Globally Acknowledging Regional Leaderships

The ASEAN Risk Awards is judged by experts from across the industry and discipline, so being shortlisted or winning is no mean feat. Every entry goes through our rigorous judging process, which includes reviews and votes.
The judges work to maintain the awards at the highest standards in the region, by bringing industry knowledge and category specific skill sets to assess every entry.
In ASEAN Risk Awards 2016, we invited eight external judges as listed below.
Alan Simmonds
Alan Simmonds
CERG (UNITED KINGDOM)

Board Member of ERMA UK, Key Contributor to COBIT 5, Director of PreterLex

Alan is a key contributor to COBIT 5 ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) and TOGAF (Open Group) in the area of architecture governance and is the prime author of the research paper Governance of Outsourcing for the IT Governance Institute.

Alan has over 29 years of practical experience in governance (technology, corporate and contract) and strategy across a broad spectrum of industry and commerce resulting in a proven capability of helping organizations meet their regulatory and legislative obligations. He has significant practical experience of how governance and regulatory issues are successfully managed and adopted by organizations through the innovative use of organizational structures, processes, controls, audit and assurance.

John Doe
Colin Adams
CERG (AUSTRALIA)

Board Member of ERMA Australia, CEO Standing Wave Limited Australia

Mr. Adams has over 25 years experience in international business and relations. He has led and managed projects involving a wide range of stakeholders including large multinational corporations, smaller companies, public sector and government agencies in Australia, South America and Asia.

Mr. Adam’s ability to formulate complex business and coordination strategies and implement them has been developed from an extensive industry background in energy, telecommunications, technology, infrastructure, mining, agribusiness, IT and Knowledge Management. He is particularly interested in approaches to pricing social risk to allow for investment-style decisions around risk mitigation and in complexity methodologies for achieving and measuring change in social systems.

Leo J Susilo
Leo J Susilo
INDONESIA

Principal of CRMS Indonesia

Leo J Susilo is one of leading consultants for corporate governance and integrated risk management. He is one the pioneers in promoting the adoption of best practices of corporate governance in Indonesia. In that perspective, he brings that spirit through his consultancy to various industries at different level of scale and scope.

Currently, he is a senior consultant to Wisma Inti consulting firm and a member of audit committee PT Bakrie Telecom Tbk. He is also teaching at some post-graduate schools in Indonesia for the subject of corporate governance and integrated risk management. His unique academic background i.e. technical engineering and business law enable him to bring a holistic perspective of legal risk management into the integrated risk management platform. He is a member of various professional organizations, such as Indonesia Institute of Director and Commissioner (LKDI), Indonesia Audit Committee Association (IKAI), Indonesia Engineers Association (III), and BAR Association. He wrote a best seller book on ISO 31000 published by PPM. The book becomes a reference by many practitioners in Indonesia as its approach is very practical and well-structured. Previously he had managerial experiences at senior level in Astra Group, exposed in various areas of management and business units. He joined Astra straight from graduation as an engineer from ITB, until his last posting as a director of PT United Tractors Tbk.

Ly Xuan Thu
Ly Xuan Thu
Vietnam

IFC World Bank Corporate, Governance Group, Senior Expert-Risk Management

Ms. Ly Xuan Thu is Vietnamese and a Certified in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA), a member of IIA Singapore, a member of ACFE, and a board member of Pan- Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association (PARIMA) based in Singapore.

Ly Xuan Thu is currently the Senior Expert – Risk Management at IFC World Bank Corporate Governance Group, Vietnam. Prior to this she has worked for the Big 4 accounting firms, including the previous 6 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore.

Her experience crosses the spectrum of auditing, risk management, compliance, fraud investigation, and corporate governance. Thu has held positions of Head of Risk & Audit, Head of Risk & Compliance for one of the largest Asset Management Companies in Vietnam. Her career on the last 10 years has had a focus on risk management and compliance. She doubles as an advisor for Private Equity, Public Funds in Enterprise Risk Management framework, Compliance program comprising Anti-Fraud, Anti- Corruption and Bribery, Anti-Money Laundering and KYC.

Vincent Guerard, PMP, PMI-RMP
Vincent Guerard, PMP, PMI-RMP
PRINCE2 PRACTITIONER (CANADA)

Risk Management for Enterprise and PPP Projects, Co-Manager Community of Practice on Risk at PMI Montréal

Consultant in GRC, over thirty years of work experience with Hydro-Québec, Dessau Soprin and SNC Lavalin in project management and in enterprise risk management for various sectors including IT, industrial, engineering, construction with EPCM and major PPP projects some over 1Bn $US.

Tim Corbett
Tim Corbett
UNITED STATES

Board Member of ERMA, USA, President of SmartRisk USA

Tim Corbett is a highly accomplished investment executive (CFA, FSA) with substantial experience developing and leading sound investment policies and strategies for diverse portfolios; recruiting and developing highly talented staff; and directing asset management, research and trading functions.

Marc Schaedeli
Marc Schaedeli
SWITZERLAND

ERMA Eastern Europe Regional Director, Former Head of Group Risk Management of, Nestle Switzerland Headquarter, CEO of The Consulting Group AG (TCG)

During his 20 years in risk management, Marc has built up Enterprise Risk Management expertise, including Loss Prevention and Business Continuity. He also acquired Captive Management and Risk Financing skills. He is an experienced risk assessment facilitator with more than 750 projects. Prior to create TCG, Marc was the Head of Group Risk Management at Nestlé, where he built up and further developed world-wide ERM.

He was involved in governance & compliance, human rights and task force management activities. He also worked for Zurich Insurance and provided consulting services in consumer research as well as technical advisory services.

Gordon Song
Gordon Song
SINGAPORE

Head of Group Risk & Internal Audit, Lazada Group, Singapore

Gordon has more than 11 years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance. He started his career with a professional consulting firm providing risk advisory services to Government, Healthcare and Real Estate clients in Singapore and the region. Gordon was previously with Fortis Healthcare International, where he led the establishment of risk management and internal audit processes for the group’s global and regional business interests. Gordon led the development of the Global Insurance Program and was a key member in the placement of the Group’s first global D&O policy, and subsequently moved to Tigerair where he headed the risk and internal audit department.

He is currently with regional e-commerce giant Lazada Group where he leads a team providing risk assurance to the group’s regional ventures. He was actively involved in the development of the ERM practice, introduction of new methodologies and techniques to clients and advising clients on ERM best practices. His expertise includes the design and implementation of risk governance and assurance structures and processes, as well as the implementation of internal controls framework.

Gordon holds a first-class honours in Accountancy from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.