Kiruba Shankar Sivaraman (India)
CEO - Business Blogging, India

An entrepreneur, social media consultant, speaker, author, teacher, podcaster and a farmer. CEO of BusinessBlogging, a social media consultant firm. He also heads Vaksana Farms, a farming venture and Verdure Books, a publishing house. He has authored 4 books and is working on the next. He has written articles in leading business newspapers and magazines. He runs various projects catering to my diverse interests such as Kiruba TV, Kiruba FM, Cerebrate, Sponge etc. He is passionate about comics, antiques, vinyl records, business cards,running, cycling, rowing, traveling and blogging.

Rayyan Haries (Malaysia)
Journalist & Blogger

Rayyan Haries is an avid backpacker who thinks Asian Countries are the new “Europe”. He is also a contributor for an international travel magazine. He is very fortunate to be given the chance to travel the world, all thanks to his Travel blog as well as his job as contributor at an International Travel Magazine.He is definitely going everywhere and anywhere.

Blogie Robillo (Philippines)
Blogger

Blogie put together one of the first organized bloggers groups in the Philippines, back in 2006, which was known as the Mindanao Bloggers Community. The aim of this group was to galvanize bloggers voices across the island of Mindanao in order to apprise the world of the true identity of this largely misunderstood region of the Philippines. Blogie, as he has been known since birth, blogs about human rights, freedom of expression, and the marine environment of his native Davao Gulf. He has been invited to several international conferences, including the United Nations-mandated 5th meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, held in Lithuania in 2010. Blogie is also an avid WordPress power user, and was the first to bring the WordCamp event to the Philippines, back in 2008.

Anis Ibrahim (Malaysia)
Freelance writer and travel columnist

Her articles have been published in the New Sunday Times, The Star and Quill Magazine. Currently pursuing a travel writing course with Matador U and aims to complete it by end of the year. Loves traveling with friends but is always ready to pack up and travel alone. Recently completed an overland solo trip from Russia to Malaysia and plans to do it again.

Ajay Jain (India)
Writer, Photographer, Blogger, Traveller

Ajay Jain is a full time writer, journalist and photographer based in New Delhi in India. He is also an expert on social media marketing and branding, and has written extensively on these topics; he even consults brands on the same. And he loves to experiment with new ideas and skills. Ever since switching to writing as a career in 2001, he has dabbled with various media including newspapers, magazines, blogs and books. He has used his vast experience to write books and columns on travel, management, technology, environment and personal development.

David Hogan Jr. (Malaysia)
Travel writer, Photographer and Editor / Social Media Strategist.

An avid traveller and enjoy exploring new places for all sorts of values. From photographing tolearning about the place, you will find most of me and my partner (Lilian) explorations bloggedand documented here, hopefully helpful and detailed enough for my readers. Featured in lonelyplanet Malaysia, one of the biggest database of bloggers in Malaysia. Won Sabah tourism Awards for best online media.

Dayang Melati (Indonesia)
Host, Blogger, and Youtube

I am a host at Inspire.fm under the program Wassup Mahasiswa, Youtuber at Dayang Melati Channel, and blogger as well at Revolution.blogspot.com I am active in volunteerism, Youth Project and another social activities. Currently a president of Indonesian Youth Society and Team Leader of Project management at AIESEC Sunway University. Passionate about Social media world! Emcee, Youtube interview and footage of the events.Handling hashtag : MotYou in twitter Traveler junkies in Malaysia…..Quotes: Love what you do and do what you love

Shane Dallas (Australia)
Traveller, Writer – The Travel Camel

(Community Manager) Been blogging under the pseudonym “The Travel Camel” for seven years, where he is their longest-serving Community Manager. As a result of his blogging, he has been invited to speak at conferences, written travel articles, and participated in numerous segments on ABC radio in Australia on travel related matters. He is a passionate traveller who explores the world to immerse himself in different cultures and experiences. Visited more than 60 countries and territories, and these have included destinations not often frequented by fellow travellers such as Yemen, Syria, Ethiopia and North Korea.

Aneesh Bhasin (India)
Photography & Writing Consultation

Aneesh is a multi award winning lifestyle photographer & writer based in India. He shoots everything from food to people all over the world. These include Johhnie Walker, Dom Pérignon, BBC Good Food, Vanity Fair, Lonely Planet, GQ, CNt Traveller, Silver Kris, Times of India & Hindustan Times. Aneesh has been comissioned for various exhibitions. The last two were for the Indo German Urban Mela and Cox & Kings. Aneesh won a silver award at IPA 2012 for a picture he shot on his iPhone. A sommelier, he is also the co founder of Indian Wine List. India's first wine focused smart phone app and consumer platform.

Dave Duarte (South Africa)
Digital Media Educator and Entrepreneur

His renowned digital media courses have enabled some of the most successful marketing campaigns and digital business strategies globally. He is the CEO of the Ogilvy Digital Marketing Academy, which has helped Ogilvy South Africa win more digital and integrated awards than any other agency on the continent in the past year. As an independent consultant, Dave’s clients have included: Cape Town Tourism, Discovery, Getaway Magazine, Naspers, South African Airways, South Africa Tourism, Nestle, The United Nations, Toyota, US AID, and the World President’s Organization.

Dr. Mary Wong Lai Lin (Malaysia)
CEO of Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC)

MHTC, a corporatized agency set-up under the Ministry of Health Malaysia to develop and promote the healthcare travel industry and to position Malaysia as the healthcare destination of choice. She has 20 years of experience working in the Ministry of Health Malaysia, serving in various capacities at the Federal level, in a state hospital, and in two state health departments. Her experiences are in the areas of health policies, planning and management. She holds a PhD in Health Policy, Economics and Financing from the National University of Singapore.

Pham Hoang Mien (Vietnam)
Travel Blogger

I’m originally from Ninh Binh, a small city about 100km south of the capital, Hanoi, but I have been living in Hanoi since the age of 6. Then in 2009 I had my first trip out of Vietnam to Wroclaw, a beautiful city in western Poland for an internship with a student organization called AIESEC and I had an amazing time! Since then I started to get myself engaged in a travel life and have been enjoying going out of Hanoi to try living in different cities, such as New Delhi in 2010 (with another AIESEC internship) and Ho Chi Minh City in 2011-2012. I believe that travel is not about spending several days in a place, going to tourists’ attractions, taking pictures and then leaving, but travel is about staying among the local people, living their life and experiencing their culture. My dream is to be able to live in as many different places as possible in the rest of my life. I also wish to see a world without discrimination as desired in Scorpions’ “Wind of Change”: “The world is closing in.

Vanessa Workman (USA)
Founder, Creative Director, Blogger of The Island Drum.com
Langkawi correspondent for Travelfish.org

After finishing a stint as an American medical worker in a Singapore hospital , Langkawi became Vanessa Workman’s base of operations for future travels due to the proximity and easy access to other Southeast Asian countries. Delving into social media and blogging as a hobby, eventually it became a passion as well as a new way of getting to know the people and cultures around her. Her one year old website The Island Drum was created as an information source for Langkawi weekly events and a venue for blogging about Langkawi and the surrounding areas. Consistancy and social media networking opened the door to an opportunity to writing for Travelfish.org as their Langkawi correspondent.

Murni Amalia Ridha @ Mumun (Indonesia)
Environmental Office & Travel Blogger

Murni is one of the owner and founder of www.indohoy.com. Along with Vira she’s been blogging since April 2009 as her hobby but now with more attention drawn to it with the travel trend that’s happening in the country. The main idea of the blog was to spread information about Indonesia to help those who are interested to travel to Indonesia, covering the cultural, culinary, and the practical info (how to, where to, etc) as this kind of info about Indonesia is quite rare found on Internet in English. We basically share just about anything we experience in our travels throughout Indonesia. We also give out tips and share our thoughts related to traveling in general. We've also been involved a little bit in some projects related to travel and environmental preservation, along with other bloggers and social media enthusiasts. Indohoy has recieve a few local recognitions from online and travel communities.

Tonyo Cruz (Philippines)
Blogger, Activist and Social Media Strategist

Tonyo is known in the Philippines as an award-winning blogger and Thought Leader, leveraging on his strengths and network built through years of blogging, activism and and social media strategizing. His work on mobile, web and social has taken him through the parliament of the streets, Congress, the presidential elections, consumer campaigns benefiting mobile phone and internet users, citizens’ tech-powered responses to calamities and elections, a netizens’ Supreme Court petition against a draconian cybercrime law and recently through the country’s biggest advertising and digital agencies. He is a sought-after speaker on Philippine social and digital topics, and has been invited to summits and conferences across the Philippines, and in Asia, North America and Europe. He is currently Chief Social Media Strategist for trailblazing digital agency Movent Inc., formerly Netbooster Asia, and is now working with fellow bloggers to mount a bigger and better #juanvote, the Filipino netizens’ social media-powered coverage of the May 2013 elections.

Syafique Shuib (Malaysia)
Founder of motivationMY.com

A graduate of Monash University (Sunway Campus) in 2007, Syafique Shuib is currently a senior digital reporter for Astro Awani, Malaysia’s first 24-hour news and information channel. He has been a blogger since 2006 and moved on to microblogging in 2009. His passion for social media has led him to create motivationMY.com, a motivational blog aimed at empowering young Malaysians. motivationMY.com has been featured in The Star newspaper, Hanger magazine and Syafique was part of the 10 Men of the Year list for Clive magazine. Syafique has previously worked with ntv7, Expatriate Lifestyle magazine, 1Malaysia Foundation and Bernama TV.

Vincent Golangco (Philippines)
Founder WhenInManila.com

Vince Golangco graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and a minor in Business. He has over 10 years of international experience in marketing, advertising and creative writing. He served as an Information Systems Technician in the United States Navy, was a Marketing & Development Coordinator at the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the Senior Media Planner for Bright Box Media and more. Vince was a former radio DJ in the Philippines and tech show host. Today, he is the Editor-in-Chief / founder of WhenInManila.com, the top online magazine in the Philippines that gets over a quarter of a million views per month, or more specifically around 350,000+ views per month along with a very active community of over 85,000+ Fans on Facebook.com/WhenInManila and 100,000+ Followers on Twitter.com/WhenInManila.
Moreover, WhenInManila.com was awarded as the #1 Emerging Influential Blog for 2010 and just recently named as one of the Rotary’s 10 Tourism Awardees for 2012, an honor shared with the likes of Zobel Ayala, Andrew Tan (chairman of Mega World & owner of Resorts World), Miguel Belmote (CEO of the Philippine Star) and more, for the 2012 batch. Additionally, they were just awarded the title of being the "Ultimate Food Blogger" by Unilever / Sooo Pinoy organization and we were chosen amongst hundreds of other bloggers

Dato' Abdul Khani Daud (Malaysia)
Director of advertising division, Tourism Malaysia.

He is in charge of the advertising sector of Tourism Malaysia. Abdul Khani explains that social media is quite effective to the government. Although he thinks that traditional media is a good tool to promote tourism he also feels that social media is way more powerful than any other medium of communication. As a season advertising strategist Dato’ Khani also started to play a major role in strategizing social media campaigns for Ministry of Tourism. He is also responsible for all promotional campaigns and he along with his team is the brain behind the marketing for Tourism Malaysia.

Jojo Struys (Malaysia)
Executive Director, Kyanite.tv. Celebrity Personality

A celebrity personality, renowned columnist with the nation's leading newspaper, The Star, and the soothing voice and creator of her uniquely therapeutic Guided Relaxation Audio CD, "Letting Go with Jojo Struys" to help people de-stress, relax and unwind. She has been conducting workshops with various hospitals round Malaysia, including the public, to help people de-stress and become more mentally positive. She is also the TV host of Chalk and Cheese, with an award winning German Chef, on the Asian Food Channel currently airing across Asia Pacific (45 million audience)

Nik Michael Imran (Malaysia)
Celebrity Chef

Just want to be known as "Nik", he grew up with his father lovingly through food and culinary delight. His father has always been a source of inspiration for Nik to thrive in what is very interested in, now that cooking. Nik is very interested in cooking from the French as Pot au feu, Cassoulet and Ratatouille. Cuisine from the Italian as Pizza, Pasta and risotto are also highly sought after by Nik and always a guide and a reference to a dish.The passion and enthusiasm celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is very admired Nik. Moreover see Jamie Oliver's efforts to inculcate healthy cuisine in one of the cities in the United States to teach 1000 people there for healthy cooking.Nick Imran is quite active in the social media space and always hangs on twitter and interacts with his fans. He is also a social media activist who enjoys the online space and the way is has developed in the past few years.

Marco Antinio Ho (Philippines)
Bogart the Explorer

A self-styled Australian-accented explorer from the Land Down Under (Davao City). With a mix of wit and a sense of comedic adventure, Bogart presents Philippine realities and destinations in a very Filipino form of infotainment for a wide variety of audience. Bogart The Explorer has taken cyberspace by storm with his series of hilarious videos posted on YouTube. Bogart's explorations of Filipino "wildlife" include his take on snatchers, upper-class people, the "kapre" and practically anything else on local culture. He gently and intelligently pokes fun at everything and manages not to be crass or cheap. His Facebook page has reached 50,000-plus fans and in the 2012 Globe Tatt Awards, one of the biggest social media awards in the Philippines, he won, well, "The Explorer" category, a category that awards the best travel blogger.