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Fu Kuo Chang, Michael is the Founder and Managing Director of Vital Wellspring. He specializes in integrating academic research with business innovation to solve many of today’s modern challenges.

Michael grew up in Taiwan and majored in Engineering and Management in university – a combination that allows him to utilize technology and business modeling to solve numerous practical problems.  He has worked with many Asian professors to provide education services and industrial consultations.  He is also an important resource to many senior managers in providing industrial innovation and talent cultivation.

Michael moved to Singapore to pursue the PhD GM program offered by SMU.  At the same time, he took the opportunity to expand his family’s publishing business.  Using Singapore as a springboard, he developed partnerships with many publishers to successfully enter the European, American and Chinese markets.

Michael is also passionate about sustainability and climate change and wants to improve the World for his fellow mankind.  With his connections and experience in academia and the industry, he set up The International Association for Agricultural Sustainability (Singapore) which works through a multi-disciplinary platform to gather the professional wisdom of scholars and uses technology to achieve agriculture sustainability.

He also set up Agrigada Biotech Company (Singapore) which is dedicated to the research of utilizing herbal remedies and providing natural solutions to modern lifestyle diseases in the hope of contributing to public health.

A high impact digital media platforms specialist and proven business and revenue driver with 20+ years experience advising and collaborating with C-suite executives in Fortune 500 media technology companies

Skilled in account and vendor relationship management, business development and digital product launch management, marketing, communications and content acquisition and creator programs management

Core Competencies:
• An innovative and creative thinker capable of high-level strategic planning and problem-solving
• Results-oriented, organised and passionately committed to every task undertaken or assigned
• Proven sales and marketing leadership, entrepreneurial and customer relationship focused, and highly attentive to stakeholder needs
• Skilled communicator, researcher, copywriter, presenter, motivator and educator.

Jamshed has over 20 years of expertise spanning leadership roles across Marketing, Digital Centres of Excellence, Digital Transformation, OEM / Channel Sales and P&L management. As a seasoned sales and marketing leader, Jamshed has a proven track record in formulating and executing business visions that create sustainable business outcomes. He has the innate ability to thrive in a highly challenging and fast-paced environment, bringing agile thinking, adaptability, and a solutions-oriented mindset to the table. Jamshed has been recognised among the Top 50 most influential people in the Asia Pacific region by ‘The Drum’, listed among the 100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders by ‘The World Digital Marketing Congress’ and listed among the Top 500 most influential communications leaders globally by ‘PRWeek’.

Currently, Jamshed is a part of the Bolt Global leadership team serving as a consulting Chief Marketing and Digital Officer. Jamshed is responsible for product development, product roadmap, user experience and user satisfaction, user acquisition, user retention, and building the overall digital brand presence and driving awareness to the Bolt Global entertainment ecosystem. As a part of his leadership role, Jamshed has also been chartered to building out Bolt’s Advertising model and Ad partnership ecosystem.

Before Bolt, Jamshed led the Marketing Digital Centre of Excellence at Intel APJ. Not only did Jamshed build and operationalised the COE, but he was able to convert it into a profit Centre, achieving significant Return on Investment every quarter since its inception. Previously at Intel, he was a sales leader managing OEM and Channel customers, where he delivered a consistent double-digit growth year-on-year in a highly competitive business environment.

Jamshed is passionate about people and leverages his belief in diversity and inclusion to build high-performance teams. Though grounded in the present, Jamshed operates as a change agent, futurist, and is recognised by the executive leadership team as a credible intrapreneur.

Jamshed is a regular guest lecturer at many prestigious Management Institutes, an advisor and mentor to early-stage start-ups affiliated with VC’s, Incubators and Accelerators in SEA. Jamshed is also a highly sought-after speaker on Marketing, Digital Transformation and Leadership trends in the region.