Contributors

Bonnie Kar

Brih Aguilar

Bryan Lin

Bryan Lin is a senior leader in healthcare management and currently the Chief Executive Officer of Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC), Malaysia. SJMC is an award-winning flagship hospital of the Ramsay Sime Darby Healthcare Group. With almost four decades of proven clinical outcomes, SJMC is one of the few Joint Commission International (JCI) and Malaysian Society for Quality in Health (MSQH) accredited leading tertiary private hospitals in Malaysia.

Armed with a wealth of experience in finance, operations, and management of several private hospitals, Bryan is a visionary leader who continuously strives for operational, clinical, and service excellence. He believes that digital transformation and innovation are key enablers to drive the future of healthcare.

Bryan is also an approachable people-leader who takes a holistic approach to healthcare, with an emphasis on care for the whole person instead of just the disease. He is passionate about empowering community health beyond the hospital’s walls.

Under his tenure since early 2022, SJMC has been named a finalist in the prestigious Flagship Medical Tourism Hospital Programme 2022-2025 by Malaysian Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC), a first-of-its kind accelerator programme that aims to elevate Malaysia healthcare known globally.

SJMC is also the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award recipient for Best Hospital Company of the Year for 2 consecutive years and GlobalHealth Asia-Pacific Award recipient for Stand-Out Jury Hospital of the Year in Asia-Pacific 2022, amongst its acclaimed accolades.

Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Management & Operations and a Master of Education in Healthcare Administration/Management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States of America.

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Chelsea Cheng

Chelsea joined Sunway Healthcare Group (“SHG”) as Group Director, Finance in January 2021. Since joining SHG, Chelsea has been instrumental as a trusted strategic business advisor to the President of SHG, Managing Director, CEOs and GMs of various business units. She is responsible for formulating the annual business plan and long-term financial strategy of the group. She engages regularly with insurance companies and third-party administrators alongside SHG’s Brands, Marketing & Communication team, with the aim of improving patient experience and developing win-win solutions. 

Recently, Chelsea established the Group Strategic Sourcing and Procurement unit in order to drive procurement synergy, cost efficiency and strategic vendor relationship management. Meanwhile, she is also overseeing and supporting the commissioning of various greenfield hospital projects as well as the expansion of ancillary healthcare services such as ambulatory care centres, home healthcare, senior living residences and traditional & complementary medicine centres.  

She is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (Chartered Accountants, Australia and New Zealand), Chartered Banker and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Prior to joining SHG, Chelsea has over 20 years of experience in the banking industry and a Big 4 accounting firm, spanning across a wide variety of roles including investor relations, business planning and analysis, corporate services, treasury, audit, advisory and compliance.

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Chilman Jain

Chris Hardesty

Chris is a Partner at Pureland Venture, looking after value creation activities for post-investment scale-up of healthtech innovation companies.  In addition, Chris moreover serves in the KPMG Global Health Centre of Excellence and as a strategic advisor for policy dialogue at APACMed (with a particular focus in the digital health domain).  Chris holds additional healthcare ecosystem roles too ranging from public/private UHC design taskforces through to visiting lectureship at leading academic centres.  Chris is presently based in Singapore, having lived and worked around the globe; he is most passionate about bringing safe, effective, economically-viable medical innovations to those populations in need.

Chris Ohehir

Chris Tiedemann