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 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 Marco Gercke, Director, Cybercrime Research Institute

Gercke is a global thinker, writer and international expert in the field of cyber security and cybercrime. He has been advising governments, international organisations and large enterprises for more than ten years. He is the director of the Cybercrime Research Institute, an independent global think tank dealing with legal aspects. Gercke was appointed as member of the ITU High Level Expert Group and advised the ITU Secretary General on the development of the Global Cyber security Agenda (GCA).

Mr David Gyori, CEO, Banking Reports

David Gyori is a globally renowned consultant, trainer, author and keynote speaker. He is CEO of Banking Reports Ltd London, providing top quality ‘Digitisation 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 startup companies in the United Kingdom.

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 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.

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 Howard Mannella, Managing Principal, Alternative Resiliency Services

Howard Mannella is a thought-leader and executive in organisational resiliency, business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management and related disciplines, and with his role as managing principal, he helps clients in many sectors to reduce risk. He was formerly principal resiliency strategist for Expedia, where he established the global program that covered over 5,000 people in a dozen locations across North America and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He spent most of his career in banking and capital markets.

Mr Keith Furst, Founder, Data Derivatives

Keith Furst is the founder of Data Derivatives, and has years of experience at financial institutions implementing, fine tuning and validating financial crime systems. His forte relates to transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, fraud and market abuse systems and the identification of suspicious activity outside of the traditional surveillance models. He is skilled at bridging the requirements of risk and compliance with technology, which include the execution of strategic programs such as ongoing data validation and quality. With deep knowledge of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) message types and correspondent banking, he performed multiple risk assessments to ensure cross-border payment transparency aligns with both industry and internal policy guidelines.

Mr Rona Morgan, Managing Director, Asia, International Association of Privacy Professionals

Rona Morgan is an experienced banker and risk expert, with more than 25 years of banking experience in various fields, across multiple geographies. She has worked extensively in the regulatory space, leading the development of regulatory approaches for capital and risk appetite in major banks in Southeast Asia and Australia. Morgan spent most of her career with HSBC Banking Group. As former secretary of the Hong Kong Association of Banks in 2003, she was deeply involved in industry-wide banking issues, including personal data protection and cybercrime. Morgan is the data protection officer at a voluntary organisation in Singapore and is now leading the growth and development of International Association of Privacy Professionals across Asia.

Mr Ron Hose, 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 Jack Ow, Partner, RHTLaw Taylor Wessing

Jack Ow handles a broad spectrum of transactional and contentious matters in intellectual property and information technology. He has represented clients across various industries, including retail, financial services, information technology (IT), healthcare and critical infrastructure. He regularly advises info-communication and technology (ICT) businesses and users on technology transactions including data protection, cybersecurity and licensing issues. As a certified information privacy technologist accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and having a keen interest in ICT developments, Ow believes in seeking customised legal solutions that take into account the challenges in design, deployment and auditing of IT products and services, while balancing the role that technology companies increasingly fill as arbiters of trust in today’s data-driven global economy.

Mr Alan Seow, Cyber Security Practitioner, Singapore

Alan Seow has served for 12 years in government service. His last appointment was head of cybersecurity at the Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore. He headed the cyber function in overseeing the resiliency of Singapore’s info-communication and media sectors, focusing on the cyber protection of the sector’s critical infrastructures. Prior to this, he was in charge of the whole-of-government level ICT Cybersecurity for the public sector. During his early years, Seow served in the Ministry of Home Affairs undertaking IT security consultancy work for various Singapore government agencies coupled with periods in academia where he held an academic chair (digital security & forensics) in a government tertiary institution.

Mr Kunal Sehgal, APAC Head of Information Security & IT Risk, Schroders

Kunal Sehgal is a specialised cybersecurity professional with more than 12 years of experience across multiple geographical locations in North America and Asia. He has extensive knowledge in setting up regional security services, with teams spread across Asia Pacific. He has defined actionable road maps for technically complex programmes and has worked on several initiatives, including the conduct of gap-assessments to improve the overall security posture of the organisations. Prior to his current position he was head of information technology (IT) security SG & APAC at BNP Paribas. Sehgal also held senior positions in risk, compliance and IT security at MetLife and Sun Life Financial.

Mr Nick Savvides, Manager, Cybersecurity Strategy, Symantec

Nick Savvides is an information security expert with more than 20 years of experience. In his current role, he is responsible for Symantec’s cybersecurity strategy across Asia Pacific. Savvides’ charter is to provide local market insights that influence global strategic planning and product development. He also works with organisations and governments to develop their cybersecurity strategies and solve complex business problems. He has worked on some of the largest business information security projects in Australia. Prior to joining Symantec, Savvides worked at The University of Melbourne in various IT related roles.

Mr Theo Nassiokas, Head, Technology Information Security (TIS), Unit Operational Risk Management (UORM), Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

Theo Nassiokas is a security leader with over 20 years of diverse experience, with accountability ranging from law enforcement and criminal intelligence to risk and security strategy and policy development and implementation within the government and more recently, financial services organisations across Asia Pacific. In his current roles, he builds new capabilities, working closely with the information technology (IT) and operations risk & control team, group information security and the broader governance & change organisation, to deliver risk mitigation and alignment across information technology outsourcing (ITO). One of his accomplishments is the design and implementation of the data leakage prevention (DLP) governance and operating model used globally across ANZ bank's 31 markets, including ten Asian markets, while serving as the bank's head of information security and technology risk - international and institutional banking.

Mr Yujiro Hayashi, Senior Architect, Future Architect

Yujiro Hayashi is currently responsible for cybersecurity at Future Architect, Inc. and has accumulated his theoretical studies as well as professional career through various consulting activities with financial institutions, manufacturing enterprises and public entities such as Japan Pension Services (survey committee for leakage of private information) and several local governments in Japan. In this process, Hayashi, together with his colleague, Kota Kanbe, developed security vulnerability scanner "Vuls", which in GitHub - the largest host of source code in the world - acquired the most recognised status among 30 million projects in October 2016.

Mr Ka Wei Yuen, CISO APAC Manager, Deutsche Bank

Ka Wei Yuen has been with Deutsche Bank in Singapore since 2001, initially in cash management product management for two years and, subsequently, in various regional information security roles. He brokered and helped incorporate the information security requirements within the then Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Internet Banking and Technology Guidelines into the global Deutsche Bank assessment process, and kept the process up-to-date with the changing regulatory requirements. Yuen is now a regional manager in the chief information security office, with the primary responsibility in supporting the branches in regulatory engagement.

Mr Sean Comeau, Security Consultant

Sean Comeau has a proven track record in innovative security technologies. Comeau was one of the founding members of the leading Canadian security conference, CanSecWest, and has presented technical innovations and research at many premiere community events. Previous experience includes network and application security assessment, service provisioning in the gaming industry and development of security appliance hardware. Working in the open source arena on the mail security standards rounds out two decades of technical experience.

Mr Amar Singh, CEO and Founder of Cyber Management Alliance

Amar Singh is engaged as a business and cyber security advisor and interim C level executive by organisations which need to reduce their risk exposure, deploy post incident remediation, build security teams, increase cyber resiliency and mature their information security and data privacy posture. His client profile includes Siemens, the BBC, Reuters, BP, ATOS, Gala Coral, Cable & Wireless, SABMiller and many more. In addition, Singh acts as a resident consultant on information security product development and market direction for several organisations based in the US and the UK. He is also retained as a senior analyst at Kuppinger Cole and chairs ISACA's UK security advisory group.

Mr Edmund Lowell, Founder and CEO, KYC-Chain

Edmund Lowell is a serial entrepreneur living in Asia since 2011, innovating at the crossroads of finance, technology and legal fields. Lowell has built a number of financial technology (fintech) and regulatory technology (regtech) products during this time including KYC-Chain, which uses distributed ledger technology to unlock greater efficiency and trust in both the know your customer (KYC) onboarding and refresh process for both financial institutions and account holders. He is also managing partner at Far Horizon Capital, a company that invests in emerging technology and emerging markets.

Mr Gary Heatherington, International Resource Director, The Asian Banker

Gary Heatherington is a highly experienced industry leader with significant board and international experience in various companies in Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Since 2013, he has focused on creating jobs and economic opportunity in Asia. Working pro bono, he advised the Royal Government of Bhutan on economic, monetary, fiscal and regulatory policies, and assisted new business start-ups, creating employment opportunities and building long-term sustainability. He now volunteers in India and continues to head a payments-oriented US Bank. Heatherington is also chairman of a products marketing company, and a partner in several technology venture capital firms.

Mr Robin Lee, Director, ICFE Group of Companies

Robin Lee is responsible for managing both external and internal experience of the business for Inzsure, a commercial blockchain-powered insurtech solution. He is also a co-founder of the RegTech Connection, a digital community of regtech enthusiasts. He began his career in Silicon Valley in various start-ups within the compliance space. Lee also launched The Governance Risk AML Compliance Ethics Foundation (G.R.A.C.E.), an edtech/regtech firm which was subsequently acquired by RHTLaw Taylor-Wessing. Following the completion of the integration of G.R.A.C.E. within RHT, he joined Datarama, a regtech firm that specialises in digitally enhanced due diligence. Lee also sits on the advisory boards of the International Cybercrime and Forensics Examiners, Governance Risk and Compliance Investments and Technology (RegTech Investments) and Dynamic GRC.