2023 JUDGE’S PROFILE

Felicia Tan
Senior Director, Human Resources
Novugen Pharma
Felicia is an experienced HR professional in the space of leading people matters and agenda. Her experience cut across various industries including multinationals in building materials, health sciences and pharmaceuticals, retail, and technology. In over three decades, Felicia has taken operation and strategic responsibilities in various aspects of HR and is passionate in employee engagement and development. She is a talent management expert and skilled in coaching, project management, compensation and benefits, industrial relations, and performance development. Her involvement in talent development includes future succession planning and development across multiple countries in the region and provided support to customize global talent management materials into the local market context and ease of implementation.
She is now the Senior Director, HR in Novugen, a Malaysian-based pharmaceutical company which started in Malaysia and is a wholly owned subsidiary of SciTech International based in UAE. Novugen delivers vertically integrated Finished Products globally through their R&D and manufacturing facilities located across the globe. It is the first company to have a fully automated, high containment (OEB5) Finished Products manufacturing facility in Southeast Asia, and the first Malaysian pharmaceutical company to receive approval from the USFDA.
2023 Panel of Judges

Bee Hong Tan
Head/Director, Human Resources, East Asia Manufacturing
Alcon

Shalina Gopalan
Group Chief Human Resource Officer
Asahi Holdings Southeast Asia

Norlida Azmi
Group Chief People Officer
Axiata Group

Adrita Datta
Cluster Head of Talent, Culture & Inclusion

Rebecca Khor Ying Ying
Director, Head of Human Resources

Anitha Bakhtani
Regional HR Director - APAC
CAE

Oi Sin Chok
Regional HR Director
CARRO

Koljit Singh (Ajit)
HR Director, APAC
Flexsys Malaysia

Ching Wei Quah
HR Director, APAC
Grass Valley Malaysia

Alvin Kanniah
Head of Human Resources
Ground Team Red

Terry Khoo
Vice President, Human Resources
Infineon Technologies

Ruzana Binti Mohamad Nor
Head of People, Southeast Asia
JD Sports

Li Lin Ng
HR Director
Kimberly-Clark

Ching Li Chew
HR Director
KONE Southeast Asia

Haryati Suradi
Head, Strategic HR Department
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission

Khairul Syafiqah Binti Mokhtar
Head of Human Resources
Natura Malaysia

Tracy Poh
Head of HR Operations & Business Partner
Nexperia

Felicia Tan
Senior Director, Human Resources
Novugen Pharma

Ramesh Manickam
Human Resources Director

Pauline Ng
Group Chief People Officer

Jessica Ong
Human Resources Director, Southeast Asia/Pacific
Schaeffler

Rina Yeastman
Head of HR & Education
Sephora Malaysia (Beauty In Motion

Shaukhi Hashim
Director of Human Resources
The RuMa Hotel and Residences