Contributors
Neil Brennan
Neil Brennan is responsible for developing and executing growth strategy for Meltwater's Japan and South East Asia region. Both an Aussie and an Englishman, Neil was educated at Nottingham Trent studying business economics. He currently calls Asia home, and works from Meltwater’s Singapore office.
Nele Cornelis
Nele Cornelis is Executive Director of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Singapore since 2011. She studied at the University of Brussels and holds a Master in Business Administration from Ehsal Management school in Brussels as well as a Bachelor in Mass Communications.
Ng Chong Yang
Ng Chong Yang is the Business Development Director of Tangoshark
Ng Gek Teng and Richard Mackender
Ng Gek Teng
Gek Teng is Tax Director at Deloitte Singapore. She has more than 16 years of Singapore Goods and Services Tax (GST) experience in serving local and multinational companies in industries such as financial services, manufacturing, consumer products, hotel, air transportation, etc.
She has experience in assisting her clients that operates in a wide range of industries with reviews for purpose of GST Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme, GST Assisted Self-help Kit, and GST advisory services.
Gek Teng is also involved in the review of her clients’ GST systems for compliance and adequacy for GST return reporting purposes, preparation and submission of GST returns, reviewing GST returns, dealing with queries raised by the IRAS, and liaising with the IRAS on behalf of clients on issues such as applications for rulings, fines/penalties, and GST assessments raised by the IRAS. She also conducts regular GST training sessions and performs due-diligence reviews for her clients.
Richard Mackender
Richard Mackender leads the GST service line for Deloitte Singapore and Southeast Asia, and the Corporate Secretarial Services team for Deloitte Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience with Deloitte. He began his career in 1997 with Deloitte UK’s VAT team in London and moved to Singapore in 2003.
Richard’s primary focus is advising businesses on the tax aspects of their activities from a Singapore perspective as well as when issues arise across Asia Pacific. Richard helped to establish the Corporate Secretarial Services offering within the organisation. The teams he lead make full use of technology and offshoring resources to deliver a consistent service in an efficient and cost-effective way.
Richard has a focus on technology, working closely with Tax Management Consulting and the Global Tax Centre Asia and is also the Tax and Legal CTO for the Southeast Asia Tax function as well as leading Innovation for Deloitte in Southeast Asia.
Richard holds a law degree from the University of Wales (UK) and subsequently trained as a Barrister. He was called to the Bar in October 1997 and is a member of Gray’s Inn.
He is also an Accredited Tax Advisor (GST) with the Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals (SCTP). He is contributing author for CCH’s Singapore Goods and Services Tax Guide and has co-authored a number of other books on indirect tax in Singapore and Asia Pacific.
Ng Ngee Khiang
Ng Ngee Khiang is General Manager of the Business Systems Division at Epson Singapore.
Nicholas Hanna
Nicholas Hanna, Partner, Watson, Farley & Williams Asia Practice LLP
Nicholas Yong
Nicholas is the founder and director of BridgingMinds Network Pte Ltd.
Nick Evered
Nick serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager, for Concur across Asia Pacific. Responsible for revenue and margin growth, he leads the sales and operations team in delivering innovative software technology solutions to meet customers’ needs. Since joining Concur in 2014, Nick played an instrumental role in architecting and expanding Concur’s business presence within APAC.
Prior to Concur, Nick was Regional Vice President, Asia responsible for applications performance management, with Compuware. Earlier in his career, Nick held various senior executive roles at Oracle, Fujitsu, and KPMG.
Concur, a SAP company, is the global leader in travel and expense management. By connecting data, applications and people, Concur delivers an effortless experience for organizations providing total transparency into discretionary spend.
Nick Jonsson
Part of an international network of senior level relationships through his current position of Managing Director of Executives’ Global Network, Nick is fortunate to constantly have exclusive opportunities to strengthen his professional network and develop his personal leadership skills. He is passionate about providing business leaders and specialists access to a professional network where they can help each other face challenges and identify opportunities.
Having worked across Asia, Australia and Europe representing major international firms, Nick acquired international general management, direct sales and marketing experience. Nick also been entrusted to serve as the Vice Chairman of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in Ho Chi Minh City and the Vice Chairman of the Direct Selling Committee Vietnam further demonstrates his ability to add value on a global scale.
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