Speakers Douglas Hamer
Chief operating officer, talent and learning, Asia Pacific Citi Douglas Hamer is the chief operating officer for the talent and learning function at Citi, based in Singapore and covering 14 markets in the Asia Pacific region. In this role, he is focused on HR strategy and planning, HR transformation, and operational management of the function, which comprises talent management, learning and development, performance management and diversity and inclusion. He is also faculty for Citi’s suite of leadership development programmes and an executive coach. He joined Citi in 2006 in the campus recruiting team in London, supporting the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He then held a number of specialist HR roles before taking up his current position in 2012. Before joining Citi, he gained experience across the non-profit, private and public sectors.
Mohd Najid Yahya
Haroon Bhatti
Chief human resource officer Digi Telecommunications
Haroon Bhatti was appointed the chief human resource officer at Digi on 1 July 2013. Before that, he was the senior vice-president of people development at Telenor Asia. He has held leadership positions within Telenor Asia’s business units, including chief people officer in Grameenphone, Bangladesh and dtac, Thailand. He began his career with the Telenor Group in 2005 with Telenor Pakistan. He is a graduate of McGill University in Canada. He holds a master of arts in political science (international relations), and a bachelor of arts in economics and political science.
Paul Hotchan
Chief human resources officer Felda Global Ventures
Assistant vice-president, human resources Galaxy Entertainment Group
Mohd Najid Yahya is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Camberley (UK). He was the regional head of human capital for Maybank Kim Eng and its overseas units before landing himself at Felda Global Ventures as the chief human resources officer. He was the director of human resources at Al Rajhi Bank and was one of the pioneers who helped set up Al Rajhi Bank before the official inception in early 2006. He was with Sime Darby Berhad as group head of rewards and employee relations from 2004 and was with Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia as the senior manager of employee relations and benefits administration from1997. He is a former army officer with 15 years tenure as a military commander.
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Paul Hotchan has spent more than 18 years in the hospitality and consulting industry covering areas such as talent strategy and executive search across Europe, the Middle East, China and Hong Kong. He joined Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) in 2014 as an assistant vice-president within the centre of excellence – recruitment, specifically to spearhead corporate and executive recruitment and workforce strategy, including HR technology, employer brand marketing and onboarding. Before joining GEG, he spent almost seven years with a leading HR consulting organisation, leading the Asia Pacific executive search practice out of Hong Kong. With his extensive background, he has been able to leverage his experience and networks to provide a diverse portfolio of clients with integrated solutions to the HR challenges they face, and in his new role, he is able to bring that exposure and experience into a new platform.
HR Leaders Summit 2016