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FWA is pleased to present the fifth chapter of FWA Males from the Top featuring FWA male champions. The focus for this chapter is - “Why are women stuck in middle management?” Middle management is a key source of future senior executive talent, where emerging leaders build up essential experience and skills. However, capable women who have proved themselves at middle manager level all too often find themselves stuck, unable to gain access to senior management roles – the talent pool from which C-Suite leaders emerge. What can be done to increase their chances of reaching those senior positions, thus unlocking more of the value that diversity at senior levels can deliver?

We are delighted to have on our panel men with vast experiences from varied backgrounds, including banking, insurance and financial services advisory. This fifth chapter will feature Lito Camacho, MD and Country CEO Singapore and Vice Chairman for Asia Pacific, Credit Suisse, as keynote speaker. Joining him in the panel are Antony Eldridge, Partner and PwC Singapore financial service leader and Ian Martin, CEO, HSBC Insurance.

FWA Singapore announced the Male Champions initiative at the annual celebration of International Women’s Day on 6 March 2015. FWA Male Champions actively support the advancement of women in their financial careers. The role of men in supporting the advancement of women is of paramount importance given that they constitute the majority of senior leadership positions and make key hiring and promotion decisions. In this regard, FWA is proud to feature selected male champions who support and are committed to the development of women.

Event Agenda

Speaker & Moderator Bios:

LITO CAMACHO
MD and Country CEO, Singapore
Vice Chairman for Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse

Jose Isidro N. (Lito) Camacho is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse, based in Singapore. He is the Vice Chairman for Asia Pacific and also the Country CEO for Credit Suisse Singapore.

Mr Camacho joined Credit Suisse in March 2005 after a distinguished career in government and international banking. He was appointed Secretary of Finance for the Philippines in 2001, a position he held until November 2003. Before that, Mr Camacho was Secretary of Energy when he was credited with the successful passage of the country's power sector reform legislation.

Prior to joining the government, Mr Camacho was a Managing Director and Chief Country Officer for the Philippines at Deutsche Bank, AG in Manila. Before Deutsche Bank, Mr. Camacho worked for Bankers Trust Company for over twenty years in New York, Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines and Singapore.

Mr Camacho is a Director of SymAsia Foundation (Singapore). He is also currently a board member of the National Art Gallery (Singapore), a member of the Group of Experts of the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum, a member of the Securities Industry Council (Singapore), and also a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Securities Commission (Malaysia). He is the Non-Executive Chairman of Sun Life of Canada (Philippines); a board member of Sun Life Assurance Berhad and Sun Life Takaful Berhad (Malaysia).

Mr Camacho obtained his Bachelor's degree in mathematics (cum laude) from De La Salle University in 1975. He received his MBA with concentration in Finance from Harvard University in 1979.

ANTONY ELDRIDGE
Partner, PwC Singapore Financial Service Leader
PwC
 
Having been with PwC in London for over 27 years, with tours of duty in New York, Zurich and nine years in Japan/Asia-Pacific, Antony is now based in Singapore where he is the firm’s Financial Services practice leader.  Across Asia-Pacific he also leads our Banking and Capital Markets practice. He has specialised in Investment Banking since very early in his career, working closely with most of the key players in the industry, in both an audit and an advisory capacity.  Most recently, Antony was leading the global relationship and service delivery for Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank, and his major previous clients include JPMorganChase, Standard Chartered Bank, BNP Paribas, and UBS.  Currently, in Singapore, he serves HSBC and Bank of America Merrill Lynch and is a global relationship partner for SMBC.

Antony is a member of PwC’s Global Financial Services Leadership Team, with a specific remit to ensure that quality is at the heart of everything we do.  In his role he interacts closely with various global regulators, as the environment continues to evolve following the onset of the financial crisis, and consequently he has developed a deep insight into expectations and the impact of regulatory changes being implemented.

Passionate about harnessing the talents of all of our people, Antony was a member of PwC’s Global Inclusion and Diversity Council and established a working group across our financial services businesses to ensure we always act fairly and in the best interests of all of our partners and staff.
Antony is a member of the Banking and Finance committee of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

IAN MARTIN
Chief Executive Officer
HSBC Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Ian joined HSBC in 2005 and became Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Insurance (Singapore) Pte Limited in July 2014 having relocated from the UK where he was CEO of HSBC’s UK insurance business.   Ian also sits on the Board of the Singapore HSBC Bank senior management team and the Regional insurance Holdings Board, covering Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and India.

As a UK qualified Actuary since 1989, Ian has held senior roles in actuarial, product development, marketing, communications, distribution and corporate transactions.

Ian, married for 29 years to Anne and with two adult children, is a founding trustee and Chair of The Quest School, a specialist school for children with autism where Anne is the School Principal.  In his spare time Ian enjoys playing sport and music, relaxing with family and friends and being involved in local church and community.

JENNIFER LEWIS
Managing Director, Communications
GIC Pte Ltd

Ms Jennifer Lewis is responsible for the strategic management of GIC’s internal and external communication activities. She joined the sovereign wealth fund in 2007 after more than twenty years as a journalist with television, print and online experience. She was the founding Editor of both Straits Times TV, Singapore's first television news organisation owned by a newspaper, as well as STOMP (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), a news website that leveraged online tools to change the way news was received and distributed in Singapore. Jennifer has stepped down as a Governor of the Singapore International Foundation, having served on the board for eight years. However, she continues her work them as Chair of the grant-giving committee for the ‘Arts for Good’ programme.

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