Contributors

Justin Ong and Armin Choksey

Justin is a partner and the Asset Management Leader in PwC Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in working with asset managers in Singapore, London and Continental Europe. Justin also serves as the PwC Asia Pacific Private Banking Leader. While Armin has worked in a multi-national sphere with over 10 years of Investment Management Industry experience of performing audits under US, International and Canadian Auditing Standards. He started his career in India before working in the United States of America, Luxembourg, and now Singapore.

JY Pook

JY is Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, Tableau Software. He has close to 25 years of IT leadership experience. JY has a bachelor's degree in Science from the National University of Singapore and post graduate degrees in Marketing and Finance from Singapore Institute of Management.

K Balakrishnan

K Balakrishnan is the Managing Director and CEO of Servion Global Solutions

Kamal Brar

Kamal Brar is the Vice President & GM for Hortonworks Asia Pacific/Middle East. He joined Hortonworks in 2016 to lead the expansion in one of the growing regions for the company. Kamal is an entrepreneurial leader, having successfully led some of most successful disruptive technology companies in the world. His experience extends from managing large US$125M+ businesses with broad range of high-value deals, complex solution selling to leading the inception of cutting-edge technology based start-ups across the Asia Pacific region.

Kamal has held various leadership positions in Oracle, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, MySQL, MongoDB and most recently SVP at Talend. His strong passion for software and emerging technologies has enabled him to lead industry change specifically focused on data management solutions. Kamal holds a Bachelor of Computing & Information Systems from Macquarie University, Sydney and is a member of the Australian Computer Society, and Co-Chair for Telecom TiE Singapore.

Kamal Karmakar

Kamal is the founder and promoter of CitiXsys. He has been responsible for the company’s evolution to be a specialist provider of software products in Retail segment. Kamal’s responsibilities include Business Strategy, Global Sales, Product Innovation and Growth.

Under his leadership, CitiXsys grew to become the market leader in Retail Technology domain and known as an innovator in Retail sector. He has also guided the organization to receive several prestigious awards in tech industry.

Beyond his work in CitiXsys, Kamal has considerable experience at counseling executives at high growth companies on strategy formulation, business model transformation, and implementation of balanced scorecard in their enterprise. He has worked with many companies in a counseling capacity with an exceptional track record of helping management teams achieve better strategy & bottom-line improvements.

A graduate of Harvard Business School, Kamal is well recognized in the industry and is on board of various companies globally including being a member of SAP Advisory Council for Business One in Germany.

Kan Ying Loong

Kan Ying Loong is the Executive Director of Lotus On Water.

Karam Malhotra

Karam Malhotra is the Partner and Global VP at the SHAREit Group, a global internet technology company that is ‘making digital content equally accessible by everyone’. SHAREit Group’s diversified suite of applications, including the hero app SHAREit, a file-sharing, gaming, and content streaming platform, has been installed by nearly 2.4 billion users worldwide. Based in Singapore, he helms the global sales team and formulates strategy for SHAREit to build a digital ecosystem, especially in the emerging markets.

He is equally focused on driving SHAREit’s growth and expanding its global footprint. An entrepreneur by passion, Karam has co-founded two businesses - FastFilmz in 2015, which operated in the video on demand market while serving entertainment to smartphone users, and Greatest Common Factor (GCF), an ed-tech company in 2017, which looked to revolutionize how students prepare for competitive exams through a digital-first education approach.

He began his career as a senior analyst in McKinsey & Company after which he moved to Chicago to attend Kellogg School of Management at the Northwestern University in 2011. Upon completion, he returned to McKinsey London as a Junior Partner in the firm, advising media, entertainment, and technology clients across Asia and Europe.

Apart from holding a degree in Physics, he is a graduate of the Trinity College of Music and normally spends his weekends playing the piano, drums, and guitar.

Karen Cariss

Karen Cariss is the CEO and Co-founder of global talent management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, PageUp, and Co-author of the book: Cliffhanger: HR on the Precipice in the Future of Work.

She remains the driving force behind the success of PageUp since its humble beginnings in 1997, and is based in Singapore. Karen is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company as well as ensuring alignment across all divisions.

Her extreme passion for the company is evident in her work and entrepreneurial attitude, which has been publicly acknowledged by several publications and awards. Karen was named one of BRW’s Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs in June 2006, and won the Ernst and Young ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award' in 2008, as well as the 'Victorian Telstra Women's Business Award' in 2009.

Karen has also used her experience in business to assist the judging of the 2006 Telstra Business Awards and 2005 AIMIA iAwards and is formally qualified with a Bachelor of Applied Science and Honours in Science and is currently a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI).

Karen Flynn

Karen Flynn is the Managing Director & Principal Consultant at Siren. She Specializes in developing communication programmes within integrated marketing environments; significant experience in managing multimarket initiatives.

Karen Milde

With over 8 years of world-wide experience in Marketing and Communications, including a stint as Marketing Director, Karen Milde is all about the bottom line and marketing ROI. She is a go-getter, and prides herself on being technology savvy. She is the CEO and Co-Founder, Reframe Marketing.