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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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 KOO
Founder & CEO
CXA Group
SO-YOUNG KANG
Founder & CEO
gnowbe
SHARON LEE
Co-Founder & COO
HReasily
PHILIPPA PENFOLD
Co-Founder & CEO
People Collider
GRACE KERRISON
VP & MD – APAC,
pymetrics
NICOLE SEAH
Co-Founder & COO
Rewardz
TULIKA TRIPATHI
Founder & CEO
snaphunt
NINA ALAG SURI
Founder & CEO
X0PA Ai
DOROTHY YIU
Co-Founder & COO
EngageRocket
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Rosaline invested $5M of her savings and borrowed another $5M to build CXA. Now CXA has
hundreds of thousands users across 20 countries in Asia and has been awarded Insurtech of the
Year, Top CEO, Global Innovations in Healthcare, Asian Human Capital Leadership Award, Asian
Insurance Innovations & HR Vendor of the Year for Corp Wellness and Comp & Benefits. Rosaline
supervised 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 a
graduate of UCLA Cybernetics & Columbia Business School. LinkedIn
ROSALINE CHOW KOO
Founder & CEO, CXA Group
About CXA Group
CXA is on a mission to improve employee health by shifting treatment spend to wellness and
disease prevention. It focuses on unlocking wellness in the workplace without firms needing to
spend more, by converting existing insurance & healthcare dollars into early detection and
disease prevention. They focus on empowering employees to become healthier while reducing
healthcare 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 run
businesses all their lives. In early 2016, she decided to leave consulting and start EngageRocket
to solve problems faced by the Human Resources function, but with real-time data and
technology. She is a Double Degree holder from the Singapore Management University. LinkedIn
DOROTHY YIU
Co-Founder & COO, EngageRocket
About EngageRocket
EngageRocket is a leading employee engagement analytics provider that helps leaders and
organisations make better people decisions using real-time data. EngageRocket automates
employee feedback and analytics to deliver management actionable insight that improves
employee engagement and performance. EngageRocket now serves more than 20 industries
across 14 countries and has analysed two million responses in several Asian languages.
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So-Young Kang is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about maximizing human creative
potential. She is Catalyst & Founder of award-winning Transformation Design (TD) firm Awaken
Group that integrates strategy, leadership & innovation to design experiences that catalyze
change. So-Young Kang is also the Founder & CEO at Gnowbe, a pioneering transformational
learning platform. In 2014, she was selected by WEF to be a Young Global Leader. Her
experiences also include McKinsey & Co, Citigroup and teaching in Japan. She has an MBA from
Harvard Business School and a BA with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. LinkedIn
SO-YOUNG KANG
Founder & CEO, Gnowbe
About GNOWBE
Gnowbe is a mobile-first, web-enabled, micro-learning solution designed specifically for
behavior change that delivers business impact. Gnowbe aspires to revolutionize corporate
education through transformational learning - available anytime, anywhere. Gnowbe was built
on principles of adult learning and leverages bite-sized, social learning and gamification to
encourage 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 a
business idea or a cause that is strong enough, you will naturally move the universe to make it
work. 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 both
men and women must be prepared for”, Sharon’s quote in entrepreneur.com. Sharon has more
than 15 years of business advisory experience in major MNCs across IT, Oil & Gas, Private Equity
and Professional Services industries (including at KPMG, GE & TELUS Intl). She is a Chartered
Accountant with an MBA from Manchester Business School. LinkedIn
SHARON LEE
Co-Founder & COO, HReasily
About HReasily
HReasily’s mission is to redefine HR by making the most complicated HR tasks simple & personal
and change the way people work by making businesses focus on what’s important. HReasily’s
intuitive features are seamlessly integrated into a single, cloud-based platform. Multiple streams
of HR processes can now be cut down into one smooth & easy process.
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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 experience
formulating HR strategies that align workforce evolution to business growth and profitability,
designing and implementing HR programs, and supporting the implementation of new HR
practices. Over the last 5 years, Pip has been researching and speaking about Future of Work and
the role HR needs to play in finding synergy between Humans & Technology within
organisations. She holds an EMBA from Kellogg-HKUST, a Master of Science in HRM, a PGD in
Strategy and Innovation from Oxford University’s Säid Business School. LinkedIn
PHILIPPA (PIP) PENFOLD
Co-Founder & COO, PEOPLE COLLIDER
About People Collider
People Collider is focused on building the new world of work with HR. They design experiential
learning 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 anchor
innovation 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 new
products and business groups, and at the same time has gained a reputation for developing high
performing teams. In leading people, she believes that teams need to be diverse and inclusive
and buy-in to a shared purpose to achieve high performance. LinkedIn
GRACE KERRISON
VP – GLOBAL ACCOUNTS & MD – APAC, pymetrics
About pymetrics
Founded by Harvard/MIT-trained PhDs, pymetrics uses cognitive data and AI to help global
clients to make their hiring and internal mobility more predictive and less biased. Pymetrics
offers a neuroscience-based assessment & prediction technology to transform the way
companies hire, retain, and develop their employees. Pymetrics has over 80 enterprise clients
and 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 room
for 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 up
Rewardz with Sudhanshu Tewari. Now she works with organisations to build holistic, tech-driven
employment benefits platforms and corporate wellness programs, with the end 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 SEAH
Co-Founder & COO, Rewardz
About Rewardz
Started in Oct 2012, Rewardz offers mobile solutions to corporates to simplify employee
engagement programs. With a strong foothold in Singapore, Rewardz is among the largest
players in offering digital incentives across Asia. They serve over 120 clients in 11 countries and
remain focused on their vision of building a one-stop engagement and wellness platform.
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Tulika started her career in Management Consulting and Banking, but later found her calling in
Recruitment. She has extensive experience in starting up, growing & turning around
international recruitment firms. In her previous roles, she has been ED of Michael Page as well
as MD – Asia for Hudson Global. Her deep understanding of the Recruitment market led to the
inception of Snaphunt, an AI-driven recruiting platforms that helps companies hire talent for a
skill and culture fit. She is also the author of Alice in Corporateland, a book on Career Success
published by Penguin. LinkedIn
TULIKA TRIPATHI
Founder & CEO, Snaphunt
About SNAPHUNT
Snaphunt is a smart end-to-end hiring platform that helps job seekers find the right role, and
employers hire great talent quickly and conveniently. For a job seeker, Snaphunt gets rid of the CV
blackhole and brings more transparency to the process. For an employer, Snaphunt drastically
reduces a lot of the manual tasks involved in recruiting and reduces hiring costs by more than 90%
as compared to agency recruiters.
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An Electronics Engineer, Nina spent her initial career as a business manager in IT firms ICL and
Steria. Her entrepreneurial spirit then her to start leading executive search firm, Nastrac Group
in 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 SaaS
based AI, ML platform. She is a winner of prestigious awards like Female Business Personality of
the year, Singapore, 2016, The European World Finance – Entrepreneur of the Year 2016;
Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 to name a few. LinkedIn
NINA ALAG SURI
Founder & CEO, X0PA Ai
About X0PA AI
An 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 and
engagement. X0PA Ai enables leaders to take charge of the growth and future of their
organizations 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.
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