Singapore, June 2026 — Sharon Fong has started a new position as Group Head Human Capital Management at NETS, bringing with her more than two decades of leadership experience across human resources, talent management, organizational development, and strategic workforce transformation within the banking, financial services, telecommunications, and payments sectors.
In her new role, Fong will lead the human capital management function for NETS Group, overseeing people strategy, talent development, organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and workforce initiatives that support the company’s continued growth and digital transformation agenda. Her appointment underscores NETS’ commitment to strengthening its people capabilities as it advances its position as a leading payments services group in Singapore and the region.
Prior to joining NETS, Fong spent over six years at Barclays, where she held senior regional leadership positions including APAC Head of HR Delivery & Advisory and APAC HRBP Lead. During her tenure, she led human resources advisory and delivery functions across the Asia-Pacific region, partnering with business leaders to drive strategic HR initiatives, workforce planning, leadership development, and organizational change.
Before Barclays, she served as Regional Head of Talent Management at MUFG, where she was responsible for advancing talent strategies and leadership development programs across the region. Earlier, she spent nearly five years with JPMorgan Chase as Executive Director, HR, providing regional HR leadership across 11 Asia-Pacific markets and supporting senior management teams across finance, risk, technology, operations, communications, marketing, and strategy functions.
Fong’s extensive career also includes leadership roles at State Bank of India, where she established and led the bank’s HR function in Singapore during a period of business expansion, as well as nearly five years at SingTel, where she served as a senior HR business partner and talent management leader. She began her financial services HR leadership journey with Standard Chartered Bank, supporting the consumer banking business as an HR manager. Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for aligning talent strategies with business objectives and driving organizational excellence across complex regional environments.
About NETS
NETS Group is a leading payments services organization that enables digital payments for merchants, consumers, and financial institutions across the payments value chain. Guided by its purpose of “Connecting Communities, Empowering Lives,” the company delivers innovative payment solutions that facilitate secure, seamless, and efficient transactions throughout Singapore and beyond.
NETS operates Singapore’s national debit payment scheme and supports more than 130,000 acceptance points nationwide. Through its subsidiaries and technology platforms, the group provides a broad range of payment, clearing, settlement, and fund transfer solutions, including contactless payments, QR-based payments, online and in-app transactions, and cross-border payment capabilities. NETS continues to play a pivotal role in strengthening Singapore’s digital payments ecosystem and financial infrastructure.
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