PSP 3 - Stand Out and Secure Your Seat in the Boardroom

PIT-STOPS
Gain practical strategies to boost your visibility, build meaningful connections and secure a board seat. This session offers actionable insights to navigate biases, overcome obstacles and position yourself effectively for board opportunities. Learn from seasoned professionals, board members and nominating committee members as they share lessons on breaking barriers, leveraging unique strengths and attracting the right opportunities through authentic networking. Whether you’re aiming to join a board or enhance your leadership profile, this discussion equips you with valuable insights to leave a lasting impression and increase your chances of success.


Programme
8.30am : Registration
9.00am : Welcome and opening remarks
9.10am : Session by Linkedin
9.30am : Panel discussion
10.30am : End of programme

 

CPD Hours : 1.5

SID member :  $130.00 (incl. 9% GST) 
Non-member :  $160.00 (incl. 9% GST) 



SPEAKERS

 

Ooi Huey Tyng
Chair, SID NRC Chapter

Ms Ooi Huey Tyng is the Chair of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee Chapter at SID and an independent director on multiple boards. She has over 30 years of experience in senior positions at global banks, leading payments technology provider and fintech. She serves on board of AIG Asia Pacific Insurance where she chairs the risk management committee and serves on the audit committee and nomination committee. She is also an independent director of Maxis and serves on the audit and risk committee, transformation committee and remuneration committee. She is a member of the Board of Governors of Raffles Institution. Ms Ooi was the Regional Managing Director, Head of GrabPay and served as nominee director on a number of GrabPay and GrabInsure joint venture company boards. Before joining Grab, she was Visa’s Country Manager for Singapore and Brunei and held senior leadership positions at Citibank, DBS and UOB.




Philip Forrest
Lead Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair, Grand Banks Limited 


Mr Philip Forrest is a former SID Council member and has lived in the ASEAN region since 1982 (in Singapore since 1991). He is a non-executive director of several (mostly Australia-linked) companies in the region and sits on the advisory boards of James Cook University Singapore Campus, QED and Australian Alumni Singapore. He has served on the Council of the Singapore Business Federation, the Boards of the Australian Chamber of Commerce (former president) and the British Chamber of Commerce and the Council of the Association of Banks in Singapore. He was previously Asia Head for ANZ Bank, with responsibility for the Bank’s activities in 11 countries from Japan to Indonesia. He also spent 15 years with Citibank in five countries.

 

Carmen Wee
Founder & CEO of Carmen Wee & Associates 

Ms Carmen Wee is founder and CEO of human resource advisory services firm Carmen Wee & Associates. An accomplished chief human resource officer with over 25 years of international business experience, she has led large, complex and multicultural teams globally. She is the author of the From the Kampung to the Boardroom: My Leadership Journey. An experienced board member in commercial, government, academic and public institutions in Singapore and the UK, she has served to transform the human capital ecosystem and build capabilities. She was conferred the Pioneer IHRP Master Professional status. Ms Wee is an SID senior accredited director.


Elsie Ng
Head of Talent Solutions (Singapore), LinkedIn


Ms Elsie Ng has experience building businesses across the Asia Pacific and leading regional information, internet and media businesses, including startups and multinational organisations. She is responsible for LinkedIn’s talent solutions business in Singapore and advises organisations on AI-powered recruitment, employer branding, organisation learning and data-driven decision-making leveraging talent insights. Ms Ng sits on the advisory committees of Temasek Polytechnic (School of Informatics & IT) and Institute of Technical Education (Business & Services). In addition, she has been involved in career coaching and guidance, including career planning and future skills. 

 

Ashley Wallace
Managing Director, Head of Financial Services, Russell Reynolds Associates 


Based in Singapore and previously Hong Kong, Ms Ashley Wallace leads the team’s work in the financial services industry in Asia Pacific. She is a trusted adviser to global and local insurers, banks, consumer financial services firms and fintech companies, offering her robust experience in executive search, succession planning, leadership development and culture advisory. Before joining Russell Reynolds Associates, she led the sales and trading associate programme at Lehman Brothers in New York, partnering with the business to place recent business school graduates into fixed-income, equities and prime brokerage positions. Before Lehman Brothers, she conducted clinical research at the New York University Child Study Center.

 


 

Registration

Please register online by 11 March 2025. 


Course Enquiries

Should you require assistance, contact us at:
Email : [email protected]
Tel : (+65) 6422 1188

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When
18/03/2025 09:00 - 10:30
Malay Peninsula Standard Time
Where
LinkedIn Office 10 Marina Boulevard, MBFC, Tower 2, #34-02 Singapore 018983
Registration
Online registration not available.
 

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