THE FUTURE OF PAYMENTS, BANKING & COMMERCE IN ASIA

Kristy Duncan is the founder and CEO of Women in Payments. This growing professional network unites women in payments from around the globe with a shared vision of gender parity. Women in Payments supports women’s career development through conferences, awards, leadership, and mentorship...

Brad Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of Wave Money, a role he has held for the last seven years. Wave Money is a fintech joint venture in Myanmar owned by Telenor Group, Yoma Strategic Holdings and Yoma Bank. Wave Money is the leading mobile financial services provider in Myanmar, serving...

Sonal Kapoor is leading the Lending & Insurance business for Flipkart, the e-commerce major company. As Flipkart’s reach expands across the next 400MN customers in India, Sonal plays a crucial role in accelerating offerings that help make online payments easy and affordable for customers, and...

Jessica is the Group Chief Strategy Officer at WeLab, a leading pan-Asian fintech platform and one of the most important digital native brands in financial services in Asia with more than 50 million individual users and over 700 enterprise customers in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Indonesia. The...

Mangala Martinus is managing director of Payments Consulting Network, a boutique management consulting firm focused on the payments industry in Asia-Pacific, and Merchant Pricing Hub, which supports Australian businesses lower the cost of payments. He has over 29 years’ experience in financial...

Sam has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry with several leading organizations including UOB, GE Capital and Krungsri Consumer, in the area of product management and innovation.Currently, Sam is the Managing Director of Krungsri Finnovate Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of...

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...

As the marketing lead, Cecilia is responsible for the platform user growth and overall marketing strategies for Carousell Hong Kong. Before joining Carousell, Cecilia has been instrumental in elevating the brand for different global and local, traditional or start-up companies, including Lenovo in...

Albert has more than 15 years of experience in the line of financial technology, corporate communications and consumer marketing. Albert is now the Chief Executive Officer at BeamAndGo, a social impact financial technology startup that aims to enable and educate Overseas Filipina Workers (OFWs) to...

Concurrently David is an external advisor to Singapore's Corrupt Investigation Practices Bureau (CPIB) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) and to Singapore's Central Provident Fund Board (CPF) in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Data Science). Prior to his current...

Theodora Lai is Chief Strategy Officer of Burpple and is responsible for the company’s growth strategies. She concurrently holds the position of Director of Business Development at private equity firm Tembusu Partners.  Prior to joining Tembusu Partners, Theodora held investment and operational...

May is a Partner at Ernst & Young in Technology Consulting, based in Sydney. Her current role is EY Oceania Fintech Leader and Asia-Pacific Payments Leader, EY Financial Services. She has over 23 years of technology leadership and business transformation experience across the Banking and...

Joe McGuire is the Co-Founder of emerging Malaysian Fintech; MyMy. MyMy is a Malysian fintech in the Challenger Banking space. This is Joe's second fintech after being the global head of Airwallex, Hong Kong’s first unicorn and today a US$4 Billion dollar fintech. Prior to joining...

Vrutika is Head of Global Payment Partnerships at GoPay, the fintech arm of GoTo. The GoTo Group is Indonesia's largest technology group and the "go to" super app for daily life combining e-commerce, on-demand and financial services. She leads a team that manages GoPay's most...

Rohit is a keen technology enthusiast and currently leads the APAC business for Currencycloud, a foreign exchange & cross-border payments company recently acquired by Visa. Prior to this, Rohit co-founded Trusting Social, Singapore headquartered Fintech & artificial intelligence company...

Ramu is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Tonik Digital Bank Inc, the Philippines’ first purely digital neobank overseeing the Digital Banking IT Organization (Engineering, Technology, Security, Architecture, Vendor Management, and IT Bank Operations Units). He built and launched the first...

Sales and business development professional specialising in Retail with experience in various industries and markets. I double up as a Digital Marketing and eCommerce consultant focused on bridging online and offline retail.

Championing MSME merchants through Ecommerce and supply chain enablement. Leading commercial and marketing operations, while devising a strategy to ensure we deliver on our principle and enable the Indonesian Market to grow through supply chain solutions, cross border B2B services and Ecommerce...

Will has had a successful career in senior financial and board level executive positions, which have spanned across Australia, Europe, and the United Kingdom. With an expertise in leading businesses through financial regulatory authorisations, mobilisations, or crisis management, he has dedicated...

Nathan Bell leads the Product Management and IT departments, and he is also responsible for the broader Digital Transformation at M1, to ensure best in class customer experiences, empowering our people to deliver customer-centred value and ease of co-creation for our business and technology...

Loek is a Global Omnichannel and Platform Strategist, also known as Mr. Omnichannel, with 10+ years’ entrepreneurial FMCG experience building and nurturing C level relationships, driving partnerships and evaluate performance of retail & eCommerce & Customer Experience programs globally...

Aldric Chau is the Head of Retail, e-Commerce and Travel Partnership of Asia Miles. Overseeing revenue generation from our e-commerce platform, Aldric is responsible for driving retail and brand partnership strategy to curate a customer-centric portfolio of products and experiences that allow...

Elsie R. Delfin is Group Associate, Program & Operations at Grameen Foundation and served as Project Manager of the Celo Social Dividend Campaign and the USAID DELIVER-Resilience for Women Project. Since 2020, she has managed and supported COVID-19 relief, financial inclusion, and digital...

Leader in Transaction Banking space, having worked in several global banks over the past 16 years. Responsible for Asia and Middle East product management, and global leader in ISO 20022 industry standards for payments and cash management.

A Data driven Marketeer with extensive experience working in leadership roles across Asia Pacific driving business growth through Digital Media, Technology, eCommerce and Data Analytics for various brands in FMCG, Consumer Durables, Telecom & Travel sector. Preetam has been credited with...

Sasi has been in the Insurance distribution vertical for over 20 years with experience in developing and managing omni channel retail distribution ranging from face to face, direct to consumer channel and many more. Expert in managing distribution cost for global companies via innovative Insurance...

Vitthal is a highly skilled and accomplished senior executive with recognised achievements in FinTech. Having held several senior roles within the finance sector, He is currently based in Mumbai, India, as Senior Vice-President - Treasury. He has 22 plus years' experience in vanilla/exotics...

Being a seasoned marketer that has been to both the client's and agency's side of the business, David comes with extensive regional marketing experience. He has launched award-winning marketing campaigns, built powerful marketing teams and even live by the philosophy of "if it's...

Yvonne has over 14 years of experience accelerating business growth for the retail and consumer industry. She began her eCommerce career helping startups, SMEs to kickstart their online presence, and quickly went on to accelerate the online growth of global brands in international markets. At Dole...

Thanawat is a startup entrepreneur with over 12-year hands-on experiences in the online business. He founded Priceza, the leading E-Commerce marketing tech company with the mission to empower online sellers to scale and be successful by building the biggest performance-driven marketing platform in...

Melvin serves as 8x8’s Product Manager, where he brings 5 years of product experience in the tech space. Melvin is the product owner of internal tools and spearheads the Communications Platforms as a Service (CPaaS) product experience efforts at 8x8, driving the push for growth of  CPaaS in the...

Leader in Bain Financial Services practice, with deep expertise working with Financial Institutions in Europe and Asia Pacific. Experience in business, technology and operating model transformations across Corporate/SME banking and Consumer banking, with particular focus on Payments and other...

Tomasz started his career in Poland as an entrepreneur, then turned into a technology and strategy consultant. After working across multiple industries and regions, he spent last decade in Insurance at AXA, holding senior executive roles including as Chief Digital and Transformation Officer. For...

Philip was a member of the China UnionPay core founding team, instrumental in building the brand throughout APAC.  This led to the set up of business in 13 APAC countries shy of just 2 years.  He was responsible on all aspects of the business, which covers both acceptance and issuing in Southeast...

Quinn Pham is the Director of Consulting & Client Solutions at Meiro, a self-funded mar-tech startup that empowers businesses to leverage their first-party customer data to create marketing strategies that are effective and precise to optimize performance. She leads the analyst implementation...

Tristan Chiappini is Vice President and Head of Partnerships for Asia Pacific at PPRO, the leading provider of digital payments infrastructure. Based in Singapore, he joined the company in 2016 as Head of Account Management in the United Kingdom and now leads PPRO’s relationships in the APAC...

Building on his expertise in Business Development, Sales and Consulting, Dr. Florian Becker is since 2018 responsible, for bringing tailored digital transformation solutions to the world's leading financial institutes in Asia-Pacific and expanding GFT's global footprint into the Asian...

Dr. Abhishek Behl is a researcher in the area of information technology and analytics. He has earned his second Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where his research is in the area of crowdfunding and gamification. Dr. Behl is a winner of the prestigious "Naik and Rastogi...

Tommy Mermelshtayn is Global Chief Strategy Office of ASX 200 company Zip Co.At Zip Tommy oversees and drives all global business strategy across credit, payment and personal financial management product lines.Prior to joining Zip, Tommy was Head of Strategy and New Markets for Equifax Australia...

Jolly is a Channel Sales Lead for Google Maps - SEA/ANZ . Her job is spreading the message around location intelligence and how Google Maps Platform can help organizations with their location strategy .With over 12 years + of experience in Sales and account management,Jolly is passionate about...

Danh BUI is a Sales Business Development Manager with Entrust Digital Card Solution (formerly Antelop Solutions) for more than 3 years. Danh has 10 years of experience in international development.Danh has an International Master in Management from the Skema Business School, France

Jayan heads up SM Retail’s Ecommerce/Omnichannel push and its flagship store – ShopSM.com. He owns overall P&L for ShopSM, SM retail’s marketplace, developing technology strategies that enables everything from the supply chain to unique customer experiences. Jayan joined SM 2+ years ago, after...

Andrew leads the Whispir business in Asia and partners closely with Executives responsible for Digital Transformation, Marketing, Customer Service and Operations across 14 industry verticals, to share and implement best practice staff & customer engagement outcomes. With over 20 years of...

Anthony Guanzon has worked in the various sectors of FMCG, Telecommunications, Retail and Insurance over the course of his career. He is currently the Deputy CMO of Malayan Insurance. Malayan Insurance is the #1 Non-life Insurance in the Philippines and has been a trusted Non-Life Insurance...

Ken Hart, CEO & Founder at Snowdrop Solutions, has over twenty five years of expertise working with leading Silicon Valley and EU-based software companies such as Netscape, Yahoo!, Webraska and others.Based between London and Malaga, Ken heads up strategy and new business initiatives, working...

Mark’s expertise is in cross-border payments. He has developed and implemented strategies and solutions for fintech start-ups and global payment powerhouses such as Mastercard, Visa/Cybersource and Ingenico. His current mission is to execute a global payment strategy for CellPoint Digital that will ...

Eli Shoshani is the Head of APAC at Bottomline. Based in Singapore for the last 18 years, he spearheads the strategy for financial messaging and fraud & financial crime across the region. With more than 25 years of leadership experience in the financial technology industry across Asia, UK and...

Jean Thomas is the Chief Marketing Officer at Pomelo, a leading omnichannel fashion platform in Asia. Prior to joining Pomelo, he previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Alibaba-backed Lazada where he spearheaded all marketing initiatives in Singapore across Lazada and RedMart. Jean has ...

Herbert Yum, a CFA and FRM charterholder, is a Research Manager at Euromonitor International with a focus on both the consumer and financial industries research. Based in Hong Kong, he has more than 10 years of experience in the industry. Herbert leads a syndicated team of seven in the Hong Kong...

Nitin Palande heads the Sales & Partnerships function for Netcetera Pte Ltd across Asia. He has been a part of the Asian fintech, digital banking and financial services ecosystem in leadership roles for the past couple of years. He has a thorough understanding of payments including...

With over 25 years of experience across the telecom, remittance, and mobile commerce, Eustace is a firm believer in enabling financial inclusion through technology. Having worked in markets such as the US, India, Thailand, and other emerging across Asia Pacific, he has the understanding and...

With over 15 years of professional experience in multi-national organisations, Bidyut has taken on senior-management positions in media, entertainment, telecommunications, automotive, utility and aviation across markets such as Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Taiwan, India, Thailand and...

Baldev Singh is the CEO, South East Asia at bolttech. He has more than 27 years of experience across Insurance, Office Automation & Services industries, 17 of which are in various leadership roles in General Insurance companies and multinational broking houses.He’s had a variety of roles across ...

Sourabh is currently heading the LiveBetter digital initiative in DBS, empowering consumers to fight climate change by taking simple and effective actions everyday - right from their digibank app.LiveBetter is a one-stop digital platform that aims to simplify and aid the transition towards greener...

David has more than 10 years of experiences in Risk & Compliance domain, while specializing in Trade Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF). Over the years, David is constantly at the forefront understanding clients’ financial crime compliance...

Smita is currently heading digital first solutions at Singlife with Aviva, and is responsible for Singlife’s D2C digital businesses across payments, wealth and insurance. Previously Smita was Director at Grab’s fintech arm in Indonesia, OVO. In this role she worked closely with regional and country ...

Miroslav Sovjak is the Head of Value Added Services for Home Credit Philippines. He was previously the Head of Retail Banking for Air Bank a.s. and spent almost 10 years with Generali Insurance.