Ho Kah Chuan – Executive Director, Go Global Gem Pte. Ltd.
Kah Chuan is an Accredited Tax Advisor of Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals and has amassed more than 18 years of tax services practice. He was a Tax Director in a Big 4 Accounting Firm, prior to that he worked at Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), Ministry of Finance, and the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), whereby he established a strong network with the government bodies in Singapore. He specialises in tax advisory, policy formulation, international treaty negotiation, and tax audit. His experience covers advisory on tax-efficient supply chain management, R&D and IP management, headquarters and treasury management, manufacturing, IPO and M&A deals. Often valued for his close connection with Singapore government agencies, he is able to provide valuable insights on how best to obtain government support and has successfully assisted more than 300 incentive advisory cases, including more than 60 family office cases. Some of the key incentives which he is often being engaged to assist on are Headquarters Programme, Global Trader Programme, Finance & Treasury Centre Incentive, investment allowances and fund tax exemption schemes. Kah Chuan is often invited as lecturer for EMBA and Masters programmes and trainer or speaker for tax and incentive related topics.
Mahip Gupta – Director, Aurtus Singapore
Mahip Gupta is currently the Founding director of Aurtus Singapore and had previously founded Dhruva Advisors Singapore in 2016 after leaving PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore as Executive Director. Mahip has close to 30 years of experience in advising clients from various Industries on a wide range of international and local tax and business issues. His experience includes dealing with international and local tax planning, family office/ funds advisory and set up, business structuring, negotiating tax incentives, due diligence, tax controls, tax compliance, GST and transfer pricing. Mahip also brings valuable in-house experience from Standard Chartered Bank, where he was Global Tax Lead of its Funds and other international trading operations working with a multi-disciplinary team to provide robust governance as well as tax planning support. He has assisted business associations and government agencies in lobbying for tax law changes, drafting of tax legislation and training of revenue officers. Mahip’s current and past clients include various MNC groups including those in financial services, IT, energy, mining, manufacturing and logistic sectors as well as family offices. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), where he was placed amongst the top 20 rank holders in both stages of exams. He is also a qualified CFA and CMA. Mahip is also a member of Singapore Chartered Tax Professionals, TEI, AIMA and SFDA.
Stephen Lam – Partner, International Tax and Transaction Services - Transfer Pricing, Ernst & Young Solutions LLP
Stephen has worked in Asia since 2010, with over 20 years of advisory experience in transfer pricing. His experience includes designing, recommending and supporting tax and transfer pricing models in a variety of industries including apparel, e-commerce, fast-moving consumer goods, commodities, hi-tech, logistics, pharmaceutical and shipping. Prior to his time in Asia, Stephen spent over nine years in London advising European multinational corporations based in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Sweden and the UK. In addition, he spent three years in Taiwan, where he co-managed the transfer pricing team. Stephen has advised on projects including the restructuring of global supply chains for multinational corporations, global transfer pricing documentation projects, transfer pricing controversy (including APAs), cash pooling structures as well as IP structuring. Stephen is a frequent speaker at seminars and events on transfer pricing and operating model effectiveness and has written numerous articles on these topics as well. Stephen has a Double-Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accountancy from the University of Adelaide (Australia). Stephen is also a member of the Singapore Chartered Professionals. Stephen is a facilitator for the Advanced Tax Programme (International Tax Module) conducted by the Tax Academy of Singapore.
Matilda Kee – Director, International Tax and Transaction Services - Transfer Pricing, EY Corporate Advisors Pte. Ltd.
Matilda is a Director in the Transfer Pricing practice of the EY global member firm in Singapore and has more than 14 years of experience working in the Transfer Pricing and Operating Model Effectiveness (OME) arenas, with a focus in the high-tech, service, apparel and consumer goods industries. Matilda was also previously seconded to the EY Australia (Sydney) Transfer Pricing practice and had 18 months of experience in Australian specific transfer pricing and tax controversy cases, advanced pricing arrangements (APAs), and multinational anti-avoidance law (MAAL) cases.