Adisti Sawitri is a managing editor at The Jakarta Post. Since 2018, she has played a key role in the digital transformation process at the largest English language news publisher in Indonesia. She is currently managing digital production and leading initiatives to identify new markets for journalism.
Adrian has worked across Europe and Asia, building teams that combine data-driven audience insight with technology to create unique brand experiences that generate business growth.
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Based in Singapore, Alex Fenby started his career and love of journalism at CNBC Asia, where he was APAC news editor between 2000 and 2006.
Prior to Facebook, he spent time in Melbourne as Global Publisher for travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet before returning to Singapore as Director, Strategic Digital Media Initiatives and founder of news app NewsLoop at Singtel.
Alex holds a Master’s Degree in International Journalism from City, University of London.
Andy Wylie is the Head of Data and Analytics for New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME). NZME is one of New Zealand’s leading media companies with a porfolio encompassing many of New Zealand’s most popular print, radio and digital brands.
He has over 14 years of media experience with companies such as MSN and Yahoo! New Zealand where he lead the Ad Operations and Marketplace teams. He started at NZME 5 years ago running the Digital Ad Operations team when the increasing convergence between Ad Technology and Data prompted a shift of focus into Data and Analytics.
In the past two years as the Head of Data and Analytics, he has revitalised the NZME data strategy and rebuilt the NZME data stack with new integrated solutions across ad serving, analytics and data warehousing.
Anjali Kapoor is the Director of News Partnerships for APAC, Meta where she supports the news industry in the region by partnering with news organizations to achieve their business and strategic goals on Facebook platforms.
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Ajay Chacko is Co-founder & CEO of Arré, one of the country’s foremost original digital content brands. Arré was founded in 2015 by B. Saikumar, Ajay Chacko & Sanjay Ray Chaudhuri. Arré offers multimedia content across genres & formats and has won many international & domestic awards & accolades for its work in digital fiction & non-fiction. Arré Studio is also working on large-format original shows in collaboration with domestic and international OTT platforms as well as broadcast television networks.
Ajay has over 2 decades of experience in media & financial services. He spent over a decade with Network18 and was Group COO and also President A+E – TV18 JV in his last-held roles with the Group. He has also worked with IL&FS, Sharekhan and the Indian Express Group prior to his stint with Network18.
Anne Kornblut is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who now runs the news curation team at Facebook, leading a team of journalists who help power Facebook News. Before joining Facebook in 2015, she spent nearly two decades in the news industry, most recently as a senior editor at the Washington Post. She currently serves on the boards of two news non-profits.
A geek in denial and a graduate in financial management, Antonny started off his professional career in Enterprise IT and Solution Services, a journey that took him to several IT companies and a President Director position when he was 27 years old. He then pursued his passion in marketing & branding by joining a then small 14-person startup agency called SemutApi Colony as a partner and Managing Director in 2005. Together, the company grew into a Group which operates several agencies, a tech incubator/investor and technology startups.
Antonny still has a dream that one day he will play the piano and own a coffee and steak house.
Ariane Bernard is a product leader with a specialty in content management and delivery tools – CMS, subscription and eCommerce, analytics, CRM. She was last the chief digital officer at Le Parisien.
Prior to this, she was the product lead for editorial products at Taboola, and served in a variety of roles during her 14 years at The New York Times, including working on the CMS team.
She is currently building a new publishing platform oriented at independent publishers.
Bharat Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer of Jagran New Media, the digital wing of India’s largest print and radio publisher group, Jagran Prakashan Ltd. With more than 22 years of stellar experience to his credit, Bharat has been at the helm of managing and turning around diverse media businesses across print, radio, ground activation & digital. With over 100 million users, JNM is amongst the Top Internet Media Groups in India.
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Catherine is the Assistant News Editor for Hong Kong i-Cable News, the first Pay TV News Channel in Hong Kong. She joined the company in 2008, as a reporter. Catherine holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights Law from The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London
Chiratas (Jim) Nivatpumin is currently SVP, commercial and special projects for the Bangkok Post. Over the past 25 years, Chiratas has held a variety of roles at the newspaper, including business reporter, finance editor, managing editor to overseeing business development, risk management and digital strategy.
Daniel started his career as a journalist, working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations. After his MBA in Media Management, he joined the digital product management of RTL, Germany’s biggest private TV-Network. Since 2013, Daniel is building and meanwhile leading the paid content business of Axel Springer’s BILD, which now counts more than 600.000 digital subscribers.
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David Chivers is a coach in the 2020 Facebook APAC Reader Revenue Accelerator. David has built his career at the intersection of subscription marketing, digital transformation, media, and content marketing. He has served as Regional President for the USA Today network and President and Publisher of The Des Moines Register.
Over his career, David has held executive roles at Factiva, The Wall Street Journal, and Meredith Corporation. David has also consulted and worked with a number of local and international media companies, technology firms, and consumer organizations.
Devendra is Head of Engineering of Advertising and Marketing tech at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). He has previously held positions including Director/Head of Analytics, APAC at Criteo and Director of Data & Analytics at GroupM with a history of leveraging existing and emerging technologies, uncovering opportunities, and directing trailblazing strategies to improve media and digital operations, develop leading-edge products, and increase marketability for forward-moving companies.
Diptendu Mitra is a strategy and business development professional with 16 years of telecommunication and technology experience across Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and India. He was based in Finland from 2000 to 2002, UK from 2002 to 2007, Dubai from 2007 to 2012 and has been in Singapore since 2012.
He is an expert in the telecommunications industry having worked for and consulted to equipment vendors, service providers, industry regulators and investors. His work has included advisory engagements on both the consumer and enterprise sides of the telecommunication industry in topics spanning new market entry, operational and sales transformations, M&A advisory, due diligence and assessment of competitiveness in telecommunication markets.
Diptendu holds two patents which are incorporated as part of the LTE wireless standard.
Frédéric Filloux is a French journalist and an entrepreneur. He is the creator of Deepnews.ai, a project aimed at surfacing quality journalism from the web by using machine learning algorithm, a project that he started as a Knight Fellow at Stanford. He is also the editor of the Monday Note, a newsletter/blog that covers digital business models and technology since 2007. The Monday Note reaches between 30,000 and 60,000 media professionals each week and the newsletter has 13,000 subscribers.
Since 2018, he is an associate professor at Sciences-Po Journalism school.
During the academic year 2016-2017, Frederic was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, along with seventeen other media professionals selected for the program. That’s where he started the Deepnews project.
Before that, Frederic spent four years as head of digital operations for Groupe Les Echos, France’s leading business news provider. From 2007 until 2010, Frédéric Filloux was working as an editor for the international division of the Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA. In 2002, he was part of the managing team that launched the free daily 20 Minutes, which became the most read newspaper in France with 20 local editions and 120 journalits. Before, he spent 12 years at Liberation, one of the most innovative French media at the time, successively as a business reporter, New York correspondent, editor of the tech section, manager of online operations, and finally, editor of the paper.
He also has experience in the advertising business after a one-year stop at the Paris Groupe BDDP agency (now TBWA). He is a graduate of the Bordeaux School of Journalism.
Frederic is a board member of Reporters sans Frontières (Reporters without Borders).
Fiona Chan is head of analytics, customer experience and business operations at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). She has previously held positions including head of media strategy at SPH and managing editor at The Straits Times, and has also worked in corporate finance.
Fiona is a board member of the Land Transport Authority, Sing Lit Station and Singapore Media Exchange.
Gabey has reported on the marketing and technology sectors for over ten years, with experience in online media, magazines, newspapers and radio.
Outside of journalism, she has served as a marketer in the ad-tech industry and led content and education initiatives at a leading trade body.
George Brock is a journalist, consultant and media researcher. He was the director of the journalism school at City, University of London, from 2009 to 2014 and later a visiting professor.
He began his reporting career at the Yorkshire Evening Press and The Observer, joining The Times in 1981. After starting at The Times as a feature writer, he became a features editor and, in 1984, op-ed page editor. He was subsequently foreign editor, Brussels bureau chief, European Editor, Managing Editor and Saturday Editor.
He advises the INJECT and DMINR journalism research projects and startups in news. He is on the board of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Gresham College. He was on the board of the World Editors Forum 2001-14 and WEF’s president 2004-08. He was a member of the executive board of the International Press Institute.
He broadcasts, lectures and is the author of Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age (2013). His study of the ‘right to be forgotten’ was published in 2016. He blogs at http://georgebrock.net
Greg Barber is the Post newsroom’s director of product. He manages the newsroom’s suite of software tools and leads the groups of reporters, editors, product managers and engineers who create them. He joined The Post in 2003 as one of the founding editors of Express, was managing editor of the WaPo Labs R&D group and co-founded The Coral Project.
Greg Piechota is an academic researcher, a media consultant and a writer. As a researcher and an ex-fellow at Harvard and Oxford universities, he studies technology-enabled disruption patterns across industries, with a focus on business model innovation in news media. Mr Piechota is a former media executive with 20+ years of industry experience. He began his career at Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza in 1996 as a reporter in one of the smallest local offices rising to a news editor and a vice-president of Agora Foundation. The book, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, which he wrote together with Professor Thales Teixeira of Harvard Business School was released in 2019 by Currency, a brand of Penguin Random House. Mr Piechota lives in Oxford, England.
Imelda Alcantara is the Head of Operations/Chief Operating Officer of Inquirer Interactive, Inc. the online arm of the Inquirer Group of Companies. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Group’s Chief Strategic Planning Officer which gave her an overall view of the media business and sharpened her skills in strategic management, business development, operations planning, execution and organizational development. She has been with the Inquirer Group for over 27 years, having been assigned to different media units in various roles until her appointment as head of online operations in February 2020.
Indranil Sarkar heads partnerships and new business initiatives at Mediacorp. He is responsible for building and managing Mediacorp’s relationships with strategic partners and driving new products and technologies to grow revenue.
Indranil is passionate about helping companies navigate digital transformation and has 10+ years of corporate development, start-up operations and investment banking experience across SEA, India and Africa.
Indranil holds an MBA from The Wharton School (UPenn) and a Bsc. Economics (Hons.) from Singapore Management University.
With more than 12 years of experience in Marketing Analytics and currently based in Sydney, Australia, Jakub loves working with data and making data driven decisions.
Jakub has led projects where he has had to build complex solutions such as efficient analytics and data architectures, develop algorithms for automation as well as predictive data models to unlock maximum marketing potential for enterprise brands. Throughout his career, he has been invited to share his knowledge and experience at various events and training engagements both at public conventions and privately for top enterprise brands.
He has worked with global brands hailing from verticals such as CPG, Telco, FSI, Automakers, online and offline retailers as well as publishers across Europe, US, Canada and APAC; driving effective data utilisation and culture across various stakeholders in organisations catered to their business unit requirements.
Jakub is now leading the analytics team in APAC for MightyHive where in less than 2 years, he has single-handedly set up and groomed the data arm of the global professional services and marketing technology company. Starting from being the first analytics person in APAC, he has grown the team to over 60 specialists working across the region in 6 different countries.
In 2018, MightyHive merged with S4Capital (SFOR.L) , the tech-led, new age, new era digital advertising and marketing services company established by Sir Martin Sorrell.
Aside from heading the Property and Environment sections, he is also Sub-Editor of the Lifestyle section handling Homes & Design. He has been with The Manila Bulletin for 21 years, starting as a reporter for health, motoring, and travel. He has a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the De La Salle University.
Joseph Kahn is the executive editor of The New York Times. He oversees all aspects of The Times’s global newsroom and news report. Before becoming executive editor in June 2022, Mr. Kahn had served
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Julie Peng is Vice President of United Digital Intelligence, a leading eCommerce company operating an eCommerce B2C platform in Taiwan and providing solutions and services for brand clients entering eCommerce area. United Digital Intelligence is part of the United Daily News Group, Taiwan’s largest privately-operated Chinese-language newspaper group.
As VP of UDI, Julie oversees business strategy, operations, business development, marketing, and communications. She is now focusing on ensuring UDI’s new commerce platform is monetized and widely adopted. Prior to joining UDI, Julie worked in many tech companies such as IBM, Apple and Yahoo, spearheading many initiatives such as a B2B2C eCommerce platform and Native advertising platforms successfully. She holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon.
Katherine Kuan is the General Manager of udn.com Co., Ltd., which owns the largest news website, news database and digital publishing assets in Taiwan.
Prior to this, she was the deputy editor-in-chief of United Daily News and VP of New Media Centrr. She was responsible for applying new technologies to innovate storytelling and assisting in the digital transformation of newsroom.
Katherine Kuan graduated from the Law School of National Taiwan University, but her passion for the media is much greater. She completed her graduate studies at Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, US. Besides, she is passionate about understanding various forms of media. She has served as radio DJ, magazine reporter, TV station executive, and book writer as well.
Kathy Fong started her career in financial journalism as a business news reporter in Star Publication Bhd, which publishes an English daily, The Star, in 1998. She set up a bureau office in Shanghai in 2005 to cover China’s economic boom.
In 2008, Kathy moved to The Edge Communications, a news organisation that specialises in financial news. She is currently an executive editor at The Edge overseeing the corporate and capital market division.
For 15 years, Ken Doctor has been a go-to expert on news business models through Newsonomics, his own company and website.
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Korey Lee joined the South China Morning Post in March, 2017 to spearhead the data operations of the now 115-year-old news organization.
Before joining the SCMP, Korey was Vice President of Analytics at KeyMe, a New York-based hardware startup that leverages computer vision technology and machine learning to provide an automated and seamless key duplication experience for customers across the US. Previously, he was co-founder and CIO of SumAll, a connected data platform for over 500,000 businesses worldwide. Prior to this, he led the business intelligence and analytics teams at AppNexus and Squarespace. Korey has also worked in various capacities at Google, including revenue strategy, sales finance, payment operations, and business analytics. He was previously with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in venture capital tax and audit.
Korey holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration, and a B.S. degree in Economics from University of California Berkeley.
Liang Moung is an experienced technology leader in digital technologies and software development. For nearly 20 years, she spearheaded the digital technology and product development at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). In her current role, she drives technology initiatives and innovation for future-proofing the organisation.
From year 2000 to 2019, Liang Moung led the engineering team at SPH to develop, innovate and support the various digital products for SPH’s flagship media brands, including The Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, SPH Radio, etc. She works closely with the management team in formulating and executing strategies to drive digital transformation at SPH.
Lottie Laws is Head of Global Video Solutions for Twitter Australia, responsible for pushing video solutions and ideation forward to meet the needs of Australian and international advertisers. Based in Sydney for more than 6 years, Lottie previously lived in the UK where she led International Advertising for iTunes/Apple Music at Apple. Prior to that, she managed digital marketing at luxury heritage brand Mulberry.
Lottie graduated from the University of Leeds with a Bachelors in Graphic Design. A mother of two young daughters, Lottie is a keen artist and even set up a business during maternity leave to pursue her love of nature-inspired illustration. Lottie is also keen on sports, having been a Premier League basketball player in the UK and played volleyball at regional level. She also enjoys netball and tennis.
Maria Lourdes (Nini) Cabaero is a pioneer of new media in Philippine community journalism. She was director for content for the integrated newsroom and editor-in-chief of SunStar Cebu, flagship newspaper of the Cebu-based SunStar Publishing Inc. She retired on March 1, 2021. She continues with SunStar as columnist and consultant on digital. SunStar in the only network of community newspapers in the Philippines.
Cabaero holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, and a master’s degree in journalism from the Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University. She currently teaches at the Ateneo master’s program for journalism. Cabaero was a Sandra Burton–Nieman Fellow where she spent an academic year at Harvard University from 2013 to 2014. She took courses at the Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She won as “Newsmaker of the Year” in November 2020 in the Globe Media Excellence Awards of Globe Telecom for her “impactful body of work” that year and her role in the digital transformation of the community press in the Philippines.
In his role, Madhav Chinnappa works on partnerships and collaboration between Google and the news industry. Most recently, he launched the Digital News Initiative which in March 2018 evolved to become part of the Google News Initiative, Google’s overarching global framework for engagement with the news ecosystem.
Madhav joined Google in 2010 to focus on Google News & Magazines in the EMEA region. He has worked in the news industry since 1994 – first in the launch team of Associated Press Television (APTV), a year in M&A at United News & Media and spent over 9 years at BBC News, latterly as Head of Development & Rights.
Michael was appointed Chief Sales Officer, Nine Entertainment Co. in March 2016 and, as such, is responsible for the overall advertising revenue performance of Nine Entertainment Co. across both broadcast, digital, radio and publishing assets.
Previously, Michael was the Director of Sales for Nine Network from 2011, and more recently Director of Sales for Nine Entertainment Co.. Prior to Nine, Michael was the Director of Sales for ninemsn and has held various roles at both the Seven and Ten Networks during his 25 years in media sales.
Michael holds a Bachelor Degree in Management (Marketing) and is a board member of ThinkTV and the Premium Content alliance, an industry body created to promote the power of professionally produced content.
Mike is in charge of engaging with the APAC business community on Ads Privacy issues. Along with his privacy expertise, he brings a deep knowledge of programmatic technology to the role, having previously served as the Head of Authorized Buyers sales (previously DoubleClick Ad Exchange) in Japan.
Other work experiences include leading ad agency partnerships in both Tokyo and Singapore, and a stint at the Google News Initiative, running bespoke digital change management projects for APAC news businesses. He’s also been a guest lecturer at INSEAD on privacy in digital marketing.
Prior to joining Google, Mike worked as International Accounts Lead at Dentsu Razorfish in Tokyo, as well as in smaller independent agencies in the Seattle area. He’s been working in the digital marketing space for 17 years.
Paul Verwilt is a seasoned C-level executive with over 25 years of management experience and 15+ years in the high-tech industry. He’s been COO at Mediahuis and CEO of its Digital Marketplaces in the last
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Peter Kabel is a professor of interactive media design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. He is founder of several successful companies in the area of media, technology and design – among others: „Büro Hamburg GmbH“ (1991), „Trendbüro Hamburg GmbH“ (1993), „Kabel New Media AG“ (1993) and „Tone Consultants GmbH“ (2001).
From 2004 to 2007, he acted as member of the board of „Jung von Matt AG“, one of the most influencial advertising agencies of the German speaking countries. Since 2007, he has been involved in portfolio management of Lakshmi GmbH – a private equity and vc-firm based in Hamburg. Peter Kabel is partner in investment and consulting firm AECAL GmbH based in Hamburg, Germany.
Peter Kabel teaches as full professor at „Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg“ and has received many mentions for innovation and creativity– inter alia he was decorated as „Entrepreneur of the Year 2001“, an international award founded by Ernest&Young and Deutche Börse AG.
With 16 years in the publishing industry, he started as an editorial assistant for a fashion magazine under ABS-CBN Publishing Inc. Today, aside from being The Manila Bulletin’s Creative and Design Head, he is also its Lifestyle section Sub-Editor for Fashion and Beauty. Ilagan has a Communication Arts degree from the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo De Manila University.
Roby Alampay is the founder and chairman of Puma Public Productions, a first-mover in the Philippines and Southeast Asia in non-music audio productions.
On the business and managerial side of the industry, Roby was raised in print and built up the online news portal for a broadcasting network (TV5), eventually rising to the rank of VP, while simultaneously helming under the same media conglomerate, as editor-in-chief, the Philippines’ oldest and biggest business daily (BusinessWorld) and charged with giving it a digital strategy, and help it get back in the black. Previously, he also anchored the nightly newscast ‘The Big Story’ on Bloomberg Philippines and co-anchored ‘The Chiefs’ on One News TV 5.
At the end of 2019, he left all these executive corporate positions to focus on my own startup. Puma Public is a production company servicing news/media organizations, businesses, NGOs/CSOs, foundations, and even individuals looking to explore and expand their brands and content into streaming audio.
Roby’s career has always been in journalism, with values fully anchored on press freedom and media independence. He was the first executive director of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and currently serves as Regional Advisor for the Asia Program of International Media Support (IMS) in Copenhagen.
Sally Wu leads the Insights team in Asia Pacific for BBC News – Global, which operates the BBC’s commercial assets across TV and digital platforms internationally. With over 20 years of experience across market research, insights and data analysis, Sally is well versed in quantitative research methodology (including TV measurement), qualitative research methodology and data analytics.
Prior to joining the BBC, Sally worked at Univision Communications in California, USA for 11 years, rising to the role of Media Research Director during the last 3 years of her tenure at Univision’s Los Angeles office where she was in charge of research operations and best practices of the company’s 64 owned & operated TV stations across the US and Puerto Rico.
Sally serves as a committee member at AVIA (Asia Video Industry Association) and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in Singapore, Southeast Asia & India. In the past, she’s been an industry fellow at the Institute of Asian Consumer Insights at the Nanyang Technological University, a board member of the Media & Marketing Research Council of Los Angeles as well as an advisory committee member for Nielsen’s eNames Client Advisory Committee in USA.
A native Taiwanese, Sally grew up and was educated in Taipei before getting her Master’s degree in Communications from Northwestern University, USA.
Sandeep is Digital Media Solutions professional at Mediacorp, where he works with advertisers to plan an execute effective digital and integrated media campaigns.
Over a 14 year career running digital media strategy and campaigns across multiple regions and industry sectors, Sandeep work spans across media buying/planning, social media, content marketing and integrated media solutioning.
As a programmatic native who has always been interest in audience data, he leads 1st party data conversations with commercial clients who wish to leverage on Mediacorp’s proprietary audience data solutions.
Teymoor Nabili is a veteran international journalist based in Singapore.
Over a 28-year career he has anchored, reported and produced news and programmes for the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNBC, CNN and Channel NewsAsia. He has reported major breaking stories from the field, including 9/11, the Asian Tsunami and the Japan earthquake, and covered global events from the studio like the Arab spring and the global financial crisis. Among hundreds of high profile interviews with political and business leaders, he has sat down with Kofi Annan, Goh Chok Tong, Hun Sen, Mahathir Mohammed, Najib Razak, Thaksin Shinawat and Chris Patten, to name but a few.
Teymoor Nabili is a veteran international journalist based in Singapore.
Over a 28-year career he has anchored, reported and produced news and programmes for the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNBC, CNN and Channel NewsAsia. He has reported major breaking stories from the field, including 9/11, the Asian Tsunami and the Japan earthquake, and covered global events from the studio like the Arab spring and the global financial crisis. Among hundreds of high profile interviews with political and business leaders, he has sat down with Kofi Annan, Goh Chok Tong, Hun Sen, Mahathir Mohammed, Najib Razak, Thaksin Shinawat and Chris Patten, to name but a few.
Tim Griggs is the global program director of the Facebook Accelerator. Tim began his career as a journalist and was the executive editor of the Star-News in Wilmington, N.C., then owned by The New York Times Company. In 2008, he joined The New York Times as director of strategic planning, where he helped envision and articulate company strategy; one of the most significant of those initiatives was determining whether and how to charge digital consumers for content. In 2011, he became director of paid products, leading the cross-functional team responsible for The Times’s digital subscription business. Tim left The Times in 2013 to be publisher of the Texas Tribune, a nonpartisan, nonprofit startup in Austin.
Lee Chin is Group COO (Group Strategy and Content) of Media Chinese International Malaysia which publishes four leading Chinese newspapers in Malaysia and owns digital assets which cover 70% of Chinese web portal traffic in Malaysia. She currently leads M-Lab, the audience innovation and creative content hub of the group, which is tasked to drive digital audience and revenue growth.
She joined Sin Chew Daily as a culture and education reporter in 2008 and has since assumed different roles within the media organization and has vast experience developing digital growth strategy and innovative products.
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Victoria C. Schultz is an executive vice president for advertising sales, and has been with Amedia since 2011. Prior to joining the top management team, she was the CEO of one of the largest newspapers in the group and a regional director where she kickstarted the digital subscription transformation of all eight newspapers while securing profitable margins which were among the highest in the group. She has been in the media industry since 1999 and has various commercial and financial roles all related to the digital development of the media business. She has experience from several media houses in Norway and Denmark.
Prior to joining the media industry she spent five years in finance, at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in London and DnB Markets in Oslo. She is on the Board of MBL (Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association), head of the consumer and advertising group at MBL and has board experience from several digital startups and growth companies. Schultz is participating in WAN-IFRA’s Media Professionals Programme (MPP) as mentor for media companies and professionals in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. Victoria holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, an MBA from NHH Norwegian School of Economics and is a Certified European Financial Analyst.
Vienna is a creative and user-centric digital marketer specialized in driving growth through meaningful engagements across the customer journey from awareness through to conversion and retention. Prior to joining SCMP, she worked at agencies including McCann, Publicis, and Wunderman.
