Career Awareness Day 2018

1. CAREER AWARENESS
DAY
@ NASS
2018
SPEAKERS’ PROFILES

2. Mr Subramani Sundaram (Business Analyst)
An MBA, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Project
Management Professional (PMP) with over 25 years of Techno-Functional
experience. Have exposure to a wide range of functions in the Financial
Services industry spanning Capital Market Settlement Operations,
Custodial Services, Derivatives, Securities Lending, Depository Services,
Financial Accounting, Shareholder services, Investment Management,
Reinsurance, Reference Data Management and Digital Channels. Locations
worked -Singapore, UK, Canada, India.

3. Ms Girisha Lakhiani [Veterinarian]
Dr Girisha Lakhiani graduated from Murdoch University in 2004 with a Bsc
BVMS(Hons) degree. She worked in Perth, Western Australia for 3 years in a
predominantly small animal practice with occasional farm animals and
exotics. The practice policy was to look after every animal with love,
compassion an kindness and every effort was made to foster and rehome
abandoned animals. These core values are the foundation of her care. She
strongly believes that each animal is different so tailoring her approach to
each pet is essential. She believes in a holistic approach where the best
medical care is combined with the greatest effort to keep the patient
happy and content and in a stress-free environment. She returned home
to Singapore in 2008 and has been practicing here for 7 years. She has an
interest in internal medicine and has completed a post graduate study in
feline medicine with the University of Sydney in 2011. She enjoys soft
tissue surgery and dermatology. With the growing population of aging
dogs and cats, (lost her dog to old age last year after 17 years) she is keen
to provide services that can optimize comfort and quality of life for this
tier.
She has three cats, Tigger, Theodore and Ralphie, that were adopted as
kittens in Perth and has recently adopted Lola, an 8 month old naughty
little chocolate labrador puppy.

4. Mr Gireetharan s/o C.M Nair (Assistant F&B Director,
Hyatt)
Gireetharan came to Singapore 30 years ago and
worked his way up from the lowest level in the F&B line
at Hyatt Hotel. With his past achievements, he is
currently the Assistant Director for F&B at the same the
hotel.

5. Ms Gigi Tan [Head of Business Development for Asia Pacific, NEX Data]
She is responsible for product development as well as sales for the Asia region including Japan.
She holds a Business Management (Hrs) degree from the Ateneo de Manila University,
Philippines. Gigi has worked in financial services for most of her career, and has a wide range
of expertise in business strategies, sales, marketing, product management, and content gained
from roles throughout Asia. Prior to joining the Fixed Income division as content specialist,
she held various posts within Thomson Reuters as Global head for Fixed Income Charting
(2007) and Global Product Manager for WebStation (2006). She was also the regional product
manager for browser-based products during her stint at Moneyline Telerate (2003).
Gigi has held various sales and marketing positions including Regional Equities Marketing
Manager, Singapore (2000) and Head of Sales and Marketing, Indonesia (1998) for Bridge
Information Systems. She was also head of Sales and Marketing for Bloomberg LP, Indonesia
and Fixed Income Sales Manager for Bloomberg Singapore (1996).
Her exposure to fixed income started at Equitable PCI Bank, Manila where she was the Chief
Dealer – Emerging Markets Treasury Asset Trading Unit (1994) trading primarily Brady and
Eurobonds.
Amongst her other credentials, she also specializes in Credit Default Swaps, and was the chief
architect of the Markit CDS data on-boarding (the market’s premier source of CDS data) on
Thomson Reuters in 2006, and has been involved with major market data changes including
the April 2009 CDS Big Bang Protocol and the Dec 2010 Small Bang Protocol. She was key in the
data on-boarding for the China Risk Mitigation Instruments (China’s CDS-like credit
instruments), providing not only the depth of content on Thomson Reuters platform, but also
in providing China’s major financial institutions and regulatory bodies with the necessary
training and background on international CDS market practices to pin down and establish local
market standards.

6. Mdm Noriza Jusary (Laboratory Supervisor)
Mdm Noriza graduated from Singapore
Polytechnic/Medical Technology/1993, Singapore
Polytechnic/Advance Medical Technology/1997 and
Curtin University of Technology/Bsc Medical
Science/2001. She enjoys being in the HealthCare
Industry, being able to help others especially the sick to
be assessed well by Doctors and contribute to the
Disease Management and Health Progression. In the
course/journey, she enjoys the daily challenges which
sustain the interest high as many too have made it a
lifetime career.

7. Mr Rico Cuya Macalintal [Engineer, Engineering Science and
Research, Energy]
Mr Rico graduated in 1993 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in
Electrical Engineering, from Batangas State University, in the
Philippines. After graduation, he worked as a College Instructor
for 2yrs (from Nov 1993 to May 1995) in one of the colleges in
Bantangas, Phillippines, where he taught Computer subjects,
Mathemactics, Physics and Electrical Engineering subjects. He
moved to Singapore in July 1995 to work for Yokogawa as a
Control System Engineer. Yokogawa is a global Japanese company
dealing with Industrial Automation Business for Process Plants.
Some of their clients are from Oil & Gas companies (Shell,
Chevron, BP), Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Power Plant, etc.
He has been working in this company for than 20 years now.

8. Mr Christopher C Datugan [Senior Video Editor)
Mr Christopher has been a video editor for 20 years,
working mostly for Advertising and Film. His job is
both technical and creative and his skills are being
nutured through vast experience and constant
learning. One of his main task is to translate the vision
of the filmmaker into editing to achieve the best
storytelling possible.He worked closely with award
winning directors like Eric Khoo, Royston Tan to name
a few and proudly been part of the film "7 Letters"
which was featured here in Singapore and also various
film festivals around the world. To craft a film that
involves your heart and mind is the cloest thing that
you can do to touch people's lives and it was a very
rewarding experience.

9. Dr. Kelvin Khng
Dental specialist in prosthodontics
B.D.S. (Singapore) M.S. (Iowa, U.S.A.)
Cert. in Prosthodontics (Iowa, U.S.A.)
American Board Certified Prosthodontist
Dr. Khng is from the pioneer batch of Ngee Ann Secondary School
students. After completing dental school in NUS, he worked for 3
years before embarking for his specialty training in prosthodontics in
Iowa, U.S.A. Returning to Singapore in 2013, Dr. Khng worked for a
year in NUH before leaving for private practice. Dr. Khng is currently
practicing at Novena Medical Centre and is an accredited dental
specialist in prosthodontics by the Ministry of Health, Singapore. He
lectures part time at the Faculty of Dentistry, National University of
Singapore and also travels to give lectures regionally. He is the
current President of the Prosthodontic Society of Singapore.

10. Mr Jezer Goh (Lawyer)
Jezer Goh graduated from Ngee Ann Secondary
School in 2006. After graduating from the National
University of Singapore in 2015, he was called to the
Singapore Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor in 2016.
He is currently practising as a litigation lawyer at a
medium-sized Singapore law firm, and spends most
of his waking hours during the weekdays in the office
solving or trying to solve other people's problems. On
weekends, therefore, he ignores his own through
reading, going to the gym, and indulging in vastly
overpriced coffee.

11. Ms Kendra Liew
Kendra is a Singaporean entrepreneur with a background
in legal practice. Kendra practiced civil, commercial and
matrimonial litigation before leaving private practice to
found her own skincare start up, Katfood, in end 2014.
Katfood is Singapore's most awarded independent natural
and chemical-free skin & haircare brand, and is currently
stocked both online and offline in Singapore, Thailand and
Indonesia. In just a little over 2 years, Kendra has been
featured extensively in Singaporean media, from The
Business Times to The Straits Times to a number of
prominent womens' magazines.

12. Mr Jim Chen
Highly experienced lean digital marketing manager, Jim
Chen helps businesses engage target audience effectively
through data-driven and experimental frameworks. He
loves building impact marketing strategy from ground
zero as much as growth hacking existing one to 10x level.
professional life aside, he is a traveller who has
backpacked to over 50 cities across 5 continents. He is
currently leading the association as President and the
Growth Manager for Skyscanner.

13. Ms Grace Ciao
Grace Ciao is a fashion illustrator based in Singapore. She
is globally recognised for her unique and sophisticated
hand-drawn designs; many of which have been sought
after by the world’s leading luxury fashion and lifestyle
brands. Her esteemed clients include Chanel, Dior, and
Fendi among others.With a background in Business
Marketing, the watercolour artist has combined her
creative flair with her business savviness to help numerous
fashion merchandising and marketing teams bring their
visions to life. She understands luxury brands and how to
better connect them to their audiences, both existing and
new. Grace graduated from NASS in 2008. She took O'level
Art as her 10th subject.

14. Mr Yap Hong Wei (Medical Student)
Hong Wei is currently a third year medical student in the Nanyang
Technological University's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
Graduating from the class of 2012, Hong Wei is a social butterfly
who loves revelling in the stories shared by those he met. He
enjoys dancing, reading and traveling.

15. Mr Azfar Hashim [Magazine Editor]
Azfar Hashim is a 15-year veteran in his field of journalism. His area of
specialty is the automotive industry - he reports on the latest
automotive-related news to reach our shore. Besides reporting, he also
reviews the latest cars to enter Singapore’s market; this aspect of his job
also saw him travel overseas within this region and also around Europe to
test-drive the newest cars freshly produced by manufacturers such as
Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Lamborghini and Porsche. Another enjoyable part
of his job? To get the chance to sit down and have conversations with
auto company's executives and head honchos, trying to squeeze the
latest out of them - unfortunately, most of the info he gets had to remain
'private and confidential'...
Away from his exciting daily job, he enjoys time exploring the back roads
of Malaysia. Driving is his solace.
To date, he is among the less than 10 full-time automotive journalists in
Singapore. He is the Editor of Burnpavement.com and at the same time,
contributes also to magazine titles like Torque and Evo Singapore. His
works could also be found in the national Malay daily, Berita Harian, and
the national daily, The Straits Times.

16. Mr Carlin Lee [Psychologist]
Mr Carlin Lee holds a Masters in Applied Psychology and
is an experienced educator in the field of psychology.
Out of his 16 years of working experience, he has spent
his last 8 years educating and counselling students of
various disciplines in the tertiary level. He also writes
and manages a popular local psychology blog, providing
extensive information on navigating one’s psychological
training journey, which also helped a lot of psychology
students in the last 7 years. Carlin is also certified in
career developmental facilitation, and has been serving
Singapore Psychological Society as the current Chair of
Public Education.

17. Mr Aizat Omar (Senior Software
Engineer)
Aizat Omar is a Senior Software Engineer in SP Digital Team. He is
known to help many startups in Singapore prior to joining SP Digital
Team and was nicknamed "iOS Guru". He mainly works on iOS apps.
That is creating apps for iPhones and iPads.
Besides work, he is also an admin of the "iOS Dev Scout" group in
Singapore. This group holds monthly meetups and yearly
conferences for iOS developers in Singapore.
Last year, Skills Future mentioned him as one of their success
stories. He is here today to share with you why coding is equally
important and fun! He hopes that students will be inspired to pick
up coding as one of their skills.

18. Ms Joey Khaw (Design Director)
Joey Khaw is a retail experience designer, a graphic designer by
training,and fell into the world of retail design after graduating
from a Degree in Design. Being in the industry for 5 years has
taught her that the face of retail is ever changing, it is more
compelling now than ever before as the line between online and
offline retail blurs. More than common sense and pure aesthetic –
it’s shopper psychology, story telling and creating desire.

19. Ms Gay Min Hui (Senior Engineer -
Aviation)
An engineer by training, with 12 years of experience in the aviation
industry albeit with a passion in helping others through
empowerment. Her aviation journey has allowed her to experience
work with MNCs, SMEs and even explore career possibilities in the
public sector. Finding meaning in what she does is extremely
important, which gives her great pleasure and motivation to do
such sharing sessions with students and even people from all walks
of life.

20. Mr Asyraf Kamil (Journalist)
Asyraf Kamil graduated from Ngee Ann Secondary School in 2008. He went
on to Meridian Junior College before earning his bachelor’s degree from
the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang
Technological University.
During his time in university, Asyraf interned at TODAY newspaper and was
offered a position as a journalist at TODAY's online division upon his
graduation.
In his free time, Asyraf enjoys reading and photography. He might also be
the last millennial to pen his thoughts in a journal.

21. Other speakers:
Forensics Department, SPF
- Ms Nur Ayuni
- Ms Tay Kai Xuan
- Mr Denzyl Tai
Mr Jerry Chua