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Automation & Digitalisation
Sarah Ng
Key Executive Officer (KEO) & Executive Director, Head
of Global Business
SLP International Property Consultants Pte Ltd
Ms. Ng serves as the Key Executive Officer of SLP
International and Head of Global Business. Ms. Ng
started her property career with SLP International
since 2009
She also serves as the director for ZACD investments,
focusing on fund investments and project marketing.
Lim Chee Siang
Head, Industry Development Group (SME)
A*STAR
Since 2014, he has been providing consultancy to SMEs
and assisting them in their journey to leverage on
technology for productivity. He had advised companies in
the area of AI, Data Analytics, Digitalisation and
Automation. Currently, he is actively driving the Tech
Depot Initiative, a public private partnership between
Public and Private Sector to drive technology adoption in
SMEs. He holds a Master of Business Administration from
National University of Singapore, Master of Science
(Mechanical Engineering) from National University and 1st
Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering from National
Technological University with Exxon Mobil Gold Medal.
Catherine Szulyk
Head of Operations
ipaymy
For the past decade Catherine has worked at MNCs
throughout the US, Europe and Asia Pacific in sectors
ranging from oil and gas to consumer electronics. With a
background in engineering her passion is building
products users love. In 2017, Catherine made the
decision to take on a more entrepreneurial path by
joining ipaymy. For the past year she has led the
operations for the organization and is loving every
aspect of the journey.
Human Capital Development
Sandy Tsang
Managing Director
AVADO Asia Pacific
Sandy Tsang is the Managing Director, APAC of leading
global training provider AVADO. With a background in
digital marketing, Sandy worked in the financial sector
for more than a decade.
Some of her accomplishments at American Express
include having brand and direct response digital
advertising oversight for new product launches,
introducing programmatic media buying, leading
multivariate web tests, and integrating social media into
PR and advertising.
Stephen Wang
Managing Director
Talent Plus
Steve Wang is the Managing Director of Asia Pacific at
Talent Plus. Wang is a trusted advisor to our C-suite
client partners in the creation and positioning of
leadership development programs to optimize the
impact of talent-based selection and strengths-based
management in our Asia Pacific office. As an in-depth
consultant, Wang works closely with global client
partners through coaching of leadership excellence and
researching talent. He focuses on team alignment
approaches and succession planning strategies.
Having been a part of the Asia Pacific team over the past four years, Wang brings significant experience in several industry verticals and enterprise scope. His expertise ranges from large-scale operations implementations, M&A activity and private equity work to entrepreneurial startups, with projects jurisdictions encompassing the U.S., the E.U and Asia. Prior to joining Talent Plus, Wang was Managing Director with ALC, International, a project management and leadership management consultancy for the information and communication technology sector. He oversaw major projects in new technology deployment for multiple large clients, including counties and municipalities in New York City, Los Angeles, the UK and France to execute and support new systems rollout. He also served as a senior consultant to the U.S. International Trade Development Agency to assess and evaluate market and leadership strategies for the ICT industry in Romania. Projects included Cloud Computing, Telemedicine, National Library RFID, land cadaster systems, and Port of Constanza infrastructure improvement. Previously, Wang was a senior executive at InfoGROUP, a U.S. business and consumer data provider in a global strategy capacity, leading teams in Canada, the UK, India, and China. Wang holds a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Creighton University and a Master’s of Law in International Trade and Transactions Law as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. In addition, he maintains several international trade, leadership development and project management designations. Audrey Tay (Panelist) Principal Manager, Enterprise Engagement Office SkillsFuture Singapore Prior to joining the Enterprise Engagement Office, Audrey had worked on skills development issues from the workers’ and policy perspectives. She considers “people”, enterprises’ greatest asset. At this point of inflection in Singapore’s economy, whether enterprises will be disrupted or ride the wave of disruption depend on how aligned their people and business strategies are.
Low Boon Seong (Panelist) Founder and Managing Director Align Group BoonSeong is a certified Practising Management Consultant (PMC), and a regular speaker and practitioner on Future-Readiness and Workplace Happiness in Singapore and the region, featured in Channel NewsAsia, Towards Total Health Conference (Health Promotion Board, Singapore), International Well-Being Symposium (University SIM, Singapore), Bosses Network Learning Cruise, and many others. He has over 15 years’ experience implementing people strategy, business innovation and change management programme, spanning from his employment with Singapore Airlines (SIA), and as founder of Align Group. He was a recipient of ASEAN Scholarship 2000, being conferred the Singapore Economic Review Book Prize 2003 as the best graduating student of the cohort in National University of Singapore, and won the most coveted SIA CEO Award 2008 for leading service transformation in SIA when managing the Indonesia market. He worked at the heart of the first wave of disruptive technology, navigating SIA to compete successfully in a changing landscape of online travel and budget airlines. His passion for appreciative people management has led him to the founding of Align Group in 2012; the company aims to enable organisations to grow through internal transformation of people and culture so to actualise their potentials and value-adds to the society. Within a short span of 5 years, Align Group has established itself as an influential thought leader in the SME space, appointed as programme partners to Enterprise Singapore (ESG), SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), Singapore Business Federation (SBF), and Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF). Its unique business partnership and future-focused model has also helped to reposition many growing enterprises for positive transformation and growth. He was also selected as a Mentor in the ASEAN Mentorship for Entrepreneurs Network (AMEN), a flagship program of ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN BAC). Align Group is the brain behind Singapore’s National Workplace Happiness Survey, an initiative supported by SHRI, NTUC and Health Promotion Board. While Singapore is rated as “Under
Happy”, Align Group has since taken proactive measures to help more leaders build positive organisations that are beneficial to both the bottom line and their people. The company’s client list in recent year includes Prime Minister’s Office of Singapore, Singapore Airlines, SingTel, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and many more non-profits and growing local SMEs. Gillian Woo (Panelist) Acting Director, Partners & Operations Division Workforce Singapore Gillian was involved in several key initiatives at WSG to improve the employment facilitation assistance to Singaporeans, such as the conceptualisation of the eCareers Transformation Plan, which resulted in the development of the MyCareersFuture.sg digital service, organisation of virtual career fairs and hosting of webinars. Gillian was also involved in the appointment of two overseas career matching providers to complement the career matching services offered to Singaporeans in their career planning, and the roll-out of Adapt and Grow initiatives such as the Careers Support Programme and the Career Trial. She was also instrumental in the localisation and recruitment efforts for the two Integrated Resorts, working closely with Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa to assist them in their manpower development and training needs. Prior to joining WSG, Gillian’s experience was predominately in the Tourism and Hospitality industries, primarily responsible for the business development and sales and marketing of new growth markets in Asia and the Australasia region. Glenndle Sim (Panelist) Executive Chairman & CEO Mencast Group Glenndle Sim is Executive Chairman & CEO of the Mencast Group, an Oil & Gas and Marine services company listed on SGX Mainboard. He is responsible for the strategic vision, overall management, operations and growth. As well as serving as Executive Chairman of the Board, Glenndle is a member of the Nominating Committee and Corporate Strategy & Communications Committee.
Glenndle was awarded “Best CEO” in year 2014 at the Singapore Corporate Awards in the category of companies with under S$300 million in market capitalization and EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 in the Marine and Offshore Engineering Services category. Glenndle graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor in Business Administration and later obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Delaware in the USA. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program. He was appointed to our Board on 30 January 2008 and was appointed as the Executive Chairman of the Board on 9 October 2009. Jason Tay (Panelist) Deputy Director, Enterprise Programmes Division Workforce Singapore Jason is involved in developing enterprise-centric initiatives to support employers in hiring and reskilling Singaporeans, as well as preparing their workforce for industry transformation Lee Kai Xin (Panelist) Interactive Director Wild Advertising & Marketing Pte Ltd Kai Xin is a human dynamo sheathed in deceptively demure togs while balanced on a pair of dangerously high heels. Getting her started on all things interactive is to watch her blaze an illuminating trajectory in demystifying digital marketing and communication and making it work for you. With a running start in IT marketing at Lenovo and later Microsoft, she finally hunkered down and decided to become an entrepreneur. She built the digital & social media business at Wild from grounds-up over the past 6 years. Since then she has won over 30 awards and helped brands such as OCBC, CPF, Tesco, Eu Yan Sang, Drypers & SMU, build their digital & social media presence.
Peggy Lim (Panelist)
Deputy Director, Enterprise Engagement Office
SkillsFuture Singapore
Peggy leads a passionate team in the Enterprise
Engagement Office to drive the promotion and adoption
of SkillsFuture in enterprises. She believes the
sustainable way for businesses to remain competitive in
the age of disruption is to recognise the importance of
skills and invest in building capabilities of the workforce.
’ She is constantly looking out for like-minded partners
who shares her endeavour to raise the tide to lift all
boats.
Stella Tan (Panelist)
HR Manager
Skool4Kidz
Miss Stella Tan, age 47 joined Skool4kidz in 2016,
handling the full spectrum of Human Resource functions
with the HR team. Skool4kidz is the appointed Anchor
Operator by ECDA to run preschools and currently we
have 450 headcounts and 15 centres island wide.
She has over 20 years of HR experience in various
industries e.g. Early Childhood, Construction, Retail,
Manufacturing and F&B.
Internationalisation
Gillian Lee
Head of Business Development & Marketing
Lu International (Singapore) Financial Asset Exchange
Pte. Ltd.
Gillian leads business development and marketing at Lu
International, where she oversees building corporate
partnerships as well as running both regional and local
branding and marketing activities. Prior to this, she has
spent over 10 years in McKinsey as a consultant as well as
a leader of Panorama Asia, a Fintech and banking focused
solution. Gillian has also published several articles and
reports, including the flagship Asia Pacific Banking Review
as well as an overview of the ASEAN landscape with
McKinsey Global Institute.
Gillian holds an MBA from INSEAD as well as a BSc in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics Quek Leng Chuang Executive Director and Co-Founder Environmental Solutions (Asia) Pte Ltd He co-founded Environmental Solutions (Asia) Pte Ltd in 1999, conceptualised and operationalised the vision frosm a home office to its current manifestation of 2 industrial sites in Tuas, Singapore. He continues to manage the company as one that lives and breathes sustainability, diverting and processing 36,000 MT a year of solid industrial waste from the landfill. A true practitioner in sustainability development goals, and in the conduct of business. In 2016, he embarked on bold plan to transform the landscape of the electricity retail market in Singapore, started the ES Power brand of Carbon Neutral Electricity, with the noble vision of fighting climate change and poverty through the medium of electricity. Mr. Quek Leng Chuang holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Honours) from National University of Singapore and Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from University of Leicester. Shawn Phua Senior Business Advisor SMECentre @ ASME Shawn Phua is a Senior Business Adviser with SMEcentre@ASME. He has helped numerous companies tap on various government assistance schemes and advised aspiring entrepreneurs on starting their business. He will be sharing on some of the government assistance schemes available for companies and aspiring entrepreneurs.
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