Music Unlimited International Sdn Bhd (MUI), a member of the KRU Group of Companies, was established in 2015. MUI promotes and produces local and international music festivals, concerts, forums and exhibitions for a variety of market segments.
Alden specializes in strategy and was a strategic planner back in his creative agency days. He heads the business side of VAV Apps, a second-screen advertising platform that uses inaudible audio recognition technology. He is responsible for the partnership with Astro in Malaysia and other international partnerships.
Chief Strategy Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd
Alden Adison
Addie specializes in creativity and was the idea guy that builds many of his venture. He heads the business side of MusixMusix business, an online music-streaming service that provides value-added music for F&B and Retail. He is responsible for the partnership with major chain stores and digital marketing.
Chief Marketing Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd
Addie Anson
Improve retail sales and branding through the power of music. With technology, music can be repurposed to benefit retailers, artistes and labels alike.
Power of Music
Time: 15:30 - 15:45
Addie Anson
Alden Adison
Chief Marketing Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd
Chief Strategy Officer
MusixMusix Sdn Bhd
Speaker/Panelist:
Dr. Siva has been an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor over the last 35 years and has a Ph.D in Venture Capital from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, MBA with Distinction from University of Hull, UK and LLB (Hons) from the University of London. He is the President of the Malaysian Business Angels Network (MBAN), the Association that represents high net worth Angel investors in Malaysia. He was also on the Management Committee of the Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (MVCA) for 10
years until 2018. He was also the Founder & 1st President of TeAM, the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia.
Head, Forum & Corporate Communications KLJamm
R Ramani Ramalingam
Dr. Siva has been an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor over the last 35 years and has a Ph.D in Venture Capital from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, MBA with Distinction from University of Hull, UK and LLB (Hons) from the University of London. He is the President of the Malaysian Business Angels Network (MBAN), the Association that represents high net worth Angel investors in Malaysia. He was also on the Management Committee of the Malaysian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (MVCA) for 10
years until 2018. He was also the Founder & 1st President of TeAM, the Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia.
President Malaysian Business Angels Network
Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah
Ricky T.C. Fung is known recently as the person who represents the recording
industry in Hong Kong for more than a decade in recording industry matters. To
those who are over 40 years of age would probably recall and recognize him
as one of the few key figures that created the highly successful Canto Pop
market. This phenomenon made Hong Kong a regional music centre in
South East Asia.
CEO IFPI (Hong Kong Group) Ltd
Mr. Ricky Fung BBS
Monica Tong has held roles, spanning over 15 years, in public relations, marketing and talent management in the music industry. Upon her return to Asia, she began a new professional career in industry media and publishing, establishing an instant network and access to some of Asia's leading music companies and content creators. Today, her role at Music Press Asia continues to forge new relations with brands in the region and increase understanding of Asia's music industry in the fast lane.
VP Public Policy Asia Universal Music
Ang Kwee Tiang
After working as a Forex Trader in Los Angeles for 6 years, Gumilang decided to go back to Indonesia on 1990. With his friends, he establish an Artist Management company called 'The Art Circle' as Marketing Director. On 1992, Gumilang established independent label company called KAMA Records. Gumilang joined BMG Indonesia in 1994 as an A&R Director then in 1999 he become General Manager, focusing local department and sales division. Until 2001 he was Managing Director in BMG. In early 2005, Gumilang joined PT. Musica Studio's as a Managing Director. Musica is one of Indonesia's largest record companies which were incorporated in 1970. Since 2005, Musica turn in to a Music Company, not longer a label company. Gumilang's successful carrers grew to his satisfaction and become more involved in associations where he is able to voice market issues in order to develop and grow the music industry in Indonesia further. Alongside as one of the members of the Board of Directors at PT. Musica Studio's, Gumilang is also one of Board of Directors at ASIRI (Sound Recording Industry Association of Indonesia). In 2014, Gumilang became Chairman of ASIRI.
Chairman ASIRI
Gumilang Ramadhan
Monica Tong has held roles, spanning over 15 years, in public relations, marketing and talent management in the music industry. Upon her return to Asia, she began a new professional career in industry media and publishing, establishing an instant network and access to some of Asia's leading music companies and content creators. Today, her role at Music Press Asia continues to forge new relations with brands in the region and increase understanding of Asia's music industry in the fast lane.
Head of Editorial Direction Music Press Asia
Monica Tong
NePt Japan is a professional consultant, specialized in marketing and PR for the creative content and entertainment industry, based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 2015, the state-of-the-art international agency has succeeded in representing and promoting Japanese cultural content and arts, in the area of music, animation and other exciting audio-visual content for the export market. Our agency’s functions include brand management, business development & marketing, business matching, talent management, and international mission coordination. To date, we’ve represented a myriad of industry clients of all sizes in as many as 20 over international and domestic trade shows, which includes: Japan Expo, Anime Expo, Middle East Film & Comicon and Kota Buku.
Founder NePT Japan
Karen Sakurai
Siva Zaphod Chandran is the founder of VIMA, Asia's 1st and Biggest Independent Music Awards. The platform has a reach into more than 40 countries and has helped recognize, market & fund the development of the global independent music market over the past 11 years.
CEO Global VIMA
Siva Zaphod Chandran
Fred Chong is the Founder and Group CEO of WebTVAsia, one of Asia's fastest growing media entertainment companies with 15 offices across 11 countries since 2013. With diversified businesses in digital media, film TV, artiste, events, marketing, training and technology, WebTVAsia's video network of 3,000 channels surpasses 20 billion minutes watch time monthly and reaches 330 million subcribers worldwide. Fred is also and award-winning filmmaker and musician with recognition at film festivals in New York, Osaka, Busan and Beijing. He advocates innovation and commercialisation of intellectual properties as the key to success as a media entreprenuer and content creator. His biggest motivation is to build an ecosystem that launches a new generation of Asian creators to produce world-class content.
Group CEO WebTVAsia
Fred Chong
Altimet is an award-winning rapper, songwriter and producer that has had 14-chart-topping, #1 songs from his part 4 solo albums and has bagged many awards since. To date, Altimet is the first rapper in Malaysia to grace the Anugerah Juara Lagu stage 5 times since 2012, with his song 'Kalau Aku Kaya' being the first hip-hop song to win 3rd place, and winning the "Best Performance Award" for 'Amboi'. Most recently, 'Bunga' has been nominated as one of the finalists for the upcoming AJL33 in 2019.
Not only was Altimet hailed 'Man of the Year 2016' by August Man Magazine, he was also named 'Alpha Man' by Glam Lelaki Magazine in the same year. Apart from travelling the globe to perform on international stages, and returning with new experiences to share on stage as well as on TV, Altimet is also the world's first rapper to be featured on the Waze app. His dual-language voice prompt was heard worldwide in both Bahasa Malaysia and English.
Artiste
Altimet
A savvy, experienced, battle-scarred professional, who is still in love with brand building after more than 27 years in the hard, tough advertising and communication world; across Naga DDB, Ogilvy & Mather and Havas. He has been managing brands in many different industries; from telcos to tobaccos and from soft drinks to beers. His passion in brand building drove him to develop innovative advertising ideas and making meaningful brand connections for his clients. Andrew is currently the President of 4As Malaysia.
Chairman 4As
Andrew Lee
Born in Sungai Petani Kedah. She and her family moved to Kuala Lumpur since 1988 where she continued her education in Australia. Upon graduation, Dianne came back to work in the financial sector with various multinational financial institutions such as Hong Leong Securities, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Merrill Lynch. Dianne left the financial in 2016 to setup M Academy China. M Academy China is an artist training pop music academy. Our goals are to find, train and produce new pop singers for the international market. M Academy China is based in the prestigious upmarket mall of Taikooli Sanlitun North (managed by HK Swire Group). Occupying nearly 5,000 sq ft, M Academy China has two big studios, one vocal training studio, music room, training class as well as affliated recording studio. Like our motto, LET YOUR STAR SHINE, M Academy China aims to train its artist to shine like a STAR.
CEO M Academy China
Dianne Tan
Born in Sungai Petani Kedah. She and her family moved to Kuala Lumpur since 1988 where she continued her education in Australia. Upon graduation, Dianne came back to work in the financial sector with various multinational financial institutions such as Hong Leong Securities, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Merrill Lynch. Dianne left the financial in 2016 to setup M Academy China. M Academy China is an artist training pop music academy. Our goals are to find, train and produce new pop singers for the international market. M Academy China is based in the prestigious upmarket mall of Taikooli Sanlitun North (managed by HK Swire Group). Occupying nearly 5,000 sq ft, M Academy China has two big studios, one vocal training studio, music room, training class as well as affliated recording studio. Like our motto, LET YOUR STAR SHINE, M Academy China aims to train its artist to shine like a STAR.
CEO M Academy China
Dianne Tan
Louis (BSc Computer Eng.), hails from the Silicon Valley start-up world in California. After leaving his first job at Inform Technologies Ltd, in 2009, he has since returned to Malaysia. He has since been closely involved in the creation of many successful start-ups ranging from Technology Consultancy - Red Ape Solutions, Global Shopping - Shopandbox.com, Luxury Villa Rentals - TheLuxeNomad.com, MBRS/XBRL Training & Conversion - Formis-training.com, and a local pet food brand - PledgeCare.org.
CTO Amadeus Digital Express
Louis Tan
Sam is the CEO of pitchIN, an Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platform registered by the Securities Commission. In 2018, 75% of the funds raised on ECF in Malaysia was done on pitchIN. More information at www.equity.pitchin.my. Sam was also named FinTech’s 2018 Prominent Personality of the Year.
CEO/Co-Founder
pitchIN
Sam Shafie
Riza Saian was appointed as the Group CEO in October 2017. Riza was instrumental in setting up MyCreative in 2012, being its first Chief Financial Officer. Riza is a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand (CAANZ). Previously, he was the Finance General Manager of Media Prima Berhad, in charge of its Group Treasury & Financial Operations and also the Chief Financial Officer of TV Network. Trained with one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms for more than 10 years, Riza has developed unique perspectives in Accounting, Finance and Treasury with concentration on assurance services, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence and valuations with clientele spanning within Europe, Middle East, North America and South East Asian countries. Following on from its humble beginning, MyCreative now has 4 business divisions namely Private Debt, Private Equity, RIUH and CENDANA.
Group CEO MyCreative Ventures
Riza Saian
Head of International partnerships for MIDEM “Home of the Global Music Community”, Stephane Lefevre comes from the music industry. He developed distribution and trade marketing for indie labels and major companies as Sony Music and Warner Music. Entrepreneur, Stephane also founded a digital creative startup in Paris for music and fashion.
Marketing/Sales/Strategy Reed MIDEM
Stephane Lefevre
Para R, Founder of PR Worldwide Started operating in 1999, been promoting all forms of live entertainment, family, music, comedy and musical events for all age group. Yearly shown include Disney On Ice and recent shows include Maroon 5, Alicia Keys and Taylor Swift.
Chairman ALIFE
Para Rajagopal
Kenny currently serves Chairman of the Recording Industry of Malaysia (RIM). RIM represents over 270 locally incorporated recording companies and businesses, all of which are involved in the production, manufacturing and distribution of local and international sound, music video and karaoke recordings. RIM members also participate in the entire music industry ecosystem through discovering, building, nurturing and investing in recording artistes and their careers, as well as through encouraging and providing a base for songwriters.
Chairman RIM
Kenny Ong
Datuk Jake Abdullah is the Chief Executive Officer of Astro Radio at Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad. Since December 19, 2013, Mr. Abdullah has been instrumental in setting up two Astro affiliated radio stations in India (Aamar FM and Power FM) and two in Jakarta (Gen FM and Jak FM). He holds an MBA from University of Liverpool and has attended the Harvard Senior Management seminar and training. His experience in the media industry is beyond measure as he has tried it all. Manager, Chief Content Officer, Chief Executive Officer and a professional disc jockey, name it, he's been it. In 2012, he had a brief stint as the Chief Executive Officer of iM4U. This CEO breaks typical thresholds by being unconventional. From operating Malaysia top 11 FM brands and helming Rocketfuel Entertainment and from being a professional DJ to conducting leadership talks to senior managers and universities across the country. He has also been Instrumental in setting up leading radio stations in India, Indonesia and China and sits on the Board in Adrep China.
CEO
Astro Radio
Datuk Jake Abdullah
While the domestic and South East Asian market promises lucrative opportunities for the creative and business communities, the panelist will share the macro level prospects in the Asia Pacific region especially the mega markets in Asia.
Big, Bigger, Biggest
Time: 16:45 - 17:45
Ang Kwee Tiang
Gumilang Ramadhan
Mr. Ricky Fung BBS
Dato' Norman Abdul Halim
VP Public Policy Asia Universal Music
Chairman ASIRI
CEO IFPI (Hong Kong Group) ltd
Festival Director
KL Jamm
Speaker/Panelist:
Moderator:
With limited marketing and distribution resources, independent labels and aspiring artistes/songwriters face an uphill task to get their music across to fans. Fear no more as these speakers share their success stories and useful insights on niche and specialty marketing… the "Indie Way".
Indie Way
Time: 15:45 - 16:45
Fred Chong
Siva Zaphod Chandran
Karen Sakurai
Monica Tong
Group CEO WebTVAsia
CEO Global VIMA
Founder NePT Japan
Head of Editorial Direction
Music Press Asia
Speaker/Panelist:
Moderator:
Modeled by K-Pop training module, M Academy is one of the leading talent agencies in China with a holistic strategy on talent scouting, talent development and talent marketing. Watch out for the C-Pop Wave!
C-Pop
Time: 14:00 - 14:30
Dianne Tan
CEO M Academy China
Speaker/Panelist:
Get ready to be rocked as Amadeus presents their latest innovation to maximize the true value of music assets, to be conveniently consumed and efficiently commercialized.
Music IR 4.0 Rocks!
Time: 12:30 - 13:00
Louis Tan
CTO Amadeus Digital Express
Speaker/Panelist:
Great idea but limited capital… find out fund raising mechanisms and opportunities for music related projects in the form of equity, joint ventures, loans, crowdfunding, etc.
No Money? No Problem
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Riza Saian
Sam Shafie
Darren Choy
Dr Sivapalan Vivekarajah
CEO/Co-Founder pitchIN
Group CEO MyCreative Ventures
Managing Director Warner Music
President Malaysian Business Angels Network
Speaker/Panelist:
Moderator:
Discover the global opportunities for labels, publishers, artistes, technology companies and other music industry professionals at the largest music trade show on Earth.
South East Asia and Beyond…
Time: 11:00 - 11:30
Stephane Lefevre
Marketing/Sales/Strategy Reed Midem, (France)
Speaker/Panelist:
A crash course with the biggest names in the recording, live and radio broadcasting business. Learn how the industry addresses the digital opportunities and challenges to adapt to the new consumption pattern and behaviour.
My-Jamm
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Datuk Jake Abdullah
Kenny Ong
Para Rajagopal
R Ramani Ramalingam
CEO Astro Radio
Chairman RIM
Chairman ALIFE
Head, Forum & Corporate Communications,
KLJamm
Speaker/Panelist:
Moderator:
Inspired by the concept of Music City, KL Jamm's Festival Director shares the vision of creating a sustainable live and recorded music eco-system, together with a brief overview of KL Jamm 2019 programs.
Welcome Speech
Time: 09:30 - 10:00
Dato' Norman Abdul Halim
Festival Director KL Jamm
Speaker/Panelist:
More and more consumer brands are integrating music assets into their marketing mix. Whether for live and recorded music, artistes remain to be an important brand themselves especially in the era of social media.
