Rotha Chan is the first local hire for Manulife Cambodia. Joining the company in January 2012, Rotha started as Agency Manager and moved gradually up to becoming Chief Agency Officer in early 2016. He was awarded Global Rising Star of Excellence in 2013 and Asia Star of Excellence in 2016. He leads our 3000 strong agency distribution. In 2017 he was awarded Special Jury Award by Asia Insurance Review in Singapore for and gave an outstanding presentation on agency leadership and the golden rules of sales at the 17th Singapore Agency Mangers' Conference organized by Financial Services Managers' Association (FSMA) Singapore.
玛丽亚·吉尔(Maria Gil)是安盛亚洲市场战略发展办公室主任，负责在中国香港特别行政区、中国大陆、日本、菲律宾、韩国、泰国和印尼的客户体验、创新、健康事业工作。在加入安盛之前，玛丽亚在一家领先的成长策略咨询公司工作，开发客户体验、员工敬业度、品牌和营销的策略。在加入安盛之前，玛丽亚曾为世界上最受尊敬的医疗价值链上的一些组织提供咨询服务，包括辉瑞(Pfizer)、泰瓦(Teva)、梅奥诊所(Mayo Clinic)、MD安德森癌症中心(MD Anderson Cancer Center)、大都会人寿保险(MetLife)和信诺保险(Cigna)，以及宝洁(P&G)、Visa和惠普(HP)等行业的领导者提供咨询服务。她曾在各种刊物上发表文章，是纽约大学斯特恩商学院品牌和市场营销的讲师，也是美国西北大学范伯格医学院的兼职教授。玛丽亚在哥伦比亚大学取得医疗管理硕士。
Jonathan Goacher leads the corporate insurance practice in Asia for DWF LLP, an award-wining legal business with 27 offices across four continents and 2,800+ staff. He has over fifteen years of experience at leading international law firms, advising life and non-life insurers & reinsurers, insurance brokerages & agents, loss adjusters and other insurance organizations on how to start and conduct business in Asia. His practice deals with matters such as business establishment, joint ventures, public and private mergers & acquisitions, complex corporate reorganizations, capital and solvency requirements, portfolio transfers, reinsurance, currency controls, sanctions and regulation of cross-border insurance business. Jonathan began his legal career in the United Kingdom and he is also a licensed attorney in New York.
Dr. Jung Kee Hong is an active professional and academic in the field of marketing and business development of Bancassurance and Alternative Distribution Channels for Asian Financial Institutions. Based on 20 years experiences of working in the international financial services arena in New York, Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore, he has developed several insurance distribution partnerships among banks, automotive companies, retailers, and digital sales companies. He is also an author of academic books and articles for which he is frequently invited to various seminars as a panelist and lecturer. He has PhD in International Business from University of South Australia and M.B.A. in Financial Management from Pace University, Lubin School of Business in New York, U.S.A.
保罗·琼斯在保险行业有超过26年的从业经验，曾在英国、新加坡和瑞士的直接保险和再保险行业工作过。他目前就职于RGA的香港分公司，负责亚洲地区的承销业务，利用RGA强大的技术专长，进一步发展公司有关承销风险管理和价值创造的战略。在2014年加入RGA之前，保罗曾为太平洋人寿再保险工作，首先是新加坡的核保和理赔主管，之后是太平洋人寿再保险的英国业务。他的职业生涯还包括近十年的亚洲保险业务主管、总部位于苏黎世的瑞士再保险公司(Swiss Re)的生命健康保险公司(Life & Health for Swiss Re)，以及在新加坡设立的信诺人寿保险公司(Cigna’s Life, Accident & Health international business)的保险业务主管两年。他是英国特许保险协会的准会员，持有英国保证医疗协会的寿险和残障保险文凭。
Josafat Timotius is a seasoned IT executive with over 19 years of experience in managing enterprise-wide IT, in a wide spectrum of domains including the financial, FMCG, and telecommunications industries. An influential leader with strong business sense, he is resourceful in using strong analytical skills to manage situations of great complexity. In his current role at Sequis Life, he advises the Board of Directors on strategies and policies as they relate to IT applications, and the day to day operations of the IT Division, and provides direction and guidance in the selection, implementation and quality control of both software and hardware initiatives.
斯科特是一位充满激情的专业人士，在过去的15年里，他的创业履历证明了他的远见卓识和成功。斯科特在新西兰奥塔哥大学(University of Otago)接受教育后，在一系列临床环境、工伤补偿保险和工作场所健康解决方案方面积累了丰富的经验，在此过程中，他与澳大利亚最大的职业健康公司合作，在2012年实现了8位数的业绩。作为亚太地区的商业领袖，斯科特拥有超过十年的经验，他为大多数行业设计和开发了员工健康改善项目。现在，作为WellteQ的领袖，斯科特的重点是让人们使用健康技术，并通过数据分析来改善业务，这样，WellteQ正在迅速成为一个全球公认的团体健康界的领袖。
Sheetal Patel is an Executive Director in the JAPAC region leading market access, advocacy and policy efforts across South East Asia and for the Bone Franchise regionally. Over the course of her 20+ year career in the Biopharmaceutical industry, Sheetal’s focus has been aimed at understanding how to align the value of innovative medicines with healthcare system needs and budgets around the globe. Since joining Amgen in 2009, Sheetal has served in a number of leadership roles including corporate initiatives focused on determining how to partner with payers in the ever-evolving healthcare landscape, heading key pricing strategy and operations capabilities, and demonstrating value of biologic therapies. Her prior experience includes strategy consulting for the pharmaceutical industry, and equity research analysis for the biotechnology sector at various investment firms. Sheetal holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California - San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and B.S. in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Siew has more than 17 years of experience in designing and implementing large scale transformation programs for banks, sovereign wealth funds and Insurers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, India, UK and the US. He has extensive experience in advising c-suite executives on Growth Business Models, Lean Operation Models, Front to Back office redesigns, and differentiating via BPR, Fintech modifications and Customer Management improvements. While working out of the London office of Strategy& (formerly known as Booz & Company), Chan-Cheong successfully assisted numerous British and European global banks with their post 2008 global financial crisis transformations. He attained his MBA from London Business School and PhD from Southampton University, UK.
Director - Chief Operating Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
Sutikno Sjarif joined PT Zurich Topas Life in March 2017 as Chief Operating Officer & Chief Strategy Officer and was appointed as Director. He has more than 14 years of experience in the Life Insurance in Indonesia as Chief Operating Officer for AIA Financial Indonesia; Chief Operating Officer and Strategy for Manulife Indonesia before joining Zurich Topas Life. He started his career as trainee at Bank of America has also served as Chief Financial Officer and Business Planning Director for PT Pioneer Trading Company and Deputy Chief Finance Officer for Raja Garuda Mas. Within one year of joining Zurich Topas Life; Sutikno and his team has implemented eRecruitment, eTraining, STP and the first in Indonesia to introduce chatbot for Agency support. He had led Manulife Indonesia to the forefront in digitalization in Indonesia and Manulife Worldwide; The first to introduce BPM, integrated CRM, STP, SVOC, Sales Activity Management, and implementing the last stage of digital archiving that potentially gives Manulife Indonesia to be the first digital end to end company in Indonesia and Manulife Worldwide. Those outstanding contributions had brought him to the awards of Top IT & Telco Leadership and Best Corporate Practice for 2016 to Manulife, by The ITEC & The Minister of Communication & Informatics, in 2016.
Over 2+ decades of experience in Insurance domain across Asia, his expertise lies in successfully engaging with Insurers for their distribution transformation programs and digital initiatives. In recent years, he has championed various initiatives with the leading global insurers in Asia for Digital Distribution and Core Operational Process Transformations. He has an engineering degree and is a post-graduate in management (Marketing). As one of the Co-founder & Executive Directors of C2L BIZ, he is responsible for Sales & Marketing, Business Growth and Managing Customer Relationships. He is a speaker and thought leader in various industry fora and summits.
瓦休-韦博沃 (Wahyu P. Wibowo)是一位经验丰富的人力资源专业人士，在进入企业之前，他的职业生涯始于高中教师。从那时起，他在各个行业都有20多年的从业经验，他的大部分职业生涯都是在当地和跨国公司的银行和人寿保险公司度过的。目前，瓦休领导的保德信大学为印尼161个城市的27万7千多名代理人和2千多名员工提供培训和进修的机会。他拥有Kontanz大学的应用科学的MBA学位，参加过各种项目，包括欧洲工商管理学院(INSEAD)的高管领导力课程。
Based in Hong Kong, Emily Woodward is a member of Spencer Stuart’s Financial Services and Legal, Compliance & Regulatory practices and serves financial services clients in Greater China and globally. She brings more than 15 years of executive search experience and global perspective to her work with organizations in Greater China, having worked and lived in Hong Kong, Thailand and United Kingdom. In addition to her deep industry knowledge, she has significant expertise in the areas of legal, compliance and risk, and has helped banks and insurance companies find senior leaders in these functions. Previously, Emily worked with clients as part of Spencer Stuart’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice in London. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Emily worked with boutique executive search firms in London, where she focused on senior-level roles in the insurance, retail banking and technology industries. Emily earned her degree from Southampton University and speaks conversational Thai.
Very few organizations manage their costs for sustainable success. They spend money on the wrong things, or cut the wrong things for the wrong reasons, ultimately leaving them weaker and unfit to compete. Instead, organizations must think about their costs strategically, continuously cutting bad costs and redirecting resources towards good costs that build or strengthen differentiating capabilities. Using research from hundreds of companies across various sectors, Dr. Siew Chan-Cheong will share insights and best practices on how to achieve higher returns by linking growth and cost agendas.
Life insurance regulation has typically been developed using traditional assumptions about products, distribution and customers. Yet in today’s innovative and constantly changing environment, this traditional framework now creates redundancy among some regulations. This session will consider how innovation continues to challenge insurance regulators, and what they are doing now to keep pace in an environment of change and disruption.
Understanding where innovation is driving technology trends is key to planning for the future, and Dr. Leroy Chiao is no stranger to this world. In this thought-provoking presentation, Dr. Chiao will offer an exciting glimpse into life on the next quantum level, and share insights on a world in which technology is accelerating faster than ever before – presenting new opportunities for businesses poised to take action. Through awe-inspiring stories of his time in space and breathtaking photos, Chiao looks at what is coming around the bend and how organizations can take advantage of the next technological phase.
Director - Chief Operating Officer & Chief Strategy Officer
Co-Founder and Executive Director
Speakers will share their individual perspectives and experiences on how current industry disruptors are impacting Strategy, Operations, IT, and Digital Transformations. They will examine why new challenges are making old strategies infeasible in this current disruptive environment, and discuss what factors can actually prevent the accrual of benefits from various digital initiatives.
