Contributors

Karen Speirs

Karen Speirs is the Manager of the Procurement and Supply Chain divisions at Robert Walters Singapore. Robert Walters is an award-winning business and one of the leading international recruitment consultancies.

Karin Clarke

Karin Clarke is the Randstad Regional Director for Singapore & Malaysia.

Karin Clarke

Karin, Asia director of font, is an experienced and results-oriented leader with strong commercial acumen and an extensive background covering a range of recruitment management disciplines. Prior to joining font in January 2013, she held a number of Senior Management roles in global recruitment firms, in Australia and New Zealand. In January 2008, she was appointed to spearhead Randstad’s Singapore operations; and in May 2009 took on the additional responsibilities for Malaysia.

Karl Hamann

Karl Hamann was appointed on 4 March 2014 as Chief Executive Officer of QBE Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd.

Karl is a veteran in the insurance industry with almost 30 years of working experience in the insurance industry, of which 16 years are spent in Asia. Prior to his appointment in Singapore, Karl was the Chief Executive Officer of QBE Insurance (Malaysia) Berhad for close to 4 years and was the Regional Operations Manager, Asia in the Singapore’s Regional Office from 2006 to 2010, covering QBE’s operations in Asia including Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand and Vietnam.

Karl was also the President and CEO & Executive Director of QBE Insurance (Philippines) Inc from 2002 to 2005. Karl first joined QBE in 1997 and moved to Asia as a Technical Advisor for QBE Pool Indonesia from 2000 to 2002.

Having worked in Sydney and Asia with strategic and leadership responsibilities in underwriting, claims, distribution and operational roles, Karl has extensive knowledge of the insurance industry both internationally and in the region. Under his strategic leadership in the various QBE’s offices in Asia, Karl has made significant contributions in driving business growth and profitability in these markets, and operational efficiency.

Karl holds a Bachelor Degree in Commerce from Deakin University and is a Fellow member of the Australian Insurance Institute. He is also a member of the Management Committee of the General Insurance Association (GIA) of Singapore as well as a Convenor of the GIA's Work Injury Compensation (WIC) Committee.

Karthik Krishnamurthy

Karthik Krishnamurthy is Vice President – Business Development, SMB and DMT Solutions at Pitney Bowes.

Karthik Venkatakrishnan

Karthik Venkatakrishnan is the Regional Director of GfK Asia. Having consulted numerous Fortune Global 500 companies as a researcher for over 17 years, his skill set leverages a very strong business sense with analytical strength and deep knowledge of developments in the digital space. Venkatakrishnan has also spent over 4 years working in Jakarta and hence has first-hand knowledge of the market.

Kath Greenhough

Kath Greenhough has been with Skillsoft since 1995, originally starting in the Customer Success organisation. During her tenure leading that organisation in APAC, she was instrumental in transforming the teams' direction in readiness to embrace the ground-breaking Percipio as the Learning Experience Platform of choice among customers. Underpinning this, the strategy to harness the power of technology to enable skills and performance improvement remained the ultimate outcome for customers.

Currently, Kath is the Vice President Asia Pacific (Acting); and New Zealand Country Manager.  This realises her passion for helping New Zealand and APAC organisations improve the performance of their people, unleashing their edge, and building the skills of tomorrow with the workforce of today.  

Kathryn Sloane

Kathryn Sloane is the Director of Business Development & Growth, APAC, SCHAWK! ANTHEM!

Katie Ewer

With 17 years experience in branding, and 9 of those in Asia, Katie is a writer and creative strategist at jones knowles ritchie in Singapore. Katie grew up in Africa but began her career in branding in London. She spent 6 years at jkr in London leading relationships with clients before moving to Asia. After 6 years with retail consultancy Fitch as Strategy Director, she rejoined jkr and co-founded the Singapore studio.

Katrina Chua

Katrina Chua is the Marketing Manager of Callbox SGMY.