View From the Top: CHRO insights panel

Puneet heads talent solutions for the Asia Pacific region at Aon. Operating from Singapore, he plays a crucial role in enhancing Aon’s Talent Solutions capabilities and integrated Human Capital strategy, collaborating closely with the Talent, Health, and Wealth Solutions teams throughout the region.

With more than 25 years of experience in human resources consulting and talent strategy, Puneet has partnered with organisations across over 20 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. His career has been focused on addressing workforce challenges, developing sustainable strategies, and facilitating impactful transformation, ranging from advising Fortune 500 companies to supporting HR technology startups. Before working at Aon, he had prominent roles at Hewitt Associates and Mercer. At Mercer, he spent 15 years leading the HR Consulting division for the International Region as a Senior Partner.

Jocelyne is the Chief People Officer at Trust Bank. A human resource leader with 20 years of experience in the technology and consulting sectors, Jocelyne is experienced in strategic HR and operations and has a proven track record in delivering impact in a fast-paced organisation.

She started her career as a total rewards professional and her deep expertise in this domain has shaped a data approach in driving the people agenda. Prior to joining Trust, she spent over a decade at Accenture where she took on various leadership roles in the APAC and ASEAN regions. Before Accenture, she was an APAC Compensation & Benefits Consultant at Apple, and Human Capital Consultant at Willis Towers Watson. Jocelyne majored in Arts, Psychology and Philosophy at the National University of Singapore.

Kellie is the Group Head of HR at Petredec Group where they continue to expand across the global LPG and clean energy sectors. Prior to that, Kellie served as Global Head of HR for BP’s Supply, Trading & Shipping entity and BP Singapore, overseeing people strategy for more than 4,000 employees across 16 countries, spending 13 years with BP in multiple HR Leadership positions.

Kellie Twigge benefits from more than two decades of international HR leadership experience spanning energy, shipping, insurance, and multinational operations. In parallel with her corporate leadership roles, Kellie has been actively involved with the New Zealand Chamber, serving as President, Vice President, and Secretary across different tenures on the executive board.

Dan joined Standard Chartered as Head of HR, Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) in April 2023. In May 2025, Dan was appointed as Global Head of HR, Workforce Transformation, reporting to the Group Head of HR. In this role, working closely with all areas of HR, Dan is accountable for the Bank-wide transformation activities, ensuring the prioritisation and coordination of the work needed to deliver change, including the uplift and transformation of skills and capabilities across the Bank. Dan is also responsible for partnering with the Group Transformation and Fit for Growth teams across Strategy & Talent.  Key focuses for Dan are workforce optimisation and organisational change, improving strategic workforce planning to enable a skills-based organisation as we continue to drive towards being a customer centric, data driven, digital bank. Prior to Standard Chartered, Dan held a number of HR leadership roles in Dyson and Vodafone working as an HR generalist and transformation leader in UK, USA and SG. With an engineering project management background, Dan started in Telecoms leading large infrastructure programmes before switching over to HR and focusing on organisational change and workforce strategy in a variety of generalist and COE roles.

Emily Draycott-Jones is an accomplished senior executive with over two decades of experience across six continents leading HR and commercial initiatives across technology, real estate, financial services and most recently the data centre sector. Currently serving as Chief Human Resources Officer at Digital Edge Data Centres, headquartered in Singapore, Emily plays a pivotal role in shaping organisational strategy, driving cultural transformation, and aligning people practices with business growth.

In addition to her corporate endeavours, Emily is a passionate mentor and ambassador for numerous non-profit organisations in Singapore as well invested in a number of ventures here on the little red dot. Known for her pragmatic and direct leadership style and cross-functional influence, Emily’s philosophy is “Think Global, Act Local” and is passionate about building resilient, future-ready organisations.

Charlotte operates as MD and Head of the Southeast Asia at Frazer Jones HR search, double-hatting as Global HR Financial Services Practice Lead, based in Singapore. Charlotte has spent over fifteen years in HR executive search, partnering with CEOs, Boards and Investors to appoint global, regional and country Chief HR Officers, as well as building HR, Talent, Human Consulting, and Reward Consulting leadership teams.

Charlotte started her career in HR strategy, talent, and change management consulting with a leading global management consulting firm. She has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, the USA, the UK, and Europe across her career, leveraging her global network to build exceptional HR functions locally and internationally as part of a leading global executive search team covering North America, the UK, Europe, Middle-East and APAC.