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WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific team

WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific team

  • Thomas Jacob

    Chief Operating Officer | WAN-IFRA | Frankfurt, Germany

    Short Bio

    As Chief Operating Officer (COO) of WAN-IFRA, Thomas Jacob is responsible for operational management and business development worldwide.

  • Gilles Demptos

    Director, Asia | WAN-IFRA | Singapore, Singapore

    Short Bio

    Gilles Demptos is in charge of building WAN-IFRA's event programmes in the Asia Pacific region and of developing new projects for servicing the Asian news publishing industry. He has been with IFRA since 2002.

  • Wilson Leong

    Operations Manager | WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd | Singapore, Singapore

    Short Bio

    Wilson is in charge of registration, organising and marketing events and competitions (Asia Media Awards) for WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific

  • Jen Teo

    Deputy Director, Training & Special Projects | WAN-IFRA Singapore

    Short Bio

    Jen is currently in charge of developing, organising and promoting the media training programs for Asia Pacific. She also leads the media development activities for Media Mentoring Program and Women in News Asia chapter. Prior to the media development responsibilities, she managed the end to end aspect of the Asia’s flagship events on Publish Asia, Digital Media and Asia Media Awards activities, while working closely with the media supplier community in a number of capacities. She continues to support the team with promotion and organisation of Asia's event activities.

  • Serene Chong

    Office Manager | WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd | , Singapore

  • Kimberly Lim

    Sales Executive | WAN-IFRA | Singapore, Singapore