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NEW REALITIES

The market is in a state of flux. Media fragmentation has gone wild. Digital is exciting but also a minefield if handled wrong. Marketers need stamina, focus and a scalable approach to strategies. ROI has never been more confusing. Marketers are overwhelmed,and the economic situation is hazy. It's time to get back to what works and what does not. From content and conversations to convergence and conversions, it's time to re-energise reality.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

  • Marketing, Brand and Product Managers
  • Advertising, Media and Digital Executives and Entrepreneurs
  • Media Players - Traditional and Digital
  • Business Development Managers
  • SMEs & SMIs

WHY ATTEND

Into its fifth year, the Malaysian CMO Conference has become a landmark event for all serious marketing communications and media professionals. Apart from learning cutting-edge knowledge and listening to real-market experiences from the speakers and panelists, it is also a great opportunity to network with thinkers from the marketing, media, advertising, digital and content ecosystem. About 300 senior marketing and media players turn up for this once-one-year wakeup call on what's hot and what's not in marketing.

Speakers & Panelists


Loh Keh Jiat

Chief Marketing Officer,
Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd

Bala Pomaleh

CEO IPG Mediabrands

Puspa Marina Omar

Senior VP &
Head of Strategic Comms
Bank Simpanan Nasional

Raja Teh Maimunah
Raja Abdul Aziz

MD & CEO
Hong Leong Islamic
Bank Berhad

Rachel Lim

Co-Founder
Love, Bonito

Eric Wong

Marketing Director
IBM Malaysia

Timothy Johnson

Senior VP Marketing
INTI International
University & Colleges

Sulin Lau

Head of Marketing Services
Maxis

Spencer Lee

Head of Commercial
AirAsia Berhad

Srikanth
Ramachandran

Executive Director
Moving Walls

Edward Ling

Sales Manager
Waze Malaysia

Cyril Dhenaut

Head of Marketing
KFit Group

Santharuban T.
Sundaram

Group Marketing Manager
Etika Holdings

Rafiq Razalli

Chief Executive Officer,
Media Prima Digital Sdn Bhd

Dato Seri Vida

Founder Pamoga & Qu Puteh
(Vida Beauty)

BEHIND THE NAMES


Loh Keh Jiat

Chief Marketing Officer, Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd

Loh was appointed Chief Marketing Officer on 30 March 2016. Prior to that, he was Chief Sales Officer. He has held other various senior positions within the Marketing Division in his 10 years with Digi. These include Head of Postpaid, Head of Corporate Strategy and Broadband, Head of Product Marketing, and Head of Channels and Regional Management. He has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and accounting industries, having held roles at PT Mobile-8 Tbk Indonesia and PricewaterhouseCoopers prior to joining Digi.


Bala Pomaleh

CEO, IPG Mediabrands

Before helming IPG Mediabrands Malaysia, Bala was CEO of Carat Malaysia. He has been in advertising since 1991, starting off as a Media Research Assistant, and worked across a select few agency groups since then. He joined Aegis Media with Carat in 2006, but was soon offered the opportunity to lead Aegis Media sister company Posterscope Malaysia, to become the top OOH specialist in the country. In 2012, he came back to Carat as CEO. Bala has been in the industry for 23 years and won numerous awards including the MSA and Aegis Media Awards. 


Puspa Marina Omar

Senior VP & Head of Strategic Comms Bank Simpanan Nasional

Marina is responsible for BSN’s brand management and corporate communications across a diverse network of more than 400 banking outlets and over 5,000 registered banking agents in the country.

She is known for her strong leadership presence and ability to lead, strategise and manage Integrated Communications activities honed over 25 years in the field of Marketing, PR and Corporate Communications. She is a seasoned professional and her experience covers industries ranging from banking to culture & tourism, project development & real estate, oil & gas, education, ICT, telecommunications as well as service & hospitality. She was responsible for the recent rebranding of BSN including many other corporate branding and marketing communications initiatives. Under her leadership, the BSN brand propelled to a different level with many award winning campaigns.


Raja Teh Maimunah Raja Abdul Aziz

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer Hong Leong Islamic Bank Berhad

Raja Teh Maimunah has over 23 years of experience in banking and finance, focusing on Islamic and investment banking. Prior to her current role, she was Global Head of Islamic Markets at Bursa Malaysia. And before that, she was the Chief Corporate Officer and Head of International Business at Kuwait Finance House Malaysia, CEO of Bank Al Khair Malaysia (previously Unicorn Investment Bank) and Head of Investment Banking at RHB Sakura Merchant Bank (now RHB Investment Bank).

She had also served in Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad during the Asian financial crisis in 1998 and was with CIMB Investment Bank over a period of almost 10 years covering debt and equity origination and equity sales. Raja Teh is the Adviser on Islamic Banking and Finance to the World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation and a Board Member of the Islamic Banking and Finance Institute Malaysia.

 


Rachel Lim

Co-Founder Love, Bonito

Having started her own online fashion business at the tender age of 19 when e-commerce was minimal, Rachel and the brand was immediately propelled to the forefront of the industry, revolutionising and headlining the spheres of online retail and redefined the fashion scene in Singapore.

The style maven continued to garner a strong following among women with her innate ability to engage, relate and connect with them. In line with Love, Bonito’s mission to empower women’s confidence through style, she is able to further touch and impact the community of women she and the brand have created.

Love, Bonito today remains to be the leading online retailer, constantly pushing boundaries and scaling new heights. She has grown the brand beyond Singapore to Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia and Australia. Rachel believes that everyone has a purpose destined for them and she endeavours to inspire them to discover and live out their true purpose. She was recently honoured by Forbes to be in Asia’s first ever 30 Under 30 list.


Eric Wong

CMO, IBM Malaysia

As the Marketing Director of IBM Malaysia, Eric Wong is tasked to educate the Malaysian market on what is IBM’s vision of a Smarter Planet. A role that requires him to engage IBM clients, business partners, government agencies, media and industry influencers to have a conversation on IBM’s thought leadership.

With over 22 years of solid Marketing experience in the IT industry, Eric’s marketing efforts are targetted at driving brand differentiation in an industry that is crowded and constantly innovating and evolving. Eric is a councillor for the Malaysia’s National ICT Association (PIKOM) and a member of the Malaysian Advertisers Association. He also serve as an industry advisor to Universiti Sains Malaysia and Taylor’s University to help local universities produce future talents for the industry.


Timothy Johnson

Senior VP Marketing INTI International University & Colleges

A seasoned marketer with over 20 years experience in Sales & Marketing spanning FMCG, Financial Services and now Education, Tim has worked with top brands at Nestle, Citibank and Standard Chartered and is now Vice President Marketing at Inti International University and College. Before Inti he was Head of Marketing at Standard Chartered Bank for five years.


Sulin Lau

Head of Marketing Services, Maxis

Sulin currently oversees brand, media, digital, social and customer insight for Maxis. Before Maxis, she spent 15+ years poking around advertising, marketing, media and the internet: the first 10 years as a brand planner for Leo Burnett, DDB and BBDO, and then 4+ years as resident troublemaker at DiGi Telecommunications – overseeing different portfolios in brand, ecommerce, and customer experience. In 2013, she took a year off to bartend, write miserable fiction, volunteer for San Francisco-based Kiva. org and finally, to create Think Things (www.thinkthings.co), marketing and media ideation cards that “help any small budget client think like a big ad agency”. She joined Maxis 2 years ago from Ogilvy & Mather Malaysia, where she was MD for both the advertising and digital divisions. These days she still teaches and writes a little, although not nearly as much as she’d like to.


Spencer Lee

Head of Commercial, AirAsia Berhad

Spencer Lee has been Head of Commercial at AirAsia Berhad since 2014. Mr. Lee oversees the entire Malaysia Commercial function and is accountable for its profit and loss. He joined AirAsia in 2006 as a Marketing Manager and moved on to set up the Ancillary Income Department. He served as Head of Marketing at AirAsia Berhad since 2013. He has pioneered a number of projects in AirAsia, especially Ancillary products, and was instrumental in setting up the AirAsia BIG loyalty programme. He also won the best co-brand credit card programme with Citibank, the best use of TV with Media Prima, Social Media and Digital during his marketing period at AirAsia. He has over 13 years of experience in fields that include marketing, advertising, sales, communications, mobile and loyalty programmes.


Srikanth Ramachandran

Executive Director, Moving Walls

Inspired by Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, where technology-based canvases mesh the physical world (real) with the digital world (virtual), Srikanth formed Moving Walls – a start up with a vision to tackle Digital’s Final Frontier.

His corporate and entrepreneurial life comprise establishing and growing IBM Singapore’s e-business team, Implementing the world’s first end-to-end Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) transaction in 1996; building and merging Knowledge Dynamics (KD), a regional leader in the analytics space, with a NYSE listed company. At Moving Walls, he scooped a range of Malaysian and Regional Awards including Most Promising Entrepreneur Award at the 2015 Asia Pacific Entrepreneur Awards (APEA).


Edward Ling

Sales Manager Waze Malaysia

Edward is the first employee of Waze in Asia Pacific, based out of Google Kuala Lumpur. Prior to Waze, he represented LinkedIn in a regional role - based out of Singapore. He spent over 12 years working in tech companies specializing in sales and marketing. He currently champions location based marketing, which uses location and behavioural data to craft sharper marketing campaigns.


Cyril Dhenaut

Head of Marketing, KFit Group

Cyril is an emerging young leader in the industry and joined KFit recently at the tender age of 27. He holds CMO responsibilities and oversees regional marketing, with a focus on integrating marketing, business strategy and product development in an evolving startup environment.

Originally from Paris, Cyril graduated from one of Europe’s top business schools in 2012. His career in marketing started with French telecom giant Bouygues Telecom, where he moved into the role of Web Marketing Product Manager within two years. Cyril’s career has spanned across leading e-commerce players like online French media group Webedia and Glass Group Global. At Glasses Group, Cyril was appointed Head of Performance and CRM for Asia Pacific, a role that brought him to Kuala Lumpur.


Santharuban T. Sundaram

Group Marketing Manager, Etika Holdings (formerly Permanis)

Santharuban or Ruban has been in marketing for about 14 years. He is now Group Marketing Manager,Etika Holdings (formerly Permanis) in charge of brand marketing, events and sponsorship, public relations as well as new product development for brands like Wonda, Calpis, Goodday, Mountain Dew, Revive, Tropicana, Pepsi, etc. Ruban has served Permanis for 7 years and was previously with ntv7, NSTP, WOW FM and Celcom Axiata. He has judged for award shows like the Effie, PMAA Dragons of Asia, etc. The innovation and differentiation behind the launch of Wonda and Mountain Dew has won Permanis awards like a Gold Effie in 2014, MMA Advertiser of the Year 2015, and Marketer of the Year at the AMEA 2015 awards.


Rafiq Razalli

Chief Executive Officer, Media Prima Digital Sdn Bhd

Rafiq, 31, became CEO of Media Prima Digital earlier this year. He who holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Actuarial Science from Pennsylvania State University and has comprehensive experience in business development and strategic planning. His career in IT began with Maxis where he held positions in International Data Wholesale and Corporate Strategy. In 2011, Rafiq was part of the team which formed Groupon Malaysia, an e-commerce player based in the US connecting customers with local merchants in more than 28 countries including Malaysia. He was promoted to Country GM for Malaysia two years later. In 2015, Rafiq and a group of investors established KFit, a Malaysian start-up company that provides a mobile app for users to plan their wellness activities like gym membership, fitness studios and related activities. KFit today boasts operations in eight countries across Asia Pacific.


Dato Seri Dr Hasmiza Othman (Dato Seri Vida)

Founder, Pamoga & Qu Puteh (Vida Beauty)

Dato Seri Dr Hasmiza Othman or more popularly known as Dato Dr. Vida, started off from humble beginnings, having lost her father at the tender age of 9. Holding a Bachelor of Education in Malay literature and history, she started off her career as a teacher at the National Chinese School in Ipoh Perak – a position she held for 12 years. Starting off her business small since she was in high school, today her health and beauty products Pamoga and Qu Puteh are known throughout Malaysia, Brunei and in Singapore.

This ambitious female entrepreneur who is in her early 40s is still eager to grow and diversify her business offerings. She got her first head start into the business world when she opened a salon, it was there she began to make a variety of health and beauty products for her customers looking for facials. Luck was on her side when she became a lecturer at the National Vocational Training Council (VLK) and became more active in promoting her products.

Today, Vida Beauty products are now sold in both the local and international markets

News


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The happy Englishman whose home is Malaysia!

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CMO Talk: Eric Wong, IBM Malaysia

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We talk to Kim Walker about April 21

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