Contributors
Jessie Quek
Jessie Quek is the Country General Manager for Lenovo Singapore. She is responsible for overall revenues and profitability, business operations, and developing and driving growth strategies for the Lenovo business in Singapore, as well as deepening relationships with partners and customers for both consumer and commercial segments, and employees.
Jigar Bhansali
Jigar is the Vice President, Solution Architecture for Asia & China of Software AG. He is a seasoned technology professional with substantial experience in helping customers to drive better operational efficiencies using middleware, process analysis and automation, in-memory and streaming analytics solutions.
He has around 18 years of IT experience gained in providing business solution predominantly in Banking and Financial Services. Apart from that, he also covers Manufacturing and Government. In recent years, he has played key role in pre-sales capacity for securing new business in application middleware and process automation space.
Prior to Software AG, he worked at Logica (now CGI) in solutions consulting capacity providing business solutions in Banking Space based on Enterprise Applications.
Jimmy Kwang
Jimmy Kwang was appointed as Regional Vice President of Sales for Asia at Talend in January 2020. Jimmy is responsible for driving regional business development and growth, including expanding Talend's partner ecosystem, and will be reporting to Stu Garrow, Senior Vice President of Sales and General Manager, APAC.
Jimmy brings more than 30 years of industry experience in developing and managing complex and dynamic business environments, from enterprise cloud adoption to big data analytics to automation to artificial intelligence and blockchain.
Prior to joining Talend, Jimmy served as Country Manager, Data, AI, and Cloud solutions at IBM Singapore, where he developed effective go-to-market business models, drove high-performance teams, and augmented productive ecosystems. Over the last three years, he has worked alongside government agencies to create awareness of the impact of digitalization on the future of work. Jimmy spent over 20 years with IBM, where he held multiple leadership roles from General Manager Malaysia for cloud software & solutions to Country Manager for the business partner organization in Singapore. He started
his career as an Industrial Engineer in a manufacturing facility. Jimmy speaks regularly at industry events, where he shares his perspectives on disruptive technologies.
Jimmy graduated from the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) with a degree in Industrial Engineering. He majored in Operations Research, with a minor in Computer-Aided Manufacturing. He has attended executive programs at INSEAD/CIEBS and Boston University.
Jin Lee
Jin Lee is the Senior Technology Consultant of Wiz Consultancy. He is involved with the design and execution of web development, branding, digital marketing and software development projects. He holds a degree in Data Science & Business Analytics from the University of London.
JJ Tan
JJ Tan is Talend's Regional Director for Asia. JJ is responsible for driving Asia business development and growth. With over 20-year experience in the IT industry, JJ has been instrumental in working with many Asia enterprises, including top regional and global institutions, in transforming their data-driven agendas into reality. Prior to joining Talend, JJ held key regional roles at SAS, IBM and SAP.
Joanne Chua
Joanne Chua is an Associate Director of Robert Walters Singapore – Supply Chain, HR and Business Support division, focusing on recruiting top talent for a mid to senior level professionals into FORTUNE 500 and blue-chip companies.
Joanne Wong
Joanne Wong is Regional Marketing Director, Asia Pacific and Japan at LogRhythm.
Joe Duncan
Joe Duncan is a FinTech entrepreneur, with a strong background in Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence. He is a derivatives pioneer, with over fifteen years of banking experience at various financial institutions such as Citibank and Morgan Stanley.
Joe also encompasses a global background in corporate funding and development - from angel investing in Asia to multi-billion dollar underwritings and restructurings on Wall Street.
In addition, Joe is an active keynote speaker at several events. He is Co-Chair and emcee of the American Club of Singapore’s FinTech Forum, organised by the American Club quarterly.
Joe divides his time between Singapore and New York City.
Joe Seunghyun Cho
Mr Joe Seunghyun Cho is the CEO at LATTICE80 & Co-founder and Chairman of Marvelstone Group. LATTICE80 is the World's Largest Fintech Hub located in Singapore and Marvelstone Group is a private investment group that develops and invests in growing businesses. With finance as its core strength, it also makes diversified investments in technology, real estate, infrastructure, energy and media. Headquartered in Singapore, the Marvelstone Group believes in the growth of Asia and seeks to be a cornerstone investor to bring forth positive development and social impact to local communities.
Mr Cho also sits on the committee for Singapore FinTech Association, a cross-industry non-profit platform to facilitate and support collaboration between all FinTech ecosystem participants and stakeholders. The Association plans to become an effective platform for members to engage with multiple stakeholders to find solutions to issues.
In his long investment career, Mr Cho has held various leadership positions from CEO of Yozma Ventures (including Managing Partner / Head of Private Equity of Yozma Group Asia) based out of Korea, to co-founding a hedge fund and asset management company.