César Cernuda, President, Asia Pacific, Microsoft; Hari Krishnan, President, PropertyGuru; Roland Smith, Senior Vice President - APAC and Managing Director, Asia, Centre for Creative Leadership; and Michael Zink, Head of ASEAN and Citi Country Officer Singapore, Citi; Moderated by Cecilia Ma Zecha, Head of External Relations Southeast Asia, McKinsey & Company
Venue : Four Seasons Hotel, Ballroom (second floor), 190 Orchard Boulevard, Singapore 248646
Date : March 29, 2016
Time : 11:45 AM - 2:00 PM
Price : $45.00
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Speakers:
César Cernuda
President
Microsoft, Asia Pacific
As President of Microsoft Asia Pacific, César Cernuda oversees a
business that includes 12 subsidiaries in 39 territories and countries, with
over 13,500 employees and 100,000 partners. He is responsible for leading the
company’s commercial and consumer products, and service and support offerings
to meet Asia Pacific’s aggressive consumption of cloud, mobile, big data and
social technologies. His key task is to guide Microsoft’s current
transformation from a primarily on-premise software business to a mobile-first,
cloud-first company.
Prior to his current role, Cernuda was the vice president of Sales,
Marketing and Services in Microsoft Latin America. In this role, he was
responsible for managing the overall business in the region, including nine
Microsoft subsidiaries, and more than 2,000 employees and 80,000 business
partners. He drove commercial and consumer marketing strategies, in addition to
services and business processes to support Microsoft’s business units and partners.
Under his tenure, the Microsoft Latin America Area Headquarters won the Alfred
P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility in 2011 as a
result of use of a flexible and effective workplace strategy to increase
business and employee success. In 2012, Cernuda was invited to the Microsoft
Executive Bench, a distinct honor given to a select number of top Microsoft
executives.
Cerunda join Microsoft Spain in 1997, where he led the SMEs group for Spain
launching bCentral, an online Web services portal. This was awarded as best
product of the year in Spain and best internal worldwide initiative at
Microsoft. He has also been part of the Microsoft Business Solutions sales and
field operations teams, and the ERP & CRM business.
Cernuda started his career in the banking industry, working on the launch of
Banco 21 (currently known as Banco Gallego). He later joined Software AG, where
he successfully developed a new business channel for the company’s products and
services sales. He also ran the financial sector division for Spain and
Portugal.
Cernuda earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing
from ESIC University in Spain, and completed a Management Development Program
(PDD) from IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Spain. In 2013,
he completed the ‘Leadership for Senior Executives’ program offered by the
Harvard’s School of Business. Cernuda is an Honorary Patron of Plataforma
Solidaria de Asturias, a foundation that helps with the education and needs of
a group of children in Bolivia.
Outside of work, Cernuda and his wife enjoy spending family time with their two
children.
Hari V. Krishnan
President & Chief Business Officer
PropertyGuru Group
Hari is a
seasoned commercial general manager. He brings with him more than 15 years of
industry leadership, accelerating brand recognition, customer satisfaction,
revenue growth and user growth strategies for technology and consumer internet
organisations across Asia Pacific.
At PropertyGuru Group, Hari is in-charge of regional business growth
initiatives, with Country Managers and Sales Organizations in Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia directly reporting to him.
Before joining PropertyGuru Group, Hari was the Vice President & Managing
Director, APAC & Japan at LinkedIn, where he led more than 1,000 employees
across 10 offices. Prior to LinkedIn, he led the market entry for two
hyper-growth Internet companies into Asia and has worked in leadership
positions in companies such as Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo! and Cisco.
He sits on the board for U2opia Mobile, a privately-held mobile applications
company and the Singapore chapter of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a
not-for-profit organisation focused on fostering entrepreneurship. Hari holds
an MBA from INSEAD and an M.S. in Telecommunications from the University of
Colorado.
Roland Smith
Senior Vice President - APAC and Managing Director
Centre for Creative Leadership (CCL), Asia
Dr Smith first joined the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in 2007
as a senior faculty member where he also held the role of the lead researcher
for both the Senior Executive Research Initiative (SERI) and the Global
Institute for Talent Sustainability (GIFTS). He is also a member of CCL’s
organizational leadership and transformation group.
As a leading faculty for the Leadership At The Peak program, he has been
heavily involved with initiatives around global talent, global senior executive
engagement, high performing teams as well as notable research on the paradoxes
of leadership development in Asia, India and South Africa. In addition, Dr
Smith is an accomplished author with several books such as “Talent
Conversations: What They Are, Why They’re Crucial, And How To Do Them Right”
under his name. His past appointments within CCL include being an executive and
organizational coach and in leading CCL’s legal sector and professional service
practice.
Prior to joining CCL, Dr Smith was President of a national consulting firm in
United States, focusing on addressing organizational performance and talent
management. He also served as President for a human capital consulting firm,
helped transform it into a successful national force with over 1,000
organizational members and clients. His other appointments include serving as a
Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award examiner and judge for the Louisiana
and Idaho Quality Awards. He was also a faculty member and director of the
Quality Learning Project (Center for Educational Research) at the University of
Idaho where he focused on issues relating to process improvement,
organizational and individual learning, competency identification, human
resources, and the implications of trust on organizational performance.
Michael Zink
Head of ASEAN and
Country Officer for Singapore
Citi
Michael Zink is Head of Citi’s businesses in ASEAN, including Singapore,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand; as well as Bangladesh and
Sri Lanka. He was appointed to this role in February 2012.
Michael concurrently holds the position of Citi Country Officer (CCO) for
Singapore since his appointment in April 2010. Citi has been operating in
Singapore since 1902, and has well established business in Corporate and
Investment Banking, Private Banking, Commercial Banking and Consumer Banking.
With nearly 10,000 employees and several regional hubs, Citi is the largest
financial services business in Singapore.
A 28-year Citi veteran, Michael began his career with Citi in New York in 1988
and has held various senior corporate banking and executive management roles
for Citi in Africa, Russia and Asia.
Michael is currently Co-Chair of the Financial Services Committee and Member of
the board of the US-ASEAN Business Council, and a member of AmCham Singapore’s
Board of Governors. He also serves as a council member of The Association of
Banks in Singapore (ABS).
Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Case
Western Reserve University in the USA and an MBA from the Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University in the USA.
An American citizen, Michael has been married to his wife Betsy for 29 years.
They have three daughters living in the USA, and a son studying in Northwestern
University.
This event is moderated by:
Cecilia Ma Zecha,
Head of External Relations Southeast Asia,
McKinsey & Company
Cecilia
Ma Zecha is Head of External Relations, Southeast Asia, for McKinsey &
Company, responsible for designing and implementing the management consulting
firm’s reputation-building and strategic communications program in Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Prior to McKinsey,
Cecilia was Executive Director for Forbes Media in Asia, responsible for
content development and programming of Forbes conferences, as well as
recruitment and management of speakers, for events such as the Forbes
Global CEO Conference and Forbes Forums on Asia’s Power
Businesswomen and Next Tycoons.
A former television anchor Cecilia was a frequent host and moderator at Forbes
and other international business conferences. In addition Cecilia led the media
brand’s regional public relations and contributed special video interviews for
Forbes.com. Prior to Forbes, Cecilia was an anchor and correspondent for CNBC
Asia where she was host of Asia Squawk Box, World Market Outlook, Managing
Asia, Asia Working Woman and Asian Wall Street Journal On-Air.
Corporate
tables are available at a discounted rate of $400 for 10
seats. Please email Nathan Sivarajah at psivarajah@amcham.org.sg to reserve
a table. EVENT IS FULL!
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