Vote for your 2023 APAC EMMAs Global Mobility Professional of the Year!

Voting closes on the 13th August

The Winner will be announced at the 2023 EMMAs Awards on 7th September at Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore.

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(Early Bird deal ends 12th August so be quick!)

Mei Yu Phoon - Wood plc

Mei Yu is the Mobility Lead, East at Wood PLC, based in Singapore. With 13 years of experience, Mei Yu has relocated over thousands of our brightest talent around the globe and is passionate about helping people. She currently manages a small team of Mobility professionals covering AsiaPac, Middle East and Caspian regions, responsible for the end to end assignment process.

Vinod Sharma - IKAN Relocation

A Hotel management graduate, Vinod has a collective work experience of over 25 years across the Global Mobility and Service/Hospitality sectors. He joined IKAN Relocation in the year 2006 and has been a part of the core management group since. Vinod also did a stint with Santa Fe Relocation for a short period of time before returning to IKAN.

Today, Vinod heads the IKAN Immigration business and has been part of the V&I Industry since the past twenty years. Vinod is based at the IKAN New Delhi office where he oversees its Immigration Centre of Excellence; Quality and other administrative operations. Vinod is married and he enjoys following Netflix as a way of destressing. He also loves to travel, when opportunity arises and has a passion for photography too.

Deepashree Shetty- BDO India

Deepashree is an Associate Partner with BDO India specialising in Expatriate Taxation. She has over 14 years of experience handling expatriate tax engagements including over 7 years with larger accounting firms. Her focus of professional experience is advising clients on cross-border tax and social security implications relating to Employee Global Mobility. She regularly advises on Permanent Establishment (PE) exposure for clients on account of expatriates working in India as well as compensation structuring for global assignments. She manages engagements relating to payroll compliances, taxation of Employee Stock Options and other tax compliances through seamless coordination with the client’s Finance/HR/Tax teams and global offices. She also represents clients before the tax authorities for their tax litigation matters.

Shumin Yeo - Micron Technology

Shumin has held roles across both HR and Global Mobility focusing on APAC and with the most recent leading the global Mobility function in Micron. Shumin has been involved in numerous expansion projects and Senior leadership moves including one of the CEO’s direct report for his assignment into Singapore, instrumental in driving initiatives such as the hybrid (virtual and physical) relocation experience in Singapore, and ensure early collaboration with key stakeholders, and transform the role of global mobility and repositioning the transactional tasks.

Good Luck to Everyone Shortlisted!

The FEM APAC EMMAs (Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards) are a celebration of the best projects and initiatives in global mobility and expatriate management. The awards ceremony and drinks reception will be a chance to network, entertain clients and reward the organizations leading the field across the region.

Celebrate the brightest and the best in global mobility at The APAC EMMAs.