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Southeast Asia CFO Vision 2017 Leading Finance to the FutureJuly 20-21, 2017 | The Pan Pacific Singapore

Southeast Asia CFO Vision 2017

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Extraordinary times demand extraordinary leaders. In this era of unprecedented change, the Southeast Asia CFO Vision conference is designed to help CFOs tackle their most important issues - from digital disruptions to leadership and to the evolving role of Finance.

You will hear from some of the region’s leading CEOs, CFOs and subject matter experts on how to confront the rapid pace and increasing complexity of business, as well as the skills you need to help conquer them.

Themed ‘Leading Finance to the future,’ the focus of the conference is on the evolving economy and business environment of today, and how you, as a Finance leader, and your Finance team have to evolve to stay ahead.

The agenda offers a one and a half day program - a chance to look ahead - filled with engaging presentations and discussions on timely topics, dedicated to addressing the issues CFOs and Finance leaders face today.

Distinctive workshops during the day are also created to provide platforms for focused discussions and create opportunities for peer-to-peer conversations on challenging issues - and to explore practical approaches to address them.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

ContentsAgenda

Guest Speakers

Deloitte Speakers


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AgendaDay One

Thursday, July 20, 2017

8.15 am - 8.50 am Registration and refreshment

8.50 am - 9.00 am Welcome and opening remarks

Ng Jiak See, SEA CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Southeast AsiaSandy Cockrell, Global CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

9.00 am - 9.15 am Keynote: Businesses and technology for the future

The world of business is constantly changing. What works today may not work the same tomorrow. Hear from one of the leaders in Singapore on his views and experiences on how businesses in the region can grow in the digital era and the challenges presented by the emergence of financial technologies, as Singapore continues to strive to be a leading financial and accountancy hub; and how CFOs and organisations can develop strategic thinkers to be leaders of the future.

Teo Ser Luck, Member of Parliament

9.15 am - 10.00 am Voice of Asia: 2017 and beyond

CFOs may think they have faced everything the global economic environment can throw at them: inflation, deflation, currency swings, commodity price cycles, market volatility. But there are always surprises. Consider Brexit, the halt in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or the growing powers of China and India - CFOs have to confront both expected and unexpected economic factors every day and decide how to respond in terms of capital raising, capital spending, and expansion plans. The Voice of Asia series assesses how these global and regional economic factors result in challenges and opportunities for the Asia Pacific region today and tomorrow.

In this discussion, Deloitte economists will assess the current economic landscape globally and in Asia, and share their perspectives on key themes - from growth to trade, culture to commerce, digital to demography - outlining what wild cards may be in store in the coming year and how businesses in the region may be affected.

Ira Kalish, Chief Global Economist, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LimitedSitao Xu, Chief Economist, Deloitte China

10.00 am - 10.45 am CFO panel: Leading in extraordinary times

There is no single path to being a CFO at a leading company - interplay of key personal traits and values, shaping moments in their journey, building key relationships, and developing the talent team crucial to expand the Finance organisation - specific skills were vital to creating the total package essential to being a top level CFO.

With the evolving economy and business environment of today, extraordinary times call for extraordinary leaders. In this discussion, leading CFOs share their experiences and outline how they manage constraints and create value in a world of rapid change and increasing complexity, and how CFOs and Finance have to grow to keep up with the times.

Moderator:Annie Koh, Vice President for Office of Business Development, Singapore Management University

Panelists:Aniruddha Kusre, Chief Financial Officer, Zimplistic Pte Ltd Jakob Bergholdt, Chief Financial Officer, BW Group Lee Kai Nee, Chief Financial Officer, GovTech Ramesh Rajentheran, Group Chief Financial Officer, Fullerton HealthTan Lee Thong, Group Finance Director, International SOS


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10.45 am - 11.15 am Networking break

11.15 am - 11.50 am Innovation and large-scale transformation in times of constant change

The world as we know it is changing - rapid advancements in technology, are profoundly altering our economy and creating new market opportunities for the organisations which can keep up and anticipate their impact. While some firms have benefitted handsomely, these same fundamental shifts have exposed other companies to significant performance pressures. Take the rise of Amazon and the concurrent fall of Borders as proof of the growing imperative for firms to change and adapt.

In this session we will explore the concept of identifying and scaling ‘edges’ as a methodology to innovate, transform and thrive in the world to come, including questions such as - How do you hold a long-term view and drive innovation and transformation in times of increasing quarterly reporting pressure? How do you make strategic choices in a world that is shifting at an increasingly faster pace?

Duleesha Kulasooriya, Managing Director, Centre for the Edge, Deloitte LLP

11.50 am - 12.30 pm Digital in Finance

Finance organisations have lots of experience managing change. But digital represents opportunities we haven’t seen before. Finance teams need to understand that the world will continue to move even faster and we need to prepare ourselves to meet the demands of the business and our stakeholders. Technology like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and cognitive agents are maturing rapidly and quickly filling the minds of many organisations and CFOs.

In this segment we will share some of the key digital disruptions affecting Finance and look at how CFOs can help their organisations to maximise the benefits.

Timothy Ho, SEA Finance Transformation Lead, Deloitte Southeast Asia

12.30 pm - 1.30 pm Lunch


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First Session:1.30 pm - 2.15 pm

Second Session:2.15 pm - 3.00 pm

Workshop 1: Cybercrime in a digital age - Understanding your risks

Cybercrime has globalised exponentially into a $450 billion global industry with a projected trajectory of $6 trillion by 2021. It is now an evolved industry with sophisticated networks of cybercriminals and organised cybercrime organisations using established business models like the distribution model used for Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) to compromise and empty the coffers of any organisation with a vulnerability. It also shows no signs of stopping, with the World Economic Forum ranking ‘Massive incident of data fraud/theft’ as a top 5 Global Risk in its Global Risk Report 2017. Organisations and individuals are at risk if risk exposures or vulnerabilities are not identified appropriately and addressed in a timely manner.

In this session, we will discuss the cyber threat landscape, the hottest tech trends and cyber risk implications, growing cyber legislations and strategic steps CFOs can take to address these cyber risks.

Thio Tse Gan, SEA Cyber Risk Services Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Workshop 2: The promise of analytics - What CFOs need to know?

No longer just an idea, predictive and prescriptive analytics have made inroads into corporations to predict financial performance, assess capital investments, and forecast and control inventories. The promise to leverage data to boost competitive advantage in turn provides insight across the value-chain that ultimately generates outcomes that help reduce costs, increase revenue, improve compliance, and reduce risks that lead to loss of funds.

In this session, hear the latest trends in analytics and how that fits into the CFO agenda to shift towards greater visibility for smarter decision making to accelerate growth. Learn from case studies and be part of a discussion that considers the steps needed to extend analytics capabilities into finance functions. Explore innovative approaches with demonstrations and tools that enable CFOs to deliver further value throughout the business.

Miguel Fernandes, Director, Forensic Analytics, Deloitte Southeast AsiaTim Phillipps, APAC Financial Crime Network Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Workshop 3: Tax function of the future - Leveraging technology to deliver strategic tax objectives

Tax functions of multinational organisations need to manage complex stakeholder needs in a rapidly changing legislative environment. This trend seems very likely to continue and some leading organisations are already preparing for a world in which the tax function may look very different.

In this session we will consider some of the technology enablers (such as data analytics and robotics) that we see playing an important role, as well as the organisational and resourcing strategies groups are looking to leverage.

Richard Mackender, Partner, Tax Management Consulting, Deloitte Southeast AsiaJames Paul, Director, Tax Management Consulting, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Workshop 4: Shared services trends

Shared Services Centres (SSC) have continued to play an important role in this region in improving service delivery as well as supporting growth of the business. Shared Services continue to evolve to meet the expectations of their customers and overcome talent and cost challenges.

In this segment we will share highlights of Deloitte’s 2017 Global Shared Services Survey, and emerging trends and developments in the shared services landscape. Our guest speaker will also share some of her experience in building up the next generation SSC capabilities. This is an interactive discussion session and we encourage questions and sharing of any experiences.

Sherine Yam, Operations Director, AstraZeneca Asia-Pacific Business Services Sdn Bhd Timothy Ho, SEA Finance Transformation Lead, Deloitte Southeast Asia


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3.00 pm - 3.30 pm Networking break

3.30 pm - 4.15 pm CFO as a strategist

CEOs and boards increasingly want CFOs to not only deliver a finance organization that gets the numbers right, but also partner with them in shaping the company’s strategy, while still running the daily finance operations. It is important to understand the scope of a CFO’s role, where they should focus, and how they orient themselves to supporting strategy.

Hear from Deloitte’s expert on lessons learned from CFO Transitions, and specifically, how CFOs and CEOs align on strategy and effectively partner with the business.

Sandy Cockrell, Global CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

4.15 pm - 4.45 pm Treasury trends and CFO strategic imperatives

CFOs that we have worked with reported that their Treasury function is more strategic than ever before, and in the complex business environment of today, CFOs are expected, to lead and provide the direction for the Financial Risk Management in of their organisation. In this presentation, we will share a wide spectrum of foundational topics - from the various financial risks affecting businesses to building a digital-ready talent team, we will discuss what the building blocks are to successful financial risk management.

Benny Koh, SEA Treasury Advisory Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

4.45 pm - 5.30 pm The paradigm shift in the investment landscape: Managing investments today and tomorrow

In efforts to unlock greater shareholder value from portfolio alignment, CFOs are increasingly charged with helping drive strategy and affect overall performance, turning to spin-offs to create new public companies out of existing business units. While the transactions may be logical in concept, they are rarely easy to execute, especially in today’s changing business environment. Is traditional investment modelling becoming obsolete?

In this discussion, we will take a peek into the perspectives of a leading private equity firm on the current market, and how CFOs can improve decisions around M&A, capital allocation, investments, planning and a host of other areas.

Ashish Shastry, Head of Southeast Asia, KKR & Co. L.P Benny Koh, SEA Treasury Advisory Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

5.30 pm - 5.40 pm Closing remarks

Ng Jiak See, SEA CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

6.00 pm - 8.00 pm Cocktail networking dinner


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Day Two

Friday, July 21, 2017

8.15 am - 8.50 am Registration and refreshment

8.50 am - 9.00 am Welcome back

9.00 am - 9.30 am Leadership, people and culture

Whether you are a newly appointed CFO or with years of experience in the bag, building relationships with peers in your organisation still is an important part of the role. To drive the company value and competitive advantage in the increasingly competitive environment today, it is more important than ever for CFOs to collaborate closely with other business leaders. What does the rest of the organisation generally expect from their CFOs and how can CFOs deliver effectively?

Having the right team is also essential to your success. Given the complexity in the business environment, growth agendas, and the proliferation of technology, having the right talent is also a competitive advantage. That talent not only has to be top-notch, but also has to fit the long-term needs and culture of the company.

We will discuss the value of a clear, effective, and timely communications strategy; having a strong command of key enterprise issues, such as risk, finance, accounting, talent, and broader business operations; and building effective relationships with the CEO and other leaders across the enterprise, as well as address today’s pressing talent issues and feature insights into molding the team you need now - and five years from now. Pushp Gupta, Partner, Human Capital, Deloitte Southeast Asia

9.30 am - 10.15 am Diversity & women in leadership

More women are making their mark as leaders in various fields today in Asia. It is important for organisations and its people to see the need to accelerate diversity in the workplace.

In this panel discussion, we will hear from the insights and experiences of women leaders on diversity in the workplace environment to promote acceptance, respect and teamwork; how they leveled the playing field and succeeded to the top.

Moderator:Ng Jiak See, SEA CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Panelists:Nor Fadhilah, Chief Financial Officer, Telekom Malaysia Violet Lim, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Lunch Actually Group Zann Lim, Chief Financial Officer, Haw Par Corporation Limited

10.15 am - 10.45 am Networking break


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10.45 am - 11.15 am Thriving in uncertainty: Global cost management insights and advanced cost reduction tools in theage of digital disruption

Global macroeconomic factors and the use of advanced cost tools are having a major impact on cost management efforts in organisations. This has created a cost/growth paradox we call “thriving in uncertainty,” where companies are simultaneously pursuing the seemingly conflicting goals of aggressive cost improvement and aggressive growth.

In this discussion, we will address the results of Deloitte’s global surveys of cost management and cost improvement trends, exploring how companies are managing costs in this challenging environment and practical insights on tackling the cost/growth paradox and the incremental use of advanced cost tools related to automation and cognitive technologies.

Omar Aguilar, Global Leader, Strategic Cost Transformation, Deloitte Consulting LLP Wendy Lai, SEA Strategy & Operations Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

11.15 am - 12.00 pm FinTech revolution: Unlocking the hidden value

In the era of Industry 4.0, FinTech has a very important role to play. Not just to enable or disrupt the financial institutions but also a key role to drive efficiency in the world of CFOs of large corporates. CFO’s role is increasingly becoming strategic. With deeper understanding of FinTech they can further leverage opportunities that FinTech has to offer to their organisations.

In this session we will reflect on the key issues and opportunities faced by CFOs and how FinTech can address them.

Paul Tan, Managing Director, Banking, Head of Asia-Pacific, Greenwich AssociatesMohit Mehrotra, Strategy Consulting Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

12.00 pm - 12.10 pm Closing remarks

Ng Jiak See, SEA CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia


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Guest Speakers

Sherine YamOperations Director AstraZeneca Asia-Pacific Business Services Sdn Bhd

Sherine is the Operations Director who leads the finance captive Shared Services Centre of AstraZeneca (APBS) based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. She is responsible for transforming the regional finance shared services to a global process-led operating model, building the highest level of business partnership experiences and driving the growth agenda for APBS. Sherine also leads the development of innovation capabilities across Global Financial Operations (GFO) in AstraZeneca, to enable the employees to think differently, challenge convention, and embed creative thinking in day-to-day work, in preparation for the next generation Global Business Services (GBS).

Sherine is a seasoned leader in shared services industry with proven track record of successful, large scale finance transformation. She has served reputable multinational companies in various senior positions, to name a few, McDonald’s Corp, Accenture Consulting and leading major oil & gas conglomerates.

Jakob BergholdtChief Financial Officer BW Group

Jakob the Chief Financial Officer of BW Group. He has over 20 years of international finance, shipping and logistics experience across various industries and in both listed and private businesses.

Prior to BW Group, Jakob was Chief Financial Officer, Asia at Dampskibsselskabet Norden in 2012 before he was promoted to Group Vice President and CEO of NORDEN Singapore after a year. He has also held Chief Financial Officer and other senior management roles with Cognita and the AP Møller-Mǽrsk Group. Jakob began his finance and shipping career at AP Møller-Mǽrsk in 1993, where he progressed over the years to become the regional Chief Financial Officer, Asia Pacific Region for DAMCO.

Jakob holds an MBA (Hons) from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a HD Degree (Financial and Management Accounting Degree) from the Copenhagen Business School, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and Business, also from the Copenhagen Business School.

Teo Ser LuckMember of Parliament

Teo Ser Luck creates, builds, invest and advises new ventures and existing businesses. The companies are mostly technology related in B2B, B2C, C2C, e-commerce, marketplace areas. It spans across different sectors in finance, education, food, hardware, general commodities, sports and fitness, event management, and other sectors.He also chairs and advises start-ups, SMEs and listed companies.

Mr. Teo spent 15 years in private sector before joining politics for 11 years. He returned to the private sector this year.He began his career in the private sector progressing to oversee companies as Regional Director, General Manager and Managing Director of multi-national businesses and operations in the Asia Pacific. He has worked in Hong Kong, China, Thailand, India and has helped to start companies. Mr. Teo was overseeing DHL Express (Singapore) Pte Ltd before entering politics.

In politics, Mr. Teo was elected Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC in May 2006 and was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary. He was subsequently promoted to Minister of State, appointed as the Mayor of the North East District and chairman of the Mayors committee. Mr. Teo has been through Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Manpower, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, and the Ministry of Transport. Mr. Teo remains as a Member of Parliament.


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Paul TanManaging Director, Banking, Head of Asia-PacificGreenwich Associates

Paul leads the coverage of Corporate, Commercial and Transaction Banking in Asia Pacific and has over a decade of management consulting experience exclusively focused on wholesale banking.

Prior to joining the Firm, Paul was with Oliver Wyman, where he specialised in Corporate & Institutional Banking and Finance & Risk Management. Paul also led market coverage for Taiwan, before returning to focus on Southeast Asia.Paul has a Masters in Engineering and a BA from the University of Cambridge.

Zann Lim Chief Financial Officer Haw Par Corporation Limited

Zann is the Chief Financial Officer of Haw Par Corporation Limited and is a member of its Investment Committee. Haw Par is a main-board listed company in Singapore, principally engaged in healthcare, leisure, properties and investment activities. She looks after Legal, Secretarial, Finance and Treasury functions.

She started her career in public accounting at Deloitte Singapore and PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong and Singapore offices, in areas of auditing, mainly for MNCs and listed companies. She subsequently went on to specialise in projects involving initial public offerings, debt offering, mergers and acquisitions around the region, with greater emphasis on China. Her work experience spanned across several countries in Asia.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore with a First Class Honors and a minor in Business Law. She went on to secure an Executive MBA with INSEAD and Tsinghua University, with Distinctions.

Lee Kai NeeChief Financial OfficerGovernment Technology Agency of Singapore

Kai Nee is the Chief Financial Officer of Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). Kai Nee is responsible for the Finance, Investments and Procurement for GovTech. With over 20 years of professional experience, Kai Nee started her career with the public accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand and has also spent some years in Jurong International Holdings, SembCorp Parks Management and Sentosa Development Corporation.

Dr Ramesh RajentheranGroup Chief Financial OfficerFullerton Health

Dr Ramesh is the Group Chief Financial Officer Financial Officer at Fullerton Health, one of Asia’s leading managed healthcare providers.

Prior to joining our Company, he was in the investment banking sector from 2004 to 2015, having been a Managing Director at Barclays in Singapore and Hong Kong, Head of Markets & Advisor to Executive Chairman at the Hong Leong Group in Kuala Lumpur, an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley in London and an Associate Director at UBS in London.

From 1999 to 2002, Dr Ramesh was a physician with the National Health Service in the United Kingdom where he published in leading scientific journals. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the University of Newcastle where he was a Commonwealth/Chevening scholar and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in finance from London Business School. Dr Ramesh is on the boards of various group subsidiaries as well as Engineering Good, a humanitarian engineering non-profit in Singapore.


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Tan Lee ThongGroup Finance Director International SOS

Lee Thong is the Group Finance Director at International SOS, the world’s leading medical and travel security risk services company. Joined in 2001, he now leads the group finance, tax & treasury management functions, with responsibilities including M&A and corporate funding.

Lee Thong is also leading the global finance team through a Finance Transformation with the rollout of an ERP system and the migration to shared services.

Lee Thong started his career with KPMG as an auditor, before venturing into the commercial world including a Singapore public listed conglomerate, an Indonesian privately owned conglomerate and a newly setup subsidiary of a Nasdaq listed Dot.com company. Lee Thong graduated from NTU with a Bachelor of Accountancy, and is a non-practising chartered accountant with ISCA.

Ashish ShastryHead of Southeast AsiaKKR & Co. L.P

Ashish joined KKR in 2016 as a Member and Head of Southeast Asia. Mr. Shastry started his Asian private equity career with TPG Capital in 1998. By the time he left TPG in 2011, he was a Partner and the Head of Southeast Asia.

Ashish then served for five years as a Managing Partner of Northstar Group, managing over US$2 billion in private equity and venture capital funds with a focus on Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia. He began his career at Lehman Brothers in New York and graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. degree in economics (with honors).

Violet LimCo-Founder and Chief Executive OfficerLunch Actually Group

Violet saw a business opportunity in the competitive world where the lives of busy professionals revolve around work and the boardroom. Further observation of her family, friends and colleagues who complained about having little time for love due to their busy schedules convinced Violet even more and led her to set up her own matchmaking company called Lunch Actually in 2004 with her then fiancé, now husband, Mr Jamie Lee.

Today, Lunch Actually is Asia’s biggest premier lunch dating company with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Jakarta and Bangkok with the largest lunch dating membership base. Together with Jamie, Violet also founded eSynchrony to fill the gap in the market for trusted online and offline dating service platforms.

On top of her role as Cheif Executive Officer and spokesperson of Lunch Actually Group, Violet is serving as a Chapter President of Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) Singapore. For her involvement and contributions to the society at large through her profession and community commitments, Violet was the first EO Singapore member to be featured on the cover of Octane, EO’s award-winning magazine. She’s also a Winner at Women Entrepreneur Award 2017 in Singapore; an established award that recognizes her for her achievement in demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial qualities.

She also sits on the board of Matchmaking Institute and is the Executive Director and the Principal Trainer of Matchmaking Institute of South East Asia where she trains matchmakers and aspiring matchmakers from all around Asia, the Charter President of the Association of Dating Agencies and Matchmakers (Singapore), she is also a past President at the Rotary Club of Suntec City and a current Committee Member of Shirin Fodzar.


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Annie KohVice President, Office of Business Development Singapore Management University

Annie is the Vice President for Office of Business Development at the Singapore Management University (SMU). A Practice Professor of Finance, Annie also holds the position of Academic Director for two university level institutes - the Business Families Institute (BFI) and International Trading Institute (ITI). Her previous portfolio includes positions as Associate Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business and Dean, Office of Executive & Professional Education. A notable conference speaker, panel moderator and commentator, Annie serves on a number of councils, advisory boards and steering committees of regional and local corporate, government and academic institutions.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on Regional Governance and is a board member of Family Firm Institute, Inc. Prof. Koh chairs the finance and investment committee on the board of GovTech Singapore, and serves on Singapore’s Central Provident Fund Board. She is also an Independent Director of k1 Ventures Ltd, and lead ID of Health Management International Ltd (HMI). Her appointment as a member of SkillsFuture HR Sectoral Tripartite Committee, HR Certification Taskforce, MOE-SSG Skills Development Council and chairs the Asian Bond Fund 2 Supervisory Committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, is testament to her strong linkages to businesses, governments and society.

A Fulbright scholar, Annie earned her PhD in International Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University in 1988. Her research interests are in Family Office and Family Business, Investor Behaviour, Alternate Investments and Enterprise Risk Management. She co-authored Financial Management: Theory and Practice, An Asia Edition (2014), and Financing Internationalisation - Growth Strategies for Successful Companies (2004). She is also author of a number of Asian family business cases and survey reports.

Annie is a recipient of the prestigious Singapore Public Administration Medal, Bronze in 2010 and Silver in 2016, for her contributions to education and public sector.

Aniruddha KusreChief Financial OfficerZimplistic Pte Ltd

Aniruddha is the Chief Financial Officer of Zimplistic Pte Ltd (makers of Rotimatic - the world’s first robotic kitchen appliance which automates the entire process of roti making). Prior to joining Zimplistic, he worked in Dubai for a large company in the Offshore Support Vessel sector as a Deputy Chief Financial Officer where he worked on successful debt syndication deals, and major corporate events such as IPO listing in London. He is an MBA from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.


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Deloitte Speakers

Benny KohSEA Treasury Advisory Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Benny Koh leads Deloitte’s Southeast Asia Treasury Advisory practice, which covers Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Benny was, for four years, the Treasurer for Temasek, a Singapore government-owned investment company. He provided leadership to the firm’s Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange Management and Cash/Liquidity Management functions.

Before Temasek, Benny was with General Electric Company for eleven years and had been involved in a variety of roles ranging from setting up funding programs for GE Capital in Thailand to leading GE Capital’s investor relations effort in Asia-Pacific.

Duleesha KulasooriyaManaging Director, Centre for the Edge, Deloitte LLP

Duleesha is a Managing Director and the lead strategist at Deloitte’s Centre for the Edge – a Silicon Valley-based management research think tank exploring the edges of business and technology. The Centre studies the implications and opportunities resulting from the exponentially evolving digital infrastructure. Duleesha has written and spoken extensively on the use of new technologies to innovate and transform, the evolution of the manufacturing industry, building and scaling edge institutions, and practices that individuals would need to develop to thrive in a world of constant change.

Duleesha has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, at the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Engineering and BA in Economics from Swarthmore College.

Ira KalishChief Global Economist, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

Dr Ira is the Chief Global Economist of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. He is a specialist in global economic issues as well as the effects of economic, demographic, and social trends on the global business environment. He has written about the economies of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Mexico and South America, and has also written extensively on global consumer markets.

Among Dr Ira’s recent publications were the quarterly Global Economic Outlook of which he is the managing editor; the annual Global Powers of Retailing report; China and India: Comparing the World’s Hottest Consumer Markets; China and India: The Reality Beyond the Hype, Budget Deficits: Why All the Fuss, an article in CFO Journal, and Mind The Gap, an article in Deloitte Review on changing income distribution.

Dr Ira advises Deloitte clients as well as Deloitte’s leadership on economic issues and their impact on business strategy. In addition, he has given numerous presentations to corporations and trade organisation on topics related to the global economy. Dr Ira also serves on the BIAC Economic Policy Committee which advises the OECD on macroeconomic policy issues. He is widely traveled and has given presentations in 47 countries on six continents.

Dr Ira has been widely quoted in the news media; his remarks have been published by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and U.S. News & World Report. He has appeared on CNN, CBS News, CNBC, PBS and BBC World Service.


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James PaulDirector, Tax Management Consulting, Deloitte Southeast Asia

James is a Director in Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting team with 11 years’ experience advising organisations on their tax management frameworks. Having spent his career to date with Deloitte in London, in 2016, he relocated to Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting team in Singapore, to respond to increased business focus on tax management strategy and operations in the region. He specialises in tax strategy, risk and operations and has worked with CFOs and Tax Directors from many multinational organisations to develop and improve their tax operating models.

James WaltonSEA CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

James has 17 years of professional services experience with Deloitte, during which he has worked in over 50 countries. He started in Deloitte’s Tax practice in London and Prague before becoming the Clients & Markets Partner in Singapore in 2015. He oversees all marketing, communications and business development activities of Deloitte across the ASEAN region and co-leads the SEA CFO Program.

Miguel Fernandes Director, Forensic Analytics, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Based in Singapore, Miguel has more than a decade of experience as a data scientist where his expertise resides in the development and design of data-driven solutions to solve critical business problems. As a regional Director in Deloitte’s Forensic Data Analytics team, he advises global and emerging multi-national institutions in the establishment of data strategies within big data ecosystems, where his expertise in data management, solution architecture, statistical analysis are all instrumental to the development and operationalisation of new platforms and strategic analytics initiatives. Currently, Miguel is focused on financial crime analytics, machine learning, text mining and natural language processing and data visualisation where he works with institutions to predict loss of funds through suspicious or abnormal transactional behaviour.

Mohit MehrotraStrategy Consulting Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Mohit is a Partner at Deloitte, and is part of the Southeast Asia Regional Consulting team. He has been working with Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia for almost 12 years. He has extensive experience in asset intensive businesses such as financial services industry, telecom and governments in the region.

His wide ranging management and consultancy experience, amongst others, covers the following, responsibility for developing the Strategy consulting business in the region - included client development and delivery, top and bottom-line responsibility, hiring of consultants and leadership of colleagues, development of new functional content etc... He has managed several regional engagements in the area of strategy development, value proposition development, segmentation and profitability related issues. He has written numerous articles in publications such as Business Times, Insurance review, GT News, Asian Banking & Finance to name a few.


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Ng Jiak SeeSEA CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Jiak See has over 20 years of professional experience in the provision of corporate finance advisory, post-merger integration service, auditing services, business, financial and accounting advisory services.

She has undertaken and managed a wide spectrum of assignments across a variety of industries, including Food & Beverage, retail, logistics, insurance, property, manufacturing, contracting, hotels and services working both buy-side and sell-side on cross-border transactions.

She also leads the CFO Program in Southeast Asia and is the Clients & Markets Leader for both Singapore and Southeast Asia. Jiak See also leads Deloitte’s Southeast Asia Corporate Finance Advisory practice and our regional Industrial Products & Services sector team.

Jiak See has considerable professional experience in mergers and acquisitions, fund-raising, business expansion strategy, management consulting, corporate and shareholder restructuring, debt restructuring, due diligence, IPO, RTO, valuation, financial planning and post-merger integration.

Omar AguilarGlobal Leader, Strategic Cost Transformation, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Omar is the Global Leader of the Strategic Cost Transformation service offering for Deloitte Consulting LLP, focused on supporting and serving multinationals and local clients across the globe. His areas of expertise include strategic cost transformation, margin improvement, restructuring, turnarounds, and business model transformations. Prior to his current role, he was the Americas Strategy & Operations Regional Leader.

Omar has published widely on the topic of sustainable and scalable cost management, and has been quoted by or has written for Business Finance, The Journal of Cost Management, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is a frequent speaker and has been a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. He holds bachelor and master of science degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and a master of business administration (MBA) from the University of Notre Dame.

Pushp Deep GuptaPartner, Human Capital, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Pushp is a Partner in the Human Capital practice at Deloitte Consulting, based in Singapore.

Pushp has over 16 years of experience, specialising in talent and leadership consulting. He helps his clients articulate robust high potential talent and leadership strategies, and co designs with them longitudinal interventions to help them achieve the desired outcomes. His works with clients include Leadership Acceleration, High Potential Talent strategy, Integrated Talent Management, Top Team assessment, and Total Rewards strategy. Pushp brings to his clients a focus on long term thinking, creative program design, and stakeholder alignment. He strives to have a significant ‘multiplier effect’ on leaders that he coaches and develops. Pushp has coached and delivered class room based leadership sessions for over 1,700 leaders across Asia over the past 6 years. In 2012, he partnered with his client Estée Lauder Companies to win the Gold Trailblazer award presented by the CLO Magazine in Colorado. He led the design and delivery of the immersive 9 month “Transformation Leadership Program” which was a cornerstone of this award winning effort.

Pushp has been teaching at the National University of Singapore and has authored a number of articles and white papers. He has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata and has worked in India, Malaysia and Singapore.


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Richard MackenderPartner, Tax Management Consulting, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Richard is a Partner in Deloitte’s Tax Management Consulting (TMC) Service Line. An indirect tax partner by background. He has more than 18 years of experience in this area. He began his career with Deloitte UK’s London VAT team in 1997 and moved in 2003 to Singapore.

Richard’s primary focus in TMC is to support clients with their multi-country compliance and reporting requirements as well as to assist them in respect of the tax technology and processes used in the compliance cycle. His clients in this regard include multi-nationals across a wide range of industries.

Sanford A. Cockrell IIlGlobal CFO Program Leader, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

Sandy is the National Managing Partner, US CFO Program, based in the New York National Office of Deloitte LLP. He also serves as the Global Leader of the DTTL’s CFO Program. The CFO Program enables Deloitte to achieve its strategic vision “to be recognised as the pre-eminent advisor to the CFO”. Its mission is to help Deloitte’s Lead Client Service Partners and engagement teams develop and sustain deep advisory relationships with the CFOs of key clients by providing cross-functional service delivery support, training, and intellectual capital. Prior to leading the CFO Program, Sandy was the Lead Partner of the New York office of Deloitte’s Special Acquisition Services (SAS) group, a multi-national team of tax, accounting and consulting professionals serving one of the world’s leading alternative asset firms with its acquisition, disposition and restructuring transactions. Before joining the SAS group in 1989, Sandy was a Tax Manager in the firm’s Raleigh office, where he first joined Deloitte in 1984. Sandy served on the Board of Directors of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the firm’s global organisation, and participated on the Membership Affairs and Board Composition Committees. In addition, he has served on numerous leadership and advisory committees, and was a member and Vice Chairman of the firm’s US Board of Directors. He was also a member of Deloitte’s Americas Services Council driving a dynamic collaboration effort for regional opportunities across the Americas. He currently serves on the firm’s Client Experiences Leadership Team, Extended Leadership Team, Senior Partner Advisory Council and Management Succession Committee. Sandy is a frequent contributor to news organisations including, Bloomberg, CNBC, The CFO Journal, CFO Magazine, Forbes, Fortune, Fox Business Channel, The Wall Street Journal and numerous others regarding issues facing CFOs.

Thio Tse GanSEA Cyber Risk Services Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Tse Gan is a Partner with the Cyber Risk Services – Risk Advisory practice of Deloitte. He is the practice lead for Cyber Risk Services in Deloitte Southeast Asia and has established the Cyber Intelligence Centre, also known as Cyber Security Operations Centre (CyberSOC), in Singapore and Malaysia.

He is responsible for managing operational risk, information security and risk management solutions engagements and has more than fifteen years of technology support, technology risk and security consulting, internal/ external audit and operational risk management experience.


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Tim PhillippsAPAC Financial Crime Network Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Tim leads the Southeast Asia Forensic and Analytics practices and is also the APAC Leader for the Financial Crime Network. He has over 3 decades of experience in the areas of financial crime, forensic and dispute services, analytics and enforcement. Having been in regional and global positions for more than 14 years, Tim has played an instrumental role in developing market-leading capabilities in Deloitte offices around the globe. Tim is regularly engaged by financial institutions and global corporations to advise on financial crimes such as money laundering, bribery, corruption, fraud and economic and trade sanctions. He is able to combine his expertise and knowledge of the subject to rapidly mobilise his strong network of regional offices to come up with relevant and strategic solutions to tackle the increasingly sophisticated nature of the issue.

Xu SitaoChief Economist, Deloitte China

Sitao is Chief Economist and Partner of Deloitte China, spearheading Deloitte’s economic and industry research. Prior to Deloitte, he was Chief Representative of China and EIU forecasting director at the Economist Group from 2004 to 2014.

Sitao worked for MMS International of Standard and Poor’s Group in Singapore as the Economist for Indonesia, Korea and Thailand in 1995. He joined Standard Chartered Bank as Regional Treasury Economist in 1996. From 2000 to 2002, he was Societe Generale’s Chief Economist for Asia. In 2003, he became the Head of Economics of ICBC (Asia).

Sitao has written for YaleGlobal Online, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Caijing, Caixin and 21st Century Business Herald. He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, CCTV, and other TV shows as a commentator on China. He is on the Speaker Retainer Program for the Virginia-based CFA Institute, and is often invited by leading MNCs to their board rooms, to present key issues on China.

Sitao holds a B.A. in Economics from Peking University, a M.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and a M.S. in Finance from Boston College. He was a visiting scholar at Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2012. He is also a guest professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.

Timothy Ho SEA Finance Transformation Lead, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Timothy is a Partner and is the Finance Transformation Lead in SEA. He has more than 16 years of experience driving various finance transformation programs and initiatives for consumer business, life sciences and manufacturing clients in the APAC region. His projects include finance strategy, organisation review, optimizing finance operations, system implementations, end-to-end operating model and shared services implementation, and M&A. Timothy is a Chartered Accountant (CA).

Wendy LaiSEA Strategy & Operations Consulting Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Wendy is a Partner in our Deloitte Southeast Asia Consulting practice with over 24 years of experience specialising in operational strategy and performance transformation. She has built a career around improving an organisation’s performance.

These improvements have been the result of developing and implementing competitive strategies to increase market share, reduce costs and improve productivity. In today’s world, this typically involves innovation, design and digital practices wrapped around data insights and a new operating culture. The ability to bring these threads that are reshaping the business world in practical ‘bite-sized’ chunks is what Wendy is focused on. Wendy has worked in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the United States.

About Deloitte’s CFO ProgramThe CFO Program brings together a multidisciplinary team of Deloitte leaders and subject matter specialists to help CFOs stay ahead in the face of growing challenges and demands. The Program harnesses our organization’s broad capabilities to deliver forward thinking and fresh insights for every stage of a CFO’s career – helping CFOs manage the complexities of their roles, tackle their company’s most compelling challenges, and adapt to strategic shifts in the market. Please visit www.deloitte.com/sg/seacfoprogram to find out more.

About Deloitte Southeast AsiaDeloitte Souheast Asia Ltd – a member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited comprising Deloitte practices operating in Brunei, Cambodia, Guam, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – was established to deliver measurable value to the particular demands of increasingly intra-regional and fast growing companies and enterprises.

Comprising 290 partners and over 7,400 professionals in 25 office locations, the subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Southeast Asia Ltd combine their technical expertise and deep industry knowledge to deliver consistent high quality services to companies in the region.

All services are provided through the individual country practices, their subsidiaries and affiliates which are separate and independent legal entities.

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