Jan 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• In addition to my role as Global Head of Leadership Talent, I was also appointed to International SOS's Global Leadership Committee (Management Board).

Dec 2020 – Dec 2025 · 5 yrs

• Scope & Responsibilities:
• Lead global human capital strategy for the top 3% of leadership roles across medical, security, and business domains.
• Oversee executive recruitment, compensation, onboarding, and full-spectrum HR operations for senior appointees worldwide.
• Drive succession planning and leadership development across all regions and functions.
• Serve as HR advisor to Remuneration & Nomination Committees of joint ventures and subsidiaries.
• Shape & influence executive HR strategy and talent governance at management board level.
• Selected Achievements:
• Strengthened global leadership pipeline through targeted succession planning and executive onboarding.
• Harmonized leadership development programs across regions, reducing customization and improving scalability.
• Enhanced talent visibility and risk mitigation through structured reviews and analytics.
• Partnered with business line CEOs and functional heads to align talent strategy with operational priorities.

Jan 2020 – Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Responsibilities include:
• 1. Teaching graduate-level Human Capital Management courses on the evolution of the 'World of Work', focused around workforce demographic changes; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; the Gig Economy and corresponding contingent employment.
• 2. Curriculum & exam development, grading of papers and projects.
• 3. Frequent conference speaker on HR & Talent related topics, including Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, and Succession Planning and Talent & Leadership Development.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr

• Member of the Regional HR Leadership Team
• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Stepped into an HR leadership role in Asia-Pacific to drive the talent agenda in a very hands-on manner through our cluster- & country CHROs. Size of region: 14 countries and 22,000 employees (white & blue collar);
• 2. Planned & facilitated talent reviews & succession planning for the regions leadership positions (the roughly 180 senior-most leadership roles within APAC);
• 3. Guided the in-country Talent Management experts and HR generalists to apply the same methodologies and frameworks for their respective country/cluster operations;
• 4. Established a meaningful leadership pipeline of future successors; Identified talent gaps & talent risks; Developed risk mitigation plans; Partnered with ExCo members on executing those plans.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr

• Member of the global Talent Management CoE Leadership Team
• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Designed, developed & implemented Schenker's first ever integrated Talent Management framework, impacting 75,000+ employees across 120 countries;
• 2. Scope included: Talent reviews; Succession planning; Leadership assessments; Talent metrics/analytics; Diversity, equity & inclusion; Learning & development; High-potential development programs.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

• Member of the Global CoE Leadership Team
• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Build out a major 'talent supply chain' network, across Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa, comprising of >250 partner relationships worth USD 300 million in talent-related spend;
• 2. Channel partner identification, contract negotiations, and relationship management, including QBRs and vendor performance management;
• 3. Established Kelly Services' first ever global Supplier Code of Conduct and represented Kelly to various United Nations working groups on ethical cross-border recruitment; human trafficking & migrant smuggling; responsible recruitment in global supply chains.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs

• Member of the Regional Management Board
• ) Set up and managed Human Resources & Workforce Procurement processes in a Shared Services Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
• ) Provided centralized HR services (talent acquisition; workforce services procurement; onboarding; timesheet management; billing & invoicing; vendor management; talent/HR operations) to KellyOCG and to Kelly's clients - extending to over 40 legal entities across 20 markets, catering for >4,000 headcount;
• ) Laid the foundation for subsequent ISO 9001 certification.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

• Responsible for developing & executing contingent workforce strategies in support of our clients across the Hi-Tech and Pharma industries.
• Built the vendor & contractor management team that specializes in contract worker sourcing, recruitment and deployment.
• Set up the quality, risk, reporting, regulatory, and governance processes to ensure 2,000+ contractors could be successfully deployed at any given moment while ensuring business & compliance risks are mitigated.
• ) Full P&L responsibility;
• ) Helped grow the practice from 7 markets in Asia-Pacific (initially loss-making) to 17 markets across Asia-Pacific, Middle East & North Africa; increasing our spend-under-management from USD <25m to 150+million in less than 3 years;
• ) In parallel to top line growth, delivered recurring gross profit margin gains of 4.5 - 6% per annum by streamlining, automating and centralizing service delivery mechanism

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

• Responsibilities included:
• 1. HR due diligence services as part of clients' M&A integration efforts;
• 2. Hands-on execution of workforce transformation initiatives (workforce planning, talent acquisition, talent management and employee experience);
• 3. Design, implementation & (interim) management of client's multi-country HR shared services organization.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs

• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Hands-on business transformation projects to deliver financial and operational restructurings; including divestitures, closures & exit strategies;
• 2. Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions advisory, including pre-deal due diligence & fraud investigations;
• 3. Turnaround advisory, interim finance resourcing & working capital optimization;
• 4. Cost-out transformation projects, including shared services & outsourcing implementation and optimization.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · Shanghai, China

• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Development of audit plans, conducting audits, and preparing of audit reports and report findings.
• 2. Identification of audit issus within assigned scope, reviewing audit methodologies, evidence, and conclusions with relevant stakeholders.
• 3. Review & evaluation of supplier audit responses & corrective actions.
• 4. Develop and enhance supplier audit system to increase compliance.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

• BAX Global was a USD 1.7bn international multi-modal carrier with its own dedicated fleet of cargo aircrafts. It has since been acquired by Deutsche Bahn and integrated into DB Schenker.
• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Audits and risk assessments of in-country operations across the Asia-Pacific region;
• 2. Identification of operational improvements and implementation of best practices and effective controls;
• 3. Investigation of non-compliant and/or potentially corrupt practices;
• 4. Planning of financial audit activities of consolidated management accounts and statutory balance sheets and reporting packages.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

• Responsibilities included:
• 1. Supervision of lorry drivers to ensure they are aware of their duties.
• 2. Execution, direction and coordination of all transportation matters within the assigned geographic scope.
• 3. Gauge transportation requirments of shipments and devise cost-effective & compliant transport planning.
• 4. Schedule & route management to ensure smooth-running last mile delivery of all road transportation.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

• Trained at OTS before appointed to Supply Regiment 1 (“Versorgungsregiment 1”), focusing on ensuring smooth maintenance, repair, and overhaul ('MRO') supply operations as well as provision of ammunition and explosives logistics services, both domestically and internationally, incl. for Austria’s UN peacekeeping mission on the Golan Heights ('UNDOF').
• Trained in various weapon systems and military logistics vehicles & equipment.