AXS HR Partners
MEET OUR TEAM

Good HR starts
with good people.Good HR
starts with
good people.

Meet the people who bring experience, perspective and care to your workplace. We listen to what matters to your business and your employees, then help you move forward with confidence.

Serene Wai
HR Management & Advisory

Serene Wai

Serene has extensive experience in Human Resource Management. Throughout her career, she has managed, led, and developed HR teams, and established a range of functions, policies, and procedures. As a member of senior management, she ensures that people and HR matters are managed effectively across the organisation. Serene has worked across professional services, education, manufacturing, and marine, giving her broad insight into different approaches to people management. Each industry brings its own challenges, which makes her a versatile advisor. She is passionate about people and systems, and believes in an inclusive, communicative approach. Her open and transparent nature makes it easy for others to trust her. Serene holds a Master's degree in Global HR Management and is a certified Senior HR Professional with the Institute for HR Professionals (IHRP), Singapore.

Vishal Bansal
HR & Rewards Strategy

Vishal Bansal

Vishal Bansal brings a rare, three-seat perspective — HR & rewards consulting, compensation surveys and in-house HR leadership — built over close to two decades across Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region. He founded Altus People Advisory to make senior-calibre HR and rewards expertise more accessible to organisations that need experienced guidance, without the overhead of a full-time executive team. Before founding Altus, Vishal served as Head of Human Resources at Jewel Changi Airport and concurrently as VP, Head of Total Rewards, Performance & Workforce Planning at Changi Airport Group. Earlier, he held senior roles at Mediacorp, led HR & rewards consulting at Carrots Consulting, and built early expertise in compensation surveys and rewards consulting at Mercer. Vishal holds an MBA from Nanyang Business School (top Strategy graduate, Accenture Gold Medal), with exchange programmes at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and ESSEC Business School, Paris. He also holds an accelerated Engineering degree from NTU, is a Certified IHRP Senior Professional (IHRP-SP), and completed Level I of the CFA Programme.

Daniel Yoong
Leadership & People Development

Daniel Yoong

Daniel Yoong is the founder of Beartree Advisory, built on a simple belief: work should be meaningful, and leaders have a responsibility to help their people grow. As a fractional HR leader, executive coach and people developer, he helps founders and leaders of growing organisations tackle the people and leadership problems that start to hold the business back, building teams that can keep pace with growth. Much of his work centres on improving manager capability, the thread connecting his coaching and leadership development work to healthier, higher-performing workplace cultures. Daniel's path runs through banking and executive search, where he led recruitment teams across Singapore and Hong Kong at HRnetGroup, before senior HR roles spanning financial services (Mizuho), non-profit healthcare (NKF Singapore) and higher education (the National University of Singapore). In one such role, his work on managerial coaching and engagement helped cut attrition in a high-turnover department by 22% year on year. He holds a Master of Human Capital Leadership from Singapore Management University, is CIPD Level 7 qualified, and is an IHRP Senior Professional (IHRP-SP).

Alka Tripathi Shukla
People Strategy & Growth

Alka Tripathi Shukla

Alka is a People leader with 14+ years of experience across India, Southeast Asia and Europe, partnering with organisations through growth, transformation and change. Her experience spans technology, consulting and high-growth businesses, including Publicis Sapient, CARSOME and Mahindra & Mahindra. A strategic People Partner to leaders and founders, she brings deep experience across Talent Strategy, Employee Experience, Organisation Design, Performance Management and Leadership Development. She has worked across the employee lifecycle, from building early talent programmes and talent frameworks to strengthening people practices for organisations with 5,500+ employees. Today, through her Fractional HR practice, she works with start-ups and growing SMEs as an embedded People Partner, helping founders build the people foundations needed to scale. Her work combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, bringing structure, clarity and practical people solutions to businesses at different stages of growth.

Charles Perez Chee
Outplacement & Corporate Coaching

Charles Perez Chee

Charles specialises in outplacement and corporate coaching, helping organisations support employees through retrenchment and coaching managers and leaders through workplace challenges. Over the past 20 years, he has supported more than 2,000 individuals in their career development and transitions, including retrenched employees from more than 80 organisations through outplacement programmes in the past six years. His corporate coaching experience spans universities, start-ups, SMEs and MNCs. Charles is an NCDA Certified Master in Career Services and holds a degree in Psychology from Murdoch University and a Diploma in Personal, Leadership and Executive Coaching from Kingstown College. He was also interviewed on CNA's Work It podcast about how outplacement supports retrenched employees. Charles sees retrenchment not merely as a business transaction, but as a human transition that calls for trust and dignity. Through outplacement coaching, he helps individuals regain clarity, explore career possibilities and prepare for their next move. As a corporate coach, he serves as a thinking partner to managers and leaders, offering a confidential, non-judgmental space to reflect on challenges, gain fresh perspectives and discover new ways forward. Above all, Charles believes that whether someone is facing an unexpected career transition or a new leadership challenge, they deserve the support to achieve the breakthrough they seek.

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