Contributors

Ganesh Iyer

He has 15 years of experience in the technology industry spanning product marketing, product management, market research and strategic planning, currently the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Network Services at IPC Systems

Garrett Weiner

Garrett Weiner is a Director, Facilitator, and Coach at Body-Brain Performance Coaching and founder of The Health Adventure. He understands the needs of today’s executives, combining his international business experience in law and finance with his knowledge of and passion for health, travel, and adventure to improve the lives of others who seek a happier, more fulfilled life. Garrett is a member of the New York Bar and graduated from the University of Florida and Duke University School Law.

Gary Chin

Gary Chin is the Managing Director  of Singapore (PH, VN & HK), Admax Network

Gautam Jindal

Gautam Jindal is a Research Associate at Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. He holds a master’s degree in Carbon Management from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and bachelor's in Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Gautam has seven years’ experience in energy and low carbon policy research, corporate GHG measurement and management, and sustainability reporting. At ESI, Gautam’s research areas include renewable energy integration, climate change negotiations, and management of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol.

Gayal Karunasena and Rajindar Singh

Gayal Karunasena, Business Process Solutions Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Gayal leads the Deloitte Southeast Asia Business Process Solutions practice that specialises in accounting, book-keeping and payroll processing services, and contract personnel support services.

He has more than 23 years of experience in assisting multinational and local clients with statutory compliance requirements and in maintaining a high client service quality. Gayal also assists clients to effectively and efficiently manage back-office costs by leveraging on market-leading technology.

Rajindar Singh, Business Process Solutions Director, Deloitte Singapore

Rajindar has more than 30 years of experience in fund investment management and administration, having worked with global firms and investment managers.

He has built and headed the fund administration business for a global fund services group, and served as regional finance director of a global real estate and private equity fund investment management group.  

Gemma Calvert

Gemma Calvert is Professor of Marketing at Nanyang Business School, and Director for Research & Development at the Institute for Asian Consumer Insight, NTU Singapore. A pioneer of neuromarketing, she helps companies to break into Asian emerging markets through deeper understanding of Asian consumers.

Geoff Thomas

Geoff Thomas is the Senior Vice President for Qlik Asia Pacific.

Based in Singapore, Thomas is responsible for leading Qlik’s regional business and operations as well as driving customer success and business growth for key markets including ASEAN, ANZ, Greater China, India, Korea and Japan. He is responsible for strengthening Qlik’s go-to-market strategy and execution with channel partners while building out Qlik’s team in the region.

Thomas has over two decades of experience in helping enterprise customers seize new technologies to drive business growth while building and leading high-performance sales teams across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Qlik, Thomas held key leadership positions with D2L, Polycom, Juniper Networks and Microsoft and most recently served as Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan at OneLogin. Thomas holds a Finance and Accounting degree from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Geoffrey Cann

Geoffrey Cann is a consultant, author, publisher and broadcaster about digital transformation in the oil & gas sector. A former partner with one of the Big 4 consulting firms, Geoffrey has over 30 years of experience advising the oil and gas, energy and technology companies to help create lasting value. His clients include very large integrated oil companies, downstream petroleum refiners and marketers, pipeline companies, fracking services, drilling and completions services, logistics, LNG projects, and many more. Most of his work over three decades has been at the intersection of a business problem and a technology solution, and since 2013, the impacts of digital technologies and the oil and gas industry.

George Christopoulos & Sean Fitzgerald

George Christopoulos (Ph.D, University of Cambridge) is an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Business School and Research Director of the Culture Science Institute. Sean Fitzgerald (B.A., Boston College) is a Ph.D student in the Culture Science Institute at Nanyang Business School.

George Jacobs

George Jacobs, PhD, teaches teachers of all ages how to use group activities to enliven their teaching. He has taught teachers at NUS, NTU, SMU, MOE schools and internationally. George has also written several books and many articles on why and how to use groups.