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Nick MartinMedallia, Inc.,a pioneer in customer and employee experience, announced the appointment of Nick Martin as Senior Vice President (SVP) International.

Based in London, Martin will lead Medallia’s commercial organization across EMEA and APAC, ensuring that Medallia continues to deliver valuable and tangible business outcomes for its clients.

Working collaboratively across the organization, he will be responsible for expanding Medallia’s customer base, growing existing customer relationships, and building up its partner network – an integral part of the organization’s future go-to-market strategy.

 

With a career spanning more than 25 years, Martin brings a wealth of experience to the role. He joined AWS, where he held the position of Head of Enterprise Industries. Before that, he was Head of Retail, CPG, and Travel Industries at Google Cloud. Throughout all his previous roles, he has focused on driving customer value and growth, breaking down internal barriers to drive business success, and delivering better outcomes – all within customer-focused organizations.

AIA Singapore is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Irma Hadi Kusuma as Chief Marketing and Proposition Officer with effect from 1 December 2023 and Mr. Peter Lee as Chief Technology Officer with effect from 20 November 2023. Ms. Melita Teo, currently Chief Customer and Digital Officer will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer designate at AIA Philippines with effect from 1 December 2023.

Melita teo

Melita Teo, CEO designate at AIA Philippines

Having been with AIA Singapore for over 22 years, Melita brings with her a wealth of experience and proven expertise to her new role as Chief Executive Officer at AIA Philippines. In her most recent role as Chief Customer and Digital Officer, Melita was instrumental in strengthening the Customer, Brand, Health, and Wellness propositions of AIA Singapore. Under her leadership, the enterprise-wide analytics capabilities and usage were enhanced, and the delivery of an integrated digital experience across customers and distribution was accelerated.

 

Melita's successful track record at AIA Singapore, coupled with her deep understanding of customer needs and her expertise in operations, digital, and healthcare transformation, will undoubtedly contribute to the continued growth and success of AIA Philippines.

 

 

Irma Hadikusuma

Irma Hadikusuma, Chief Marketing and Proposition Officer, AIA Singapore

In her current role as Chief Product Proposition Officer, Irma has been instrumental in building innovative, customer-centric and numerous award-winning solutions for AIA Singapore. An accomplished veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, Irma was previously Regional Business Development Director with AIA Group, where she was instrumental in delivering key strategic agendas across multiple nascent and mature countries. Prior to that, she was Head of Product and Investment-linked Fund for AIA Singapore, playing a pivotal role in pioneering many first-in-market solutions as well as innovative long-term savings strategies for AIA Group.

Throughout her career, she has also held extensive leadership roles in actuarial pricing, valuation, digital marketing, customer segmentation, and business development in both local and regional capacities. Irma graduated with 1st class honors from Nanyang Technological University in Actuarial Science. She attained her actuarial fellowship early in her career and was awarded top international graduate by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK.

 

 

Peter Lee

Peter Lee, Chief Technology Officer, AIA Singapore

As AIA Singapore's newly appointed Chief Technology Officer, Peter will be responsible for developing and implementing world-class, cutting-edge technology strategies to realize AIA Singapore's vision and business priorities as a leading life insurer. He will focus on innovations to continually enhance customers' experiences with the company, ensuring that AIA Singapore's tech and digital solutions are aligned with Singapore's Smart Nation ambitions; and bolstering operational efficiencies and internal processes by developing a comprehensive technological advancement roadmap to transform the business.

Peter began his professional career at Accenture and brings a wealth of experience backed by a strong leadership track record in various country and regional leadership roles at New York Life, Zurich Insurance, and MetLife Insurance. He joins AIA Singapore from Malaysia where he was the Asian and African Markets General Manager, Group Operations, AXA. There, Peter led the IT shared services operations and digital transformation efforts in Asia and Africa.

Throughout his career which spans more than three decades, Peter has constantly expanded his skillsets and expertise across multiple disciplines such as Technology Strategic Planning, Business Process Improvement, Program and Change Management, Risk Management, Security, Application Development, Service Management, and Infrastructure Solutions (including Cloud) Management.Peter graduated from the prestigious Brown University with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Economics.

Simon NaishATFX a leading global online trading broker, announced the appointment of Simon Naish as the new Country Head for ATFX Australia.

With his exceptional expertise in the financial markets and extensive experience in building and growing offices, Simon is set to lead ATFX Australia to new heights.

With a strong background in FX trading, Simon brings his deep understanding of managing risks across global markets and a proven track record of successful team leadership. His ability to build a client base from scratch, leveraging his wide network of connections, will be a valuable asset in expanding ATFX's reach in the Australian market.

 

Simon has previously held prominent roles in leading financial institutions. His experience as the Head of Bank and Diversified Financial Institutions FX Sales, APAC at National Australia Bank Ltd., along with his role as a consultant to Macquarie University (Australian Financial Markets Association), has equipped him with a comprehensive knowledge of institutional client sales, foreign exchange, rates trading, and business transformation leveraging technology and data analysis.

ATFX has built a strong reputation as a trusted brokerage firm, dedicated to transparency, reliability, and innovation. Through its cutting-edge trading technology, clients gain access to a wealth of educational resources, advanced trading tools, and comprehensive market analysis, empowering them to make informed trading decisions.

 

AppointmentsYahooYahoo announced the appointment of Sona Iliffe-Moon as Chief Communications Officer

Iliffe-Moon brings over 20 years of experience leading strategic consumer, crisis, and corporate communications for iconic brands including Facebook, Instagram, Nestle, Toyota, and, most recently, Lyft.

Iliffe-Moon’s appointment follows several recent key hires including Tressie Lieberman as Chief Marketing Officer and Ryan Spoon as President of Yahoo Sports. She will guide all aspects of Yahoo’s global communications strategy, overseeing corporate, consumer, and internal communications. In this role, she will promote innovation across Yahoo’s products and demonstrate the brand’s evolution, leading end-to-end communications that help consumers, partners, and employees connect with Yahoo’s mission. Iliffe-Moon will partner closely with marketing to tell integrated stories at the intersection of earned and social.

 

Prior to joining Yahoo, Iliffe-Moon served as Vice President of Communications and a member of the executive leadership team at Lyft. She was responsible for communications across corporate, consumer, and policy as well as direct-to-consumer storytelling through brand social and content. Before joining Lyft, Iliffe-Moon’s experience spanned various industries. She previously drove communications at both Facebook and Instagram, launching key products and programs including Instagram’s IGTV, Instagram Stories, Facebook Dating, Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Communities Summit, and many more. She additionally oversaw communications across Nestlé’s beverage and international divisions and spent nearly nine years at Toyota driving corporate and marketing communications.

AppointmentsSigmoidSigmoid, a leading data engineering and AI consulting firm, today announced the appointment of Shankar Viswanathan as their Chief Commercial Officer.

Shankar will help Sigmoid's clients to leverage the power of data to win sustainably and transform businesses leveraging digitalization, analytics, and AI strategy.

Prior to this, Shankar was at Procter & Gamble for over three decades, where he held various key and strategic leadership roles across categories and brands. He has a proven track record of successfully leading end-to-end enterprise transformations, resulting in strong and sustained financial performance in diverse, developed, and emerging markets. He is one of the leaders who have leveraged the power of data and technology to deliver exceptional results.

Sigmoid, marking its 10-year anniversary this year, has been featured in the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ list of fastest-growing companies in North America for three consecutive years now. The strategic hires of advisors, deep domain experts and industry veterans have strengthened its position as a leading provider of data engineering and AI services.

AnnouncementsAZAsiaPacificAZ Asia-Pacific, a leading technical distributor in Cyber Security, announced a strategic partnership with Green Radar, a renowned email security vendor specializing in cutting-edge threat detection and prevention solutions.

Email security remains a paramount concern for businesses, with cyber threats becoming increasingly sophisticated. By teaming up with Green Radar, a recognized leader in the field, AZ Asia-Pacific aims to fortify its commitment to providing top-notch email security solutions to its clients.

Key benefits of this partnership include:

  • Advanced Email Security Solutions: Offering state-of-the-art email security solutions powered by Green Radar. These solutions are designed to effectively detect and prevent email-based threats such as phishing, malware, and ransomware.
  • Local Focused Threat Intelligence & Operations: Green Radar's threat intelligence capabilities are tuned to focus on different localities across ASEAN. It takes into account prevailing local threats, languages, brands, trends to derive tailored security and operation doctrines to tackle threats to local enterprises, empowering customers with real-time insights into emerging email threats.
  • Manned MDR SOC: Email threats, along with client needs, are always evolving. Manned SOC actively monitors, carries out threat assessments and implements countermeasures.
  • Big Data and AIDAR: The learning platform AIDAR (AI Detection & Response) continuously refine its capture accuracy with live legitimate and malevolent email data. As such it is able to assess email threats based on its characters, allowing the platform to flag out malevolent emails based on refined differences.

AnnouncementsAltairAltair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), acquired OmniQuest.

OmniQuest's flagship product, Genesis, is an advanced structural analysis and optimization software that uses the finite element method to solve problems with many variables and constraints. Genesis's analysis capabilities include static, normal modes, direct and modal frequency analysis, random response, heat transfer, system buckling calculations, acoustics, and fatigue analysis. Its structural optimization types include sizing, shape, topology, topometry, topography and freeform optimization. Genesis also supports equivalent static load method (ESLM) for highly nonlinear structural behaviors, interfacing with popular third-party finite-element analysis (FEA) solvers.

OmniQuest founder, Professor Vanderplaats, was a founding father of practical structural and multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). His contributions to vision, theory, and practical applications of MDO and structural optimization are significant, and his early contributions include the modified method of feasible directions algorithm, which became very popular in the structural optimization field by his own code CONMIN (constrained minimization). This code is embedded in many programs and remains among the best in the world today. In the late 1980's he left behind a legendary academic career as a tenured professor at UC Santa Barbara to found Vanderplaats Research & Development (later renamed OmniQuest) and served as chief executive officer and chairman until his passing.