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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.
Craig Wheeler
Group Digital and Omnichannel Director | Kanmo Group
Craig Wheeler
Group Digital and Omnichannel Director | Kanmo Group
A proven executive, experienced in a delivering digital, organisational and operational change within Omnichannel and Multinational organisations. A specialist in driving change in SME and start up organisations, having direct experience of growing start ups in phase 1 or phase 2 of their growth whether Entrepreneur, PE or VC backed.
I love a challenge, l am Customer Centric, thrive on developing teams and enjoy nothing more than delivering in a difficult situation where time is a challenge and results are needed ASAP. I like to focus on a businesses core values, listen to their customers and ensure I help build and develop great teams; then empower and support those teams to ensure they and the business are successful. I am now very lucky to have joined the Kanmo Group in Indonesia looking after eCommerce/Digital for a our awesome brands.
My role is to ensure we have a consistent approach throughout in our digital communication and customer offering across all our sales channels and I directly look after our own websites (Trading, Digital marketing, web development, eCommerce Operations, Content and CRM) as well as managing our presence on multiple Marketplaces and looking after Customer services and all Omnichannel D2C orders. I am delighted to be in Indonesia, working and living with such lovely people, and especially pleased to have joined the Kanmo Family.
Bryan Quek
Vice President - Business Development SG & MY at Atome
Bryan Quek
Vice President - Business Development SG & MY at Atome
Regional business development professional with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Strong sales professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Economics from University of Michigan.
Simon Dale
Managing Director, Southeast Asia (SEA) & Korea | Adobe
Simon Dale
Managing Director, Southeast Asia (SEA) & Korea | Adobe
A respected leader in the industry, Simon has over three decades of professional experience in the technology sector, including twenty years in Asia Pacific. His career has spanned software development, sales management, and executive leadership at both start-ups and large corporations. Prior to Adobe, Simon held senior roles at MapR and SAP where he established and scaled new businesses across the region, and gained deep and practical understanding of the software and cloud services business.
Since February 2022, Simon has extended his leadership to the Korean market to drive Adobe’s Korea and SEA businesses across Adobe Experience Cloud, Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.
Simon currently chairs the ASEAN committee on the board of the US-ASEAN Business Council, and sits on the advisory board of the Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT. He is an active mentor and angel investor in multiple start-ups, and also a mentor and coach to early talent through Mentorshub.
Simon graduated from Middlesex University with a Master’s Degree in Sales Management and Sales Transformation, and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computing Science from Staffordshire University. He also recently completed the Singapore Management University SID-SMU Directorship Program.
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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.
Shailendra Singh
AVP, Head of Engineering | Wing Tai Retail Group
Rameshwar Vyas
CEO | Ranosys
Rameshwar Vyas
CEO | Ranosys
With 20+ years of experience in several industry verticals and Masters of Technology in Software Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Rameshwar founded Ranosys in 2008. He is strong believer in Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and brings his experience and expertise to the table in raising the bar for innovation, technical direction, business process re-engineering and overall relationship building with associates, clients, vendors as well as his team members. Carrying a vision to create a large company that serves dream-big people, and provides solutions to those who explore newer possibilities in IT, this founder-led-CEO has travelled good in the journey so far.
RV, as everyone calls him, is the true leader who can bring about the best in his team. He believes in pushing the limits, doing bigger things and continuously looking for out-of-the-box ideas in doing things better than before. Talk to him and you will feel the energy and positivity being passed on too, and you will not want to miss any chance staying connected to him. He is passionate about industry happenings, latest on the economic arena as well as tech-gadgets, and loves to meet people and travel the globe.
Akshay Bajpayee
Head of Commercial Partnerships - APAC | Adobe
Akshay Bajpayee
Head of Commercial Partnerships - APAC | Adobe
Akshay leads the APAC Commercial Partnerships business for Adobe managing agency, SI and consulting partners that build and deploy digital experiences using Adobe’s eCommerce and marketing automation platforms to help Adobe’s customers transform their businesses. Previously, as Head of Partnerships APAC at LinkedIn, he built its partner ecosystem that helped drive advertising revenue growth and platform adoption at scale.
With 15+ years of international & regional experience in partnerships, marketing and business development, spanning five continents and four industries, Akshay has been connecting brands to their audiences through technology and scaling high-acceleration businesses throughout his career. He is passionate about creating synergies that unlock new growth opportunities, building diverse teams & partner ecosystems and disrupting how people & organizations connect through digital transformation and innovation.
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.
Rakesh Krishnamuti
Director of Enterprise Sales, Southeast Asia, PayPal
Rakesh Krishnamuti
Director of Enterprise Sales, Southeast Asia, PayPal
Based in Singapore, Rakesh is responsible for driving PayPal’s large merchant portfolio growth across Southeast Asia. Operating in one of the most dynamic regions within Asia, he oversees a team that is focused on empowering customers in a range of industries to leverage PayPal’s full stack payments platform for cross-border expansion. With over 20 years of experience in the consumer and merchant payments industry, covering product development, sales, relationship management and business development, Rakesh has spoken on topics that include changing consumer expectations, the evolving retail landscape, and the impact of digital payments. In between corporate stints at Citibank, NETS and leading Southeast Asia payments provider 2C2P, Rakesh also co-founded and ran a regional marketing consultancy that served Visa, SingTel, MasterCard & United Overseas Bank. Rakesh graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelors in Business Administration.
Anuj Jain
Managing Director at Accenture
Anuj Jain
Managing Director at Accenture
Anuj is an Experience and digital Leader with over 25 years of experience in designing, managing and marketing innovative solutions in visual, interactive and media across various industry domains. He is a techno business leader. His IT experience includes client delivery, capability and solutioning in the Digital space. His responsibility includes
1. Interactive Business Growth & Strategy
2. Adobe Platform leader for India delivery center
3. Managing large & complex delivery
4. Customer Advocacy & Value consulting
5. Interactive Growth market leader
Cheliyan Pancras
Director, Commercial Partnerships, APAC, Adyen
Cheliyan Pancras
Director, Commercial Partnerships, APAC, Adyen
Cheliyan Pancras has been working in the Digital Customer Experience ecosystem across several geographies for over 10 years, enabling sales and technical teams to sell and deliver amazing customer experiences and journeys for international brands. From marketing automation to commerce and payments, Cheliyan’s experience across the spectrum enables him to help merchants bring payments into the fold as part of their core CX strategy. Prior to joining Adyen, he held senior partnership roles at Magento and Eloqua, where he established and scaled the partner ecosystem which both led to acquisitions by Adobe and Oracle respectively.
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.
Matthieu Barral
SVP of Commercial, APAC at Checkout.com
Matthieu Barral
SVP of Commercial, APAC at Checkout.com
Matthieu Barral is the Senior Vice President of Commercial in APAC for the leading payment processor, Checkout.com. He works with some of the world's fastest-growing start-ups, to streamline their payments as they scale and expand internationally. Originally based in the UK office, Matthieu moved to Singapore in 2021 to lead Checkout.com's growth in APAC.
Sanjeev Munjal
Managing Director - Digital Commerce | Accenture Interactive
Sanjeev Munjal
Managing Director - Digital Commerce | Accenture Interactive
Sanjeev focuses on the transformation of customer engagement and commerce. Today’s customers expect relevant, contextual, integrated experiences across touchpoints and channels. That is true whether they are consumers or B2B customers. By leading Commerce Business at Accenture ATC India, Sanjeev is focused on client outcomes every day - ensuring they have the technology and operational capabilities to meet today’s digital commerce challenges while future-proofing the commerce ecosystem.
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.
Yvonne Szeto
Vice President, Commercial, Global Enterprise eCommerce, Asia Pacific at Worldpay from FIS
Yvonne Szeto
Vice President, Commercial, Global Enterprise eCommerce, Asia Pacific at Worldpay from FIS
Yvonne leads Worldpay’s Global Enterprise eCommerce team across Asia Pacific as Vice President Commercial, with sales and relationship management executives across Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong. With 16 years’ experience in the payments industry across acquiring and card issuing, she has developed key strengths in strategy, negotiation, business development and relationship management. She is passionate about helping customers meet their business objectives, improving customer experience and business performance. Yvonne has a degree in Accounting and Marketing and a MBA from the Australian School of Graduate Management. With a Chinese Confidential heritage, living and working in Asia had always been a dream for Yvonne, and she is extremely excited to be re-located from Australia to Singapore with her family since October last year.
Zain Suharwardy
Managing Director, SEA Commerce Practice | Accenture Song
Zain Suharwardy
Managing Director, SEA Commerce Practice | Accenture Song
Zain Suharwardy is the Managing Director at Accenture leading their Digital Commerce Practice for South East Asia with 16 years of digital experience. Previously Head of Singapore Post e-Commerce helping brands enable end to end in their ecommerce journey from building their platforms (Magento/SFCC/Shopify), integrating them onto Marketplaces (Lazada, Shopee, ZALORA,etc),Managing Demand Generation (Marketing, Store operations & Commercial planning) to Demand Fulfilment (Warehousing, Last Mile and Operational SOPs).
Prior to SPeC, I was incharge of digital transformation at Creador Prior to that I was involved in building Lazada in Malaysia, 11 street in Malaysia and Managing Director for Rocket Internets Asia venture Daraz to position the company for its acquisition by Alibaba Group.
I started my E-commerce journey back in 2012 as part of the founding team of ZALORA where I worked across the SEA countries.
Rahul Shukla
Director, Digital and IT , Asia at GMG Group
Rahul Shukla
Director, Digital and IT , Asia at GMG Group
Rahul is a Technology Leader with extensive experience in industries relating to Retail, FMCG and Distribution. Over the course of career, have developed professional experience in international settings across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hongkong and China. Busines focussed mindset who has enjoyed notable success in both operational and transformational initiatives.
Possess excellent expertise in Program and Portfolio Management, OMNI Solutions, Buiding Operating Models, AI and Digital enablements as core strength. Had been part of Deloitte Consulting, Axon – HCL supporting organisations like LTA, SMRT, JTC Corp and Panasonic followed by Retailers such as Dairy Farm, IKEA, M&S, Zara, Lacoste etc. Presently Rahul is Director, Digital and IT, Asia for GMG Group a Large Retailer based out of Dubai having 150 Retail outlets across SG, MY, Indo and HK managing Royal Sporting House, Nike, Adidas, Vans & Reebok together with Multi-brand setup and Factory outlets.
Kalarav Vasavada
Delivery Manager | Brainvire Infotech
Kalarav Vasavada
Delivery Manager | Brainvire Infotech
A certified scrum master and Adobe certified Expert Business practitioner, with 14+ years of ecommerce industrial experienced, leading and guiding large team of ecommerce enthusiasts, speaker at Magento Association and some other open source forums. Believe in sharing knowledge and innovation in technology with better ideas and suggestions. Helped clients to grow from startup to millionaire with ideas and solutions in ecommerce. Developed and successfully delivered more than 500+ ecommerce websites, applications with winning customer confidence.
Maurizio Stella
VP - Digital Commerce | Ranosys
Maurizio Stella
VP - Digital Commerce | Ranosys
Maurizio has 12+ years of experience in the eCommerce industry and he has worked with businesses of all sizes, using all sorts of systems across many industries and territories. His experience is predominately with Adobe and Salesforce; however, he is truly passionate about leveraging technology in general to deliver change, it being in terms of growth, harmonisation or process optimisation.
Imogen Allan
Client Success Strategist at Ranosys
Imogen Allan
Client Success Strategist at Ranosys
With an extensive background in Ecommerce and Customer Service Management from the merchant side, Imogen brings this experience to Ranosys as a Client Success Strategist with the goal to anticipate the needs of our clients, and help them build, optimise and execute their strategies for long term growth, and success.
Ketika Maheshwari
Project Manager | Ranosys
Ketika Maheshwari
Project Manager | Ranosys
Ketika is 3X Adobe Magento certified professional & PMI Agile Certified Practitioner with 9+ years of experience in designing Enterprise Commerce solutions. She is eCommerce passionate, proficient in managing customer deliveries and satisfaction. What excites her is the enriching learning around new-age technology solutions that work in solving business challenges.
Maurizio Stella
VP - Digital Commerce | Ranosys
Maurizio Stella
VP - Digital Commerce | Ranosys
Maurizio has 12+ years of experience in the eCommerce industry and he has worked with businesses of all sizes, using all sorts of systems across many industries and territories. His experience is predominately with Adobe and Salesforce; however, he is truly passionate about leveraging technology in general to deliver change, it being in terms of growth, harmonisation or process optimisation.
Theresia Tristini
IT Director | The Body Shop Indonesia
Theresia Tristini
IT Director | The Body Shop Indonesia
Theresia was graduated from Atmajaya University
computer science in 1995, Theresia began her career as an
IT Support. After three years of work, Theresia then
moved to Bank Danamon. She began her career as a
business analyst, before being entrusted with the
application systems, IT operations, and involved in many
big projects as IT Head in Danamon. After ten years,
Theresia sought a new challenge by moving to DBS
Indonesia as IT Head for about 3 years, then she became
CIO at Commonwealth Bank for 7 years. Theresia
currently holds the position of IT Director at PT Monica
Hijau Lestari (The Body Shop Indonesia)
Akshay Bajpayee
Head of Commercial Partnerships - APAC | Adobe
Akshay Bajpayee
Head of Commercial Partnerships - APAC | Adobe
Akshay leads the APAC Commercial Partnerships business for Adobe managing agency, SI and consulting partners that build and deploy digital experiences using Adobe’s eCommerce and marketing automation platforms to help Adobe’s customers transform their businesses. Previously, as Head of Partnerships APAC at LinkedIn, he built its partner ecosystem that helped drive advertising revenue growth and platform adoption at scale.
With 15+ years of international & regional experience in partnerships, marketing and business development, spanning five continents and four industries, Akshay has been connecting brands to their audiences through technology and scaling high-acceleration businesses throughout his career. He is passionate about creating synergies that unlock new growth opportunities, building diverse teams & partner ecosystems and disrupting how people & organizations connect through digital transformation and innovation.
Barnet Hellman
Sr. Manager, Magento Customer Engineering | Adobe
Barnet Hellman
Sr. Manager, Magento Customer Engineering | Adobe
Magento Customer Engineering, SWAT Product Owner & Chief Designer, & SME
Former roles
* Magento Customer Engineering, Resolution Management
* Magento Global Operations, Infrastructure Operations
30 years in application & software development & Infrastructure design
2.5 years at Magento, 35+ Years technology industry & application development
Education: BS & MBA-IT
Certified: Adobe Security Green Belt, PMI PMP, Scrum Alliance Scrum Master & Scrum Professional, ITIL Foundations
Fabricio Ibanez Raad
Head of Digital Platforms | Accenture
Fabricio Ibanez Raad
Head of Digital Platforms | Accenture
Head of Digital Platforms for ASEAN.
A digital transformation and delivery specialist with extensive hands-on design and solutions delivery experience across the entire agile digital delivery lifecycle.
Bharat Sharma
Founder & CEO | Monsoon Consulting
Bharat Sharma
Founder & CEO | Monsoon Consulting
Bharat Sharma, is Founder and CEO of award winning eCommerce agency Monsoon Consulting with offices in Dublin, London and Kyiv.
Monsoon Consulting is a Magento (Gold) Enterprise Solution Partner, focusing on delivering best in class complex enterprise scale B2B and B2C eCommerce solutions to large companies such as Uniphar PLC, Pallas Foods, Brymec London, Topline, Heat Merchants, One4All and Central Bank of Ireland.
Narendra Vyas
Team Lead | Ranosys
Narendra Vyas
Team Lead | Ranosys
Adobe Certified Expert - Magento Commerce Developer. Overall 8+ years of experience in IT, able to customize the existing solutions according to specifications. Experience of working in the complete SDLC viz. requirement gathering, documentation, development, testing and maintenance. Experience in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Experience in project planning, development, monitoring and controlling with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects.
Nagaraja Kharvi
Technical Architect | Chalhoub
Nagaraja Kharvi
Technical Architect | Chalhoub
TOGA@9.2 Certified/Enterprise Architect
12 years experience with Magento
5 years experience in SFCC
Solutions Architect and Full Stack developer with broad experience leading teams to design and implement innovative and engaging customer-centric ecommerce solutions for major fashion brands. With more than 12 years of hands-on technical work experience working with PHP, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, SAP, Demandware, AWS, Google Cloud platforms, I am skilled at defining and designing ecommerce technical architecture to address business needs.
Technical Skills:
Certified TOGAF9.2
1.Programming Languages: Demandware Scripts, PHP, JQuery, JS, Ajax, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, MySQL, Java/J2EE, Groovy/Grails, Ruby/Rails, Node, ReactJs, AngularJs, AWS, Google Cloud, Solr, Varnish, Redis
2.Open source Platforms: Magento, Drupal, Joomla, Typo3, WordPress, Smarty.
3.Enterprise Tools: Magento, Demandware
4.Software Packages: Dreamveaver CS4, Photoshop CS4, Office 2007, Adobe Acrobat.
5.Certification: JAVA and J2EE curriculum certificate (RVE Technologies).
6.Frameworks: Zend
7.Source Code Management Tools: GIT, SVN( 1 year of experience )
Experiences: Total 13 Years
Vimal Parihar
Project Lead | Ranosys
Vimal Parihar
Project Lead | Ranosys
10+ years of experience in the E-commerce domain. Working as a Project lead on Magento Commerce Cloud projects and proficiently managing and collaborating with team members. Magento Community Forum Moderator. Technical analyst on a solution part to understand the requirement and convert into the technical solution. Expertise in requirements assessment, project planning and define the overall technical workflow of any requirements. Working as a bridge between clientele/business stack-holders and closely with the development team.
Willie Tan
Solution Consultant | Adobe
Willie Tan
Solution Consultant | Adobe
Mr Willie Tan is the Senior Solution Consultant covering Asean for Adobe Magento Commerce solution portfolio. He has 20 years of business software solutions experience across different industries and sectors in Asean. Willie is responsible for bringing immediate values to commercial customers in Adobe with eCommerce best practices in the region. Prior to Adobe, he’d worked with solution providers such as IBM, Axway, ACI.
Sourabh Modi
Solution Architect | Ranosys
Sourabh Modi
Solution Architect | Ranosys
Accomplished more than 40 Magento projects for SOHO, SMB and Enterprise clients in my past 4 and half years. Expert level proficiency with Magento (1.7,1.8,1.9,2.0,2.1), AWS cloud infrastructure and tools and technologies such as Agile methodologies, Infracture management on cloud, PHP, ReachJS, Angular4, SQL.
2 Years of experience as consultant and solution provider with eCommerce and cloud (AWS) domain. Supported more than 4 enterprise clients to stabilize their cloud infrastructure.
Gowtham Ram N
Account Manager | DCKAP
Gowtham Ram N
Account Manager | DCKAP
Gowtham is an Account Manager at DCKAP. With a career spanning over 8 years, he started out as a MS SQL/Oracle Developer before moving on to his true calling of Business Analysis and Management.
Shailendra Singh
AVP, Head of Engineering | Wing Tai Retail Group
Reetesh Vadodaria
VP – Enterprise Sales, APAC | Ranosys
Reetesh Vadodaria
VP – Enterprise Sales, APAC | Ranosys
Reetesh Vadodaria is a FinTech Sales professional with over 15 years of experience in new business sales, account management and delivery management functions. He has strong domain knowledge of BFSI, having worked with global and regional clients in the America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. He also has a good understanding of manufacturing domain, having worked as a Project Engineer for one of the world’s largest companies.
Reetesh is passionate about reading; his reading interests span across current affairs, fiction, and nonfiction. He also believes in and practices continuous, self- learning.
Reetesh holds an MBA in International Business from NMIMS, Mumbai and a BE in Chemical Engineering from DDIT, Nadiad
Anirudh Venkat
Country Head Singapore, Indonesia & Korea | Anchanto
Anirudh Venkat
Country Head Singapore, Indonesia & Korea | Anchanto
"Anirudh is the Country Head for Singapore, Indonesia, and Korea at Anchanto. He oversees the creation and implemention of business strategies to make Anchanto's vision an operational success in these countries.
Anirudh started as a Customer Success Director at Anchanto and built the Customer Support, Account Management, and Subscription Sales teams across Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, and India. He began his career in Marketing & Sales in the Engineering Software Industry, and later on moved into the internet space with Directi Group- in their SaaS business unit handling large customers in SEA. In 2014, Anirudh started his own company to help brands and retailers micro-target, acquire, convert, and retain customers.
Passionate about entrepreneurship and the SaaS ecosystem in Asia, Anirudh is a seasoned speaker and regularly participates in Panel discussions and Keynote sessions across APAC."
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
