Contributors

Nathaniel Forbes

Nathaniel Forbes is the Director of Forbes Calamity Prevention

Neeraj Kaushik

Neeraj Kaushik, Principal Consultant, is a Product Manager for the Infosys® McCamish NGIN platform initiative at Infosys McCamish Systems, US. He is a published author and Top Voice on LinkedIn in 5 areas-Insurtech, Business Analysis, Product Management, Artificial Intelligence and Data Architecture.

Neeraj is an innovative and effective thought leader recognized for achieving exceptional results in highly competitive environments requiring continuous improvement and has driven the business of large-scale technology projects based out of the US, UK, India, and China Geography for the last 18+ years. He has an excellent insurance business domain, architecture, design, and implementation skills in various life insurance administration as well as producer management & compensation systems.

Prior to this, Neeraj was part of Big 4 Consulting firms like PwC & Deloitte where he led digital transformation programs and strategic consulting initiatives across the Life, Annuities, and Property & Casualty Insurance space.

He holds a master’s degree in insurance & risk management from Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) and the designations of ALMI (LOMA), Fellow of Risk Management Association of India (RMAI) and President Select Member (Leadership Excellence at Harvard Square).

Neeraj Sundarajoo

Neeraj Sundarajoo is the Co-founder & CEO of Singapore- headquartered Zeemart (www.zeemart.asia), a free procurement platform for F&B businesses. The Zeemart platform brings greater supply chain efficiency and cost savings to F&B operators. The company currently has operations in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Zeemart has been selected as one of Singapore Business Review’s 20 Hottest Startups for 2019.

Immediately prior to starting Zeemart, Raj was the Group Managing Director of Wunderman (a WPP company), after his first entrepreneurial venture Comwerks had been acquired by WPP. Raj is a winner of the SICCI Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as the ASME Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has also featured in the ‘Young Turks’ programme on CNBC featuring promising young entrepreneurs in Asia.

Neeta Lachmandas

Neeta Lachmandas assumed the position of Executive Director at Singapore Management University's Institute of Service Excellence (SMU-ISE) in October 2015. In her current capacity, she leads the Institute in driving forward its mission to raise service levels in Singapore through three key areas of focus: benchmarking and comparative analysis using  customer satisfaction data analytics, research and though leadership, and industry engagement.  

Prior to her ISE appointment, Neeta was Assistant Chief Executive, Business Development Group, at the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). Neeta has 20 years of working experience in the areas of marketing, communications, account management and business development, in companies such as Leo Burnett (S) Pte Ltd, Northwest Airlines Inc. and the Media Corporation of Singapore.

Throughout this time, Neeta had been responsible for profile building, business development, identifying and targeting new clients, brand management, advertising and client communication, public relations, event management and putting into place loyalty and CRM strategies. 

Neeta graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelors of Law degree (LLB) hons.  

Neethu Stephen

Neethu’s insight and dexterity in every aspect of SME business has earned her the title of Managing Consultant at Futurebooks. With professional certifications as an Associate Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Public Accountant (CPA), her expertise centres mainly in the fields of accounting and taxation. Neethu is the first and longest serving member of Futurebooks.

Neil Brennan

Neil Brennan is responsible for developing and executing growth strategy for Meltwater's Japan and South East Asia region. Both an Aussie and an Englishman, Neil was educated at Nottingham Trent studying business economics. He currently calls Asia home, and works from Meltwater’s Singapore office.

Nele Cornelis

Nele Cornelis is Executive Director of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Singapore since 2011. She studied at the University of Brussels and holds a Master in Business Administration from Ehsal Management school in Brussels as well as a Bachelor in Mass Communications.

Ng Chong Yang

Ng Chong Yang is the Business Development Director of Tangoshark

Ng Gek Teng and Richard Mackender

Ng Gek Teng

Gek Teng is Tax Director at Deloitte Singapore. She has more than 16 years of Singapore Goods and Services Tax (GST) experience in serving local and multinational companies in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, consumer products, hotel, air transportation, etc.

She has experience in assisting her clients that operates in a wide range of industries with reviews for purpose of GST Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme, GST Assisted Self-help Kit, and GST advisory services.

Gek Teng is also involved in the review of her clients’ GST systems for compliance and adequacy for GST return reporting purposes, preparation and submission of GST returns, reviewing GST returns, dealing with queries raised by the IRAS, and liaising with the IRAS on behalf of clients on issues such as applications for rulings, fines/penalties, and GST assessments raised by the IRAS. She also conducts regular GST training sessions and performs due-diligence reviews for her clients. 

Richard Mackender

Richard Mackender leads the GST service line for Deloitte Singapore and Southeast Asia, and the Corporate Secretarial Services team for Deloitte Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience with Deloitte. He began his career in 1997 with Deloitte UK’s VAT team in London and moved to Singapore in 2003. 

Richard’s primary focus is advising businesses on the tax aspects of their activities from a Singapore perspective as well as when issues arise across Asia Pacific. Richard helped to establish the Corporate Secretarial Services offering within the organisation. The teams he lead make full use of technology and offshoring resources to deliver a consistent service in an efficient and cost-effective way.

Richard has a focus on technology, working closely with Tax Management Consulting and the Global Tax Centre Asia and is also the Tax and Legal CTO for the Southeast Asia Tax function as well as leading Innovation for Deloitte in Southeast Asia.

Richard holds a law degree from the University of Wales (UK) and subsequently trained as a Barrister. He was called to the Bar in October 1997 and is a member of Gray’s Inn.

He is also an Accredited Tax Advisor (GST) with the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP). He is contributing author for CCH’s Singapore Goods and Services Tax Guide and has co-authored a number of other books on indirect tax in Singapore and Asia Pacific.

Ng Ngee Khiang

Ng Ngee Khiang is General Manager of the Business Systems Division at Epson Singapore.