estate and infrastructure asset projects financing, investment, valuation and asset management.
Leo is the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Excellent Young Achiever of the Year 2016 and he is also well connected in the society by being a Chairman Member (PropTech and Blockchain) of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao-Bay Area Economic and Trade Association, Executive Committee Member of Shanghai-Hong Kong Coalition of Professionals, Founding member of Hong Kong-ASEAN Economic Cooperation Foundation, etc.
Raja Singham
Managing Director, Brickfields Asia College
Raja Singham
Managing Director, Brickfields Asia College
Raja Singham is the founder and Managing Director of Brickfields Asia College, where he also works as Senior Lecturer for students taking the Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP). Over the past two decades, BAC has grown into a network of campuses in KL and Petaling Jaya, offering a broad selection of courses. Furthermore, Singham has authored numerous texts and study manuals in areas of Law of Evidence, Land Law, Law of Tort, Law of Contract and The English Legal System.
Afiq Mohammed
Founder, EICO
Afiq Mohammed
Founder, EICO
Afiq is a multi-disciplinarian team player who continuously learns and strive for effective results. Core focuses currently includes: business development, project management, design thinking and innovation, website building and administration, content development, copywriting, graphic design, illustrator, brand and marketing strategy.
Nowrid Amin
Digital Marketing Manager, IQI Global
Nowrid Amin
Digital Marketing Manager, IQI Global
Kazi Nowrid Amin is a passionate Digital Marketer with 7 years job experience. Currently he is working in Malaysia with IQI Global (Real Estate Agency) as a Digital Marketing Strategist since December 2016. He is in-charge of the digital marketing team, contributing to IQI growing and making a strong presence in the digital world. In addition, he is also a public speaker for social media and a digital marketing trainer.
Jeevan Sahadevan
CEO, LeverageLab
Jeevan Sahadevan
CEO, LeverageLab
Jeevan Sahadevan is no stranger to success as an entrepreneur and as Malaysia’s top business growth expert. Jeevan is the founder and CEO of Leveragelab Sdn Bhd., a company offering cutting edge Business Growth methods, technology and consultancy in Sales, Marketing, Systems and Team development for over 17 years. He is also a certified practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming, Timeline Therapy and a certified Emergenetics consultant.
Jeevan is also a former Action Coach Multi Unit Franchisee trained in Business and Executive Coaching, and the winner of over 8 regional and global awards during his tenure with Action Coach including winning the coveted BEST Client Results Award for Asia Pacific twice; in 2008 and 2011 (twice) and Coach of the Year for Asia in 2006. Jeevan was also awarded Prestige Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 for 2012.
Marko Stricevic
Managing Director, APAC Hub of GSG
Marko Stricevic
Managing Director, APAC Hub of GSG
Marko Stricevic is the Managing Director of the APAC Hub of the Global Savings Group (GSG), a globally active provider of PubTech platforms for Commerce Content that operates 100+ digital assets with the world’s leading publishers. GSG helps retailers and publishers to monetize by delivering inspirations, recommendations, deals and discounts to consumers. By assisting millions of customers to make smarter shopping decisions, GSG enables advertisers to reach high-intent users at scale in 20+ markets around the world.
Marko has a background at M&A- and Strategy consultant facilitating European companies' market entry in China and enabling Chinese companies to get a foothold in Europe, before switching to the E-Commerce industry with a focus on Asia-Pacific. He holds an MSc degree in Finance from ESADE Business School.
Ho Chin Soon
Founder & Chairman, Ho Chin Soon Research
Ho Chin Soon
Founder & Chairman, Ho Chin Soon Research
Ho Chin Soon is a mapmaker, speaker & trainer, author and a fellow of the Royal Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia.
He is a registered valuer with the Board of Valuers and has a Professional Diploma from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (UK)
He is currently the Chairman of Ho Chin Soon Research Sdn Bhd, a property information company that specializes in land use and ownership maps and also Chairman of Hong Onn Enlightens, a newly formed entity that seeks to create and promote events and workshops that empowers the audience through knowledge sharing of the highest order.
Rohan Ramakrishnan
Founder and CEO, ASEAN Post
Rohan Ramakrishnan
Founder and CEO, ASEAN Post
The ASEAN Post is a technology-driven, communications and intelligence platform, which curates analytical content that expertly frames critical issues shaping the future of Southeast Asia - including geopolitics, renewable energy, markets, technology, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We produce thought-provoking insights driven by data gathered from our partners; think tanks; research institutes, community, and international economic organisations.
Mallory Loone
Co-Founder and Creator of Opportunities, Work Inspires
Mallory Loone
Co-Founder and Creator of Opportunities, Work Inspires
Mallory Loone is currently the Co-Founder and Creator of Opportunities of Work Inspires, a People Engagement Company that focuses on Co-Creating Learning Pipelines with sustainable results through interactive learning and engagement solutions. Her entrepreneurship journey started as the youngest Project Director appointed for Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum (Malaysia), a global platform by World Entrepreneurship Forum.
Known as an entrepreneur with a heart for people development, she has worked with companies like Samsung, Loreal, SearchGuru, Oracle, Tony Roma’s etc and has global footprints across countries including Australia, Singapore, and London. During her free time, she is a frequent mentor for Startup Weekend, Axiata Young Leaders Mentor4Mentor Programme to help further develop young talents and startups. Her work has been recognised by President Barack Obama as a trainer and leader of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) and she was also awarded Malaysia’s Most Talented Coaching Leaders in 2019.
Bruce Wells
Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Matterport
Bruce Wells
Managing Director, Asia Pacific, Matterport
Bruce Wells is the Matterport Managing Director for Asia Pacific. Matterport is the leading spatial data company focused on digitizing and indexing the built world. Bruce has over 25 years of Asia Pacific and international business development experience working with both large multinational firms as well as various technology-enabled start-ups/scale-ups. He led the APAC launch and expansion of Vision Critical, a Vancouver based customer intelligence platform and Medallia, the leading SaaS provider of Customer Experience Management software which recently IPOed on the NYSE. Bruce also held executive-level positions at Synovate, a global leader in marketing research and analytics, as well as various engineering and technical leadership roles at Motorola. He is a two-time entrepreneur, starting his first company in Asia in 1997. Although originally from New York, Bruce has lived and worked in Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore and twice in Malaysia.
Rajiv Rai Singh
Head Of Marketing (MY + SG), Lalamove
Rajiv Rai Singh
Head Of Marketing (MY + SG), Lalamove
A self driven entrepreneur, pushing to make every dollar and minute count by learning fast and finding creative solutions to optimize my resources and maximise my returns. I am constantly pushing my imagination to learn new ways to skin a cat.
My passion for e-commerce and digital marketing stems from the desire to develop businesses that are automatable, scalable and intelligent.
I have 8 years experience in content creation and 6 years in digital marketing, e-commerce operations and management.
Daniel Ho
Group Managing Director, Juwai IQI
Daniel Ho
Group Managing Director, Juwai IQI
Daniel Ho, a pioneering entrepreneur, author and public speaker, is the Group Managing Director of IQI and its group of companies. He is responsible for developing and overseeing the execution of group wide strategies covering products, sales, marketing and development to ensure that the company stays at the forefront of the industry.
With his detailed global and regional expertise in real estate, Mr. Ho is on the advisory board of a number of publicly listed developers to provide services around concepts and commercialization strategies for new developments. With his wide experience in the industry, financial markets and partnerships, Mr. Ho also plays a pivotal role in establishing joint ventures and fund syndication for new property developments.
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