Naveen Kumar is the regional human resources business partner for the technology and operations functions in APAC. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and has worked in India, Singapore and Hong Kong while supporting various business lines and specialist functions within HR.

In his current role, he is responsible for executing strategic priorities in managing and retaining talent, operational excellence and building a sound performance and risk management culture.

He holds a diploma in financial management from Indian Institute of Management and a master’s degree in human resource management from University of Lucknow, India, and is a certified six sigma black belt.

Benjamin Wong is the HR Director for Greater China at Goodman, one of the largest asset investment and management companies listed on the ASX. Before joining Goodman, he was the CHRO of K Wah International for the real estate industry in HK and Greater Bay area.

He also worked in a German brake control system company (Knorr-Bremse) for rail and commercial vehicle industries as HRD for APAC. His previous work experience also includes Vesuvius in Steel, glass, solar industries, and Otis in transportation business.

He has more than 20 years of work experience in Suzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin and Hong Kong. He has a CPA and MBA from Australia, and is a professional member of Hong Kong Institute of Human Resources Management, and Australia Institute of Human Resources.

Benjamin’s expertise is in people and culture, learning and development, engagement and motivation. He has also championed some campus leadership programmes from INSEAD for previous companies. He had received various interviews with HR magazines in HK and China (HRoot), and some Chinese job portals.

CY joined HKBN in 2011 as a Learning and Development Manager and was appointed Chief Talent and Purpose Officer in January 2020. Overseeing the Group’s Talent engagement and corporate social investment strategy, he leads an elite team of professionals to champion HKBN’s Talent-first focus, define its purpose + profit leadership requirements, and drive HKBN forward via long-term succession-planning. Under his management, CY has played a pivotal role in building a strong Co-Ownership and performance-based culture as well as garnering recognition of HKBN as one of the best companies to work for in Asia. Accruing a broad range of hands-on experiences, CY’s holistic journey with HKBN features a variety of key roles in Talent Engagement, Sales, Talent and Organisation Development, as well as Corporate Social Investment.

Prior to joining HKBN, he was a consultant and business development head for a human performance improvement multinational, covering China's southern region. CY has extensive experience as an HR practitioner and is also a leadership trainer across the consultancy, telecommunication and the manufacturing industries. CY holds a Master of Strategic HRM Degree from Hong Kong Baptist University, and a Master of Applied Psychology from City University of Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program from Stanford Graduate School of Business. CY is one of our proud Co-Owners.

Peter Attfield is the Chief Talent & Learning Officer of Jardine Matheson, responsible for Group-wide Talent Management, Learning & Development, Organisation Development & Internal Communication.

Before joining Jardines, Peter worked in the Middle East for 6 years in senior HR Business Partnering roles for various large family conglomerate businesses.

Prior to this, he held several senior regional and global HR roles over 12 years in Unilever. This included periods heading global HR expertise teams in Performance Management, Talent and Organisation Development.

Before becoming an HR professional some 20 years ago, Peter spent 12 years in Management Consulting and 10 years in Finance. Peter has lived in 9 countries and visited or worked in around 80 others.

Kerry Rooks joined Prudential in 2008 as the Human Resources Director, responsible for all aspects of HR leadership.

Kerry oversees all HR areas ranging from compensation and benefits, organisational development, talent management, learning and development, employee engagement, to recruitment, performance management and organisational effectiveness.

With 20 years of experience in innovative technology, consulting, finance, hospitality and global sales operations management experience starting from the Silicon Valley to worldwide.  Akina is leading a new department at Great Eagle to execute digital transformation at the group level and also across all subsidiaries globally. She is also part of the Investment Committee that evaluate start-ups in cutting-edge technology and disruptive business model across different industries.  She was one of the Executive that helped a startup in Hong Kong to become one of the Unicorn in 2017 with investors from FoxConn and Softbank.  She is a respected guest speaker, panel specialist and guest professor with a notable media appearances on Bloomberg and Fox International.  She is a recipients of many awards for great leadership, digital transformation & innovation, social innovation and proptech.  She is regularly invited as a speaker and panelist at technology and digital transformation conferences covering big data, security, digital marketing, HR, IoT, Customer Experience, and others. Akina holds an GEMBA from USC and a Bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Max Seto is a HR evangelist with a wealth of experiences for a variety of top global technology companies. He possesses in-depth knowledge of people management and talent development and helping corporates to transform by leveraging leading edge technologies.

His current role as Principal Solution Consultant at Workday looks after the APAC region and provides HR specific advisory and consulting services to many different conglomerates in his territory.

Armed with a Computer Science degree, Pei Woan Wong was passionate about coding and planning to settle in a programming role upon graduation. Her first job landed her in the HR world at a large conglomerate and since then, she has never looked back. For 15 years, Pei Woan built her career deep in the discipline of HR and Technology recommending and managing transformation projects across organisations.

Pei Woan currently manages a team of HR and IT solution consultants at Workday for Asia. As part of her leadership portfolio, she strives to set internal benchmarks in team management and performance in Employee Experience. She also chairs the Field Innovation Champions for Customer Experience team across Asia Pacific and Japan.

Nora Cheung is the Senior Director, Human Resources of Automation Anywhere Inc. and is responsible for the Asia Pacific Japan Region (APJ). She is a veteran in the areas of Human Resources Management with more than 20 years HR leadership experience in IT, Technology, Electronics and Electrical Industry. Previously, she has held senior HR positions as Director of HR APAC at Splunk, Boyd Corp and Atmel Corporation.

As an experienced HR business partner, she has worked closely with business leaders to manage diverse range of employees from executive level to front line operation level in multi-country environments within the Asia Pacific & Japan region. Nora has a successful solid experience in handling various human resources projects in change management, polices & systems formulation; multiple sites integration & consolidation, restructuring and alignment; organization restructuring; merge & acquisitions; performance management and HRIS implementation etc.

John Antos leads both the strategy and marketing functions for the Asia Pacific region at ADP. He collaborates with the ADP® Research Institute and other partners on research into human capital management (HCM) and the future of work, and how it is evolving in Asia’s dynamic business environment. He speaks on business trends such as economics, innovation and technology, and what happens as these factors cross human capital in the equation making up the new digital workplace.

Based in Singapore for over 5 years, he is frequently working across the Asia Pacific region from mainland China and Hong Kong SAR, to India, Southeast Asia, and Australia.  His career includes a background in product innovation, fintech, HCM, consumer financial services, and corporate tax credits, serving in leadership roles in marketing and strategy.

With credentialing in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, SPED/SpLD, psychological evaluations, psychometric assessments, Dr Scarlett Mattoli is a Clinical Psychologist carrying out assessments and psychotherapuetic support in private practice and in volunteering roles with children from five years of age, adolescents, families and individual adult clients throughout the lifespan for a range of presenting issues. She consults for corporate, NGO, educational and not-for-profit organisations on mental health, EAP programmes and employee engagement and well-being. Specialty areas of research and practice include neurodevelopment, learning differences, family systems/parenting and addictions.

Professional qualifications and public and private sector experience were gained whilst living in the USA, UK, Europe and Asia over the past two and a half decades. With credentialing in neuropsychology, psychometric assessments, coaching psychology, supervision and a wide range of psychotherapeutic interventions, Scarlett is well placed to provide support and to deliver informed, informative, engaging and interactive services and public speaking, appropriate for a wide range of audiences and needs.

Daniel is the General Manager for Workday Greater China since May 2020. In Workday, Daniel manages the business across all Workday platform solutions including HCM, Financial Management, Planning & Analytics.

Prior to joining Workday, Daniel was the Regional Sales Director for Salesforce in Hong Kong and he also spent over 10 years with Oracle in running enterprise application and SaaS businesses. In the last decade, he has engaged and supported many large enterprises successfully transformed their businesses from legacy on premise applications to SaaS base applications to realize innovations in an agile way to cope with the changing world.

Simon is the Head of Corporate for Edelman Hong Kong. An adept corporate affairs and communications specialist with more than 20 years of international experience, Simon brings hands-on commercial understanding of many industries.

In his current role he regularly works with the leadership of private and publicly listed companies on governance and reputational issues, including internal programs aimed at enhancing overall employee trust and satisfaction with their employer.  

Simon himself is a great believer in the notion of happy employees = successful business. He established, and continues to run Edelman Hong Kong’s first ever mental health plan at the beginning of 2019, and sits on the company’s regional Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Committee.

Hosanna is the Regional Head of Safety, Wellbeing and Workplace Experience for ASEAN & South Asia for the Property function in Standard Chartered Bank. In this role, Hosanna has the exciting opportunity to bridge her passion on wellbeing and health promotion into her interest in bringing a seamless, engaging and well-rounded journey to help colleagues be the best version of themselves while in the workplace. At the same time, her team enables the Bank serve clients and take risks a safe way.

With her 15 years of HR and recruitment experience, Renee has a passion for optimizing the human-side of business, to grow organizations with a sustainable, powerful and people-focused approach. Based in Asia for over 10 years, Renee works with financial services and professional services firms in Hong Kong to position their businesses for the future of work through training, coaching and HR consulting.

She works with clients to design and deliver an integrated employee experience through targeted talent attraction and employee engagement (EX) initiatives. Previously, Renee held senior HR roles in Fintech and Investment Banking (Barclays, UBS) in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong. A certified organizational coach (IECL), Renee has an MBA from HKUST,  holds a certificate in Strategic Human Resources Leadership from Cornell University, and a B.A. from Hobart & William Smith Colleges in the United States. 

Hong Tran is a partner of Mayer Brown and is a Co-Firm Practice Leader of the global Employment and Benefits Group. He advises employers on compliance with employment, discrimination and privacy legislation. He also advises on strategic labour force issues including the structure of employment relationships; risk management in the employment and discrimination context; the introduction of changes to employment arrangements; the handling of union relations; and recruitment, disciplinary and termination issues. He is experienced in handling employment disputes, discrimination and privacy complaints/issues. He represents employers engaged in legal proceedings at the various court levels from the Labour Tribunal through to the Court of Final Appeal. He also advises employers in responding to investigations by the Labour Department, Equal Opportunities Commission and the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Privacy. Hong speaks English, Cantonese and Chiu Chow dialect.

He has been ranked as Band 1 lawyer in employment Hong Kong Law by Chambers Asia Pacific (2017-2020) and a "Leading individual" in employment law by Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2015-2020). He has been recognised by Who's Who Legal (2015) as being among the world's leading lawyers for employment and labour practice in Hong Kong. He was named as one of the "pre-eminent practitioners in the world" and "one of the world's leading lawyers" by Guide to the World's Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers (2011). He was also named a Leading Asia Law Labour & Employment Lawyer by the Asia Law & Practice Survey (2008).

Hong has contributed to leading employment and discrimination law textbooks "Chitty on Contracts, Hong Kong Specific Contracts" Chapter 7, "Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong" Chapters 3 & 5 and "Discrimination Law and Practice in Hong Kong" Chapters 4 and 7 (and Co-General Editor).

Christy is a Talent Partner at Woolworths Group, overseeing Talent end-to-end across 14 locations in the Asia region. This includes talent acquisition, talent management, team experience, communications, wellbeing and diversity & inclusion.

As a true believer that people are the core of any successful business, she uses this passion to drive a team 1st culture at Woolworths Group Asia, where team members bring their best and full selves to work everyday, to achieve their purpose - we create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.

Hurkat began his career in 2004 and has worked with companies such as Vodafone India, LafargeHolcim, Aditya Birla and Mondelez International before joining Mattel.

An alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, he recalls fondly how he led the design and creation of a high-performance work culture for what is claimed to be the biggest chocolate factory in the world and largest in Asia Pacific, for Mondelez at Sri City in Andhra Pradesh.

He's been with Mattel, Inc. for over 3 years now and has over 16 years of Human Resources experience across sectors. Rajesh also won several laurels such as 101 Top HR Minds in 2019 and 100 HR Achievers Award in 2018.

Ricky is the Corporate Director, Talent & Culture at Rosewood Hotel Group, responsible for leading the Global Talent Acquisition strategies for 40+ hotels around the world, including Executive Hiring, Early Careers, Candidate Experience, Employer Branding, HR Technology, and DIBs – Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging.

His previous role at LinkedIn was to advise global and APAC HR and Business Leaders on Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, Workforce Planning, Employee Engagement and Recruitment Marketing Strategies. His client coverage spanned across Financial Services, Insurance, Hospitality, Gaming and Casinos, and High-Tech.

Ricky’s passion is using data insights and technology to change the way HR works. He believes in the power of connections and aspires to create opportunities for everyone leveraging social networks.