BIO
With more than three decades of experience, Jamshed Wadia has built a career around reinvention, leading change, and helping organisations navigate disruption. His journey spans marketing, sales, digital transformation, data-driven strategy, and audience engagement, shaped through work across diverse industries and global markets.
As the founder of AIdeate Solutions, he partners with brands and agencies to solve business challenges through marketing, communications, and AI-enabled strategy. His work encompasses marketing transformation, executive branding, AI governance, and advisory support for leadership teams. He also mentors early-stage startups through programs such as TASMU in Qatar, Eduspaze in Singapore, and HP Garage 2.0, guiding founders on product development, user experience, positioning, and global brand scale-up. In addition, he serves as an Independent Advisor to Mavic.ai, supporting the team on AI ethics and governance, product market fit, and growth.
His corporate leadership experience includes building Marketing Centres of Excellence at Intel, driving digital transformation, leading global accounts, and operating across product, pre-sales, and regional marketing roles. At Edelman, he led the digital practice for Asia, owning the P&L, shaping digital solutions, expanding capabilities across the region, and enabling the integration of artificial intelligence into workflows, tools, and strategy.
Jamshed believes that outstanding leadership is built on clarity, accountability, empathy, and transparency. He is committed to creating environments where teams feel empowered to challenge assumptions, bring fresh ideas, and grow through shared purpose. Innovation, inclusive culture-building, and practical problem-solving are core to his approach.
He frequently guest lectures at universities and speaks at industry forums on marketing transformation, leadership, and the evolving role of AI in business. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Asia CMO Council and previously chaired the Chief Digital Officer Forum for the World Federation of Advertisers in Asia Pacific from 2015 to 2018.
Industry Recognition
- Top 25 Innovators in APAC – PRvoke Media
- Top 50 Influential People in APAC for Modern Marketing and Media’s Digerati – The Drum
- 100 Smartest Digital Marketing Leaders – The World Digital Marketing Congress
- Top 500 Most Influential Communications Leaders Globally – PRWeek Power Book
- Awarded for ‘Industry-wide Social Media Leadership’ – CMO Asia