Males From The Top: Chapter 6 - Women & Mobility

FWA thanks JP Morgan for the kind sponsorship of the venue and lunch.  

THIS IS A MEMBER AND INVITE ONLY EVENT. IT IS FREE OF CHARGE FOR MEMBERS. 

FWA is pleased to organize the sixth chapter of the Male Champions initiative focused on “Women & Mobility”. FWA Male Champions will share their views and experiences on whether mobility (overseas work experience) is a key deciding factor for women to advance to senior leadership positions. 

They will also discuss:

• The perceived challenges for women to seek mobility opportunities
• Any bias in selecting employees for overseas work opportunities
• How do we encourage women to be mobile?

This makes for interesting debate in the sixth instalment of our Males from the Top series, as we bring together a panel of senior Male Champions for a discussion on this topic. They are David Martin, Managing Director of J.P Morgan Securities Singapore , Chua Chee Seng, Partner in Arisaig and Ashish Goyal, Head of Emerging Markets Equity, NN Investment Partners (Singapore).

FWA Singapore announced the Male Champions initiative at the annual celebration of International Women’s Day on 6 March 2015. FWA Male Champions actively support the advancement of women in their financial careers. The role of men in supporting the advancement of women is of paramount importance given that they constitute the majority of senior leadership positions and make key hiring and promotion decisions. In this regard, FWA is proud to feature selected male champions who support and are committed to the development of women.  

FWA's fifth dialogue session was Males from the Top – Chapter 5: Why are Women Stuck in Middle Management. Middle management is a key source of future senior executive talent, where emerging leaders build up essential experience and skills. However, capable women who have proved themselves at middle manager level all too often find themselves stuck, unable to gain access to senior management roles – the talent pool from which C-Suite leaders emerge. What can be done to increase their chances of reaching those senior positions, thus unlocking more of the value that diversity at senior levels can deliver? This event had received overwhelming interest from FWA members.  

Event Agenda

Keynote Speaker Bio

Edmund Lee
Managing Director, Senior Country Officer

JP Morgan Singapore

Edmund Lee is Managing Director and Senior Country Officer. In this role, Edmund provides the location oversight to all LOBs operating in Singapore such as Corporate Investment Banking, Treasury Services, Investor Services, Private Bank, Asset Management and as well as all the support functions.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Edmund was Chairman and CEO with DBS Vickers Securities for 12 years. In this role, Edmund oversaw DBS Vickers’ business operations across Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, London and New York. He brings almost 30 years of industry experience, and strong relationships with local business leaders and regulators, to J.P. Morgan.

Edmund obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Panelists’ & Moderator’s Bios:

David Martin

Managing Director

J.P. Morgan Securities Singapore

David Martin joined J.P. Morgan in 1997. He relocated to Asia in 2014 when he assumed responsibility for the Derivatives Clearing business in the region.

His early career at JPMorgan was as an equity derivatives sales trader before moving on to manage firstly the F&O Sales Team and subsequently the Cleared Derivatives business in EMEA.

David was Chairman of the FIA Executive Committee in Europe and was a member of the EUREX Supervisory Council. He is currently a member of the SGX Derivatives Advisory Committee. He has recently joined the Global Board of the FIA and is Chairman of the FIA Asia Advisory Board.

David has a MBA from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and formerly served as a British Army Officer. He is married with four children. He enjoys most sports, is very keen on British theatre and enjoys a very amateur love of French wine.

Chua Chee Seng

Partner, Arisaig

Chua Chee Seng joined Arisaig Partners (Asia) Pte Ltd in April 2009 as Chief Financial Officer, providing oversight over the middle and back office functions of the business, and was appointed a Partner in January 2016. 

Prior to joining Arisaig Partners (Asia) Pte Ltd, Mr. Chua worked for Macquarie Bank in its listed infrastructure division. Mr. Chua qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2004 with PricewaterhouseCoopers, London where his primary focus was on assurance, risk, compliance and governance projects for investment management clients in London and Singapore

Mr. Chua is a Fellow of the Institute of Charted Accountants in England and Wales and graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Ashish Goyal, CFA

Head of Emerging Markets Equity

NN Investment Partners (Singapore) (formerly ING Investment Management)

Ashish heads the Emerging Markets Equity (EME) team at NN Investment Partners. The NN Group is a leading European Asset Manager with over USD 200 billion in client assets under management. 

Prior to joining NN Investment Partners, Ashish was the Chief Investment Officer at a leading asset management company where he was responsible for USD 20 billion of client assets and managed a team of 22 investment professionals.

Ashish has over 23 years of investment experience in emerging markets equity and has worked out of Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai. He holds an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune, India. 

As a member of the FTSE Asia Pacific and FTSE Singapore committees Ashish takes a keen interest in the role of indices in the capital allocation process. Other areas of interest are financial literacy and the fiduciary responsibility of the financial sector. 

Jennifer Lewis
Managing Director, Communications
GIC Pte Ltd

Ms Jennifer Lewis is responsible for the strategic management of GIC’s internal and external communication activities. She joined the sovereign wealth fund in 2007 after more than twenty years as a journalist with television, print and online experience. She was the founding Editor of both Straits Times TV, Singapore's first television news organisation owned by a newspaper, as well as STOMP (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), a news website that leveraged online tools to change the way news was received and distributed in Singapore. Jennifer serves on the board of the Singapore International Foundation and has been a Governor since 2007.

Invited Speaker Bio:

Feon Ang

Senior Director, Talent Solutions, APAC

LinkedIn

Feon is Senior Director of LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions business, responsible for helping clients to engage and retain top talents across APAC.

She joined LinkedIn in January 2013, and oversees a sales organization and go-to-market strategy in the diverse set of geographies in her coverage. A seasoned business leader, Feon is particularly interested in nurturing talents, and takes an active interest in building high performance sales teams and empowering her teams to deliver outstanding results.

Prior to joining LinkedIn, Feon spent more than 13 years at Gartner in various leadership roles, where she was most recently its regional vice-president overseeing relationships with strategic client accounts across the Asia Pacific region.

Feon holds a Bachelor degree (Business) from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

To view Feon’s detailed profile, click on: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/feonang

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