Vijay manages Travel, Transportation & Hospitality Industries across Asia Pacific, Greater China and Japan for all lines of business at IBM. He is a member of IBM's Industry Academy and also leads IBM's industry Solutions & Business Development, and TradeLens (www.tradelens.com), in the region.

Vijay was previously the Global Head of Travel, Transportation & Hospitality Industries at Oracle (www.oracle.com) for 12 years, leading sales and business development globally, in addition to the product management and launch of Industry solutions (Airline Loyalty, Aeronautical Billing Systems, Aircraft Maintenance, Fuel Management, Ports Terminal Management, Sales Rating & Operations, Airline Data Model, Passenger & Asset Data and Customer Experience management).

Paul has worked for more than 30 years in the retail, logistics and supply chain industry, gaining experience covering operations, business development, corporate and strategic management as well as IT and supply chain solutions. He started his career in Retailing in 1988 when he joined Isetan and has worked with various multinationals including TNT Worldwide Express, EGL Global Logistics (now known as CEVA), Menlo Worldwide Logistics and YCH Group, a Singapore home-grown logistics solutions provider.

Paul founded and launched Supply Chain Asia, and has been leading the organisation as a volunteer since September 2005. Supply Chain Asia is a community that brings logistics and supply chain professionals in Asia together to network and learn from one another. As a volunteer, Supply Chain Asia provides Paul with a unique avenue to connect with the industry, both for knowledge and community development purpose. Paul has a strong network with shippers in the logistics and supply chain industry through his role in Supply Chain Asia.

Paul is a graduate of the National University of Singapore and holds an MBA (with distinction), specialising in Retail Distribution, from the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Jaya Moorthi, is a supply chain professional with 25 years of experience in broad areas of supply chain and logistics. He started his career with Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) for 4 years before joining Hewlett-Packard Asia Pacific. In PSA, he was in lead positions in vessel operations, yard logistics, shipping planning and worked extensively with various shipping liners.

In Hewlett-Packard, where he has been for the last 19 years, he has toured different portfolios ranging from production, postponement, international & domestic freight and a host of others. He held leadership position as the Supply Chain Director for Imaging and Printing group responsible for supply chain and operations for the IPG business, reverse logistics, environmental & recycling operations as well as being accountable for Program Office for IPG. In his last role as Director of Logistics, Asia Pacific, he was accountable for logistics operations, procurement, customs, strategic planning and partner management across the Asia Pacific.

Presently, he is the VP Logistics, EAJ for Schneider Electric. He is accountable a team size of 450 and has logistics operations, network modelling, customs operations, field services, Tailor supply chain, logistic engineering and business process engineering teams under his leadership.

He was awarded Supply Chain Professional (Hi-Tech sector) Asia Pacific by Supply Chain Asia (SCA) for Year: 2014. He sits in the Green Freight Asia (GFA) as a Board of Director and co-chair Shippers Council within Supply Chain Asia. He is also member of the Center of Innovation SCM Advisory committee at Republic Polytechnic. At the community level, he sits in the Singapore Hockey Federation as the Vice President (PR/Marketing).

Jaya has a multi-discipline academic background. He graduated from National University of Singapore with Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and from University of London with a Bachelor of Law (LLB Hons). He subsequently went on to complete his MBA with California State University. In addition, he is a certified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) with American Board of NLP and has Certificate of Management (CMA) accounting with University of Monash.

Jaya is also a keen reader of non-fiction books ranging from business, psychology, history amongst others. He plays soccer, does yoga and runs often. He is married to lawyer wife with two children.

Tiow is currently the Head of Procurement for the JCAP region, accountable for all indirect sourcing teams strategies and operations across Japan, China and Asia Pacific cluster markets.

Before joining MSD, Tiow was the global procurement director for Diageo, based out of Singapore and led end to end procurement (supply/direct materials, marketing/commercial and indirect/overheads categories) for the teams across the Asia Pacific. Tiow also led the best cost country sourcing agenda (BCCS) for Diageo globally and was instrumental in the implementation of the solution for Diageo.

He built his career in Diageo through a succession of procurement roles, heading up procurement teams across SEA markets and was also the pioneering member of marketing procurement for the region. Prior to Diageo, Tiow led the regional packaging and ingredients category for Philip Morris across Asia Pac manufacturing affiliates.

Tiow is a trained engineer with a Bachelor’s degree in electrical power engineering and a certified ISO 9001:2000 lead auditor. Tiow is also a current committee member of Supply Chain Asia’s Procurement Council aimed at progressing the function across industries.