Speakers and Attendees Asia

Dr. Donald Patrick Lim is the President and Chief Operating Officer of DITO CME, and the Chief Innovation Officer of the Udenna Corporation. Prior to his current role, he has served in various leadership capacities in the media, advertising, and digital spaces. Dr. Donald teaches Advanced Marketing and Advanced Strategic Management for the doctoral program of San Beda University, and has taught eMarketing at the graduate school of De La Salle University and the IMC program at the University of Asia and the Pacific. He was also an adjunct professor in the Asian Institute of Management and Bradford University. He now also teaches Blockchain and AI in Enderun College. He used to sit as part of the technical panel of the Commission of Higher Education, and has also been awarded the Dr. Bienvenido R. Tantoco Sr. Professorial Chair in Marketing by the Jose Rizal University. Aside from his full time job now with Udenna, he oversees twelve other businesses of his own, and also does management consulting for up and coming brands and businesses. Dr. Donald recently jumped into the world of Web3, organizing the 1st Philippine Blockchain Week and is now serving as the founding president of the Blockchain Council of the Philippines. He is a partner in Vibrant DAO, one of the first DAOs established in Spain, and is the Chief Growth Adviser of the foremost Filipino blockchain developer BayaniChain and another Web3 pioneer Validata. Considered one of the founding fathers of digital marketing in the Philippines, Donald has been awarded by various institutions and organizations, his most recent being awarded the The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Award for Community Building in Digital Media. He is the first awardee of the Agora Award for Marketing Communications by the Philippine Marketing Association, a 2015 Young Global Leader conferred by the World Economic Forum, and the only Filipino to receive the DMN 40 under 40 awarded in New York. On top of these, he was conferred Digital Marketer of the Year at the Asian Leadership Awards in Dubai, UAE by the Asian Confederation of Business, the Young Market Masters Award in Online Marketing by Mansmith and Fielders, and is the first recipient of the Digital Leader of the Future award conferred at the World Brand Congress in Mumbai, India. He is the youngest to serve as President of the Philippine Marketing Association, the biggest gathering of marketing professionals in the Philippines. He is the founding president of the Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines and the founder of the Creator and Influencer Council of the Philippines. He sat as a board of Governor and Vice President of the Management Association of the Philippines, and was a past board of director of the Manila Junior Chamber. Finally, Dr. Donald served as a board of Trustee and current President of Operation Smile, a non-profit, volunteer service organization that provides free reconstructive facial surgery for children with cleft lips, and a past board of trustee for the World WildLife Fund Philippines.

Amor Maclang is the pioneering Digital Economies Ecosystem Builder in ASEAN leading the charge as the Convenor of Digital Pilipinas, Digital ASEAN and Philippine Fintech Festival and the Co-Founder in One ASEAN Fintech Movement. As the first Filipina to win the Global Fintech Leadership Awards in the Singapore Fintech Festival in 2022, she’s been a leading advocate of connecting the ASEAN Digital Economies with active programs in Africa, Europe, BRICS, Central Asia, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Hong Kong. She has recently been appointed to partnerships for the leading educational arm for Fintech, the Global Fintech Institute in Singapore and the G100 Global Chair for Digital Economies and Literacy. Co-Founder of her “23-year-old startup” GeiserMaclang, the leading communications and public relations companies in the technology space.

Founder of Let It Fly and architect of a new culture – blending sports, gaming, streaming, and crypto innovation into one powerhouse brand, shaping the future of athlete-led entertainment.

Ida is a respected Governance and Fintech Advocate with a deep commitment to supporting various women’s causes. She is the President of Opal Portfolio Investments (SPV-AMC), Inc., where she leads initiatives to turn around distressed companies and assets. Additionally, she serves as an Independent Board Director for several companies, including three publicly listed corporations and a major multinational conglomerate. She is also the Vice Chairman and a Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Corporate Directors and serves as the Governance Committee Chairperson for the Management Association of the Philippines. Ms. Tiongson is also a lecturer at a leading university in the Philippines. Recognized for her experience in turnaround and risk/audit management, Ms. Tiongson began her career in traditional banking, holding senior management roles for over 22 years at National Australia Bank (as Senior Lending Officer) and Philippine National Bank (as Senior Vice President). At NAB, Australia she successfully garnered perfect score (100%) – Accounting for Bankers Exam and was placed under accelerated promotion. She was part of the Philippine Central Bank's (BSP) Open Finance Oversight Committee Transition Group and chaired the Governance Committee (this group submitted a Governance Framework on Open Finance in June 2023 to BSP). She has also completed several masterclasses, including Negotiation/Remedial Management at AIM, 2015 Blockchain by Terrapin Singapore, IFC World Bank Audit and Risk in Thailand, Alibaba Netpreneur, Certified Balanced Scorecard by Palladium, and the most recent, Data Science for Executives at the Asian Institute of Management.

Dom is a dynamic tech leader with more than a decade of experience driving growth across advertising, fintech, and sustainable development. As Executive Director of DEVCON, the Philippines' largest community of geeks with 11 chapters nationwide,  he champions an inclusive tech talent ecosystem. Bringing a unique blend of global tech innovation and meaningful local impact, Dom's experience spans founding leadership roles in US and Middle East startups at Talino Fintech Venture Studio, and award-winning advertising work at Dentsu and Havas.

Mark S. Gorriceta is the Managing Partner and Head of the Corporate, Banking and Finance, and Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) Groups of Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra – a multi- awarded and full service Philippine law firm established in 2015 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. He represents domestic conglomerates in their digitization efforts as well as the Philippines’ top technology companies – both local and global entities – and further renders his expertise in corporate structuring, tax, banking & finance, capital markets, equity financing, and in navigating complex cross-border commercial transactions. With over 20 years of experience in private practice, Mark has developed an extensive expertise in complex corporate transactions, commercial contracts and regulatory matters in a range of areas that impact businesses – whether for start-ups or for Top 1000 companies in the Philippines. He is a leading lawyer in the Philippines in the fields of Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Law. Mark has been recognized as one of the Philippines’ Top 100 Lawyers for four consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023) by the Asia Business Law Journal. With pioneering expertise on the law on digital assets, fintech, blockchain, virtual currencies, e-commerce, data privacy, and artificial intelligence, he is legal counsel to the biggest and most impactful technology and online companies in the Philippines and has been recognized as one of the Top Technology Media & Telco Lawyers in Asia and Ranked # 1 in the Philippines in the Tech/Fintech space. A member of the Philippine Bar, Mark graduated law with honors and holds a Bachelor of Arts – Political Science degree from the Ateneo de Manila University. He completed certificate courses in Finance at the Asian Institute of Management. He attended certificates courses in Corporate Finance at Harvard University. He also completed several Masterclasses on Blockchain, Distributed Ledger & Smart Contracts in Singapore and Hong Kong. Mark is currently a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila University’s Graduate School of Business and teaches Mergers & Acquisitions for the Advanced Module Diploma Course in Corporate Finance. Mark also serves as lecturer at the Fintech and Regulatory Innovation Program of the Mapua University in collaboration with the University of Cambridge of England.