Adrienne A. Harris was confirmed by the Senate as Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services on January 25, 2022.

Superintendent Harris began her career as an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City representing a number of U.S. and non-U.S. based corporations in various forms of litigation and regulatory matters, before accepting a position at the United States Department of the Treasury under President Obama.

While at the Treasury Department, Superintendent Harris served as a Senior Advisor to both Acting Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Mary Miller, and Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin. Her work ranged from financial reform efforts to identifying solutions to the student loan crisis, analyzing the nexus between foreign investment and national security, and working to promote financial inclusion and health in communities throughout the country.

Following her time at the Treasury Department, Superintendent Harris joined The White House, where she was appointed as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, as part of the National Economic Council. In this role, she managed the financial services portfolio, which included developing and executing strategies for financial reform and the implementation of Dodd-Frank, consumer protections for the American public, cybersecurity and housing finance reform priorities.

After leaving the White House in January 2017, Superintendent Harris went on to serve as General Counsel and Chief Business Officer at States Title, Inc. (now DOMA), which provides a more simple and affordable closing experience for homebuyers.

Prior to joining DFS, Superintendent Harris served as a Professor and as Faculty Co-Director at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's Center on Finance, Law and Policy at the University of Michigan, as well as a Senior Advisor at the Brunswick Group in Washington, D.C.

Since taking over at DFS, Superintendent Harris has taken decisive actions on defining issues such as climate change, financial inclusion, and New York’s continued leadership on digital currency regulation. 

Ms. Zhao has been the president of our international business group since January 2020.

From June 2017 to January 2020, Ms. Zhao worked at Alibaba and served as the president of global business group and has subsequently served as the president of Fliggy since March 2018. Ms. Zhao joined us in May 2013 and successively served as our vice president of finance and chief operating officer of our international business group until June 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Zhao served as the vice president of finance for Taobao, Tmall and Alimama from October 2009 to April 2013. Ms. Zhao became a certified public accountant since April 1998. Ms. Zhao obtained a master’s degree in accounting from Tianjin Institute of Finance and Economics, currently known as Tianjin University of Finance and Economics in June 1999 and an EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School in October 2011.

Prior to joining Amber Group, Annabelle Huang served as the Asia lead at AirSwap, a decentralised trading platform that enables peer-to-peer trading on the Ethereum blockchain. Before transitioning into digital assets, she advised private equity funds, US corporates and hedge funds on structured solutions and risk management as an FX structurer at Deutsche Bank and Nomura in New York. 
 
Annabelle’s deep understanding in traditional finance markets, in combination with her expertise on how institutions and macro markets work, has played a key role in helping develop the product strategy and solutions delivered through Amber Group. She is now a Managing Partner at Amber Group overseeing global expansion of the company's institutional and retail product offerings as well as its marketing strategies.
 
Annabelle is committed to supporting people who are new to the crypto industry, and she is an advocate for more women to be part of the crypto conversation. She is a mentor of the Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide (FEW) Incubator, Asia DeFi Network, and Brinc Accelerator.

Anthony Tan is Group CEO and Co-Founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading mobile technology company. He and his team transformed Grab from a taxi-booking app to the leading superapp platform in Southeast Asia, offering on-demand services including mobility, food, package and grocery delivery, mobile payments, and financial services.

Anthony is at the forefront of the "Grab for Good" social impact programme - which include partnerships and initiatives to drive digital literacy, economic inclusion and the development of technology skills across Southeast Asia.

Anthony is passionate about servant leadership and serving others in his community. In his personal capacity, he supports a range of causes in the region, such as Transform Cambodia which rescues and protects street children and offers them healthcare, education and life skills.

Under Anthony's leadership, Grab has also received global recognition for its innovation and impact in the region, including ranking second on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2019, being on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list for the last four years consecutively, and making Fortune's Change the World list in 2020.

Anthony has a Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Public Policy) from the University of Chicago, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.

Ms. Bernadette Romulo Puyat graduated from the University of the Philippines where she pursued her Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Economics. 
 
She was a former lecturer at the UP School of Economics from 1994 to 2006, which preluded her life dedicated to public service. She served as an Economic Consultant at the Housing and Urban Development Coordination Council (HUDCC) (2001-2002) and the Presidential Management Staff (2005-2006), and was Deputy Cabinet Secretary at the Office of the President in 2006. 
 
From 2007 to 2018, she served as Undersecretary at the Department of Agriculture where she handled Special Concerns, Administration and Finance, Agribusiness and Marketing, and Regional Engagements. 
 
Furthermore, she strengthened the Department’s engagement with special sectors such as the women, elderly, youth, and indigenous people through her leadership in the Gender and Development Focal System. She was also designated to handle agricultural credit while serving at the DA.  
 
From 2018 to 2022, she served as Secretary of the Department of Tourism, with Sustainable Tourism as the overarching theme of her leadership. Equally important were her efforts towards the recovery of the tourism sector during the COVID-19 pandemic such as the vaccination of tourism workers, as well as the institutionalization and planning of health and safety protocols in various tourism establishments and destinations. 
 
In June 2022, she was appointed as Deputy Governor for Regional Operations and Advocacy Sector (ROAS) at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). She also serves as an alternate to the Governor in several Governing Boards of National Agencies. 

Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent, which is the most used protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing over the internet. In 2009, BitTorrent accounted for 43% to 70% of all internet traffic. Bram is often accused of being Satoshi Nakamoto – a claim he denies. Bram founded and was initial CEO of BitTorrent, Inc in 2004. During his time at BitTorrent he worked in various roles as an Engineering Manager, Product Manager, and member of the Board of Directors. He left BitTorrent in August 2017 to found Chia Network. He has served as Chairman and CTO of the Chia Network since its founding and, since June 2019, as CEO. Bram is one of the top selling puzzle designers in the world.

Brian Armstrong is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase. Founded in 2012, Coinbase is building the cryptoeconomy - a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. Coinbase serves over 103 million verified users, 14,500 institutions, and 245,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries. In April 2021, Coinbase listed publicly on NASDAQ as COIN. 

Before founding Coinbase, Brian served as a software engineer at Airbnb where he focused on fraud prevention. Before Airbnb, Brian founded and was CEO of Universitytutor.com, an online tutoring directory and a subsidiary of Johnson Educational Technologies LLC. Brian also previously served as a consultant for the enterprise risk management division at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Brian has a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rice University.

Cecilia Skingsley became Head of the BIS Innovation Hub in September 2022. She is a member of the BIS's Executive Committee. Previously, she held the position of First Deputy Governor of the Riksbank since November 2019.

Most recently she chaired the BIS's Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Future of Payments Working Group, was the Governor of the Riksbank’s alternate on the General Council of the ECB and member of the Advisory Technical Committee (ATC) of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

Prior to holding the position of Deputy Governor of the Riksbank from May 2013 to November 2019, Ms Skingsley held various roles including Head of FX and Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist at Swedbank (2007-2013); financial journalist and Head of Financial Market Section at Dagens Industri (2000-2007); Macro Analyst, ABN Amro Bank (1998-2000).

Ms Skingsley holds a degree in economics and political science from Stockholm University. She received a financial analyst degree from SSE Executive Education at Stockholm School of Economics (formerly IFL at Stockholm School of Economics) and studied journalism at Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm.

Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, is the CEO and Founder of Binance, the leading blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Raised and educated in Canada, CZ started his career at Bloomberg Tradebook where he developed futures trading software for Wall Street. He then founded Fusion Systems which built high-frequency systems for brokers.

Before launching Binance in July 2017, he was involved in various cryptocurrency companies, including serving as Head of Technology for Blockchain.info (now known as Blockchain.com), the first bitcoin blockchain explorer. As an engineer who developed trading software for traditional financial platforms and the son of a professor who was exiled from China, CZ is passionate about the transparency and efficiency of crypto.

In 2020, CZ was recognized in Bloomberg 50 as one of the most influential people of the year who has changed the global business landscape. CZ studied computer science at Montreal’s McGill University.

Christopher Young is executive vice president of business development, strategy and ventures at Microsoft. He is responsible for driving growth across the company by establishing strategic partnerships, setting corporate strategy and identifying high impact investments through Microsoft’s corporate venture arm.

Young is the former CEO of McAfee, LLC (2014-2020). In 2017 he led the initiative to spin McAfee out of Intel to become a standalone company. Under his leadership, McAfee grew to protect mission-critical systems and data for more than two-thirds of the Global 2000 and more than 500 million consumers.

Earlier in his career, Young led cybersecurity efforts at Cisco, RSA and AOL. He also led end user computing at VMware and cofounded the company Cyveillance.

Young currently serves on the board of directors for American Express and as a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. He was formerly a board member of Snap Inc., cybersecurity data analytics firm Rapid7 and the Cyber Threat Alliance, and has served on the board of trustees of Princeton University.

Young holds an A.B. degree cum laude from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. degree with distinction from the Harvard Business School. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two daughters.

Diogo holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technical University of Lisbon, and has worked in software security for over 15 years. As an early employee at Square, he worked with Nathan on the infrastructure security platform now used to move over $80B in annualized GPV. Diogo led the team that built the identity, access management, and response systems, helping Square earn a pristine reputation in the information security community as having best-in-class production security practices. At Docker, he and Nathan built and led the security team, and their code helps secure one of the core underpinnings of modern infrastructure: containers.

Diogo is a sought-after public speaker on the topics of usable security, cryptography, and distributed systems, and serves as an advisor and board member to numerous startups. He served as a member of the technical oversight board of the Open Container Initiative, and volunteers for IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization, having served as the Chair of both the Disruptive Innovations and Public Visibility committees, reporting directly to the IEEE board of directors. Diogo holds dozens of patents in the fields of cryptography, payments, and security. Projects he maintains are industry standards for security, including the Notary project, accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation; and the Glacier protocol, the gold standard for personal Bitcoin cold storage.

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies.

Huey is an experienced fintech operator. She was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). She was responsible for building the G&A, Business and Customer Operations teams. Huey began her career at PayPal as one of the company’s first product managers. She subsequently spent more than a decade at the firm where she led China and Asia-Pacific operations in addition to serving in key leadership roles in product, international risk, and policy strategy.

Most recently, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of the fastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market.

Huey holds a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and an A.M. from Stanford University. Huey is currently an active angel investor, board member and advisor.

Jaynti Kanani is the cofounder of Polygon (formerly Matic Network), the first made-in-India cryptocurrency unicorn. Polygon ranks among the top 20 biggest cryptos globally and has become a massive hit in India.

An entrepreneur with a focus on product, users, market, design and marketing. His hands-on approach to blockchain has roots in his own experience as a technologist.

He has led the (scaling) research in blockchain space, helping blockchain start-ups build better products and has made effective contributions to Web3, Plasma, and Wallet-Connect.

Jeremy is responsible for strategy, vision and operating execution at Circle. He brings more than two decades of experience building and leading global internet software platforms, including founder and CEO of Brightcove, technologist and entrepreneur in residence at General Catalyst, CTO of Macromedia, and co-founder and CTO of Allaire Corporation. Jeremy has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, US Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. He has also been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech.

Jonathan Larsen is Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.

He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for 31 years and brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues and spanning 19 countries. Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton where he spent eight years advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe.
 
Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and was named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker magazine. He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist as well as local media throughout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

Julian Teicke is the CEO and founder of wefox, which is a full-stack digital insurance company driven by a single purpose: to make insurance 10x better through technology. Since launching wefox in 2015, the company has doubled its revenues every year to reach US$300 million in 2021 and with 1200 employees serving more than one million customers, wefox is Europe’s leading digital insurance company. wefox is on track to double its revenues again and aims to become the first digital insurance company to reach $1bn in revenues.

Social reformer Mr. Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his ‘struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education’ in 2014. He has been a tireless advocate of children’s rights globally for over four decades. His fearless and unrelenting policy advocacy efforts towards elimination of violence against children have resulted in path-breaking legislations globally.
 
Through his organization, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Mr. Satyarthi has liberated more than 100,000 children from child labour, slavery, trafficking and other forms of exploitation and developed a successful model for their education, rehabilitation and reintegration into the mainstream society. The Global March Against Child Labor, which he led, galvanized support in 103 countries resulting in the adoption of ILO Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, which went on to become the only universally ratified convention in the history of the ILO. 
 
He is also the founding president of the Global Campaign for Education, an exemplar civil society movement working to end the global education crisis. He successfully spearheaded a countrywide movement to make education a Constitutional Provision which subsequently paved the way for the Right to Free and Compulsory Education in India in 2009. Mr Satyarthi is credited for establishing GoodWeave International (previously known as Rugmark), a first of its kind certification and social labelling mechanism for child labour free carpets in South Asia. He has worked to advance ethical business practices, to help businesses liberate their supply chains from child labour.
 
He has been at the forefront of driving child related agendas into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which resulted in the UN Secretary General appointing him an SDG Advocate in 2021. Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation is ensuring an end to exploitation of children in India and around the world by addressing the inequality, injustice and discrimination that lie at the core of child labour. Mr Satyarthi has dedicated his life to realizing his vision of ending violence against children and building a world where every child is free to be a child.
 
In 2016, Mr Satyarthi launched Laureates and Leaders for Children, a platform bringing together Nobel Laureates and leaders committed to working together for the world’s most vulnerable children. Alongside former child labourers and students, he also launched the 100 Million campaign in 2016 to inspire and mobilize young people to stand up and act for their own rights and the rights of their peers.
 
A global thought leader, Mr Satyarthi has been at the forefront of demanding social protection for vulnerable children living in African nations and other low income countries. For him, every minute matters, every child matters and every childhood matters. 
 
Mr Satyarthi has received several prestigious awards including Parliamentarians for Global Action Defender of Democracy Award (2009-USA); Alfonso Comin International Award (2008- Spain); Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award (1995-USA); Medal of the Italian Senate (2007-Italy); and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Human Rights Award (1999-Germany); Wockhardt Foundation, Lifetime Achievement Award (2019), Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice (2019) among many other accolades. In 2017, he received the Guinness World Record for Largest Child Safe Guarding Lesson.

Kamal Quadir, a practitioner who focuses his efforts on technology that brings about social progress by enabling people to advance economically. He is the Founder and CEO of bKash, a digital financial service that offers millions of unbanked and underbanked people access to financial services through basic cellphones or smartphones in Bangladesh.

Earlier Kamal founded CellBazaar, a communication company, that has introduced a cellphone based electronic marketplace for developing countries. Kamal is a founding member of Open World Initiatives, a Lausanne, Switzerland based organization of young thinkers. He is involved with Anwarul Quadir Foundation and Shireen Quadir Trust that recognize innovations in developing countries. He received the Tech Award in 2007 for “Applying Technology to Benefit Humanity.” He is a First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute. In 2009 the World Economic Forum and TED have respectively selected him as a Young Global Leader and a TED Fellow. He is an accomplished artist whose work is in the collection of Bangladesh National Museum. He has a BA from Oberlin College and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Karolina Bielawska was born in Łódź, Poland in April 1999. Karolina has a First Class Honors Degree in Business Management, having scored the highest ever mark of any student in Poland. She is currently studying for her Masters Degree.

Karolina has ambitions to be a presenter of Live TV and Entertainment shows, walk the runway at London Paris Milan and New York Fashion weeks, to be the image representative for a major International Brand and to embrace the latest in digital advancements to become a Global influencer and force for good! 

Karolina represented Poland at the Miss World Final held at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 16 March 2022, when she became only the second Polish winner of Miss World after Aneta Kręglicka who won the title 33 years earlier!

Karolina wowed the judges in San Juan with her stunning persona and extraordinary public speaking abilities. When this was combined with a ground breaking “Beauty With A Purpose” Project. - Karolina Bielawska was crowned the 70th Miss World!
 
Karolina revealed that that she has joined “Zupa Na Pietrynie" ,a group of like minded people people with huge hearts and the desire to help others. 

“We provide hot meals, food packages, masks and clothing for homeless and people in need. Every Sunday we try to meet not only their physical needs, but also share a smile, kind word and our time with them. Every one of us is unique and has something to offer that somebody else needs. I wanted to help because I thought I could make a difference in their lives but that moment also helped me and changed my life. I realise now that while sharing what we have with others, we can create those little “miracles” and make the world a better place for everyone, including ourselves.”

In addition, to her dedication to feeding, clothing and counselling the homeless people on the streets in her community, Karolina has played an important part in the building of a communal bathroom and shower block for the people living on the streets in Łódź.

“Once we completed the project - the effect was incredible - the street people felt like human beings again as they were clean and fresh and from this small beginning, they gained the confidence to get further help to improve their lives.”

It’s now Karolina’s hope that other cities will follow the Łódź example.

“I truly believe in the magical story that Julia Morley Miss World Chairman and CEO tells every Miss World Contestant when they arrive for the Final.

On a visit to Singapore in 1972, Julia Morley, looked out from her hotel window and saw an old lady washing and feeding several street children. The old lady continued to do the washing and feeding at the same time every day! 

Julia was curious and questioned as to why she did this every day, if the same problem would still be there tomorrow? The old lady simply replied: “Isn’t it better to light one candle in the dark than not to see at all?” 

It was a defining moment that became Julia’s inspiration to launch one of the world’s greatest Humanitarian and Community Service programmes.

Julia Morley came home and lit her candle in the dark naming it "Beauty with a Purpose." and soon after Julia implored each and every Miss World contestant to do the same. Now I have lit my “candle in the dark” and hopefully I will inspire many others to do the same”

Since Karolina was crowned in March 2022, she has traveled to nearly half of the 40 countries that she is due to visit during her reign, helping to raise millions of dollars and creating impactful change wherever she travels.

When she hands over her crown Karolina will have broken all records having visited more countries and supported more humanitarian projects than any previous Miss World!

To name but a few of the humanitarian projects undertaken by Karolina since she won the Miss World title

In Vietnam- Raising $300,000 USD in Ho Chi Minh at The Beauty With A Purpose Charity Gala in support of paediatric kidney transplant patients helping their families through financial difficulties and paying hospital costs and treatment fees.

In Malaysia- Leasing the campaign for giving in Kota Kinabalu Sabah by distributing humanitarian funds to great causes such as Childhood Cancer Awareness, Sabah Thalassemia Society and Sabah Women’s and Children’s Hospital. 

In Singapore- joining with Miss world Singapore in supporting The Brain Tumour Society of Singapore 

In Ecuador- Joining the Miss World Ecuador Beauty With A Purpose program, donating computer tablets in a project that is dedicated to supply a tablet and WiFi package to every disadvantaged young person in the city of Guayaquil. 

Support for Ukraine- supporting the volunteers in the White Eagle Club and donating food and funds to the main Humanitarian Aid Centers across Poland and Romania.

Becoming The Ambassador for the Shelter project created by the priests in Ołtarzew - providing sanctuary to the most traumatized women and children coming from Ukraine so that they receive mental health support and a safe area to live in.

A truly remarkable achievement from this very special human being.

Kattiya Indaravijaya was appointed CEO of KASIKORNBANK (KBank) in 2020, and became the bank’s first female and first non-family CEO among a top tier bank in South Asia. She has a broad background across almost every function of the bank including credit policy, IT and data analytics, investment banking, marketing, corporate strategy, retail business, finance, and human resources management.
 
KBank is Thailand’s #2 largest bank in terms of assets, loans, and deposits, with over 31,000 staff in the group and about 830 physical branches. The Bank is known for investing in leading-edge technology to offer greater convenience and more services to existing customers, as well as to enable greater access to banking services by Thailand’s large unbanked and underbanked population to support national development.
 
KBank’s mobile banking app (K PLUS) is Thailand’s most successful, with of over 19.3 million users and almost 100 million transactions conducted through the app, daily.

Kristo Käärmann is the co-founder and CEO of Wise.

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move money around the world. With the Wise account people and businesses can hold over 50 currencies, move money between countries and spend money abroad. Large companies and banks use Wise technology too; an entirely new cross-border payments network that will one day power money without borders for everyone, everywhere. However you use the platform, Wise is on a mission to make your life easier and save you money.

Wise launched in 2011 under its original name, TransferWise. The company processes £8 billion in cross-border payments every month on behalf of its 13 million customers, saving them £1bn a year in bank fees. It is one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable technology companies and is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker, WISE.

Prior to starting Wise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He worked with European banks and insurers to modernise their processes and systems. Stunned by their inefficiency, he teamed up with Taavet Hinrikus, then Skype's director of strategy, to develop an entirely new system for moving money across borders. Kristo was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2015.

Ladi Delano is a British-born Nigerian entrepreneur and the co-Founder and co-CEO of Moove, a global mobility fintech democratising access to vehicle financing for mobility entrepreneurs. He has previously founded and exited several businesses in Africa and Asia, and holds a Master’s degree from Oxford University and an MPA from the London School of Economics.

As Group Chief Executive, Prudential plc, Mark leads our life and health insurance and asset management businesses across Asia and Africa, where we have been providing familiar, trusted financial security for almost 100 years. Today, Prudential serves over 18 million customers by protecting their wealth, helping them grow their assets, and empowering them to save for their goals.
Prudential plc is headquartered in London and Hong Kong, and ranked top three in 11 out of 13 Asian life markets, supported by 540,000 agents and over 26,000 bank branches. 

Martha Sazon is the President & CEO of Mynt, which operates GCash, the #1 Finance App in the Philippines. Appointed as CEO in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, her focus on customer centricity has propelled GCash into a lifeline to many Filipinos. With Martha at the helm, GCash is now the Philippines' first and only “duacorn” with over 69M registered users, a 3x increase of its user base vs pre-pandemic. As a result, GCash is now a household name and is being used as a verb in the country.

Prior to GCash, Martha had 20 years of experience in various industries like food, OTC drugs, personal care, and telco. Martha spent 12 years at Globe Telecom during which she pioneered many breakthroughs and achievements for a wide array of products and headed the Broadband business.

Martha has also worked as a Marketing Director and Category Leader for Asia at GlaxoSmithKline and as a Senior Product Manager for Del Monte.

Martha has attended and finished IMD and INSEAD executive programs and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting (Cum Laude), from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. 

Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving low-income women in the developing world access to the financial tools and resources they require to achieve security and prosperity. She joined Women’s World Banking in 2006 and leads the Women’s World Banking global team, based in New York, and also serves as a member of the Investment Committee of its two impact investment funds.
 
Mary Ellen is a passionate advocate for women’s economic empowerment through greater access to finance and is a leading voice for women’s leadership in financial services. She is a leading voice for the world’s one billion women not actively engaged with the financial sector, urging the banking industry to view this community as a powerful new market of small business owners, heads of households, and consumers of financial products and services.
 
Prior to Women’s World Banking, Mary Ellen worked for 17 years at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She had previously worked for the investment bank Lehman Brothers. Mary Ellen is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Women’s Forum of New York. She serves as a Director on the Board of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
 
A 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellow, Mary Ellen holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Most recently, she was recognized in the Forbes 50 over 50: Investment list, which highlights female investors and financial leaders. Her first book, There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women, was published by MIT Press earlier this year.

Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. As co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she shapes and approves the foundation’s strategies, reviews results, and sets the organization’s overall direction. She works with grantees and partners to further the foundation’s goal of improving equity in the United States and around the world.

Through her work at the foundation over more than two decades, Melinda has seen firsthand that empowering women and girls can transform the health and prosperity of families, communities, and societies. Her work has led her to focus increasingly on gender equity as a lever for change. In 2015, Melinda founded Pivotal Ventures, a company working to accelerate the pace of social progress in the United States.

She is the author of the bestselling book The Moment of Lift, in which she introduces readers to the inspiring women she has met during her work and travels around the world and shares her own journey to becoming an advocate for women and girls.

The second of four children, Melinda grew up in Dallas, Texas. She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics and an MBA, both from Duke University. She spent the first decade of her career developing multimedia products at Microsoft before leaving the company to focus on her family and philanthropic work.

She has three children—Jenn, Rory, and Phoebe—and lives in Seattle, Washington.

Michael Shaulov is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Mr. Piyush Gupta has been Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group since 2009.

DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, headquartered in Singapore. Recognised for its global leadership, DBS has been named "World’s Best Bank" by several global publications like Euromoney and Global Finance. The bank is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and was also named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney. In addition, in 2019, DBS was listed among the top ten most transformative organisations of the decade by Harvard Business Review.

Prior to joining DBS, Piyush had a 27 year career at Citigroup, where his last position was Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Piyush is Vice-Chairman of the Institute of International Finance, Washington, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Executive Committee. In addition, he is a member of Singapore’s Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data, Singapore Management University (SMU) Board of Trustees and Bretton Woods Committee - Advisory Council. He sits on the boards of Singapore’s National Research Foundation, and the Singapore’s Council for Board Diversity. Piyush is a term trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA). Previously, he has been a member of the Singapore Emerging Stronger Taskforce, aimed at defining Singapore’s future in a post-Covid world, the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the McKinsey Advisory Council. 

Piyush has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Piyush was named one of the world’s top 100 best-performing chief executives in Harvard Business Review - 2019 edition of "The CEO 100". In 2020, he was awarded the Public Service Star by the President of Singapore for his meritorious services to the nation. He was named Global Indian of the Year by the Economic Times in 2021, Singapore Business Awards' Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year in 2016, and Singapore Business Leader of the Year by CNBC in 2014. In his personal capacity, he takes a keen interest in nature, and is a Co-Chairman of the BirdLife International Advisory Group.

Rich Teo co-founded Paxos in 2012 and currently serves as CEO Asia of Paxos and also as an advisor to Binance and BUSD. Paxos is an institutionally focused crypto services provider that counts PayPal, Bank of America, Mastercard and Binance as clients. Prior to Paxos, he served as a Principal at Cedar Hill Capital Partners, overseeing the firm’s investments across the capital structure of various financial services institutions. Rich has more than a decade of experience in analyzing and investing in financial technology, market structure, and clearing corporations. He was also a Financial Analyst at Citi where he worked on mergers and acquisitions involving exchanges, trading technology, banks and brokers. Rich received a BBA from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

Roman Regelman is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services and Digital. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee.
 
Securities Services includes Asset Servicing and Issuer Services, which comprises the Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts businesses. As CEO of Securities Services, Roman focuses on product strategy and development to accelerate the transformation of Securities Services into a more data- and analytics-led business. He is responsible for driving end-to-end delivery of solutions to our Asset Servicing and Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts clients.
 
As Head of Digital, Roman sets the direction for the firm’s digital future and drives investments in our digital capabilities, including data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.
 
Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Roman took on senior leadership roles that spanned Chief Operating Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Transformation and Head of Customer Journeys. He was a partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he co-led its Financial Institutions Digital business and led Customer Journey, North American Financial Institutions Operations and Lean Practices. At BCG, he ran numerous financial institution and service company transformations, including end-to-end customer journeys, process digitization, Agile, restructuring technology and operations. Prior to BCG, he worked at Booz and Company, Bain & Company, NerveWire/Wipro, Mitchell Madison Group, One Core, GTE/BBN and Gazeta Distribution.
 
Roman earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master of Business Administration from Olin Graduate Business School at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass. He is a recognized author and thought leader on digital and financial services industry topics.

Serey Chea is an Assistant Governor at National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) in charge of Economic Research and International Cooperation Department, Foreign Reserve Management Department, Payment System Department, Statistic Department and Banking Operation Department since 2013. Under her leadership, retail payment infrastructure has been modernized with the introduction of a national shared switch for cards transactions and FAST payment system, a real time fund transfer from a bank account to another bank account in Cambodia. She is chairwoman of the Credit Bureau Cambodia Ltd., the first and only privately run credit sharing system in Cambodia. She played a leading role in the establishment of the CBC, which contributed to the ranking of Cambodia at the 7th place worldwide for the Ease of Access to Credit in the World Bank’s Doing Business Report 2017.

Currently, she serves as an International Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute, and an Advisor to the Board of ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN). She was a member of the Southeast Asia Advisory Council of Women World Banking, and is a member of Young Global Leaders, Class of 2019, a forum of Young Global Leaders created by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Also, she is a member of the WEF’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and the Advisory Committee of the Digital Payments for Trade and Commerce project. She is a strong advocate for women economic empowerment and financial inclusion and served as Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI’s) high level Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion Committee (GWFIC). Serey was a senior fellow of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and is currently holding the degree of Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis entitled: “Impact of Financial Inclusion and Liberalization on ASEAN Economic Development” from the University of Adelaide (Australia). On top of these, she has taken part in the judging panel in the G20 TechSprint Initiative launched by the Saudi G20 Presidency and BIS Innovation Hub, and is recently invited by the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) to join the Asian Impact Leaders Network (AILN), which is a network of leaders who are at the forefront of driving changes in the region in critically important areas.

Sheila Bair has had a long and distinguished career in government, academia, and finance.  Twice named by Forbes Magazine as the second most powerful woman in the world, she is perhaps best known as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, when she steered the agency through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  For her efforts to protect bank depositors and homeowners during the crisis, she received the Kennedy Library's Profiles In Courage Award, and was named the "little guy's protector in chief" by Time Magazine. A former finance professor and college president, Ms. Bair has been nationally recognized for her innovative initiatives to make college more accessible and affordable.  She is a frequent commentator and op-ed contributor on financial regulation and the student debt crisis, as well as author of the NY Times Best Seller, Bull by the Horns, her 2012 memoir of the financial crisis.  She is also author of Albert Whitman’s Money Tales series for young people.  https://www.amazon.com/author/sheilabair
 
Ms. Bair currently serves on the board of Bunge Ltd, as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee, and Lion Electric, as Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee.  She is also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Santander Group, serves on the board of Paxos, a blockchain technology trust company, and as an advisor to several fintech startups.  Her past corporate boards include Fannie Mae, where she served as the first woman Chair; Thomson Reuters, where she chaired the Risk Committee; and Host Hotels.  She is a founding director of the Volcker Alliance, established by former Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker to build trust in government and is the founding chair of the Systemic Risk Council, which advocates for financial stability.  She is also a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security and serves as Senior Advisor to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on financial issues confronting young people.

Sigal Mandelker joined Ribbit Capital in April 2020. Ribbit is an investment firm focused on financial services and technology. Prior to Ribbit, she served as Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and as Acting Deputy Secretary.  As Under Secretary, Sigal supervised four main components of Treasury (OFAC, FinCEN, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes).  Before serving at Treasury, Sigal was a partner at Proskauer in New York.  Sigal also previously served in a number of senior positions in the U.S. government, including as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, an AUSA in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. Sigal is also an Advisor to Chainalysis, is on the Boards of the Crypto Council for Innovation and the Financial Technology Association, is Co-Chair of the Center for a New American Security’s (CNAS) task force on FinTech, Crypto, and National Security, and is Member of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. 

Sonam Wangchuk was born in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh in J&K, India. 

Though a Mechanical Engineer by education, he has been mostly working in the field of education reform for more than 30 years.  In 1988, just after he finished his engineering studies he founded SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh) www.secmol.org, with the aim of supporting Ladakhi children and youth in educationally challenging and culturally confusing times. In 1994 he was instrumental in the launch of Operation New Hope, a triangular collaboration of the government, village communities and the civil society to bring reforms in the government schools system. The programme involved formation of Village Education Committees to take ownership of state schools, training of teachers in child friendly ways and re-writing and publishing localised text books for Ladakh. As a result the pass percentage at 10th grade (matriculation) rose from the dismal 5% to 55% in seven years and 75% these days.

For students who still failed in their state exams he founded the SECMOL Alternative School Campus near Leh, a special school where the admission criteria is failure in exams and not high grades. However with the supportive and creative environment at the school, the so called failures have excelled in their chosen fields and risen to international acclaim as entrepreneurs, film makers, politicians, teachers and so on.

As an engineer Sonam Wangchuk has been teaching innovation at the SECMOL Alternative School, where together with the students he designed and built solar heated buildings that are low cost, made of earth/mud but maintain +15 C even when the outside temperature is – 15 C in Ladakhi winters. 

In order to solve the water crisis facing mountain regions due to climate change and fast melting glaciers he invented the Ice Stupa artificial glacier which stores the unused stream waters in winter in the form of giant ice cones or stupas and releases the water in late spring as they melt... just when farmers need water.

Sonam Wangchuk was granted several awards and titles, to name a few:-
Magsaysay Award from Philipines (Asian version of the Nobel Prize), 2018
The GQ Men Of The Year Award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 in India,
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, Paris 2017,
The Rolex Award for Enterprise 2016 in Hollywood USA.

Prior to joining the Board of the Algorand Foundation, Staci ran the Global Market Development practice at the Milken Institute, where she led its work on capital market development, crypto/blockchain solutions, and innovative finance to promote the sustainable development goals. Prior to Milken, Staci ran JPMorgan’s EMEA public sector practice out of London. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies, and in the public and non-profit sectors had senior roles at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Staci has done business in more than 50 countries and has advised and spoken widely on the potential for cryptocurrencies and blockchain to solve real-world problems, and for financial innovation to improve inclusion and reduce global poverty. In addition to the Algorand Foundation, she sits on the Boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Rwandan Capital Market Authority, and the Energy for Growth Hub.  She also serves on the advisory committees of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee (STOA), the U.S. Financial Technology Association, and Evolution Environmental Asset Management.

Stuart Haber is a cryptographer, best known as the co-inventor of the blockchain technique for ensuring the integrity of digital data.  His work has bridged pure research and practical cybersecurity over the course of a 30-year career spent both at large established companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Labs, and Bellcore (Bell Communications Research), as well as at startups such as InterTrust and Surety -- which in 1995 deployed the world's first commercial blockchain as the foundation of the time-stamping service that he founded with his co-inventor, Scott Stornetta. Haber received his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.S. from Stanford University, both in mathematics, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University.

Tan Yinglan founded Insignia Ventures Partners in late 2017 and is the Founding Managing Partner.  Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia started in 2017 and manages more than US$450 million from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of “Deal of the Year (Small Cap / VC)” for Ajaib (2021) by AVCJ, two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia. See more at http://www.insignia.vc  

He also co-hosts the On Call with Insignia Ventures podcast, where he chats with portfolio founders and regional investors. An author on venture capital, startups and innovation, he recently published his fourth book, Navigating ASEANnovation (World Scientific, 2020). He also serves on the International Board of Stars – Leaders of the Next Generation, the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and is a Board Member at Hwa Chong Institution.

Tascha Che (@taschalabs) is a macroeconomist, startup advisor, and angel investor. A prominent thought leader on the web 3.0 economy, she has helped shape the industry’s thinking on how to assess the economic values of blockchain platforms and how decentralized business models can improve income distribution in society.

Dr. Che is the founder of Tascha Labs, a web 3.0 education and consulting services firm, and Soundwise, an audio publishing software company. She holds a PhD in Macroeconomics from Georgetown University, and bachelor’s degrees in Economics, Applied Mathematics and English Literature from Peking University.

Tim Adams currently serves as President and CEO of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) since January 2013. Prior to joining the IIF, Mr. Adams was Managing Director of The Lindsey Group, an economic advisory firm based in Washington, DC. Previously, he served as Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury. In 1993, Mr. Adams co-founded the G-7 Group, a Washington-based advisory firm and later headed their Washington operation as Managing Director. Mr. Adams holds a B.S. in Finance, a Masters in Public Administration, and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kentucky.

One of Asia’s most recognisable entrepreneurs, Tony Fernandes is best known for co-founding low-cost carrier AirAsia with Datuk Kamarudin Meranun and democratising air travel in the region. Since 2018, Fernandes has been spearheading a digital transformation of his businesses, launching AirAsia’s super app in October 2020, a comprehensive travel and lifestyle platform which offers flights, hotels, e-hailing services, food, groceries, and health products. He is currently the CEO of Capital A, an investment holding company with a diverse portfolio of synergistic businesses, including fintech BigPay and logistics venture Teleport.