GROW Singapore 2019

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Shahid Nizami

Managing Director, APAC at HubSpot

Shahid is responsible for HubSpot’s performance across Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Shahid has two decades of experience in the technology sector. Before joining HubSpot, Shahid held leadership positions at Google Cloud, Oracle, and Xerox and has developed a remarkably deep understanding of the APAC market.

Shahid is particularly passionate about HubSpot’s culture. The company’s renowned Culture Code was a huge influence in his decision to join the team, and his personal mission as Managing Director in APAC is to make HubSpot the best place to work in the region.

Cameron Adams

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Canva

Cameron Adams is Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Canva, an online design and publishing tool which makes graphic design simple for everyone.

Since launching in 2013, Canva has grown to over 20 million monthly active users across 190 countries, with more than 1.5 billion designs created – that’s over 36 designs per second! Today Canva is growing from strength to strength, with a valuation of US$2.5 billion and over 700 team members working together on a mission to empower everyone to create beautiful designs.

Cameron is responsible for heading up the design and product teams, as well as playing a key role in future product directions and innovations.

Prior to joining Canva, Cameron ran his own successful design consultancy, before joining Google, where he found himself working closely with Lars and Jens Rasmussen (co-founders of Google Maps) to realise the design vision for Google Wave. He then moved on to build email startup Fluent, before meeting Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht and deciding to bring Canva to the world.

With a strong design background, Cameron has also authored five books on web design and regularly speaks at conferences around the globe. In his spare time, Cameron enjoys spending time with his two kids, playing music or DJing. And you’re also likely to find him relaxing with a nice cup of hot chocolate!

Dharmesh Shah

Co-founder & CTO at HubSpot

Named an Inc. Founders 40 in 2016, Dharmesh is an active member of the entrepreneurial community, an angel investor in over 60 startups, and a frequent speaker on startups, inbound marketing, and company culture.

In addition to co-authoring “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs”, Dharmesh founded and writes for OnStartups.com -- a top-ranking startup blog and community with more than 700,000 members. In 2013, Dharmesh published HubSpot’s Culture Code, which has garnered nearly four million views on SlideShare.

INTERNATIONAL & GUEST SPEAKERS

Kipp Bodnar

Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot

Kipp Bodnar is the Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot, where he sets HubSpot’s global marketing strategy to drive awareness and demand for HubSpot’s products.

Prior to his role as CMO, Kipp served as Vice President of Marketing at HubSpot, overseeing all demand generation activity worldwide, building out the EMEA and APAC marketing teams, and managing HubSpot’s field marketing, localization, strategic partnerships, and social media efforts.

Kipp serves as a marketing advisor for SaaS companies including SimplyMeasured, InsightSquared and Guidebook. An industry-leading speaker and blogger, Kipp is also a strategic advisor to three companies.

Heidi Andersen

Vice President of Global Online Sales, Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn

Heidi Andersen is Vice President of Global Online Sales, Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn (a Microsoft company). Heidi has been with LinkedIn since 2011 and has built the Marketing Solutions online sales business. Today she is responsible for running new business acquisitions, the self-serve segment, and field sales spanning across global SMB, Mid-Market and select Enterprise customers.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, Heidi helped Google build its display business. She’s been in the ad industry for over 15 years and has helped both Google and LinkedIn experience hyper growth by successfully transforming and growing their ads monetization business.

Heidi began her post-grad career working for the Danish Government in the Trade Department. Heidi is based in San Francisco, USA. She was born in Denmark and a graduate of University of Southern Denmark, specializing inInternational Business and Economics. Outside of work Heidi is focused on her family, running, and road cycling.

Xin-Ci Chin (Xinch)

Head of Marketing at StoreHub

Xin-Ci is the Head of Marketing at StoreHub, the operating system powering 10,000+ successful retail and F&B businesses across Southeast Asia.

Throughout her marketing career, she has also served as a strategic marketing advisor & digital marketing specialist, consulting with companies from a variety of industries, specializing in conversion optimization, paid acquisition and email marketing.

Before StoreHub, she cofounded Watch Over Me, a personal safety service (acquired by Carousell in 2016) used by 300,000+ women around the world.

Graham Hawkins

CEO & Founder at SalesTribe

Graham Hawkins is an award winning B2B sales leader (LinkedIn Top Voice 2018) with a contemporary view on how ‘sales’ must align to the new customer-led era.

He is the founder & CEO of SalesTribe, and he has spent the past 5 years researching and writing two books on the dramatic changes now impacting the business world. Graham's 2nd book - "The Future of the Sales Profession" - is now an International Best Seller with its focus on the need for digital sales transformation.

When buyers change how they buy, sellers must also change how they sell and Graham’s acute understanding of these driving forces of change make him a highly sought-after key-note speaker.

Tim Soulo

Chief Marketing Officer at Ahrefs

Tim Soulo is the Chief Marketing Officer and Product advisor at Ahrefs (an industry leading SEO tool, powered by Big Data).

With almost 10 years of practical experience in SEO and digital marketing, Tim eagerly shares his knowledge by giving live talks at various digital marketing conferences around the world and publishing blog articles at Ahrefs Blog. He’s the author of many data-driven SEO research studies and a number of detailed marketing guides.

Katherine Ng

Head of Global Brand Marketing at Liquid

Katherine was part of the core team that successfully raised 350m Qash (the equivalent of 350k ETH or ~USD105m) in 2017, the largest ICO in Asia, to fund the growth of the Liquid platform. Today, Liquid is the world’s largest crypto-fiat platform by transaction volume, regulated in Japan.

Previously, Katherine was the Commercial Director at Luxola Indonesia (acquired by Sephora-LVMH), and Head of Marketing at GrabTaxi and GrabCar Indonesia (now known as Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride hailing app).

Before Grab, Katherine served in the CEO Office of AirAsia (Asia’s largest low-cost airline) for 4 years. She started her career as an investment banking analyst in ECM Libra Investment Bank.

Fannie Soubiele

ASEAN Startup Business Development at AWS

Fannie runs the Startup Business Development function for Amazon Web Services in ASEAN.

Working with startups, venture capital firms, accelerators & incubators, Fannie helps them with business and technology relationships within AWS. She also focuses on new programs and services aimed at helping startups grow their business.

Prior to this, she spent 4 years running the first South-East Asia accelerator, JFDI. She was the founder and CEO of several startups. She holds a Masters degree in Technopreneurship and Innovation.

Tien Tien Sin

Channel Lead, SEA,HK & KR at Zoom

Tien Tien leads the Channel Program in Zoom for South East Asia, Hong Kong, and South Korea, and was the first employee of Zoom in South East Asia.

Tien Tien has more than 15 years of experience in the collaboration industry and, prior to joining Zoom, spent the last 5 years leading the ASEAN business for one of the largest audio conferencing companies globally. She is extremely passionate about living up to the culture of Zoom, which is to “Deliver Happiness Around the World”.

Gabriel Lim

CEO & Founder at Saleswhale

Gabriel Lim is CEO and founder of Saleswhale, a Y Combinator-backed (S16) company.

Saleswhale -- whose customers include Fortune 500 and NYSE-listed companies -- raised over $10M to fulfil their vision of placing an AI assistant in every company.

Prior to Saleswhale, Gabriel was a self-taught software engineer who co-founded enterprise software development company, Getting Real Software, which delivered mobile and data analytics solutions for clients like Epson, Samsung, Zalora (Rocket Internet) and Hubert Burda Media.

Sammy Elazab

Head of Online Sales, Southeast Asia at LinkedIn

Sammy leads LinkedIn’s Online Sales organisation in Singapore and Malaysia and has built a reputation as an enthusiastic leader who regularly outperforms growth expectations

With over 15 years of experience in sales and account management across the UK and Singapore, Sammy is passionate about digital marketing and working with sales professionals to maximise their potential.

Kush Sagar

Commerce Platforms Lead at Facebook

Kush leads Facebook's B2B commerce platforms partnership across APAC. He has been with Facebook for over four and a half years, and has held various different roles in sales and partnerships.

Prior to Facebook, he held positions at Yahoo and Komli Media.

Mallory Fahy

Head of Client Solutions, Asia-Pacific at LinkedIn

Mallory is the regional leader of the Client Solutions team, working with clients to achieve their marketing objectives on LinkedIn.

Known for challenging the status quo, Mallory is a strategic leader with a track record of testing innovative service models to help drive scalable education and employee productivity. Prior to LinkedIn, Mallory worked in sales, account, and event management roles at Bizo and Red Bull.

HUBSPOT SPEAKERS

David Fallarme

Head of Marketing, Asia at HubSpot

David Fallarme leads marketing across Asia for HubSpot. He has successfully grown products across several industries. Prior to HubSpot, he led growth at a B2B SaaS company to multi 7-figures in annual revenue.

Madison Carmody

Senior Sales Manager, Asia at HubSpot

Madison leads HubSpot's sales team across Southeast Asia and India, and was one of HubSpot's first employees in Asia Pacific. She has built a reputation as one of the company's top performing salespeople and is a skilled leader and coach.

James Gilbert

Marketing Director, APAC at HubSpot

James leads the inbound movement in Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand with a mission of helping businesses grow better by transforming the way they market and sell to match the way modern humans want to buy.