Rob is the principal provider of operational, strategic and tactical counsel for solutions for better digital advertising infrastructure and opportunities for revenue growth to some of the worlds largest companies.  Rob publishes a regular monthly column for Marketing Land and his thought leadership has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, Mediapost, AdExchanger, Business Insider and MyersBizNet.While at The 614 Group, Rob has led strategic engagements for clients such as Condé Nast, Interpublic / Mediabrands, IBM Watson, TAG, and Panasonic and has worked to recruit a world class board of advisors and a team of consultants who properly represent the brand and make customer satisfaction a core value.He has extensive experience in digital media and is a distinguished leader in the Ad Tech industry.  Among his many accomplishments, Rob has served as Board Member and Executive Advisor to the IAB on International Affairs, as the CFO/COO and President of the global advertising network CPXi.

Arshan Saha is a driving force in the evolution of media, leading the charge as CEO of both GroupM Singapore and GroupM Nexus Asia Pacific. A passionate advocate for media accountability across all addressable channels, Arshan spearheads GroupM's mission to make advertising work better for people. His leadership extends across a dynamic portfolio. In Singapore, he oversees renowned agencies like Mindshare, Wavemaker, EssenceMediacom, and mSix&Partners, along with specialised units like Choreograph (Data & Technology) and GroupM Investment. As the head of GroupM Nexus in Asia Pacific, Arshan steers the world's leading media performance organisation, driving client growth through innovative cross-channel solutions and strategies. Arshan's commitment to data-driven transformation is evident in his pioneering work. He played a key role in establishing award-winning specialty businesses like Xaxis (Programmatic), INCA (Influencer Marketing), Finecast (Addressable TV), Sightline (Addressable Out of Home), and Acceleration (Data & Tech Consultancy). His 17+ years of experience in the advertising industry have been marked by launching and scaling data-driven businesses across 16 markets, achieving remarkable growth. A visionary leader, Arshan not only guides his team to achieve exceptional results but also fosters a culture of mentorship and personal development. His collaborative approach, working closely with clients and partners, has consistently driven ad-tech innovation and thought leadership, setting new benchmarks for the industry.

Klara is the Global Account Director for P&G, The Coca-Cola Company & Mars. She finds joy in making the complicated simple. She has spent her lifetime obsessed with grocery shopping. With a history working in both creative and media agencies, Klara's most recent role was Chief Client Officer at Dentsu Singapore. She was awarded ‘Campaign Asia’s Women to Watch’ 2017. This follows other personal awards, including being voted 14th in The Drum’s ’50 under 30’ 2014.

Prathab Kunasakaran is the Director of Publisher Development for CJ APAC Division, with over 15 years of experience in the advertising technology industry. He is also an IAB Brand Safety Committee Member for the past year.   Prior to CJ’s Role Prathab was working at GroupM for close to 9 years since 2014 as Head of Marketplace and Supply Strategy, working closely with global publishers like Disney, Vice and NBCU to define, deliver their programmatic and private marketplace (PMP) offering through a variety of channels. He developed a robust regional supply strategy to not only best deliver against clients’ digital advertising objectives, but also to deliver profitability to all GroupM agencies.     At CJ, Prathab will be working closely with Kelly Merkel and the global Publisher Development leadership team to create Go-To-Market strategy for the region, identify market opportunity, develop strategic partnerships with key leaders in the region to strengthen CJ’s overall offerings in the market and build publisher development team across the region to manage some of the biggest content publishers, Influencers and specialized Fintech vendors. Making CJ as Affiliate Marketing network of choice in APAC region in long run. Prathab will leverage Publicis Network in terms of existing publisher relationship that can expand to CJ Network. Vice-versa, Prathab will also work together with the demand team led by Madhu to promote CJ brand awareness at the Group and Agency level. On the personal level, using the football language he is most passionate about, Prathab is a natural team captain who effortlessly brings people together. He conceptualizes winning strategies and executes them effectively on the field. He truly understands that smart passing keeps the ball moving forward and that if a play stops working, smart players can change it. He is among the few who unravelled the complexities on the supply side

Deepika is a recognized leader in the APAC media industry, with over 25 years of experience spanning marketing, communications, and ad technology. Having worked across 100+ brands in diverse market environments, she brings deep expertise in consumer culture, data-driven marketing, and solutions architecture.    Currently, she serves in a regional position of Chief Solutions Officer for GroupM APAC and leads the programmatic practice at GroupM Nexus APAC. With a strong foundation in data science, business strategy, and A.I., Deepika has been instrumental in shaping brands’ AdTech and MarTech roadmaps, steering their transformation in the programmatic and A.I-driven marketing space.   Her portfolio includes global brands such as Unilever, Nestlé, Nike, American Express, BMW, Lufthansa, Pepsi, L’Oréal, HSBC, and Heineken. In both regional and local capacities, she has driven award-winning media and marketing strategies that push the boundaries of innovation.    Deepika's contributions have earned her numerous industry accolades, including:  Media Person of the Year Singapore   Innovator of the Year  – The Internationalist, New York  Regional Account Person of the Year – Campaign Asia-Pacific  Media Magnificent List   Business Leader of the Year  – Women Leading Change, Campaign Asia-Pacific  Technology Chief of the Year – Women Leading Change, Campaign Asia-Pacific  Beyond her corporate role, Deepika is a thought leader, frequent speaker, and industry advocate. She serves as a Board Member at the IAB SEA+India Chapter, actively shaping the future of digital marketing in the region.

Anannya is a digital native with over a decade of collaborative expertise being at the forefront of adtech in APAC. Currently serving in the APAC regional team at Omnicom Media Group Asia Pacific, he works on building capabilities across digital channels. With a track record of innovation, awards, and impactful achievements, he is dedicated to advancing the intersection of technology, marketing, and sustainable advertising practices.

Emmanuel Fischmeister is the SVP Business Development, APAC for Teads.

For the last 25 years Tawana has been a part of teams behind some of the largest and most influential global brands and advertising agencies across the US, EMEA, LATAM and most recently APAC. At Meta where she and her team advise CMOs, business leaders and agency partners on how best to use digital and emerging advertising and commerce solutions to accelerate the growth of their brands.   Prior to Meta, Tawana led multi-million brand and award winning product teams at Intuit, LeapFrog, J&J and Pfizer, building and launching hundreds of new and innovative products such as QuickBooks, Listerine, Advil, and ChapStick.   A passion for diversity in business. In 2019 she was Featured in Adweek’s Women Trailblazers for her active mentorship and investment in over 15 companies founded by women and for her participation in the groundbreaking #biascorrect campaign aimed to correct bias and elevate the discussion of women in leadership positions. She was inducted into the Ad Age Global Leading Women Class of 2023, The List in 2024 and was selected as a juror for Spikes Asia and Mad Stars 2024. Tawana served as co-lead for the Singapore Inclusion Council at Meta and the IAB SouthEast Asia & India Board. She currently serves as a board member for the IAA SEA and the Ronald McDonald House NYC. Originally from NYC, she currently lives in Singapore with her husband and their daughter.

Dr Rafael Frankel is a leading expert in Asia-Pacific and tech policy, government affairs, political-economics, business and investment. He is currently Director of Public Policy for Southeast Asia at Meta and serves on the US-ASEAN Business Council Board of Directors. A former foreign correspondent, lecturer, and consultant in Bangkok, Tel Aviv and Washington, Rafael has 24 years of experience in The Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He received his PhD (International Relations) and MS (Foreign Service) from Georgetown University. 

Liam is a senior global tech and media leader with ~20 years of experience in client-side, agency, and platform roles.  As VP of StackAdapt APAC, he is tasked with leading APACs growth by empowering partners to harness the power of AI, data-driven insights, and cutting-edge technology to transform their marketing strategies.  At StackAdapt, Liam is focused on empowering brands to execute highly targeted, efficient, and measurable campaigns across channels, driving business results while ensuring brand safety and innovation.  Prior to StackAdapt, Liam held leadership positions at Meta (formerly Facebook), where he led high-profile partnerships with top brands like L’Oreal, Google, LVMH, Coca Cola, P&G, and Mars across US, EMEA, and APAC. With deep expertise across verticals such as CPG, Luxury, Beauty, Technology, and Retail, Liam is a recognized thought leader in the industry, contributing to bodies such as IAB and publications like Campaign-Asia, The Drum, and B&T.

Bharat Khatri is the Chief Digital Officer APAC for Omnicom Media Group.

Starting from humble beginnings in 2009 at McDonald’s Malaysia as a Marketing Executive, he rose through the ranks to lead the Marketing, Digital and Strategy & Insights departments.  Eugene transformed marketing at McDonald’s Malaysia, and rolled out many groundbreaking campaigns, including the legendary Ayam Goreng McD relaunch, which still serves as a case study for many marketers today.  In 2020, Eugene graduated from local market duties and joined the regional team overseeing 12x markets across the Asian region where he served as Regional Chief Marketing Officer for 3x years. With the success he saw in Asia helping markets navigate Covid and accelerating growth post pandemic, he was again promoted to become International Chief Marketing Officer of the IDL Segment in 2023, overseeing Marketing, Menu and Digital for 80x markets across the globe – spanning Latin America, to Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Asia. He is a part of the next generation of modern leaders and was named Asia Pacific’s Top-50 most Influential Marketer 4 years in a row. Eugene firmly believes that every employee can contribute to business success, encouraging everyone to speak up regardless of rank; and that “No idea is a bad idea”. 

Richard Raddon is co-Founder, co-CEO of ZEFR.  Zefr is a technology company that provides content targeting solutions at scale for brands advertising on YouTube. Unlike other YouTube advertising solutions that focus on audience, Zefr’s advanced technology dissects content at the video level to ensure every brand message is delivered in the right context and against the right premium content every time.  This, in turn, ensures that all brand messages are not only safe but are brand suitable. As a result of its unique offering, the company has built up a robust client roster that includes major brands across retail, automotive, beauty, entertainment, music, and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with offices in New York, and Chicago. For more information, go to: http://zefr.com. Prior to ZEFR, Rich co-Founded MOVIECLIPS, which became the largest video network about movies. MOVIECLIPS sold to Comcast (Fandango) in April of 2014. Rich also served as the Director of the Los Angeles Film Festival and as a media Producer.  Rich began his career as an assistant to the late writer/director/producer John Hughes in Chicago. Rich is a graduate of Brigham Young University.

Rob is the principal provider of operational, strategic and tactical counsel for solutions for better digital advertising infrastructure and opportunities for revenue growth to some of the worlds largest companies.  Rob publishes a regular monthly column for Marketing Land and his thought leadership has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, Mediapost, AdExchanger, Business Insider and MyersBizNet.While at The 614 Group, Rob has led strategic engagements for clients such as Condé Nast, Interpublic / Mediabrands, IBM Watson, TAG, and Panasonic and has worked to recruit a world class board of advisors and a team of consultants who properly represent the brand and make customer satisfaction a core value.He has extensive experience in digital media and is a distinguished leader in the Ad Tech industry.  Among his many accomplishments, Rob has served as Board Member and Executive Advisor to the IAB on International Affairs, as the CFO/COO and President of the global advertising network CPXi.

Kris is a seasoned leader in Asia-Pacific's ad tech and mar tech sectors, driving regional expansion and transformation. With a dynamic career spanning journalism, advertising, marketing, and technology across Asia-Pacific, Kris hase established herself as a regional expansion and transformation leader, with a focus on ad tech and mar tech solutions. She is passionate about delivering innovative and impactful solutions for clients across various industries and markets. Kris drives strategic expertise and excellence in media activation, data and tech, and KINESSO performance solutions. Leading a team of over 1,000 digital experts across 11 markets, she is passionate about regional expansion, strategic partnerships, and organizational transformation; ensuring continued growth and delivering excellence for clients across APAC.

Marvin is a senior leader at MBCS Singapore, the content and influencer arm of IPG Mediabrands. As Group Strategy Director, he leads strategic initiatives across paid media, data activation, and influencer marketing, helping brands navigate today’s complex digital landscape. With extensive experience across Europe and Southeast Asia, he has developed strategies that balance brand safety, media efficiency, and business impact. He believes in the importance of human-centric yet data-driven approaches, ensuring brands stay relevant and engage with the right subcultures. He values deep audience understanding, making sure brands know exactly who they are interacting with, creating a real value exchange between brands and consumers.

As the Head of Asia at Channel Factory, Kartik Mehta is dedicated to driving the launch and scaling of innovative technology and media startups. With over 10 years of experience in digital advertising sales, marketing communications, and new business development, Kartik has a proven track record of delivering profitable growth and crafting disruptive solutions for brands.   In his previous role at Silverpush, Kartik led sales, strategic partnerships, and global expansion for the contextual video intelligence and moment marketing platform. He built the international business from the ground up, growing it into a multi-million-dollar revenue operation across 15 geographies in just four years, while achieving double-digit EBITDA and earning multiple industry accolades. Kartik also led and managed cross-functional teams across markets and has been a speaker and moderator at prominent tech and agency events, including iMedia, FOCAL, MMA, and Huddle.

With a career spanning multiple markets across APAC—including India, Taiwan, Singapore, and Australia—Mamta has developed a deep understanding of the evolving digital landscape and its impact on businesses. From adtech and martech to data strategy and audience intelligence, her experience cuts across the key pillars that drive digital transformation. Over the years, Mamta has navigated the complexities of an ever-changing ecosystem, helping brands future-proof their marketing strategies in a privacy-first world. Her expertise lies in enabling businesses to harness the power of data, optimize media investments, and build scalable digital infrastructures that drive measurable impact. Passionate about innovation and problem-solving, Mamta thrives on simplifying complexity and bridging the gap between technology and business outcomes. Through collaboration with platforms, agencies, and brands, she focuses on unlocking growth opportunities and driving digital excellence in a dynamic, fast-moving industry.

Casper (Vice President, Product Management) leads Mastercard's Advanced Analytics solution for the Asia Pacific region, with a focus on leveraging Mastercard's proprietary data and analytics platform to serve our clients. Mastercard’s Advanced Analytics solutions are utilized by prominent organizations across industries such as retail, travel and hospitality, consumer packaged goods (CPG), telecommunications, and financial services. Prior to his current role, Casper spent more than a decade in consulting across Greater China, Australia, and Southeast Asia, specializing in the delivery and deployment of analytics solutions for large-scale organizations.

Madelin is a senior leader within Kinesso APAC, IPG Mediabrands’ performance marketing arm. In her role as Head of Client Solutions she is responsible for driving digital transformation across the network spanning media, data, audience and analytics capabilities. She has held a number of key business driving roles in global media networks, across B2B and B2C portfolios. Madelin believes strongly in the ability of data, technology and media to create meaningful, lasting business impact for marketing organizations.

With 22 years of experience in the digital media industry, Jonathan began his career at specialist independent digital agencies in the UK before moving to Omnicom Media Group where he built digital teams in Europe and Asia.  He joined Publicis Groupe in 2016 to accelerate programmatic and digital transformation for the Groupe working with global and regional clients such as Samsung, P&G, Citibank and Singapore Tourism Board. A champion of the open web, Jonathan is passionate about bringing knowledge and capabilities to clients and agency teams throughout Asia. While locked down in Singapore for the past two years, Jonathan has kept busy establishing some additional interests in motorbikes, motorboats, crypto investing and rugby coaching on weekends!

Manaswita is an experienced data-driven marketer and customer data professional who has worked across Singapore and India markets, both urban and rural. She specializes in omnichannel audience strategy and digital transformation and brings experience from diverse industries across telecom, media, banking and FMCG. Having worked both on the client-side and advertising technology side, her expertise lies in driving business value for advertisers using data and technology capabilities on the sell-side. Manaswita is also a member of IAB SEA + India’s Responsible Privacy Council and is passionate about fostering data-literacy and privacy-awareness among marketing practitioners.

Kris is a seasoned leader in Asia-Pacific's ad tech and mar tech sectors, driving regional expansion and transformation. With a dynamic career spanning journalism, advertising, marketing, and technology across Asia-Pacific, Kris hase established herself as a regional expansion and transformation leader, with a focus on ad tech and mar tech solutions. She is passionate about delivering innovative and impactful solutions for clients across various industries and markets. Kris drives strategic expertise and excellence in media activation, data and tech, and KINESSO performance solutions. Leading a team of over 1,000 digital experts across 11 markets, she is passionate about regional expansion, strategic partnerships, and organizational transformation; ensuring continued growth and delivering excellence for clients across APAC.

Dennis Petrone is a Brand Safety & Responsible Media leader at TikTok, driving global initiatives that build advertiser trust and reinforce the platform’s commitment to brand safety and platform integrity. He shapes industry narratives, equips advertisers with the right tools, and fosters strategic partnerships to ensure brands feel confident investing in TikTok. With over 20 years of experience across TikTok, Meta, and CBS News, Dennis has led high-impact marketing strategies spanning media, technology, and advertising. His expertise lies in brand trust, cross-functional collaboration, and industry thought leadership. A native New Yorker with a global perspective, Dennis spent the first half of his career in the Asia-Pacific region. A strong advocate for workplace diversity, he believes it fuels innovation, better decision-making, and long-term business success.

A builder of brands and businesses, JF has spent 15 years in advertising, shaping creative and strategic growth for both global networks and independent agencies—including founding and leading one himself. Now, as Head of Growth for Publicis Groupe in Southeast Asia, he helps brands and teams navigate complexity, bringing together strategy, creativity, and commercial impact to drive meaningful results.A natural problem-solver, JF thrives on connecting the right people, ideas, and capabilities to turn challenges into opportunities. When he’s not working, you’ll find him outdoors, in the kitchen experimenting with new flavors, or immersed in virtual worlds.

I’m the Global Head of Media Business Units for Haleon (previously GSK Consumer Healthcare).  In this role, my responsibilities revolve around driving adoption and scaling our global priorities and programs into the Business Units (Markets).  This includes everything from integrating our media effectiveness agenda into the markets to working to manage the commercials with our key partners.     Prior to this, I was the APAC Head of Media for GSK Consumer Healthcare.  In this role, I actively drove a variety of areas including deploying more advanced media techniques within the AdTech, data, and audience planning space, landing our new-ish agency model throughout the system, deploying key media technology platforms globally, driving better outcomes by forcing an effectiveness conversation and providing an overall media center of excellence with my talented team of media professionals.   Previous to GSK, I was the McDonald’s Global Media Lead, based in Singapore.  I started in this role in January of 2017.  As this is a role new to McDonald’s, a great deal of the time I spent was on leading the creation and articulation of my team’s mission and priorities, the ways we should work and aligning with new internal stakeholders.  Additionally, I drove continued media and digital transformation throughout the organization.   Prior to this role, I was the Global Engagement Team Lead for the London and Singapore teams.  In this role, I managed subject matter experts in the primary digital connection points including Media, Social, CRM, Marketing and Merchandising.  Prior to that, I was the digital media lead within the McDonald’s Singapore CoE, joining in February of 2015.  In this role, I was primarily focused on driving systemic improvements in media through the application of data-backed media solutions, innovation, partnerships and local market upskilling.   Previous to McDonald’s I worked at OMD Singapore managing the McDonald’s regional media business.  During my 4 years at OMD Singapore, I lead the business to considerable digital media change including a more than 300% increase in digital media investment, rollout and institutionalization of data-backed media practices such as programmatic, a focus on the leveraging modelling to more closely link media to the McDonald’s business as well as partnerships with key media companies such as Google and Facebook.   My time before Singapore was also in the agency world at a variety of shops (MindShare, UM, Ogilvy) in London and New York, where I both started my career and where I am from originally.

Rob is the principal provider of operational, strategic and tactical counsel for solutions for better digital advertising infrastructure and opportunities for revenue growth to some of the worlds largest companies.  Rob publishes a regular monthly column for Marketing Land and his thought leadership has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, Mediapost, AdExchanger, Business Insider and MyersBizNet.While at The 614 Group, Rob has led strategic engagements for clients such as Condé Nast, Interpublic / Mediabrands, IBM Watson, TAG, and Panasonic and has worked to recruit a world class board of advisors and a team of consultants who properly represent the brand and make customer satisfaction a core value.He has extensive experience in digital media and is a distinguished leader in the Ad Tech industry.  Among his many accomplishments, Rob has served as Board Member and Executive Advisor to the IAB on International Affairs, as the CFO/COO and President of the global advertising network CPXi.