Contributors

Elango Balusamy

Elango Balusamy is the CTO at WeInvest. He is an established technology expert with over 18 years of experience in building high-performance engineering projects for tech and financial services business across geographies including India, Singapore, Hong Kong & USA.

He has an extensive background in Capital Markets Technology and championed incremental software delivery in key initiatives. As a part of the Technology team in Goldman Sachs and WeLab, he handled end to ownership for projects. In the past, Elango had also worked on hybrid mobile apps and big-data technologies. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Madras University and Masters in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani.

Eli Schwartz

Eli Schwartz is the Director of Marketing, APAC for SurveyMonkey. He oversees all of SurveyMonkey's marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, he leads global SEO efforts and strategies on SurveyMonkey properties across 17 languages.

Elias Ghanem

Elias Ghanem is the Managing Director of PayPal Southeast Asia and India

Elijah Lim

Elijah Lim, Principal Consultant & Chief Optioneer, Shining Arrow Consulting Pte Ltd

Elis Tan Siok Ping

Elis is the Executive Director of Transfer Pricing at BDO Tax Advisory Pte Ltd, part of the world's 5th largest accounting network. Elis has extensive experience with Big 4 firms, as the Head of Transfer Pricing, Asia-Pacific region for one of the largest multinational insurance groups based in the United States, as well as a stint with the tax policy division at the Singapore Ministry of Finance.

She handles all aspects of transfer pricing including documentation compliance, planning and controversy management work. Her unique combination of professional experiences helps her consider transfer pricing issues from multiple perspectives, offering practical and flexible solutions to her clients in both Singapore, as well as the Asia-Pacific region.

Elise Tan

Elise is the founder of www.startupixel.com. She is currently working for a super angel fund and prior to this, she started an entrepreneurial program, Startup Leadership Program, with a few friends and worked for business incubator based in Singapore, accelerating start-ups. Her passion lies in mentoring, advising, connecting, and funding tech start-ups.

Ella Sherman

Ella Sherman, a Singapore PR, has worked for over 20 years in Human Resources Management in London, Hong Kong and Singapore for Chase Manhattan Bank, UBS, CSFB, Credit Agricole WI Carr, Goldman Sachs and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ella is currently the Director of Human Resources and People Talent for Ps-engage Global Government Relations, a company facilitating multinational organisations build better relationships with their regulators.

She gained a rounded HR training working in various functions: Generalist (including Recruitment), International Compensation, Benefits & Relocation and Pensions Administration.

Recipient of the Chase Manhattan Bank 'Chase Service Star Award' awarded as 'Recognition given to employees who go beyond and above the call of their duty in their interactions with colleagues and customers'.

Eloise Sutton-Kirkby

Eloise leads marketing and is Director at HRBoss. She brings 10 years of marketing experience and a background in HR/recruiting to the table...plus a dash of social media mojo and Asian-market savvy. Prior to HRBoss, Eloise joined Michael Page International and took a bold step relocating from UK to Tokyo, where she lived and worked for 5 years before relocating to Singapore in 2013. Eloise graduated with a double first MA from Glasgow University in her native Britain and has lived and worked in Asia ever since.

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Emon Zaman

Emon Zaman is Senior Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific at AVEVA. AVEVA is a leader in engineering and industrial software that is at the heart of the world’s most ambitious and complex projects and assets in the Process and Power industries.

Emon’s team is responsible for driving the growth, adoption and support of AVEVA’s industry leading technologies within the Asia Pacific region enabling Performance Intelligence within the Process and Manufacturing industries. Over the last 15 years, he has held a variety of roles within AVEVA including Strategy, Sales and Service Delivery. 

Prior to AVEVA, Emon was at Aspen Technology in Sales and Service Delivery roles driving adoption of new technologies. Earlier in his career, Emon worked in Engineering projects in the Petrochemical and Oil & gas industries.

Emon graduated with distinction with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from University of Calgary.

Emon is currently based in Singapore and recently moved from Houston, Texas after spending 10 years in the US.