Moving into a career of research and development, continuous improvement and Lean 6 Sigma, Dr. Arul joined Alcan in Banbury Laboratories, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom in 2001. He started as research scientist for Aluminium rolling and continuous casting process and engineering measurement technologies later moving on to Novelis Inc Global Technology Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 2004 for Lean 6 Sigma based continuous improvements, strategic and multi-generational planning for the Aluminium Light Gauge Metal business group and Technology Innovation group.

Among Dr. Arul’s finest Lean 6 Sigma achievements was a project to scope out a suite of projects to eliminate losses of process waste. The 6 sigma project is estimated to return US $3MM in value creation and reduce the dependence of tier 1 material supply. The project has both a positive economic and environmental impact. Dr. Arul led that project using a diverse group of engineers and operations personnel using the methodologies of Lean 6 Sigma. This work broke new ground by developing the required methods and tools to perform “scoping projects” and will serve to lead others to do the same.

Eric has extensive experience working with multinationals such as Pepsi and Unilever. At Pepsi, he was part of the core team that spearheaded many creative and successful campaigns and innovative products like Pepsi Twist, the Britney Spears Campaign as well as the Manchester United Campaign in 2001.

While at Unilever Malaysia in 2002, Eric was appointed lead brand custodian for Lipton, Unilever’s largest worldwide food brand. In a food category that had experienced stagnant growth for many years, Eric’s leadership drove a staggering 30% value growth within one year. His marketing campaigns were showcased around the world and gained recognition as “best practice case studies” for brand building. Eric also orchestrated the launch of Lipton Ice Tea in Malaysia. In addition to crafting the business plan and marketing strategies, he was responsible for developing the entire channel architecture to penetrate both retail and out-of-home segments. He later moved onto a regional role in Unilever, and was responsible for planning and executing a wide and comprehensive brand activation campaign for a portfolio of leading brands (Lipton, Knorr, Ladies Choice, Skippy and Planta) across Malaysia and Singapore.

Throughout his career Mohamad has been involved in Organisational Redesign efforts involving corporate wide culture building and revamping Human Processes. Mohamad was a member of the core team that started – up the ‘greenfield’, Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s first Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Plant at Kulim Hi-Tech Park. Mohamad has received several accolades and recognition through his work llife, the pinnacle of which was when, he was awarded the inaugural recipient of the “National Human Resources Award for Outstanding Achievement for the Year 2000” presented by the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia in 2001.

Mohamad is happily married to Azimah bte Alwi and is blessed with a daughter, Intan Suraya and a son, Mohamad Sophian.Mohamad studied Diploma in Business Studies (off –campus) at ITM.

Roshan then joined National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) at its Rockefeller Center, New York City hub as News & Sports Analyst responsible for 6 news programs, The Today Show, Dateline, and Sunrise and lead the MSNBC cable network start-up efforts. Roshan then moved to London, UK, to take on a cross-functional pan-Europe sourcing role for GE Capital Europe focusing on acquisition and integration of Sourcing operations and processes across Europe and the US. Roshan returned to the US in 1998 to join GE Corporate Initiatives Group (CIG), GE think-tank, to be project manager of global Y2K efforts and driving global initiatives.

In April 1999, Roshan moved to Malaysia as CFO & Executive Director of GE Engines Services Malaysia (GEESM). Roshan helped grow GEESM from $30million to a US$160 million shop and helped in its successful turnaround. In 2001 Roshan took on a leadership development role with GE Crotonville as a Learning Leader, spearheading the training and leadership development efforts in Asia Pacific and Australia.

In 2003, Roshan took over as Director of HR Asia Pacific, overseeing Finance organizations across Asia. He had responsibility for Finance training, organization and staffing issues across Asia including pipeline programmes like FMP and Corporate Audit Staff (CAS). In 2007. Roshan moved out of GE and took a role as the Director of Global Talent Management for Johnson & Johnson. He supported J & J’s global emerging leader programme design and implementation and the Global Succession Planning and Performance Management projects in addition to his talent management responsibilities in Asia.

Roshan is certified in numerous programmes including Executive Coaching, Myer-Briggs Type indicator, Change Acceleration Process, WorkOut, Strategy, Finance education and other leadership programmes. Roshan has the rare distinction of achieving a perfect score evaluation from a training session he conducted in China. His infectious, unorthodox and inspirational teaching style are well-received across various geographies and people groups from Europe, the US, Middle East and across Asia.

He started his career doing an internship with the Proctor and Gamble Company USA, as a field Advertising Representative in Boston, Massachusetts. He then return to Malaysia in 1986 and joined a leading Power and Utilities Company in Malaysia in their Hotels and Resorts Division as part of the pre-opening team in one of their boutique private island resort heading purchasing then on to Human Resources. From there he opened a city hotel for the company as their Human Resource leader. Samuel was then recruited by Asia’s leading Hotel and Resorts Group as their Human Resource Leader in one of their premier 5 Star Business Hotel. Samuel developed programmes and initiatives that lead to the Hotel getting the Prime Ministers Quality Award and the ISO certification the first Hotel to do so in Malaysia.

From here Samuel spent 6 years with a Multi National Bank overseeing regional support and client services as Head of Management and Development. He was responsible for setting up the Bank’s Global Shared Services Centre in Kuala Lumpur, and migrating wholesale and consumer banking operations from 26 countries of Asia, Africa and Middle East into this centre, and in the process, the centre grew from an initial 200 headcount to 2,400 within 4 years. The key leading programs and development Samuel implemented included Senior Management Leadership, Implementing Six Sigma Quality (including a leadership jumpstart in collaboration with Motorola University), Change Management (China, India, Malaysia), and a re-engineering Group Corporate Banking Operations project in 2005.

Sulynn works with organisations to energise their workforce for outstanding performance. Combining practical corporate experience with evidence-based research in positive psychology, she assists CEOs in evaluating their organisations’ existing and proposed change initiatives for coherence, congruence, relevance and positive impact through strategic road-mapping and targeted interventions. She designs and implements strength-based programmes that facilitate building positive workplaces, and conducts in-house individual and group coaching sessions/ workshops that focus on enabling leaders and managers to fully engage in their roles while developing quality interpersonal relationships, thus enhancing both corporate results and individual well-being.

Sulynn has 23 years of research, management and consulting experience working in several industry sectors. An erstwhile economist-statistician and human resource management consultant with experience in a variety of capacities, Sulynn is passionate about people and lifelong learning. Sulynn holds a bachelor degree in economics (finance & accounting, and organizational behavior) at Monash University, Australia, a B.Sc (Psychology) from Upper Iowa University, and qualified as Chartered Company Secretary and Administrator (RMIT, Australia). She was the first Asian to graduate with the pioneer class of Master of Applied Positive Psychology led by Prof Dr Martin Seligman in 2006 at the University of Pennsylvania. Human Capital Perspectives which has offices in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong was established in 1997, with the objective of building people, enabling organisations and enriching lives.