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
Vandana Chamaria
Google, India
Siew Hoong Chan
Takasago International, Singapore
Garreth Chandler
Evolve Research, Australia
Honnus Cheung
Mojodomo Group, Hong Kong
Allen Chow
GMO E-Lab Marketing Research, China
Neha Firdous
Diageo, India
Simon Ford
Shopper Intelligence, Australia
Vanessa Gibbons
Hilton, Singapore
Prachi Jadhav
Kantar, India
Gigi Leung
Johnson & Johnson Vision, Japan
Priya Lobo
Ormax Compass, India
Daphne Mavroudi-Chocholi
machineVantage, Japan
Barnava Nandi
Unilever, India
Jayanth Narasimha
Brandscapes Worldwide, Singapore
Takeshi Oshima
MetLife, Japan
Vanessa Oshima
machineVantage, Japan
Sonia Pall
Karvy Insights, India
Maitreyee Patki
Brandscapes Worldwide, Singapore
Marcus Pritchard
Dynata, Australia
Finn Raben
ESOMAR, Netherlands
Sudeep Raj Rajagopal
Ipsos, India
David Rao
Ipsos, China
Anne Rayner
Kantar, Singapore
Arvind Sainath
Diageo, India
Toshimitsu Sekii
Kantar, Japan
Shelley Sengupta
Diageo, India
Nasrin Shafeghat
Centan, Japan
ESOMAR Ambassador APAC John Smurthwaite
Malaysia
Yohei Takeshita
Twitter, Japan
Martyn Uren
Twitter, Singapore
Ramanathan Vythilingam
Unilever Asia, Singapore
Sneha Wankhade
Kantar, India
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 MemberInternational Director
Head of Business Marketing
Vandana Chamaria is a passionate marketing and people leader with 16+ years of leading growth focused marketing assignments across a deliberate mix of diverse categories ranging from Technology to Hospitality to FMCG to Healthcare to Automobiles, working with large & small teams across B2C & B2B marketing. This diversity is what enriches her marketing prowess and helps her deliver extraordinary results.
Presently, she is the Head of Business Marketing for Google India. Prior to joining the tech leader her career has seen her working for Hero Motocorp, the world's largest two wheeler manufacturer, Yum Restaurants for iconic brands Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Ranbaxy Laboratories (now Sun Pharmaceuticals) and Dumex (now Danone).
She has won many internal and external awards and recognitions for her work. In 2014, she was inducted into the Innovation Hall of Fame for Yum and was awarded the "CEO's Award" by Greg Creed, Global CEO Yum Brands.
In her spare time she likes mentoring start-ups to support them scale their business. She is a very passionate amateur chef and has participated in Masterchef India 2014 and made it to the top 100 contestants in the north zone. As an avid traveller she loves backpacking holidays to explore the world.
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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Co-Founder
With over 20 years of startup and finance experience, Honnus is a seasoned expert in the high-tech, online media, e-commerce and travel industries. She is the co-founder Mojodomo Group and the founder of Twenty20 Limited. She represents iClick Interactive Asia Limited (NASDAQ:ICLK) as their INED and Audit Committee Chairman. Honnus serves as a mentor for she1K, the world's first corporate executive angel syndicate with 80% female representation that funds early stage startups. Prior to this, she was the Regional Finance Director, Asia for Yahoo. She also served as the CFO in Asia and General Manager in China for Travelzoo. Honnus was the Founding Start up team for both Yahoo and Travelzoo (NASDAQ:TZOO) and she led the growth of Asia footprint and heavily involved in M&A, including one global signature deal with Alibaba for Yahoo.
ESOMAR MemberGeneral Manager
11 years consulting and market research experience GMO Research, Inc and GMO E-lab Marketing Research (Shanghai).
Extensively experienced within qualitative and quantitative research in Game, FMCG, automotive, travel, media, pharmaceuticals, and hospitality, having experience working/business travel across key APAC markets including Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Greater China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Australia. Good at idea grasp, market, enterprise, product and consumer trend understanding. Established GMO E-lab Marketing Research (Shanghai) in 2013.
ESOMAR MemberConsumer Planning Manager
Senior Director, Asia Enterprise and Honors Marketing Strategy
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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Associate Vice President
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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ESOMAR MemberResearch Executive
Managing Director
David is a passionate consultant. He has provided consulting excellence in consumer insight and data driven marketing across China, Australia and Japan for more than 20 years. He has experience at both in-house and agency side and during his career's early stage, he worked in Panasonic, 3M and British American Tobacco for various sales, marketing and research roles.
He started his agency consultant role 15 years ago in Australia. Over the past 10 years at Ipsos China, he leads team to provide integrated marketing research and data analysis solutions for more than 100 clients, specialized in innovation, market entry and consumer understanding. David is also an active trainer and insight observer. Every year he conducts dozens of trainings and workshops for clients and Ipsos staff. His publication includes: "F&B trends in China" (2016, 2017), "Young Mother Trends in China" (2018), "F&B Category Pack Trend Observation" (2019), "China Low Tier City Mother Trend Observation 2019", "Artificial Meat in China" (2020).
David owns MBA degree from University of New South Wales, Australia and is trilingual in English, Mandarin and Japanese.
Regional Chief Solutions Officer, and CEO Cambodia & Myanmar
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Head - Marketing Analytics
Head of Media & Digital
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.
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 Ambassador APAC
ESOMAR Ambassador APAC
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Head of Research - APAC & MENA
ESOMAR MemberSenior CMI Manager - Global Content Lead
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