Deepak Chandran. Comedian

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1 Deepak Chandran Comedian Deepak Chandran is a regular headliner across South East Asia. He is an established host at Singapore s biggest night Comedy Masala. He has performed in Hong Kong, Melbourne, KL, Hyderabad, Delhi, Brunei, Bangkok. His achievements include: Finalist Hong Kong Comedy Festival 2016 Runner up Bangkok Comedy Festival 2017 Featured at Magners Comedy Festival 2018 Deepak performs for diverse crowds and does material that's global. His comedy is observational and written with the mindset of a programmer!

2 Panelists Profile Dave LIM TEDx Ambassador Founder TEDxSingapore Dave Lim is a polymath, provocateur, possibilist and pioneer. Since 1996, he has been founder of Coca-Cola Innovation X, a high tech VC in $z1b APAC fund that had invested in a small startup called Alibaba.com in 1999, global partnerships at Earth Hour-WWF HQ, central banker at MAS, educator, volunteer art tour guide, et. al. Dave is a TEDx Ambassador and founder of TEDxSingapore. Currently he is founding curator of the first Campus Party in Asia, a multi-disciplinary community that thrives on imagineering and inventing. He has studied at Singularity U, Stanford, Berkeley, UNSW and UBC. Dave's favourite quote is "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

3 Prof. Guido GIANASSO Associate Dean (Corporate Engagement and Relations) Nanyang Business School Prof. Gianasso is in charge of the Alumni and Career Development (Graduate and Undergraduate) Departments and teaches the Cultural Intelligence course at the MBA, EMBA, Nanyang Fellows, MSc in Human Capital Management as well as several executive programs. A leading expert in human resources and global leadership, Prof. Gianasso has over thirty years of management and teaching experience in the Education, Security, Aviation and Banking sectors as well as with the World Bank and United Nations. Dr. Gianasso is also the Honorary Consul of Romania in Geneva and a regular speaker at International HR conferences and corporate programs. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). A Swiss-Italian national, Dr. Gianasso holds a PhD in management and a DES in Law from the University of Geneva. He speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish and Romanian.

4 Prerna SURI International Broadcast Journalist Prerna Suri is an award-winning journalist who has worked with some of the best known newsrooms in the world - BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera English and Channel NewsAsia - gaining global TV recognition as a foreign correspondent and an in-studio presenter. In 2007, Prerna was the only woman foreign correspondent reporting from Darfur; in 2008, her report on the mismanagement of the surrogacy industry in India sparked a debate in parliament; in 2010 Prerna was the only foreign correspondent to report from India's Chattisgarh region. During her career, Prerna has reported on other defining historical moments,such as the Syrian refugee crisis; Sri Lanka's civil war; and various elections. She has interviewed several heads of states. Prerna gained her MSc. in Gender & Media Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her BA (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College for Women. She is a fellow at the Asian Forum on Global Governance, taking a close look at the Asian region and at the challenges facing the global community.

5 Ronan HURLEY Chief Operating Officer South East Asia, Sephora Ronan started his career as a tax consultant with Ernst & Young in the USA and also worked in their audit division. He relocated to Australia in 2007 to join PricewaterhouseCoopers, before being recruited by Macquarie, a leading Australianbased investment bank, where he spent three years as a Finance Manager within their Real Estate finance team. While living in Sydney, Ronan also operated a furniture restoration and home decoration business. In 2012, he joined Luxola as COO, where he was instrumental in the creation of the Luxola e-commerce platform, leading finance, logistics, legal, business intelligence, HR and customer service. Ronan was appointed as COO of Sephora South East Asia across both retail & digital businesses in early 2016 following the acquisition of Luxola by LVMH in Ronan is a certified public accountant (CPA, MA), has an MBA from INSEAD, and graduated cum laude with a BSc in Business Administration from Boston University.