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The Big Leap lands in Singapore to take notable growth leaders on a journey towards excellence

After a successful debut in Jakarta, The Big Leap Roadshow makes its next move to Singapore!

This event results from a partnership between e27 and CleverTap, trusted by 10,000+ mobile brands and a pioneer in helping brands engage and retain their users.

Over the next six months, we will bring exclusive interviews, content, roadshows, networking events, and informal meet-ups with Southeast Asia’s leading tech leaders in multiple countries – Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines.

After our first stop in Indonesia, we will host the next event on November 24 at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Riverfront Ballroom, 392 Havelock Rd, Singapore 169663.

In this event, we will touch on the topic of Unlock the recipe for accelerated growth with our distinguished speakers:

– Marc-Antoine Hager, SEA Regional VP, Sales, CleverTap
– Baptiste Le Gal, Chief Revenue Officer, APAC, Vestiaire Collective
– Thaddeus Koh, Co-founder, e27
– Igor Mostovoy, VP Product, 99.co
– Avantika Jain, General Manager, Fave
– Sistla Sumanth, Digital Technology Director, APAC, RBI
– David Setiawan, Head of Marketing, JobStreet by Seek
– Achint Setia, Chief Revenue & Marketing Officer, Zalora

Just like in Jakarta, this event will be an opportunity for notable growth leaders in Singapore to rub shoulders with a community of like-minded individuals. Having secured registrations from more than 100 names in the industry, the following is the handy list of growth leaders that you will get to meet at the event:

1. Leslie Lin, Head of Growth Marketing, SingSaver

According to his LinkedIn profile, Lin has more than 12 years of progressive experience in management and operations. He describes himself as a “a senior marketing leader with proven history of improvement for brands in the areas of leading new business initiatives and in translating strategy into tactics and execution with revenue enhancement across Asia.”

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2. Frank Ng, Head of Marketing, Intellect

Ng’s expertise as a digital marketer includes the whole value chain: strategy, ad execution, analytics, and even teaching. According to his LinkedIn profile, his channel expertise spans across SEO, SEM, paid social, content creation and marketing, and app growth (ASO and app push).

3. Bassam Abdel Rahman, SVP, Zenyum

Rahman is a global marketer with a passion for growing businesses and brands. In his LinkedIn profile, he detailed having more than 17 year experience in working with the worlds bigger brands as well as SEA’s fastest growing unicorns.

4. Kenji Narushima, Chief Strategy Officer / Chief of Staff, Carro

As the Chief Strategy Officer / Chief of Staff of Carro, Narushima has over 16 years of extensive experience working in private equity investments in middle stream infrastructure such as transportation and energy, and has shifted into Venture Capital Investment.

5. Fabian Foo, Founder, MatchMde

As the Founder of MatchMde, Foo has more than 15 years of strong management experience in the IT and financial domain with expertise in project, product, incident, change, and delivery management. He has proven abilities in leading international, cross-functional teams in the delivery and deployment of multiple concurrent projects.

6. Theresa Pragasam-Sidhu, Head of Brand, Brand, Digital Marketing, StashAway

In her LinkedIn profile, Pragasam-Sidhu describes herself as a Strategic Brand Marketer with strong commercial experience in expanding revenue, market penetration, brand development/awareness and customer experience.

7. Aulia Damayanti, Performance Marketing Analyst, Rukita

Damayanti describes herself in her LinkedIn profile as a digital marketing enthusiast with specialisation in performance. She is experienced in strategic planning, social media management, and paid ads strategy.

8. Nikola Rudic, General Manager, Orientech Fine Banking

Rudic told e27 in an email that as much as crises destabilise global supply chains, they also present us with opportunities to venture into new markets, win new projects, or pivot a business.

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“Beyond the crises, automotive industry in particular is undergoing structural changes due to the shift to EV. Our marketing strategy as well as our culture, is that of always being close to our clients, in order to keep up with the changes in demand and stay top-of-mind. Following these simple principles allowed us to win many new businesses in these difficult times, reaching nearly 40 per cent of last year’s sales amount.”

9. Rita Chang, CMO, klikit

This year, Chang told e27 that her greatest achievement was building the company’s one-year-old venture’s marketing team from just one to six “incredible people”.

“Our nascent team is the perfect mix of talent and personalities across growth, product, content, and creative. In 2022, we’ve built a robust infrastructure for execution within marketing and across the company — and we know every day there’s always opportunity to be stronger and faster for the restaurants, creators, and brands we serve at klikit.”

10. David Setiawan, Head of Marketing, JobStreet Singapore

Setiawan has more than 10 years of working experience in the field of digital marketing. In his LinkedIn profile, he listed rich experience in SEM, Programmatic, Direct Buy and Facebook Ad campaign management and optimisation.

11. Hse May Chan, Regional Head Brand and Growth Marketing, igloo

Hse May Chan is a data-driven communications professional with a journalism and economics background.

12. Desmond Ng, General Manager, M1 Limited

With a master’s degree in user experience design, Ng’s expertise and experiences involve a wide range of industries, from telecommunication, Virtual & Augmented Reality, and Interactive Digital Media.

13. Flame Rozario, Performance Marketing, MyRepublic

In addition to handling performance marketing at MyRepublic, Rozario is also an adjunct lecturer in digital marketing at Lithan. She also writes about archaeology and movies in her personal blog.

14. Elaine Cheong, Brand Strategist & Product Marketing Manager, Fave

In her LinkedIn profile, Cheong describes herself as a “certified brand strategist who currently leads go-to-market strategies and strategic initiatives with multiple hats in B2B and B2C- branding, product marketing, content creation, product design and project management.”

15. Saurabh Dutta, General Manager, Changi Airport Group

Dutta has over a decade of experience in consulting on mobile marketing and technology architecture in the areas such as retail banking, consumer brands, insurance and retail. According to his LinkedIn profile, he has been responsible for several major innovations in the field of mobile wallets (prepaid and real-time), mobile loyalty cards and marketing automation.

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16. Nicole Teo, Head of Marketing, Coins.ph

Teo describes herself as a data-driven marketing strategist. She has over eight years of experience in marketing with a strong background in performance marketing for e-commerce and crypto companies. Her interests include innovations in tech and social impact, especially in Web3, art, fintech, gaming, and agritech.

17. Justin Ong, Manager – DMO Partnerships, Relations and Strategy (SEA & Oceania), Klook

In his LinkedIn profile, Ong describes himself as a lifestyle enthusiast, travel professional, and sales and relationship builder.

18. Yi Xuan Tong, Co-Founder, Marketing, Crater Merch

Tong describes her passion as improving consumer-brand relationships meaningfully and impacting audiences effectively with words, illustrations, and strategies in her LinkedIn profile.

19. Le Yi Khor, Co-Founder, Ottodot

As Co-Founder of Ottodot, Le Yi Khor defines her personal mission as empowering youths in realising their fullest potential through good design and technology.

20. Sabrina ‘Princessa’ Wang, Director, People’s Inc

Wang is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and advocate in the media, marketing and technology industry with over a decade of experience. She had been featured across various media.

21. Naushaba Salahuddin, independent communications specialist

In her profile, Salahuddin describes her niche as “Developing effective messaging and using strategic and innovative delivery channels to showcase solutions to problem statements.”

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22. Soumyakant Dash, Director, Regional Head of BNPL, SE Asia GrabFin

With experience in strategy consulting and investing in financial services (FS), Dash is passionate about the coming together of technology and FS to deliver impact at scale in Southeast Asia and India.

23. Eddie Courtney Chan, Account Director, Pace

In addition to having experience as an operations manager and business development lead, with a history in notable companies such as WeWork, Chan has also worked as a personal stylist.

24. S M Ashik Ahmed, Vice President, Priyoshop

Before his work at Priyoshop, Ahmed was a senior auditor at a leading Chartered Accountants and Consulting firm in Bangladesh.

25. Roohi Taragi, Marketing Lead, Alta Group

Taragi is a marketing specialist with seven years of experience in planning, executing, and managing multi-channel marketing strategies.

26. Steffan Fung, Founder/CEO, ELXR

After a 16-year career with the Special Forces of the Singapore Armed Forces, Fung wrote in his profile that he embarked on the mission to make fitness more accessible and affordable through the Direct-To-Consumer brand ELXR.

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27. Cecile du Passage, Head of marketing, Bim

du Passage believes that working in a multicultural environment is the most rewarding experience in her professional career as it allows one to learn and develop both technical and human skills.

28. Jamie Choo, Co-founder & CEO, Loominate

Choo describes himself as a founder passionate about design thinking and impact tech. He is an ex-industry director and space engineer, blending 14 years of expertise across technical, customer and business domains.

29. Cedric Lee, CEO, ConnectingDNA

With 19 years of experience in regional health and medical tech, Lee started the company in 2018 after discovering the solution for his health struggle through DNA testing.

30. Marcus Wong, Founder, Vision Direct Club

Vision Direct Club is Singapore’s first eye health app that aims to deliver primary eye care with step-up and step-down care. In building his company, Wong writes that he believes that great ideas are built on not being afraid of being ridiculed.

31. Bryan Se To, CEO, Lexly

According to Bryan Se To, two things fascinate him about entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship being the environment to nurture imagination, and the opportunity to lead a team and unlock their potentials.

32. Zhongye Woo, Founder, The Nutri X

Prior to founding The Nutri X, Woo spent two years as an investment analyst at venture capital and private equity firm Verlinvest.

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33. Michelle Tan, Marketing, Chope

Prior to joining Chope, Tan already has an extensive experience in the regional foodtech industry with notable companies such as Foodpanda and Domino’s Pizza.

34. Dylene Contigno, Key Accounts, Cross Border Sales for SEA, Ninja Van

Contigno is an experienced Business Development Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the food and beverages industry.

35. Marisha Lakhiani, VP of Marketing, Mindvalley

At Mindvalley, Lakhiani is responsible for its US$100 Million in revenue and manage all the key marketing functions including product launches, product marketing, membership, B2B, localization, performance marketing, creatives team, marketing tech, and all brand channels.

Want to be part of this amazing opportunity? There is time for you to sign up for The Big Leap in Singapore! See you on November 24!

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