Paul is the Chief HR Officer (HR & CSR) and an EXCO member of Bridgestone Asia Pacific (APIC) that is fully responsible for the Asia Pacific, India and China strategies, direction and financial success of its regional business that spans across 10 countries. He serves as a Member of the Nomination & Compensation and Audit Committees of the Board of Bridgestone APIC & Member of the Global HR Committee overseeing the Group’s Global HR strategy and transformation. His previous additional responsibilities included Sustainability (Vice President 1/2018 - 8/2021), Legal and IT. He has more than 33 years of global HR experience with proven success in linking HR strategies to the business & providing HR thought leadership across a dispersed region. He has worked for global MNCs such as Exxon Chemical, Lennox and Bekaert in varying senior roles and across all levels of HR from operations to corporate HR up to and including Chief HR responsibilities and was based in Dallas, USA and Shanghai, China for almost 14 years on overseas assignments. In his senior roles, he partners closely with CEO and C-suites, Senior Management & do work with the Board. He sits on several Boards, such as on the Board of LEAP201 as a Member (Non-Executive Director) and a Member of EXCO that focuses on lifting low-income households above the poverty line in a sustainable way, on the Board of the Civil Service College (a statutory Board under the Public Service Division, Singapore Prime Minister's Office) that focuses on developing a capable and committed Public Service and building capabilities in areas such as leadership, and organization development, governance.
Paul holds a B. A. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology and a B. Soc. Sci. with Honors in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He holds a Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from the Singapore Institute of Management and a MBA from Western Michigan University with Honors (Phi Kappa Phi). He is an Institute for HR Professionals (IHRP) - Master Professional (IHRP-MP) and Snr Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
