Board of Directors

Nina is the founder and CEO of X0PA AI. She is a serial
entrepreneur and geek at heart!

She comes from an Engineering background with a Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication and has been managing and running businesses in the HR space for more than 20 years

Jussi is the co-founder of X0PA AI and is also a professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He teaches risk management and analytics courses and directs analytics executive education programs at NUS. He is also the Research Director of the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics at NUS.

Founding Partner XCEL NEXT VENTURES, TAIWAN

Founder Taiwan Accelerator (TA)
Co-founder & PartnerCo-founder & Partner A Leading Global IR Firm

Managing Director, Founding Partner- SASV Investments

Strategic ISV & Practice Lead-Asia at Microsoft

Former Regional Manager- Azure Hybrid Cloud Sales-APJ

Bernard is currently the Chief Diversity and Engagement officer at Gusto. He empowers and leads the Employee Engagement team, which encompasses diversity, equity and inclusion, employee relations, and people’s integrity/governance/compliance functions. At Gusto, Coleman spearheaded the RISE program to get employees talking about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Bernard was previously the diversity lead for Uber and for a US presidential campaign. Bernard transformed the diversity and inclusion programs, and his efforts spanned the boundaries of Uber working in close collaboration with people’s program areas like human resources, talent recruitment, analytics, marketing, communications, and branding to enhance diversity throughout Uber. Bernard also writes an Inc column called the Culture Code covering leadership, employee engagement, culture, diversity, inclusion, equity, and human resources – in technology, but more broadly across all sectors.

As managing director for Microsoft Singapore, I have the privilege of leading a team of 150 talented individuals and responsibility to develop and drive growth strategies for all of Microsoft’s business in Singapore. In addition to growing the business, a key part of my charter is to create local opportunities, growth and lasting impact in Singapore through the application of digital technologies.

Beyond leveraging the resources of Microsoft, I believe that there’s a critical role that the business and technology industry can play. This is the motivation for me to also serve as a Board Member at Info-Communications Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA), and other chambers and associations including AmCham (Board of Governor), SICC (Board Member) and SGTech (Councilor).

Professionally, my career spans diverse roles including technical, business and sales management for leading organisations such as Microsoft, Avanade, Oracle, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Computer Board in the last 25+ years in the IT industry.

A Singaporean, I graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Computer & Information Services and went on to complete my MBA from the Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK.

• Expert in developing and implementation of creative and comprehensive high-volume talent strategy involving all traditional and non-traditional media to cut cost and time-per-hire ratios.
• Strategic HR management background incorporating resource planning, recruitment and selection, job classification infrastructure, compensation analysis, competency profiling, assessment centres and psychometric testing.
• Unsurpassed stakeholder, programme and project management, communication, negotiation, analytical and organizational skills.
• Experience of building, training and mentoring multi-site and multinational recruitment teams.
• Thorough understanding of US and EU Employment Law and international relocation issues.
• Budgetary P&L experience

Specialties: Talent Acquisition/ Management, International Recruitment Strategy, Passive Candidate Sourcing.

Uzair has strong executive leadership experience, founding a tech start-up, which he grew through various funding rounds from angels’ investment to series A institutional.
He is a serial entrepreneur having built businesses globally spanning Financial Services, Technology as well as HR & Executive Search.

Uzair completed his first MBO in 2003 and sold that business in 2012. He Co-founded Traydstream in 2016, a SAS-based platform that digitises and automates document
checking using advanced ML and AI. His experience spans across all aspects of commercial development, having developed and run successful sales teams, corporate marketing and developing partnership alliance programs as well as leading new funding rounds and
investor relations.

He is currently that Chief Commercial Officer and a member of the Board and Exco at Traydstream, which continues a rapid global scale up and grow.

Outside of work, he is passionate about travel and photography as well as being an avid golfer.

Professor Miranda K Brawn has nearly 30 years of regional and international experience at the intersection between financial services, law, academia, technology, engineering, charity and policy.

Her expertise is also on diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), environmental, social and governance (ESG) and risk issues where she provides boardroom level advice on strategy, growth and innovation.

During her tenure at Keble College, The University of Oxford, she will be lecturing and researching ‘The Brawn Review’. This is an independent report where her research has a strong multidisciplinary orientation, drawing on boardroom diversity with a focus on sustainability, inclusion and corporate governance including her “iCHANGES” model. Her report and new book will be finalised while at Oxford and are both set for publication in 2023.

Miranda is a multi-award winning British businesswoman with a portfolio career as a board advisor, non-executive director, philanthropist and international public speaker. Prior to joining the Bar of England and Wales as a barrister and senior banking lawyer, she worked as an investment banker and senior financial executive for top tier investment banks and then as a hedge fund sales trader. Also, the Founder, President and CEO of award winning registered Charity ‘The Miranda Brawn Diversity Leadership Foundation’ (TMBDLF).

Experienced Development Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Career Development, Innovation Development, Management, and Teamwork. Master student at Cranfiled University- in Management and Entrepreneurship. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Managment from Sultan Qaboos University- Bachlor in Science of Economices and Commerce.

A results-focused and global-minded Senior Executive with a strong record of delivering transformative success in Marketing, Communications and Business Operations. Broad-based experience includes global roles as well as pan-regional leadership positions in EMEA and APJ over the past 20 years. Reputed as a growth and innovation catalyst enabling organizations to advance their culture, develop effective leaders, secure valuable partnerships, and improve organizational performance by aligning team strategy to business goals.

Extensive experience growing, building and leading successful teams in a range of functions including Internal and External Communications, Field and Digital Marketing, Change Management and Business Operations. A trusted leader with a proven track record of delivering results having successfully combined effective growth strategies, cost control, and process improvements through staff development and motivation. Passionate about hitting and exceeding goals while formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs.

Sunil is a highly accomplished and respected leader in the field of enterprise transformations, with a wealth of experience in C-level roles in the telecoms, ICT, and professional services industries.

He is recognized as an expert in the future of work, leadership, and strategy and is frequently featured in top publications such as The Economist, The Financial Times, and Fast Company. In 2020, The CEO Publication named him one of the Top 20 Dynamic CEOs in the UK and featured him on their cover. Sunil holds a Sloan Fellow Masters from London Business School, widely regarded as one of the premier executive leadership programs in the world.

As the former President and CEO of Project Management Institute (PMI), Sunil led an enterprise-wide digital and data transformation in addition to rebranding of the profession, resulting in the organization becoming one of the largest professional bodies in the world with over 1m+ members. He also served on the global advisory board of the Peter Drucker Forum during this time. Under his leadership, PMI received numerous accolades, including being named one of the “Top 100 Associations That Will Save The World” by the American Society of Association Executives, and winning several Stevie awards for its branding and transformation initiatives.

Sunil has held several other C-Level executive positions throughout his career, including CEO of I1too, a digital sales accelerator, and CEO of Experio BV, a global telecom company. While on the Executive Board of Vodafone Enterprise, he oversaw a major $1.8 billion global transformation program that included the largest successful implementation of Salesforce to date, for which he received Salesforce’s prestigious Surfboard award. As the Executive Vice President of Nokia, he led a successful turnaround of the company’s services sales during a distressed period.

Additionally, during his time at Accenture as the Partner responsible for APAC Outsourcing, Sunil managed some of the firm’s largest and most complex client engagements, building a reputation for delivering exceptional business outcomes.