2019 Speakers

Musheer is the General Manager and founding board member of Fintech Association of Hong Kong. He has an extensive background in financial services and technology, having been a global markets trader for a decade, and a management consultant following his MBA from University of Hong Kong &...

Abithab is a start-up specialist, strategist and a change agent with over two decades of wide experience and global exposure in the US, Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Associated with Netcore for 17 years now, Abithab has held various roles and responsibilities. In his current...

I am a top 10 European business school graduate and have worked, studied and conducted research in 5 different countries in Asia-Pacific over the past decade. Straight after graduating I joined CompareAsiaGroup (a Nova Founders company) as one its first employees where I led their expansion into...

Alfred Cardenas is alicensed finance professional, a self publishedauthor, speaker, and the CEO and Co-Founder of Jungle Financial Technology, Inc.He is also a Founder in Residence at Antler Singapore

Leslie is an Independent Advisor where he helps business partners as part of a think tank which provides valuable insights and business strategies on how to integrate traditional businesses into tokenized economies.

Joseph graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double degree in economics and computer science. After working as a software engineer at Google, Citygroup and Pandora Radio, he returned home to the Philippines to join the family business, a house of fashion brands with more than 300...

Juliana Chua is Head of Digital Transformation at NTUC Income, Singapore’s largest composite insurer serving the protection, savings and investment needs of more than 2 million customers and a total assets of over S$37 billion. At Income, Juliana heads the programme that strategize and digitize...

" Known as a sleepless programmer since 2005, a sale director in Real Estate business after sunrise and graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University in MBA of Project Management, Thanh himself is a combination between technology lover & business leader, who always finds most effective...

Christopher is the CEO and Co-Founder of BigPay. BigPay is one of the fastest growing South East Asian challenger banks. Christopher is originally from London where he worked in financial services, investment banking, tech VC, with a strong track record of both investing in, and setting up, several ...

“Nimish V. Dwivedi has over 24 years of experience in payments, unsecured lending and financial services. Nimish has worked across geographies and cultures with pre-eminent financial services companies - started with various roles in the cards business at Standard Chartered and at Citibank...

Gian brings more than a decade of experience in designing and building web services for startups and enterprises. Prior to RDP, he spent 7 years helping a startup pivot into the fintech space, as an engineer at the beginning to eventually leading a team as VP of Imagineering. In this role, Gian...

Jean has more than 7 years’ experience in the secure payment industry. As FIME’s product manager for its global laboratories, and in her previous role as lab project manager, she is dedicated to supporting card, terminal and mobile manufacturers, and payment solution providers, globally with...

Ian Gausden is Executive Vice President, Business Development, Real Time Payments for Vocalink. He is responsible for developing business opportunities and growing our innovative portfolio of ACH products globally. Prior to this role Ian was Managing Director of Vocalink’s Cards business...

Alvin oversees the business development for GS1 Singapore’s membership and digital services. GS1 is the global standards organisation that develops and maintains international supply chain standards. Prior to joining GS1, he has broad exposure in the retail sector covering commercial management...

Ajey Gore is Group CTO at GoJek, with 20 years of experience in building core technology strategy across diverse domains, Ajey is helping GoJek deliver a transport, logistics, lifestyle and payments platform - offering 18 products, owned and operated by GoJek. Ajey’s interests include machine...

In his 25-year career, Fabrice has held business and strategic marketing positions in the semiconductor industry, for a very large variety of products from power to digital electronics, and within market scopes ranging from telecommunications (base stations, handsets) and computer industry to...

Anand Guruprasad is a Solutions Engineer at Cloudflare and has been involved in the cloud security, performance, and monitoring industry for nearly a decade. Anand is passionate about web performance and security, and advocating for the importance of their equilibrium. He enjoys blogging about...

Naga is the founder of ideaboard Pte Ltd where he is focusing on blockchain consulting for business and education for individuals. He comes from industry and management consultancy background with a passion for technology and especially blockchain. He is a blockchain evangelist.

Shahzad Ishaq joined Bank Alfalah as Head of Consumer Finance in December 2012. He’s a financial services professional with expertise in Central European and South Asian consumer banking markets. Prior to his Bank Alfalah stint, Shahzad served as Head of Cards Portfolio Management for Citibank...

Pieter joined Sequoia in 2014 and advises on investments across Consumer Internet, Fintech and Software companies in Southeast Asia. He currently serves on the Board of Fave, Nugit, Funding Societies, 90 Seconds, HealthEngine, and Insider and also works closely with Online Pajak, Cardup, Circles...

She is currently the CEO of SC Beauty Network, managing operations in more than 14 countries. She has also authored several books, and appeared in multiple media newspapers & books. In 2014, she lead an empowering women campaign with Singapore Committee of UN Women, as well as becoming the face ...

Leo has more than 20 years of professional experience in the area of strategy, technology, marketing and product development. His main industry experience is in consulting, telecommunication, and banking. He has launched several well-known brands such as Three, AirAsia-HSBC credit card, and...

Joshua Koh is the CEO at Commune Lifestyle Pte Ltd (Commune), a local Singapore furniture retail company with over 50 stores worldwide. Commune is a furniture lifestyle company focused on the design and production of functional and stylish furniture using sustainable and safe materials, for use in...

Jonathan Kok has been in practice for more than 25 years and represents clients in the Information Technology, Digital Media, Entertainment, Sports, Consumer Products & Services industries. He is the Head of RHTLaw Taylor Wessing’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice and his areas...

Master’s Degree from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies2010~2012 Lloyds2012~2013 Amazon2013~2015 Fintech startup

Malik is a Global Digital banker, FinTech expert, Futurist and acclaimed author.In his 20 year career, he has managed global roles in Multinational banks, run billion dollar businesses in various markets, driven key innovations and been a serial entrepreneur. He is currently  the  Co-founder  and ...

  “I am a business leader offering global value originated in Japan to the world” Originally from Tokyo, with work experiences for past 30 years in 10 countries, such as Brazil, USA, Mexico, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Russia, Philippines and Thailand, I enjoy creating new...

Ben is technology sales professional with broad knowledge including IT hardware, accounting software, CRM systems, cloud solutions and ecommerce. Ben has over 10 years of experience working within both payments and technology organisations such as PayPal, Microsoft & Accertify. Ben’s roles have ...

David Lee is the Digital Commerce Senior Consultant & Lecturer at SIRS. He has over 20 years ofexperience in digitising the retail industry, sales, marketing and business development. David speaksfrequently at industry events for e-Commerce, Social Media, Mobile commerce &...

El is an early adopter of crypto with a passion for crypto assets, equities and real estate investments. El is a former investment banker and brings with him extensive experience from previous stints at CIMB Group and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. El is also a serial entrepreneur who has started...

Branson Lee is an EXCO member of the Singapore FinTech Association since 2017 as well as the Token Economy Association. He has over 10 years of experience in sales management in business information and technology companies dealing with government, statutory boards, financial...

Kendrick Lee is Director at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech). In this role with the National Digital Identity programme, he oversees product management of trusted data platforms that aim to enable seamless digital transactions for citizens and businesses, as well as...

Kevin Lee is a Trust and Safety architect at Sift who helps customers implement strategies that cross-functionally align risk and revenue programs. He has lead various risk, chargeback, spam/scams, and trust and safety organizations at Facebook, Square, and Google.

Joseph Lim runs Partnership and Alliance for Backbase Asia Pacific. He has worked in the technology space for more than 15 years in areas ranging from IT infrastructure to digital platforms. Joseph's current passion lies in leveraging on technology to increase financial inclusion in Asia. 

Ariel Lin has been leading Flex-Solver since 2015. Being a certified Practicing Management Consultant, she has worked on more than 50 process re-design projects in the domain of new retail solutions.

Harshet Lunani is the Co-founder and CEO of Qoala, a Southeast Asian Insurtech company that aims to revolutionize insurance through a combination of underwriting risk for high frequency events in daily lives and photo-based claims, assisted by machine learning.Before cofounding Qoala in...

Aly Madhavji 穆亚霖 is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests and venture builds top-tier Start-ups and consults companies and governmental organizations on emerging technologies. He Senior Investment Advisor to BitBlock Capital and Fiat Capital Fund, and a Co-Founder and the...

Kapil holds a dual degree (Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology) in Computer Science from IIT Delhi and management degree from IIM Bangalore, Kapil Makhija is a seasoned professional with 13+ years of experience across technology, e-commerce, and supply chain and is currently heading...

Edmas Neo has over 20 years of technology consulting, innovation programme management, entrepreneurship development and business advisory experience across both public and private sectors to the organisation. He founded Accrete Innovation (a seed stage investment and venture growth acceleration...

Claudius is the founding President of the Singapore Chamber of E-commerce. Singapore Chamber of E-commerce is building an e-commerce eco-system for every Singaporean businesses to compete globally. Claudius believes that e-commerce is a fundamental capability for sustainable growth. His founding...

Tony has extensive experience in financial services and advanced analytics in senior leadership roles in Australia, and with major banks globally. Tony is the founder of global Data Science consulting group AlphaZetta and led Teradata’s International Centre of Excellence for financial...

Leading the growth and direction of Geora, Bridie is passionate about using technology to meet sustainable development goals and connect farmers with financial and digital systems globally. Over the past three years, Bridie has navigated the intersection of blockchain and agriculture heading up...

Started his career in the aviation industry as an airline pilot and mechanical engineering in aviation university degree holder pursuing an MBA degree in Global Business Leadership at the moment.Tomas has over 12 years of experience in business negotiations, consultancy and financial management...

As the VP of Sales at Riskified, Eyal Raab is responsible for developing Riskified's growth strategies while delivering measurable value to prospective customers. Since joining Riskified as part of the founding team, Eyal has helped grow its customer base to over 1,000 global merchants. Prior...

I completed my engineering from Birla Institiute of Technology Mesra and then worked on several Goverment projects including the public distribution system and elections management system prior to joining the Aadhaar project where I worked as a member of the core technology team which designed and...

Alasdair Ross is Head of Marketing, Secure Payment at NXP Semiconductors. Alasdair’s key focus areas are driving the adoption of contactless payment around the globe, and pushing the next wave of innovation within the payment world, such as the introduction of biometric payment cards in 2019. ...

Nabeel Saeed is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Account Security products at Twilio. He has worked in multiple application and network security roles over the last 5 years, and is a speaker at the Bay Area Cyber-Security Meetup. He holds a Bachelors in Economics from UC San Diego.

Saovanee oversees FMCG brand partnerships across the region and is concurrently the Country Lead for Shopee Mall Malaysia.Prior to joining Shopee, Saovanee was the Chief Operating Officer of WORQ, the first large-scale coworking space in Malaysiawhere she was instrumental in the company setup and...

Sunil Suresh leads Capillary’s Marketing and Strategy, working on the immediate levers as well as the vision that will act as an enabler for the company’s growth into the future.An IIT and IIM alumnus, Sunil has had rich experience in building brands, forming marketing strategies, P&L...

Seema Sutradhar is a seasoned leader in the banking compliance space. She is a generalist - a strategic IT BRM, a process expert and a culture sense-maker. Having honed her craft on the job through various roles with corporates for 18 years, she founded a RegTech startup. Her solution is entirely...

Sabrina Tachdjian is head of investments at unblock, LINE Corporation's subsidiary dedicated to growing the blockchain ecosystem. A former biomedical researcher in the field of functional genomics, Sabrina has spent the last 5 years in the tech industry, working at Samsung Electronics in Global ...

Nimisha is a competition and regulation specialist withinternational experience. Having worked inconsultancy firms and competition regulators in UK,New Zealand and Singapore, she has a deepunderstanding of how regulators operate and howmarkets function. She has led high-profile...

Carlos is responsible for Emailage operations and expansion in Asia Pacific market. Passionate in his mission in the fight against online fraud, helping companies to maximize revenue and consumer experience

Tng Jin Kit is the intern COO of Imin Technology Pte Ltd and had been spending the last 19 years working in the IT industry, providing retail businesses and companies with process improvement and IT solutioning. He moved to China in 2012, bringing his expertise in retail and retail technology from...

Long Tran is a pragmatic and results focused business leader with extensive experience in Marketing Omni-channel Retail; proven track records by connecting every single touch points in consumer purchase journey and generating revenue & transaction growth for both retail store & ecommerce.He ...

Andrew is the Executive Director for Digital Identity New Zealand, an association of corporate, government, academic, iwi (indigenous Maori), technology providers and innovation organisations working collaboratively to lead a unified approach to digital identity in New Zealand.  His background is...

Blockchain Lab Leader, Shinhan Bank (2016 ~ current)-Builds partnership with blockchain companies to develop new business models using blockchain technology-Researches various blockchain platforms including Hyperledger Fabric, Corda, Samsung Nexledger-Develops the smart contract software for...

Walter Zhou is Director at Golden Spring Internet of Things Inc. providing advanced security technologies solutions of RFID smart cards and labels production systems to security & state printers and to the manufacturing industry for their e-ID cards, e-passports, e-health cards, banking...

Bruno started his career by developing loyalty and close wallet solutions for MNCs, based on smart card technology when e-commerce just started in years 1990.After having deployed hundreds of loyalty and close loop wallet solutions worldwide he turned to payment technologies in years 2000 as a...