Sungwoo Kim is the team head of BCBS Team at Bank Supervision Department in the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in Korea. He has played major roles in the supervision and decision-making risk management policies regarding Korean banks. He has led the successful implementation of Basel III regulatory framework in Korea. During his career at FSS, he spent one and half year as a secondee of the FSS for Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Professor Gurule teaches law at Notre Dame and was a former US Treasury undersecretary with oversight over the U.S. Secret Service, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. As the US Treasury undersecretary responsible for financial crime when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, he led the successful effort to block US$125 million in assets belonging to suspected terrorist financiers.

Professor Chay teaches finance at SKKU Business School and was a former President of Korean Securities Association. He has also taught at the National University of Singapore, the University of Auckland (New Zealand), and State University of New York at Buffalo. He has served as a member of the approval committee for Basel II Internal Ratings-Based models at the Financial Supervisory Service in Korea. He was on the board of directors for NH Investment and Securities Co. as an outside director for four years. He has published numerous papers in finance journals, including premier journals such as theJournal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. He received Chicago Board of Trade/PACAP competitive research award in 1995.

Yutaka Imanishi is the CEO of TriOptimas’ Asia Pacific business, overseeing the expansion of TriOptima’s compression and reconciliation services in the region from the Singapore office. Prior to moving to Japan Mr. Imanishi held the role of Director of TriOptima Japan K.K. at TriOptima's Japan office. Before joining TriOptima, Mr. Imanishi was Head of Capital Markets at Nomura Singapore Ltd. and a Head of Japan Desk at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney.  He has more than 20 years of experience in fixed income markets. Mr. Imanishi holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Rikkio University in Tokyo, Japan and a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Seung-Whan Kim has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets, previously in charge of overseas business at Korean Investment Management. He was chief representative of the Ho Chi Min rep office and MD of KIM Asia in Hong Kong. In the past Kim has also been head of the Korean desk for fixed income and derivatives sales at Nomura Internal (HK).  He worked for the swap/options Desk as a trader at First National Bank of Chicago.

Patrick Chew is currently senior vice president heading operational risk management for OCBC Bank. Prior to this, Chew spent eight years with the bank’s consumer financial services division leading a team responsible for driving delivery strategies and channels. Chew has played various leadership roles in information technology for the past 16 years and is well versed with the development of technology.

Cesar Mora is a Senior Manager in the presales team of the IBM Algorithmics solutions. Cesar leads a global team of functional risk experts, CTPs, in the areas of Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk, CVA, Liquidity Risk, ALM, Regulatory Capital and Economic Capital. Prior to joining the presales team, Cesar worked in the implementation team for several years as a Financial Engineer in different locations like UK, Italy and Mexico where he implemented the IBM Algorithmics solutions for Insurance in the UK ( Solvency II, Curve Fitting, etc) and Market Risk/CCR/CVA (Basel II and III) solutions in UK, Italy and Mexico. Cesar has also been a Risk Manager at Rabobank (London) covering the Structured Products and IR desks

Dr 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.