Meet Our Leaders
Srinivas Gattamneni
He leads ADA, the largest company in Asia that integrates data, insights, media, and content to deliver business outcomes across nine countries in South and Southeast Asia.
Srinivas has also served as Chief Portfolio Officer at Axiata Digital where he oversaw all M&A, portfolio operations, and investments for the Axiata portfolio of companies in digital advertising, digital financial services, and platforms.
Before joining Axiata, he founded PayZazz, a UK based mobile payments startup. Prior to that, he headed Corporate Venturing at ARM Ltd. in Cambridge, UK, and also led China operations for Motorola Mobile Devices software group in Shanghai.
Srinivas holds an MBA from London Business School and B.Eng from National University of Singapore.
Chief Executive Officer
Anurag Gupta
Anurag has more than two decades of experience in building teams, creating and executing integrated, complex communication programs spanning insights, creative, new and traditional media, and CRM. He has been in leadership roles at leading integrated communication agencies – Wunderman/Possible, WPP Team P&G Asia, DDB Mudra Max, Geometry India, Draft Worldwide East Africa, managing large teams, and working with top clients like Unilever, P&G, BP, Samsung and Vodafone. While at Wunderman, he led WPP’s largest horizontal team in Asia for P&G where he built a bespoke team of integrated communications experts to manage all in-market activities for the FMCG brand. He has more than 300 local, regional and international awards to his credit, including Cannes Gold, and AMEs Asia Gold. Anurag is also a non-executive board member and advisor for a mobile start-up, Skrilo.
Chief of Agency &
Chief Operating Officer
Fariq Cader
He started his career at Arthur Andersen affiliate and moved on to Dialog Axiata where he held various management positions in different areas like, Credit Management, Fraud Management, Revenue Assurance, Corporate Finance, Finance Operations, New Business Development, and Digital Services.
Fariq counts over 20 years of experience, of which 15 years are in the telecommunications field. During this period, he was also with the management team of “Etisalat” group’s operation in Saudi Arabia. He is a board member of many digital ventures in Sri Lanka and also a consultant to the World Bank on Mobile Money.
Chief Financial Officer
Stephanie Caunter
She played pivotal roles in strategic transformational projects such as PwC’s rebranding exercise, and pioneered PwC Malaysia’s digital marketing efforts.
A Diversity and Inclusion advocate who used to write a monthly personal column, ‘Changing Hats’, she also enjoys mentoring young talent.
Her pride and joy are her 2 young daughters. She runs to destress. And she’s constantly battling a serious addiction to chocolate and coffee.
Stephanie is a 3 time McKinsey Youth Leadership Academy Mentor; 2 time Lean In Malaysia Career Programme Mentor; and received the Gold for Best B2B Marketer at the Malaysia CMO Awards 2018 . She graduated with a BS in Engineering from Cornell University, NY, USA.
Head of Marketing
Dai Yoshizawa
Dai started as a producer of mobile content at Lycos Japan. He then joined Sumitomo Corporation where he has held various positions. These include the role of a Digital Business Consultant for the Japan Travel Bureau and a Venture Capitalist in Silicon Valley where his investment portfolio included data intelligence, video analytics, and other internet startups. Before joining ADA, he ran the largest online supermarket in Japan and led its global expansion to China, Indonesia and other Asian regions as executive Regional Director.
Dai joins us through our relationship with Sumitomo Corporation as Head of Product and is in charge of whole product management, from development to execution.
On a personal level, Dai loves travelling and has a preference for the outdoors exploring beautiful scenic spots.
Head of Reach Business
Vittorio Furlan
As a management consultant, he has worked with clients to define and implement their digital, data and analytics strategy. Among his accomplishments, he has helped banks to drastically improve customer experience, telcos to make use of their data and education providers to improve students’ performance.
He came to Malaysia to drive the growth of EY Data and Analytics where he created a full-fledged practice offering strategy, data science & engineering, and big data solutions.
On a personal note, he is a strong believer of “mens sana in corpore sano” – a Krav Maga practitioner, a trail runner and a biker even. A global citizen, he is fluent in English and Italian – has lived in Europe, UK, Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand and holds impressive credentials from Computer Science degrees to MBAs.
Head of Business Insights
Simon Samuel
Originally trained in finance, Simon is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants UK. He was an early pioneer of the benefits of customer analytics and decisioning. Simon has been instrumental in building personalised marketing and pricing capability, delivering multi-million-pound benefits for the leading retail bank in the UK. Benefitting from a diverse career path incorporating finance, Deloitte Digital consultancy, and more recently Centrica – The UK’s largest utility and IoT connected home provider.
Simon and his family have been in Malaysia since May 2018 where, prior to joining ADA, he provided consultancy support to drive the adoption of data analytics across many of Malaysia’s largest organisations.
In his spare time, Simon is a running enthusiast and has competed in many marathons across the globe.
Head of Data Analytics
Mahesh Neelakantan
Prior to ada, Mahesh was employed with Ogilvy Action working with brands such as Coca Cola, Cadbury and Castrol. While at OgilvyAction, he led the office to win 3 successive Twin-Peak (Creative and Effective) awards given to the same piece of work. He also has had the opportunity to set up start-ups thrice across markets. Mahesh is an avid speaker at marketing forums, trainer for IACT and an occasional contributor to industry magazines.
Regional
Agency Partnerships Director
Faraz Khan
Faraz is passionate about building consumer strategy and media and performance strategy for brands. For the past 12 years he has worked across the region for a variety of established clients, not only from a strategic lens of digital but the entire consumer touch-point eco-system. He has previously successfully established and led agency teams for Telco clients in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.
Prior to ada, he was with GroupM Agencies (Wavemaker/Mediacom) in Malaysia and India, where he has successfully led key brands like Tesco & Tesco Eshop, Redbull Europe, Nissan, Renault, Pernod Ricard (Absolut/Chivas), Celcom, Hindustan Times, Max Bupa Insurance, Samsonite, SC Johnson and Shell Malaysia.
Among his awards are “Best Use of Digital, Best Use of Activation/Events, Best Consumer Insights, Best of Search, Best Idea Retail/Shopper, and Best Use of Media”.
Faraz is a movie buff and still harbours a dream of directing a movie. He loves travelling and has set his heart on visiting 120 countries or more in his life-time.
Regional
Head of Acquisitions
Rozy Laxana
Managing Director
Sri Lanka
Kirill Mankovski
Kirill is a seasoned marketing professional, passionate about innovation and technology. His experience spans across multiple industries and sectors from FMCG to Consumer Goods to high-technology sectors like Telecoms and Internet of Things, including start-up roles where he was responsible for building a brand from scratch.
Prior to joining ADA, Kirill held several senior management positions in Axiata group of companies, including Chief Sales and Chief Enterprise Officer roles. Before joining Axiata, Kirill held senior positions in several multinational companies such as Samsung, Philips and Siemens. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Judge Business School of Cambridge University (UK) and Bachelor’s degree from Belarusian State Economic University.
Kirill is an open-minded and curious person. He has lived in 5 different countries on 3 continents and speaks 4 languages. He enjoys traveling and photography. Also, Kirill is a caring husband and a happy father of 2 wonderful daughters.
Managing Director
Indonesia
Adrian Burton
Adrian currently spearheads ADA in Malaysia. He leads a team of solution-focused industry digital marketing & content experts which help brands to solve their business pain points through an innovative and integrated approach to digital marketing. Having a deep understanding of consumer data and insights, he and his team are able to drive a data driven approach to their clients’ campaigns and maximising ROI throughout the campaign life stage. He has delivered this for top clients across Asia – in telecommunications (Yoodo, XL, Robi, Airtel), banking digital (BCA, Commonwealth bank) and wallets cash (Boost).
His experience covers global and regional roles where he led large teams on marketing-related market entry strategies, business transformation and strategic turnaround execution for digital businesses in emerging and developing markets. His industry specialisation is in the music streaming, telecommunications and banking/ fintech sectors. He also collaborated on and managed marketing budgets in excess of $100M and across 22 different countries, bringing new digital services to over 1 billion new users.
Managing Director
Malaysia
Yogi Triharso
Country Director, Reach
Indonesia
Suppakit Limboonsong
Country Director
Thailand
Ted Kim
Country Director
Korea
Hubert Marchand
Having spent over 3+ years with ada based out of the Malaysia office, Hubert has worked on numerous regional accounts, helping customers win across multiple emerging markets.
Originally from the Netherlands, outside of work he loves to travel and explore different parts of Asia – so much so, he married one……
Country Director
Cambodia
Summer Choo
Summer has been in the media industry for 14 years; her last role being a co-founder and Media Strategist of her own integrated ad agency, focusing on mainly digital and social media. Starting her career at media bigwigs like Universal McCann and OMD, she was the youngest media person to be nominated by Campaign Asia 2013’s 40 Under 40: Unsung heroes pushing the boundaries of media and advertising.
With strong strategic thinking backed by data, she helms new business development and has since on boarded several regional brands, diversifying our Singapore footprint through data and digital transformation.
Country Director
Singapore
Mayi Baviera
Mayi has been working in digital advertising for the past 13 years – starting out as a creative copywriter, moving on to digital strategic planning, and account servicing. She has helped grow multiple brands in Electronics, Telcos, QSRs, and Retail functions. Prior to ada, she has been with Cheil as their Digital Director, and FCB Manila as a Business Unit Director.
But at her heart is Horticulture. She is a proud mother to a collections of orchids and she can have healthy discussion about all things green and growing. She also holds a degree in Psychology from Miriam College.
Country Director
Philippines
Faradi Bachri
Prior to ada, Faradi was the Managing Director at Dentsu Aegis Indonesia where he achieved over 80% growth, making Dentsu Aegis Network Indonesia, the best performing market in the network within Asia Pacific. Prior to Dentsu, Faradi was the General Manager at Tequila Digital (TBWA agency) where he is credited with re-building a dying Tequila digital business from scratch. In a career spanning nearly 15 years, Faradi has won numerous awards across local, regional and global platforms.
Country Director
Indonesia
Ashraful Haque
Highly creative, his leadership and communication skills with successful track record in leading diverse cross-functional projects made ‘Grameenphone’, the leading telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh, the most loved brand across all categories. He later brought ‘Robi’, the second largest mobile network operator to new heights by making it the ‘#1 Socially Devoted Brand in the World’.
Consistently identified as “fast track” individual, Ashraf has received the highest accolade from Axiata Group and is recognised as an ‘Axiata Champion’.
Country Director
Bangladesh
