Sheila's marketing journey is not straightforward. She has worked in consulting firms to help implement projects funded by the World Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, co-founded a successfully exited start-up company, and handled P & L responsibility at Kmart Australia...

Manish is the Founder, President & CEO at UNO Digital Bank (UNObank Inc.), one of the six licensed and operating Digital Banks in The Philippines (live effective July 5, 2022 with public launch in Oct 2022), and also the Founder at UNOAsia Pte Ltd., the Singapore based fintech that is the...

Adrian Bugaian is Endava’s Delivery Partner for the Asia Pacific region, overseeing the delivery of all regional client projects from ideation to go-live. Initially starting his career in Banking, Adrian has over 17 years of experience within the IT industry, helping businesses transform through...

Digital banking specialist with a focus on payments innovation, mobile wallets, peer to peer payments, online banking, credit cards, loyalty & rewards, and lifestyle.

Luqman is a Vice President of Business Operation at DANA Indonesia. He was involved in building DANA’s earliest product solution back in 2017 to become the most adopted digital wallet in the country. In current role, he is responsible for ensuring DANA’s suite of payment solutions is widely...

Mangala Martinus is managing director of Payments Consulting Network, an international management consulting firm that provides strategic advisory and market research services to the banking and payments industries, and Merchant Advisory, which supports organisations optimise payments acceptance...

Security and System Engineering enthusiast. Love to build, tune and securing technology platform.Experienced in digital transformation, information security management and cybersecurity control systems.

Sachin Sharma is the Chief Product & Commercial Officer for Standard Chartered nexus, a Banking-as-a-Service proposition. Based in Singapore, Sachin is leading product development and commercial partnerships for the white-label plug and play banking solution with a vision to redefine the...

Debbie Watkins has 20+ years of experience in technology for finance, mobile-enabled products and services, and business and strategy consulting. working in over 35 countries. She has led customer-centric market research and product development engagements; supported clients in technology platform...

Chris is CEO of DOKU, a leading online and offline payments platform with operations in Indonesia and Malaysia and with over 150,000 merchants. As CEO, Chris is responsible for the strategy, P&L and operations for a 350 person company. Prior to this, Chris spent 6 years at Grab, in senior...

Over 20 years of experience in Online Media and Digital Commerce sector. I currently lead B2B Integrated Marketing for 3M in Asia. Previously I have worked for organizations like Singapore Post, eBay, Yahoo!  And Tata Communications in Digital and eCommerce Field

Mr.Pawoot Pongvitayapanu (Pom), an online entrepreneur, E-Commerce and Online media business leader. Prior to holding CEO and Founder at TARAD.com the 1st and Biggest E-Commerce Service in Thailand since 1998. He founded efrastructure group in 2013 and invested in more than 44 startup companies. It ...

I am responsible for the Q-Commerce Business Unit at foodpanda Singapore. This includes both the management of our own network of grocery dark stores and the growth of a marketplace dedicated to shops/retail vendors across Singapore. Leading a team of 70+ in office and 300+ including store...

Chandana Sunder joined Lazada in 2022 as Senior Vice President, LazMall Marketing Solutions, helping LazMall brands to drive business growth using Lazada Sponsored Solutions. She is responsible for her team’s overall marketing solutions strategy, brand partnerships, sales and marketing. Prior to...

Michal is the Chief Product Officer of Trust. His focus is on delivering great customer experience, developing agile ways of working, and solving customer problems through Trust value propositions. Michal has 20 years of experience building financial services products in multinational corporations...

Having established a career in media, design and the creative industries for over 20 years, Lionel Chok pivoted in his career to specialise in Creative Technologies (Extended Reality) and founded iMMERSiVELY, a creative startup specialising in developing and delivering immersive tech applications...

Rajesh Grover is a seasoned professional with over 19 years of experience across various industries ranging from Retail, EdTech, FMCG, CPG, Consumer Electronics, Food & Beverage, Real Estate, Gaming and E-commerce Startups. He has built and led high-performance teams around Indian...

Kelvin is the Chief Operating Officer of YouTrip, a regional financial technology company dedicated to creating a next-generation digital financial services experience in Southeast Asia.  Having founded the YouTrip operations in Singapore, and expanded the brand overseas to Thailand, Kelvin...

Gus Poston is the co-founder of Netbank, the first banking as a service platform operating with a full banking license in Asia, operating out of the Philippines. Netbank provides loans, accounts, payments and cards to allow Fintech to accelerate its growth. Previously he co-founded Bridge, a...

"It is not often that you meet someone who seems to have been born with such an entrepreneurial spirit. Sadira Yeong is one such person." -- The Edge As a former country head of a public listed biotechnology company, Sadira is currently the founder and CEO of Scentses + Co that...

Camilla is the CEO and the co-founder of Emerging Payments Association Asia. Her role is to bring together the different participants in the value chain of payments for collaboration. The core of the EPAA activities is policy and advocacy to enhance the industry. Camilla has a long career in the...

Jonathan Lim is the CEO and co-founder of Oddle. Headquartered in Singapore, Oddle is a leading omnichannel F&B technology platform that has been disrupting and redefining the F&B industry in the region.  Under his leadership, Oddle has helped over 5000 restaurants in Singapore...

Boni Andika, Head of Marketing airasia Super App Indonesia has extensive experiences in marketing for various industries both in Indonesia and Malaysia markets.Boni started his career as a Management Trainee (MT) at PT Astra International Tbk. group for Astra Insurance, where he was assigned as the ...

Dipa is the head of payment and fraud protection products at Agoda (part of Booking Holdings Inc., the world leader in online travel and related services). His prior experience includes heading product management at Sigmoid - a Sequoia capital-backed data analytics startup, consulting with ZS...

Having been in leadership roles for 10 years, Carlo is experienced in payment ecosystems, wallets, and cards. As the Head of Digital Payments at foodpanda, he spearheads the implementation and execution of foodpanda's digital payment initiatives. And to ensure that foodpanda's...

Karen Luminario is a Digital Sales Ecommerce Department Head for Cebuana Lhuillier Jewelry Premium, a jewelry business unit under the PJ Lhuillier Group of Companies in the Philippines. Being part of the media and television industry in her early professional years representing the audiences' ...

Over 20 years of experience in financial services as a practitioner and consultant with Citibank, UOB and a wide range of other banks across the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.Currently Head of Digital Strategy & Transformation for UOB, where he supports the wider banks’ vision to build the...

Darrick Rochili is currently the Chief Innovation Officer of DANA and in charge of DANA Ventures, DANA's internal venture studio.With almost 25 years of experience, he considers himself a jack-of-all-trades and master of intuitive adaptability in learning and understanding business, technology...

Ivy Fung is a trainer specialising in blockchain technology. She also contributed to publications, online and offline, regarding technology and women in STEM.

Head of Digital Asset and Innovation of Green Link Digital Bank.David joined GLDB as the pioneer to setup the digital bank from scratch since Jun 2021 . Before he joined GLDB he was the CIO of River Valley Capital, previously he also served in various roles in Bank of China, Thales, Capgemini and...

Lito Villanueva is the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer for RCBC. He is concurrently the Chief Digital Transformation Advisor for the Yuchengco Group of Companies. He led RCBC’s massive digital transformation with game-changing and award-winning inclusive finance...

Asnawi Jufrie, SleekFlow’s Regional General Manager, oversees SleekFlow’s day-to-day operations and leads the social commerce platform’s growth in Southeast Asia.As the first key hire outside Hong Kong’s headquarters, he brings forth his domain expertise in the CRM space, and business development...

Kar Wee Ang has over 20 years of experience in corporate consultancy for various industries, including telecommunications, IT security and training development with financial institutions.  Kar Wee now heads up the development of training programs for The London Institute of Banking & Finance...

Lexy is a experienced AML professional with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry such as Remittance, Insurance, FinTech and Banking Industry with Risk Management, Fraud, Compliance and Lean Sixsigma certification. Strong Compliance professional in Digital Banking for ...

Bryan Tsui is the CEO of Measurable AI, a leading market intelligence company. With over 12 years of experience in the data industry, he has led successful startups and built deep expertise in big data. Bryan is passionate about helping businesses make data-driven decisions and driving innovation...

Serene is currently a Senior Digital Development Specialist at the World Bank Group.  She works on a range of global and regional analytics to support policy reforms, digital transformation and green digital solutions. She also assists governments to design and implement investment operations...

I am Catherine de Joya Urtola, the current Chief Compliance Officer of UNO Digital Bank. As the Head of Compliance Department, I oversee the following functions: Anti-Money Laundering, Regulatory Compliance, and Data Privacy. I was also the former Chief Compliance Officer of HC Consumer Philippines ...

Leonard Hoh leads Bitstamp’s Asia-Pacific business as General Manager with almost two decades of experience in wealth management and institutional banking with banking majors including Standard Chartered, ANZ and ING. His broad financial services expertise, including digital assets, will ensure...

Atty. Kayzer Aldrin Z. Saba is currently the AVP/Head of Subsidiaries and Offshore Offices Compliance of BDO Unibank, Inc. Previously, he was the Compliance/Data Privacy Officer, Anti-Money Laundering Officer, and Corporate Governance Officer of BDO Insure, a subsidiary of BDO Unibank, Inc. He is...

Vivek is a leading Sales & Client Experience industry expert based in Hong Kong. He is the Managing Partner, HK with Payments Consulting Network and Co-CEO at Finsight Global Consulting. Previously, he was Managing Director & APAC Head of Sales, HSBC for its Payments & Cash Management...

Karim is part of the Financial Service Advisory team with KPMG in Singapore, whose key area of focus is on Blockchain/DLT and Fintech innovation, he came from a background of banking and derivatives before venturing into the blockchain and fintech space. His career in Fintech and Blockchain started ...

Julian is the General Manager, Financial Services. He was the founding member of the Instore business in 2018 and launched Singapore’s first wallet-linked offers program with DBS PayLah! in 2020.  He then went on to start the Payments business for both Online and Instore partners, and now also...

Julie Reyes is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer.  She was a former banker with over 20 years of experience in systems applications development on banking products and operations design. In 2007, she joined Smart Communications as Channel Administration Head where she led her team in the...

Stephen Hamill serves as the General Manager of 8x8's Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) business, with more than 20 years of experience taking enterprise SaaS solutions to market and accelerating market share growth.As a highly regarded leader in the tech industry, Stephen has held...

Raghav Sood is the VP of Strategy for Coinhako, Singapore’s market-leading crypto platform. Raghav wears many hats – he is the point person for developing, implementing, and assessing the company’s  strategic initiatives; he also provides analytical and executional support for Coinhako’s day-to-day ...

Vijay currently heads Corporate Development & International for Luno, a leading crypto wallet and exchange operational in 40 markets across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Luno is wholly owned by the Digital Currency Group (DCG) New York. In his role, Vijay leads all corporate development/M&A...

Vice President and General Manager for APAC at EBANX, and based in Singapore, With her exceptional business acumen and a proven track record of taking small businesses to the next level, EBANX has enabled multiple Asia based enterprises to expand their operations and increase revenue from South...

Subhrajit Basu in his role as Regional SVP, APAC for Discover Global network manages all franchise relationships, network to network partners and business interactions in the designated markets of Indian sub continent and Head of commercial business , APAC. He joined Discover Financial Services in...

As someone with extensive experience in the e-commerce, courier, logistics, and supply chain industries, I am deeply passionate about driving growth and achieving results. Throughout my career, I have been responsible for managing full P&Ls and have consistently delivered strong financial...

Zhang Yi is business development director at Ant Group Singapore. He delivers Ant Group's home-grown AI-based solutions to Asia financial institutions, fintech and telco companies, helping them to be more compliant and protected. Zhang Yi has more than 10 years experiences in the field of...

Zennon Kapron is the Founder and Managing Director of Kapronasia and has been involved in the financial technology industry for over 20 years. Before Kapronasia, Zennon was the Global Banking Industry Manager for Intel, based out of Shanghai, China and, before Intel, was the CIO for Citigroup...

Steffen is the Universal Digital Payments Network (UDPN) Lead for GFT. He maintains a practitioner in innovation and emerging technologies such as Web3, Blockchain, DLT, AI, IoT and more. Steffen started his career as IT consultant, worked his way up to Project Lead and Project Manager. He worked...

George Chesakov was a member of Tinkoff founding team, having served as the Chairman of the Tinkoff bank’s Management Board 2009-11. George has co-founded and launched many successful businesses, including consumer lending business at OTP Bank (2003-06) and in-store lending fintech Mokka;...

Alina Smith started her career in payments in 2010 in the Visa Ukraine office as the Business Development Manage, where she launched the first contactless card and P2P services in the market.   She also previously worked as the Head of Direct Sales in Raiffeisen Bank and Product Manager of Retail...

As the Director of CX Practice, Malcolm Koh is the “customer in residence” at Zendesk, based in Singapore. With over 25 years’ experience spanning retail, hospitality, airlines, financial services and tech, he has worked with some of the world’s most customer-centric brands.In his role, Malcolm and ...

Anupam Pahuja is the EVP and General Manager of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. He's building Nium’s success in Southeast Asia, where the fintech unicorn was founded, and will quickly expand Nium’s presence into additional markets within APAC, the Middle East, and Africa.   Pahuja is a...

Baran Ozkan is the CEO of Flagright, a Y Combinator-backed software company specializing in AML compliance and fraud prevention. Under his leadership, Flagright has become a leading provider of real-time financial crime prevention with products including transaction monitoring, case...

Dr. Alban Salord has 25 years of overall experience in various industries, including Education, Energy, Defence, and Banking. He spent the last 15 years in Asia and in the financial industry building risk governance and compliance frameworks as well as teams regionally (for ANZ and HSBC) and...

I have been very involve in the Blockchain & cryptocurrency sphere since 2017. I am mining Ethereum with my 6 cards GPU rig. I trade cryptocurrency on exchanges & have bought into many new ICOs . I am planning to take a course in MSc in Cryptocurrency and has completed a 12 session module...

Om Bhatia is Head of Digital Revenue Growth for Overseas General Insurance, Chubb's international general insurance business in 51 countries and territories. Based in Singapore, Mr. Bhatia is responsible for driving revenue growth with existing digital distribution partners, using omnichannel...

SheueChee (Chee) is a payment specialist with two decades of experience in the industry. Her well-rounded background includes leadership roles across solution providers, payment processors, banks, and merchant, giving her a deep and holistic understanding of the payment ecosystem.Chee has worked at ...

Motie joined PPRO in early 2023. Based in London, Motie is responsible for advancing the company's commercial strategy, guiding the global business development teams and overseeing PPRO's Sales and Marketing departments.He has over 20 years of experience in payments, having held a number of ...

Sufiz Mohd Suffian is the Managing Partner of Recur Consult, a Gamification and Behavioural Design consultancy firm that focuses on creating impactful experiences and driving desired behaviours through game design and user engagement. He is a speaker, consultant, and trainer specialising in...

As Country Manager, Singapore, for AnyMind Group, Toh Yi Hui leads the company's operations and team in Singapore. Toh joined AnyMind Group in 2017 and rose through the ranks as the company expanded from the marketing technology space into publisher and...

Judith leads the Worldpay’s Business Development Teams across Singapore, South Korea, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand as the Head of Strategic Sales. Having 16 years’ experience in this industry, Judith has held many senior leadership roles and have spent the past 16 years dedicated to...

Anthony Liberty has over 22 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and brings extensive experience as an Information Security Professional covering management and technical issues from diverse levels of technology platforms from multi-domain services such as infrastructure and endpoint...

Varun is a mobile growth hacker with nearly a decade of experience in the practice areas of Finance, Education, Travel, Entertainment, and Consumer Foods. He is currently Account Executive at AppsFlyer, one of the world’s leading marketing measurement platforms. In his current role, he is...