2011 JUDGES

As the Marketing Communications Group Head of PSBank, Dona Arcilla has responsibility over brand management, advertising, local area marketing and events management for one of the Philippines’ major thrift banks. Her past positions have included AVP Marketing for the local distributor of Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler and Dodge;  Senior Manager for Marketing for the Chevrolet brand in the Philippines and Marketing Communications Group Manager of SM Supermalls, the largest mall chain in the Philippines.

Indraneel is a marketing & media practitioner and a firm believer in a Jim Morrison saying  “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind!”.  With over 15 years of experience in agencies and clients, he is currently the General Manager – Corporate Marketing at India’s 3rd largest national telecom operator, Idea Cellular Ltd.

Indraneel heads the media for the mobile operator and involves the shaping the telco’s media approach in the dynamic media and telecom landscape. Individually awarded the Chairman’s Award for Individual Excellence in 2010, his team and agency’s initiatives have won several awards over the last few years.

Indraneel believes that the new-gen CMOs have to be good “Chief Media Officers” to succeed in an increasingly digital world.
 

A passionate believer in the power of ideas, Dean has built brands and businesses for iconic companies such as Nestlé, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, P&G, L’Oréal, Tiger Beer, Mercedes and Diageo. He has worked for Publicis Groupe agencies (Publicis and Leo Burnett) more than 16 years in nine countries across three continents: Australia, Asia and North America.

Dean is responsible for Publicis Worldwide operations in South East Asia - a top ten market for Publicis globally with a geography encompassing 600 million people in some of the most diverse, most creative and fastest-growing markets in the world. He leads a team of over 640 employees across seven offices in six countries including the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia.
 

After graduating in law and training as a Barrister, Philip joined the agency business as a trainee with KLP Euro RSCG.

In 1991, he joined TEQUILA\ London in its early stages. After 5 years, Philip moved to Singapore in 1996 to help establish the network’s first agency in the Asia Pacific region. Subsequently in 2002, he was appointed Regional Managing Director to manage the development of the TEQUILA\ brand in Asia Pacific, and also heads up TBWA\ in Singapore.

Over the last 10 years, Philip saw the integration of TBWA\ and TEQUILA\ here, creating a benchmark integrated marketing hub in the network. As well, his remit expanded to include growth and development of TBWA\ and TEQUILA\ offices across South and Southeast Asia. He also sits on the Global Executive Committee for TBWA\Worldwide.

Currently, he continued to oversee major global accounts including Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore Airlines and VISA.
 

Charles oversees a region with some of the fastest-growing markets in the world; a region Charles is familiar with having worked in Asia Pacific for the last nineteen years.

Prior to joining McCann in 2011, Charles was CEO for Lowe Lintas India, which saw him oversee a three agency, nine office operation of more than 900 people making him one of the only foreign CEO’s in the history of the Indian advertising industry.

Before moving to India, Charles was President of Arc Worldwide Asia Pacific where he established the marketing service discipline for Leo Burnett. 

Prior to this role, Charles held various management positions at Leo Burnett working out of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Thailand, Malaysia and IndoChina.

Charles lives in Singapore with his family.
 

Vipul Chawla is the Chief Marketing Officer for Yum! Asia FBU, based in Singapore, with responsibility for KFC; a brand with a regional footprint of approximately 2800 restaurants, and a turnover of $ 2.8 Bn. The region covers markets of North Asia, including Japan and  Korea, and South East Asia.

Vipul has been developing and growing brands, having worked with Unilever for 19 years in Asia and Europe. His most recent role in Unilever was Vice President – Oral Category where he was responsible for the € 600 Million business for Asia (South Asia, Greater China, and South East Asia). As a member of the Oral Global Leadership Team, he led the global platforms for freshness and essential care for 59 countries globally including Africa, Europe and Latin America, representing 2/3rd of Unilever’s Oral business globally. Vipul was also a member of the Unilever China Leadership Team.
 

Pengzi Cheng leads overall Motorola Mobility Brand Building and Strategic Positioning. She is also in charge of all 360 marketing campaigns as well as all creative processes to align product positioning as well as creative direction. In addition, Pengzi manages business development including co-marketing programs from product level to retail level.

Prior to Motorola, Pengzi had held several roles with Dell and led the Greater China Market Communication team in Dell China Ltd.

Pengzi holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Washington.

Caroline Dempsey began her marketing career at Nestle in sales and marketing roles for seven years including running the company’s flagship brand Nescafe Blend 43. She worked in Agency roles in Australia and in Asia before returning client side as National General Manager, Olympics and Communications for Telstra’s commercial and Consumer Division in 1999/2000.

Following Telstra, Caroline consulted for a period of 6 years for a range of clients including NRMA Motoring and Services. For the last 4 years Caroline has worked for Visa and in 2010 led the marketing and communications for the launch of a new payment service – payclick. She currently holds the position of Product Marketing Director, Visa Australia.
 

Brian Fisher is the Caltex Global Brand Manager. Prior to that Brian was our Integrated Marketing Manager for Asia from when he joined us in 2005.

Based in Singapore, Brian is the leader of the team responsible for developing and executing the Caltex (TM) brand strategy.  Caltex is the main marketing brand for the Chevron Corporation in the 'Eastern Hemisphere".

Brian oversees the development of regional consumer-facing programmes and tools, including the creation of new advertising and communications campaigns using traditional and new media platforms, including the successful Supa Strikas programme and other sponsorships.

Brian has more than 20 years of industry experience, working at McCann-Erickson as an Regional Account Director in Singapore and his native Sydney, before joining Chevron.

In his previous role at McCann-Erickson, Brian was an integral member of the original team that conceptualized the Caltex "What Drives You" campaign back in 2001.  10 years on he now leads the team that roles out the new Caltex campaign: 'Enjoy The Journey'.
 

Koushik has experience in Sales, Marketing and Marketing Research across 18 countries including India, Middle East & Levant, North Africa, Turkey, Pakistan and Russia. He has worked with multinational companies in various consumer healthcare categories including Analgesics, Cold & Flu, Antacids, Weight Management, Smoking Control, Oral Care and Health Food Drinks. He has worked on consumer communications with a number of creative and media agencies in many countries over diverse brands. At present he is heading the Wellness and Oral Health category marketing function for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, India and is based in New Delhi.

Sameer was born in Bangalore, India.  He attended the University of Delhi in India and graduated with a B.A. degree in economics in 1993. He then went on to do his master of business administration degree with a specialization in finance & international business from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. 

He joined General Electric's consumer finance business in India in 1995 and did assignments across sales & credit. He became a certified black belt in 1999 and took an international assignment in London with GE Insurance Europe as a master black belt. In 2001 he became the Productivity leader for GE Insurance Europe and led Europe wide initiatives on outsourcing, eCommerce & pricing. He worked in GE Insurance global actuarial team from 2004 – 2007 as globalization leader. Subsequently he moved back to GE Money in 2006 as Lean six sigma director for Europe and then moved to Singapore in 2007, where he led NPS, customer centricity & strategic marketing initiatives across GE Money Asia.  He was named to his current position in 2009.
 

Philip Ho is an executive with more than 10 years of accomplishments in the retail industry. He is a passionate marketer who enjoys the challenge of developing creative marketing solutions in influencing consumer purchase behaviour.

Beginning his career as a retail operator, Philip was instrumental in setting up the operations for two established sports brands in Singapore.

At a strategic level, he has provided though leadership as a regional marketing manager with Burger King Asia Pacific, developing initiatives that grew sales in South East Asia despite the global recession in 2008/2009.

Most recently as Head of Marketing for Burger King Singapore, he helped developed the local marketing strategy and successfully led the repositioning of the brand through a portfolio of campaigns, resulting in same store sales growth in 2010.

Cath Hodgson-Croker is the marketing director for Dell’s Consumer, Small and Medium Business divisions across Australia and New Zealand. Leading a talented team of 25 marketing professionals, Cath has ultimate responsibility for ensuring the wider marketing function delivers against the strategic and operational goals of the business.

A proven marketer with more than 20 years’ experience in delivering award winning sales and marketing programs, Cath has also been responsible for regional industry alliances and driving strategic and relevant go-to-market partner engagement. Before joining Dell, Cath was vice president for Channels at Symantec.  Cath is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Paul Hu was appointed to the position, effective 1st June 2011.  Immediately prior to this he was Head of Volkswagen Brand Marketing for the Volkswagen Group China from 2005, responsible for developing and implementing brand strategy and marketing programs and synergizing with VW's two major JVs and import business in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Paul has held several senior marketing and PR positions since 1995, including Managing Director at the Relationship Marketing Group (part of Ogilvy Group China), U.S. Northwest Airlines and Hoechst Group China. 

Born in Shanghai in 1970, Paul was educated at the University of International Relations in Beijing and the China European International Business School (CEIBS). 

 

Rob began his advertising career in London but early on decided to pursue an international path. After spending 6 years in Agencies and picking up an MBA back in his native Scotland, Rob joined Y&R and left the UK to run their media operations out of Shanghai in ’96.

Joining MindShare in 1999 Rob has run national and regional Client business, headed up offices, led digital operations across Asia-Pacific. He has been based in Vietnam, Tokyo, Australia, China x 2 and currently Hong Kong. Rob is now focused on leading global Client business from the region and enjoys helping Clients navigate fast changing market priorities, global media operations and communications landscapes.

Rob has strong interest in technology, information, design and their impact on consumer lifestyles and our business.

He is an active surfer, guitar player and previous Agency Innovator of the Year
 

Started career in advertising in UK at Bates and also worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Lintas before moving to Asia as Chairman of The Ball Partnership in Singapore in 1986.  Joined O&M in Hong Kong in 1995 as Regional Director for client services.  Returned to Singapore in 2000 as Regional Director for Ogilvy offices in SE Asia and Vice Chairman of Ogilvy in Asia Pacific.

Moved to Bangkok in 2002 where he additionally took on Regional Presidency of OgilvyAction.

Elected to Worldwide Board in January 2005 and became Chairman of O&M Asia Pacific in 2009.  In 2010 he took up Chairmanship of bates (part of the bates-Ogilvy Group).
 

Tarun Jha has spent the last few years in stewarding brands across diverse industries. At the start of his career he has worked with 2 of India’s largest Advertising agencies and followed it up with marketing consumer electronics and durables. For the last 6 years he has been part of the fast-paced and crazy Indian automotive industry.

Understanding customers and their behavior is an abiding passion and his belief is that every interaction and conversation should lead to a new insight. A post-graduate in Marketing, Tarun lives in Mumbai with his wife and two little daughters.
 

Mr. Wei Jiang joined Google in May 2011, as the Marketing Director for Google Greater China, responsible for marketing activities in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Mr. Jiang has over 20 years of experience in marketing, ecommerce, and general business management. In addition, his professional interest is in the areas of creating business opportunities by leveraging technological innovations. He has founded multiple start-ups both in the US and in China. His most recent venture, a used car auction and financing platform (2dunet.com), was named 2009 Top 100 Most Promising Ventures in Asia by Red Herring.

Prior to that, Mr. Jiang had held senior executive positions at world class organizations including -
• Vice President of Category Management, eBay China (Shanghai);
• Head of Web Sales & Marketing, Intuit (Mountain View, CA)；
• General Manager, NBCi Direct, GE (San Francisco, CA)

Mr. Wei Jiang holds a Bachelor’s degree from Peking University; and an MBA from William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester.
 

In his current role, Abhimanyu is responsible for provoking eCommerce trial, building the eBay India brand and leading eBay’s new offerings: Global EasyBuy (import buying) & Social Shopping (Group Buying).

Till recently Abhimanyu headed the Strategy function for eBay India and was responsible for managing the domestic business on eBay Philippines and eBay Malaysia. In his 6 year stint with eBay, Abhimanyu has managed Retention Marketing, Retail Exports and the Technology Categories.

Before eBay, Abhimanyu spent 5 years in management consulting across diverse industries (Telecom, Power, Financial Services etc.) and practices (strategy formulation, process improvement, credit risk management etc.) at Andersen Business Consulting and Tata Strategic Management Group.

Abhimanyu is an Instrumentation & Controls Engineer from the Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology and has an MBA from the IIM, Ahmedabad.
 

Sulin Lau is Head of Marketing Services at DiGi Telecommunications

Sulin spent 9 years in brand planning, the last 2 years as Regional Planning Director at BBDO/Proximity Singapore on SingTel, Visa, Fonterra and Guinness. She now works for DiGi, a brand she first fell in love with many years ago. Today, she looks after DiGi's brand, advertising, events, sponsorships, digital marketing and eCommerce but can't seem to shake off those annoying planner habits: she's the current vice-chairman of the EFFIE Awards, runs knowledge- and idea-sharing projects for the Advertisers' Council, and just this year pulled several brands to work together to create Malaysia's first Internet awards for user-generated content. Off-duty, Sulin writes a little, paints a little and daydreams a lot.

Gary Lim belongs to the Johnson & Johnson Global Marketing Group based in Singapore.  His role is to inspire, innovate and integrate marketing programs that drive business, value and learning across the global organization.

 He started his career in Australia and launched his 16 years of Asian experience from China in the mid 90’s.  Since then he has been broadening his roles and experience in various markets around Asia on both the agency and client side.

 He is excited by agencies that can lead their clients, produce strategically sound and insightful campaigns, but most of all, look after their people - after all they are best assets an agency has.

Mark Liversidge is the Chief Marketing Officer of CSL Limited.

In his role Mark leads the business in delivering award-winning marketing programs,including branding and public relations, device and product marketing, research, pricing,merchandising and customer loyalty programs.

Mark has 12 years experience in the telecommunications industry having joined CSL in February 2009 as Director, Consumer Marketing. Before joining CSL, Mark was General Manager for Marketing at Macquarie in Australia, where he delivered a number of innovative marketing and customer experience projects in the corporate market.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business, Politics & History with German from the University of Durham in the UK. He is a member of the Australian Marketing Institute and a number of marketing organizations in Asia.

Fiona Liao is the Brand & Communications Director for Prudential Assurance Malaysia Berhad.  Her role is to develop, implement and monitor brand communication strategy and activities to support the company’s sustained drive to be the Number 1 life insurer in Malaysia.  Fiona has been instrumental in building the Prudential brand through innovative advertising, brand building and revenue generation activities.  She has lead her teams to numerous local and regional marketing award wins with the latest being the 2010 Gold Effie award for Prudential’s PRUmy child campaign.

Fiona has over 15 years of marketing experience spanning the finance, education and hospitality industries.  Her education background includes a Masters in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University majoring in Marketing.
 

Limin heads up the marketing department in Perfetti Van Melle China. He defines brand and product portfolio strategy/priority for the business in China, and manages the brand positioning and communication strategies for each brand. In addition, Limin develops and implements innovation management process for marketing and R&D work with, sales/marketing working process and marketing/SC working process.

Prior to Perfetti Van Melle China, Limin had led the marketing department in Cadbury Schweppes China, Wrigley Chewing Gum and held positions with PepisiCo. Inc and Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Advertising.

Limin has an MBA from China Europe Management Institute and B.E. from Beijing Science & Tech University. 

 

When Adam joined Independent Liquor (IL) this $1.2b company had no ATL marketing department.  He introduced a hugely successful marketing programme into a company which had previously relied entirely on its sales department.  Achieving the company’s most profitable year ever with 45% ebitda growth saw Adam recognised as New Zealand Marketer of the Year in 2010.

Adam recently oversaw the hugely successful co-creation launch of the Boundary Road Brewery craft range. Drinks giant Asahi bought IL in 2011.

Prior to Independent Liquor, Adam has also worked at DB Breweries, Tip Top Ice Cream, Diageo and ENZA.
 

- Half Mexican Half Japanese, educated in Europe. Have been with Unilever all my career, in a variety of global, regional and local marketing roles.

- 20 Years of marketing FMCG experience with 12 of them in Japan.

- Currently lead marketing Brand Development for Hair Care in North Asia for the Japanese led brands.

- Have held a wide level of positions; North east Asia Marketing VP; regional brand director in Asia and Europe as well as global brand director out of Paris.

- Well versed in communication development, launch management.

- Passionate about brands, communication exciting consumers and learning how we all live and why we do the things we do.
 

Shakir Moin is the Marketing Director for Coca-Cola ASEAN, based in Bangkok. In his current role, Shakir leads marketing strategy, execution and marketing capability development in all ASEAN markets.  Shakir has been with The Coca-Cola Company since early 1997. Over the past fourteen years, Shakir has lived and worked in seven countries in Asia Pacific, in various marketing and general management roles. His last assignment was based in Hong Kong / Philippines, as Director, Sparkling Portfolio for the Coca-Cola Asia-Pacific Group, where he was responsible for shaping growth strategies and executional platform for the sparkling beverage portfolio, especially brand Coca-Cola.

Shakir was awarded “Asian Super Achiever Award” by CMO Asia in 2010. He has also won the coveted Coca-Cola Worldwide Marketing Excellence Award multiple times.

Ian Moody currently leads the marketing across all products and segments. Prior to the last 5 years at Westpac, he was part of a team that set up and launched a start-up business called ACTIVA. He has also held senior marketing roles at leading utility and telecommunications brands.

Communications as well as short stints in agencies overseeing brands such as Air New Zealand, MARS, Heineken and Avis.

He has a passion for customers and their journey's as they interact with organisations. His other passion is coaching the talent in his team, seeing people grow and develop. Out of work he puts his energy into the Outward Bound Trust, an outstanding organisation who are changing lives daily inspiring personal and social development through value based experiential learning in an outdoor environment.
 

Kellie became the Director of Business Transformation for Yellow® in July 2011.

Prior to this Kellie was the Marketing Director for Yellow. Kellie has extensive marketing and management experience with a number of national marketing awards in her dossier. She has held senior roles within the telecommunications and FMCG sectors including Telecom NZ, Frucor Beverages NZ and NZ Dairy Foods.

Kellie has overseen the company's rebrand as well as three very successful brand campaigns - Yellow Treehouse, Yellow Chocolate and most recently the YellowLocal.co.nz campaign.
 

After completing his BA at McGill University in Canada and MA at Johns Hopkins University Leonardo went to Italy where he joined Echo, specializing in Entertainment marketing.  In Singapore he launched Beyond DDB also co-founding Rapp Collins and serving as partner in the brand-consulting arm of DDB, the SpringBoard Group. In 2001 he joined Saatchi & Saatchi  as Business Director.  His brand management experience in Singapore and Asia includes: CAAS, United Overseas Bank , Dow Jones, HBO, VW, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Tower Records, Compaq, Lexus, Toyota, Sony, Guinness,  Nestle and Ricola  to name a few.  Leonardo joined Coca-Cola Asia Pacific Group Office in 2006  where he has led IMC for the Region, was part of the Brand management team leading Sprite Globally and was part of the Regional Sparkling  Beverage Team.  In his current IMC role he works across Coca-Cola’s portfolio of Sparkling and Stills beverages .

Sandeep Pal is the Senior Director of Marketing at Oracle Asia-Pacific. In this role he is responsible for branding and oversees the execution of demand generation campaigns across Southeast Asia and South Asia Growth Economies. At Oracle, Sandeep has held various country and regional level management positions focused on driving Oracle's marketing strategy and execution. This includes: regional advertising, advanced marketing analytics based direct marketing and demand generation events. Sandeep is a senior member of Oracle’s Asia Pacific Marketing Management team.

Michael Perhaes is an advertising and marketing executive with over 20 years experience creating compelling campaigns that build brands and drive awareness. In his role as VP of Advertising and Brand management at Marina Bay Sands, Michael oversees branding, advertising, media, resort marketing, research and creative services. His team supports the hotel’s various stakeholders, including The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, ArtScience Museum, Sands Skypark, various restaurants and entertainment outlets and the casino, in achieving their marketing objectives.

Michael began his marketing career with American Hawaii Cruises as manager of sales promotions and advertising. Later career highlights include creative direction and graphic design for various companies including Macy's Advertising, The Imago Recording Company, Random House and the Michael Peters Group in London. He studied Fine Art at the University of Hawaii, and San Francisco State University.

 

Grant Phillips is originally from New Zealand.  He currently holds the position on Business Executive Manager (Coffee) and Communication Director at Nestle Korea.  Previous to working in Korea Grant held senior sales and marketing roles at Nestle in both Turkey and Ukraine.  Before joining Nestle Grant worked agency side in client service roles at Pulse in Kiev and TRO London.  His agency background is mainly in experiential marketing on automotive and FMCG clients.

Jackie Pyo has 20+ years marketing communication experience from both agency and brand side. Currently, leading global marketing operations at Global Marketing Office at LG Electronics, Jackie is responsible for sports marketing, global trade shows, agency partnership and other global marketing platforms.

S Christopher holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication and MBA from Anna University, Chennai.

Christopher started his career as a Scientist in the renowned India Space Research Organization ( ISRO ) and in the eventful 7 years, he was responsible  for developing “Monitoring & Control System” that was used to track the India’s satellite to the moon “Chandrayaan - 1”.

Having worked in HCL Technologies and Robert Bosch in web & product developments, Christopher is currently heading the Digital team in World Vision India and is in charge of the 360 degree Digital Marketing & the new marketing product - “REAL GIFTS” ( realgifts.worldvision.in )
 

Mr Anto Setiadi, joined the global beer brand company, Carlsberg about 2 years ago. He was the guy that responsible for rejuvenating Carlsberg’s image in Singapore in recent years. Mr. Setiadi has come with a cumulative 12 years of experience in FMCG companies such as Procter&Gamble, Johnson&Jonhson where he gained robust knowledge in marketing, trade marketing & business development areas.

Anto is 37 years old, and a father of two. Originally an Indonesian native, this football and gadget fanatic has made the lion city his permanent home.

Damyant Singh Khanoria is an Assistant General Manager at adidas India. He started his career in advertising and over a 4 ½ year career in the industry he worked on brands like Spice Telecom, Honda, Konica, Hyundai and McDonalds besides signing in the attendance registers of 6 agencies.

Then one morning, life offered him the chance to stop working. He accepted and joined adidas in 2004 where he heads the Sports & Brand Marketing Team that is inspiring Indians to discover the glory of sport. He works every weekend; trying to be the best he can be at Football & Golf.
 

A resident of Japan for over 14 years, Zach Taub has spent much of his career as a Tokyo-based marketing communications specialist, working in media, creative, account service and network agency management positions. Zach joined Reebok Japan in November 2010, and continues to be excited by the opportunities created through working with a fantastic team in a growing business.

Over fifteen years’ sales and marketing experience in the Sporting and FMCG industries. Worked for Procter and Gamble in Australia before moving to adidas. After Australia have held numerous positions for adidas in Germany, Hong Kong and Japan.

Tiow is currently the Regional Category Manager (Media Advertising & Sponsorship) for Diageo. In his current role, Tiow manages the key agency relationships for Diageo brands across Asia Pacific, among them Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Guinness and Baileys. He is also the regional lead for bought, owned and earned media, championing media efficiency and effectiveness projects for Diageo which resulted in higher return on investment (ROI) on marketing budgets. 

Prior to joining Diageo, Tiow worked in Guinness Anchor Berhad (GAB) Malaysia where he pioneered the setup of the marketing procurement function. Tiow holds a bachelor degree in engineering and is a certified ISO lead auditor.
 

Ashutosh Tiwari heads Strategic Marketing Group (SMG) for Godrej.  SMG is leading the task of building the value of Godrej brand and that of constituent businesses across group companies.  This is a transformational journey, involving putting the brand at the centre of strategic, business, consumer and employee perspectives.

Ash has almost 16 years of cross functional experience across diverse consumer categories in highly respected companies like Britannia Industries, Johnson & Johnson, Mattel Toys, Godrej Sara Lee and Godrej Group.

This experience has spanned across different sales, marketing and general management roles in foods, personal care, home care, etc. involving brands like Britannia, Stayfree, Hot Wheels, Good Knight, HIT, Ambipur, Brylcreem, Kiwi. A lot of his experience has been associated with business transformations through consumer centricity.
 

Tomonobu TOMINAGA. VP/Head of Marketing, SEIYU G.K.  In present post since 2008. Prior to SEIYU, held various marketing positions in companies such as Kodak Japan  Co., Ltd., (present Kodak Japan, Ltd.), Coca Cola Japan Co., Ltd. and Solare Hotels and Resorts Co., Ltd..

Among quite a few personal mottos, current favorites are "A too handsome man is often worth nothing" and  "An idea produced with all your might and spirit will solve everything"
 

Ravi is an MBA from The American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird, USA. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, with Honours, from Augustana College, USA. Ravi’s professional qualifications include APM, FLMI and ACS. Prior to joining Apollo Munich Health, Ravi worked with American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in Asia and the Middle East.

Ravi Vishwanath has over 15 years of global experience in Insurance sector. He has worked with different economies worldwide like the Middle East, Africa and Asia. As Chief Marketing Officer for Apollo Munich Health, Ravi is responsible for shaping the company’s distribution and brand strategy and executing it, while keeping existing and prospective customers at the centre.
 

Rahul Welde is the Regional Vice President - Media at Unilever.  

He is responsible for driving the media and communication agenda through a network of agencies and partners. He is a strong advocate of non-traditional thinking. A number of projects under his stewardship have received wide acclaim and recognition in recent times.

Rahul has worked with Unilever since 1991 and has benefited from diverse exposure and challenging assignments across businesses and functions.  He is also actively involved in industry issues and is the Regional VP Media and Marketing for The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).
 

Scott has been a consumer goods marketer for most of his career, having worked with most of the agencies in New Zealand at some point. In his 18 years, he has had roles at Fuji Xerox; Cadbury Confectionery; DB Group Liquor - managing brands such as Bacardi and Absolut, followed by a stint as Marketing Manager for Philips Consumer Electronics. After some years at Goodman Fielder NZ, where he was Marketing and Innovation Director, he is currently with Frucor Beverages NZ, with the last two years being spent as Marketing Director, overseeing the likes of the V, Mizone, Just Juice and the Pepsi/Mountain Dew brands.

Amy spent the first 10 years of her career in advertising before she moved to the ‘client side’.  Her first gig as a client was at PCCW, responsible for the marketing communications for NOW TV and NETVIGATOR.  She was then offered her dream job – Marketing Director for Nike HK.  The first assignment at Nike was to plan for the Beijing Olympics campaign.  The proudest moment during the Olympics, which in fact was NOT in the plan, was how Nike seized the moment when Liu Xiang withdrew from the competition and made a huge JUST DO IT brand statement that resonates with all Chinese consumers.  She is now the GM of Nike HK.