Speakers
 Keynote Speaker: Tim Draper Founder and Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurvetson Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of DoAt, Glam, Meebo, Prosper, SocialText, and DFJ Plug 'N Play companies. DFJ's previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others. Tim launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. He founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), DFJ Vina Capital (Vietnam), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai). As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Tim is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances. He was #52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker for 2008. He was awarded the Commonwealth Club's Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. His blog is featured at www.theriskmaster.com. Tim is the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He also serves on the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors. |
 Keynote Speaker: Nick Yang Co-Founder, KongZhong Founder, Wukong In May of 2002, Nick founded KongZhong, a company focusing on wireless value added services, such as ringtones, mobile content, games, and communities. In two years of operation, Kongzhong became the leader in this field in terms of user numbers and revenue. In July of 2004, KongZhong listed on NASDAQ with symbol KONG, after only two years and two months of operations from zero to IPO. It is still a growth record for companies from China listing in any exchange. At the age of 28, Nick became the youngest President for a listed company in the US stock exchanges. In August of 2008, Nick left KongZhong to start his third venture Wukong, a mobile Internet operation support company for telecom operators and mobile Internet distribution network. Nick is an active Angel investor and involved in many internet and media companies in China. |
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 Christian Cadeo Head of Mobile (SEA) As Head of Mobile for Google in the SEA region, Christian is responsible for the development and evangelizing of the company's efforts in the SEA market. Christian joined Google through the acquisition of AdMob in May 2010. Prior to joining AdMob in 2009 year, Christian was the Country Sales Manager for Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam at Microsoft's MSN and Windows Live business, where he was responsible for building the sales team and managing agency relationships. Earlier, Christian spent four years in Los Angeles and San Francisco with major media investment companies Mediaedge:cia, Initiative and Publicis. Christian holds a bachelor's degree in communications from Fullerton college. |
 Gary Chan Head, Ecosystem & Developer Experience (EDX) Nokia Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei Gary Chan heads ecosystem activities, developer partnerships and marketing for Nokia in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. Gary has more than 15 years experience managing different roles within the mobile and Internet value chain. He started his career as a software developer and consultant before going on to successfully startup a number of mobile technology services and Internet businesses out of Singapore before moving into a product management role at a quad‐play operator. In his 4 years at Nokia, Gary has lead the development of the largest and most vibrant mobile ecosystem in South-East Asia and Asia Pacific. |
 Chua Thian Yee Chief Executive Officer CASSIS International Pte. Ltd. Mr Chua Thian Yee is the CEO and co–founder of CASSIS International, responsible for driving the company's growth and business development across global markets. He manages the four CASSIS operations worldwide, located in Singapore, Malaysia, US and France. Mr Chua has spent more than two decades in the smart card and IT Industries, particularly in the application of technologies to consumer services. Prior to CASSIS, he spent 12 years with Gemplus in France, Japan and the United Kingdom. Mr Chua holds an Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore, and attended executive development programs at the London Business School. |
 Yoav Elgrichi Regional Director of Business Development VeriFone Yoav is the Director of Business Development at VeriFone, a globally recognized leader in secure electronic payment technologies and terminal deployment. The company consistently strives to enhance consumer payment experience at point of sale. VeriFone terminals incorporate front-line technology and are NFC-ready. Yoav has 15 years of experience in the mobile and IT industry, specializing in mobile Value Added Services (VAS), mobile internet and mobile content. Now with VeriFone, his focus is to drive mobile payment and NFC initiatives in Asia. |
 Steven Goh CEO mig33 Steven is well experienced in developing and delivering successful Internet services for consumers, having first founded Australia's first online stock brokerage company Sanford Securities Limited. prior to co-founding mig33, one of the World's largest Social Entertainment Services and Belldirect, Australia's premiere independent online financial services company. Steven is recognized as an authority on contemporary IT issues, with extensive private and public board experience, has served as a keynote speaker and panelists conferences throughout U.S. Australia and Asia. Steven received both a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA from the University of Western Australia, along with a number of awards. |
 Edgar Hardless Managing Director SingTel Innov8 Edgar is the Managing Director for SingTel Innov8. Based in Singapore, he has over 17 years of telecommunications experience. Prior to SingTel Innov8, Edgar was VP of Strategic Investments responsible for coordinating and executing all M&A activities undertaken by SingTel. He has been with SingTel for close to 10 years, having joined the company's International Group in June 2001 as a Director of International Finance and Operations. During his tenure at SingTel, Edgar also set up and headed SingTel's first ever Group Innovations unit which was tasked with identifying new technologies and innovations that had the potential to have an impact on the telco industry and SingTel Group. Before SingTel, Edgar spent almost 7 years with British Telecommunications (BT), the UK's largest telecommunications service provider, working in a number of strategy and corporate finance roles across the BT Group both in the UK and Asia Pacific. |
 Shubhrendu Khoche General Manager C-SAM Shubhrendu heads up business & operations in Asia-Pacific for C-SAM, a leading secure mobile transactions technology provider powering mobile wallets & related mobile services. Previously he served as a sales director with Venyon, a joint venture of Nokia and Giesecke & Devrient (later merged back into G&D). In this role he drove business and operations for trusted services in Asia Pacific and created partnerships in the mobile payments & ticketing space with service providers and application developers. From 2003 to 2007, Shubhrendu worked on business development, product marketing & product management of identification products including Near Field Communication (NFC) at Philips Semiconductors (now NXP, founded by Philips) across Europe and Asia. He was instrumental in market creation and evangelizing mobile contactless services in Asia during this early market. Earlier, he worked in product management roles at Ericsson hp Telecom (Ehpt) in Asia and Europe, creating and delivering products to fixed line and mobile carriers to launch & charge for new voice & data services. Shubhrendu holds an MBA from INSEAD and did a Masters in International Business at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT). He is a trained Electronics & Communications engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi. |
 Ravi Mehta Vice President, Product Viximo Ravi has over 15 years of experience in the digital media and interactive entertainment space. Currently, Ravi is VP of Products at Viximo where he drives the company's product strategy and helps social networks monetize via social games and virtual goods. Shortly before college, Ravi founded his first venture, Terminal Sunset Software–an entertainment & multimedia software firm that commercially published four products in the United States and Japan. Subsequently, Ravi joined Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices division where he led the MSN Gaming Zone's retail game business, defined strategy for Xbox Live as an early member of the Xbox team, led several MMO initiatives, and served as Producer for Mass Effect. After Microsoft, Ravi was appointed COO of AdvisorNow, a VC–backed startup using advanced SEM algorithms to provide lead generation services to financial services clients such as Forbes and Morningstar. Ravi is an advisor to Fire Hose Games, a Cambridge-based video game studio focused on the downloadable content market and an advisor to Antler Agency, a Boston-based experiential and digital marketing firm. He holds MBA from MIT Sloan and a BS in Computer Engineering from Boston University. |
 Tetsuya Mori Managing Director DeNA Asia Pacific Holdings Pte. Ltd. DeNA is the world largest mobile social game publisher with Mobage gaming brand coming out of Tokyo going global quickly. Mr. Mori heads up a recently founded DeNA Asia Pacifi c Holdings in Singapore, responsible for Mobage expansion to the South East Asia. Mr. Mori is a Silicon Valley veteran. He was stationed in California from 1994 to 2004, and contributed to the global technology evolution. He was a part of the Nintendo 64 Game Console development team in Silicon Graphics. After joined Sun Microsystems in 1998, he co-invented Java 2 Micro Edition and established de-facto standard for the mobile downloading application under his global leadership as Director of J2ME Business Development. In 2004, Mr. Mori relocated himself to Japan and joined a Venture Capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group called Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, as Managing Director of Cross Border Investments. |
 Saumil Nanavati CEO Chalkboard Saumil's a global digital media entrepreneur straddling Asia Pac and US. Squarely sitting between the crossroads of technology and human kind. Saumil is the co-founder and CEO of Chalkboard. As a pan-continental serial digital media entrepreneur from Silicon Valley to Asia Pacific, he manages sales, marketing, and operations at Chlkboard, the local mobile ad network. He has a long history in all things digital, particularly cross roads of digital and advertising. Prior to Chalkboard, he was the co-founder and CEO of Sydus, which he took from incubation to a successful exit. He has managed the P&L's in advertiser funded digital solutions for mobile and web, managed music & entertainment business within these segments, including @Sydus, the largest pan Asian advertiser funded mobile music service. He has also built and managed multi-tier sales teams and distribution channels with the largest Telco's & media partners across APAC & UK. Saumil has held senior executive positions at Epicentric Inc., Scient Corporation and Motorola. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and has earned numerous awards, including the Spirit of Enterprise Award recognizing top entrepreneurs in Singapore, featured in CNBC e-watch, Smart 50 ZDNet Asia, International Herald Tribune Asian Entrepreneur Watch. |
 Satoshi Noda Co-Founder & VP Business Development & Sales divison Nobot Inc General Manager Mediba Inc Satoshi NODA has been working as a marketer in mobile marketing industry since 2004. He had his professional experiences in mobile advertising sales and planning at D2C Inc, a joint venture by Dentsu Inc (the largest ad-agency in Japan) and NTT Docomo (Japan domestic mobile giant) in 2000. Meanwhile, he also planned and developed a mobile paid content service called "GDO" at Golf Digest Online Inc. NODA is currently working as a board of director at Nobot Inc., a company that started from scratch but became one of the top mobile ad-network in Japan. The area of his expertise is planning and operating the mobile ad-network and the exchanges of ads specialized for smartphone devices (iOS/Android). |
 Punnamas Vichitkulwongsa Director SingTel |
 Willy Yang Founder & CEO MediaV Holding Co. Ltd. Since May 2009 when MediaV was founded, Willy Yang has overseen the Company's overall strategy and business operations. Before that he was the president & COO of Allyes. Education background: Graduated with a bachelor degree in Computer science and MBA in online ‐ marketing. |
 Raymond Yap Business Development Director, Asia Pacific Region ViVOtech Raymond Yap is the Director for Business Development for ViVOtech, and is responsible for NFC, contactless readers and software in Asia Pacific. Raymond has more than 10 years of experience in technology and finance, and has held various positions in sales, business development and consulting in banks and technology firms such as VeriFone, Nomura and State Street prior to joining ViVOtech. Raymond holds a Bachelor's degree from Imperial College and a Masters from Stanford University. |
 Christopher Yeo Founder and CEO aSpecial Media Pte. Ltd. Chris has worked in the IT industry for 25 years, entering it after graduating with a computer science and mathematics degree. During this time, his experiences ranged from creating new products to creating new companies. This included a software company that grew from inception in 1994 into an internationally acclaimed supply chain execution software solutions provider. This company designed and built large-scale real-time systems for Fortune 500 global companies such as that were deployed globally. Chris was actively involved in the programming himself, even as he steered the company as Chief Executive. More recently, he was responsible for putting in place a highly scalable and robust architecture and infrastructure empowering rednano.sg, Singapore Press Holdings' mobile search and directory application, to provide award-winning services. Chris' latest venture is aSpecial Media, a behavioral targeting service for online and mobile advertising. Chris is passionate about cloud computing, search and web2.0 technologies? He is currently designing and architecting real-time applications that live natively in the cloud. Chris is also researching the use of GPUs to power massively parallel algorithms in the cloud. He is an active participant in online social networks, blogs frequently about topics ranging from technology to photography, and continues to do software coding. |
 Zhou Wenhan Co-Founder 2359 Media Pte. Ltd. Zhou Wenhan is the co-Founder of 2359 Media where he is in charge of product development and sales for its mobile advertising technology products. Before co-founding 2359 Media, Wenhan worked in GetQuik, an online marketplace for consumers to order food from restaurants across United States. He also founded Tagxe, a taxi ride sharing website that was featured on national media. Tagxe was acquired by CabCorner in late 2010. Wenhan graduated with a Second Upper Class Honors in Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering) with a minor in Technopreneurship from the National University of Singapore. |
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