Contributors

Suraj Kamath

Suraj leads the Manufacturing Solutions Consulting Practice for APAC at SAS, developing go-to-market strategies and providing leadership guidance on Advanced Analytics, AI and IoT solutions for industries across manufacturing. With over 15 years of experience driving analytics-led innovation, Suraj has enabled companies and customers to improve process control, increase yield, reduce waste, optimize pricing and product mix and develop successful business strategy. 

Suresh Shah

Suresh Shah, M.D., Pathfinders Enterprise,  a certified counselor, professional trainer, a coach, and a writer, with a focus on Career coaching and counseling, Business coaching for competitive edge, and Competency based Training and Assessment.

Susan Bell

Susan Bell is the Global Vice President and General Manager of Sealed Air’s Temperature Assurance business, which provides end to end supply chain solutions and insulative materials to solve customers’ complex fulfillment challenges as part of the Product Care Division. She is responsible for leading the global Temperature Assurance business team which is charged with creating the Temperature Assurance strategy, driving operational excellence to meet customer needs, catalyzing and executing mergers and acquisitions and developing new business to ensure Temperature Assurance drives value in the global supply chain.

Susan joined Sealed Air in 2016 as the Global Vice President of Strategy, Business Development and M&A for Product Care responsible for leading the global team to create the divisional strategy, executing mergers and acquisitions, developing new business, generating customer and market intelligence to ensure the division outperforms the market.

Susan has more than 20 years of global marketing and sales experience in strategy, business development, and global account leadership across consumer and industrial markets. Prior to joining Sealed Air Susan has worked for leading companies such as Sonoco, Stanley-Black & Decker, Ingersoll Rand and Newell-Rubbermaid.

Susheela Varghese

Susheela A.Varghese, PhD is the Associate Professor of Corporate Communication Education of Lee Kong Chian School of Business, and the Director of Centre for English Communication.

Susie Martin

Susie Martin is Servcorp's GM for South-East Asia and India.

Syed Suroor Anwar

Syed Suroor Anwar has vast international experiences in Asia, Europe and North America with key e-commerce and technology companies.

At present he is working at the position of Vice President–Strategy and Commercial for RS components–Asia Pacific.  In his current capacity he is responsible to formulate the Go-to-market Strategy for RS APAC and implement that through managing the overall product and supplier offer on the website and sales enablement through digital marketing, sales effectiveness and customer experience.

Suroor has been with RS components for more than seven years in multiple roles across the business. He has extensive work experience in P&L management, Transformation Sourcing and Supply chain with companies like SKF and Tata Motors in India where he was responsible for setting up green field projects and establishing their supply chain and vendor management functions

In 2011, Suroor moved to Singapore to work with Applied Materials Inc to formulate and drive the contract manufacturing strategy and supplier quality improvement before joining RS.

He is a mechanical engineer by qualification from the Indian Institute of Technology–Delhi and also holds a Six Sigma Master Black belt and Lean Master certifications. Suroor is also a fond writer and contributor to some of the pioneering works in Continuous Improvement books and Forums.

Sylvia Metayer

Sylvia Metayer is President of Sodexo's International Large Accounts. She is a trustee of the Quebec Labrador Foundation, a member of the European Professional Women's Network and of HEC au Féminin, and a former Board Member of the New England Franco American Chamber of Commerce. Sylvia holds a business degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris, France. She is also a graduate of Queen's University, Canada and the University of Ottawa.

Ta-Wei Chao

Ta-Wei Chao is the Executive Director of ESSEC Institute for Research and Education on Negotiation (IRENE) Asia, ESSEC Asia-Pacific and a business and negotiation expert on China. A former visiting scholar in ESSEC Business School, his research works focused on “Cross-Cultural Negotiation and Conflict Management”, “Leadership and Decision-Making” and “M&A Management”. He is a senior trainer who hosts workshops on negotiation and leadership frequently in Europe and Asia.

Tai Lee Siang

Tai Lee Siang is the President of Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC)

Taisuke Yamamoto

Taisuke Yamamoto, is the International Communications Manager of MediaPop