Contributors

Benjamin Yang

Benjamin is a business strategist and organisational psychologist. He is also the Managing Director of Balanced Consultancy.

Bernhard Kotanko, Vishal Kaushik, and Joydeep Sengupta

Bernhard Kotanko is a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Hong Kong office, Joydeep Sengupta is a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Singapore office, and Vishal Kaushik is an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Singapore office.

Bernhard leads McKinsey's insurance work in Asia, serving financial services companies across Asia–Pacific, mainly in Greater China, Singapore, India, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and Korea.

Joydeep focuses on helping leading institutions around the world transform the performance and health of their businesses. He has deep expertise in architecting and leading multiyear business transformations with a large variety of institutions across Asia and Europe.

Vishal has over 17 years of deep expertise in the affluent banking and wealth and asset management industry.

Bhavani Prakash

Bhavani Prakash is a speaker, trainer, facilitator, and writer engaging with individuals and companies around sustainability, emotional intelligence, and positive psychology. She has presented at both TEDxSingapore and TEDxSingaporeWomen and in a multitude of forums and organisations. She founded and runs the green jobs portal Green Collar Asia as well as the non-profit website Eco WALK the Talk.

Bill Hendricks

Bill Hendricks is the Founder and CEO of Hendricks Corp. He founded Singapore-based Hendricks Corp in 2013 to further develop multi-use AI recognition system with low latency, low error rate, highly efficient data processing ability, and interoperability with clients’ proprietary systems. Bill is a former United States Department of Defence (Navy) Senior Officer, with more than 30 years of experience spearheading strategy, policy and planning for major enterprise-level acquisition programs in support of current and future operations. 

Prior to Hendricks Corp, he founded Organizational Strategies Inc (now known as Applied Insight), which provided technical and software solutions in support of US Defence and Homeland Security initiatives on a National level and offices in fourteen states, headquartered in Washington DC. Organizational Strategies Inc was acquired by Acacia group in 2018. Bill also owns 5 Innovative patents in support of Video Analytics and Big Data solutions (5 more patents pending).

Bill Lewis

Bill Lewis is a co-founder of Temasys Communications. He is also a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, mentor, and motivator, who helps transform businesses and people. Bill is an experienced corporate executive, non exec director, and a serial entrepreneur. He is an author for the best-selling books Midas and 1000 Cows, and 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO. He is rated as an outstanding leader and a seasoned high-level performer. He has served on the boards of five companies, including the global board of a major system integrator. He has also led major businesses in Fortune 200 companies, and was the CIO at one of the world's largest aircraft maintenance organizations. He is a consummate influencer and decision-maker at board level.

Bill is very passionate in the digital future. He takes so much interest on how technology is changing our lives not only today but also tomorrow. Bill cares for technologies’ impacts in the business world. The other area he is passionate on is entrepreneurship, as in how to succeed in business.

Blaise Habgood

Blaise Habgood is Business Development Director for Randstad Sourceright’s Asia Pacific operations.

Brandon Tan

Brandon Tan is the Principal Security Consultant for South East Asia in Forcepoint. Brandon has more than 10 years of experience in performing advanced security solutions across various industries, and supported many organisations in South East Asia region.

Brenda Bence

Brenda Bence is a Branding Expert, Speaker, Trainer, Executive Coach, Author, Blogger and is the Managing Director of Brand Development Associates International Group Pte Ltd.

Brian Thung

Brian is the EY ASEAN Financial Services Leader and is responsible for leading the EY financial services organization (FSO) across Southeast Asia. 

He is also a member of the EY Asia-Pacific regional leadership team where he focuses on providing strategic counsel across the key ASEAN markets, managing people and talent development, as well as ensuring alignment across the global and regional organizational strategies and business outcomes.

Brigette McInnis-Day

Chief People Officer of UiPath