Speakers
Programme Committee Chair Lynn Zhang
Kantar, China
Chandan Agarwal
Unilever, India
Neha Arora
Amazon, India
Sandeep Arora
Datamatics Global Services, India
Joaquim Bretcha
Netquest, Spain
Siew Hoong Chan
Takasago International, Singapore
Garreth Chandler
Evolve Research, Australia
Neha Firdous
Diageo, India
Vanessa Gibbons
Hilton, Singapore
Mick Gordon
Ipsos, Hong Kong
Prachi Jadhav
Kantar, India
Gigi Leung
Johnson & Johnson Vision, Japan
Priya Lobo
Ormax Compass, India
Caryl Anne Marcelo
Prestige Market Research Services Asia, Philippines
Daphne Mavroudi-Chocholi
machineVantage, Japan
Barnava Nandi
Unilever, India
Jayanth Narasimha
Brandscapes Worldwide, Singapore
Minh Nguyen
Google, Japan
Takeshi Oshima
MetLife, Japan
Vanessa Oshima
machineVantage, Japan
Sonia Pall
Karvy Insights, India
Maitreyee Patki
Brandscapes Worldwide, Singapore
Finn Raben
ESOMAR, Netherlands
Sudeep Raj Rajagopal
Ipsos, India
Anne Rayner
Kantar, Singapore
Arvind Sainath
Diageo, India
Toshimitsu Sekii
Kantar, Japan
Sagorika Sen
Publisher’s Internationale, Australia
Shelley Sengupta
Diageo, India
Shatvisha Sengupta
Kantar, India
Nasrin Shafeghat
Centan, Japan
ESOMAR Ambassador APAC John Smurthwaite
TNS, Malaysia
Yohei Takeshita
Twitter, Japan
Ramanathan Vythilingam
Unilever Asia, Singapore
Sneha Wankahde
Kantar, India
Kosuke Yoshida
INTAGE, Japan
Programme Committee Chair
Managing Director Insight Divison
Lynn is Managing Director of Kantar China, Insight Division. She is responsible in driving business growth with developing Kantar proprietary solutions.
Senior executive with extensive and in-depth knowledge of APAC region, particular in consumer centric business. Her research experience spans Australia, New Zealand, US and China., also covers a wide range of important industries such as Automotive, FMCG, luxury, Finance etc.
Lynn loves exploring the human mind to uncover the magic that makes brands and services relevant and exciting to consumers. Her primary expertise is in translating consumer insight and competitive intelligence into business results. Prior to KTNS, she was vice president for managing Nielsen Qualitative Practice Greater China region and Emerging business.
Head - User Research
ESOMAR MemberExecutive Vice President & Global Head - Research & Analytics Solutions
2013 winner of ESOMAR Congress Award for Outstanding Representative in an Emerging Market. A research professional of over 22 years experience, currently working as Executive Vice President with the leading Data Management group, Datamatics Global Services - responsible for driving business growth in the Research & Analytics space using technology-enabled solutions. Representative for ESOMAR in India and Vice President of MRSI (Market Research Society of India).
ESOMAR MemberCIMR Regional Asia Lead
Siew Hoong Chan is Regional Asia Lead, Consumer Insights and Market Research (CIMR), Flavor Division at Takasago International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.. She has over 25 years of experience in market research - on the agency and client-side - spanning Asia and the U.S.. She graduated with an MBA from the CSU, Chico, California, U.S.A. and with a. B.B.A. from the National University of Singapore.
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ESOMAR MemberConsumer Planning Manager
Senior Director, Asia Enterprise and Honors Marketing Strategy
Managing Director
Mick is the Managing Director of Ipsos in Hong Kong where he has been based since 2014, leading a team of 200 research professionals. He is also a board member of the MRSHK. Mickwas previously based in India, from 2008 he was MD of Synovate India and then on the acquisition of Synovate by Ipsos became CEO of Ipsos India in 2011. He was an board member of the MRSI during his six years in India.
After training as an accountant in UK, Mick joined the market research industry in 1996 as a Finance Director of an independent agency before participating in the sale of that agency to Synovate, and working in a number of senior roles in Synovate UK.
Research Manager
ESOMAR MemberGlobal Strategic Insights - Japan Lead
ESOMAR MemberCEO
She has spent 25 years. at Ormax in the art of understanding consumers; and is a Mom & Kids expert.
A true explorer at heart, she has varied interests ranging from trekking, adventure sports like scuba diving & snorkelling, theatre, poetry, baking, visiting museums and ancient historical sites; and is a self confessed foodie.
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ESOMAR MemberBusiness Development Officer
Data Scientist
Associate Vice President
Marketing Research Manager, Consumer Market Insights
Head of Marketing Science
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ESOMAR MemberPresident and Co-Founder
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ESOMAR MemberCEO
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Director - Insights
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ESOMAR MemberDirector General
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Regional Chief Solutions Officer, and CEO Cambodia & Myanmar
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Head - Marketing Analytics
Head of Media & Digital
Group Advertising Manager
VP and Chief Planning Officer
Shelley Sengupta is the Chief Planning Officer at Diageo India and a member of the Global Planning Leadership Team.
She is also an advisor to the World Economic Forum for their project on Future of Consumption in Fast Growth Consumer Markets - India.
Shelley has over 19 years' of experience in marketing and communication strategy, retail and shopper as well as innovation. She has worked across industries such as alcoholic beverages, automotive and CPG.
A communications specialist, Shelley's interest areas range from Consumer Psychology and Behavioral Sciences on the one hand to Sociology, Anthropology and Neuroscience on the other hand.
Shelley is fascinated by the workings of the human mind and has delved extensively into Motivational Research, Emotion and Applied Neuroscience in order to equip herself not only as a cutting edge consumer behavior specialist but also as a marketer par excellence.
Her current areas of work include Cultural Marketing wherein an amalgamation of cultural insights and consumer behavior are used to drive brand strategy. Her work in this area forms the foundation for driving communication and content strategy for Diageo.
An avid traveler, Shelley seeks to augment her knowledge about human cultures the world over through her extensive travels. She also likes to experiment with cuisines from around the world and believes that she is a chef in the making.
Research Manager
Senior Researcher
Earned bachelor and master degree in Solid-state Physics and Biophysics in Iran respectively, and got PhD in experimental Cellular Neuroscience from Waseda university, Japan. PhD achievement was development of a Two-photon microscopy for Neural ensemble imaging and finding their connectivity.Then joined to Riken Institute as a post-doctoral research and did computational Neuroscience for analyzing large scale networks.
Finally, started working in Centan as a senior researcher in Neuro-marketing field and involved in international project design and management.
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ESOMAR MemberESOMAR Ambassador APAC
ESOMAR Ambassador APAC
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ESOMAR MemberSenior CMI Manager - Global Content Lead
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Digital Marketing Department - Communication Division