Speakers

Passionate about technology driven businesses and applications in areas of social sharing, cloud services, web and mobile. Experienced in managing corporate scale projects to improve end user experience, drive business growth and profits. Rich know-how and knowledge of business frameworks, software and technology.
 

A senior leader in financial services with over ten years of progressive experience and achievement in building and managing teams, program management and organizational process improvement. A seasoned problem solver with a proven track record in overseeing and delivering multi-million dollar projects, post-acquisition integrations and turning around troubled projects. A focused achiever excelling in envisioning the big picture and carrying a project/vision through from infancy to fruition. Also managed Capital Markets development teams covering Equities, Prime Brokerage, Structured Notes, FX & MM delivering solutions for Front, Middle and Back-office. As well as managed programs and projects for Oil, Gas, Base Metals, Power, Structured Notes, NDF, FX Forwards, FX Options and Interest Rate Swaps.

Taimur Baig, Ph.D., heads economics as well as macro strategy for interest rate, credit, currency, and equities at DBS Group Research. He also advises the bank on risk management and investment strategy.

Prior to joining DBS, Dr. Baig was a Principal Economist in the Economic Policy Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Earlier he spent nine years at Deutsche Bank’s Singapore office, where his last position was Managing Director and Chief Economist, Asia. Before Deutsche Bank, he was based in Washington, DC, at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, for eight years, where his last position was Senior Economist.

Dr. Baig has published extensively for both specialists and a general audience, on areas including monetary policy in a deflationary environment, exchange rate regime determination, demographics, energy sector, frontier markets, fiscal policy efficacy, and financial market contagion.

Dr. Baig sits as a council member for the Asian Financial Think Tank, Economic Society of Singapore, and Women’s World Banking.

Dr. Baig holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He attended London School of Economics and Wabash College for his B.A. in Economics.

Edris Boey is Assistant Director of Enterprise Risk Management (ESG) at Eastspring Investments' head office based in Singapore, and is responsible for overseeing ESG risks, including the interpretation and implementation of ESG-related regulations, across the organisation which has presence in more than 10 jurisdictions. She works closely with the firm’s Sustainability Team, ESG Specialists in Investment Team as well as the various local risk and compliance teams to provide subject-matter expertise in the management of ESG risks. Edris’ career in sustainability spans across investment, consulting and in-house corporate capacities. Before joining Eastspring, Edris developed and maintained the Responsible Investment Approach at Maitri Asset Management, which won various accolades and her leadership in the ESG investing space was recognised. Prior to that, she managed sustainability strategy, reporting, and compliance at a listed industrial conglomerate in Singapore.

Dr David Broadstock is an economist with around 15 years of experience, most of which in Asia. He has worked within academia, consulting and strategic policy research (thinktanks) and is specialised in the areas of energy and environmental economics, with recent research concentrating on areas of green and sustainable finance. Topics he researches on include: ESG integration in investment; understanding the trends and determinants of green bond pricing; evaluating commodity price trends and connectivity; and reviewing the effectiveness of carbon pricing and climate finance practices.

David is a Senior Research Fellow with the Energy Studies Institute (ESI) where he also heads the Energy Economics Division, and also a Research Affiliate with the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN), both housed within NUS. Through these roles David regularly interacts with government agencies, research foundations, policy makers and industry leaders to develop and implement strategic research to support sustainable economic development for Singapore.

As an academic David has published in high level journals spanning accounting, finance, management and economics, and enjoys a healthy citation profile. David is Editor for The Energy Journal, and sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Management and Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances. David frequently engages with media, and has been interviewed or quoted by CNA (online and TV), Reuters, Straits Times and CGTV, among others.

James Cheo is Chief Investment Officer, Southeast Asia for Global Private Banking and Wealth at HSBC. Mr. Cheo is a member of the Global Investment Committee for Private Banking and Wealth Management and also a member of the Regional Investment Committee in Asia. In his role, he spearheads the development of investment strategies across all asset classes for private banking and wealth management clients in Southeast Asia. Prior to re-joining HSBC Private Banking, James was Senior Investment Strategist at Bank of Singapore, where he was responsible for asset allocation and thematic research. Before that, James assumed Investment Strategist roles at Barclays Wealth Asia. From 2004 to 2009, James served as Senior Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where he was part of the team that formulated policy actions for Singapore during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. With his knowledge and wealth of experience, his investment views are frequently sought after. He has established a strong media profile, with appearances on notable financial media including Bloomberg, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Channel 8 Mandarin News; and printed publications such as the Financial Times, Straits Times, Business Times. James graduated with First Class Honours in Finance from Nanyang Technological University. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst charter in 2007.

Su Yen collaborates with Asian regulators to craft a responsible regulatory eco-system for the Asia crypto industry and serves as the spokesperson for the Alliance’s membership body.

Su Yen was previously with Euroclear Bank where she served as Deputy CEO and authorized bank officer for the HK Branch. She actively engaged with government authorities to promote Euroclear’s platform as an enabler of a secure cost-efficient solution for cross-border capital flows to Asia’s financial markets. Su Yen also served as the Head of Government Relations, Asia Pacific, for Barclays Bank and Vice-President of Public Policy for Credit Suisse AG.

A graduate of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs who underwent an attachment with UNDP-NY office, she is passionate about leveraging technology to promote inclusive societies and financial diversity.

Mara is a seasoned corporate sustainability strategist with 12+ years of in-depth ESG experience in Asia Pacific. She joined ANZ in 2021 as Director in the ANZ Sustainable Finance International team, based in Singapore, to provide technical sustainability expertise. Before joining ANZ, as the Southeast Asia Lead for Global Community Impact at Johnson & Johnson she spearheaded the innovative finance and impact investment strategy for the Asia Pacific region.  Prior to that, Mara headed CSR Asia Hong Kong - a pioneering sustainability advisory firm. She was also an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong teaching Corporate Sustainability, Shared Value and Inclusive business. Mara holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental and Energy Management at Bocconi University in Italy and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics at Transylvania University in Romania. She is a graduate of the Oxford Scenarios Program at the Said Business Scholl, University of Oxford and a systems change practitioner at the School of Systems Change of the Forum for the Future.

Aziz has over 20 years of experience in international banking and finance, and in setting, enforcing and providing training on regulatory policies and standards, including climate risk and sustainable finance. At the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research office (AMRO), Aziz is responsible for the provision of capacity development and technical assistance to ASEAN countries and China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.

Aziz previously worked for 5 years at The SEACEN Centre, providing technical assistance and delivering training programmes to SEACEN’s 35 Central Banks and Regulatory Authority stakeholders across Asia on issues related to Supervision, Financial Stability, Risk Management, Climate Risk and Financial Market Infrastructures.

Before joining SEACEN, Aziz spent 7 years working as a Senior Technical Specialist at the Bank of England / Prudential Regulation Authority, undertaking asset quality and Non-Performing Loan reviews globally and managing the wholesale Concurrent Stress Testing programme. Aziz began his career in the Strategy, Finance and Economics practice of Andersen Business Consulting in London, and later worked at Standard Chartered Bank, covering the Origination, Structuring and Syndication of loan products across EMEA markets. He also worked at Lloyds Banking Group in Asset and Liability Management and in Leveraged Finance Loan Restructuring and Workout.

Aziz is a graduate in Economics and Philosophy from The University of Nottingham, UK, and also studied for an M.Sc. in Computing for Industry at Imperial College London.

Currently, I am the CRO at Cathay United Bank, Singapore which oversee all key risk types - Credit, Market, Liquidity and Operational Risks in a fairly sizeable wholesale banking outfit.

I am an experienced banker with extensive Risk Management and Client Coverage exposure gained through working with multiple client segments (Middle Market, Large Corporate, MNC & FI/NBFI) in varied industrial sectors which include but not limited to manufacturing, telecommunication, aviation & real estate/REIT.

I have covered different products/functions (Commercial Real Estate, Aviation & Capital Markets) across multiple geographies (Middle East, South Asia, ASEAN, Greater China & North East Asia).

 

Phil is Co-CEO of B2C2, the counterparty of choice in the institutional crypto market. He joined the firm in 2018 to lead expansion in Asia, successfully securing B2C2’s position as the number one foreign crypto liquidity provider in Japan. In 2020, B2C2 was acquired by Japanese financial group SBI.

Previously, Phil worked at Goldman Sachs where he oversaw the FX G10 business and commodities trading for EMEA, as part of the systematic market making team. Prior to that, he was an FX voice and systematic trader at Barclays and JPMorgan.

Phil holds a BSc in Industrial and System Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MSc in Financial Engineering from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Huzefa Goawala is GRC Specialist, SEA for Archer, based in Singapore. He is responsible for leading Archer’s GRC business in the region. He has an overall working experience of 20+ years. Huzefa has been focused on Information Security and GRC domains for 12 years.

Huzefa has an extensive experience of working across technologies and driving regional businesses in organizations such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems etc. He led the Security Solutions business for Oracle, while at Sun Microsystems he was responsible for the Software business.   

Mr Tobias Gondrom joined UOB in 2018 and is the Group Chief Information Security Officer. He is responsible for ensuring the end-to-end information security in UOB and implementing all cyber security initiatives across the Bank.

Tobias has more than 20 years of experience in information security, software development, application security, cryptography, electronic signatures and global standardisation strategies. He has held various roles in independent software vendors and large global corporations in the technology, financial and government sectors. Prior to joining UOB, Tobias was the Chief Technology Officer (Security) at Huawei.

He holds a London Business School Sloan Masters degree in Leadership and Strategy.

From 2014 to 2018, Tobias was a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) and the chair of the IETF Trust. From 2004 to 2018, he was also the chair of multiple IETF workings groups in the security domain, the latest one being the chair of the DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) working group and a member of the IETF security directorate until 2018.

Since 2007, Tobias has also held leadership roles for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a global not-for-profit organisation aimed at improving software security, including as a member of the board from 2014 to 2017 and former global chairman. In addition, Tobias is former a board member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Hong Kong and Macau Chapter and a former member of the NIS Platform of the European Commission, where he advised the European Union on Cyber Security and Risk Management.

Ram Gopalakrishnan is a Director, Private Equity and Global Co-Head of ESG at Affirma Capital and is responsible for originating and managing private equity investments and for leading Affirma Capital’s ESG initiatives. Prior to joining Affirma Capital, Ram was a Director at Standard Chartered Private Equity, which he joined in 2009, and was based in Singapore, Lagos and Dubai. Ram has been actively involved in over 15 private equity transactions representing over $1bn of investments across various emerging markets.

Ram holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering (First Class Honours) degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA) charterholder.

Prashant has 18 years experience in Asia, Europe & the US in financial services regulatory affairs and reforms with an increasing focus on sustainability and ESG. He has worked on assessing the business impacts of emerging ESG and sustainable finance related regulation and standards as well as analysing how markets consequently develop, fragment, and the obligations on multiple industry actors. Prashant has represented on multiple industry bodies including the ASIFMA Sustainable Finance Committee, ISDA ESG Working Group, and the ASIFMA-ISDA Public Policy Committee.

Prashant holds the Global Association of Risk Practitioners (GARP) Sustainability & Climate Risk certification, the Cambridge Sustainability Essentials Qualification, TCFD and Climate Disclosures Standard Board qualifications on climate related financial disclosures, TCFD recommendations, governance of climate related risks, and management of financial risk from climate change, as well as the Asian Development Bank’s Governing Sustainable Finance and Role of Central Banks and Authorities in Governing Sustainable Finance course.

A senior leader in the financial services industry with over 15 years of experience in covering Asia Pacific Region, local regulated entities and with direct working experience in Singapore, China and Thailand. Currently as the Regional Head of Risk Management at Coface, her role covers Enterprise Risk Management across 13 entities. Prior to this she was the Head of Financial and Operational Risk in a leading insurance company in Singapore, with previous experience in leading investment banks.

Directly she has been involved in developing teams across the Region and has supported the development of risk management practices, in Life, Non-Life and Trade Credit Insurance from governance, identification, reporting, monitoring, stress testing, regulatory submissions such as ORSA and risk transformation.   Furthermore, a key focus has been to enhance risk culture in view of the ever changing economic, regulatory and risk landscapes.  

Jed Khoo is Group Head of Process & Conduct Risk at OCBC, where he oversees the Group’s process controls and risk assessment regime and manages conduct-related risk matters.

He has over 25 years of experience in financial services across 1LOD, 2LOD, 3LOD and external audit. These diverse roles were in UBS, BNP Paribas Wealth Management and PwC. Just prior to OCBC, Jed ran his own risk consulting practice. He has also spoken at Singapore Management University and adjunct-lectured at the Singapore Institute of Technology on risk and internal audit.

Jed studied at Yale School of Management, Singapore Management University (MSc. in Wealth Management) and Nanyang Technological University (Ba. Accountancy) and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

An award winning fund, Salzworth Global Currency Fund trades the G10-currency universe, capturing global price action opportunities. The Fund runs a conservative technical strategy that seeks stable capital appreciation in the mid to long term, with a low-correlation to the performance of traditional asset classes.

Salzworth Global Currency Fund has won the Singapore Young Entrepreneurs Award 2021 under Innovative Industrialisation and the Fund was also ranked as Top 10 Currency Trader by Barclayhedge in 2021.

Ashli manages the Global Currency Fund with her FX team at Salzworth Asset Management. Prior to joining Salzworth, she served as the COO for a FX prop desk and a FX brokerage. Ashli started her career in investment banking in Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Singapore and ANZ Bank in Hong Kong. With her wealth of experience, Ashli is focused on expanding Salzworth’s corporate and institutional partnerships.

A wealth management practitioner and financial market professional, John has more than 20 years of experience spanning across multiple asset classes as well as client segments.

As a builder of successful businesses be it in Singapore, Malaysia and the region; John has an in depth understanding of how potentially complex financial markets product can be made simple and accessible to suitable retail, affluent and SME clients.

Leading multiple teams of wealth management experts, John is currently managing the Wealth Management Treasury business for UOB’s Personal Financial Services Division. His portfolio includes product management, solution advisory, sales specialists and treasury dealing which is critical to the value chain of UOB’s treasury business.

From Foreign Exchange, Equity, Interest Rate, Commodity, Fixed Income to Structured Products; it is John’s passion to connect client’s wealth planning needs with the intricacies of financial markets by partnering with best in class providers, investing in highly experienced wealth specialists and making the complex simple for our clients to understand and access as investment solutions.

John is also highly involved in Singapore’s sustainability industry developments especially when it comes to sustainable investing; to which he has help launched UOB’s award winning Sustainable Investing program for its wealth management clients. He has also contributed to Singapore’s first Green Finance Handbook as part of MAS’s Green Finance Industry Taskforce initiative.

On top of his Wealth Management capacity, John is also the Sustainability Lead for Group Personal Financial Services; supporting the bank’s aspiration to be the leading bank in ASEAN promoting sustainable living, payments and investments for our consumer bank clients.  

Robert Luu has been a Solutions Advisor and Regional Leader with Galvanize for the past 10 years, architecting strategic governance solutions and integrating technology platforms across global organizations to reduce the cost of risk and compliance, and increase stakeholder confidence and executive visibility.

In this role, he’s worked closely with Galvanize’s customer base to implement all aspects of the HighBond and Robotics platform for Risk, Audit, Compliance, IT/IT Risk, Finance, and Operation functions including data automation and continuous monitoring programs in a variety of industries such as banking, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, retail, oil and gas, healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, education, and the public sector. He also provides advisory and consulting services for GRC professionals embarking on digital transformation supported by his recent achievements in receiving the Certificate in Digital Risk Management. Robert now plays a key role in leading the go-to-market strategies for Galvanize’s innovative solution stack and oversees the overall success of the customers for the Asia-Pacific & Japan region as a Forrester certified Customer Experience Professional.

Shiv is currently the Chief Risk Officer, CCIB at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB); with overall risk responsibility for Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking (CCIB) clients across all geographies.

Shiv chair’s SCB's CCIB Risk Committee which oversees all the risks associated with the CCIB business (i.e. both financial and nonfinancial risks) and is also part of the Group Risk Management Team, Remuneration Forum, Underwriting Committee & Investment Committee. He is responsible for risk managing a portfolio of over USD 500 billion spanning across 65 countries, managed via a team of over 500 Risk Officers. Besides exercising direct control responsibility for Credit Risk and Market Risk profile of the Group, he is extensively involved in maintaining alignment with risk appetite by rebalancing risks or controls that may be required in response to internal and external factors.

Prior to this, he was the Regional Chief Risk Officer (RCRO), ASEAN & South Asia, at SCB and responsible for all risk types for the region. Before the RCRO role, Shiv was Senior Regional Credit Officer (SRCO), Asia; providing credit risk oversight for all Corporate, Institutional & Commercial clients across Asia. He has also been the Head of Credit Risk - Specialized Finance, Funds and Traded Products, where he was responsible for providing global credit risk oversight covering all Financial Markets products, Acquisition Finance, Project & Export Finance, Aviation & Shipping Finance and Structured Finance.

Shiv has been in the financial services industry for over 28 years, of which the last 23 years have been with SCB where he has held various senior Risk roles across Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and Mumbai – covering multiple geographies around the world. Before joining the financial services industry, Shiv worked for 3 years with Tata Motors, India.

Shiv holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.

He is passionate about mentoring and coaching talent. He also occasionally goes in as a guest speaker at the Singapore Management University and was recently a Panellist at the “RiskMinds” Conference. Shiv is a Member of SCB's Global Diversity & Inclusion Council and leads the initiative for the Risk Function. Corporate Treasurer awarded Shiv for the best approval turnaround times for Cash Management Services for the year CY2014. He was also awarded the Leading Risk Practitioner by the Asian Banker in 2015 and was conferred the IBF Fellow in 2016 by the Institute of Banking & Finance, Singapore.

Sanchit is an actuary and risk manager having worked in the insurance industry for over 20 years across various firms and actuarial consulting. His experience covers risk management, financial management and reporting, product development and propositions, business planning and market entry. His work experience spans various markets across Asia, Africa, the UK, US and France.

Sanchit is currently Chief Financial and Operational Risk Officer covering risk management for Prudential’s Asia and Africa businesses.

Sanchit is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, India and Singapore (FIAA, FIAI, FSAS) and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA). He holds the Qualified Risk Director designation from the DCRO Institute.

Carney leads the investment and portfolio management activities related to fintech, cryptocurrency ventures capital portfolio at FXHB Asset Management,. He has also played his part at the Wealth Management Institute (WMI), founded by Temasek & GIC to provides first-class educational sessions and consultation for family office that would like to venture into crypto-related investments/portfolios.

Prior to these roles, he held regional and leadership positions in banking, payments and fintech firms.

As a strong advocate for fintech and cryptocurrency since 2017, Carney played his part in the early community building for associations in Singapore. He was part of the subcommittee at (ACCESS) Association of Crypto Currency Enterprise and Startups Singapore, a member at (SFA) Singapore Fintech Association, and (BAS) Blockchain Association Singapore. Carney has join the evaluation panel for Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) FSTI Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2023, the scheme aims to provides funding support for the experimentation, development and dissemination of nascent innovative technologies in the financial services sector and also serve as an Industry Advisor for Alibaba Cloud – Singapore Innovation Accelerator.

Carney's insights on cryptocurrencies, Web 3.0, metaverse, NFTs and payments have been featured on several newswires and radio station such as Bloomberg, MoneyFM89.3, Coinlive and Forkast News. Apart from speaking at international events, Carney also volunteers as a guest/adjunct lecturer at local polytechnics & universities. He will be joining the adjunct faculty team at Singapore Management University (SMU) for their Academic Calendar 2023/2024.

Carney is on the advisory board for several cryptocurrency, blockchain and fintech projects, assisting their go-to market strategy.

Melissa Moi is the Head of Sustainable Business in the Corporate Sustainability Office at UOB. In her role, she supports the delivery of a sustainable business strategy across UOB’s footprint including the management and mitigation of ESG risk and driving the bank’s leadership in sustainability and sustainable finance.

Prior to joining UOB, Melissa spent a decade at Bank of America where she led the firm’s ESG efforts in Asia Pacific.  Her role included client facing advisory on sustainability, supporting a sustainable finance strategy in the region as well as the implementation of corporate ESG initiatives across risk, social investment and environmental footprint.

Gareth Nicholson joined Nomura in July 2021 as Chief Investment Officer and Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management for International Wealth Management. He is based in Singapore.

Gareth works closely with Nomura’s Global Markets and Investment Banking businesses to expand the firm’s product offerings and spearhead a streamlined, solutions-driven coverage effort for high-net-worth clients, external asset managers and family offices. With a strong institutional investment background, he creates and manages DPM strategies for fixed income, equity and multi-asset portfolios, while providing risk management support.

Gareth has over 16 years of experience in financial markets. Prior to Nomura, he was Head of Fixed Income DPM at Bank of Singapore, where he was also a member of its investment committee. Before that, he was with Aberdeen Standard Investments for almost 10 years as a fixed income trader and an Asian credit portfolio manager. He began working in finance in 2004 as a derivatives specialist with Deutsche Asset Management after an early career as a mathematics teacher.

Gareth holds a BSc in Financial Mathematics from the University of Johannesburg. He was born and raised in East London, South Africa.

Experienced Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) with a long-term track record in the investment management industry. Investment experience spans across global fixed income and currencies management, global treasury management, external manager mandates, alternative investments, asset allocation, fund-of-funds portfolio management, and with strong interest in ESG investments. Vast experience in setting up start-ups to be fund management companies. Well versed with regulatory compliance, portfolio and enterprise risk management, and back-office operations. A strong business development professional.

I am a 'Change Maker and Happiness Agent', who loves to spread optimism and confidence in people's lives, enabling them to achieve their potential.

I am a 'Public Banker', with 18 years of experience in Corporate banking and Risk management across leading public, private and foreign banks. As the Head of Enterprise Risk, HSBC Bank Singapore and COO for Risk Function, I drive initiatives for aggregating risks, unlocking human potential, process efficiencies, innovation, Business Analytics and digitalisation. Employee and Community Engagement are my twin focus areas, to ensure a ' Safe and Great Place to Work'.

I champion equal opportunities at work by actively volunteering for HSBC Employee Resource Group (ERG) on Balance and PRIDE, besides working with NGOs.

I have extensive experience in team management, credit risk management, such as sourcing, approvals, policy making, portfolio analytics, capital management, stress testing, modelling, due diligence, compliance, assurance, Internal controls, Audit, Governance and digitalisation of lending. I have led best practices in Operational Risk, ERM, Climate Risk, Resilience risk management, Project Management. Led strategic & Regulatory projects such as Basel, IFRS, BCBS, Enterprise Risk, Climate Risk, Portfolio Analytics, Streamlining & Digitalisation.

CEDT-Enterprise Risk, Digital Risk, Third party Risk and Climate Risk are my special interests, with their evolving kaleidoscope of hues. I strongly believe in Climate Risk Centric Decision making, embedding conservation in design.My articles, speeches and leadership initiatives are for thought leadership for ensuring resilience in the financial system.

As a futurist, my mission is to reimagine and lead digital transformation in banking to empower customers. But I am equally passionate and vocal about the ethics of technological usage for the long term benefit of mankind.I am a technophile, who believes in combined intelligence(CI) and a block chain of community, with coexisting nodes of machines & humans.

As an author, poet, international speaker, I have dedicated life to upskill children, youth & women for an inclusive future. My co-authored Amazon Best seller book ' Revive and Thrive (Vol 2) shares my story of personal resilience to inspire people, particularly single women to thrive in a complex world. I believe in Servant Leadershipand Stakeholder Capitalism, serving and marching towards collective success of community, touching a million lives by 2030

Sage Patel joined IHS Markit (Markit Asia) in March 2011. Before joining IHS Markit, Sage was responsible for Pricing and Valuations at Fitch Solutions. Sage has extensive product and commercial leadership responsibilities across fixed income, derivatives, and structured credit and at tier-one investment banks, starting at Salomon Brothers, Citigroup Global Markets, Bank of America N.A and RBC Capital Markets across London, New York, and Toronto.

Sage has been driving IHS Markit's (now S&P Global Market Intelligence) continued expansion into Asia-Pacific capital markets which will continue to provide optimized solutions and best practices for market reforms adoptions in an ever-changing regulatory landscape in Asia.

Nagarajan (Nags) Sankaranarayanan is Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for Asia ex-Japan currently based in Singapore. He has regional responsibility for over 600 professionals across 12 countries, overseeing Operations, IT, Finance, Corporate Real Estate and Services, Data Management and Security, Corporate Transformation and Fin-Tech projects as well as Business Continuity Management. He also sits on the board of various Nomura’s companies.

Nags has 25 plus years of work experience in various leadership roles across both business and broad corporate/support areas in investment banks and start-up hedge fund. Prior to joining Nomura, he worked at Goldman Sachs, LionRock Capital (hedge fund) and JP Morgan in capacities as Equity Sales Trader, COO, and in the CFO office. Nags also has extensive experience in setting up and managing businesses, M&A, risk management, business strategy, global project and cost management programs, offshoring and managing large teams. Over his career, he has lived and worked across multiple Asian countries, including India, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Nags is also passionate about technology and finance, as well as a keen supporter of entrepreneurship. He has invested in and actively advises and mentors technology and finance-related startups.

Nags holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Kalpana Seethepalli is the Director of ESG for Asia Pacific and leads the work on results frameworks, measurement, monitoring and sustainable finance taxonomies for ESG transactions.

Dr. Seethepalli brings 20 years of sustainable finance experience across 15 countries from the multilateral and private equity markets. She is a global expert in design, measurement and reporting frameworks to achieve positive ESG impact through commercially viable investments.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Dr. Seethepalli was Managing Director, Sustainability & Impact for Infra-Tech Capital, an impact fund investing in companies utilizing technology to provide infrastructure services and achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She joined Infra-Tech Capital after a long career with the World Bank Group focusing on sustainable development and investment policy, blended finance and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). She has $2 billion in direct investment experience in sustainable finance, and led complex World Bank advisory mandates in Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Mexico, Philippines, South Korea, South Africa, Poland, Timor Leste, Kenya and Ghana.

Dr. Seethepalli led the World Bank Group’s dialogue with APEC, ASEAN, G20 Finance Ministers, multilaterals and development partners, and is a frequent speaker participant on sustainable financing at global fora, such as the World Economic Forum, convening private investors, advisors and thought leaders. She has also strengthened dialogue with NGOs and global civil society on ESG issues on live investments.

Dr. Seethepalli has a Ph.D. in Strategic Management & Public Policy focusing on infrastructure privatization in emerging markets from the George Washington University, USA.

Carola joined Wellington Management in September 2021 as the firm’s Asia-Pac Operational Risk Manager, located in Singapore. She is responsible for the evolvement of the operational risk framework in the region and has joined the Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore Risk Committees.

Prior to joining Wellington, Carola held various 1^st and 2^nd line enterprise risk management roles at M&G Investment Management (2019-2021), Schroders Investment Management (2013-2019) and Deutsche Bank Group (2003-2013).

Carola holds a Degree for Business Administrator (equivalent of MBA) from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

David has unique experience spanning the full trade lifecycle, execution to ledger. An experienced C-suite executive, David has significant exposure reporting to and working alongside CEOs and other C-suite focusing on strategic direction and operation of firms.

His geographic experience spans London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Moscow and Johannesburg having held senior executive positions in ask these locations. His experience spans established and emerging markets.

Currently based in Singapore he is looking at opportunities to work with businesses focused on growth and geographical expansion where his strategy and build experience can be leveraged.

Dr. Frederick Shen is Senior Vice President and Head of Business Management for Global Treasury, OCBC Bank, leading to strengthen the infrastructure, processes, monitoring and analytics to tackle the increasing regulatory and risk requirements, all the while enabling the Treasury business for strategic growth in countries we currently operate in and for the future. He also leads the Treasury FinTech strategy employing new and innovative technology solutions to deliver Treasury products to clients and to enhance productivity and efficiencies within the organisation. Fred re-joined OCBC in mid-2013 from Emirates NBD, Dubai, where he headed up the Group Market Risk unit. Prior to the Middle East assignment, he was with OCBC Bank Market Risk for 3+ years, and appointed its Head of Market Risk in 2011.

Fred started his career as a Professor of Finance at the University of Waterloo, Canada, before joining the financial industry, starting with global risk oversight of the financial engineering trading group at RBC Capital Markets. With over 25 years in the financial industry, his extensive experience includes assignments with various financial institutions and specialisations, including structured credit and real-asset securitizations at a privately held investment bank, Head of bank-wide economic/risk capital and risk modeling/analytics at Bank of Montreal, and Head of life insurance and asset management risk management at Manulife. Fred has a PhD in Financial Economics.

Frankie is an award-winning Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in Financial Industry with two decades experience in Cyber security, risk management,  digital transformation and pre-sales consulting.

Based in Singapore, currently he is APAC Regional Information Security Officer in one of global largest Asset Managers in Financial Industry. He was head of cyber & technology Risk (Singapore, Australia and New Zealand) in UBS bank.

He is a frequent keynote speaker about Cybersecurity & Technology in industry forums and perspective on Cybersecurity & Technology has been featured by international media. He is also a digital transformation and innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed as USA patent office as sole inventor.

He is a winner of industry leadership awards including Global Top 100 leaders in Infosec, World CIO 200 Master, CSO30 ASEAN, CIO 100 ASEAN, Asia 200 Digital Leader and ETCIO Transformative CIO.

Experienced Managing Director with over two decades in financial services industry across Asia.

Key thought leader in Innovation, Culture and Change leadership.

Strong professional skilled in Business Relationship Management, Financial & Operational Risk Management, Governance and Banking & Capital Markets.

Board member to various entities overseeing the Bank, across APAC and various industry associations.

Gerald Tan is the APAC Head of Reputational Risk for Credit Suisse.  He has 25 years of experience in legal private practice, banking and risk management.  Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Gerald was Head of Legal, Asia, at ICBC Standard Bank; and before that with Bank of America Merrill Lynch as Director and Head of Asia Commodities Legal. Before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Gerald worked as an in-house counsel in the financial services industry, as well as in legal private practice.  He has previously served as the Co-Chair of the ISDA Asia-Pacific Commodities Committee (2015-2020).   Outside of work , Gerald is active in the not-for-profit community, and currently serves on the Board of the National Parks Board and on the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Singapore.

Transformation leader with proven track record of streamlining business operations & driving change across countries, cultures and organisations. Bring comprehensive domain knowledge and fresh thinking to rapidly evolving fields of digital, operating model design and risk management.

Hands-on experience in executing new target operating model redesign (TOM), creating digital platforms & leading re-engineering programs to improve cycle time, customer acquisition and service capability.

Wide exposure and expertise in Asian regional markets with both broad and deep understanding of this region's complex regulatory, business and cultural operating environments, gained through regional and country roles in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and India.

An effective communicator with successful track record of leading multi-cultural teams covering Operations, Technology, Process Re-engineering, Compliance and Risk Management. 

Dr. Tey is the Head of Group IFRS 9 and Singapore Credit Risk model validation in Maybank. He is also responsible for providing technical guidance on matters including IFRS 9, IRB Credit Risk, ICAAP, model risk and AI/ML.

Prior to joining Maybank in 2017, Dr. Tey was a Director and ASEAN Credit Risk Lead as part of Financial Risk Management (FRM) advisory practice in KPMG Singapore. He has supported the growth of Advisory businesses around Financial Services and Financial Risk Management (FRM) in ASEAN region and, as regional Subject Matter Expert, specifically take on an active leadership role in growing risk-related services.

Dr. Tey held other risk-related and modelling roles in UOB and Bank Negara Malaysia.

Dr. Tey has over 17 years of experience in risk management and modelling across Asia. He holds PhD and Bachelor in Electronic Engineering degrees from the University of Sheffield, UK.

15 years of experience as a leader and change champion across multiple industries (Information Technology and Finance) and geographies (India, China and Singapore). I am a curious, analytical and client/outcome focused person. Strong managerial background with senior level global experience and cross functional / divisional exposure. Self driven, sets targets and leads by example, collaborative approach with good interpersonal skills to engage, motivate and encourage others through change.

Jens re-joined Deutsche Bank in 2022 and has regional responsibility for Risk & Portfolio Management for Trade Finance & Lending APAC and for Corporate Bank Lending globally.

He previously spent more than 3 years at Lloyds Banking Corporate Markets as Chief Risk Officer for Asia, overseeing Credit, Conduct, Compliance & Operational Risk.

Jens has nearly 30 years of banking experience primarily in Risk & Portfolio Management roles. After completing his banking apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in Germany, he has held a variety of positions in Relationship and Risk Management across Austria, Germany, USA and the UK.

Notable senior roles include Regional Head of Portfolio Management Europe responsible for credit portfolio strategy and risk appetite across all asset classes at Deutsche Bank, Senior Credit Underwriter covering Risk Solutions & Structured Derivatives CEEMEA at Royal Bank of Scotland and Head of Risk & Portfolio Management, Transaction Banking Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank.

Jens is a CFA® charterholder and Certified FRM. He is fluent in German, English and Spanish.

Henry is the Asia IBOR Transition Program Lead at ING, coordinating the transition across wholesale banking, group treasury, lending, as well as IT, compliance, legal, risk, finance and among other divisions.

His role also includes facilitating operational readiness, system enhancements, product approval reviews, client outreach, contract repapering and other workstreams. Henry has more than 10 years of banking experience in project management and project leading roles, covering various types of projects from technology and service re-engineering to business initiatives and regulatory change projects

Colin is responsible for the execution and delivery of the GIA Functional strategy with the aim of building the audit practice and auditor of the future, embedding agile auditing, audit analytics, automation and continuous auditing in the function. Colin also oversees Audit Operations, including Governance, Delivery, Methodology, People and Training, Data Management, Systems, Business Intelligence, Resource Planning and Global Business Services.

Colin has about 20 years of experience in Technology Audit, Audit Transformation and Data Analytics in the Banking Industry. Externally, Colin has been involved in the establishment of the Audit Analytics Roundtable with other Banks and speaking at Audit Conferences and Universities.

In Standard Chartered Bank, Colin had previously headed Global Audit Services, Analytics and Operations and was responsible for the establishment of the Audit Function in Global Business Services and Audit Analytics globally. Colin had also been the Head of Audit for a variety of technology and operations audit portfolios including Group Digital Banking, Retail, Private Banking and Wealth Management Technology, Group Functions & Risk Technology and Third Parties Audit Teams globally. He has also worked in Technology Infrastructure, CCIB Technology and Consumer Banking Operations Audit Teams.

Prior to joining the group, Colin spent four years as a Manager in the IT Risk Advisory Services practice in KPMG Singapore where he was primarily responsible for providing IT Governance, IT security, IT audit, business process reviews, business continuity and IT advisory services for clients in the Banking and Finance industry.

Philip Woo is the Chief Risk Officer and oversees corporate governance and risk management in Tokio Marine Life Insurance Singapore (TMLS). He has over 26 years of experience in the financial sector, and began his career at MAS before joining the insurance industry. Over the period, he has played leadership roles in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Business Continuity & Crisis Management, Outsourcing/Vendor Risk Management and Technology Risk Management (TRM). He currently chairs the Governance, Risk and Compliance Committee (GRCC) at TMLS, and oversees the managing of operational, financial and strategic risks in the company. In addition to risk management, Philip has a wealth of experience in strategic planning, financial technology and payment system matters.