Please note that lunch will be provided. FWA thanks IHS Markit for the kind sponsorship of venue and lunch.
THIS IS A MEMBER AND INVITE ONLY EVENT.
FWA is pleased to organize the eighth chapter of our flagship Males from the Top series featuring FWA Male Champions. The discussion will centre on corporate governance, and whether companies should report gender statistics as part of good corporate practices. Countries including Australia, United Kindgom, Finland and Sweden have a “comply or explain” policy, a policy that requires listed companies to comply with a certain percentage of women on boards and executive positions, and if they fail to achieve this target, to explain why. This policy pushes companies to address the issue of disproportionate gender representation in boards and senior executive posiitons.
In Singapore, listed companies are not required to report gender statistics. But should they, to move the needle on achieving gender balance?
We explore this topic with our guest speaker, Ms. Rebecca Lewis, Managing Partner at Arisaig Partners. Joining us in the panel are our male champions, Gregory Roath, Singapore Country Executive and Head of Global Client Management APAC, Bank of New York Mellon, Ian Martin, CEO of HSBC Insurance and our guest panelist, Stefanie Yuen Thio, Joint Managing Director and Head of Corporate Division, TSMP Law Corpration (Singapore). Shane Akeroyd, Executive Vice president Global head of Account Management and Regional Head of Asia Pacific at IHS Markit, will be delivering an opening address.
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
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12.00pm
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Registration, lunch & networking
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12.30pm
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Opening speeches by FWA & IHS Markit
Shane Akeroyd , Executive Vice President, Global Head of Account Management and Regional Head of Asia Pacific at IHS Markit
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12.40pm
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Keynote speech by Rebecca Lewis, Managing Partner, Arisaig Partners
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1.00pm
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Panel discussion:
Panelists:
Gregory Roath, Singapore Country Executive and Head of Global Client Management APAC, Bank of New York Mellon
Ian Martin, CEO, HSBC Insurance (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Stefanie Yuen Thio , Joint Managing Director and Head of Corporate Division ,TSMP Law Corporation (Singapore)
Moderator:
Rebecca Lewis, Managing Partner, Arisaig Partners
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1.45pm
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Q&A
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2.00pm
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Close of Event
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Bios of Speakers & Moderator
REBECCA LEWIS
Managing Partner
Arisaig Partners
Born in 1977, Rebecca is a graduate of Cambridge University and also has an MBA from INSEAD. She is a member of the investment team for the Asia Consumer Fund and also leads our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research. As of April 2016 Rebecca is the "Managing Partner" of the firm and sits on the Board of Arisaig Partners Holdings. Prior to joining the company, Rebecca worked for an independent ESG research house called Responsible Research (since acquired by Sustainalytics).
SHANE AKEROYD
Executive Vice President
Global Head of Account Management
Regional Head of Asia Pacific at IHS Markit
Executive Vice President, Global Head of Account Management and Regional Head of Asia Pacific at IHS Markit. He joined Markit in 2008.
Shane has over 25 years of sales experience, and previously worked at RBC Capital where he was head of global debt markets distribution and a member of the executive management team. Prior to RBC, Shane spent ten years at TD Securities, most recently serving as vice chair, capital market sales for Europe, Asia and Australia.
He worked at Bear Stearns as a managing director or three years before joining TD Securities, and began his financial career with seven years at Bank of America, most recently as a vice president of derivative sales.Shane holds a B.Sc (Honours) in Economics from University College London.
IAN MARTIN
CEO
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 30 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.
GREGORY ROATH
Head of Global Client Management, APAC
Bank of New York Mellon
Gregory Roath is head of Global Client Management for BNY Mellon’s Asia-Pacific region. Based in Singapore, he manages a team of country executives and relationship managers across the region to ensure BNY Mellon understands and anticipates the expectations of clients and regulators.
Greg is also the Country Executive and General Manager of BNY Mellon Singapore and acts a director for 3 other business entities in Singapore.
Greg joined BNY Mellon in New York in 1999, working in both Product Management and Western European relationship management. In 2001 he moved to London and spent seven years managing new business development and client relationships in Central Europe, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. He moved to Hong Kong in 2008 where he ultimately managed the Depositary Receipts (DR) business in Asia-Pacific with responsibility for all client and business development activities.
Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Greg worked for four years during the war in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) designing, coordinating, and implementing numerous humanitarian aid projects. Greg was also seconded to act as an elections monitor for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) at the time of Bosnia’s first post-war elections.
Greg has been a speaker at conferences, panelist on industry roundtables and contributor to financial publications and is a member of the Global Corporate Operating Committee and Asia Pacific Executive Committee. Greg holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.A. from Columbia University.
STEFANIE YUEN THIO
Joint Managing Director
Head of Corporate Division
TSMP Law Corporation (Singapore)
Stefanie Yuen Thio is the Joint Managing Director of TSMP law Corporation, and heads its corporate practice division. TSMP Law Corporation specializes in corporate and commercial law and was named Boutique Law Firm of the year in the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2016. The firm has also been ranked amongst leading firms in many areas of practice including Corporate /M&A by international law journals such as Chambers and Partners, Asia law Profiles, Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR1000. TSMP is also a leader in gender diversity initiatives and was awarded the Euromoney Legal Media Group Asia Women in Business Law Awards for the best Gender Diversity Initiative by National Firm in 2014.
Stefanie holds a LL.B.Hons from the National University of Singapore and has been in practice for more than 20 years, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions. She is a regular commentator in the press on legal and on corporate governance issues in Singapore and has been appointed a member to the Corporate Governance Council by Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to review the Code of Corporate Governance (CG Code).
Stefanie is an independent director of Cache Logistics Trust, a listed REIT in Singapore. She is also actively engaged in charity, being a director of the Smile Mission Ltd and Community Foundation of Singapore, registered Singapore charities. She is a member of the Expert Panel, Centre for Cross -Border Commercial Law Asia (CEBCLA). She is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
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