Informatica Data Disruption Summit Singapore
SPEAKERS
 Murray Sargant Senior Vice President & GM, Asia Pacific and Japan Informatica |
Murray Sargant is the Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan at Informatica and is based in Hong Kong. In his role at Informatica, Mr. Sargant leads all business, sales and customer facing operations for the company in Asia Pacific and Japan. With 25 years senior executive experience in developing and growing businesses in Asian Pacific markets Mr. Sargant previously served as vice president, Asia Pacific and Japan for SuccessFactors, where he led the fast growing company’s rapid expansion throughout Asia. Prior to SuccessFactors, he was a senior vice president Financial Services at SAP, where he was instrumental in driving new sales and service delivery across Asia Pacific and Japan. Mr. Sargant has also held key executive and sales leaderships positions in the Asia Pacific, North Asia and Australia/New Zealand regions with PeopleSoft, Misys, Compaq, Tandem Computers and NCR. An active speaker/presenter in the Executive arena, Mr. Sargant regularly presents at conferences and is invited on many panel discussions with other experts in the enterprise and executive arena. Mr. Sargant holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Technology, Sydney Australia, and majored in Information Technology and Marketing. |
 Richard Ganley Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation Solutions Informatica |
Richard Ganley is Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation Solutions and based in Redwood City, California. Mr. Ganley has held a rich portfolio of roles with Informatica for the last 12 years in different parts of the world. Prior to taking on his current position, he led the Data Integration Business Unit Globally and he also ran the EMEA region for Informatica. Prior to joining Informatica, he had a strong financial background and qualified as an accountant before working with companies such as iAnywhere Solutions, NetGenesis, Inktomi Corporation and PwC. Every organization around the world is affected by a generational market disruption that is underway. We call this disruption Digital Transformation and Mr. Ganley is leading a team which focuses on the key areas where many of our customers begin or continue their Digital Transformation journey, namely Data Governance, Big Data Management, Master Data Management and Cloud/Hybrid. Mr. Ganley’s team plays an important role in helping Informatica to act as the champion of our customers’ intelligent disruption. |
 Sivadas Ramadas Managing Director – ASEAN Informatica |
Sivadas Ramadas is responsible for Informatica’s business operations in South East Asia. With over 20 years of IT industry sales, marketing and general management experience, he built high performance teams at HP, Autodesk, Sybase and SAP and delivered double-digit business growth. He strives to bridge the gap between IT and business, and define success for stakeholders. He holds an excellent track record in driving customer satisfaction ratings. |
 Vira Shanty Chief Data Officer Lippo Digital Group |
Responsible for the strategy, design, development and implementation of Big Data technology & use cases for the Lippo Group. Her team is responsible to consolidate Lippo multi industries data into centralized analytics platform and generate actionable insights, discover new revenue sources and driving product innovation from group data. Their next mission is delivering Big Data API and integrate it to Lippo Group touch point channels to improve their customer experience and for monetization. Lippo Group is a prominent conglomerate with significant investments in digital technologies, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality, media, IT, telecommunications, real estate, entertainment and retail. |
 Beat Schumacher Executive Director, Wealth Management UBS APAC |
Beat is an Executive Director at UBS with more than 20 years of experience in driving key technology initiatives for the bank. He recently managed the successful switchover for a large transformation program in Asia; largest that the private banking industry has seen in recent history. Beat started his career in Switzerland and has spent 8 out of the past 20 years of his career in Asia performing various roles that included rolling out of new CRM capabilities (Front office Market tools), architecting Digital Banking solutions amongst others. He is passionate about new technology and new way of solving problems. Beat lives with his family in Singapore and is married with 2 kids |
 Sena Periasamy Head of Analytics Cognizant |
A veteran in the ICT industry with more than 20 years of experience, Sena is responsible for leading Cognizant’s Business Analytics & Information Management business unit in the region. A results-driven executive, Sena has personally attended to countless challenges that Cognizant clients face over the years and, in the process, created innovative solutions that have helped them turn data into practical intelligence and actionable insights with a customer-centric core. Sena has also spearheaded many IT initiatives for Cognizant during his years of tenure with the company. These initiatives include strategizing and executing large, transformational and complex deliveries for clients across Europe, the United States and Asia. Prior to joining Cognizant, Sena has worked with various specialized analytical service providers in Europe and North America. He is a member of various data management and analytical forums, and is currently based in Singapore. |
 Poon Foong Ping Presales Manager- ASEAN Informatica |
Poon Foong Ping leads the technical presales team and supports the field sales team in ASEAN. In her 12 years with Informatica, she focused on enterprise solutions for Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance and Master Data Management. Ms. Poon has more than 20 years of IT industry experience and had taken on presales and product specialist roles at Informatica. Prior to joining Informatica, she was involved in a myriad of ERP and CRM projects in the capacity of a professional services consultant. Her clients span across various industries including manufacturing, financial services, public sector and telecommunications. |
 Kuldeep Venati Senior Consultant, Presales - ASEAN Informatica |
Kuldeep Venati focuses on Enterprise Data Management technologies including Data Integration, Data Quality, and Data Security. He has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics which cover solution design, delivery, implementation and support of enterprise data management initiatives across healthcare, financial services and high-tech industries. Mr. Venati continues to help enterprises choose the right technology and enable them to embrace new technology paradigms such as Cloud, Big Data, IoT, and Social Media, and combine them with their existing data assets to derive the maximum value. |
 Vinutkumar Shetty Senior Consultant, Presales - ASEAN Informatica |
Vinutkumar Shetty focuses on Big Data Integration, B2B Data Exchange, Unstructured Data Transformation, Data Quality and Metadata Management solutions. He has more than 5 years of experience in designing and developing Data Warehouses, Data Exchange platforms as well as customized solutions for clients from banking, telecommunications, healthcare, and public sector organisations. |
 Thomas Tham Partner Technical Manager, Malaysia Informatica |
Thomas Tham focuses on Enterprise Data Management technologies including Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Governance, Master Data Management and Cloud Data Management. He has total 11 years of IT industry experience and more than 9 years on solution design, implementation, support for Data Management, Cloud Data Services, Big Data Analytics across Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Financial services, Telecommunications industries. He also used to lead a Data Management team to support healthcare group based in EMEA region. |