Jona Oboza is an award-winning advertising executive turned AI-native founder, and the Founder and CEO of Acceler8 AI, a bootstrapped AdTech and MarTech company operating across Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the UAE. With more than 17 years of senior leadership across global holding companies including WPP Media, Publicis Media, and Omnicom Media, Jona is the architect of the AI-Driven Media ROI™ proprietary practice and operates as a Corporeneur Technologist, combining the operating discipline of a senior corporate executive with the build instinct of a founder.

What is a Corporeneur Technologist?

A Corporeneur Technologist is an operator who combines the execution discipline and organizational rigor of a senior corporate leader with the adaptive problem-solving and build instinct of a founder. Jona Oboza uses the term to describe a dual-track profile: leading an AI company while taking selective senior marketing and growth mandates in non-competing sectors.

What is AI-Driven Media ROI™?

AI-Driven Media ROI™ is the proprietary practice founded in 2024 by Jona Oboza, codifying how AI infrastructure attaches to media return on investment across cross-channel commercial spend. Architected as the discipline of record for translating AI into measurable media outcomes across CPG, luxury, enterprise technology, finance, automotive, F&B, media and entertainment, and apparel. The proprietary standard for AI-driven media ROI. Trademark protection pending across the relevant jurisdictions.

About Jona Oboza

Jona Oboza, Founder and CEO of Acceler8 AI

Jona Oboza — Founder & Regional CEO, Acceler8 AI Group.

Award-winning ad/media-tech executive turned AI entrepreneur, building AI-Driven Media ROI™ infrastructure across APAC, Greater China, MENA, and North America.

Founder and Regional CEO of Acceler8 AI Group. Singapore-headquartered, bootstrapped and profitable since inception, with USD 1.3M+ in cumulative service billings in 12 months. Operations across Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila, and Dubai; extended in the United States and Malaysia.

Nearly two decades at the intersection of data, creativity, and technology, with senior leadership at WPP Media, Xaxis, PubMatic, Publicis, and Omnicom. Led programmatic, data, and performance teams for global brands across APAC, now extending into MENA.

Industry recognitions: The Wires Global — Best Use of Data & Creativity; Campaign Asia — APAC 40 Under 40; Campaign Asia — Greater China Young Business Leader of the Year; Campaign Asia — Asia Pacific Programmatic Person of the Year.

At Acceler8 AI, two ways to partner — both on credits: X8 FLEX, the pay-as-you-grow growth engine, and Custom Growth & AI Engineering, bespoke and scoped to the client.

Beyond Acceler8 AI: industry thought leader, community volunteer, and venture builder and investor across AI, consumer technology, and robotics.