Speakers 2022 Call for Speakers
Speak @MeetMagentoSingapore 2022!
*The last date of submission for the call for speakers is on 8 July 2022.*
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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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Terence Rajah
Principal Commerce Consultant | LivePerson
Terence Rajah
Principal Commerce Consultant | LivePerson
Terence has been involved with eCommerce since 2000, covering much of the APAC region and has had the opportunity to work with leading brands on Customer Experience throughout his tenure in companies like IBM, SAP and Adobe. His current work in LivePerson allows him to explore solutions that allow brands to engage their customers over social, web and app channels and ensure brands have the capability to monetize these engagements to increase their conversion rates.
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.
David Deppner
CEO | Psyberware
David Deppner
CEO | Psyberware
David is the CEO & Founder of Psyberware, specializing in ecommerce advertising for Magento merchants. He brings over 25 years of experience marketing businesses online. He spent nearly a decade growing revenue as head of IT and Ecommerce at a mid-sized Magento merchant. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Management, and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
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.
Ashley Paulus
SR. Global Director, Customer Success | Checkout.com
Ashley Paulus
SR. Global Director, Customer Success | Checkout.com
Ashley leads Customer Success globally for Checkout.com’s Crypto vertical, collaborating with merchants across the industry, including Crypto.com, Binance, and Coinhako, and helping them optimise their payments experience, boost customer conversion and act as the bridge between trad-fi and defi.
Prior to joining Checkout.com, Ashley worked in strategic operations focusing on revenue growth and expansion for multinational corporations as well as government organisations across ASEAN and East Africa.
Julian Sarkadi
Director of Strategic Partnerships, APAC | Checkout.com
Julian Sarkadi
Director of Strategic Partnerships, APAC | Checkout.com
Julian Sarkadi is the Director of Strategic Partnerships, APAC for Checkout.com. Checkout.com’s mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. At its most recent fundraising round in January 2022, Checkout.com was valued at $40bn, making it the UK’s most valuable venture-backed business.
Julian has spent well over a decade in Asia developing public and private partnerships across the region. He is focussed on building and leveraging value-adding partnerships in ANZ/APAC to grow Checkout.com's footprint and success throughout the region.
Prior to joining Checkout.com, Julian was leading GTM strategy and Partnerships in APAC for the NYSE-listed ecommerce fraud prevention company, Riskified, having established their Shanghai office in 2020. Julian was also the Co-Chair of the APAC chapter of the MRC Advisory Board. Julian also previously worked as a lawyer and investment banker in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Julian completed an LLB (Hons) and BA (International Studies) at the University of Technology, Sydney, and undertook Chinese language and culture studies at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. Julian also received a scholarship from the Department of Foreign Affairs of Australia to study Trade and Economics at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Julian is fluent in Mandarin, Chinese.
Aamir Niaz
Digital Commerce Build Practice Lead | Accenture Song
Aamir Niaz
Digital Commerce Build Practice Lead | Accenture Song
Passionate about Technology, excited to see business outcomes. 15+ years of Technology Consulting experience across multiple industries (Retail, Manufacturing, Public Sector). Led multiple large scale successful Digital Commerce Transformation projects implementing Omni-Channel Commerce, Payments, DOMS, WMS & Carrier Management. Adobe Commerce Business Practitioner SME and regular contributor to Adobe Commerce certification program.
Lutfillo Yuldoshev
Business Development Director | Worldpay from FIS
Lutfillo Yuldoshev
Business Development Director | Worldpay from FIS
Lutfillo leads the business development team across SEA and India region. Expert in fintech and payments across APAC market, Lutfillo has been with Worldpay from FIS for the last 11 years, supporting the enterprise customers in Global Retail, Digital Content and Airline verticals to achieve their payment goals. Prior to Worldpay from FIS, Lutfillo led the Global Strategic Alliance and Partnerships for the fintech companies in Japan. Lutfillo holds masters (MA) in Management and Payments from Middlesex University, London.
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.
Bernice Ong
Partner Manager, Southeast Asia | Adobe
Bernice Ong
Partner Manager, Southeast Asia | Adobe
Bernice Ong is an avid shopper and customer experience advocate. A Woman in Tech, she worked in numerous client and partner-facing roles with over 10 years of experience across Singapore and Southeast Asia. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors and listening to live music.
Pranatharthi Haran
Managing Director, APAC | Fluent Commerce
Pranatharthi Haran
Managing Director, APAC | Fluent Commerce
As Managing Director APAC, Haran is leading Fluent Commerce’s expansion in the Asia Pacific region. He is a global leader whose experience in commercial technology spans decades, multiple continents as well as some of the most valuable software businesses in the world. He now brings his passion for omnichannel commerce to the Distributed Order Management space where he sees immense opportunities for brands, retailers and distributors to level up their profitability and ability to provide better customer experiences than ever.
Anand Ramdeo
Chief Revenue Officer | Ranosys
Anand Ramdeo
Chief Revenue Officer | Ranosys
Anand is a go-to person for managing innovation, achieving engineering excellence at scale, consulting strategies for growth, and identifying how IT can be the biggest differentiator and transform the business. He has founded a software product company in the past, provided consulting to big brands across the Europe, and worked with software powerhouse such as Amazon, IBM Rational, etc. His vast experience from the startup world to the enterprise systems is backed by the strong base acquired from the Master’s degree at Kingston University in London and engineering degree in India. He loves to share his knowledge freely and has presented at many international conferences and is considered a thought leader in the software industry.
Anand has a passion for technology and a keen understanding of the challenges and opportunities that complex systems offer. Talk to him about the technical challenges or challenges around the managing technical team and processes, and you will be amazed by his grasp on the subject and ability to offer the most relevant solution.
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.
Christophe Bacon
Founder, Managing Director | OmniStrada
Christophe Bacon
Founder, Managing Director | OmniStrada
Christophe Bacon is the founder and managing partner of OmniStrada. With 25 years of experience in digital transformation, strategic planning, business development, and consulting within the e-business, tech, healthcare, automotive, and TMT industries, Christophe has led multiple B2C and B2B digital transformation and e-commerce projects across several industries in Europe and Asia.
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.
Vatsal Shah
Business Coach, eCommerce Consultant & Speaker | Pragmatic Consultancy
Vatsal Shah
Business Coach, eCommerce Consultant & Speaker | Pragmatic Consultancy
Vatsal offers transformation and growth to IT/ Digital organisations by creating an inner drive. He helps them elevate their brand image, increase revenue and profitability. He founded Pragmatic Consultancy in 2008 to unlock their potential. Being a serial entrepreneur he has also founded 3 Startups.
As a business coach, he championed transformations of 79 IT, Digital Agencies, eCommerce, and Retail organisations, trained more than 15K people and 210 CEOs. His clients spread across India, China, UK, Africa, Ireland, and the USA.
Vatsal is a member of board of directors at Magento Association and contributes to Meet Magento events in India, Singapore, UK, Indonesia, and New York.
Mandar Datar
Delivery Manager - Digital Commerce | Ranosys
Mandar Datar
Delivery Manager - Digital Commerce | Ranosys
Mandar is a Business & Technology Leader with more than 15 years of experience across online & omnichannel commerce, Healthcare domains & enterprise application integration. He’s been a trusted business and solution adviser to global system integrators and retailers in the digital commerce space and has assisted countless brands in achieving transformation sales and revenue results. While at the forefront of emerging trends and tech innovations, he has delivered mission-critical business outcomes while seeing projects and initiatives to successful completion. His expertise canvas encompasses business planning, strategy & execution for organization growth, relationship development and management with stakeholders, and people leadership.
Arun Rawat
Head of Growth, E-commerce, APAC | Olam
Arun Rawat
Head of Growth, E-commerce, APAC | Olam
Love all things digital. Worked on building digital platforms through product management, growth and digital marketing across industries and geographies. A big fan of the agile way of working and experimentation in Zero to One environments.
Pradeepa Arjunan
Digital Senior Principal Solution Architect | Accenture Song
Pradeepa Arjunan
Digital Senior Principal Solution Architect | Accenture Song
An influential leader who is able to communicate the ideas persuasively and engage with team members and other stakeholders.
Strength in coaching, mentoring, and leading technical teams in adopting Agile / Scrum methodology with strong business results. Skilled in building synergy and collaboration among teams to drive change, support key business objectives, and maximize value creation across enterprise environments.
Expertise in implementation of Enterprise-scale Software Solutions, Enablement of e-Commerce/digital stores, System integrations (OMS, Payment Gateway, CRM etc), Point of sale and omnichannel, Social commerce and various other customized e-Commerce solutions including but not limited to e-Commerce mobile apps and plugins for webstores.
With infectious energy and “Can-do” attitude, great passion for process improvements, possess strong leadership, interpersonal, organizational and communication skills, along with the ability to research, analyze and recommend best practices to maximize the efficiency and profit to the organization.
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.
Bharat Mungarh
AVP - Enterprise Sales | Ranosys
Bharat Mungarh
AVP - Enterprise Sales | Ranosys
Experienced professional with demonstrated experience in digital transformation. With extensive knowledge in Adobe ecosystem, supporting companies in the growth journey of commerce and digital transformation.
Justin Link
Senior Enterprise Commerce Specialist - SEA | Adobe
Justin Link
Senior Enterprise Commerce Specialist - SEA | Adobe
Justin Link represents Adobe’s Digital Experience business as a Senior Enterprise Commerce Specialist covering the SEA market. In his role, Justin advises companies and management teams across all verticals on their Digital Commerce & Digital Transformation Initiatives to help them deliver connected, experience-driven commerce experiences that their customers have now come to expect. With over 15+ years of Enterprise Software experience, Justin has successfully led many digital transformations and ecommerce projects with some of the world’s most loved & recognised brands.
Annie McNamara
Enterprise Account Executive | Adobe
Ray Bogman
Sr. Global Software Support Manager | Adobe
Ray Bogman
Sr. Global Software Support Manager | Adobe
Ray is an IT professional and evangelist from the Netherlands. He started working with computers in 1993 as a hobby at first. In the past, he has worked for KPN, a large Dutch Telecom company, as a senior security officer.
Over the last years he co-founded many businesses as a CTO (Jira ICT, Yireo, Wild Hibiscus, Rapido and SupportDesk.) As a trainer/consultant he has trained over 1,000 Magento experts worldwide since 2008.
Currently he is working as a Senior Global Software Support Manager supporting the Customer Engineering team on support and automation.
Mala Lahiri
Head of Learning & Development | Ranosys
Mala Lahiri
Head of Learning & Development | Ranosys
Mala Lahiri is the Head of Learning & Development for Ranosys Technologies. With a rich corporate experience of more than ten years Mala is known to be KPI-driven and focused on mentoring future leaders with her learning methodologies and impactful behavioral techniques. Her success model heavily relies on the core belief of continuous learning and train-the-trainer techniques.
Lalit Nama
Solution Architect | Ranosys
Lalit Nama
Solution Architect | Ranosys
An IT professional with 11+ years in IT service industry with significant achievements in various technical domains. Good experience in providing solutions to complex technical problems in latest technologies and trends, my primary skills are OutSystems, PHP, Python, Java, Android and Cloud Computing in general and AWS in particular. As System Analyst for majority of my professional career, my career graph rose quickly and I was moved to company Headquarter at Singapore as the first System Analyst to interact with high-value clients and provide suggestions to create solutions that are innovative, scalable and at the same time, affordable. I always keep my focus on current technologies & trends. My hands on knowledge of many popular technologies, platforms & frameworks helps me be on top of what I do.
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Vatsal Shah
Business Coach, eCommerce Consultant & Speaker | Pragmatic Consultancy
Vatsal Shah
Business Coach, eCommerce Consultant & Speaker | Pragmatic Consultancy
Vatsal offers transformation and growth to IT/ Digital organisations by creating an inner drive. He helps them elevate their brand image, increase revenue and profitability. He founded Pragmatic Consultancy in 2008 to unlock their potential. Being a serial entrepreneur he has also founded 3 Startups.
As a business coach, he championed transformations of 79 IT, Digital Agencies, eCommerce, and Retail organisations, trained more than 15K people and 210 CEOs. His clients spread across India, China, UK, Africa, Ireland, and the USA.
Vatsal is a member of board of directors at Magento Association and contributes to Meet Magento events in India, Singapore, UK, Indonesia, and New York.
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.
