Contributors

Shin Thant Aung

Shin is a Director in YCP Solidiance, with nearly 10 years of strategy consulting experience in the healthcare sector. He has worked with leading pharmaceutical firms, medical devices companies, and hospitals in APAC markets to support market entry, distributor search, M&A advisory, channel engagement and supporting government policies, and medical tourism. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Oxford Brookes University.

Soo Eng Tan

Srjana Balraj

Srjana Balraj is the Global head of OmniStore, a platform for unified commerce and customer experience as part of the Algorithmic Retail Suite at TCS. With about 20 years of experience in retail technology, she helps organizations across the world to develop and realize future commerce strategies. She is driven by her passion for retail and working towards realizing the platform vision through use of AI technology, accelerated adoption of new business models and continuous innovation. Srjana is based out of Amsterdam, Netherlands and spends her free time exploring Dutch landscape.  

Sumir Bhatia

Sumir Bhatia serves as the president of Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group in the Asia Pacific. As the president, he is responsible for driving substantial growth across its compute, storage, networking, and services offerings in this fast-growing region. His role covers sales, strategic alliances, product, and go-to-market execution. He has over two decades of experience in the IT industry in Asia Pacific, holding senior positions involving sales, business development and marketing roles in multinational organisations such as Dell, Nortel Networks, HCL Group, and Thakral Group, prior to joining Lenovo.

Ta Loong Gan

As the Managing Director of Barco Southeast Asia & Taiwan, Ta Loong Gan is responsible for revenue and operational management at Barco Southeast Asia and Taiwan across Healthcare, Enterprise and Entertainment business in the region. Ta Loong is also the Vice President for Immersive Experience business for Barco Asia Pacific. A seasoned professional with more than 27 years of strategic and business development experience in the consumer and enterprise technology industry in Asia, Ta Loong is recognised for his high-performance team building and management skills. Ta Loong is an innovative and results-oriented business leader who is adept at change management and business transformation. Under his leadership, he has enabled his team to exceed both personal and corporate financial objectives.

Tessa Distor

Thang Manh Hoang

Tim Charlton

Tim Charlton is the CEO of the Charlton Media Group, a leading business to business publisher based in Singapore that publishes titles including the Singapore Business Review, Hong Kong Business, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+ and Asian Telecom. These publications cover a wide range of business issues facing executives and leaders in Asia.

Mr. Charlton oversees the editorial direction of these brands in both print, online, conferences, and events and takes a deep interest in the economics and business activities taking place in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to founding Charlton Media Group in 2001, he worked in Hong Kong for News corporation, at Star television and the South China Morning Post. He holds a Graduate and Certificate and Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.

Vincent Lui

Yan Xin Tay