Our Speakers’ Profiles
BUDGET 2018 : SHAPING YOUR FUTURE
A Signature Seminar on 16 November 2017 at Pullman Kuching Hotel, Kuching, Sarawak.
Christina Foo
Christina’s professional experience in accounting, tax, finance, strategic business advisory and consultancy began with a Big 4.
She has served on public interest entity boards in Malaysia and internationally, and continues on a sovereign wealth fund-owned venture capital firm.
She actively contributes her service to growing and promoting the interests of her accountancy profession with regulators, educators, the business community and the public.
As a business owner, she embraces a lifetime commitment and passion to continuous learning & improvement.
Marcus Tan
Marcus has over 18 years experience in corporate tax advisory and compliance.
His primary focus in tax advisory involved corporate strategies for tax efficiency, tax incentives planning, corporate restructuring & financing, stamp duty, RPGT, M&A tax due diligence review, IPO/RTO/privatisation and post deal issues, tax audits & investigations, and tax implications for cross border transactions.
He is a regular speaker in tax and post-budget seminars.
Anand Chelliah
Anand leads a team of over 50 dedicated tax professionals in Baker Tilly Malaysia, and is currently the Tax Leader for the Asia Pacific.
He has been involved in tax advisory and compliance services for a multitude of clients and organisations in diverse business sectors and industries. His previous experience in the tax profession also included working in PwC Malaysia, Taxand Malaysia, as well as the corporate sector.
Cindy Lim
Cindy serves clients in West and East Malaysia, backed by over 20 years of experience in tax advisory and compliance that begun with a Big 4.
She has been actively involved with GST advisory and appeal, review and implementation, and tax investigation. An avid and certified trainer, she is readying to launch her specially-designed GST Certificate course under Ministry of Higher Education’s approvals in early 2018, with a local college.
She is a regular speaker at post-Budget, IRB, RMCD and other public seminars.
Yohan Francis
Yohan specialises in Transfer Pricing.
Assisting clients with transfer pricing documentation, planning and audit defence for over 10 years, he also has tax audit and investigation and tax compliance experience.
He has worked with various industries and sectors, from manufacturing and distribution to services, in FMCG, IT & ITES, technology related products, branded apparel, lifestyle goods, food & beverages and oil & gas.
Ding Su-Lynn
Su-Lynn’s domain is corporate finance.
Her experience includes business valuations, financial due diligence, financial modelling, purchase price allocation and business strategy projects for both public and private sector companies in various industries.
She was previously attached to Merrill Lynch, USA.
Jason Low
Jason is Senior Investment Strategist at the Chief Investment Office, DBS Group Wealth Management.
Together with the CIO, he is responsible for providing thought leadership on DBS’s investment strategy and formulating the bank’s global equity and market strategies.
He is a regular guest and contributor in the international media including Bloomberg and CNBC. He was a Contributing Writer to The Business Times in Singapore.
He joined DBS from Morgan Stanley.
Sachin Mittal
Sachin is Senior Vice President at DBS Bank. He leads Telecom and Technology research.
He has been Ranked Best Telecom Analyst in Asia by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and won several awards from Starmine & Asiamoney. He is Media-savvy and key note Speaker on digital trends at respected forums like CFA Society and Wealth Management forums.
He has diverse work experience across Research, Consulting and software development in Singapore, US, Denmark & India.
Joshua Ong
Joshua possesses more than 20 years of audit, consulting and commercial financial control and accounting experience including more than 10 years at international accounting firms.
He has extensive experience with local and cross border Initial Public Offering (IPO), due diligences, and merger and acquisitions projects.
Andrew Heng
Andrew’s strong practical understanding of business enables his quick assessment of a business’s key drivers and risk factors to ensure it’s value maximization.
He provides advisory services for troubled companies and has handled insolvency assignments comprising Liquidations, Receiverships, and Special Administrations. He has undertaken workout proposals, debt restructuring, due diligence reviews and investigate audits together with litigation support roles including acting as an expert witness.
His industry exposure includes property development, construction, restoration of abandoned housing and schemes, scrap metal recycling, hotels, underwater aquatic business, mining, timber, plantations, retail and manufacturing.