Shyam Cholayil has over 21 years of experience in the Information Technology Industry. He began his career with India’s leading computer manufacturer HCL and then moved over to Singapore, where he spent 15 years working for world leaders like Deutsche Bank, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft in various regional level positions. Shyam’s expertise is in Technology Presales, Marketing, Business and Market Development across the whole of Asia Pacific, having held positions like Regional Systems Engineering Manager – Sunsoft (ASEAN & India), where he handled the entire Presales function for Sunsoft as well as its partners, Product Manager (Marketing & Business Development) for Microsoft Singapore, being accountable for the business of two major product lines (Windows Server and SQL Server) and Director, Database & Mid-Market Technology Marketing for Oracle Corporation Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for market development as well as marketing into the SME space for the Asia Pacific region.

Shyam holds a MBA from the Nanyang Business School, Singapore (ranked 67 by Financial Times in their Global MBA Rankings 2007).

With over eighteen years experience in the IT Industry, Paul is Vice President for Global Marketing and Product Lifecycle Management at Hyperion Solutions. He is responsible for leading product portfolio and lifecycle management, driving global demand, and developing new business opportunities. He is also a member of the Company’s Business Operations Committee.

Prior to joining Hyperion, he held a number of senior management positions and gained a wide range of experience including business strategy and planning, business development, product sales, alliances, marketing, consulting and education during a fifteen year term with Oracle Corporation, before becoming SVP for Worldwide Marketing at Chordiant Software Inc.

Paul holds a BSc (Hons) degree from King’s College, University of London, UK and a PhD from the London School of Economics (University of London). He has a range of management qualifications and has contributed articles to a wide range of IT and business publications. He also has considerable international experience having lived and worked in the UK and Europe, Australasia, the Asia Pacific region and the USA.

SK, a Project Management Professional (PMP®) is the founder of Asia ICT Project Management Sdn. Bhd. He has more than 15 years of International Complex ICT Project Management experience with successful track records of managing Mission and Life critical systems project implementation for FOUR International airports - Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai Pudong (China), Inchon (Korea) and Guangzhou (China) and Cross Flagship Integration Architecture Project for Government of Malaysia.

He is currently engaged as Senior Advisor for THE MITRE Corporation; a Federal funded R&D Centers for Government of USA for aviation projects in Asia. He was involved in system development work in Oracle Corporation, Europe, USA and Asia Pacific and founder of Design Migration Services. He is the Vice President and Director of Programs for PMI Malaysian Chapter (2003/2004) and is actively involved in International Council of System Engineering (INCOSE).