Contributors

Huiqi Ong

Iwan Margono

Jason Moy

Jerome Andrew Garcia

Joel Neoh

Joel Neoh is one of Asia’s most recognized and successful young entrepreneurs. Joel is the Chief Executive Officer of Fave, Southeast Asia’s leading Digital Merchant Platform with presence in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Joel was one of the initial founders of the Groupon businesses in Asia and headed up Asia Pacific region for 4 years. He played an instrumental role in establishing the high-growth
business model that propelled Groupon into a multi-billion dollar business, with thousands of employees spanning across 12 countries.

Joel has co-founded several successful companies including social news platform SAYS.com, and invested in a string of technology venture capital funds and startups across Asia. In 2013, SAYS.com merged with Catcha Media and the company was rebranded as REV Asia. REV Asia was recently acquired by Media Prima for over RM120mil.

Joel has received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Malaysian Tatler also awarded Joel Entrepreneur Par Excellence in 2018. He completed his studies in Monash University and Harvard Business School.

John Wagner

Juan Pisente Widjaja

Julian Cua

Julien Bourdinière

Julien has over 25 years of experience in management consulting, with a focus on consumer goods and retail industries. He is now a Senior Partner with global consulting firm Roland Berger, based in Singapore, and serves clients across South-East Asia and China. Prior to joining Roland Berger, Julien held several leadership roles in the management consulting industry in Asia. Over his consulting career, he has delivered projects across Europe and Asia, gradually concentrating on fast-growing consumer markets. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a principal consultant in Mumbai to one of the world's fastest and most ambitious retail rollouts in the world, bringing to life a retail network to over 1,300 stores in just 18 months — all from scratch. Over the last 10 years, he has worked closely with global sports brands, luxury, and cosmetics brands in the design of their growth strategies in the Chinese eCommerce market, and has advised leading Asia retailers in the redesign of their growth strategies, store formats, and operating models. Julien holds master’s degrees from the École Centrale de Lyon and Essec Business School in Paris, and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Justin Loh

As the country director for Veritas' Singapore operations, Justin Loh is responsible for leading Veritas' overall business strategy, sales operations and continuous growth in Singapore.

Prior to Veritas, Justin was the general manager at Adura Cyber Security where he led the consulting services businesses across Singapore and Hong Kong. Having held numerous leadership roles in diverse multi-national firms, Justin is highly experienced in managing large-scale operations and leading high-performing teams across sales, consulting, professional services and maintenance support. Justin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computing from the Monash University Australia.