Contributors

Justin Fong

Justin Fong is the Principal Consultant/ Trainer of CW Fong & Associates

Justin Harper

Justin Harper is the Head of media and research at IG Markets. He handles the press coverage for IG Markets in Singapore regularly commenting on stock markets, commodities and currencies.

Justin Loh

Justin Loh is the Country Director for Veritas Technologies Singapore. He is responsible for leading Veritas' overall business strategy, sales operations and continuous growth in Singapore.

Prior to Veritas, Justin was the general manager at Adura Cyber Security where he led the consulting services businesses across Singapore and Hong Kong. Having held numerous leadership roles in diverse multi-national firms, Justin is highly experienced in managing large-scale operations and leading high-performing teams across sales, consulting, professional services and maintenance support. Justin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computing from the Monash University Australia.

Justin Ong and Armin Choksey

Justin is a partner and the Asset Management Leader in PwC Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in working with asset managers in Singapore, London and Continental Europe. Justin also serves as the PwC Asia Pacific Private Banking Leader. While Armin has worked in a multi-national sphere with over 10 years of Investment Management Industry experience of performing audits under US, International and Canadian Auditing Standards. He started his career in India before working in the United States of America, Luxembourg, and now Singapore.

Justin Quek

Justin Quek is the Chief Executive Officer of OrangeTee & Tie. Justin has a multifaceted experience as a property agent, proptech entrepreneur, and strategic manager. He championed initiatives like the Consumer Insider Series and Luxe by OrangeTee, empowering clients and agents in navigating the property sector in Singapore.

JY Pook

JY is Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, Tableau Software. He has close to 25 years of IT leadership experience. JY has a bachelor's degree in Science from the National University of Singapore and post graduate degrees in Marketing and Finance from Singapore Institute of Management.

K Balakrishnan

K Balakrishnan is the Managing Director and CEO of Servion Global Solutions

Kamal Brar

Kamal Brar is the Vice President & GM for Hortonworks Asia Pacific/Middle East. He joined Hortonworks in 2016 to lead the expansion in one of the growing regions for the company. Kamal is an entrepreneurial leader, having successfully led some of most successful disruptive technology companies in the world. His experience extends from managing large US$125M+ businesses with broad range of high-value deals, complex solution selling to leading the inception of cutting-edge technology based start-ups across the Asia Pacific region.

Kamal has held various leadership positions in Oracle, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, MySQL, MongoDB and most recently SVP at Talend. His strong passion for software and emerging technologies has enabled him to lead industry change specifically focused on data management solutions. Kamal holds a Bachelor of Computing & Information Systems from Macquarie University, Sydney and is a member of the Australian Computer Society, and Co-Chair for Telecom TiE Singapore.

Kamal Karmakar

Kamal is the founder and promoter of CitiXsys. He has been responsible for the company’s evolution to be a specialist provider of software products in Retail segment. Kamal’s responsibilities include Business Strategy, Global Sales, Product Innovation and Growth.

Under his leadership, CitiXsys grew to become the market leader in Retail Technology domain and known as an innovator in Retail sector. He has also guided the organization to receive several prestigious awards in tech industry.

Beyond his work in CitiXsys, Kamal has considerable experience at counseling executives at high growth companies on strategy formulation, business model transformation, and implementation of balanced scorecard in their enterprise. He has worked with many companies in a counseling capacity with an exceptional track record of helping management teams achieve better strategy & bottom-line improvements.

A graduate of Harvard Business School, Kamal is well recognized in the industry and is on board of various companies globally including being a member of SAP Advisory Council for Business One in Germany.

Kan Ying Loong

Kan Ying Loong is the Executive Director of Lotus On Water.