Contributors

Lam Thi Ngoc Hao

Marco Lim

Marco has over a decade of experience in technology, supply chain and retail. As the Commercial Director APAC for Cegid, he helps large specialty retailers solve complex retail challenges ranging from O2O execution, staff enablement, country compliance, to China expansion. Today Cegid powers 85,000 stores for 1,000 brands globally, with a leading cloud POS and unified commerce platform.

Maria Kathrina Macaisa-Peña

Maria Mascaraque, Yang Hu, and Kemo Zhou

Maria Mascaraque is the Head of Food and Nutrition at Euromonitor International. María is the Industry Manager for dairy products and alternatives and cooking ingredients and meals. She provides global expertise and forward-thinking insights, identifying the latest product developments and key market trends within these industries. She has a particular interest in health and wellness trends and plant-based dairy alternatives.

Yang Hu is the Insight Manager, Health and Beauty, Asia, at Euromonitor International. Yang provides regional cross-industry insights on health and beauty across Asia, working with local analysts to deliver high-quality market analyses.

Kemo Zhou, is a Consultant, Health and Beauty at Euromonitor International. Kemo helps identify industry strategies, consumer trends and key new product developments, with industry experience focussed on consumer health, sportswear, and beauty and personal care.

Mark Woodley

Martijn Peeters

Martin Machinandiarena

Martin Machinandiarena is the Managing Director of Global Sales at Pinterest. With over 8 years of experience in Pinterest, he is responsible for driving advertising sales across 48 markets including the Greater China Region, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, the Middle East, Africa and Central & Eastern Europe, and Emerging LATAM markets. Prior to joining Pinterest, he also led sales at Twitter and Facebook. 

Matthieu Francois

Matty Kaffeman

Matty Kaffeman, the Vice President for North Asia and Korea at customer engagement platform provider Verint, is a business technology leader with more than 20 years of experience in the global IT industry. He has a solid track record of improving customer satisfaction for his clients, leading businesses and developing and enhancing IT sales both direct and via channel partners, as well as excellent presentation and customer-facing skills.

His experience spans a diverse range of sectors from Automation, Enterprise Management, Security, Workload Automation and Software Development tools, and he has a deep knowledge of APJ Markets.

Matty holds B.A. in Computer Science and Economics as well as LL.B. degrees from Tel Aviv University.

Mehdi Jaouadi

Mehdi is a Partner based in Thailand. He has over 11 years of experience in marketing sales, distribution, e-commerce and digital within the FMCG and healthcare industries across Asia, Europe and Latin America. Mehdi brings with him an excellent track record in strategy formulation, business development and large-scale expansion growth within top tier MNCs in the personal care, healthcare and food industry. He holds a B.A. in International Business Management from Edinburgh Napier University and a Masters in Management from EDHEC Business School.