Digital Wealth - Asia 2016

Jason became Managing Director of IRESS Asia back in August 2010. A co-founder of XPLAN Technology he, together with Andrew Walsh, was instrumental in transitioning XPLAN from an independent start-up to a fully integrated division of IRESS. In the days before IRESS, Jason worked for Mercer and Vision FPS. He’s a self-professed sports fanatic and thrives in a competition. He's captained Singapore at the Touch Rugby World Cups in Scotland and Australia and also represented his state team at the Australian Touch rugby national titles.

Valerie has worked in Financial Services for over 30 years with the last 15 years working in the E-Business area. Her work has involved helping financial services businesses make the move from traditional working practices to making the best use of technology and digital.

Prior to making the move to Asia, she worked extensively with the electronic standards organisation, Origo, in the UK, developing the data interchange standards for Financial Service providers, as well as implementing these standards within product providers and 3rd party data consolidators.

More recently she has been active in the digital communications area, looking at how the financial sector can utilise all aspects of digital and technology to run their businesses and communications with their current and perspective customers. This includes social media strategies and back-office services.

Peter runs the Wealth Management business in Asia Pacific for Thomson Reuters. This includes developing key propositions and solutions for our clients through working with the market to understand the challenges and opportunities facing them today. He is then responsible for packaging the solutions and driving customer interaction through the sales force.

He has worked in financial services across New York, London and Hong Kong for 18 years. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters he last role was Director of Global Investment Banking for Dealogic working with clients across the investment banking spectrum.

Stefan Arn is a remarkably successful entrepreneur in the technology sector with a wealth of experience in the banking sector, execution of strategic global initiatives and leadership of cross-cultural, transcontinental organisations of more than 3'000 UBS IT professionals.

As an energetic and charismatic personality, Stefan has a solid track record of successfully delivering innovative, differentiating next-generation banking capabilities at the best value for money to the UBS Wealth Management and Corporate & Institutional businesses around the world, alongside the private client/Retail business in Switzerland. By executing key strategic programs such as TBTF (White/NewCo), Cetus Germany and One Platform he is acting as a key enabler for UBS' strategic ambitions and priorities.

Besides Stefan Arn's pivotal achievements on the Change-the-Bank, digital strategy, innovation and transformational agenda, he ensures provisioning rock-solid production stability on industrialised and standardised platforms.

Stefan Arn studied computer science at ETH Zurich. He was a successful entrepreneur in the IT industry before joining UBS in 2007. He is an opinion leader within the IT industry, an established name in the media landscape, a top-rated international keynote speaker, visionary and recognised for his tech-savvy innovative mind set as well as a trusted C-Level adviser.

He was awarded Ernst & Young's 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2003' and represented Switzerland at the 'World Entrepreneur of the Year'. Stefan Arn is Board Member of ‘ingCH – Engineers Shape our Future’, ICTswitzerland – umbrella association of IT and Telecom associations and RISE – Research Center for Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship of the University of St. Gallen.

Stefan Arn, born in 1961, lives in the upper Zurich lake region. He is a passionate race car driver.

Neal Cross is Managing Director and Chief Innovation Officer of DBS Bank and a strong advocate for innovation thinking and culture.

Cross is driving the bank’s innovation agenda regionally, as DBS moves to shape the future of banking, to enhance customer experience and better engage customers in the digital landscape. Cross has more than 20 years’ experience in technology, innovation and financial services.

Working with internal stakeholders and external collaborators, he charts the innovation roadmap for DBS to enhance customer experience and better engage the bank’s customers in the digital landscape.

Previous to DBS, Cross was at MasterCard, where he was responsible for driving innovation as Vice President of MasterCard Labs in the company’s Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa regions.  Cross started working in the Asia time zone at Microsoft in Australia and later in Singapore as the financial services industry director.

On his weekends Neal lives in the Sumatran jungle where he has founded Hotel Orangutan, a social enterprise to help save the critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan and to give local villagers employment and education.

Sandipan Ray is responsible for the technology platform and roll-out of the strategic initiatives in Deutsche Bank WM Asia. In addition, he leads Deutsche Bank WM’s core banking platform transformation program which aims to harmonize architecture, functions and processes globally.  
 
In a career spanning over 25 years, Sandipan has held senior positions in various global financial institutions including Citi and UBS. He has extensive experience in delivering large change-the-bank programs while playing pivotal roles in evolving the platform strategy, streamlining processes and ensuring a robust standardized platform. He remains keenly involved in improving the client experience and more recently the digital journey in the bank.
 
Sandipan has a Honors degree in Computer Science and a MBA from National University of Singapore.

Mark Nelligan is Pershing’s senior business representative in Asia Pacific. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for relationship management and business development in the region. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Asia Pacific Executive Committee and is chief executive officer of Pershing Securities Singapore Private Ltd, which holds a capital markets license to service Singapore financial intermediaries. He has over 20 years of financial services experience. Mark joined Pershing in October 2002 from ING Barings, Singapore, where he was the chief operating officer with responsibility for the bank’s commercial and investment banking operational support platform in South East Asia, Vietnam and India. Prior to this, he held several senior operational roles in Hong Kong, India and London. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (FCA, ICAEW) and a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge University.

Pranav leads OCBC Bank’s challenger bank, FRANK by OCBC, spearheads OCBC innovation’s arm, The Open Vault and drives the Digital Transformation for OCBC Bank’ consumer business. He stays passionate about the interplay of technology, design and human behaviour. Prior to joining OCBC Bank, Pranav worked at McKinsey and Co where he helped organizations across Asia define business and innovation strategies and execute large scale transformations. Pranav holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a bachelors in engineering from The University of Delhi.

Julia Walker is the Asia Head and Executive Director for Thomson Reuters’ Risk Market Development business covering Asia Pacific and Japan and is responsible for market development and sales strategy in the Governance, Risk and Compliance business. She is also a member of ‘Risky Women’ supporting gender diversity in Asia.

Julia has worked in Global financial markets for over 15 years in leadership roles encompassing regulatory advisory, sales, client and operations management. She has worked with teams and clients across Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan in a number of areas including OTC Derivative, FX, Rates and Credit to drive STP, reduce risk and adhere to regulatory obligations. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Julia worked with UBS where she was Regional Head of the FX, Rates and Credit Business’s Client office and previously Regional Head of Post Trading Services based in Singapore.

Luke is the founder and Executive Chairman of Tigerspike, overseeing its growth from a 3-person mobile technology company in 2003, to the world's leading digital products company with 250+ people in Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Dubai, London, New York and San Francisco. Before Tigerspike, Luke completed a degree in Computer Science from Kings College, London, and after qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, moved to Australia, ultimately becoming manager in charge of the Information, Communication, and Entertainment service line for KPMG’s Information Risk Management division before leaving to set up Tigerspike in 2003. In his spare time Luke sails competitively, completing the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2004. Luke is also the 2009 world whistling champion.

Jeroen has more than 18 years’ experience driving transformational change across the industry in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He leads EY’s Asia-Pacific Wealth & Asset Management Advisory practice focusing on corporate strategy, enterprise architecture and large-scale IT-enabled transformation programs. He has also worked with local and global fund managers across Asia on distribution and operating models. His clients include large private banks, industry funds, financial planning groups, governments and pension providers. Prior to joining EY he held various leadership positions at BT Financial Group which included the product development of wealth platforms, the redesign of advice distribution networks and operations and the merger integration of advice and private banking businesses across Westpac/BT and St. George/Asgard. Jeroen is a thought leader and regular industry speaker on digital innovation in financial services and holds a Master in Economics from Erasmus University, Netherlands.

Lee Ng is passionate about finding small ideas that can have big impact for MetLife. Born and raised in Singapore, she spent the last 30 years in the U.S., spending over 20 years in Silicon Valley working in innovation. Lee has relocated to Singapore to join MetLife’s LumenLab.

At LumenLab, Lee leads the Innovation Management Office to leverage past experience in marketing, research and development, manufacturing, business development, consulting, and venture capital, to launch disruptive new businesses for MetLife. As part of the leadership team, Lee brings structure to the management of an innovation portfolio including review and refining new business ideas, and works with MetLife’s in-country experts to develop the plan for testing the new business ideas and assess market potential.

Prior to joining MetLife, Lee spent over 20 years in Silicon Valley. Lee was the Director of Venture Technology at Siemens, working with venture capitalists and innovators to identify and fund innovative technologies through partnerships and joint technology developments. Before this, Lee was part of Agilent’s New Business Creation & Venture Team that brought innovative products to market. In previous roles, she worked at Hewlett Packard and consulted for Fortune 500 technology companies and Ampersand Ventures.

Lee holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin, and both Masters’ and PhD degrees in Materials Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), with a minor in Business.

Ketan Samani is Managing Director and Chief Digital Officer, APAC at UBS Wealth Management. Prior to joining UBS in March 2015, Ketan was regional e-Business head at DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest financial institution, where he was responsible for turning DBS into a digital banking leader.

Married with two girls, Ketan has also held leadership e-business and sales roles at Standard Chartered, Barclays Wealth, AXA Investment Partners and HSBC in a career spanning 21 years. He remains passionate about the client experience, and enjoys the occasional round of golf as well.

Ketan holds a degree from the City University London.

Ned is the Founder of Bambu, a B2B Robo Advisor based in Singapore that offers digital wealth services to all companies looking to tap into the rapid change of financial technology. Bambu started in February 2016 and within two months secured its first contract. Bambu has partnered with world leading companies such as Thomson Reuters to create a cutting edge Robo Advisory service that is scalable and useable by our customers.

Ned has been based in Asia for 25 years, and has been in FinTech since 1999. Ned has been through the first dot com wave in the early 2000's with E*TRADE. Ned was then part of the transformation of stock exchange technology with the SGX and Chi-X in the late 2000's and early part of this decade, and now see's this FinTech wave as the culmination of the advances over the last 20 years.

An executive with a proven track record, Bhaskar has over the last 12 years consulted with various banks, brokerages and asset management firms across India, Middle East, US and London. Prior to founding WeInvest, he spent over seven years at Headstrong Capital Markets, where he was responsible for growing the Europe business and heading up the Asian business. He started his career at India’s largest private bank, ICICI bank before consulting with Charles Schwab, Thomson Reuters & clients like Goldman Sachs, CMC Markets, Macquarie Securities, Bursa Malaysia etc. He holds an Engineering degree from IIT Madras and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

A recognised thought leader in the region, Mark is the EY Asia-Pacific Wealth & Asset Management Leader and Advisory Leader. He has led projects across the buy-side, including strategy, risk and regulations, operating model, customer and growth, with the majority of his time focused on business and digital transformation. Prior to joining EY, Mark spent over 20 years in the financial technology industry, providing services to the same community. This included fintech start-ups, VC raising and exits. He received a master’s degree from the University of Oxford.

Andrew Koh is a notable thought leader, risk, compliance and governance expert with over 25 years of working experience covering banking, finance, cards and payment sectors. He has work in credit, market, operational, regulatory, sovereign, portfolio and integrated risk management roles, along with cross-functional roles in audit, compliance, fraud and technology risk management. As a recognized keynote speaker, panelist moderator and adviser in major conferences, he has presented to board members, directors, C-suite executives, industry experts from central banks, government bodies, financial institutions, major Asian and U.S. Fortune 500 corporations. Andrew has been actively involved in Singapore fin-tech start-ups a.k.a. new “Silicon Valley” and has written a series of articles on Rethinking Enterprise Risk Management for an award winning risk magazine, StrategicRisk. Prior to rejoining the banking sector, he was the Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management for Singapore’s national payment operator, NETS, managed the group enterprise risk management, outsourcing and fraud risk policies, and conducted trainings across all businesses. An avid lifelong learner, Andrew holds three world class master degrees: Master of Science in Risk Management (NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business); Master of Science in Global Finance (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business); MBA (University of Manchester - Manchester Business School). He has a Bachelor of Science in Banking and Finance from University of London. His professional affiliation includes being a Certified Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) from The Institute of Internal Auditors, Stanford University’s Advanced Strategic Decision and Risk Management certification, SYMMYS’ Advanced Portfolio & Risk Management program, PRMIA, GARP and the Digital Currency Council.

Andy Feitknecht is Vice President Professional Services and Member of the Executive Board of Assentis Technologies. He drives the global services business, enabling Assentis' financial services clients to digitize their core processes such as investment advisory, onboarding and credit processing. Andy has more than 20 years’ experience in consulting, technology and financial services.

Prior to joining Assentis, Andy was Managing Director at Credit Suisse driving the Analytics Agenda. Before he was a Partner at Accenture, selling and delivering strategic transformational and outsourcing initiatives in financial services .

Andy Feitknecht studied electronical engineering at ETH Zurich. 

Married with one daughter, he has stayed an avid marathon runner.

Urs Lichtenberger is responsible for Credit Suisse’s Client and Front-Office Platforms in Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. He oversees the development and implementation of the bank’s external and internal platforms including digital client offerings, Relationship Manager, Client Lifecycle/Onboarding and Control related tools relevant for the bank in Asia Pacific. Mr. Lichtenberger joined Credit Suisse in 2011 and has held various management roles since. He was instrumental in the successful rehaul and digitalization of the Private Banking platform with the launch of the award winning DPB while introducing a new change management organization to ensure the business was capable of absorbing the changes. He has more than 15 years of experience in successfully leading large transformational projects from strategy to execution and setting up impactful change management capabilities within the financial industry across Asia and Europe. He holds an Executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in Business Engineering.

Jaideep Billa is the President and CEO of Wealth business unit at Intellect. iWealth is a provider of products covering the full spectrum of wealth businesses from Trust banking to Private banking to Wealth management to Mass affluent wealth. Intellect’s Vision for Wealth is , “Wealth not just for the people who have Wealth but also for the people who need wealth”.  IWealth seeks to realize this vision by providing technology solutions that significantly enhance the capabilities of Relationship managers and Advisors to service their customers. iWealth has clearly established itself as the platform of choice for the leading banks of the world. It has established a clear leadership in the Wealth management business in Asia . It now seeks to harness its Digital edge to establish a clear Pole position in Wealth management across other regions of the world. Jaideep has over 30 years of experience predominantly in the Financial Technology business. Prior to his current role he was the CEO for the business providing technology solutions for consumer banking. During his tenure as CEO for consumer banking has the iGCB business consistently grew at above 35% rate. Jaideep also has worked as  Business Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Business, Chief Technology Officer and as Strategic Advisor to CEO.  This puts him in a good position to provide the thought leadership on Digital initiatives within wealth.   He is currently working on a book on Digital patterns. Jaideep is also a firm believer in the transformative power of Digital technologies and shares his thought on his blog on Digital Patterns. Jaideep holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kanpur, India and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, India.  

Frank Troise is one of Southeast Asia’s leading voices and practitioners on FinTech. In 2016 he was honored to be included as one of Asia’s FinTech 100. He is a pioneer in virtual advice, portfolio replication, and free trading and has worked with some of the region’s largest family offices and institutions as they digitize their offering. He is an active strategic advisor and investor to many FinTech companies in the region. In addition, he is the founder of SoHo Capital LLC a US-based Registered Investment Advisor and holding company. The firm has two wholly owned subsidiaries: SoHo Asset Management, a fund company, and SoHo Financial Services, a wealth management and multi-family office. Frank has over twenty years of experience managing multi-billion dollar portfolios for corporations, endowments, foundations, and high net worth individuals. Frank’s research, work op-eds, and career have been published in The Economist, Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, The Sacramento Bee, The Pacific Coast Business Times, Noozhawk, Derivatives Weekly, Pension & Investments, and Investment News. His investment letter has over 12,000 accredited readers and he is a frequent commentator on CNBC regarding market strategy for Squawk on the Street, The New Retirement Series, Power Lunch, and Street Signs. He is married, has two young children and recently relocated with his family to Singapore. He is originally from New York and remains a devoted Yankees fan. He has an MBA in Finance from New York University and a B.S. in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Trimantium GrowthOps is an entrepreneurial operations partner for organisations seeking to develop new products, services and growth strategies. Our aim is to help organisations maximise their long-term value and impact, through growth-focused and technology-driven solutions. We provide our clients with a single point of contact and accountability, share their sense of urgency and align our incentives with theirs.

Frank Henze is a 20-year veteran in the financial service industry holding senior positions in private client broking, asset & wealth management and sell side firms and has an operations, product and distribution background. He has managed asset management businesses in Asia Pacific, established new businesses and product lines in the Europe and Asia and ran his own business focused on Fintech consulting before joining Trimantium GrowthOps where he is bringing together deep organizational insights across financial services firms with technical understanding and change delivery.

Alessandro Tortelli is the Lead Solution Consultant at Appway, where he is an expert in client onboarding and digital banking. In this role, he analyses processes and engineers solutions to support global banking institutions on their digitalisation journeys. 

Prior to Appway, Alessandro worked for Capgemini Consulting as a project manager.

Steve Monaghan is Chairman, CEO of Gen.Life, a LP and IC member in True Global Ventures, Vice Chair of Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, Co-Chairman of HK HealthTech Association, Vice Chair of the HK Israel Trade Association, a Board Member of Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech, Fintech and ICO's. Steve specializes in the creation of innovative business models for leading institutions and startups and has served as an advisor to AIA, Veritas Genetics and Intel. Steve graduated first in class with an EMBA from the Helsinki School of Economics and has attended senior leadership courses at IMD and Nanyang Wharton.

Gary Mellody has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. He has worked in industry in market risk, treasury, ALM, equity trading and group strategy and group risk roles and has extensive experience in all aspects of risk management.

He is well-versed in development and implementation of risk appetite statements and ICAAP, implementation of market risk engines, strategic impact of Basel 3 liquidity requirements, and support in the specification of liquidity infrastructure, behavioral analysis of customer portfolios, stress testing and reporting.

Prior to joining EY, Gary was leading the Financial Risk Management advisory practice for China and Asia-Pacific at KPMG in Hong Kong. 

Gary has a Bachelor of Business and Master of Applied Finance and is a Chartered Accountant.

Mark Büsser studied Aeronautical Engineering at the ETH (Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland) and holds an MBA from IMD. He started his career in management Consulting, then led a big machine tool company before founding IMTF group, which he has successfully built up and managed for over 29 years to become a market leader in administrative process automation (Onboarding, Client Life cycle management, loan origination, etc.)  Content Management and Compliance in Switzerland and over 50 countries.

Adrian Gostick is the Managing Director, Asia, for BondIT, a provider of robo-advisory solutions that support advisors, portfolio managers and risk managers to construct, optimize, and better understand the risk of their or their customers’ fixed income portfolios.

Adrian is a seasoned financial markets professional, with over 25 years’ experience working across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining BondIT Adrian spent twelve years in a variety of leadership roles in Thomson Reuters, most recently as Managing Director, China, for the Financial & Risk business. Between 2002 and 2004 Adrian worked in a portfolio and risk management software company in France, and before that spent 11 years as a fixed income trader for Japanese securities companies in London and Tokyo.

Evy is Senior Vice President, responsible for the digital offering available to the wealth segments of DBS’s Consumer Banking Group. Prior to joining DBS, Evy worked as a consultant in Financial Services for over 10 years, leading design, delivery and deployment of digital platforms across Europe and Asia. She is passionate about her healthy lifestyle, spending time outdoors, and being with her family. Evy has a Master of Science in Information Technology obtained at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Sanjoy Sen is a senior international banker with 25+ years of experience in Consumer and Commercial Banking. He is currently Managing Director, Retail Banking Asia Pacific, for ANZ where he joined in 2012. Based in Singapore, he leads ANZ’s Retail, Wealth & Private Banking Business for the Region. Sanjoy has deep banking experience in Global Banks such as ANZ and Citigroup, and a successful track record of driving transformational business, growth strategies and M&A in diverse markets. He serves on the boards of several ANZ subsidiaries/ joint ventures in the Region.

Prior to joining ANZ, Sanjoy was Citigroup’s Managing Director and Consumer Bank Head for Middle East & North Africa. Prior to that, he was the Chief Operating Office and Retail Banking Head for Citibank in China. Sanjoy started his career in Citigroup in 1990 and held various senior leadership positions spanning General Management, Sales, Marketing, Credit and Risk.

Sanjoy is widely acknowledged for his industry thought leader on future of consumer banking, digital disruption and fintech. He is an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) where he was the Marketing Gold Medalist. He has done executive management program from Harvard University.

Nagaraj Prasadh has been with Intellect for over 15 years and in the Asia Pacific region covering Singapore and Thailand since 2008. A post-graduate in English Literature from the Delhi University in India, he took a unique route of making a career in the IT industry starting his career as a programmer in mid-range and mainframe systems for the financial services industry. With over 25 years of industry experience, he is innovative with gadgets and finds unique ways to make technology touch the lives of people. Based in Bangkok, Thailand with his family since 2012, he is the Country Head for Intellect Design Arena, Thailand.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Mark Nelligan is Pershing’s senior business representative in Asia Pacific. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for relationship management and business development in the region. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Asia Pacific Executive Committee and is chief executive officer of Pershing Securities Singapore Private Ltd, which holds a capital markets license to service Singapore financial intermediaries. He has over 20 years of financial services experience. Mark joined Pershing in October 2002 from ING Barings, Singapore, where he was the chief operating officer with responsibility for the bank’s commercial and investment banking operational support platform in South East Asia, Vietnam and India. Prior to this, he held several senior operational roles in Hong Kong, India and London. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (FCA, ICAEW) and a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge University.

Stefan Arn is a remarkably successful entrepreneur in the technology sector with a wealth of experience in the banking sector, execution of strategic global initiatives and leadership of cross-cultural, transcontinental organisations of more than 3'000 UBS IT professionals.

As an energetic and charismatic personality, Stefan has a solid track record of successfully delivering innovative, differentiating next-generation banking capabilities at the best value for money to the UBS Wealth Management and Corporate & Institutional businesses around the world, alongside the private client/Retail business in Switzerland. By executing key strategic programs such as TBTF (White/NewCo), Cetus Germany and One Platform he is acting as a key enabler for UBS' strategic ambitions and priorities.

Besides Stefan Arn's pivotal achievements on the Change-the-Bank, digital strategy, innovation and transformational agenda, he ensures provisioning rock-solid production stability on industrialised and standardised platforms.

Stefan Arn studied computer science at ETH Zurich. He was a successful entrepreneur in the IT industry before joining UBS in 2007. He is an opinion leader within the IT industry, an established name in the media landscape, a top-rated international keynote speaker, visionary and recognised for his tech-savvy innovative mind set as well as a trusted C-Level adviser.

He was awarded Ernst & Young's 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2003' and represented Switzerland at the 'World Entrepreneur of the Year'. Stefan Arn is Board Member of ‘ingCH – Engineers Shape our Future’, ICTswitzerland – umbrella association of IT and Telecom associations and RISE – Research Center for Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship of the University of St. Gallen.

Stefan Arn, born in 1961, lives in the upper Zurich lake region. He is a passionate race car driver.

Nagaraj Prasadh has been with Intellect for over 15 years and in the Asia Pacific region covering Singapore and Thailand since 2008. A post-graduate in English Literature from the Delhi University in India, he took a unique route of making a career in the IT industry starting his career as a programmer in mid-range and mainframe systems for the financial services industry. With over 25 years of industry experience, he is innovative with gadgets and finds unique ways to make technology touch the lives of people. Based in Bangkok, Thailand with his family since 2012, he is the Country Head for Intellect Design Arena, Thailand.

Alessandro Tortelli is the Lead Solution Consultant at Appway, where he is an expert in client onboarding and digital banking. In this role, he analyses processes and engineers solutions to support global banking institutions on their digitalisation journeys. 

Prior to Appway, Alessandro worked for Capgemini Consulting as a project manager.

Evy is Senior Vice President, responsible for the digital offering available to the wealth segments of DBS’s Consumer Banking Group. Prior to joining DBS, Evy worked as a consultant in Financial Services for over 10 years, leading design, delivery and deployment of digital platforms across Europe and Asia. She is passionate about her healthy lifestyle, spending time outdoors, and being with her family. Evy has a Master of Science in Information Technology obtained at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.

Jaideep Billa is the President and CEO of Wealth business unit at Intellect. iWealth is a provider of products covering the full spectrum of wealth businesses from Trust banking to Private banking to Wealth management to Mass affluent wealth. Intellect’s Vision for Wealth is , “Wealth not just for the people who have Wealth but also for the people who need wealth”.  IWealth seeks to realize this vision by providing technology solutions that significantly enhance the capabilities of Relationship managers and Advisors to service their customers. iWealth has clearly established itself as the platform of choice for the leading banks of the world. It has established a clear leadership in the Wealth management business in Asia . It now seeks to harness its Digital edge to establish a clear Pole position in Wealth management across other regions of the world. Jaideep has over 30 years of experience predominantly in the Financial Technology business. Prior to his current role he was the CEO for the business providing technology solutions for consumer banking. During his tenure as CEO for consumer banking has the iGCB business consistently grew at above 35% rate. Jaideep also has worked as  Business Head of Cloud and Infrastructure Business, Chief Technology Officer and as Strategic Advisor to CEO.  This puts him in a good position to provide the thought leadership on Digital initiatives within wealth.   He is currently working on a book on Digital patterns. Jaideep is also a firm believer in the transformative power of Digital technologies and shares his thought on his blog on Digital Patterns. Jaideep holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kanpur, India and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, India.  

Mark Büsser studied Aeronautical Engineering at the ETH (Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland) and holds an MBA from IMD. He started his career in management Consulting, then led a big machine tool company before founding IMTF group, which he has successfully built up and managed for over 29 years to become a market leader in administrative process automation (Onboarding, Client Life cycle management, loan origination, etc.)  Content Management and Compliance in Switzerland and over 50 countries.

Ned is the Founder of Bambu, a B2B Robo Advisor based in Singapore that offers digital wealth services to all companies looking to tap into the rapid change of financial technology. Bambu started in February 2016 and within two months secured its first contract. Bambu has partnered with world leading companies such as Thomson Reuters to create a cutting edge Robo Advisory service that is scalable and useable by our customers.

Ned has been based in Asia for 25 years, and has been in FinTech since 1999. Ned has been through the first dot com wave in the early 2000's with E*TRADE. Ned was then part of the transformation of stock exchange technology with the SGX and Chi-X in the late 2000's and early part of this decade, and now see's this FinTech wave as the culmination of the advances over the last 20 years.

A recognised thought leader in the region, Mark is the EY Asia-Pacific Wealth & Asset Management Leader and Advisory Leader. He has led projects across the buy-side, including strategy, risk and regulations, operating model, customer and growth, with the majority of his time focused on business and digital transformation. Prior to joining EY, Mark spent over 20 years in the financial technology industry, providing services to the same community. This included fintech start-ups, VC raising and exits. He received a master’s degree from the University of Oxford.

Jason became Managing Director of IRESS Asia back in August 2010. A co-founder of XPLAN Technology he, together with Andrew Walsh, was instrumental in transitioning XPLAN from an independent start-up to a fully integrated division of IRESS. In the days before IRESS, Jason worked for Mercer and Vision FPS. He’s a self-professed sports fanatic and thrives in a competition. He's captained Singapore at the Touch Rugby World Cups in Scotland and Australia and also represented his state team at the Australian Touch rugby national titles.

Steve Monaghan is Chairman, CEO of Gen.Life, a LP and IC member in True Global Ventures, Vice Chair of Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, Co-Chairman of HK HealthTech Association, Vice Chair of the HK Israel Trade Association, a Board Member of Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech, Fintech and ICO's. Steve specializes in the creation of innovative business models for leading institutions and startups and has served as an advisor to AIA, Veritas Genetics and Intel. Steve graduated first in class with an EMBA from the Helsinki School of Economics and has attended senior leadership courses at IMD and Nanyang Wharton.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.