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...

Arvie is the Co-Founder & CEO of UnionDigital, the digital bank of Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank). Prior to this, he established the Fintech Group of UnionBank in 2016 which banked and enabled fintechs as well as pioneered industry firsts in blockchain use cases such as nationwide...

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...

A dynamic & passionate marketing specialist with accomplished mastery of the science and arts of the field.  Currently a leader in eCommerce business.  Previously Head of Marketing in FMCG, Strategist in MNCs, Analyst in Telecom, and had started up a research consultancy firm.  FYI, also a wine ...

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.

Farrukh is the SVP overseeing Global eCommerceand digitalcapabilitiesat Schneider Electric. With a career dedicated to B2B and B2C, Farrukh earned his retail & eCommerce grades first at L'Oréal, British Petroleum and then Philips before joining Schneider Electric in Hong Kong over 7 years...

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...

David is a digital commerce expert who moderates the panel discussion in high-energy and inspirational engagement with leaders. Audiences appreciate his forward-thinking strategies, which they can apply both personally and professionally. David is the Director for Talent Development of the...

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...