Raamann Ahuja

Senior Director HR
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Raamann is Senior Director – Human Resources for Thermo Fisher Scientific and is based in Singapore. He has been with Thermo Fisher for close to 8 years and has worked in different countries including India, Middle East and now in SEA region. He has worked with companies like Asian Paints, HSBC, Standard Chartered and Deutsche Bank prior to joining Thermo Fisher. 

Raamann is an HR & Business leader with over 23 years of interdisciplinary Human Resources experience in complex Global and Matrixed organization and has developed leadership experience working closely with business CEO/the leadership team helping organization/business growth agenda.

His Leadership brand of a “business manager” is linking people agenda with business challenges and known for making an impact on business top-line & bottom-line. He has strengths in building sustainable and growth-oriented people organizations and has managed high growth environment in large MNC and start-up environment.

Raamann started his career post his Chemical engineering in Sales; completed his MBA-HR and embarked on his journey as an HR professional. He has also worked with an IT start-up in Chicago, US.

Wing Git Chan

SVP, Group HR, Admin & Training
BreadTalk Group

Mr Chan Wing Git is an HR professional with a unique blend of both private and public sector experience. With more than 15 years of HR experience, Wing Git has had experience across key HR functions such as Strategic Planning, Recruitment, Employee Relations, Compensation and Benefits. 

Wing Git currently heads the global HR, Administration and Training functions at BreadTalk Group, and is responsible for overseeing the HR support for nearly 1000 regional outlets and 8000 employees. Prior to that, Wing Git also led the HR function at the CPF Board, the HR planning team at Resorts World Sentosa, and was involved in the development of manpower policies and legislation (e.g. Employment Act) changes at the Ministry of Manpower. 

Wing Git sits on the Professional Practices Committee of the Institute of HR Professionals (IHRP), and has a Masters in Civil Engineering. 

Isaac Chin

Director, HR Technology & Analytics, Asia Pacific
Marriott International

Isaac advocates the use of people technology and analytics to inspire evidence-based business insights, decisions and actions. As the Director of HR Technology & Analytics at Marriott International, he develops and sustains an ecosystem of people, platforms, processes and partners to fuel Marriott Asia Pacific’s continual growth as the world’s largest hospitality company. Besides implementing strategic HR metrics and visual dashboards, he and his team are always on the lookout for innovative applications of forward-looking analytical methods and technology for their HR and business stakeholders.

Prior to his current role, Isaac enjoyed a stint in Revenue Management and completed several HR assignments in the areas of Talent Management, Learning & Development and Post-Merger Integration. He was also an analyst at Aon Hewitt’s Performance, Rewards and Talent Analytics Center in Asia Pacific.

Isaac graduated summa cum laude from the Singapore Management University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences. He holds a double major in Psychology and Organizational Behavior & Human Resources.

Wendy Foong

Chief Human Resources Officer
Sembcorp

Wendy is currently Chief Human Resource Officer at Sembcorp Industries Ltd and is introducing transformational people practices to drive more sustainable growth at the organization while creating a high-performance culture. She brings diverse functional as well as industry experiences, having worked across consulting, technology, finance and heavy industries, with giants, such as Schneider Electric, SAP, Standard Chartered, Capgemini, Sun Microsystems and Accenture. She has focused on creating successful experiences for both customers as well as employees. An alumna of the National University of Singapore, Wendy is passionate about building teams and leading change towards new capabilities for the future and a realist who believes in delivering customer value through transformation. 

Bhawna Gandhi

Head of HR, Singapore
Danone

Bhawna Gandhi is currently the head of HR for Danone in Singapore. She loves supporting people to develop and grow their talent by leveraging their strengths and uniqueness. She is responsible for developing the company’s countrywide people strategy. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and is leading this topic for Singapore in Danone. She has over 15 years of experience in business partnering, talent management, leadership development, and change management across MNCs such as BAT, SingTel & Airtel in India and Singapore. 

Kelvin Kong

Chief People Officer
Lazada Singapore & Redmart

Kelvin is currently the Chief People Officer of Lazada Singapore & Redmart. He is a commercial leader turned human resource leader who wants to help organizations build authentic leadership, dynamic teams and engaged employees, preparing them for the digital marketplace. Supporting his career comes over 19 years of sales & marketing experience in companies such as Apple, DHL Express, Unilever & Lazada. He is a firm believer that technology can shape lives, and just has how Lazada accelerates progress in Southeast through commerce and technology, Kelvin often challenges his teams to use technology to impact lives of employees and people at large.

Kelvin also serves as the founder of Voices Of Asia, a ground-up mentoring organization which taps on technology to find scalable ways to reach out to mentees and to provide safe and supportive environments for them to thrive. He truly believes that we need to engage the community to come together through a movement to tackle the escalating social issues we face in the marketplace.

Gary Lee

Global Head of People and Organisational Development
WS Audiology

Gary Lee is the Global Head of People and Organisational Development with WS Audiology. As a seasoned facilitator and people developer with over 16 years of experience in Leadership, learning & OD, talent management and business partnering, he has worked with companies from diverse industries globally in the areas of Talent Development, Leadership, Performance Management, Change Management and Business Strategy. He is concurrently the HR Director for the Singapore HQ where he is the HR business partner for the corporate functions. 

Tracy Lee 

Director, Human Resource Division
SkillsFuture Singapore Agency 

Tracy joined the Human Resource Division of the SkillsFuture Singapore Agency (SSG) in October 2016 when the organisation was established. Prior to SSG, Tracy was with the Workforce Development Agency and SPRING Singapore and her work experiences were predominantly in HR-related fields, ranging from competency framework development, training quality assurance, workforce planning and industry skills transformation and promotion of enterprise human capital initiatives. Coupled with her experiences as a people manager, this paved the way for her to lead the HR division in SSG. In her current role, she oversees the full range of HR functions and culture building.

Tracy has keen interests in people development and cultivating a great workplace culture at SSG. She seeks to play a key role in making SSG an organisation well-known for its progressive HR practices and skills development efforts of its employees.
Tracy has a Bachelor degree in business with a major in HR and a Master degree in business from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has attained professional certification as a senior HR professional with the Institute for HR Professionals (IHRP).

Karen Lim

Country Director, Head of Human Resources
Schneider Electric

Karen Lim currently serves as the Country Director, Human Resources International Operations for Schneider Electric Singapore. Prior to this, she was the Asia Pacific Japan Head of Commercial Sales Operations at SAP, a position she held since 2011. 

In this current HR leadership capacity in Schneider Electric Singapore, Karen has a dual responsibility to lead the HR community for East Asia Japan’s strategic Services business. 

In a career that spans more than 20 years working and living in Singapore, Karen has held senior-level and managerial positions in an international environment in business operations (10 years), sales and business development (7 years) and Human Resources (3 years). Prior to joining the Schneider Electric in 2017, she worked in the IT industry for 17 years. 

Karen graduated from Queensland University with a Business Management distinction degree, and has completed a Strategic Human Resource Management Executive Program at National University of Singapore. 

Karen loves transformation and change management topics, and relish challenges with a passion to make a difference especially with an impact to business results. 

Sor Cheng Tan

Managing Director; Group Head of HR Technology, Shared Services and Risk; Group Human Resources
DBS Bank

Tan Sor Cheng is currently Managing Director and Group Head of HR Technology, Shared Services and Risk for DBS Bank. In this position, Sor Cheng drives HR organizational effectiveness that support the company’s growth.  She is responsible for the efficient functioning of the HR shared services, across the 18 markets globally through transformation, effective HR shared services architecture. She leads in the overall design and delivery of HR Technology strategy and drives the HR digital strategy surrounding the Employee Life Cycle for the whole organization. Sor Cheng not only has extensive experience in stakeholder management and driving HR transformations within DBS, a highly matrixed large organization, but is also responsible for ensuring proper risk and control for all HR processes across the organization. She double-hat as the business HR partner for all HR employee with a keen interest in employee engagement and internal mobility, and making key decisions on how to structure the HR function using both in-house as well as outsourced resources. A Certified Public Accountant, Sor Cheng was the CFO for DBS Taiwan from 2008-2012.  She was the key partner to country head to integrate the new subsidiary into DBS and drives the Finance agenda in DBS Taiwan. She also led the Finance team to transition Finance & accounting practices from a local organization to be aligned with group standards, including building of core banking and the whole suite of Finance systems. Prior to joining DBS, Sor Cheng was formerly Head of Business Planning in Enterprise Banking in OCBC Bank.