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 business achievements have been the subject of articles in the Philippine Enquirer, BusinessMirror, Manila Bulletin (Panorama), MOD magazine, Woman’s magazine, Philippine Mirror, He & She magazine, TV4, among others.  She is a former Vice President of the Canadian Club of the Philippines and has played a key role on the organizing committee of the "Canadian Snow Ball," one of the largest annual social events in Philippines.

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

Click below for recent feature articles quoting Rebecca:

BusinessMirror - Working Abroad: Are You Crazy?

BusinessWorld - Reign of the Filipino Manager

Financial Times - The Sun Sets On a Golden Era

GMA News - Pinoys Move Up

Canadian Chamber Magazine (Chimo) - Working Abroad

Taliba Canada - Returning to Philippines: Is Now the Right Time?

Taliba Canada - Overseas Filpinos in Demand: Philippines Booming Again

Mod Magazine - Rebecca Bustamante Feature Story

Manila Monitor - Go Back, Help Rev Up Philippines

Richard Mills

Chairman

Richard's extensive career in Executive Search includes 10 years working throughout Asia and 9 years in North America. He is Chairman of Asia CEO Awards, the country's largest business awards event and Chairman of Asia CEO Forum, the nation's largest regular business event.  

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.  Some of these include: ComputerWorld, AsiaTimes, TelecomAsia, YahooNews, AsiaMiner and IndiaDaily.  He is an Expert Panelist for CIO magazine (US) and the Offshore Offsourcing Best Practices association in New York.  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.

Michael Warren

Managing Partner, North Asia

Michael Warren has held a series of regional and executive management roles with companies such as Logica, the Sampoerna Group, the Keppel Group, Wang Global & Getronics, 3Com Corporation, and Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). 

He has more than 20 years experience as an Asia Pacific regional manager in business development, operations and organizational restructuring. His background encompasses a variety of industries including information technology, telecoms, finance, and manufacturing. 

Michael holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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).

Andre Lacaille

Managing Partner
  

André Lacaille is a lifetime Human Resource professional with 20 years of career management experience.  He has worked at the highest levels within such organizations as Johnson & Johnson, Rolls-Royce Canada and Noranda Mines (one of the world's largest natural resources organizations during the time of his involvement). 

His most recent role was VP of Global Recruitment and Professional Development for SNC Lavalin, currently the world's largest engineering firm.

As a member of management teams, André acquired extensive experience in counseling and training managers in personnel management techniques. His main areas of expertise are recruiting, labour relations, staffing, remuneration, benefits, training and health & safety.

André also has a proven track record as a spokesperson at the bargaining table as well as in implementing business objectives deployment systems, performance assessment systems and in organizational development.  He is a graduate of the Université de Montréal located in Montreal, Canada with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Relations. 

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. 

Julian Payne

Senior Advisor
   

Julian Payne has 31 years of career experience with international development organizations. He was formerly a long-term elected member of the Board of Directors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and served as a full-time Executive Director for 9 years, including as Chair of the Audit Committee and then as Dean of the Board of Directors.
 
Julian previously had a long and successful career in the Public Service of Canada including experience as a senior executive in the Treasury Board of Canada (responsible for oversight and control of departmental budgets, organization and personnel resources) and, later, in Canadian International Development Agency (including a secondment as an Ambassador for Canada, as an Assessor of potential candidates for the Public Service of Canada’s Career Advancement Program to the Executive Category, and as CIDA’s Vice President for Asia). 
 

John is a graduate of Royal Military College of Canada with a BA degree in Economics & Politics. After serving as a naval aviator, he attended and graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with a M.Sc. (Econ) with a Mark of Distinction, specializing in politics and public administration.