Chair:

Stella H. Kim, SPHR, Managing Director, Head of Executive Search,
HRCap, Inc., Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, United States

Stella currently serves as the Managing Director at HRCap, Inc., the largest Asian Global Executive Search & Total HR Solutions Provider in the United States. She founded and currently leads the Executive Search Practice, specializing in Executive-level and Critical Hire Placements for SMB and Fortune 500 clients. She is also responsible for HRCap's enterprise-wide Digital Transformation and Global Rebranding, managing over 15 agile data-driven strategy, process optimization, and employee engagement projects. Prior to HRCap, Stella specialized in Workforce Management and Talent Analytics at the Professional Development Center of Excellence at IBM Headquarters, providing data-driven talent strategies for enterprise-wide employee engagement, and positioning IBM for greater business growth. Formerly, Stella was a Senior Strategy & Analytics Consultant at IBM Global Business Services, focused on organizational change strategy and global tech implementation projects for IBM internal stakeholders and external clients.

Stella increases value through the unique intersection of technology, talent, and transformation. Her expertise lies in identifying capability gaps and underlying opportunities to empower greater potential in individuals, organizations, and communities. She takes a data-driven macro-view of the labor economy to aid HR decision making for corporations, while approaching talent issues from the social-organizational micro-view. She has a track record of successfully driving end-to-end projects at Fortune 500s and sustainably scaling up start-ups. Stella is known for her commitment to bridging communities by building organizations from the ground up to create greater value, synergy, and social impact. She passionately enables cultural and generational diversity by driving acclimation and awareness. She serves leadership roles on advisory boards and non-profit associations, and has been appointed to speak at government, professional associations, and academic institutions to share her thought leadership in labor markets, HR strategy, and recruiting trends. Stella is as an Industry Guest Lecturer at Stony Brook University, and an Advisory Council Member at Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business for the Transformative Leadership Program.

Stella holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Princeton University and a Master’s degree in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University. She is a certified SPHR® (Senior Professional in Human Resources) and has completed Executive Programs in Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania and HR Management at Villanova University. In her spare time, Stella actively volunteers and gives back through musical engagements at her church. She is passionate about continuous professional development and transformative learning. She also enjoys taking on new languages to deeply engage with other cultural backgrounds and to travel the world again.

Committee:

Naima Alvi, Schlumberger Global Mobility Manager
Schlumberger, Houston, Texas, United States

Nontavit Anontwatanawong, Head of Data Intelligence
Purple Ventures, Bangkok, Thailand

Katelyn Baxter Strategy, Strategy Consultant
Shell USA, Houston, Texas, United States

Parul Bharadwaj, Sr Technical Program Manager
Doordash, Seattle, Washington, United States

Yasin Çat, EMEA Technical Support & Training Manager
Gates Industrial Europe SARL – Belgium, Gent, East Flanders, Belgium
Yasin Cat is a Technical Support Manager in Gates Corporation. He is currently based in Belgium and provides strategic technical support, executive coaching and business partnering to customers in multiple geographies (Europe, Middle East, Africa). Yasin has experience in management consulting, team building, professional development, strategic implementation, customer relationship management and business development.

Deepak Chandran, Chief Innovation Officer
Emergence Technologies LLC, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States
He serves as Chief Innovation Officer of Emergence Technologies LLC and President of Iris Technologies LLC. He has over 25 years of practical experience in the technology sector, covering a wide variety of tech stacks, which includes HW and SW.

Dr. V Francis John, CEO
ZtartUp.com, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Francis heads Ztartup.com with over 40 years of experience in technology, governance, and policy. He is also on the Board of Startup Village by mUrgency Business Incubator, mUrgency INC, and is the Director of MU Holdings. He founded Intelligent Beings, an organization that leverages emerging technologies to realize smart industries and ecosystems of innovation and collaboration.

Jan Harling, Director New Customer Acquisition APAC
Foodpanda, Bangkok, Thailand

Kate Imobekhai, Technical Business Analyst
IBM, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Kate Imobekhai is a Certified Project Manager and Scrum Master at IBM. She has more than 13 years of experience in managing and delivering high-quality projects for clients and building relationships. She is a graduate of Illinois State University and a professional mentor.

Lenord Melvix Joseph Stephen Max, Senior Software Engineer
Google, Mountain View, California, United States
Lenord has 7+ years of industry experience in software systems, 3D reconstruction, and deep learning. His focus at Google is building a richer understanding of places from images and videos to improve Google Maps. Prior to this, he worked as a Computer Vision Engineer at DeepMap (acquired by Nvidia), a software intern at Facebook, and a Software Systems Engineer at Broadcom.
 

Ishan Khanna, Senior Software Engineer
Tinder, West Hollywood, California, United States
Ishan Khanna is a multi-award-winning software engineer, content writer, and international tech speaker with over a decade of experience accentuating Android app development. Currently the Engineering Lead for Tinder, Ishan brings with him an extensive autodidactic history of propelling app engineering initiatives forward. Even more, doing so while ensuring everyone across the developmental pipeline attains positive constructive experiences along the way.

Gautam Kumar, Senior Software Engineer
AWS, Sunnyvale, California, United States

Mehak Mehta, Vice President   
Morgan Stanley, New York, New York, United States
Mehak Mehta is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley in the Analytics and Data Technology group with over twelve years of experience in IT. Mehak leads the Wealth Management Big Data Analytics & Data Science team, delivering Machine Learning based solutions for Wealth Management E-Trade Fraud and Cyber Analytics.

Peter Oyedipe, Sub Sahara Africa Regional Sales Manager - Well Construction Drilling and Measurements
Schlumberger Global Resources, Luanda, Angola
Peter is a certified Sales and Commercial professional at Expert Level with Schlumberger Eureka Professional Careers. He possesses General Commercial Acumen and Oilfield Technical Skills with over 17years of Experience bringing sustainability (mutual-value sharing) in Oilfield Drilling.


 

Jirapa Simasatiensophon, Senior Global Procurement Manager
Unilever, Bangkok, Thailand
Jirapa is a senior professional with experience in all aspects of direct and indirect materials procurement. He is in a senior purchasing position with global leadership experience in Digitalization, Transformation, Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Continuous Process Improvement, Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Mitigation, Commodity Risk Management.

Kumar Varun Verma, Regional Product Manager
Veritas Technologies, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Varun Verma is a Product Marketing Leader & Data Protection Evangelist with 16 years of experience with Global Fortune 500 companies.

Sophia Viklund, Technical Board Member
Open Source Vision Foundation, Sunnyvale, California, United States

Darrell Zahorsky, Head of SEO
Lead Horse Media Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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