Against the Odds: Achieving Success with Singapore’s Paralympic Athletes

British Chamber of Commerce Singapore

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About the Webinar

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

This webinar will feature two of Singapore's most decorated paralympic athletes (Yip Pin Xiu and Theresa Goh) talking about the challenges they faced and how they overcame them.

Also featured will be Tim Newenham, Director of Performance and Pathway at the Singapore Disability Sports Council (SDSC).

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

The para-athletes will be sharing some of the challenges that they have had to overcome and how they managed to do this. The Director at SDSC will be talking more generally about the challenges that para-athletes face

Speakers

Andrew Ashman

Head of APAC Loan Syndicate at Barclays Bank PLC

Theresa Goh

Para-athlete

Tim Newenham

Director of Performance and Pathway at Singapore Disability Sports Council

Yip Pin Xiu

Para-athlete

Andrew has been a member of the Barclays Investment Banking team for over fifteen years, covering the origination and distribution of investment grade, LBO and structured finance loans in the Asian and European loan markets.

In his current role, Andrew heads the APAC Loan Syndicate team at Barclays, based in Singapore, with a focus on the underwriting and distribution of loans from across Asia and Australia.

Andrew is Chair of Asia Pacific Loan Market Association’s (APLMA) Singapore branch and is a member of APLMA’s Green and Sustainable Loan Committee, which was instrumental in
developing the APLMA/LMA/LSTA Green Loan Principles. Andrew also sits on the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Green Finance Industry Taskforce with a mandate to accelerate the development of green finance across ASEAN.

Andrew is Chair of the British Chamber of Commerce’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and represents Barclays as D&I sponsor at Britcham.

Prior to Barclays, Andrew has held positions at Citigroup in London and Frankfurt, AMP in Sydney and Capco in London.

Andrew holds an M.Eng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London and a MBA in Finance from London Business School.

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Public PriceComplimentary

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