Contributors

Rachel Catanach

Rachel Catanach is managing director, SVP and Senior Partner of international communications consultancy at Fleishman-Hillard Hong Kong.

Raju Mandhyan

Raju Mandhyan is one of the most soulful and humorous speakers in the Asia-Pacific region, For over 15 years, he has trained and coached more than 10 thousand executives and delivered Keynote addresses for over 100 major conferences across the region.

Rana Gupta

Rana Gupta is the Vice President, Asia Pacific at SafeNet.

Richard Hanson

Richard Hanson

With over 12 years’ experience in the recruitment industry, Richard Hanson is CEO and Co-Founder of Jobable, Asia’s most advanced career platform with over a million users and incorporating machine learning and artificial intelligence.

A known figure within the talent acquisition and retention space, Hanson makes regular appearances at industry round tables and entrepreneurship events and his blogs and whitepapers have been featured in global HR publications.

Jobable launched in March 2016, with close to 200,000 job applications processed for over 2,000 employers. Jobable’s ‘special sauce’ is their machine learning recommendation engine that examines hundreds of data points to efficiently connect job seekers to the best opportunities and companies to the best talent. The company also operates in the Philippines and Singapore.

The company has raised close to US$3 million in venture funding with their most recent round led by Asian-based investors including Welight Capital, a firm founded by former Tencent executives, and Garage Capital.

Richard Hanwell

Richard has seen and adapted to a great deal of changes over his eight years in the recruitment industry, the most recent years of which have been in Hong Kong. He is now happy to be at the forefront of the creative, digital and marketing industries, as the Hong Kong country manager for specialist recruitment company, font.

Rob England

Rob England has over 16 years experience in management and leadership in Japan and the United Kingdom in both the education and service sectors. His professional roles have encompassed international education, training and coaching, business development, career and business consulting, and managing a start-up business in Japan and most recently, Hong Kong. Rob has covered a broad range of industry from consumer products to life sciences, automotive to inspection and certification companies.

Roger Chen

As Regional President at GoDaddy, Roger is on point to build a market-leading position for GoDaddy in the Region by delivering compelling end-to-end experiences supported by world-class go to market activities offering SMB online solutions and platforms.

Prior to GoDaddy, he spent 6 years at Yahoo where he last served as Vice President of Product Management, led PM and Design teams for Asia across Media, Search, e-Commerce, Mobile, Partnerships, and Custom Solutions.

He has over 20 years of professional experience in Asia & US, focused on internet product development, marketing, consumer hardware, and telecom. His previous leadership experiences included Technical Director at AT&T/SBC Communications, and led product development of consumer laptop group at Dell with annual billion dollar product revenue.

Roger graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, double-majored BA degree in Computer Science and Economics.

Rohan Muralee

Rohan Muralee is Assistant Vice President for Benefits & Affinity at Lockton Companies (Hong Kong) Ltd. He is an Insurance professional, specialising in Employee Benefits and Company Healthcare programmes.

Ronald Jones PhD

Ronald Jones PhD is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies atThe Experience Design Group