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Paul Srivorakul
Group Chief Executive Officer
Paul is a Thai-American executive, board director, investor, and entrepreneur who has successfully built and exited internet companies in Southeast Asia over the last 20 years. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Ardent Capital, a $20 million early-stage fund and venture builder focused on Southeast Asia. He was the founder and ex-CEO of Ensogo Group (acquired by LivingSocial) as well as the founder and ex-CEO of DMS Group, New Media (acquired by STW Group), Admax Network (acquired by Komli Media). He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and started his career in sales at Ask Jeeves Inc. (ask.com) in the United States.
Luca Altomare
Group Chief Operating Officer
Luca has 16 years of experience working in Asia where he spent 7 years as the SVP of Distribution at Li & Fung managing 800 staff and brands in consumer and healthcare categories in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, and Indonesia. Prior to that, his extensive experience includes 9 years in Europe, USA and Asia at Value Partners Management Consulting and started his own Business & Go-to-Market Advisory firm. Luca holds a Business Management degree from University of Venice and MBA degree from the London Business School and currently a Lecturer at the ESSEC Business School (Singapore Campus) on Business Development in Asia.
Peter Kopitz
Group Chief Commercial Officer
Prior to aCommerce, Peter was a Co-Founder and Managing Director for Rocket Internet Thailand, building and heading the Zalora operations, the largest and fastest growing ecommerce fashion venture in Asia. He has over fourteen years of startup, investment, management consulting and investment banking experience in Asia. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Honors) from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Piers Bennett
Group Chief Financial Officer
Piers was the CFO of LivingSocial in SEA, and former CFO of DMS Group. He has nearly 20 years of finance, management, business development, strategy, and sales experience in the IT, online and telecom industries in Asia, the UK and the United States. Piers qualified as an Chartered Accountant while working at PwC in London. Some of the companies he has worked for include British Telecom (BT), Look Smart (Japan) and ValueCommerce.
Phensiri Sathianvongnusar
Group Chief Business Officer & Thailand Chief Executive Officer
Phensiri worked as Vice President of Operations at Zalora (Thailand), part of Rocket Internet GMBH, one of the worlds leading internet incubators. A graduate of Ritsumeikan University in Japan with a degree in Business and a Masters in Management from Chulalongkorn University, Phensiri was integral in helping start Zalora in 2011 and built it to a 200 plus person business in less than a year. Earlier in her career, Phensiri worked in marketing for Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group (MSIG) and Kozo Development & Design, a Japanese company specializing in property and project development.
Tom Srivorakul
Group Chief Revenue Officer & Philippines Chief Executive Officer
Tom was previously the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Ensogo/LivingSocial and prior was Regional Sales Director for Admax Network and New Media Agency. Tom has over 15 years of digital experience in sales, marketing, content development, mobile, and various platforms. His vast experience in end-to-end ecommerce helps provide consultation to many top companies. He is also the award recipient of the 2011 Bloomberg – Business Week Thailand Entrepreneur of the Year.
Mark Rachelski
Group Chief Technology Officer
As the past Head of Enterprise Platforms at Thomson Reuters and a proven leader in technology development, Mark is highly experienced in organizational transformation and technical delivery efficiencies using Agile Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery techniques. Having worked in China, Thailand and the US, he is comfortable with multiple cultures and focuses strongly on developing talents to continually improve company infrastructure.
Roberto Kauffmann
Group Chief Product Officer
Prior to aCommerce, Roberto was a CPO for Shopmatic, a Singapore-based integrated ecommerce platform company, where he built and scale an omnichannel enablement for over 400 thousands merchants in India and Southeast Asia. He has 20 years of experience in building innovative ecommerce and digital payments products for companies all over the world including Oracle, SONY, and MoneyGram International.
Shishir Bharti
Group Chief People Officer
With 18+ years’ experience of working for large multinational companies, Shishir brings his expertise in all areas of Human Resources and has a proven track record of working with Senior Management Level Executives to integrate the People Strategy in the overall Business Strategy. Prior to aCommerce, Shishir worked with global companies like Hewlett Packard, Coca-Cola, Volvo Buses, as well as global start-ups such as LinkedIn and Uber.
Derek Burke
Singapore & Malaysia Chief Executive Officer
Derek has 20 years experience covering sales operations, product development, ecommerce and digital technologies, channel strategies for online Marketplaces and Payment service providers. He has built a track record of establishing customer-led high performance teams across locations in cross-cultural environments having lived and worked in the USA, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Morocco and the Caribbean (Jamaica, St Lucia and Barbados).
His background in corporate (Ebay, Paypal, GenPact) and start-ups (Red Barrel, Starting Dot) help him scale and grow company’s online businesses.
Darren Fifield
Indonesia Chief Commercial Officer
Darren has 30+ years’ experience driving the successful combination of making products available to those you want them, exceeding service levels, business development and getting the best out of his team throughout the Asia Pacific business, including starting his career in Australia. Having lived in Taiwan, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong and now Jakarta Darren has extensive knowledge as to what works best in-market, and how a brand can action a successful go-to-market strategy. Darren graduated from the Western Sydney University with a Marketing major. Some of the companies he has worked include Nielsen, Aegis Media, Kantar Research, eBay and GSI Commerce.
Antonius Adang
Indonesia Chief Operating Officer
Antonius has an extensive experience of working in public-listed company, venture capital, and ecommerce industry for over 10 years — honing his skills in negotiation, corporate finance, strategic planning, and end-to-end business operations and intelligence. Earlier in his career, Antonius worked for companies including Darmex Agro, Atlas Resource Tbk, annd Ardent Capital. Antonius holds a Master Degree in Economics from Universitas Trisakti.
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