Contributors
Jayne Chan
Jayne is Head of StartmeupHK at Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), the government department responsible for attracting and retaining Foreign Direct Investment into Hong Kong. Her role at StartmeupHK is to attract innovative startups, investors and other stakeholders to Hong Kong, provide information and connections to support these companies setting up in the city, and help build the ecosystem to transform the city into a global hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Prior to joining InvestHK, Jayne was Executive Director at the HK chapter of TiE, a global non-profit network focused on fostering entrepreneurship in the markets in which they operate. She has been an award winning producer on interactive programmes at 4A’s & digital agencies, managed product development for a number of startups at Hong Kong’s first tech startup incubator, and filled marketing roles in manufacturing and architectural companies.
Jayne Leung
Jayne Leung is the Head of Greater China at Facebook, responsible for the advertising business with primary focus in Greater China. She joined Facebook from the Rubicon Project, where she served the California-based company to build out their first Asia operation. Prior to that Jayne was with DoubleClick/Google as the APAC Head of New Media Sales.
Jeremy Payne
Jeremy Payne has more than 20 years’ experience in advertising in London and is now Head of Marketing at Designercity.
Jim Watson
Jim Watson is Vice President and Corporate General Manager APAC at Good Technology.
Jimmy Ball
Jimmy Ball is a Senior Consultant for the Fenway Group, working at the world's largest airline as their UX Design Director.
Joelle Woo
Joelle Woo is the Director for Marketing & Operations (M&O) at Microsoft, Hong Kong. She is responsible for providing business and marketing leadership for the Hong Kong and Macau subsidiary, and evangelizing the core value of the Microsoft innovations to the public. She leads sales and marketing of Microsoft’s key business groups.
John Ellis
John Ellis is responsible for driving Akamai's Enterprise Security program to help meet the security needs of its customers in the region. With over eighteen years of IT Security experience, John has developed an innate understanding of the complex challenges that face today's hyperconnected world. John's exposure to multiple industry verticals has allowed him to hone his skills to better understand how organisations can balance their IT security investments to minimise risk yet maximise their opportunities.
John Hawkins
John Hawkins is Ciena's resident Carrier Ethernet expert. In his many years in the industry, John has held board/chair positions for a variety of IEEE and MEF committees related to Carrier Ethernet.
John Henderson
John Henderson is the Chief Financial Officer of Regus, Asia-Pacific. He has been with Regus for 12 years. He first joined to take up the post of Director for Best Practice in London, later moving to Australia to help set up the head office of Regus Asia-Pacific. Almost five years later, he moved with the AsiaPacific office to Hong Kong as Chief Financial Officer. He has been based here ever since.