Speakers 2019 - Meet Magento Singapore

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Ben Marks

Magento Evangelist, Magento, an Adobe Company

Ben Marks

Magento Evangelist, Magento, an Adobe Company

Nobody knows Magento like Ben Marks. The Magento ‘Evangelist’ has spent more than a decade developing open source commerce, and was one of the first Magento U instructors. Ben joined the company in 2011 after six years of Magento development and education at Blue Acorn, where he was employee number one. Since then, he’s been a proud representative of Magento and its vast ecosystem of talented developers. You can usually find Ben at home in Charleston, South Carolina, on a plane, or behind a drum kit.

Monisha Varadan

Global Product Partnerships, APAC Google

Monisha Varadan

Global Product Partnerships, APAC Google

Monisha Varadan represents the Global Product Partnerships team at Google and is currently responsible for building partnerships that strengthen the Web in APAC. Monisha joined Google six years ago and has since been navigating the cross over between Product and Partnerships supporting teams like Search, Chrome, Assistant, Lens to build and launch magical yet relevant products for Asia. Prior to Google Monisha completed her MBA at INSEAD in 2010 and started Zephyr Ventures to invest in growth businesses

Rob Long

Ecommerce Evangelist | PayPal

Rob Long

Ecommerce Evangelist | PayPal

At PayPal, Rob is the evangelist for PayPal’s global system integrator community where he helps partners better understand, design and implement ecommerce payments. Before PayPal, Rob led engineering teams at Magento and was an ecommerce system integrator for over a decade.

Karen Baker

Founder and CEO, ShipperHQ

Karen Baker

Founder and CEO, ShipperHQ

Karen Baker is the CEO and founder of ShipperHQ, the leading platform for storefront shipping rate management. Karen has the first hand experience of dealing with many thousands of retailers shipping struggles since 2008, with over 20 years business experience in technology.

Brent Peterson

Magento Evangelist, Wagento

Brent Peterson

Magento Evangelist, Wagento

Brent is the Chief Magento Evangelist and Agency Coach at Wagento, and a Certified Magento Specialist and a Magento Master. Brent has been involved in the Magento community and Magento forums since early 2009. He loves to run, bike, and ski, in that order. He is often found at Magento events organizing running meetups with his wife, Susan.

Vijay Golani

VP of Development and Magento U Trainer | Wagento

Vijay Golani

VP of Development and Magento U Trainer | Wagento

Vijay Golani is a VP of development at Wagento and a Magento U trainer. He 2X Magento Master. Vijay's career started with Magento Commerce in 2009. During the initial years, he gained experience in different skills, including Magento customization, extension development/integration, API integration, and Magento performance. He extensively focuses on code quality. Vijay is one of the worldwide developer trainers for Magento U and regularly speaks at Magento events. He is a Workgroup Events team member for the Magento Association and organizes MageYoga at Magento Imagine. When not working, Vijay enjoys his family, watching cricket matches, and running.

Nicholas Kontopoulos

APAC Head of Growth Marketing, Adobe DX

Nicholas Kontopoulos

APAC Head of Growth Marketing, Adobe DX

Nicholas harnesses over 30 years of professional experience, built across multiple industries and geographies. He's passionate about challenging 'status-quo' and 'management dogma', which stifle the creative thinking processes that enable teams to deliver amazing customer experiences. Nicholas ensures 'Customer Experience' is a core business ideology at the heart of the brand.

Sushma Vyas

COO | Ranosys

Sushma Vyas

COO | Ranosys

Sushma is the Chief Operating Officer at Ranosys and has over 16 years of experience in global markets, primarily in service industry. Having worked in golf & lifestyle domain in the past, she got a deep understanding of the needs and necessities of those high-end customers in service industry. Sushma has played a key role in acquiring top-notch clients including world renowned top brands for Ranosys that are currently using a ecommerce platform built with Magento.

Vatsal Shah

Business Coach, eCommerce Evangelist, & Speaker | Pragmatic Consultancy

Vatsal Shah

Business Coach, eCommerce Evangelist, & Speaker | Pragmatic Consultancy

Vatsal offers transformation and growth to IT/ Digital organisations by creating an inner drive. He helps them elevate their brand positioning, unlock potential, increase revenue, and profitability. To provide business coaching services he founded Pragmatic Consultancy in 2008 and later co-founded 3 Start-ups. As a business coach, he championed transformations of 85 IT, Digital Agencies, eCommerce, and Retail organisations, and trained more than 15K people and 225 CEOs. He is a Board of Directors at Magento Association. He contributes to Meet Magento events (India, Singapore, UK, Indonesia, New York), WordCamp, IIM-Udaipur, and Universities.

Oleksii Korshenko

Sr. Manager, Community Engineering, Magento, An Adobe Company

Oleksii Korshenko

Sr. Manager, Community Engineering, Magento, An Adobe Company

Oleksii started his career with Magento more than 8 years ago as a Senior Core Engineer on the Magento 2.0 project. He had the unique opportunity of participating in the first core development team that worked on establishing the Magento 2.x framework. Later, Oleksii moved joined Magento 2 Architects team and was working on framework improvements and scalability features. Currently, Oleksii is a head of the Magento Community Engineering team and working to improve Magento development ecosystem, both externally and internally to make Magento Community driven.

Jia Min Tan

Regional Business Development Director, NS8

Jia Min Tan

Regional Business Development Director, NS8

An accomplished regional business development director, Jia Min Tan shares pertinent insights with businesses on the growing and evolving threats of online fraud. Based in Singapore, she works to help merchants leverage NS8’s service capabilities to better protect their businesses.

Matthew McClelland

Head of Growth SEA | dotdigital

Matthew McClelland

Head of Growth SEA | dotdigital

Matthew is Head of Growth South-East Asia for dotdigital. For more than ten years, he has worked as an Account Manager, Email Strategist, Partner Manager and Digital Marketing evangelist for dotdigital. His passion is in technology implementation, digital marketing and generally knowing how things are connected. Matt has played a key role in partnerships and growth within the ecommerce community and enjoys sharing initiatives that drive results for merchants.

Amber Do

Ecommerce Consultant, SmartOSC

Amber Do

Ecommerce Consultant, SmartOSC

Practical Commerce: Rethinking the Approach to Continuous Innovation in Retail

Commerce enthusiast and a strong advocate in the field of customer experience & digital transformation. Amber has 4 years of experience working with Enterprises such as COURTS, ASUS, SCG.build fast and scalable e-commerce systems

Michal Lojewski

APAC Business Director

Michal Lojewski

APAC Business Director

Michal Lojewski is an eCommerce expert focusing on IT architecture, business and operating model for international omnichannel. He is also very much interested in innovative retail, CRM programs and other technology distributors driving constant and inevitable changes in retail industry. Prior joining Divante where he hold position of APAC Business Director, Michal was working 10 years in Accenture and AT Kearney where he was focus on global omnichannel strategies and digital transformation for various global players in retail industry. He hold international experience from projects in Europe, GCC and SE Asian countries.

Vikrant Shukla

Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) | Adobe

Vikrant Shukla

Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) | Adobe

Vikrant Shukla, known as "Supermageman" in Magento Community is a Cloud Solution Architect working for JAPAC region. He comes with extensive experience of Adobe Commerce implementation in over 15 years of experience and have been with Magento since its inception.

Michele Saad

Senior Data Scientist, Magento, an Adobe Company

Michele Saad

Senior Data Scientist, Magento, an Adobe Company

I am a senior data scientist at Magento in Austin, TX. I focus on ways in which we can bring data driven intelligence in our eCommerce platform. My goal is to influence our data strategy and make machine learning integration a seamless discipline in our product. My time is spent between building prototypes with data and collaborating on research projects with Adobe research, Sensei, and Experience Cloud groups. I received my PhD at The University of Texas at Austin in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on statistical modeling of scenes and applied machine learning.

Muliadi Jeo

Muliadi is the founder and the Chief Technology Officer for ICUBE

Muliadi Jeo

Muliadi is the founder and the Chief Technology Officer for ICUBE

(https://www.icubeonline.com), one of the leading e-commerce agency and Magento Solution Partner in the Asia Pacific. Muliadi has been focusing in the eCommerce area especially in retail omnichannel and retail innovation for the last 15 years. His past e-commerce projects include some of the well-known international brands such as TOMS Shoes, RelaxTheBack, Rayban, Behr, Oprah Winfrey Store, Footlocker, and local leading retail brands such as Kawan Lama Group, The Body Shop, MAP Group, Erafone, Hush Puppies, Wacoal and more. For several years, he also served as CTO for several startups in Indonesia such as Bobobobo, Shopdeca and VIP Plaza in the past

Dana von der Heide

Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Parcel Perform

Dana von der Heide

Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Parcel Perform

Dana is the Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Parcel Perform, the leading carrier-independent parcel tracking SaaS platform with over 600+ carriers globally. Before founding Parcel Perform, the German-born entrepreneur and e-commerce logistics enthusiast gained her industry knowledge while being in global strategy and regional business development roles for international logistics companies in Europe and Asia. Previously an enthusiast of the Berlin-startup scene, she is now based in Singapore and shuttles between Parcel Perform’s offices in Singapore, Berlin, and Vietnam. Dana is also part of the distinguished eFounder Fellowship program by Alibaba, a network of international entrepreneurs and business leaders passionate about driving digital transformation.

Vijay Pagadala

CSO, Ranosys Technologies

Vijay Pagadala

CSO, Ranosys Technologies

Vijay is a Singapore based Chief Sales Officer, Management Consultant and Product Entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience across ASEAN, APAC and India markets. He has repeatedly generated and sustained several B2C and B2B large engagements with Financial & Insurance, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Communications, Energy, Utilities, Transportation & Government industry segments. Vijay is a devoted and enthusiastic member of the Magento Community and he has shared valuable insights at various Magento Meetup sessions