Ray Hom, Industry Director, RedPrairie Asia Private Limited

Ray Hom has over 23 years of retail experience. Currently, Hom has been with RedPrairie for 3 years, most recently working in the Asia Pacific region as an industry Subject Matter Expert, managing and implementing various retail industry solutions.

In this role, Hom is responsible for supporting the sales activities and managing the various implementation projects of RedPrairie’s solutions in Asia Pacific, focusing on retailer’s key areas of performance such as Merchandise and Inventory Management, Operations Management, Workforce Management, Execution Management, Performance Management and Change Management.

Prior to joining RedPrairie, Hom served as Consulting Director for Radiant Systems for 10 years, successfully managing the Consulting operations in Asia Pacific. Prior to his move to the Asia Pacific region, he was based Atlanta, Georgia, USA, working in the same capacity. In this role, Hom led a team focused on the retailer’s business challenges and requirements to provide recommendations and solutions based on best practices and industry experience. 

Hom has also worked in the Hospitality, General Retail and Airline industries prior to NCS, Inc.

Hom graduated from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing.

Paul Hill, Solution Director, Category Management – Asia Pacific, JDA Software

For over 15 years Paul’s experience has covered the FMCG and Retail deployment of space planning and category management. Paul has held varying responsibilities within Trade Marketing, Sales and Category Development in the industry with market leading companies such as Frito-Lay, Cadbury Schweppes and the New Zealand Dairy Board leading up to joining the Intactix team in 1998 as General Manager Australia.

Having moved into the software industry Paul now holds the role of Industry Director, Asia Pacific for the Category Management suite for JDA Software. In this capacity, Paul works across the Asia Pacific region enabling JDA’s market development and deployment for category and space management solutions and works closely with leading retailers and manufacturers throughout the Asia Pacific region.