Speakers

Amit is founder and CEO at Ecosystm, a next generation Technology Research and Advisory Platform. Ecosystm is the pioneer in truly democratising data and making research available to a much broader tech ecosystem as technology markets evolve.

Ecosystm brings together three key stakeholder groups that make up the tech ecosystem –tech buyers, tech vendors and industry experts –and challenges traditional IT research practices by offering unrivalled accessibility, transparency and autonomy on its www.ecosystm360.com platform. As a global first, companies can leverage high quality industry research and data that updates in real-time for an affordable monthly subscription, enabling them to make better planning and purchasing decisions to shape their future digital footprints and roadmaps.

Amit holds a Master’s in Engineering Management (Hons) from the University of Auckland. Driven by his passion for innovation, Amit sits on the advisory board of several digital start-ups, he is the President and Board Chair for TiE Singapore, a Beachhead Advisor for Asia for the New Zealand government, and a global brand ambassador for the Singapore FinTech Festival by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Amol Dethe works at The Economic Times and is an Editor for its online portal ETBFSI and ETCFO. ETBFSI does in-depth coverage of the BFSI (and FinTech) sector and ETCFO covers the CFO community.

He is a financial journalist who specializes in the Banking and Finance sectors. In the last fourteen years, he worked for various media houses across television, print and online, such as CNBC-TV18, Zee Business, DNA newspaper etc. He has also been writing for international magazines, and interviewed more than 500 CXOs in the last two years both – in India and abroad.

Graduate in finance and marketing from an overseas university and joined the finance industry after returning to Singapore. Working in Singapore and HK / China, with exposure in different areas in finance. Only involved in manufacturing since the year 2000 as CEO of Containers Printers from end 2012.

Andrew joined the BIS in April 2020 as the Centre Head of the Singapore Innovation Hub. Prior to the BIS, Andrew was Chief Information Officer & VP Payment at Payments where he was responsible for technology strategy and payment system operations. Under his leadership, Payments Canada embraced cloud technology, launched API services and led the ground-breaking blockchain research (a.k.a Project Jasper) alongside the Bank of Canada. Andrew has an MBA from the Ivey Business School and Bachelor of Computer Science from Carleton University.

Andy Zook is Senior Vice President of SAS in Asia Pacific. He has more than two decades of sales experience in the technology industry. This includes 17 years with SAS including roles with the Health and Life Sciences business unit and spearheading global projects. His broad experience and previous role of leading ASEAN provides a solid foundation for managing the business and cultural diversity of Asia Pacific.

Andy now leads regional sales and field operations across Asia Pacific, overseeing SAS’ business operations and the growth of its core analytics business in the region. He believes leadership is about serving others, being curious and providing inspiration to help teams succeed.

His focus will be to continue driving SAS’ leadership and expertise in analytics throughout Asia Pacific, empowering customers to fully capture the huge potential of their data. This will support them with unlocking actionable insights and smarter decision-making.

Prior to SAS, Andy worked at a variety of technology companies including GE Capital IT Solutions. His educational background includes Economics, Statistics, and Business Management. Outside of work he is passionate about spending time with his family, playing golf and enjoys college football and basketball.

Anjul Ray heads Experian Asia-Pacific’s Data Partnerships portfolio. She leads Experian’s alternative data practice for the region, providing strategic advice, practice and execution to the region’s telecommunications, SuperApp, payment, e-commerce and fintech companies, among many.

Anjul has put into practice Experian’s data-for-good ethos and has consistently delivered solutions with significant uplift to society. She is a risk and fintech professional with 17 years of extensive experience leading strategic partnerships to drive new value propositions, build expertise in client advisory on risk management and digital transformation, and formulate business strategies for growth.

Over this period, Anjul has developed deep expertise in customer acquisition and portfolio risk management for retail customers. Her career has enabled her to work across key Asia-Pacific financial capitals in India, Hong Kong and Singapore. Anjul holds a Masters degree in economics from renowned Delhi School of Economics.

Annabelle Kwok is the Director of Regional AI (Asia) at Prudential, where she employs a data-driven approach to calculate risk and pricing and builds AI learning loops to help individuals better manage their health. She was the Founder of NeuralBay, an AI company that specialises in building video analytics software for Multinational Corporations and Smart Nation initiatives and was also the Founder of SmartCow, a hardware company specializing in the deployment of AI. Annabelle has been featured on multiple occasions by media companies including Bloomberg, Business Insider, Forbes, and Apple, amongst others. She was a finalist of the Singaporean of the Year Award 2018 and Singapore Youth Award 2019. Annabelle is on the selection committee for multiple awards such as the President’s Science Award 2018 and 2019 in Singapore and the Tech Playmaker Award 2018 and 2019 by Booking.Com. She has been a volunteer at Make-A-Wish Foundation since 2011 and was one of 21 leaders chosen by U.S. President Obama to help design workshops on behalf of the Obama Foundation Asia Pacific.

After obtaining her master’s degree in Dutch Law from the University of Amsterdam, Annerie Vreugdenhil started her career as Account Manager Large Corporates with the Nederlandse Credietbank NV in 1987. In 1992 Annerie Vreugdenhil started at ING and held various positions, which revolved around maintaining and expanding relationships with clients in ING’s Wholesale Banking division, before being appointed as Head of ING Neo and Chief Innovation Officer in 2021. In the latter role she has been able to use her ability to see opportunities in all kind of situations, to challenge the status quo and to rethink services and processes. She is responsible for creating impact for ING with innovations, through Buy, Build or partner concept. Including responsibility for €300m Venture Fund and for the Labs in Singapore, London, Brussels and Amsterdam in which we work with start-ups and build our own start-up companies.

In 2000, Annerie founded and expanded ING’s Leveraged Finance team in the Netherlands. In 2006 she became Head of Corporate Clients Netherlands, a client group that consists of the listed and privately-owned large companies. In 2010, Annerie was appointed Head of Commercial Banking Netherlands and became a member of the board of ING Domestic Bank Netherlands. She was part of the team that designed and implemented the agile transformation. In February 2016 Annerie was appointed Global Head of Real Estate Finance within ING Wholesale Banking. In her last two roles she had successfully created new data and technology driven solutions for clients and ING employees.

In January 2018, Annerie was appointed Head of WB Innovation. In this role, Annerie was responsible for the innovation activities of Wholesale Banking, as well as the Advanced Analytics and blockchain team.

In addition to her current role, Annerie Vreugdenhil is the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of Komgo, an ING co-founded DLT based start-up in Trade, member of the Board and audit and governance committee of R3, a DLT based software company and member of the Executive advisory Board of Squirro, an AI based software company. Annerie is married and has two sons.

Mr. Antoine Flamarion is a financial entrepreneur. He co-founded Tikehau Capital in 2004 with Mathieu Chabran, his former colleague at Merrill Lynch. Over the past 17 years, Tikehau Capital has considerably diversified its activities and has established itself as a European leader in the alternative asset management industry, with €30.9 bn of assets under management and 629 staff across 12 offices around the world. Previously Antoine Flamarion worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and is a graduate in Management from the Université Paris Dauphine and holds a bachelor’s degree in Commercial law from the Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Antonio Fatas is the Portuguese Council Chaired Professor of Economics at INSEAD, a Senior Policy Scholar at the Center for Business and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business (Georgetown University, Washington DC), a Research Fellow at the CEPR (London) and a Senior Fellow at ABFER (Singapore).

He received a Masters and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has worked as an external consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, the European Parliament, the OECD, and the UK government.

His research interests are in the area of macroeconomics. His work explores the causes and shape of business cycles, the determinants of long-term growth, the impact that economic policies (monetary and fiscal) have on economic outcomes and how new technologies are changing the way we think about money and the financial sector. He was the lead researcher of the CEPR Policy and Research Network on Fintech and Digital Currencies.

As Co-President for Asia Pacific at Mastercard, Ari Sarker oversees all of the company’s activities in the region including business strategy and operations, product development, sales and marketing, and relationships with governments, regulators, banks and merchants. Ari is an active proponent of the company’s financial inclusion commitments, and a champion of inclusive growth efforts across Asia’s emerging economies. He also manages and identifies new equity investment opportunities designed to establish Mastercard as a natural partner of choice for fintechs.

Ari has been with Mastercard since 2011 and has held an array of leadership roles across geographies. Prior to his current role, he helmed Mastercard’s business for South Asia, including India. Before joining Mastercard, Ari spent over 12 years with GE in senior roles across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Ari holds a number of Board positions, including Independent Board Director with Airtel Payments Bank Limited in India, Advisory Board Member of the Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business (SMU-LKCSB), and Board Member of the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC).

He is a B.Com (Hons) graduate from Delhi University, a MBA from Cardiff University, and is a qualified chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Arik is the CEO and co-founder of Rapyd, a global FinTech-as-a-service platform that helps businesses collect and disburse money via locally preferred payment methods. Arik is a cloud services advocate and was surprised by the challenges faced by how the legacy payments infrastructure is hindering growth in the payment space. Arik started Rapyd in order to help build a global financial technology infrastructure that allows online commerce companies, gig economy platforms, financial institutions or any digital business to embed financial services into their consumer offerings in a very simple way. A serial entrepreneur, Arik is experienced in building high-growth technology companies that leverage using cloud computing that scales to meet rapid global customer demand. Prior to Rapyd, Arik founded ITNAVIGATOR a cloud-based contact center and unified communications platform which was acquired by Avaya in 2013. Arik previously served on the board of directors at Vigilance Networks and mixeer by Creative Mass. Some of his past speaking engagements in 2019 include Paris Fintech Festival, Money/2020 Europe, and CB Insights Future of Fintech.

Arnaud has 25 years of M&A experience, including 20 years in Singapore where he is responsible for the M&A / investment banking activities in Asia
* Arnaud joined Greenhill in June 2019 as CEO of Greenhill & Co. Asia (Singapore) to establish the firm’s Singapore office to cover the region.
* Prior to joining Greenhill, Arnaud has served as the Head of Southeast Asia M&A for Barclays, a position he held since he founded the business in 2010.
* Previously, he was an investment banker at Credit Suisse for 5 years in Singapore, and began his career as a corporate and securities’ lawyer with Shearman &
Sterling and White & Case in New York and Paris.
* Arnaud received an MBA from INSEAD, and an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center. He was also admitted to the bar in New York and Paris.

Arnaud Picut heads up the risk management practice at Finastra. He started off as a co-founder of risk management software firm Almonde in 2001 which was subsequently sold in 2006. He has been involved in risk management software ever since, predominately to help international businesses manage their risk and comply with regulation. He joined Misys in 2011 and has been responsible for the entire chain of commercialisation of Fusion Risk, from value proposition generation to building go-to-market strategies and building global ecosystems supporting it. More recently, Arnaud leads a risk innovation group developing advanced predictive and optimization models using AI/ML/Open APIs and also Blockchain (The Trust Digital Machine).

If you have any feedback for Arnaud or would like to contact him, you can reach him at Arnaud.picut@finastra.com

Arthur Breitman is an early architect of Tezos. Previously, Arthur was a research engineer for Google X and Waymo. In his early career, he worked as a quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics.

Arvie is the Co-Founder & CEO of UnionDigital, the digital bank of Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank).

In 2016, he established the Fintech Business Group at UnionBank, advocating a collaborative model of banking, enabling, and synergizing with fintechs. Now Unionbank is known as the Fintech bank of choice. In 2019, the Singapore Fintech Association recognized him with the Asia Fintech Leader Award. Arvie is also a Founding Member & Board Director of the Fintech Philippines Association.

The Fintech Business Group created UBX, UnionBank’s fintech arm – awarded as one of the fastest growing fintechs in Southeast Asia – where Arvie currently sits as Board Director and member of the Investment Committee.

In 2018 Arvie put the Philippines on the blockchain global stage with world-firsts such as i2i, a rural bank blockchain platform, PHX- an ERC20 commercial-bank backed stable coin, cross-border blockchain remittance with OCBC Bank Singapore, bondsph, crypto atm – and many more firsts, all approved by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Arvie is also the Co-Founder & Vice-Chairman of the Distributed Ledger Technology Association of the Philippines whose purpose is to educate, innovate, and regulate the use of blockchain technology.

He championed open finance and open API’s through UnionBank’s first and award winning global API Developer Portal. This “Netflix-style” API portal grew the bank’s experience from zero to billions of API calls, while digitally enabling over 1,000 corporates, fintechs, and partners.

In all three themes: FINTECH, BLOCKCHAIN and OPEN FINANCE, UnionBank blazed a trail fully aligned with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, to TECH UP Pilipinas and drive inclusive prosperity to kababayans everywhere.

Prior to joining UnionBank, Arvie’s experience spans industries of banking, telecommunications, and media, with roles across product, sales, finance, strategic planning, and business development. Grounded as a banker with an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Arvie graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He is a loving husband and dad to 6 highly creative children.

Ashok leads the Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice for APAC region. In this role, he works closely with Mastercard clients to develop a digital currency and blockchain strategy and product roadmap. He has deep understanding of the digital currency ecosystem and its need to be interoperable to current environments. Prior to Mastercard, he led the Customer Experience and Digital Strategy practice for EY Singapore focusing on Banking and Capital Markets.

Benjamin joined Finastra in 2019 to lead the company’s public relations in APAC and is based in Singapore. Originally from the UK, Benjamin spent 10 years in London before moving to Asia, working for major organisations in professional and financial services including Deloitte and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Benoît Cœuré became Head of the BIS Innovation Hub in January 2020. He is a member of the BIS’s Executive Committee. Previously, he was a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, responsible for market operations and European and international relations.
From 2013 to 2019, he chaired the BIS’s Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and was a member of the Financial Stability Board.
Prior to joining the ECB, Mr Cœuré served in various positions at the French Treasury. He was Deputy Chief Executive, then Chief Executive of the French Debt Management office (2002-2007); Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs, Trade and Development, co-chair of the Paris Club, and G8 and G20 Finance Sous-Sherpa (2007-2009); then Deputy Director General and Chief Economist of the French Treasury (2009-2011).
Mr Cœuré is a graduate of the École Polytechnique in Paris. He holds an advanced degree in Statistics and Economic Policy from the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE), and a bachelor’s degree in Japanese. He has authored articles and books on economic policy, the international monetary system and the economics of European integration.

Seasoned capital market expert with 20 years of experience with PwC (Financial Risk Management) and then as CFO/COO of a global IB in APAC/Europe. Entrepreneur since 2012 with a first successful venture in strategy consulting for the FS industry and now iLex, the first multi-dealer electronic market for corporate loans.

Bill Borden is the corporate vice president of Financial Services at Microsoft.

As the head of Microsoft’s worldwide financial services business, he leads the development and execution of Microsoft’s multi-year growth and compete strategies, as well as go-to-market investments, across the global financial services industry (FSI) to support its FSI customers in their digital transformation journeys.
As Microsoft’s thought leader in financial services, Borden came to the company with a distinguished, 20-plus year career in the industry holding various senior leadership positions at some of the largest banking institutions in the United States including Bank of America and Citigroup.

Borden holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, where he was a varsity football letterman. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.

Borden is a member of The Executive Leadership Council, the preeminent membership organization for the development of global black leaders. He is committed to helping the communities in which he lives and works through board membership, volunteering and mentoring.

I’m Bob Sutor and I’ve been a technical leader and executive in the IT industry for over 30 years. I’m the author of books about quantum computing and coding called Dancing with Qubits and Dancing with Python

https://www.robertsutor.com/about-me/.

A seasoned consultant, entrepreneur Investor and Senior Advisor to large firms and Startups on topics relating to Digital Transformation, Customer Engagement, FinTech, and BaaS to Foster innovation and Growth hack/Go-to-market effectiveness.

As President of Traveloka, Caesar Indra is responsible for fostering collaboration with stakeholders in the ecosystem, including businesses of all sizes and government affairs.

Prior to his appointment as President, he had held numerous roles, from product management, business development, commercial strategy, customer care, to leading Transport, Traveloka’s largest business unit. Caesar provided leadership which led to Transport’s 20x top line growth, scaling and localizing customer care technology and operations to serve 7 different markets in the span of only 5 years.

Before Traveloka, Caesar was a strategy and management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a software engineer in a Seattle-based B2B tech startup that was subsequently acquired by Nuance Communications, which is now part of Microsoft.

Having experienced living in both emerging and largest economies, he has become a strong believer that technology can make the world a better place to live. Caesar is a member of the Global Future Council, part of the World Economic Forum’s network, the leading interdisciplinary knowledge network dedicated to promoting innovative thinking on the future.

Caesar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and an MBA degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).