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S Y Lau, joined Tencent in 2006 with the responsibility of overseeing the company’s online media business division, and also the mandate to further develop the company's online advertising business, and enhancing the corporate brand values for its various web properties. SY Lau is a seasoned professional in branding and marketing communication with more than 18 years of solid experience working in leading international advertising agencies, and with the previous 14 years in a leadership position in China.

With his diverse background in both the music and digital industries, Nick Love brings a rich and broad understanding to this key strategic role as the Business Development Director for Fox Interactive Media, Australia and Asia.
After starting his career in the legal profession in 1993, Nick held a range of senior management positions at ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) and Electronic Arts and ICE Interactive.

Ay Ling has 21yrs of experience in the private sector, with a strong forte in the marketing and fundraising fields, which has contributed to the success of her leadership in the Private Fundraising & Partnerships operations at UNICEF Indonesia.

Mary Chan is the Vice President, Production, Asia, of Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Based in Hong Kong, Mary has over 20 years of experience in the media entertainment industry and she helms the television production operation for SPTI in Asia. Her current responsibilities include the development and production of scripted shows for Asia.

Beginning his career in consumer market research in Toronto Canada where winters were long and summers short, Ken packed his bags for Asia and joined the Bangkok office of Shandwick Public Relations in 1994. Since then he has held senior advertising management positions across the Asia Pacific region with Bates, 141 Worldwide & Ogilvy & Mather.

Peter Conlon is CEO & Founder of Ammado, an online community for people who care connecting engaged individuals, nonprofits and socially responsible companies. Headquartered in Dublin with development centres in Prague, Düsseldorf, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Duseldorf, San Fransisco, Sydney, Singapore and Tokyo.

Based in London, Andrew is an internationally renowned thought leader and keynote presenter in the field of digital and social media networks.
A former resident of Sydney, for the last 4 years he has been active in the European market, and such he has a deep understanding of the digital, mobile and advertising space and is well connected to leading advertising agencies in London. He also sits on the UK Committee of the Mobile Marketing Association.

Ashutosh is part of Mindshare’s global management group, and has been leading the company for the Asia Pacific region since 2006. He is based at Singapore. Mindshare is the largest marketing and media services network in Asia, with over 2000 people in 32 offices, in 16 countries across the region including China and India.

 Lars has more than 10 years experience in the areas of Marketing, Public Relations, Media, Journalism, Strategic Development, Change Management and Intranet/Internet projects. In his current role, Lars advises public relations and corporate communications professionals in Asia Pacific on the best ways to manage and measure the perception of their brand in traditional and social media.

Iris heads the Marketing team at StarHub covering both the business and consumer sectors. She is responsible for the development of the StarHub brand and go-to-market strategies for StarHub’s products and solutions.

Olivier Legrand, based in Hong Kong, is General Manager, Asia, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.

Mr Legrand was previously Director of Marketing, Asia, Dow Jones Consumer Media Group, with responsibility for marketing and advertising for The Wall Street Journal Asia franchise, including the newspaper, Chinese WSJ.com and the Far Eastern Economic Review in print and online.

He joined The Wall Street Journal Asia in November 2005 as circulation marketing director.

Bambos is responsible for Nokia’s marketing activities across Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei, including the management of Nokia’s device & service portfolio, overseeing their launches and marketing promotions across all consumer touch-points.

Prior to this appointment, Bambos was the Head of Go-To-Market for Nokia Singapore, where he was responsible for the launch of new products and services in Nokia’s portfolio in order to drive revenue growth and consumer usage of services.

Mark Laudi is the CEO of Hong Bao Media, a Singapore-based company which produces videos for websites, and provides media and presentation training MasterClasses.

Joerg is the Director of Business Development for the APAC region and as such responsible for developing the Asia Pacific market for Netbiscuits. In this role, Joerg overseas the strategy development for the group’s Asian endeavours as well as the operational sales activities.

Mr. Jukka Helin works currently as a director at TeliaSonera’s Product Management unit at the Broadband Services business area. The activities of the unit are focused for example on development of commercial TV, content and other easy-to-use services for digital home.

Gerd joined NAB in April 2005, when he established Customer Strategy & Cross Marketing.  In June, 2007 Gerd accepted the appointment to lead UBank.
Prior to joining NAB, Gerd was the Director of Strategy & Business Development in Australia for Citigroup. From 2001 to 2003, Gerd was the Head of Strategy Development & Implementation for BankWest's Business & Corporate Bank.

From 1995 to 2001, Gerd was a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group based in Sydney, Los Angeles and New York.

Clemen Chiang is the Chief Evangelist of CozyCot.com, a leading women's site in the world that features beauty, fashion, lifestyle, forums, reviews and shopping. It attracts over 13,000 forum threads with over 1.4 million postings to date and more than 500,000 visitors per month. Hitwise rates CozyCot the #1 Women's Site in Singapore for 2006, 2007 and 2008. Clients of CozyCot.com include Citibank, Master Card, Calvin Klein, Clinique, Dior, Elizabeth Arden, Emporio Armani, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Loreal, Origins, Shiseido, Stila and many other brands.

As the leader of Edelman Digital in Asia Pacific, John helps major brands integrate social media and online channel and content solutions into marketing programmes. John has 18 years experience in both in-house marketing and consultancy roles.