For more than 17 years, Charmian Aw has built a track record of representing market-leading global corporations in navigating the increasingly complex, diverse and fast-evolving tech and data legal landscape in the Asia Pacific region. She has acted in dozens of strategic, high-value technology transactions, including the development and deployment of AI solutions, commercialization of data and digital assets, transitioning to electronic platforms, cloud migration and the procurement and integration of IT systems. Having obtained certifications in information privacy for Asia, Europe and the US (FIP, CIPP/A, CIPP/EU, CIPP/US, CIPM), Charmian has counselled hundreds of corporations on multijurisdictional data law compliance and spearheaded projects (covering over 130 territories) on regulatory compliance, data governance and cross-border transfers. She provides group-wide cybersecurity readiness support, including incident response planning and training and has successfully resisted sanctions for dozens of companies in semi-contentious data investigations. While her practice is largely sector-neutral, she has supported industry players in digital health, retail, social media, e-commerce, fintech, hospitality and aviation (to name a few) on cutting-edge projects, typically on a region-wide or global basis, including product reviews for the launch of online payment platforms, direct-to-consumer advertising campaigns, and the roll out of e-commerce websites and applications. Charmian is ranked in leading legal directories including Chambers, The Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal, Global Data Review, and Best Lawyers.

Wilson Chung is a Managing Director at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Chung is based in Singapore and focuses on identifying and evaluating Asia Pacific investment opportunities. He has over 15 years of infrastructure, private equity, and corporate finance experience in Asia.

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Chung was most recently a Senior Vice President in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital. He led Macquarie’s balance sheet investments in digital infrastructure in Asia, with a focus on building platforms and developing greenfield datacenters and other digital infrastructure assets. Prior to that role, Mr. Chung worked in Macquarie Capital’s private capital markets team where he focused on principal investments and advisory mandates across the consumer and technology sectors in Asia.

Prior to Macquarie Capital, Mr. Chung was a co-founder and CFO of Litegrid Holdings Ltd, a Hong Kong telecommunications infrastructure developer and prior to that, he covered consumer, industrial and telecom investments for Unitas Capital, an Asian regional private equity fund. Mr. Chung started his career as an investment banking analyst at Citigroup.

Mr. Chung received a Bachelor of Laws, with honors, and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne.

Waleed Saraf is a Principal Investment Officer and Regional Head for IFC’s TMT/Digital Infrastructure business in Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Waleed has over 18 years of experience in sourcing, structuring, and monitoring infrastructure investments, across debt, mezzanine and equity products in emerging markets in Middle East, North Africa, Europe and Asia. In his current role, Waleed supports IFC’s digital business, focusing on business development across Asia Pacific. Waleed holds an MBA from London Business School.

Sunita Lukkhoo, a professional with an array of experience, currently holds the position of Head of Regional Representation for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Her journey within the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been marked by notable roles, including her prior role as the Principal Advisor in the Western Balkans Division and her leadership in the Global relationship for lending in Croatia.

From 2003 to 2020, Sunita demonstrated her expertise as the Country Manager for lending in South Asia & Pacific at the EIB, the European Union's financing institution. Her responsibilities encompassed originating, structuring, and executing intricate financial transactions across a spectrum of sectors, such as energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, climate change mitigation and adaptation, water, manufacturing, and foreign direct investment, among others. Sunita expertly navigated partnerships with sovereign entities, public organizations, corporations, and financial institutions. Her leadership extended to overseeing in-house teams of engineers, economists, and legal experts dedicated to project due diligence and transaction execution

Tim Knowles is an experienced finance and M&A professional with significant expertise in telecommunications and emerging markets, serving both as an advisor and a principal. He has managed and closed over 20 deals with a cumulative value exceeding USD 50 billion. Notable transactions include Etisalat’s USD 5.8 billion acquisition of 53% of Maroc Telecom, Qtel’s USD 3.8 billion acquisition of Wataniya, PCCW’s USD 28 billion acquisition of HKT, and the creation of EADS valued at USD 15 billion.

His M&A experience spans across LATAM (Colombia, Peru, El Salvador), Africa (DRC, Ghana, Tanzania, Senegal, Atlantique Telecom, Maroc Telecom), Asia (Hong Kong, India, Malaysia), and Europe (UK, France, Switzerland, Finland). In addition, Tim has experience in capital raisings, having managed and participated in roadshows for the Maxis IPO, Synthes follow-on IPO, EADS IPO, and various debt financings, such as the complex demerger financing for C&W.

Tim has also gained significant business planning and operational experience from managing the strategic and business planning processes at Maxis (Malaysia) and participating in similar processes for Millicom across 17 countries. His board experience includes roles at iMena Holdings and several holding companies.

Jing is a Senior Director in Alternatives and Strategic Transactions team at Nuveen. She leads the build out of the data centre subsector of Nuveen Real Estate’s alternative portfolio.

Jing joined Nuveen from CBRE where she worked in the Data Centre Solutions team and provided advisory services in the Data Centre sector across APAC region. Prior to that, Jing worked for six years at Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR/S&P 500), where she held several management roles in portfolio asset management team and investment team. She also served as the company’s spokeswomen in Hong Kong. Jing started her real estate career at Eureka Fund Management (now known as AXA IM Australia) in 2006, where she managed the finance function for an AUD $800 million commercial property and hotel fund as part of the company’s AUD $4 billion AUM.

Jing graduated with a Bachelor's of Law from Southwest University of Political Science and Law (China) and a Masters of Professional Accounting from Wollongong University (Australia) and she is a Certified Public Accountant.

Jacqueline is a partner in Milbank LLP’s Singapore office. She was previously resident in the firm’s Hong Kong office.

Jacqueline advises on a wide range of international corporate finance transactions and merger-and-acquisition transactions, and regularly represents sponsors, borrowers and lenders on complex cross-border acquisition finance transactions. In addition, she has significant experience with international debt restructurings in Asia. She specializes in structuring complex debt and equity transactions for clients both within and outside of Southeast Asia, and regularly advises many of the largest private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds, corporates, leading banks and financial institutions in their various transactions globally and in particular throughout Asia.

Frankie is a Partner in our technology practice, and she specialises in significant technology outsourcing transactions, Fintech, payment projects, digital assets, blockchain services agreements and data privacy matters.

Frankie has advised strategic transactions developing and using digital currencies, CBDC and stablecoins. She possesses deep subject matter expertise in emerging and Web 3 technology product implementation. Frankie is a member of the Vetting Committee of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission’s General Support Programme, where she advises the Government on merits of technology projects. She is on the advisory board of the Stanford University’s Responsible Digital Leadership project. She teaches Regtech and Fintech programmes at postgraduate degrees. She was named as the “Fintech and Digital Assets Lawyer of the Year 2024” for Asia Region by Law.com International. She regularly speaks at professional bodies’ CPD programmes and industry conferences.

Frankie’s expertise is industry-recognised and ranked in global legal rankings publications. She is qualified in Hong Kong, New York, and England & Wales.

Dr. Ben Happel is the founding Partner of Altman Solon’s Singapore team and is a leader of the firm’s engagement with Telecommunications, Media, and Technology (TMT) clients in the Asian-Pacific (APAC).

Ben has been working with Altman Solon since 2003 and has spent over a decade in South-East-Asia. He has extensive experience in advising investors and lenders in the TMT space in APAC and globally, supporting them in their commercial and technical due diligence processes. His work includes market, competitive, and business plan assessments for data center operators, fixed line, tower, and mobile operators and go-to-market and network deployment strategies for fiber players.

Ben studied business administration and law in Germany (Passau), and the US (UC Berkeley). He holds an MBA from the university of Passau and a PhD in International Management from the Asia Research Centre of the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland.

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Kingston is one of the founding team members of Redpeak Advisers

Kingston has over 16 years of banking experience and has spent more than a decade executing high profile M&A and capital market transactions in the TMT sector within Asia. Kingston has keen interest in the digital infrastructure space and also spends considerable time connecting with key stakeholders in the tech community, both as an advisor as well as an investor

Prior to Redpeak Advisers, Kingston was Senior Vice President at Macquarie Capital where he was involved in origination and led transaction execution within the TMT team. Kingston started his career at Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia) within their financial sector surveillance division

Kingston is currently a CFA charterholder. He graduated with 1st class honours from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2003, with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Finance) degree.

Himanshu Sahasrabudhe, as a Strategy & Operations Consultant at Deloitte, advises TMT clients across Southeast Asian markets on optimizing business performance, enhancing customer experience, and leveraging data insights. With over 15 years of international experience in management and leadership roles, Himanshu has a proven track record of delivering results in emerging and high-growth markets.

May-Ann is the Director of Access Partnership's Data Governance team and is concurrently the Emeritus Director of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). She has extensive experience in technology policy development, such as data governance policies, digital economy, emerging technology, and cybersecurity. She has worked with many global, regional, and local organisations such as APEC, ASEAN, PECC, INTERPOL, Council of Europe (CoE), the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), FELEBAN in Latin America, the ACCA, and the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), on thought leadership development, government outreach, and stakeholder engagement efforts, such as the development of the ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2020.

She has been appointed to the Singapore Data Protection Appeal Panel 2019-2023, and sits on various international agency task forces, such as the World Bank Group’s Cloud and Data Infrastructure Private Sector Advisory Committee, World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Digital ASEAN Taskforce, the Data & Jurisdiction Team for the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network. A strong advocate for inclusive education, digital literacy, and sustainability, May-Ann also volunteers as a youth mentor with Advisory Singapore, and with nonprofit organisation Engineering Good, which focuses on assistive technology and digital inclusion of the underprivileged and disabled.

Jabez Tan is the Head of Research at Structure Research, an independent Toronto and Singapore-based research and consulting firm devoted to the cloud and data centre infrastructure services markets, with a specialization in the hyperscale value chain.

Mr. Tan’s coverage focuses on the data centre infrastructure market – primarily retail and hyperscale colocation providers – but also interconnection and cloud infrastructure companies. Mr. Tan leads Structure Research’s coverage of the Asia-Pacific region and building of the firm’s proprietary market share data and deep-dive supply and demand analysis on a growing set of global data centre markets.

Mr. Tan served as the lead analyst and subject matter expert for over $2 billion in data centre M&A transactions providing in-depth due diligence and strategic advisory. He is a regular keynote speaker at industry events that include infra/STRUCTURE, Structure APEX, Structure Invest, Datacloud Global Congress, Cloud Expo Asia, Data Centre World, W.Media Data Centre Convention, The Data Center Podcast, Submarine Networks World, The Cube and MarketplaceLIVE.

Mr. Tan is quoted in publications such as The Straits Times Singapore, The Business Times Singapore, South China Morning Post, Channel News Asia, Data Economy, The Tech Capital, Data Center Knowledge, Data Centre Dynamics, Data Center Frontier, InterGlobix, The Deal, Nikkei Asian Review and Singapore Business Review.

Mr. Tan holds a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was also a platoon sergeant in the Singapore Armed Forces and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Claude is the Founder and Managing Partner of Actel Consulting, a specialist Tech advisory firm to investors, telecoms and clouds across sectors including TMT, AI, data, software and digital infrastructure

Claude is also the Co-Founder and Partner of ITI Ventures, a strategic management company to Boards & C-Suite executives.

Previously, Claude was Managing Director and Vice-President at Ciena where he oversaw operations across APAC. He began his career in applied AI Research in Montréal, followed by Nortel Networks in various roles across North America, Europe, and Asia.

He is an acknowledged tech industry thought leader frequently invited as guest keynote speaker, judge, conference chair, or panel moderator at leading tech events worldwide.

Claude is an engineer by training, holding B.Eng. & M.Eng. (Speech Recognition) degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, and an MBA from McGill University, both in Montréal, Canada.

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Chair of start-ups, scale-ups and pivots in health tech, media tech, ad tech, net zero, IoT, life sciences, datacentres, fintech...

Innovation advocate: AI entrepreneurs with CDL, Said Business School (University of Oxford).

Mentor to entrepreneurs and #WomeninTech.

A huge fan of digitalisation and simplification, I love working with teams with energy, passion and transparency.

Enthusiastic amateur in all things #neuroscience and #neurotech.

19 years Board insight as Chair, exec and non-exec, 4 exit processes incl. $0.5bn exit, 6 IPOs, 25+ acquisitions plus funding of all types.

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Spencer Crawford – White, has for over 20 years been involved on a global scene with the design and analysis of telecom sites, the rollout of networks, implementation of fibre and transmission solutions and developed business for towercos and operators in order to support and operationally make efficiencies.

Based in Singapore, Daryl Dunbar is a leader and expert in Data Center Advisory and technology transformation. Daryl has over thirty years of experience helping regional and global companies accelerate their technological advancement and data-driven decision-making.