Supported by the SME and Start-up Committee

Speakers:

Liz Furniss, Head of HR, Asia, St. James’s Place Wealth Management
Russell Bennett, Employment Law Solicitor, Tanner De Witt
Stefanie Ellender, Head of Human Resources Consulting, Zzzzip Limited
Victoria Coplans, Founder and CEO, Hope Communications

Moderator: 
Anthony Hope, Asia-Pacific Head of Strategic Analysis, HSBC’s Financial Intelligence Unit 

Details on how to join will be sent via email by 5pm the day before the webinar.

About the speakers

Liz is Head of HR for Asia at St. James’s Place Wealth Management, and has over 30 years’ HR experience, predominantly in professional services across Asia and in the UK, and has lived in Hong Kong for over 20 years.

Working closely with the company’s leadership, Liz enables HR teams to effectively deliver products and services across the full employee life cycle, and helps leaders and boards to establish and foster a diverse high performing culture to support the business in delivering its strategic goals.  She has set up HR functions from scratch, as well as evolving operational HR teams in to strategic, forward thinking People teams that add value in all areas of a business.

Russell specialises in all matters relating to employment law as well as dealing with dispute resolution, commercial litigation and regulatory advice.
 
On the employment side Russell has extensive experience in acting for both employers and employees with particular emphasis on high-value employment disputes in the financial sector. He advises on all aspects of employment law, termination entitlements, post-termination restrictions, bonuses, discrimination, drafting employment contracts, handbooks and other HR related documentation as well as immigration, health and safety and related criminal matters/prosecutions.
 
Russell also spent several years as regional in house counsel with a major international brokerage. He focused primarily on dealing with the restructuring of their employment practices, documentation and structures and resolving disputes and issues throughout Asia Pacific. In addition Russell oversaw the legal aspects of HR management and certain regulatory functions.

Stefanie started her career in Scotland, United Kingdom and since has worked in Australia, the GCC, Europe, and has now settled In Hong Kong to support her Asia Pacific clients. Having an MSc in Human Resources Management, a member of the CIPD ( and an AC accredited personal and executive coach she can navigate any organizational challenges and growth paths.

Over the last 15 years, Stefanie has progressed through various management and leadership roles in Human Resources and has had a varied career across the oil and gas industry as well as professional services, hospitality, retail and FMCG. She has contributed to and led significant growth and strategic change projects, has extensive experience working at ground level in implementing structure in start-up/SME businesses, and has delivered regional and global objectives to 1000 ’s of employees.

The versatility of Stefanie’s experience will enable any business to grow in the direction they wish, which could be from the initial set up of a start-up business with the development and implementation of people, processes and productivity through to reform programs or project based support with multinational organizations.

Victoria is Founder and CEO of Hope Communications, a boutique Employee Engagement & Communications consultancy based in Hong Kong. Providing bespoke solutions to clients, Victoria is equally passionate about helping businesses achieve their strategic goals and engaging people in their work. 

Victoria specialises in employee engagement & communications strategy, employee research, change communications, leadership communications and redundancy communications advisory. She has 25 years of experience working across a range of industries including finance, insurance, aviation, hospitality, the UK government and oil & gas. With a background in IT and Economics, she has spent the past 15 years focusing on Integrated Communications and Government Affairs.

Born and raised in Asia, Victoria has spent the last decade in Hong Kong working in multinational matrix organisations. She was most recently Global Head of Employee Engagement for Shangri-La Group and prior to that led Employee Communications for HSBC’s Regional Retail Bank & Wealth Management business in Asia Pacific.

About the moderator

Anthony is HSBC’s Asia-Pacific Head of AML Controls, Fraud & Insider Risk. He has held leadership roles in the Government, FinTech, and Banking sectors, and specialises in providing strategic leadership on Risk and Compliance issues. 

Anthony has experience of retail, commercial, trade, markets and private banking. He has also run his own FinTech business. He possesses excellent communication and negotiation skills, and has provided strategic advice to executives, regulators and government ministers. 

Prior to arriving in Hong Kong, Anthony served for several years with the UK Government, and held various positions with both HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs.

Anthony holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. 

Pricing

• Member: HK$140
• Non-Member: HK$250
• Small Business & Start-up Member: HK$95

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