Primary Job Title Product Development Director Primary Organization 
Chikka
Location Manila, Philippines, Asia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia Gender Male
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Dennis sat calm and collected, reflecting, calculating what he wanted to say, as he listened to ideas being thrown at a recent product development meeting. It was uncharacteristic of Chikka’s founding CEO and product development czar.
Hanging up the phone, he gets up, parts the wood and paper sliding doors of the private room at the Japanese
restaurant and pulls in the waiter standing guard outside, for some small talk with the group. He interviews the young lad confirming his mobile handset, subscription plans, where and why he would access the Internet, and whether he would subscribe to Chikka’s new service.
Dennis has indeed had some of his best ideas translated into some of the Company’s most successful apps because of this strong sense, pulse if one may call it, for the market.
These ideas include Chikka Messenger; probably the world’s first commercially successful integration of web and mobile utilities, as well as the equally hit “Text Newsletter” that let fan legions “follow” largely whimsical celebrity text messages. That was in 2003. And an idea it would later be learned, was way ahead of its time.
