Karina Cuello
Ritish Reddy
Sonia Fernandes
Samuel Obin
Director, learning and development, Asia Pacific JLL
SVP, capability solutions KNOLSKAPE
Chief talent officer, APAC MediaCom
Change management and transformation, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa
Karina Cuello is the director of learning and development for APAC at JLL. She has more than 20 years of HR experience in people development, organisational development and talent management as well as other HR specialist functions. She started her career at the European Commission working across Eastern Europe driving integration efforts before moving to General Electric. She is a graduate of the General Electric human resources leadership programme and is CIPD qualified. Her career has included regional roles in Europe and APAC. She feels very fortunate to have worked and lived in North and South America as well as Europe before moving to Asia. During her time at GE, she was Six Sigma Black Belt qualified and is passionate about using project management skills within HR to improve the effectiveness and productivity of an organisation.
Ritish Reddy kick-started the APAC operations for KNOLSKAPE in 2014 and currently leads the region’s operations. In his current role, he is responsible for defining the vision, strategy and execution of KNOLSKAPE’s expansion in the APAC region. Before KNOLSKAPE, he was working as a consultant at the Global Consulting Practice of the TCS where he was leading the product development efforts for digitising the treasury system of a government agency. Before that, he co-founded 35mmpro, a marketplace connecting photographers with consumers. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) and a global master’s in business administration in advance corporate finance and banking management from SP Jain School of Global Management.
Sonia Fernandes is the chief talent officer for the APAC region at MediaCom. She has 20 years of experience in human resources management and transformational change roles in leading organisations operating in diverse industries such as consulting, legal, IT, healthcare, media, government, education, audit and tax across 15 countries. Some accomplishments include integrating cross-border HR strategies into the development of the organisation’s commercial objectives; embedding HR operating models to align with business needs and organisational transitions; and ensuring a sustained cultural and operational transformation, while adding value to the bottom line.
Samuel Obin is enabling largescale business transformations in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He partners closely with the senior leadership team to drive the transformation agenda through people – evolving ways of working, behaviours and mindsets to make change stick across business units, geographies and cultures. He is also focused on lifting the organisation’s change management maturity level and agility. He began his career in consulting in Paris in 2003, specialising in human resources and change management consulting – helping global complex organisations transform, and enabling human resources functions to deliver greater value in a more efficient way. In early 2011, he relocated to Singapore and joined PwC Consulting Southeast Asia, working with a variety of clients across Asia Pacific. In 2016, he joined Mondelēz International to help realise the company’s transformation strategy through change management activation.
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