Abhay Singh is an Associate Consultant with the Transactions & Transformation practice. He assists clients to solve their organisation and people challenges and achieve their digital ambitions. He has worked with firms across Asia Pacific and has over 5 years of experience in delivering value on organisation and people levers during significant change scenarios such as M&A, business transformation, and culture changes.
Alvin Low-Thue is the head of Korn Ferry Advisory in Hong Kong and a Senior Client Partner of the firm. Alvin is an expert in strategy and policy development and clarification, operating model and organisation design, organisational and leadership development, transformation program design and management, and cultural change and change management.
Amanda Ryadi is a Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Indonesia. She provides advisory to clients on various topics, including remuneration design, short-term incentive design, organisational design, performance management, and strategic workforce planning.
Amanda is a Client Partner, Financial Services at Korn Ferry. She has led searches for some of Australia’s leading ASX listed organizations and, with her focus on diversity, has developed a reputation for helping clients address issues surrounding a lack of diversity in leadership. She has worked with organizations to identify high potential diverse talent and facilitated client workshops on how to deal pragmatically with, and to respond to, some of the challenges associated with the current lack of diversity.
Andika Yalasena is a Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Indonesia. Supporting clients in change management and organisation transformation, he specialises in organisational restructuring, reward management, organisation and work design.
Andrew How is the Vice Chairman and Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory, Singapore. He has extensive experience in the area of organisation development and people strategy and specialises in organisation restructuring, compensation design and developing performance scorecards, talent management, leadership development, top team intervention, the transformation of SME and Family Owned Business.
Andrew has over 20 years’ experience delivering strategy alignment and business transformation across the Asia Pacific region. He works closely with clients to deliver business transformation by effectively ensuring alignment between strategy, organisation, digital and people.
Andrew is a Senior Principal at Korn Ferry Advisory with over 30 years of consulting experience providing practical solutions and advice to Chief Executives and Senior Executives in all aspects of organisation performance.
Anita is a Senior Client Partner and Head of Korn Ferry’s Assessment & Succession practice, Australasia. She works directly with CEOs, CEO successors and top teams and also advises organisations on broader leadership development and talent strategies. Anita’s areas of passion include CEO and senior leadership development and the development of talent in Asia.
Anne Lee is a Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Malaysia. Anne specialised in the areas of leadership, talent assessment and development, organisation design, and rewards management.
Anna is passionate about helping leaders and individuals be the best that they can be. As a consultant in Korn Ferry's Advisory business she works with leaders to help them unlock their own potential and the full potential of their teams in order to drive high performance and organisational results.
Avdesh Mittal is a Senior Client Partner and Managing Director for Korn Ferry's Digital Practice, APAC based in Mumbai, India. He has over 20 years of work experience across industry sectors, both in the traditional manufacturing sector and the knowledge-based services sector.
Barnaby Smith is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. He works with clients to help design and implement their people and organisational strategies with a focus on helping individuals, teams and organisations improve performance and fulfill their potential.
Ben Frost leads Korn Ferry's global Reward Products business, which delivers benchmark compensation data and associated services to thousands of clients in more than 110 countries. He has worked with many of the largest organisations in the world, to help them use data to get their reward right.
Bevan Gray is the Product Sales Leader for Germany, Austria, Switzerland at Korn Ferry. He works with directors, CEOs and senior management teams at the intersection of strategy, organisation, and leadership to enhance team culture and performance.
Bita Budiariani is a Principal at Korn Ferry Indonesia. She has over 14 years of experience in supporting clients though developing their talent management system and cultivating leaders.
Brent Miller is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory based in Auckland, New Zealand. Brent partners with local and multinational organisations to maximise their people and strategic potential. His expertise is in reward strategy, executive compensation, performance management, organisation design and workforce planning.
Brent is a Senior Client Director at Korn Ferry. He is an expert in measurement-driven organisational change, employee engagement, and human capital strategy.
Cameron Cleur is a Senior Client Director for Korn Ferry RPO and Professional Search, Australia. He manages implementation, innovation and technology for some of our large scale RPO solutions for clients such as Jetstar, Nike, Cummins South Pacific/ North East/ South East Asia and NBN RPO Solutions.
Carl is Sector Leader Industrial Markets for Korn Ferry in Australia. He is responsible for Korn Ferry’s client base across the industrial sector with a particular focus upon the Industrial Services, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors. Carl has placed numerous executives on a global basis and leads one of our biggest resources accounts.
Chris Mayler is a Senior Client Director for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. For the last 15 years, Chris helped organisations maximise the potential of their workforce to drive business performance.
Cyrus Cavina is a Senior Client Director with Korn Ferry with over 15 years’ experience in Australia, Asia Pacific, EMEA and the US and the ability to build new business and grow existing relationships.
Debbie Wiggan is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. For over two decades, Debbie has helped organisations grow from the inside out, applying the best research-driven, results-based solutions to all aspects of various people and culture related challenges.
Dhritiman Chakrabarti (DC) is a Senior Client Partner and the Asia Pacific Leader for Rewards & Benefits Solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in HR management consulting, across two major global firms.
Diana Khaitova is an expert in Talent Acquisition, RPO solution design and Employer Branding. She has over 15 years of recruitment and commercial experience in a range of sectors including HR, Operations and Marketing.
Dilal Ranasinghe is the Head of Search & Client Development ASEAN for Korn Ferry RPO and Professional Search. His role encompasses overall management of the ‘Emerging Leaders’ search practice and also leads sales for Korn Ferry in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Dr. Denny Turner is an Associate Client Partner at Korn Ferry Indonesia. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading major projects related to HR transformation, reward strategy design and implementation, competency modeling, variable incentive design, performance management design, talent management and other areas.
Richard E. Boyatzis is a Professor in the Departments of Organisational Behaviour, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and in Human Resources at ESADE in Barcelona.
Emily Szakacs is a general manager at Korn Ferry and leads the Product business across Australia and New Zealand. She has a background in talent and assessment working with large organisations in the resources, oil and gas and consumer sectors.
Emma is the Vice President of the Korn Ferry RPO business in New Zealand and is also responsible for driving the strategic direction of the Auckland Talent Delivery Centre. She leads a large hub of sourcing specialists delivering sourcing and administration support to our key RPO clients across ANZ.
Eugene Chang is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Singapore. He specialises in working with government, business and HR leaders to find novel ways to raise sector and firm-level competitiveness through the formulation of human capital strategy and the design and implementation of integrated HR systems.
Felicity brings over twenty years of experience leading teams and influencing stakeholders through organisational transformation and change. She has a strong track record of assisting business leaders to navigate through ambiguity and uncertainty to optimise business performance.
Gareth's key area of expertise is in designing and implementing initiatives for senior leaders to drive executive team effectiveness and internal development needs. He uses his natural coaching skills in working with senior executives to not only identify and assess their Leadership Development needs, but also to support them as they focus on specific skills to enhance their leadership effectiveness.
Gautam Sethi is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. He is a specialist in organisational transformation and business performance improvement.
Graeme has a successful track record in leading many strategy alignment and business transformation initiatives across multiple organisations and industries. He is passionate about delivering meaningful and sustainable results for clients through trusted and honest relationships.
Guy works with organisations to design and develop innovative talent management solutions that helps them align their business objectives and workforce strategies. His focus is on developing talent management programs that include: Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Managed Service Provision (MSP) services across the Asia Pacific region.
Halim Ariff is the Country Manager for Korn Ferry Products Group Malaysia, with 20 years of experience. Halim’s areas of specialisation include Integrated Human Capital Management, Organisational Re-Structuring, Organisational Design, Manpower Optimisation, Performance Management and Strategic Rewards Management.
Ian has over 25 years’ experience working for Korn Ferry with his roles primarily based in the Reward Information Services division. His experience covers the Asia Pacific region where he has worked with large multinationals such as Shell, and Degussa in Singapore, and Hua Wei in China. Ian is a regular presenter at the bi-annual Asia Pacific Reward Information Services chemical sector forum.
Jacqueline is a Senior Client Partner and Consulting Director for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia with over ten years of consulting experience. She is focused on the impact of leadership on engagement and business performance, top team effectiveness, leadership capability development, and talent management strategies.
Janice Ho is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry in Singapore. She works closely with senior leaders across industries and sectors, with a key focus on talent assessment and management, leadership transformation in senior teams and executive coaching.
Jenny Wong is a Principal based in Korn Ferry's Kuala Lumpur Office and a member of the Firm's Global Technology Markets. Jenny has over two decades of practical consulting experience specialising in Executive Search. Her forte is her deep understanding of managers and senior leaders, hence her many successes in placements for large multinationals and regional conglomerates across Asia Pacific.
John is a Senior Client Director based in Korn Ferry’s Auckland office. He brings over twenty five years of experience helping organisations achieve better business results through effective talent management.
Experienced leadership consultant and executive coach with an extensive business management background. Combining formal methodologies with practical insights, she has successfully partnered with a diverse set of clients to bring about positive change.
Kartikey Singh is the Head of Reward and an Associate Client Partner based in Korn Ferry Singapore. He has worked in other regional and global roles in the area of Rewards and Benefits before moving to Singapore. He has significant experience in all areas of executive and broad based compensation, including design of Total Reward programs, development of compensation philosophies, strategies and alignment with business strategies.
Executive Chairman, Australasia, Korn Ferry
Katie Lahey is a business leader with deep experience in tourism, government, retail, talent sourcing, cultural transformation and the arts.
Alongside her role for Korn Ferry, Ms Lahey is also Chairman of Australia’s peak tourism and transport lobby group, the Tourism & Transport Forum and a board member of Star Entertainment Group (ASX: SGR).
She is the former Chairman of Carnival Australia and a former board member of David Jones, Australia Post, Hills Motorway, the Garvan Research Foundation, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the Australia Council Major Performing Arts Board.
Kevin Goh is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory, Singapore. He advises senior management and remuneration committees on solutions around senior leaders and board of director's remunerations with emphasis on linking total rewards to company strategy and performance.
Kirti Yagnik is a Senior Consultant with Korn Ferry Rewards Practice based out of Australia. She possesses sound knowledge of human resources principles, demonstrated high level of people skills and a track record of working effectively to overcome complex business and human resource issues. Having worked across Asia, Europe and Australia over the last 16 years, Kirti is a professional geared towards a global outlook with the capability to value add as a trusted advisor to complex, dynamic organisations.
Korn Ferry is the preeminent global people and organisational advisory firm. We help leaders, organisations and societies succeed by releasing the full power and potential of people. Our nearly 7,000 colleagues deliver services through Korn Ferry and our and divisions.
Lindsay Every is a client partner and digital lead and he serves clients across a number of industry sectors including; technology, digital media and consumer markets.
Lynne Nixon is a Senior Client Partner based in Korn Ferry’s Sydney office, where she is a member of the Firm’s Global Board and CEO Services Practice and leads the Consumer, Retail, Media, Life Sciences and Health Services Practices for ANZ.
Dr. Mana Lohatepanont is a Managing Director with Korn Ferry Advisory, responsible for emerging ASEAN markets. Currently, he manages Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam offices. With more than 25 years of advisory and HR experience, Dr. Mana works with senior executives and board members to enhance organisational and people effectiveness.
Mary Chua, Senior Client Partner and Rewards & Benefits Practice Leader for Korn Ferry Advisory, Kuala Lumpur. She specialised in M&A and total rewards, with over 20 years of consulting and corporate experience in APAC and Europe.
Matt Chaplin is a Senior Client Director for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. He helps organisations attract, select, develop and retain the right talent to deliver on their strategy. He is an expert in designing and implementing talent assessment programs.
May Knight is the Managing Director at Korn Ferry Hong Kong. She has over 25 years of experience from operational and consulting roles in Asia and Europe.
Melisa Soentoro is a Principal for Korn Ferry Advisory, Indonesia. She has deep experience in people strategy formulation, organisation structure design, performance management, remuneration design, and strategic workforce planning (SWP).
Melissa Swift is a Senior Client Partner for Digital Solutions at Korn Ferry, based in the firm’s New York City office. She is charged with driving the development, alignment, and marketing of innovative solutions for digital transformation offerings across Korn Ferry. She partners with clients to understand their deepest challenges in the digital arena, and to address those challenges in novel and comprehensive ways.
Michael Distefano, based in Shanghai, is Korn Ferry's President, Asia Pacific and also a member of Korn Ferry’s Global Operating Committee. He is passionate about the importance of people in boosting organisational performance and is the driving force behind many of the firm's research projects.
Miroslawa, heads the Asia Pacific for Pay and Engagement Delivery. She leads a regional team that runs employee engagement surveys, using the results to support organisational strategy application and action planning workshops. Mirka has over sixteen years of experience in helping clients analyse reward trends. Her expertise includes linking engagement data and building employee engagement programs to support business performance.
Mohammad Iesa Morshidi is an Associate Client Partner for Korn Ferry based in Kuala Lumpur. He is an experienced HR practitioner with expertises across talent management and transformation areas including talent and leadership development.
Mutiara Pratiwi is a Service Delivery Leader for Korn Ferry PRO and Professional Search, Indonesia. She leads a team of talent consultants in delivering strategic and operational talent recruitment solutions.
Nadhisha Piyasena is a Client Director for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. He works with clients to solve people challenges that get in the way of business performance. He focuses on thinking broadly, commercially, and critically to provide evidence-based and practical solutions that add noticeable value to organisations in the areas of leadership development, employee engagement and talent management.
Nick Avery is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. He is a leadership and organisation development expert with over 20 years of experience in senior human resources roles across Asia Pacific. He is a creative problem solver who advises CEOs and executives on finding innovative ways to adapt for a new work order.
Pacha Krishnan is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory, Malaysia. He has over 20 years of experience and specialises in human capital transformation and strategic talent management which include remuneration management, performance management, Board governance and effectiveness and expatriate remuneration management.
Patrick is a Client Development Director at Korn Ferry's Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Professional Search business. He partners with current and potential clients to assist them in reaching their goals through tailored talent acquisition solutions.
Pattaree Pruttitammakul is a Client Relationship Manager at Korn Ferry Thailand. She helps clients gain organisational and business insights from employee survey, as well as draw conclusions from survey data.
Paula Haralambous is a Consultant for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. She helps organisations by bringing employee opinion and experience to the forefront through the use of innovative diagnostics and consultation.
Paul Wright is a Senior Client Director for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. Paul is a business development specialist focusing on assisting clients with reward and employee engagement solutions. He has over 20 years of experience with reward solutions focused organisations.
Phil Harrington is the Senior Client Relationship Manager for Korn Ferry Advisory, Australia. He is focused on helping organisations enhance their performance and supporting organisations with the use of assessments through recruitment and selection, on-boarding, development and coaching, identification of high potential employees, and succession planning.
Pip Eastman is the Managing Director for APAC Regional Solutions, RPO and Professional Search, Korn Ferry. She is responsible for the performance and growth of the APAC business; developing new clients, enhancing market presence and integrating RPO and Professional Search lines of business into existing clients.
Rachael is a Partner based in Korn Ferry’s Auckland office. Leading New Zealand’s Advisory practice, Rachael works with directors, CEO's, and senior management teams to drive improved business performance through people performance.
Rebecca Bose is a Senior Principal for Korn Ferry based in the Sydney office with over 20 years of corporate and consulting experience. She specialises in leadership assessment and development, change management, organisational strategy and development and more.
Rizalul Durrun Pasundani is a Consultant for Korn Ferry Advisory, Indonesia. He is experienced in business and HR analytics, executive remuneration as well as performance management.
Robert is a senior client partner based in Korn Ferry's Sydney office, from where he heads the Board Services practice in Australasia and the Asia Pacific region. He also works in the Financial Services practice and the Professional Services practice.
Satien Thedthong is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory, Thailand. With over 20 years of experience as a HR professional, Satien has deep expertise in HR services, including Strategic HR, leadership and talent, people and organisation development, competency modelling, coaching, succession planning and development programs.
Scott Hensarling is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry based in the firm’s Singapore office. His expertise and focus with clients includes Top Team effectiveness, Senior Leader Development, High Performance Culture Shaping and Executive Coaching.
Scott has over 15 years’ experience in designing both regional and global talent acquisition solutions and improving client’s performance across the entire employee lifecycle. He has a strong understanding of the types of talent issues that clients face and works with them to develop innovative and commercial solutions.
Shahril Ariffin is an Associate Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory based in the firm’s Kuala Lumpur office. He is also on the senior leadership team for Strategic Workforce Planning in Asia.
Sharad Vishvanath is a Senior Client Partner & APAC Regional Head for the Transactions & Transformation Practice. He has over 20 years of experience across Banking and Human Capital Consulting. In his previous role, he led the analytics and digital vertical for a leading small finance bank in India. He is a digital enthusiast and focuses on transforming organisations from analog to digital and enjoys shaping agile mindsets, capabilities and culture.
Shahrizal Mohd Suffian is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry Advisory, Malaysia. With over 22 years of experience, he specialises in human capital transformation and strategic talent management, includes designing organisational structure, talent management initiatives, competency modelling, rewards strategies, top team intervention, CEO and executive succession. He also has the Executive Coaching experience with Mondelez, BNM and PETRONAS.
Stephanie has a range of experience across recruitment model design, implementation, innovation & continuous improvement, change management, nad technology. She is responsible for the strategic direction and operational delivery of the RPO and Projects business lines within Australia and New Zealand.
