Contributors

Arun Kumar

Arun Kumar is a regional director at ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation. He has been working with ManageEngine since 2003. In his current role, he leads all channel and partner-related initiatives for the company in both the United Kingdom (UK) and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets.

Arvind Sankaran

As a venture partner at Jungle Ventures, Arvind helps the firm source, evaluate and manage portfolio companies in the fintech space focused on the ASEAN/India geographies. Arvind leverages deep subject-matter expertise in global financial services to serve founders, investors and institutions.

Prior experiences in ASEAN and EMEA over two decades at Citi, Barclays and HSBC include startup of credit card and branch networks; transformation of local and cross-border wealth value propositions; and pioneering deployment of analytics in risk and CRM. Arvind works closely with founders at big data, AI/machine learning applied to regulatory compliance, and alt-lending startups.

He also serves as senior advisor at McKinsey & Company, working directly with financial services clients on digital transformation agenda. Arvind is a regular speaker on fintech and related topics, recent engagements being at the Hong Kong Fintech Week 2017 and Global Fintech Summit SG 2016. 

Ash Khalek

Ash Khalek is the Managing Director and Senior Vice President for Asia Pacific Sales of IntraLinks. He is responsible for IntraLinks’ strategy and operations in the region. Ash brings to IntraLinks over 24 years of industry experience in sales leadership roles and has a strong track record of capturing the high growth potential of the APAC region.

Ashok Munirathinam

Ashok Munirathinam, Database and Technology, SAP South East Asia

Atin Bhutani

Atin Bhutani is the CEO of InCorp Group. Being passionate about building businesses, he started his own journey back in 2015 and incorporated InCorp Global Pte Ltd. Since formation, InCorp has established a leading regional presence in 7 Southeast Asian countries and continues to grow rapidly.

Successful at conceiving, managing, and aggressively growing businesses, he has assisted many SMEs and MNCs with their Pan-Asian expansion strategies.

Prior to setting up InCorp, he was the country head of HSBC’s International Subsidiaries Banking Division.

Audrey Yap

Audrey is managing partner of Yusarn Audrey. She is a patent attorney and IP lawyer qualified to practice in Singapore, Malaysia and Solicitor of England & Wales. Audrey is the only lawyer in Singapore who has consistently been named one of the World’s Leading IP Strategists in a London-based survey conducted by IAM magazine since 2009 till 2013 for 5 years running. She was named as one of Singapore’s leading lawyers in the 2008 Who’s Who Legal.

Augustine Low

Augustine has 10 years of engineering experience implementing commerce, Web Experience, and CRM platforms. His work covers a wide range of environments and development platforms. At OgilvyOne Singapore, Augustine creates solutions to drive businesses objectives and engagement through innovation coupled with right-sized technology stack.

Aurelie Saada and Katia Melazzi

Aurelie Saada is the current President for PrimeTime Business and Professional Women's Association, which vision is to help professional women to achieve their highest potential through training, network and events. She’s a fervent supporter of professional development and women leadership, believing that women can support and help each other through the power of a community.

Aurelie is also APAC Site Lead for Fraud Risk for Microsoft, which team is doing fraud prevention and detection for all Microsoft clients.

Katia Melazzi is an Executive Coach specialised in Leadership & Transitions. She brings together a unique combination of coaching and mentoring skills with a solid management background and geographic exposure across Europe & APAC.

Before transitioning to coaching, she has gained a solid experience in Brand management, Business strategy, Marketing communication, and P&L Management as an xecutive in FMCG companies serving in several international roles over a two-decade span. When not wearing the coach hat, she enjoys giving back to the society supporting women’s empowerment; she is the current President for Tabitha Foundation and Nokor Tep Society and the Vice President for PrimeTime Business and 
Professional Women's Association.

Avik Bose

Avik is a Tax Partner at Deloitte Singapore. With over 16 years as a global transfer pricing professional with Big4 accounting firms, Avik has a wealth of experience in transfer pricing planning structures for various types of business models, supply/value chain realignments, intellectual property valuation, structuring and pricing intercompany financial transactions, corporate guarantees, cash pooling, debt factoring and leasing arrangements, thin-capitalisation analysis as well as planning and executing global documentation projects for multinational corporations (MNCs).

In his work with clients, Avik helps MNCs in industries spanning automotive, aerospace, financial services, shipping, IT, oil and gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, real estate, consumer goods and telecommunication, develop and implement commercially viable transfer pricing policies to achieve tax efficiencies across jurisdictions. He has represented his clients before revenue authorities in several Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) and Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA) cases, including representing before the Tax Courts. Avik is also an active speaker at various transfer pricing discussion forums.

Before relocating to Singapore, Avik worked in Australia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Avik is a Chartered Accountant by profession and holds a Master Degree in Commerce. He is also an Accredited Tax Professional with the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Practitioners.  

Avik Bose and Anh Pham

Avik is a Tax Partner at Deloitte Singapore. With over 16 years as a global transfer pricing professional with Big4 accounting firms, Avik has a wealth of experience in transfer pricing planning structures for various types of business models, supply/value chain realignments, intellectual property valuation, structuring and pricing intercompany financial transactions, corporate guarantees, cash pooling, debt factoring and leasing arrangements, thin-capitalisation analysis as well as planning and executing global documentation projects for multinational corporations (MNCs).

In his work with clients, Avik helps MNCs in industries spanning automotive, aerospace, financial services, shipping, IT, oil and gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, real estate, consumer goods and telecommunication, develop and implement commercially viable transfer pricing policies to achieve tax efficiencies across jurisdictions. He has represented his clients before revenue authorities in several Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) and Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA) cases, including representing before the Tax Courts. Avik is also an active speaker at various transfer pricing discussion forums.

Before relocating to Singapore, Avik worked in Australia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Avik is a Chartered Accountant by profession and holds a Master Degree in Commerce. He is also an Accredited Tax Professional with the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Practitioners. 

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Anh has more than 10 years of experience in Transfer Pricing (TP) with Big Four firms across SEA countries.

She has advised companies including multinational companies and local conglomerates in reviewing and/or designing restructuring models including operational model, functional model and transactional (or TP) model taking into account their commercial considerations and objectives in the context of increasingly complex tax and transfer pricing environment, reviewing cost sharing models, value chain transformation, developing pricing policies with profit alignment and TP strategies, Mutual Agreement Procedures (“MAP”) and Advance Pricing Agreements (“APA”), and preparing core TP documentation and managing global / regional TP documentation. She also has experience in advising multinational companies with their TP planning and defending their TP arrangements in TP audits.

Her experience spans across various industry groups such as electronics, retail, pharmaceuticals, real estate, logistics, insurance, consumer goods, foods, garment, tobacco, oil and gas, and other service sectors.

Anh obtained Masters of Business Administration at University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. She is also a member of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.