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Leonard is currently the Director of Group HR Transformation, Analytics and Governance for AIA Group, the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group with a presence in 18 markets across the Asia-Pacific region. He provides leadership in group-wide HR transformation programs to deliver people insights for the business, achieve greater HR operational excellence and empower the people with simple, intuitive, consistent customer experience across the Group. He was previously the Director of Group People Development and Culture where he led group-wide people development agenda to strengthen organization capabilities and advance people’s growth.

Prior to AIA, he was the Vice President and Head of Organization Development of NTUC Income, Singapore and spent more than 10 years with Accenture Management Consulting where he specialised in designing and implementing human capital strategies and solutions within organizations to achieve business results.  He had also assisted many multinational clients in the Asia Pacific region on large scale business transformation programmes.

Leonard is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD) and holds an MBA degree from The University of Manchester, UK.

Ms. Kantima Lerlertyuttitham joined Advanced Info Service Plc. (AIS) in 2015 as Chief Human Resources Officer and was appointed as Group Chief Human Resources Officer of Intouch Holdings Plc. in 2016. In her role, she enhances HR policies and practices to become “strategic business partners”; instills a corporate culture towards change for the digital age; builds employee engagement in AIS; ensures employees’ occupational health, safety, as well as a quality of life; and integrates HR proactive strategies with business operations, moving AIS to become the most-admired Digital Life Service Provider in Thailand.

She has over 27-year experience in human resources and sales operation management in diverse industries, both in private and public sectors. Prior to joining AIS, Ms. Kantima was at MC Group Plc. where she took roles as Deputy Chief Operation Officer. She managed human resources for top firms such as Prudential Life Assurance (Thailand) Plc., Central Watson Co., Ltd., Microsoft (Thailand) Co., Ltd., AIG Finance Consumer Group, Brinks (Thailand) Ltd., and The Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM BANK). She was also a Psychology Counsellor at Children and Youth Services, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Ms. Kantima has been a distinguished guest speaker for many international forums hosted by Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, International Program of Bangkok University, Asia Business Forum, Thailand Management Association (TMA), Personnel Management Association (PMAT), Siam Cement Group (SCG), PTT Public Company Limited (PTT), Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and Office of the Civil Service Commission.

Ms. Kantima graduated with Master of Psychology Counseling from Rider University, USA; and Bachelor of Arts (English) from Srinakarinwiroj University.

Horace is the Chief Information Officer and a Company Director at Gammon Construction, responsible for the formulation and execution of the group’s Digital IT and Cybersecurity strategy.

Prior to joining Gammon Construction, Horace was a Principal Consultant at JOS Synergy, a joint venture between Jardine Matheson and Canadian TELUS, focusing on providing large scale digitalization and IT operation and architectural services in the region.

Certified in Project Management (PMP), IT Service Management (ITIL), and Enterprise IT Governance (CGEIT), Horace holds a First-Class Honour Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Warwick in the UK, and a MBA with Distinction from the University of Hong Kong.

Horace is a member of the Audit Committee of the English Schools Foundation (ESF) in HK, and a member of the CIO Board and a Council member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.   He also regularly sits in judging panel of HK ICT awards and is a Honorable Advisor in the IBM Collaborative Innovation Programme.

Jenny joined Gammon in 2019 as the Director overseeing human resources, administration and corporate communications functions, as well as the Shenzhen branch office. Jenny has more than 20 years of HR experience gained from various industries including management consulting, airline and financial services.

Before Gammon, she held a number of senior HR positions across the region, including Group Director, Human Resources of JTH Group, a member of the Jardine Matheson Group. Jenny was brought in to help turnaround the organization back in 2013. While the rest of the top team were busy fixing the business, Jenny and her team were working on the people agenda. Prior to joining JTH Group, she was the Asia Pacific Head of Human Resources for General Insurance business at Zurich Financial Services. Among her other roles, Jenny served as the Asia Pacific Head of Human Resources for State Street Global Advisors and the Change and Development Manager at Cathay Pacific Airways. In these roles, Jenny’s focus was more on building the HR function from scratch. Jenny has a mission to bring HR to the front end of the business via capability enhancement and innovation.

Jenny has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration in Management of Organizations and Master of Business Administration, both from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is also a certified management consultant and a member of the MBA Alumni Board at the HKUST.

Ho Seng Chee is Chief Corporate Officer at JustCo, Asia’s leading workspace solutions company. He oversees the Workspace, Human Resources, Legal and IT functions across the JustCo Group and is a member of the group’s Executive Committee.

Seng Chee’s professional career spans both public and private sectors, with prior experience in private law practice, the IMF, Mapletree and CapitaLand. He counts himself lucky to have had many unexpected career opportunities which, in retrospect, have enriched his life.

Seng Chee holds a Bachelor of Laws from the National University of Singapore, a Master of Laws from New York University and an MBA from Singapore Management University.

Dr. Ayesha Khanna is the Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm and incubator. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities and fintech to leading corporations and governments. Ayesha serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government's agency that develops and regulates its world-class technology sector to drive the country's digital economy and power its Smart Nation vision. Ayesha is also a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Councils, a community of international experts who provide thought leadership on the impact and governance of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence.

In 2017, ADDO AI was featured in Forbes magazine as one of four leading artificial intelligence companies in Asia and Ayesha was named one of Southeast Asia's groundbreaking female entrepreneurs by Forbes magazine in 2018. Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Mercy, one of the largest hospital networks in the United States; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city.

Howard Yu is the LEGO Professor of Management and Innovation as well as the director of IMD’s signature program, Advanced Management Program (AMP).

He is the author of the award-winning book LEAP: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied.

His work has been featured by CNBC, BBC, Fast Company Magazine, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Quartz at Work, MarketWatch, and numerous international outlets.

In 2015, Yu was selected by Poets&Quants as one of “The World’s Top 40 Business Professors Under 40,” and in 2018, he appeared on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 management thinkers “most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.”

He has delivered customized training programs to leading organizations, including LEGO, Mars, Maersk, Bosch, and Electrolux. Yu received his doctoral degree from Harvard Business School.

Prior to his beginning his doctorate, he worked in the banking industry in Hong Kong.

Patty McCord brings the Silicon Valley concepts of fresh ideas and innovation and applies them to rethinking the way we work. She challenges norms and invites us to reconsider the idea of “best practices.”

From her many years working with companies that range from very large global tech companies to very small innovative start-ups, Patty saw first-hand how companies can become slow and complacent and employees become cynics and whiners. She spent 14 years at Netflix experimenting with new ways to work. Making the Netflix culture deck become reality for the people who work there. From abolishing performance reviews to challenging the need for policies, Patty believes people come to work as fully formed adults with a desire to make an impact and be proud of what they do and she is on a mission to spread the word that we can do this differently. She is frequently in the media with interviews and articles from Harvard Business Review, NPR, Fast Company and The Wall Street Journal. She speaks at CEO Forums, Business schools and for large groups around the world.

Arguably the most naturally gifted athlete the world has ever seen, Usain Bolt, created history at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio when he achieved the ‘Triple Triple’, three gold medals at three consecutive Olympic Games.  Usain’s journey to worldwide stardom started at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing where he won the 100m, 200m and 4x100m, all in world record times.  He followed this up with three gold medals in the same events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London to write his name in the history books as the world’s fastest man.  Then one day before his 30th birthday he completed the same triple at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio to cement his legacy as a legend in world sport.

In addition to his nine Olympic Games gold medals, Usain won eleven World T&F Championships titles.  He completed the 100m, 200m and 4x100m sweeps at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, 2013 World Championships in Moscow and 2015 World Championships in Beijing.  He won the 200m and 4x100m at the World Championships in Daegu in 2011.

At his retirement in 2017, Usain held the world records in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m with times of 9.58 secs, 19.19 secs and 36.84 secs. Usain has been awarded the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year on four occasions (2009, 2010, 2013 & 2017); the IAAF Male Athlete of the Year six times (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016) as well as many awards in many countries in all corners of the world.