PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS FRIDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2014 Topic Synopsis & Speakers’ Profiles

PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS
FRIDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2014
Topic Synopsis & Speakers’ Profiles
Ms Tessa Davis
Systems Engineer
VMware (S) Pte Ltd
Backup and Recovery – Ensure Business Continuity,
Improve Data Protection
Many organizations today do not have adequate
disaster
recovery
(DR)
protection
for
their
applications. In most cases, disaster recovery is
perceived as too expensive, complex and unreliable
for any but the most mission-critical applications.
Disaster recovery is a form of insurance to protect your
IT assets when a disaster strikes. Just like good
insurance, the best disaster recovery should provide
great protection, with minimum hassle, at the lowest
possible cost.
In this session, understand how your organization can
backup data securely and efficiently to an offsite
location in a simple, affordable and accessible way
for disaster recovery purposes.
Speaker’s Profile
Tessa is a Systems Engineer for VMware ASEAN, acting
as a pre-sales consultant for small and mid-sized
organizations across the region. Tessa transferred to
VMware Singapore in 2010 from VMware Australia,
where she focused on the go-to-market strategy for
VMware's End User Computing solutions as a member
of the Product Marketing team. Tessa holds the VCP
4/5 and Advanced VMware Certification for
Datacenter Design (vCAP–DCD) 5.
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Business Continuity – Mitigating Financial Exposures
Business owners face various types of risks in their
businesses, are you sufficiently prepared or protected?
One of the risks that all businesses should prepare for is
in the area of management succession. Be it the
unexpected demise of a business owner or the
decision to retire and hand over the reins,
management succession is a key issue that no business
can afford to neglect.
Mr Stanley Wong
Head of Sales,
Bancassurance Unit
United Overseas Bank
Limited
Speaker Stanley Wong aims to highlight the
importance of management succession in planning
for business continuity, and the considerations to
mitigate succession risk.
Speaker’s Profile
Stanley Wong is a Banking & Finance professional with
more than 15 years of experience in the
Bancassurance and Ultra-High Networth Wealth
Management space. He has worked in MNCs such as
Prudential, Aon and Citibank.
Stanley specializes in financial planning and business
insurance planning for Private Banking and SMEs. He is
currently the Head of Sales with the UOB Group
Bancassurance Unit, and directs the department in
serving SME customers for both Business Banking and
Commercial Banking.
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Succession Planning for SMEs
Succession planning is an important and yet sensitive
subject for SMEs. Despite its sensitivity, it is better to
address it, sooner the better.
Mr Loh Oun Hean
Principal
HR Advisory Asia Pte
Ltd
This short presentation will touch on the eventual need
to separate ownership from management. It will also
highlight the difference between being an enterprising
entrepreneur and a competent manager and the
importance of having both. Having a good
management structure and capability is a way to
institutionalize many practices, processes and good
decisions of the company which will help sustain the
business and operations. This will support succession
planning.
Speaker’s Profile
Oun Hean is a highly experienced Human Resource
(HR) and Industrial Relations leader, whose career
spanned over 30 years with key appointments in
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, Maybank,
Singapore Airlines and Deloitte Southeast Asia.
Following his corporate appointments, he has started
his consulting career in late 2011, providing advisory
and training services to numerous organizations.
He has extensive, both strategic and hands-on,
experience in HR management, job analysis and
evaluation, job grading and salary structure,
performance management systems, wage reform,
profit-sharing bonus schemes, flexible benefits scheme
and competency framework design and assessment.
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Entrepreneurial Journey - Exercising Succession
Planning
Running a sustainable and successful business in
today’s dynamic marketplace can be a challenge.
Hence, it is of great importance to address the key
issues surrounding succession planning as being part of
a business sustainability plan. A sustainable business
tends to be an incubator of talent, well suited to the
challenge of leading the business in the future.
Hear from our guest speakers, the founder of Ya Kun
International on his mission to establish succession
planning within his organisation and the next
generation leader from Yang Kee Logistics in his
journey of growing the business.
Speakers’ Profile
Ya Kun International Pte Ltd
Mr Adrin Loi took over the business of Ya Kun Kaya
Toast in 1998. In 2000, he set up Ya Kun (S) Pte Ltd and
became its Managing Director, overseeing the whole
food manufacturing facility. He was also integral to
the Company's plan for expansion through franchising
and in 2001, Ya Kun International Pte Ltd was
established.
Mr Adrin Loi
Executive Chairman
Ya Kun International
Pte Ltd
The Company has grown from the flagship outlet at
Far East Square to 51 outlets islandwide. The Company
had also expanded regionally, establishing its
presence in Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Japan,
Philippines, China, Myanmar, Hong Kong and
Cambodia. Now, as Executive Chairman of Ya Kun
International, he is still involved in every aspect of the
business.
Mr Adrin Loi received the inaugural Spirit of Enterprise
(SOE) Entrepreneurship Award in 2010.
He is a Patron of Pasir Ris West CCC.
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Yang Kee Logistics Pte Ltd
Mr Ken Koh, 38, is the son of the Founder of Yang Kee,
Mr Koh Yang Kee, and the Managing Director of the
company.
He
graduated
from
Nanyang
Technological University in 2001 with a degree in
Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He was involved
in Business Development in Hewlett Packard before
joining Yang Kee Logistics in 2001 as the IT manager.
Mr Ken Koh
Managing Director
Yang Kee Logistics Pte
Ltd
Mr Ken Koh is responsible for strategic planning,
business development and overseas expansion of
Yang Kee networks. He also manages companies’
subsidiaries including Yang Kee Holdings, Nutrans
Logistics, Yang Kee Chemical Logistics & Yang Kee
Marine and Offshore, Sankyo Global Logistics and
other overseas’ subsidiaries.
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