Peter Tung is an experienced tax expert in global mobility, tax advisory, expatriate management, employee’s remuneration and individual tax planning. His extensive experience covers but not limited to Hong Kong salaries tax, US individual income tax and PRC individual income tax issues.

As Head of Personal Tax at Tricor Hong Kong, he brings to his role a wealth of experience of working with clients to develop tax-efficient solutions and handle taxation issues on compliance and advisory projects, assisting clients to liaise with various government departments including tax authority, immigration department and labour department in respect of different issues related to employment.

Peter joined Tricor from KPMG, where he was a Senior Tax Manager and managed a range of engagements in financial industry, consumer markets and telecommunication sectors for over a decade.

Angus Cheung leads Adobe’s Document Cloud business strategy development and execution across the greater China region. His primary focus is on helping organisations explore the potential business values behind digital document workflows, with an aim to more effective digital strategy execution

Darryl Parrant has 20+ years of academic, corporate HR and consulting experience. He started his career in academia back in his home country of New Zealand, where his research and teaching focused more on cognitive psychology, change and leadership behaviour. He had sabbaticals in Russia, Japan and South Korea. He then moved to corporate HR working his way up to the executive management team.
 

In 2011 he moved to Singapore to establish his own HR consultancy business, combining his academic and corporate HR experience. He built the very successful Align HR group of companies, which soon became a leading boutique firm in the private and public sectors (Align SMA Pte Ltd - Leadership, Transformation & Assessment; Align HR Consulting Pte Ltd - Talent Management; & Talent Owl Pte Ltd - e-HR and Learning Solutions) until he sold five years later. He then joined Willis Towers Watson in 2016 to head up the HR consultancy business in Singapore. Presently he is leading the Careers business at Mercer Hong Kong. Darryl has particular experience working with government, not for profit, education sectors, as well as the life sciences and financial services industries.

Onis Wong is the Senior Manager of Regional Talent Acquisition for Asia Pacific at BASF, a position she assumed in 2015. She has been focusing on driving the company’s talent acquisition, employer branding, and HR marketing strategies for Asia Pacific. She is also heavily involved in streamlining key recruitment processes and implementing best practices across Asia.
 

She has more than 20 years of experience in talent acquisition and executive search. Before joining BASF, she worked as a Regional Talent Acquisition Lead at Danaher Communications Group, where she was part of the Centre of Excellence HR organisation managing strategic hiring of middle to senior management-level positions in Asia.
 

Onis received her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the University of Hong Kong. After earning her OneMBA (global Executive MBA) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she obtained a graduate certificate in executive and professional coaching from University of Texas at Dallas, US.

After spending 12 years in PwC, since April 2020, Winnie Tsien is appointed to lead the human resources function for the leading real estate professional services, JLL, in Hong Kong covering the business in Macao and Taiwan. She is responsible for working closely with market leadership and management to cultivate new people experience by improving work relationship, building morale and increasing employee branding and retention. Winnie is leading the team to focus on driving and solidifying all the initiatives of HR transformation and ensure it creates great impact to both our people and business.
 

Before moving to JLL, Winnie led a new function within Human Capital at PwC to play a key part in enabling digital solutions with improved processes and enhanced access to data and technology to support business needs and realise the benefits of our human capital technology investments. Winnie was leading a team of experienced professionals to drive digital transformation to improve people digital experience, ensure that our human capital’s current and future systems and technology investment work in harmony to maximise value and impact for the business, our people and the function.
 

Prior to that, Winnie had been working as Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) for the largest line of service, Assurance practice, in the same firm. Winnie was responsible for providing support to Assurance practice across Southern China (e.g. Guangzhou and Shenzhen) and Hong Kong/Macao markets which helped her building stronger foundation and network to perform her new role effectively. She was to take operational ownership including all cyclical activities within the business units whilst working closely with senior stakeholders to design and deliver the people strategy and performance talent and engagement in commercial way. Apart from her primary role as HRBP, she was involved in many projects and programmes including the biggest investment of the firm - project leader of China/Hong Kong territory for a global human capital digital transformation initiatives and implementation of global integrated HR system.

Winnie started her career as a Social Worker focusing on youth, children and family’s cases as she completed her first bachelor’s degree in social work discipline. She then transited to Human Resources professional and ever worked in non-government organisation, and multi-national corporation before joining PwC and JLL.

Joel Cruzado is a senior Learning and Development manager for Starbucks Asia Pacific. Joel is a 20-year-old Starbucks partner (“partner” is the term used for Starbucks employees), opening the Philippine Starbucks in 1997 leading Learning and Development, as well as the Coffee Engagement teams. Joel moved to the Hong Kong regional office in October 2016.

Joel is currently responsible for core training programs’ planning, development, and delivery approaches to the 16 markets (over 8000 stores) in Asia Pacific, including China and Japan.

Over time, Joel completed certification to facilitate various leadership development programs for Starbucks, namely:

• Situational Leadership
• Assessing Performance (Competency Based)
• Fierce Conversations

Prior to joining Starbucks Coffee in 1997, Joel was the operations manager in Transamerica Life Insurance and Annuity Company, based in Los Angeles, where he served 16 years mostly in customer relations, training, and operations.

Joel is an active mentor in the Hong Kong Community Business’ ENGAGE Youth Mentoring Program to coach, mentor and inspire the disadvantaged youth. Joel, enjoys being a “Hong Kong foodie”, while exploring the beauty of Hong Kong. As a Starbucks Coffee Master, he loves connecting over coffee.

Eric has more than 20 years of diverse Human Resources and Management experience in both SMEs and MNCs. Currently, the Head of Human Resources of Evolution Wellness (Hong Kong) Ltd, Eric involve in providing advice and strategic direction in all Human Resources and Learning Development matters. Eric has delved into full suite of Human Resources, include but not limit to Talent Management, Compensation and Benefits, Talent Development and HR Analytical. He enjoys sharing his experience and had spoken at various workshop.

Wendy Alison Yung is Head of Events Production & Content at Lighthouse Independent Media. Prior to that she acted as the Regional Head of Marketing at The Economist where she oversees marketing of their events business in APAC. She spent four years in Singapore leading content development and marketing of technology events including as tradeshows, large-scale conferences, and C-level seminars. Before working in Asia, she worked in software development and media businesses in the United States.

She is the founder of Digital Marketers Alliance in Hong Kong and Singapore and co-founder of a boutique digital agency called Kapteev8. Wendy holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from University of Manchester (Manchester Business School) and is currently finishing her dissertation for her Doctorate in Business Administration with the Swiss Business School.