Chris Robinson

Partner and Regional M&A Practice Group Head

DFDL

Based in Cambodia, Chris has 20 years’ experience in corporate and commercial advisory. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, governance, labour and corporate advisory matters.  He has experience in advising investment funds, large corporations and financial institutions on acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and restructuring projects in the Asia-Pacific region, most recently in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. Chris also has extensive industry experience in the financial services, telecommunications, IT and retail and distribution sectors.

Jerome Buzenet

Partner and Managing Director

DFDL Vietnam

Jerome’s practice is focused on M&A, private equity and investment fund formation and restructuring, in Vietnam and the rest of the Mekong region. Having been permanently based in Vietnam since 2004, Jérôme also advises on projects and finance matters. He is recognised as a leading practitioner by each of Chambers, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and IFLR1000.

Jarrod Baker

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Jarrod Baker is a Senior Managing Director in the Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment of FTI Consulting. He provides specialist support to clients operating in the Asia Pacific region who face high stakes litigation, complex investigations and regulatory scrutiny.

Recognised as one of "the foremost forensic accountants" by Who's Who Legal, Jarrod has conducted numerous investigations on behalf of corporates and their legal counsel into complex fraud, serious misconduct and financial crime. He has also been involved in the preparation of a range of expert reports for damages and loss of profits calculations and those that have resulted in orders for freezing injunctions.

In addition to his work at the UK financial regulator, Jarrod is experienced in working on high profile investigations involving regulators such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Justice and Australian Securities and Investments Commission. This includes investigating breaches of anti-corruption legislation such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), violations of Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions and financial misstatement.

Drawing upon both his previous role as an FCPA compliance auditor for a U.S. multinational corporation and from experience in helping corporates respond to regulatory investigations related to anti-corruption legislation, Jarrod is well-versed in helping corporates develop, implement and monitor effectiveness of their anti-corruption compliance frameworks.

Jarrod is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and also of the Governance Institute of Australia. He currently serves as Non-Executive Director of the Australian affiliate of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption.

Jason Liew

Senior Managing Director

FTI Consulting

Jason Liew is a Senior Managing Director in the Global Risk and Investigations practice of FTI Consulting and is based in Singapore.

Jason has extensive experience in conducting a wide range of investigative assignments, including fraud, business and due diligence investigations, litigation support, and FCPA investigations for a broad range of multinational clients, financial institutions, law firms and sovereign wealth funds.

Before joining FTI Consulting, Jason was a Senior Director and the Head of Business Intelligence and Investigations (Southeast Asia) for an international risk consultancy where he was instrumental in building up and training of the firm’s Southeast Asia team and expanding its capabilities and resources.

Prior to that, he was an anti-money laundering and due diligence analyst at Citibank N.A., where he performed enhanced due diligence research and investigations in support of the bank’s anti-money laundering and reputational risk policies. Jason started his career as a consultant for an international risk consultancy based in Malaysia and Singapore.

Scott Lane,

CEO & Chairman

The Red Flag Group®

Scott has over 20 years’ experience in legal, compliance, internal audit, export control, ethics and corporate governance, providing counsel and advice to senior management throughout the world in the development of legal and compliance practices. Scott has worked as a senior director and general counsel in various multinational corporations in Australia, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, and has significant experience in complex compliance issues. Scott has worked in several industries, ranging from insurance to high technology. He has spoken at over 100 conferences on compliance in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Scott is an avid writer, and has had over 100 articles published in leading newspapers and journals, including The Red Flag Group’s own Compliance Insider® of which he was the publisher and Editor-in-Chief. Scott has led training sessions on compliance, corporate governance, director duties, anti-trust compliance and anti-corruption compliance in multiple countries. These sessions have involved small groups of less than 10 people through to sessions of over 600 people and involving entire businesses.

Sharon Yeoh

Director, Head of Corporate Secretarial

TMF Group

Sharon Yeoh is Director and Head of Corporate Secretarial of TMF Singapore. She has more than 25 years of experience in the corporate secretarial industry. Prior to joining TMF Group, Sharon was the Head of the Corporate Secretarial Department at Corporate Alliance Pte Ltd. She has also previously worked at Coopers & Lybrand in Hong Kong and Singapore, PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore, Evatthouse Corporate Services Pte Ltd (now Tricor Singapore Pte Ltd) and M&C Services Pte Ltd. Sharon is a Chartered Secretary and an associate member of the Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore as well as the Singapore Institute of Directors. She holds a practising certificate as a company secretary for listed companies on the Singapore Exchange.

Stanley Park

Managing Director/Head of Legal – Asia Pacific

Scotiabank

Stanley Park is Managing Director and Head of Legal - Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other responsibilities, Stanley provides (i) transactional advice and support to the Bank's businesses related to capital markets, investment banking, commodities, corporate lending/trade finance and global transaction banking; (ii) regulatory advice and support re the Bank's businesses; (iii) management of litigation and disputes; (iv) advice and support to the Bank's internal or proprietary functions (including proprietary investments, HR matters, Finance); and (v) participation in corporate governance or oversight.

Prior to joining Scotiabank, Stanley was with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in NYC, from 1992 - 2001; with Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 - 2007; with DKR Oasis, as Chief Compliance Officer, in Hong Kong in 2008; with Barclays Global Investors, as General Counsel, in Tokyo from 2009 - 2010; and with Daiwa Capital Markets, as Senior Legal Counsel, in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 - 2014. Stanley graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1985 and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Stanley has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1994.

Wong Taur Jiun

President

SCCA

Taur-Jiun is the Head of Legal at Rabobank Singapore. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with both a law degree and an MBA. Taur-Jiun started his career in litigation and corporate commercial before moving in-house into international trade and technology. Taur-Jiun is one of the founding members of the SCCA.

Angela SM Ng, LLM, CAMS

AVP, Regional Counsel

Manulife

Angela Ngis AVP, Regional Counsel in Manulife's Asia Legal team.  

Prior to joining Manulife (originally based in Hong Kong and now back in Singapore), Angela practised as a litigator and corporate lawyer in Singapore.  Angela holds a Bachelor of Laws, LLB (Hons), and a Master of Laws in Corporate & Financial Services, LLM (Distinction) and is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Angela spent seven years within the Regional Compliance team supporting the Asia territories on regulatory compliance matters, particularly serving as Program Lead for the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing, and Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption programs. As Regional Counsel, she provides transactional advice and support to regional projects, and to the local Legal Teams in Asia, with particular focus in relation to ASEAN territories. Leveraging on her strong regulatory compliance experience, Angela also assists in internal projects, covering proprietary functions involving government and industry workgroups, bancassurance-related activities, and participates in regulatory compliance oversight issues.

Priscilla Soh

General Counsel

AIG Singapore

Priscilla is the General Counsel of AIG Singapore. She is responsible for the legal and regulatory affairs of the business and operations of AIG Singapore, including liaising with the regulators. As the APAC Consumer Counsel, Priscilla oversees all Consumer business projects and initiatives, and works closely with her counterparts in the head office and the region to implement them. Prior to joining AIG, Priscilla was a State Counsel/Deputy Public Prosecutor in the Attorney-General’s Chambers. She moved on to practise commercial litigation before moving on to in-house legal roles. She has assumed in-house legal positions in companies including Singapore Technologies Aerospace Ltd, Temasek Holdings, and AXA Insurance Singapore. Priscilla holds a LL.B. (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and graduated on the Dean’s List.

April Raimundo

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

EFA Group

April is Chief Legal Officer of EFA Group and is responsible for all legal matters including business and investment structuring, corporate and fund set up and other legal issues across all countries where EFA does business including Singapore, Hong Kong, UAE, Switzerland, UK, Romania, and Turkey. April oversees legal support in all areas of transaction management for capital finance, structured and trade commodity finance and provides support on restructuring and litigation for financing across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She was the first legal counsel of EFA in 2011 and set up the legal and compliance platform of EFA through an accelerated growth period.

She was named one of five in-house lawyers in the 2016 edition of ALBs 40 under 40 and her team was shortlisted as banking and financial services in house team of the year in the ALB SEA Law Awards 2016. 

Prior to joining EFA Group, April was an Associate at Baker & McKenzie International. Her legal practice focused on various aspects of corporate and commercial work including mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting and review, doing business concerns, due diligence, outsourcing, special registrations and structuring of investments. Her industry concentrations included environment and natural resources, real estate, outsourcing and retail trade. 

Anna Quah

Vice President Legal, Asia Pacific

UPS

Anna Quah is Vice President for Legal, UPS Asia Pacific, and is responsible for legal and regulatory matters for the company in the Asia Pacific region. UPS is a global leader in logistics with headquarters in Atlanta, from which UPS serves more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. The UPS Asia Pacific region, with headquarters in Singapore, covers more than 40 countries and territories and employs close to 15,000 employees.

Prior to joining UPS in 2006, Anna practiced maritime and aviation law in Singapore for about 8 years. As a partner of that law firm, Anna also wrote several papers on maritime law and presented them at international conferences organized by the International Bar Association.

Anna was a founding member of the UPS Women’s Leadership Development (“WLD”) in Asia Pac when it launched in Singapore in 2010, and also chaired the group from 2011 to 2013. Since then, the WLD program has organised numerous activities promoting skills development and connectivity amongst female employees within UPS, with customers and with the community. In addition, Anna is also a co-Executive Sponsor of the recently-established UPS Millennial Group.

A firm believer in contributing towards the community we live in, Anna has been actively involved in a variety of volunteer programs – most notably spending 3 and a half weeks in 2017 in the Lower East Side of New York City serving at the Henry Street Settlement, supporting homeless individuals recovering from mental illnesses.

Anna Quah graduated from the law faculty of National University of Singapore in 1997 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1998. Anna currently lives in Singapore with her two children, Emma and Edward. In her limited spare time, Anna works out by training for Spartan and other obstacle course races as well as indulging in her dream to be an aerial performance artist.

Christian Greissinger

General Counsel Asia Pacific

Siemens

Christian started his career at the international law firm Lovells (now Hogan Lovells) in Munich specialising in IT, data protection, sports law and outsourcing projects. Following a secondment at a large US e-commerce corporation, Christian joined the legal department of Siemens AG in Munich (2007) and since then has worked for Siemens in different functions and countries: In 2009 Christian moved to Casablanca (Morocco) and had the unique chance to set-up a legal department for Siemens in North-West-Central Africa as Cluster General Counsel. After three years in that position, Christian returned to Germany and was appointed as General Counsel for the Siemens Division Smart Grid based in Nuremberg. In 2017 Christian has moved to Singapore and since then works as the General Counsel for the Asia-Australia region.

Christian has studied in Wuerzburg (Germany) and London, holds a doctorate degree in law and was admitted to the bar in Germany (2002). Before his law studies, Christian served  his compulsory community service  in a mental hospital for 18 months. Christian is married and has 3 children, is a passionate skier, tennis player and soccer fan.

Lisa Mather

Vice President, Chief International Counsel

PayPal

Lisa is Vice President, Chief International Counsel at PayPal. Based in Singapore, she works with a market-leading in-house global legal team known for its ‘unmatched navigation of complex international regulatory frameworks’. Lisa earlier served as Vice President, Division General Counsel, APAC at Colgate-Palmolive Company. Among her other positions during her 9 year tenure at Colgate, she served in various general counsel and specialist counsel positions, and worked with the company based in Australia, Europe, the United States and Asia. She began her career as a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, practising with major global law firms in both Sydney and Hong Kong. Lisa holds a MBA (Executive) from the Australian Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Science and Law (Honours) from Macquarie University.

Jasmine Karimi
Senior Director, Counsel, Asia/Pacific
Illumina

Jasmine Karimi is the Senior Director & Counsel, heading the legal & compliance function across all Asia Pacific for Illumina Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN), an international, rapidly growing, and the world’s leading DNA sequencing company (named MIT Technology Review’s “Smartest Company” in 2014, and No. 3 in 2016). Jasmine also sits on the APAC Management and Global Legal Management teams and is the Chair of the Women’s Leadership Network, Singapore Chapter, at Illumina.

A seasoned in-house professional, Jasmine has over 20 years of experience, across multiple jurisdictions across diverse industries (including media, manufacturing, luxury retail and currently life sciences). Preceding her in-house career, Jasmine was a corporate and litigation lawyer at major law firms in Canada and Singapore.

Noted for excellence in public speaking and presentations, Jasmine has been a frequently invited speaker at industry and professional forums globally. She has an LL.B. (Hons) from the U.K., and an LLM specializing in IP law from Canada. She is admitted to practice law in England & Wales, Singapore, Canada, and Hong Kong. A firm believer in giving back, Jasmine has served on several boards and is the immediate past President of the Hong Kong Corporate Counsel Association (HKCCA). She currently sits on the SIAC Users Council. Jasmine has been named as one of the 100 leading influential in-house lawyers in business in Asia in The Legal 500: Corporate Counsel 100 Asia 2014.

Agatha Low

Legal Solutions Sales Specialist

Thomson Reuters

Agatha is a Legal Solutions Sales Specialist with Thomson Reuters, working with law firms and legal teams across the ASEAN market. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore and is qualified as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, she was in practice and a litigation lawyer at one of Singapore’s Big Four law firms.

Sharon Craggs

IBF Distinguished Fellow | Compliance, Risk & Governance Professional

Sharon is a seasoned Compliance, Risk and Governance professional, with experience in both the public and private sectors, and specialist legal and compliance expertise in multiple product lines including financial markets, corporate banking, consumer banking, wealth management and financial crime compliance. She has held positions as the Group Compliance Officer for Bank ABC globally, Standard Chartered Bank’s Head of Compliance for Southeast Asia region, Head of Legal and Compliance for DBS Bank, and Asia Pacific global markets legal and compliance and bank regulatory roles for JPMorgan. Sharon started her career with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Sharon read law at Cambridge University and topped the English bar in the law of Evidence. She is qualified as a lawyer in England and Wales, the State of New York and the Republic of Singapore. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Certified Anti-Money laundering Specialist (CAMS), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and has taken professional qualifications in information security and information technology (ISACA). She was appointed Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance (Compliance).

Campbell Clark

Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific

Medtronic

Campbell Clark is Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, for Medtronic, a healthcare company, and is based in Singapore. He was previously General Counsel, Asia, for Covidien, another healthcare company which was acquired by Medtronic in January 2015. Prior to joining Covidien in 2008, Campbell was the Assistant General Counsel, Australia and New Zealand, for Tyco International. He has also held senior roles in-house as an international legal counsel in Japan, and in private practice as a litigation lawyer in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Campbell graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and holds an LL.B (Hons) and M.Jur (Dist.).

Rebecca Teh

Country Counsel

JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A.

Rebecca is currently responsible for legal and regulatory matters for the JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Ho Chi Minh branch and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Manila branch.  As the regional country counsel for Vietnam and Philippines, she works closely with the compliance and business teams in the region to provide support to regional projects and transactions over multiple product lines and expertise. Based in Singapore, she has held various specialist legal counsel positions during her 10 year tenure at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. which has enriched her experience as the Southeast Asian country counsel role now. She began her career as a corporate lawyer specializing in capital markets.

Zack Quek

Legal Counsel

DNV GL Group

Zack is a Group Legal Counsel with DNV GL Group and responsible for all legal affairs of DNV GL Group across 27 countries in the diverse and challenging region of Middle East and Asia Pacific. He believes that pro-active engagement and constructive partnership with the business units, finance department and human resource department help DNV GL Group meet their risk-management strategy.

Following the merger of Det Norske Veritas Group and Germanischer Lloyd Group – forming DNV GL – he drove and managed a number of corporate restructuring and business integration projects in various countries including Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore where more than 20 corporate transactions were completed. He also regularly handle and resolve compliance and regulatory issues involving licensing, data-theft, personal data, blackmail, employment, workplace behaviour and anti-trust.

Gavin Ingram

General Counsel Asia Pacific & Vice President Strategic Planning

Global Blue

Gavin Ingram is General Counsel Asia Pacific and Vice President Strategic Planning for Global Blue. Gavin also acts as Company Secretary for Global Blue’s Singapore entities. Prior to Global Blue, Gavin was Legal Director Asia for AdventBalance which is a new and innovative law firm that seconds their lawyers to sit with the clients during the term of the secondment.

Prior to AdventBalance, Gavin was General Counsel Asia for the Australian listed company BlueScope Steel (formerly BHP Steel) where Gavin managed all legal and compliance issues across BlueScope’s Asia footprint. In this role, Gavin was awarded the leading in-house counsel award in Asia-Pacific by AsiaLaw in 2007.

Gavin started his career in private practice as an infrastructure lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron (as it then was, now Ashursts) and Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills). Gavin holds Law and Commerce degrees from Australia and most recently completed his MBA (with Honors) through the University of Chicago. Gavin has significant experience in navigating the challenges of Asia’s diverse legal systems.

Sonali N. Narasimhan

Chief Compliance Officer, ASEAN

GE

Sonali has held compliance roles at South Asia and ASEAN at General Electric Corporation since April 2011. She is currently performing the dual role of Chief Compliance Officer, ASEAN, General Electric Corporation and Senior Compliance Counsel, GE Oil & Gas Asia Pacific. She was the recipient of GE’s Global Corporate Award in 2014 for outstanding contribution towards making GE’s Compliance Program simpler and more effective. She is also the current leader for GE Oil & Gas Chapter of GE Women’s Network, Singapore Hub (since 2016). GE Women’s Network fosters professional women’s development to grow, attract and retain successful women through information, education, and networking with other women across GE.