Digital Transformation Trends in Southeast Asia

He co-founded Cloud Comrade with Andy in 2014 and is also the co-Managing Director at Cloud Comrade. Rick is a senior executive with more than 25 years of industry experience in business and process transformation consulting, business system implementation, and IT solutions. Having built his career working for consulting company Ernst & Young and IT luminaries SAP, Oracle, and NCS, his experience spans regional countries in Asia. He brings to the industry a combination of wide-ranging skills and competencies, covering areas such as manufacturing, quality management, consulting, software sales, managed services, and setting up businesses both locally and in Asia.

Ambassador Antti Vänskä arrived in Singapore in June 2019 to assume his position as Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland.
Mr. Vänskä joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 1996 and has served on several interesting assignments both home and abroad.
Prior to Singapore Mr. Vänskä served four years as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Washington DC, USA. Earlier in his career, Mr. Vänskä has worked in the Embassy of Finland in Berlin, Germany (2001 – 2004) and in the Consulate General of Finland in St Petersburg, Russia (1997 – 2001).
In Finland, Mr. Vänskä has served, among other positions, as the Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Finland (2010-2014). Earlier, he has worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director in the Unit for Russia and as Counsellor in the Unit for Asia dealing for instance with relations between the EU and the ASEAN.
Mr. Vänskä graduated from Turku School of Economics and Business Administration (Finland) with a Master’s degree in Economics. He has also studied abroad in Sweden and in the United States.

Andy Waroma is the founder of one of Asia's leading cloud-managed services companies, and also represents the European Cloud Alliance in the Asia Pacific, focusing on promoting cloud innovations in the region. He has lived and worked in Singapore for 22 years. His first eleven years in the region were spent with SAP in various management positions. In SAP, Andy worked with SAP’s largest customers and partners around the Asia Pacific region. In 2014, Andy and his co-founder decided to set up a cloud consultancy and a cloud-managed services company: Cloud Comrade.

With over 25 years of experience in the technology sector, Andy has always been at the leading edge of innovation, eager to adopt new emerging technologies and business practices while keeping things simple and practical at the same time. From getting startups to take off to creating new lines of businesses for multinational companies, Andy is known for driving many of the “firsts” in the terms of new technology initiatives and customer implementations.

Andy is currently a Board Member, the Co-managing Director, as well as the founder of Cloud Comrade, a Singapore-based, multi-award-winning, enterprise-focused cloud computing consultancy enabling companies in Southeast Asia with their cloud strategy, design, deployment, and management. In addition, he serves as an Advisory Board member at InfraGuard.

Jordan is the Managing Director at STT Cloud and has been advising organizations across South East Asia on their digital technology transformations for the past decade. Jordan specializes in helping his clients adopt emerging technologies, and modern ways of working, to drive increased business performance through innovation.

Peter is the CEO of ST Telemedia Cloud, a rapidly growing technology solutions company focused on helping enterprises globally build new digital products and services and improve ways of working. In addition, Peter is the Chairman of cloud solutions companies, Cloud Comrade and CloudCover and a member of the board of Datameer Inc, a data analytics company based in San Francisco, USA.

Peter is well known and respected for his experience in building high growth, tech-enabled
businesses. Prior to his time at ST Telemedia Cloud, Peter built one of Australia’s largest tech-focused digital agencies with Arq Group (recently acquired by NCS Singapore), led the Australian business at realestate.com.au (ASX:REA), and held senior Executive Leadership roles building the Internet and IT services businesses.

Adaptive executive strategy and digital transformation management professional with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation, business strategy execution, program management, change management, and solution development and delivery within the supply chain management, banking, mining, insurance, telecoms and high-tech industries.

Pasi has consulted global and regional clients for 13 years as an independent management consultant based in Singapore. He just joined a boutique strategy and digital transformation consulting firm, Renoir Group, advising South East Asian clients in their digital transformation journeys.