Contributors

Chai Wai Fook & Chia Seng Chye

Chai Wai Fook and Chia Seng Chye are Partners, Tax Services at Ernst & Young Solutions LLP.

Chan Hui Ling

Chan Hui Ling is a Writer for Splash Productions Pte Ltd

Chan Ngee Key

Chan Ngee Key is the Career Coach and Strategist of Training Edge International

Charanjit Singh

Charanjit currently leads the digital strategy team at Construct Digital, working with global advertising agencies to deliver innovative and successful digital campaigns.

Charles Ferguson

Charles Ferguson is responsible for establishing scale and efficiency for Globalization Partners and their customers’ international business expansion. Besides his primary responsibility at Globalization Partners, Charles lends his entrepreneurial and human capital management expertise as an advisor and mentor for HR Tech start-ups in Asia. He often speaks on the topics of entrepreneurship and technology across the region. Charles has previously worked in large technology firms like Intel, Microsoft, Salesforce and SAP and HR companies such as ADP and Tricor.

Charles Ogilvie

As Head of Innovation at JWT Atlanta, Charles Ogilvie brings more than 20 years of global experience in innovation, spanning from retail and hospitality technology, mobile, satellite and terrestrial communications, aviation, FinTech and interactive platform architecture, content & analytics to traditional entertainment. In addition to client-side agency management, Charles has also developed, negotiated and executed interactive content deals with major brands such as Google, Land Rover, Virgin Atlantic and others.

Previously, he has served multi-million dollar startup and corporate efforts, including leading the design and execution of the award winning guest-engagement system, Red, as the Founding Director of Inflight Entertainment & Partnerships at Virgin America. He brought Seatback Food and Drink Ordering, payment processing and settlement and a cashless cabin to the skies, made seat upgrades, lounge access upgrades, and seat changes and other reservation system functionality easier on Virgin’s hospitality kiosks and on other platforms, made WiFi an expectation as well as a tool for crew optimization, and helped rethink legacy B2C and B2B models.

He has held numerous executive roles including VP Asia Pacific at Zodiac Aerospace Inflight Innovations, Executive Director of Business Development in Silicon Valley and Executive Director of China at Panasonic Avionics. At Panasonic, he was responsible for running Panasonic Avionics’ China Region and developing and managing its’ strategy for China and was posted in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore.

A graduate of the University of Southern California (USC)’s Marshall School with both an IBEAR MBA and a BS in Business Administration. Charles has been through Jack Welch’s Leadership program at the Jack Welch School of Management and has had the pleasure of learning from Warren Bennis at USC.

Charles speaks Mandarin Chinese and has both a strong domestic and international focus. 

Charles Zhang

Charles is a General Manager at Advance.AI based in Singapore. He has a B.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering/Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, and an MS in Management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Charlie Ang

Charlie is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Futures Thinker, and Innovation Evangelist. He is the CEO, Founder & Principal Trainer of FutureCraft. Charlie is concurrently the Chief Innovation Officer at First Media Group. He welcomes any speaking opportunities on future and innovation related topics.

Charlie Pownall

Charlie Pownall is Managing Director of communications consultancy CP/C & Associates, and Chairman of the Communications and Marketing Committee at The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.

Cheah Saw Pheng

Ms Cheah Saw Pheng was appointed as Director, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Singapore in January 2009. She represents IBM Singapore as the committee member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. Saw Pheng is also the executive sponsor for the academic initiative between IBM and Republic Polytechnic for mainframe and Linux courses. Since April 2013, Saw Pheng was appointed as an Executive Council member of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) and serves as the Deputy Chairperson of the SCS Student Chapter Board.