Powering Mobile Operator Partnerships

Benjamin Soemartopo

Chief Executive Officer

Ben provides overall leadership to Eureka. He was previously with McKinsey & Company for 12 years and Managing Partner and CEO for Indonesia; Managing Director for Standard Chartered’s Bank Private Equity in Indonesia for 6 years. Ben brings experience as an investor and adviser in the retail, telecom, healthcare, agriculture and energy sectors.

Ben is a Cofounder of the Young Leaders for Indonesia Foundation; selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2010; YPO member. Bachelor of Law (first class honours) and Political Economy from Murdoch University in Australia.

Tarek Najm

Chief Technology Officer

Tarek Najm leads the technology platform and product development at Eureka. Tarek Najm was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and spent 15 years there. He founded and led worldwide development of several large-scale initiatives including: Online Division's Data Mining & Business Intelligence Systems, Microsoft’s Search Advertising Platforms, adLab Research & Incubations, Bing Knowledge Web & Semantic Search.

Tarek holds 32 patents in data mining, Semantic Search and advertising algorithms. He also holds bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Mathematics from Eastern Michigan.

Michael Hawkins

Chief Revenue Officer

Mike leads the execution of Eureka’s campaigns for clients. He is a veteran of retail analytics and data driven campaigns in the UK and Asia, having spent 10 years researching FMCG shopper behaviour at Kantar, 4 years as head of dunnhumby Malaysia for Tesco, 3 years as head of Loyalty for AIMIA in Indonesia where he built the MAPCLUB loyalty program and a number of roles as consultant including SAS analytics. He holds an International business degree from Aston University, UK.

Alex Ginting

Chief Product Officer

Alex manages the end to end product journey from idea creation until deployment and project execution. He has 16 years experience in the telecom industry, holding senior positions across Business Intelligence, Analytics and Big Data. Alex was most recently with Indosat for 5 years as Head of BI and Big Data, and believes that telco data can change consumer behavior. He holds bachelor degree in Computer System and a Masters degree in Finance.

Ying Li, PhD

Chief Scientist

Ying leads the development of the Artificial Intelligence of the Eureka platform, and holds 72 patents in data mining, machine learning and software optimization. She is recognized as a leader in the field of AI, and in 2012 received the SIGKDD Service Award for her contributions to the field of knowledge discovery and data mining. Ying was most recently CTO of Singtel’s Data Spark, and previously led Microsoft’s Advertising and Product division with 300 data scientists globally. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, and BSc and MSc from Peking University.

Savvy Dani

VP Engineering

Savvy leads engineering at Eureka and owns the Eureka Platform Architecture. She comes with strong experience architecting large-scale distributed software platforms. She engineered Microsoft’s connected home iOT platform and invented the Split Compute-Merge model to build Microsoft’s DMP of 1 billion users. Post Microsoft, she cofounded Loudscoop, a startup to reinvent the learning experience for the 21st century classroom. Savvy holds patents in distributed systems and has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from the College of Engineering, Guindy.

Scott Spirit

MD Business Development

Scott is the Managing Director of Business Development at Eureka, responsible for the business development and commercial success of Eureka's product portfolio. He has more than 20 years of experience of Business Development, Country Management, M&A and Investment. He was previously the Chief Strategy Office and Chief Digital Officer of WPP and worked at WPP for 14 years. Holds a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College London & MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.