Rebecca Bustamante

President
 

Rebecca Bustamante is the founder of Chalre Associates Executive Search and responsible for operations of the company.  She is also President of Asia CEO Awards, the country's largest business awards event and Asia CEO Forum, the nation's largest regular business event.  Rebecca is considered one of the most accomplished female entrepreneurs currently working in Philippines.

Rebecca Bustamante's activities and achievements have been featured on television interviews and features programs on ANC (ABS-CBN), GMA (Kapuso, Powerhouse, Mars, etc), BizNews Asia, SMNI, Net25, among others -- see example at http://youtu.be/OlGdNEoCxf0. She has been the subject of numerous feature articles and interviews published by GMA (Philippines), Straits Times (Singapore), LiteFM (Malaysia), NIKKIE Asian Review (Japan), BusinessMirror, Manila Times, Taliba (Canada), Manila Bulletin, MOD magazine, Woman’s magazine, Baby magazine, Philippine Mirror, He & She magazine, and others. 

Rebecca began her 20-year career in Canada.  Her most recent position was Senior Sales Director for a large international cosmetics organization.  Some of the many awards she received from the company over a period of years included: Top Rookie Sales Director for North America, Top 10 Unit Sales Award Canada (for each year of service), Top 10 Personal Sales Award Canada (for each year of service).  Because of her success, Rebecca was regularly asked to provide training presentations for up to 500 people at national company functions. 

Ms. Bustamante has been a developer of talent for many years.  Since relocating to Philippines in 2000 to start her own business, she has conducted training seminars for groups of up to 150 people.  She is a regular training consultant for the Canadian Embassy in Philippines.  Some other organizations she served include: Puerto Azul, Punta Beluarte, Day's Inn Hotel, Subic Bay Legend Hotel, Cypress Semiconductor, City Garden Hotel, NetWorld Hotel, Tagaytay Highlands, Edsa Shangri La, Hyatt Hotel, Heritage Hotel, Pagcor, Palm Plaza, Executive Plaza, Los Palmas, Holiday Inn (Manila), Oakwood Suites, SGV (Ernst & Young), FastPac, Manila Midtown Hotel, MegaWorld, Angeles Hospital, De la Salle University, De la Salle Hospital, Diamond Hotel, Digitel, CIBI, Planters Bank, among others.

Asia CEO Awards on ABS-CBN

Richard Mills

Chairman

Richard's extensive career in Executive Search includes 12 years working throughout Asia and 9 years in North America. He is Chairman of Asia CEO Awards, the largest business awards event in Philippines and Chairman of Asia CEO Forum, the largest regular business event in Philippines and one of the most important in the Asia region.  

Richard is a featured presenter for Asia region conferences and provided Keynote Addresses for the following international expositions:  HR Shared Services & BPO (Singapore), Successful Shared Services (Singapore), Executive Compensation & Benefits EXPO (Singapore).

He is a columnist and thought leader for a host of international publications.  He is author of "Hiring Leaders" the most comprehensive guidebooks for executive managers building businesses in Asia.  He is co-founder and current Chairman of the International ICT Awards, the largest event of its kind in Southeast Asia for the booming Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector. 

Richard's clients are multinational corporations for senior management positions. Of the many international recruitment projects he worked on in the Asia Pacific region, one was particularly noteworthy as it was reported on national Korean television as the largest technical recruiting venture in Korean history.  The project was also a cover story for ComputerWorld magazine throughout North America.
 
Richard has an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada's most prominent technical post-secondary institution.  He possesses the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute with its world head-quarters in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Richard is a founder and past Prize Committee Chairperson of a large charitable Dream Home Lottery corporation. During his involvement, it was the largest fund raising event of its kind in Canada. Mr. Mills is also a former president of the largest district of Crohn's Foundation of Canada.

John Payne

Managing Partner

John Payne was formerly the CEO of Fastech Synergy, a leading electronics manufacturer in the Asia Pacific region with upwards of 2000 employees.  The company is listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Singapore.  

Prior to joining Fastech, John was concurrently President and General Manager of the Philippine and Malaysian subsidiaries of Integrated Device Technology.  IDT is a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor manufacturing organization whose shares are included in the prominent S&P1000 Index.  Before joining IDT, John served in various senior management positions at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).   

Mr. Payne has 30 years of business experience, of which 20 years was in senior management positions throughout the Asia Pacific region and North America.  He is a graduate of Brunel University in London, England with a Bachelor of Technology (First Class Honors).

Angelina Lim

Managing Partner
 

Angelina Lim oversees our Singapore branch office. She has over 10 years of Management Recruitment Headhunting and selection experience covering Singapore and China, specializing in searches for R&D, Sales & Marketing, Engineering, Human Resources, Operations Professionals for clients from North America, UK and China in the ICT, electronics and engineering sectors.

She graduated with a Diploma from Hochschule fur Wirtschaft und Politik Hamburg , Germany and is tri-lingual.