From Twitch to Spotify: meet The Drum Digital Advertising Awards APAC 2020 jury

De Rijk is the head of S4Capital’s business in Asia Pacific. He was hired to lead the new-era company after standing at the helm of Xaxis and GroupM’s Asian business and expansion. With S4Capital, he champions a new model for the industry built around a unitary structure. De Rijk is responsible for developing the company’s fully integrated offering of data, media, and content across APAC markets.

Langenfeld is the APEX Regional Lead, APAC where he oversees the strategic development and execution of APEX activity across both digital and offline, with a direct responsibility for growth across the region. Prior to this, he was the Publicis Media precision lead for Singapore and Southeast Asia. With over 10 years of experience, he has a wealth of experience creating high performing teams, developing data driven strategies for clients and building operations teams locally and across the region.

Colley is responsible for supporting Wavemaker’s key clients in Asia-Pacific, with a focus on driving excellence across markets in this region. Her background is in international client leadership; she has held roles leading Wavemaker’s largest clients, such as Huawei, Colgate-Palmolive, AXA, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, SABMiller Europe, Tiffany & Co and VISA Europe.

Chamith Buthgumwa is the highest globally and locally awarded media planner in Sri Lanka. He's currently the director for Isobar & Response at the Dentsu Aegis Network. Formerly he served as the A/Director – digital strategy at GroupM. And to that, he was the head of digital for Team Unilever & Mindshare (2015 to 2017). Locally he has also won the only Effie Gold to date that was driven digitally and the only person to be a part of three Effie Gold winning teams among the 50+ global and local accolades he has bagged during his carrier to date.

Andrade, head of automation for Spotify, leads programmatic, data and self-serve for the company in the region. In this role, he is responsible for driving Spotify’s automation strategy across a network of global agency groups and direct advertisers as well as educate Spotify’s ad sales team on programmatic and data products. Andrade is a veteran in the industry with 14 years’ experience in mainstream advertising and digital sales across print, TV and digital publishers from start-ups to performance-based, social media, mobile networks and premium platforms.

Matthews is director of media and partnerships at Streamotion, an Australian digital B2C streaming and technology business. Streamotion is home to the ground-breaking sports streaming service, Kayo Sports. Matthews joined Streamotion in June 2018 and has 20 years’ experience in the digital marketing industry both domestically and internationally. Prior to this, he spent three years as group head of performance and media at APD in Singapore and before moving to Singapore, Matthews spent 12 years in Australia building DGM. A Performance Marketer by trade, Matthews is passionate about building great teams, delivering exceptional work and the development of people.

Hogan is the managing director of the Southeast Asia region, based in Singapore. He has thorough experience in launching new companies. Hogan was the first European employee at Integral Ads Science (IAS) where he successfully grew the team from one person to 60 people during his role as UK MD before moving to Singapore as SEA MD. As the first Ogury employee in APAC, Hogan has already hired teams in Singapore and Australia and expects to continue to grow during the rest of 2020.

Ford is the head of Asia-Pacific sales at Twitch. Steve joined the company in July 2015 as VP of Sales in Europe. Steve came from Reuters where he led sales for the EMEA region and previous to that, ran multimedia teams for the Daily Telegraph. Steve has built successful teams from the ground up, including operations, custom solutions, client services,and research. Focusing on creativity, innovation, and service, Steve has worked with major clients and agencies from around the world to deliver award-winning campaigns across multiple platforms.

Li is the CEO of OMD Asia Pacific. Leveraging over two decades of experience in fostering strong client partnerships, driving digital growth, evangelizing creativity and inspiring teams, Li leads a network of over 2,700 OMDers in 28 offices across 17 markets in Asia Pacific, managing upwards of $6 billion in marketing investments for many of the world’s most prolific brands, including Apple, McDonald’s, Nissan and Beiersdorf. Throughout his career, Stephen has established a reputation of delivering profitability, efficiency and building a culture of positive change within the industry. Today, he rallies OMDers across the network to ensure all of their efforts empower clients to make Better Decisions, Faster. A firm believer in sharing best practices and nurturing future talent within the industry, Stephen is a regular speaker and jury member at prominent regional and global industry events and awards platforms.

Sundararajan, VP of marketing and brand services – Southeast Asia Pacific, WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks, who oversees brands such as HBO, Cartoon Network and Warner TV.

Du is the managing director of Jellyfish Singapore. He has more than 15 years of experience on both the agency and client side of the business, implementing marketing technology and driving digital transformation programmes in Asia Pacific. His earlier roles include the heading of the Centre of digital excellence for Diageo APAC, leading digital acquisition for American Express, as well as being an instructor for digital marketing at the General Assembly. Today, he runs Jellyfish in Singapore, a global digital partner that offers clients a unique blend of agency services, technology, consultancy, and training to support their digital journeys and transformation. Jellyfish is also Google’s official training partner across US and EMEA, as well as their technology reseller.

Lewis-Meilus is currently the APAC head of media for GSK Consumer Healthcare. Much of his focus has been around driving digital adoption through functional deliveries. Prior to GSK, he worked as the global media lead for the McDonald’s. In this role, he managed a team of subject matter experts who worked to drive systemic improvements and transformation in the media space across strategy, attributable growth, effectiveness and efficiency. And before this he managed McDonald’s global digital engagement teams in Singapore and London overseeing Social, CRM, Merchandising, Marketing and Media and held agency roles in Singapore, London and New York.

Bjordal joined Zalora in 2014, and was the marketing and commercial director in Indonesia before moving to Malaysia in 2019, assuming the role of director of growth for the group. Prior to this, he was management consultant, strategy and operations at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC Norway) where he advised clients on large strategic transformation projects within retail, logistics & FMCG. He also developed a series of production simulation and activity based costing models to improve client profitability and productivity.

Shankar has 11 years of experience in the field of digital marketing and is currently working as group head of digital Marketing for AirAsia, he is responsible for digital marketing technologies and investments in Asia, before joining AirAsia Ravi worked in all sides of the industry (Advertiser, Publisher, Agency, Ad Tech) including tech giants like Google & Yahoo, his experience in data and product related functions enables him to bridge the gap between tech and commercial side of the organization.

Patel has over 15 years of experience in the digital industry with a focus on advertising technologies, mobile, e-commerce and programmatic advertising. She has been evangelising technology platform advertising in APAC since 2008. Patel has held various positions in tech advertising and went on to grow the International team of RightMedia Advertising-Exchange in Hong Kong and South-East Asia, which Yahoo acquired. She thereafter went on to build and grow Yahoo Audience Extension network (YAN) and then took a role with Google to manage the platforms business in South-East Asia and India. She grew AppNexus's advertising platform in APAC and then went to build scalable solutions and offerings for the Dentsu APAC team running all of programmatic in the region.

Quigley is the senior vice president, APAC at Integral Ad Science. She’s leading IAS’s regional expansion efforts as part of a larger global initiative taking place within IAS. Over the last decade, she has worked in driving digital transformation in Australia, New Zealand, EMEA and APAC having worked at companies such as Google, ZenithOptimedia among others. Quigley is an accomplished speaker and enjoys speaking and attending trade conferences to share her insights and is the regional board member, 2020 of the IAB SEA+India.

Rajendram has had over 15 years in marketing technology and has worked across many of the top tier platforms including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce CRM, Oracle, Adobe and IBM. She often consults with large enterprises across all industries, but as she has also founded and ran her own digital marketing agency in the past, she is able to relate and advise small to medium enterprises as well.