Cheryl is part of the early founding team at Grab. Starting in Kuala Lumpur as a one-man marketing team, she set up the marketing practise for Grab over the last 7 years. Today, she leads marketing and social impact in over 350 cities in eight countries, covering all of Grab's business verticals including transport, food, financial services and logistics. She oversees Grab’s marketing efforts across the region, leading a team of over 500 marketers across Southeast Asia.

In her role, she shapes the strategy behind the company’s brand and reputation and leads teams across the end-to-end sphere of marketing, covering user acquisition and demand growth, advertising and promotions, branding and social, public and corporate reputation, marketing research and insights. She also leads social impact at Grab and believes in building inclusive capitalism to solve problems of poverty and climate change.

Cheryl is a recognised thought leader in the tech, marketing and start-up space, and she has been featured as speaker and panellist at various technology, start-up and digital marketing conferences and forums.

 Edward Low heads up the Technical Pre-Sales organization in Nutanix Singapore and he isresponsible for driving overall Pre-Sales excellence and directly manages the Singapore Pre-Sales team to deliver profitable and sustainable sales growth. 

Prior to joining Nutanix, Edward has extensive working experience in VMware and Citrix focusing on pre-sales consultancy and technical roles. He is well-versed in new technologies related to Datacenter technologies, DevOps and specific applications.

Nutanix offers customers the ability to truly drive and deliver comprehensive innovation and support for enterprises of all sizes, no matter where they are on their journey. Understanding customer focuses and challenges that “The only constant in technology industry is change”, Edward drives strategic technical initiatives and ensures his team integrates new technologies such as Hyper-converged infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud and DevOps that matches customers’
requirements to transform their IT and deliver value for customers.

Edward holds a degree in Nanyang Technology University of Singapore.

Han Chon joined Nutanix as Managing Director for ASEAN region in 2020. Bringing 25 years of experience within the industry, Han holds a strong track record in IT and a passion for architecting strategies to help expand within the Asia Pacific region through regional insight into customer values, leadership and operational excellence. As Managing Director for the region, Han is responsible for overall strategy and performance of the region. Before joining Nutanix, he led the Central Asia Pacific region as General Manager at Lenovo. Prior to Lenovo, Han was part of Dell Technologies for close to two decades, where he held various positions including General Manager for SonicWall Asia Pacific and Japan, as well as other regional and global responsibilities.

Howie Lau is the Assistant Chief Executive at Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). The Media & Innovation Group comprises of Media & Ecosystem Development, Strategic Media Partnership, Innovation & Tech Ecosystem, Internationalisation Platforms & Partnerships, Singapore Film Commission and ATxSG Programme Office.

Prior to his appointment, Howie was the CMO and head of Consumer business at StarHub where he was responsible for the Mobility, Pay TV and Broadband businesses as well as charting StarHub’s brand and marketing. Before that, he was the Vice President Corporate Development of Lenovo where he led Lenovo’s global end-to-end post-merger management and related merger and acquisition matters. He was also Lenovo’s CMO for Emerging markets which spans China, India, Eastern Europe, Russia, South America and South East Asia.

He has more than 25 years of experience leading teams, managing P&L, corporate development and marketing across many countries in Lenovo and IBM. He serves as the Immediate Past President of Singapore Computer Society, the Governing Council for Singapore Institute of Directors and the board of Singapore Science Centre.

Howie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and currently pursuing a Masters in Asian Art History (Lasalle/Goldsmith UK). He has received the Philip Kotler marketing excellence award, NUS outstanding alumni award and NUS Business School Eminent alumni award.

Ian has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry with wide industry experience spanning public sector to financial services. He has deep knowledge in both infrastructure and application security with deep expertise in governance and security technologies. Today Ian is the SVP of Cybersecurity in a large conglomerate and responsible for the management of cybersecurity in the group. He has held other senior appointments such as Director, Government Cybersecurity Operations and was responsible for managing cybersecurity operations for the whole of government in Singapore, which includes the monitoring of and response to cybersecurity incidents.

Mr Mahbubani has been privileged to enjoy two distinct careers, in diplomacy (1971 to 2004) and in academia (2004 to 2019). He is a prolific writer who has spoken in many corners of the world.

In diplomacy, he was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971 to 2004). He had postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington DC and New York, where he twice was Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and served as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. As a result of his excellent performance in his diplomatic career, he was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998.

Mr Mahbubani joined academia in 2004, when he was appointed the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), NUS. He was Dean from 2004 to 2017, and a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy from 2006 to 2019. In April 2019, he was elected as an honorary international member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has honoured distinguished thinkers, including several of America’s founding fathers, since 1780.

Mr Mahbubani was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 1967. He graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received a Master’s degree in Philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992.

He has achieved several “firsts” in his two careers. He was the Founding Dean of the LKY School, the founding Director of the Civil Service College, the first Singapore Ambassador to serve on the UN Security Council, the first Singaporean to publish articles in globally renowned journals and newspapers like Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times and the Financial Times and co-authored articles with distinguished global thought leaders like Kofi Annan, Klaus Schwab and Larry Summers. Mr Mahbubani has never shied away from taking on new challenges.

He has also been a prolific author, having published seven books: Can Asians Think?, Beyond The Age Of Innocence, The New Asian Hemisphere, The Great Convergence, Can Singapore Survive, The ASEAN Miracle (co-authored with Jeffery Sng) and Has the West Lost It?.

Mr Mahbubani has received significant international recognition for his many accomplishments. The Foreign Policy Association Medal was awarded to him in New York in June 2004 with the following opening words in the citation: “A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker”. He was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005, and included in the March 2009 Financial Times list of Top 50 individuals who would shape the debate on the future of capitalism. He was selected as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011. In 2011, he was described as “the muse of the Asian century”. He was selected by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 world thinkers for 2014.

Neville is a senior sales leader with over 25 years of experience in the infrastructure and application marketplace across Asia Pacific. He has most recently held a number of senior positions with Oracle and Hitachi Vantara. Neville’s responsibility has scaled from Country, Regional and Global Management. Most notably, he held Regional (APAC) responsibility as Oracle’s Vice President for on-premise and cloud storage infrastructure and Hitachi Vantara Senior Vice President and General Manager for APAC. Prior to those roles, he was Vice President and General Manager for Vantara ANZ and Country Manager Korea. In these positions, he supervised all operational aspects of the business, including business strategies, setting performance goals, and managing overall revenue and profitability.

Simon is the Vice President for IDC's Asia/Pacific region based in Singapore.  He advises both technology and business leaders, as well as IT suppliers on Digital Transformation, the CIO Agenda and Digital Trust, as they relate to the ability of organisations to gain improved returns on their IT investments around hybrid cloud infrastructure, mobile productivity, the value of analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

With a broad background across enterprise IT due to his experience over the years, from building an online business in Hong Kong in the 90's, to consulting in the early days of the internet (including designing ISP and intranet infrastructure) for Digital Equipment Corporation. His years with Microsoft, whilst focused around Business Intelligence, exposed him to a range of application development, infrastructure and end user challenges and issues. At IDC, his portfolio has encompassed data management, hybrid multi-cloud architecture and more recently the coverage of blockchain technology and security has allowed him to focus on business issues and C-Suite needs and how these can support Digital Transformation initiatives.

Credentials: 

• Master of Business Administration from Southern Cross University

• Frequent keynote speaker in industry conferences on the topics of Future of Work, Digital Transformation, The CIO Agenda and Digital Trust.