SPEAKERS Glory Sim HR director KPMG
Makarand Tare Regional talent director, Asia Pacific McCann Health
Glory Sim is the HR business partner for the audit function and also heads up the talent acquisition team in KPMG. She has been with KPMG for the past 13 years. Before joining the HR department in 2011, she was the head of people management in the audit function. She was also the project manager for IFRS conversion initiatives in the Asia Pacific region for two years and an audit manager with six years of experience specialising in US GAAP audit and attestation work. Her background in audit has equipped her with a strong foundation to understand business functions and processes. She is also able to easily understand financials. Sim has been involved in employee relations activities throughout her career at KPMG and has acquired working knowledge of talent acquisition, retention, change management and driving organisational effectiveness. Sim has the language and cultural skills to enable effective management across the region, while working across time zones.
Bhavana Chauhan is part of Mercer’s HR transformation and workforce analytics centre of excellence working across the growth markets of APAC and MEA. She has more than 13 years of experience in consulting and corporate HR roles. Her HR experience spans the employee life cycle, with prior experience as an HR business partner, HR operations regional head and head of recruitment for Asia.
In addition, Chauhan has extensive experience in change management having delivered corporate change initiatives such as portals, intranet and employee communications, as well as projects related to acquisitions, systems implementations and organisation-wide transformations.
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Before McCann, he held various roles such as international HR independent consultant and chief human resources officer at Millward Brown, Africa Middle East and Asia Pacific. Tare also has a PhD in human resources and is an accredited coach, trainer and facilitator in organisational change, results coaching, psychometric testing and management leadership.
Dennis Chai Director, HR shared services, Asia Pacific/Japan Merck
Bhavana Chauhan Center of excellence, HR transformation and workforce planning Mercer
Within the business transformation area, she has in-depth knowledge and experience in technology and shared services implementations, designing and developing organisation structures and service delivery models, workforce analytics and planning, M&A and process and policy standardisation.
Makarand Tare is a seasoned human resources professional with extensive experience across a range of industries, including consulting, pharmaceuticals/healthcare, FMCG, financial and services and paints/ chemicals. He has held roles that were hands-on as well as creating value at a strategic and corporate level. He has managed the HR function during business mergers, closures, downsizing, restructuring and change management and he is experienced in organisational development and aligning employees under global HR policies/processes.
Dennis Chai is the director of HR shared services (APJ) at Merck. He manages a team that consists of managers, team leads, support analysts and outsourced vendors located in China and Singapore. The team has diverse nationalities and cultures (China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand). He also oversees the day to day operations of the Asia Pacific/ Japan HR shared service centre. He has been embarking on an HR transformation journey for the past three years, which includes helping local HR to streamline and standardise processes to eventually transition the administrative work to an HR shared services environment and thus creating capacity for the local HR to fulfil a more strategic role to the business. Chai gained a Bachelor of Science for information systems with a minor in business and an associated degree in accounting at Brigham Young University, Hawaii. He also has a MBA from The University of Western Australia.
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