Contributors

Anthony Tan

Anthony Tan has been involved in market development work for more than a decade and spending more than 5 years in market research spanning different industries. Anthony holds a degree in Business and Master in International Relations, Economy and Trade from Flinders University, Australia.

Anthony Thompson

Anthony moved from South Australia to commence his Michael Page career in Hong Kong in 2001. He managed and established several disciplines and brands in Hong Kong and China and was appointed Managing Director, Hong Kong and Southern China in 2006. In 2012, he was appointed Regional Managing Director for Greater China with several offices established across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 2015, Anthony moved to Singapore with additional responsibility for PageGroup in South East Asia which now encompasses offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. In 2016 he also became responsible for India. Anthony is currently responsible for PageGroup's operations in Greater China, South East Asia and India.

Antoine Lamy

Antoine Lamy has almost 10 years of recruitment experience and is Director of Page Personnel in Singapore.

Antonio Acunzo

Antonio Acunzo is the CEO at MTW GROUP | Foreign Market Entry Advisors, a market-entry strategy and brand marketing advisory firm founded in Florida, and with Asia-Pacific office in Singapore. He brings with him over 15 years of experience in international business in the US and Asian markets focused on the Luxury and THL industries, and is a regular speaker at marketing and international business events.

Anuj Khanna Sohum & Himanshu Verma

Anuj Khanna Sohum is the Founder and Chairman of Affle & ad2c while Himanshu Verma is the CEO of Like Minds Consulting Pte ltd

Anup Changaroth

Anup Changaroth is Senior Director for Strategic Business Development and APAC Chief Technology Office at Ciena, where he is responsible for driving growth across Asia Pacific, as well as leading the regional Engineering Operations and Product Line Management teams for Ciena’s hardware and software solutions.

Previously, Anup was Ciena’s Director of Asia Pacific Marketing, responsible for product portfolio marketing, as well analyst and media engagements. He has been involved in the telecommunications field for over 25 years, since designing and building his own V.23 modem in the late ‘80s as a student.

Prior to Ciena’s acquisition of Nortel’s Metro Ethernet Networks division, Anup led various teams at Nortel, including regional product line management for Nortel’s Carrier Data Products in Asia Pacific, the solutions marketing team for Nortel’s Local Internet division, and Nortel’s optical Ethernet marketing strategy across Asia Pacific. Prior to Nortel, Anup held several positions at Motorola's Information Systems Group.

Anup holds an Honours Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the City University, London; a Marketing Management Diploma from Columbia University, U.S.; as well as a Diploma in Electronics Engineering from the Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore.

Anushkar Mohinani

Anushkar Mohinani is a Journalist of Fairfax Business Media

Arlene Wherrett

Arlene Wherrett is the Vice President & Managing Director for Sage Asia responsible for accelerating the growth of Sage’s business in Asia. Working closely with Sage’s loyal business partners, Arlene will build on the successful business established in the region over the last two decades.

Arlene has over 20 years of experience, managing businesses within the IT and Services industries across Asia Pacific leveraging her strong leadership skills and deep industry expertise. She has in the past, held General Manager positions with multi-national corporations including Mercer, Marsh and SAI Global. Prior to joining Sage in early 2017, she held the position of Managing Director, Australia with the highly successful Salesforce implementation partner, Bluewolf, an IBM company.

Before undertaking her current role at Sage Asia, she was previously at Sage Australia, where she held the role of Vice President, Services, for Sage Asia Pacific, growing the professional services, customer support and learning services business.

Arlene graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology from Trent University in Canada and has a Masters of Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Australia.

Arlene is also a certified Gallup Strengths coach and has led leadership development workshops for numerous organisations across Asia Pacific, in addition to the various business groups at Sage.

Arnaud De Bruyn

Arnaud De Bruyn is a marketing professor at ESSEC Business School. His research focuses on marketing analytics, direct and interactive marketing, and marketing engineering. He has been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, amongst other journals. He has multiple scientific prizes for his work on viral marketing. Arnaud is Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Business Markets. He has extensive experience in the non-profit sector, where he has accompanied more than 40 non-profit organizations to help them optimize their direct marketing. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Penn State University.

Arthur Fernandez

As Chief Growth Officer, Arthur is responsible for Jcurve’s revenue growth across all markets by aligning all revenue-generating activities across sales, marketing, and operations. Arthur brings over 30 years of proven international experience, developing solutions for organizations across finance, banking, construction, healthcare, commerce, retail, logistics, manufacturing, non-profit, and social enterprise industries. With a strong background working with start-ups through to multi-national organizations, Arthur has managed companies in the UK, Australia, and Asia.