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Varun Mittal
Founder, Fintech Nation & Head of Innovation & Ecosystem
Keenai Global
Varun Mittal is Country Head, Singapore at Keenai Global, a wealthtech platform built for globally mobile investors. Keenai brings every asset class together in one account, guided by the belief that wealth technology should be tech-led and human-empowered. At Keenai, Varun leads the Singapore business, working with clients, partners and the wider ecosystem to make global wealth simpler to manage.
A seasoned professional adept at value creation across Southeast Asia’s digital business and financial services, Varun was part of the founding management teams of Singlife and helloPay, helping scale both and steering their acquisitions by Sumitomo Life and Ant Financial respectively. He has developed and implemented digital strategy, innovation management and ecosystem development across insurance, financial advisory, payments and banking.
Most recently, as Chief Innovation Officer at Singlife, he led new product and distribution innovation, ecosystem partnerships and emerging technology rollouts, including the AI Center of Excellence. Earlier, he was a Partner at Ernst & Young, leading the global emerging markets fintech and ASEAN digital banking practice, and before that led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and developed regional mobile payment solutions at Singtel Group.
Varun is the founder of Fintech Nation™, an ecosystem platform comprising a book series, the Fintech 65™ mentorship platform, an investment fund supporting Singapore’s fintech community, and a public policy initiative advancing Singanomics™. He has authored four books on Singapore’s rise as a global fintech hub, and was named one of the top ten people in Singapore fintech by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 2019 and 2021.
