Contributors

Chris Foster

Chris leads a team of more than 1,000 people at Saatchi & Saatchi in Asia-Pacific and China, covering 60% of the world’s population and spanning 25 offices in 15 countries - Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan ROC, Thailand, and Vietnam. He is an experienced leader in Asia, having spent the period 1999-2008 with Saatchi & Saatchi as CEO of Japan and Korea and as Global Equity Director for Procter & Gamble.

Chris Gill

Chris is the General Manager for Friends Provident International (FPI) in South East Asia based in Singapore with responsibility for running FPI's operations in Singapore and the region. Chris also acts in the capacity of Chief Executive for the Singapore Branch, a statutory designation under the Singapore regime.

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is the Senior Vice-President for Golf of World Sport Group. He manages the Group’s roster of some of the region’s leading golf events including the Barclays Singapore Open – Asia’s richest national open, as well as OneAsia and the Asean Golf Tour.

Chris Keshian

Chris Keshian is CEO and managing partner of $APEX Token Fund, the world’s first tokenised crypto-focused fund of funds. He is a leading innovator in the blockchain ecosystem, acting as an advisor at BTC Media, Hashed Health and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and was the co-founder and CEO of the first fiat gateway onto Ethereum. Chris is also managing partner at the blockchain asset hedge fund Neural Capital, which outperformed bitcoin by approximately 3,000% during the first half of 2017.

Chris Lloyd

Chris Lloyd, Lloyd Marine Pte Ltd

Chris Malone and Quan Doan

Chris Malone is a Partner at Dalberg Advisors, based in Singapore. Quan Doan is a Project Manager at Dalberg Advisors, based in Vietnam.  

Chris Mead

Chris Mead is Regional Director of recruiting experts Hays in South East Asia. He has 24 years experience in executive recruitment in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

Chris Reed

Chris Reed has 25 years of senior marketing experience on both the client and agency side in the UK and now in Asia Pacific. He is the CEO and founder of Black Marketing.

Chris Rowley & David Ulrich

Chris Rowley, Director, Research and Publications, HEAD Foundation, Singapore and Cass Business School, City University, London, UK.

Professor Dave Ulrich, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and Partner, The RBL Group

Chris Sirise

Chris Sirise is a partner at Saison Capital, a multi-stage fund investing across Pre-Seed to Series B stage start-ups globally and the venture capital arm of Credit Saison. He leads the team of operator-turned investors based out of Singapore.

Chris has played an active role in Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem for almost a decade, having been involved in policymaking, venture capital, and operational roles. Prior to Saison Capital, he was with Grab Financial Group launching and heading financial services in the Philippines. He has a deep interest in development economics and champions financial inclusion in emerging markets.