Contributors

Theodore Chan

Theodore EC Chan is the President of the Singapore Institute of Architects.

Thomas Goh

Dr Thomas Goh is Chairman of the Innodaptive Group - a global network of thought leaders, management consultants and corporate advisers.

Thomas Goh

Dr Thomas Goh is Chairman of the Innodaptive Group - a global network of thought leaders, management consultants, and corporate advisers.

Thomas Laboulle

Thomas Laboulle, the founder and CEO of Singapore-based Toku, started his career in a challenging environment: the military. In 2006, he graduated from the Royal Military Academy of Belgium as an Infantry Officer. He spent several years in the field before deciding to continue his academic journey, first at the University of Leuven, then at the Solvay Business School of Brussels.

That experience laid the foundation of a strong business acumen that served him well whilst moving into the private sector. During this period, Thomas explored management consulting and created an online marketplace for students called NimbusFish in his spare time.

His various consulting missions became focused on International Project and Change Management for Corporate IT Initiatives. This refinement led to his next business venture in 2012 when he founded Mundito, a boutique consulting firm.

Within three years, Thomas decided that fast-growing Asia was the place-to-be in terms of business opportunities. He migrated to Singapore with an intent to pioneer digital business models for technology startups in the financial sector.

Besides his in-house consultancy work, Thomas also worked part-time on due diligence assignments for a Swiss family office.

By mid-2016, Thomas was recruited by the Board of Directors of GlobalRoam to lead and re-structure the then 15-year old Singaporean telecom operator.

This experience resulted in the eventual founding of Toku in 2018, a Communications Platform-as-a-Service provider designed to empower businesses to broaden customer engagement using cloud-based telecommunications.

Thorsten Neumann

Thorsten Neumann is currently the Chief Technical Office & Co-founder of SmartPesa - a Singapore-based specialised payments and agency banking technology solutions provider.

With almost 20 years of experience in the information and communications technology domain, Thorsten has always been passionate about building practical applications to technology. He is based in Singapore and has particular expertise in solution architecture, systems design and integration with a focus on financial institutions, APIs, ISO8583 switches, Core Banking Systems and 3rd party service providers.

Since coming to Asia in 2014, Thorsten has successfully worked on agency banking in Philippines, and payments solutions in Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria and Colombia.

Thorsten Nolte

Thorsten is the founder and CEO of digital marketing agency Upfront. He has been in Asia for over 5 years and has 15 years of senior agency experience focused on creative and technology-based communication solutions.

Tianyi (TJ) Jiang

TJ, as the Co-Founder & CEO of AvePoint Inc, oversees the global businesses of AvePoint Inc.

TJ personally drives the global strategy and business development of AvePoint Inc. Prior to co-founding AvePoint, he had years of experiences in designing and implementing fix-income trading systems in Deutsche Bank, global equity program trading platforms in Lehman Brothers, and credit risk modelling at Citadel and Moody’s, as well as conducting research in Data Mining at NYU Stern.

A recipient of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in New Jersey in 2010, TJ received both his B.S. and Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Philosophy and PhD in Data Mining from Department of Information Systems, Operations Management, and Statistics, Stern School of Business, New York University.

TJ co-founded AvePoint in 2001 with Gong Xun Kai, his long-time mentor and friend since their days of working together at Lucent Technologies back in 1998.

TJ currently resides in Singapore with his wife and 5 young children. He spends 50% of his time traveling managing AvePoint’s business across 26 global offices. While on the go, TJ maintains his hobby of long-distance running, and completed a recent bucket list item of earning the Abbott Six Star from running all six global Abbott Major Marathons.

Tim Charlton

Tim Charlton is the CEO of the Charlton Media Group, a leading business to business publisher based in Singapore that publishes titles including the Singapore Business Review, Hong Kong Business, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+ and Asian Telecom. These publications cover a wide range of business issues facing executives and leaders in Asia.

Mr. Charlton oversees the editorial direction of these brands in both print, online, conferences, and events and takes a deep interest in the economics and business activities taking place in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to founding Charlton Media Group in 2001, he worked in Hong Kong for News corporation, at Star television and the South China Morning Post. He holds a Graduate and Certificate and Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.

Tim Harris

Tim Harris is the CEO, Southeast Asia, BT Global Services, a senior executive with  international experience in corporate strategy and business development, strategic planning, corporate restructuring, business transformation and change management and the like

Tim Hartnoll

Tim Hartnoll is CEO of the Bawah Islands. He has extensive experience in developing global businesses, including in the transportation and logistics sectors.