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Recognising Singapore's Most Exceptional Business Leaders

#SBRManagementExcellenceAwards

SBR MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AWARDS

On its 8th year, the Singapore Business Review Management Excellence Awards is back to recognise most outstanding leaders in Singapore! 

If your company has a noteworthy individual, innovator or team who made a huge contribution to your business' success, nominate them for the awards. The program will also honor employee engagements and COVID management initiatives that made a positive impact to its workforce or customers. 

The program had awardees from some of the biggest companies in Singapore for their hard work and dedication that brought tangible contributions to their businesses. Past winners include top-level executives, teams, and outstanding employee engagement initiatives from IHH HealthcareNTUC FairPriceHPCiscoGardens by the Bay,  Astra ZenecaTokio Marine InsuranceLazadaSP DigitalPan Pacific HotelsAIA, and many more!

Watch our trailer for SBR Management Excellence Awards

TESTIMONIALS

What do our winners have to say about winning the award?

This award for me is a recognition of the hard work that I put in, but at the same time it is also an award that will gi...

Henry Chu Heng Hwee CEO, BreadTalk Group

I’m extremely grateful for the recognition and would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my team at The Fullerton Heri...

Cavaliere Giovanni Viterale General Manager, The Fullerton Heritage

It is really a good testament to the effort put in by the whole team. We would like to thank Singapore Business Review f...

Tan Kang Wee Head of Policy Services, AIA Singapore

Personally, I’m honoured and proud. My team and I are very proud that we received this award. In Daikin, we believe in p...

Liu Shaw Jiun Managing Director, Daikin Airconditioning (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Watch videos from past winners

Poh Soon Hin, Director, HP Inc,

Kelvin Loh, Managing Director and CEO, IHH Healthcare

Sanjay Kaul, President - Asia Pacific & Japan, Cisco

Seah Kian Peng, Group CEO, NTUC FairPrice Co-operative Pte Ltd

Ronak Shah, CEO, QBE Singapore

Marine Queniart-Stojanovic, GM General Medicines, Sanofi-Aventis Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore; and Country Lead Sanofi-Aventis Malaysia & Thailand

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Chairman, Cloud4C

Serine Loh, Head of HR, APAC, Blue Prism

Why should you enter

NETWORK

Celebrate your well-deserved award with your colleagues, clients, and peers at the Awards Dinner! Meet the most outstanding leaders in Singapore and get unrivaled networking opportunities!

SHARE YOUR STORY & AMPLIFY

Talk about your achievements in an interview with Singapore Business Review. Take advantage of the video interview as a shareable content to let your clients, potential customers, and stakeholders know that you are an award-winning company!

EXPOSURE

Have the opportunity to be featured in the definitive magazine for elite business leader, the Singapore Business Review. Its print platform is published quarterly with circulation of 25,000 copies, while its online arm sbr.com.sg offers daily fresh and unique content with over 221,000 unique active users every month.

GUIDELINES AND CRITERIA

GUIDELINES

  • Nominees will be deliberated by a judging committee based on the nomination form and supporting documents submitted.

  • The awards are for:

    • Top-level executives, innovative individuals, and dynamic teams who launched successful and notable new projects or innovations

    • Employee engagement initiatives that significantly enhanced the company's business

    • Covid management initiatives that either helped the company or its customers to navigate current headwinds due to the pandemic

  • Nomination is free of charge. If your company wins, you are obliged to attend the awards ceremony and book any of the winner's package options to secure your slots at the hotel or digital awards presentation and interview. Email julie@charltonmediamail.com to know more about the winners package pricing and entitlements. 

  • The awards will be given per industry category.

ELIGIBILITY

  • For Executive/Innovator & Team of the Year categories - The executive, innovator or team must be able to showcase their remarkable contributions to the success and growth of their companies in the last 12-24 calendar months. 

  • For COVID Management & Employee Engagement Initiative  categories - The company should have launched a new project, innovation, strategy or initiative that made a positive impact to its workforce and/or customers, not more than 24 calendar months ago.

Note: 

Companies in the following industries are not eligible to join the Awards Programme: cryptocurrency, tobacco, multilevel marketing, and products with claim of health benefits

CATEGORIES

The awards will be given in the following categories per industry:

  • Executive of the Year (CEO, COO, President, MD, and other C-level/top-level executives)
  • Innovator of the Year
  • Team of the Year
  • Employee Engagement of the Year
  • Covid Management Initiative of the Year

INDUSTRY CATEGORIES

  • Automotive Services
  • Advertising
  • Aerospace
  • Aerospace & Defense
  • Agriculture
  • Airline
  • Apparel
  • Architecture
  • Automotive & Transport Equipment
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Beauty & Cosmetics
  • Biotechnology
  • Broadcasting
  • Brokerage
  • Building Services & Facilities
  • Business Insurance
  • Business Services
  • Cargo Handling
  • Chemicals
  • Commercial Building construction
  • Commercial Real Estate Trust
  • Computer Hardware
  • Computer Services
  • Computer Software
  • Conglomerates
  • Consulting
  • Consumer Products - Durables
  • Consumer Products - Non-Durables
  • Corporate Advisory
  • Data Center
  • Data Privacy
  • Department Stores
  • Dining & Entertainment
  • Diversified Services
  • Education
  • Electronic Manufacturing
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Services
  • Executive Search
  • Financial Services
  • Financial Technology
  • FMCG
  • Food & Beverage
  • Food Manufacturing Solutions
  • Food Safety
  • Fraud and Compliance Management
  • Fundraising
  • Furniture and fixture
  • General Insurance
  • Health Products & Services
  • Healthcare
  • Healthcare Technology
  • Heavy Civil Construction
  • Hospitality & Leisure
  • Human Resource Technology
  • Human Resources Consulting
  • Industrial Construction
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Insurance Broker
  • Internet/New Media
  • Investment Banking
  • IT Services
  • Life Insurance
  • Legal
  • Logistics
  • Luxury Retail
  • Manufacturing
  • Marine and Offshore Engineering
  • Marine Services
  • Materials & Construction
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Metals & Mining
  • Motion Picture & Video
  • Music
  • Networking Technology
  • Non-Profit or Government Organizations
  • Oil & Gas
  • Payments
  • Personal Insurance
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Agency
  • Remittance
  • Residential Building construction
  • Residential Product Manufacturing
  • Retail
  • Security
  • Shipping
  • Staffing and Recruiting
  • Sports
  • Sustainability
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Television
  • Training and Development
  • Transportation
  • Travel Services
  • Utilities
  • Venture Capital
  • Wholesale

CRITERIA FOR JUDGING

Executive of the Year (CEO, COO, Chairman, MD, and other C-level/top-level executives)

  • Achievements - How did the executive's exceptional leadership help drive the company's growth?

  • Challenges & Solutions - What are the biggest challenges that the executive encountered in moving the company forward? What solutions were implemented to overcome these challenges?

  • Innovation - What new ideas did the executive introduce to substantially boost the company's business?

Innovator of the Year

  • Uniqueness - What are the unique and innovative initiatives that the innovator have spearheaded? 

  • Success - Discuss the innovator's recent notable contributions in pioneering the solution which led to the significant growth of the company.

  • Effectiveness - How effective was the innovation and how did it impact the company?

Team of the Year

  • Achievements - What are the team's remarkable contributions to the company's growth?

  • Challenges & Solutions - What are the biggest challenges that the team encountered in driving growth? What solutions were implemented to overcome these challenges?

  • Innovation - What new ideas did the team introduce to substantially boost the company's business?

Employee Engagement of the Year

  • Strategy - What are the recent strategies implemented to engage the company's employees and enhance fulfilment with their careers?

  • Effectiveness - How effective was the strategy and what was its impact on the workforce?

COVID Management Initiative of the Year 

  • Strategy - What are the recent initiatives implemented to navigate current headwinds due to the pandemic? What strategies were launched to motivate the workforce or solutions to help your customers during the challenging time of the pandemic?    
  • Effectiveness - How effective was the strategy and what was its impact on the workforce, the company's business and/or customers? 

HOW TO ENTER?

1. Go to the online nomination form.

2. Read the nomination guidelines.

3. Fill out the required fields.

  • Company and entrant details

  • Chosen category and industry

  • Title

  • 500-word summary about the executive/innovator/team/initiatives' success and achievements

  • Attach 3 photos related to your entry (required)

  • Attach supporting documents (optional) to strengthen your submission

  • Client or employee testimonials (optional)

  • Achievements

  • Chosen winner's package

4. Once you're done, you will receive an email confirmation of your nomination.

Note: Each nomination form is valid for one (1) entry only. If you are nominating several projects, please enter each separately. 

NOMINATION AND WINNERS PACKAGE PRICING

Nomination is free. If your company wins, you are obliged to attend the Awards Dinner and book any of the winner's package options. To know more about the winners package entitlements and pricing, please email julie@charltonmediamail.com

Past Winners

Executive of the Year

Innovator of the Year

Team of the Year

COVID Management Initiative of the Year

Employee Engagement of the Year

Executive of the Year

Innovator of the Year

  • Chemicals- Dr. Mohammad Hossein Davood Abadi Farahani, Founder & CEO, SEPPURE Pte Ltd
  • Non-Profit or Government Organizations- Kelvin Kong Chiu Wen, Founder, Voices Of Asia
  • Biotechnology- Martin-Immanuel Bittner MD DPhil, CEO, Arctoris Pte Ltd
  • Technology- Samir Neji, CEO. Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Pte Ltd


Team of the Year

Employee Engagement of the Year

COVID Management Initiative of the Year

Executive of the Year

Innovator of the Year

Team of the Year

Employee Engagement of the Year

  • Technology - People Experience Team , PALO IT Singapore
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Executive of the Year

Innovator of the Year

Team of the Year

Employee Engagement of the Year

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Executive of the Year

  • Architecture - Karen Cvornyek, B+H Architects (Singapore) Pte Ltd

  • Pharmaceuticals - Raman Singh, Mundipharma

  • Education - Zeenath Kuraisha, Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Academy Pte Ltd

  • Talent Development and Engagement - Joseph Wong, TRAININGGEARASIA PTE LTD

  • Logistics - Syed Ali Ridha madihid, iCommerce Asia

  • Media & Entertainment - Chatri Sityodtong, ONE Championship

  • Human Resource Technology - Kannan Chettiar, AVVANZ

Innovator of the Year

  • Business Services - Angela Sim, Ence Marketing

  • Insurance - AIA Singapore Team, AIA Singapore

Team of the Year

  • Market Research Consulting - Consulting Group, Asia Insight

Employee Engagement of the Year

  • Banking - Royal Bank of Scotland

Executive of the Year

  • Food & Beverage - Steen Puggaard, 4FINGERS PTE LTD

  • Financial Services - Ng Beng Tiong, ARA Asset Management Limited

  • Consumer Products (Non-Durables) - Dr Andy Adhiwana, Auric Pacific Group Limited

  • Patent Research - Deepak Syal, GreyB Services

  • Materials & Construction Industry - William Tan Kwang Hwee, Ley Choon Group Holdings Ltd

  • Agriculture - Wong Chiak Yeen, Panasonic Factory Solutions Asia Pacific

  • Transportation - Desmond Kuek, SMRT Corporation Ltd

  • Consulting - Joan Koh, The Nielsen Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd

  • Real Estate - Roy Ling, Vingroup JSC

Innovator of the Year

  • Life Insurance - AIA Singapore Team, AIA Singapore

  • Business Services -Dr. Patrick Khor,iBosses Pte Ltd

  • Real Estate - Steven Tan & Team, OrangeTee.com Pte Ltd

Team of the Year

  • Oil & Gas - MODEC Management Services HR Team

  • Advertising - Moove Media

  • Agriculture - Panasonic Factory Solutions Asia Pacific - Agriculture Business Division

Employee Engagement of the Year

  • Business Services - Dentsu Aegis Network, Singapore

  • Health Products & Services - Farrer Park Hospital

  • Marketing Research - Kadence International

  • Banking -OCBC Bank – Business Banking Commercial Service Centre

  • Consulting - The Nielsen Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Executive of the Year

  • Financial Services - Lawrence Chai, 3E Accounting Pte. Ltd

  • Consulting - Margaret Manning OBE, Adelphi Digital Consulting Group

  • Food & Beverage - Regina Lee, Amplitude Inc. Holdings Pte Ltd.

  • Retail - Anders Peter Juel Sauerberg, Norbreeze Group Pte. Ltd.

  • Hotel - Allen Law, Park Hotel Group

  • Diversified Services - Foo Jiann Wen, Radius Group of Companies

  • Manufacturing - Jimmy Teo, Wittman Battenfeld (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

  • Building Services & Facilities - Anthony Koh Thong Huat, IsoTeam Ltd

  • Technology - Colin Bruce Thoms, Fast Flow Singapore Pte Ltd.

  • Resort - Moe Ibrahim, Bintan Lagoon Resort

Innovator of the Year

  • Financial Services - AIA Singapore

  • IT Services - MuRho Solutions

Team of the Year

  • Diversified Services - Radius Group of Companies

  • Real Estate - UOL Group Ltd. Senior Executives Gwee Lian Kheng, Liam Wee Sin & Wellington Foo

CONTACT US

For more details, contact:

Julie Anne Nunez

(+65) 3158 1386 ext. 221

awards@charltonmediamail.com

SBR Management Excellence Awards

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TESTIMONIALS

Check out what past winners have said upon receiving their award.

Poh Soon Hin, Director, HP Inc,

Kelvin Loh, Managing Director and CEO, IHH Healthcare

Sanjay Kaul, President - Asia Pacific & Japan, Cisco

Seah Kian Peng, Group CEO, NTUC FairPrice Co-operative Pte Ltd

Ronak Shah, CEO, QBE Singapore

Marine Queniart-Stojanovic, GM General Medicines, Sanofi-Aventis Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore; and Country Lead Sanofi-Aventis Malaysia & Thailand

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Chairman, Cloud4C

Serine Loh, Head of HR, APAC, Blue Prism

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Heraeus Materials Singapore Pte Ltd

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Christopher Teo, Tokio Marine Life Insurance Singapore

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: AstraZeneca Asia IT & Digital Team

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Smarten Spaces

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Kyowa Kirin Asia Pacific Pte Ltd

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Simranjit Singh, Guardant Health AMEA

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: BoardRoom Singapore

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Wacker Chemicals (South Asia) Pte. Ltd.

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: BIPO Service (Singapore) Pte Ltd

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Adelyn Ong Meei Chyi, China Mobile International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Sudhir Agarwal, Everis

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Martin-Immanuel Bittner, Arctoris

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Princeton Digital Group

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Lazada Singapore Pte Ltd

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Sales & Marketing Team, Pan Pacific Hotels Group

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Choe Peng Sum, Pan Pacific Hotels Group

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2020 Winner: Chris Lee, Medtronic

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Felix Loh Chee Wai, Gardens by the Bay

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Michel de Rijk, S4 Capital

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Margaret Heng, SHATEC

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Sudhir Agarwal, Everise

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Digital Business Team, The Great Eastern Life Assurance Co Ltd

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Michael Chiay, Managing Director, TBR Global Chauffeurin

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Andrew Ong, Flywire

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Delane Lim, Polygon Asia & FutuReady Singapore

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Brad Robinson, Ritual Gym

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Nicholas Lim, The Travel Corporation

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Ramadas Senthil Kumar, Tera-Barrier Films Pte Ltd

SBR Management Excellence Awards 2019 Winner: Prof Sattar Bawany, Centre for Executive Education

Awards Highlights

RMS Marine & Offshore Service’s Gabriel Hong receives the Executive of the Year accolade at the SBR Management Excellence Awards 2022

Dec 06, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

The managing director’s people-centred and visionary approach led to the profitable growth of the business across talent development, new businesses, and operational excellence.


Taking over the role as the General Manager at...

Creating the future of entertainment

Dec 06, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

Ubisoft Singapore bagged two awards—Executive of the Year, and Employee Engagement of the Year—at the SBR Management Excellence Awards 2022.



Opening its doors on the sunny shores of Singapore in 2008, Ubisoft Singapore set...

Unilever’s Umesh Shah recognised as Executive of the Year at the SBR Management Excellence Awards

Dec 06, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

Under Umesh’s leadership, Unilever International become one of Unilever’s fastest-growing global businesses.



 What does serving the underserved by leveraging the underleveraged mean? For Umesh Shah, CEO at Unilever...

HP Singapore takes home the Team of the Year award in the Manufacturing category

Dec 01, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

From surviving to thriving in the pandemic, the team leverages technology to achieve a new level of operational excellence and successfully delivered a new white ink plant in Singapore.


HP Singapore Ink Operations (SIO) Indigo...

Changing lives with MiCare’s amazing solutions

Dec 01, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

Moses Hee wins at the SBR Management Excellence Awards 2022.


With over 16 years of expertise in developing brands, business strategies, and innovative ideas, Moses Hee pushed MiCare to rethink the traditional Third-Party...

Hicham Raissi leads Allianz Insurance Singapore in charting new growth in the EV space

Dec 01, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

The motor insurance he piloted is the first of its kind with EV-related coverage not seen in traditional vehicle policies.


Allianz Insurance Singapore (Allianz) CEO Hicham Raissi has spearheaded the motor insurance industry in...

Mansi Madan Tripathy awarded Executive of the Year at the SBR Management Excellence Awards

Nov 29, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

She guided Shell Lubricants Asia Pacific region forward to weather through the energy sector’s turbulent times.


The past two years have been exceptionally challenging for the energy sector, and companies are grappling with...

Savills Singapore bags two accolades at the SBR Management Excellence Awards

Nov 29, 2022
Categories:
Co-Written / Partner

The firm took home awards for Executive of the Year, Real Estate and Team of the Year, Real Estate Investment.


Chris Marriott has always had real estate in his blood, which might explain his sterling record in the business...

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I nominate?

You can send an entry via the online nomination form where you have to fill in details about your company and the product that you wish to enter. You also have to submit a 500 word write up summarizing your product details and why it should win an award.

How many winners per category?

There will only be one winner per industry on each category ie. "Executive of the Year - Computer Software", "Executive of the Year - Banking", etc.

Can I send two or more entries for our company?

Yes, you may send 2 entries for a maximum of three categories. One online form is equivalent to one entry so if you are nominating multiple entries, please enter each separately.

Who are eligible to nominate?

Are you an executive who made a remarkable contribution to your organisation? Are you a leader who is transforming your company to be the best in your industry? Then nominate for the EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR!

Does your boss deserve to be recognised for his hard work and dedication? Does your boss inspire you and your colleagues to be at their best selves despite the hurdles of the pandemic? Then nominate him/her for the EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR!

Are you a leader with innovative ideas that made a positive impact to your business or your client? Have you introduced unique innovation that sets you apart from the other players in your industry? Then nominate for the INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR!

Has your team launched successful initiatives that are innovative and cutting-edge? Are you part of an amazing team that highly contributed to the success and growth of the company? Then nominate for the TEAM OF THE YEAR!

Have you launched successful initiatives that highly motivated your employees to give their best at work? Do you have programs to ensure that your workforce is rewarded and well-recognised for their hard work and commitment?  Are your employees driven and happy to be part of a successful company? Then  nominate for the EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT OF THE YEAR!

Have you introduced new and effective ways to navigate the challenges of the pandemic? Have you launched initiatives that motivated your workforce despite the hurdles of the pandemic? Have you launched solutions that made a positive impact to your client during this pandemic? Then  nominate him/her for the COVID MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR!

What is Singapore Business Review?

Singapore Business Review (SBR), the definitive magazine catering to business elites of Singapore and the rest of South East Asia.

Founded in 2001, SBR is the only business magazine in Singapore guaranteed to reach senior decision makers in the top 1,700 companies with combined sales of $692 billion and 94% of listed companies.

Its print platform is published quarterly with circulation of 25,000 copies, while its online arm sbr.com.sg offers daily fresh and unique content with over 221,000 unique active users every month.

Will there be an awards dinner this year?

We do understand the current situation with COVID-19. As our priority is the safety of our guests, there will be no physical awards dinner this year. Thus, SBR will hold an individual awards presentation and interview at Conrad Centennial Singapore or digitally via Zoom conference (whichever is your preference).

Click here for samples of digital presentation and interview.