[Special] TIA Singapore founders meetup: Meet these ex-Spotifiers

Next week’s gonna be a smashing one. Here at Tech in Asia (TIA), we’re a fan of spontaneity. And just this week, I received the news that some ex-Spotifiers are coming to town, and would like to connect with the community. Hear from them as they share their views of the current web and media landscape. It’ll be a good opportunity to find out what are they doing now too!

I be like, “let’s do diz.”

Meet these ex-Spotifiers

Andreas Blixt (LinkedIn)

Andreas Blixt is an entrepreneur, and the co­-founder and CTO of Roger, the first-­of­-its-­kind voice platform, making communication and the technology we use feel closer to real human interaction through voice.

He was a Spotify early employee and led development of all social features while having a big role in the rest of the product.

As one of the founding members of Spotify in the United States, he helped build a large engineering team out of New York that today delivers crucial product and technology to millions of users.

Ricardo Vice Santos (LinkedIn)

Ricardo Vice Santos is the co-founder and CEO of Roger, the first-­of­-its-­kind voice platform, making communication and the technology we use feel closer to real human interaction through voice.

Previously, he led Growth/New Markets at Spotify, working to bring the gift of music to every single person on the planet.

Throughout his tenure, Ricardo oversaw the development, launch, and growth of Spotify in over 30 countries including the U.S., Philippines, and Brazil. He was also a founding member of Spotify’s U.S. engineering team.

Gary Liu (LinkedIn)

Gary is the CEO of Digg, a New York based content discovery startup. He joined Digg originally as Chief Operating Officer, leading revenue strategy and operations across all functions.

Previously, Gary was Head of Spotify Labs, where he led emerging technologies and new business strategies for Spotify’s global markets.

Prior to that, he was Spotify’s Global Director of Ad Product Strategy. Before Spotify, Gary was the Director of Sales Strategy and Operations at AOL (Patch), and was a business and sales operations leader at both Clickable and Google.

Sriram Krishnan (LinkedIn)

Sriram Krishnan is a technology executive and early stage investor with experience in Europe, Asia and US. He has a strong track record of building businesses and teams globally, and is passionate about growing innovative technology services.

Sriram is currently the Head of International Growth at Tinder, and was previously the VP of Business at Humin until the company was acquired by Tinder in March 2016.

Prior to Humin, as the founding member of the growth and expansion team at Spotify, he was responsible for international growth and ops (BD, PR, advertising sales, licensing and recruiting), helping Spotify expand to 75 mil MAU and 20 mil paying users in 60+ countries.

Before Spotify, Sriram worked in management consulting, advising PE firms on M&A transactions and Fortune 500 companies on growth and organizational strategy.

Event details

Date: 19th Sept, 2016 (Monday)
Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Location: The Hub Singapore (128 Prinsep Street, #01-01, Singapore 188655)
Agenda:

• 6.30pm: Arrive and register
• 6.50pm: Brief intro about TIA community and The Hub
• 7:00pm: Sharing and Q&A
• 7.50pm onwards: Mingle and network!

Light refreshments and drinks provided.

Huge thank you to The Hub Singapore, our amazing community partner for sponsoring the venue and being so game to do this together!

P.S. If you can’t get enough, there’s one more meetup happening the next day ft. Marcus Tan of Carousell and Willis Wee of Tech in Asia. Check it out here.