Jamshed WADIA

Asia Vice Chair of Digital at Edelman ● Ex APJ Marketing Director at Intel ● Business and Marketing Leader

With over 25 years of experience, Jamshed has a proven track record as a Leader and an Innovator. Jamshed is recognised as an expert in driving transformation in Digital and Marketing. As an agile and adaptable professional, Jamshed has been able to thrive and succeed in his career and accomplish many milestones during his tenure at Intel. Jamshed has established Centers of Excellence, led Digital Transformation, managed Global Sales Accounts, and led Product Management. Jamshed head’s up the digital practice for Asia at Edelman, which entails creating digital products and solutions for their clients, leading their digital talent, building, and scaling their digital capabilities and providing a point of view to the industry at large on digital trends.
Though grounded in the present, Jamshed operates as a change agent and futurist. His strength lies in challenging the status quo. He can thrive in challenging environments. And an ability to develop a strategy for innovation. Operationalise a new vision and energise people to transform a business. His peers and colleagues recognise Jamshed as an intrapreneur. Jamshed’s leadership philosophy has always been one of inclusion and transparency. I am a leader who encourages diverse viewpoints, which is the path to personal and professional growth. His tenants for leading a high-performance team are shared vision, passion, transparency, integrity, empathy, and a growth mindset. He is a guest lecturer at many prestigious Universities and Management Institutes. And a well-respected and requested speaker on Marketing, Digital Transformation and Leadership.
Using his experience and expertise, he is passionate about giving back. He is currently an Expert Advisor for StartUp-O, Eduspaze and Advisory Board Member on the Asia CMO Council. And was the Chair of the Chief Digital Officer Forum (Asia Pacific) for the World Federation of Advertisers from 2015 to 2018.