CDO BREAKFAST SUMMIT 2019 - Singapore 14^th March

Lim Kian Soon is Singtel Head of Carrier Sales & Voice Support, responsible for all domestic and international data sales business to all carrier customers.  He is also responsible for supporting the carrier voice team in international accounting and settlement.  Kian Soon assumed this position in April 2017.

Prior to this appointment, as Head of Singtel Satellite, he was responsible for the fixed and mobile satellite business and infrastructure in SingTel, as well as ICT and cyber security innovation over satellite for the maritime, broadcast and land mobile segments.

He was the Regional Head in SingTel Global Office from 2005 to 2012, responsible for leading SingTel’s growth in North Asia markets – delivering telecommunications, managed services and cloud solutions to enterprise customers in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan to support their IT operations in Asia Pacific region.  He was the Country Director of Singapore Telecom Japan Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) in Japan, from 1999 to 2005.

He joined SingTel on 1 September 1997 as the Deputy Director (Internet Business Development) in the multimedia business.  He subsequently assumed the post of the Deputy Director (Marketing) in SingNet, a wholly owned subsidiary of SingTel.

Before joining SingTel, Kian Soon worked for the Defense Technology Group of the Ministry of Defense in Singapore from 1990 to 1997.

Kian Soon graduated with a Bachelor of Information Engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Japan in 1989.  He obtained his Master of Business Administration in 1999 from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

Prior to joining IMDA in September 2018, Howie was the Chief Marketing Officer of Starhub and he was responsible for the company's brand and marketing strategies across the company. He was also responsible for StarHub's consumer business and oversees StarHub's Mobility, Pay TV and Broadband businesses including the Content and Local Production teams.

Howie was the Vice-President, Corporate Development of Lenovo's Worldwide Finance Organisation, where he oversaw Lenovo's end-to-end Post Merger Management and related Merger & Acquisition matters. Previously, he was Lenovo's Vice- President of Marketing and Communications for Emerging Markets Group, and was responsible for the strategy and execution of marketing and communications in the China, Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, Taiwan and ASEAN markets.

Howie was conferred the prestigious NUS Eminent Business Alumni Award and the NUS Outstanding Young Alumni Award for his achievement and contribution to the industry.

Hwee Ming is a Principal Technologist with Red Hat covering the telecommunications domain. She is based in Singapore and supports the APJ region focusing on emerging Red Hat technologies. She has been working with service providers, adopting these technologies for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and has worked on multiple NFV proof-of-concept across the regions.

Before Red Hat, Hwee Ming worked with Hewlett Packard and she has over 15 years experience in the industry working on OSS, next generation Intelligent networks, converged networks, NOC consolidattion and regulatory compliance. She has also work with customer in other sectors focusing on IT transformation and data center consolidation based on ITIL processes.

Hwee Ming graduated in Bachelors of Electrical Engineering (Hons) and Masters of Technology (Software Engineering) from Nattional University of Singapore. She is ITIL V2 Manager certified since 2005 and ITIL V3 Expert certified since 2008. She is also certified in Red Hat Openstack and other Red Hat products

Eric Tan is Senior Manager, Solution Sales at Juniper Networks. He is responsible for business and solutions development of Packet Optical Technology offerings for penetration of new and existing market segments. He is also involved in regional Pre-Sales role, where he leads the Southeast Asia team in high-value projects working closely with both regional and local partners to ensure quality solutions and drive customer satisfaction.  

Eric Tan holds a Bachelor of Information Technology and industry experience of 15 years in telecommunications, pre-sales, bid management, project management, business development and technologies of IP, Optical (C/DWDM), SDH, FTTx, xDSL & Security across the APAC region.

Wida Schmidt has spent over 18 professional years in the telecommunications industry holding various management positions within the industry. She is a graduated MBA from Bradford University.
Since 2008, she is co-Founder and CEO of the Carrier Community – a global branding and networking telco club for the wholesale service providers and telco eco partners.

Pramod Misra is a well-known speaker on the topic of data monetisation & customer data enrichment. He is working as product manager with Vodafone Idea Limited. His major developing the roadmap for external data monetization for VIL. He has anchored the development of digital engagement platform and location analytics (https://www.vodafone.in/business/large-corporates/enterprise-mobility/vodafone-analytics and www.pinsight.ai)

He has more than 15 years of full time work experience and worked with companies like Novartis, Procter & Gamble and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited. He is actively engaged with most of the major Banks, Fintech start-ups & customer intelligence companies on developing new capabilities using mobile analytics. Pramod’s equally important job is being a good husband to his wife Neha and father to his son Prarabdh. Together with them, he stays in Mumbai, India.

LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pramodmisra/

Twitter handle : @pramodmisra

Filippo is Managing Director for Asia Pacific at DOCOMO Digital, the international payments division of NTT DOCOMO of Japan.
During the last few years, Filippo has been leading DOCOMO Digital's tremendous growth in the JAPAC region, and forging enduring relationships with key corporate clients and partners - especially in telecoms, payments and app stores.
Previously, as Business Development Manager for Asia Pacific in RCS, a European media company, Filippo led the launch of OTTs and content partnerships - focusing on music majors, video streaming providers (SVOD), gaming companies and handsets manufacturers (OEM).
Filippo received an MBA degree from SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy, with a major in Marketing of Media and Entertainment from NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York.

Shahar has joined PCCW Global in 2001 and has served in various sales, pre-sales product development, and Technology roles. In his current assignment Shahar explores the applicability of new technologies to PCCW Global’s current and future product portfolio. Shahar represents PCCW Global in numerous Standard bodies such as MEF, ITU-T, ETSI, NGMN, TMF, i3Forum and others with focus on inter-carrier operation standardization. Shahar has been involved in the international telecoms arena for over 20 years and his main focus nowadays is the applicability of new technologies, such as Blockchain as enablers of federated orchestration across multiple operator domains.

Simeon is Chief Strategy Officer at AdaptiveMobile Security and has over 25 years’ experience within the mobile fixed line and IT infrastructure markets. With a career spanning Marketing, Product Management, Business Development and Operations roles, Simeon has worked for Telecom Infrastructure providers and solution providers with 9 out of the top 10 largest carrier groups.

Simeon has worked with AdaptiveMobile since the foundation of the business, assisting Service Providers on the protection of their subscribers and network through a range of senior management roles, and is currently responsible for the development and execution of the Company’s strategic initiatives.