Ciaron Murphy Email & Phone Number

Wellington Region, New Zealand

Managing Director of the Burbage group of companies.

New Zealand

• Scope of Role: Leading all HR operations for ~4,000 Employees in Asia. Employees in direct span of control: 40. Reporting to the Global Head of HR

Hong Kong

• Scope of Role: Heading up HR for Asurion's rapidly growing business across APAC.

Singapore

• Scope of Role: Lead Business HR Partner for 25,000 Employees generating 7 Billion Euro of revenue. Employees in direct span of control: 4, in matrix: ~50. Dual reporting lines into the Global Head of HR and EVP of Sales for A&MEA.• Key Achievements/Projects: Executive lead for the divestiture of NSN’s BSS and Optical business across A&MEA,

Singapore

• Scope of Role: HR responsibility for 3500 internal employees and 1000 externals. Employees in direct span of control: 52. Dual reporting lines into the Global Head of HR and Regional EVP of Sales, APAC.• Key Achievements/Projects: Restructuring of +500 employees across APAC without incident. Driving OPEX reduction across the region via workforce planning and policy changes. Restructuring & renewal of the HR function to get its seat ‘back at the table’. Successful Motorola acquisition and integration. Global Projects: Design and Implementation of the new mode of operation for sales and professional services across NSN. Program manager for the NSN sales acceleration program in the A&MEA focussed on improving: MOO, Employee Renewal, Training & Development, incentivization.

Gurgaon, India

• Scope of Role: HR Business Partner for the Professional Services Business Unit comprising 4,000 employees. Employees in direct span of control: 4, in matrix: +25. Reporting to the EVP of Professional Services. • Key Achievements/Projects: Ramp down of the Global Services Hub from Europe and subsequent site selection, mass ramp up and competence transfer to establish the Global Services hub in India. Implementation of Ron Kaufman’s Service Excellence program across NSN. Design and implementation of HR due-diligence and transition gate process for all Managed services cases. Incentive design for the Global Services organization.

Munich Area, Germany

• Scope of role: Head of Talent management, Executive development & succession planning for the top 400 employees, defining and implementing NSN’s diversity statement. Employees in direct span of control: 2, in matrix: 8. Reporting to the Global Head of HR.• Key Achievements/Projects: Responsible for the selection and retention of key talent during the merger and ensuring that the best executives from Nokia and Siemens were placed in the highest impacting roles. Cultural integration of Nokia and Siemens (what is a leader in NSN, what is a talent in NSN, what are NSN’s values and how do we select and develop leaders accordingly). Team leader responsible for designing NSN’s Global Talent management concept, process and tool selection. Design and implementation of the flagship executive leadership program (Vision 2015).

Singapore

• Scope of Role: Regional business partner for the Networks infrastructure Business in APAC. Individual contributor, reporting in matrix: 10. Reporting to Vice President of Sales for Nokia’s Infrastructure Business.• Key Projects / achievements: Re-design HR processes & policy to support Nokia’s re-orientation from a product centric sales organization to a solution centric sales organization. Ramp up of the Professional Services organization via inorganic growth and subsequent headcount increase from 900 to 2700 employees. Regional expatriate reduction and localization from 22% to <8% of the total workforce. Number of APAC nationals in a director grade level and above increased from 32% to 52% of the total population. Extraordinary success with the Regional High potential program.

Singapore

• Key Projects / achievements: Member of the core design team that redesigned and implemented Nokia’s total rewards platform. Responsible for Expatriate management for 600 employees within the region. Management of the annual salary review process for 3000+ employees and determination of budget allocation to all business groups. Outsourcing of international transfers to Ernst and Young.

Tokyo, Japan

• Scope of Role: Executive Assistant to the Global Head of HR, Nokia Mobile Phones. Individual Contributor. Reporting to Global Head of HR. • Key Projects/Achievements: Localization and adoption of Nokia’s Global systems and processes within Japan. Lead Global ramp up of the Tokyo office (150 Expatriates over 18 months), Setting-up of the Global International student exchange program with 7 Japanese Universities

Finland

• Scope of Role: HR Account Consultant, Nokia Research Center. Individual Contributor reporting to the Head of Nokia Research Center.• Key Projects/Achievements: Master thesis completion on innovation within Nokia Research Center, international sourcing of key researchers. Contract negotiation & psychological assessment.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), E-Commerce / Biz

Masters, Psychology

Erasmus scholarship student. Rector’s award for outstanding academic performance. Thesis completed. *Papers still in the University

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, 2:1