Speaker's profile

Brenda Khon

Deputy General Manager, Compensation & Benefits

Pacific International Lines

Brenda Khon is a total rewards leader with 20 years of experience across the high-tech, consumer goods, and logistics industries. She brings a grounded and practical perspective to reward strategy, shaped by working across diverse business environments in both regional and global roles. 

Over the years, she has partnered with leaders across regions to develop reward frameworks that are practical, scalable, and closely aligned with business priorities. Her experience spans compensation and benefits strategy, global mobility, policy alignment across markets, governance, cost optimisation, and workforce decisions related to attraction and retention. 

Brenda is known for making complex reward concepts easier to understand, helping leaders and HR teams navigate decisions on pay, performance, and employee value with clarity and confidence. Her approach balances cost considerations with people priorities, while keeping programmes competitive, equitable, and sustainable over time. 

She is particularly interested in how Total Rewards can become a stronger enabler of performance, engagement, and organisational resilience. By combining governance, data-driven insights, and practical design, she helps organisations build people strategies that are both thoughtful and effective.