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. 1 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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5