As Co-Founder and Group CEO of Catcha Group, Patrick Grove is one of the leading entrepreneurs in the APAC region. He founded and took 5 companies from startup to IPO, recently selling iProperty Group for US$534m, making it one of the largest internet exits in ASEAN history.

He is Co-Founder and Chairman of iflix, the leading SVoD service for emerging markets; Co-Founder and Director of iCar Asia, ASEAN’s No. 1 network of digital automotive portals; and Co-Founder of Frontier Digital Ventures, a leading operator of online classifieds in frontier markets.

Patrick has received numerous international awards, including: Global Leader of Tomorrow and New Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum; Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Business. 

Established in 2004 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Catcha Group is Southeast Asia’s leading internet group which builds and invests in disruptive internet companies across emerging markets globally. The Group’s historical focus has been in online classifieds, new media and OTT, where it has successfully taken 5 companies from startup to IPO and created over US$2.0bn+ worth of value. Today, the Group holds over 60 investments, either directly or indirectly, as sole, majority or minority shareholders.

One of Asia's most recognisable entrepreneurs, Tony Fernandes is best known for co-founding AirAsia, a pioneering low-cost airline in the region. Fernandes bought the ailing, debt-ridden airline for a token RM1 (25 US cents), turning it around within two years and growing it from a domestic Malaysian carrier into Asia's largest, most successful airline group, with operations in five countries serving over 260 routes to more than 120 destinations across Asia Pacific. Fernandes has received numerous awards and accolades over the course of his career. These include the Honor of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, conferred by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2011, and the Commander of the Legion d'Honneur, awarded by the French government for his outstanding contributions towards the economy of France through the aviation industry. Fernandes studied at Epsom College and the London School of Economics in the UK, and qualified as a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1996.

At AirAsia, we see ourselves as not so much an airline operator but more of a people company that happens to be in the airline business. Understanding people enables us to realize the true needs of discerning travellers and provide paramount services and products to deliver utmost satisfaction to our guests, each and every one with unique requisites and expectations.

AirAsia has sparked a revolution in air travel with more and more people around the region choosing us as their preferred choice of air transport. As we continuously to strive to promote air travel, we also seek to create excitement amongst our guests with our range of innovative and personalized services.

Our mission is to attain the lowest cost so that everyone can fly with AirAsia and maintain the highest quality product, embracing technology to reduce cost and enhance service levels.

Anthony Tan is the co-founder and Group CEO of Grab, SE Asia’s leading mobile technology company. Grab solves critical transportation challenges to make transport freedom a reality for 620 million people in Southeast Asia. Grab's core product platform includes commuting solutions for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on convenience, safety and reliability, as well as its proprietary mobile payments platform, GrabPay. 

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading mobile technology platform. Grab solves critical transportation challenges to make transport freedom a reality for 620 million people in Southeast Asia. Grab's core product platform includes commuting solutions for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on convenience, safety and reliability, as well as its proprietary mobile payments platform, GrabPay. Grab currently offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. For more information, please visit: http://www.grab.com. 

Chatri Sityodtong is a self-made entrepreneur and lifelong martial artist from Thailand. His rags-to-riches life story has inspired millions around the world and has been featured in many global news organizations. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of ONE Championship, Asia’s largest sports media property in history with a global broadcast to over 1 billion potential viewers across 128 countries around the world. Sityodtong holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Tufts University, as well as a blue belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Master Renzo Gracie. A former professional Muay Thai competitor, Sityodtong was most recently named “Asia’s King of Martial Arts” by Financial Times, and the “Most Powerful Person in Asian MMA” by Forbes, Yahoo! Sports, and International Business Times. Forbes also selected Sityodtong as one of Asia’s next generation tycoons.

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Temasek Holdings, ONE Championship is the only truly pan-Asian sports media property on the continent with a global broadcast reach to 1 billion potential viewers across 128+ countries. Home to authentic martial arts action, ONE Championship has a coveted roster of blue-chip Fortune 500 sponsors, including the likes of Disney, Marvel, LG, Sony, Facebook, Haier, Kawasaki, L’Oreal, Casio, Bayer, and more. ONE is watched on the largest media broadcast in Asia with the biggest partners on free-to-air and paid TV in every major country on the continent. Our combination of distinct Asian values combined with world-class production and world-class athletes has resulted in some of the highest TV ratings and social media engagement metrics on the continent. 

ONE offers champion martial artists and local heroes from each country an opportunity to shine on the largest global stage for martial arts in Asia. Established global names are also invited to showcase their skills. Embodying traditional martial arts values such as humility, respect, and discipline, these Asian heroes serve to inspire hope, strength, and dreams in their respective communities.

With an illustrious career spanning three decades thus far, Dato’ Yasmin Mahmood is one of the premier names in the Malaysia IT industry, who is known for her outstanding leadership qualities and vision.

She started her career as an analyst programmer with a local bank after graduating with a double-major in Computer Science and Mathematics. She subsequently worked her way up to become General Manager of Hewlett Packard Malaysia’s Commercial Channels Organisation. She then took on the dual-role of General Manager and Regional Corporate Director of Dell Malaysia.

Yasmin moved on to become Microsoft Malaysia’s Managing Director in 2006 and became known for her “Malaysianising Microsoft” mantra and for aligning the strengths of what was then the world’s most powerful software company with Malaysia’s national and development agenda.

In September 2014, she took on the much-coveted post of CEO of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) Sdn Bhd; to make a difference and to utilise her expertise and experience for the betterment of the nation.

MDEC, an agency under the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia, has been entrusted to develop, coordinate, and promote the nation’s digital economy, information and communications technology (ICT) industry, and to spearhead Malaysia’s transition towards a developed digital economy by 2020 under the “Digital Malaysia” national agenda

As an active advocate of women empowerment in the workplace, Yasmin is a Founding Patron of Gorgeous Geeks, an NGO advocating Women Empowerment with ICT. Yasmin was also recently appointed as an Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and CEO @ Faculty Programme Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

Yasmin was a key participant and speaker at the World Economic Forum held in June 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She was also a panellist at the Forbes “Finding the Next Billion” session held in Silicon Valley, United States in 2015.

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), previously known as Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), was incorporated in 1996 to strategically advise the Malaysian government on legislation, policies and standards for ICT and multimedia operations as well as to oversee the development of the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (now MSC Malaysia), the platform to nurture the growth of Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the IT industry whilst attracting participation from global ICT companies to invest in and develop cutting edge digital and creative solutions in Malaysia. 

In 2011, MDEC’s mandate was broadened by the Prime Minister to include driving Malaysia’s transition towards a developed digital economy by 2020 through Digital Malaysia. In 2012, Digital Malaysia was officially unveiled as the nation’s transformational programme to achieve this aim. Digital Malaysia is the national agenda towards a sustainable digital economy built upon a vibrant domestic ICT industry, transformative use of digital solutions by government, businesses and citizens, as well as a robust enabling ecosystem.

Today, both MSC Malaysia and Digital Malaysia run concurrently to spur Malaysia’s ICT industry development and digital transformation, under the purview of MDEC.

For more information, please visit www.mdec.my

Khairil is the Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Digital Services where he leads companies investments and operations in digital businesses. He overseas Axiata's companies and joint ventures in Digital Commerce, Digital Advertising, Mobile Money and Entertainment. He also has responsibilities over Axiata's participation in Machine-to-machines. Prior to that, Khairil was the Group Chief Marketing and Operations Officer of Axiata Group Berhad, a role he assumed since joining Axiata in 2012.

Khairil joined Axiata from Bain & Company, Inc., a leading global management consultancy where he was a Partner. He was with Bain for more than 15 years and worked out of various offices in the firm, including San Francisco, Munich, Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai. He has built a strong track record of helping his clients in the Telco and other industries achieve major improvements to their strategic positions and operational performance. In 2008, Khairil returned to Southeast Asia to help Bain grow its Telco practice in the region based out of Singapore.

Before Bain, Khairil was an operations consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, Management Consulting Services and also had stints running tech start-ups.

Khairil holds a BA, MA (Engineering) and MEng from the University of Cambridge, U.K. as well as an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Axiata Digital offers digital advertising services such as SMS, banner, In-application and video advertising. The company also develops Celcom Planet, a digital commerce platform. The company is based in Malaysia. Axiata Digital operates as a subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad.

Aliza Knox is the Managing Director for Cloudflare in Asia-Pacific. She is responsible for growing the company's presence and brand recognition in the region, as well as optimizing its reach to customers through sales and channel partners. 

Prior to joining Cloudflare, Aliza had more than three decades of broad international marketing and management experience. She worked in executive positions at a wide variety of tech companies, including Google and Twitter, as well as an Australian mobile startup. She holds an MBA in Marketing (Honors) from New York University, a BA (Magna Cum Laude) from Brown University, and was a partner at the Boston Consulting Group. She also sits on the boards of two publicly listed companies. 

Outside of work, Aliza is extremely passionate about encouraging women to pursue opportunities in business and tech. She realizes this by mentoring young women and actively participating in a number of relevant forums.

Cloudflare started as a simple application to find the source of email spam. From there it grew into a service that protects websites from all manner of attacks, while simultaneously optimizing performance.

Grace’s has over a decade of experience in investment, corporate strategy and business development across early stage startups and Fortune 500 companies in both Silicon Valley and emerging markets in Asia. At Jungle Ventures she focuses on identifying innovative startups in Asia and cross-border investment opportunities.

Prior to joining Jungle Ventures, she was Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Investment at Tencent. In this role, she focused on identifying strategic opportunities in emerging markets, building Tencent’s overseas product ecosystem through investments and collaborations with local partners; and overseeing the implementation of deals and capital deployment.

A Kauffman Fellow, Grace started her career as a management consultant where she advised clients in financial sectors. Grace has an MBA in strategy and decision science from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.

Jungle Ventures is a Singapore based venture capital firm, which is focused on Series A / B investments.  Jungle invests in consumer internet or technology businesses that are based in or are focused on the India, SE Asia, Australia and NZ markets. 

Jungle has also launched an early or seed-stage fund, called SeedPlus, which is a platform focused on providing capital to teams building globally disruptive internet businesses in areas such as IoT, artificial intelligence, blockchain, security, software, and others.

Lucas is a co-founder of Carousell and oversees Engineering. Since the launch of Carousell in August 2012 together with co-founders Marcus Tan and Quek Siu Rui, Lucas has been working closely with the engineering team on technical, architecture and data direction and strategies. He is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers to keep Carousell at the forefront of the industry. He is also passionate about product development, iOS development, and applying data science to solve problems at a large scale.

Prior to Carousell, Lucas spent some time as a software engineer at RedBeacon (acquired by Home Depot). Lucas read Computer Engineering and Entrepreneurship at the National University of Singapore and Stanford University (under the NUS Overseas College Program in Silicon Valley, California).

Julian was appointed as the Head of SPH’s newly created Digital Division in March 2015. He is responsible for spearheading the Company’s strategy and growth in the digital space.

Before this, Julian was the Chief Executive Officer of 701Search Pte Ltd, a regional online classifieds joint venture company between SPH, Norway’s Schibsted and Telenor. Responsible for the strategic development and growth of the company in Southeast Asia, he grew the business from a start-up in a single location to a regional company with a strong footprint in the region, in a span of 7 years. He currently sits on the Board of 701Search and is also the Chairman of Silver Thailand, an online classifieds joint venture between Naspers, Schibsted, Telenor and SPH.

In 2007, Julian was the Chief Operating Officer of SPH Search Pte Ltd, an online local search and directory business. Before that, he was in the Corporate Development Division of SPH where he played a pivotal role in developing strategies and business plans for SPH’s push into the Internet and mobile worlds.

Julian graduated with First Class Honours in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and earned two Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) degrees from INSEAD and Tsinghua University in 2009.

Recognised as a global leader in the online classifieds arena, Founder and CEO of Frontier Digital Ventures, Shaun Di Gregorio, is the former CEO of ASX listed company, iProperty Group (ASX: IPP), operator of Asia’s #1 network of property portals. During his four and a half year tenure (2014-2009), Shaun spearheaded the transformation of iProperty Group from small online business into the largest listed Internet company in ASEAN, with a market capitalisation of US$600 million.

Prior to this, Shaun spent eight years at Australia-based REA Group, a global leader and publisher of as many as 20 real estate websites in 12 countries. As General Manager of the core Australian business, he grew the business into a company with more than 300 staff and revenues exceeding AU$150 million. Shaun was also appointed General Manager, International Operations, overseeing REA Group’s international expansion and strategic investments. Shaun is a non-Executive Director of iCar Asia (ASX:ICQ), Asia’s leading operator of online automotive portals, and an advisor to online classifieds businesses around the world. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Frontier Digital Ventures is focused on becoming a leading investor in online classifieds businesses in frontier and emerging markets. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the investment firm offers entrepreneurs both capital and expertise in developing, growing and operating online classifieds businesses. Frontier Digital Ventures invests in highly driven entrepreneurs who want to be market leaders in the online classifieds industry in frontier and emerging markets. The firm provides funding, advice and assistance on setting strategy and the execution of that strategy. Its vast pool of knowledge of the online classifieds space and well established global business network, positions it perfectly to enable and advance highly-driven entrepreneurs in frontier and emerging markets across the globe.

Mr Shailesh Naik is founder and CEO of MatchMove Pay (www.matchmove.com), one of the world’s fastest growing and most disruptive fintech companies in digital payments and next-generation banking. 

MatchMove’s proprietary Banking Wallet OSTM enables 'Banking-as-a-Service' with Spend, Send, LendTM capabilities within any app. The operating system allows businesses and their customers to pay online and offline simply and securely, perform P2P domestic transfers, cross-border remittances, P2M and mass disbursements to global recipients. MatchMove platform further extends to Lend where credit scores are assigned based on customers’ spending and sending patterns to offer customized lending solutions. 

MatchMove has been recognized with international awards for being a promising and innovative organization, as well as a preferred employer. 

An entrepreneur with a successful track record in high-tech and new media sectors across China, India, Korea and Southeast Asia, Shailesh also made several successful investments in online entertainment and e-commerce companies across Asia and the US. He served on the iN2015 committees to develop Singapore’s new national IT master plan and is a Founding Investor in Aavishkaar, a Singapore-based social venture fund focused on start-ups in India and Southeast Asia.

MatchMove is one of the world’s fastest growing and most disruptive fintech companies in digital payments and next-generation banking.

MatchMove’s proprietary Banking Wallet OSTM enables 'Banking As A Service' and the capabilities of Spend, Send, LendTM within any app. The platform empowers B2B businesses and their customers to Spend both online and offline easily and safely, via instantly issued prepaid cards on major card networks. Its Send capabilities include P2P domestic transfers, cross-border remittances, P2M and mass disbursements to global recipients. MatchMove platform further extends to Lend, where credit scores are assigned based on customers’ spending and sending patterns to offer customized lending solutions.

Envisioning a financially inclusive world as it wages war on cash, MatchMove’s solutions help enterprise clients digitize payments and give the financially underserved segments the empowerment to move their money anytime and anywhere.

MatchMove is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and authorized by leading card networks to issue virtual and physical cards directly to users in approved jurisdictions, or anywhere else in the world with partner banks.

The company has been recognized with international awards for being a promising and an innovative organization, as well as for being a preferred employer.

MatchMove is headquartered in Singapore with offices in India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, and the USA.

For more information, please visit www.matchmove.com.

Tracey Fellows is Chief Executive Officer of REA Group, responsible for the Group's operations and investments in Australia, Europe, Asia and North America.

Prior to joining REA Group in August 2014, Tracey was Executive General Manager of Communication Management Services at Australia Post, responsible for the physical and digital mail business which encompassed 13,000 employees.

Previously, Tracey was based in Singapore as Microsoft Vice-President for the Asia-Pacific region, responsible for sales, services, and marketing across 12 countries. Prior to this, Tracey was Managing Director of Microsoft Australia for four years and also served on the ninemsn board. Tracey has also held senior roles with Dell and IBM.

Born in Canada, Tracey holds a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University and a Postgraduate Diploma of Banking Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. She lives in Melbourne with her husband Ian and son Jake.

REA Group is a multinational digital media business specialising in property. Our team of more than 1,400 people is passionate about working together to build great experiences that deliver value to consumers and customers.

With our headquarters based in Australia, we operate the country’s leading residential and commercial property websites, realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au, and have world leading digital sites and investments spanning the globe.

Each of our property portals is centered on providing value for two equally important groups: consumers and customers. We provide our consumers with digital tools, information and data for buying, selling, renting, letting or pricing property.

We assist real estate agents, property developers and other property-related businesses to promote their services through our websites, mobile apps and some print. As our international operations and network of leading property portals continue to grow, we’re exploring ways to get the most out of our expertise and diversify revenue.

Suresh A/L Thirugnanam is the Chief Executive Officer who is responsible for the key strategic direction of SEEK Asia.

He started his career with Digital Equipment Corp, USA in 1989. In 1992, he worked briefly in Maxoptix Corporation, San Jose, USA before relocating to Malaysia to join Motorola Malaysia. He left Motorola in 1994 to join Maxis Communications where he held several positions, including Head of Network Services Operations before joining JobStreet.com as Vice President for Operations in 2000.

Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, he served as Chief Operating Officer with the main responsibility of integrating the two businesses (JobStreet.com and jobsDB) and creating a strong and successful SEEK Asia.

Suresh holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Improving lives through better careers

An extension of SEEK, SEEK Asia combines the two giants in job portal brands, jobsDB and JobStreet, under one roof and helps improve the lives of millions across Asia through comprehensive platforms.

Our brands

Both are the leading online employment marketplaces in Asia. Our brands help facilitates the matching and communication of job opportunities between candidates and hirers.

Hamish Stone joined iCar Asia as Group Chief Executive Officer in June 2016. Reporting directly to the Board of Directors, Hamish provides the business vision, strategy and leadership to over 400 employees across Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Hamish is an expert in digital marketplaces having worked at eBay for 10 years across 3 key markets and brands. He led the automotive verticals for the eBay classified businesses of Gumtree.com in the U.K., and Marktplaats.nl in The Netherlands. Prior to that, Hamish was Head of Marketing for eBay Australia and New Zealand.

Hamish holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) majoring in Economics and Marketing from The University of Sydney

Listed on Australian Security Exchange, iCar Asia (ASX: ICQ) owns and operates ASEAN No. 1 network of automotive portals with clear leadership positions established in each of ASEAN’s three largest automotive markets – Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

iCar Asia has significant market opportunity with the potential to connect over 600 million car buyers and sellers throughout ASEAN. Our online properties currently reach over 4.8million car buyers and enthusiasts in the region every month.

We have consolidated position in ASEAN markets with established brands, consistent consumer audiences, and listings leadership due to deep car dealership penetration and engagement via our market-leading Response Management System (RMS) which is integrated into dealers’ businesses.

iCar Asia is now working to accelerate vibrancy and revenue growth with the potential to expand its proposition into new markets and geographies.

At iCar Asia, we are passionately committed to building a business that has a definitive impact on the automotive industry in the ASEAN region.

We will change the way consumer connect with people and business to fulfill their automotive needs as they buy, own and sell vehicles.

Our strategic priorities for the business are to develop a world class customer experience, enabling us to win in all of our core markets. Then we will build on this position of strength to expand into other countries within the region and into adjacent categories and services.

Joel co-founded honestbee in December 2014 as a concierge delivery service in Singapore, offering on-demand convenience to customers, and flexible work opportunities to people. Since then, honestbee has expanded rapidly and is operating in eight countries across the region.

Having had a longstanding passion for businesses with transformative potential, Joel has invested in a number of early and mid-stage businesses. He also serves as an advisor to Formation Group.

Joel graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor's degree in Economics. He enjoys surfing, and loves to eat.

In today’s time-starved world, convenience is priceless. At honestbee, our mission is to give you back time, providing everyday convenience. We offer concierge shopping and delivery – for all your lifestyle needs. 

Our business is human-centric, fueled by positive social impact, which is twofold. We improve the lives of our customers through on demand service at the tap of a button. We provide flexible work opportunities to our shoppers and deliverers who make their own schedules. We also empower our partners for growth, providing them opportunity to sell their products online and extend their reach to new audiences in each country we operate in.

In July 2015, honestbee launched in Singapore. Since then, we have expanded to seven additional countries across Asia.

honestbee started off with grocery delivery, aiming to source the freshest, handpicked groceries with next-hour delivery. A customer simply places their order through our platform and one of our 12,000 concierge shoppers carefully handpicks the items from a curated list of stores. A deliverer brings it to their doorstep, as soon as one hour later.

Since then, honestbee has extended its delivery services to include food, laundry, home & auto, health and on demand courier services with its newest endeavor, honestbee ZIP.

With just a few taps on your mobile app, you can have food from the best restaurants delivered to your doorstep, laundry picked up, washed and returned to you or medication delivered when you’re not feeling your best.

At honestbee, our mission is to make your life easier so you have time for what matters.

A serial internet entrepreneur and investor based in Thailand, Paul Srivorakul is one of the founders and the Group CEO of aCommerce, a full service end-to-end ecommerce solutions provider that raised the largest Series A in Southeast Asia of USD$17M since its founding in May 2013. He is also the Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Ardent Capital, an early stage private capital fund focused on Southeast

Asia. In the past seven years, he has raised over $30 million from investors such as Softbank, IDG, Recruit, NTT Docomo, Sumitomo, Axiata, Sinarmas, and Siemer and exited three of his past internet ventures at an accumulative value of over $100 million.

Prior to Ardent Capital, Paul was the Group CEO and Co-Founder of Ensogo Group (ecommerce site acquired by LivingSocial), Admax Network (ad network acquired by Komli Media), and NewMedia (digital ad agency acquired by STW Group).

As an industry leader and extremely accomplished digital entrepreneur, Paul is actively invited to share valuable insights at top events and conferences in the digital media, ecommerce, online retail, supply chain and venture capital industry circuit. In addition to his innovative entrepreneurial efforts, Paul has worked as Inside Sales at Ask Jeeves (ask.com), a search engine based in California acquired by IAC. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley.

aCommerce is a regional full-service ecommerce solutions provider, delivering customized ecommerce solutions for global brands and retailers such as L’Oreal, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Nestle, Lazada, MatahariMall, and LINE among others, and is on a mission to break the logistics bottleneck of Southeast Asia with technology. Founded in June 2013, aCommerce has offices and distribution centers in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. The company provides end-to-end ecommerce solutions to bring brands and retailers into online retail, including performance marketing, channel management, platform design and development, content production, order fulfillment and warehousing, delivery and logistics, customer service, and call centers.

About aCommerce

aCommerce make ecommerce execution easier for brands, retailers, and manufacturers in Southeast Asia. Our core services are performance marketing, tech automation, Logistics, Warehouse Management, Fulfillment, Distribution, cross border, content production, payments, customer service, and channel management.

Richard Koh is the Founder/CEO of M-DAQ, reportedly the largest and most well-funded (post Series C) but media-shy Fintech in Singapore, since Jan 2010.

Richard had his first entrepreneurial pursuit when he was 14, co-founding a computer games startup which failed and so did his GCE O Levels.

Between 1990 and 2009, his careers were built at JPMorgan/Chase Manhattan, Credit Suisse (First Boston), Standard Chartered and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and holds an Executive MBA, a Bachelor of Accountancy and several Diplomas in Computing, and a scholarship from Price Waterhouse. Despite failing his GCE O Levels and 3 out of 4 subjects in the first semester during his undergraduate degree, he finished top of his cohort and was the valedictorian for both his GCE A Levels and the EMBA. He also has 2 technical patents that forms the foundation to the M-DAQ business.

 Who are We?

Blake has spent his career leading teams and overseeing operations during periods of high growth for both Fortune 500 companies and tech start-ups across four continents. In his current role, Blake oversees Lalamove’s business outside of Mainland China.

Formerly, he served as the managing director of Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi in Hong Kong. He also helped launch the business in India, Indonesia and Singapore.

Previously, Blake co-founded and served as the managing director of Air Crew Club, a global marketplace for airline employees, from 2012 to 2013.

Blake also served at the Clinton Foundation in their Global Health Finance Department in South Africa.

Blake started his career at Walgreens from 2004 to 2010, in various managerial roles across Finance, Marketing, and Market Strategy.

He graduated from ESADE Business School (Spain) and NUS (Singapore) with an MBA, and University of Iowa, USA with a BBA in Finance and Marketing."

Originally founded in 2013 as EasyVan in Hong Kong, Lalamove is Asia’s leading local delivery platform with a presence in more than 60 cities. Lalamove’s mission of making local delivery faster and simpler is driven through harnessing the power of mobile internet to bring the sharing economy to logistics.

In the past 3 years, more than two million customers and hundreds of thousands of professional van, motorcycle, and truck drivers across the region have used Lalamove to help their business grow. Lalamove leads the revolution of local logistics landscape using an asset light model to with features like instant order matching, vehicle tracking, 24/7 services, and drivers rating to improve intra-city delivery.

Via its platform, Lalamove allows businesses to easily scale their delivery options providing faster service to their customers and empowering drivers to increase their income and optimize their their work.  This reduces the need for so many vehicles which in turn reduces traffic congestion and pollution in Asia’s cities crowded cities.  

Rafiq Razali is no longer a stranger to the startup world in Malaysia. Currently resuming his career as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Media Prima Digital at the age of 32, Rafiq proof that his appointment as MPD CEO is in line with Media Prima’s commitment to strengthen its digital presence and further consolidate Media Prima’s position as the largest integrated media group in Malaysia.  This Actuarial Science graduate from Pennsylvania State University has a comprehensive experience in business development and strategic planning. His track record includes establishing start-up companies related to digital and information technology. Begin his journey with Maxis Berhad, Rafiq then further his career at Groupon Malaysia, where he was part of the team who formed this company (known as Fave now). He was promoted to Country General Manager for Malaysia in 2013, following an impressive performance by the outfit. In 2015, Rafiq and a group of investors established KFit, a Malaysian start-up company that provide mobile application users to plan their wellness activities such as gym membership and various fitness classes. He was the Vice President and a founding shareholder of KFit. His remarkable achievements in previous companies proved that he is indeed, deserved to be at where he is today. His skills and expertise suits the vision of MPD to introduce more innovative solutions to fulfill the ever-changing needs of its customers especially in the digital world.

As the digital arm of Media Prima, Media Prima Digital (MPD) is dedicated to ensure that the Group’s content is accessible to all consumers, as well as establishing a strong presence in the digital sphere.  MPD has been at the forefront in providing the necessary support to build up Media Prima’s digital services. MPD’s team is composed of digitally savvy millenials, experienced Gen X and the newest entrants into the workforce, the Gen Zs. With this in place, MPD has embarked on several new initiatives that include mobile applications development and big data. Through its in-house incubator, Media Prima Labs, MPD aims to foster innovation and develop new digital products and services. MP Labs has aggressively tapped into the mobile games and applications market by successfully launching 12 apps in 2016. MP Labs capitalizes on Media Prima’s intellectual properties such as Ejen Ali, Jalan Jalan Cari Makan (JJCM), J Revolusi and few other utilities apps. Apart from that, MPD also centralizes the performance marketing and social media monitoring functions for the group that includes social listening services which enables us to monitor social mentions and gather actionable insights from various social media platforms.

Born in Germany in 1973, Michael has enjoyed a multinational career as a business leader ranging across 4 continents and 4 industries.

After graduating from the oldest university in Germany (Heidelberg) with a Master of Arts in Economics in 1999, Michael went on a journey that took him to Switzerland, Germany, Thailand, China, Paraguay, Lao PDR, Vietnam, the Caribbean and back to Thailand!

Working for Global Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola (Food & Beverages), Henkel (Cosmetics), and Vimpelcom (Telecommunications) Michael became a CEO at 33 years of age. He quickly carved out a reputation as a creative, charismatic and highly successful business leader running businesses up to the size of 700M USD yearly turnover.

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Eatigo the leading online reservation platform for restaurants in Thailand and Singapore. Eatigo connects empty stomachs with empty tables via time based discounts and the help of yield management algorithms. Visionary and relentless in business Michael unwinds by playing golf, running Marathons and spending time with his wife Aimee and his two children MJ and  Aiana.

Founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs of diverse nationalities (French, Singaporean Indian and Thai), Eatigo aims to connect empty stomachs to empty tables. Via its Iphone and android applications and website, Eatigo serves up time based discounts of up to 50% for all participating restaurants, every day at near 700 of the most popular dining venues in Bangkok, Pattaya and Singapore.

The discounts apply to every food item on the menu and can be booked at no cost whatsoever online without any credit card information and no coupons. It’s as simple as that!

Restaurants join Eatigo in order to fill up their empty seats in off-peak hours and increase their profitability because Eatigo ensures they turn a profit on every single available table.

The business model effectively takes the tried and tested yield management principles of charging different prices at different times used successfully in the travel and hotel industries and applies them to the F&B sector.

Having seated over 2 Million diners Eatigo is the leading online reservation platform for restaurants in Thailand and Singapore. Eatigo was founder-funded across its seed stage and closed its Series A in December 2015.

The Series B by TripAdvisor followed in October 2016 bringing total funding to date to USD 15.5M.

With product-market fit proven and both hyper growth and positive unit-economics in place Eatigo is now getting ready to move into other markets across the region.

Dr. Jonathan Doerr is the co-CEO of Daraz Group, the leading ecommerce mall for 500 million people in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Myanmar. Within a year of joining Daraz as Co-CEO, Dr. Doerr successfully secured $55 million funding in the first investment round. A few months later, he drove the Daraz and Kaymu merger, becoming the co-CEO of Daraz Group and expanding operations from three to five countries. Dr. Doerr has a Master’s Degree and PhD in Business Administration from the Munich School of Management (LMU) in Germany. Before joining Daraz, he was the Managing Director of Jumia Nigeria.

Daraz is the leading e-commerce platform in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The company started in Pakistan in 2012 as an online fashion business, but since then has expanded its business model to a general marketplace for quality brands within electronics, home appliances, fashion and many other categories. Daraz is owned by CDC Group – the UK Government’s Development Finance Institution (DFI) focused on supporting and developing businesses in Africa and South Asia – as well as the Asia Pacific Internet Group (APACIG).

Albert joined Burda in 2017 and heads Burda Principal Investments' Singapore office. Previously he was at GREE Ventures from 2014 to 2017, where he led the fund's investment team in Southeast Asia and India. Prior to this, he served as a Director at Lazada Group, Southeast Asia’s largest ecommerce retailer, helping build the company’s Marketplace business across the region. Other professional experience includes co-founding an online menswear company in the US called AlbertMing Inc. and spending 5 years as a consultant at Monitor Group across the US and Asia. He completed his MBA at the University of California, Berkeley and studied at the University of Pennsylvania with dual degrees in economics and systems engineering.

Burda Principal Investments (BPI), a division of Hubert Burda Media, provides long term growth equity for fast growing digital technology and media companies. Hubert Burda Media is one of Europe’s largest media and technology conglomerates with a strong investment track record in internet-centric businesses since 1998.

We have been partners for visionary entrepreneurs, leveraging Burda’s capital, brands and sector expertise, particularly in the areas of business expansion, internationalization and localization.

We are invested in a portfolio of highly successful consumer internet companies in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. In the past, Hubert Burda Media has invested in internet platforms such as Etsy, zooplus, HolidayCheck, or Xing AG.

BPI is run by a dedicated team of investment professionals based in New York, Munich, London and Singapore.

Tze Khay was appointed as the General Manager of Rev Asia Berhad on 1 January 2014. He was appointed as the Managing Director of its subsidiaries on 8 October 2013. 

Tze Khay graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Management in Marketing from University of South Australia and soon afterwards began his career with Emap Malaysia Sdn Bhd as advertising executive, before joining Catcha.com Sdn Bhd (now known as Rev Lifestyle Sdn Bhd) in 2000. 

Tze Khay has over 17 years of experience in the media industry and an exemplary track record in sales and advertising. Prior to stepping into his current role as Managing Director of the subsidiaries, he was responsible for the operations of the Group’s digital and publishing businesses. He has been with the Group for more than 10 years, and played a critical role in the pivot of Group businesses from a publishing magazine business to a full online media group.

Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and formed in June 2013, REV Asia Holdings Group is one of Malaysia’s leading digital media group, owning and operating top authority brands with an extensive distribution platform that is able to reach a total reach of approximately 5 million people each month.

By combining the power of social media marketing and exceptional content with an established portfolio of authority brands, REV Asia Holdings Group is able to put its clients and their brands at the centre of social attention, providing influential digital marketing solutions to enable over 500 clients to engage and connect with their intended audience.

Among REV Asia Holdings Group brands are SAYS.com, Malaysia’s fastest growing social news website, 8Share, which is ASEAN’s leading social distribution platform with over 1 million members across Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, OHBULAN!, Malaysia’s No.1 Socialtainment website, and authority brand JUICE, the leading nightlife and street culture brand in Malaysia.

In August 2016, REV Asia Holdings Group acquired Viralcham and Rojaklah, two widely popular Chinese social websites, capturing approximately 54% of the total Chinese population in Malaysia.

REV Asia Holdings Group also has a region-wide content and advertising partnership with Business Insider Inc. for Business Insider websites in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

David is based in Singapore and is the Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures.  Prior to Jungle, David spent 3.5 years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the TPG Growth fund.  He continues to be a Senior Advisor at TPG Capital in Asia and represents them as a non-executive director on the board of Propertyguru, the largest online real estate platform in SE Asia.  Prior to TPG, David spent 12 years at Yahoo! Inc where he was the Head of International M&A.  In this role, he was responsible for driving all transaction activity and the investment strategy for Yahoo! outside of North America, including the Yahoo!7 and Yahoo!Xtra joint ventures.

Jungle Ventures is a Singapore based venture capital firm, which is focused on Series A / B investments.  Jungle invests in consumer internet or technology businesses that are based in or are focused on the India, SE Asia, Australia and NZ markets. 

Jungle has also launched an early or seed-stage fund, called SeedPlus, which is a platform focused on providing capital to teams building globally disruptive internet businesses in areas such as IoT, artificial intelligence, blockchain, security, software, and others.

A graduate of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance & CIS), Ashran started his career in the Oil & Gas sector with Petronas MITCO. He is a well-known figure in the local and regional entrepreneurship ecosystem and has led many organizations namely; Chairman, New Entrepreneurs Foundation (myNEF); Chairman, myHarapan; President, Malaysian Association of Bumiputera ICT Industry & Entrepreneurs (NEF); and Deputy Chairman, Global Innovation & Entrepreneurship Foundation. In addition, he also served as an Advisory Board Member to Malaysian SME Development Academy (MASMED) as well as a Board Member for SME Corp.

In 2011, Ashran co-founded Joota, a social content networking site. Joota secured private investments of USD2.1mil, with patent and distribution partners in the USA. His recent initiatives include creating an accelerator for the creative sector via comics – ComicXcel and a new ASEAN regional award for start-ups – Rice Bowl Start-up Awards.

Ashran was appointed as the CEO of MaGIC in May 2016.

Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) was launched in April 2014 by President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak. The center, located in Cyberjaya, was established to create a vibrant entrepreneurial hub in Southeast Asia, catalyze the ecosystem in Malaysia, and provide the necessary support to Malaysian entrepreneurs to increase the number of successful, high-growth startups regionally and globally. Since its launch, MaGIC has helped a large number of both Malaysian and regional entrepreneurs through its initiatives and various programme.

MaGIC enables and supports the sustainable growth of entrepreneurship in Malaysia as a new value creator and economic growth driver for the nation. It collaborates with other government agencies, industry and community stakeholders, working as a catalyst to drive development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

MaGIC’s initiatives foster the spirit of entrepreneurship, helping to equip entrepreneurs with the necessary skills, capabilities and network to create value and succeed. Through its initiatives, MaGIC facilitates the growth of creativity and innovation across the nation, helping position Malaysia as a global creativity and innovation (C&I) hub.

MaGIC Social Entrepreneurship (MaGIC SE) is also committed to driving the growth of this sector through community engagement and outreach programs, capability development and social impact measurement programs and providing a platform for social entrepreneurs to engage with impact investors. MaGIC SE also engages with policy makers and the private sector to initiate systemic changes within the sector.

For more information, kindly visit www.mymagic.my

James Posnett is Senior Manager, Listings Business Development at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Sydney.  He has had extensive experience in financial markets in Australia and overseas for over 15 years.

Since joining ASX in 2012 he has been responsible for the development of the listings and capital raising business, both domestically and internationally.  He works with companies from a broad range of industry sectors, including technology.  James formerly worked for NYSE Euronext in London in the capital markets and trading businesses, most recently as Managing Director, International Listings.  He has also worked for BNP Paribas Equities in Sydney.   

James holds a Bachelor of Science with honours from Loughborough University and an MBA from the University of Adelaide.

ASX. A powerful platform for global exposure and growth.

For tech innovators who need capital to grow their business, ASX is the number 1 public market in Asia Pacific with a long, proven history of supporting high growth companies, which gives you a powerful platform for growth and global exposure.

ASX is one of the world's leading financial market exchanges, offering a full suite of services, including listings, trading, clearing and settlement across a comprehensive range of asset classes.

As the first major financial market open every day, ASX is a world leader in raising capital – consistently ranking among the top five exchanges globally.

With a total market capitalisation of around $1.6 trillion, ASX is home to some of the world's leading resource, finance and technology companies. Our $47 trillion interest-rate-derivatives market is the largest in Asia and among the biggest in the world.

ASX's network and data centre is connected to leading financial hubs. Speed, reliability, state-of-the-art technology and the diversity of the user community, are fundamental to the success of the Sydney-based ASX Australian Liquidity Centre.

ASX has over 150 years of exchange experience and a highly skilled team of 530 people. We put our clients at the centre of everything we do 6.7 million share owners, 180 participants, almost 2,200 listed companies and issuers.

Chin Chao brings with him more than 18 years of experience in the venture capital and venture debt industries, including entrepreneurship, company building, business operations and strategy.

Prior to Innoven, Chin was most recently the Co-Managing Director at Sirius SME, a venture capital firm he co-founded in 2008.  And prior to Sirius SME, Chin was a Managing Director of Venture TDF Singapore and Venture TDF China.  Notable investments from Sirius SME include Heptagon, Ong Joo Joo Food Industries and Reebonz.  Notable investments from Venture TDF include AAC Acoustics, Alibaba, Baidu, Focus Media, Mediaring, Redback Networks and Savi Technologies. 

During his time at Venture TDF in Singapore, Chin also co-founded the TechFinancing Centre, a joint-venture between KeppelTatLee Bank, Venture TDF and the Economic Development Board of Singapore. The TechFinancing Center provided innovative debt solutions to growth-oriented companies in Asia.

Chin received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He also received his Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School and is the author of three publications on technology and business law. 

Innoven Capital is Asia’s leading venture lending platform providing debt capital to high growth innovative ventures primarily backed by venture capital firms. Innoven Capital is a joint venture between Temasek Holdings and United Overseas Bank Group. Currently, the platform is active across India and South East Asia while continuing to expand to other high growth economies in the region.

Cole Sirucek is an investor and entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience founding, investing into and otherwise supporting entrepreneurial ventures.

Cole has founded a diverse range of business in his career. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of DocDoc Pte. Ltd., which is Asia’s largest doctor discovery portal.  He is also a Managing Director of Founders Equity Partners a direct secondary investment firm.

Previously, Cole Co-Founded Epic MMA Club, Asia’s largest mixed martial arts training center. He has also served as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors for Global Eagle Acquisition Corp, a US$190M, NASDAQ listed Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation focused on the media and entertainment industry.    

Cole spent seven years as a direct investor with Temasek Holdings. In this capacity, he sourced, executed and monitored investments on a global basis in the firm’s telecommunications, media and technology group. He has successfully invested over US$500M in private equity direct and secondary transactions.

Before Temasek, he was the Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Pluto Networks – a wireless data networking company. He has formerly held executive positions in Hawaii’s State Government and has worked as a technology venture capitalist and strategy business consultant.

Cole attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management (Master of Business Administration) and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (Master in Public Administration).

In his free time, Cole is a martial artist, adventure racer, scuba diver and mountaineer.  He has completed self-supported 250KM foot races across China’s Gobi Desert and Egypt’s Sahara Desert, funding medical missions in Vietnam and China that directly saved the lives of +13 children. 

DocDoc is a virtual network of physicians and hospitals supporting patients to find high quality medical care at a negotiated best price.

Our team, working in offices in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, includes people just like you. We have tried to find high quality care for our loved ones and ourselves. We understand that navigating the medical maze is a challenge and we have been frustrated by limited or incorrect information on quality of care, including credentials, how many procedures a physician performs in a year, legal action, and patient experience. We believe that trust is paramount in healthcare and yet there are countless stories of people who have been frustrated by difficulty finding a qualified physician or being charged more for coming from overseas. We decided to make a difference, working as a team to build a company that could solve this problem for ourselves and for you.

DocDoc has the largest provider network in Asia. We seek physicians, clinics and hospitals in the region that have excellent outcomes and willingly join our network because we scrutinize their records and validate quality. We spend hours with each, investigating quality of care and documenting procedures and conditions where a physician excels. We review national records to confirm credentials and legal action. Then, we ensure our customers receive the lowest price that physician charges anyone for that procedure.

Our model is that everyone wins. The patient finds the right doctor for their condition and receives a negotiated lowest price. The physician, who excels in their field, can have a company validate their expertise and can focus on care rather than finding qualified patients. DocDoc charges a modest fee to the physician and hospitals in exchange for finding qualified patients in need of procedures where we believe the doctor excels.

The end result is that we are a company that cares that provides verified doctors at a guaranteed best price. We invite you to try our service. Give us a call. The service is free of charge to you. Our concierge specialist will spend as much time with you as needed. You can feel confident and secure booking with us.

Scott OBrien is leading Humense with the commercial assimilation of holographic capture and display of people. For Scott this was a conceptual dream back in 2001 and for the psyche of most in cinema, an indelible memory with Princess Leia’s plea “help me Obe Wan Kanobe” in 1977.

Since 2009 Scott has worked at the bleeding edge of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Wearables and human first user experiences with 100s of apps and multi-million dollar builds. A highlight being a 6 week project to make see through AR eyewear, software stack and creative to assist in a major sporting event bid back in 2010. This set his foundation for successful 5 yearly industry forecasts with the next being over 10% of people wearing “reality” eyewear by 2020.

Throughout Sydney and Melbourne, Scott has also brought together around 2000 of the countries most enthusiastic AR and VR professionals and ethusiasts via co-ordination and promotion of meetup groups.

Prior to entering the tech sector, Scott studied B.Sc (Psych), played professional sport in Scandinavia, set up one of the countries largest street parades and helped give birth to the online retail industry in Australia with an event named Online Retailer.

Humense is immensely human experiences in the realities. An Alibaba/Youku funded company also with Australian investors, Humense provides the world with a platform and toolset that captures and displays human performances in Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Our core technology takes an array of 2D cameras and sensors and enables a hyper real volume of a moving person in spatially and neuropsychologically true 3D.

Chief scientist of Oculus by Facebook stated one of the greatest problems in VR is representing human performance. From the technology viewpoint the problem is with computational and display limitations. With neuroscientific principles, in the film, animation and robotics industries the problem is defined as the “uncanny valley”, the fine line between instinctual recognition of another human and  an imitation. For AAA games and movies like Benjamin Button, this has been multi-million dollar problem for years.

Lord Mitchell in UK Parliament argued in 2011 against a £40B railway project, citing “holographic telepresence” would be available by 2033 when the railway is finished. Humense, a Sydney based company is solving this problem in 2017 by having high resolution detailed human performance and communications available on multiple devices, bandwidths with accessible and friendly tools for everyone.  

Sarah holds a Bachelor of Laws from King’s College London, and is now pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification.

Zakir Ahmed is the vice president and general manager of Oracle NetSuite, Asia charged with building and leading the organization across NetSuite’s offices in Singapore, the Philippines and Hong Kong. In this role, he will be guiding a number of high performing teams to bring complete solutions to NetSuite customers across the region. Zakir is based in our Singapore sales hub which services the Asia region.

Ahmed has more than 20 years of experience in management, customer acquisition and retention as well as sales leadership across the globe, complemented by a strong understanding of the Asian market.

Prior to NetSuite, Ahmed was with Salesforce.com, TechnologyOne Corp, Microcell, CGI and Steltor (now Oracle) and had previously worked with Netsuite in Canada.

Ahmed’s proven track record with midmarket businesses in the region will be instrumental in helping NetSuite to further add to its growing list of customers, including Scoot Airlines, operating out of Singapore across Asia and Motech, an automotive service chain based in the Philippines.

Zakir holds a bachelor’s degree from Beloit College/University of Wisconsin Madison in the US.

Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle, pioneered the Cloud Computing revolution in 1998, establishing the world’s first company dedicated to delivering business applications over the Internet. Today, Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit provides a suite of cloud-based financials / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and omnichannel commerce software that runs the business of companies in more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.netsuite.com.sg

Sebastian Togelang is a Serial Entrepreneur since his age of early 20’s, Investor, Business Angel, Growth Hacker, Fund Manager and Founder of several International Tech Companies with over 15-years experience in Tech, Marketing, Digital & Start-ups.

He is the Founder and Managing Director of Kejora Group (Kejora Ventures); a company builder and Venture Capital with over 30 Investments in Asia.

Sebastian is also co-founder of Ideabox: an incubator set up between Mountain Kejora Ventures and Indosat/Ooredoo Group, focusing on incubating technology companies in the emerging markets.

In Southeast Asia, he co-founded and invested in companies such as C88 Group (www.c88fintech.com, leading financial ecommerce), Qareer Group (www.qareergroup.asia, leading Career platform), Jualo (C2C Marketplace), Etobee (Logistic), Investree (Investree.id, leading P2P lending) and more than 20 other companies that created more than 700 jobs within 2 Years. He also co-founded the FinTech Association and act as secretary general of the Venture Capital Association in Indonesia (Amvesindo).

Sebastian started his career at Deutsche Bank & Deutsche Boerse (German stock exchange). He studied at Johann Wolfgang University in Frankfurt.

Kejora is a highly active Venture Capital company setup in 2014, with the commitment to build one of the largest Internet platform and tech ecosystem in Southeast Asia. Kejora Ventures focuses on investing, building and growing highly scalable businesses to create the leading companies from the region. With a sound management team, Kejora Ventures works actively in connecting startups with important decision makers in the region enabling faster growth and expansion. The firm has offices in Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Philippines.

Revolution Precrafted unites over 48 of the world’s preeminent architects, artists, and designers to create a series of prefabricated, livable spaces. Utilizing cutting-edge technologies and cost-efficient production systems, Revolution is democratizing high design and architecture by introducing designed spaces in exclusive collaboration with industry leaders. The company is currently the the highest valued technology startup in the country, at $256M, and is on its way to becoming the first Philippine unicorn. 

Soonhee Kim is the partner of OPT SEA, is responsible for all investment and incubation activities in Southeast Asia since 2014. Soonhee had engaged in multiple layers of global business development and cross-border M&A in digital marketing and service sectors specialized in the U.S, Korea and Japan since her joining to OPT group in 2005. Prior to that, Soonhee has spent a several years at international off shore trading and banking sectors. 

OPT SEA is a corporate venture arm of OPT group, Japan listed e-marketing company, providing financial and incubation support to tech and internet startups especially for their early stage growth in Asia. Founded in 2014, OPTSEA has engaged with more than 15 of portfolios, Joint Ventures and Incubation projects since. 

Leon was involved in multiple startups within Rocket Internet ranging from fashion eCommerce player Lamoda in Russia, Home 24 in Berlin Foodpanda in South-East Asia. Most recently he was part of Zalora where he scaled up operations across South-East Asia. He is based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and invests across South-East and South-Asia. Moreover, he built up the organizaton of Global Founders Capital in China and has been featured in leading media outlets in China and SEA. Leon holds a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship from WHU, Germany.

Global Founders Capital (GFC) is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs worldwide. We typically invest between $200k and $200m in high-growth internet start-ups.
We have a history of success and the team has backed a number of transformational companies such as eBay, Linkedin, Facebook, Traveloka and many other billion dollar businesses around the world. GFC currently has $1bn USD under management and has made investments in all corners of the globe. We do seed, series A and larger growth capital rounds.

In 2009, Marco Rodzynek founded NOAH Advisors, a Pan-European Internet-focused corporate finance boutique.

Marco has over 16 years of investment banking experience covering the Internet and media space, having started his career at Lehman Brothers where he was the Head of European Internet Investment Banking. Since early 1998, he has been involved in 50 announced M&A deals with a total transaction value of over $100 billion and worked on 10 capital market transactions which raised $16 billion.

NOAH Advisors is a leading corporate finance boutique focused on sizable European Internet companies. The NOAH team advises on secondary sell-side transactions, as well as selected buy-side mandates and private debt and equity capital raisings for mature Internet companies. Since its foundation in 2009, NOAH has completed 22 transactions. In 2014, NOAH Advisors most notably closed the $800m sale of Fotolia to Adobe, the sale of Facile.it to Oakley Capital, the $230m sale of Yad2 to Axel Springer and the €80m sale of Trovit to Next Co.

Dato’ Ng Wan Peng is no stranger to anyone involved in the ICT industry in Malaysia. She has been a core and pioneer member of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) from the inception of Multimedia Super Corridor initiative since 1998.

She has 25 years’ of extensive industry experience in managing large-scale projects, in the areas of Strategic IT Planning, Project Management, Systems Integration, and Methodologies Development.  Dato’ Ng has consulted internationally for both private and public sector organizations in IT policy and project implementation in government.

Today, as the Chief Operating Officer, she is responsible for strategic execution of MDEC’s initiatives to support digital economy, including: 1. Attracting investors, globalising local tech champions; 2. Catalysing industry-driven digital ecosystem; 3. Building critical enablers of the digital economy, and 4. Driving inclusive adoption of technology.

In 2015, Dato’ Ng was conferred Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (D.S.P.N) award for her contribution, commitment and dedication in driving and expanding MSC Malaysia’s footprint to other parts of Malaysia and also globally.

Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), previously known as Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), was incorporated in 1996 to strategically advise the Malaysian government on legislation, policies and standards for ICT and multimedia operations as well as to oversee the development of the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor (now MSC Malaysia), the platform to nurture the growth of Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the IT industry whilst attracting participation from global ICT companies to invest in and develop cutting edge digital and creative solutions in Malaysia. 

In 2011, MDEC’s mandate was broadened by the Prime Minister to include driving Malaysia’s transition towards a developed digital economy by 2020 through Digital Malaysia. In 2012, Digital Malaysia was officially unveiled as the nation’s transformational programme to achieve this aim. Digital Malaysia is the national agenda towards a sustainable digital economy built upon a vibrant domestic ICT industry, transformative use of digital solutions by government, businesses and citizens, as well as a robust enabling ecosystem.

Today, both MSC Malaysia and Digital Malaysia run concurrently to spur Malaysia’s ICT industry development and digital transformation, under the purview of MDEC.

For more information, please visit www.mdec.my

Khailee Ng loves creating tech startups. As an entrepreneur he has founded an ecommerce site Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon) and media company Says.com (acquired by Catcha Group). Khailee is managing partner of Silicon Valley's most active seed venture capital firm. The firm has done over 1,800 investments in 60 countries, of which he has led 120+  investments in Southeast Asian tech startups, including Grabtaxi, Carousell, Bukalapak and other regional champions. As every industry continues to be disrupted by new technology and evolving consumer behavior, Khailee and 500 Startups specialize in looking for patterns of business opportunity and investing in entrepreneurs who will realize them. His investment activity and industry opinions are featured by Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune, and the 500 Startups portfolio of companies have collectively raised over $10Billion USD.

500 Startups is an early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai in 2010. The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011. They expanded to a second class of 21 in June 2011 and a third class of 34 in October 2011

Dinesh is currently Chief of Staff to the CEO at Catcha Group, where he provides critical support in evaluating key strategic decisions and driving execution across the Group’s main priorities.

Prior to Catcha Group, Dinesh spent over 6 years as an investment banker with J.P. Morgan in its London and San Francisco offices focused on the Technology, Media and Telecommunications space. While at J.P. Morgan, Dinesh helped advise on over $25bn+ worth of capital raising and transformative M&A transactions including Nokia’s handset division sale to Microsoft and the buyout of Nokia Siemens Networks, as well as Yahoo’s sale to Verizon.

During his stint in San Francisco, Dinesh worked with innovative and disruptive leaders including Dropbox, Linkedin, Airbnb, Netflix, SurveyMonkey and Tesla amongst others on their strategic and financial roadmap. In London, Dinesh was also selected by the European Investment Banking CEO and his senior management team to spend a year assisting with strategising optimal management of the investment banking business. 

Dinesh graduated from Imperial College in 2010 with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering.

Established in 2004 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Catcha Group is Southeast Asia’s leading internet group which builds and invests in disruptive internet companies across emerging markets globally. The Group’s historical focus has been in online classifieds, new media and OTT, where it has successfully taken 5 companies from startup to IPO and created over US$2.0bn+ worth of value. Today, the Group holds over 60 investments, either directly or indirectly, as sole, majority or minority shareholders.

Tim Stewart has been stockbroker with some of Australia’s leading firms over the past 20 years. In recent years , being with BAILLIEU HOLST , one of the oldest firms established in 1889 he has been very active in bringing a number of small and medium sized growth companies to the ASX, where he often takes  a substantial stake himself. Tim has worked and lived in both London and Hong Kong and has extensive contacts both within the business and political communities in Australia. 

Baillieu Holst is one of Australia’s leading independently owned financial advisory firms, providing a range of wealth management services to clients. The merger of EL & C Baillieu and FW Holst & Co in 2012 combined two firms established in the late 1800’s focused on creating and managing clients’ wealth.

Spanning generations, Baillieu Holst has been built around relationships formed on trust, experience and expertise. It’s this continuity that ensures the relationships our clients have with the firm are of enduring value and form the foundations of Baillieu Holst’s ability to deliver on clients’ investment goals.

With over 150 staff throughout Australia and a private client network consisting of more than 80 advisers and assistants, Baillieu Holst services clients with funds in excess of $11 billion.

Our experienced team is committed to providing investment advice, with a range of offerings available including financial planning and superannuation services. We offer integrated wealth management solutions tailored to meet our clients’ unique wealth creation, protection and management needs.

Baillieu Holst has a strong research capability, supporting both its Private Wealth Management and Corporate departments. Our in-house research team specialises in under-covered stocks within the ASX 100 – 300 universe as well as growth companies outside the S&P/ASX 300. Our partner, Credit Suisse, provides comprehensive global research including the top 200 Australian equities.

The firm’s corporate department focuses on primary and secondary issues for emerging companies, with a commitment to long-term client relationships.

SaeMin Ahn is the Managing Partner at Rakuten Ventures, the venture capital arm of Rakuten, Inc., a leader in internet services and global innovation headquartered in Japan. He is responsible for leading and evaluating investments, conducting due diligence, and analyzing deal structure.

Since Rakuten Venture’s launch in 2013, SaeMin has been managing its $200 million Global Investment Fund and the  billion Japan Fund focusing on empowering the start-up ecosystem to positively affect Internet services globally. Leading investments to date include Carousell, Visenze, PocketMath, SendAnywhere, Algorithmia, and Epic!.

Prior to joining Rakuten Ventures in 2016, SaeMin was with Google for 5 years managing Sales and Business Development for Asia. SaeMin holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Broadcasting and Journalism from Sogang University and currently lives in Singapore.

Rakuten is one of the world's leading Internet companies and Rakuten Ventures is its venture capital arm. Focused on empowering the start-up ecosystem to positively affect Internet services globally, Rakuten Ventures manages a US$ 200 million Global Investment Fund and a ¥ 10 billion Japan Fund. Originally launched in 2013, its Global Investment Fund counts Carousell, Visenze, PocketMath, SendAnywhere, Algorithmia, and Epic! among its investment portfolio. Rakuten Ventures is run out of Singapore by Managing Partner SaeMin Ahn, Investment Manager Hogil Doh, and Principal Adit Swarup.

Citi is the world's preeminent global investment banking firm as well as the foremost global underwriter in combined equity and debt issuance.

Citi's bankers are organized into industry, product and regional groups and work closely with partners in capital markets, sales and trading, research and global relationship banking to offer customized financing strategies to a broad range of clients.

This combined expertise allows Citi to offer the most innovative and comprehensive ideas and solutions in all market conditions by bankers that have in-depth industry knowledge, local market acumen, product creativity and execution expertise.

Ganesh Kumar Bangah (“Ganesh”) is the Founder of MOL Global Inc. (“MOL”). He was the Chief Executive Officer of MOL from 2000 till 2015. He built MOL from start-up till it became South East Asia’s first internet company to be listed on the NASDAQ. He is also a Director of MOL Ventures, an investment holding company that has made successful private investments in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao.

Ganesh recently founded Commerce.Asia Ventures, an Omni-channel Commerce Venture Builder that provides mentorship, investment, acceleration programs and market access to commerce technology enablers while providing omni-channel commerce solutions to SME’s.

Ganesh was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a public listed company in Malaysia. He was the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia in 2012 and has won several other prestigious business awards. Society Magazine has recognized him as one of the 100 people you must know in Asia.

Started tax services and consulting firm in his early years which today is still part of his family business.  Help pioneered courier services in Malaysia with partner by founding City-Link Express.  In 2000, he took up an executive position to help grow the company into a dominant domestic courier company. In 2010, he pursued his passion in international logistics that led to setting up Logistics Worldwide Express (LWE), and nutured LWE into major cross-border logistics service provider in the Asia Pacific Region.  To date, LWE has offices in Hong Kong, China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand Singapore and Malaysia.

Mr Ng is an avid participant in promoting Malaysia as the strategic regional hub in South East Asia’s eCommerce and Logistics space.

shipment. This prompt availability of information and transparency give assurance to both shipper and consignee that their shipment is being monitored.

With our innovative solutions, we simplify shipping processes while delivering reliable services. We bridge the tech-savvy customers and the traditional logistic players.

LWE prides and continues to strive as the cross-border specialist that make e-commerce businesses global players.

Pravan heads Internet Investments in Asia for the Venture Capital team at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. IFC has invested over $1 billion in venture capital investments in VC Funds and directly into Internet, HealthTech, EduTech and CleanTech companies. His investments include Lenskart, BigBasket, NephroPlus, Azure Power and Portea Medical in India and Jungle Ventures, Jungle SeedPlus, Oway and Reddoorz in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining IFC, Pravan was a Principal with ORIX Venture Finance in New York and started his career in investment banking. Pravan holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and is based in Singapore.

Established in 1956, International Finance Corporation (IFC) is owned by 184 member countries and has a presence in 100 nations worldwide. As a member of the World Bank Group, IFC is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Working with 2,000 businesses worldwide, we use our six decades of experience to create opportunity where it’s needed most. IFC identifies and invests in technology innovation that improves livelihoods by enhancing access to, and lowering the cost of, essential products and services. Our strategic focus is on addressing the constraints to private sector growth in manufacturing, agribusiness, services, financial institutions, infrastructure and natural resources to reduce poverty and foster inclusive growth. We provide loans, syndications, blended finance, advisory services and mobilize capital for investment through IFC’s Asset Management Company.

One of the World Bank Group’s major commitments is to provide access to finance for one billion people by 2020. As part of this ambitious goal, IFC has committed to helping provide access to 600 million financial transaction accounts by 2020. IFC's goal is to increase the reach and breadth of financial services to the world’s un- and underbanked on a massive scale, while simultaneously reducing the cost to serve by fostering and supporting innovative and sustainable financial services providers. Digital financial services are critical to achieving this goal. For more information, visit www.ifc.org

Zoran Vasiljev is the Chief Strategy Officer at Axiata Digital. In his role he is responsible for the design and implementation of the overall strategic direction of the Axiata Digital as well as portfolio management of the Axiata Digital assets. Zoran has over 20 years of international management and operational experience in the TMT sector. During his career, he engaged and led extensive consulting, operational and management projects in the EU, MENA and APAC regions. Prior to joining Axiata Digital, he held senior roles with StarHub, Arthur D. Little, Value Partners and Peppers & Rogers Group.

Zoran’s expertise lies in strategy & business development, business & operational models, marketing, customer experience, M&A, cost & efficiency improvements, project management and implementation. He also lectures and serves as advisor to a number of CEOs and is an esteemed and regular speaker at international conferences.

Karamjit founded Digital News Asia (DNA) with a vision to becoming the most credible tech media in Southeast Asia.

The tech news site went live on 14 May 2012. In Sept 2014 it expanded to Singapore with an Editor based there. In November 2014 it raised RM1 million to fuel its Singapore and Jakarta expansion over the next 12 months. It will start covering Indonesia in Sept.

DNA also has a tech talk segment on BFM radio since May 2012. Since April 2015, DNA has begun appearing in a tech segment on Bloomberg TV Malaysia, which is a relief to him as he graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.

He is married with two boys, aged 12 and 9. His favourite word is “chakadey!”

Prior to launching DNA Karamjit was with The Edge, Malaysia’s premier business publication, which he joined in 1995.

In 2000, with the increasing convergence of computer and telecommunications, he was transferred to the weekly’s nascent netv@lue2.0 pullout. Within seven months, he was appointed editor, a position he held until he left in April, 2012. For five years, he was also editor of a bi-monthly pullout, SMEs Going Global, in The Edge.

Follow him on Twitter @karamjitDNA or @DNewsAsia  

Digital News Asia (DNA) is an independent news portal that covers the entire ICT ecosystem, including industry and public policy issues, new technologies, business trends and developments, entrepreneurs and startups, as well as the movers and shakers in the industry. It went live in May, 2012.

Michele is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway. Until recently, he was the Group CEO of ZALORA where he was responsible for it growing 15x and becoming the undisputed leader in the market. Before ZALORA, Michele founded the Italian and Pakistani operations of Rocket Internet, launching 5 companies in these 2 countries. From 2004 to 2012, Michele worked in the financial industry, first as a consultant at McKinsey (Milan and New York offices) where he served primarily Financial Institutions, then in Milan-based Private Equity Fund Manager Synergo. At McKinsey, he advised several world-class financial institutions on a variety of topics. Michele earned his MBA at Columbia Business School and his Bachelor of Science in Finance at Bocconi University in Italy. Michele has been invited by Singapore’s Minister of Finance to be a member of the Committee for the Future of the Economy.

StashAway is the faster way to reach your financial goals. By uniquely combining sophisticated investment strategies and innovative technology, we've created an efficient way to build wealth faster, easier, and more conveniently. We design personalised portfolios and monthly investment plans based on your unique characteristics, manage your portfolio with highly advanced investment strategies, and charge annual management fees that are a fraction of the cost of traditional investment products. As a completely digital platform, StashAway allows you to access your account from any digital device, open an account with no minimum balance, and withdraw at any time.

Chuang Shin Wee is the co-founder and CEO of Pand.ai, an AI-fintech company that specializes in building multilingual “smart chatbots” using deep-learning for natural language processing (deep NLP). Headquartered in Singapore, Pand.ai started serving financial institutions from around Asia since last year.

A fintech veteran, Shin Wee founded his first startup in Shanghai back in 2013, before moving to Geneva in 2015 as part of Switzerland’s first fintech accelerator. Prior to that, he was the Head of Digital Banking with Standard Chartered Bank and was named one of “Top 50 Business Innovators in China” by CBN Weekly for inventing probably the world’s first leads-capturing ATM from new customers.

Shin Wee is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 

Pand.ai is an artificial intelligence startup that specialises in deep natural language processing. We develop an AI conversational engine that powers "smart chatbot"​, i.e. the ones that understand the semantics of an entire sentence and retains contextual memory, thus making conversations more "human-like"​. We are currently serving Global Fortune 500 companies across Asia.

Marcus Luer is the Group CEO of TSA (Total Sports Asia) Asia’s leading global  sports marketing agency which he founded 20 years ago in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is also the Co-Founder of GLORY Sports International (GSI), the #1 Kickboxing League in the world and the creator of Branded Real Estate a brand consulting business to the Real Estate industry.

Marcus’ latest venture is the in the Internet space and together with a group of partners is launching SPORTSFIX, the Netflix of Sports in Asean.  Sportsfix is a live and on Demand OTT (Over the Top TV) platform targeted towards the new generation of sports fans which heavily consume content on their mobile devices.

 

Marcus is a thought after industry expert, consulting to both Rights Holders and multinational corporations and has been featured on CNBC, BBC News, Bloomberg Asia and international newspapers and a variety of magazines.

 

Sports Business International (SBI) magazine voted him into the “SBI 200 Team” in 2014, comprising of the most influential leaders in the industry over the past 18 years (he was one of only two Asian Agency heads on the list).  

 

Living and working in Asia for over 20 years, Marcus combines his cross cultural background with his practical hands-on experience to further develop the Asian and global sports marketing industry.

Sportsfix is a new mobile-centric OTT streaming platform for Live sports in Asean

Inaugurated in 2016 and run by an experienced management team, Sportsfix streams non linear live and recorded sports content from around the world to fans who do not have easy access to the sport they crave for. Targeting displaced fans from Football fanatics, Overseas Foreign Workers (OFWs) and Expatriates in ASEAN with highly relevant mid- and long-tail sports content, Sportsfix partners with Telcos to create a new interactive and engaging environment and user experience via mobile web and apps. Sportsfix offers its content in a micro payment model customized to the new generation’s viewing habits, disposable income levels and tastes of a sports fan. Launching in Malaysia on May 31, Sportsfix’ services will be rolled-out in other ASEAN markets in 2017 and 2018. 

Adam is a seasoned Digital professional having worked at, or represented the following brands: Realestate.com.au, Fairfax, Doubleclick, Seek.com.au, Levi Strauss and L'Oreal while holding management and high growth sales roles, as well as founding and securing investment in his last 2 digital start ups. His sales experience covers online display, classifieds, video and mobile advertising across APAC. He has built relationships with the top regional publishers, advertisers & media agency groups.

In his current CEO Founder role he successfully launched the VeNA.tv Programmatic Mobile Video  SSP in Australia, NZ and South East Asia, recently attaining 3rd prize at Tech In Asia Indonesia and being an Echelon Regional Finalist.

He earned his Bachelor’s Degree with a double major in Psychology and Marketing at Monash University in Australia.

VeNA.tv are a fully automated Sell side platform (SSP) for global app publishers connecting to global advertisers programmatically.

A Single solution to address the challenges of Non-paying subscribers, or for FREE apps, especially for markets where: Paid subscription and Credit card usage is low, There’s infrastructure challenges such as latency in delivering video brand ads quickly, It’s a fragmented, early stage market

Independently owned and operated with offices in Australia, New Zealand & Singapore.

An architect by training, a serial entrepreneur in practice, he has worked as Regional Sales Head of a Singapore-based multinational corporation and Business Development positions in construction, architecture and F&B. Marrying both his architecture background and passion for the F&B industry, Hisham has opened restaurants in Malaysia, Cambodia and Myanmar. As a result, he has seen how regional market grew and believes that PasarTap has the potential to solve one of the biggest issues that face the ASEAN region. Apart from football and all things F&B, he is passionate about the supply chain and how it needs to be revamped.

Puay Lim is the head of Southeast Asia & the Pacific at BIMA, a micro-insurance provider that uses mobile technology to bring low-cost insurance to emerging market consumers. He has been at BIMA for the past six years, and was responsible for starting BIMA’s business in Asia. He is a member of the company’s senior management, and has been involved in everything from business development, product design, partner management to operations. Prior to joining BIMA, he was in management consulting, specializing in the TMT sectors, and also had a stint in the Singapore Government. 

BIMA is a micro-insurance provider that uses mobile technology to bring low-cost insurance to emerging market consumers. In the six years since our launch, BIMA has sold over 29 million insurance policies across 16 markets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. We offer a range of simple and affordable life, accident and health insurance products as well as health services. These are delivered through highly disruptive distribution models that use mobile technology in combination with a physical agent force.

Mr. Goldstein is one of Asia's most recognised and experienced telco and media industry, holding over 20 years of experience. Prior to iflix, David was Special Advisor to the Group CEO at Axiata. Before that, he served as Director of Emtek Group, where he was instrumental in driving the Group's broadcast, IT/telecom services and connectivity strategies. David has also served at SCTV, Nexmedia, Telstra, Swisscom, DiGi, New World Mobility, TIW, Schlumberger and Khazanah Nasional.

David holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California and Masters in International Relations/Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Lazada Group operates Lazada, Southeast Asia’s number one online shopping and selling destination, with presence in Indonesia (www.lazada.co.id), Malaysia (www.lazada.com.my), the Philippines (www.lazada.com.ph), Singapore (www.lazada.sg), Thailand (www.lazada.co.th) and Vietnam (www.lazada.vn).

Launched in March 2012, Lazada is pioneering eCommerce in the region by providing customers with an effortless shopping experience with multiple payment methods including cash-on-delivery, extensive customer care and free returns. Lazada features a wide product offering in categories ranging from consumer electronics to household goods, toys, fashion and sports equipment.

Lazada offers brands and merchants a marketplace solution with simple and direct access to about 560 million consumers in six countries through one retail channel.