Granite works closely with UMG’s senior management and operating companies in 60 territories and is responsible for UMG’s strategy across some of the most dynamic, fast growing and evolving music markets including Greater China, India, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and South-East Asia. He is responsible for increasing coordination of UMG’s audio-visual content in Europe and Asia and contributes to the company’s global strategy for marketing, distribution, and commercial initiatives including licensing, acquisitions and emerging genres.

With more than 20 years in the music business, Granite has held a wide range of positions running record labels and working in finance, strategic planning, operations, business development, merchandise, as well as roles with oversight of territories in Europe, Africa, Russia, Turkey, Israel, and the Baltic and Balkan states.

Prior to joining Universal Music Group, Granite was President of Northern & Eastern Europe and Africa for Sony Music Entertainment. He was responsible for Sony’s operations and licensed operations across those territories. He was a key member of Sony Music’s International Executive Management team, leading digital strategy, A&R, marketing, brands, market segmentation & consumer insights, and international sales & distribution deals. Previously, he was Executive VP, Sony Music International, and earlier in his career was General Manager of Epic Records.

Since 2016, Adam Wilkes has served as President and CEO of AEG Asia, where he leads the company’s business activities across the region. In this capacity, Wilkes is responsible for overseeing the company’s arenas in China, Thailand and its development activities across Asia, including expanding its venue portfolio through facilities management, real estate development and acquisitions, growing its ticketing partnerships, and sponsorship activities. Additionally, Wilkes serves as President of AEG Presents Asia Pacific, a global leader in the live entertainment industry, where he oversees the company’s concert touring, sports and live event business that spans across 15 countries from Japan to India and China to Australia.

Since joining SM Entertainment’s A&R department in 2005, Chris Lee has played a visionary role in the evolution of Asia’s leading entertainment company. He made a name for himself by developing SM’s peerless production system, which involves a global network of more than 900 hit songwriters (from legends like Teddy Riley to pop sensations like Bruno Mars). Lee’s efforts introduced the songcamp model to K-pop, setting a new precedent for the Asian music industry as a whole.

Lee takes a similarly hands-on approach to nearly every facet of SM’s prodigious output, and fostering top global acts like SHINee, EXO, Red Velvet, and NCT. As a member of SM Entertainment’s board of directors, Lee is actively involved in formulating fresh corporate development strategies and directions. As CEO of CTGA Europe, he helps lead a globe-spanning team of industry experts in EKKO Music Rights’ new offices in Korea, Japan, Sweden, Germany, and the United States.

Christophe is in charge of music partnerships for YouTube and Google Play across labels and publishers. He joined Google in London in 2003, moved to Paris in 2010 and relocated to YouTube's headquarters near San Francisco in 2014. Prior to joining Google Christophe worked for several internet companies including Priceline.com an online travel company in London. Before moving to London in 2000, he held various positions in the business development and finance areas in the US, Germany and France. Born in Strasbourg, France, he earned his undergraduate degree in economics and graduate degree in finance at French universities. He resides in Palo Alto with his wife and two children.

Janice Lee is Managing Director, PCCW Media Group, overseeing the Company’s media and entertainment businesses including Hong Kong’s largest pay TV service, Now TV, over-the-top (OTT) entertainment services, and digital music services. Janice spearheaded the internationalisation of PCCW’s media business of Viu, which is now Asia’s leading video streaming service with over 30 million active users across 16 markets in South East Asia, India and the Middle East.

Janice has over 25 years of experience in media and consumer businesses. She was named "Asia Media Woman of the Year" by Content Asia in 2016. Leading US entertainment reporter Variety also named Janice as a woman of impact in their “Power of Women Impact Report” in 2016.

Jason is a hacker and biochemist turned serial entrepreneur and investor. His childhood obsession with competitive gaming led him to his latest adventure of creating Battlefy, the premier global destination for esports tournaments and leagues. The platform is used by over 120 thousand game developers, leagues, brands, influencers, and teams to create, scale, and market esports competitions that reach over 60 million players globally.

Javier Tebas Medrano (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1962), of Spanish nationality, holds a degree in Law from the University of Zaragoza. His involvement in football began in 1993, when he was named president of Sociedad Deportiva Huesca. In 2001 Tebas was elected as vice-president of LaLiga. In 2003 he was named head of the so-called G-30, a group representing 30 LaLiga clubs which worked on the joint negotiation of their audiovisual rights. Since 26 April 2013 Tebas has acted as president of LaLiga.

Upon taking up the LaLiga presidency, Javier Tebas identified his main objective as being to reduce club debts. In the space of just one year, LaLiga's efforts in this area saw the debts owed by its member clubs to the Tax Agency fall by 25%. The joint sale of audiovisual rights for the 2016/2017 season is set to see the LaLiga clubs experience a significant increase in their revenues. One of the main achievements during his term as president has been securing the centralised sale of audiovisual rights for the 2016/17 season brought in by Royal Decree-Law 5/2015, which will allow LaLiga clubs to significantly increase their revenues.

Other pillars of his work are undoubtedly the fight against piracy and the fight against any kind of violence in football. He has achieved very positive results on these two fronts, as well as with the transparency policy of the organisation itself. Innovation, technological development and internationalisation also represent other essential parts of his strategy. During these years he has increased the presence of LaLiga beyond Spanish borders, with offices in the United Arab Emirates, the United States, China, South Africa, Nigeria, India and Singapore. As a result of this internationalisation, foreign interest in LaLiga broadcasting rights continues to grow, allowing people in more and more corners of the world to watch the Spanish league.

Jonny Thompson is Director of International at Nichion, Inc. one of Japan's largest and most successful music publishing companies. Mr. Thompson has over 25 years of experience in both the recorded music and music publishing business in Japan working for both International majors such as Warner Music and leading Domestic labels such as JVC Victor, as well as major local artist management companies such as Smile, Inc. From 2005, Mr. Thompson has overseen the marketing and management of Japanese publisher Nichion's broad range of International catalogues both from a synch and co-write and song pitching perspective.

Lee Trink is an entrepreneur in the entertainment and media industries focused on the convergence of gaming and entertainment as both a cultural movement and an explosive business. As the CEO and co-owner of FaZe Clan, the largest, most followed esports and gaming organization in the world, Trink is creating a brand that extends beyond esports to mainstream entertainment through content, collaborations and e-commerce.

Trink began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn. With a true passion for music and a creative business mind, Trink sought an opportunity to bridge his legal background with entertainment. It’s at that moment Trink began his illustrious career moving through the ranks to eventually lead some of the most well-known music labels in the world.

In 2001, Trink served as General Manager for artist-first label Lava Records. Next, Trink went on to lead Virgin Records as General Manager and COO with much success, ultimately resulting in his promotion to President of EMI’s Capitol Music Group, comprised of Capitol Records, Virgin Records, Blue Note Records and Astralwerks Records. While at the helm, Trink was instrumental in accomplishing the company’s EBITA target for the first time in a decade during the toughest climate in music industry history. Simultaneously, he launched the careers of global superstars such as Katy Perry and Jared Leto’s 30 seconds to mars, along with architecting global marketing campaigns for The Rolling Stones, Coldplay, and Lenny Kravitz, among others.

Following his tenure at EMI, Trink built his own business where he managed multi-platinum global recording artists such as Kid Rock, The Backstreet Boys and Ice Cube; produced a charity album for the King of Thailand; and worked with iconic brands, such as General Motors, Harley-Davidson and Jim Beam. In this role, Trink also co-produced the Tony Scott directed Unstoppable starring Denzel Washington as well as Sean Penn’s short film Americans.

At FaZe Clan, Trink is on a mission to change the way people think about esports -- not as a niche sport for gamers, but as an entertainment juggernaut. His 25-year career delivers the conviction, ammunition and playbook to make this vision a reality.

Mehul Kapadia is the Global Head of Marketing at Tata Communications. In this role, he is responsible for bridging the customer-centric operations of the company’s Customer Success Group (sales & client services) and the innovations of the company’s product team to build Tata Communications’ brand – by creating customer awareness and advocacy through a multi-dimensional marketing strategy that fuels future growth. As part of this role, Mehul also spearheads the F1® engagement for Tata Communications with responsibility for the innovation, business development and marketing, for the F1 Ecosystem, which constitutes Formula One Group, racing teams like Mercedes and Williams and global broadcasters.

Michael Huppe is the President & CEO of SoundExchange, which has distributed over $6 billion in digital performance royalties to recording artists and rights owners since its inception in 2003. Michael also is the Chairman of SXWorks, a subsidiary of SoundExchange focused on music publisher services. He serves on the Executive Committee of musicFIRST and is a member of the Community Advisory Board of The Kennedy Center and a former Board member of Leadership Music. He is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University and has lectured at Harvard Law, George Washington Law School and George Mason University.

Mike Milanov is the Chief Operating Officer of Team Liquid, based out of the company's team HQ in Los Angeles. Responsible for overseeing multiple business units of Team Liquid, including partnerships, competitive operations, original content production and new business, he manages a team focused on increasing the team's footprint within the rapidly growing esports industry. With a diverse work history in video production, influencer management, sales, and online streaming, including a seven year career as a World of Warcraft pro player, Mike has used his unique knowledge of diverse areas of the esports ecosystem to propel Team Liquid to a leading esports brand. When he's not on a plane, pitching to sponsors, or meeting with clients, he enjoys streaming as #ThixNation in order to keep in touch with the communities and cultures of the games that he loves.

Mitch Glazier is Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He also serves on the Main Board of IFPI. For more than 20 years, Glazier has been at the forefront of building the new music ecosystem in the United States, recently helping to pass the Music Modernization Act (MMA). He began his career helping to pass the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act which paved the way for the streaming economy in the U.S. and assured creators have rights online.

Philippe Le Floc'h is a seasoned sports marketing & media executive with over 25 years’ experience.

Having joined FIFA in October 2016, Philippe is a member of the FIFA Management Board and oversees all commercial activities, including Marketing and TV as well as Brand, Ticketing, Hospitality and Rights Delivery Operations, therefore driving the organization’s commercial performance.

Prior to FIFA, Philippe lived for six years in the Middle East and Asia, developing his own marketing & media strategies consultancy firm (Customised Solution FZ LLC) after having set up CAA Sports Middle East, a sport marketing and media consultancy active in the Middle East & India (part of the Creative Artists Agency Group).

Prior to CAA, Philippe worked 10 years at UEFA, the governing body of football in Europe. He served as Marketing Director and his responsibilities included developing media content and sponsorship strategies for UEFA competitions (clubs & national teams). Brand management and business research also reported to him.

Prior to UEFA, Philippe worked 5 years with ISL Marketing AG, the Swiss-based full service sports marketing agency whose clients included IOC, FIFA, UEFA, IAAF, FIBA, FINA, OCA, ATP and ERC. In his capacity of Vice President - Head of Event Licensing, Philippe created and managed the agency's event licensing group.

Prior to ISL, Philippe was for 3 years Marketing Director at IMS/Studio 6, a Lausanne-based marketing and global communication agency whose main sports clients were the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic Museum and the Russian Olympic Committee.

Having worked on all aspects of this multi-faceted business environment, Philippe Le Floc'h brings a vast experience and know-how of sports marketing and media as well as a worldwide network of high level sports and business executives (international federations, football confederations, national associations, clubs, broadcasters, sponsors), all decision makers within the industry.
Philippe holds a MBA from HEC Lausanne in Switzerland, a Masters in Business Law (Major in International Trade) from Paris XI University in France and a BA Honours in Law & Politics from the University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom).

Pratik leads integrated marketing communications (IMC) including Creative, Content & Design, Digital, Packaging, Shopper Marketing, Social Media, Social listening and publishing, Sponsorship Excellence across The Coca-Cola Company’s ASEAN 10+ markets, leads various Global charters and incubates innovative and creative marketing solutions for the entire brand portfolio of the company. Pratik held leadership roles in many global ad agencies prior to joining Coke. His 18 years of industry experience covers stints in India, South East Asia and Greater China for Grey Group, McCann Worldgroup, Saatchi & Saatchi, DDB and Lowe. A strong advocate of creative technology & collaborative innovation, he founded Grey Innovation lab as Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer for GREY GROUP Greater China. Prior to joining Grey, he was the Chief Strategy & Innovation Catalyst at McCann Worldgroup, Greater China where he was highly regarded for his integrated creative strategies and disruptive ideas in design, branded content and digital technology led innovation on brands like Puma, L'Oréal Group, MasterCard, Nestle, Intel and Coca-Cola. Before moving to China in 2007, Thakar was Deputy Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer at McCann Worldgroup Malaysia (South East Asia).

Raja Rajamannar is Chief Marketing & Communications Officer of Mastercard. He is responsible for building the Mastercard brand, fueling business and advancing sustainable competitive edge for the company. With more than 30 years of experience as a global executive, Mr. Rajamannar has been recognized for driving business transformation across a variety of geographies and multiple industries, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare. Mr. Rajamannar is among the Forbes 2018 Top 5 World’s Most Influential CMOs, Business Insider’s Top 25 World’s Most Innovative CMOs and one of Adweek’s most tech-savvy CMOs. Most recently, Mr. Rajamannar has been named as the 2018 WFA Global Marketer of the Year. He is a member of the Board of Directors of PPL Corporation and Bon Secours Mercy Health. He is an inductee to The CMO Club 2018 CMO Hall of Fame and serves on the boards of the New York City Ballet, Cintrifuse, and ANA. Mr. Rajamannar also recently assumed the honorary role as President of the World Federation of Advertisers.

For Sara Bollwinkel, it’s about getting in early, and creatively customizing the developmental path for each client to best showcase their artistry. She has overseen the development of young rising star Billie Eilish since she was 14 years old and works closely to help grow her clients from small clubs to arenas and amphitheaters. Sara began her career 12 years ago at Monterey Peninsula Artists under the tutelage of Chip Hooper and Lynn Cingari and subsequently joined Paradigm’s Co-Head of West Coast Music, Corrie Christopher Martin.

Steven Lam is the Managing Director South East Asia and Wholesale / Travel Retail Asia Pacific at HUGO BOSS.  He has over 20 years’ experience in the retail business industry and started his career as a Fund Manager managing a portfolio of technology investments, focusing on Asian tech companies.

He later transitioned into a career in retail business with FJ Benjamin and developed a new concept menswear business called Raoul with the team that expanded to a network of 11 stores in South East Asia. He has also held management roles in LVMH and Zegna where he directly oversaw, strengthened the position of the brands in matured markets and successfully implemented wholesale driven initiatives in developing markets.

Responsible for the successful growth, marketing, and business development of BOSS and HUGO, Steven and his team in Singapore/Hong Kong has been expanding both directly operated networks and their Travel Retail footprint in Asia.

He has led the signing of several key personalities including Joseph Schooling; Singapore’s first Olympian as the Man Of Today for HUGO BOSS and is the driving force and passionate leader behind the brand success in South East Asia.

Vinai is an Oxford University graduate who started his career in the City, firstly as an oil trader and then as a strategy consultant at Deloitte where he qualified as a management accountant. He transitioned into a career in sport when he joined the commercial team of the London 2012 Olympics in 2005. There he was a key part of a record-breaking team that together raised £2bn from the private sector.

Vinai left London 2012 for Arsenal Football Club in 2010, and after a successful period of driving commercial revenue growth as Chief Commercial Officer was promoted to Managing Director in 2018.

Outside Arsenal, Vinai is a Non-Executive Director of the British Olympic Association. He has also held Non-Executive Director roles at the London 2017 World Athletics Championships and the digital start-up Dugout. In 2018 he was ranked number 46 in the list of the 101 most influential Asians in Britain. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three young children.

Vivien Lewit is YouTube and Google Play Music’s Global Head of Artist Services. She directs a team of music ambassadors and experts in the field of digital music distribution focused on developing and executing strategies to support the growth of artists’ careers on YouTube and Google Play Music. Vivien also oversees the company’s music content programming, including international live music events, music projects within YouTube Spaces, and special fan engagement activations.

Prior to joining YouTube in March 2011, Vivien was an accomplished attorney in the recording industry. She specialized in music, digital rights and branded entertainment. Starting as an associate at the law firm of Rudolph & Beer, she eventually took a partnership at Davis Shapiro Lewit Grabel Leven Granderson & Blake.

Vivien is a member of the Advisory Board of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, a leading think tank studying diversity and inclusion in entertainment through research and action focused projects, and sits on the Executive Committee of She Is The Music, an industry wide non-profit, designed to empower female creators and increase the number of women working in music. In prior years, Vivien served as a board member of the Country Music Association. In 2013, Vivien was recognized as one of New York’s top content players in Variety’s “Gotham 50,” and in more recent years is consistently listed among Billboard Magazine’s most powerful Women in Music.

Wendy Ayche, better known as Wengie, is a Chinese Australian YouTuber personality, vlogger, singer, and voice actress. As of 2019, her YouTube channel had over 13.5 million subscribers, making her the most popular YouTuber from Australia. Her recent single “Mr Nice Guy” has reached No.1 in the local charts in the Philippines which was a Kpop style collaboration on her global music project.

Willard Ahdritz is the Founder & CEO of Kobalt, a music and technology company built for artists, songwriters, publishers and labels as an alternative to the traditional music business model. Ahdritz founded Kobalt in 2000 with a relentless pursuit to create a more transparent, fair, and rewarding alternative for artists, songwriters, music publishers, and labels. Through Kobalt's unique “clients first” service model, and creating the world’s most advanced multi-rights royalty collections technology, Ahdritz has changed the music industry forever. Today, Kobalt’s Music Publishing, Neighboring Rights, Society (AMRA) and AWAL divisions serve over 600 publishers and 40,000 artists and songwriters, including Childish Gambino, Miles Davis, Dave Grohl, Enrique Iglesias, Lauv, Lorde, Zayn Malik, Bob Marley, Marshmello, Max Martin, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, The Weeknd, and many more. Kobalt represents on average over 40% of the top 100 songs and albums in both the US and UK, and is consistently ranked as a top 3 music publisher.

He likes chillies, the colour blue, beer, film scores and – oh wait, this is not that kind of bio.

Abhishek ‘Shakey’ Rao is the Head of Brand for MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Channel in Southeast Asia, leading the team to grow the brands and drive synergies across all platforms. Content strategy & creation, marketing & creative, social media, music and events, and looking at 'what next'. With stints at production houses, ESPN and FOX, Shakey has been getting away with working with cool folk doing cool stuff way longer than he expected. At Viacom, with a bunch of fun people, he’s playing with some very fun brands – and finds himself constantly amazed at how storytelling is changing, yet thinking - the more things change…

Adam is Chief Commercial Officer at Singapore Sports Hub, a 35-hectare precinct consisting of Singapore’s state-of-the-art 55,000-seat National Stadium, 12,000-seat Indoor Stadium and several other venues. He oversees SportsHub’s commercial strategy and manages the events business with more than 400 event days per year across the precinct.  Recent highlights include International Champions Cup, featuring Manchester United, Inter Milan, Juventus and Tottenham, the HSBC Singapore Rugby Sevens, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, BTS and many more.

Prior to Sports Hub, Adam worked in a similar role in Australia, with particular attention on procuring and creating premium event content that delivers strong commercial outcomes in addition to the wider social and economic objectives of Government in owning and operating major events infrastructure.

Earlier in his career Adam spent several years in business development and event promoter roles within international motorsport, and advisory positions with the Australian Olympic Committee and Australian Commonwealth Games Association.

Adam is a trained lawyer and worked for several years as one of Australia’s leading sport and entertainment lawyers before moving into more commercial roles.

Adrian has over 20 years experience in music and associated creative industries, much of which has focussed on the development of digital business. Combining a passion for creative innovation with his depth of experience in commercial rights negotiations across a broad range of sectors, Adrian is Chief Digital Officer at [PIAS], one of the world’s leading independent music companies. Adrian works alongside an experienced, multi-national digital team sitting at the heart of the [PIAS] business. The digital team combines with [PIAS] colleagues, labels and artists around the world to deliver a highly focussed service across all aspects of digital supply, creative, marketing, promotion and sales.

Akshat is an experienced Serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the startup space. His traditional experience has been in the management consulting industry with Ernst & Young.

Akshat has a proven track record of multiple exits, the latest being the divestment of a controlling stake of NODWIN Gaming to Nazara Games and ESL.

Akshat is skilled in Management, Business Development, Training. His areas of expertise are Gaming, Telecommunications and Venture Capital.

Akshat has strong business development and marketing skills and is a seasoned industry professional with a focus on leadership from Aspen Global Leadership Initiative.

British-Norwegian EDM producer Alan Walker was a mere 18-year-old when his track "Faded" became a massive European hit.

In 2012, inspired by EDM producers such as K-391 and Ahrix and film composer Hans Zimmer, he began creating his own music on his laptop. Working in the genre of "drumstep," a slowed-down drum'n'bass, he uploaded the instrumental track "Fade." The track was a huge success, garnering 65 million hits. In 2015 he signed to Sony Music and released "Faded," a reworked version of "Fade", which topped worldwide charts, including Sweden (nine-times platinum), Germany, France, Italy and Norway. In 2017 he dropped "Tired," featuring Gavin James, followed by “All Falls Down” with Noah Cyrus and Digital Farm Animals. Other singles include "Ignite" in collab with K-391 (feat. Julie Bergan and Seungri) , "Darkside” (feat. Au/Ra and Tomine Harket) and "Different World" feat K-391, Corsak and Sofia Carson. December 2018 he released his debut album "Different World". With 12 billion audio and video streams globally and around 32 million followers across his social channels there is no sign of slowing down. Festival highlights include Coachella, Lollapalooza, Creamfields, EDC Las Vegas, Electric Zoo and main stages at Tomorrowland and Ultra. He is currently on his "Different World Tour" in the US. Collaborations and official remixes include Kygo, Steve Aoki, Sia, Ina Wroldsen, Julia Michaels, Noah Cyrus, Avicii, Bruno Mars and Lay - Sheep (Alan Walker Relift).

Ali Sachedina joined JioSaavn in April 2017 as General Counsel and Vice President of Business Affairs. Based in New York and Mumbai, Ali oversees all of JioSaavn’s legal and regulatory affairs worldwide. Ali’s responsibilities include the development and implementation of all of JioSaavn’s risk mitigation and compliance processes, the management of data privacy and cybersecurity initiatives, the negotiation of complex content licensing and original content agreements, while providing strategic advice to JioSaavn’s management on wide spectrum of JioSaavn’s business development activities.

Ali joined JioSaavn with fifteen years of experience an entertainment attorney. As a solo-practitioner, Ali counseled clients - including multi-national media companies, Platinum award-winning hip hop and marquee Bollywood composers - on a wide array of transactions in the United States and India. From 2008 to 2012, he founded and successfully operated Kinetic Management, an artist management company considered by many as the gateway for independent artists from India into North America.

Ali is a graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A. Religion & Middle East Studies, Minor in Persian Language and Literature) and the University of Richmond School of Law.

Aloysius Arlando is the Chief Executive Officer of SingEx Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore investment company, Temasek Holdings. SingEx Holdings comprises several entities focusing on the venue management and events development businesses. They include SingEx Venues Pte. Ltd., which manages the Singapore EXPO Convention and Exhibition Centre, the largest purpose-built MICE venue in Singapore; and SingEx Exhibitions Pte. Ltd., the event management arm which develops and manages exhibitions, conferences and other business events relating to key industries of the future economy.

Since taking over the helm in 2010, Aloysius has built up a portfolio of MICE-related ventures, both regionally and globally, as well as developed its suite of business event solutions and venue management services to new standards. Singapore EXPO and MAX Atria was awarded Best International Venue 2016 by UK’s Exhibition News (EN) and Best Business Event Venue 2018 by Singapore Tourism Board, while SingEx Exhibitions was awarded Best Trade Conference Organiser. Through her head office in Singapore and subsidiaries in Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta and London, SingEx stages a portfolio of over 25 proprietary trade events in India, China, Indonesia, South Africa, UK and Singapore.

Prior to SingEx, Aloysius spent 18 years in various leadership positions in Singapore’s public sector. While he was at the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and Ministry of Trade & Industry, he advanced the development plans for Singapore's tourism, business travel and MICE industries. He was a key member of a multi-agency committee responsible for Singapore’s Integrated Resorts projects, where he oversaw the MICE development aspects. He also served in the Ministry of Manpower where he spearheaded lifelong learning and workforce development efforts.

In 2004, Aloysius received a Public Administration Award in recognition of his achievements. Aloysius capped off his stint in the public sector as the Assistant Chief Executive of Business Travel and MICE in STB, where under his watch, Singapore emerged as the Top International Meetings City and Asia’s Top Country and City for Meetings by the Union of International Associations for the first time. He was also concurrently serving as the Executive Director of the organising committee for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Singapore 2009 high-level meetings.

In line with his role at SingEx, Aloysius was nominated in 2014 as the Vice-Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) and Vice-President of the International Association of Convention Centres (AIPC) in 2015. Aloysius is now the President of SACEOS (Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers) and President of AIPC, the first Asian to assume the association’s presidency.

A passionate and experienced marketer with a track record of high performance and delivery of results. Worked in different countries in local, regional and global marketing roles.
Currently Global Head of Integrated Brand & Communications @ Shell responsible for all the Brand marketing communications. (before Global Head of Digital and Social Media, before Global Head of Media)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/americocampossilva/
Originally from Portugal, joined Shell 25 years ago after some years working in Advertising @Publicis.

What I enjoy about my role
Marketing has never been more rewarding!
To learn, test and implement the new possibilities to reach, interact and engage with our audiences is just fascinating.
I also love to be able to work across different business challenges, audiences and geographies.

Biggest challenges
Besides the continuous need for capability building across all marketing and communications teams, the biggest challenge is to leverage and cross-measure all consumer touch points in an integrated, consistent and personalized way across our bought, earned and owned media channels across multiple devices, in a world where consumers are in control and where media is more and more fragmented.

Andrew oversees a portfolio of investments and advises development stage companies on their growth and acceleration plans in Asia and beyond. His technology/media portfolio includes companies involved in: esports talent management, an online documentary and video platform, short-form branded video, location based advertising, advertising fraud prevention and music talent discovery.

Anna oversees all aspects of business and operations for Discovery in Southeast Asia, driving growth and expanding the product offering with a focus on digital opportunities. Anna joined Discovery in 2014 and held several senior roles including running the company’s business across Eastern Europe. Prior to that, she was Distribution Director for Eurosport and most recently with Russia’s National Media Group managing its pay TV distribution portfolio, including Discovery.

Anurag heads video content strategy and operations at Singtel for its video platforms - Singtel TV and CAST. He also runs Singtel Media, the integrated Advertising Sales business unit representing all of Singtel's media assets. He has overseen the widening of Singtel TV content lineup to market leadership during Singtel TV’s growth from the challenger to a position of leadership, and the foundation of a robust OTT business. Anurag has been active in Asia's fast growing media industry for over two decades. Prior to Singtel, he was with Fox International Channels/ESPN STAR Sports, where he steered high value sports rights acquisitions and the launches of various sports programming initiatives and television and online sports channels.

Arthur Chow is the co-founder and CEO of 6waves, a leading global publisher of Mobile games with investors including Korea’s Nexon and US Insight Venture Partners. Founded in 2008, 6waves has now expanded to 120 employees with a presence in Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco and Beijing. Most recently, 6waves has launched a live mobile quiz show in Hong Kong with Arthur also playing the host.

Arthur was awarded with the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2012 and featured by HSBC Commercial Banking advertising campaign as one of the business leaders in Hong Kong.

He is a regular speaker and has spoken at GDC, G-Star, RISE, Game Connection, Casual Connect, Nordicgames and ChinaJoy.

Arvinder has a dual role at Twitter as Managing Director of Southeast Asia and Senior Director of Asia Pacific Business Development. In his MD of Southeast Asia role, he is responsible for growing Twitter’s business across Southeast Asia including strategic leadership and business planning, executive engagement with customers and partners, and cross-functional alignment to build up our presence. In his Asia Pacific Business Development role, he oversees strategic partnerships across Asia Pacific to enhance brands’ customer experience on Twitter and increase accessibility of Twitter in emerging markets.

Prior to joining Twitter in 2013, Arvinder was Head of Digital and Innovation at Aircel, a telecom operator in India. His previous experiences spanning over 17 years, saw him working at a mobile app start-up in California, sales and marketing in tech consulting and advertising. He is an adviser and investor to multiple start-ups and has spoken at leading industry conferences around the world. He is based in Singapore, but you will find him on the road everywhere at the nearest coffee shop! Follow him at @arvindergujral on Twitter.

Atul has over 25 years of experience and has held a variety of senior executive roles in the software and telecom domains. At Comviva, Atul heads the Digital Services business unit which focuses on leveraging the mobile to develop world-class lifestyle solutions spanning music, video and content and digital services for diverse geographies - Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and South Asia. With an emphasis on driving product innovation while balancing business imperatives, Atul has helped grow Comviva’s digital services business, which contributes 35% to business.

Previously, Atul was responsible for growing Comviva’s footprint in Africa. In his role as VP Airtel Africa, Atul helped expand Comviva’s presence in 17 new countries and was responsible for growing Comviva’s Managed Services and Mobile Financial Services business. Prior to that, Atul was instrumental in developing and growing Comviva’s Mobile Advertising and Digital Services infrastructure solutions spanning Messaging, Call Management and Roaming.

Before joining Comviva, Atul worked with Daewoo Telecom, India, where he developed and delivered telecom and datacom products. Atul has wide experience of PSTN, 3G, CDMA and ATM Switching Systems and has been responsible for developing products in the areas of IP Switching, Routing and X.25.

Ben has only ever worked in the Sponsorship and Branded Content industry; 6 years in Europe and 18 in Asia. He has evolved from traditional sports marketing (Lagardere) to Branded Content (Ogilvy, Omnicom Media Group), Sponsorship & Content data (Nielsen, ASN) and now Sponsorship and Content technology as the COO of Vuulr, a Blockchain-based content & sponsorship rights marketplace business.

He is also a former freelance broadcaster with Fox Sports and Sony Pictures in Asia, and a judge of the Branded Entertainment categories at the Cannes Lions and Spikes in their inaugural year, as well as the Asian Academy Creative Awards, Sports Industry Awards Asia and the Singapore Sports Awards. @benheyhoeflint

Ben is the CEO & Co-Founder of Spalk - Spalk's Virtual Commentary Studio supports dozens of the world's biggest sports properties, like World Rugby, FIBA & NBA G League, with audience growth on their live broadcasts. Spalk are world leaders in Virtual Production and have pioneered several major innovations to support sports leagues with producing TV-quality broadcasts without the need for production staff on site.

Spalk's Talent Marketplace also boasts the world's largest marketplace for Professional Commentary Talent, spanning over 2,500 professionals in over 50 languages.

Originally from New Zealand and prior to Spalk, Ben has a background in Venture Capital & Private Equity.

Bernie Cho is the President of DFSB Kollective, a Seoul-based independent artist & label services agency that specializes in providing digital media, marketing, and distribution solutions to 600+ Korean Pop music artists. As more K-Pop acts aspire to go independent and international, DFSB collaborates with artists and their management to devise customized strategies that directly connect them to their local and global fans. Since 2009, the agency has successfully produced numerous K-Pop concerts/showcases around the world as well as secured #1 chart debuts for various K-Pop albums in North America, East Asia, Western Europe, and Australia.

Bill is the CEO & Co-founder of Amanotes. Since he was young, Bill has been a music fanatic who believes that music is The True, The Good and The Beautiful.

For over 15 years, as an ambitious entrepreneur, Bill has started three businesses in the music game & app industry. Besides his startups, he also has extensive experience in Lean Startup Methodologies, business strategies, product & project management with big technology companies (IBM, Gloops, FPT) and diverse international cultures (US, Japan, Vietnam).

Caroline Chow is an experienced digital music executive in Asia and held regional roles with EMI and Universal Music since 2003. She founded Music Original (music label) and joined WOW Music as Director in 2017.

WOW Music engages in artist management, content licensing, events and concert promotion in Greater China for artists including Frances Yip(HK), Endy Chow(HK), Ronald Cheng (HK), Cheer Chen (Taiwan), Wan Ting Qu (Canada) ,Tiger Hu (China).

WOW distributes for prominent music labels HIM International Music, Asia Muse , Ascent Media, TeamEar Music, Kugou Music (China) and other indie artists in Greater China.

At the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), Catherine Armitage provides strategic guidance on some of the digital governance challenges facing advertisers in a data-driven, hyper-connected world. She runs the WFA’s Digital Governance Exchange forum and leads advocacy work to represent the voice of marketers. Catherine began her career at Procter & Gamble, where she led brand marketing initiatives and coordinated e-commerce strategy across Western Europe.

Charles Caldas is CEO of Merlin, the global digital rights agency for the world’s independent label sector. The organization's members command in excess of 12% of the digital recorded music market and embody more than 20,000 independent record labels and distributors from 55 countries and all continents. Charles has been recognized by Billboard in its 2018 and 2019 lists of the 100 most influential people in the music business and is a previous recipient of IMPALA's Outstanding Contribution Award.

As Spotify's Head of Artist & Label Marketing, Asia, Chee Meng manages Spotify’s strategic partnerships with regional record labels, oversees artist marketing activities and works closely with local creator communities. With over 20 years of experience in the music industry, Chee Meng is passionate about introducing innovation in the digital space and is always looking for opportunities to leverage his comprehensive understanding of the industry to further Spotify’s position as the leading music streaming service. Prior to his role at Spotify, Chee Meng served as Director, Music at Singtel where he was responsible for the growth, licensing and monetization of the music services in the region's leading telco. Chee Meng has also held senior roles at MTV Asia, where he led the network's foray into digital music and also directed international marketing at Sony Music Entertainment in Asia.

Chris leads the qualitative team at 2CV in Singapore. He is highly skilled at bringing insight to life through multiple sources such as reporting, videos and workshops. He particularly enjoys using mobile ethnography, semiotic analysis, co-creation workshops, sprint development and UI/UX testing to help understand today’s consumers. Over the last 8 years, Chris has had the pleasure of working with several high-profile brands globally, across categories from luxury fashion to finance, and pain relief to football fandom. Chris also happens to be a hardcore gamer who has worked for Activision, Blizzard, EA, King, Microsoft and Square Enix, in many markets around the world. Always on the ground, Chris was most recently in China and Korea understanding the next generation of gamers for a leading franchise.

Chris is an author, highly sought after international speaker, advisor and Founder and CEO of Mass Participation Asia. With over 30 years of industry experience, Chris has impacted millions of people by delivering some of the largest mass participation sports events across three continents. He was also the Road Events Supervisor for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Today, Chris leverages his extensive experience to inspire others through public speaking, consulting and advising, and facilitating industry collaboration through the Mass Participation Asia conference.

As the Regional Manager, Chris oversees the business and operations of Riot Games within Southeast Asia. His priority has always been in ensuring that players of Riot Games’ League of Legends is a game for gamers, and works closely with the developer team towards achieving that. He believes that a perfect game is one which comes alive when technology meets entertainment, and strives to achieve that through League of Legends.

Prior to his regional role, Chris was the Country Manager of Vietnam for over two years at Riot Games. During that time, he led the opening of Vietnam’s first Esports Stadium, and has pushed for the growth of the country’s own esports industry.

Chris specialized in both Economics and Biology at Brandeis University. He previously took on roles in consulting and advertising for about 18 years before landing his foot in Riot Games. Chris has always had the passion for gaming and it was only natural for him to eventually end up within the industry.

Christel Quek is the Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of BOLT. BOLT is an ecosystem of services designed for the next 6 billion, with two existing products - BOLT+ (A live, mobile TV global network) and Pegasus, a gateway for token transfer, storage and redemption for other goods and services. BOLT has launched BOLT+ on Web, iOS and Android, which comprises of over 30 live TV channels, and coverage of sporting moments. Partners include Hisense, International Cricket Council, Viki Rakuten, Al Jazeera, Digi, M-Pesa, and Bytedance (holding company of TikTok)

Christine Fellowes is Managing Director, NBCUniversal Networks, a division of Comcast NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading global media and internet companies.

Her role includes P&L responsibility for branded video-on-demand services, television networks, websites, mobile and social platforms in the Asia Pacific, for brands including Universal TV, E! Entertainment, The Dreamworks Channel, Syfy, Oxygen and Bravo. She has led the digital transformation of NBCU’s Networks business launching new digital services, the Content Studio, original content production, and NBCU’s Innovation Lab.

Previously, Fellowes served as MD, Comcast International Media Group, CEO, ClickThings, a New York-based technology company, head of Commerce and Brand Management, Turner Entertainment, and Managing Partner of the Product Creation division of advertising powerhouse, the Omnicom Group.

Claudia Chan is the Digital Government Lead for Southeast Asia at SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software. Claudia is responsible for SAP’s thought leadership, public policy and strategic engagements with governments and stakeholders in Southeast Asia to drive digital transformation in the public sector to address economic and societal challenges.

Before joining SAP, Claudia held key public policy and government relations roles at technology companies such as Google, Lazada and Seagate Technology. During her time with Seagate, she served as the Vice Chair of the ICT Committee in the US-ASEAN Business Council. She spent a large part of her early career in regional trade and investment promotion roles with the governments of Singapore, Japan and New Zealand.

As COO of The Orchard, an industry leading music distribution and services company, Colleen oversees daily business activities across 43 offices globally. Previous to her five-year tenure as COO she served as the company’s MD of UK and Europe, the culmination of 12 years spent in London. Prior to The Orchard, Colleen was SVP International for ADA Global, having originally relocated overseas from New York for an international marketing role with independent label Rykodisc. Theis got her start in music at Elektra Records. Prior to music, she worked in PR, produced cable TV content, and represented visual artists.

Born and bred in Shanghai, CORSAK is set to become China and Asia’s new leading electronic superstar.

First introduced to the piano at the age of three, music has been a part of CORSAK’s life for as long as he can remember. After years of hard work and soul-searching, CORSAK found his real passion: electronic music. Swapping out the likes of Chopin and Brahms for Avicii and Steve Angello, he returned home to attend the renowned Shanghai Conservatory of Music, this time to study music design and production. He was instantly hooked, and quickly finding out that he had a knack for creating melody after melody, that same determination and focus that was required from him playing the piano as a kid returned.

CORSAK draws inspiration from both ancient and modern culture from his homeland, with a musical style and signature sound resulting in a unique hybrid of genre-bending melodies with immense commercial potential far beyond the Chinese market.

Dan Rosen is the Chief Executive of ARIA, the peak body for the Australian recorded music industry, and PPCA the collection society for thousands of Australian recording artists and labels. In these roles he has helped to build the new music ecosystem in Australia with a digital and global focus.

Prior to joining ARIA/PPCA, Dan was based in New York working to take a tech start-up to NASDAQ listing. Before leaving for the US, Dan was an Advisor to the Australian Government on digital media and innovation policy, and started his career as a corporate lawyer.

As a musician, Dan won the national broadcaster’s Triple J Unearthed and has toured throughout the US and Australia.

He is a passionate voice for creativity as a Director of Creative Partnerships Australia, Advisory Board member of the National Indigenous Music Awards, former Chair of the NSW Creative Industries Taskforce and member of the Victorian Government’s Creative Victoria Taskforce.

Dan is Fulbright Scholar who completed his Masters of International Law at New York University.

Daniel is the PC gaming and esports marketing lead for HP Inc, Asia Pacific. Daniel is the mastermind behind the flagship OMEN X PUBG Challenger Series tournament which started in 2018. This initiative is a celebration of the gaming community and a chance for players from all over Asia Pacific to showcase their skills and form deeper cross country and cultural experiences. As gaming continues to evolve as a lifestyle, HP is committed to playing a leading role in broadening the awareness and participation of gaming across Asia Pacific. A passionate marketer, with an entrepreneurial mindset, Daniel started his career in the advertising world, working with brands from telco, automobile, tech and FMCG. Prior to HP, Daniel was the country consumer marketing lead for Dell Singapore.

FIFA ONLINE 4 commissioner and Head of APAC Competitive Gaming.

Danny Lee has looked after western pop artists - Will.i.am, The Black Eyed Peas, Afrojack, and more, and has consulted on the growth of K-pop in the US. Asian Agent focuses on bridging culture and community between the East/West through music and content.

Joined Rock Records since 2004, Danny is responsible for digital distribution and marketing for Rock Records, which is the biggest Mandarin indie label with a massive amount of Mandarin recordings. His best wish is to make people all over the world to enjoy the beauty of Mandarin songs by closely working with digital platforms and partners.

Once upon a time a young man used to watch sport on the TV and wish he could be the commentator. He’d go and kick a ball outside, or ride his bike around the block and pretend that he was the man behind the microphone. Imitating his commentary heroes and dreaming that one day he could do this for real.

Well, fast forward 40 years or so and that dream has indeed become reality for Crofty. What started out with a 1 month contract to work for BBC Local Radio in 1996 has resulted in a broadcasting career that has now seen him establish himself as the voice of F1, not just in the UK on Sky Sports F1, but around the world with Crofty’s commentaries being carried in over 65 different territories.

While Formula 1 celebrated it’s 1000th World Championship Race recently, one race later, Crofty picked up the mic for his 250th Grand Prix as a commentator, meaning that his voice has been heard now on a quarter of all the world championship races ever run.

Away from the racetrack Crofty also presents and commentates on World Championship Darts for Sky Sports, having covered his first world championship back in 2002. Before joining Sky Sports, Crofty worked for BBC Radio 5-Live, presenting Sport on 5 and covering the 2002 Football World Cup and 2004 Olympic Games amongst many other highlights. As well, of course, as becoming the stations Formula 1 correspondent back in 2006.

Those gamers amongst us would recognise Crofty’s voice from each of the last 10 editions of Codemasters F1 video games too and he has featured as a narrator for the film ‘The Green Hell’ about the epic Nordschleife race track as well as appearing in the UK version of the Disney animation film ‘Planes’ as ‘Lofty Crofty’ the airship commentator.
Crofty was born and raised in Stevenage, as was the 5 time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. One had speed, one had the words to describe it and both are still living the dream.

David has over 15 years of in-depth experience of working in the sports industry at senior levels. Initially joining the board in an non executive role, he took on the responsibility for the company’s strategic approach on key topics such as the development of the data market in 2013. He leads the UK business as well as a group remit such as sports partnerships, rights protection, commercial compliance and other strategically significant group projects. Prior to joining Sportradar, David worked at the English Football Association, he was a member of UEFA's Club Licensing Committee and spent two years as CEO of Portsmouth Football Club.

Over 30 years in the Asian music business, across artist management, music publishing, recorded music and streaming.

David has been working within the online media & Asian Influencer space in a variety of leadership roles since 2012. He’s witnessed firsthand the power social influencers have in impacting brand uplift and generating online sales. He views this cross pollination as the future of the industry, and the opportunity for Influencers rather than Brands to transform it. The FlashFomo revolution puts Influencers in control of their personal brand destiny. The Asian marketplace is uniquely positioned in both demand and supply to deliver on this potential, utilising Flashfomo’s platform. David looks forward to driving this industry to hit its predicted markers, and building fulfilling partnerships with social influencers & their fans in the process.

David is responsible for one of the largest media budgets in a diverse region spanning 14 time zones.  He is responsible for driving the company’s innovation in Communications Channel Planning with a strong focus on Unilever’s development as a major force in digital marketing in the region.

David was educated at Dulwich College, London and the Open University Business School, UK.  He spent 25 years in UK agencies before a 7-year stay in Asia Pacific with Mindshare, where he managed the agency’s multimarket relationship with Unilever.

He joined Unilever in 2010 and has managed its media operations in multiple markets including APAC.

David is Australia’s preeminent music lawyer and the founder of Media Arts Lawyers. With over 25 years’ experience dealing in all facets of entertainment law, David represents many high-profile musicians, celebrities and entertainment companies. A passionate advocate for local music and creative industries, David also chairs the board of Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR) and is a board member of Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA).

Denis Ladegaillerie is the founder and CEO of Believe Group created in 2005. The group develops products and services for artists and labels under the Believe & TuneCore brands, while also developing specialized labels such as AllPoints, Naïve, MusiCast or SoulFood. Believe collaborates with many artists, who are served by 1.000 staff in 44 offices around the world. Denis started working in digital music in 2001 in the United States with MP3.com, eMusic and Rollingstone.com.

In September 2018, Believe acquired a 49% stake in French indie label Tôt ou tard from Wagram Music. 

In October 2018, Believe acquired a majority stake in German label Nuclear Blast.

Dennis Hau has been TME’s Group Vice President from December 2016, in charge of the operation and management of QQ Music and WeSing. Dennis joined Tencent in 2007 and served as Deputy General Manager of the International Business Department and General Manager of the Digital Music Division of the Social Network Group. Before joining Tencent, Dennis worked at Oracle Corporation for over 10 years on business intelligence, data analysis and research and management work. Dennis received an EMBA degree from Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program and a bachelor’s degree in business computing from the University of Winnipeg, Canada.

Ed serves as Chair of the Music and Sports practice at Reed Smith. A transactional entertainment lawyer with over 26 years of experience, Ed has become a recognized figure in the entertainment business, known for representing today’s top superstar musical performers and songwriters. His practice also extends to the representation of many top professional athletes in major league sports. Some of his clients include Rihanna, Jay-Z, Mariah, Kaskade, Sza, Anitta, Normani, Grimes, Romeo Santos, Kesha, Mason Ramsey, Roc Nation and Kevin Durant, Robbie Cano and CC Sabathia. The practice focuses on the negotiation a wide range of contracts spanning the entertainment & media industry, including endorsement and sponsorship agreements, touring, media, merchandising, production and distribution agreements.

As a serial tech entrepreneur, Edy has founded and exited several start-ups, such as LOKET that was acquired by GOJEK in 2017 after 4 years’ operating. Established in 2013, LOKET as a ticketing management and data analytic company covers more than 80 percent of Class-A event in Indonesia, from Music Festival such as Djakarta Warehouse Project, to the biggest multi-sport event in Asia such as Asian Games.

Graduated from Ohio State University majoring in Computer Engineering, Edy has also founded eEvent (acquired by EnvisionPoint, 2013), OW.com (acquired by Telepathy, 2009), Kamus.net (acquired by Stand4, 2008) before finally founded LOKET that now led him to be the Chairman of the Entertainment Verticals within GOJEK Group and advisor for few prominent ICOs in the region.

Edy's mission is to democratize and revolutionize Indonesia entertainment industry because he believes in its potential. He carried out this mission through creating and bringing the best experience for both creators and consumer and scale up the ecosystem.

Ellie is a Marketing professional having spent 20 years predominantly in Automotive and Media across both agency and client-side roles in global, regional and local functions. In 2004 Ellie was headhunted to join Honda Motor Europe as Communications Manager from agency-side. In September 2012 Ellie was asked to join Virgin Media as Head of Advertising. During her time at Virgin Media Ellie led the evolvement of all Brand campaigns with a renewed focus on the key drivers of Brand Equity and ultimately the value ‘Brand’ contributes to the business. This resulted in Virgin Media’s most effective brand communications to date and creatively the first Gold Arrow for the Bolt 9.58 sec ad. January 2014 Ellie’s role was expanded to develop and lead the strategy and implementation of Sponsorship. This resulted in a shift away from V Festival and an emphasis on strategically relevant partnerships, and included Southampton Football Club, Football Supporters Federation, BAFTA TV and EGX. Following the change in ownership at F1, Ellie was asked to join the management team as the companies first ever Director of Marketing to lead the sport as it grows its fan base and attracts a new younger audience. This included a new identity for the sport after 24 years and a focus on fan engagement. This role has since been expanded to include Customer Service and Communications.

Emily is a ‘third culture’ kid who was brought up in Hong Kong by parents from the Philippines and the UK. She has over 20 years of experience working in both international and local media, across countries, regions and brands and lived in both Europe and Asia. She's worked in the financial, energy, travel, telecoms, tech and FMCG sectors and is now the global lead for the Huawei business at Wavemaker based in Hong Kong. Emily is also groupM APAC's steering committee lead for its LGBT initiative prideM and has most recently launched groupM Hong Kong's first prideM committee.

As Vice President of Category Marketing for Nike Greater China, Eric Wei is responsible for elevating the category offense of key category initiatives, brand defining stories and key moments as well as supporting the growth of the emerging growth categories. Prior to it, He was GM Jordan Brand Greater China and played a critical role in doubling the business growth of the brand by deploying fleets of strategic retail Jordan-only doors across Greater China’s key trade zones, as well as capturing Jordan’s e-commerce opportunity by successfully launching Jordan TMall store and JORDAN.com. During his tenure, Eric elevated the brand voice of Commit to Win, and was instrumental to have signed Guo Ailun as the first Jordan player in Asia. Since joining Nike in 2008, Eric has also held a variety of Marketing roles across Brand Marketing for Jordan, Basketball, Sportswear and Territory. Before joining Nike, Eric worked in various companies in sports industry including NBA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Boston Colleage.

Esther has founded a number of successful startups and has been working in Vietnam since 2004. In 2007, Esther launched POPS Worldwide. After 11 years of cleaning up and building up the digital music and entertainment industry, POPS Worldwide is the leading digital entertainment company in Vietnam and Thailand and the partner of choice for local and international content providers. POPS has the largest music repertoire, representing 90% of the Vietnam music industry, and works with over 1,500 leading domestic and international partners like Warner Media, NBC Universal, Discovery, TV Asahi, The Pokémon Co, TOEI, VTC, Fap TV and more. Esther has been a key contributor to the Vietnamese startup community and speaks frequently at entrepreneurship events in the region.

After competing in his first triathlon event in 1986, Geoff Meyer caught the thrill of the ‘events world’ and has always had some level of involvement since.

Now, with nearly 20 years’ event management experience, Geoff has worked extensively across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Geoff’s team at IRONMAN Asia-Pacific are responsible for delivering over 45 events in the region annually and his vast experience includes all facets of event management from development to delivery.

Along with the IRONMAN suite of events, Geoff has been key in the delivery and management of several National and World Championship, Events including, ITU World Championships, the UCI Road Cycling World Championships and Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon.

Geoff is a strong and respected team leader, very experienced at managing the triple constraint for projects: cost, time and quality; and is committed to the delivery of consistently professional, safe, world class events that generate excitement, inspiration, passion, personal growth and participation for all ages and abilities.

From Kendrick Lamar to Anderson.Paak, Cardi B and XXXTentacion, EMPIRE has been at the center of the vibrant US hip hop scene since its creation in 2010. By putting artists at the center of its strategy, CEO & Founder Ghazi Shami has built an independent company that is tailor-made to today’s music industry: a unique take on distribution and promotion, coupled with a fierce entrepreneurial and tech-savvy spirit, as well as a forward-thinking approach to business allowing EMPIRE to anticipate and fully embrace where the industry is headed in today’s digital world.

Giles Morgan is one of the world's leading Sports Industry & Partnership Marketing experts - having worked in the industry for over 25 years. From 2005--2017, he pioneered and managed the global sponsorship strategy & portfolio for HSBC. He now is CEO of 5 Oceans Partnership - a leading investment and advisory firm specializing in the future growth of the sports & entertainment industry.

With 25 years experience working in Asia, Graham has worked for Adobe, Apple, Fender, MTV and Republic Polytechnic and was the Founder and Chairman of The Music Society, Singapore (SGMUSO). He has extensive experience working with government agencies such as the National Arts Council, Media Development Authority, The Tourism Board and Workforce Development Agency in Singapore, and engaged major brands in music sponsorship. As an Executive Producer, Graham has developed new music initiatives working with artists, producers and brands and has returned to the UK after 21 years in Asia and founded the music management/label, Gray London.

Gregor is co-chair of Reed Smith’s global Entertainment and Media Industry Group. He is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading lawyers in digital media and has broad experience of advising clients on the acquisition, production, licensing and distribution of content on media networks and platforms. He has been listed as one of the ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in Digital Media’ in Wired Magazine; featured in the ‘TechCity Insider 100’ list; is a member of the Advisory Panel for the UK Government’s ‘Future Fifty’ programme for high-growth companies; and was appointed as Vice Chair on the Committee of the Internet and Media Leadership Group of the Prince’s Trust charity.

Gunnar Greve began his musical journey in the mid 1990s, as part of one of the most successful Norwegian hip-hop groups in the early 2000s.

While still being active as a songwriter, Greve later made the shift from artist to music executive, and has filled various roles within management, label functions, publishing, marketing, brand development and commercial partnerships. Greve was also the main judge in Norwegian Idol for 5 seasons.

As a co-founder of the independent music company MER, Greve has been instrumental in developing the careers of Alan Walker, K-391 and Mood Melodies, to name a few. Furthermore, he runs Liquid State, a joint venture label setup between Tencent Music Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment.

Gurpreet Singh is the co-founder and COO of India's leading digital video and creator network, One Digital Entertainment (ODE). Home to hundreds of celebrities, artists, influencers and record labels alike; the network caters to a gamut of genres. In the music genre specifically, ODE today empowers a huge number of Indian mainstream and upcoming artists enabling them to build their digital portfolios, produce & distribute their music effectively and monetize their content via strategic associations with various platforms and brands. Apart from being the first company in India to scout and groom talent over the digital platforms, ODE enjoys an esteemed reputation of working with over 150 brands in the space of new age marketing. Being named as BW Business World’s “Hottest Young Entrepreneurs 2019” and winner of various other several accolades synonymous with his contribution to the Indian digital entertainment industry, Gurpreet has earlier worked with media giants like Viacom 18, UTV New Media (Disney) and Hungama Mobile. Gurpreet envisaged his journey as a full-fledged entrepreneur when he launched his first mobile services company at the age of 17 in 2002 and has not looked back since.

Hari Nair is Head of Digital Music (India) at ByteDance, where he is  responsible for music licensing and forging strategic music partnerships for TikTok and other platforms. With a career in the industry spanning two decades, Hari was most recently Chief Digital Officer at PPL India where he led digital transformation for the organization. Prior to that, Hari served as Director of Digital Business at Sony Music India and as Head of Sales & Operations at Mauj Mobile. His journey with music industry began with Soundbuzz, the leading digital service of its time, which got acquired by Motorola. Hari's roots are in developing software solutions and was in various roles at Reliance Communications & Repro India. When not negotiating deals, Hari is into travelling and experiencing new cuisine.

Hazel is a music-tech lifer, guitarist and one half of the co-founding team at Musiio. Originally from the UK and having spent the first 6 years of her career working in the London, she spent the 5 years immediately following that working in Sydney, Australia and has spent the past 3 years living and working in Singapore.

With 14 years experience in the music industry, the majority of it specifically working for music-tech companies, she is proud to list, Shazam, Universal, Pandora and HMV as previous experience.

Managing Partner for the APAC region, Helen Soulsby leads a multilingual and multinational team of 14 from the Singapore office.  Helen has been championing SRI’s growth in Asia for the past 7 years, stretching SRI’s network to include South East Asia, China and Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan. A discerning advisor with deep market knowledge, Helen leads senior-level searches across the ever-converging media, sport, entertainment and technology sectors for agencies, content owners, media companies and brands. Early in her career, Helen held sales, product and marketing roles at Adidas before moving on to Aviva as Head of Sponsorship and Athletics Australia as Director of Marketing and Commercial. A dead-eye basketball shooter and overall sport enthusiast, Helen has unrivalled connections and knowledge across the media, sport and entertainment sectors in APAC.

Helena leads business development in Nielsen's expanding global music business. For more than two decades, Nielsen’s consumer research, sales, streaming and airplay data have been a trusted resource for companies wanting a complete music market picture in the US and internationally. Nielsen’s data serves as a major source for the Billboard charts and is widely cited by numerous media outlets as the standard for music industry measurement.

Helena began her music industry career at the copyright and royalty collection society, PRS for Music, in London. She joined Nielsen Music in 2008 where she was responsible for European business development and operations. Between 2013 and early 2017, Helena was based in New York, expanding Nielsen's business with music publishers and performing right societies. She returned to London as Nielsen Music enhances its music measurement globally by leveraging Nielsen's network of local expertise to provide measurement, sponsorship and consumer insight solutions to clients across music and entertainment.

Financially trained and Marketer practitioner. Over the 20 years of my career, I was given the opportunity to lead and participate in significant marketing capability building and organizational transformation projects at regional and global levels, for some of the world’s biggest brands. I have helped brands shape and create innovative marketing capabilities that lead to better engagement with customers, better business decisions and performance. Experienced in the consumer electronics, software, retail, and financial markets.

Ivan is an ambitious and talented sports management expert with a Masters in Sports Management from The Johan Cruyff Institute, and is a double degree holder of Business Administration and Sports Management from Ramón Llull, a prestigious university in Spain. He has over 15 years of experience in the Sports Industry, with the past 9 years being in Asia. He has succeeded in different roles in FC Barcelona, Sport SG, and agencies like Dentsu and Red Card, and is currently heading the regional office for SEA, Aus, Japan & S.Korea. His extensive experience also included helping global brands such as Toyota, Panasonic and General Motors navigate the intricacies of sports marketing.

He is crazy about sports, where he first developed himself as a professional athlete and later in the areas of Sports marketing, events and sponsorship. He was a former professional ice hockey player and captain of the Spanish National Team, having represented Spain at the World Cup level.

Ivy Wong is the Founder of VS MEDIA, a Next Generation Media Network empowering young creative talents. VS MEDIA is the first MCN focus on Chinese creators with office in HK, Taiwan and China empowering over 500 creators and their 55 mil+ subscribers. Over 20 year experience in Digital and Media, first in a role as Asia’s Senior Director of Global Sales at Yahoo! And then as Chief Operating Officer of TVB.com, CEO of Next Mobile Limited, Ivy has led three media brands into the number one digital position in Hong Kong/Asia.

Jacqui Louez Schoorl’s career spans more than two decades across music, film and television. She has spent the past six years establishing Jaxsta – a world-first online database of official music credits that, in this digital age, preserves and celebrates the credits once stored in album liner notes. Jacqui is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), and an in-demand speaker at events in Australia and the USA. She is the founder of Women In Music Sydney, a not-for-profit organisation bringing together music professionals. Jacqui also works as a Dementia Australia advocate, having lost her father to the disease.

Since 2015, James has served as Live Nation Entertainment's Senior Vice President Marketing Partnerships Asia, where he leads the company’s commercial and partnership activities across the region. Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, Live Nation Media & Sponsorship and Artist Nation Management. These businesses power Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to deliver music marketing programs across 1,000 brands enabling advertisers to tap into the over 90 million fans Live Nation Entertainment delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms.

James Miner is CEO at MinerLabs and VideoAssure.com. Video Assure is the award winning Azure cloud based digital video quality monitoring solution powered by machine learning to intelligently manage global streaming services. Video Assure has been recognized with SITF Awards Silver, and APICTA Awards Gold.

James oversees 2CV’s business in Asia. For over 20 years he has been working with global brands and leading agencies in the US, Asia and Australia. James holds an MBA and started his career in Melbourne. He then moved to California to set up 2CV’s first office outside London. In 2011, he moved to Singapore to start 2CV’s Asian business. He is an expert in helping guide clients, businesses and marketers through the complex process of customer understanding. James has been at the forefront of developing 2CV’s reputation as one of the world’s leading boutique Entertainment & Gaming insights specialists.

Jamie is Riot's Head of Strategic Partnerships for the South-East Asia and Greater China region. He's spent the past decade in the region, building cult-like teams, creating some of the most awarded brand partnerships and driving genuine innovation. With half his career as the Nike Lead at Mindshare, coupled with a massive passion for gaming, this naturally led him to esports. He's presently focused on growing League of Legends esport into a multi-generational, premier sport.

Former professional cricketer of 12 years turned journalist and tv presenter. Has worked at Russia Today in Moscow, France24 in Paris, Sky News & Sky Sports in London plus EspnStar and currently Fox Sports in Singapore aswell as regular weeks in LA with Tennis Channel. Married and a father of 3. Massive Spurs fan and nuts about music. Is also an ECB Level III Cricket Coach.

Jason Fielding is the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Endeavor Global Marketing in Australia, a business unit of Endeavor.

Endeavor is a global leader in sports, entertainment and fashion operating in more than 30 countries. Named one of Fortune’s 25 Most Important Private Companies, Endeavor is comprised of a number of industry-leading companies including WME, IMG and UFC. The Endeavor network specialises in talent representation and management; brand marketing, sponsorship and licensing; media sales and distribution; event operation and management; and sports training and league development.

Prior to leading Endeavor Global Marketing, Jason founded an agency called The Sound Campaign, which operated successfully for over ten years and became Australia’s leading independent music and culture agency. The Sound campaign joined forces with Endeavor in 2017 to create Endeavor Global Marketing in Australia.

A pioneer of experiential marketing and strategic partnerships, Jason has driven teams in the UK, Singapore, China and the US and has always been at the forefront of what is now referred to as The Experience Economy.

Jason is a hacker and biochemist turned serial entrepreneur and investor. His childhood obsession with competitive gaming led him to his latest adventure of creating Battlefy, the premier global destination for esports tournaments and leagues. The platform is used by over 120 thousand game developers, leagues, brands, influencers, and teams to create, scale, and market esports competitions that reach over 60 million players globally.

Acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2018, Branded is one of Asia's leading live entertainment companies and producers of award winning events including It's a Girl Thing, Tencent Music Connects, All That Matters and the YouTube FanFest. A 25+ year Asia veteran Jasper has spent over 30 years producing shows, connecting businesses and marrying great content with partner brands. He is also a terrible musician. Especially wind instruments.

Jeff Liebenson is President of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers and Principal of Liebenson Law in New York City.

Jeff’s practice concentrates on the convergence of entertainment and technology. He negotiates digital licenses, provides IP advice relating to digital entertainment, and represents companies in corporate acquisitions.

He previously was chief legal/business affairs executive for BMG International overseeing music, video, videogame and digital activities in 53 countries. Jeff also worked at Rainbow Programming, a JV of Cablevision and NBC, on new ventures involving sports and telecast rights.

Jeff is Editor of "User-Generated Content: New Business Models and Legal Issues" and “The Streaming Revolution in the Entertainment Industry,” both published by the IAEL.

Jennifer Batty is the Chief Content Officer of HOOQ, Southeast Asia’s leading OTT service. She leads HOOQ’s local, regional and Hollywood content acquisition, programming, viewership and engagement strategies and drives original productions across their diverse markets.

Prior to HOOQ, she was Executive Vice President at RTL CBS Asia, where she made significant contributions in RTL Group’s expansion into India and its joint venture with CBS Studios International, launching RTL CBS Entertainment and RTL CBS Extreme.

Jennifer has a career that spans two decades across North America, Asia and Europe. She holds an MBA from the University of New South Wales.

Jenny Wong is the Asia Regional Director for IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Jenny heads up IFPI’s regional office in Hong Kong, coordinating the work of its representative office in Beijing, as well as its national groups across the Asia Pacific region and oversees IFPI’s work in the region in the areas of legal and policy engagement, licensing operations, content protection, market analysis, and charts and certification.

Prior to joining IFPI, Jenny spent over 15 years in the film and TV industry, between both legal and public policy roles covering the Asia Pacific region. Most recently, she was VP Legal Affairs at Universal Pictures, Greater China, after spending 5 years as Executive Director, Public Policy (Asia Pacific) at WarnerMedia (formerly known as Time Warner) and over a decade as Executive Director, Business & Legal Affairs (Asia Pacific) at Disney.

Jenny sits on the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (since 2016).

Jil Bausa-Go is the Vice President for Content Portfolio & Partner Management, Content Business Group of Globe Telecom, Inc.   She is a key driver in the digital transformation of Globe as she oversees the portfolio development and content strategy implementation through securing prime content partnerships.

Jil joined Globe in May 2003 as a media consultant under the New Products Division and has since held various positions in content product and business development. Prior to that, she had over a decade of experience in the pay TV industry in the fields of Sales, Marketing and Programs Acquisitions.

As a former Olympian and Asian Games medalist, Jin Teik’s illustrious 28-year career spanned both private and public sectors in various industries and resided in USA, China, and Singapore. He is a trusted, people-centric senior executive who specializes in business turnaround and mega project startup.

In Sports, he served as CEO and COO, Singapore Sports Hub; CEO, Singapore Sports Council; Advisor, Asics Asia Pte Ltd. He led the growth of Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore’s participation from 5,000 in 2004 to 60,000 in 2009 and also delivered a milestone achievement of 210 events, 3 million event attendees, and over 15 million total footfall at Sports Hub in 2018.

In Non-Sports, he served as: Group Executive Vice President and China CEO, Hyflux Ltd; Head Customer Solutions & Innovation, National Starch & Chemical (Asia Pacific); Management, DuPont USA and DuPont Singapore businesses.

Other leadership roles include: Secretary-General, Singapore Swimming Association; Vice President, Olympians Singapore; Member, Singapore National Olympic Council; Board Member, Singapore Sports School & Republic Polytechnic; Vice Chairman, Singapore Totalisator Board; Assistant Commissioner of Charities (Sports), Ministry of Community Development Youth & Sports; Steering Committees (e.g. F1 Singapore Grand Prix, 2010 Youth Olympic Games); and Chef de Mission, 23rd Southeast Asia Games (Manila).

Jin Teik is a Chemical Engineering graduate with MBA from Brigham Young University USA.

JJ Chai is the SVP for Growth and Strategy at Carousell. As an early executive at Carousell, JJ joined the Carousell founders to drive international expansion & business development before his current role where he leads up marketing & strategy functions globally at Carousell. Prior to Carousell, JJ launched Airbnb in SE-Asia for Airbnb as the MD for the region. He was also junior partner at McKinsey & Company, advising clients in tech & marketing.

Ad tech veteran, JJ Eastwood is Carousell's Managing Director for Advertising. JJ is responsible for building commercial relationships with brands, and leading Carousell’s advertising sales and operations divisions. Prior to Carousell, JJ launched Australia's largest private programmatic marketplace at eBay. Following eBay, he established the APAC business for Ad Tech firm Rocket Fuel, moved on to become the CEO of HuffPost Australia and most recently led the expansion of Rakuten Marketing's programmatic, affiliate and search businesses across Asia-Pacific.

The host of "The John Dykes Show" on Fox Sports Asia, now in its third season, John is the region's most recognisable sports broadcaster. He has worked with ESPN STAR Sports, the Premier League and major Asian media organisations in a 30-year career that took him from print to TV and digital media. As well as being a football specialist, John has hosted Formula One, tennis Grand Slams, golf majors, rugby cricket world cups and much more. He is also an in-demand event host and voiceover artist.

Jon Chua JX is a member and co-founder of The Sam Willows, one of the most successful English music act in Singapore. He has been nominated thrice for the MTV EMA for 'Best Southeast Asian Act' and won several music awards in Singapore and around the region. In 2019, Jon alongside his band, made the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.

As a Sony Music Artist, Jon has worked with some of the best music producers around the world, including Steve Lillywhite (U2, Rolling Stones), Harry Sommerdahl (Pussycat Dolls, The Wanted) , Fredrik Häggstam . His compositions have gone on to earn several gold platinum statuses, topping various radio and iTunes charts.

His knowledge of and passion for music and entrepreneurship drove him to launch Zendyll Productions in 2016. Zendyll Productions has since worked with top acts in Singapore, along with commercial brands such as DBS, Changi Airport and Adidas.

In 2018, Jon launched Zendyll Records. The label aims to build a new culture for effective collaboration between artistes, producers and songwriters, and focuses heavily on Artist & Repertoire (A&R) development, music publishing, music production, songwriting, as well as branding and marketing. Zendyll Records signed their first artist in 2019.

Jon Chua JX debuted his solo single, “Ready For Ya’, in July 2019. The melodic hip-hop track was co-produced by FLANNEL ALBERT from Los Angeles and is his venture into a new genre. Jon has also captured the attention and interest of fans and youths in Singapore and around the region. Jon is also friends of the brand with Hugo Boss, Adidas, Audi, Fendi and Tagheuer.

Beginning his career behind the scenes in some of Europe’s best nightclubs, culminating in the launch of a world-renowned club in Ibiza, Josh then focused on his legal and financial training. Moving to Hong Kong he entered the world of live event production. He has since produced numerous events across the region entertaining over 6 million guests. In particular Josh has produced five editions of the AIA Great European Carnival in Hong Kong, launched GEG’s Singapore arm, developing the Marina Bay Carnival into an annual family event at Marina Bay Sands and managed the launch of the Hong Kong Observation Wheel. He specialises in the development & delivery of family entertainment to the masses throughout Asia.

Julian spent 12 years in video streaming spanning original production, licensing, acquisition and leading teams with Warner Bros (VP International Digital Distribution / Global Sales based in Los Angeles) and Netflix (Director of Content for Japan, global head of anime) where he launched the service and led the local content business in Japan. Julian is now Founder/CEO of BlockPunk a blockchain-powered video streaming platform that helps creators manage rights and sell content peer-to-peer. Julian is a Wharton MBA fluent in English, French and Japanese. Producer or deal-maker on many titles including Terrace House, Million Yen Women, Godzilla, Rilakkuma.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Justin Sweeting has over nineteen years music industry experience, centered within Asia.

Having established the pan-regional, cross media platform AMP (Asia’s Music Platform) for Channel [V], Justin went on to co-found Magnetic Asia (www.magneticasia.com) as Music Director. Magnetic Asia operates festivals & events: Clockenflap (www.clockenflap.com), Sonar Hong Kong (www.sonarhongkong.com), regular live shows (under the ‘Clockenflap Presents’ and ‘YourMum’ banners; Ticketing (www.ticketflap.com); and offers further agency services including marketing, PR, production and consultancy to a broad reach of clients.

Connecting the dots between Asia and the global industry at large, Justin enjoys spreading the word on the region’s music potential and is actively involved in its positive evolution.

Kameel is a marketer and serial entrepreneur, that’s passionate about technology, solving problems, helping teams to grow and create change.

- Working for Sony Music Japan, and joined LINE Music Corporation from 2014

- Creating relations with labels ,artist managements.

-Producing live steaming program in LINE LIVE programs.

With over 25 years of building, advising and leading marketing & technology companies in Asia Pacific, Ken Mandel has held leadership roles with WPP, Yahoo!, BuddyMedia, Salesforce.com, Hootsuite, Publicis and is currently Regional Head of GrabAds & Brand Insights for Grab. Ken is also a keen supporter of the Asian digital industry and has held numerous industry association Chairmanships including Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), Digital Advertising Alliance and more. Ken’s current role at Grab is an eclectic accumulation of almost everything he has done over his pioneering career.

Kenney Shiu has been Managing Director of BMG Hong Kong since January 2019. In his role, Kenney is responsible for building and strengthening BMG’s presence in Greater China and Southeast Asia. After studying accounting, he started his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young and achieved his CPA qualification at ACCA and HKICPA. Over the last 20 years, he's gathered extensive experience in the music industry working for Rock Music Publishing (HK) Ltd., Warner Music, peermusic, and Kobalt Music Group Asia. Kenney Shiu is a member of The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd. ("CASH"). He and his band had released two albums in 2000 and won the Bronze Award of the Commercial Radio Hong Kong ("CRHK") Ultimate Song Chart Awards in the same year. Launched in 2008, the international music company BMG with its head office in Berlin represents the traditionally separate music publishing and recording rights off the same state-of-the-art platform internationally. The Hong Kong office builds on BMG’s existing presence in China, which began with the opening of its operation in Beijing in 2014. BMG operates in 12 core music markets around the world, including Germany, the US, UK, Australia, France, Canada, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Benelux, Brazil, and China.

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder of Twitch, the world's leading service and community for multiplayer entertainment. A New Orleans native, Kevin graduated from Yale University then worked in veterinary medicine, event production, tourism, and beverage delivery before founding Twitch.

Born and raised in HK, Kinny has 15+ years of event management experience in various industries. Experience includes mega sports events, movie production & promotion and live entertainment events in many formats.

Kinny joined MA since 2012, as Head of Partnership, she has established and nurtured partnerships with many local, regional and global brands to great success.

Kinny is a believer in building and maintaining a healthy, long-term relationship with partners; successful partnerships require nurture and genuine collaborations between the brands. By learning partners' business objectives, Kinny brings in MA's dedicated brand activation expertise to support partners to create a meaningful and result driven collaboration campaign across the pre & post event communication period as well as delivering the most authentic, audience-focused and best in class quality experience at the event.

Kinny also works closely with the company CEO in developing new entertainment and cultural products to the local market with a strong vision of regional expansion. She also has been instrumental in all government-related partnerships.

Kunihito Morimura was seconded from Dentsu Inc. since 2010. His role encompasses the management of sports business growth in Asia from marketing of broadcasting rights to television production, sponsorship sales, event management and also athletes endorsement. Kuni’s experiences include major international sport events such as the 1998 and 2002 FIFA World Cup, the 2004 UEFA Euro Cup, and not forgetting various Asian Football Confederation events. He was also a part of the marketing programs for the Japan Football Association, the J-League, 2009/2010 FIFA Club World Cup iand the East Asia Football Federation etc. Currenty, his focus is on for SEA Games 2019 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Laura Nakhla is Head of Synchronisation for Warner Music in Asia. Based in Hong Kong, she is responsible for overseeing and developing Warner’s music-for-media business strategy throughout Asia in the field of music for film, TV, games and commercials. Her scope covers Warner’s entire global catalogue of recorded music.

Prior to joining Warner, Laura was a Music Supervisor and Composer Agent at Air-Edel Associates in London, the music production company founded by the Beatles’ producer Sir George Martin. Laura produced music for commercials and worked closely with Air-Edel’s composers on scores for Academy Award and BAFTA-winning films, including Disney’s ‘Cinderella’, Laika’s ‘The Boxtrolls’ and Grain Media’s ‘The White Helmets’.

Laura studied music at King’s College London with a Choral Scholarship before taking an MPhil in Musicology at Oxford.

Lei Zhang received a M.E. degree in computer engineering from Peking University, and a M.S. degree in computer science from Stony Brook University, New York. He has rich work experience and professional competence in various fields including Android operating system, infotainment system and IoT smart device. Prior to joining NIO, Lei was the VP of Software and Chief Architect of Huami (NYSE: HMI). He had also worked in Microsoft and Google for many years, responsible for technology development and management. Lei is one of the early team members of Android, and a founding member of Android Auto. Join NIO on Sept 6th 2019, as the VP of Digital Cockpit & Software Development.

Lia Sheena is Senior Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection at Mastercard. She is responsible for privacy matters related to Mastercard’s marketing-related products and services, including digital marketing engagements, Priceless experiences, Priceless Causes, and other business lines. Prior to joining Mastercard, Lia worked as Senior Privacy Counsel for Nielsen, Legal Privacy Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Privacy Analyst for ad tech companies. Lia received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School after completing her B.S. in Management at Binghamton University.  She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and CIPM) and is admitted in the State of New York.

Lionel is CEO Advisor at Grab, Southeast Asia's leading decacorn and everyday app. He also serves on the Board of Directors of SGX-listed telco StarHub Ltd. He was previously Chief Executive of the Singapore Tourism Board (2012-18) and Dean & CEO of the Civil Service College (2008-2012). He had also served in senior policy roles at the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Finance. [www.linkedin.com/in/lionel-yeo]

Lucas Mao, Director of Game Operations from Moonton Games. Lucas has worked on global publishing of several mobile games including Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, which is one of the most popular games in the SEA area with more than 250 million downloads and 60 million monthly active users. Lucas has 10 years experience in the gaming industry and he is now also working on Mobile Legends Esports.

Mandar Thakur is COO of Times Music, one of India’s leading record labels and music publishers. Times Music is a division of India’s largest media conglomerate – The Times of India group. Mandar began his career in Hong Kong with The Entertainment Co. for their concert promotion business in the early ‘90s, post which he helped set up the path breaking 24 hour music television station Channel [V] , and subsequently pioneered the digital music landscape in Asia, as part of the founding team at Soundbuzz, then Asia/India’s largest digital music company, acquired by Motorola in early 2008. Mandar now sits on the boards of copyright societies like PPL , IPRS & music industry organisation , IMI ( Indian Music Industry ).

Mari Takahashi @atomicmari (2+MM on social media) is a digital pioneer, former prima ballerina and co-founder of the top-ranking gaming brand Smosh Games (7.4MM subscribers). Recognized by Forbes as a Top Influencer In Gaming, Mari transitioned her love for video games, adventure and technology into being an advocate for young girls to pursue STEM careers in her philanthropic work with NASA and The Planetary Society.

Mark Frieser is a serial entrepreneur and global thought leader in entertainment and interactive content and is the CEO of Sync Summit (https://syncsummit.com), Sync Exchange (https:/syncexchange.com) and Something Sonic (https://somethingsonic.com)

Mark Waller is Managing Director, Sales and Marketing at McLaren Racing. In this role he oversees all aspects of the company's commercial and marketing activity as the team intensifies its focus on developing the McLaren brand and growing its global partner portfolio.

Matt POUND started with the ITTF back in 2013 as the Promotions Manager, and has since been promoted to Head of Media, and subsequently to the Marketing Director position that he currently holds. Pound and his team are responsible for growing all facets of ITTF’s marketing activities, including media, sponsorship, and commercial rights, which has seen record commercial income growth since the ITTF took back its commercial rights in 2017.

(Born in Italy a LOOOOONG time ago)

Being a giant nerd, Maurizio has always been interested in tech and sport and in media (movies and moviemaking are one of his passions).

After a successful career as a basketball coach, He started working in the digital field in 1999, joining MP Web, the digital media arm of the Mediapartners Group, the most important sports agency in Italy.

MPWeb become a leader in the production and distribution of media content for the then called new media. MP Web was renamed Infront Advanced Media Solutions, when the whole Mediapartners Group was acquired by Infront Sports and Media, with Maurizio being elevated to the role of MD of the new company.

Maurizio worked both in Europe and in Asia, before turning into an entrepreneur, founding and raising capital for two startups.

He returned to Asia in 2013, taking the post of Head of Sports for Samsung Asia, creating and launching one of the most successful services of the Korean company in the region at the time, Samsung SportsFlow.

After a brief stint with another startup, Maurizio joined Twitter with the goal of growing communities, driving conversations around sport and creating new revenue opportunities for Twitter’s partners, by creating a lineup of programmes that will satisfy the ever-angry-for-content audience in South East Asia.

Michael is a General Partner at Makers fund, a fund dedicated to investing in creators building the future of Interactive Entertainment. He spent the last decade helping gaming and interactive entertainment companies grow and scale overseas to Asia, US and Europe. Makers has backed companies globally, such as tinyBuild, Genvid, Popdog and FaceIT.

Michael Denmark is known for his creative and pioneering sense of adventure when it comes to pairing corporate brands with media, entertainment, arts, cultural or sporting events. In his latest venture The Great Entertainment Group Limited, Michael has taken all his passions – sponsorship and commercial partnerships; event production; digital ticketing solutions; and social enterprise, both charity and education – enabling him to produce, communicate and sell, a broad range of successful media and entertainment properties. During his twenty-five years in Asia, Michael has forged relationships with pioneering producers, commercial partners and brands throughout the region. His own portfolio of events/platforms include the multi award-winning AIA Great European Carnival, The Hong Kong Observation Wheel & AIA Vitality Park, and the Marina Bay Carnival, all of which have a combined ticketed attendance of over 10 million consumers during the last five years.

Michael Patent, Founder & President of Culture Group, is a leading authority in the culture marketing conversation in Asia Pacific. Having been at the forefront of marketing and partnership innovation for nearly two decades, Michael has acquired an aptitude for leveraging the power of popular culture to create brand experiences. At Culture Group, a Pan-Asian entertainment marketing agency that transforms the world’s most progressive brands into global influencers via its offices in New York, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore, Michael leads and oversees the agency’s operations, working with clients to develop innovative strategies and creative partnerships at the intersection of culture and brand. Key clients include Riot Games, Tencent, Globe Telecom, and Pulp Live!

Michael is Managing Director at SPORTS TECH TOKYO and Scrum Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco; with over 15 years in the sports and entertainment industry, he has worked with Coca-Cola, the NBA and numerous sports tech startups. Michael is a graduate of Amherst College and makes his home in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Michael Tseng is the Founder & CEO of Ampai Music, a music & technology company built music by artificial intelligence and algorithm, Ampai music startups in Taipei on the first day of 2018, consentrate on C-pop songs for high speed Chinese music market, BGM for atmosphere music application, Ampai music has accomplished music data analysis, melody & chord generator, instrument arrangement module & over 50 music genre algorithm, not only create a complete music but also provide api to support musician in colloboration & co-work c-pop songs, as well as developing a tool to help Youtuber could create a music automatically for their videos in different video time duration, without copy rights issue, totally free for use. Meanwhile, is going to launch owned brand atmosphere application in coming month, Amapai has created more than 6k music tracks for BGM and colloborated with Chinese musician for C-pop songs for theme of TV drama & Films, Michael is experienced for the industry, found the point of pain and foresee opportunity in the future, "we can't ever and not going to replace musician's work but create more job possibility for composer to creat their music efficently and work to the market, only the good music is the king, we are just a helper and assistent", Said by Michael Tseng

- Previously worked in content development for a music download service at a music distribution company in Japan.

- Joined LINE Corporation in 2014 to help set up LINE MUSIC, the music subscription service.

- Currently focused on business development and domestic and international music licensing.

Dj Miso, mostly known for wearing a Korean ‘Hahoe’ mask, was born to urbanize this national treasure into something symbolic in today’s global entertainment scene. “Miso” is also a word that translates into ‘a smile’ in the Korean language; which also reflects the big smile on the mask.

The vision of this project is to further widen the spectrum of the electronic dance music scene. By blending trendy EDM with a wide variety of traditional sounds of South Korea, Dj Miso will be the first to introduce perhaps a brand new sub-genre unique to the mainstream ear.

The anticipation of Dj Miso’s performance as well as the fresh sounds that he will bring to the dance music fans of the world is rising. Dj Miso and his fellow teammates are confident that the originality of the character along with the Korean background will not fail to entertain the eager fans of the dance music scene!

With close to 20 years of diverse experience in tech and media, Nicholas has directly reported to Fortune 500 CEOs and led a regional team for Visa advising Asian internet giants like Tencent and Alibaba on managing risks for their digital transactions.

Nicholas co-founded Singapore’s Cybersports and Online Gaming Association (SCOGA) in 2008. In the past year alone, more than 100,000 participants from 13 countries have turned up for SCOGA events live in person with more than 6.5 million unique online viewers in the past year alone. These events included Asian Games Esports Singapore Qualifiers, Campus Game Fest, Asian Football Gaming Championship Grand Finals, Garena AOV Cup, and the Singapore Qualifiers for Alisports' World Electronic Sports Games. Over the past 10 years, more than a million have participated in SCOGA's events live in person and more than a thousand have now gone through the Esports Academy supported by the National Youth Council to develop talents and careers in esports.

Asian superstar

Nick Goggans is Founder & CEO of PumpJack Dataworks, a data rights management platform for rightsholders in sports & entertainment. Nick has over 12 years of experience through operating and investing in analytics businesses in sports and entertainment. Previously, Nick was a co-founder of Umbel (in 2010), and Lytiks (in 2005). Nick is involved in investing and mentoring start-ups in the SportsTech space participating with the Arsenal Innovation Lab), Stadia Ventures accelerator. Nick has been and been a featured speaker at Leaders in Sport, SxSW, MIT Sports, and the AdAge Digital Conference.

Nicole is the current Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle-based esports organization, Evil Geniuses. Bringing a new lens of growth opportunity and management to the esports space, Nicole boasts past experience in private equity investment and portfolio company operations, most recently working as Chief of Staff for National Flood Services. She brings deep operating experience in distressed asset turnarounds across multiple verticals, as well as in the startup space. She also is a board member of Tanvas, a Chicago-based haptic technology company, and a board member of the Chicago Alumni Association of Columbia University.

Nicole McMillan is an internationally renowned marketing executive with almost 2 decades experience in driving the world’s most valuable brands in regional and global roles. Nicole is a change agent and driver of growth strategies in complex and emerging markets with an innate dissatisfaction with the status quo in her DNA. She is a sought after and internationally renowned keynote speaker, presenter, jury chair, and Finalist of the prestigious ‘Telstra Business Woman of the Year’ Asia award. Nicole is naturally drawn to transformation and progression in herself and those that she leads. Nicole's current role is Vice President Marketing, Mars Wrigley Confectionery AMEA.

Oscar is the co-founder and Business Development Director of Hupu Anchor, the Global Strategic Business Unit of Hupu. HUPU Anchor is the leading Chinese sports agency that is helping the best clubs, players and brands in the world, such as NFL, LaLiga, FC Barcelona, Manchester United and Neymar Jr.

Oscar started his career at Hupu. He is always focusing on providing international sports clubs, leagues and organizations with all-around solutions to the local market, including digital media, marketing promotion and sponsorship, for better engagements with Chinese sports fans and business development.

Commercial marketing specialist across many business sectors and countries with a 30-year track record of agency, client and media-owner experience with senior roles at a host of advertising and marketing agencies including two agency start-ups. He has worked in tourism as the Chief Marketing Officer of South African Tourism followed by launching and managing A1GP World Cup of Motorsport teams in South East Asia. At the BWF he manages all agency relationships securing TV distribution and sponsorship income and directs the Marketing and Communications team for all content output. Owen was educated in South Africa, Spain, The Netherlands and UK.

As Senior Vice President and General Manager for Southeast Asia at Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), Paras Sharma oversees the management and operations of the Southeast Asia business, including content distribution, advertising sales, digital media and consumer products, across VIMN's brands – MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central, Paramount Channel and BET. He is also the Asia lead for VIMN’s digital and multiplatform business. In this role, he is tasked to grow the IP licensing business in digital and multiplatform in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, and expand the distribution of Viacom’s Play Plex suite of mobile TV apps.

Patrick Moxey is not just a music executive; he’s a man behind a movement. The President and founder of Ultra Records, Ultra Music and Ultra International Music Publishing is by all accounts a visionary pioneer who has pushed past barriers to bring hip-hop and electronic dance music into the mainstream heart of America where it squarely sits in 2019. Without Moxey and Ultra Music, the sound that has captured young U.S. music fans’ hearts and minds might never have happened.

Patrick is the Chairman of Catalyst Media Group Ltd (International Champions Cup); founding partner of Synergy Football AG (marketing partner of CONMEBOL’s Sudamericana and the CBF Brazilian national team domestic media rights); and co-founder of Fortis Sports who in partnership with DDMC were recently awarded the agency partnership with the Asian Football Confederation for the period 2020 through 2028. Previously Patrick was a Managing Director at TEAM Marketing in Switzerland and was responsible for selling all media and sponsorship rights to the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. Patrick started his career in Asia in 1993 founding and managing News Corporation’s (21st Century Fox) sports marketing business in Asia.

Paul currently is the Managing Director for Activision Blizzard for the Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South East Asia Region, with responsibility over publishing, marketing, go-to-market, esports and business development. Prior to joining Activision Blizzard, Paul was the Chief Marketing Officer at Hong Kong Esports Limited. Previously, Paul worked as a Greater China General Manager of Rovio (Angry Birds) and was APAC CEO of Beintoo, a Joint Venture in China with the one of the largest mainland Chinese game publishers, iDreamSky.

With over 20 years of international experience in building and growing teams, brand building, corporate development, and partnership management, Paul is also a regular speaker at tech conferences, business networks and start-up events.

Paul Smith, Spotify’s Global Head of International Licensing is responsible for the licensing of digital content from the international community of major and independent labels, and publishers around the world. Since his appointment in February 2017, Paul has played a critical role in launching and introducing Spotify around the world, whilst strengthening Spotify’s relationships with rights holders in emerging markets.

Paul has over 20 years of global experience in the entertainment and technology industry, including leadership roles at, Nokia, Microsoft and MixRadio. Paul began his career at Universal Music, where he later led sales & marketing for the UK classics and jazz division. Paul was also part of Peter Gabriel's digital start-up OD2, which went on to power the world's first download stores (Microsoft, HMV, Virgin, MTV, Coke to name but a few) and the first DSP to license content from the major and independent labels.

Peter Coquillard is a 30 year veteran on the US music industry. Peter is the Senior Manager and Head of International at Milk and Honey Management an industry leader in the management, A&R and Marketing of Record producers and Songwriters.

Throughout his career he has worked closely with Pete Townshend, The Who, Nine Inch Nails and UK artist Tricky. Spending years as both a Music Publisher with Windswept Pacific, Nettwerk Music and Silva Tone Music, and Producer/writer manager Peter’s writers have had songs recorded by artists including, Chainsmokers, Rhianna, Backstreet Boys, Kygo, Calvin Harris, Lewis Capaldi, Britney Spears, Usher, Beyonce, Madonna, Alessia Cara, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Lopez, Demi Lovato, Madonna, Rhianna, Corrine Bailey Rae and James Arthur.

His international experience dates back many years and his writers have had #1 records not only in the US and UK but also Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, South Africa, Austria, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and China. Client Jamie Hartman alone has won the BRIT for Rag and Bone Man’s “Human” the ARIA for “Start Again” by Conrad Sewell and various awards including an Ivor Novello’s and BMI.

Prashan Agarwal, a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the consumer internet space, currently spearheads Gaana, India’s largest music streaming app, as the Chief Executive Officer. Adept in all aspects of consumer internet, Prashan is an innovative leader who excels in building sustainable business operations from scratch in a rapid growth environment. Before joining Times Internet, he had co-founded multiple internet ventures including PropTiger.com, India’s leading real estate transaction marketplace. In his 14 years of extensive experience, he has held senior leadership roles at Naukri.com, GE Infrastructure and Sapient. An ISB and IIT alumnus, Agarwal is an expert in strategy, sales, operations and product management. He has been awarded the GE Infrastructure CIO Excellence Award for Outstanding Six Sigma Project and won several laurels at leading school and colleges, he has attended. He has worked across all phases of a business, from starting up multiple ventures to managing a mature internet company with large staff and big financials. He has joined Times Internet with the vision is to create services that will impact millions of Indians and make their lives better.

Priyanka Khimani is one of India’s young and thought-provoking lawyers and leads the Mumbai-based practice of the illustrious, Anand and Anand & Khimani. In a short span of time, she has carved a niche for herself in the legal world and is often regarded as one of the most sought-after lawyers in the Entertainment Industry. She is known for her celebrity clientele which includes a distinguished line up of award-winning songwriters, music producers, singers, film directors, actors and screenwriters. She also represents, and acts for, leading film and digital production houses, independent record labels and publishers, and digital and technology platforms, amongst others. Some of her clients include AR Rahman, Lata Mangeshkar, Sonu Nigam, Arijit Singh, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Sushmita Sen, Shakun Batra, Anurag Kashyup as well as companies such as Netflix, Facebook, PayTM and Hermès. She leads the firm with her dynamism and entrepreneurial vision. Consistent successes in a series of high-stake litigation, has further catapulted Priyanka’s reputation for thinking out of the box and approaching complex legal issues strategically. She is known to dabble in unchartered and rarely explored of facets of law, constantly pushing the envelope for interpretation of existing statutes and local legal framework.

DJ and producer R3HAB continues to take electronic music to unprecedented heights, recently being ranked the #12 DJ in the world by DJ Mag. A globetrotting talent hailed by the likes of Forbes and Billboard Magazine as one of the most iconic electronic DJs and producers, Fadil El Ghoul has spent the last 7 years garnering hundreds of millions of streams while charging ahead on the global club circuit, all without a formal record label to lean on.

R3HAB's debut album TROUBLE marked a major breakthrough for the Dutch native upon its release in the fall of 2017. Released independently, the LP has gained over 500m streams globally to date. Singles “I Just Can’t”, “Trouble” and “Icarus” attracted global attention and coverage upon their release and serve as proof of R3HAB’s ability to adopt a more elegant, pop-driven sound, while retaining his quintessential Dutch roots.

Strategic FMCG marketing professional with 18 years of proven track record of growing businesses exponentially and developing high-performance teams. Leading brand strategy for global power brands while demonstrating significant success in growing small niche brands into dominant market positions across categories and geographies. Skilled in complex problem-solving, developing business processes for high-growth, in-depth understanding of supporting functions, outstanding P&L leadership to build brands with strong business orientation. Currently leading Infant Nutrition (IMF) marketing for Abbott Nutrition, Pacific Asia by delivering Strategic growth framework, Innovation and Marketing Toolkit in the highly competitive $6 Bn market.

Rai is currently the CEO and CO-Founder of yup.gg, a new community-focused digital talent marketplace continuing his work around building and professionalizing the content creator ecosystem in APAC and Latam. Rai is a dedicated advocate of the Gaming, esports, IRL, and Creator ecosystem in the region. Previous to yup.gg, he served as Head of APAC at Twitch, the largest live streaming platform in the world.

Rajeev has over 20 years of experience across India in consulting, capital markets (research and deal origination), debt (corporate banking) & investment banking and private equity. As a private equity investment advisor to the US$100mn FidelisWorld Sports Investment Fund that has invested in companies in the Technology, Media, Entertainment and Consumer sectors across South Asia and South East Asia, Rajeev is a Director on the Boards of Smaaash Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., Sportz Interactive Pvt. Ltd., Wildcraft India Pvt Ltd., and Rakyan Beverages Pvt Ltd (Raw Pressery). Rajeev has a Master's degree from the Delhi School of Economics and an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.

Ralph Simon is one of the founders of the global mobile social media & entertainment industry - a visionary & innovator known as “the father of the ring tone”. He is a global expert in mobile platforms, social music & multi-screen creativity. He founded the world’s first commercial ring tone service. One of the world’s top 50 executives in mobile since 2005, Ralph invests, advises & develops smartest mobile AI & wireless creative content & assets, VR & MR. He understands that the future belongs to Screenagers everywhere. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, Founder of Mobilium Global, the international “cool” hunters. Ralph is based in London or on a plane to where mobile innovation calls for discovery, development & investment.

As Marketing Director for Asia with the World Federation of Advertisers, Ranji looks to elevate and enhance the marketing capabilities of WFA member organizations towards increased efficiency and effectiveness through the adoption of global best practices, industry frameworks and guidance as well as unique peer-to-peer round-table meetings. Prior to this, she managed the Media, Digital Marketing and Mobile IMC portfolios for Samsung Asia, was formerly the Executive Director of the IAB Singapore and has also enjoyed a successful career in Executive Search.

Ray Zhuo, General Manager for Consumer SIoT BU in Lenovo Group, is responsible for IOT product strategies and business development management. Under the guidance of Lenovo’s vision, “Smarter technology for all”, he is building an open Lenovo intelligent IoT ecosystem, allowing users to enjoy “intelligent lifestyle experiences for the intelligent enjoyment of a better life” in a multitude of scenarios.

René Fasco is the Director of Amazon Music in Japan and leads Prime Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, and Download Store operations in the country. He is responsible for all aspects of the business, including strategy, product development, licensing, marketing, editorial, label relations, and business development. In his previous role as Director of Amazon Music in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, René oversaw the launch of Prime Music and Amazon Music Unlimited. He spearheaded Amazon’s first foray into live sports content production with the launch of an innovative new football audio streaming service. Before joining Amazon, René spent 10 years at McKinsey’s Media & Entertainment Practice in Germany and in the United States. He holds a degree in European Business Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Worms, Germany and the University Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

Ever since he convinced his father that he wasn’t cut out to become an accountant, Richard knew his future lay in creative communications. Over the next 30+ years he has founded, built, merged, acquired, adapted and grown many globally-awarded independent and multinational agencies. Latterly from his longterm home in Singapore, Richard has counselled leading marketing organisations large and small, global and local, from a diverse range of sectors and cultures. At TSLA, Richard’s role is to help create the environment where the agency’s unique set of capabilities and portfolio of clients continues to flourish.

Rob Gilby is CEO, Blue Hat Ventures, investor and advisor to high growth Consumer Technology & Media businesses across Asia.

With more than 25 years at leading organizations Disney, WarnerMedia and PwC across Asia Pacific and Europe, Rob has established deep industry expertise on the convergence of Consumer, Media & Technology. Through leadership roles and board member positions with digital media, entertainment, distribution, strategy & marketing organizations Rob has become a trusted advisor to leaders across the industry.

Prior to Blue Hat Ventures, Rob was Managing Director, The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia, driving rapid growth of the company’s film, media and consumer products businesses in emerging markets such as Indonesia & Philippines, and pioneering digital media initiatives in mobile, social, games & online video.

Rob Chairs the Advisory Board of the Singapore Media Festival, and is a Board Member of Singapore’s InfoComm & Media Development Authority (IMDA).

Having built a reputation for planning and executing many multi-million dollar projects, brands, festival tours, and fan communities, Rob McDermott is best known for his decade working with Linkin Park, selling over 60 million albums, garnering awards worldwide, and selling out Arenas and Stadiums.

Rob currently consults YouTube creator 10 Second Songs (Anthony Vincent) :3 Million Subscribers, over 180 million views; Indian Metal band Bloodywood, with over 50 million streams, and a recent Sold-Out European Tour; US Based Duo Icon For Hire over 160 Million Audio and Video Streams, and upstarts Migrant Motel. Rob is also a Business Development consultant in the Music and technology space having helped See Tickets UK/ Vivendi begin US operations and advisory roles at Sparkart, the Innovative Digital Agency based in Oakland and Nashville.

Rob Schwartz is an entertainment journalist, and music and film producer active in the entertainment scenes in Japan and the US for more than 15 years. He is currently the Asia Bureau Chief of Billboard magazine. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter NME, Q and many others. As a producer Rob has worked in music and film. In 2005 he founded Dynastic Records (www.dynasticrecords.com) in Japan. In 2018 he Executive Produced the US film Bernard and Huey. Rob regularly appears on TV commenting on entertainment. Networks include the BBC, NTV, NHK, MNET, and ICS (Shanghai).

From family roots on a farm in Northern Ontario to far-reaching creative branches of the world, Ron Martin has cultivated business relationships mixing narrative with digital content over the last 30 years. Ron has built a reputation as innovator deploying disruptive technology and developing creative strategy within interactive gaming, broadcast, sports and filmmaking. Creating tools and stories for mass consumption, his previous professional experiences include Softimage, Microsoft, EA, Digital Domain, Autodesk and Ubisoft. Over the past 2 years, Ron has been developing the media and entertainment vertical at Unity as the Strategic Development Manager. By partnering with progressive brands and storytellers to develop the future phase of content creation Unity empowers creators to deploy to over 32 platforms. Ron and the Unity M&E team have innovated immersive technologies and virtual production, creating evolutionary workflows for game developers and storytellers utilizing the Unity real-time creation platform.

Ronnie Tan, the Managing Director of gumi Asia, with over 10 years of experience in the industry has led gumi Asia through successful product launches, with each launch elevating gumi Asia’s brand in the market. gumi Asia, a subsidiary of gumi Inc, an established and leading mobile game publisher and developer that has partnered with entertainment giants and successfully shipped a total of 9 mobile games over the past 7 years.

As an industry veteran, Ronnie has worked on projects in various platforms covering console gaming, mobile gaming, and PC gaming. Ronnie is a firm believer in empowering his employees above all else, he constantly provides opportunities for his staff to develop and grow. Ever since his entrance into the industry, he has always been a key player in supporting the gaming industry’s growth both locally and regionally.

Asian Territories Manager and European Marketing Manager at EMPIRE, a San Fransisco based music label, distributor and publisher. Roxy’s multifaceted role has allowed her to develop and execute projects for a wide variety of artists on the label such as Tyga, Iggy Azalea, Snoop Dogg, Bridge, Bohan Pheonix and many more in the Asian and European markets.

Sabrina Chan joined MoneyGram International in February 2004 to lead MoneyGram's marketing strategy and implementation for Asia Pacific with 18 markets. Her role and responsibilities include advertising and integrated marketing and product marketing. During her tenure, she has expanded her remit to cover more regions including South Asia and the Middle East region developing and leading the regional initiatives for more than 25 countries across. She brings to MoneyGram 20 years of experience in marketing, brand management, sales team management from Inchcape Pacific/Jardine Wines and Spirits handling key products of group of Moet Hennessy and Brown Forman including brands like Jack Daniels, Veuve Clicquot Champagne and other brands as a principal marketer. Her last role was working at Western Union as regional marketing manager for Asia and China. Chan holds a Masters of business administration from Xavier University, Ohio, USA and a bachelor's in economics and business administration from Indiana University USA.

Sam is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fresh Events, creators and owners of The Music Run - “Asia’s Fittest Party”!

A former suit turned entrepreneur, Sam has lead the commercial expansion of The Music Run to 35 events staged across 13 countries, with 250,000+ participants.

Sam has made his home in Kuala Lumpur, and is passionate about all things active.

Sameer leads eSports sponsorship/activations across league IPs like Intel Extreme Masters, ESL One & Intel World Open in Asia & Japan. He is responsible to build new IPs, build gaming communities and share Intel's technology narrative across the ISV ecosystem.

Sami’s career in the music industry spans over 30 years. Currently Sami is the Director of International for PRS for Music responsible for the team managing the society’s relationships with sister societies around the globe. Before joining PRS Sami had an almost eight year stint with Google, where he was the Director of International Music Publishing for YouTube and Google Play, with the responsibility for developing and maintaining relationships with music publishers and collecting societies outside of the United States. Previously, he started his career as a songwriter in the early ‘80’s, before holding various key positions within BMG throughout the 1990s in Los Angeles, Lisbon and New York. After leaving BMG, Sami became a lawyer practicing in copyright law, before joining Nokia in 2008, where he was at the forefront of reforming digital music licensing through collaboration with global industry leaders.

Saurabh heads the video content partnerships team and plays a key role in strategic relationship with key media organizations and public celebrities/creators across Asia Pacific based out of Singapore. Since joining Facebook in 2014, Saurabh ramped up the partnerships team and now runs all of APAC partnerships with core focus on connecting people to the content and creators that best inform and entertain them. The team works closely with studios, TV networks, celebrities and creators in the entertainment space, leveraging Facebook platform to maximize their specific objectives & increasing engagement and distribution of their video content. In addition, Saurabh’s role is to evangelize new products for the market and rollout to partners for better engagement & user experience e.g. WATCH, Videos, Instant Articles and FB LIVE etc have seen mass adoption leading to great and authentic user experiences. He also leads the partner services team across APAC which is brain to various solutions for partners. Saurabh is a Chartered Accountant (India) and MBA by profession and has 15+ years of industry experience. Prior to Facebook, he was Vice President, New Media & Video Monetization at Viacom India Group, has worked with STAR India (Platform Partnerships), Reliance Big Entertainment (Strategy, BD & Content Partnerships including for DTH/IPTV) and has been an Investment Banker with Bank of America.

One of China’s leading media and music executives, Scarlett started her music career as the CEO of Star TV’s Channel [V] (A News Corporation Company) music channel.

Scarlett founded Zebra Media in 2008, China’s No 1 music festival operator. Zebra Media organizes the largest music festivals in China including the Zebra Music Festival (ZMF), Electronic Daisy Carnival (EDC) attracting more than 150,000 people each festival at multiple location of China. Scarlett joined CMC holdings in 2017 as the VP of the group, responsible for music and the live entertainment division.

Prior to Zebra Media, Scarlett Co-Founded R2G Limited, a music rights clearance company, R2G was sold to Tencent Music Entertainment in 2016. Scarlett obtained her bachelor degree in Australia and her EMBA from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

She is a Henry Crown fellow with the Aspen Institute, a NAL of the World Economic Forum and an Asia21 fellow of the Asia Society.

AHN Seunghae is Vice General Manager at Baidu HaoKan Video, China’s YouTube. Currently more than 700 million users in China see videos on Baidu through Haokan video. He is responsible for Global Business of Haokan Video. Prior to this, he oversees all aspects of HaoKan Video’s businesses including products, content, creators, marketing, and strategy. Previously, he was Vice President at Letv, formerly China’s Netflix, where he spearheaded the company’s global business. Seunghae has over 20 years’ extensive experience of management and operations in the internet, entertainment, and media industry in Greater China, Korea, the US, and Japan.

Shahid's first start-up Cricingif is revolutionizing cricket consumption and fan engagement with Cricket through technology driven innovation. Raised 2 Mil $ seed in 2016, reached millions of MAUs, and is on it's way to top of the world of cricket.

Shaun McEwan is one of Asia's leading MC's, Auctioneers and Fundraisers. Shaun performed at over 40 Events last year and helped raise a massive $10m for charity through his fund-raising platform!!

CEO and Co-Founder at Mighty Bear Games. Formerly of King, Ubisoft, and Bigpoint, Simon has been in the games industry for over 15 years and is now driving forward innovation in mobile gaming from Mighty Bear's base in Singapore.

Simon Moor is the Managing Director of Kobalt Music Group APAC, responsible for Kobalt’s publishing, recordings and neighbouring rights divisions. Simon established the AU/NZ operations in 2010, followed by Hong Kong in 2016. Beyond Kobalt Simon is a non-executive director of AMCOS and AMPAL. Simon’s previous roles include Product Manager and A&R Manager for Sony Music, and Head of A&R for EMI and then Sony/ATV. Simon has worked with Flume (Future Classic), Dean Lewis (Specific Music), Gotye, Tash Sultana, Powderfinger, Bernard Fanning, The Hilltop Hoods, Tim Minchin, Angus & Julia Stone, Luke Steele, Silverchair (Eleven) and Jet among others.

Previously a musician, engineer, producer, remixer and promoter, Simon has been with The Beggars Group since 1990. Starting work with online distribution in 1997,  Simon has since worked with almost every significant entity in digital media. He has spoken at most music conferences around the world on digital music and media strategy, made statements to the UK parliament and has testified at the USA's CRB webcasting proceedings. He is also a director and board member of Video Performance Ltd (VPL) and Consolidated Independent (CI), but the most important role is keeping the Beggars Group of labels at the forefront of all new technologies to deliver its award winning roster of artists to the widest possible audience. The Beggars Group represents 4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL Recordings and Young Turks.

G Srinivvasan currently heads the marketing and strategy functions for the entire Reliance Sports group and works across all the properties namely Football, Cricket, IMG Reliance and RF Youth Sports.

G Srini as he is commonly known, has been with Reliance for over 5 yrs and a part of the team that set up and launched the Indian Super League (India's premier football league). Over this period ISL has become a household name in India.

Prior to this role G Srini was heading the marketing and sponsorship sales for the Board of Control for Cricket in India working on the IPL (Indian Premier League), the Indian National Cricket Team and was the Lead across marketing and commercial verticals of a cross functional team from India, Australia and South Africa for the Champions League T20 tournament.

G Srini has worked with Nike where he led the football category business & brand communications for 4.5 years. He began his journey in sports with ESPN wherein he worked on the brand marketing function and moved on to business development and creating customized sporting events for almost 5 years.

Prior to ESPN G Srini spent 4 years in advertising where he started his journey with Lowe and spent a couple of years outside India with an advertising agency in the middle-east.

Stephan has been the CEO of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) since November 2003. During his tenure, WFA has tripled its corporate membership and has extended its network to 60 countries, significantly reinforcing the WFA’s presence in the world’s fastest emerging advertising markets. Prior to joining WFA, Stephan worked for L'Oréal in Paris and Brussels. He studied business economics at the Saint Gall Business School in Switzerland, after which he worked at the United Nations in New York. Stephan has German and French nationalities. He is married to Sabine and has two sons, Sebastian and Alexandre.

Steve joined Twitch in July 2015 where he started as the VP Sales for EMEA. Steve joined from Reuters where he headed up sales for the EMEA region and previous to that, ran multimedia teams for the Daily Telegraph. Steve has built successful teams from the ground up, including operational and programmatic departments. Focusing on creativity, innovation and service, Steve has worked with major clients and agencies from around world to deliver groundbreaking integrated campaigns across multiple platforms.

Stuart is the Marketing Director at Diageo Asia, where he leads brand building across 50+ brands of the world’s #1 spirits company, including Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Tanqueray. He also leads key strategic partnerships and influencer collaboration across the region.

A passionate marketing innovator and brand builder, he has worked in prestige beauty to launch SK-II’s influencer and digital innovation strategy worldwide and world-first million dollar partnership with YouTube (Beauty Bound Asia). In healthcare, he envisioned billion dollar brand Vicks’ partnership with UNICEF (Road to Relief); which has vaccinated over 5 million children worldwide.

He has been a multiple winner of Marketing Magazine’s Excellence in Marketing and PR Awards and is a guest speaker at the National University of Singapore, adtech, Spikes Asia, YouTube Fanfest, Content Marketing Summit Asia, and of course All That Matters.

Susana is the CEO of Media Platforms and Community of theAsianparent.com. She joined theAsianparent with the vision to build a go-to content and community platform for parents raising happy, heathy and confident kids. theAsianparent is SE Asia's largest mum and baby platform with over 25M uniques users.

Susie Kim is a veteran esports personality, host, translator, and interviewer, and she was the General Manager of the London Spitfire during their championship run. For over 12 years, her mission has been to bridge Korean and western cultures and the care she has put into her work and players has earned her the title of "mom of esports." With a storied career that has lasted nearly as long as the industry itself, she continues to be at the forefront of the evolution of esports. Susie’s current focus is using her insight and influence to help propel the industry towards broader horizons.

Beginning his career behind the scenes in some of Europe’s best nightclubs, culminating in the launch of a world-renowned club in Ibiza, Josh then focused on his legal and financial training. Moving to Hong Kong he entered the world of live event production. He has since produced numerous events across the region entertaining over 6 million guests. In particular Josh has produced five editions of the AIA Great European Carnival in Hong Kong, launched GEG’s Singapore arm, developing the Marina Bay Carnival into an annual family event at Marina Bay Sands and managed the launch of the Hong Kong Observation Wheel. He specialises in the development & delivery of family entertainment to the masses throughout Asia.

Tak has invested in over 60 startups related to commerce, health care, SaaS, video, and IoT in the U.S..  With his entrepreneurial expertise both in the U.S. and Japan, he is building a platform for startups and corporations to innovate together.

Takuya (Tak) Yamazaki, a Japanese Attorney-at-Law, is the founder and Managing Partner of Field-R Law Offices, a niche entertainment and sports legal practice based in Tokyo. Tak has vast legal and business experience in entertainment both in Japan and internationally and has selected by ‘Best Lawyers International’ consecutively from 2009 until now as one of the ‘Best Lawyers' in the fields of ‘Media and Entertainment Law’ and ‘Sports' in Japan (http://www.bestlawyers.com/). Further information about Tak, his lectures and achievements can be found at: http://www.field-r.com/en/people/

Tarsame Mittal is the founder ‘TM Talent Management’ the most preferred music talent management agency in the Indian Music Industry. Currently managing over 23 commendable talents from the Bollywood playback & Live entertainment industry; namely: Arijit Singh, Vishal & Shekhar, Sukhwinder Singh, Amit Trivedi, Ajay – Atul, Vishal Bhardwaj and many more. His passion towards music helped him develop multiple business ventures starting with “Truly Musical” a special events division focusing on creating intellectual properties specifically for the music industry. His first venture into IP’s was the “Bollywood Music Project”, a 2-day, multi stage music festival that features over 60 artists & 200+ musicians.

Tarsame is also the brain behind the unique, all-inclusive B2B music conference “All About Music”. The conference aims to create a global gateway into the Indian Music markets and fill the existing gap. With successful 2 sold out editions, the conference has hosted over 200+ Indian and Global music industry influencers and 2000+ delegates. The third edition scheduled on 27th & 28th August 2019 at Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India. He also founded “Music Plus” an interactive music communication portal serving as an all-inclusive information hub for the music industry and music lovers. With his recent company Truly Comical, Tarsame has ventured into the comedy vertical and manages the famous Indian comedian 'Kapil Sharma'.

TC Pan is currently responsible for the overall strategies and daily management of TME’s copyright initiatives. Prior to joining TME as a Group Vice President responsible for Ultimate Music, Mr. Pan worked as the head of entertainment services for Nokia Greater China from 2005 to 2013, and in 2014, he established Ultimate Music, which was acquired by Tencent Music in 2017.

TC graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a bachelor's degree in Japanese studies in 1999 and obtained a master's degree in marketing management from Cranfield University in the UK in 2000.

Terence Leong is a veteran music producer and former record executive behind the successes of leading major recording artists, labels, brands, and feature films throughout multiple Asian markets for over two decades. He co-founded KKFARM and has been with KKBOX Group since 2015 where he works on research and ideation into developing emerging technologies for the music industry.

Terry Zhao is currently the General Manager of Sales, Marketing and Business Development at Baidu Smart Living Group overseeing the artificial intelligence smart devices of Baidu. He has extensive experience in sales, marketing and business development about 20 years. Before joining Baidu, Terry worked for companies such as Google, Amazon, Nokia and Motorola. Shipments of Baidu’s smart speakers currently become China No.1 and No.2 of worldwide surpassing Google’s. Moreover, Baidu DuerOS has become the most prosperous AI ecosystem in China, which has equipped 400 million smart devices.

Unmish triangulates content, commerce & the consumer – using technology. He facilitates the digital transformation of media businesses, curates markets of digital demand, helps brands tell innovate stories and mentors startups in MediaTech, SportsTech & VideoTech. Educated at Cambridge, London Business School and St. Stephen’s, Singapore is Unmish’s 5th home after London, New York, Johannesburg & Delhi. He’s conducted business in over 30-countries on three Continents for blue-chips such as IMG, BBC Technology, ESPN STAR Sports, Fox, News Corp, Scripps Interactive Networks, Jungle Ventures and the International Cricket Council (ICC). Unmish is active on LinkedIn and in “listening” mode on Twitter.

With over 18 years of experience, Vinit is an entrepreneurial and creative leader with a proven track record of delivering strategic and financial goals. As Senior Vice President (India & South Asia) at Universal Music, Vinit is responsible for all strategic initiatives and P&L delivery of the region. He also drives UMG India’s domestic artist and content strategy. A veteran in the fast paced, constantly evolving Music & Entertainment industry, his expertise spans across the areas of Artist & Repertoire, Digital Strategy, Marketing, Music Publishing, Licensing and Music Festivals. In 2018, he launched ‘VYRL’, a unique IP-led artist platform, with the objective of building a culture and category of independent music in India. VYRL has three sub-properties viz., VYRL Originals, VYRL Top 20 playlist and VYRL Fever Top 10 countdown show.

Walker Jacobs is the Chief Revenue Officer at Twitch, bringing more than 20 years of experience building and leading advertising revenue teams at global entertainment brands. Prior to Twitch, Walker was COO at FANDOM, a global entertainment media brand powered by fan passion with 200 million monthly unique users. Prior to FANDOM, Walker was President and Chief Revenue Officer of Clear Channel Outdoor, where he was responsible for leading go-to-market strategies for the company's out-of-home assets in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to Clear Channel, Walker was Executive Vice President at Turner Broadcasting System, the cable television division of Time Warner, where he led Turner Digital. There, he was responsible for leading sales and marketing across Turner's portfolio of digital properties. While at Turner, Walker built and led one of the media industry's largest digital ad sales and marketing organizations.

William Bao Bean
SOSV - General Partner
Chinaccelerator - Managing Director
MOX - Managing Director

William is a General Partner at SOSV - The Accelerator VC - the #5 most active angel and seed stage investor in the world 2018 with US$625m under management. At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the only accelerator in Asia to have a unicorn come through its program – Bitmex the #1 crypto exchange in the world by trading volume. He is also Managing Director of MOX - the Mobile Only Accelerator - providing mobile startups expanding across Asia with free user acquisition. Previously William was a founding Managing Director at SingTel Innov8 Ventures, a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings and spent 11 years in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was top ranked for Internet in Asia and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft and eLong (Expedia).

Alfy Ngor, aka WUKONG is an up-and-coming Singaporean music producer and DJ.

Deeply influenced by traditional Chinese culture, WUKONG has a bigger goal of promoting the Chinese culture and values to the world, and prides himself on being a new breed of performer, as he blends ethnic Asian elements and unique sounds into his high-octane sets. The stage name WUKONG is influenced by the Monkey King, a figure from the Chinese novel Journey To The West. The Monkey King acquires super powers, with which he fights with demons on the way of seeking for his beliefs.

Also a big fan of martial arts and an experienced Muay Thai boxer, he is set to release a remix of legendary folk song ‘Legend of Wong Fei Hung', that was inspired by the Kung Fu master himself from the movie in “Once Upon A Time In China”. WUKONG connected with the song instantly and helped it take on a life of its own, releasing it via Liquid State in June 2019, the joint venture dance label created by Tencent Music & Sony Music.

When not producing music, he co-runs BKK EDM/ Singapore EDM Cartel and Soundgod Productions, a music production agency and academy.

Chen Xiao is the Vice-President of iQIYI in charge of copyright procurement and distribution. He set up the Content Marketing team at iQIYI from scratch, and led the team to carry out product packaging and provide sales support for some of the key Copyright projects, such as “Where are We Going, Dad? “ and “Life Need to Expose”. In addition, together with his team, Mr. Chen successfully sold a large amount of iQIYI’s original drama series and variety shows to local TV Stations as well as to the global market. “The Thunder” is one of the great examples, as recently it is ranked as one of the most popular TV series released on both CCTV 8 and iQIYI. As the “Best Salesman” for Chinese content, Mr. Chen has an unique observation perspective and insights for strengthening the influence of Chinese Art through media and the entertainment industry.

YeonJeong Kim is the Head of Global Content Partnerships at Twitter Korea, where she is responsible for driving global K-POP partnerships with leading Kpop artists/management companies, and Korean broadcasters around the world.

YeonJeong spent more than 20 years in Marketing, Sales and Partnerships. Before joining Twitter in 2015, she was most recently Retail Marketing Lead at Microsoft Korea and Head of Brand Communications at Adidas Korea, where she led marketing campaigns and partnerships during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Prior to that, she also held senior roles at Yahoo and an advertising agency. YeonJeong is also the author of the 2015 book titled “I learned parenting from the company (about applying leadership to family) / 난 육아를 회사에서 배웠다”.

YeonJeong holds a Master’s degree in Advertising & PR from Korea University. She can be found at @TheNolja on Twitter .

Yoshi Nakano is a global content business producer at Content Business Design Center of DENTSU INC. specialized in business design in entertainment market – recently focusing in eSports market. Utilizing Dentsu group’s global network and its world class advertisers, he designs business models that create wins to all party involved – often with Dentsu’s investment as well.