Contributors

Gayal Karunasena and Rajindar Singh

Gayal Karunasena, Business Process Solutions Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Gayal leads the Deloitte Southeast Asia Business Process Solutions practice that specialises in accounting, book-keeping and payroll processing services, and contract personnel support services.

He has more than 23 years of experience in assisting multinational and local clients with statutory compliance requirements and in maintaining a high client service quality. Gayal also assists clients to effectively and efficiently manage back-office costs by leveraging on market-leading technology.

Rajindar Singh, Business Process Solutions Director, Deloitte Singapore

Rajindar has more than 30 years of experience in fund investment management and administration, having worked with global firms and investment managers.

He has built and headed the fund administration business for a global fund services group, and served as regional finance director of a global real estate and private equity fund investment management group.  

Gemma Calvert

Gemma Calvert is Professor of Marketing at Nanyang Business School, and Director for Research & Development at the Institute for Asian Consumer Insight, NTU Singapore. A pioneer of neuromarketing, she helps companies to break into Asian emerging markets through deeper understanding of Asian consumers.

Geoff Thomas

Geoff Thomas is the Senior Vice President for Qlik Asia Pacific.

Based in Singapore, Thomas is responsible for leading Qlik’s regional business and operations as well as driving customer success and business growth for key markets including ASEAN, ANZ, Greater China, India, Korea and Japan. He is responsible for strengthening Qlik’s go-to-market strategy and execution with channel partners while building out Qlik’s team in the region.

Thomas has over two decades of experience in helping enterprise customers seize new technologies to drive business growth while building and leading high-performance sales teams across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Qlik, Thomas held key leadership positions with D2L, Polycom, Juniper Networks and Microsoft and most recently served as Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan at OneLogin. Thomas holds a Finance and Accounting degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Geoffrey Cann

Geoffrey Cann is a consultant, author, publisher and broadcaster about digital transformation in the oil & gas sector. A former partner with one of the Big 4 consulting firms, Geoffrey has over 30 years of experience advising the oil and gas, energy and technology companies to help create lasting value. His clients include very large integrated oil companies, downstream petroleum refiners and marketers, pipeline companies, fracking services, drilling and completions services, logistics, LNG projects, and many more. Most of his work over three decades has been at the intersection of a business problem and a technology solution, and since 2013, the impacts of digital technologies and the oil and gas industry.

George Christopoulos & Sean Fitzgerald

George Christopoulos (Ph.D, University of Cambridge) is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Business School and Research Director of the Culture Science Institute. Sean Fitzgerald (B.A., Boston College) is a Ph.D student in the Culture Science Institute at Nanyang Business School.

George Jacobs

George Jacobs, PhD, teaches teachers of all ages how to use group activities to enliven their teaching. He has taught teachers at NUS, NTU, SMU, MOE schools and internationally. George has also written several books and many articles on why and how to use groups. 

George Mathew

A Chartered Accountant by training, George understands the business landscape and keeps in regular contact with directors, shareholders, and employees of startups. He is also a licensed immigration officer. George is Managing Partner at Futurebooks.

George Wilson

George Wilson is the Director of Sales Operations for APAC at Paessler AG, responsible for growing the Paessler/ PRTG business across the region. Based in Sydney, George is focused on expanding Paessler’s regional footprint and commercial offering, as well as managing the growth of revenue and services across Asia Pacific. His role consists of market penetration strategies, distribution and channel growth and enablement, as well as day to day management of the regional operations.

George has more than 10 years of distribution networks and partner channel sales, management and enablement experience in the IT sector. He joined Paessler in 2016 when he was appointed Sales Manager for Australia and New Zealand. Prior to this he spent time at Arrow ECS and Anixter.

Georgina Wong

Georgina is an innovative business owner with over 25 years’ service, guest experience and marketing experience in UK and Asia. Currently she is the CEO of Asian Professional Organisers in Singapore.

Gerald Ang

Gerald is CEO and Co-founder of Milieu, which his started in Dec 2016 after more than a decade of experience in the industry. Prior to founding Milieu, Ang was a Commercial Director at GfK and Managing Director of Thailand at YouGov.