Sergio de la Calle

Telefonica Universitas

Programme Director& Faculty

Comic artist by vocation, Sociologist by accident, HR expert by profession. I’m also a bit masochist as I have been working in HR for twenty years. A bit of recruiting & on-boarding, a bit of Direction by objectives & performance, a bit of Compensation, a lot of Engagement & culture change programmes and many HR platforms implementated. Currently pretty excited in the position of Programme Director& Faculty at Universitas, the leadership corporate University of Telefónica.

Andre De Wit

Leadership Academy Amsterdam

Dean

Andre De Wit until recently served as Vice President Learning and Capability Building for the Carlsberg-group, an internationally Beer-brewing company with 45.000 employees and factories in 40 countries mainly in North, Western & Eastern Europe and Asia. Carlsberg, which has his home base in Copenhagen Denmark, is currently the 3rd biggest beer-brewing company in the world. Previously to joining Carlsberg Andre was the Group Director Learning at Metro A.G, Developer and Facilitator of Cultural Transformation Program at Friesland Campina, CEO MCC Croatia at Metro Cash and Carry and CEO IKEA Iberica.

Andy Longley

Teamup.inc

Co-founder & CEO

Andy is an occupational psychologist by training and has worked across leadership development, talent management, talent acquisition and organisational development over three continents. He has worked across a variety of industries including Defence, telco, technology, aviation, sports and now fashion tech with Zalando. Andy has enjoyed the experience working for some other large global brands such as IBM, Emirates Airline & adidas, but also across smaller organisations as a consultant. This journey has led to a breadth of learnings focused on building a performance culture, leadership capabilities, effective team leadership, and internal talent development ecosystems.

Sam Neo

People Mentality Inc

Founder & Chief People Officer

Sam Neo is currently a founder of 2 start-ups. The first being People Mentality Inc, one of APAC's top 10 HR and Employer Branding consultancy firm that helps organizations become an Employer of Choice while his recent venture, Stories of Asia, a story-tech platform that was set up to empower the Asian community with a voice through storytelling.

As a trusted advisor, he has worked with leaders in various large and reputable organizations such as Samsung, Prudential, L'Oreal, Diageo, Under Armour, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and more.

Besides securing the Ministry of Manpower's National Human Resource Scholarship in 2011, Sam's contributions in the HR community were also recognized and in turn, awarded as one of the HR Rising Stars in 2016.

As a millennial HR thought leader, he is regularly invited to deliver keynotes at conferences globally. In addition, Sam has also been invited to share his insights as an HR and Millennial expert on national TV and radio channels as well as being featured on major publications such as The Business Times and Straits Times.

Finally, Sam was also most recently co-opted as the youngest council member of the Singapore Human Resources Institute to transform its brand image and drive membership.