Contributors

Sascha Giese

Sascha Giese is Head Geek at SolarWinds.

He holds various technical certifications, including being a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and Network Performance Monitor and Server & Application Monitor SolarWinds Certified Professional® (SCP). He has more than 10 years of technical IT experience, four of which have been as a senior pre-sales engineer at SolarWinds. As a senior pre-sales engineer, Sascha was responsible for product training SolarWinds channel partners and customers, regularly participated in the annual SolarWinds Partner Summit EMEA, and contributed in the company’s professional certification program, SolarWinds Certified Professional.

Serene Cai

Serene is the co-founder of Speedoc, one of the region's leading digital health startups. In 2020, Speedoc raised S$6.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Vertex Ventures; and in 2022, raised a further S$28 million in a pre-Series B funding to expand its virtual hospital programme.

During the pandemic, Speedoc was a key member in Singapore’s COVID-19 response providing telemedicine services, administering COVID-19 vaccinations and other nursing services to the housebound. As part of the efforts to uplift the healthcare landscape, Serene also worked with government and hospital partners to pilot and create the Hospital@Home virtual hospital service in Singapore. Speedoc has since discharged more than 4,000 patients successfully from its virtual hospital programme. Today, Serene leads a team of 200 in 3 countries and works on establishing Singapore’s digital health leadership in the region, with close to 200, 000 patients who have used Speedoc's services till date.

Shin Thant Aung

Shin is a Director in YCP Solidiance, with nearly 10 years of strategy consulting experience in the healthcare sector. He has worked with leading pharmaceutical firms, medical devices companies, and hospitals in APAC markets to support market entry, distributor search, M&A advisory, channel engagement and supporting government policies, and medical tourism. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Oxford Brookes University.

Stella Ramette

Stella Ramette is Director, Customer Relations and Sales, South East Asia for InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems. Based in Singapore, Stella leads the company’s South East Asian operations, providing local resources to a growing customer base and ensuring that InterSystems is responsive to their needs.

Stella has over 20 years of experience spanning healthcare IT, diagnostics, medical imaging, and medical technology. She has held positions in management, sales, marketing, and product management for established multinational corporations including Philips, Atos Medical, and Qualcomm as well as start-up companies. For most of her career, Stella has been based in Sweden, with roles covering the Nordic territories. Prior to relocating to Singapore in the first half of 2021, she also worked on weekends as a volunteer COVID-19 Vaccination Nurse in Malmö. 

Stella studied to become a Registered Nurse, specializing in operating theatre nursing, at Malmö University. She also holds a Master of Science and Business Administration from Lund University School of Economics and Management.

Stephen Sunderland

Stephen has 21 years of experience as a strategic advisor in Asia and Europe; he leads L.E.K.’s Healthcare and Life Science in SE Asia, based in Singapore.

He advises on organic growth investments as well as partnering and M&A situations, working with some of the largest and most complex multinational healthcare organizations in the world, publicly traded organizations and private equity investors, governments, industry advocacy bodies, and innovative startups.

His experience in healthcare spans international growth, business planning and opportunity evaluation, market access, as well as connected care and Healthcare IT.

Stephen joined L.E.K. in Europe and has supported L.E.K.’s growth in Asia since 2005. He holds a Master’s in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Suci Arumsari

Suci Arumsari (born in Jakarta, July 25, 1986) is a startup entrepreneur in Indonesia and Co-Founder / President Director of Alodokter, the number one online health care
provider available in website and mobile application - enabling patients to look for trusted health information, consult online with doctors, booking doctor appointment, buy
medicine online and get health insurance.

In 2014, Suci founded Alodokter after having difficulty getting medically accurate health information about her spine injury. Starting from a website that provides trusted health information and articles from medical experts, Alodokter additionally builds mobile applications that provide other services to ensure Indonesians have easy affordable access to trusted health service. In 2019, Alodokter also launched Alomedika, a platform for doctors to update medical knowledge and take online exams to apply for a Medical Professional Credit Unit.

Susan Fanning

Susan Fanning has 25 years’ experience of commercial leadership in Healthcare and Financial Services in Europe, Asia and Africa. She was named in the Medika Life 2022 Top 30 Women Transforming Healthcare as an influential voice changing health for the better. 

Susan has worked in start-ups as well as big corporates and is a passionate advocate for better collaboration and use of data, to make healthcare more inclusive, accessible and affordable. 

Susan is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and has an MBA from INSEAD.

Tim Charlton

Tim Charlton is the CEO of the Charlton Media Group, a leading business to business publisher based in Singapore that publishes titles including the Singapore Business Review, Hong Kong Business, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting+ and Asian Telecom. These publications cover a wide range of business issues facing executives and leaders in Asia.

Mr. Charlton oversees the editorial direction of these brands in both print, online, conferences, and events and takes a deep interest in the economics and business activities taking place in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to founding Charlton Media Group in 2001, he worked in Hong Kong for News corporation, at Star television and the South China Morning Post. He holds a Graduate and Certificate and Management from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.

Vincent Goh

Vincent Goh is Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan at CyberArk. Goh leads the sales, pre-sales and channels teams, and is responsible for driving CyberArk’s growing customer base and channels across the region.

Prior to joining CyberArk, Goh was Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan for RSA, the Security Division of EMC for more than five years. In addition to accelerating growth for the various business portfolios within RSA, he chartered the transformation of RSA from an authentication-focused business to an intelligence-driven-security provider in Asia Pacific & Japan.

Goh has more than 20 years of IT industry and sales experience helping grow companies including EMC, AST, Dell and Iomega.

Goh was also a member of the Republic of Singapore Airforce. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology from the National University of Ireland, Dublin and an executive certificate in Management and Leadership from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

Vinh Le