[In Person] Ask Sabrina #4

Sabrina Ho is the Founder and CEO of half the sky - Asia’s leading career platform for women. She is on a mission to provide every woman the tools to build a successful career and navigate the future of work. 

After more than a decade working in the recruitment industry across the Asia Pacific, Sabrina witnessed first-hand the discriminatory practices that women face in their careers. In 2019, Sabrina bit the bullet and founded Half The Sky (HTS) to level the playing field for women at work and help companies build a more diverse workforce for the future of work. Half the sky has jobs across various industries in more than 14 countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Australia, NZ, India, Greater China and works with the leading Fortune 500 companies like J.P. Morgan, DBS Bank, Cisco, Equinix, DuPont, IBM and Johnson Controls. 

Born in Hong Kong and residing in Singapore for over a decade, she is a sought-after speaker on diversity, future of work and leadership and she has been interviewed and featured on Linkedin, Channel News Asia, MONEY FM 89.3, Singapore Tatler, ICON, The Peak, Singapore Women’s Weekly Magazine, ELLE Magazine, The New Paper, Prestige, Robb Report and Buro.Singapore and she is also a contributor for several leading media outlets on gender diversity and future of work topic. 

Nina is a multi-lingual Singaporean with 16+ years of experience in Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, across in-house and recruitment agency teams, having spent parts of her lifetime in Geneva, France, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. During Lazada's infancy stages, she was the recruitment business partner for Lazada's fashion & commercial division and strategised the execution of putting Lazada on the map globally. At LinkedIn, she helped SMEs and startups develop a short and long term candidate attraction and employer branding strategy using LinkedIn's tools as well as led recruitment training for their recruitment teams. Outside of her core role, she designed mindfulness programmes for the sales and leadership teams at LinkedIn. Since then, she’s consulted startups post-Series B to help them scale up as well as turned around the recruiting engine at Essence, a digital media agency with clients the like of Google & Airbnb.

Now she leads a team of 17 top-class recruiters and specialists across APAC who are passionate on attracting the best programmatic and engineering talent for The Trade Desk!