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XA Podcast 021 | Relationships, Experimentation and Founding Teams with Vicky Chai | People and Culture Series
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How do you build a great founding team? How do you handle moments of disruption, such as mergers or the mental health issues and increased isolation caused by working from home? And in a fundamentally people-oriented function, do you rely on your gut or act based on data and experimentation? In this episode we have Vicky Chai and Sergio Salvador discuss Vicky's long journey from software engineer to Chief People Officer and the challenges and lessons on the way
Our Speakers
Vicky is a versatile HR practitioner who designs and uses HR transformational initiatives to support business growth and solve long-term people issues. She relishes start-up roles and organisations, in companies that need to drive agility and constant change in order to grow. She has had both consulting and in-house operational & specialist roles across the full spectrum of HR in her 20+ years of HR career and was most recently the group head of people for Singlife with Aviva.
She is interviewed by Sergio Salvador, Chief People Officer of Carsome, who has prior experience at Egon Zehnder, Google, Electronic Arts, Yahoo!, Nokia as well as his own startup.
Discussion Points
- Handling organisational integration during the merger of Singlife with Aviva
- People philosophy at SingLife
- Building a culture of experimentation
- Using data to shape opinions
- The importance of work relationships in sustaining mental health
- Building great founding teams
Links
- Follow the show on Apple and Spotify
- View the transcript
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The XA Network (formerly Xoogler Angels) was founded in 2018 as an exclusive investment network comprising senior executives from leading global and regional technology companies. Our mission is to provide smart capital to early-stage companies across Southeast Asia. The XA podcast brings together voices from the ecosystem that powers early stage investing across this vibrant region. Our guests include entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and of course XA Network investors.
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