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 Andrew Tan, CEO, CrowdPlus.Asia

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 Dariusz P. Trocyszyn, Consultant, Corporate Banking, Comarch

After completing his studies in the field of Banking and Finance, Darius worked for 8 years in one of the leading Austrian Banks in Central Europe. During these fruitful years, he managed to deepen his knowledge on banking systems, international payments, claims, processes refining, cash handling and many more. Over 4 years spent in Internal Control resulted in thorough understanding of bank’s multiple internal systems, processes and products. Passionate about new technologies, processes optimization and with strong theoretical and practical background in the banking industry Darius participates in Corporate Banking software implementations across Europe, Asia and Middle East.

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

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.  

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

Ms Fernn Lim, AVP, Fintech &Innovation Group, OCBC Bank

Part of the founding team of The Open Vault at OCBC, Fernn is currently leading OCBC Bank's Fintech ecosystem engagement plans. She drives OCBC's corporate innovation strategy and is in charge of running The Open Vault's Digital Fintech Leaders Programme. Fernn has worked in different sectors in both London and Singapore and believes that the next generation of financial technology will redefine banking. She is a double Masters holder (MEd Mathematics and MA Innovation Management) and has a degree in Mathematics.

Mr Mark Englehart, Senior Vice President, head of Innovation Management, DBS Bank, Singapore.

Mark leads internal innovation programs that enable DBS to discover and define the future of DBS products and services by experimenting with myriad tools, techniques and methodologies, such as Human Centered Design, Lean experimentation and more. Prior to DBS, Mark was based in Shanghai as Strategy Director for R/GA, a digital innovations agency, working with brands such as Beats By Dre, Nike, Old Navy & Western Digital. In Shanghai, Mark co-founded TechyiZu, an open-source volunteer organization that pillars the Shanghai technology and entrepreneurship communities through events. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Mark holds a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Mr Liam Gilligan, Head, Innovation Lab, Hong Kong, Commonwealth Bank

Mr Liam is an experienced business innovator, with 15 years’ experience across both startup and large corporates in innovation, product development, business development, strategy, and human centered design. Prior to working at CBA, Liam was the General Manager of Service Product Innovation at Telstra. Liam was responsible for developing and testing new business models in response to a multi-faceted disruption. Liam also ran Service Design and Operations for Telstra’s retail footprint and was product lead for several new service businesses in the Telstra portfolio. Before Telstra, Liam lead Business Development and Operations at Gizmo, an IT services startup, which appeared twice in BRW fast starters list.

Mr Satoshi Tateyama, Head of MUFG Innovation Centre, Asia & Oceania

Mr Tateyama is responsible for promoting MUFG’s FinTech activities emphasizing on research and analysis of the FinTech Ecosystem in the region. This includes advancing MUFG’s own Proof-of- Concepts (POCs) as well as participating in governmental POCs to create new business and forward digitalization using the latest information and communication technology. Mr Tateyama has 16 years of banking experience, specialising in IT banking solutions, from sales to development.

Mr Stéphan Levieux, Head of Deposit, Payments and Cash Management Strategy, Hang Seng Bank

Stéphan is responsible for the Bank’s strategy for its deposit, payments and cash management business. His work has a particular emphasis on the Bank’s proposition for its corporate, commercial and institutional customers. Prior to joining Hang Seng Bank in 2014, Stéphan spent 16 years with HSBC in Hong Kong. His last position with HSBC was as the Asia-Pacific Head of Product Management for the bank’s Payments and Cash Management business. Stéphan has worked in Asia since 1989. Before specialising in transaction banking, Stéphan also held roles in information technology and in relationship management with Banque Nationale de Paris in Hong Kong. Stéphan holds an MBA from the University of Warwick in the UK and the Association of Corporate Treasurers’ Certificate in International Cash Management. Stéphan was a member of the Payments Market Practice Group, representing Hong Kong from 2011 to 2014 and is a member of the Payments Maintenance Working Group since 2016. He chairs the SWIFT National Member and User Group in Hong Kong since 2013. He is also a member of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hong Kong.

Mr Shekhar Bhandari, Senior EVP & Business Head, Global Transaction Banking, Kotak Mahindra

Shekhar is a finance veteran with over two decades of experience in the areas of transaction banking, cash management, risk management, structuring, foreign exchange, precious metals, derivatives, treasury and trade. Part of the key leadership group at Kotak, he plays a crucial role in strengthening Kotak Mahindra Bank’s (KMB) positioning as an important player in the Global Transaction Banking business. Shekhar helped to improve KMB’s market share and mindshare in Transaction Banking, facilitated escrow, trade services, cash management and foreign exchange as key activities for growing the business, developed partnerships with national and international players, facilitated trade tie-ups with Bank of New York and Commerz Bank Luxembourg. He is the leading voice to discuss issues and opportunities in trade and payments.

Mr Jan Luebke, Head of Market Management Asia, Institutional Cash Management, Deutsche Bank

In this role, Jan is responsible for the cash management strategy for financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region. A banking professional with 17 years working experience in operations and transaction banking, Jan also has significant regional and global experience across the Americas, Asia and Europe. In the earlier years of his career he headed the high-value-payment operations, Quality Assurance Germany in Deutsche Bank, and in this capacity managed the Euro-migration as well as the Y2K challenge. His portfolio of responsibilities also includes projects such as Single European Payments Area and the re-development of Deutsche Bank’s legacy processing and messaging platforms. His broad operational knowledge led him to a sales position managing foreign bank clients for Deutsche Bank in Germany, and he subsequently joined the Asia Pacific office where he now lends his expertise and knowledge to clients in developing and developed markets in the region.

Mr Jeremy Tan, Chairman, Korvac Holdings and CEO, Liquid Group

Liquid Group is a mobile payment platform company head quartered in Singapore with presence in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Hong Kong. Liquid Group offers an interoperable platform that provides banking, payment, and digital lifestyle services, revolutionizing the payment experience for both consumers and businesses. Jeremy is also the Chairman of Korvac Holdings Pte Ltd, an investment holding company founded in 1999, which invests in and develops payment and consumer data processing company and services. Jeremy is currently in the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF), where he holds the position of Honorary Secretary. He also serves as the Chairman of SiTF’s Singapore Enterprise Chapter, covering Singapore SMEs and startups. Prior to this, Jeremy was also on the board of Infocomm Investment Pte Ltd from 2009 to 2017, helping support the rapid development of Singapore's startup ecosystem centered around Blk 71 and BASH. 

Mr Rakesh Krishnamuti, Head, Large Enterprise Acquisition & Relationship Management, Southeast Asia, PayPal

Rakesh Krishnamuti leads the Large Enterprise Acquisition & Relationship Management team for PayPal in Southeast Asia. Based in Singapore, Rakesh is responsible for driving PayPal’s business in the region through acquiring leading e-commerce merchants and engaging with PayPal’s large merchant portfolio in Southeast Asia. Rakesh has over twenty-years of experience in the consumer and merchant payments industry, covering product development, sales, relationship management and business development. In between corporate stints at Citibank, NETS and leading SEA payments provider 2C2P, Rakesh also co-founded and ran a regional marketing consultancy that served Visa, SingTel, MasterCard & United Overseas Bank. Rakesh graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelors in Business Administration.

Mr Joel Yarbrough, Head, Corporate Development & Payments, Grab

In his role, Joel oversees M&A, Integration and Partnerships to enhance end-to-end product experience for Grab's passengers, drivers and partners. Through the Grab platform, he seeks to help drivers and partners build opportunities for themselves, while delivering safe and accessible transport to Southeast Asia. Joel brings over 20 years of solution and product management experience to Grab, having served in senior management roles in leading Internet, finance, and management consulting firms. Throughout his career, Joel has been passionate about connecting the dots to make product vision a reality. He relishes the challenge of taking a part complex technology systems and rebuilding them to address real problems. Prior to joining Grab, Joel spent over six years at PayPal overseeing product strategy and product delivery in APAC, as well as delivery of solutions for large online and omnichannel partners. Joel was also a founding board member of PayPal’s non-profit and charitable giving fund.

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.

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 James Cullen, Former SVP, Wells Fargo

James Cullen is a financial executive with over 30 years of extensive domestic and international experience in commercial banking and corporate finance, acquired while based in Hong Kong, Singapore, and cities on the West Coast of the United States. His expertise includes dealing with the financial architecture and business requirements of public and private corporations as well as governments and government entities. He is a strategic thinker who is innovative, operationally astute as well as being highly focused on goals, results, and relationships. His banking career began and concluded with Wells Fargo, and in between included two decades of executive positions with Bank of America and US Bancorp.

Mr Bill Chua, Former Head, Financial Institutions, UOB

Bill Chua was former MD and head of global financial institutions group, UOB, managing relationships with banks, non-bank financial institutions, supra-nationals, sovereigns and sovereign entities. In his 34 years of experience in the financial services industry, he has covered institutional wholesale and consumer banking in the front, middle and back offices. Prior to joining UOB in 2000, Chua was with Citibank for 20 years. He serves as a director for several UOB-owned companies and/or joint ventures, and is also an active member of the financial and education communities in Singapore.

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 Lito Villanueva, 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 T Prasanth Mathew, Director, Cash Management,Corporate& Trade Finance, Deutsche Bank

Based in Singapore, Mathew is a product specialist with 10 years of experience in Deutsche Bank. He focuses on managing the growth of the bank’s Cash Management Corporates and Trade Finance (TF/CMC) business with US multinationals in the Asia Pacific. Prior to his current role, Mathew was responsible for the German multinationals business in Asia. Mathew joined Deutsche Bank as a graduate trainee and in his first role after the graduate programme worked in a team which specialised in advising clients on regional treasury and shared service set ups. Mathew graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Minor in Business.

Mr G. V. Nageswara Rao, CEO & MDNational Securities Depository

He has been in his current position since July 1, 2013. Mr. Rao served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of IDBI Federal Life Insurance Company Limited of IDBI Bank Limited until June 30, 2013. Mr. Rao has over 26 years’ experience in various segments of financial services and has successfully built and managed several new businesses. Mr. Rao served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of IDBI Fortis Life Insurance Company Ltd. of IDBI Bank Limited. Mr. Rao served as the Chief executive officer of Commercial Banking Strategic Business Unit of Industrial Development Bank of India Limited of IDBI Bank Limited since April 4, 2005. He served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IDBI Capital Market Services Ltd., and IDBI Bank Limited. He serves as a Director of IDBI Capital Market Services Limited and National Securities Depository Limited.

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.

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 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.

Ms Nalinee Chinowuthichai, COO & Co-Founder, InvoiceInterchange

Nalinee is the co-founder and COO of InvoiceInterchange and an advocate for alternative finance. With a family background in invoice financing, she understands the importance of cash flow to the success of any business. Nalinee and her co-founder formed InvoiceInterchange to make invoice finance online and hassle free for businesses. Nalinee is a qualified software engineer with over 10 years of experience in banking and financial services across Australia and the UK. With extensive experience in managing the implementation of global IT projects in banks ranging from regulatory, sales support and operational process improvement. Nalinee oversees the ongoing build and enhancement of IT systems and ensures operational excellence at InvoiceInterchange.

Mr Constantin Robertz, MD, Zalora Philippines

Robertz is managing director of Zalora Philippines, Asia's leading online fashion destination with localised e-commerce sites across Southeast Asia. The company is part of the Global Fashion Group. Robertz is an entrepreneurial executive with background in building high-growth consumer internet companies with strong combination of results-oriented execution and strategic mindset. He previously worked with Rocket Internet in global venture development, building the company's e-commerce ventures globally in different functions, working with Zalando (Europe's #1 e-commerce company), Lamoda (Russia's leader in fashion e-commerce), and Zalora. 

Mr Lito Villanueva, Managing Director, FinTQnologies Corp.

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 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 Damian Glendinning, President, Association of Corporate Treasurers Singapore

Damian Glendinning has over 26 years’ experience in the field of finance, accounting and treasury. He is currently vice president and group treasurer at Lenovo, which he joined in 2005 after 21 years with IBM. Prior to this, Glendinning was IBM’s Asia Pacific treasurer from 2001 to 2005. He was also director of their global treasury operations in New York. Glendinning also served in a variety of corporate finance roles at IBM, including accounting and internal audit.

Mr Michael Lor, Advisor, Fullerton Financial Holdings And Non-executive Director, Canadia Bank

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 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 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 Adinata Widia, Group Head, Transaction Banking &Wholesale Product, Bank Mandiri

Adinata Widia is head of transaction banking product development at PT Bank Mandiri responsible for profitably growing the bank’s wholesale banking capabilities by identifying and targeting market segments with product innovations. He addresses the minutiae of developing existing and new products focusing on for example dimensioning, segmentation, buyer behavior, pricing, sales cycles, and delivery channel capabilities. Prior to joining Bank Mandiri, he worked in a variety of senior product development roles at PT Bank Danamon, PT CIMB Niaga, PT LippoBank and Citibank N.A. Indonesia. Widia started his career with Ernst & Young Intl., Philippines.

Mr Tobias Puehse, Vice President, Innovation Management, Digital Payments & Labs Asia/Pacific

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

Mr David Chance, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy, Dovetail

David Chance joined Dovetail in 2008 and has subsequently led the development and management of Dovetail products. David, with over 20 years in the industry, is a hugely experienced payments professional and recognised thought-leader, with significant global strategy, business and solutions development background. He is a regular participant in industry working groups. David’s experience includes senior roles at eFunds in corporate cash management, middleware and real-time payments, including supporting financial institutions in strategic planning for UK Faster Payments. David’s focus is now on ensuring our solutions remain at the forefront of financial services technology innovation.

Mr Christopher Loh, Group Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Group International Business, RHB Bank

Christopher is responsible for developing the Group's strategic priorities, driving the Group’s Transformation Programme (IGNITE 2017) across the region and working closely with the businesses to execute strategies towards achieving the Group's aspirations. He also assumed the position of overseeing the Group International Business (excluding Singapore), where he is responsible for leading and managing the Group’s business operations outside of Malaysia and Singapore, driving the growth strategies, strategic partnerships and expansion into other ASEAN countries. After his stint with a leading UK banking group in London, he returned to Asia to help built and led a very successful risk management practice where he was the Managing Director before his departure. He has also spent several years with a leading insurer in Singapore, and had established and run a technology and media startup.

Mr David Brown, Senior Vice President & Australia Country Manager, Head of APAC Presales, D+H

David Brown has been with D+H for 15 years and is responsible for payment products in Asia Pacific region, working closely with the sales, services and delivery teams. He has over 25 years’ industry experience and has worked for over 11 years at Colonial State Bank in Australia. David was on the SWIFT and RTGS industry user groups for 10 years. David has been the part time senior onsite business person for clients like Citibank (2yrs), HSBC (2yrs), Barclays (2yrs), Bank of Ireland (1yr), and has been involved with Bank of China, OCBC, Deutsche Bank, ANZ, Westpac and other client projects and has worked with senior bankers to help establish how payments as a business can operate in a changing world.

Mr Venkat ES, APAC Head, Treasury Product Management, Bank of America

Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for developing and executing the integrated strategy for the full end-to-end regional treasury products business in Asia Pacific, including Treasury Product Development & Delivery, Sales Enablement, Product Consulting, Balance Sheet Management and Product Innovation, Development and Management. Prior to assuming his position at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Venkat spent the previous four years as head of Global Transaction Services at Samba Financial Group (ex-Citigroup) in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He also brings broad experience from Citi, where he was the New York-based head of Corporate Payables and brand manager for FX multicurrency product Worldlink, earlier to that as Head of GTS for Middle East & North Africa and the Cash Product head for the Middle East, based in Dubai. Venkat also served as Citi India’s head of New Initiatives and Network Management, within the Mumbai-based cash product team.

Mr Raymond Leung, Banking Operation Advisor

Raymond Leung is now an independent banking operation advisor working in the region. He was in Alliance Bank Malaysia as Group Chief Operating Officer from January 2011 to 2016. He oversees the operations, technology and various support functions of the Bank, and is instrumental in developing key strategies that encompass all aspects of the Bank’s business to drive growth. This includes product support, talent development, customer services and delivery. Prior to joining Alliance Bank, Mr. Leung had gained a diverse wealth of experience with over 30 years in Citigroup, with assignments in Hong Kong, Toronto, New York and Singapore. He held key positions in both country and regional capacities for operations, technology, internal audit and product management.

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.