Contributors

Michael Yin

Michael Yin is the Chief Executive Officer of Mozat Pte Ltd.

Michele Chao, Yap Hsien Yew, Harsh Shah

Michele Chao, Global Employer Services Partner, Deloitte Singapore

Michele is responsible for the provision of individual tax advisory and compliance services for expatriate employees from multinational companies. She has more than 20 years of experience in expatriate tax management. She began her career providing Singapore individual and corporate tax compliance and advisory services, and has extensive experience in coordinating multi-country projects on employment taxes and tax planning for cross-border global mobility situations. Michele has a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons.) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore with a minor in Economics. She is also a Certified Accountant with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and is a member of the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

Yap Hsien Yew, Tax Partner, Deloitte Singapore

Hsien Yew is an experienced business tax consultant with over 18 years of experience providing tax advisory and compliance services to local and multinational companies in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region. He is skilled in various tax-related areas and collaborates closely with clients to develop customised solutions to address their unique tax challenges. His extensive knowledge and experience in business tax, combined with his professional qualifications, make him a valuable resource for clients seeking guidance on tax-related issues. Hsien Yew has a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons.) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals.

Harsh Shah, International Tax Director, Deloitte Singapore

Harsh has more than a decade’s experience in advising local and multinational companies within Singapore and Asia Pacific on areas such as transfer pricing, tax structuring, mergers & acquisitions, withholding tax and permanent establishment issues. He has advised clients from a Value Chain Alignment perspective, which involves setting up principal hub structures, IP planning and migration, financial modelling exercise and assistance in implementing these structures involving countries from APAC such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. He has also handled unilateral and bilateral advance pricing agreements involving representations before Revenue authorities. Harsh is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is also a member of International Fiscal Association. He also holds a law degree and a masters in commerce degree from the University of Mumbai.

Michelle Ho

Michelle Ho is the Managing Director of UPS Singapore. She is responsible for all express delivery and logistics operations in Singapore. Michelle is a Chartered Accountant of Singapore and holds a Master Degree in Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia. She is also an alumna of the National University of Singapore and graduated with an Accounting Degree.

Michelle Lim

Michelle is currently the Assistant Director in charge of driving IT-enabled business transformation in the finance, tourism and hospitality sectors at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. Her current portfolio includes driving iN2015 national and sectoral initiatives through the NFC and Digital Concierge programmes.

Mike Amour

Mike Amour is the CEO of Project: WorldWide Asia Pacific, where he leads a network of specialized marketing agencies that enable marketers to design and execute integrated marketing campaigns focused on engagement.

 

Mike Buffini

Mike Buffini is Associate Partner at St. James's Place Wealth Management (Singapore).

Mike Davie

Mike Davie is the CEO and Founder of Quadrant, which meets demand for mapping and authenticating data through technology. Formerly DataStreamX until it rebranded in 2018, Quadrant is an online marketplace for real-time, high-value data sets across industries and borders. Quadrant, which uses blockchain technology to transact data, currently processes over 20 billion records a month between organisations.

Mike McCarthy

Mike is Group Head, Human Resources - Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa at MasterCard, Singapore.

Mike Parsons

Mike has over a decade of experience in the media and marketing space across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His professional passion of HR and talent management is what's led him to his current position as the regional marketing director for Universum. Before Universum Mike published Singapore's most circulated trade publication in the field of human resources.

Mike Reed

Mike has over 25 years experience in industry, working for a number of multinational firms. His strong knowledge of how to effectively re-design and implement key business processes is supplemented by deep understanding of the food and pharmaceutical industries in particular. Managing Partner of Oliver Wight Asia Pacific, Mike has specialist expertise in strategy management, product and portfolio management, and Integrated Business Planning.