Ascend OC - IAG Conference 2024

Stephen Choi is a Vice President of Samsung Electronics America and the Head of the North America Display Office (NADO), a display technical center of excellence, since June 2013. As the head of NADO, Stephen is responsible for the $1.7B annual display technology revenue while managing the Display Solution Architects, Solutions Integrations, and the Display Business Development teams in the North America market. Prior to joining Samsung, Stephen held a senior executive role with Stratacache, a display software and technology company, responsible for the world’s largest global digital menu board deployment with McDonalds. Previously, Stephen spent 9 years with AT&T Business, serving in various leadership roles including Network Engineering, Global Accounts Sales, Product Management/Marketing, and Strategic Partner Management. Stephen is a decorated veteran with the US Air Force Reserve, having served in the Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield, Joint Task Force-Bravo, and other global humanitarian and combat missions. During his 22 plus years in both the active duty Air Force and the Air Force Reserve, Stephen held multiple command positions at base-level units and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2012. Stephen’s academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, an MBA, and a Master of Science in Engineering from Southern Methodist University. Stephen currently resides in Southern California with his family.

Dr. Romanos Daniel is Chairman of the Advisory Board at QSimulate. He holds a PhD in Mathematics, a Masters Degree in Physics, an MA, and a BA in natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. He has decades of programming experience, is a specialist in derivatives, trading, and AI having two decades of experience in finance with more than 10 years in Senior management at top investment banks and exchanges. He is a former board member of the world’s largest derivatives exchange (EUREX) and was a Senior Managing Director at UBS in charge of hundreds of traders as the global head of Noncore and Legacy trading, and a member of the executive committee. He is a former managing director at BAML in Hong Kong and spent the first decade of his career at Goldman Sachs. He has worked in NY, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

Shefali works at Amazon Web Services as a Product Leader at AWS AI Services. She is currently driving product growth strategy and generative AI roadmap for conversational analytics services in Contact Center focused on Amazon Connect. She works extensively with strategic AWS partners and customer to build scalable products & solutions. Before this role, she lead strategic partner development for ISVs at AWS where she drove partner growth by sponsoring and overseeing cross company go to market initiatives including co-sell, co-market and co-build. She has been with Amazon for about 4 years. Her overall experience of 20 years spans industries, including banking, life sciences, retail, travel & hospitality and healthcare, with leadership roles in product management, sales, and digital consulting working with companies like Microsoft, Accenture, Genpact and HP Enterprise Services. She also served a principal advisor in Mind Strategy LLC, self-owned company working for state & local businesses, universities and non-profits on customer relationship management processes, business data management and agile architectures. She holds an Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from UCLA Anderson School of Management where she specialized in Global Leadership, Technology Management, Finance and Entrepreneurship with modules completed in France with HEC Paris, Hong Kong, China, Brazil and South Africa. She also has a Bachelors in Technology in Computer Science from Faculty of Engineering and Technology, New Delhi, India.

Jas Kaur is Vice President, Technology, leading the Platform Transformation and Hygiene Program for CTO as part of the TechOps team at PIMCO for the last 9 years. Jas has 21+ years of technology industry experience, 10+ years of hands on experience as an embedded software engineer lead and 11+ years of leading strategic, center of operational excellence teams. Jas has worked in various industries including Financial, Defense, Healthcare. Jas has double Master’s degree (Executive MBA from USC & Master Comp Science, Michigan), has deep passion/ broad knowledge of program management and product process. Jas has a deep passion to give back to community. She has been on Susan G Komen Board, largest non-profit breast cancer company for 5 + years and is also currently on board of Ascend OC, leading their sponsorship development team. Mom of 3 kids, she loves to hike and cook.