Pure Leadership Series: The Data Sovereignty Imperative: Navigating a New Era of Control and AI Innovation

Winston Thomas

Winston brings over 20 years of journalistic experience to CDOTrends.com. As the previous editor at Computerworld Hong Kong, CIO Asia and PCWeek Asia, he followed, edited and wrote how the Internet and the rise of the digital economy impacted businesses across various industries. Most recently, Winston served as N. Asia editor of CMOInnovation. As the Editor-in-Chief of CDOTrends.com, he is bringing together intriguing articles, insights from leading thinkers, in-depth lessons from practitioners, and various thought leadership materials to develop a new resource for CDOs and other digital practitioners. Fascinated by new technology trends, he is constantly looking at how digital is reshaping our future lives.

Besides his communication skills, he is well-versed in building conference and marketing programmes externally and internally. Recently, he produced Total Security Conference 2016, Big Data and Business Analytics Forum 2016 and Future Workplace Forum 2016. Previously, he also launched CIO Asia Awards and helped to create the Computerworld Hong Kong Readers’ Choice Awards (today Computerworld Hong Kong Awards under Questex Asia).

As a copywriter, Winston has contributed to South China Morning Post (for finance and IT sections), Asia Week and IT Malaysia. He has also contributed technology-based articles for inflight magazines, including Cathay Pacific’s The Club and Gulf Air magazine, and recently to Benchmark Magazine.

Previous to his career in the media industry, he was a commodities broker and an abattoir manager in Singapore. He currently holds a B Sc. (Biology) with Merit, loves playing the piano and running marathon events.

Mark Jobbins

Mark Jobbins is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Pure Storage in Asia Pacific and Japan. In this role, he is responsible for driving technology innovations and customer success across the region.

With over 30 years of experience in the information technology industry, Mark is an accomplished technologist with a strong record of has continually proven his expertise in driving innovation and leading complex projects to successful outcomes.

A keen environmentalist, Mark takes pride in delivering cutting-edge solutions that not only have a significant positive impact on business agility, but also reducing the environmental impact of the technology deployed and increasing sustainability.

Mark has a BEng (Hons) in Computer Aided Engineering from Huddersfield University, UK. He currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Alex Vasilenko

Alex is an Interpreter and Innovation Leader, currently serving as the Head of Business Intelligence and Data Strategy at BAT (South-East Asia) and running the AI-powered startup in tech and social media space called Yupi. Based in Sydney, Australia, Alex is a passionate AI evangelist and an international speaker. Outside the realms of data and AI, Alex’s greatest passion is photography.

Pintu Kumar Ghosh

Pintu has been working in Singapore for the last 14 years while possessing 18+ years of rich experience in Banking, Telecom & others(Data Analytics, Data Science & CRM) space as technical and managerial capacity. He has delivered many large, complex, high visible, high quality, turn-key, on-time and cost-effective projects/products. He has been instrumental to improve various processes and risk controls too which helped to showcase multi-millions USD profitability or cost savings or so on many occasions.

Pintu has strong expertise on Credit Risk, Credit Process, Predictive Model Building, Model Monitoring, Model Validation and MIS reporting, with over 14 years either through traditional or AI/Data Science approaches. His end to end data skills are showcased through both the traditional or modern days ways, as executed through various methodologies and delivery practices. His other expertise are Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Security and Blockchain.