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Echelon X is back this 2024 and it promises bigger and bolder things for all stakeholders from across the Southeast Asia tech startup ecosystem.
With a focus on fostering connections, facilitating knowledge exchange, and catalysing growth, Echelon X is a platform for startups to gain visibility, secure funding, and forge strategic partnerships. Attendees can expect insightful keynotes, panel discussions, startup pitches, networking sessions, and more, all aimed at driving forward the dynamic and vibrant tech ecosystem in Asia.
With this in mind, Echelon X will feature insights and learnings from some of the top industry leaders in the region. Meet the first 27 voices in the Southeast Asia tech startup ecosystem who will be speaking at Echelon X!
Ameer Jumabhoy, Co-founder of utu
Ameer Jumabhoy is a Co-founder and VP of Consumer Technology at utu, a company focused on disrupting the tax-free shopping and global rewards industry.
Their values are rooted in the concepts of fairness, freedom of choice, and removing various elements of friction in the retail journey.
Caecilia Chu, Co-founder and CEO of YouTrip
Caecilia Chu is the Co-Founder and CEO of YouTrip, a regional financial technology company dedicated to creating a next-generation digital banking experience in Southeast Asia. Before founding YouTrip, Caecilia worked at Citi overseeing growth investments in the technology and consumer sectors. Before that, Caecilia worked at McKinsey advising financial institutions across Asia on product and growth strategies. Her fintech experiences before YouTrip include positions at Lufax, China’s leading online wealth management platform, and QF Pay, a mobile payments company backed by Sequoia China.
Dayu Dara Permata, CEO & Founder of Pinhome
Dayu Dara Permata CEO & Founder of Pinhome, a platform that utilises the best technology to ensure that property sale, purchase, and rental transactions become hassle-free, efficient, and transparent — made possible through their platform. Their mission is to remove the barriers that buyers and owners often experience when making property transactions by providing the best possible experience.
Federico Brandi, Chief Marketing Officer of Roojai
Federico Brandi is an accomplished marketing and management professional with years of experience both in the private and public sectors. He has a vast understanding of marketing management, branding and advertising, growth strategy, performance marketing, budget planning, team management, and data analysis. His focus is using marketing to generate leads and sales, by customising the message and using specific tactics depending on the channel, and the stage in the customer journey.
Otohiko Kozutsumi, Co-founder of AnyMind Group
Otohiko Kozutsumi is the Chief Commercial Officer and Co-founder of AnyMind Group and is responsible for developing the overall marketing business strategy. Kozutsumi has an experience portfolio spanning digital marketing, advertising technology, and business development. He was previously the COO of MicroAd Vietnam and contributed to the growth of businesses in Vietnam and the APAC region.
Rob Schimek, Group CEO of bolttech
Rob Schimek is the Group Chief Executive Officer of bolttech, the fast-growing international insurtech, responsible for the company’s development and growth around the world. With more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Rob has previously held senior leadership roles in insurance, including President and CEO of AIG’s commercial insurance businesses worldwide and Chief Executive Officer of the Americas for AIG. Prior to that, Rob served as President and Chief Executive Officer of EMEA and was the Chief Financial Officer of AIG’s global property and casualty business.
Jeffrey Chi, Vice Chairman & Founding Partner at Vickers Venture Partners
Jeffrey Chi is the Vice Chairman & Founding Partner at Vickers Venture Partners, which is a global venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in Asia and beyond. The firm’s portfolio covers life sciences, technology, media, and telecommunications as well as consumer and financial services.
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Puiyan Leung, Partner for Vertex Ventures
Puiyan Leung is a Partner for Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India where she helps lead the organisation in partnering with founders who are creating innovative, transformative, and scalable businesses. It has a long and strong track record of investing in early-stage startups and building champions like Grab, PatSnap, Nium, FirstCry, XPressBees, Licious, 17LIVE, and others. VVSEAI supports its portfolio companies with unmatched operating experience and deep access to the capital, talent, partners, and customers they need to build truly global businesses.
Guan Dian, Co-Founder & CMO of Patsnap
Guan Dian helps run Parsnap, the company behind the world’s leading innovation intelligence platform. Patsnap is used by more than 10,000 customers in over 50 countries around the world to access market, technology, and competitive intelligence as well as patent insights needed to take products from ideation to commercialisation. Patsnap believes that customers are innovators across multiple industry sectors, including agriculture and chemicals, consumer goods, food and beverage, life sciences, automotive, oil and gas, professional services, aviation and aerospace, and education.
Julien Mialaret, Operating Partner at Eurazeo
Julien Mialaret invests in early and growth-stage technology companies in Asia for Eurazeo, a listed European technology fund manager active globally with 12 offices. His main areas of focus — through Smart City Fund I & II — are related to technologies and digital services to build more sustainable cities, advanced mobility, new energy, supply chain, industry 4.0, the built environment, and underlying deeptech such as AI, cybersecurity, IoT, and robotics.
Giovanni Casinelli, Co-Founder & President of Aspire
Giovanni Casinelli is the chief proponent of Aspire, an all-in-one finance software for growing businesses. The company serves over 15,000 startups and SMBs in Southeast Asia, helping them save time and money with multi-currency accounts and cards, expense management, payable management, and receivable management solutions — all in one account. Headquartered in Singapore, Aspire has over 400 employees across four countries and is backed by global top-tier VCs, including Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Y-Combinator.
Piruze Sabuncu, Partner for Square Peg
Piruze Sabuncu works with exceptional founders in Southeast Asia and beyond with a focus on Series A and Series B. She also acts as an advisor to the Asian Development Bank and is on the board of Kodluyoruz, a coding academy enabling the youth to realise their potential in tech. She was the first employee in the region for Stripe and was part of a great growth journey where she led efforts such as launching countries, hiring first employees, building the APAC HQ, experimenting with various projects, and being responsible for the regional GTM strategy and P&L along the way.
Adriel Yong, Head of Investments at Ascend Angels
Investing in companies that will deeply impact the way we work, live, and play in Southeast Asia, Adriel Yong is currently leading multi-stage investments at Ascend Angels, the largest angel syndicate in SEA which also operates an early-stage venture capital fund, Orvel Ventures. He was previously part of the founding team at Access, a social mobility non-profit organisation (access-sg.co), providing underserved secondary school students with impactful career exploration opportunities and support. I led and scaled our partnerships with schools and leading organisations such as DBS Bank, GIC, Kaspersky, SMRT, MOE, and MCCY.
Casey Lau, Head of Asia at RISE Web Summit
Casey Lau is the Head of Asia at the RISE Web Summit. He stands at the forefront of the global tech community as a multifaceted leader with a rich background spanning various domains which includes being an international tech conference host, a web3 wizard, a comic creator/collector, and a community builder, where he has emerged as a prominent figure in the international tech scene.
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Daryl Chung, Co-Founder and Business Development Director at JBI
Daryl Chung is the Business Development Director at JDI, a Venture Catalyst driving forward the future of innovation. He oversees all sales, marketing and business development activities across the group’s 6 BUs, such as Launch JDI: Vietnam Market Expansion, Tech JDI: Software Development/Outsourcing, and Venture JDI: Corporate Venturing and Venture Building, among others. Daryl is also a contributing writer to regional tech startup blogs, a speaker and mentor at startup/entrepreneurship/innovation-related events and programmes, a venture partner at The POD, a Tokyo Ambassador at Invest Toyko, and a certified basketball referee with the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS).
Gullnaz Baig, Executive Director at Angsana Council
With over 13 years of leadership experience across the technology and public sectors, Gullnaz Baig is a seasoned policy and revenue professional who has deep and varied expertise in regional development, security, and political issues across the Asia Pacific. She has successfully led and scaled policy and revenue teams from Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook, unlocking revenue potential, ensuring risk management and regulatory compliance, and developing creative solutions to meet business objectives.
Iannis Hanen, Chief Executive Officer of iScale Solutions
Iannis Hanen has 20 years of experience in software development and enjoys situations where he can remain technical and face customers to work with them on solving problems. As such, his role in iScale enables him to lead a team that is constantly looking for the best talent in the market. At iScale, they offer three primary services: Team Augmentation, Software Development, and BPO.
Irawan Harahap, Chief of Digital Tech Ecosystem and Development at Sinar Mas Land
Irawan Harahap is an experienced Group CEO associate with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry. Skilled in negotiation, budgeting, business planning, business development, and strategic planning. A strong operations professional with a Master’s degree focused in Marketing/Marketing Management, General from Universitas Trisakti, Irawan helps lead Sinar Mas Land, the largest and most diversified property developer in Indonesia.
Jeremy Au, Investor and Podcaster for BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech
Jeremy Au invests in founders who will transform millions of lives. He hosts BRAVE Southeast Asia Tech, the region’s number 1 startup podcast with over 50,000 followers, and has angel-invested in 24 startups. Previously, he co-founded CozyKin, an early education marketplace, and led the startup as CEO from 0 to series A to sale. He won Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition and the MassChallenge grand prize.
Leanne Robers, Co-founder and Co-CEO of She Loves Tech
Leanne Robers is the Co-founder and co-CEO of She Loves Tech, a platform that creates the environment necessary for startups to thrive. We are the world’s largest acceleration platform for women and technology, seeking and empowering the dinest entrepreneurs and technology for transformative impact. She Loves Tech champions the best entrepreneurs through education and mentorship, working closely with their partners to create a global ecosystem for women in technology.
Leslie Teo, Senior Director at AI Singapore
Leslie Teo is a digitally-led Director, Architect, Strategist, and Head of Tech who combines technical and commercial insight with 30 years of experience driving strategy, big data, data science, economics, policymaking, and investment management. He advances processes and tools and maximises emerging asset allocation and technology adoption to drive change, engagement, and cost efficiency, obtaining an understanding of needs before creating solutions for swift implementation, focused on designs that are practical and flexible yet scalable.
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Nicko Widjaja, Chief Executive Officer at BRI Ventures
Nicko Widjaja is the CEO of BRI Ventures, a venture arm of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BBRI), the country’s largest bank focusing on micro and small-medium businesses. An early tech investment pioneer, Nicko has a career that spans over 10 years in venture capital, corporate transformation, and startup ecosystem.
Nicole Ngeow, Director of Prudence Foundation
Nicole Ngeow is a self-motivated L&D professional with a total of 7+ years of experience in leading the project of transformation for training administration processes and driving e-learning via the Learning Management System. Eager to support the development of corporate-led training programs that meet the requirements of the company, she contributed to streamlining SOP training administration and digitalisation of training data via the development of the One-Stop Training Management System.
Paul Hadjy, CEO & Co-founder of Horangi
Paul Hadjy is a focused individual who is experienced in navigating difficult environments while continually driving results. He is the CEO & Co-Founder of Horangi where they are passionate about building a safer cyberspace and creating software that solves challenging cybersecurity problems. Horangi focuses on building partnerships with our customers, developing an understanding of their business goals and building a security strategy that helps achieve their objectives.
Prahlad Jaya, Founder for kurate
Prahlad Jaya is a media professional and startup enthusiast who is constantly improving himself by connecting with talented people, reading books by leaders and experts, and watching and listening to documentaries/podcasts on the economy, business, marketing, philosophy and self-development. Prahlad has a unique perspective in marketing by viewing it holistically and going in-depth into the user experience and features of products, while having a keen grasp on the larger business objectives, given his background in developing apps and building a startup.
Rahul Thayyalamkandy, Host of Understanding VC
Rahul Thayyalamkandy is the host of Understanding VC, a podcast that provides founders with the knowledge and resources they need to understand venture capital. Understanding VC is a deep dive into how Venture Capitalists work. The focus of the show is to provide entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts with experiential and actionable insights to have a collegial work relationship with VCs.
Rama Mamuaya, CEO of Dailysocial.id
Rama Mamuaya is the Founder and CEO of DailySocial.id, a Jakarta-based innovation enabler with the mission to bridge the gap between organizations and technology through open innovation. Aside from media, DailySocial.id also helped corporates with their online corporate innovation platform through its Orchestra.co.id product.
Get to know these industry leaders and more at Echelon X!
Get ready to mark your calendars for May 15th and 16th, 2024, as Echelon X gears up to take the Singapore EXPO by storm! Transforming into a vibrant epicentre of tech and innovation, these two days dedicated to tech, innovation, and business growth will unite industry giants, visionary entrepreneurs, and groundbreaking startups from across the region.
Whether you’re craving knowledge, eager to expand your network, or ready to unveil your game-changing ideas, Echelon X guarantees an unforgettable journey. Secure your spot now, whether as a participant or an official partner and prepare to be part of a transformative experience that reshapes the future and leaves a lasting impact. If you’re interested in becoming one of our speakers, feel free to check out the application form here. Learn more about Echelon X through our official website.
Join us at Echelon 2024, where innovation knows no bounds and the possibilities are endless!
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