SPEAKER
Mia Bulatao
President and
COO
QuadX Inc.
From innovating the Credit Card Customer Loyalty landscape of the Philippines at AIG, Bankard, and BDO, to leading the CRM and Marketing groups of LBC Express, to designing, building and managing the Customer Value Management capabilities of SMART Communications to drive growth through targeted, one-to-one marketing, Mia isn’t just about go, go, go. She’s about grow, grow, grow as proven by her driving QuadX’s market share up 700% in just a year’s time.
As President and Chief Operations Officer, Mia makes sure that company’s vision has the legs, the arms, and the muscle it needs to transform into commercial success.
SPEAKER
Minette Navarrete
President
Kickstart
Ventures
Minette is Vice-Chairman and President of Kickstart Ventures, Inc., the corporate venture capital subsidiary of Globe Telecom.
She is a member of the Ayala Corporation’s Innovation Advisory Council, and of Globe’s Innovation Advisory Board. She is a Senior Vice President at Globe Telecom, focusing on New Business, and a member of the Board of Directors of AdSpark, Globe’s wholly owned digital advertising subsidiary.
Minette has held a number of CEO/COO positions in various industries, ranging from scrappy Philippine startups to iconic global companies.
SPEAKER
Bhavna Suresh
CEO
Lamudi Group
As Chief Executive Officer of Lamudi Philippines, the country’s top real estate portal, Bhavna leads a 100-strong team to change the real estate landscape by providing a seamless property seeking experience for the benefit of both local industry stakeholders and property seekers. Under her leadership, the company is continuing its commitment to the socio-economic development of the country by providing scholarships to deserving college students. She initiated the Lamudi Future Leaders Program, a one-year extensive management training program for exemplary graduates, and spearheaded The Outlook, an annual coming together of the country’s top property developers and real estate professionals for a night of felicitation.
Bhavna brings almost 10 years of professional experience across five countries in entrepreneurship, operations, business strategy and development, digital marketing and general management. She graduated with an MBA from HEC Paris, France and in 2014 co-founded Stylebank.in, a fashion rental platform.
MODERATOR
Albet Roble Buddahim
CEO, Katapult Digital
Chief Marketing Capability Strategist, Mansmith and Fielders Inc.
With an impressive 17 years of work experience under his belt, Albet has led digital, marketing, sales, and E-Commerce teams from a wide range of prestigious client-side brands: as the Chief Marketing Officer of L’OREAL Philippines, the Head of Digital & Business Transformation in AVON Philippines, the Digital Business Platform Leader & Digital Marketing Manager of Proctor & Gamble Asia. His agency saw him as the Chief Digital Officer of IPG Mediabrands Philippines and the Digital Director of ZenithOptimedia Philippines. Meanwhile, in digital publishing, he served as the Head of Sales & Marketing Solutions at yehey.com.
His accomplishments in growing the L’OREAL Philippines brand as Chief Marketing Officer garnered him recognition as the Digital Marketer of the Year from CMO Asia Organization in 2018. The year prior, he became the first ever winner of Mansmith & Fielders’ Young Market Master Awards for Digital Business Building, celebrating his role in IPG Mediabrands.