Join our ESSEC & Mannheim EMBA - Asia Pacific Speaker Series – The Future of Work, Rethinking Talent & Career in the Age of AI
Date: 16 October 2025, Thursday
Venue: (In-person) ESSEC APAC campus, 5 Nepal Park, 3C10. See directions here
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30 PM
Registration will start from 6:30 PM
Hybrid models, the gig economy, and AI are rapidly redefining how organisations operate in Southeast Asia. This session explores how these forces are reshaping leadership, talent management, and organisational culture, and what strategies can help senior executives harness disruption to build resilient, high-performing teams amid such disruption.
Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 PM | Registration
7:00 - 7:05 PM | Welcome Remarks by Professor Julien Salanave, Academic Director, ESSEC & Mannheim EMBA
7:05 - 7:35 PM | Keynote
7:35 - 8:30 PM | Panel discussion followed by a 15 min audience Q&A
Presented by:
Vinos Samuel
Head of HR Service Delivery & Contingent Talent Netflix APAC
Vinos Samuel has spent over 15 years transforming how organizations think about people, performance, and scale. He has led workforce transformation and HR operations across Asia-Pacific, helping companies unlock value through data-driven strategy, technology, and human insight.
At Netflix, he built and led the regional HR service delivery and contingent-talent ecosystem - supporting thousands of employees, contractors, and creative partners across more than ten countries. By combining digital innovation with a deep understanding of culture and context, he helped shape how Netflix scales talent, experience, and agility across markets.
Before Netflix, Vinos, as a consultant, designed and implemented large-scale recruitment and workforce management programs for clients at Cielo and Randstad Sourceright, overseeing multimillion-dollar portfolios across industries from tech to life sciences.
Today, he continues to explore how automation, analytics, and new models of work are redefining the boundaries between full-time and flexible talent - and what this means for leaders building organizations for the next decade.
May-Anne Tham
EMBA Alumni, Global HR Business Partner, SAP
May-Anne Tham is Global HR Business Partner at SAP Asia Ltd. A successful cross-functional leader with varied experiences in HR, Finance and Consulting across different industries, May-Anne has assumed leadership and expert positions in Audit, Quality Management, Cash Collections and HR. She oversees the deployment and embedment of the people agenda across a wide variety of teams and functions, including topics such as team and organisational development, business transformation, HR strategy, and workforce insights.
Jack Huang
EMBA Alumni, Associate Director, KPMG
Award-winning and passionate educator, corporate trainer, leadership and talent learning consultant with a background in public policy/government affairs, and 20 years of professional experience across the public, private and academic sectors. Two years ago, I made a deliberate career pivot to pursue a full- time career in adult learning and development, leveraging more than 12 years of mentoring, lecturing, facilitation, workshop design and organizational development experience.
As a firm believer of people-centred lifelong learning, I oversee the end-to-end learning experience, supported by diverse credentials ranging from personality profiling, design thinking, corporate transformation and change management to diversity, equity and inclusion. My ambition is to become a truly world-class expert in talent, leadership and skilling, delivering transformative learning experiences for working professionals around the globe.
Mark Chen
EMBA Alumni, HR Director, Omattrix
Mark Chen is a dedicated HR practitioner with an ESSEC & Mannheim EMBA degree and over 20 years of professional experience spanning HR, Sales and Marketing, Legal, Administration, and International Trading. He has fully adapted to Singapore HR practices, including payroll processing, the Singapore Employment Act, and the CPF Act. Mark offers a comprehensive HR background through leadership roles at Arlanxeo APAP HQ, Merit APAC HQ, Michelman APAC HQ, and Bekaert Asia HQ, with particular expertise in Compensation & Benefits, Talent Acquisition, and Learning & Development.
Before moving into in-house HR, he served as a Talent Acquisition consultant with Hudson, supporting recruitment for US and European MNCs in China. He also gained over five years of commercial experience in Singapore across various industries, providing him with extensive exposure to business operations in Southeast Asia and China.
