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Anthea Indira
Chairperson & Founder of WorkWell LeadersA Nominated Member of Parliament from 2018 to 2020 with the Parliament of Singapore and a well known advocate for mental health, marginalised communities and Mother Earth (her 3Ms), Anthea is an experienced board member and board chair backed by a proven track record as a C-level executive of 30 years with international companies. A much sought-after speaker on mental health, human-centred leadership and women empowerment, she is widely published on these issues; her latest book 'The NMP Scheme: Are Unelected Voices Still Necessary in Parliament?' was launched in 2022 by then Prime Minister of Singapore. A creative and dynamic leader, she also founded several impact initiatives and social enterprises, including Hush TeaBar, WorkWell Leaders, SG Mental Health Matters, A Good Space Co-operative and Welcome in My Backyard. Her varied experience, including an ICF Certified Professional Coach, provides valuable perspectives to boards and executive teams including as a strategic advisor to Asia's leading and fastest growing mental health provider, Intellect. Often described as a ‘maven of influence’, ‘trailblazer in social impact' and ‘thought leader in human-centered leadership', she'd prefer to be remembered as "a full-time human, and part-time everything else".
Shi Yuan Yeo
APAC Head of Legal and Compliance at Fujifilm Asia Pacific / Fujifilm Healthcare Asia Pacific / Fujifilm Process Chemicals- Opening remarks and introductions
- Fireside chat up close and personal
- Closing Remarks and wrap up summary of the day
Shi Yuan is the Regional Head of Legal and Compliance, Data Protection Officer, Deputy Company Secretary, Regional Security Trade Control Administrative Officer, and the Regional Deputy Security Manager (Legal) of Fujifilm Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. In addition, he is also the Head of Legal and Compliance of Fujifilm Healthcare Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
He leads the legal and compliance team in the APAC Headquarter in Singapore and oversees the respective legal and compliance teams in all of the subsidiaries which are located in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and India.
Shi Yuan graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 2000. He further obtained a Master of Business Administration from Murdoch University and a Certificate of Management Excellence from Harvard Business School. He also attended the PON Global Executive Education Program with Harvard Law School.
Finally, Shi Yuan was approached and invited to co-author a book entitled "Power Springboard: How to Excel in Business, Income and Life" with world-renowned best-selling authors such as Brian Tracy, Les Brown, and Kerri Kasem.
Geeta Thakerar
Co-convenor at Singapore Corporate Counsel Association’s Wellbeing ChapterSeasoned, experienced legal and compliance professional. Former APAC regional General Counsel at Kimberly Clark and GSK respectively. Former specialist in corporate and commercial legal matters both in Britain, and for the last 24 years based in Singapore.
Currently co-convenor of Singapore Corporate Counsel Association’s Wellbeing Chapter, since 2017. One of three founding members of the wellbeing chapter.
In addition to doing voluntary work for Singapore Corporate Counsel Association also volunteer to APAC Legal/Ethics/Compliance Life Sciences Industry Group.
Working part time, one day a week. Strong legal management skills. Experienced at overseeing and managing large in-house country legal and compliance teams, extensive legal budgets, external legal services spend and managing external law firms across Asia Pacific, (incl India, Japan, China and Australia/NZ). Extensive project and transaction management and organisation skills, including complex matrix management within multinational organisation and handling complex legal regulatory matters.
Strong advocate and champion for lawyers’ wellbeing and sustainability as a legal professional, supporting both legal and compliance professionals largely in house community.
Solid stakeholder management skills both internal as well as external. Presiding on various governance committees and on senior Asia Pacific commercial executive leadership teams. Experienced business partnering and crisis management skills. Seasoned coach and mentor for junior lawyers and young business executives within the organisation. Strong partnering with finance, tax, human resources, supply chain and procurement departments.
Danny Quah
Director of CHP Law LLC
Rebecca Chew
Partner at Rajah & Tann Singapore LLPRebecca Chew is a senior litigator with more than 30 years experience in the firm’s Disputes Department. She has been the lead partner servicing many of the firm’s financial institution clients including Bank of China, HSBC & Citibank as well as Healthcare clients. Apart from her vast experience managing the legal work for financial and healthcare sectors, she also specializes and co-heads the firm’s China Related Investment Disputes Practice.
Rebecca has been named by objective legal observers including Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific and Client Choice – International Guide as a leading lawyer.
Hailed by interviewees for “her speed and knowledge”. Won plaudits for offering “immediate advice” and “staying on top of complicated files”. Sources also remarked on her Chinese language skills which prove “useful for documentation and correspondence”. She has also represented our clients for many landmark legal cases. Rebecca was named Woman Lawyer of the Year by ALB SE Asia Law Awards (2022), for her remarkable achievements in the practice of law and the larger community. She has also been identified as the Health and Wellness Advocate of the Year by ALB’s Women in Law Awards (2021), and recognized as an Outstanding Lawyer by Acritas Star (2021). In 2017, she was recognized with an individual award for Best in Dispute Resolution at the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards 2017. This year, Rebecca was shortlisted for the Intrapreneur Award by Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award Asia Pacific 2024.
With her strong Chinese language ability, she is an integral part of the firm’s Greater China Practice and is very much sought after by clients in handling disputes involving projects in Mainland China or businesses from Mainland China. In 2009, she was asked to take on a larger role in the management of the Firm in charge of its Human Resource in addition to her role as a senior litigator in the firm. She later rose to the position of Deputy Managing Partner of the firm and assumed that role until end March 2022. In addition to leading two distinct practices in the firm, she is also Chairperson of the Rajah & Tann Foundation that focuses on charitable giving, probono legal service and community outreach. She remains passionate about sustainable work practices and leads the firm’s Wellness Committee.
Paul Neo
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Singapore Academy of LawPaul is the COO and CFO at the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) – the promotion and development agency for Singapore’s legal sector – and also the Founder of the Future Law Innovation Programme (FLIP), Singapore’s national initiative to establish a legal tech ecosystem and to help the legal community innovate new models for the delivery of legal services in the future economy.
Prior to joining SAL, Paul served as the CEO of Next U, the executive education subsidiary of Singapore’s National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). Paul was also a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Masters in Engineering. Paul is an accredited mediator at the Singapore Mediation Centre and holds a Juris Doctorate from the Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Gregory TAN
Joint Head, Legal & Regulatory at TemasekMr. Gregory Tan joined Temasek in 2016 and is currently Joint Head, Legal & Regulatory.
Before joining Temasek, Greg was a partner in a US international law firm. His legal expertise is
in transactional work involving cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private
equity. An extensive part of his practice involves working as international counsel to clients and
co-counseling with local law firms to execute complex transactions. Greg started his private
practice career in Singapore focusing on the South Asian market before relocating to his firm’s
San Francisco office where he concentrated on debt transactions. He also spent time in his
firm’s Tokyo office working on a variety of cross-border transactions before relocating to
Shanghai in 2005 where he continued to focus on corporate work, including M&A transactions
and corporate real estate work.
Greg is the winner of the 2023 Singapore Corporate Counsel Association Chief Legal Officer
Award in the public sector category. He graduated from the University of Bristol, UK in 1994 and
started his legal career in the Supreme Court of Singapore as a Justices’ Law Clerk. He is
admitted as a non-practicing barrister-at-law (Middle Temple, 1995) and is also admitted to the
Singapore bar (1998) and the New York bar (2002).
He is currently a Senate member of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) chaired by the Chief
Justice of Singapore, Co-Chair of the Professional Development Working Group, member of
the Corporate Law Practice Committee and Chair of the Venture Capital Investment Model
Agreements (VIMA) working group in SAL.
Snigdha Nahar
Associate General Counsel APAC at Aquila Clean Energy APAC Pte. Ltd | Founder and Coach - Dreemer Sleep ServicesSnigdha has been a long-time corporate warrior with a decade and a half of experience in magic circle law firms in London and Singapore and then in-house in investments, infrastructure and clean energy based in Singapore working across all major APAC markets. She is currently working as Associate General Counsel, APAC at Aquila Clean Energy based in Singapore. She is dual- qualified in UK (2012) and India (2010). She has also completed an MBA (part time- graduated 2020) from National University of Singapore.
She is a mom and a self- proclaimed sleep evangelist. Her own struggles with anxiety and sleep led her to a deep dive into the world of child sleep manifested in getting an International Child and Maternal Sleep Certification and starting a sleep consultancy called Dreemer as a side venture alongside the sustainability focused day job. She can be found speaking about all things child sleep on Instagram at @dreemersleepcoaching and www.dreemersleep.com.
Rachel Wright
Legal Director of LODRachel Wright is the Legal Director, Asia at LOD, based in Singapore. Alongside being a lawyer, Rachel is also a US National Board Certified Health Coach, and seeks to incorporate her health coach learnings into her everyday life both at work and at home. In her free time, she is a volunteer with Mindful Business Singapore, a group of Singapore lawyers who are focused on making work better and removing unnecessary stress in the legal community.
Dr Catherine Wu
Lecturer at Nanyang Business SchoolAt 23, Dr Catherine Wu took a leap of faith and bought herself a ticket to China.
Growing up in the rural south of France, Dr Catherine Wu was barely exposed to cultural differences. Even speaking another language fluently felt completely out of reach.
Since then, she have received a PhD from the world's first research center on Cultural Intelligence in Singapore, lived in Asia for almost 20 years, worked with people from all over the world, and taught thousands about cultural intelligence (CQ), the set of motivation, awareness, and skills of people who can work well with cultural diversity.
Michelle Mah
Mental wellbeing practitioner and qualifying counsellor at RebalanceAs a mindfulness, mental wellbeing practitioner and qualifying counsellor, Michelle has studied and trained with the world’s most heavily researched wellbeing programmes and teachers including:
-Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) under UC San Diego School of Medicine with Dr. Steven Hickman and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn
-Centre of Mindful Self-Compassion with researchers Dr. Kristin Neff and Dr. Christopher Germer
-Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI), first developed at Google
Having worked at leading global organisations and battling with her own mental health challenges, she realised that enhancing mental health and emotional wellbeing was crucial to thriving and flowing through life and pivoted from her established career in marketing and communications to sharing this work with the world.
Recognising the need to support the under-served parenting community in Singapore, Michelle also holds a Psychotherapy Certification in Perinatal Mental Health, awarded by Postpartum Support International, the gold standard of maternal mental health and currently helps adults and parents undergoing life transitions in her counselling sessions.
Her current experience also includes delivering wellbeing programs for the Associate Faculty of Singapore Management University under the Mindfulness Initiative, as well as offering the CC005 “Healthy Living & Wellbeing” module at Nanyang Technological University from Aug 2024, a compulsory module for all undergraduates to enhance holistic wellbeing.
Michelle has also previously curated and led self-care & wellbeing retreats for corporate employees within Asia as a certified 300hr Yoga Alliance teacher.
A partial client list of notable organizations includes: Citi, Deloitte, Chanel, Longchamp, Frasers Property, Marriott, PCS, Chevron, NielsenIQ, Vodafone, 1880, CIMC Enric, WeWork, Certis, Surbana Jurong, Braze, Unruly, Pratt & Whitney, Pedro, Charles & Keith, Mediatek, entire Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office, People’s Association, Housing & Development Board, Ministry
of Trade and Industry, numerous MOE schools, PassionWave, National Environment Agency and Singapore Management University, amongst others.
Cedric Lee
Founder and CEO of Connecting DNACedric Lee is the founder and CEO of Connecting DNA. He is passionate about revolutionizing how people achieve their best health by understanding their unique genetic makeup.
With over 20 years in the health tech world, he has worked with big names like Abbott Laboratories, 3M, and Samsung, and held various leadership roles. Beyond his day-to-day work, he shares his knowledge on branding, holistic wellness, consumer genetics and leadership with different companies and communities.
His mission now is to unlock the full potential of the wellness industry using genetic insights and digital tools. On LinkedIn, he is known as the “DNA Storyteller,” where he shares fascinating stories about our genes and how understanding them can help people make smarter choices for a healthier life.
David Clinch
Partner at Pinsent Masons MPillayDavid advises clients on energy, infrastructure and natural resources transactions and projects around the world. His practice includes M&A, joint ventures, project development, and project finance, covering Asia, Africa, Australasia, the Middle East, South America, and the United Kingdom.
Choo Ee Ting
Co-founder of Connecting DNAChoo Ee Ting is the co-founder of Connecting DNA, a platform that uses your DNA to help you make better nutrition and lifestyle choices.
From a Chemical Engineer to 15 years in the field of genetics, and now a strong advocate for holistic health through nutrition, Ee Ting is dedicated to teach people about the benefits of good nutrition.
She has clocked over 100 hours of health talks to Corporates such as STENGG and MNCs to provide practical nutrition advice. In a world full of confusing health advice, Ee Ting stands out by offering clear and trustworthy guidance on important topics like managing weight, debunking nutrition myths, and spotting hidden risks in our diet. She now uses genetic information to help people make smarter choices for a healthier life.
Frédéric Gillion
Partner at Pinsent Masons MPillayFrédéric heads the construction and arbitration team. He is qualified in English and French law and has extensive experience of the FIDIC forms of contract and their use in civil law jurisdictions.
Ian Laing
Partner & Head of Office at Pinsent Masons MPillayIan is independently recognised as a leading lawyer. He specialises in capital projects and has advised on over 50 public/ private partnerships. He has particular expertise in advising equity investors in relation to transportation, water and accommodation projects.
Valerie Wu
Partner, Head of Tax & Private Wealth at Pinsent MasonsValerie advises families and individuals as well as the services providers to such families and individuals, in terms of tax as well as regulatory matters.