Claus Mortensen
Principal, ETAS, Digital Marketplace & New Media, IDC Asia/Pacific
IDC

Claus Mortensen is the Principal for IDC's Emerging Technology Advisory Services - including the Digital Marketplace & New Media program. He is based in IDC's Asia/Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

As a founding member of IDC's Emerging Technologies Council, Claus' main focus is to identify 'The Next Big Thing' in the ITC space as well as explore the impact of Web 2.0 and New Media in the Asian Digital Marketplace.

Claus was previously Research Manager in IDC's Asia/Pacific Telecommunications research program with more than 8 years of experience in the area.

Prior to joining IDC, Claus had extensive telecom research experience working as an analyst for Informa Telecoms Group in London and subsequently in Hong Kong, covering mobile telecoms in Europe and Asia. He also worked on and led various projects covering mobile data usage in Europe, mobile handset production and reverse logistics in China and Mobile Number Portability around the world.

Before becoming a telecoms analyst, Claus was a Legal Officer with the Danish telecoms regulator where he was in charge of the Danish public tenders for two TETRA radio networks and consulted on 2G and 3G tenders and auctions. He also worked on Danish and European Union regulatory reforms representing Denmark in European Union and ITU meetings.

Claus is often quoted in regional and local publications like Reuters, The Deal and Hong Kong and Singapore newspapers. He has also appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.

Claus holds a Master's degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Toa Charm
Founder and Chairperson, BI Special Interest Division, Hong Kong Computer Society
Regional Head of Business Intelligence Competency Centre, Asia Pacific, HSBC

Mr. Toa Charm ('Toa' in short) has over 20 years of management, marketing and consulting experience in the information technology industry. Currently, Toa is the Regional Head of Business Intelligence Competence Centre (BICC), Asia Pacific, HSBC. His mission is to empower HSBC Asia Pacific to compete and operate effectively with world-class business intelligence best practices and transform the company into a data-driven enterprise.

Before joining HSBC, Toa was the General Manager of Oracle Business Intelligence where he managed the business intelligence solutions business and operations in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan for Oracle. Before joining Oracle, he was the General Manager of Kingdee Software Asia Pacific. Before joining Kingdee, he was the Managing Director of Hyperion Solutions Greater China. Toa also worked for Jardine Pacific and a few major US-based software companies in various management, marketing and consulting positions.

Toa actively serves the Hong Kong, China and Asia Pacific commuies through participating major business, IT and academic associations in these regions. He is the founder and present Chairperson of the Business Intelligence Special Interest Division (BISID) of the Hong Kong Computer Society. In addition, Toa is an Honorable Advisor of Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Department of Computing, an advisor of the Hong Kong Computer Society - Industry Policy Advisory Group, an Honorable Advisor of The University of Hong Kong - the External Advisory Board of Information Systems Association and an Honorary Associate of Hong Kong Baptist University - the School of Business. Toa often shares his management experiences with senior executives in Hong Kong, China and the US through seminars, conferences and executive training programs. Toa served the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (China Trade Advisory Board) as an appointed advisor from 2005 to 2008.

Toa possesses a M.A. degree in Business Administration and B.Sc. degree in Computer Science. He is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Business Administration (DBA) at the City University of Hong Kong and his research area is Business Intelligence. Toa completed a Senior Executive program in the HAAS School of Business of the University of California at Berkeley in the US and a Strategic Human Resources Management program of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in China. He is a Certified Business Intelligence Professional (CBIP) granted by the Institute of Data Warehousing (TDWI) in the US.

Avi Raju
Director, Asia Head of IT
Savills (HK) Property Firm

Avi Raju has over 14 years experience working in the IT industry including over 9 years with the Savills group of companies in the Asia Pacific region. He began his career working in implementation of MIS systems for manufacturing and service related industries.

He started with the Savills Group of companies working for Byvan (property management arm of Savills Australia) being involved in development and maintenance of various in-house IT systems.

He transferred to the Savills Hong Kong office in November 2001 and became involved in analysing, designing and developing Savills MIS systems for the Savills group of companies in the Asia Pacific region.

In February 2004, he was promoted to the role of Director and is currently responsible for overseeing all MIS projects in the Asian region.

Education/Professional Affiliation
Master of Business Administration Richard Ivey School of Business
Bachelor of Commerce University of Auckland

Edison Sam
Director, Information Technology
New York Life Insurance Worldwide Ltd.

Edison joined New York Life Insurance Worldwide Limited in January 2009 as Director of Information Technology to oversee all IT functions in Hong Kong region. He is also a member of the Technology Advisory Committee of the International Group for setting the IT strategy worldwide. Prior to joining New York Life, Edison was the the head of Life Application Services for Sun Life Financial in Hong Kong and serviced as a Regional Manager in ING Asia/Pacific.

Edison holds a Bachelor degree in Communications and Information Science from University of Technology, Sydney and a MBA from University of South Australia.

Edward Scheckler
Global Head of Infrastructure Information Technology
CLSA

Edward W. Scheckler is currently Global Head of IT Infrastructure at CLSA, Ltd., an Asian equity focused brokerage and investment group headquartered in Hong Kong. CLSA has institutional clients around the world and offices in over a dozen Asian locations, as well as New York, London and Dubai.

Mr. Scheckler has 18 years experience in the Asia Pacific region having held senior IT roles including Asia Pacific head of Technology Infrastructure at Credit Suisse and Japan Region Head of Technology Infrastructure at Citigroup.

Mr. Scheckler holds M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California Berkeley, and B.S.E.E. and B.A. degrees from the University of Notre Dame. He has also published several articles and book chapters in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing, nanotechnology, and on his experiences working in a Japanese company.

Joe Locandro
Director, Group Information Technology
CLP Power

Joe Locandro is Director - Group Information Technology and is responsible for the formulation and execution of the CLP Group IT strategy throughout the region. CLP is one of the largest investor-owned power businesses in the Asia-Pacific electric power sector.

CLP operates a vertically integrated electricity supply business in Hong Kong. Outside Hong Kong, CLP is the largest external investor in the Chinese mainland electricity industry, and a leading international private sector power company in the Asia-Pacific region with an integrated energy business in Australia and interests in generating assets in India, Taiwan and Thailand.

In his role, Locandro drives IT synergy across CLP Group's investments and ensures that IT is aligned with the current and future business needs of CLP throughout the region.

His key focus areas include strategic systems development, Group IT strategy and policy formulation, IT infrastructure, and developing initiatives that are critical to enhancing the Group's overall performance.

A veteran in IT management, consulting and marketing, Locandro's career includes positions with a number of international blue-chip organisations. Locandro has held a variety of Chief Information Officer positions in various industry sectors from energy to entertainment. He joined the utility sector in 2002, as Chief Information Officer for Yallourn Energy - Auspower Ltd in Australia until he joined CLP in May 2004.

A native of Australia, Locandro has spent most of his working life in Melbourne with various secondments overseas in Europe and North America. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Commerce from Melbourne University, Graduate Diploma in Marketing from Monash University and Strategic Application of Information Technology from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Kevin Tsang
Regional IT Director - Asia
Cookson Electronics Limited - Enthone

Kevin joined Cookson Electronic in May 2008 as Regional IT Director to oversee Asia including strategic IT planning to execution. He also holds full accountability in infrastructure and applications development and support in the region.

Before joining Cookson Electronics, Kevin holds various positions in various industries, including Manufacturing, Security Equipment, Exhibition, Elevator Engineering, Entertainment, Business Consulting, Wines & Spirits and IT Consulting.

With over 20 years experience in the IT industries, Kevin possesses exceptional skills in implementation of teams and systems to provide business solutions, which increase operational efficiencies and management information effectiveness to deliver bottom-line results through effective planning, design, development, implementation and execution of systems to reduce or save costs.

Kevin holds a Master degree of Management in Macquarie University, Australia.

Mark Ross
Vice-President and Chief Information Officer
Sun Life Financial Asia

Mark joined Sun Life Financial Asia in September 2007 to oversee all IT development and support in the Asia region. He is also responsible for setting the IT strategy for the region and for ensuring the success of all IT investments. Mark joined SLF Asia from Thomson Financial in London, where he was Chief Architect for Europe and Asia.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University.

Michael K.M. Leung
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer
China Construction Bank (Asia)

Michael Leung was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Bank of America (Asia) in March 2000. In this capacity, he manages the Bank's IT function in its entirety, including business systems design and development, project management, as well as production systems support and data center operations. In addition, Mr Leung is also in charge of operations planning, product services and corporate administration departments of the Bank.

Mr Leung has over 28 years' local and international experience in information technology, specializing in the banking and finance industry. Before joining Bank of America (Asia), he was a senior manager at Standard Chartered Bank, overseeing service delivery systems as well as acquisition & merger activities for its Consumer Banking division in the Asia Pacific region. Previously, Mr Leung was the head of the Business Research and Development department at the Dao Heng Bank, responsible for developing new business models and distribution channels for retail banking products and services.

Prior to his banking assignments, Mr Leung was a managing consultant at IBM Consulting Group and Price Waterhouse Management Consulting Services in Hong Kong and Australia. Immediately after his post-graduate study in Holland, Mr Leung spent nearly 10 years with the Dutch Philips Telecommunications and Data Systems, involving in the development and pre-sales support of banking terminals and transactions processing systems.

Mr Leung holds a Master degree in Engineering from The Netherlands Universities Foundation and a Bachelor of Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In his over two decades of professional career, Mr Leung has attended executive training at London Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, an honor diploma from Graduate School of Retail Bank Management of University of Virginia, among others. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society and member of several professional bodies, and a seasoned speaker on a range of business and IT topics in regional conferences.

Pack Ling
CIO, Greater China
GE China

Pack Ling has assumed the Chief Information Officer of General Electric (GE) China since Jul 2006. He directs the IT strategies of the company and leads the IT function of over 200 professionals and 800 outsource engineers in Greater China region.

Pack joined GE in July 1996 as a management trainee of Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP). He led 5 office relocation projects and established the Asia-wide shared email server during his trainee time. Upon his graduation from program, Pack accepted the role as Asia IT Project Leader in GE Capital where he got an achievement award for his contribution to a few business acquisition projects in Asia.

In Jan 2000, he was promoted to lead dual regional roles - Asia IMLP Program Manager and Asia End-User Computing (EUC) Leader. In 2 years time, he grew the trainee program from 40 to over 100 members while he outsourced the whole Asia EUC operation to external vendors. In 2002, he was named as the Asia Pole Leader of Corporate Information Service Department, leading an operation to provide IT shared services for over 50,000 employees in Asia. He had implemented multiple IT solutions in the region including Oracle Financial, electronic travel claim and electronic leave systems. He had also outsourced the regional Payroll platform and established IT Security Council for Asia in this role.

Pack received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Hong Kong in 1996, M.A. in Chinese Politics from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005.

Peter Bullock
Partner
Pinsent Masons

Peter Bullock is a Partner with international law firm Pinsent Masons. Peter's background is in risk management and litigation, for clients in the IT and telecommunications sectors. He has acted in numerous disputes for hardware manufacturers, suppliers of software systems, government bodies using IT systems and in relation to outsourcing.
In recent years, his practice has involved a wide range of technology work, from IT infrastructure procurements to EDI and e-commerce related projects.
He now leads Pinsent Masons Outsourcing, Technology and Commercial practice in Asia Pacific. His team also deals with IT mergers and acquisition, data privacy, licensing and all aspects of intellectual property, and has a Vietnam capability.
With a wide network of offices and associates in Europe, the Americas and the Far East, including its association with Salans, Pinsent Masons is one of the leading legal advisers to the Technology, Construction & Engineering, Infrastructure and Energy sectors.

Sunny Chan
Regional IT Director, Asia Pacific
LVMH Asia Pacific Limited

Sunny Chan is the Regional IT Director - Asia Pacific of LVMH Asia Pacific Limited. He is responsible for leading the Group's IT organization in Asia Pacific, managing the Group's common IT infrastructure and defining the Group's IT strategy for Asia Pacific. Sunny has 20 years experience in IT and Communication industry. He had worked for several local/international vendors and enterprises, including HP Consulting, Wharf T&T and Ericsson. In his current and previous jobs, Sunny had worked on different roles including consulting for enterprise customers and in-house IT management. He had also led many major IT projects in different areas, for example, VOIP projects, corporate network implementation projects and e-application development projects.

Sunny graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor Degree in Electronics Engineering. After graduation, Sunny started his career in Canada as a software engineer and then continued his work in Hong Kong. Then he has held several positions in different international vendors and enterprises in HK, including Regional IT Manager, Consulting Team Manager and Solution Team Manager. Sunny also has a MBA Degree from the University of Strathclyde.

Sunny is the member of several professional associations. He is a Professional Engineer of Canada, a Chartered Engineer of IET UK, and a full member of Hong Kong Computer Society.

Sunny W K Lee
Executive Director, Information Technology
The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Mr Sunny W K Lee joined The Hong Kong Jockey Club as Executive Director, Information Technology in July 2006. Mr Lee heads a team of over 430 IT professionals, to provide innovative technology solutions that contribute significantly to the Club's mission and strategic objectives.

Mr Lee has extensive IT experience gained in both Hong Kong and overseas. Prior to joining the Jockey Club, he spent 10 years at the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) where he was an Executive Committee Member and held a number of key positions at the Company, including Chief Information Officer of the Group and Chief Executive Officer of two strategic diversification businesses, iCare.com Limited and Towngas Telecommunications Company Limited.

Between 1990 to 1996, Mr Lee was Vice President and Systems Director of the Bank of America in Hong Kong, where he played a key role in building up IT capabilities to support the Bank!|s business expansion in Asia. He has also previously held key IT positions in the financial, management consulting and manufacturing industries in the USA.

Mr Lee takes time to serve in many high level advisory committees in the academic, professional and community arena, and is currently President of the Hong Kong Computer Society as well as a member of the Hong Kong SAR Digital 21 Advisory Committee. In 1999, he was a recipient of Hong Kong!|s Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons Award for his contributions to IT. He has received two CIO Awards from CIO Asia Magazine, the first in 2002 and again in 2007 for the Club!|s Veterinary Management Information System. Mr Lee is also a recipient of the 2007 China Top CIO Award, awarded by CEOCIO China Magazine and IDC (China).

Susan Poon
IT Director
Rockwell Automation

Susan Poon is IT Director of Rockwell Automation where she is responsible for Rockwell Automation's Asia Pacific Information Technology organization. Rockwell's Asia Pacific IT team deliver business value by providing IT services in system and infrastructure support, applications development, and solutions delivery that enable the region's growth and transformation. Previously, Susan held several positions including Asia Pacific IT Director, Lucent Technologies and Senior IT Manager, International Network Services.

Wart Teao Phoon
Sr. IT Director
Philips IT Infrastructure

1. Joined Philips Electronics Sinagpore in 1999 and for the past 10 years assumed various regional IT Management position in the APAC region in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

a. Head of IT Greater China Cluster (2009 - present) Philips China Investment Ltd. (Shanghai)
b. Regional Operation Sr Director, APAC Region (2007 - 2009) Philips China Investment Ltd. (Shanghai)
c. Regional IT Services Director - Philips Electronics Hong Kong Ltd. Period (2002 - 2007). (Hong Kong)
d. Regional IT Manager - Philips Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd. Period (1999 - 2002). (Singapore)

2. Instrumental in the transformation of Philips IT Organisation in APAC region from a in-house IT to a Share Services Organisation and now fully outsourced IT services Organisation.

Educational Background

1. MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management. Period (2000 - 2003).
2. MSC from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. Period (1994 - 1998).
3. BSC (2nd class upper honours) from National University of Singapore (1990 - 1991).
4. BSC (Computer and Information system) from National University of Singapore (1987 - 1990).

William Yin
Managing Director
Boston Consulting Group

William Yin is a Partner and Managing Director of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and is based in the Hong Kong office. He leads our IT practice in Greater China and focuses on the Financial Services industry.

Prior to joining BCG, Mr. Yin worked for A.T. Kearney for 10 years where he was the General Manager of the Hong Kong office and also lead the Financial Services and IT practice in Greater China. In this role, he was successful in executing numerous strategic IT projects for leading Chinese banks. Before joining A.T. Kearney, William worked for EDS for 5 years in the UK and in North America.

William holds a Masters degree in Information Technology from University College London and a Bachelors degree in Physics from King's College London.

Charles Cheng
Director of Product Marketing, China Business Unit
Trend Micro

Charles Cheng has been with Trend Micro since June 2000 and has worked in a number of different roles, as software engineer, architect, and manager. As an engineering contributor, he was deeply involved with the design and development of a wide range of enterprise-class security products from Trend Micro. Before coming to Asia to take on new business responsibilities, Charles was Global Senior Director of Product Development for Enterprise Business Unit within Trend Micro and was responsible for managing R&D teams located in Cupertino, Nanjing, and Taipei.

Before joining Trend Micro, Charles had worked on developing high-throughput automation and data analysis systems for the global Human Genome Project to produce a complete DNA sequence of the human genome. Charles also co-founded a Boston area software startup developing online educational software, and was also involved in the development of the market-leading object database system, in addition to working as a consultant to several pharmaceutical and software companies.

Charles is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received dual Bachelor's Degrees in biology and in computer science, and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Chris Chau
ANG, Systems Engineer
Citrix Systems HK Ltd

Chris Chau is the System Engineer of Citrix Systems in the Greater China Region. He is responsible for providing the presales technical support and consultation to customers and partners, in the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan areas. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering and has 10 years of experiences in the Information Technologies Industry, especially in the networking and security domains.

Prior to joining Citrix, he worked for several IT solutions distributors and system integrators, covering all kinds of pre-sales, post-sales and even product marketing activities. He had not only worked with partners for channel development, but also served different kinds of customers, like government departments, public utilities, educational institutions, banking and financial institutions, SMEs, etc. These experiences provided him opportunities to expose to different technologies and environments, resulting in several professional certifications from different vendors.

CK Lam
Enterprise Solutions Manager APAC
Juniper Networks

Based in Singapore, CK manages the Juniper Networks Enterprise Solutions for Asia-Pacific and is responsible for evangelizing leading-edge solutions including the Data Center and Security solutions to enterprise customers and partners in the region.

CK was most recently with IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) as an Advisory Sales Specialist for network infrastructure, network security and data centre solutions. Prior to that, he spent five years as a Technical Marketing Engineer for Intel's Network Products Division covering the APAC region and supporting the product managers for switches, routers, SSL accelerators and Server Load Balancers. He also held various technical positions in Novell and Singapore Computer Systems before that.

CK has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, covering technologies from network solutions, security solutions to wireless solutions.

David Ely
Director of Product Management, Data Center Solutions
Novell

Joining the Novell team through the PlateSpin acquisition in 2008, David brings over 6 years of experience with Workload Management Solutions. He is currently responsible for products in Novell's data center portfolio.

David Hooper
Information Worker Business Group Lead
Microsoft Hong Kong and Macau

David has over 20 years of experience in the high technology software and telecoms market having spent the last 15 years at Microsoft holding a number of senior roles in direct sales, channel development, audience and product marketing across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa and more recently in Hong Kong.

David leads a team responsible for the successful adoption of Microsoft's Information Worker products and solutions including Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Office Communication Server across all customers segments and across all delivery models including new Online Cloud Computing services based on Software + Service. These Microsoft solutions range from Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search to Collaborative Unified Communications and Business Intelligence.

During his career David has also been responsible for the successful adoption of new Microsoft technology including Windows Mobile from its very first beginnings to a market leading mobile platform providing rich mobility solutions.

David has a BSc in Electrical Electronic Engineering and a Masters in Strategic Marketing from Henley Management School. During his spare time he is an avid Kite Surfer and Basketball player.

Matt Wang, Ph.D.
Vice President
IBM

Dr. Wang is Vice President of China Development Laboratories (CDL). In addition to, the responsibility as the head of North Asia Pacific development lab cluster which includes China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, he leads over 5000 software engineers and architects in Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei, building IBM middleware products (WebSphere, Lotus, Information Management, Tivoli and Rational) and providing leading edge industry solutions to enable customer success.

In his previous role, Dr. Wang was Vice President of Technical Sales and Services, IBM Software Group Asia Pacific, leading a team over 2000 IT Specialists and Architects to provide technical solutions based on IBM middleware products. Before he came to Asia Pacific, Dr. Wang was a Director of Silicon Valley Lab where he led High Performance On-Demand Solutions (HiPODS) organization.

Dr. Wang has a broad experience inside IBM. Before he joined Software Group, he was in IBM Research as Executive Assistant to Senior Vice President of Research Worldwide. He was responsible for Technical Team studies on several strategic corporate directions and led an Innovation Frontiers task force for National Innovation Initiative sponsored by the U.S. President. His other contributions are in the areas of On-Demand Innovation Services, Global Technology Outlook, and Emerging Business Opportunities for IBM and Global IT industry. Before that, Dr. Wang was a Certified Senior Project Executive in IBM Global Services managing multi-billion dollar accounts in Process Petroleum, Automotive, and Electronic Industries. Before that, he was Chief Architect in charge of Global Supply Chain for IBM Personal System Group.

Dr. Wang holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from George Washington.

Stephen Morse
Senior Director, Sales Engineering, Asia Pacific
salesforce.com

Stephen Morse runs the Asia Pacific solution-sales organization for Salesforce.com, which is focused around ensuring customer success with Salesforce's award-winning Software-as-a-Service products to many of its 67,900 customers worldwide. Stephen is a visionary that works extensively to capture key customer requirements, drive product innovation, and evangelize the transformation that Software-as-a-Service is having on client relationships and IT platforms. Stephen brings over 16 years of experience in the Enterprise Software industry and 1 year with Salesforce, leveraging his strong dept

Toon Chwee, Wee
Chief System Consultant
Vmware

Mr Wee Toon Chwee has over 10 years of professional experience in information technology, including Information Security, System Network, Application Integration, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Server virtualization.

As Chief System Consultant, Toon Chwee is responsible for providing pre-sales technical support to the Enterprise Account Manager, handling major accounts in the Hong Kong territory. He also provides technical assistance for local marketing events. He has also obtained the Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) and VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification.

Prior to joining VMware, Toon Chwee was a pre-sales Consultant at RSA Security, where he was involved in many major information security implementations in South Asia.