As Head of Office & Streaming, Park oversees the management and operations of Paramount’s business in Asia (Greater China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia), including digital media, programme sales, consumer products, recreation and ancillary IP licensing and co- production. She also spearheads the company’s streaming business in the region, focusing on accelerating the roll-out of streaming products such as Paramount+ and Pluto TV, and driving the development of original content.

Johan leads the consumer business group and is responsible for the development, marketing and delivery of consumer-market mobile and fixed products and services including pay TV. He also charts StarHub’s brand evolution.

Most recently, he was the Chief Commercial Officer of Ooredoo Oman, where he was responsible for marketing, sales and customer experience for mobile, fixed and new businesses. Before that, he held senior positions in Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Axis (STC) and Singtel.

Sutanto Hartono currently serves as the MD of PT. Elang Mahkota Teknologi (Emtek), Tbk., the CEO of Surya Citra Media (SCM), Tbk., as well as the CEO of Surya Citra Televisi (SCTV), and Vidio.com, two of the SCM’s subsidiaries. He is leading the effort to establish SCM leadership in the broadcast industry and aligning strategy to transform the Emtek group to be the dominant player in the content productions, advertising solution services and digital platforms.

With over 10 years of professional experience in both retail and media consumer businesses, Arianne Kader-Cu (Ari) is a prominent figure in her field and is well respected by colleagues and peers alike. Her early career experiences includes having a key role and being an integral part of Zalora Philippines launch back in 2012, appointed to lead strategic launches of several online market places for Global Fashion Group (GFG) in 2015, and most recently in 2017 heading and developing VIU PH’s growth strategy in the Philippines.

The establishing member of the Auckland office, Chris is in his 8th year at Accedo, leading the Sales, Marketing, Data and UX teams across the APAC region.

Vignesh heads the Ads business for Airtel and comes with extensive advertising experience having led business roles in Europe & Asia for 17+ years. His expertise in the digital ecosystem stems from his experience in eCommerce companies like Lazada, Zalora, Snapdeal, Reebonz and with core Adtech technology companies like Mediamath helping him to create the right product-market fit across Adtech & Martech.

Will Law is a Chief Architect within the Edge Technology group at Akamai. He has been involved with streaming media on the web for the last 23 years with a strong focus on client-side development and wrote many of the connection frameworks that drove much of the early media traffic flowing over Akamai. He has a current focus on MPEG DASH and HLS streaming, low latency OTT delivery, CMAF, WebTransport, CMCD, CMSD and MBR switching.

Jay is a media tech specialist with over 15 years of experience. His core expertise lies in driving revenue growth, partnerships and customer success for global enterprises.

At Amagi, Jay is responsible for further solidifying the company’s global leadership position across both streaming and broadcast spectrums, especially the rapidly growing Free Ad Supported Streaming TV (FAST) market by creating partnerships with TV networks, content owners, advertisers and video distribution platforms.

Before joining Amagi, Jay has held leadership roles in MediaKind, Irdeto and Cisco.

Nathalie Lethbridge is the Founder and Managing Director of Atonik Digital, an international boutique advisory firm focusing on streamed entertainment and content strategy and monetisation based in London.  Highly experienced at monetisation and growth strategies across the content ecosystem, Nathalie is passionate about the growth opportunities presented by changing audience behaviour across the traditional and digital/OTT content ecosystem.  Nathalie has held leadership roles with global entertainment companies.  Her clients include global and local content companies, digital first brands operators and steaming platforms.

Monica Miller is an award-winning international journalist who works for BBC World News in the US and Asia. She provides regular television, radio and online business news updates and has been a part of the Asia Business Report (a programme broadcasted out of Singapore) team for almost six years. In September 2020, Monica returned to the US to join the BBC’s Washington DC bureau to cover the 2020 Presidential election. When she’s not filing stories under a deadline, Monica loves watching movies and streaming television series.

As Managing Director, Mike works closely with the beIN Media Group’s global leadership team to realise its mission of redefining the sports and entertainment experience for fans in Asia and ANZ. With extensive experience in media, sales and sports marketing, Mike is tasked with shaping beIN’s business model and operations in the region while identifying new customer experiences and revenue opportunities.

As Senior Director, Strategy for Brightcove across APAC, Greg consults with enterprises helping them create strategies to build businesses with video. He has more than 20 years of experience in advertising, digital marketing and has rich experience in building consumer offerings in the enterprise brands and media sector in Asia. Greg has led Brightcove to achieve a dominant market position in the region with digital-first companies, Free to Air TV and Pay TV content owners, and is also a regular industry commentator.

Marty Roberts is the Vice President of Media Analytics for Brightcove, the global leader of video for business. Prior to joining Brightcove, Marty was the CEO and Co-founder of Wicket Labs, a leading audience insights platform accelerating growth for over 2,000 media and entertainment companies. Being a technology entrepreneur and driven by success, Marty’s focus is on advancing the media industry through data-driven, actionable insights.

Before Wicket Labs, he served as co-CEO of thePlatform,. He also previously held marketing and product leadership roles at Giftcertificates.com and RealNetworks.

Pieter Liefooghe is a Business Development Director at Broadpeak. Before joining Broadpeak Pieter was the SVP Product and Operations at THEO Technology. During his three years at Ericsson/Mediakind he was in different roles, notably the Media Delivery Solution Area CTO covering primarily their Cloud DVR solution. Prior to that he worked in Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia/Velocix for 11 years. Before joining the corporate world, he was active for over 10 years in academia doing applied research in telecommunications and streaming media.

Sid leads the Media & Entertainment vertical at BytePlus across Asia Pacific. In this role, Sid works closely with large enterprises in the OTT, AVOD, SVOD, TVOD and social media space to power growth with BytePlus’ wide range of cutting edge solutions, technology and services.

Prior to this, Sid led the Global Sales for a SaaS based, AI powered HRTech firm headquartered in Singapore with teams across APAC, EMEA and UK.

Mr. Seo is experienced in both U.S. and Korean intellectual property litigation and prosecution matters, and represents a broad range of clients, from high-tech companies to luxury fashion companies. His detailed knowledge of the similarities as well as differences between these two jurisdictions has been an invaluable asset in advising foreign clients on effective IP management and enforcement strategies in Korea. He is recognized as a leading attorney for intellectual property in Korea by various major legal publications, such as the World Trademark Review, Asia Law, Managing Intellectual Property and others.

Professor Paul Watters is CEO of Cyberstronomy, Strategic Cyber Security Consultant at Ionize, and Academic Dean at Academies Australasia (ASX: AKG). He is also Honorary Professor of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, and Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at La Trobe University. Professor Watters is one of the world’s leading researchers in cybercrime and cybersecurity, having led major research programmes against banking fraud, phishing, scams, child exploitation, and piracy.

With an established track record of using technology to solve marketing challenges and generating novel revenue streams, Sunil has successfully led market enablement of data-led solutions and established one of the strongest digital & addressable media practices in the region. Sunil is now focused on future proofing dentsu’s approach to products & platforms to provide sustainable value to brands and advertisers.

Sagar Pandit currently leads business development and partnerships for Discovery’s direct-to-consumer business across Asia Pacific. Since joining Discovery in 2021, he has executed the launch of premium streaming service discovery+ in the Philippines and conceptualised growth and distribution partnerships for the region. He continues to identify DTC business growth through organic and inorganic channels, as well as opportunities to expand the APAC footprint. Prior to Discovery, Sagar held roles at Netflix and Star Sports spanning business development, content and revenue profiles.

Mr. Akash Saxena is SVP and Head of Technology at Disney+ Hotstar, India’s largest premium streaming platform with coverage of every major global sporting event. He has been a key driver in building and guiding the team that has built and architected a platform that can scale to run AVOD / SVOD and run live sports at scale. Prior to joining Disney+Hotstar, Akash led engineering at an e-commerce player, a food aggregator and OpenTable, where he built teams from scratch and spanned across multiple locations.

Shalini is Head of Ads for Disney+ Hotstar in India. She is responsible for delivering Ad Revenue for Disney+ Hotstar which includes Sales, Agency Partnerships, Strategy, Measurement and Ad Tech Solutions, CreativeWorks and Ad Operations.

Shalini comes with strong leadership experience of running ads businesses of tremendous scale and shaping transformational partnerships and product interventions. Prior to joining Disney+ Hotstar, Shalini worked with Google for over 8 years. In her last stint, she was the head of business development for Google Play Apps for India, SEA and Australia.

John Maniccia is a streaming video pioneer with a proven track record over 20 years of launching highly successful video based products for the best media Companies in the world. A video industry subject matter expert, John has aided Encoding.com over the past eight years to its position as the world’s most trusted cloud-based video encoding service, with clients including NBCU/Peacock, WarnerMedia/HBO, Fox and the BBC.  Previously John worked at WarnerMedia for thirteen years as a video technology R&D analyst.

Peter Bellamy is Senior Vice President at Endeavor Streaming, focusing on driving the global sports business and international media and entertainment business. Working with prospects and partners to drive new OTT initiatives as well as managing the company’s existing portfolio of clients working with them to define and deliver their go-to-market and in-life strategy. Endeavor Streaming clients include WWE, NFL, NBA, UFC, UEFA, BT, Abu Dhabi Media, SkyPerfecTV, ICC and EFL. Peter joined Endeavor Streaming as part of the acquisition of NeuLion in Spring 2018. Prior to NeuLion, Peter held commercial roles at Saffron Digital and BSkyB.

Alex is VP Client Engagement and Growth, APAC for Finecast: a business which is focussed on advancing TV advertising experiences for both brands and viewers.  Finecast leads the charge for addressable TV, an industry which is expected to be worth over $7 billion by 2026 in the APAC region.  Finecast believes in the power of TV combined by the power of data – underpinned by exceptional people that are pioneering change.  It is part of GroupM, the worlds leading advertising group.

Rina is a key driver in the digital transformation of Globe via content partnerships and portfolio development. Rina joined Globe in 2003 and has held various positions in content product and business development.  A 30 year veteran of the telco industry. She has worked in the areas of product management, marketing and customer service.

Shakunt Malhotra spearheads operations across Asia and manages four key areas of business: teleport services, media management services, channel operations and engineering and new technologies. Since joining Globecast in 2001, he has worked with key international broadcasters on innovative solution for end-to-end service delivery, including recent transmission-ready workflows for cloud-based playout services. He also heads up Globecast’s Technical Governance Group, which is responsible for the synchronisation of global teams and their readiness for new technology.

Ben leads Sports, Media & Entertainment Partnerships for the APAC region at Google. He is responsible for managing complex cross-Google initiatives to bring relevant solutions to large organisations in the sports, media and entertainment industry to help these partners remain at the forefront of innovation and technology. Prior to his current role, Ben spent 5 years at Google in London working with sports and media organisations in the UK, following 8 years in the TV industry in Australia.

Aloke is an experienced technologist with entrepreneurial vision and technical proficiency. His specific capabilities include OTT, VoD Infrastructure and Product Development, ERP, services for strategy and transformation, Open-Source technologies, Linux, On Premise to Cloud migration, implementation of technology in various aspects of business. Alok heads all organisational efforts to develop the best-in-class technology and processes designed to position hoichoi as a leading OTT platform through strategic and technology innovation.

Laura Quigley is SVP, APAC at Integral Ad Science. She is based in Singapore and in her current role, she is building strong partnerships with clients, agencies, and publishers and helping them solve their pressing business challenges with the use of cutting edge IAS technology solutions. She’s leading IAS’s regional expansion efforts as part of a larger global initiative taking place within IAS. Previous to her current role, she held multiple positions with IAS (in ANZ and APAC) managing all commercial and business efforts for APAC.

Miguel Bielich is currently the Global Director, Product Marketing for Irdeto. With more than 20 years of international experience, Miguel specializes in strategy, marketing, and analysis and planning.  Miguel has been a part of Irdeto for about a year and half now, after having joined from Cable and Wireless. Prior to this he spent nearly 14 years at Liberty Global. His day-to-day duties include formulating marketing strategies, defining value propositions, and creating and execute go-to-market activities for the business.  

Ray James is a vastly experienced sports business executive who has worked within the industry for more than 20 years, representing some of the most high profile organisations in British sport.

After starting his career in football within the commercial team at Chelsea Football Club he progressed to roles at BSkyB (Sky Sports), Millwall Football Club and City Football Group. He is the current Chief Relationship Officer at iSportConnect and has been leading the organisation’s advisory department since 2015. Ray is also a board member at Table Tennis England.

Kelvin joins iQIYI International in February 2020 as Vice President of International Business Department and General Manager of iQIYI Thailand. Kelvin is responsible for iQIYI’s strategic growth, business operation and overall commercial and brand development in the Thai market. Prior to iQIYI, Kelvin served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Greater China of BBC Studios since 2015, where he led a multi-territories team in-charge of content and channel distributions, format co-development, brand marketing, IP licensing and government relations.

A familiar face and speaker in the region, Ervin brings more than 20 year of experience in the Satellite, Data Analytics and Streaming domains. He brings his unique blend of  business experiences and technology trends and combines it to an interesting Point-of-View in this ever evolving regional media landscape.  Ervin is currently leading Kaltura’s Media and Telecom vertical in the APAC region.

Degree in Law and Master in Intellectual Property. He has developed his professional career working in law firms (both in Argentina and Spain). In 2018 he joined LaLiga to become part of the Audiovisual Department, more precisely of the Global Content Protection area. He and a large team of professionals are responsible of the commitment assumed by the LaLiga to fight against piracy. This battle against piracy arose as a result of the Spanish Royal Decree Law 5/2015, whereby LaLiga is in charge of marketing the rights to exploit the audio-visual content of its competitions (LaLiga Santander and LaLiga SmartBank).

Ian has executive and entrepreneurial experience in the areas of media, entertainment and technology. Currently CEO of Kroma Entertainment, he previously led Warner Music Philippines, fintech startup FundKo, and the Office of Strategy Management at Mediaquest. Before returning to the Philippines in 2011, he was with Sesame Workshop (the makers of Sesame Street) in New York managing international initiatives and have spent a couple of years in LA working with Grammy award winning producer, Jay Rifkin, in his media and technology endeavors.

Gautier is a key member of the Products & Services leadership team at Lumen and plays a critical role in defining and delivering our Content & Media product strategy in APAC region. He is responsible for the Product Lifecycle Management and Overlay Support for the portfolio including CDN, Mesh Delivery, Vyvx Broadcast Solutions and Application Delivery.

He started his career in video streaming industry in 2003 working with Nintendo to set up their video encoding department. With his solid experience in APAC, EMEA and US, Gautier joined Streamroot in 2017 as VP of Global Sales which is now part of Lumen.

Gavin currently leads the growth of Magnite Asia, where he is focused on helping media owners and brands win across every channel and format.
Gavin has over 19 years’ global experience in the digital advertising space, having worked in leadership roles at tech and publishing companies, including Microsoft, Turner Broadcasting and LinkedIn, with the last ten years based in Asia building businesses. His working knowledge spans television, digital, search, programmatic, mobile, content marketing and social media.

With over ten years of experience in media and telecoms, Aravind is focused on research and consulting services across digital media, video (television and online), advertising, telecommunications and video & broadband technology sectors.

Aravind’s geographical expertise stretches across Southeast Asia, India, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. He has spoken and presented at several key trade and industry forums and presents regularly for clients and internal events hosted by media & telecom companies.

With more than 20 years of experience in media & telecoms, Vivek Couto is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Media Partners Asia (MPA). MPA is the leading independent provider of research, advisory and consulting services across the media, entertainment, sports, telecommunications and technology industries in Asia Pacific. Vivek leads teams to offer clients corporate strategy, market research, asset appraisal and M&A-related due diligence. Vivek is also a member of the Board on the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in Singapore.

Angeline Poh is Mediacorp’s Chief Customer & Corporate Development Officer.

In this concurrent appointment, she oversees Mediacorp’s audience engagement and programming across its multiple platforms; as well as manages the development and execution of corporate-wide strategy, projects, and initiatives. She also oversees the Singapore Media Academy, which offers training and education services for the media industry.

Before joining Mediacorp, Angeline held various leadership positions in the Infocomm Media Development Authority, McGraw-Hill Education and Singapore Economic Development Board.

Parminder is passionate about driving and creating business models at the intersection of technology, content & media.

He currently holds the dual portfolio of Chief Commercial and Chief Digital Officer with Singapore’s public broadcaster Mediacorp. He is responsible for driving Mediacorp’s businesses across TV, Radio, Digital and Outdoor, besides leading its digital transformation initiatives.

He’s held top management positions in global blue chip technology companies like Google, Apple, Twitter & IBM.

Dato’ Khairul Anwar Salleh was appointed as the CEO of Media Prima Television Networks (“MPTN”) and CEO of Primeworks Studios (“PWS”) in 2020. He is responsible for the overall operations of MPTN and PWS, and to strengthen its core businesses while pursuing new opportunities in-line with Media Prima’s long-term growth strategies. Dato’ Khairul oversees Media Prima’s TV3, TV9, 8TV, ntv7, tonton and home-shopping platform WOWSHOP, as well as the expansion of the studio business of content distribution and productions through strategic collaborations and partnerships.

James Miner is CEO at MinerLabs and Video Assure. Video Assure is a cloud-based video stream monitoring platform with instant insights and forecasting to help content companies better monetize streaming media. A digital pioneer, James led teams in Asia, and Silicon Valley holding leadership roles at About.com, ESPN STAR, Fox Sports Asia, Scient, and WPP. James is a Digital Committee EXCO member of SGTECH. His teams have won SITF Award Silver, and APICTA Awards Gold.

José L. Vázquez is CEO and Founder of Mirada PLC. He holds a degree in Advanced Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, as well as an MBA from IESE. He has over 20 years of experience in Telecommunications and Digital TV markets. He founded Mirada in the year 2000 as the company’s CTO, and became CEO in 2004. José is one of the leading figures in the Hispanic Digital TV platform markets and is a regular conference speaker.

David Würgler began his career in anti-piracy in 1996. In 2002, he founded the Scandinavian TV Organizations against Piracy, better known as STOP Nordic, and then Nordic Content Protection. He was the CEO of Nordic Content Protection until January 2016 when he joined NAGRA. David has worked closely with many right holders and as an expert on IPR, enforcement and lobbying he is currently overseeing the successful IBCAP program in the USA and involved in anti-piracy program building in EMEA and APAC.

Stéphane Le Dreau is the Senior Vice President, Regional General Manager APAC at NAGRA. He joined the company in 2009 as VP Product and Solutions in the marketing organization and has taken South Asia Sales responsibility in 2011.

Prior to joining NAGRA, he has over 20 years of experience in the management of complex solutions in international environment, holding various senior sales and marketing positions at Nortel in Dallas (US), Hong Kong, Paris (France) and London (UK).

Ella Betsy Wong is a Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Chief of Staff of NBA China.  She has worked in multi-national corporations for over 20 years covering Asia and the Middle East, with a focus on Greater China, performing legal, compliance and corporate management roles in sports, entertainment and consumer-facing businesses.  Her expertise includes: social media, digital and television media and entertainment, sponsorships and advertising, merchandise licensing, retail, location-based entertainment destinations, gaming, branded events and corporate social responsibility initiatives.

Gaurav Pradhan is Director of Business Development for emerging Asia, overseeing product partnerships for countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia. Gaurav joined Netflix in 2016. Prior to Netflix, Gaurav worked on product partnerships with YouTube and Google, and managed telco operations for Yahoo. When he’s not forging key partnerships for Netflix, Gaurav is an avid reader, an amateur cook and a golfer, with plans to pick up tennis in the near future.

Rob Gilby joined Nielsen in October 2021 as President of Asia Pacific (APAC). He is responsible for driving new business opportunities and relationships and developing new media opportunities in the APAC region. He has a proven passion for the media industry, supporting latest market innovations, and has a deep appreciation of audience behaviour trends.

Through leadership roles and board member positions with digital media, entertainment, distribution, strategy and marketing organisations he’s become a trusted advisor to leaders across the industry.

Amy is a seasoned marketer in the telecom industry and has been working for Now TV, the media entertainment arm of HKT, for over 15 years.  She is now Senior Vice President, Marketing of Now TV, overseeing the marketing of Now TV business for residential customers.

Bharat is a strategic digital marketer with more than a decade of experience across digital & sales domains. His primary focus is to leverage technology to drive efficiency and creativity in digital marketing. The combination of background in new business setups and experience working for EMENA & APAC regions has given him a future facing & holistic approach to digital marketing. His acumen in identifying and converting digital marketing opportunities into unique creative solutions has helped brands to achieve unprecedented YoY growth.

Mr. Keith Huang is the VP of Pay OTT in PCCW Media. He heads up the subscription over-the-top (OTT) business and launched the one-stop entertainment platform (Now E) to meet the needs of millennial viewers in May 2018. Before that, he was the VP of Product Management, leading Now TV product and technology development for 12 years and developed wide range of innovative products in HK. Keith holds a MBA from HKUST and a B.Eng. from CUHK.

Unmish’s love affair with digital video started in 2000, when he was deputed from the London newsroom of Sports News Television (IMG’s JV with the Associated Press) to create a wholesale service offering for “portals”. Next came a startup, creating videos of Champions League matches and Robbie Williams concerts followed by the iPlayer at the BBC, ESPN Player in Singapore, KL and Hong Kong, Ballball in Indonesia, Vietnam & Japan, and, in-match video highlights for the ICC in 140+ countries.

Virat Patel is the Managing Director of Pioneer Consulting Asia, a management consultancy specialising in telecoms, media and digital in Asia. He is based in Singapore. He has extensive experience in business strategy, business planning, and market entry. He has developed pay TV, broadband and video strategies for platforms and content providers. His team has undertaken primary research on changing viewing habits in 10 markets in Asia. He is also an executive coach and mentor to executives in media and telecoms.

Oli is the Entertainment & Media leader for PwC in Singapore. He works with management teams on their strategy and growth. This often leads to market entry, digital transformation and M&A. He has been based in SE Asia since 2013, having previously been in the UK and Spain. As well as his focus on Media, he also works across the wider Technology industry. He is an active consumer of all forms of media, as are his two sons.

Vikram Chande is Head of Sales & Agency Development, Samsung Ads India, a leading provider of Advanced TV advertising solutions. Vikram’s role is to expand the business in the region, drive partnerships and build relationships with agencies, advertisers and trading desks. Vikram is a seasoned business leader with more than 15 years’ experience in full stack digital media, programmatic advertising and performance marketing.  Previously Vikram headed up Advertising Cloud at Adobe, ran Group Ms programmatic buying unit & lead product, platforms & programmatic at Amnet.

Scott Favelle is Technology Director at Seven West Media, home to 7plus, the top BVOD service in Australia. For over 10 years, Scott has been leading OTT technology development at major Australian free-to-air and subscription broadcasters across both the private and public sectors. Before that, he held a number of Broadcast Engineering and Operations roles. Outside of Seven, Scott is the publisher of the www.today-in.video daily newsletter.  

Ranjana Mangla is the Sr. Vice President, Head of Ad Revenue, SonyLIV at Sony Pictures Networks India since 2020, and is responsible for SonyLIV’s Digital Advertising Sales Strategy and Revenue for India Market.  With a career spanning nearly 2 decades, Ranjana possesses rich and varied skills in revenue strategy, show/film launches, market relations across broadcasting products. Before joining SPN, she was Vice President, India Head- Impact Revenue at Disney+Hotstar and has also worked in leadership roles in companies like Discovery Inc, Viacom, NDTV Imagine amongst others.

Andy is Vice President and Head of OTT at Astro, where he leads sooka – a freemium live and on-demand streaming service in Malaysia. He is an experienced leader with over 20 years’ experience and is passionate about delivering world class digital products.

Most recently, he was the Vice President of Global Product at iflix where he was responsible for product strategy, product development and user experience. Previously, he held senior positions at Rocket Internet and Sky TV.

Yann Courqueux manages content portfolio as well as TV and Broadband product lines. Previously based in Qatar, in the Middle East, where he was heading the Triple Play business for Ooredoo in Qatar and was subsequently responsible for beIN Media OTT products portfolio globally.

Prior to working for Telecom and Pay TV operators, Yann held various positions as business development, sales and marketing for technology companies, specializing in the fields of IPTV and multi-screen content distribution.

A TV / OTT innovator, Aki’s foundations in the content business were built at Viacom together with the executive teams who launched MTV in Japan and other Asian markets. He subsequently joined the Skype founders to build Joost in 2006 – pioneering online TV products, strategies, and business operations now widely adopted by the industry. As CEO of Streamhub, Aki oversees the evolution of the product and business operations.

Julian is a Product Lead at Synamedia’s Iris Adserver. He has 15 years digital advertising experience spanning advertising technology online with specialism within real-time bidding. Previous roles include stints at publishers Gumtree.com and Microsoft, SSP Rubicon Project, Iponweb/BidSwitch and Samsung Ads. His background in digital advertising outlines the convergence of digital buying strategies to the TV landscape that Ad Serving to Connected devices and set top boxes can offer agency and advertiser customers of Broadcasters and PayTV Operators.

Khush is an innovative and creative business leader. He has worked with some of the industry’s largest TV and media providers and technology companies, helping to solve complex technical and business problems. With over ten years’ experience, Khush has a proven track record in transforming enterprises for success, with strong capabilities in sales, marketing and operations. His skills in strategy and planning have made him a highly effective leader with a vision for the future of APAC Video Network.

Sean trained as a lawyer at DLA Piper UK LLP before moving to the Premier League Enforcement Team in London. There he worked across the Premier League’s anti-piracy efforts including on dynamic server level site blocking injunctions, and criminal and civil prosecutions of infringing website operators and ISD suppliers. Since relocating to the Premier League’s Singapore office in May 2019, he’s worked on legal actions, lobbying and education campaigns related to anti-piracy across South East Asia.

Rajesh Sheshadri serves as General Manager of Southeast Asia. He leads the company’s business and growth strategy with a focus on building agency, client relations and industry partnerships across the region. Before joining The Trade Desk, Rajesh was the APAC Head of Advertising Agencies Partnerships at Google, where he spearheaded long-term partnerships with the big five advertising agencies. Prior to Google, Sheshadri was the General Manager for Hong Kong and APAC Vice President of Advertising Sales for Fox Network Group.

Joe Welch is Vice President of Global Public Policy for The Walt Disney Company. Welch is responsible for the company’s government affairs activities in the Asia Pacific excluding Greater China and India and leads strategic public policy initiatives across business segments in the region. Welch also sits on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Communications and serves as a Board member of the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA).

Kim Portrate is the CEO of ThinkTV Australia, an evidence-led marketing, research and advocacy company that works to de-mystify the ever-changing world of video advertising to help marketers and their agency partners make better media choices.

Ho is the Head of Content of unifi TV and CEO of TMNet. He was previously the Director of Content for MUBI Malaysia where he launched the Malaysian feed for MUBI. Prior to that he was with Astro Malaysia where his portfolio spans from film production and distribution, channel management, original production, launching of the BOO channel to content distribution and theatrical release of films. 

Marco Guida is the Chief Business & Revenue Officer for True Digital. He focuses on monetizing the
digital assets of the group with a specific emphasis on digital advertising, OTT and premium content
subscriptions. Previously he worked in McKinsey. True Digital Group is the business subsidiary of True Corporation, that leverages advanced technology to improve businesses and enhance the life of our consumers through digital product and services.

After working in the USA, Czech Republic and Taiwan, Mr. Muller joins TV5MONDE in 1997. He successfully heads several positions within the group before taking over the Asia-Pacific Department in 2004. Since 2007, he is based in Hong Kong as TV5MONDE’s Managing Director for Asia-Pacific.

Alexandre is a member of the Asia Video Industry Association (ex CASBAA) Board of Directors since 2012, and the Board Member responsible for the Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) OTT and Connected Media Committee.

Desmond is Deputy General Manager (Legal and International Operations) of TVB, responsible for international operations and legal and regulatory matters of the Hong Kong’s leading television station. He joined TVB in May 2010. Desmond has had extensive experience in television and telecommunications industries. He worked at Asia Television Limited and i-Cable Communications Limited from 1994 to 2010. Desmond is also General Manager of TVBI.

Jonathan Pogrund is a Director of Pre-Sales at Viaccess-Orca. Jonathan has over 20 years of experience in Israeli high-tech companies. He filled positions in Software Development, Product Management, Project Management, Pre-Sales, Account Management and Sales positions. Jonathan holds an MBA from Bar-Ilan University and a BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Computer Science. Jonathan enjoys sports and playing his guitar.

Jesus Luzardo is Vice President, Global Head of Partnerships & International Sales at Vindicia. As an international technology industry veteran, Jesus brings over 30 years of experience in commercial, marketing, strategy, operations and technology roles. Prior to Vindicia, Jesus was Head of Marketing for Amdocs in the Caribbean and Latin America region. Before Amdocs, he was Head of Sales for Utiba (acquired by Amdocs in 2014). His experience includes two years as Head of Corporate/B2B and CCO at Cable & Wireless, and 15 years with Motorola.  

Gourav Rakshit is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Digital Ventures.  As part of the role he is responsible for driving the growth agenda of the network’s digital businesses. Since joining Viacom18 Digital Ventures Gourav has built a strong and robust digital ecosystem with VOOT, India’s first and only multi-platform kids’ app, VOOT Kids and the recently announced VOOT Select.  With over 2 decades of experience in Consumer Technology, IT and FMCG sectors, Gourav started his career with Nestle and also was at Infosys leading consulting engagements for diverse consumer clients including Apple, Safeway and Wells Fargo.

Mathieu Harel is the product director of VO Anti-Piracy Services. His 15-year career in the multimedia industry, coupled with his strong technical understanding of the end-to-end video delivery chain, has given him an invaluable 360° view of the video delivery market. In recent years he has concentrated on anti-piracy, building services to help customers protect their businesses. He holds a master’s degree in Information Technology from ESIR (École Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Rennes).

Joe Nguyen is presently the Managing Director of VieON, a major OTT platform in Vietnam. He is also a Consultant, Advisor, Speaker, Ex-Officio of IAB Southeast Asia and India, and APAC Board Member of Mobile Marketing Association (MMA). His roles have spanned from Chief Operating Officer to Chief Technical Officer to leading Sales & Marketing. Until recently, Joe was the Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific at comScore, Inc. Joe has over 20 years of senior management experience in Asia Pacific media, measurement, analytics and eCommerce.

Mattia is a Product Designer Lead, currently focusing on designing premium and best-in-class streaming experiences. With several years of work experience as a UXer for corporations and startups in Europe and Hong Kong — Mattia lectures Master Students on User Experience Strategy and Interactive Design with a deep focus on mixing qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
Mattia carries a deep interest in digital product lifecycle management: from discovery to delivery.

Electronics Engineering and PGCSM in Marketing (IIM- Kozhikode), currently working as Head of Digital ads sales, distribution & syndication of content at Viu (Indonesia). Previously worked as Revenue Head of SonyLiv.com (Sony Pictures OTT App) for digital ads sales and in past worked with Digital Ads Sales Head for Flipkart Internet PVT Ltd (Walmart India ecommerce), Star TV – Disney (Managing Hotstar and Offline TV Ad sales), Amagi Media, News website (Network18 )

Ms. Kanokporn Prachayaset is currently working for Tencent Video, based in Thailand as Country Manager of WeTV Thailand. She is the key person who start establishing launch strategy and marketing of WeTV Thailand in 2019.  At present, she is also responsible as Chief Commercial Officer of Tencent Thailand.

She has over 14 years of experience in digital industry in several areas such as digital media and content solutions, partnership management, and commercialization.

Having started her career as an engineer in the finance industry, Amina swapped the stock exchange for the ad exchange in 2015 joining AppNexus (now Xandr). Since joining the Services organisation, she’s worked with advertisers, agencies and publishers on some of their most technical challenges, notably leading the Solutions Consulting teams in Northern Europe responsible for Xandr’s Publisher Ad Server client business. Most recently, Amina has become responsible for Strategic Project and Product Go to Market, working on initiatives critical to the Xandr business in Northern Europe such as the future of identity.

Tom leads the demand side of the Xandr business across JAPAC. Tom’s mandate is to help large global buyers, agencies and trade desks get the best out of programmatic buying by delivering creative and differentiated solutions. Originally from the UK, Tom moved to Australia to double down on diving, skiing and generally being outdoors as much as professionally possible.

Eugene lead demand-side and supply-side of Xiaomi’s programmatic business globally, excluding mainland China. His expertise lies in driving advertising revenue growth on both mobile and CTV/OTT, especially for leveraging OEM’s strength to enter Free Ad Supported TV channel market.

Jennifer Batty was recently the Chief Content Officer of HOOQ, one of Asia’s 1st OTT players. At HOOQ she led the company’s content acquisition, programming, viewership and engagement strategies and drove original productions across their diverse markets. Prior to HOOQ Jenn spent 8 years as Executive Vice President of Programming at RTL CBS Asia Entertainment. She has always been at the forefront of programming and channel development, with an illustrious career spanning over two decades across multiple regions including North America, Asia and Europe.

Louis Boswell is the Chief Executive Officer of Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA). As CEO, his remit is to lead the industry through championing all broad based initiatives that result in a more vibrant and healthy video ecosystem. This includes being at the forefront of industry research, supporting evolving business models, understanding the role of technology, representing the industry in conversations with regulators and taking a leading role in eliminating piracy.

As Chief Policy Officer, Celeste Campbell-Pitt represents the combined positions of its members and engages in constructive dialogue with governments so they may better understand the curated video industry and foster an environment of support for the growth of the industry.

Celeste comes with over twenty years of business and legal experience in the media and entertainment industry across both Europe and Asia. Prior to joining AVIA, she was consulting with various global media and technology companies looking to expand into the region.

The General Manager of AVIA’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), Matthew Cheetham is a qualified lawyer specializing in intellectual property (IP), more specifically copyright protection. AVIA represents the major video industry players in Asia Pacific (APAC) and as General Manager of CAP Matthew oversees all CAP anti-piracy efforts for its members.

Matthew has over 20 years’ experience working in APAC for some of the largest content producers in the world. Prior to taking up his role at CAP, Matthew worked as the Premier League’s Head of Business Affairs, APAC.