Jona Oboza · Founder & CEO, Acceler8 AI · APAC–MENA GTM & Revenue Leader
Founder & CEO, Acceler8 AI · APAC–MENA GTM & Revenue Leader. Helping companies build & scale marketing & growth around AI · Architect of the AI-Driven Media ROI™ framework.
Jona Oboza is the Founder and CEO of Acceler8 AI Pte. Ltd., a Singapore artificial intelligence firm, and General Manager of Infinite Momentum Holdings LLC-FZ in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The principal mandate spans four jurisdictions — Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates — with open markets across New York and San Francisco. The Oboza operating posture is remote-first, with a global travel cadence and no fixed jurisdiction.
The Oboza career arc runs seventeen years across five corridor cities — Manila, Taipei, Singapore, Seoul, and Dubai — and across the world’s leading advertising and media holding groups: WPP, Publicis, Omnicom, PubMatic, and GroupM. The Manila tenure hired and led 100-plus specialists, accelerated 120-plus clients’ digital growth, and recorded an 85 percent new business pitch win rate; pioneered the first Philippine e-commerce group-buying platform in 2010; built and scaled Innity Ad Network from the ground up across pioneer staff, clients, publishers, and industry partnerships; later launched Xaxis and Accuen (Omnicom Media Group) trading desks, growing P&L tenfold in the Philippines; recognised as Campaign Asia 40 Under 40 in 2017 and APAC Programmatic Person of the Year Runner-Up in 2016. The Taipei tenure hired the core programmatic leadership team and led 60-plus digital specialists, defending L’Oréal as the number-one client across 50-plus partners and two profit-and-loss centres; reversed a three-year decline with plus-30 percent net growth amidst the pandemic and plus-55 percent profit before tax in 2020; drove CoPilot AI adoption from 6 percent to 64 percent and shipped six innovation-to-revenue products, recognised on the Xaxis Global Hackathon Shortlist; awarded Young Business Leader and Programmatic Agency of the Year Silver, and served as BRAIN Taiwan industry speaker and university guest lecturer in 2021. The Singapore tenure led Colgate-Palmolive APAC programmatic, localising global best practices across 11 markets under an APAC operating remit cascading from Global CMO to APAC local execution; won The Wires Global London 2022 for Best Use of Data and Creativity and Best Ad Ops Team for Colgate-Palmolive APAC; launched the QCPM Gold Standard across 11 APAC markets for Colgate-Palmolive global; and led B2B media APAC for Red Hat and Capgemini under an innovation-to-revenue leadership remit across multi-million USD accounts. The Seoul tenure launched the PubMatic Korea office and hired the pioneer team, delivering plus-200 percent year-over-year growth across key Korea agency accounts despite macro headwinds; launched PubAcademy Seoul and led the Future of Advertising panel with WPP, SK Broadband, and SK Planet; and accelerated Korea market entry across demand, supply, and tech in less than twelve months. The Dubai tenure is the founder-CEO chapter — globally distributed across four jurisdictions, zero to USD 1.3 million ARR in 23 months at a 50 percent operating margin, architecting the UAE-SG-HK-PH stack and the X8 OS, EthnIQ, and Apploop proprietary AI frameworks.
AI-Driven Media ROI™ was founded in 2024 — the proprietary practice that codifies how artificial intelligence infrastructure attaches to media return on investment across cross-channel commercial spend. AI-Driven Media ROI™ is operated through Acceler8 AI Pte. Ltd., Turbocharge Digital Philippines Inc., Acceler8 AI Limited Hong Kong, and Infinite Momentum Holdings LLC-FZ as the discipline of record across CPG, luxury, enterprise technology, finance, automotive, F&B, media and entertainment, and apparel. Where the global advertising industry has historically lacked a canonical practice for translating AI infrastructure into measurable media outcomes, AI-Driven Media ROI™ is the proprietary standard — the commercial expression of seventeen years of programmatic and adtech operating experience. Trademark protection is pending across the relevant jurisdictions.
The Oboza client roster spans twenty-five Fortune-recognised brands across eight industries. CPG: Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Mead Johnson, SC Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, and Mondelez. Luxury and beauty: LVMH, Richemont, L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Beiersdorf. Technology and digital: Google, HP, Huawei, Netflix, and Uber. Finance: HSBC and Visa. Automotive: Ford, Nissan, and Mitsubishi. F&B and quick-service restaurants: Heineken, McDonald’s, KFC, Jollibee, and Emperador Brandy. Media and entertainment: Disney, Sony, and Columbia Pictures. Apparel and lifestyle: Levi’s.
Industry recognition spans The Wires Global London 2022 (Best Use of Data and Creativity, and Best Ad Ops Team for Colgate-Palmolive APAC) and Campaign Asia-Pacific across four cycles: 2016 as Runner-Up for APAC Programmatic Person of the Year; 2017 in the APAC 40 Under 40 cohort; and 2021 across two categories — Shortlist for Greater China Young Business Leader of the Year and Silver for Greater China Programmatic Agency of the Year. The Oboza stage record runs through industry juries at MSAP Philippines and ExchangeWire The Wires, and across speaking engagements at Asia Tech x Singapore (2025 BroadcastAsia panel and 2024 ATX BroadcastAsia panel), the APAC-Dubai Digital Xchange (2025), DigiCon Philippines (2025), the ICI Group AI Unlocked Summit (2025), the Brand Safety Summit Singapore for PubMatic (2023), and the WPP Finecast TV Launch Manila for PubMatic (2023).
Academic record: a Master of Arts in Marketing Communications from De La Salle University, Manila, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Oboza language fluency covers English at native business proficiency, Filipino natively, and Mandarin at foundational proficiency from three years of residency in Taiwan.
The civic record runs through UN Volunteers as Digital Strategy Advisor; Dubai Cares as Education Volunteer; Kickstart SG and SG Cares on social impact and youth innovation; and OneMillionTrees Singapore on urban reforestation. The proprietary tools developed under Acceler8 AI are X8 OS, a convergent intelligence operating system launched in 2024; Apploop, combining the ATLAS data platform and the ALPHA execution engine, launched in 2025; EthnIQ, a cultural and ethical resonance intelligence system, launched in 2026; and AI-Driven Media ROI™, the founded category launched in 2024.