KOPITIAM CHAT WITH FEMALE ROLE MODELS IN FINANCE
Date: Thursday, 10 November2016
Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Venue: Nomura office location: 10 Marina Boulevard, #36-01, Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 2, Singapore 018983
FWA thanks Nomura for the kind sponsorship of the venue and lunch.
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Role models play an important role in career development. Role models inspire, challenge, motivate and teach us to uncover our true potential and to overcome our barriers.
FWA’s Kopitiam Chat with Female Role Models in Finance features four female role models from Nomura, sharing their view on career progression, learning points and personal stories. The format of this event will be lively, personal and educational. The Kopitiam Chat series is part of our flagship FWA Male Champions series where our male champions moderate a panel of women from their organisations.
We hope you will join us in what will be an impactful and exclusive engagement series with excellent networking and learning opportunities.
Event Agenda
12.00pm Registration, lunch & networking
12.30pm Opening speech by Nomura & FWA
12.40pm Moderated Panel Discussion
Speakers:
Zoe Mottram - Executive Director, Head of Finance & Risk Change Management, Asia ex-Japan Head of Project Portfolio Management, Asia ex- Japan
Amanda Chen - Managing Director, Deputy Head of Wealth Management, Asia ex-Japan
Sonal Varma - Managing Director, India Chief Economist, Global Markets – Asia ex-Japan
Mona Kamaruddin - Managing Director, Head of Equity Sales, Malaysia
Moderator: Samir Bhandari - Head of Institutional and Corporate Sales, Asia ex-Japan Global Markets
1.10pm Q&A
1.25pm Wrap Up
1.30pm Close of event
Panelists’ Bios:
Zoe Mottram
Executive Director
Head of Finance & Risk Change Management, Asia ex-Japan
Head of Project Portfolio Mangement, Asia ex- Japan
Zoe Mottram is Head of Finance & Risk Change Management and Head of Project Portfolio Management for Asia ex-Japan. She is responsible for managing the project portfolio across Corporate in the region and some global Finance initiatives.
Zoe first joined Nomura in 2001 in London and left the company when she moved to Hong Kong in 2005. Later on, she rejoined Nomura in 2009 based in Singapore. At Nomura, she has held various roles including business CAO where she worked with the Asset Investment Division in London, and more recently being responsible for the Global Margin roll out in Asia ex-Japan.
She has previously worked at UBS and Merrill Lynch in the Finance function and project roles.
Zoe holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Bristol and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Amanda Chen
Managing Director
Deputy Head of Wealth Management, Asia Ex -Japan
Amanda Chen is Deputy Head of Wealth Management for Asia ex-Japan. She is responsible for Nomura’s business among high net-worth clients in the region, and drives Wealth Management collaboration with the firm’s Global Markets and Investment Banking divisions to deliver cross-divisional capabilities to these clients.
Amanda joined Nomura in January 2015 and is based in Singapore. Prior to that, she was Head of the Strategic Transaction Group, Asia, at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management (PWM), where she collaborated across the firm to deliver integrated services to key strategic clients in the region. During her 14-year tenure at Morgan Stanley PWM, she held various positions including Head of Private Wealth Management for the Singapore office.
She has also previously worked at Lehman Brothers in equity derivatives structured sales.
Amanda has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Singapore Polytechnic since April 2012 and was appointed Chairman of its investment committee on April 1, 2015.
Amanda holds an MBA from The University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.
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Sonal Varma
Managing Director, India Chief Economist
Global Markets – Asia ex-Japan
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Sonal Varma is India Chief Economist of Global Markets for Asia ex-Japan. She joined Nomura in October 2008 from Lehman Brothers, where she served as Vice president and India Economist. Her responsibilities include analyzing and reporting the key economic trends in India as well as publishing in-depth reports on India.
She previously worked as an Economist at ICICI Bank and CRISIL with broad exposure to both the domestic and external workings of the Indian economy. Sonal holds a BA in economics from Delhi University and an MA in economics from Delhi School of Economics.
Mona Kamaruddin
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Managing Director
Head of Equity Sales, Malaysia
Mona Kamaruddin has some 25 years of stock broking experience specializing in Malaysian Equities – eight years as an investment analyst and 15 years in institutional sales. She joined Nomura Securities Malaysia (NSM) in 2009 as Head of cash Equities Sales and runs the Malaysian dealing desk.
She was rated the second best sales person in Malaysia in a 2003 poll by local financial tabloid the Edge, and ranked eighth best sales best person in Malaysia in an international poll for fund managers by Asia Money in 2003.
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Moderator’s Bio:
Samir Bhandari
Head of Institutional and Corporate Sales, Asia ex-Japan Global Markets
Samir Bhandari is Head of Sales, Asia ex Japan based in Singapore. He has a total of 26 years experience in Asia in different financial institutions, the last 7 years being in Nomura Singapore.
He previously spent 9 years at JP Morgan based in Singapore as Managing Director, Head of Sales for South East Asia. Prior to that he worked with UBS in Singapore and Bank of America in Hong Kong and India.
He is also the “Brand Ambassador” in Singapore for Magic Bus a charity in India which promotes education of children through sport.
He holds an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is married with two children and lives in Singapore.
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