Contributors

Samir Dixit

Samir Dixit is the Managing Director for Brand Finance Singapore

Samuel Fong

Samuel Fong is the Regional Director, Trade Credit and Surety for Lockton Asia. He has over twenty years experience in International trade banking, structured trade finance, capital markets, credit enhancements, including surety bonds and guarantees as well as trade credit and political risk insurance. Samuel holds a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Sydney and a BA Business Administration from Singapore University.

Samuel Yuen

Samuel is the founding director of Yuen Law LLC. Samuel specialises in Commercial, Intellectual Property, and Private Client work.

Sanchit Mendiratta

Sanchit has over 10 years of experience in digital marketing and analytics. He has successfully enabled leading brands to adopt new digital technologies and analytic tools to achieve their marketing and business objectives. His cSanchit Mendiratta,lientele includes brands like Property Guru, Grab, Singtel, Singapore Press Holdings, Shopee, Standard Chartered, Great Eastern, AirAsia, NTUC Fairprice and NTUC Income.

Sanchit specialises in crafting omni-channel marketing strategies for companies to boost customer acquisition and provide a seamless customer journey.  He is a certified Google Partner Academy Trainer and he trains executives on Google Analytics and Google Analytics 360. He has advised and trained more than 8,000 executives across Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

He is currently a Senior Partner & Chief Growth Officer at Happy Marketer, A Merkle Company - one of the leading digital marketing consulting firms inSoutheast Asia.  He is also a visiting faculty at the Singapore Management University and the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Sandeep Bhargava

Sandeep Bhargava is the Managing Director of Asia Pacific/Japan (APJ). Based in Singapore, Sandeep is responsible for Rackspace’s business growth across the region and for establishing strong local teams that continue to deliver the renowned Rackspace Fanatical Experience.

Passionate about customer success, he joins Rackspace with over two decades of experience in delivering financial and operational results throughout the region. Prior to joining Rackspace, Sandeep was responsible for HP’s graphic print business across APJ. He has also served in various leadership roles with HPE, Dell EMC and Procter & Gamble.

Sandeep holds an MBA in marketing/marketing management from the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow and a Bachelors of Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Sandip Bhandal and Jaan Woo

Sandip Bhandal 
Partner, Global Employer Services, Deloitte Singapore

Sandip is a Global Employer Services Partner at Deloitte Singapore. With over 15 years of experience in corporate immigration, Sandip has honed her expertise through roles in prominent immigration firms in the UK and Singapore. 

Trained as an Immigration Solicitor of England and Wales, she specialises in managing corporate immigration matters within Singapore while spearheading global and regional immigration programs for corporate clients.

Jaan Woo
Director, Global Employer Services, Deloitte Singapore

Jaan is a Global Employer Services Director at Deloitte Singapore, with a focus on corporate immigration matters. Jaan has more than 20 years of experience in tax coordination and advisory, global mobility management, as well as immigration services. 

Jaan earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Nanyang Technological University and holds a Certificate for Employment Intermediaries (Key Appointment Holder), issued by the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore. 

Sanjay Aurora

Sanjay is Managing Director, Asia Pacific at Darktrace. He has over 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry specialising in the Asia Pacific region, where he has held a number of senior roles at leading software companies including Interwoven, Oracle, Autonomy, and OpenText. Sanjay has a degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Sanjay Castelino

Sanjay Castelino is the Vice President of Product Marketing at SolarWinds. Previously, Sanjay worked at NetStreams, where he held the position of VP of marketing and business development. He was also the VP of product marketing and management at Motive. Sanjay has presented at conferences and tradeshows.

Sarah Ellis-Goldsmith

Sarah Ellis-Goldsmith is a Senior Consultant of Legal Recruitment at Robert Walters in Singapore. With more than 6 years experience living and working in Asia (Singapore & Tokyo), she has a deep understanding of the Asia business environment.

Sathish Murthy

Sathish Murthy is the Systems Engineering Manager for Cohesity ASEAN.