Jamshed Wadia

Jamshed is an independent consultant to brands and agencies, offering marketing and communications solutions to address their business challenges. Jamshed also serves as a startup mentor with accelerators such as HP Garage 2.0, TASMU (Qatar), and Eduspaze (Singapore). His areas of mentorship include AI strategy and deployment, product development, user experience, advertising, and global brand creation.

As an agile and adaptable professional, Jamshed has thrived, succeeded, and accomplished many milestones during his tenure at Intel and Edelman. At Intel, he has established Marketing Centres of Excellence, Led Digital Transformation and Digital Marketing, Managed Global Sales Accounts, and executed Product management and Pre-Sales functions. At Edelman, he led the digital practice for Asia, which entailed owning the business unit’s P&L, creating digital products and solutions for their clients, managing digital talent, building and scaling digital capabilities, and providing a point of view on digital trends to the industry at large. He also led Edelman APAC’s enablement of artificial intelligence tools and processes.

Jamshed is a guest lecturer at several prestigious universities and is frequently invited to speak about AI, marketing, digital transformation, careers and leadership at key industry events. Jamshed is Passionate about building inclusive, high-performing organisations to drive sustainable growth. He currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Asia CMO Council and served as Chair of the Chief Digital Officer Forum (Asia Pacific) for the World Federation of Advertisers from 2015 to 2018.

Industry Recognition

Top 25 Innovators in APAC – PRvoke Media | Top 50 Influential People in APAC for Modern Marketing and Media’s Digerati – The Drum | 100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders – The World Digital Marketing Congress | Top 500 Most Influential Communications Leaders Globally – PRWeek Power Book | Awarded for ‘Industry-wide Social Media Leadership’ – CMO Asia