Contributors

Shirley Zhu

Shirley Zhu leads IGD Asia’s research team in Singapore. She has extensive research experience in the FMCG industry and has helped many multinational and local clients achieve their strategic objectives. Her role with IGD involves strategic planning, expanding research coverage in Asia and supporting our members in the region.

Shom Mabaquiao

Shom Mabaquiao is a Junior Editor for APAC at Canvas8. He’s a nonfiction writer and a budding folklorist who inspects universal human behaviour through the lenses of his local folkways. Outside Canvas8, he writes personal essays that have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Tint Journal, Rappahannock Review, and Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, among others. When he’s not working, he’s busy doing stand-up comedy for his therapist after cry-dancing to Taylor Swift.

Shrawan Saraogi

Shrawan (SK) Saraogi is the Head of Partnerships and Products at Funding Societies. Before this, SK helped US-based fintech startup MPOWER Financing in their fundraising efforts in New York. Prior to that, he spent many years with DBS Bank, across a variety of products and markets in their Corporate and Investment Banking division. He received his MBA from Duke University in the US and his Economics degree from Singapore Management University. SK has also passed all levels of the CFA Exam.

Shubhangi Faujdar

Shubhangi is the founder of training, coaching, and consulting company JobS-ME (Job Search Made Easy). She has over 9 years of recruitment experience in Singapore.

Shubhangi Faujdar & Jovin Hurry

Shubhangi Faujdar is Recruitment Consultant at Aurec, where she specialises in the recruitment for Finance & Audit roles in the financial services sector for the mid to senior level as well as executive level roles. As a 360 degree consultant, she handles the entire candidate as well client interaction for the process. Jovin Hurry is an analyst and strategist for entrepreneurs in the field of sustainability, business, and learning & development.

Shuen Loh

Having first started her sales career in insurance and banking, Shuen took a midcareer switch into recruitment in 2006. She found her niche in the recruitment-to-recruitment industry after joining a rec2rec pioneer in Asia and fast-track her own career to become the Director and equity stakeholder of the business in just 5 years. Over the years,she has represented numerous international recruitment professionals of all levels for their career moves across APAC. Keen to embark on a new challenge, Shuen joined Reccelerate as Managing Director.

Simon Bishop

Simon Bishop is a Director of Corporate Hedging at Western Union Business Solutions in APAC as well as a board member of Western Union Business Solutions (Hong Kong) Limited. Simon’s career at Western Union Business Solutions spans over 8 years to date. Prior to taking over the responsibility of overseeing the APAC business, Simon led the Group’s corporate hedging business in Australia to significant growth from 2013 to 2014 and headed up its risk solutions team based in Australia.

Prior to joining Western Union, Simon was the head of sales at a trading firm and spent 6 years as a director at a specialized financial consulting firm. Simon began his career as a trader in spot FX at the ANZ investment bank. He is a sought-after industry expert for his views on global currency outlook and how companies could protect their businesses against currency volatility.

Simon Davies

Simon Davies is Area Vice President, Enterprise Sales at salesforce.com. A recognised industry speaker and panelist, Simon has more than 15 years' experience in IT. Prior to joining salesforce.com, he held management positions at Oracle, Citibank, and PricewarterhouseCoopers. Simon holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majored in Accounting & Finance; and a Bachelor of Science, majored in Computer Science, from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Simon Faure-Field

For more than a decade now, Simon Faure-Field and his consultancy Equal Strategy have been at the cutting edge of techniques that make our consumer, retail and hospitality environments more attractive to spend time in. His solutions have been adopted by numerous local and regional businesses, notably hotels, banks and retailers seeking to increase customer interaction through experiential marketing, and differentiate themselves from their competitors.

Simon Hopkins

Simon Hopkins is the CEO of Milltrust International group.