Keynote Speaker
BRANDON JONES
Head of US Product Operations
Google
Brandon William Jones heads US Product Operations for 7 of Google’s technology products, including Google Cardboard (VR) and Project Tango (3D vision for mobile devices). Brandon’s product portfolio ranges from pre-launch to mature products, with up to hundreds of millions of users a day.
Brandon has accumulated over 10 years of experience and has managed large teams, driving initiatives around scaling, operational improvement and structural realignment. He holds an MBA from Harvard University, where he was a Merrill Lynch, Robert A. Toigo, and HBS Leadership Fellow. Brandon also received his BBA in Computer Systems from Howard University in Washington DC, where he was a Reginald F. Lewis Scholar.
THOMAS ANDREASEN
CGO & Co-founder
Playlab
Thomas Andreasen is the Founder and CGO of Playlab (Formerly Pocket Playlab) and also a Pragmatic Marketeer with focus on Statistical Data Sciences. Thomas Andreasen has administered successful media buying for several million dollars across Playlab titles since 2013. Originally from Denmark Thomas Andreasen relocated to Asia in 2009 to explore the Mobile growth that was happening across SEA.
ROLAND BENZON
CEO
Telefun Transmedia
Roland has been innovating in IT, telecommunications, and media for more than 20 years, with a handful of patents to his credit. After graduating Summa Cum Laude in Pennsylvania, he set up his first startup in New York. Upon his return to Manila in the 90s, he spearheaded the launch of the first cable broadband Internet service in the country, Destiny Online. At Next Century Partners, he evaluated tech investments, and incubated several startups, including Chikka, where he eventually served as Business Development Director, and Chief Technology Adviser. Currently, Roland is busy as founder and CEO of Telefun. They developed a massively multiplayer TV gaming platform that lets viewers compete for prizes in real-time, and appear on live TV too. Having powered many TV games that have been played by hundreds of thousands and watched by millions, Roland is now consumed by PlayTV, a 24-hour interactive TV channel, to be launched soon by pay TV operators here and abroad. After earning his badge as a full-fledged Ironman triathlete, Roland now spends his rare spare time learning new musical instruments.
MARCUS BIHLER
CEO
HappyFresh
CEO and co-founder of HappyFresh. Investor, coach and outdoor sports enthusiast. Curious about people, business and own limits as life happens on the edges.
JONATHAN BONSEY
President
Bonsey Design Philippines
Jonathan has over 30 years of brand and strategy development and design experience in Asia, Europe and the US. After 5 years as Managing Director at Addison Design in Singapore, followed by another 3 years in San Francisco, Jonathan branched out to set up Bonsey Design Singapore in 1993. He and his team have since been creating award-winning designs for clients across the Asia Pacific, and championing brand giants such as Cebu Pacific Air, San Miguel Pure Foods, Citibank, Telkomsel Indonesia, Maybank, Nestlé, P&G, and F&N.
JULIANA CHUA
Principal
Zensorium
Zensorium is a startup based in Singapore and financed by Japanese MNC Nitto Denko Corporation. Juliana Chua joined Nitto in 2009 as Principal Analyst, to lead the business development, intellectual property management and legal compliance teams. In 2011 she was appointed to a second role as Principal for Zensorium’s Business Innovation Group where she leads a team focused on executing business and marketing strategies to reach audiences, as well as to generate sales and distribution channels. Juliana holds a Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from the National University of Singapore Law Faculty in conjunction with Singapore Intellectual Property Academy (2005). She received her Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Computer Science from Loughborough University (United Kingdom, 2004). Outside of work, Juliana is a fitness enthusiast with a keen interest in empowering people to take better care of themselves.
MIKE CONSTANTINO
Managing Director
Brand New Media
Mike Constantino is the Managing Director of Brand New Media, the first and only end-to-end Content Marketing Specialist cum Multi-channel Network in the Philippines.
An 18-year veteran with international exposure, he has extensive experience in multiple disciplines such as Digital, marketing, strategic development, advertising, on ground, broadcast media, gaming, mobile, account management and sales.
JOHN DANG
Co-founder & CEO
ZipMatch
Mike Constantino is the Managing Director of Brand New Media, the first and only end-to-end Content Marketing Specialist cum Multi-channel Network in the Philippines.
An 18-year veteran with international exposure, he has extensive experience in multiple disciplines such as Digital, marketing, strategic development, advertising, on ground, broadcast media, gaming, mobile, account management and sales.
RJ DAVID
Co-founder and Managing Director
OLX Philippines
RJ David started Sulit.com.ph with his wife Arianne in September 2006 as a free buy and sell website targeting the Philippines. He launched the website from his bedroom and it has grown to become the most visited local website in the country. Prior to starting Sulit.com.ph, he worked as a self-taught Web Developer and as a Software Test Engineer. RJ holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Philippines.
SHERWIN DELA CRUZ
Country Manager
iFlix Philippines
Sherwin is the Philippine Country Manager for iflix – Southeast Asia’s leading Internet TV service, offering subscribers unlimited access to tens of thousands of hours of entertainment at low prices. With a strong vision to empower consumers to access content that they love both anytime and anywhere, Sherwin spearheads all local efforts to put the entertainment revolution into as many hands and devices as possible.
GABBY DIZON
CEO
Altitude Games
Gabby Dizon is the CEO of Altitude Games, a Manila-based studio creating original, free-to-play mobile games. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Prior to Altitude Games, Gabby was formerly Senior Producer at Boomzap and President of the Game Developers Association of the Philippines. Gabby also helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.
PATCH DULAY
Founder & CEO
The Spark Project
Passionate about innovation and design used for social good. He graduated at the Ateneo de Manila University, BS Management Information Systems in 2005. He took up a Global E-Business master’s degree at the University of Lille, France in 2010; worked for a Paris-based online startup; then went back to Manila to start The Spark Project, an award winning crowdfunding website for Filipino innovators and changemakers. He also designs websites and helps fellow startups when he can.
RICHARD ELDRIGE
Co-founder
Lenddo
Richard is the co-founder of Lenddo which enables businesses to simply and securely evaluate both the character and identity of customers using alternative data in order to extend credit and deliver life improving services. Founded in 2011, Lenddo now has deployments live in over 10 countries and was featured by the World Economic Forum as one of the most innovative startups for their potential to “transform the future of business and society”.
ANTHONY HEARNE
Regional Directory, SEA, India, New markets
Outbrain
Anthony heads up the Asian operations for Outbrain out of Singapore and isone of the Founders of theAsia Content Marketing Association. Outbrain is the leading content discovery platform, integrated into most of the worlds top publisher sites.
DENNIS LIM
Head of Digital Media Services
ABS-CBN
Dennis Lim has been with ABS – CBN for 15 years, he is currently the head of Digital Media Services under DMD.
He pioneered successful video on demand services such as TFC TV (formerly known as ABSCBNNow), ABS-CBN Global’s IPTV service and iwantv.com.ph, as well as ABS-CBN’s Multi-Channel Network and Chicken Pork Adobo.
BRYCE MADDOCK
Founder & CEO
TaskUs
Bryce Maddock is the Founder and CEO of TaskUs, a contact center outsourcing business that supports emerging growth businesses. TaskUs is the secret weapon behind over 100 venture-funded startups’ ability to rapidly scale their labor force. Today TaskUs provides is redefining customer care and back office outsourcing from five offices in the Philippines. Maddock has grown TaskUs from a team of two, twenty-year old founders working out of their parent’s garage to an international service provider with over 4,000 full-time employees.
DAVID MARGENDORFF
Co-founder & Chairman
PawnHero
David Margendorff is the co-founder and Chairman of PawnHero, the first online pawnshop in Southeast Asia.
PawnHero aims to solve the problem of expensive credit for the base of the pyramid emerging market consumers. Prior to founding PawnHero, Margendorff lead the expansion of CompareAsiaGroup in the Philippines, which is now the largest financial comparison website in the world by footprint.
JOHN NERY
Editor-in-Chief
Inquirer Interactive, Inc.
John Nery is the Editor-in-Chief of INQUIRER.net and an Associate Editor & opinion columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He is also the author of the book “Revolutionary Spirit: Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia,” and he served as editor of two other publications, “Unholy Nation: Stories from a Gambling Republic” and “Into the Mountain: Hostaged by the Abu Sayyaf.” He is a graduate of the Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University and a Philosophy degree holder from the Ateneo de Manila University.
NIX NOLLEDO
Chairman & CEO
Xurpas Inc.
Nix Nolledo is the Chairman and CEO of the largest listed consumer technology company in Southeast Asia (with a market capitalization exceeding $400 million), Xurpas Inc. which just listed in the Philippine stock exchange last December 2, 2014. Xurpas’ listing has won several awards including the BEST SMALL CAP TECHNOLOGY DEAL IN SOUTHEAST ASIA FOR 2014 by Alpha Magazine, and the second BEST MANAGED SMALL CAP COMPANY IN THE PHILIPPINES by Finance Asia.
ANTON OJEDA
Country Manager
Zomato Philippines
Anton is the country manager of Zomato Philippines. He leads the young, dynamic Manila-based team in all its continual efforts to grow and maintain Zomato as the biggest restaurant discovery platform in the Philippines. Anton has had over 10 years of experience in the information technology sector, and was a pioneer in the Philippine gaming industry, building and developing several of the most prominent game publishers today. A crazed food-lover, Anton is always on the lookout for the greatest food experiences in the metro.
JOHN OWENS
Chief of Party
USAID E-PESO
Listed in the Top 10 Twitter accounts to follow by the Guardian in the area of e-money and financial inclusion and among the Top 20 Twitter e-commerce enthusiasts to follow by Zooz. An attorney, consultant, board member & senior advisor with more than 27 years of experience in inclusive financial services with a focus on digital financial services and payments. He is currently the Chief of Party for the USAID E-PESO project in the Philippines and was the previous Senior Advisor on Digital Financial Services & Other Financial Inclusion Policies for the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI). Under AFI, he provided direct support to the Digital Financial Services Working Group, the African Mobile Phone Financial Services Policy Initiative, and represented AFI on the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) subgroup on Markets and Payments Systems.
NANDITA PAL
General Manager, SEA & Hong Kong
Near
Nandita is responsible for scaling Near’s business in the region with key partnerships and strategic deals. She is also responsible for driving adoption of Near’s mobile data solutions amongst marketers for consumer insights, targeting and attribution.
DANIEL POSAVAC
CEO
Bonsey Jaden
Daniel has over a decade of digital brand experience, with strengths ranging from digital strategy to campaign development and execution. Originally from Australia, Daniel has had success working with all types of brands, both internationally and across Asia. Now settling in Singapore to start his own regional digital agency Bonsey Jaden, Daniel has headed up projects with brands such as DBS Bank, AGD Bank, Great Eastern, Fox Sports, Globecast, and Unilever.
KAREN PUNO-IGAYA
Head of Digital News Media
ABS-CBN Integrated News Division
A television news veteran with over 15 years of content and production experience, Karen migrated to the digital platform in October 2014 to be the leader responsible for content, business operation, systems integration and implementation of the digital brand strategy of ABS-CBN News and its prime digital property, ABS-CBNnews.com.
REBECCA RICALDE
AVP Digital Commerce
Voyager Innovations Inc.
Rebecca is the current Head of Philippine Operations for Digital Commerce at Voyager Innovations Inc. Prior to Voyager, she was the Marketing Head of AyosDito.ph from 2013 to 2015 and also a Worldwide Operations Program Manager at Amazon.com in Seattle from 2011 to 2013. Her local and international experience in e-commerce fuels her passion to grow the digital ecosystem in the Philippines. Rebecca holds an MBA from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and a BS Industrial Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines – Diliman. After university, she held various roles in Sales and Marketing for Nestle Philippines. When not championing e-commerce Rebecca travels to enjoy different cultures and cuisines from different parts of the world.
PAUL RIVERA
CEO
Kalibrr
Paul Rivera is a Filipino-American entrepreneur who has founded two startups in the Philippines – OpenAccess BPO, which brought many Silicon Valley companies to the Philippines and Kalibrr, a Y Combinator backed startup focused on transforming how people get jobs. Prior to returning to the Philippines, Paul worked at Google and Mercantila in San Francisco. He’s a graduate of UC Berkeley and when not working, likes to do yoga, pilates, and help other people build their startup dreams.
ACE SINGH
Directory, SEA
Comscore, Inc.
Ace is a seasoned business development and marketing executive who’s worked in diverse functions and industries. He started as a business owner in India but moved to Singapore in 2006. During his years at Informa, Yellow Pages, Komli and comScore he has acquired strong digital marketing skills at a regional level across Asia Pacific and the local Southeast Asia markets. An avid life-long student, he continues to learn about web, mobile, digital media and analytics businesses on his journey to digital gumption, day by day.
KERSTIN TRIKALITIS
Co-founder & CEO
Out There Media
Kerstin Trikalitis, CEO and Co-Founder of Out There Media: Kerstin has over 15 years of international experience in the mobile industry and has held leading management positions since 2001. She co-founded Out There Media, one of the global leaders in mobile advertising, in 2007 and has served as CEO since then. Prior to her appointment as CEO of Out There Media, she was the Managing Director of WIN SA, a subsidiary of LSE-listed mobile services provider WIN plc. Her previous position was Managing Director of Imako Interactive, which she successfully transformed from a loss-making web development firm into a profitable supplier of mobile services that was acquired by WIN plc in 2005.
JACQUELINE VAN DEN ENDE
Founder & Managing Director
Lamudi Philippines
Rocket Internet GmbH Rocket Internet is the world’s largest Internet incubator. Rocket Internet has been building online companies since 1999 and has created over 100 market leading companies in 50+ countries, dozens of which have been exited successfully. Jacqueline as a Country Director in the Philippines is responsible for founding and managing Lamudi Inc, the global Rocket Internet real estate platform in the Philippines.
BENJIE YAP
VP Home Care and Foods
Unilever Philippines
Graduate of Industrial Engineering at DLSU. Joined Unilever in 1994 as a management trainee. He started off in the factory and engineering, then later on shifted to R&D and finally moved to Marketing in 2001. He became the youngest member of Unilever’s Board of Directors in 2006 at the age of 32 as the Managing Director for Foods. Just came back from Thailand as Vice President of Home Care. Now back in the Philippines as Vice President of Foods and Home Care.
PHILIPS YU
Chief Operating Officer
LovableCommerce.Com
Over 18 years of experience in eCommerce, Logistics, Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Customer Service and General Management
Presently the Chief Operating Officer of LovableCommerce.com Corporation, a leading eCommerce enabler that built, operated and maintained over 1,000+ stand alone eCommerce stores in the Philippines with fully integrated platform, payments and fulfillment systems in a short span of 1 year.