Contributors

Axel C. Heitmann

Axel C. Heitmann is the CEO of LANXESS AG, a leading specialty chemicals company.

B. Joseph Pine II

B. Joseph Pine II is the co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP and the co-author of, most recently, Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier and of The Experience Economy, named one of the top 100 business books of all time with an Updated Edition out in 2011.

Bailey Monte

Bailey Monte is currently working for Fetch Plus Inc as well as contributing writer for e27 and Charlton Media Group. 

Bastiaan Toeset

Bastiaan Toeset is the Global Small Medium Business (SMB) Lead at Cisco.

Belle Lim

Belle is Head of Tribe Careers where she focuses on increasing access to the best tech talent to local and international companies. At Tribe, she has worked to develop the pool of local tech talent by placing them in apprenticeship positions across global organisations including Acronis, foodpanda, Keppel and PayPal while juggling the expansion of various business arms to the SEA region. She also leads a tech-focused podcast “It’s Technically Frontier” to spread awareness about technology, in the hopes of making technology more relatable and inclusive to all members of society. She played a pivotal role in the expansion of OpenNodes where she organised and hosted various roundtables and webinars, bringing on board and managing 30+ Director-level partners from key organisations like Alibaba Cloud, WeBank, Pfizer, and HP amongst others.

Ben Chew

Ben Chew is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in the HR/Recruitment space. He currently has several HR tech projects, including a successful boutique recruitment business – TBC HR Consulting which is based in Singapore. He is also the Managing Director of Strategia Ventures. Ben is also involved in many community initiatives in the local startup ecosystem, including Startup Jobs Asia.

Ben Lim

Ben Lim is the co-CEO of SHADO Group. He started his career as a research scientist with IBM RESEARCH (Canada) and then as Senior Manager for Accenture (previously known as Andersen Consulting) before joining Standard Chartered Bank as their Group Information Systems’ Head for Corporate & Institutional Banking in Singapore.

Returning to his technology background, in 2014 he co-founded SHADO INTERNATIONAL GROUP to specialise in advanced Electric Vehicle engineering and technologies.

Ben has served as Industry Advisor to the National University of Singapore’s School of Computing for over 13 years. With a strong depth and breadth of knowledge in software, electronics and working experiences in large corporations before managing start-up operations especially in logistics and taxi fleet in emerging countries, Ben brings a wealth of experience to the management team of SHADO.

Benedict Soh

Benedict Soh is Vice President, EcoBusiness Division at Schneider Electric.

Benjamin Chiang

Benjamin Chiang is an enthusiast of good advertising, deep thinking and labour issues. He is also a private student of law with the University of London.

Benjamin Lim

Benjamin is the Director of the Tax Division of InCorp Global. He has over 20+ years of tax experience, spending more than 13 years working for the Big 4 accounting firms and being an in-house tax advisor.

With more than 8 years of experience working in the commercial and financial sectors, he is adept in providing in-house tax support to stakeholders — from tax advisory and planning, tax compliance, transfer pricing, and tax reporting. Benjamin provides advisory to fund managers and family offices on structuring as well as applicable tax incentives.

Benjamin has also worked with SMEs, multinational corporations, and publicly-listed companies from diverse industries, offering tax advisory and planning, corporate restructuring, M&A, business model optimization, tax ruling requests, tax incentives application, tax risk mitigation, and tax reporting services on complex projects.

Website : https://incorp.asia/ and https://rikvin.com/