CMO Growth Council Speakers

Claire Weston Claire Weston Head of International Marketing PayPal

Claire Weston is a global marketing leader with over 20 years of experience across B2B and B2C technology, payments, and creator ecosystems. She currently leads International Marketing at PayPal, responsible for APAC, LATAM, and MEA for both consumer and enterprise audiences. Previously, Claire served as Chief Marketing Officer at Coda, where she led the company’s global rebrand and built its product marketing and demand generation functions. Her earlier career includes senior marketing roles at Meta and LinkedIn.
Clay Schouest Clay Schouest Chief Strategy Officer, APAC dentsu

Clay is a cultural anthropologist with a passion for brand building, specializing in insight-led ideas that seamlessly integrate creativity, technology, and media. A veteran strategist, he has amassed extensive experience across global, regional, and local roles in London, New York, Istanbul, Shanghai, Amsterdam, and Singapore. Clay has collaborated with prominent clients including The Coca-Cola Company, Unilever, Mondelez, Kraft Heinz, L’Oréal, and P&G. His recent experience includes three years brand-side at Reckitt, where he established an in-house creative and media team. An active industry participant, Clay served as a juror at Cannes 2021 and takes pride in mentoring emerging talents. He boasts numerous accolades, including five Cannes Lions and ten Effie Awards, while regularly contributing to industry publications and speaking engagements. He believes there is no greater philanthropic act than passing knowledge along.
Ed Pank Ed Pank SVP Lions APAC

Ed opened the Asia Pacific office for WARC at the beginning of 2011 in Singapore, bringing the world’s most comprehensive marketing intelligence service to the region. Since then, the business has been expanding at a rapid pace with many new product and content initiatives, including the recent launch of the Lions Intelligence AI tool. In January 2024, he took on the additional role of SVP LIONS APAC to lead initiatives for all brands from Lions across the region, including WARC, Contagious, Cannes Lions and Spikes Asia.

Ed has an agency background. Before WARC, he was Managing Director of Bates in Singapore, where he led integrated teams to develop campaigns for Sony, Heineken, Nokia and the Singapore Pavilion at World Expo in Shanghai. Before moving to Singapore, Ed was based in London, where he worked for 14 years at Rainey Kelly/Y&R, latterly as Global Business Director for Land Rover, leading teams to develop launch campaigns around the world.

Always a keen proponent of both creative and effective communications, he has won several awards throughout his career, including Effies for Sony and the Anti-Drugs campaign in Singapore. He has also judged for the Singapore Effies, Australia APG and the Smarties APAC awards, for whom he was additionally appointed as the Jury Chair for 2022.

Ed is an evangelist for creative marketing that matters, who regularly brings to life smart strategy and breakthrough creativity at marketing conferences across Asia Pacific.

In November 2024, he helped launch the Singapore chapter of the IAA as Vice President.
Laura Kantor Laura Kantor Head of Marketing, South East Asia Canva

Laura is Head of Marketing for Southeast Asia at Canva, leading growth across one of the company’s most dynamic regions. An award-winning marketing leader with 15+ years’ experience across tech, e-commerce, and sustainability, she was an early hire at foodpanda, helping scale the business more than 100× in Singapore and shaping its sustainability roadmap. She’s known for turning chaos into clarity and building teams who actually enjoy Monday mornings, creating environments where people feel supported and excited to do their best work.
Mansi Trivedi Mansi Trivedi B2B Strategy Lead dentsu

Mansi leads B2B strategy practice at Dentsu. She is a strategy leader with 18 years of experience in B2C and B2B agencies, and sees herself proudly, as an outsider. Living across seven cities over two decades has shaped her belief that growth - whether personal or professional, always begins at the edge of the familiar. And it’s in that unfamiliar space that the most powerful solutions are born.

Mansi has helped some of the world’s biggest brands - Lenovo, IBM, L'Oreal, Reckitt, General Motors, Mastercard, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, Nestle in APAC earn their share of mind and market.

Over the last few years, Mansi has been committed to bringing the core tenets of great marketing into B2B, again as an outsider. Shaping the way B2B marketing thinks with science but moves with imagination.
Ng Chew Wee Ng Chew Wee Head of Business Marketing, APAC TikTok
Paul Coxhill Paul Coxhill COO LIONS
Rica Facundo Rica Facundo Lions Intelligence

Rica Facundo is a strategist and editor who explores how choices, meaning and growth are defined in a fast-changing world, with a particular focus on APAC and the human and cultural realities behind business decisions. Her work centres on translating culturally nuanced insight into strategic and creative thinking that travels across regions and informs better business decisions.

She is a sought-after keynote speaker and moderator at global and regional conferences including Cannes Lions, Spikes Asia, Adfest, SXSW, and FUTR, known for asking better questions that reframe industry conversations and unlock more nuanced perspectives.