Philippe Monteiro da Rocha

Philippe is the Head of Operations and co-Founder of 3 different ventures : Anxa, Actinutrition and Hapi.com.

He started his career in journalism after securing a degree from La Sorbonne in Paris and has held a variety of roles including editor-in-chief for various renowned French media including national networks M6 and RMC, as well as several entertainment press groups.

After relocating to Singapore as a press correspondent in the nineties, he created his first Internet venture, a web agency, and shortly thereafter teamed up with Fabrice and Christophe Boutain to create Pagefrance, a web portal which was eventually absorbed by the Lycos Group in 2000.

ANXA is an Internet and mobile apps venture dedicated to help people self-evaluate and improve their health and their personal life. Spearheading the company's global content strategy, he focused on developing subscription-based content for the social media age.

In 2011, Philippe released "Le Grand Challenge", a 52-minutes documentary about how the Internet Revolution is rapidly changing people's health and quality of life. He has also published two books on his experiences in the web marketing world.

Many things make him HAPI! Reading hard-to-believe crime stories, Racing on the beach with his shih tzu Brownie, Watching soccer players faking fouls (especially Neymar), Drinking wheatgrass shots with the boys, Getting massaged with (or by) his wife, Eating his favorite black pepper tuna carpaccio with his HAPIfork, Playing silly in the pool with his daughter, Listening to ACDC and other modern poets...

Favorite quote: "HAPIness is not found at the end of the road, HAPIness IS the road!" (Tibetan quote)