2021 HAKIM

Company/Organization & Achievement Awards  | COVID-19 Response & Human Resources Awards Judging Committee | Management & Customer Service Awards | Corporate Communications/PR, Annual Reports/Publications & Video Awards Marketing, Live Events, Websites & App Awards | New Products & Technology Awards | Korean Language Judging Committee | Chinese Language Judging Committee | Indonesian Language Judging Committee | Vietnamese Language Judging Committee

COMPANY/ORGANIZATION & Achievement Awards Judging Committee

Chair: 
JeungSoo KyeongKei Fujinami, Chief Executive Officer
The Sun Strategic Solutions Inc, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Kei Fujinami is Chief Executive Officer of The Sun Strategic Solutions Inc., a technology company headquartered in Tokyo, that finds creative solutions for business and marketing which meld the physical and digital, transcending borders and people.

Kei was placed in charge of starting up the Application Service Division of Dentsu Isobar and has a wealth of experience having been responsible for over 300 clients in digital-related services. He is always looking to implement the latest in technology and design unique business solutions.

Committee:

Mc Allen Reonel Sebastian Cacacho, Founder & CEO
HackTheNorth.ph, Inc., Tuguegarao City, Cagayan Valley, Philippines

After graduating with a double degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from St Paul University Philippines, where he also taught as a College IT Instructor, Mars founded Hackthenorth.ph, Inc, a registered nonprofit tech organization which brings elite IT conferences to Northern Philippines. Mars has been recognized by international Science and Engineering Awards organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and the United Nations because of his contributions to innovation. He is a Microsoft Innovation Ambassador, IdeaSpace Brand Ambassador, Department of Information and Communications Technology Rainmaker-Cagayan Valley’s Startup Champion, a tech consultant to a number of companies and organizations, and has inspired thousands of IT experts and enthusiasts in Southeast Asia.

Charles Giroth, Technology Executive Advisor
PT Jakarta Tollroad Development, Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
Charles is tech-savvy with a strong business acumen leveraging over 2 decades of creating business value through cutting-edge technology implementation across multiple industries. Charles has held various management positions during his career and completed projects worldwide in the USA, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Charles graduated from The University of Tasmania.

Ambika Hanchate, Founder & Director
Jana Mana Front Line Pvt Ltd, Haveri, Karnataka, India
Dr. Ambika Hanchate is a social activist, entrepreneur, blogger and educationist. She has received numerous national and international awards and been recognized in various platforms worldwide. She is Founder and Chairman of Karnataka Achiever Book of Record and she is a Director of Jana Mana Front Line. She is also working and engaging with various organizations on global issues and to enrich academic development work.

Manish Jain, Sr. Process Engineer
Kiewit Corporation, Houston, Texas, United States
Manish Jain is currently a process engineering specialist providing custom engineering solutions for large multi-billion-dollar capital investments at oil/gas/chemical facilities. Manish has 13 years of industry experience in developing new product and solutions and advising on how to achieve greater efficiency in operating assets and cost savings in Greenfield projects. He has extensive background and experience in the LNG and gas processing industries, including all phases of plant design, engineering, start-up, and testing. Manish holds a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston. He co-invented a breakthrough technique to print nano-patterns over a large area for the material processing industry and holds two US patents.

Sunil Kulwal, CEO
Indo Gulf Fertilisers (Unit of Grasim Industries Ltd), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Sunil is a global executive with over three decades of diversified global business experience in India and Australia. He takes the big picture view without losing sight of details, utilizing experience that spans diverse industries including natural resources, chemicals, steel, cement, and fertiliser.  Sunil has a proven track record of driving transformational change and delivering consistently superior performance through diligently driving multiple change initiatives simultaneously. In his last three positions in Australia and India, he energized and motivated the teams of professionals to successfully embrace new challenges, unleash potential, take calculated risks, innovate for continuous improvement, and consistently deliver benchmarked superior performance.

Darshita Patel, Senior Food Safety & Quality Manager
SunOpta, St. Davids, Ontario, Canada
Darshita has led the SunOpta Food Safety Quality department since 2019, sharing food safety knowledge and best practices among leading suppliers and external experts. Under her leadership, the food safety department developed and implemented global food safety strategies; elevated food safety culture by establishing a strategy based on evidence and strengthened food safety practices; and conducted food safety benchmarking to identify gaps that have led to a significant change in strengthening global food organization with additional resources.  Darshita has been actively involved with industry and government collaboration on food safety, and has held various positions within the food industry in the USA and Canada. To elevate the food safety and quality culture globally has been Darshita's everyday mission.

Donna Sillett, Entrepreneur
PRIMA DONNA Business Diva, Spring Farm, Camden, New South Wales, Australia
Donna Sillett is a global multi award-winning Mumpreneur, Transformational Business Coach, International Awards Judge, Author, Speaker, and Advocate. With over 26 years’ experience in the beauty industry, Donna is the Founder of 5 successful businesses, and has been recogonised with some 82 awards over the past 16 years.

Edgar Travierso, Head of Consumer Partnerships, Product & Non-Air Redemptions
Velocity Frequent Flyer, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A Senior Loyalty & Marketing Executive, Edgar has global experience across a variety of disciplines leading high performing teams.  He has over 25 years experience covering financial services, retail and airlines.

COVID-19 Response & Human Resources Awards Judging Committee

Chair: 
Robin Jerome, Founder & Managing Partner
ZEEP Medical, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Robin is the Founder & Joint Managing Partner of Australia’s fastest-growing medical recruitment company, Zeep Medical.  Working within the staffing industry for 25 years, Robin is a serial recruitment entrepreneur. Prior to the launch of Zeep Medical, Robin was a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Charterhouse, where over almost 14 years he built a $100 Million turnover business, including the acquisition of an ASX listed company where he was also CEO and interim Chairman of the board. A social entrepreneur, Zeep was launched to use Robin’s recruitment expertise to help meet the demand for doctors throughout remote, rural and regional Australia.

Robin’s global approach to scaling companies has seen him live and work in London, Hong Kong & Sydney.  He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Management and has certificates from Harvard Business School, where he attended their Executive Education program in Boston.

On Accepting the Chair position for the COVID-19 Response & Human Resources Awards Chair, Robin said “…he was very proud to become a chair for one of the leading award programs across Asia Pacific”.

Robin’s pursuit for excellence extends beyond his business life, where personally he is PADI Diving Instructor, has a Private Pilot License, and is an avid snowboarder.

Committee:

Majid Albana, Assistant Manager Perencanaan Good Corporate Governance
PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia, Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
Majid Albana is Assistant Manager of PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia (Indonesia Railway Group). He has more than 9 years' experience in QSHE, GCG and Risk Management. He received a Master's degree in Management from Mercu Buana University, and he was Bronze Stevie Award winner for Maverick of The Year in The 2019 International Business Awards.

Balachandra Ambiga, Principal Pharmacovigilance Data & Quality Analyst
Bristol Myers Squibb, Brisbane, California, United States
Balachandra Ambiga has been working in Pharmacovigilance/Drug safety for the past 14 years. He worked for big pharma companies like Roche/Genentech and Relypsa/Viforpharma. Currently he manages drug safety systems, data management activities and innovation & product serviceability for the PV group. In the past he has implemented life science software for many pharma/biotech companies. He is obsessed with user experience and has led multiple initiatives to create and enhance value for the users of drug safety systems.

Dr. Shadiya Baqutayan, Senior Lecturer
Perdana School of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan
, Malaysia
Dr. Baqutayan is a psychologist with a Ph.D. from University Kebangsaan Malaysia, and a license as a practitioner counselor from the Malaysian Psychotherapy Association and Malaysian Society Of Clinical Psychology. Currently, she is working as a senior lecturer at University Technology Malaysia. She has published more than 100 articles and proceedings in Scopus, ISI and H-index Journal on counseling, psychology, management, leadership, and public health. In 2014, she took a training course on STI Policy from The University of Manchester and received a professional certificate of STI Policy Management from UTM Perdana-ISTIC.

Gaurav Gupta, Engineering Manager
John Deere, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Gaurav Gupta has more than 20 years of IT experience. He has managed global portfolios and teams. He is a graduate of IIT BHU and has extensive project and program management experience with specialization in the IT DevOps area.

 

Joann Hizon, Vice President for Human Resources, Admin & Facilities
SM Investments Corp, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Joann Hizon has over 25 years’ leadership experience in HR, Training, Operations and Facilities mainly from the telecommunications, BPO, semiconductors, IT, pharmaceutical, property and the mining industries. Joann is a sought-after resource speaker on career counselling, succession planning, workplace diversity, organizational transformation, talent development, and crisis management/BCP. Her articles and interviews have appeared in Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan and HRD Asia magazines, the Philippine Daily Star and Manila Bulletin newspapers, on Studio 23 TV and on Bloomberg.

Zuhaib Javed, Senior Program Manager
HBL Pvt Ltd, Karachi, Sind, Pakistan
Zuhaib has been working in Operations, Project & Program Management since 2003 and has extensive experience in the area. He has an excellent record of managing projects successfully, both locally and internationally. Currently, he is leading Covid-19 operations nationwide for HBL by preparing PPE strategies, plans, procurement and distributing supplies to all the staff of HBL across Pakistan, covering over 1800 branches and main offices. The aim of this operation is to ensure all employees and their families are fully equipped with the basic needs during the pandemic.

Neeta Mirchandani, HR Consultant
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mayank Patel, Director of Finance & Business
Jacobs, Dallas, Texas, United States
Mayank has been with Jacobs for the past 15 years, and has held a variety of roles within the organization after joining Jacobs as an intern. Mayank has a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Lamar University and MBA from the University of Houston.  Mayank is also actively engaged in several community services as well as the employee network, performing mentorship for many graduates who are new to the industry. Mayank loves traveling and spending time with friends and family.

Pramod Ranjan, Group Lead Environment
Vedanta Limited, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Piyush Tripathi, Senior Software Engineer
twilio inc, San Francisco, California, United States
Piyush Tripathi is a multifaceted Software Engineer in the field of IT with 10+ years of experience, and is based in San Francisco, California. Piyush has a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from the National Institute of Technology and an Advanced Master's degree from Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.

Kathleen Yeoh, APAC Regional Policy Lead
Biocon Biologics, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia

Management & Customer Service Awards Judging Committee

Chair:
Mohamed Saad Abdalla, Professor & Technical Consultant
MOI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Professor Abdalla is a Technical Advisor for the Bahrain Ministry of Interior (MOI). He is also Head of the Excellence Team at Human Resources Directorates (MOI) and was Director for the Geographic Information Security System Institute training center. He is a Professor & Lecturer at the Engineering College of the University of Bahrain, Kingdom University, and the Royal Police Academy. He is a Fellow & Board Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; a Professor of Civil Engineering, GIS, and Management; and a member of the Project Management Institute, USA. He has published and presented many technical papers at numerous international conferences, and is a technical reviewer in several international technical magazines.

JURY:

Pravin Kumar Dwivedi, President
AWOKE India Consultants Pvt Ltd, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Mr. Pravin Kumar Dwivedi is a veteran banker with over 30 years of experience in the Indian financial services industry. He has worked at senior levels for various banks, and his previous role was as SVP for HSBC in Kolkata.  Mr. Pravin has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from NMIMS, Mumbai, and is a Law Graduate and Post Graduate in Economics. He holds a Diploma in Financial Services, a CAIIB Certification from the Indian Institute of Bankers, and a CFP from the Securities Institute in Australia, besides other financial industry certifications. His venture AWOKE India Group, a financial literacy, training and consulting outfit, was set up in 2012.

Pooja Hegde, Leader, Customer Delivery
Cisco, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Warren Hodder, Senior International Consultant & Non Executive Board Member
Nam Quoc Minh Global, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Warren is a highly accomplished retail executive having substantial Board and executive leadership roles with some of the world’s largest diversified retail groups, operating at the leading edge of industry and emerging marketplace development, and delivering a record of success in sales, profit, and market growth across the international marketplace in challenging multicultural work environments.

Ruchir Jain, Cloud Architect
Google, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Ruchir worked as a Principal Engineer for Cisco Systems for 13 years where he was responsible for incubating innovative ideas and taking them to market. He recently joined Google as a Cloud Architect, where he helps customers design and migrate to the Cloud. He is responsible for finding innovative solutions to the problems that customer face during their cloud adoption.

Russell Jiang, Senior Consultant
Roland Berger, Shanghai, China (Mainland)
Russell is an experienced banker, a tech-savvy entrepreneur, a management consultant, and an enthusiastic business mentor.

JeungSoo Kyeong, CEO
Soohyun, Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea

Andrew Lau Soon Wah, Consultant
FT Consulting Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

Andrew Lau Soon Wah has been an entrepreneurial management consultant for FT Consulting since 2019. He has more than 25 years’ experience in retail, food services and franchising. Presently, he is also active in business model innovation and digital transformation of startups and SMEs in the APAC region.

Lisa Masiello, President and CMO
TECHmarc Labs, Nashua, New Hampshire, United States

Lisa is an award-winning B2B marketing strategist, advisor, and founder/CMO of TECHmarc Labs, Inc. As a marketing executive with 30 years’ experience building integrated programs for companies in the IT services industry, she develops and implements innovative solutions which drive sustainable revenue growth, channel development, corporate repositioning, and acquisition integration.

Prachi Misra, Director
London Stock Exchange Group, London, United Kingdom

Prachi Misra is currently serving as Procurement Director for London Stock Exchange Group. She has twenty years of professional experience in Technology (Strategy, Change Management and Procurement). She is an Oxford University graduate and has also won accolades such as 40 under 40 in her field.

Michael Ong, Customer Care Manager
DHL Express (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia

Michael has more than 12 years' experience in Customer Service with a demonstrated history of working in the logistic and supply chain industry. He has been Customer Care Manager at DHL Express since 2017. He is a strong support professional with a Bachelor's degree of Management focused on Operations Management from the University Science of Malaysia.

Samantha Oraya, Founder
The Day Spa, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Samantha is the founder of the multi award-winning Australian business THE DAY SPA and Jorja James, which was established in 2001. With a background as an Holistic Spa & Oncology beauty therapist & Reiki Practitioner, she advocates for kindness & sustainability. Samantha was the Australian Ausmumprenuer in 2019 for Hair & Beauty. She was also named the 2019 Roar Awards Eco Warrioress as well as the 2020 Australian Small Business Champion for Beauty. Samantha has over 38 years' experience in Retail & Customer Service.

Ryan Sim, Deputy General Manager
Kyowon, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Arun Velu, Director, Advanced Analytics
Equifax, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Arun Velu has worked for 11 years in Analytics and Data Science across consulting, marketing, and financial services. Arun is currently the Director of Advanced Analytics at Equifax, supporting the B2C business of the company. He is involved in recruitment and campus outreach programs for hiring talent and industry-academic partnerships.

Charles White, Principal Administrator
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Charles White was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1948. Educated at Balliol College Oxford and Oxford Polytechnic, he joined the Derbyshire County Council Planning Department in 1974 before moving to Corporate Planning in 1976. After a spell at Wandsworth London Borough Council he moved to the European Commission in Brussels where he spent the rest of his career in research project management, communications, and relations with third countries. He retired in 2013 and is now an external expert in the fields of urban and regional policy.

 

CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS/PR, ANNUAL REPORTS/PUBLICATIONS & VIDEO AWARDS JUDGING COMMITTEE

Eurince WongChair:
Evangelist Tingson, President & Chief Operations Officer
PAGEONE Group, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines

Mr. Tingson leads a global award-winning group of companies that has already won Agency of the Year and the coveted Grand Anvil for five consecutive years, a Platinum Award for three consecutive years from the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP), and another Agency of the Year from the Philippine Quill Awards. The agency has also received multiple awards from the Stevie Awards, the APAC IABC Silver Quill Awards, and the Global Gold Quill Awards. Under his leadership, PAGEONE has also been recognized in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and in Canada with more than 200 medals to date.  In 2019, PAGEONE won ASEAN Agency of the Year awarded in Malaysia - besting other regional PR and communications agencies in Southeast Asia. In 2020, PAGEONE has won international awards in Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines.

On being appointed Chair of this Committee, Vonj commented: “The highly prestigious Asia Pacific Stevie Awards is a much-coveted recognition that validates the hard work, creativity and stellar performance of organizations and practitioners who continue to excel in the fields of corporate communications and public relations.  Every year we see the bar of excellence rising, and I am sure this year we will see more excellent entries that are worthy of recognition and emulation by all.”

JURY:

Dr. Ahmad Zaharuddin Sani Ahmad Sabri, Lecturer
Universiti Utra Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia

Joel Cruz, Strategic Communications Director
Reverb Communications, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Joel Cruz is a marketing and communications practitioner with more than 20 years of professional experience encompassing the disciplines of PR, branding, corporate reputation, stakeholder relations, advocacy development, crisis management, marketing services and strategic copywriting in various industries such as real estate, energy, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, finance, and nonprofit.

John Frederick Cruz, Business Unit Head
Coms360, Inc., Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines
John Frederick Cruz is a seasoned communications practitioner and is currently the Business Unit Head (Consumer and Lifestyle PR) of Coms360. He has over 10 years of experience handling corporate, consumer, and tourism campaigns for Globe Telecoms, SKYcable Corporation, Nestle Philippines, Dole Philippines, Tourism Authority of Thailand, and Guam Visitors Bureau, among others. He has developed and implemented countless award-winning communications campaigns and tools which have gained recognition locally and abroad. He holds an organizational communications degree and is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators.

Annette Densham, Director
The Audacious Agency, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Mark Josef Dolor, Assistant Operations Manager
Brown Bag Communications Inc, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines

A graduate of Business Administration majoring in Business Management with more than six years of experience in project management and digital and social media management, Mark is currently Assistant Manager for Operations at Brown Bag Communications. Mark has also helped the group conceptualize and implement award-winning campaigns which gained major recognitions from both local and international award-giving bodies.

Narasimha Kishore Yadav Dupally Naval VenkataAerospace Engineer Manager - West Coast (Product Development)
VRC METAL SYSTEMS LLC, Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Pejman Fakharian, Filmmaker | Creative Director
2012 Studio, Tehran, Iran

Pejman started screenwriting and promotional filmmaking for advertising agencies in 1996 and has worked for brands such as RADO, SAMSUNG, UNILEVER, ALCATEL, TISSOT, NISSAN, and LG. He introduced corporate video production in Iran in 2015 and made several such videos, and has won two silver and bronze medals from the New York Festivals for best writing and film. He has also made over 1000 promotional videos. He is a member of the selection and judgment committee of accredited advertising festivals and was selected as the best director of Iranian promotional films in 2007. He has also been a judge for the New York Advertising & AME Festivals, Montreux, Cresta, Brand Film, Kyiv, Ad Stars, Summit, Lisbon, Mobius, and ACEF Awards.

Sunshine Farzan, Group Head of Marketing & Communications
Tricor Group, Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, Greater China
Sunshine has held senior marketing roles at MetLife, American Express, Kraft Foods and Harte-Hanks, and has worked in Mexico City, Sydney, New York and Hong Kong. She is a results-driven integrated marketing and communications leader with B2C and B2B experience driving strategy and innovation across insurance and financial services industries. As the Global Head of Marketing & Communications at Tricor Group, a PE-backed professional services firm headquartered in Hong Kong, she leads integrated marketing and communications strategy, planning, and campaign execution to accelerate brand awareness and client acquisition across 21 markets. Sunshine has been recognized by Campaign Asia as one of the “40 under 40” marketers in Asia and a “Woman to Watch,” selected as “Innovator 25 in Asia Pacific” by Holmes Report, and included in PR Week’s Global Power Book. She serves as a Non-Executive Director of the Justice Centre Hong Kong, sits on the APAC Advisory Board of the CMO Council, and is a frequent contributor to leading marketing and business media.  She holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Blen Fernando, Chairwoman
Advertising Standards Council (PHILS), Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Blen Fernando is currently Chairwoman of the Advertising Standards Council (Philippines) and President & Board Director of Magna Anima Teachers College. She has more than 25 years of experience in marketing and advertising as CMO for a multinational and local conglomerate. She has received prestigious awards for her outstanding body of work in marketing and is recognized for her leadership role in the Philippine advertising industry. She now also accepts consultancy work while staying close to several advocacies such as the PANA Foundation, The Conscience Collective, Andrew's Fund PH and International Theatre Institute PH Center-Monodrama.  She holds a degree in Economics and MBA academics from a Jesuit university.

Rambabu Gujjula, Director - Product, Data, Finance
PayPal, San Jose, California, United States

Quyen Anh Khuc Huu, Employer Branding Manager
Viettel Group, Hanoi, Vietnam

Albert Lin, Founder
MQDesign+Traffic-NYC, Shanghai, China

Trung Pham Huy, Founder
Socom JSC, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Atif Siddiqui, President
CCL Life Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Atif Siddiqui is President of CCL Life Sciences since 2019. He has more than 20 years experience in Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Healthcare Commercial Operations. He has been associated with Multinational companies like Abbott, BASF Pharma and ICI in the past. An MBA with majors in Marketing. Executive education from Macquarie University and INSEAD.

Shalabh Vyas, Front End Engineer/Tech Lead
Facebook Inc., New York, New York, United States

Shalabh Vyas is a Front-End Engineer with more than 10 years of industry experience working for consulting companies, start-ups, and renowned product-based companies. Outside of his work commitments, Shalabh enjoys exploring trends in web-based graphics, rich text processing, and general web development.

MARKETING, LIVE EVENTS,WEBSITES & APPS AWARDS JUDGING COMMITTEE

Chair:
Graham Kelly, Founder
Originate Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore

When Graham graduated with a BSc Honors Degree in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, it proved to be a surprisingly good preparation for his first job in advertising – as a copywriter for a Dutch business-to-business agency specializing in the chemicals industry. Realizing that creating ads for consumers was a bit more fun than writing for chemical engineers, Graham joined a mainstream Dutch agency that did both advertising and direct marketing.

In 1991, Graham moved to Singapore, joining O&M Direct as a copywriter.  After winning all the major awards in the direct marketing field, he moved above-the-line with O&M to focus on traditional advertising. Graham’s rapid ascent resulted in Executive Creative Director roles at Leo Burnett, then TBWA Singapore.  While at Leo Burnett, Graham was bitten by the digital bug. To scratch this itch, he joined Ogilvy Interactive in July 2000 as Regional Creative Director, Asia Pacific. Graham oversaw the build-up of the regional network and helped Ogilvy make the transition to digital. In 2003, he joined Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore as Executive Creative Director. Aside from strengthening the agency’s traditional abilities, he launched their digital offering.  This was a role he continued in his next agency, BBH Japan. Here Graham led the launch of Axe (“Lynx”), which was the most profitable product launch in Unilever’s history.  The campaign went on to win a Gold at the Global Effies; a first for Japan.  Graham returned to Singapore in 2007, joining TBWA/Tequila as Executive Creative Director.  Six months later, he steered the agency to success by winning the Singapore Airlines account. In addition, the agency won their first awards at Cannes, One Show, and D&AD in over 4 years.

After an extended break from the industry, Graham founded GKIM Pte Ltd: an ideas company specializing in digital marketing.  While running GKIM, Graham also had the role of National ECD for OgilvyOne India. After the sale of GKIM, Graham joined Isobar as Regional Creative Director in 2013, overseeing a network of digital agencies stretching from India to Australia. In March 2015, Graham joined Bates CHI & Partners as Consultant Regional Executive Director, for the agency’s Asia Pacific network.

In Dec 2017, Graham launched Originate. Using a virtual agency model to strip out overheads and keep operations lean and mean Originate provides top creative and technology talent from around Asia.

JURY:

Mary Bae, Director of Operations & Admissions Records
Concept Design Academy, Pasadena, California, United States
Mary Bae has been director of Operation and Records at Concept Design Academy since 2020. Also, she is a freelance producer who has more than 15 years of experience in entertainment and management. A graduate of Pepperdine University in California, in 2021 she created an online learning brand, The Kreative Archives, to cultivate the online lifestyle.

Fleire Castro, Managing Founder
Third Team Media, Lapulapu City (Opon), CEBU, Philippines
Fleire currently serves as a digital marketing consultant, CEO and Managing Founder of Third Team Media, a boutique social media and digital agency.  She has 15 years of experience in the Information Technology field, with 12 years in Digital Marketing. She was mentored through the DigitalFilipino community, the Cherie Blair Foundation, and the U.S. Embassy. She was sent to Nairobi, Kenya for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, and recently visited Chicago, Illinois as a professional fellow of the U.S. State Department’s fellowship program.

Sanjay Chauhan, Consultant Head Financial Project
AIOCD AWACS, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Onie Chu, Executive Director, The Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of Hong Kong 
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong (Greater China)

Jenn Donovan, Founder
Social Media and Marketing Australia, Mulwala, New South Wales, Australia

Jenn Donovan, an ex-conveyancer and retailer, is now a marketing thought leader, coach and mentor for small businesses, keynote speaker and podcaster (Small Business Made Simple). The Founder of Social Media and Marketing Australia, Jenn is also founder of the extremely successful community Facebook group Buy From a Bush Business (currently 307,000 members) and the co-founder of Spend With Us, Australia's Amazon for rural and regional small businesses.

Preethi Gunaratne, Senior Lecturer/Strategy Consultant
Imperial Institute of Higher Education, Mount Lavinia, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Preethi Gunaratne is a Strategy Consultant and a Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Hospitality and Tourism & Strategy disciplines serving both private and government universities. She is an external examiner for Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and University of Rajarata, and acts as a dissertation supervisor and internal examiner for the Imperial Institute of Higher Education. She has 15+ years of senior management experience and 20+ years of sales & marketing experience in diverse industries covering tourism and hospitality, broadcast media, real estate, and education. She has served various organizations in Sri Lanka and held positions such as Country Head, General Manager, Head of Marketing, and General Manager-Marketing. She also has over five years’ experience working for five-star hotels both in Sri Lanka and the Middle East, as well as in front office operations in the hotel industry. She is a Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing.

Iggy Javellana, Director of Marketing & Business Development
Medifi, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Betul Kahraman, International Marketing Manager
VSY Biotechnology, Istanbul

Puneet Kakkar, Oracle ERP Technical Architect
Scientific Games Corporation, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Puneet is a certified Enterprise Architect with 17+ years of IT and product development experience. He started his career with Oracle Corporation as part of their ERP development team and later on worked with IBM Inc., Citi Bank and many more to lead major Oracle implementations. He has been speaker at various Oracle OATUG platforms and has contributed scholarly articles to leading publications such as International Journal of Management and Engineering and the American Journal of Computer Architecture. He frequently publishes professional articles on major publishing portals.

Norman Kasiri, Founder & Creative Director
Forte1, Singapore
A self-described media junkie, Norman is a Creative Director who lives on a steady diet of streaming services and digital subscriptions. He has spent the last 15 years in the advertising and digital industry, gaining experiences in areas such as UX, UI, photography and videography. In the real world, Norman enjoys mountain biking and taking Instagrams of food.

Shankar Lakshmanan, Director
ANSWERS ONEWORLD, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Shankar Lakshmanan is in his 25th year in advertising. Earlier stints include creative leadership positions at OgilvyOne (key brand: The Economist) and Isobar (which won a global pitch for Coke). Today, he finds fulfillment in steering brand stories for clients who value and benefit from his candour and discernment.

Pauline Lin, Account Executive
Leo Burnett, Taipei, Taiwan

Yateen More, Head: New Business | Visual Merchandising | Retail Strategy | Digital Marketing
EAD COSMOS DIGITAL MARKETING COMPANY, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Yateen has over 14 years of experience in Visual Merchandising, Visual Marketing, Brand Innovation, Retail Marketing, Training & Development, and Team Management. He has hands-on experience in new store openings, managing in-store campaigns, and developing & implementing effective visual merchandising. He is proficient in conducting opportunity analysis by keeping abreast of market trends and competitor moves to achieve market-share metrics and has played an important part in the planning, developing and implementing of new store setups for 2 retail organizations.  With expertise in preparing innovative and creative display solutions and enhancing productivity in terms of walk-in and end result sales, Yateen also has sound communication and time management skills.

Sanjini Munaweera, General Manager - Sri Lanka
ADA Asia, Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Sanjini Munaweera is the General Manager Sri Lanka for ADA Asia, and has built her career across multiple disciplines within the Marketing & Communications field. With over 25+ years of experience under her belt, she is today a thought leader and mentor within the industry. Her passion is for Technology and Creative.

Muhammad Tahir Qaseem, Executive Director
Yoniflora, Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Currently the executive director and board of member of Yoniflora (Asia's best fertilizer and pesticide company), Muhammad Tahir Qaseem is also CEO for a leading IT firm, TQ Design and Technology. He has vast experience in technology development and business development in Asia and the Middle East. He has been an active entrepreneur for the last 20 years, starting his professional career at a medium-sized e-commerce company. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan in 2012. He is also a visiting faculty member for COMSATS University, as well as an Industrial Partner with NUST University in Pakistan.

Koteswara Rao Remelli, Software Engineer
District of Columbia government, Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States

Kadambari Sahu, Senior Vice President, Design
ValueLabs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Kadambari founded the award-winning design team, User Experience Group at ValueLabs, and is currently leading 25+ designers to create world-class and award-winning products and services to have a positive impact on businesses. Her forte lies in building, growing, coaching and mentoring high-performance design teams from scratch. She creates design culture by infusing design thinking within organizations and businesses to create a holistic strategy and customer experience. She has worked for clients across geographies spanning, North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

Luisa Sebastian, Director for Development Communications
PAGEONE Group Media and Communications, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Jung Hieh Shon, Chief Executive Officer
HanaroADCOM, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jung Hieh Shon is CEO of HanaroAdcom, a communication design company with a history of 25 years. She is also an adjunct professor at the design department of HanYang University in Seoul.

Brian Arthur TalladorCertified Life Coach
Coach Brian Arthur, Chiang Mai,Thailand
Leadership expert Brian Arthur Tallador is a certified life coach, speaker-trainer, and event organizer. He started his career as a radio station manager in the Philippines before working as a Marketing Executive in Singapore and as Toastmasters District PR Manager in Thailand. Today, he focuses on coaching professionals to bring their A-game!

Dodi Triaviandi, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Thinkerbold Creative Agency, Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

Dodi founded Thinkerbold Creative Agency in 2014. He has more than 20 years experience in the advertising industry and started his career as an Art Director at BBDO Indonesia. He then become Creative Director at Leo Burnett, Grey Worldwide, and Isobar. Besides running Thinkerbold, he also a managing partner of Mobileforce,a creative digital production company, and an active university lecturer at Jakarta Institute of Arts. He is also the founder of BorongMenolong, a social movement initiative to spread awareness about COVID-19 through creative campaigns in Indonesia.

Julius Vicente, Sales & Marketing Head
TrendCom I.T. and Software Solutions Inc., Pasig, Manila, Philippines

Julius is a master story-teller with more than ten years of PR, Risk Management, Marketing, Events, Digital Marketing, Sales, and Corporate Communications experience. He was the man behind his previous company's success, Megaworld, the PH's leading developer of integrated urban townships, which won three consecutive PH Best Developer awards in three years. His extensive training led him to innovate and explore "the new digital age" and he is now the Sales & Marketing Head of TrendCom, one of the Philippines' biggest IT companies. As well as sales and marketing strategies, he also crafts digital campaigns to effectively elevate, expand, improve, and even globalize the brand.

Ben Wong, Chief Marketing Officer
Google, Shanghai, China (Mainland)

Eunice WongChief Brand Growth Consultant Promise
Communication Company, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Greater China)
Eunice is an award-winning marketer with broad experience in marketing with MNC corporates, 4As advertising agencies, PR agencies, and media platforms in Greater China and Asia.  Her track record stretched from mainstream to digital, covering brand building, communications, product & market development to strategic planning and data analysis.  Eunice was previously the Chief Growth Officer (Greater China) of Ketchum, Chief Strategist of McCann WorldGroup Hong Kong, CMO of Touchmedia Group and South China Media Group, Managing Director of McCann WorldGroup Shanghai and Hachette Filipacchi Taiwan.  She is now working on a Doctorate in Business Administration at Swiss Business School in Zurich, and received her Masters degree in Strategic Marketing from University College Dublin.

Winnie Wong
Promise Communication Company, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong (Greater China)

Nazry Yahya, Principal
JP Skills Centre, Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia

Waheed Zuberi, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Project Bract, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Waheed has a wide experience of different industries: Food, Textile, Shipping, Technology and Marketing. His last assignment was National Retail Marketing Manager for Intel Pakistan before getting into hardcore marketing. He is well-known name in Marketing and Brand in Pakistan for his Activation Industry of Pakistan, one of the bench marks in the  Activation Industry, which was his brain child. He has worked on numerous brands like  Dunhill, Kellogg's, Panadol, Sensodyne, Gold Leaf, Capstan,Intel Micro Processors, Sunsilk, etc.  His major strengths are his foresightedness, integrity and Strategy Planning. He holds an MBA with a major in Business Management from Western Illinois University, England.

NEW PRODUCTS & TECHNOLOGY AWARDS JUDGING COMMITTEE

Chair:
Nguyen The Trung, Chairman
DTT Technology Group, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Nguyễn Thế Trung graduated from Sydney University of Technology and worked as R&D Director at CVT, Australia before returning to Vietnam and starting DTT Technology Group in 2003.

DTT is now known as one of the few private information and communications technology companies to have led IT-related initiatives in Vietnam recently such as e-Government, STEM Education, and IoT (Internet of Things) startups. Currently millions of Vietnamese are using DTT software to access Government e-services.  Since 2006, DTT has expanded into the global marketplace with its presence in Silicon Valley, USA, Singapore, and the EU to provide software services. Mr. Nguyen has provided strategic consulting services for the Vietnamese Office of Government, the Ministry of Finance, Da Nang City, the Ministry of Information and Communication, and the Ministry of Planning and Investment on the E-government Masterplan and Enterprise Architecture, ICT industry development, IoT development strategy, and more.  He is currently a member of various government ICT committees including the National eGovernment taskforce, the Office of Government advisory team, the Vietnam digital knowledge system iTriThuc managing team, and the rapid response team of Vietnam’s National Covid-19 committee.

In 2018, Mr. Nguyen was selected to be the eGovernment and digital government technology advisor to the Minister of the Office of Government. He was awarded Minister Merit for his contribution. Since 2018, Mr. Nguyen has contributed to many eGovernment tasks including the preparation of Vietnam eGovernment Masterplan – Resolution 17 on eGovernment; Vietnam eGovernment Enterprise Architecture draft; Digital ID decree draft; Data sharing decree draft; Online administration decree draft; National Portal program; and the National eGovernment Platform program.

In February 2020, Mr. Nguyen was selected to be the deputy team lead of the Rapid Response team for Vietnam’s National Covid-19 committee, in which he has managed teams of hundreds of scientists and ICT engineers to develop various ICT solutions for the Covid-19 campaign.

JURY:

Archie Agrawal, Product Lead
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, United States

As Product Lead at Amazon, Archie Agrawalis working on appropriately handling user-generated media products via human-in-the-loop machine learning. She brings strong product-management expertise in building consumer and enterprise products. She leads cross-functional teams, drives product strategy and vision, and shows thought leadership in grappling with markets, business, and customer needs. In her free time, she loves to read books and mentors new product managers to create the next generation of product leaders.

Haitham Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer
London Academy of Online Education, London, United Kingdom
Haitham is CEO Of London Academy Of Online Education. He is also CEO of the European Alliance Of Certified Academies, CEO of Life And Success Magazine, Founder of Oscar Magazine, CMO at Westworld Awards, a public speaker, journalist, career coach, executive coach, time management coach, NLP Trainer, holistic marketer, and Human Resources Consultant. Haitham has a Bachelor's degree in Bio-Chemistry from Ain Shams University in Egypt, and a Master's degree in International Business from the University of Vaasa in Finland. He also has more than 100 diplomas and specialization certificates from global universities and institutes in the United States, U.K., and Ireland.

Ravindra Babu Alla, Technical Delivery Manager
CompuGain LLC, Herndon, Virginia, United States

Ravindra is an innovative technology leader who partners with C-Level executives and senior leadership teams to deliver impactful solutions to solve complex business problems. He has spent 12+ years at the heart of enterprise strategy, program delivery and technology solutions for Green Field/Brown Field programs in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Digital transformation, Cloud, and Big Data across Financial, Information Technology, Project Management, Health, IOT, Hi-tech, virtual reality, and augmented reality sectors. With 10 US patents, Ravindra has architected numerous publicly sold consumer products, and has multiple publications/conference presentations.

Hee Gun Eom, Cofounder & Chief Executive Officer
Skillzilla Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Hee Gun Eom is the co-founder and CEO of the recruiting platform Skillzilla. He has extensive experience in global business development and product development and is a graduate of Purdue University in Indiana, USA.

Doron Fetman, CEO and Founder
EFF Creative Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore

Doron Fetman is an award-winning CEO and Entrepreneur who has helped raise over $40M in seed capital since 2006. In 2013, Doron founded Eff Creative Group, providing a multitude of services to clients both in the digital and consumer product space based in Times Square, New York.  In 2018, Eff Creative Group launched its sister office in Singapore - aptly named “The City of the Future” - which has become a powerful test bed of fintech products and creative campaigns.  By 2019, Eff Creative Group saw exponential year-on-year growth and had landed on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Companies for four consecutive years.

Nitin Garg, Principal Software Engineer
NXP Semiconductors USA, Austin, Texas, United States

Kritarth JainSr. Software Engineer
Apple Inc., Cupertino, California, United States
Kritarth Jain is an experienced Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience at Apple and Amazon. He has successfully built multiple products used by millions of people all over the world. He graduated from Cornell University, and is a global citizen having lived in India, Singapore and the US.

Sachin Jindal, Partner & Algorithmic Trader
Tower Research Capital, New York, New York, United States

Sachin Jindal is a partner at Tower Research Capital, a leading high-frequency trading firm, running a quantitative trading team in global Equity markets. He has 10+ years experience in technology disruption, artificial intelligence and automation.

Ankit Kedia, Senior Systems Analyst
Infoyuga Technologies Inc, Champaign, Illinois, United States
Ankit Kedia has been Senior Systems Analyst for Infoyuga Technologies since 2015. He has more than 15 years of experience in Supply Chain, Track & Trace, and Transportation Management.

Abdul Aziz Khan, Consultant
Star Gate Consulting, Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan

Abdul Aziz Khan has more than two decades of diverse experience in Telecommunication, especially in Planning, Audit, Deployment, Operations, and Project Management for large projects. He is also experienced in evaluating and enhancing the customer experience of fixed and mobile network customers. He has worked in the Middle East for different operators and vendors, and is currently working as a freelance consultant and planning & audit director of his start-up, and developing training courses on Udemy, Inc. (He recently uploaded a course with the name: “Using Path Loss ver5 for Microwave Access Network Planning.") He has many training videos on his YouYube channel and many articles on his web site.

Nirmaljeet Malhotra, Senior Innovation Advisor
Amazon Web Services, Dallas, Texas, United States

With 20+ years of experience, Nirmal has a passion for solving complex business problems and creating innovative solutions through technology. In his current role at AWS, he helps some of the world's largest companies discover innovation opportunities and create new products and services that solve complex business problems. He coaches and mentors executives in the areas of digital innovation, product leadership/management, and lean product development. His passion for innovation leads him to participate as a judge for several events and be inspired by how future leaders find opportunities to create a better tomorrow. Nirmal holds a Master's degree in Computer Science along with many industry-recognized certifications in the areas of Product Management and Agile.

Rishit Mishra, IT Security Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dallas, Texas, United States

Rishit Mishra is a Manager in the PwC - Risk and Regulatory Practice. For over 11 years, Rishit has been leading, delivering and managing a diverse range of multinational security and GRC Access Control projects for Fortune 100 clients across various industries. Rishit’s project experiences include: Security Design/Redesign, GRC implementations, Security/GRC Assessments, and Security Remediation.

Anish Muppalaneni, Senior Engineering Manager
Airbnb, San Francisco, California, United States

Kumarasenthil Muthuvel, Senior Principal Consultant
Blackbuck Insights, Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

Kumarasenthil Muthuvel is a leader in information technology with a proven track record of partnering with multi-national organizations to modernize their infrastructure for efficiency and ROI. He has 15 years’ experience in cloud services, programming, database management, distributed processing, middleware, infrastructure as code technologies and practices.

Stefanus Andi Pramono, Domestic Marketing
PT. Sumber Mas Indah Plywood, Gresik, Jawa Timur, Indonesia

Stefanus Andi has been domestic marketing head of PT. Sumber Mas Indah Plywood, for Plywood Solution, since 2015, with more than 10 years of experience in project and product marketing for custom-built interiors, home staging, housing and high-rise property sales, and recently for a wood working company. He graduated from IBMT University in his hometown, Surabaya, and he also teaches some seminars in basic material knowledge (plywood) for Ciputra University and other business forums.

Harinder Saluja, Program Director
Transport for NSW, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Harinder is a Program Director and a visionary with 20+ years of experience steering large corporate Digital Transformation programs. He brings strong product-management expertise in building enterprise and consumer applications with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Jamir Savla, Manager, Financial Services
Ernst & Young, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States

Siddharth Shah, In-Charge of Software
Canoo Inc, Torrance, California, United States
Siddharth Shah is a software engineering manager and technical specialist with a decade of successful experience in deploying and maintaining embedded systems. Siddharth has achieved success with well-established companies such as Gyrodata Inc, New Matter, and Acuity Brands, to name a few. Siddharth holds a Masters’ degree in Digital Signal Processing from The Ohio State University.

Saikiran Reddy Subbagari, Senior Programmer Analyst/Developer III
First Citizens Bank, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Saikiran Subbagari is a Senior Programmer Analyst working in the Financial Domain in the United States. He has 7 plus years of professional experience in Data Warehousing and building complex ETL solutions. His experience varies from ETL technologies (IBM DataStage/Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack) to AI technologies (Machine Learning, Python). He is passionate about exploring the  latest cutting-edge technologies especially in BI/ETL and Artificial Intelligence.

Srinivasan Suresh, Senior Database Developer
Savantis Solutions LLC, Richmond, Virginia, United States

Srinivasan Suresh has 16+ years of experience in the IT industry and is currently working as a Senior Database Developer and Solutions Architect. He has led and successfully implemented multiple projects in areas of manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and transportation. He has developed solutions for calculating traffic volume and predicting crashes using machine learning techniques. He has worked in many technologies including Oracle, UNIX, Python and R. He has a Master's degree in Data Analytics and is currently working on a PhD in Computer Science.

Imelda Tiongson, President
Opal Portfolio Investments (Spv-Amc) Inc., Makati, Central Luzon, Philippines
As well as being CEO/President of OPAL Portfolio Investments (SPV-AMC) Inc., Imelda sits on several Boards, including being Independent Director of the publicly-listed TECH company Xurpas Inc. She is also a Trustee of Fintech Alliance Philippines, and of Fintech Philippines Association, Institute of Corporate Directors, and Vice Chair of Governance at MAP. In the last couple of years, she has been a speaker at various events both local and overseas on topics such as Fintech and Digitalization. She is a tech aficionado.

Prashant Tyagi, Technical Project Manager
Intraedge Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Prashant has over 20 years of strong IT industry experience in designing and delivering cost-effective, high-performance information technology infrastructures and applications to address complex business problems by assessing the current capabilities and designing future technology architectures to achieve strategic objectives that align with businesses goals and  initiatives. He has hands-on experience with Cloud services delivery strategies and with implementations of Private Cloud Deployment models, Process Automations, Hybrid-Cloud, Data Integration, Data Access, Cloud Data and Business Intelligence and Analytics, Open Source Innovative Tools, AI and ML, DevOps and Data Ops. He also has experience in adopting SAFe, Agile & traditional Waterfall SDLC Project methodologies as well as in all facets of project life cycle, from the initial feasibility analysis and conceptual design through documentation, implementation, user training and enhancement.

Sharada Tyagi, Data Governance Analyst II
Republic Services Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Sharada is a Cloud Data Engineer with over thirteen years of experience in building, maintaining and supporting data frameworks for enterprise data activities.  She has in-depth knowledge and experience working in the role of Cloud Data Governance Engineer helping companies build their modern data architecture platform proof of concept in building a data lake, MPP cloud data warehousing solution for ingestion, storage, access and consumption of the new and existing data in the cloud. Her past experiences include working in the role of a Business Intelligence Data Analyst drawing business insights from data through complex analysis, data mining, and visualization with respect to descriptive analysis and predictive analysis by using modeling, applying mathematical theory, statistical tools, optimization techniques, algorithms and simulations to business data.  She is AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate and an AWS CP Professional and currently pursuing AWS Developer Associate Level Certification.

Hemanth Kishen Udupi Vedavysa, Software Development Engineer
Adobe Inc., San Jose, California, United States

Hemanth is a Software Development Engineer at Adobe Inc. specializing in developing complex web and desktop-based applications. With 5+ years of industry experience, he leads the front-end software development and data analytics for search experience in Adobe's flagship products such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc, which have improved customer experience and retention. He has worked on multiple technologies including JavaScript (JSX), Typescript, React, Webpack, Babel, HTML, SCSS, CSS, Node.js, and Python. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from San José State University in California, USA, and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India.

Ravisankar Velmurugan, Software Architect
Videoamp, Santa Monica, California, United States

Kumar Varun Verma, APJ Lead - Enablement & GTM
Veritas Technologies, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Varun Verma is a Product Marketing Leader & Data Protection Evangelist with 15 years of experience with Global Fortune 500 companies. He brings extensive experience to the information management market, including backup, networking, and networked storage concepts and technologies. He holds a Master’s diploma in Human Resources Management and Operations Management from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management in Pune.

Yanyan Wang, Product Manager and Planner
Living Essentials Corp., Pomona, California, United States

Yanyan (Irene) Wang, graduated in International Policy and Development from Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. She was previously the founder of Irene Yiyuan Translation Company, based in Beijing, China.  Irene has more than 10 years' experience in business management and development. She is also active in non-profit organizations, and has provided fundraising consulting work for a few NGOs in California including Patron Encinitas Parks, and the Rachel and Jackie Foundation.

Agung Wicaksono, Researcher
PT Pupuk Indonesia, Gresik, Jawa Timur, Indonesia

Korean Language Judging Committee

Chair:
Young Ho Choi, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MAD Times (Advertising, Marketing Newspaper / Korea), Seoul, Korea

Mr. Young has been with MAD Times since 2018, first as Editor-in-Chief, and now as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.  He is also the Founder & CEO of an advertising and PR Agency, Macaron Inc.  He started his career in 1992 at Cheil Worldwide, where he was a Strategic Corporate Planning Dept/Senior Planner. In 2007, he joined Yangjae Hibrand Co. Ltd. as Marketing Team/Deputy General Manager, and in 2009 he was appointed Corporate Planning Div./General Manager at C-motech Co. Ltd.  He then worked for Jeju Aerospace Museum as General Manager for one year before founding his own agency in 2015.

Mr. Young attended Seoul National University from 1986 to 1990, where he majored in Philosophy. He then attended the Graduate School of Mass Communication at Chung-Ang University where he majored in PR & Advertising.

 

JURY:

Kyoung Gu Kang, Director
DTRIBE, Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

Do Yeon Kwak, CEO
Communication On, Seoul, Korea

Hung Ki Kim, President
Korea Business Communicators Association, Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

 

Jong Sun Park. CEO
BRCom, Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

Seog Bong Bae, Managing Director
KCU, Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

Jin Mu Cho, Vice President
Korea Business Communicators Association, Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

Young Il Hong, Professor, Department of Visual Information Design
Nam Seoul University, Seoul, Korea

 

 

 

Ho Cheon Yu, CEO
Brand Resource Consulting, Seoul, Korea

 

 

Jung Hieh Shon, Chief Executive Officer
HanaroADCOM, Seoul, Republic of Korea
I am a CEO of HanaroAdcom, a communication design company with a history of 25 years, also, an adjunct professor of design department at HanYang University.

 

 

Chinese LANGUAGE JUDGING COMMITTEE

Bapu Chaudhari, Chief Technical Officer
Ningbo Menovo Pharmaceutical Co Ltd, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

Xi Chun, Founder
Wander, San Francisco, California, United States
Xi Chun ("Leilla") is the founder of Wander, a tech-enabled property management startup focusing on flexible rentals for remote workers. Previously she worked in growth marketing at Credit Karma. She holds a Master's degree in Management Studies from Duke University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical Economics from Colgate University in the United States.

Alice Fok, Director
DT Communications Asia Pacific, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong (Greater China)   
Alice has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, public relations, and digital communications. She led the DT Digital team in Asia Pacific projects to win numerous recognitions including Holmes Report Global Top 250 Agency, Innovative Entrepreneur Award, Campaign Asia Awards, and Marketing Magazine Awards. She is a graduate of Columbia University in New York. 

Robert Gilardino, Regional Partner/Legal Representative
Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Co., Ltd., Huangpu District, Shanghai, China

Eric Hsieh, Managing Director
Lead In Med Co.,Ltd., Hsinchu City, North District, Taiwan

Mei Jiang, CDO, SVP of Innovation, Product & Solutions
Iron Mountain, Palo Alto, California, United States
Mei Jiang is a serial entrepreneur with a blend of experience at both startups and large corporations where she has led and contributed to the design and incubation of some 30 digital products. Since early 2000, Mei has led three startups into accelerated growth and an exit with a total value of $1B. One was an IoT startup back in 2005 using RFID and smart sensor technology. Mei was a leading pioneer in IoT before it was the acronym that it is today. The other part of her career has been driving intrapreneurship at large enterprises. She has helped large corporations drive fundamental technology and business transformations. Blending her well balanced, diverse education and background in Business (MBA), Engineering and Applied Science (EEMS, IEMS) with award-winning communication skills, Mei is a highly influential industry thought leader capable of solving a wide range of multidisciplinary problems globally.

Low Jiun Jack, Managing Director
Axon Consultancy Sdn Bhd, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia.
Jack founded Axon Consultancy after he had served the higher education sector for 25 years. A graduate from Keele University in the U.K., Jack was the CEO for a 5-star college in Malaysia where he grew the student population from 70 to 700 over 10 years with ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications. He was later promoted to Director for a group of 6 colleges, and grew the college to 3000 students over 3 years with 400 FTE members. Under his leadership Axon Consultancy has successfully received nominations for the Malaysia Star's SOBA award and received the Golden Honour Award from the Malaysian Consumer's Choice Awards.

Alex Tan, Managing Director/Founder
NOKUA Design, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia

Alex has over 10 years' experience at both advertising agencies and in-house teams in various roles, including design, art direction, and creative direction. As a Co-Managing Director and Creative Director at the award-winning NOKUA Design, Alex has created successful initiatives for international brands such as Walt Disney Licensee, Dreamworks Production Licensee, Herbalife, Nu Skin, Avon, Singapore Expo, and Garnier.  Alex works directly with clients to leverage concepts and ideas in order to create meaningful experiences that inspire and improve clients' brands and peoples' lives. He has used his passion for design to create a work environment that fosters collaboration and personal growth, and a culture that celebrates a healthy work/play balance. His goal is to create a workplace that is not only beautiful to look at but also produces the results a client needs.

Indonesian LANGUAGE JUDGING COMMITTEE

Charles Giroth, Technology Executive Advisor
PT Jakarta Tollroad Development, Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia
Charles is tech-savvy with a strong business acumen leveraging over 2 decades of creating business value through cutting-edge technology implementation across multiple industries. Charles has held various management positions during his career and completed projects worldwide in the USA, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Charles graduated from The University of Tasmania.

Majid Albana, Assistant Manager Perencanaan Good Corporate Governance
PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia, Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia

Stefanus Andi Pramono, Domestic Marketing
PT Sumber Mas Indah Plywood, Gresik, Jawa Timur, Indonesia

Vietnamese LANGUAGE JUDGING COMMITTEE

Nguyen The Trung, Founder & CEO
DTT Technology Group, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Nguyễn Thế Trung graduated from Sydney University of Technology and worked as R&D Director at CVT, Australia before returning to Vietnam and starting DTT Technology Group in 2003.
DTT is now known as one of the few private information and communications technology companies to have led IT-related initiatives in Vietnam recently such as e-Government, STEM Education, and IoT (Internet of Things) startups. Currently millions of Vietnamese are using DTT software to access Government e-services.  Since 2006, DTT has expanded into the global marketplace with its presence in Silicon Valley, USA, Singapore, and the EU to provide software services. Mr. Nguyen has provided strategic consulting services for the Vietnamese Office of Government, the Ministry of Finance, Da Nang City, the Ministry of Information and Communication, and the Ministry of Planning and Investment on the E-government Masterplan and Enterprise Architecture, ICT industry development, IoT development strategy, and more.  He is currently a member of various government ICT committees including the National eGovernment taskforce, the Office of Government advisory team, the Vietnam digital knowledge system iTriThuc managing team, and the rapid response team of Vietnam’s National Covid-19 committee.
In 2018, Mr. Nguyen was selected to be the eGovernment and digital government technology advisor to the Minister of the Office of Government. He was awarded Minister Merit for his contribution. Since 2018, Mr. Nguyen has contributed to many eGovernment tasks including the preparation of Vietnam eGovernment Masterplan – Resolution 17 on eGovernment; Vietnam eGovernment Enterprise Architecture draft; Digital ID decree draft; Data sharing decree draft; Online administration decree draft; National Portal program; and the National eGovernment Platform program.
In February 2020, Mr. Nguyen was selected to be the deputy team lead of the Rapid Response team for Vietnam’s National Covid-19 committee, in which he has managed teams of hundreds of scientists and ICT engineers to develop various ICT solutions for the Covid-19 campaign.

Trung Pham Huy, Founder
Socom JSC Ha Noi, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Quyen Anh Khuc Huu, Employer Branding Manager
Viettel Group, Ha Noi, Vietnam