Contributors

Kirstin Schulz & Dr Alan Bourne

Kirstin Schulz is Head of Assessment Consulting at Alexander Mann Solutions. She holds a Master in Psychology from the University of Münster, Germany (including one year at the University of Pretoria, South Africa), and an MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of London (Birkbeck College). Dr Alan Bourne is Managing Director at Sova Assessment. He holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology from Aston Business School and is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist.

Kirsty Luce

Kirsty is the director of Page Personnel in Singapore. She began her career with Page Personnel in the United Kingdom in 2005, holding a number of managerial positions before moving to Singapore in 2015 as director. Kirsty holds a Master of Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Warwick.

Kirti Balakrishnan

Kirti is a Chartered Secretary at Futurebooks, armed with seven years of professional hands-on experience in both Singapore and India. She received her membership from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), UK London in early 2012 after her five-year stint in India where she was a Company Secretary. Her professional experience centers on the field of Corporate Compliance.

Ko Hui Yen

Ko Hui Yen is HireRight’s General Manager for Asia Pacific, responsible for plotting HireRight’s strategic growth across the region, with a particular focus on China.

Prior to joining HireRight in January 2019, Hui Yen served in multiple senior leadership roles at organisations including ESI International, where she successfully established new offices and sales teams in China. She was also Managing Director at professional training & coaching firm momenta Group, which under her supervision went on to grow revenues by 15% in less than 2 years.

Most recently, Hui Yen co-founded Kaleidoskope, a consulting and training firm that boasted clients including global MNCs and government agencies. Hui Yen received her bachelor’s degree in communication studies and media research from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Koh Eng Kiong

Koh Eng Kiong is responsible for providing strategic direction and building Compuware’s market leadership in application management solutions throughout Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia, where he is based. Eng Kiong oversees all aspects of the company's market-facing activities in the ASEAN region and is responsible for business and customer development.

Koh Kong Meng

Koh Kong Meng is Managing Director, Southeast Asia and Singapore, HP. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving HP’s vision and go-to-market (GTM) strategy to achieve growth and profitability and the strengthening of HP’s Advanced Manufacturing as well as a global Print Research and Development footprint in Singapore.

Kong Meng was previously Vice President and Head of the Personal Systems Category for Greater Asia at HP Inc. During his tenure, he oversaw HP’s commercial and consumer computing businesses including PCs, thin clients, VR, retail solutions, as well as services in the region. The Greater Asia market for HP consists of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. 

With 30 years of leadership experience in the IT industry in Asia, Kong Meng has a track record of delivering stellar business outcomes. Prior to HP, he spent over nine years with Lenovo in various leadership positions across their Enterprise Business Group, ASEAN Commercial Business and Desktop Business Unit.  

Kong Meng sits on the IT Advisory Council for the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.  

Koh Soo How & Kexin Lim

Koh Soo How is a Tax Partner with PwC Services LLP, Singapore. He specialises in Goods and Services Tax (GST) and has significant GST advisory experience in the areas of business restructuring, supply chain transformation, and cross-border transactions. He helps businesses improve their GST compliance and advises clients on dispute analysis and resolution matters arising from audits conducted by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. While,  Kexin Lim is a manager in PwC Singapore’s Tax Financial Services team. She works on Singaporean and international tax projects for clients across various industries. Kexin is a contributor to the annual World Bank-PwC Paying Taxes publication. She is versed in Total Tax Contribution methodology, having been seconded with PwC UK’s Total Tax Contribution (TTC) thought leadership team.

Kowshik Sriman

Kowshik Sriman is the Managing Director of SAP Singapore

Kristine Lauria

Startup specialist and marketing expert, Kristine Lauria joined Elance-oDesk as Country Manager for Singapore in 2014. After moving from Silicon Valley in 2011, she has been a strong advocate of the Singapore startup ecosystem -- organising the annual Walkabout.sg, running thelist.sg, and working with startups. Kristine is a mentor at The Founders Institute and at Joyful Frog Digital Incubator.

Kristy Castleton

Kristy Castleton is the founder and MD of Rebel & Soul, a socially conscious business who produce highly memorable events for global brands across Asia Pacific. Kristy is both the rebel and the soul, an extrovert and a geek. Her passion for neuroscience and technology teamed with a love for parties and new experiences, drove her to set up an agency that does things a little differently to all the rest.

Rebel and Soul work with brands like Heineken, HSBC, Chanel and MINI and agencies such as Dentsu and Saatchi & Saatchi to create events that pack a punch. Think wearables, gamification, holograms and virtual reality mixed with awesome music and a free flow bar. Rebel & Soul’s vision is to drive event technology to be the new frontier of marketing in Asia. Kristy spent years working on weird and wonderful events and campaigns in Europe at festivals, F1’s and the Olympics and wanted to bring a snippet of the event marketing fun out east.

Kristy was nominated Campaign Asia to be on their Women to Watch list. Team Rebel also provide pro bono event consultancy for local charities, not for profits and initiatives including Billion Bricks, the Thomson Reuters Trust Forum, 100 Resilient Cities initiative by the Rockefeller Foundation and their global giving partner Buy1Give1.