Our 2020 Speakers Event Speakers
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.
Sreekanth Chetlur
Head Of Digital | PT Matahari Department Store Tbk
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 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.
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.
Stefan Lorenz Olsen
Product Enablement Specialist | Clerk.io
Stefan Lorenz Olsen
Product Enablement Specialist | Clerk.io
"I am passionate about helping people succeed. I partner with eCommerce owners to optimise and implement best practices for their businesses.
I take great pride in proactively communicating with my clients to always give them the best possible advice that they can act on right now.
As Product Enablement Specialist at Clerk.io, I train and educate both internal and external stakeholders through webinars, meetings and 1-1 sessions as well as writing helpful articles and recording video guides"
Miguel Balparda
Product Manager & 4x Magento Master | Nexcess
Miguel Balparda
Product Manager & 4x Magento Master | Nexcess
Miguel Balparda is the Product Manager for Magento Cloud at Nexcess - a web hosting company specializing in Magento and other open source platforms.
As a Magento Master and open source Community Maintainer, Miguel can be found traveling the world imparting his Magento wisdom at events and approving pull requests everywhere else.
Parikshit Maniar
MD Advanced Technology Centers, India | Accenture
Parikshit Maniar
MD Advanced Technology Centers, India | Accenture
Parikshit is passionate about being at cutting edge of digital transformation pivoting on newer business model for organizations. He has 28+ years of rich experience in various Innovative & leading organization across the world..
Rohan Lock
Regional Director, APAC | dotdigital
Rohan Lock
Regional Director, APAC | dotdigital
Rohan has more than 14 years’ experience helping ecommerce brands optimise their digital marketing. After heading up dotdigital sales and account management and subsequently as group sales director based in the UK, Rohan, a dotdigital veteran, has established the brand’s presence in Asia-Pacific (APAC). As dotdigital’s regional director for APAC, Rohan works with local integration and agency partners, as well as key global relationships and integrations, including Magento, Shopify, Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics, to bring dotdigital’s technology offering to local organisations. With offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Singapore, dotdigital was the winner of the Best Marketing Automation category at the 2019 NORA Solution Partner Excellence Awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clara Ng
Channel Relationship Manager, SEA | dotdigital
Clara Ng
Channel Relationship Manager, SEA | dotdigital
Clara is a Channel Relationship Manager at dotdigital, covering the Southeast Asia markets. With the recent step for dotdigital to expand to Singapore, Clara provides educational awareness on dotdigital to both merchants and partners.
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.
Ankit Agarwal
AVP, eCommerce | Ranosys
Ankit Agarwal
AVP, eCommerce | Ranosys
PMP certified & Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist with 9+ years of multi-country experience which include of Services Delivery, Project Management, Account Management experience in eCommerce across APAC. Playing active role of pre-sales consultant for all the opportunities in the region. This also includes rich experience in defining eCommerce & OmniChannel strategies using Magento & other connected systems.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
