London Area, United Kingdom
Born in Shanghai and educated in the UK, I bring a global mindset and strong cross-cultural fluency. I thrive in multicultural, matrixed environments, translating reward strategy into practical solutions that create impact across countries, functions, and leadership teams. ◆ Reward Strategy & Executive Compensation: Design and lead global Rewards strategies that align executive pay, equity with business growth, performance, and long-term value creation. ◆ Data Analytics, People Insights & Reward Governance: Leverage People Analytics and compensation modeling to drive data-led decision making, strengthen governance, and deliver actionable workforce insights at scale. ◆ Job Architecture, Pay Structures & Organizational Design: Build global job leveling and benchmarking frameworks that support scalable growth, organizational redesign, M&A integration, and consistent reward governance across global markets. ◆ Performance, Incentives & Business Alignment: Align compensation, performance and incentive structures to strengthen accountability, employee engagement, retention, and business performance. ◆ Scaling High-Growth Global Organizations: Extensive experience supporting organizations from fast-scaling, pre-IPO environments to established global enterprises — building scalable reward foundations across complex, multicultural, and matrixed businesses. A few pivotal moments: ◉ 2026–Present | inDrive (c.3,000+ EE) Leading global reward transformation across 50+ countries, shaping scalable executive reward governance, IPO-readiness frameworks, and globally consistent compensation structures to support rapid international scale within a high-growth platform. ◉ 2021–2023 | TikTok (c.12,000+ EE) Led Total Rewards transformation across EMEA during hypergrowth, strengthening reward governance, analytics, and compliance frameworks to enable large-scale international expansion within one of the world’s fastest-scaling technology companies. ◉ 2018–2021 | Alibaba (c.1,600+ EE) Drove cross-border reward integration and post-M&A harmonization initiatives, building global people analytics capabilities and scalable reward foundations to improve organizational consistency across markets. Specialties: Total Rewards Strategy | Executive Compensation | Equity & Incentive Design | Reward Governance | Compensation Analytics | People Analytics | Job Architecture & Pay Structures | Performance Management Integration | IPO Readiness | Scale-up Transformation | M&A Integration | Strategic Workforce Planning | Cross-Border Reward Strategy | Equitable & High-Impact Reward Solutions
InDrive operates in 1,065 cities in 48 countries. Driven by its mission of challenging social injustice, the company is committed to having a positive impact on the lives of one billion people by 2030. It pursues this goal both through its core business, which supports local communities via a fair pricing model; and through the work of inVision. As Global Head of Total Rewards at inDrive, I led the evolution of our global reward strategy at a pivotal stage of growth and transformation. I focus on building robust global reward transformation across 50+ countries supporting IPO readiness and scalable governance, and international growth across diverse global markets. Operating at the intersection of Board, Finance, and Legal General Counsel, I partner closely with senior leadership to design scalable, governance-driven Total Rewards structures — spanning cash, performance incentives, and equity — ensuring alignment with market competitiveness, shareholder expectations, and long-term value creation.
As Head of HR International for Asymchem’s rapidly growing global footprint, I lead the full spectrum of people strategy for overseas operations, overseeing compensation, performance, and talent programs across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Strategic Focus Areas: ◉ Reward Strategy & Compensation Design: Spearheaded the development of a scalable global rewards framework, aligned with Asymchem’s growth trajectory and international business objectives. Introduced region-specific compensation strategies to attract critical scientific and technical talent across diverse geographies. ◉ Data Analytics & Insights: Embedded a data-driven mindset into the HR function by building people analytics dashboards and reporting frameworks that track headcount trends, retention risks, and compensation competitiveness globally. ◉ Job Architecture & Evaluation: Led the design and global rollout of a standardized job architecture and leveling framework, enabling clearer career paths, consistent pay practices, and compliance with evolving pay transparency regulations. ◉ Performance Management Integration: Introduced an integrated performance and reward model, linking KPIs and incentive outcomes to foster accountability and business-aligned growth in a high-stakes innovation environment. ◉ People-centric, High-Impact Culture: Built and led a high-performing international HR team from the ground up, reinforcing trust, engagement, and cross-cultural collaboration across a 1,000+ employee base.
Global Head of Total Rewards, System & Analytics for ECARX, a leading global automotive technology provider that aims to transform next generation vehicles into seamlessly integrated information, communication, and transportation devices. Managing a team of 8 in supporting ECARX's global business (c. 3,000+ employees) with Total Reward, People Analytics and HRIS system solutions.
Stepped into a senior leadership capacity to deputize for the Head of Compensation, Benefits & Performance across ByteDance’s rapidly growing EMEA business. My role focused on designing and delivering scalable, data-led total reward solutions that support hypergrowth, cross-market consistency, and cultural agility. Strategic Focus Areas: ◉ Reward Strategy & Compensation Design: Led CBP strategy for EMEA, aligning total reward frameworks with ByteDance’s global philosophy while tailoring practices to local market dynamics. Covered salary structures, incentive design, executive compensation, etc. ◉ Data Analytics & Insights: Built and governed the regional HRMI and analytics framework to drive data-driven compensation planning, workforce cost optimization, and equity monitoring. Developed analytics dashboards that served HR, Finance, and leadership for informed, real-time decision-making. ◉ Performance Management Integration: Supported the linkage of performance evaluation cycles with pay and bonus outcomes, driving a culture of accountability, meritocracy, and high performance across highly matrixed, tech-driven teams. ◉ Strategic Business Partnering: Acted as the Compensation Business Partner for ByteDance’s core functions — Technology, Product, User Growth, Monetization, Finance, and Enterprise Services — across EMEA. Delivered customized total reward solutions aligned with department-level performance and workforce needs. ◉ Governance, Integration & Compliance: Oversaw regional governance for CBP operations, ensuring compliance with pan-EMEA regulations (e.g., pay transparency, equal pay), and supported cross-border HR integration as ByteDance scaled into new markets across the UK, EU, MENA, and Eastern Europe. ◉ Driving People-Centric, High-Impact Solutions: Advocated for inclusive and transparent reward design, embedding equity and agility into every stage of the employee lifecycle — from hiring to performance reviews to retention.
Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content. My role is currently leading on Compensation strategy for the EMEA region, fueling exponential growth across UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Russia, Poland, UAE, Morocco, Turkey, etc (i.e. 24 country markets across EMEA in total).