Andy Labute has been with SAP for 13+ years and is now based in Singapore.  He is currently the Interim Global Lead HR Advisors and is also in the HR Project Office team for SAP where he oversees global HR projects and the post-merger integrations activities in APJ.  Prior to that he was the Director, Transformation Program APJ. Before that Andy was the head of HR for SAP Australia and New Zealand where he worked with the senior leadership team to create and execute the business and people strategy. He started his career at SAP as the HR Lead for Post-Merger Integrations at SAP where he led the integration of 18 acquired companies.

​

Andy’s past experience in Canada includes VP, HR for Triversity Inc.; Director of HR for Bell Globemedia Interactive; Senior Director of Human Resources for Microforum Inc.; Chapters Inc. (and later Chapters Online Inc.).   Andy began his HR career at Burger King Canada, where, for three years, he was a member of the Training and Development team.  While in that role, he created and developed a number of soft skills training programs for the management and franchise community and became one of the few facilitators in North America qualified to present Burger King’s primary people management workshop. He also spent four years as an HR Manager there with responsibilities for Western Canada.  This experience has given him exposure to the hospitality, retail, telecom and software industries.

​

Andy is passionate about the role HR can play in the business and has been recognized by many as a leader and innovator in the field of HR.  He has always had a solid orientation towards the bottom line.  He has also developed several Performance Management programs in the past.

​

Andy is Past Chair of the Compensation Committee for the Toronto Board of Trade and he is an accomplished public speaker having been a keynote speaker at numerous workshops in the Toronto area as well as Australia and Singapore.

Global HR Project Director, Interim Global Head HR Advisors - SAP

Angela Law is Senior Vice President of Human Resources (HR), Asia & Oceania Administration Department of Mizuho Bank. In her role, she has had the opportunity to be a business partner and lead teams in Talent Management, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, Shared Services and Graduate Recruitment at the bank. 

Angela has a Master's Degree of Science in Human Resource Management from the University College Dublin, National University of Ireland; a Bachelor Degree in Arts & Social Sciences from the National University of Singapore as well as a Diploma in Business Administration & Marketing. 

Senior Vice President of Human Resources (HR), Asia & Oceania Administration Department - Mizuho Bank

A forward thinking and progressive people developer, John has 20 years of experience in both Learning & Development and Business Development roles, mainly in the Financial Sector. He is currently the Regional Learning Lead at ANZ Bank overseeing the learning needs of Hong Kong and Singapore, two of ANZ’s full service markets in the Asia Pacific region. He is responsible for in-country Core and Strategic curriculum and Talent Development programmes for HiPos and emerging talent and has led the ANZ Bank’s Learning team to multiple HR Excellence Awards over the past three years. Prior to that, John has worked in financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC and Aberdeen Asset Management, where he played a key role in the successful rollout of several high impact people initiatives in Leadership Development and Organization Development.

Regional Learning Lead - ANZ

Brajesh is a regional HR leader with experience spanning across Asia Pacific, Greater China, Japan, Middle East, and Africa. His expertise lies in HR Leadership, HR Business Partnership, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Employee Care, Compensation & Benefit, Transformation, HR Analytics, HR Delivery Services & Project/Program Management.

​

He started his career in Talent Acquisition & progressed to HR Leadership scaling start up/greenfield business as well as matured matrix business within AP/MEA.

​

His professional experience also includes Modern HR, Mergers, Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Repatriation, Divestitures & global recruitment. He also holds an MBA with University of Pune.

AP MEA HR Leader - IBM

Grace Zhu has a successful track record of over 15 years as an experienced learning advisor in customer service and contact center industry. Deep experienced in learning needs analysis, learning solutions/initiatives design and development, and learning effectiveness/business impact measurement.

Her current work focuses on closely engaged with line mangers and HRBP to understand the support agents performance challenges, partnership with Global L&D and vendor training team to develop the best-fit learning solutions for the most effective learning applications for Windows and Devices customer support in Asia at Microsoft.

Asia L&D Lead - Adecco

Gurunath Hari is a Singaporean and the co-founder of Emineo Pursuits. Hari, as his friends call him, has deep and broad knowledge about how to best inspire employees from his 3 decades of experience. He has worked closely with people of almost all nationalities in Europe, Middle east, Americas and Asia pacific. His domain knowledge spans banking, Healthcare, telecom, printing, IT hardware and services in which he played roles spanning from entry level to regional people management and global leadership roles.

Emineo Pursuits is a social enterprise partnering Organizations to provide methodologies, tools, workshops and solutions for transforming or advancing human capital performance and productivity. These organizations include HP, SingHealth, NHG, Singtel, Indian Army, Edenred, SMEs etc. www.emineopursuits.com

Principal & Co-founder - Emineo Pursuits

Isaiah Das is the Head of HR, Capital Resolution APAC for the Royal Bank of Scotland. He is a seasoned HR leader, having worked in various roles across the HR spectrum, including leading the HR Shared Services for RBS in the region, HR project management, benefits and wellbeing. A firm believer in engaging and motivating people, his team was recently nominated as a finalist in the HR Excellence Awards 2017 for Excellence in Workplace Wellbeing. He is a certified DISC Human Behavioural Consultant, a PMP ® and also a Professional Member of SHRI.

Head of HR, Capital Resolution APAC - RBS

Renu is a big believer in the need to develop, value and energize individuals so that they stay with  you, feeling hungry to continuously learn and driven to perform.

A behavioural economist by qualification and venturous by nature, Renu started her career with OCBC 12 years ago, training newcomers who had just stepped into the working world and making them flourish in their areas of expertise.

​

Since then, she has immersed herself in coaching and developing talent in an ever-changing world. She is also an advocate for data driven decision making when it comes to training and people development.

Renu is currently with Singapore Post Limited, very much aligned with organization’s move towards transformation and innovation. She heads the Post Office Network’s Training and People Development Unit, shaping future leaders and equipping staff with proper skills and the right mind-set in this ever changing business and customer landscape.

Senior Manager, Training & People Development - Singapore Post Limited