Deloitte Singapore Budget 2020 Webinar Speaker's CV

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Hwee Huang Ang

VP Group Tax Singapore Telecommunications Limited

Hwee Huang is currently the Vice President, Group Tax of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. She has the overall responsibility for managing the tax matters across the Singtel group which is present in countries which spans across Australasia to the United States. She has extensive tax experience covering high technology and telecommunication industries. Prior to joining Singtel, she was the Senior Tax Director for Yahoo Asia Pacific, where she led the taxation role for more than 10 countries in Asia Pacific. Before joining Yahoo, Hwee Huang gained experience in the telecommunication industry having spent 10 years with Orange Business Services.

Liew Li Mei

Business Tax, Partner Deloitte Singapore

Li Mei has more than 19 years of experience, serving multinational, local and Singapore listed companies in a variety of industries, including the retail, consumer products and services, manufacturing, funds and fund management as well as other commercial sectors.

She is well versed in Singapore income tax law and practice and has also been extensively involved in advising on a wide range of issues including cross-border taxation issues, the use of double tax treaties focusing on BEPS, MLI, permanent establishment issues and withholding tax, corporate restructuring, tax due diligence, acquisition structuring, and post-acquisition restructuring.

Li Mei was seconded to Deloitte New York from September 2009 to September 2012 where she was the Singapore desk leader in our International Core of Excellence (ICE) program.

Victor Mills

Chief Executive Singapore International Chamber of Commerce

Victor Mills is a Singapore Citizen and Chief Executive, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) which he has led for nearly 6 years. SICC, founded in 1837, is Singapore’s most inclusive and longest-serving business association. Its 600 member companies represent more than 20 sectors and 40 nationalities. 50% of member companies are foreign and Singaporean large organizations including multinationals and 50% are foreign and Singaporean medium, small and start-up companies. Prior to joining the Chamber, Mr. Mills had a 30-year career in financial services in Asia-Pacific. He was a commercial banker for 10 years and an institutional banker for 20 years.

Shantini Ramachandra She has also advised multiple funds (including private equity, venture capital, real estate, debt and hedge funds) on the design Business Tax Partner, M&A Tax Partner, and implementation of the fund investment and fund Private Tax Leader management strategy and provided support on the application for tax incentives for funds and the fund manager. Deloitte Singapore and Southeast Asia In addition, Shantini leads the Law Firm Services practice and has Shantini has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the National University of assisted several top tier US, UK and Australian law firms with Singapore and a Master of Laws degree from the University of London, King’s structuring and setting up their law firm practices in Singapore College. She has been admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme and advised extensively on tax issues and regulatory matters Court of Singapore and is also an Accredited Tax Advisor (Income Tax) with the unique to foreign law firms in Singapore including issues arising Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals Limited. Shantini practised on a merger/joint venture between a foreign law firm and a local law in the area of commercial and corporate law before joining a Big Four firm law firm. She is also a Mergers and Acquisitions Tax Partner and and has about 20 years of international tax experience. she leads the Stamp Duty Practice. Shantini is a regular speaker at global conferences and external Shantini is the Southeast Asia Tax Leader for Deloitte Private that serves seminars in Singapore, New York and London. She has taught business owners, family groups, and high-net-worth individuals in areas International Tax modules for the Master of Tax programme at including succession planning, international tax, estate planning and wealth one of the Singapore Universities and teaches International Tax preservation. In this role, she has worked with a number of ultra high-net-worth modules at the Tax Academy and has contributed articles to families to set up family office, fund and trust structures and obtain the relevant various international tax publications and journals. Shantini has incentives and licensing exemptions, and advised on immigration planning, been nominated by peers and clients for inclusion in the Deloitte exchange of information under CRS, restructuring including pre-IPO structuring, global publications “Tax Controversy Leaders” and “Women in relocation of headquarters to Singapore, tax incentives, philanthropy and tax Tax Leaders”. Shantini has been appointed as a Member of the residency. National Parks Board, a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development. In her role as Business Tax Partner, Shantini has been involved in major consultancy projects relating to mergers and acquisitions, developing tax efficient investment structures (both inbound and outbound), restructuring of business operations, cross-border tax reviews, dispute resolution, trust structuring, wealth planning, cash pooling, incentive planning, stamp duty and transfer pricing. She has extensive experience negotiating and dealing with the government authorities to resolve challenging tax and stamp duty issues and to obtain tax incentives and grants.

Rohan Solapurkar

Business Tax, Partner Deloitte Singapore

Rohan has more than 22 years of experience in International Tax.

He has been advising large multinational companies most of which are Regional Headquarters based in Singapore on their tax strategies including tax minimisation strategies, cash repatriation strategies, entry strategies, etc. in Singapore and the region.

Rohan is advising several large multinational companies on India entry strategies

Is a regular speaker at seminars and speaks at the Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Professionals and Singapore Tax Academy.

His clients include a diverse range of companies in different sectors such as IT, Hospitality, Real Estate, Commodity Trading companies, Infrastructure and Media. He also acts as the “India Desk” for Deloitte Singapore. Rohan is also part of the Asia Pacific International Centre of Excellence team.

He was also a Chairman of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India-Singapore Chapter.

Seng-Wun Song

Director and Economist CIMB Private Banking

Mr Song holds a Master of Arts in Econometrics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He started his career as an economist in Malayan Banking Bhd in Kuala Lumpur. He moved to Singapore in 1990, and worked as a Regional Economist with various major multi-national financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch; Warburg Dillon Read as well as ABN Amro. Mr Song areas of focus are in the economies of ASEAN-5. He is a familiar icon in South-East Asia's news media as he has greatly contributed his professional views on the regional financial markets.

Sum Yee Loong

Professor of Accounting (Practice) Singapore Management University

Professor Sum Yee Loong has more than 30 years of experience in Singapore and international taxation.

Yee Loong is currently Professor of Accounting in the School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University, Honorary Technical Advisor (tax) of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, Board Member of Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax Practitioners, Council Member of Professional Education Council of the Singapore Accounting Commission, Council Member of the National Arts Council and Chairman of the Curriculum and Examinations Development Committee of the Tax Academy of Singapore.

James Walton

Clients & Markets Leader Deloitte Singapore and Southeast Asia

James has over 20 years of professional services experience with Deloitte, during which he has worked in over 50 countries. He started in Deloitte’s Tax practice in London and Prague before becoming the Clients & Markets Director of Deloitte Central Europe in 2005. James has been in Singapore since 2010 and was Clients & Markets Leader in 2019. He oversees all marketing, communications and business development activities of Deloitte across the ASEAN region.

James is also the Travel, Hospitality and Services Sector Leader and Sports Business Leader for Deloitte Singapore and Southeast Asia, overseeing all of Deloitte’s services for clients in the sports and leisure industries.

He is regularly quoted as a subject matter expert in the Singapore and international press on topics including tourism developments in Singapore, the economic impact of sports, building sustainable sports and tourism businesses and corporate/government support to these sectors.

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