Vineet Maheshwari, CSO
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Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers In Asia - 2023
Chief Strategists leaving behind all Ifs & Buts
Strategic leadership being the tailwind behind organizational growth, touches every aspect of employee-chain to create a single, forward-focused vision that can align company and its shareholders and also serves as an actionable way to reach company's collective goal. As the industry landscape is evolved, the strategic leadership space also saw a facelift. The increasing number for trained professionals with apt education driving the strategic leadership with new approaches to manage and deliver projects while handling risks and challenges, team development, and communication. Being a new-age leadership position driven by industry trends it welcomes both man and women to work together, to thrive together and to gain status as industry professionals without any gender bias.
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Today’s C-suite not only brings in traditional roles but typically a host of new designations that were virtually unheard of before a decade. The traditional c-suit roles like CEO, CFO or COO is nowoften joined by Chief Diversity and Inclusion, Chief Marketing, Chief Strategy, Chief Sustainability, Chief Data, and Chief Privacy officers in the executive suite. As the technologies evolved, the world became more inclusive and businesses are getting more and more competitive, Executive officers and the senior leadership team are facing pressure to continuously cultivate and implement more robust strategic initiatives that will help organizations achieve a competitive advantage. With markets getting more complex and digital disruption increases the velocity of change, the job of strategy becomes more complex and demanding, which is why organizations are realizing that strategic planning is a complex, full-time job that may require more focus, structure and exactitude than a CEO alone can provide. Hence the importance of CSO is increasing in every organization.
In this issue of the CEO Insights Asia magazine, a list of ‘Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers in Asia- 2023' is provided to the readers in corporate and different sectors, for informing on the excellent services leveraged by the Leaders in diverse domains. The listing is prepared by a team of industry veterans, CEOs and VCs, and the CEO Insights magazine editorial board.
Our subscribers play a decisive role in finalization of our annual list of "Top 10 Chief Strategy Officers In Asia - 2023" by nominating those which have served them with excellence and are praiseworthy. If you feel there is a company that deserves to be on our annual list, do write to us about them mentioning their value proposition.
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Charlie Baillie , Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer | Ampverse | A seasoned digital media & entertainment executive with commercial & operational experience across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific |
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Danny Phan, Global Chief Strategy Officer & Managing Director | Wachsman | A multi-award-winning professional with international strategic communications experience in Asia and the United States supporting business leaders in new and highly regulated industries to navigate political and econonomic volatility |
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Emmanuel Sabbagh , Chief Strategy Officer | TBWA\Asia | A regional professional skilled in digital strategy, digital marketing, advertising with 15+ years of extensive experience |
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Kapil Mittal, Chief Strategy Officer | Power Gummies | A result-oriented professional with more than 20 years of experience in various sectors, such as sales, business management, marketing, and branding |
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Richard McCabe, Chief Strategy Officer-APAC | McCann Worldgroup | An irrefutable leader in the business of creativity expertisely skilled in marketing, advertising, digital marketing, CRM, relationship marketing and many |
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Sunil Nair, Chief Strategy Officer | Third Wave Coffee | One of the strategists professional behind establishing the firm as one of the best indigenous coffee brands in the country |
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Syed Abdullah Galib, Chief Strategy Officer | Fundednext | A successful entrepreneur with multiple international ventures in the finTech industry skilled media buying, graphic design, SEO, copywriting, product research, PPC advertising, and content creation |
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Theo Scherman, Chief Strategy Officer | Hitachi | Chief Strategy Officer |
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Venkat Mallik , Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer | Tidal7 Asia | A digital branding professional working with brands and businesses which are dominantly using classical mainline advertising and thinking |
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Vineet Maheshwari, CSO | PNB METLIFE Insurance | A C-level executive helping to formulate, facilitate and communicate an organization's strategic initiative and future goals to make the business more competitive |
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