Enhancing the Efficiency of the Relationship Manager

Oliver is a banking professional with more than 25 years of experience as a senior banker and leader of high performing private banking teams. His guiding principle to success is his client centric approach and his deep understanding of cultural diversity. Oliver has been in Asia for most part of his career and his responsibilities and coverage span beyond Switzerland and London. He has also developed and expanded the private banking business of a banking institution in London and was responsible to setting up the private banking department of a newly created bank in Singapore beside managing his own clients. As a senior banker, Oliver has lead several successful team of private bankers with clients located in Europe, South East Asia, India, South America and segments such as the External Asset Managers and Global South Asian. Oliver holds a degree from the University of Lausanne Switzerland, an MBA from Cass Business School London and a specialisation from both the London Business School and Columbia Business School New York. Oliver is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Bhaskar Vijay Singh – Director, EY Singapore, Financial Services Consulting. Private Banking and Wealth Management Transformation Lead with over a decade of experience managing large-scale, complex, multi-year / multi-country transformations for global private banks, wealth managers and universal banks.

Dr Nick Xiao joined Hywin International in 2019 as CEO. Nick previously worked at Standard Chartered Private Banking, Credit Suisse Private Banking, Bank Julius Baer, building and managing various businesses in China, Taiwan, and the wider North Asia. Later, Nick was managing partner of a family office and advised leading families in Asia and Switzerland on their wealth and pursuits. Nick holds a PhD in Finance from Wuhan University in China and is a prolific academic. He published in 2004 one of the earliest books on China’s OTC derivatives market, and contributed award-winning papers to the official journals of People’s Bank of China and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Nick is widely consulted for his views on private banking in Asia and his insight on China, through speeches at events and interviews with international and Chinese media.

Gabriel is Head Asia Pacific for Wealth Dynamix. In his role, Gabriel drives strategy and operational execution to serve Wealth Dynamix’s Wealth Management clients across Asia Pacific by providing unmatched solutions and in digital transformation and customer experience. Prior to joining Wealth Dynamix, Gabriel was Director for Financial Services for Microsoft Business Applications Asia. Gabriel is an accomplished, multi-cultural executive with 20 years of experience in finance industry and has held leadership positions with Microsoft, IBM and Sun Microsystems. From 2007 to 2015, Gabriel was based in Shanghai and took on various leadership positions in sales, partners development and software. He was instrumental in driving the nation wide payment system and facilitated many corebanking system and analytics projects.

Bhaskar Vijay Singh – Director, EY Singapore, Financial Services Consulting. Private Banking and Wealth Management Transformation Lead with over a decade of experience managing large-scale, complex, multi-year / multi-country transformations for global private banks, wealth managers and universal banks.

Dr Nick Xiao joined Hywin International in 2019 as CEO. Nick previously worked at Standard Chartered Private Banking, Credit Suisse Private Banking, Bank Julius Baer, building and managing various businesses in China, Taiwan, and the wider North Asia. Later, Nick was managing partner of a family office and advised leading families in Asia and Switzerland on their wealth and pursuits. Nick holds a PhD in Finance from Wuhan University in China and is a prolific academic. He published in 2004 one of the earliest books on China’s OTC derivatives market, and contributed award-winning papers to the official journals of People’s Bank of China and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Nick is widely consulted for his views on private banking in Asia and his insight on China, through speeches at events and interviews with international and Chinese media.

Oliver is a banking professional with more than 25 years of experience as a senior banker and leader of high performing private banking teams. His guiding principle to success is his client centric approach and his deep understanding of cultural diversity. Oliver has been in Asia for most part of his career and his responsibilities and coverage span beyond Switzerland and London. He has also developed and expanded the private banking business of a banking institution in London and was responsible to setting up the private banking department of a newly created bank in Singapore beside managing his own clients. As a senior banker, Oliver has lead several successful team of private bankers with clients located in Europe, South East Asia, India, South America and segments such as the External Asset Managers and Global South Asian. Oliver holds a degree from the University of Lausanne Switzerland, an MBA from Cass Business School London and a specialisation from both the London Business School and Columbia Business School New York. Oliver is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Michael is a prominent figure in the financial services industry in Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Hubbis, a renowned provider of intelligence and connectivity for the Asian wealth management industry. With a depth of experience and expertise, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry for over 30 years, becoming a leading industry presence in the events, professional development, and publishing space in the region. Hubbis is a multi-generational family-owned and managed business.

He has been actively involved in the Asia-Pacific region since 1993. And has lived in Asia since 1995, holding positions in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore. 

For over 14-years, Hubbis has established itself as the gold standard media and events brand in wealth management thought leadership in Asia. Each year providing a very large body of cutting-edge editorial and sponsored content, organizing top-flight events.

During that time Hubbis has become the platform of choice for many high-profile C-suite leaders to communicate their vision of the Asian wealth management.

Before his involvement with Hubbis, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002, a financial services media company. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant success and was subsequently acquired by global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006. Michael continued to serve as the CEO of Pacific Prospect until October 2008.

Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Michael garnered 5 years of experience in financial markets publishing. His career in this field began in 1993 when he joined Euromoney Publications as the publisher of the quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now owned by LSEG) and spearheaded the conception and launch of Finance Asia magazine. During his tenure as Managing Director of Finance Asia, he also initiated the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine, and the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, he founded FIA Limited, further expanding his contributions to the financial publishing industry.

Born in North Wales, Michael served as the head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. Beyond his professional endeavours, Michael is a family-oriented individual and is happily married with three children: Reanna, Garett, and Tarryn.