Daryl Manning

Summary

Executive tech and data leader with 21 years experience in engineering, platforms, and product strategy. Builder of high-performance teams and product infrastructure platforms across travel, fintech, gaming, and food delivery. Specialist in data-driven product engineering and strategy, ML/AI, analytics, and operations.

• Global VP Data at world’s 3rd largest food delivery company
• VP Data of $5B Southeast Asian travel unicorn
• Managing Director for $10M ARR venture builder acquired by Dell
• Global IT Director at world’s largest human rights NGO

Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Blackpanda · Remote/Singapore · Apr 2023 - Apr 2025

Cybersecurity, incident response, and cyberinsurance for APAC SMEs. Rebuilt initial MVP product and platform. Scaled product revenues from near-zero to $3.2M USD by FYE 2024, securing $6.7M USD Series A2 funding.

• Rebuilt MVP into scalable SaaS platform with security scanning, client management, enhanced UX, and attack surface tooling
• Designed data-driven threat profiling and predictive cyberattack models
• Hired and scaled cross-functional engineering, design, ops and product team in under 6 months
• Promoted to CTO from VP Product after first year.

Global VP Data

Delivery Hero · Singapore/Berlin · Oct 2020 - Mar 2023

Led global data strategy and operations for €30B+ food delivery group, and 250+ team operating in 74 countries (Foodpanda, Glovo, Talabat, Woowa, etc.).

• Owned global data Platforms, ML/AI, and Analytics strategy, design, and implementation across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and MENA
• Led platform development of global Data Mesh, real-time Feature Store, event streaming Bus, and Customer Science delivering new capabilities and profitability in pricing, recommendations, and fraud detection
• Deployed APAC fraud detection system, preventing €40M+ in losses in first 9 months
• Rebuilt global Experimentation platform, doubling test volumes and product impact

VP Data

Traveloka · Singapore/Jakarta · Oct 2017 - Jun 2020

SouthEast Asia’s $5B travel unicorn. 1 of 3 group co-CTOs after departure of founding CTO. Led Data, all platforms, data science, ML, and Analytics teams across 17 business units and 8 countries.

• Hired leadership bench and doubled team to 125+ in tight talent market
• Deployed 23 ML models in 1st 10 months, driving $44M in value across pricing, operations, and marketing
• Slashed fraud in credit product from double digits to 1% in 3 months, saving an additional $16M USD
• Rebuilt experimentation platform and data governance models to support 12 business lines
• Launched real-time ML/AI infrastructure for dynamic pricing, personalization, recommendations, and behavioural segmentation

Managing Director, APAC

Pivotal Labs APAC (Neo Innovation) · Singapore · Sep 2013 - Jun 2017

Celebrated APAC venture builder acquired by Dell in 2016. Led company to $10M+ ARR turnaround in 2 years.

• Built Singtel’s data analytics DataSpark platform and launched Samsung SE Asia’s data science capabilities
• Delivered high-scale engineering platforms for clients including Bank of America, Google (PIE), LVMH (Luxola), and Rakuten (Viki)
• Delivered National ID system for Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower
• Architected data infrastructure and data science backends for high-volume prediction and settlement systems

Head of IT and Research Operations (interim)

Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS · Sydney · Aug 2012 - Sep 2013

Managed IT, operations management, and application development for the University of Technology’s global consulting research thinktank.

• Managed overall IT project portfolio P&L and delivery, high level client management, productization cross-sell opportunities, and shared oversight of business development activities
• Primary for platforms, IT initiatives, technology operations, and data and predictive modeling-focused projects and deliverables

Director of Online Campaigning and Technology

GetUp · Sydney · Oct 2009 - Aug 2012

GetUp is Australia’s largest grassroots political organization campaigning for social justice and political rights improvements in Australia.

• Delivered multiple, winning, $1M+ USD advocacy campaigns that drove national legislative and social change in Australia
• Doubled online membership to 1M+, action and donation repeat rates grew 18%, while seeing a 37% reduction in abandonment rates on actions and donations
• Re-architected core technical platform to allow rapid-response campaigning and social media engagement droving increased action, donation, and campaign win- rates
• Established campaigning culture of data-driven decision-making through metrics, experiments, and analyses to maximize campaigns’ effectiveness, propagation, donations, and action rates

Director of Information Technology (CIO)

Amnesty International - International Secretariat · London · Oct 2006 - Oct 2009

Amnesty is the world’s largest human rights NGO and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Led global technology strategy, DevOps, software development, infrastructure, support, and digital campaigning across 74 country and regional offices.

• Relaunched Amnesty.org, receiving awards for digital innovation, impact, and accessibility
• Led organizational Agile and DevOps transformation, raising IT delivery success rates above 90%.
• Pioneered rapid-response digital advocacy systems, increasing campaign win rates globally

Director of Data Analytics and BI

Lancashire Finance · Vancouver · Jan 2003 - Sep 2006

Lancashire Finance is a $500M USD/a entertainment conglomerate focused primarily on online gaming with diverse holdings in music, television production, and hospitality.

• Founded and grew data science team from 0 to 12 staff in first 6 months to drive C-level strategic decisionmaking and analytics via data products and model insights
• Team directly identified opportunities contributing $36M USD added to company bottom line
• Architected and built global data analytics, engineering, and data science infrastructure

Directeur Technique (CIO)

Michel Dyens & Co · Paris/New York · Apr 1999 - Dec 2002

Led IT for France’s 5th largest private M&A bank and its startup incubator.

• Startup CTO for 5 portfolio companies including F1Live (acquired by ESPN) and DirectPanel (acquired by Ipsos-Reid)
• Led complete modernization and digital transformation of bank’s core software engineering, infrastructure, security, and Corp IT capabilities

Solution Architect, Bowne & Co · Toronto/New York · 1996-1999

Senior Information Manager, Kraft Canada · Toronto · 1995

Senior Knowledge Analyst, Cott Corporation · Toronto · 1994

Economist, Ministry of Treasury and Economics · Toronto · 1993

Technologies

Volunteer Experience

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii · USA · 2023-present

Architected and built NASA-commissioned global system for scientific comet data

Amphibian Ark International · Australia/USA · 2013-2023

Built global management system for amphibian species’ survival and reintroduction programs.

DataKind · Singapore · 2014-2016

Co-founded DataKind datascience-for-good global hub and was Director of Operations.

Taronga Zoo · Australia · 2010-2013

Activism campaigns coaching and campaign strategy assistance in launching the new campaigning and advocacy department at Australia’s largest zoo.

Education

MSc Information Technology, University of Liverpool · 2003
BA Honours Economics and Political Science, Western University · 1992

Languages

English native, French advanced, Spanish proficient, Indonesian basic, Italian basic

Citizenship and Right to Work

• Dual Canadian/British citizen
• USA right to work · TN visa (USMCA Professional)
• Singapore Employment Pass (to Jul 2026)