Cards & Payments Asia 2012 conference - list of speakers

Faraaz Ali is the Cards Division Head for Citibank. Faraaz oversees the overall business and product management functions and works closely with the Middle-East cluster teams to deliver innovative products and a distinctive customer experience. Faraaz relocated to Citibank UAE in 2008 from the US where he was working for Citi Cards US as Vice...

Anand Cavale is the Business Director for the Cards and Consumer Lending Business at Citibank Berhad. Anand has been in Citi Malaysia since Dec 2009 and with Citibank for more than 20 years. He began his career with Citibank in New York where he joined an a Management Associate and moved on to various roles within Finance, Risk...

After first experiences within the Consulting Karsten Danziger began his career at Philips Semiconductors in 1994. For more than 10 years he held different managerial positions with global responsibilities in the fields of Logistics and Marketing & Sales of different product business units. Karsten Danziger combines the experiences in global...

Shankar Dharmaratne is the Senior Manager – New Business Development at Dialog Axiata PLC., a subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata), which operates Sri Lanka’s largest and fastest growing mobile telecommunications network. The Company is also one of the largest listed companies on the Colombo Stock Exchange in terms of market...

Frank Dorrian is the President, Asia Pacific, of the RFID International Business Association, a not for profit, vendor neutral, end user education organization. He speaks regularly at major conferences on the different aspects of RFID and teaches RFID masterclasses. Prior to joining the association, Frank who has approximately thirty years...

Elizabeth Duke has 20 years’ experience in both corporate and consulting environments. Covering markets across Asia Pacific /Middle East and Africa, she has had the opportunity to work for both global payment brands and local payment solution providers. Roles included Business Development and Strategic Planning with projects relating to both...

Innovative and solution-driven senior executive empowered with more than 11 years of extensive leadership experience in leading change and innovation within loyalty marketing, CRM, online distribution, and lifestyle branding. Possess great background working with the world’s most dynamic market economies, such as United...

As Executive Director of GlobalPlatform, Mr. Gillick is responsible for driving awareness and accelerating adoption of the GlobalPlatform Specifications within worldwide markets. Mr. Gillick coordinates and manages the organization's strategic planning and oversees all marketing and business development initiatives within key vertical market...

Jonathon Gould is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Asia-Pacific Connections (APC), where he manages their consulting practice in the banking and technology sectors. His clients include payment associations, financial institutions, consulting firms, retailers, and technology companies in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has over 27 years of ...

Claus Hansen is managing NXP’s Identification business in Asia. He has extensive experience in the Smart Card and ID industry having spent more than 20 years in senior positions in Schlumberger and Gemalto, before moving to the Semiconductor industry upon joining NXP. After graduation from Denmark’s Technical University with a Masters Degree in...

Richard Hartung is currently the Managing Director at Transcarta Pte Ltd, Singapore. He provides consulting services on retail banking, cards and payment products to financial institutions, service providers and software companies throughout the Asia Pacific region. His areas of focus include payments strategy development, analysis of benchmarks...

I have Joined NCC Bank Ltd as Head of Alternative Delivery Channel after 10 years experience in Cards & Alternative Delivery Channels in other Two Top Banks in Bangladesh. These banks are Pioneer in Cards and Alternative Delivery Channels. In my previous banks I worked in Business development, Sales, Customer Service & retention. I had to develop...

Mr. A.P. Hota, Chief Executive Officer of National Payments Corporation of India since February 2009 is a career central banker for 27 years. A significant part of his career has been in the area of design and implementation of Payment systems in India. During last three decades, he has played a key role in implementation of MICR technology in...

Currently with the Department of Science and Technology – Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICTO) as Commissioner, he also served as Commissioner of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) until June 30, 2011. He started his career in the IT industry in 1975 as a Systems Trainee at NCR...

Ron Kaufman is the world’s leading educator and motivator for uplifting customer service and building service cultures. • Author of Uplifting Service and 14 other books on service, business and inspiration. • Rated one of the world’s “Top 25 Who’s Hot” speakers by Speaker Magazine. • Powerful insights from working with clients all over the world...

As General Manager for Asia Pacific region, Shubhrendu Khoche is responsible for all day-to-day activities in Asia Pacific region, including business development, account and project management. Before joining C-SAM, Mr. Khoche served as a sales director with Venyon, a joint venture Asia of Nokia and Giesecke & Devrient (later merged back into...

Brett King is the bestselling author of BANK 2.0 and the founder of Movenbank - a new direct mobile banking proposition in the US. BANK 2.0 has received widespread industry acclaim and has been a #1 bestseller in the UK, USA, Germany, Japan, Russia and throughout Asia. Brett publishes regularly in his role as industry advisor on Huffington...

Anil Kishora, an Indian national, is currently the CEO of State Bank of India (SBI) in Singapore. Prior to moving over to Singapore from Mumbai in May 2009, he was responsible for the bank's overseas expansion and planning function at SBI's corporate headquarters. Having joined SBI in 1982, he has held senior positions in various areas of...

Rakesh is in charge of Strategic Marketing and Commerce Development at NETS Consumer Services where he oversees the sales, marketing and growth of NETS' two stored-value products - NETS CashCard & NETS FlashPay。

Nicholas started his engineering career in a local systems integration company prior to joining the Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA) in early 1997 as a systems engineer. In the LTA, he held various engineering portfolios before being seconded to its Policy Division to work on international relations matters and the development of...

Mrs. Toschanok Leelawankulsiri is the Division Executive of Payment Systems Policy and Strategy Division in the Payment Systems Department at Bank of Thailand. Her current duties include formulating of payment systems development policy and strategy management. She joined Bank of Thailand in 1978 and started working at Payment Systems Department ...

Nahil Mahmood is Founder and President for the Cloud Security Alliance for Pakistan . He has 14 years experience in IT, telecoms, and banking and is also serving as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for MCB Bank. He is playing an active role in bringing the industry, academia, government, and research centres together in Pakistan to...

Dee McGrath is Vice President, Financial Services Industry group. In this role she is responsible for setting industry strategy and driving growth in banking, insurance, funds management and mutual organisations by utilising HP’s deep industry expertise in financial services.

Barry Meiklejohn is Sales Director at Collis Asia in Singapore. Barry’s focus is growing Collis’ portfolio of consultancy, training, test services and tools throughout Asia. After qualifying from the Dundee College of Technology, Barry worked as a software engineer on a variety of projects such as operating systems and systems software for...

Jeff Miles is the Vice President for Mobile Transactions at NXP. Mr. Miles has over 18 years of international and US experience as a key executive with VeriFone, ARCO and TNT Express Worldwide. He has spent over 10 years in the payments industry and played a key role in bringing contactless payments to the Quick serve industry through a...

Muhammad Nasrul is Head of Card and Merchant Operations at Bank Danamon Indonesia and he is responsible for the whole operations of Bank Danamon’ Issuing and Acquiring business. For the past 6 years in Bank Danamon Indonesia, he was served in various managerial positions within Consumer Banking Operations area.. Prior joining Bank Danamon...

Quatrro is a leading service provider to Financial Institutions, Merchants and Payment processing industry worldwide. The company offers an integrated suite of risk management services across the entire risk cycle spanning credit, fraud and portfolio management. Quatrro’s services include Analytics, Transaction Monitoring and a host of proprietary ...

Ivan joined SMARTRAC from NXP, where he most recently held the position of International Product Marketing Manager for smart paper ticketing and NFC Tags. With NXP, he has gathered professional experience in marketing and product management of the Automatic Fare Collection systems, eGovernment identification solutions and security...

Mr Prakasam has degrees in Science (Statistics) and Engineering (Electrical). He was with the Singapore Airlines for 10 years, working in various departments involved in technical support and development work, before joining the Mass Rapid Transit Corporation in 1983. There, he was involved in the building of the first rapid transit system for...

Dharmaraj has 18 Years of Industry experience in Banking and Financial Services. Presently, he is heading the Core Banking team in ING Vysya Bank and am responsible for delivery of new enhancements in and around Core Banking.

Sudipta Roy is a seasoned consumer banking and payments professional with over 13 years of experience in Asia. An expert in consumer finance & credit/debit/prepaid cards products, portfolio & sales management including a deep understanding of consumer risk, allied risk management processes, fraud control & collections. He has an in-depth...

Ajmal Samuel is the President, CEO & Deputy Chairman of ASAP Transaction Processing Corporation Limited. Ajmal Samuel is responsible for the ASAP's overall corporate strategy, management team development and daily operations. Prior to joining ASAP, he spent 6 years as the President of Cityline (HK) Ltd. Mr. Samuel is a graduate of The Pakistan...

Anshu has total 17 years of rich professional experience in Loyalty Marketing and Business Development . She started her career with The Taj Group as Management Trainee and since then progressed in the company while handling variety of responsibilities for 13 years. She joined Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. as Deputy General Manager in...

Peter Schmallegger is Director Marketing Secure Identity responsible for the global marketing and implementation of IC (integrated circuit) solutions in the area of electronic passports and electronic identification documents such as national identification cards, electronic driving licenses and health cards. He is located in Gratkorn, Austria at ...

Pranav joined OCBC Bank as the head of E-Business in mid 2010 and is responsible for online & mobile banking, ATMs and self-service network and non-card payments. In the role, he has successfully led the customer centric and design thinking led transformation and re-launch of OCBC’s online and mobile banking platform. Prior to this role, he was...

Aijaz is working as Joint Director, Payment Systems – Policy and Regulation Divisor, State Bank of Pakistan (The Central Bank). His major job responsibilities include the Oversight of e-Banking channels / products, formulation of policies and procedures on Payment Systems and Payment Systems Security. In addition, Aijaz has assisted the...

Paul is responsible for GE’s Consumer product (Cards &d Unsecured) Strategy and Expansion in Asia Pacific, Key Client Relationship Management, Board representation for GE’s Consumer Finance joint venture’s in Asia Pacific.

Greg Smith is currently Group Manager Corporate Services at Parramatta City Council. He is responsible for Finance, HR, ICT, Customer Relations and Communications, Strategic Asset & Property Management and Governance, Quality and Corporate Performance functions. Greg has extensive executive level experience across all functions of the local...

Simon joined DBS Bank in 2004. He is currently the Senior Vice President in the Consumer Banking Group; his responsibilities include new product development, acquisition for cards, unsecured loans and merchants. Prior to DBS, Simon spent 13 years in Citibank, the last 8 years as Head of Bankcards Service Unit, Credit Operations, Consumer...

Born in Jakarta, April 1, 1970. After graduation from Electrical Engineering he continued his study and took master of science in Communication, all in University of Indonesia, and also took Executive Program in Graduate School for Business in University of Cape Town, South Africa. Beside formal education, Heru followed some courses and training...

Koichi Tagawa is the General Manager of Global Standards and Industry Relations Department that is in charge of technology standards and technology industry relations of the FeliCa Business. Since 2002, he has supported the popularization of NFC and FeliCa from the standardization point of view. He actively contributed to the establishment of the...

Masayuki Takezawa is Deputy General Manager in charge of marketing communications for FeliCa Business in Sony. After participation in product development throughout Sony for various consumer devices such as Mini Disc, car navigation system and digital camera, he was then involved for a period of three years in business development for network...

Eng Pheng is currently a Senior Director at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, in charge of driving IT-enabled business transformation in various economic and social clusters. His current portfolio includes leadership of a number of iN2015 sectoral initiatives on behalf of IDA in sectors spanning trade and...

Junya Tanaka is a member of the EMVCo Executive Committee and Board of Managers, representing JCB Co., Ltd. He also acts as Chair for the Interoperability Working Group. Within JCB, Junya is Senior Vice President of Brand Infrastructure & Technology Department of JCB, and is currently focused on strategy planning and establishing vendor...

Senior Management professional with over 17 years of corporate experience with leading Financial Institutions & Multi National Companies across India & UAE market. Experience in Marketing, Sales & Distribution in Consumer Banking, Automobile & Telecom Services Industries. Result-oriented leadership skills with a strong track record of setting up...

Thore Vestergaard is the Regional Head of Wholesale Cards for Citi’s Global Transaction Services division in Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for the overall Wholesale Cards business, encompassing Commercial and Prepaid card products across the region. Thore has held several roles within Citi, most recently as Head of Regional ...

Manuel Villamayor is Head of the Government and Secure ID division at Nagra ID - Kudelski Group. In this function he is responsible for the worldwide market, sales and partner strategies working closely with governments, security printers and system integrators around the globe to develop and implement Secure ID solutions supplied to governments...

I am heading issuing & acquiring business, transaction banking, New initiative, digital payments & Marketing departments in one of the largest Public Sector Undertaking Bank Of India. I am engineering graduate with post graduation in management having worked in Banking sector over more than 18years. Among the Public Sector Banks, Central Bank of...

Matt has been working in the cards payment industry for 20 years predominantly on the merchant acquiring side of the business. He was International EMEA Sales Manager for JCB working with key merchants and banks to attract Japanese cardholders to the region. He then joined Visa International where he spent 13 years heading up Acceptance Solutions...

Rick is seasoned marketing professional with experience across Telco, Financial, Automotive, Entertainment and FMCG categories. Rick has worked for some of the world’s most respected advertising agency networks on global brands including: McDonalds, IBM, Hyundai, American Express, Cartoon Network, KFC, Pepsi, Optus and MasterCard. A serial...

Tom Wills is a highly experienced product developer, industry analyst and entrepreneur in the field of security and digital identity for payments, banking, and commerce conducted over remote channels such as mobile networks and the Internet. For nearly two decades he has helped companies including Visa, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Canada, Wells ...

Mun Ling is responsible for Business Strategy that spans across StarHub’s quadruple play business. Included in this portfolio is Near Field Communications (NFC) amongst other Mobile Commerce Initiatives. Mun Ling also oversees the Product Management function at StarHub, advising on resource allocation based on Corporate Strategic Objectives. ...

Vince Au Yoong is currently the Senior Vice President and Head of Cards & Unsecured Business and Head of Retail Risk & Consumer Credit. Effective 6th April 2011, Vince has been appointed as Acting Director, Retail. He has more than 25 years working experience in the financial services industry. He has extensive experience in managing credit cards...

Siti Rohani has been involved in the Government ICT for almost 30 years. Currently she is the Malaysian National Identification Cards (MYKAD) Project Director attached with the National Registration Department (NRD) Malaysia. She has been with the project for 8 years starting from 2003. As Project Director she is incharge of overall project...