Contributors
Poshu Yeung
Poshu Yeung is the Vice President of International Business Group at Tencent where he leads the company's business development and strategic planning in international markets. He has been driving the Tencent's WeChat mobile social communication application in the global marketplace. Poshu joined Tencent in 2008 from Google Inc.
Prantik Mazumdar
For more than ten years, Prantik has led a successful digital consulting firm, trained and advised more than 500 enterprises.
Prashant Agarwal
Prashant Agarwal is a Regional Marketing Director in a Fortune 50 corporation. He has worked across industries in Asia and the US. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and lives in Singapore.
Prashant Saxena
Prashant is a Business Director at Brandscapes Worldwide Consultancy. He helps brands understand the connected consumer. His recent consulting engagements have been with Facebook, Spotify, Lenovo, Singapore Tourism Board, and VW. Prashant's research on consumer behaviour has been presented at several conferences across Europe and the US. He has been selected by the European Association of Consumer Research as one of their top 30 marketing researchers.
Pratap Nambiar
Pratap Nambiar is the Chairman of Thought Perfect Pte Ltd, a Singapore based leadership coaching and consulting company. As the Chairman of Thought Perfect I help CEOs and Business leaders live their professional and personal lives with greater satisfaction, to spread joy and well being, to elevate and educate and maximise their performance potential.
Prateek A. Rastogi
Prateek is the Principal Consultant for Trustwave in Asia Pacific. He has more than twelve years of information security experience. His role involves delivery
of all compliance (PCI DSS, PA DSS, CoBIT, ISO 27001) and information- security related assignments in the region, as well as performing many speaking
engagements.
Prateek Dayal
Prateek Dayal is the Chief Strategy Officer of Aqilliz, a blockchain solutions provider that looks to restore trust, transparency, and efficiency to a fragmented digital marketing ecosystem.
With over 15 years of international experience in the financial services sector, Prateek was previously the Senior Vice President of APAC Innovation and Client Solutions at HSBC Bank in both London and Singapore. There, he helped to spearhead client and regulatory initiatives in blockchain for payments, working on notable institutional projects such as the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Ubin, as well as the Bank of Thailand’s Project Inthanon and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Lionrock. With his expertise in building and leading cross- unctional teams across the innovative sectors of payments, mobile, and digital, Prateek’s career spans across leading organisations such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, and McKinsey & Company.
Priya Lakshmi and Gaurav Arora
Priya Lakshmi
Head of Startups, ASEAN, Amazon Web Services
As the Head of Amazon Web Services’ Startup business across ASEAN, Priya Lakshmi leads a team committed to supporting the region’s most exciting startups, helping founders and entrepreneurs succeed on the journey from inception to IPO.
Priya’s team helps startups leverage the latest technology to bring a great business idea to life, and scale it quickly and cost effectively. Having grown multiple businesses from the ground up, she is passionate about the innovation and wide-reaching impact that startups can achieve by building on AWS. Priya has particular expertise on topics like Amazon’s Culture of Innovation, hiring best practices, and AWS initiatives designed to support startups throughout their lifecycle.
Priya’s career spans 20 years in the technology and IT industries, comprising sales and business development roles across India and Southeast Asia. Before joining AWS in 2015, she held positions with multinational technology companies working with a broad range of businesses across startups, small businesses, enterprises and more.
Priya holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration Strategy and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies.
Gaurav Arora
Director & Head of Startup Business, Asia Pacific and Japan at Amazon Web Services
As the Director & Head of Amazon Web Services’ Startup business across Asia Pacific and Japan, Gaurav Arora leads a team committed to supporting the region’s most exciting startups, helping founders and entrepreneurs succeed on the journey from inception to IPO.
Gaurav’s team helps startups leverage the latest technology to bring a great business idea to life, and scale it quickly and cost effectively. Gaurav is passionate about the innovation and wide-reaching impact that startups can achieve by building on AWS, and speaks regularly at key startup events on topics like emerging technology trends, Amazon’s Culture of Innovation, hiring best practices, and AWS initiatives designed to support startups throughout their lifecycle.
With deep roots in the regional startup ecosystem, Gaurav and his extended team work closely with the leading venture capital (VC) firms, accelerators, and incubators, to support their portfolio companies as mentors and advisors at every stage from building the best technology solutions to leveraging the broader Amazon network to unlocking new go-to-market and expansion opportunities.
Before joining AWS in 2013, Gaurav gained international VC experience as an investor at Prime Ventures in the Netherlands. He has also held positions at multinational tech companies such as Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments.
Gaurav holds an MBA in Strategy and Finance from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Prof Alfred Huan
Prof Alfred Huan is the Executive Director of both the A*STAR Graduate Academy and the Institute of High Performance Computing. He graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Physics in 1983 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 from the University of Oxford. Following two years of military service, he took up a Lecturer position at the Department of Physics, National University of Singapore in 1989 and was appointed as Deputy Head of Department in 2004. In 2005 he co-started the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Nanyang Technological University.
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