Ken Wong

Director, Strategy & Partnerships, APAC at Vodafone | Ex Microsoft & Accenture

Singapore

About

Ken has 10+ years of working experience focusing on strategic and operational topics. He has amassed valuable experience across Singtel, Microsoft and Accenture, where he specialized in market entry strategy, corporate strategy, growth strategy, profitability improvement, financial modeling and M&A, predominantly in the TMT industry within Asia. His expertise spans SAAS, Data Centers and Mobile/ Broadband companies. In addition, Ken is an alumni of Nanyang Technological University and graduated with Second-Upper Class Honors in the School of Mechanical Engineering.

Experience

  • Director, Strategy & Partnerships, APAC Partner Markets at Vodafone
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Group Strategic Initiatives Senior Manager, Strategic Portfolio at Singtel
    Feb 2020 - Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Provides 5 year strategic recommendations to Group CEO and Board of Directors, helping to drive Singtel’s top agendas, which strengthen the core business and build new growth engines: • Indonesia fixed broadband/ mobile market and M&A assessment, which led to the purchase of a ~SGD5bn broadband business • Setting up a new data center business and market entry strategy (Prioritized markets and customer segments, value proposition and set-up of new entity structure) supported with a business case • Carved out a digital infrastructure business • Growth strategy for NCS, an IT consulting subsidiary (Prioritized markets, customer segments and product offerings), which included assessment of technology offerings (AI, Cloud, etc.) • Profitability improvement for Optus, an Australia telco

  • Business Value Consultant (APAC) and Greater China Regional Lead at Microsoft
    Jul 2019 - Feb 2020 · 8 mos

    • Developed APAC sales strategy for Microsoft Business Applications and Cloud business , including market sizing & prioritization, product strategy, go-to-market strategy and customer segmentation • Worked with top strategic clients to define business strategy and build business cases for business value and investment justification

  • Strategy Consultant at Accenture
    Apr 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Led various strategy projects across technology, retail, pharma, travel and FMCG industries on topics around cost reduction, digital strategy, go-to-market/ growth strategy

  • Management Trainee at ExxonMobil
    Jul 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos