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Speaker Series: The Present & Future of E-Commerce



Event Date 24 Jan 2018 (Wed), 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Venue Lecture Theatre 25
Organiser Centre of Excellence International Trading (Email : ceit-itp@ntu.edu.sg )


Event Info

E-commerce has come a long way before evolving to what it is today, opening up possibilities of online buying and selling from all over the world, with ease. Despite its rapid growth trend in recent years, E-Commerce businesses constantly have to innovate to provide the best premium services to stay relevant in business.

In this session, we are pleased to invite EzBuy, Reebonz and ShopBack to share with us about transformations in the present e-commrce ecosystem that make it thrice and catch a glimpse of the excitement in the future of e-commerce.

 

Panel speakers:

Ms. Wendy Liu, Co-Founder, CEO of Singapore, EzBuy

Wendy is the Co-founder of ezbuy Group Holdings – operating out of Singapore and Malaysia, and is the Chief Executive Officer of ezbuy Singapore. Wendy, a Singaporean citizen, is a First-class Honours graduate in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with a minor in Business from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and holds a Master’s degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Prior to co-founding ezbuy (formerly known as 65daigou) in 2010, Wendy was a Product Engineer at Global Foundries (formerly Chartered Semiconductor). Wendy caught the technopreneur bug back in her university days. Whilst her peers stuck to the minimum core subjects curriculum, Wendy elected to take on additional business and e-commerce related modules out of sheer curiosity and interest. These extra modules paid off and opened another door to embrace the beauty of online e-commerce.

 

Ms. Nupur Sadiwala, Head of Corporate Development and Strategic Projects, Regional Head, Southeast Asia, Reebonz

Nupur Sadiwala has served as Reebonz's Head of Corporate Development and Strategic Projects, since June 2015. She is responsible for Reebonz's investments and fundraising strategy and execution.

As Regional Head, Ms. Sadiwala leads business strategy, sales and operations for the Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand markets.

Ms. Sadiwala joined the company after working for Goldman Sachs and Deloitte Consulting in the New York and Singapore offices. Nupur pursued her MBA at Columbia University and is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Ms. Josephine Chow, Country Head, ShopBack

As the Head of International Expansion in ShopBack, Josephine plays a critical role in evaluating and determining potential markets for ShopBack. She leads the team to set-up basic infrastructure and build initial traction to be operational within the shortest time possible.

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Josephine was taking the wheel for ShopBack Singapore and Malaysia before switching her portfolio. Under her strong leadership in 2015/2016, ShopBack’s anchor market grew 6x in a short span of just 9 months.

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The NTU WKWSCI alumni first entered the tech scene back in 2012 for three and a half years at one of Rocket Internet's ventures, ZALORA, where she accumulated a wealth of ecommerce experience through leading the regional offline marketing and partnerships team across 7 markets.



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