Megan Brice is the owner and Managing Director of Integrity Systems Ltd, a company dedicated to helping clients improve their sales and service in the Asia-Pacific region.

Megan is qualified to Masters level in psychological assessment, specialising in business psychology. She has worked in the field of sales psychology and training for 20 years. The focus of her client work is on increasing sales success, reducing sales call reluctance, increasing customer loyalty, reducing staff turnover and increasing managers’ coaching effectiveness.

Megan’s background includes 14 years with a high profile Australasian human resources firm, where she set up their psychological services and training businesses in Australia.

Megan is the only accredited Integrity Solutions Master Trainer in Asia-Pacific, providing Train-The-Trainer Certification programs for clients. Integrity Solutions is head quartered in the US and their training programs are conducted in 82 different countries with almost 2 million graduates. The internationally recognised programs include Integrity Selling®, Integrity Service®, Integrity Coaching® and Managing Goal Achievement®, plus many others.

Megan has spoken on sales psychology to the Million Dollar Round Table Insurance Convention as well as at many client conferences. She is based in New Zealand, has a 7 year old son and is involved with the UNESCO Living Values for Children Education.

Gregory Smyth founded Inetasia in 1999 and has been involved in Web Analytics and Digital Marketing consulting over the last several years. Inetasia is currently the WebTrends distributor for South East Asia and China.

Mr. Smyth has been involved in various online real estate ventures including providing seed capital in 2000 for Alluradirect.com, Canada’s largest owner direct rental accommodation portal. In 2006, Mr. Smyth funded and launched MyAsiaVilla.com, a portal focused on high end villa rentals in Asia. Mr. Smyth also raised the seed capital and is currently a shareholder of Asiaxpat.com, the leading resource for professionals, executives and expats living in Asia.

Marcus is a Consulting Director for Hay Group in China.

He works extensively with multinationals globally consulting across the full range of Hay Group offerings, specialising in leadership assessment, development and coaching.

His extensive managerial experience prior to Hay Group ensures he is specifically focussed on delivering tangible business results for the organisations which he works with.

Marcus is accredited in a range of technologies both in Hay Group and from other organizations. From work measurement, management development tools, coaching, reward, psychometrics, online diagnostics and behaviourial assessment techniques. This breadth allows Marcus to select the most effective methods which add value by suiting the situation and need of the organization.

Previously Marcus was based in Hay Group’s London offices in charge of the multinationals consulting team. Before joining Hay Group, Marcus was a Divisional Operational Director for a major UK plc recruitment company.

Ba (Hons) Philosophy, University of Southampton.
Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Thames Valley University.
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
British Psychological Standards A and B.

Paul Ahearne is the principal of Locumsgroup Securities, an accounting and financial services firm in Sydney Australia.  Paul Has a Master of Business Administration and Graduate Diplomas in management and financial services. He has worked with direct investors in the real estate sector for over 20 years.

His key focus is on high-performance marketing strategies and the development of effective client relationship skills.

Paul’s presentation covers the client negotiation process from initial client contact through to the management of the post-sale business relationship.

An experienced presenter with excellent communication skills, Paul will introduce you to a range of strategies to increase your business effectiveness.

Michael is also the Senior Vice-President, Raine & Horne International Zaki +Partners Sdn Bhd.

Michael has been in the property development and consulting field for more than 15 years. Michael is a registered valuer & real estate agent, a Fellow of The Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia, councillor of the Malaysian Institute of Estate Agents, member of Financial Planning Association of Malaysia and holds the CFP designation.

With a proven record of success in APAC, Greater China, and Silicon Valley, Calvin Shueh of wwwins Consulting brings expertise in strategy, marketing, and development for comprehensive digital solutions.

Current and past global clients and APAC regional clients from property, tourism, and finance include Peninsula Hotels, Hong Kong Shanghai Hotel Group, Marco Polo, Shangri-La, Sino, Swire Properties, Pacific Place, IFC, Mercedes-Benz, Emirates, Northwest Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Tourism Australia, Fidelity, New York Life, Prudential, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China, Intel, WWF, Organic, FriendFinder, and Liquid Audio.

wwwins consulting is linked by the Isobar global network, servicing the Greater China Region.

Originally from a media buying background, he has worked for 4A’s agencies including McCann Erickson, Media Edge CIA & Leo Burnett.

He has also worked on the media sales side for outdoor media company Texon Media & for Asia ad-industry bible, MEDIA magazine.

He set up his company SB Consulting in 2001 and provides revenue-focused marketing & business-development services to companies entering the second-stage of their growth cycle. 

Charlie Lang works with senior executives who are challenged by issues like:

• How to keep their best talent
• How to achieve a corporate success culture
• How to foster high employee engagement

Charlie is known for his innovative approaches towards leadership and change processes and assists his clients in mastering these challenges. They achieve outstanding results through Charlie’s unique application of latest findings in research combined with his own experience in international management and leadership.

Charlie worked for so-called ‘hidden champions’ as MD, VP Sales & Marketing and Sales Director in Europe and Asia. He developed his exceptional intercultural competence during his extensive travels to over 60 countries worldwide.

Charlie is the author of the book “The Groupness Factor” and over 30 of his articles got published in various newspapers and magazines in Asia.

Max-Michael Mayer is Managing Partner of leanCRM, an international Customer Relationship Management (CRM) company specialized in SaaS (Software as a Service) consulting and implementation. He brings more than 10 years of experience in the real estate industry to the leanCRM team.

Prior to leanCRM, Max-Michael has held leadership positions which include Director of conject, the European leader of on Demand ILM solutions for the real estate industry, where he was responsible for developing the market in the Middle East and Gulf region, and Vice President Business Development of Aconex, the largest provider of online collaboration for construction and engineering projects.

Previously, he was co-founder and managing partner of a business consulting firm, where he was responsible for real estate and technology consulting. Among his clients were consulting companies like Accenture and various global Financial, Investment, and Property Development companies. A trained banker, Max-Michael Mayer studied economics and worked in the corporate finance division of the State Bank of Baden-Württemberg.

Mr Lee has over 14 years experience in technology and business strategy development. In his current role as Chief Executive, Mr Lee is responsible for strategy and business development.

Prior to co-founding 8RewardsRoad, Mr Lee was Visa International’s Asia-Pacific, Director for Business Planning. In this capacity he help Visa formulate its investment and marketing strategies, including its regional Internet strategy.

Mr Lee was with the international strategy consulting firm, Bain & Company from May 1995 to Dec 1997. He consulted for many top regional and international companies in industries ranging from financial services to logistics and telecommunications, helping them develop coherent strategies in the face of increased competitive challenges.

Mr Lee was a Singapore Technologies scholar and joined Singapore Technologies (ST), Aerospace after his graduation in 1989. At ST, Aerospace, he headed the Aerodynamics group and was responsible for technology development, advancing the company’s capability in both experimental and computational aerodynamics technologies.

Mr Lee graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a BSc in Engineering in 1988 and an MSc in Engineering in 1989.

Kuok-ming Lee
Chief Executive
8rewardstreet.com

Charles Ng is Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion.  Charles’ Division is responsible for the department’s corporate services and for attracting and retaining foreign direct investment in the following four priority sectors:

• Business & Professional Services
• Financial Services
• Transportation, and
• Special Projects

Charles is also responsible for InvestHK’s operations in: The United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Nordic countries, Turkey, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Charles has worked for companies in the manufacturing and trading sectors, as well as for multinationals in the financial services and banking sectors in Mauritius, Canada and Hong Kong. He also has experience in setting up and building a small business as an entrepreneur and in running a major international Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.

Charles is a part-time lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, School of Professional and Continuing Education. Charles speaks English, French, Cantonese, Putonghua, Hakka and Creole.

Charles has a MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management (US) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Business (joint degree).