Adeline is an accomplished business leader with over 20 years of management experience in the US and ASEAN. She has held senior management roles at The Coca-Cola Company (most recently heading Strategy & Insights for ASEAN), Danone USA/WhiteWave (head of Strategy and Finance for a billion-dollar business unit), and IHG (AMEA). She started her career with McKinsey & Co, Innosight, and Supreme Court of Singapore.

Her passion is in starting disruptive new ventures, both as an intrapreneur and entrepreneur. She has started and led multiple joint-ventures and organic start-ups, including an IRI Top 5 launch in the US beverage category. She currently runs a digital mental health start-up which she co-founded.

Skilled at managing complex situations in both large enterprises and start-ups, Adeline brings a unique blend of functional expertise (having held roles in strategy, finance, M&A, innovation, and marketing), consumer understanding (14 years working in consumer industries in the US, before returning to ASEAN), and practical get-it-done attitude (from running her businesses).

Adeline graduated from Harvard Business School (MBA), and the London School of Economics (Bachelor of Laws LLB and BSc Accounting and Finance). She is a trained coach in NLP and CoActive methodologies. She also actively mentors entrepreneurs at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and undergraduates at Nanyang Business School (NTU).