Michael Velten is Deloitte’s Asia Pacific Financial Services Industry Tax Leader.
Michael has over 30 years tax experience; 25 years of which have been spent working in Asia having been based in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore. He advises on all areas of Singapore financial services tax (including indirect tax, information reporting, M&A tax and transfer pricing); and is a recognized industry tax expert. Michael works across all sectors including banking and securities, insurance and investment management.
Michael is qualified as both a Solicitor (Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia) and a CPA (Australia). Michael is an Accredited Tax Advisor: Income tax and GST (Singapore), a Certified Tax Adviser (Hong Kong) and a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP). Michael is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong, an Associate of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Matthew Lovatt is a Director in the Southeast Asia Financial Services Industry Tax Practice. Matthew provides Singapore and international tax advice to multinational enterprises in the financial services sector on a variety of direct tax and stamp duty issues, and to a large number of clients concerned with applications of blockchain technology.
Matthew is an England and Wales-qualified solicitor and a Singapore Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax). He joined the Deloitte team in July 2017, and previously worked at Baker McKenzie London, where his practice focused on both UK- and Europe-inbound and outbound advisory work and the full range of UK corporate tax and stamp duty issues, including, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, UK real estate investment, facility agreements, structured financing and derivatives. He frequently represents clients with the design and implementation of complex cross-border projects.
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Adrian Sham is a partner for employer solutions of Grant Thornton Singapore
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Ante is Infobip's Sales Director APAC and the driving force behind the company's strategic growth and sales operations in the APAC region. He leads a dynamic team of over 170 colleagues across 14 APAC offices to reach the full potential and efficiency of all existing and new partners. Ante has over 8 years of experience building and leading the sales team with significant operating scale and complexity.
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11/01/21 | Establishing a sense of normalcy in the travel and hospitality industries 248 views
Arnaud De Bruyn is a marketing professor at ESSEC Business School. His research focuses on marketing analytics, direct and interactive marketing, and marketing engineering. He has been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, amongst other journals. He has multiple scientific prizes for his work on viral marketing. Arnaud is Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Business Markets. He has extensive experience in the non-profit sector, where he has accompanied more than 40 non-profit organizations to help them optimize their direct marketing. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Penn State University.
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05/05/21 | Marketing and Artificial Intelligence: Pitfalls and Possibilities 223 views
Avik is a Tax Partner at Deloitte Singapore. With over 16 years as a global transfer pricing professional with Big Four accounting firms, Avik has a wealth of experience in transfer pricing planning structures for various types of business models, supply/value chain realignments, intellectual property valuation, structuring and pricing intercompany financial transactions, corporate guarantees, cash pooling, debt factoring and leasing arrangements, thin-capitalisation analysis as well as planning and executing global documentation projects for multinational corporations (MNCs).
In his work with clients, Avik helps MNCs in industries spanning automotive, aerospace, financial services, shipping, IT, oil and gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, real estate, consumer goods and telecommunication, to develop and implement commercially viable transfer pricing policies to achieve tax efficiencies across jurisdictions. He has represented his clients before revenue authorities in several Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) and Advanced Pricing Agreement (APA) cases including representing before the Tax Courts.
Avik is also an active speaker at various transfer pricing discussion forums and authors articles in public domain. In the past, he had conducted training sessions on TP issues with revenue authorities in the region.
Before relocating to Singapore, Avik worked in Australia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Avik is a Chartered Accountant by profession and holds a Master Degree in Commerce. He is also an Accredited Tax Professional with the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Practitioners.
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Theppine is a transfer pricing manager with Deloitte Singapore, and has more than 9 years of tax experience in the Big Four firms across the UK and Singapore. He has served local / multinational / listed financial services companies in Singapore and the UK.
Theppine has extensive experience in assisting financial services clients with their transfer pricing requirements, including advising clients on transfer pricing planning and documentation of intercompany financial transactions and treasury functions, analysis and modelling of clients’ thin capitalisation positions and intercompany debt pricing. In addition, he has assisted clients in negotiating with tax authorities on APAs and transfer pricing audits.
Theppine graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) from the University of Bristol and holds a Masters in International Commercial Law from the University of Leicester. He is also a Chartered Accountant and an ICAS Tax Professional with The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
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Michellin is a Transfer Pricing Assistant Manager in Deloitte Singapore, with experience advising leading multinational clients in the Asia Pacific region from across the investment management, banking, insurance, securities brokerage, treasury and sovereign wealth fund sector.
Her experience includes the preparation of strategic local / global transfer pricing documentation and planning studies, restructuring solutions, and monitoring of global / local transfer pricing risk exposures. In addition, she has successfully supported her clients on negotiation with tax authorities involving APAs, MAPs, as well as audit defence solutions and support with a focus on intra-group loan transactions.
Michellin graduated with a Bachelors in Accountancy (Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and earned CFA Level I.
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20/04/21 | Transfer pricing considerations for centralised treasury centres in Singapore 639 views
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Edward Senju is the Regional Chief Executive Officer at Sansan Inc., a Japanese provider of cloud-based contact management solutions for corporations. Using Singapore as a springboard, he is responsible for driving Sansan’s growth in the region, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Since joining Sansan in 2009, Senju has been a key contributor in the company’s growth and expansion from Japan to other parts of Asia.
In 2011, he was tasked with helping launch and develop Sansan’s consumer-oriented contact management app, Eight. He subsequently helped build it into Japan’s largest business social network. With extensive time living in the United States and Mexico, Senju graduated from Chuo University (Tokyo) in 2003 and worked with global tech giant Oracle as an Account Manager, in charge of enterprise sales, before joining Sansan.
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11/02/21 | Digital banking? Virtual meetings? Singapore must embrace digital business cards in 2021, too 204 views
Eilert Giertsen Hanoa is the Chief Executive Officer at Kahoot!. He was the first (active) Kahoot! investor and served as Chairman of the Board in 2014-2019.
Hanoa is the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of ERP software company Mamut (delisted from OSE when acquired by Visma in 2011), and Director SMB ERP in Visma from 2011-2018. He is also a board member of Dagens Næringsliv AS and Gyldendal ASA and investor in several start-ups. He has studied management and finance studies at BI Norwegian Business School.
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18/05/21 | How Companies Can Foster Employee Engagement and Learning in The New Normal 177 views
Eric is the Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) of InCorp Group. He provides consultancy to local and foreign entities on the ideal market-entry strategies for setting up or expanding operations in Southeast Asia.
Before joining InCorp, he was the Senior Vice President and Team Lead of the International Subsidiaries Banking division of HSBC and OCBC.
An ex-corporate banker for more than 11 years, he has extensive experience in working with companies of different sizes: tech startups, scaleups, international SMEs, and multinational corporations in Singapore and the rest of the world.
At present, Eric regularly participates as a guest speaker in business forums sponsored or organised by the Singaporean government or by InCorp’s corporate partners. He also participates as an advisor in mentorship programs for tech startups in Singapore.
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01/06/21 | With the Single Family Office in Play, Singapore's VCC Can Be a World Leader 137 views
As the Head of Customer Intelligence (CI) for ASEAN at SAS, Gaurav empowers enterprises with practical applications of Artificial Intelligence and Decisioning to enable extraordinary experience,
maximise customer lifetime value and improve customer centricity.
Prior to SAS, he has worn multiple hats at conglomerates like Deloitte, Oracle as well as startups. Previously, he was aboard at DBS Bank in a regional advisory role driving the bank’s transition from being a product-centric organization to the one where customer is at the center through data-driven customer journeys.
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18/12/20 | Measuring the customer experience whilst connecting with customers 286 views
Karam Malhotra is the Partner, Global VP at the SHAREit Group, a global internet technology company with the vision to ‘make digital content equally accessible by everyone’. Its diversified suite of applications, including the hero app SHAREit, a file-sharing, gaming, and content streaming platform, has been installed by nearly 2.4 billion users worldwide. Based in Singapore, he helms the global sales team, formulates strategy, and builds the business ecosystem for SHAREit across the globe. Under his leadership, the SHAREit app has been ranked #2 globally in terms of downloads amongst SEA headquartered media publishers in App Annie's Level Up Top Publisher Awards 2021. A graduate of Kellogg School of Management, he has worked at McKinsey London, and is a passionate entrepreneur, having co-founded two businesses - FastFilmz, a mobile entertainment platform, and Greatest Common Factor, an ed-tech company.
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27/05/21 | How can businesses gear up for the mobile-first world order? 120 views
Lee Chee Meng is the Co-Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Pickupp, a technology-driven platform focused on logistics optimization and supply chain management. The company provides affordable cross-border as well as intra-city last-mile delivery and e-commerce solutions for 3PLs and retailers. As Co-COO of Pickupp, Chee Meng oversees the business in Pickupp’s Southeast Asia (SEA)’s offices.
Prior to joining Pickupp, he also oversaw operations in Honestbee, an online food delivery and grocery service, where he gained experience in fleet management, warehouse sorting and distribution operations.
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08/01/21 | Smart logistics: The lifeforce of Singapore's growing digital economy 553 views
Lee Hawksley joined Twilio in January 2021, and he is responsible for overseeing and building Twilio’s growth in the Asia Pacific & Japan region. With over 20 years of international experience in SaaS, digital transformation and a trailblazer in digital engagement and customer experience, Lee is well-positioned to grow Twilio’s business regionally, while positioning it as a leader in the cloud communications space. Twilio is a leading cloud communications platform and a service company that allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and perform other communication functions using its web service APIs.
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05/05/21 | APAC's resilient recovery cements its role as a global innovation engine 188 views
Lee Tiong Heng is Deloitte Singapore and Southeast Asia’s Global Investments & Innovation Incentives Tax Leader and has more than 23 years of tax experience serving local, multinational and listed companies as well as private equity firm including 4 years with the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS).
He has extensive experience in tax consultancy and planning services including tax M&A work, corporate restructuring, cross-border transactions, tax ruling requests, taxation negotiations with the IRAS and Singapore tax incentives and grants applications from the Singapore government authorities.
Tiong Heng is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Singapore and is also an Accredited Tax Advisor with Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals.
Yvaine Gan is Deloitte Singapore’s Tax Director and Global Investments & Innovation Incentives Deputy Leader. She has over 11 years of experience engaging multinational and Singapore-based companies in various industries on the feasibility, structuring, negotiation and management of government incentives.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Yvaine was with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), the lead government agency in facilitating foreign investments to create sustainable economic growth and good job opportunities for Singapore. At EDB, a major part of her role was to customize and negotiate incentive packages for various investment activities, as well as facilitate companies in the end-to-end process of incentives application.
Yvaine has considerable experience advising senior C-suite executives on their investments in Singapore and is regularly involved in negotiating incentive packages, facilitating application processes and obtaining approvals on incentives for companies. She also advises companies with existing incentives in fulfilling investment commitments, as well as supports the re-negotiations and renewals of incentive packages.
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11/02/21 | Maximising government incentives in VUCA times 272 views
Malina is the Managing Director, Strategic Accounts, APAC at UiPath, the leading Robotics Process Automation (RPA) provider. In her role she helps companies across the region explore innovative RPA approaches, delivering cost savings and productivity gains across their businesses. Malina has been integral to UiPath’s expansion in ASEAN, from setting up offices in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea, to hiring staff and providing strategic oversight of operations.
UiPath works with regional clients and partners from KPMG to SMBC Bank, helping them save millions of man hours thanks to its best-in- class automation solutions.
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26/10/20 | A shrinking workforce and COVID-19: Singapore must automate now 745 views
Manish Bahl is a Cognizant Assistant Vice President who leads the company’s Center for the Future of Work in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. A respected speaker and thinker, Manish has guided many Fortune 500 companies into the future of their business with his thought-provoking research and advisory skills. Within Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, he helps ensure that the unit’s original research and analysis jibes with emerging business-technology trends and dynamics in Asia Pacific, and collaborates with a wide range of leading thinkers to understand and predict how the future of work will take shape. He most recently served as Vice President, Country Manager with Forrester Research in India.
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11/02/21 | The work ahead in building Singapore's digital future 282 views
Daniel Ho is Deloitte Singapore’s Tax Partner and Tax Leader for Government & Public Services sector. He is also the Mergers & Acquisition (Tax) Leader for Deloitte Southeast Asia.
Daniel has more than 21 years of tax experience serving local and listed companies in Singapore as well as multinational companies in industries such as real estate, fund management, construction, technology, manufacturing, consumer products and shipping/energy and resources.
He has extensive experience in domestic and international tax consultancy and planning in the area of corporate restructuring, tax due diligence, cross-border payments, supply-chain planning, mergers and acquisitions and permanent establishment issues. Daniel has been involved in numerous tax structuring and due diligence assignments for corporates and PE funds. He has assisted clients in different industries such as manufacturing, shipping, trading and fund management in the application for relevant Singapore tax incentives.
Daniel is currently a faculty member of the Deloitte International Corporate Tax School and a former part-time lecturer for the subject “Principles of Taxation” at the Nanyang Technological University.
Daniel has been named in International Tax Review’s Tax Controversy Leaders Guide in 2016, 2018 and 2020 and Expert Guide’s 2018 and 2020 World’s Leading Tax Advisors.
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Piyus Vallabh is a Tax Management Consulting Partner in Deloitte Southeast Asia and leads the Deloitte Global Tax Centre Asia (GTCA). Based in Singapore, he has over 20 years of experience in providing corporate tax and tax management consulting services. Piyus is a qualified Chartered Accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and holds a BCA and LLB degree from Victoria University of Wellington.
The GTCA provides centralised management and coordination of tax and statutory account compliance obligations in the Asia Pacific region as well advising clients on tax risk, strategy, and technology.
Piyus has significant experience in leading tax technology projects in Asia Pacific including advising on tax technology needs for clients and implementation. He also leads a number of regional tax compliance engagements with a particular focus on advising on operational tax transformation, technology, and process improvement for tax departments.
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Andreas Kirsch joined Deloitte’s Tax Governance Group in Singapore as a Director from Deloitte Germany in November 2020 and specialises in Tax Governance as well as Data Analytics. Andreas has over 17 years of experience in tax consultancy and in-house advisory including tax risk management, tax M&A work, tax planning, cross-border transactions from a direct and indirect tax perspective. His previous roles include industry as well as consultancy positions.
Andreas has a master degree in management and is a certified German tax advisors.
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06/04/21 | Tax governance in the age of digitalisation 419 views
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Pooja Khandelwal is the Content Marketing Lead at ValueChampion.
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04/03/21 | Singapore Budget 2021: Three things startups need to know 294 views
Sathish Murthy is the Systems Engineering Manager for Cohesity ASEAN.
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08/04/21 | Why the future of data management requires us to remove fragmented thinking 218 views
As the Asia Pacific president of RS Components, Sean is responsible for leading the commercial and operational areas of the APAC region including, business transformation, strategic direction and growth strategies to enable increased customer satisfaction, supplier engagement, sales effectiveness and operational excellence.
Throughout his career, Sean has undertaken international commercial and operational leadership assignments across 4 continents, with majority of his time in senior executive roles in the APAC region.
Ahead of joining RS, Sean worked in executive leadership roles in Asia Pacific as regional VP for Johnson Controls and regional MD for Parker Hannifin, both based in Singapore. Prior to relocating to Singapore, Sean was EMEA regional General Manager for Parker Hannifin based in London.
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04/12/20 | The road to business recovery and survival in post-COVID Singapore 322 views
Dr Sze Tiam Lin is the Head of Innovation & Technology at IPI, an innovation catalyst and subsidiary of Enterprise Singapore that creates opportunities for enterprises to grow beyond boundaries.
He has over 18 years of experience in commercialisation of new technologies and IP management and leads a multidisciplinary team of technologists in addressing technology and innovation needs of enterprises from the industry in areas spanning across Infocomm Technology & Electronics, Energy & Environment, Materials & Chemicals, Health & Personal Care, Manufacturing, amongst others.
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29/01/21 | Smart cities, smart nations: Singapore poised to offer launchpad for start-up innovators 610 views
Tat Yeen Yap is the Head of Product, APAC at MonetaGo
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Tess Mackean is the CEO of talenTtrust, a registered charity in Singapore that facilitates skills-based volunteering. In this role, Tess is an expert in the charity sector in Singapore and across Asia, working closely with locally-registered NPOs (non-profit organisations) and IPCs (Institution of Public Character) to help them excel and endure.
With over 16 years of experience actively engaging with NPOs in Asia and the UK, Tess previously held senior leadership roles in the social sector, including Country Manager, Singapore for SimplyGiving.com, an Asian online fundraising platform.
Before moving to Singapore, Tess was the Global Brand Manager for World Animal Protection (formerly WSPA) a global animal welfare charity, and Marketing Manager at City & Guilds for Business, the startup commercial wing of UK charity City & Guilds.
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22/02/21 | If you find your mental health improving after volunteering, you're not alone 267 views
Vinod Chandramouli leads Freshworks's ASEAN business. He is responsible for driving the growth of Freshworks within South-East Asia. Previously he ran the global presales and marketplace organisation for Freshworks.
Prior to Freshworks, he led the business development for connected devices at Akamai Technologies. He is a technologist by passion and has wealth of knowledge in leading large organisations and expanding territories. He has worked with various startups and enterprises in enabling their internet and customer experience strategy.
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16/11/20 | A blend of empathy and tech will future-proof customer support 292 views
