Mr Emmanuel Daniel, Chairman, The Asian Banker

Founder of The Asian Banker, the most respected provider of consulting and intelligence in the financial services industry in the Asia Pacific region and other emerging markets. Mr Daniel has led it to become a combination of leading industry research, publication and consulting house, with a strong reputation worldwide.

Mr David Gyori, CEO, Banking Reports

David Gyori is a globally renowned FinTech consultant, trainer, author and keynote speaker. He is CEO of Banking Reports Ltd London, providing top quality ‘FinTech Training for Bankers’ all over the world. In addition, Gyori holds a number of key international positions: He is founding member of the World FinTech Association as well as member of the panel of judges of the European FinTech Awards. He is co-author of ‘The FINTECH Book’, published by Wiley and Sons in 2016, quickly becoming a global category best-seller. Gyori is faculty member of the Retail Banking Academy (London), one of the most prestigious banker-training facilities globally. He serves on the advisory board of multiple FinTech companies in the United Kingdom.

Mr Gordian Gaeta, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker

Gordian Gaeta has been a banking consultant for some 25 years. He has advised and served many of the leading financial services organisations across Asia and close to half of the top 100 banks worldwide. He specialises in developing and implementing analytical solutions for complex strategic issues in financial services-related industries undergoing significant change or being exposed to intricate risk issues.

Mr Andrew Tan, CEO, CrowdPlus, Malaysia

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and the founding partner in two venture capital firm where he managed a pool of funds totaling up to 50million USD in which he is leading the firm’s investment and management team. Prior to CrowdPlus, Andrew was the Managing Partner and a financial-services investor at Tinkbig Venture and Appshack Asia. While at TinkBig Venture, he led investments in thirty two startup deals with other co VC amounted a total of 20million USD committed fund. Prior to that, Andrew was a private-equity investor where he regularly advised his limited Partners on private-equity deals and fund formation. Andrew has been featured various publication and newspapers as an outstanding entrepreneur. His previous experience include EBay UK, TESCO, MAVCAP and CGC Malaysia.

Mr Richard Hartung, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker

Richard has more than 20 years of experience in the payments and consumer financial services industry, primarily in the Asia Pacific region. Following work in retail banking in California and a short stint in government, Richard was part of the team that started up retail banking for Citibank in Japan. Richard joined MasterCard in 1993 and headed up Operations & Systems for the Asia Pacific region. He moved to Keppel TatLee Bank in 1999 and launched a new credit card program that became profitable in just over 1 year. He then managed the integration of Keppelcard into OCBC Bank and was the Card Center Manager at OCBC. Richard set up Transcarta in 2002 and focuses on assisting financial services companies with strategy, payments training programs, operations process enhancement, merchant acquiring, market entry and other business practices. He is also a freelance writer for The Asian Banker, Today, GTNews, Challenge and OOSKAnews

Mr John Bailon, CEO, Satoshi Citadel Industries, Philippines

Satoshi Citadel Industries is a Financial Technology startup company building Blockchain services and products for the purpose of financial inclusion in the Philippines. John leads the Satoshi Citadel team as CEO, guiding the vision of the company and development of its products in bitcoin. John is convinced that money transfers is an enormous opportunity in the Philippines, with at least US$30 billion entering the country in 2014 alone, and another US$40 billion in internal remittances. In this field of money transfers, John is working with Bitcoin as the breakthrough technology that will revolutionize this industry.

Mr R Vivekanand, Vice President and Co-Head, TCS Financial Solutions

Vivek is responsible for the realization of strategic initiatives encompassing Cloud, Digital and Blockchain technologies. Vivek is also responsible for business development and market penetration of the TCS BaNCS suite of products, including Sales and Marketing functions. He is the executive owner for key relationships in the Capital Markets line of business. In the course of his 24-year career with TCS, starting with the Smithsonian award-winning project for the SIX Group, Switzerland, Vivek has played a key role in mission critical implementations in over 25 countries globally. In his previous role, he was responsible for product development and delivery of the Capital Markets solutions under the TCS BaNCS brand. He also led the conceptualization and growth of the TCS BaNCS for Market Infrastructure solution, with showcase implementations such as LCH, Euroclear and Strate (South Africa). His experience includes leadership of TCS BaNCS implementations that have been catalytic in driving market reform in high growth markets such as Russia, Brazil, India, Hungary, New Zealand, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Nigeria, Morocco, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

Mr Thomas McMahon, CEO, Pan Asia Clearing Enterprise

Thomas McMahon has over 30 years of experience in International Exchange based Commodity and Derivative product creation, clearing, trading, and regulatory licensing. Over the past decade, Thom has worked broadly across Asia to bring to market major International Exchange formation and licensing projects in Singapore, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Dubai, India, and along with the licensing and launch of the Singapore Mercantile Exchange in August, 2010, where he served as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from April 2009 until June 2011. Prior to his role at the Singapore Mercantile Exchange, Thom was President and Managing Director, Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange from April 2007 until April 2009, overseeing the development and implementation of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange from the ground up.

Mr Ganesh Iyer, SVP, Product Development, HSBC Securities Services

Ganesh Iyer moved to Singapore in February 2013 as SVP – Market and Product Development for HSBC Securities Services (HSS). In his current role, Ganesh oversees all strategic, product and industry initiatives impacting the HSS business and its clients in Singapore. More recently, Ganesh also drives all Digital and Fintech initiatives impacting the securities services business in Asia in collaboration with colleagues global product management colleagues based in London and Hong Kong.

Mr Marcelo Casil, Co-Founder and CEO, DXMarkets

Founder and CEO of DXMarkets, a start-up company building blockchain-based products for the financial services industry in areas covering capital markets, investment, payments and digital identity. Having previously worked at a number of large global banks, Marcelo has wide-ranging experience in designing and building large-scale enterprise-grade systems with a focus on investment banking and financial solutions.

Mr Mike Kayamori, CEO, Quoine Corporation

Mike Kayamori is the co-founder and CEO of Tokyo-based Quoine, which was established in 2014 and today is among the largest blockchain/cryptocurrency companies worldwide. Prior to QUOINE, Mike was a Senior Vice President at SoftBank Group, managing its Asia / India operations, investments, and joint ventures with SingTel and Bharti Group as well as the Chief Investment Officer of Gungho Asia, the creator of Puzzle and Dragons. Before joining SoftBank, Mike was a Senior Director at Globespan Capital Partners, an independent Venture Capital with over USD1.2B under management, with responsibilities in Japan Investment as well as Asia business development. Mike graduated from The University of Tokyo and Harvard Business School.

Mr Conor Cunningham, CEO, ACUO

Cunningham has worked in the derivatives industry for the past 20 years. His was formerly managing director and head of the Futures, Clearing and Collateral business for Citibank in Asia Pacific. He also served as chairman of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Asia from 2014 to 2015. Prior to joining Citi in 2011, Cunningham worked with JP Morgan in London where he was responsible for its listed fixed income derivatives (EMEA ). Currently, he serves as CEO of ACUO, which specialises in providing collateral management solutions to bank and the buyside using cloud technology.

Mr Greg Krasnov, MD, Forum Capital

Mr Karim Chabane, Director, Collateral Services, Citi

Mr Sam Ahmed, Managing Director, Deriv Asia

Ahmed is the Managing Director and partner at Deriv Asia, a technical consultancy firm which provides strategic advisory and change transformation to banks in the areas of new derivatives businesses, risk policy and methodology, collateral management, vendor selection and regulatory implementation for various projects around Basel 3.
Ahmed’s career spans 18 years at top tier international banks such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Citi across Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore where he held management roles in FX Derivatives trading, credit risk and middle office. His last role was at Citi Singapore as Head of Collateral Services Sales for APAC.

Mr Matt Dooley, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker

Matt Dooley is founder and director of Connected Thinking, providing digital strategy, marketing, and training to banks. He is a member of the Next Bank team with over 20 years international experience driving change at two of the world’s leading banks, across three continents. He was global head of Internet strategy and head of digital experience for the global commercial banking division in HSBC. He pioneered HSBC’s global Internet design standards as a result of establishing the first Internet banking platform back in 2000. He stays abreast of the latest trends in mobile and virtual technology as well as social media and is instrumental in helping participants develop their own personal disciplines in handling these areas.

Mr Nick Walton, Head of ASEAN, Amazon Web Services

Nick Walton is the Head of ASEAN for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Prior to this position Nick held multiple roles across a career of close to 5 years with AWS. In that time he has been involved in some of the largest cloud transformations for enterprise companies including Qantas, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Suncorp helping them realise agility, drive innovation and reduce cost with the AWS Cloud. Nick has built experience working on customer cloud initiatives ranging from enterprise transformation, to big data & real-time analytics projects, as well as new applications and innovation efforts.

Mr David Gyori, CEO, Banking Reports

David Gyori is a globally renowned FinTech consultant, trainer, author and keynote speaker. He is CEO of Banking Reports Ltd London, providing top quality ‘FinTech Training for Bankers’ all over the world. In addition, Gyori holds a number of key international positions: He is founding member of the World FinTech Association as well as member of the panel of judges of the European FinTech Awards. He is co-author of ‘The FINTECH Book’, published by Wiley and Sons in 2016, quickly becoming a global category best-seller. Gyori is faculty member of the Retail Banking Academy (London), one of the most prestigious banker-training facilities globally. He serves on the advisory board of multiple FinTech companies in the United Kingdom.

Dr Ron Leven, Professor (MBA) Columbia University

Ron's career started as a sovereign risk economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Over the next 20 years, Ron held senior strategy positions at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan, in New York, Tokyo and Singapore. He also worked at several hedge funds, managing $150 million in a foreign exchange and fixed income leveraged strategy. Leven is currently a professor with Columbia University teaching courses on investing in emerging markets at Columbia’s School of International Affairs. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University and a B.A. in Economics and Chinese from Washington University.

Mr Alvin Wong, Head of Regional Products, SamsungPay

Alvin is based in Singapore and has more than 10 years of experience in mobile payments. He has deep experience in multiple perspectives within mobile payments end to end, from the early inception of NFC based payments from a service enabler, mobile proximity and remote payments, including mobile remittance during his time at SingTel and created mCash, now known as Dash. His current work focuses on building new experiences in the region on mobile value added services, online expansion, merchant partnerships and on mobile transit. He is also passionate about the user journey and experiences in mobile fintech as well as on digital security.

Ms Val Jihsuan Yap, Founder & CEO, PolicyPal

Val leads PolicyPal, a an insurance player that uses artificial intelligence to simplify and digitise insurance for thousands people.Prior to founding PolicyPal, Val was an Assistant Vice President at OCBC Bank. Primarily focused on launching the digital initiatives and campaigns, working closely with the wealth, digital and marketing to drive innovations. Previously served as Risk Assurance Associate at PwC London office, worked with UK Financial Institutions to develop implementation plans for the changes required for USA Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) compliance and regulatory assessment.

Mr Michael Lor, Former CEO, Canadia Bank Plc

Michael has led Canadia Bank's senior management team since 2011, successfully transforming the institution from a local bank into a regional financial services group. Under his leadership, Canadia successfully developed and launched a new partnership in micro finance with Fullerton Financial Holdings Singapore in 2013, and a new venture in life insurance with Muang Thai Life Assurance Thailand in early 2016. Prior to Canadia, he was group CEO of Eon Bank, leading Eon to consistent double-digit growth in PBT, total revenue, gross loans & financing and customer deposits. Before that, Michael held positions as head of consumer banking for RHB Bank and managing director of DBS Bank as part of his three decades long track record as a senior banker working across the Southeast Asia.

Mr Tobias Puehse, VP Digital Payments and Labs,Innovation Management, Mastercard

Puehse leads the innovation management of Mastercard Labs Asia Pacific. In this role, he is responsible for activities that help generate unique and innovative ideas for the company. His focus spans ideation through prototyping and business case development, both developing new propositionsand determining which opportunities make the most sense for Mastercard and its partners to pursue and incubate. Most recently, Puehse was named as one of Next Bank’s Top 100 leaders in Asia’s fintech scene. 

Mr Hitesh Arora, Director, Strategy and Customer Advocacy, CRMNEXT

Hitesh Arora has over 25 years of experience in global technology, strategy, sales, and operations in financial, retail, and technology services. He has held leadership positions in organisations across emerging markets and Asia Pacific, including Bank of America, Max Life Insurance, Yum Brands, Nucleus Software, Polaris Financial Technologies, and NIIT Technologies. Arora has led transformational change in various organisations including delivering greenfield start-ups; ensuring an organisation’s future readiness; and building capacity in people, processes, and platforms. He has established global operating models and led transformation initiatives for analytics, share of wallet programs, and digital channels.

Mr Pascal Bouvier, Venture Partner, Santander InnoVentures

Bouvier is a fintech expert and investor, who has been an operator and investor for large financial institutions, small-sized post revenue companies, and start-ups. He was previously general partner at the fintech investment arm of Route 66 Ventures, which he built into a global 20 fintech Venture Capital investor by the end of 2015. He holds a maximalist view that all participants in the industry have to be fintech companies and behave like tech companies, focusing on data, technology and user experience to deliver relevant services and experiences. 

Barney Frank, Former congressman, co-author of Dodd-Frank Act

Congressman Barney Frank is the former chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee between the turbulent global financial crisis years of 2007–2011. As one of the sponsors of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, also known as the Dodd-Frank legislation, his efforts at closing the gaps in financial oversight such as creating a financial stability council, finding ways to liquidate systemically important firms, and strengthening the financial system against further shocks, were crucial for the recovery of the US financial services industry. Congressman Frank is also credited with many grassroot initiatives, including creating a low-income housing tax credit in the 1980s. He is widely respected by chairmen and CEOs of banks in the US, regulators, and fellow lawmakers.

Ms Cathy Lemieux, EVP, Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Cathy Lemieux is executive vice president in charge of Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Cathy directs the supervision and regulation of more than nine hundred banking organizations including bank holding companies, state-chartered member banks, bank and savings and loan holding companies, financial holding companies, and U.S. foreign bank branches within the Seventh Federal Reserve District. Additionally, she chairs the System's Large Banking Organization (LBO) management group and serves as the chair of the Federal Reserve System Subcommittee implementing Basel II training.

Mr David Shrier, Founder and New Ventures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

David Shrier is a seasoned innovation catalyst and co-author of “Frontiers of Financial Technology” and “Trust: Data.” He is the managing director of MIT Connection Science and Engineering. He also leads the creation and launch of other new initiatives for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses and workshops on the “Future Commerce”, “Data Academy”, “Big Data and Social Analytics”, and “Future Health”. He recently advised the European Commission on commercialising innovation with a focus on digital technology. He is also the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Distilled Analytics, an advanced credit risk solutions provider derived from MIT research and has started and/or led a number of private equity and venture capital-backed companies as CEO, CFO or COO.

Mr Mohammed Abas, Co-Founder, One Lyst

Mr Jefferson Chen, CEO, Advanced A.I

Jefferson is the CEO of ADVANCE.AI, a Fintech & Artificial Intelligence company focused on Asia working on credit modelling and using big data to create credit profiles for financial institutions. He is also a Partner at GSR Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in China . Prior to starting ADVANCE.AI, Jefferson was head of private investing for Greater China at Farallon Capital (a leading alternative asset manager with AUM of over US$20 billion) where he led investments into Huarong AMC, Cinda AMC, Didi, ND Micro Credit and others.

Mr Tang Ning, Founder and CEO, CreditEase

Mr. Tang Ning was educated at the School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University, and continued his education in the field of Economics in the U.S. In 2006, recognizing the contribution that the 60 million small and micro enterprises make to the Chinese economy, and inspired by the fledgling microfinance sectors in other developing economies, Ning established CreditEase. The philosophy behind the business was and remains today that everyone deserves access to credit, and that credit can generate value for all sectors of the community. This guiding philosophy has underpinned the growth of the business from a single product business in 2006, to today's diversified financial services business. Heartened by the response of clients to the initial product offering, and their high creditworthiness, Ning has expanded the business to cover new customer segments and geographies. CreditEase now provides products and services to farmers and agricultural borrowers, microfinance clients, consumers, micro-businesses and wealth management clients covering 244 cities（including Hong Kong）and 93 rural areas across China.

Mr Lito Villanueva, MD, Smart Communications

Lito is among the few subject matter experts, thought-leaders, and practitioners in inclusive digital finance. He has over 20 solid years of experience in the fields of banking, payments and telecommunications industries. He started the fintech business in the PLDT Group in 2013 with trailblazing digital financial innovations meriting more than 30 global and regional accolades, including being cited as one of Asia's 100 Fintech Leaders, the first and only Filipino included in such list. Prior to his current role as managing director of FINTQ, the financial technology arm of PLDT and Smart's Voyager Innovations, he started his career with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). This was followed by his stint at the International Finance Corporation as consultant focusing on mobile money transfers in Mongolia. He was then invited by Visa to be the lead in customer strategy and market activation on global mobile payments covering 35 markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Mr Slava Solodkiy, Managing Partner, Life.SREDA

Solodkiy was recognised by UK magazine Institutional Investor as one of the TOP35 most influential fintech-persons in the world. He established Life. SREDA four years ago, which has invested in 22 start-ups in US, UK, Germany, CIS, Singapore, Philippines, India and Vietnam, including Simple, Moven, Fidor Bank, SumUp, Anthemis Group, Mobikon, and Lenddo. For the last one and a half years, the company heavily supported the fintech ecosystem in Singapore. It invested in eight companies; launched Inspir Asia co-working space and accelerator; and helped the Monetary Authority of Singapore in promoting Singapore as fintech hub across the world by launching www.BAAS.IS, the first pan-Asian bank-as-a-service-platform

Mr Ron Suber, President, Prosper Marketplace

Suber has more than 20 years’ experience in sales, marketing and business development across the hedge fund, broker dealer, and registered investment advisor industries. As president of Prosper Marketplace, America's first peer-to-peer lending platform with more than two million members and over $4 billion in funded loans, Suber is responsible for the company’s business development, ensuring a balance between institutional as well as retail investors. Since its launch in 2006, Prosper Marketplace has evolved into a personal finance company that offers products and services beyond personal loans to help people get on top of their finances.

Mr Soul Htite, Co-Founder of Lending Club, Founder and CEO, Dianrong.com

Htite co-founded Lending Club, the world's largest benchmarking peer-to-peer (P2P) company, received the prestigious Technology Pioneer Award at the 2011 World Economic Forum. He was also Lending Club’s head of technology until 2011. In 2012, Htite came to China and established Dianrong.com that focuses on the online marketplace and banking solution services on the basis of advanced technology. Dianrong.com is now China’s leading internet finance company.

Mr Kanags Surendran, Managing Director & Head, Digital Banking, CIMB Bank Berhad

Mr Surendran is a passionate professional who operates at the confluence of design, business and technology with a broad skill set having operated across strategy, product management, operations and technology functions. Skilled at creative problem solving and in delivering rapid and sustainable impact, has a track record as a leader who thrives on inspiring and developing talent, driving change, and in bringing together cross-functional teams to launch disruptive & innovative solutions.

In the past 2 years at CIMB, Surendran has been driving the transformation of the digital channels and has increased usage of digital channels by more than 30% and mobile by almost 50%. He has been instrumental in launching new capabilities such as CIMB Pay and CIMB Eva that lets customers chat with the bank. 

Mr Bernard Leong, Head, Post Office Network and Digital Services, Singapore Post Pte Ltd

Leong is the head of post office network and digital services for Singapore Post, where he oversees the company’s post offices network and digital strategy across the organisation, manages the existing portfolio of products and builds the next generation digital products that integrates cross functionally with other business units in the organisation. Before joining Singapore Post, he was a serial entrepreneur in UK and Singapore. Leong is also a connector to the Southeast Asia entrepreneurial ecosystem, serving as an entrepreneur in residence in INSEAD Business School. He is also the founder of Analyse Asia, a weekly podcast focusing on business, technology and media in Asia. 

Mr Ron Hose, Co-Founder and CEO, Coins.ph

Hose is the co-founder and CEO of Coins.ph. Before this, he was a founding partner of the early stage venture capital fund Innovation Endeavors and co-founder of TokBox, a consumer video conferencing company backed by Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, Stanford University and some of SiliconValley’s best-known angel investors. The company was later acquired by Telefonica.Hose is also an active investor and adviser to several Silicon Valley start-ups. 

Mr Olivier Berthier, Co-Founder and CEO, Moneythor

Berthier is the CEO of Moneythor, a Singapore-based fintech company focusing on digital banking and customer analytics. He is a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience in banking technology and entrepreneurship. Berthier started his career at BNP Paribas, where he served as project manager in Europe, North America and Asia.  

Mr Vidit Agrawal, Strategic Vehicle Partnerships Lead, APAC, Uber

Agrawal is in charge of spearheading the vehicle partnerships of Uber in the region, and is responsible for the growth of the business. He works with various banks, financiers and car manufacturers across the region to help grow Uber's supply by setting up deals for financing Uber drivers. Agrawal has filled multiple roles at Uber in the past including strategic finance manager, general manager for Singapore and Johor Bahru, strategic finance for India and business launcher across the region. Prior to Uber, he worked for UBS in Singapore and at multiple start-ups in Singapore and Silicon Valley. 

Ms Stephanie Myers, Vice President Customer Strategy, Experience and Loyalty, Prudential

Mr Sreeram Iyer, COO, Institutional Banking, ANZ

At ANZ, Sreeram is responsible for supporting Institutional business strategies across multiple countries, generating value for customers through Technology and driving Operations in all the regions of ANZ's business. Previously with Standard Chartered, he set up and ran their Offshore Hubs, deployed complex Technology platforms and was involved with the integration of a large global Private Bank business acquired by Standard Chartered. Sreeram has earned his learning experiences from MIT (Boston), London Business School, Henley Management College (MBA), and from INSEAD. Sreeram is active in LinkedIn on topics relating to the intersection of Banking with Fintech, Robotics, and Automation, and is a PolyFinTech100 mentor. He is also passionate about Financial Literacy for the underprivileged and is a recipient of “Greatest Individual Contribution to Financial Inclusion in Asia” Award (2017). As part of his deep interest in education, he runs a program to build 10 schools for kids in Vietnam, impacting some 4,000 kids by 2018.

Mr Lito Villanueva, MD, Smart Communications

Mr Raju Nair, Managing Director- Regional Head Customer Journey Experience, DBS Bank

Ms Natividad Alejo, Executive Vice President, Consumer Banking Group Head, Bank of the Philippine Islands

Mr Sameer Gupta, Regional Head for Customer Experience and Business Analytics, Consumer Banking Group, DBS Bank

Mr Mark Mackenzie, Managing Director APAC, Lenddo

Originally from Scotland, and having worked across Asia for the last 18 years Mark now manages Lenddo across East Asia and the Pacific region. Mark began his career in Construction Engineering but finding the Scottish climate not suited to prolonged periods of construction work, he returned to University to take an MBA. After a brief interlude in Academia where he worked in pioneering research in e-learning at Edinburgh University, he packed for Manila to take a consulting job and has never looked back! Mark considers working at Lenddo 'the best job in the world’.

Mr Suhail Amar Suresh, Group CTO, Maybank

Suhail first joined Maybank in October 2012 as the Head of Virtual Banking & Payments, Community Financial Services. He led the evolution of the Digital Strategy roadmap and was responsible for the roll out of several key digital platforms and capabilities across multiple markets. In June 2014, he was appointed as the Group Chief Information Officer, Group Technology and the Head of Maybank Shared Services of Maybank Group. Throughout his extensive career in other multinational organisations, Suhail oversaw overall technology investments and directed the implementation and integration of Technology services within the Asia Pacific region. Suhail has more than 30 years of global experience in various areas related to Corporate Strategy, Business Development & Marketing, Information Technology, Systems and Applications Architecture within the Banking and Telecommunications industries.

Mr Gitesh Athavale, SVP & GM, MatchMove Pay

An experienced payments experts with more than 14 years with Visa and American Express. Launched many successful card programs across Asia in partnership with banks, Telcos and consumer brands and corporates. Core expertise in Business development and Product management of payment products. Broad knowledge and understanding of payment systems and rules framework, revenue and risk impacts. Currently, he leads payments in Matchmove, which is one of Singapore’s fastest growing fintech company. In 2014, MatchMove launched a ground-breaking mobile virtual card with American Express, aimed at the millions of uncarded Asian’s who are going online and need new and secure mobile payment methods. This was followed by launch of MasterCard Virtual card in early 2015.

Mr Neil Parekh, General Manager, Asia, National Australia Bank

In his current role, Neil is responsible for all business, governance and regulatory matters in the Asia region for all countries except HK and Mainland China. Neil joined NAB from Natixis, where he was Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking Coverage for Asia and a member of the Executive Committee - Asia Pacific. In this role, he was responsible for all client coverage and deal origination in the region. Neil also worked with Bank of America in various product and client coverage roles. Neil contributes his time as a board director to Nautilus Insurance, Graymatics, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) and for SICCI. Additionally, he serves on the governing council of the ABS (Association of Banks in Singapore) and is Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the AICD (Australian Institute of Company Directors).

Mr Ng Ling Soon, Chief Technology Officer of BCSIS Information Systems

Ng has more than 20 years of IT experience in the Financial Industry. In the 20 years, he has successfully implemented many large scale projects and developed numerous infrastructure and application roadmaps for financial institutions with regional footprints. Among these projects were core banking replacement projects and consolidation of Bank’s Data Centres residing in different countries. He was also involved in the implementation of the world’s first Real Time Direct Debit system using ISO20022, which was launched in Singapore in 2014.

Mr Jinesh Patel, partner, Dymon Asia

Jinesh Patel is a partner at Dymon Asia Ventures, an early stage Fintech-focussed fund targeting opportunities in the ASEAN region. In his capacity as Partner, Jinesh oversees all fund investments and leverages off the broader Dymon Asia platform. Prior to Dymon Asia Capital, Jinesh managed capital in the alternatives space. The early part of his career was spent on the TMT sector within the investment banking divisions of Goldman Sachs and UBS. Jinesh graduated with a BA Honours from the University of Exeter.