Jessie Khong

2024 JUDGE’S PROFILE

Group HR Director
MKA Group

Jessie Khong is the HR Director at MKA Group, a diversified group of companies in automotive, manufacturing, information technology, food and beverage, beauty and health care, agriculture and distribution with presence in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, France, Greece and United Kingdom.

Prior to MKA Group, Jessie was the Head of HR at Pentas Flora Group, a leading scheduled waste management company where she worked and partnered collaboratively with the businesses to morph the organisation into a growth-focused and future-ready ESG company. Prior to joining Pentas Flora, she was a Talent Acquisition Specialist with a local conglomerate.

At the height of her career as a Project to Facility and eventually as Sales Engineer in the water, wastewater and petrochemical industries, she took a leap of faith and joined the people-industry as an Executive Search Consultant.

What fascinates her about the people-industry is the fact that she had a blank sheet to craft the human resources playbook, with employees’ happiness and career satisfaction as the impetus of her people-building and empowerment strategy.

Jessie is a HRDC Certified Trainer and has an Executive Masters in Human Resource Management (MHRM) from Eduk8U Grad School Asia. She holds a Bachelor Degree (Hons) in Engineering with a Major in Process and Food from University Putra Malaysia.