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eCommerista night 1.0: Mix and interact with top PH online and eBiz leaders (An AsiaPay contact networking night)
Finally, eCommerce is brewing up in Asia via the Philippines.
Last night, AsiaPay launched its first successful contact networking night with the top online and eBiz leaders in the Philippines. Despite the rain, the eCommeristas gathered and mingled and established networks in Mag:net Cafe Bonifacio High Street and also talked about their common goals in making eCommerce fly in the country.
The night featured eCommerista Show and Tell where panelists and other participants had the opportunity to talk about their eBusiness and website, with an open forum afterwards.
Panelists include:
Andrian Lee, Marketing Director - Philippines & Emerging market at AsiaPay Philippines
Andrian Lee has been an eCommerce entrepreneur for the past 7 years. Currently he runs AsiaPay Philippines, the first overseas center of the Hong Kong based leader in electronic payment gateway and ebusiness platform solutions. As its Marketing Director for Emerging Markets, he recently launched PesoPay, the country’s first ecommerce service for commercial merchants with the leading bank & acquirer, BDO Equitable. Andrian’s recent exploits in the Web 2.0 mobile world included starting up the New Media business & social networking portal for the Philippines’ #1 online gaming company, Level Up (www.levelupgames.ph) and launching the first online donation service for non-profit organizations. He is spearheading the eBiz is eAsy campaign to accelerate the adoption of everything “e” and advocates using Web 2.0 communities to jumpstart e-commerce and non-profit ventures (www.ebiziseasy.com).
In the eCommerista night, he unveiled the Shoppay web 2.0 applet, which tempts the friendster generation with online shopping by embedding this widget in their favorite web 2.0 profile page.
Joseph Chan, President of AsiaPay Hong Kong
He fllew to the Philippines for the eCommerista night in to give Asian flavor to our panel and mused about “D-Commerce: Are Debit Cards Key to Online Shopping in Asia?” Joseph shares the East Asian experience with PayPal, China Union Pay & PayYo.
Bob Sewell - President/CEO of Ticketworld
Mr. Sewell arrived in the Philippines in 1982 in an executive position with a major international company. In 1995 he incorporated TicketWorld, the first ticketing agency to offer a networked selling ticket sales system for events and attractions. TicketWorld has been selling tickets on-line since 1999 and can be considered one of the pioneers in the are of on-line sale in the Philippines. Despite its offerings of popular shows the growth of internet sales was stagnant at 1% of total sales and it took a redevelopment
of the ticket system to move to the next level. Now sitting at 12% of sales the company sees significant growth potential ahead and has set a target of 25% of sales through this channel. Although this target is well behind other major developed markets it will be a major achievement for the the Philippine market where internet infrastructure lags behind our Asian neighbors and where costs are high.
Jim Sarmiento - Sales and Marketing Manager of Netvision
Mr. Sarmiento worked with Netopia Internet Cafe and netGames both ePLDT subsidiaries as Sales and Marketing Manager. He is now in charge of developing & acquiring new customers and coordinating with content providers/owners of Netvision pay-per-view company.
Check out and join our Facebook eCommerista group for our photos: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20516086304
