Contributors

Chirag Shah

Chirag Shah is currently working as Manager at National Securities Depository Limited.

Chong Yang Chan

Chong Yang Chan is the Managing Director of Qlik ASEAN. He is responsible for leading Qlik’s regional operations while empowering brands to improve their data pipelines, uncover growth opportunities and solve business problems by utilising data.

A veteran in the enterprise technology sector with more than twenty years of experience, he has successfully helped customers in Singapore such as GovTech, Singapore Tourism Board and UOB, as well as customers across ASEAN to quantify positive returns from their investment while untapping innovative opportunities which could only be discovered through data analytics.

As a leader, Chong Yang believes in the importance of constant innovation. He typically encourages his team to apply critical thinking to draw similarities between case studies in different sectors to solve problems. He also adopts a lifelong learning approach by continually developing his data analytical and leadership skills.

Prior to joining Qlik, Chong Yang was a Sales Director for Oracle, Informatica and most recently, Talend. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

Chong Yang Chan

Chong Yang Chan is the Managing Director of Qlik ASEAN. He is responsible for leading Qlik’s regional operations while empowering brands to improve their data pipelines, uncover growth opportunities and solve business problems by utilising data.

A veteran in the enterprise technology sector with more than twenty years of experience, he has successfully helped customers in Singapore such as GovTech, Singapore Tourism Board and UOB, as well as customers across ASEAN to quantify positive returns from their investment while untapping innovative opportunities which could only be discovered through data analytics. 

Prior to joining Qlik, Chong Yang was a Sales Director for Oracle, Informatica and most recently, Talend. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

Chris Burton

Chris Burton is the Managing Director of Singapore and Malaysia at Vistra Group. Vistra is one of the world’s top three independent corporate services providers. 

Born and educated in the UK, Chris started his career in financial services, in the prehistoric paper-based banking world of the 1980s. He eventually escaped retail banking for wealth management in the 1990s and spent 16 years in Coutts and Kleinwort Benson in London, Hong Kong and Jersey, before moving out of banking completely and joining Vistra Group in 2010. 

Chris Comer

Chris Comer joined Singapore-based Castlewood Group as CEO in 2007. Prior to this, he was a founding board member of Dubai real estate developer The First Group. Chris' strengths within the real estate investment business saw him accept key leadership roles in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Spain, Singapore, Taiwan, and the UK. He brings with him over 20 years of international business experience.

Chris Fenney

Chris Fenney is director of Training Edge International.

Chris Foster

Chris leads a team of more than 1,000 people at Saatchi & Saatchi in Asia-Pacific and China, covering 60% of the world’s population and spanning 25 offices in 15 countries - Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan ROC, Thailand, and Vietnam. He is an experienced leader in Asia, having spent the period 1999-2008 with Saatchi & Saatchi as CEO of Japan and Korea and as Global Equity Director for Procter & Gamble.

Chris Gill

Chris is the General Manager for Friends Provident International (FPI) in South East Asia based in Singapore with responsibility for running FPI's operations in Singapore and the region. Chris also acts in the capacity of Chief Executive for the Singapore Branch, a statutory designation under the Singapore regime.

Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan is the Senior Vice-President for Golf of World Sport Group. He manages the Group’s roster of some of the region’s leading golf events including the Barclays Singapore Open – Asia’s richest national open, as well as OneAsia and the Asean Golf Tour.

Chris Keshian

Chris Keshian is CEO and managing partner of $APEX Token Fund, the world’s first tokenised crypto-focused fund of funds. He is a leading innovator in the blockchain ecosystem, acting as an advisor at BTC Media, Hashed Health and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and was the co-founder and CEO of the first fiat gateway onto Ethereum. Chris is also managing partner at the blockchain asset hedge fund Neural Capital, which outperformed bitcoin by approximately 3,000% during the first half of 2017.