Contributors

Duncan Edwards and Chris Feret

Duncan Edwards is Executive Director at Ernst & Young, Singapore.

Chris Feret is Manager at Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd.

 

Edge Zarrella

Edge Zarrella is a Clients and Innovation Partner at KPMG. He has 20 years experience in Advisory specializing in Business and IT Strategy.

Egidio Zarrella

Egidio Zarrella is a Clients and Innovation Partner at KPMG Advisory.
 

Eiichiro Yanagawa

Eiichiro Yanagawa is a senior analyst with Celent's Asian Financial Services group and is based in the firm’s Tokyo office. His research focuses on IT strategy issues in the Japanese and Asian banking and financial industries.

Eilert Giertsen Hanoa

Eilert Giertsen Hanoa is the Chief Executive Officer at Kahoot!. He was the first (active) Kahoot! investor and served as Chairman of the Board in 2014-2019.

Hanoa is the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of ERP software company Mamut (delisted from OSE when acquired by Visma in 2011), and Director SMB ERP in Visma from 2011-2018. He is also a board member of Dagens Næringsliv AS and Gyldendal ASA and investor in several start-ups. He has studied management and finance studies at BI Norwegian Business School.

Emanuel Hiou

Emanuel Hiou is a Partner on Financial Services Taxation at Deloitte Australia.

Emma Charnock

Emma Charnock is the Regional Director in Hong Kong and China for Hays. 

Emma Charnock, Chris Mead and Christine Wright

Emma Charnock is the Regional Director of Hays in Hong Kong and China.

Chris Mead is the General Manager of Hays Singapore.

Christine Wright is the Managing Director of Hays Japan.

Emma Scales

Emma Scales is Managing Director for Publicis Sapient in ASEAN. She is a member of the Publicis Sapient Global Leadership Team and her role is to drive growth in ASEAN.

Based in Sydney, Australia, Emma has been with Publicis Sapient since 2007, and brings with her over two decades of experience across three continents leading teams, driving growth and delivering transformative change for clients, teams and businesses.

With her people-oriented expertise and growth mindset, Emma has led global, regional, and country-level change initiatives that affect 10,000’s of people. She has also partnered with executives across markets and industries to pivot their APAC businesses towards a global strategy, or to navigate through disruptive transformation in their local context.

Emma is passionate about financial inclusion and the role governments, financial institutions, and consultancies can play in supporting a brighter financial future for the people in ASEAN. 

Prior to her current role as Managing Director, ASEAN, Emma was the People Strategy Lead for Asia Pacific where she worked with the leadership team to define a strategy that truly reflected the organisation’s ambition. She was also previously the Global Lead for Talent and Learning for SapientNitro while based in London, United Kingdom.

Erich Gerber

An experienced senior executive with over 25 years in the information technology industry, Erich Gerber is responsible for TIBCO Software’s business across international markets, which consist of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Erich has wide experience covering global markets, direct and indirect sales, as well as Infrastructure and BI software. Having led various organisations in senior leadership positions with American- and German-driven company structures, Erich is an adept and adaptable leader with a keen focus on developing global customer relationships and bringing to market timely solutions that deliver value.

With his extensive experience and track record for overachievement, Erich has built teams that have delivered significant growth by fine-tuning business operations and successfully managing profitability.

Having joined TIBCO Software in 2009 as the Regional Vice President for the Central and Eastern European, and Nordics region, Erich doubled the licensing revenue for the markets under his purview between the financial years of 2009 and 2012. Under his stewardship, the total revenue of these markets had also increased by 75%, which constituted approximately 10% of the company’s overall revenue.

In late 2014, Erich was appointed as the Vice President for Global Sales Operations at TIBCO Software’s headquarters in Palo Alto, US, where he spearheaded the company’s transformation initiatives, in addition to his global revenue and sales responsibilities.

Erich then continued the journey as the General Manager for Asia Pacific Japan in 2016 where he led the sales function by executing a strategic go-to-market plan that fosters deeper customer engagements, strengthens partnerships, and builds a greater network of alliances in the region.

Prior to TIBCO Software, Erich was the Senior Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) at WebGain and the Vice President for EMEA Operations at BEA Systems, subsequently acquired by Oracle.

Erich has a Bachelor’s degree in Management from BPIH, Switzerland and a Master’s degree in Marketing from the Swiss Federal Institute.

 He is married, a father of two, and is a sports and fitness enthusiast who engages in skiing, as well as cycling, in his spare time.