Mark Phibbs is Vice President of Global Campaigns, Content and Industries (CCI) within Cisco’s Marketing organization. CCI is hyper-focused on customer centricity, giving us the ability to bring the customer to the center of everything we do in marketing.

Mark has over 30 years of international experience in the IT industry and prior to his current role leading CCI, he led Asia Pacific, Japan and China Marketing for Cisco. Prior to Cisco Mark held senior executive roles with Adobe, Microsoft and IBM.

Mark is a passionate advocate of digital marketing and the increasingly important role the marketing function plays in digital disruption and customer experience.

Mark has a Bachelor of Business Degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and has successfully completed Business Management courses at the prestigious Kellogg School of Management, Wharton Business School and the Haas School of Business Berkeley in the United States. Mark is also a Fellow of the Marketing Academy.

A business and brand leader with deep experience leading multi billion dollar global categories and brands. Shalini has worked across multiple Personal Care, Beauty and Home Care brands and with consumers and customers in the South East Asia, South Asia, US and Africa. She has a successful track record in leading innovation, turning around businesses, managing P&Ls, leading through transformation and crafting award winning communication. She started her career in Sri Lanka, and over the last 17+ years she has worked and lived in Singapore, Vietnam, USA and Ethiopia.

John Toomey is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Asia Pacific excluding China (APEC) for Marriott International. In this role, John leads the region’s Consumer Strategy comprising of functions such as Brand Management, Marketing, Sales, Distribution, Revenue Management, Loyalty, Customer Experience, Digital and Communications; for a portfolio of more than 600 operating hotels and resorts in 22 countries and territories in APEC, across 24 leading brands.

Jyane is responsible for global fund allocation, strategising marketing plans across SC markets, championing marketing transformation and streamlining operating model. Before joining Standard Chartered, Jyane spent close to 15 years in various marketing domains incl. research, integrated advertising, and digital marketing advisory. She also spent 7 years at Google where she specialised in digital maturity consulting across performance and app solutions, data-driven marketing, and creative effectiveness thought leadership. Outside of work, Jyane is passionate about helping aspiring entrepreneurs and advising them on their business model and go-to-market strategy.

Siew Ting Foo is a distinguished global marketing leader who has E2E multinational marketing and business transformation experience with 4 consumer goods companies and 1 technology leader- Unilever, Mars, Diageo, Fonterra, HP. Her mission revolves around building enduring brands and businesses that create substantial shareholder value.

Strategic Vision and Leadership
Throughout her career, Siew Ting has been instrumental in redefining brand narratives and fostering innovation within global organizations. Her strategic initiatives have encompassed repositioning global brands for local resonance and pioneering new product categories. Siew Ting’s expertise lies in steering businesses towards reinvention, ensuring they remain aligned with their fundamental purpose and values.

Inclusive Leadership and Innovation
Siew Ting is not only a strategic visionary but also a dedicated advocate for inclusive leadership and innovation. As a ‘servant leader,’ she has cultivated a collaborative work culture, encouraging creativity and data-driven insights. Her human-centric approach to marketing has earned her recognition in the industry, including multiple accolades from Campaign Asia’s Power and Influential List of CMOs. Siew Ting’s commitment to fostering diversity and her focus on meaningful innovation continue to shape the landscape of global marketing.

Asia Female Business Transformation Leader, adept at harnessing people’s potential With an ability to speak multiple Asian languages, Siew Ting has successfully helped reimagined global brands, business, and organization to local relevance, or helped Asian brands and business penetrate international markets. Siew Ting is highly energetic, purpose-driven collaborator, who believes in harnessing people’s potential to build brands, business and people. She combines “art” and “science” in marketing and harness community to build powerful brands. She is passionate about building inclusive and diverse team and has helped many organizations built high performing teams and mentored many multi-culture talents across globally. In her leisure, she is active in mentoring the younger generation, females and start-ups.

Tara Kapur is a seasoned, award-winning marketer with over 15 years experience across media, entertainment and consumer tech. She has worked for several high-profile companies, including Netflix, Duolingo, and Vice Media. She currently runs marketing for Duolingo English Test in India, where she leads the business in India for its English proficiency test in the region. In 2016, she co-founded Vitamin Stree, a digital platform that creates feminist content aimed at raising awareness and promoting gender equality. The platform has received critical acclaim and has won several awards for its innovative approach to storytelling.

Joel is responsible for end-to-end marketing across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Canada. With a background in performance marketing, he now focuses on brand and commercial strategy, leveraging his deep expertise in technology and data. Joel's innovative approach recently earned him Mumbrella’s Data Marketing and Effies Awards, recognising his ability to deliver impactful, data-driven campaigns.

I am an enterprising professional with 15+ years’ experience in the marketing and talent management industry. During this period, I have gained skills in new business development, strategic planning, and data analysis.

I can leverage these competencies to drive the development and implementation of innovative and transformative marketing strategies to deliver impactful messaging campaigns which align with brand objectives, values, and guidelines.

My capacity as a results-oriented, proactive, and versatile team leader enable me to cultivate strategic partnerships with key industry stakeholders to accomplish business objectives.

Some key career achievements to date include:

• Boosted year-over-year new business revenue by 100% for the 2016/2017 financial year and by 40% for the 2015/2016 financial year; thereby successfully securing the number one position in New Business Revenue.

• Spearheaded the three-year, RM5M project for a telecommunications corporation, consisting of developing an effective market entry plan for the company’s social entertainment platform. Consequently, I secured the content rights for the music platform and launched the product in the Malaysian market.

• Negotiated and secured the rights to an Indie film, “KIL”, and signed-off on a co-production agreement with the post-production company, MREPC. This successfully, diversified new business opportunities for the post-production company.

Board member and advisor, results-oriented chief marketing, innovation & sustainability officer with over two decades of experience in FMCG and Agribusiness sectors. Track record of working at the intersection of purpose-led brands and value creation, delivering sales targets, designing commercially successful innovations and inspiring sustainability led efforts embedded in the fabric of the business, across multi-stakeholder groups. Jiunn has been with Zespri since 2016.

May has nearly 20 years of marketing experience in the B2B field across Global and APAC markets. She has served companies such as AMD, SAP, and RedHat. Currently, she leads the APAC marketing team at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.

Dawn spent over 15 years in travel, marketing, technology, media and TV broadcasting roles in San Francisco, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore. She joined Go City® six months before the pandemic hit, leading B2C customer growth and ecommerce sales in the APAC region. She pioneered customer localization in the company, launched and grew the brand in Mainland China and steered the APAC ecommerce team through travel recovery. In a recent promotion, Dawn assumed a broader global responsibility leading the brand, social, influencer, public relations, and creative teams on an international level. Go City® continues to be the global leader in city sightseeing passes which includes brands like London Pass ®, New York Pass ®, Paris Pass ™, along with a growing list of 25+ cities worldwide.

Alin Dobrea is a marketing and tech leader with over 13 years of experience. As marketing director at ZALORA, he oversees the ZALORA Advertising Platform (ZAP), a cutting-edge marketing unit that offers innovative solutions to brands and advertisers across the Southeast Asia region. Before joining ZALORA, he spent most of his career at Marks & Spencer in London, managing brand and marketing campaigns across the UK and international markets. In addition, Alin is a guest lecturer, speaker and mentor to start-ups on the topics of marketing, growth and e-commerce. Alin graduated from the University of Birmingham in the UK with a Master of Science with Distinction and studied abroad at Beijing Normal University and the University of Delhi.

Business marketing leader with 15 years of B2C and B2B experience across multiple categories including beauty and personal care, food & beverages and eyewear. In my current role I lead Transitions, one of the fastest growing optical brands in APAC. Building brands and unlocking new growth opportunities energizes me. Over the past experiences, I have established myself as a seasoned whitespace expert.