Asia E-Commerce Conference 2011

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Steven Liew

Steven joined eBay's Government Relations ("GR") Department in June 2006 as Head of Government Relations, Southeast Asia. On January 1, 2007, Steven was promoted to Director of Government Relations, Asia Pacific Region. On October 1, 2009, Steven was promoted to his current position of Chief Relations Officer and Senior Director Asia Pacific. In this new role, Steven handles all interactions with governments, Law Enforcement agencies, NGOs, Intellectual Property Rights Owners and academia in Asia Pacific.

Steven leads a team of GR professionals and Legal Counsels based in Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Delhi, Sydney and Singapore. He also travels frequently to the US and Europe to conduct outreach to various external stakeholders governments.

Steven has spent more than a decade working in intellectual property rights ("IPR") policy and enforcement. He was previously responsible for Nokia Corporation's Brand Protection Department in the Asia Pacific region and more recently the Anti-Counterfeiting Department for Louis Vuitton Malletier in the Greater China region. In both roles, Steven has developed and executed successful IPR programs in the region.

Steven started his IPR career as a solicitor at Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong. In that role, he serviced the IPR needs of multinational brand owners in Asia. His work included counseling clients on IPR issues, enforcing his clients' IPR and conducting extensive government lobbying on IPR policy in the region.

Midway through his legal career, Steven took a 3 year hiatus and pursued his childhood dream of being a police officer. He still serves up to 4 weeks a year in the Singapore Police Force as a reservist with the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police.

Steven Liew Chief Relations Officer, Senior Director and Legal Counsel Government Relations eBay Asia Pacific

Chan Kee Siak

Chan Kee Siak founded Exabytes Network or earlier known as hostkaki.com in 2001. Just a small town boy from a hawker family, Chan had always had an entrepreneurial frame of mind from as early as the tender age of nineteen. Therefore, while most teenagers his age spent their young adulthood playing War Craft, Quake 3 Arena or other computer games, Chan was already busy establishing his own business in the technology industry - selling PCs and cracking his head for more web designing ideas, while trying to keep up with his studies.

However, doubts of enduring this part-time business surfaced when he realized that the business he was running at that time was not very promising with many limitations. A successful business in Chan's mind was a business that could serve multiple clients at any given time, globally, with high margins and recurring income - all of which he was not getting from his initial business. Naturally, webhosting came to mind which he noticed, fit all of the criteria he was looking for. And the best thing is, there was only a handful of webhosting provider in Malaysia then! The business became even more appealing once he studied more in-depth about webhosting industry and got himself awestruck at the power of web and the possibilities that could arise from it. Chan started up by reselling for other web hosting company and today Exabytes Network is the largest web hosting company in Malaysia with its own servers and 42,000+ clients from over 121 countries.

Chan Kee Siak Founder of Exabytes Network

Fione Tan

At the age of 21, Fione Tan quit her job and started her journey as an Entrepreneur. Today, she is the President & CEO of eOneNet.com, Asia's leading internet marketing company which she founded in 2000. Since 2003, she has been secured the worldwide No.1 ranking for Internet Marketing Coach in Google and Yahoo!

Fione is among the pioneers of Internet Marketing in Asia, and she has grown eOneNet.com into a multi-million dollar company with offices in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. eOneNet clients include Fortune 500 corporations to local SMEs.

Fione is ranked the World's Top Internet Marketing Coach in top search engines. Her company offers Internet Marketing consultancy, guaranteed SEO, search engines optimization, email marketing services and website business marketing training as well as internet marketing coaching.

Being an international internet marketing speaker, Fione Tan has been speaking at various online marketing, business, entrepreneur development and women in business events worldwide including in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Pakistan, Iran, and UAE. In 2002, she was also invited as an expert in the World Economic Forum, leading the discussion about the Internet. Her full profile can be viewed at www.FioneTan.com

Business owners, MNCs and manufacturers have hired Fione Tan to consult on internet marketing projects for B2B and B2C. In Oct 2010, Fione was also featured in Her World's Top 50 Most Inspiring Women alongside Datuk Michelle Yeoh and Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir. Her passion for the Internet has also enabled her company, eOneNet.com to acclaim many achievements including ZDNET Asia's Top 50 IT companies in 2006.

eOneNet.com has won many awards including the 2009 Hong Kong Distinguished Brand awards, 2008 Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs Malaysia. She is also the author of the topic "eInternet in Malaysia"e for a book entitled A Malaysia Journey: Progress in Diversity in 2003, project by World Economic Forum. In March 2010, she has also launched her Kindle Book on Amazon.com and this can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Business-WorkBook-marketing-ebook/dp/B003B3NYOW

Her latest book, "eBusiness Secrets: Fione Tan Reveals How To Sell Online and Make Your First Million" will be published in 2011 by Wiley and is now available for pre-order in www.Amazon.co.uk Fione Tan is regularly interviewed as the Internet Business expert by various media including Bloomberg News, CNBC Asia, ChannelNewsAsia, Shanghai TV, CCTV, Malaysia TV3, TV2, and more. She is also the Internet Marketing Expert for Yahoo! Small business expert since 2009 and co-host of the How to Start your Internet Business on Metro Radio Hong Kong in Feb 2010.

Fione Tan President & CEO of eOneNet.com

James Yeang

Prior to joining Google, James was the product marketing manager for BlackBerry® and Android smartphones in DiGi. In his spare time, he also runs www.friedbeef.com, one of the top tech blogs in Malaysia, and promotes Kiva.org in Malaysia (http://www.kiva.org/team/malaysia), an internet based micro-loan organization which helps provide working capital to third-world entrepreneurs.

James Yeang Industry Head, Google Malaysia

Matthew L. Barsing

A highly experienced economic & business development professional with over 15 years experience in Australia, Asia, Europe & Americas.

Matthew was the former head of Foreign Direct Investment & OECD, for the Multimedia Development Corporation. MDEC is the economic development government agency under the Ministry of Science Technology & Innovation responsible for development of the ICT industry in Malaysia. As the Head of Foreign Direct Investment, Matthew represented Malaysia ICT industry under the MSC Malaysia initiative in numerous G2G, G2B & B2B level missions abroad leading to lead, identifying, qualifying, pursuit & successful negotiation to secure investments and projects. Matthew was an integral part of the transformation of the shared Services & Outsourcing sector in Malaysia, being part of the team responsible of growing MSC companies revenue from RM14.0 Billion in 2006 to RM26.0 Billion in 2010. As a result he has built up an impressive list of relationship with senior leaders of Global and Fortune 500 companies and has personally secured 47 global projects into Malaysia, contributing RM5.37 Billion and 9,340 jobs to Malaysia economy.

Prior to joining MDec, Matthew was Chief Marketing Officer at Bluescope Steel (formally BHP Steel) in Malaysia.

His forte is strategic business development, communication and marketing, coupled with solid management skills.

Matthew L. Barsing Chief Ma rketing Officer, UCSI Blue-Ocean Strategy Regional Centre

Dave Osh

Dave Osh is COO of QNet, a multinational direct selling e-commerce company with a proprietary Internet platform serving the company five-million-plus global customers. He plays a significant role in developing QNet Direct Selling leadership through e-commerce, social media and digital marketing strategies and initiatives. Dave holds an MBA from Southern-Illinois University.

Dave Osh COO of QNet

Chang Sau Sheong

Chang Sau Sheong is currently the Director of the Applied Cloud Computing Lab in HP Labs Singapore, responsible for managing a team of engineers focusing on researching, developing and testing cloud computing solutions.

Before joining HP, Sau Sheong was the Chief Technology Officer for Garena, a gaming platform and publishing company. His responsibilities included leading his team to develop, deploy and maintain Garena software products and games.

Prior to Garena, Sau Sheong was Director of Engineering for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, where he led a team in the continual development and maintenance of Yahoo’s websites and services for customers across the region. During his time at Yahoo, he was also the Head of Yahoo’s Developer Network for Southeast Asia, driving developer garages, interactions and forums across the region.

His other past experiences include managing a global software development centre for Welcome Real-time (a global card marketing software provider) as Software Development Director; and co-founding elipva (an e-business solutions specialist) as Chief Architect and VP of Product Engineering.

Besides being an active developer on many open source projects and a technology enthusiast with links to various grassroot developer groups in Singapore, he has also published a book titled ‘Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects’ in 2008, and a second book titled 'Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby' in 2010. Most recently he was an organizer and a speaker at the RedDotRubyConf 2011, first Ruby and Rails conference in Southeast Asia.

Sau Sheong has a degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, a Masters in Commercial Law from the University of Derby, and a Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration from the National University of Singapore.

Chang Sau Sheong Director, Applied Cloud Computing Lab HP Labs Singapore

Antonny

Antonny is the CEO of MerahPutih Incubator (MPI), a digital incubator company that focuses on incubating e-commerce, social media, gaming and mobile related startups in Indonesia. Since its official launch in middle of 2010, MPI has been incubating 8 companies, from which 5 have been launched to the market and gained a very good traction in users, transactions and also investors.

One of the companies is KrazyMarket.com (KM), an e-commerce site that focuses on unique, collectibles and hobbies items. Since it’s incubation with MPI KM founders have agreed to reposition themselves from previously a more general market place into the current niche one, and the result has been very positive. Antonny sits as the Chairman of KM and work alongside the founder and management to make KM a regional brand.

Antonny is also involved as partner in several major digital & marketing establishments in Indonesia, such as Kaskus Networks and Merah Cipta Media (MCM). Kaskus is the largest Indonesian community website, with more than 3 million registered users and 700million+ page views per month. MCM, where Antonny is the COO, is a group of Branding, marketing and online media companies that owns SemutApi Colony, KLIX Digital, and MediaXAsia. MCM group companies provide marketing solutions to the enterprise clients in Indonesia and the region.

Prior to this Antonny was President Director of Transmarco Data Systems, an IT solution services company that provided consultation, implementation and maintenance services for enterprises and government in Indonesia.

Antonny CEO of MerahPutih Incubator (MPI)

Pawoot Pongvitayapanu

Mr.Pawoot Pongvitayapanu, an online marketing and media business leader, has accumulated his professional experience since 1998 and delivers consulting and lecturing services to publicand private organizations and institutions. Prior to holding Managing Director at TARAD.com Co., Ltd. which includes ThaiSecondhand.com and TARAD.com the Biggest E-Commerce Service in Thailand. TARAD.com join with Rakuten Group No.1 E-Commerce Site in Japan by Year 2009 and become part of Global E-Commerce network of Rakuten Group, he is also Vice President of Thai E-Commerce Association, Consultant for Thai Webmaster Association, and APEC IBIZ, Thailand Productivity Institute and Columnist for Bangkok Biz Week Newspaper, E-Commerce Magazine and TARADedu (e-Marketing & e-Commerce).

Past
Dec 02 - Sep 05 : Associate Honorary Secretary : ThaiWebmaster Association
Apr 02 - Sep 04 : Consultant – Department of Business Development
Oct 01 - Aug 03 : Assistant Manager - HUTCH : Mobile Operator
Sep 00 - Oct 01 : Managing Director - ThaiWebmaster Association
Jul 99 - Jan 00 : Business Development/Webmaster - AD Venture (Member of Shin Corporation)
Jun 99 - Nov 99 : Web Design Company - Pantheon.co.ltd - Web Creative

Education
Master Degree (Present)
Executive MBA Program ,Sasin Graduate Institute of Business
Administration of Chulalongkorn University
Master Degree
Master of Science, Internet & E-Commerce , Assumption University
Bachelor Degree
Architectural, Rangsit University

Pawoot Pongvitayapanu Online Marketing & Media Business Leader

Gobala Krishnan

Gobala Krishnan is the founder of JomNiaga.com, Malaysia's first integrated e-commerce and affiliate marketing platform, as well as an Internet marketing consultant. Starting off promoting other people's products online for affiliate commissions, Gobala now has several best-selling ebooks, membership sites and web marketing software both for Malaysian and international markets. He has also written two best-selling books on Internet commerce for the Malaysian audience. In his free time Gobala is an avid guitarist and loves listening to blues and rock music.

Gobala Krishnan Founder of JomNiaga.com

Natali Ardianto

Natali Ardianto - A leader by heart and a professional technologist by passion. Having a deep interest in the field of digital marketing and branding and owing a vast knowledge and network in Indonesia digital industries. One of the few thinkers in the Indonesia start up industry. 16 years experience in programming and 10 years experience in web industry. Started to write code since 13 years old. Member of the silver team in Indonesia Computer Olympic on senior high.

Natali is a serial entrepreneur and startups incubator. Natali co-founded Urbanesia.com - a city directory - and Golfnesia.com - online golf reservation system -, now Natali is working as COO of Tiket.com, an online ticketing and booking system for travels and events.

Natali is also one of the Initiators of #StartupLokal, the biggest startups community in Indonesia. More on #StartupLokal can be access through http://startuplokal.org.

Natali main focus are Search Engine Optimization, search engine Rich Snippets/Searchmonkey, search engine customization using Sphinx Search Engine, brand and identity, digital strategies such as viral, social, audio and visual imagery and also an e- commerce practitioner.

Natali Ardianto Chief Operational Officer and Shareholder, PT. Tiket Network

John Chigbu

John Chigbu is the founder and Managing Partner of Chigbu & Co, LLP, a law firm based in San Francisco, California USA. Chigbu & Co, LLP was founded in 2006 as a business law firm specializing in international and domestic corporate taxation. John has over 18 years combined international business and tax experience.

Prior to founding Chigbu & Co, John was the Global Vice President of Tax and Treasury for Sanmina-SCI Corporation, a $12 billion multinational electronic manufacturer. Before that, he was the General Tax Counsel and VP for Business Objects SA, a $5 billion French software company headquartered in Paris, France.

John was also an International Tax Counsel for Chevron Corporation from 1994 to 1999. In this capacity, he structured some of the most visible and lucrative deals for Chevron in Nigeria (the West African pipeline); in Kazakhstan (the Lukoil, Chevron and Mobil joint venture); and in the US, the Chevron Environmental Liability Corporation, which consolidated Chevron’s environmental clean-up operations and saved Chevron millions in fees and taxes. Prior to Chevron, John worked for the Big Four accounting firm of KPMG in New York City and San Francisco where he was a Tax Manager in their Financial Services line of business.

John was educated in London School of Economics, University of Texas, Louisiana State University Law Center and New York University School of Law. He holds a combined Bachelors (BA) degree in Economics and Political Science, Juris Doctor (JD) degree and a Master at Law degree in Taxation (LLM). He is admitted to practice law in the States of California and New York.

John was a flight Pilot in the Nigerian Military Police before

John Chigbu Founder of Chigbu & Co, LLP

Joseph Chan

Mr. Joseph Chan, Chief Executive Officer of AsiaPay Inc., joined in the company in August 2000. He spearheaded the company development together with his management team, to become one of the most successful electronic payment service and technology company in Asia, with operation covering 8 countries.

Through successive positions in banking and finance industries over twenty years, Joseph has consolidated his expertise and experience in strategic planning, management and implementation of financial, electronic banking, Internet and wireless product services and systems in Asia.

Prior to AsiaPay, Joseph took various management positions at Barings, Citibank N.A., Bank of America and Dah Sing Bank.

Joseph received his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Economics degree from Monash University.

Joseph actively participates and contributes to the development of eCommerce and ePayment in the community and is an active member of HK Retail Technology Industry Association, HK Wireless Technology Industry Association. And, he is appointed by HKTDC as member of ICT Advisory Committee, and is awarded China Outstanding Innovative Entrepreneur Award for his outstanding effort in China

Joseph Chan CEO of AsiaPay