Consumer Insights Power-Up 2022

Neeraj Gulati leads brand and marketing transformation for Accenture clients. A software engineer with experience across digital marketing, brand, technology solutions, UX/UI, content creation, creative services and metaverse, Neeraj has launched and scaled some of the biggest agencies in Asia. His passion in marrying storytelling and technology also birthed personalised storybook platform, Bookyboo, that became a top e-commerce startup in India and caught the eye of The Walt Disney Company, which partnered with the platform.

Jia Nina is the Country Marketing Head of BigPay Malaysia, marketing to over 1.5million users as BigPay remains as one of the fastest growing neobank in ASEAN.

At BigPay, she has led high impact projects that include presenting BigPay to the Malaysian Prime Minister, partnering with MOF Malaysia to digitally onboard over 2million youths, championing financial inclusion for Malaysian B40 income groups in partnership with MDEC, while building strategic partnerships with mega brands such as airasia, Shopee, and, ZALORA.

Jia holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree from Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.

Tanushri formerly leads the marketing in Asia Pacific for Popeyes. Before this, she helped build a sustainable brand as head of Brand & Media for Burger King Indonesia and led digital marketing for Kraft Heinz brands in Indonesia at VMLY&R. She particularly enjoys developing head-turning creative campaigns with data-driven insights. She is passionate about sustainability across different disciplines and tries to bring that to her work in every possible way.

For over six years, Julie has been on a mission to democratize consumer research and make it accessible to everyone. She and her team strive to provide companies with fast and reliable insights into consumers, markets, brands and products through Vase.ai's AI-powered, a self-service platform to help them make actionable decisions.

As a new mom, Julie likes to pamper her 6-month-old son while taking active approaches toward achieving developmental milestones ahead of time!

Shaina is an Asia-focused journalist, starting as a business reporter, corresponding to the business landscape in the region’s power and healthcare sector. She has been a journalist for Asian Power and Healthcare Asia. Using her knowledge and wide commercial awareness of the region, she recently moved her domain to the more creative side of business. Currently, she’s the regional editor of MARKETECH APAC, an APAC-dedicated news outlet in the marketing and advertising industry.