2025 Speaker's Profile
Melissa Hong
Senior Value Manager – ASEAN
Workday
Mel is a Senior Value Manager at Workday, she works closely with C- suite executives to build business cases for their HR and finance transformation projects. Mel has 12+ years of management consulting and program management experience, specialising in human capital and M&A. She received her BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a certified PMP.
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