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“WOMEN IN HRTECH - SINGAPORE”

Celebrating Diversity in HRTech

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8-MAR-2020International Women’s Day

CELEBRATING “DIVERSITY IN HRTECH” - SINGAPORE

New & diverse perspectives breed creativity. That’s why the need of the hour is to have a diverse workforce to trigger

INNOVATION at the workplace. And in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) times such as these, we need

to constantly remind ourselves to recognise those organisations that value diversity and celebrate those braveheart

individuals that bring in the much needed diverse-thinking & innovation to the workplace.

While the Human Resources function in SINGAPORE celebrates a large female demographic, the microcosm segment of

HRTech in the country still has a long way to go. We felt it our obligation to celebrate the success of these women

professionals and entrepreneurs' leading the pack in HR Technology.

We put together a list of these women in the Singapore HRTech space to bring them the recognition they deserve. This

compilation is not exhaustive, but it is only our effort to encourage more diversity in the HRTech space.

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ROSALINE CHOW KOOFounder & CEOCXA Group

SO-YOUNG KANGFounder & CEOgnowbe

SHARON LEECo-Founder & COOHReasily

PHILIPPA PENFOLDCo-Founder & CEOPeople Collider

GRACE KERRISONVP & MD – APAC,pymetrics

NICOLE SEAHCo-Founder & COORewardz

TULIKA TRIPATHIFounder & CEOsnaphunt

NINA ALAG SURIFounder & CEOX0PA Ai

DOROTHY YIUCo-Founder & COOEngageRocket

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Rosaline invested $5M of her savings and borrowed another $5M to build CXA. Now CXA hashundreds of thousands users across 20 countries in Asia and has been awarded Insurtech of theYear, Top CEO, Global Innovations in Healthcare, Asian Human Capital Leadership Award, AsianInsurance Innovations & HR Vendor of the Year for Corp Wellness and Comp & Benefits. Rosalinesupervised P&G factory lines in Iowa; worked at Bankers Trust on Wall Street; launched two dot-com start-ups; and grew Mercer Marsh Benefits' 14 APAC countries 800% over 8 years. She is agraduate of UCLA Cybernetics & Columbia Business School. LinkedIn

ROSALINE CHOW KOOFounder & CEO, CXA Group

About CXA GroupCXA is on a mission to improve employee health by shifting treatment spend to wellness anddisease prevention. It focuses on unlocking wellness in the workplace without firms needing tospend more, by converting existing insurance & healthcare dollars into early detection anddisease prevention. They focus on empowering employees to become healthier while reducinghealthcare costs.website

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Dorothy was the Regional Head of Operations for Gallup before she took the plunge to co-found EngageRocket. She hails from an entrepreneurial family with both parents having runbusinesses all their lives. In early 2016, she decided to leave consulting and start EngageRocketto solve problems faced by the Human Resources function, but with real-time data andtechnology. She is a Double Degree holder from the Singapore Management University. LinkedIn

DOROTHY YIUCo-Founder & COO, EngageRocket

About EngageRocketEngageRocket is a leading employee engagement analytics provider that helps leaders andorganisations make better people decisions using real-time data. EngageRocket automatesemployee feedback and analytics to deliver management actionable insight that improvesemployee engagement and performance. EngageRocket now serves more than 20 industriesacross 14 countries and has analysed two million responses in several Asian languages.website | hrtech.sg marketplace

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So-Young Kang is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about maximizing human creativepotential. She is Catalyst & Founder of award-winning Transformation Design (TD) firm AwakenGroup that integrates strategy, leadership & innovation to design experiences that catalyzechange. So-Young Kang is also the Founder & CEO at Gnowbe, a pioneering transformationallearning platform. In 2014, she was selected by WEF to be a Young Global Leader. Herexperiences also include McKinsey & Co, Citigroup and teaching in Japan. She has an MBA fromHarvard Business School and a BA with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. LinkedIn

SO-YOUNG KANGFounder & CEO, Gnowbe

About GNOWBEGnowbe is a mobile-first, web-enabled, micro-learning solution designed specifically forbehavior change that delivers business impact. Gnowbe aspires to revolutionize corporateeducation through transformational learning - available anytime, anywhere. Gnowbe was builton principles of adult learning and leverages bite-sized, social learning and gamification toencourage active engagement and inspire behavior change.website

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“I think that self-doubt is what’s holding back any entrepreneur from success. If you believe in abusiness idea or a cause that is strong enough, you will naturally move the universe to make itwork. As an entrepreneur, regardless of gender, many a time you experience self-doubt. Starting,growing and scaling your business takes a lot of time, energy and mental strength which bothmen and women must be prepared for”, Sharon’s quote in entrepreneur.com. Sharon has morethan 15 years of business advisory experience in major MNCs across IT, Oil & Gas, Private Equityand Professional Services industries (including at KPMG, GE & TELUS Intl). She is a CharteredAccountant with an MBA from Manchester Business School. LinkedIn

SHARON LEECo-Founder & COO, HReasily

About HReasilyHReasily’s mission is to redefine HR by making the most complicated HR tasks simple & personaland change the way people work by making businesses focus on what’s important. HReasily’sintuitive features are seamlessly integrated into a single, cloud-based platform. Multiple streamsof HR processes can now be cut down into one smooth & easy process.website | hrtech.sg marketplace

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Pip has worked in Senior Pan-Asia HR roles across various industries, from start-up’s to MNC’s,experience which has shaped her views on the HR function. She has broad experienceformulating HR strategies that align workforce evolution to business growth and profitability,designing and implementing HR programs, and supporting the implementation of new HRpractices. Over the last 5 years, Pip has been researching and speaking about Future of Work andthe role HR needs to play in finding synergy between Humans & Technology withinorganisations. She holds an EMBA from Kellogg-HKUST, a Master of Science in HRM, a PGD inStrategy and Innovation from Oxford University’s Säid Business School. LinkedIn

PHILIPPA (PIP) PENFOLDCo-Founder & COO, PEOPLE COLLIDER

About People ColliderPeople Collider is focused on building the new world of work with HR. They design experientiallearning that equip HR teams with the most in-demand skills. From Business, Leadership,Technology, Data and Design, their courses and events teach the fundamentals that anchorinnovation and propel HR into the new world of work.website

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Grace Kerrison is a seasoned business leader with 20+ years experience working across Canada,Australia and Asia. Prior to joining Pymetrics, Grace held senior roles at Telecom NZ, Cisco,Microsoft & LinkedIn. Throughout her career, Grace has incubated and taken to market newproducts and business groups, and at the same time has gained a reputation for developing highperforming teams. In leading people, she believes that teams need to be diverse and inclusiveand buy-in to a shared purpose to achieve high performance. LinkedIn

GRACE KERRISONVP – GLOBAL ACCOUNTS & MD – APAC, pymetrics

About pymetricsFounded by Harvard/MIT-trained PhDs, pymetrics uses cognitive data and AI to help globalclients to make their hiring and internal mobility more predictive and less biased. Pymetricsoffers a neuroscience-based assessment & prediction technology to transform the waycompanies hire, retain, and develop their employees. Pymetrics has over 80 enterprise clientsand offices in NYC, London, Sydney & Singapore.website

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Nicole found her calling in HR, particularly when learning that enterprises still had much roomfor improvement in their HRM policies and methods. After a successful career at a major bank,Nicole saw the potential of technology in the HR sector. She left the banking industry and set upRewardz with Sudhanshu Tewari and Jaya Maru. Now she works with organisations to buildholistic, tech-driven employment benefits platforms and corporate wellness programs, with theend goal of making work life more enriching for both organisations and their staff in a big way.She is a graduate from University of Canberra. LinkedIn

NICOLE SEAHCo-Founder & COO, Rewardz

About RewardzStarted in Oct 2012, Rewardz offers mobile solutions to corporates to simplify employeeengagement programs. With a strong foothold in Singapore, Rewardz is among the largestplayers in digital engagement and incentives globally. They serve over 150 clients in 19countries and remain focussed on their vision of providing one-stop digital engagement andwellness solutions.website | hrtech.sg marketplace

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Tulika started her career in Management Consulting and Banking, but later found her calling inRecruitment. She has extensive experience in starting up, growing & turning aroundinternational recruitment firms. In her previous roles, she has been ED of Michael Page as wellas MD – Asia for Hudson Global. Her deep understanding of the Recruitment market led to theinception of Snaphunt, an AI-driven recruiting platforms that helps companies hire talent for askill and culture fit. She is also the author of Alice in Corporateland, a book on Career Successpublished by Penguin. LinkedIn

TULIKA TRIPATHIFounder & CEO, Snaphunt

About SNAPHUNTSnaphunt is a smart end-to-end hiring platform that helps job seekers find the right role, andemployers hire great talent quickly and conveniently. For a job seeker, Snaphunt gets rid of the CVblackhole and brings more transparency to the process. For an employer, Snaphunt drasticallyreduces a lot of the manual tasks involved in recruiting and reduces hiring costs by more than 90%as compared to agency recruiters.website | hrtech.sg marketplace

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An Electronics Engineer, Nina spent her initial career as a business manager in IT firms ICL andSteria. Her entrepreneurial spirit then her to start leading executive search firm, Nastrac Groupin 1997 and subsequently steered its expansion into Finland, London, Singapore, US & Canada.X0PA AI was founded in 2017 to disrupt their own traditional search business and pivot to a SaaSbased AI, ML platform. She is a winner of prestigious awards like Female Business Personality ofthe year, Singapore, 2016, The European World Finance – Entrepreneur of the Year 2016;Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 to name a few. LinkedIn

NINA ALAG SURIFounder & CEO, X0PA Ai

About X0PA AIAn AI platform that enables companies and job seekers to find the right match with each other(in terms of job fit, skills, and culture fitment) so that there’s a high level of retention andengagement. X0PA Ai enables leaders to take charge of the growth and future of theirorganizations by reducing the time to hire by 87.5%, improvement in CV screening by 400%,savings in cost to hire by 50% and significant improvement in employee retention rates.website | hrtech.sg marketplace

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There are certain limitations in terms of information availability and hence has been delivered on a “best effort basis”.

SWECHHA MOHAPATRASenior Consultant – Digital HR

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