Global Speakers

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Wong Mei Wai

Founder, CEO & Chief Change Catalyst

APAC Global Advisory

Summit Chairperson

Topics:

  • Change Management In The New Normal: Considerations For Senior Management And CFOs
  • Panel Discussion: What New Technologies Are Disrupting The Finance Function?

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Wong Mei Wai is the Founder, CEO and Chief Change Catalyst of APAC Global Advisory, recently awarded the Top 10 Change Management Consultancy Services in APAC in 2020. She is a senior change marketing and business leader turned Entrepreneur, – having pioneered the bespoke approach of building legacy through end-to-end Change Management.

Her leadership of iconic branded businesses and working with multi-national teams globally spans across personal care, food & beverages, banking, luxury retail/ jewellery, hospitality, electrical, lighting and IT industry for more than 2 decades. She has held leadership positions in Unilever, Citibank, Heineken, Fraser & Neave and Aspial – leading significant global and operational teams thus well placed to blend her strategic business and brand capabilities with strong operational hands-on leadership experience and execution.

She works with organizations to deliver sustainable change through talent management having led the market and category entry, rejuvenation of brands, integration of brands for mergers & acquisition, stewardship of global brands in leadership, challenger and/or “to be sold” positions and multiple restructuring.

She regularly Chairs, speaks, judges and moderates at global forums on Change, Business, Digital and Brands to promote global exchange to drive disruption, innovation and leadership and runs APAC Change Insider Live Webinar series to support organizations and individuals going through Change.

Mei Wai also specializes in uplifting brands as well as business and capabilities for medium to large Business Families to grow their brands/ businesses within Asia– this includes introducing innovation, digital and ensuring that the change strategy and succession plan is in place to embed change.

Mei Wai holds a BSc (Hon) Economics from University of Bristol (UK), MSc International Marketing from Strathclyde (Glasgow), EMBA California State University (US), Executive Masters in Change and Advance Management Program from INSEAD Business School and Advance Certification for Digital Management from Shenzhen (China).

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David Upton

Director of Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, Asia Pacific

Jedox

Topic:

Seminar B: Future Of Finance: Building A Resilient Organization With Collaborative Planning

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David has more than 20 years of experience in analytics and enterprise performance management.

David works with CFOs and business leaders across multiple sectors to increase their organizational capacity and speed to respond decisively through better planning and analytics.

David holds a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Information Technology and began his career in Financial Services.

After co-founding a consultancy that was ultimately acquired by Jedox, David has served in multiple leadership positions including Vice President of Operations for the APAC region.

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Kamaruzaman Mohd Noah

Executive Vice President and Head, Transformation & Strategy, Group Operations

Maybank

Topics:

  • Meeting The Challenges Of Digital Transformation For The Post-Pandemic Era: A Maybank Perspective
  • Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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Kamaruzaman Mohd Noah (Kamarul) is EVP, Head Transformation & Strategy Group Operations, Maybank. He is in charge of the implementation of robotics process automation since 2017 in Maybank. He piloted RPA processes in group operations and later on, expanded to across the group beginning in 2019.  Today, apart from group operations, RPA is implemented across business and support units within the Maybank Group.

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Ken Soh

Chief Executive Officer

Athena Dynamics, BH Group

Topic:

Digital Strategies Against Cyber Frauds And Cyber Attacks In The New World Norm Of COVID-19

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Ken Soh holds concurrent appoints as Group CIO of mainboard listed BH Global Corporation Limited since Mar 2014 and as the founding CEO of the group subsidiary cyber security company Athena Dynamics Pte Ltd. Ken has more than 28 years of working experience in the ICT industry. Prior to joining BH Global, Ken held various senior positions in public and private sectors at CxO and business leader levels with Master Planning and P&L responsibilities. Ken has been an avid industry speaker and writer. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Studies from the University of Essex; and a Master of Business Administration (eMBA) from the Nanyang Business School (a Nanyang Technological University and University of California, Berkeley joint programme).

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Amit Agrawal

Engagement Director

KPMG

Topic:

Future Of The Finance Is Intelligent Automation

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Amit Agrawal has more than 22 years of experience working with over 20+ Financial Services clients across the globe. His expertise is on leading finance function focus on finance transformations like change management, process optimization, transforming finance functions as trusted business advisor. During this period, he had held several corporate positions in banks like Citi, consulting firms like EY, KPMG, BearingPoint and technology companies. He had the privilege to work with senior industry leaders like CXOs from different professional and diverse cultural backgrounds. He holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and Electronics Engineer. He is RPA, PMP and CSM certified. Amit is keenly interested in understanding how emerging technologies like RPA, AI and Machine Learning will be re-shaping ‘Finance Function’ and its impact.

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Eric Nguyen

Robotic Process Automation Senior Manager

Synergy Group Australia (Former Telstra - Robotics & Automation Lead)

Topics:

  • Automation, What Is It Worth For Business Operations Post-Pandemic? Meeting Valuation Challenges
  • Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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Starting Robotic Process Automation journey since 2017, Eric has delivered values to business operations through his duties as Business Lead and Developer across various scales (Enterprise, Program of Works to Business Development) in telecom customer services, project management, and IT consulting, managed and professional services.

With internal and business partners, he solves business problems via automation, data insights and agile ways of work.

Over his 15 years in managed customer services space, serving customers from enterprises, government agencies and SMEs, Eric knows what drives: customer time reduction, consistent customer advocacy, practical cost saving.

Eric holds a Master of Business Information Systems from Australia National University.

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Qamar Saleem

Regional Manager, Advisory Services, Financial Institutions Group

International Finance Corporation, The World Bank Group

Topics:

  • Digital Financial Transformation: The International Finance Corporation Experience
  • Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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Qamar Saleem is the Regional Manager Advisory Services, Financial Institutions Group for Asia and Pacific, and the Global Lead for SME and Supply Chain Finance Practice at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. In this role, Qamar heads IFC’s Financial Institutions advisory services business spanning across nearly 40 countries, covering over 200 financial sector clients and providing technical support across 10 thematic areas such as MSME, SCF, Climate, Digital, Housing, Agri, Gender finance. IFC’s MSME Banking and Supply Chain Finance advisory services specifically supports financial sector globally in building and scaling MSME Banking and SCF businesses at the market, financial intuition and firm levels.

Qamar has over 27 years of experience in diverse commercial banking and business transformation initiatives globally. He is a recognized development finance expert working across Asia driving IFC’s financial intuitions clients into playing an active role in stimulating inclusion, climate change response, and enabling digital economy. He is also an MSME Banking and Supply Chain Finance expert and has played leadership roles in driving up MSME and SCF businesses for financial institutions across Middle East; North Africa; Eastern Europe; Africa; Latin America; East, Central and South Asia. He is a featured speaker, thought leader and trainer at numerous MSME and SCF knowledge sharing forums across the world and has steered partnerships with various private and public sector entities in helping augment support mechanism for increasing financial inclusion of especially the micro, small and medium enterprises.

Prior to joining IFC, Qamar was associated with international organizations like HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank as well as large regional banks in while serving in several emerging markets. Qamar holds a master’s degree in business administration and carries several certifications in the areas of Strategy, Business Transformation, SME Banking, Corporate Leadership, Supply Chain Finance, Credit, Risk, Trade, Treasury, Sales, Transaction Banking and Product Management.

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Fang Fang Jiang

Financial Institutions Group AS Asia DFS Co-Head/FIG Country Anchor of China and Mongolia

International Finance Corporation, The World Bank Group

Topic:

Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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Fangfang Jiang is IFC FIG AS Asia DFS Co-head and FIG AS Country Anchor of China and Mongolia. She joined IFC in 2012 and led the China team to promote financial inclusion through collaboration with banks, NBFIs, Fintech, Association, and government. Her clients cover the systematic banks such as the Postal Savings Bank of China, which has over 500 million customers and 40,000 branches; Leading Fintech players like Ant Financial, the financial arm of Alibaba Group; and MFIs including KB, the Largest Microfinance Bank in Pakistan. Before joining IFC in 2012, she worked as the Head of MSE in Taizhou Commercial Bank, one of the leading SME banks in China with ROE over 30%. She led a team of 300 in 30 branches across 5 different provinces in China. Her responsibilities cover strategic planning, product development, risk management, portfolio management, and staff training. From 2005 to 2010, she worked in IPC, the leading microfinance consulting firm as a bank advisor and provided capacity building to over 10 FIs in China.

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Shweta Mathur

Chief Financial Officer

Tata Power International

Topic:

Future Of Financial Reporting With Intervention Of Data Analytics

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Shweta is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Tata Power International Pte Ltd and is offering CFO services to entire Singapore Cluster of Tata Power Co. Ltd. She has experience of nearly 15 years in Power Sector.

She has varied experience of Strategic Finance, Business Collaboration, Policy Advocacy, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Strategy Planning, Business Process Re-engineering, Consumer services and Performance Management.

She has handled strategic projects for the company including Data Analytics, Strategic financial projects, Renewables, Electric Vehicle, Business Process Re-engineering etc. She is currently on the Board of various international subsidiaries and JVs of Tata Power.

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Vihang Shah

Executive Advisor

Synfiny Advisors (formerly Asia Pacific Head of Centre of Excellence & Digital Productivity at Electrolux)

Topic:

Learning Lessons From An Early Adopter of RPA: Unique Challenges In Deploying RPA In Finance And Accounting

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Currently Executive Advisor with Synfiny Advisors Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, Vihang is a results-driven and high impact transformative IT Business Leader with proven success in transforming conventional businesses enabled by IT/Digital Programs.

He is recognized as a Technology Early Adopter and a Change Catalyst with Global experience working as COE Head, Digital Productivity, Regional IT Head for APAC & MEA , Global Head of Business Applications, and Country IT Head-India with Electrolux.

For the last 20+ years, Vihang has leadership experience developing and executing Digital and IT roadmaps, creating pace and a sense of urgency by fostering a collaborative working environment across diverse cross-functional groups. He has worked extensively in China, Australia, India, Southeast Asia and Europe.

Vihang is now advising various enterprises in their Digital journey to leverage traditional IT Applications like ERP, CRM including emerging Digital tools like Social Media, Cloud based Applications, Business Analytics, Mobile Applications, Robotics Process Automation – all designed to enable businesses to become digitally savvy and leverage Technology as a competitive advantage.

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Irene Boey

Integral Solutions

Data Strategist & Consulting Director

Topic:

Seminar A: How Advanced Analytics Can And Are Helping Finance Leaders Improve Their Financial Reporting, Profitability Analysis And Operational Decision Making

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Irene Boey is a data strategist, educator and practitioner whom specializes in using Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Business Analytics to enable businesses to make intelligent decisions from their data and make good sense of big data. Irene has more than 25 years of deep experience in applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on Big Data to enable businesses to grow and progress in their Digital Transformation journeys. Irene is also the adjunct lecturer at National University of Singapore specializing in training businesses how to use their data to enhance customer acquisition and retention.

Irene has led numerous successful projects across industries enabling organization to increase profits and maximize value in big data management and improving relationship with their clients. These include banking & finance, telco, retail and wholesale, education, government and manufacturing.

Irene has accumulated good collection of business best practices in Big Data, Business Analytics & Artificial Intelligence from wide range of industries (including banking & finance, Telecoms, Wholesale & Retail, F&B, Education and Manufacturing due to her deep practical experience.

Irene’s experience includes transforming business models and strategies, oversee and coordinate all customer focused efforts, including reviewing strategies, solving data issues, extraction of relevant data from different sources, building data marts, development of customer databases, analysis of databases and use of analytics for more effective marketing programs, better resources allocation and personalized customer services.  She is also involved in enabling clients to discover cross selling opportunities, derive insights in bundling of products, offering the right products to the right target group at the right time through the right distribution channels and converting data into useful insights through Artificial Intelligence.

Irene is also the researcher for various APEC projects and has presented papers at various APEC conferences.  She has also led the national survey to explore SMEs and E-business in Singapore and was the Singapore researcher for APEC’s ‘Capacity Building for APEC Women’s Entrepreneurs in the Age of the 4th Industrial Revolution’ 2018.  Through her research and business projects, she has acquired a wealth of experience in relation to business issues in SMEs.

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Vincent Lim

Deputy Group CFO

Hi-P International (formerly CFO (Asia) at Motorola Solutions)

Topics:

  • Reshaping A New Finance Function For The Post-Pandemic New Normal
  • Panel Discussion: What New Technologies Are Disrupting The Finance Function?

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With more than 25 years of commercial finance experience, Vincent’s main focus has been on finance transformation. Until this year, he was the Chairman of ACCA Singapore SME Transformation Committee and spoke in various conferences on finance transformation.

Vincent is currently the Deputy Group CFO for Hi-P International Limited (SGX:H17). Prior to this, he was the Asia Pacific CFO & China Legal Representative for Datalogic S.p.A. (Borsa Italiana: DAL.MI), and was Director of Finance & CFO of Asia for Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI).

Vincent is active in the industry, was formerly Council member and Treasurer of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA), member of ACCA Singapore Network Panel, Chairman of ISCA CSS Advisory Panel and founding Chairman of ISCA Run. He is the co-author of Common Sense Service Measurement book, a Fellow of Chartered Accountant Singapore, a Fellow of ACCA and holds an MBA from University of Hull.

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Keyur Shah

Senior Finance Director, FP&A COE, APAC

Johnson & Johnson

Topics:

  • Journey From “Data To Insight To Impact”
  • Panel Discussion: What New Technologies Are Disrupting The Finance Function?

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Keyur is Senior Finance Director, Asia Pacific BS COE, and is based in Singapore, since April 2017. In this role, Keyur provides leadership to COE in the areas of Financial Planning, Management Reporting and Analytics for all J&J sectors (Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices and Consumer) in APAC. He has established COE which is recognized as best practice by Gartner. He leads team of 100+ Finance professionals including few data scientists.

Keyur in his 20 years with Johnson & Johnson, has worked in significant leadership roles with increasing responsibility across all 3 sectors, geographies, at country, region and global levels. He was, most recently Senior Finance Director, Consumer Supply Chain, APAC. Keyur has co-led transformation on profitability and cash flow – AP supply chain delivered 5%+ improvement ($150+MM) in GP and $100MM+ in cash flow. Keyur also created value through strong support and influence with all major projects in the region, including design-to-value, network/tax optimization, flex to win, world class balance sheet management, etc.

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Munish Kaushal

Area Finance Director & CFO - GSK Southeast Asia and Taiwan

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer

Topic:

Panel Discussion: What New Technologies Are Disrupting The Finance Function?

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Munish Kaushal is a finance leader with ~20+ years of diverse and multi-location work experience across finance streams. He is currently working with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare division, which is the largest OTC (over-the-counter) healthcare business in the world. Munish is providing finance leadership to GSK’s Southeast Asia and Taiwan business, which is comprising of 11 countries.

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Philippe Touati

Partner

Belmond Capital Limited

Topic:

Seminar C: Becoming A Data-Driven CFO

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Previously, Philippe was the Head of Institutional Banking at ANZ and MD/Co-head of Standard Chartered Wholesale Banking a $1 billion business covering corporate, financial institutions and commercial clients in the region. His financial services experience also includes running Capital One Bank European operations functions.

Before financial services, Philippe had senior leadership positions in telecoms and technology where he designed a VLSI integrated circuit at Bell Labs, launched operations of New T&T, a HK telecom start-up, ran IT and operations for ICO, a satellite MEO company and managed 6 operation centres at France Telecom.

Philippe has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Ecole Polytechnique as well as 2 Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from Telecom ParisTech and Columbia University.

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Alexander Joramsa

CFO, Asia Pacific (formerly)

Alcon

Topic:

Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

Alexander Joramsa was previously Chief Financial Officer, Alcon –  Asia Pacific.

Alex has depth and breath of experiences not only in finance, but also commercial, supply chain and operations, business development, compliance and business transformation in different industries. He also has a track record of success in fostering a team-oriented culture.

Prior to Alcon, Alex built his career for over 10 years at General Electric (GE) in its healthcare and power businesses.  His last role was CFO Asia Pacific / Japan of GE Power Grid Solutions business. He also held various leadership roles of the healthcare business in South East Asia, Korea and Asia Pacific / Japan.

Alex also had leadership experiences in the pharmaceutical business working for Bristol Myers Squib in various roles including supply chain and operations, finance, commercial and compliance.

Alex built his early career with Arthur Andersen responsible for management consulting and auditing and ABN AMRO Bank as Senior Relationship Manager covering financial services and healthcare.

He holds a Master of Commerce in Finance from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Bachelor of Economics from the Parahyangan Catholic University, Indonesia.

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Mahantesh Patil

Chief-Digital and Agile Transformation Office

Allianz

Topic:

How AI Bots Help Finance Leaders Read Invoices, Review Contracts, Validate Pricing And Process Customer Orders

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Mahantest Patil has 23 years of Business and IT Transformation Leadership with an experience in domains like Insurance and Financial Services across  US, EU and APAC. He has driven the Enterprise and Digital Transformation initiatives focused on Customer Experience (CX) to bring a greater convergence of Physical world with Digital Eco-System along with the transformation of ways of working thru’ Agile-DevOps-Lean frameworks for a 10x Amplified Business Outcome. He is driving the Business to 100% Digital Transformation through Human Centered Design and Services Design in the current Role of Heading Digital and Agile Transformation at Allianz. His experience of Global IT Delivery and Services Management across geographical locations and domains, has been his core strength for getting the Transformation Endeavours into fruition.

Though the digital technologies has been his passion, he has been preaching more of a “whole brain” approach to any complex problem or a business need through Target State design across Products, Target Operating Models, Operational Excellence, Service Design and most importantly Experience to deliver a sustained Customer Delight in the era of Disruptive Technologies by leveraging Design Thinking, Digital Technologies like that of AI-ML-SMAC-Omni Channel Platforms to connect legacy data with intelligent insights of customer journeys. He has driven EX-Employee Experience driven process transformations, converging into CX.

He is an Engineer and MBA by education, certified on Design Thinking and Digital Transformation by the accredited agencies in USA.  Creating an “agility” has been core responsibility in all these endeavours leading to more nimble enterprises.

He learns pottery, to leverage right brain as a hobby of focus.

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Jeremy Cheah

Vice President, Finance

ETHOZ Group

Topic:

Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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Jeremy is currently VP (Finance) at Ethoz Group Ltd, focussing on the Capital arm of the Group that manages a full range of Capital Financing, Equipment Leasing solutions and SME Funding schemes. The company is also one of the approved participating financial institution appointed by Enterprise Singapore to provide loans to local SMEs and new start-ups. He has more than 2 decades of financial, accounting, treasury, risk, tax planning, M&A, ERP/CRM implementation and management experience mostly in SGX listed environment. Jeremy was previously at Agrocorp, a commodity trading company, based in Singapore as its CFO and was GM(Finance) at China XLX Fertiliser Ltd where he listed the company in SGX mainboard in 2007 and subsequently dual primary listed it on HKEX in 2009. Jeremy is a Chartered Accountant since 2002. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in accountancy and from University of Adelaide with a master’s degree in business administration. He is uniquely SAP FICO certified and taught SAP to consultants at Genovate previously.

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Louis d’Hotelans

CFO South East Asia

Bollore Logistics

Topic:

Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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Based in Singapore since 2015, as Finance Director for Bolloré Logistics, covering 13 legal entities in South East Asia, including Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, East-Timor, a BPO in Manila and a 4 PL cie in MYS. Louis has an extensive international experience in Finance & Business planning gained across several region of the world. Previously regional financial controller for Benelux based in Antwerp, Belgium for Bolloré, he started his journey within the Bolloré group based in Mexico in 2006 as country CFO. He started his carrier in corporate finance joining JP Morgan in Paris as an analyst and financial auditor at Deloitte. Graduated in Law and business studies from top French management school (ICN business school). Louis is a hands-on CFO, he has been spending significant time in the field to support digitalization and process improvement.

Founded in 1822, the Bolloré Group is one of the 500 largest companies in the world. Listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, the majority interest of the Group’s stock is still controlled by the Bolloré family. It now holds strong positions around three business lines – Transportation and Logistics, Communication, Electricity Storage and Systems. Bolloré Transport & Logistics is a major international transport and logistics operator. Its 36,500 employees spread across 109 countries on five continents express their expertise through four businesses: Logistics, Rail, Port and Energy.

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Adeel Maqbool

Audit Director

Tetra Laval Group

Topics:

  • Leveraging AI In Fraud And Compliance, Contract Review
  • Panel Discussion: What New Technologies Are Disrupting The Finance Function?

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Internal Audit, Risk Management and Compliance Professional with extensive experience in multinational FMCG. Holds a Chartered Accountancy qualification with international experience in multinational environment in 4 countries Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Singapore.

Experience:

  • ~5 years with EY as Audit Manager
  • ~6 years with Tetra Pak as Cluster Controller for region – Greater Middle East & Africa (managing & looking after 72 countries in the region)
  • +6 years with Tetra Laval International as Global Audit Director – responsible for global audits of Industry Groups (144 countries).
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Zia Zaman

Managing Partner, Beaver Lake Capital | Former Chief Innovation Officer, MetLife Asia | Board Member

Energy Market Authority

Topic:

How Blockchain And Other Enabling Tech Help Financial Inclusion

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From 2014-2020, Zia was the Chief Innovation Officer for the company’s Asia region and Chief Executive Officer of LumenLab, an industry-first innovation center, based in Singapore. As a member of MetLife’s Asia Leadership Group, he has delivered over 70 projects and won many awards addressing the health, aging, and wealth needs of Asia-based consumers. Working with the business across three continents as a chief innovation officer, he has executed pilots that increase inclusion, improve health outcomes, and leverage FinTech.  He was also the Chairperson for Diversity & Inclusion for Asia.

Growth and innovation has always been at the core of Zia’s remit. Zia joined MetLife from SingTel, where he spent 3 years, most recently as the Chief Strategy Officer for SingTel’s Group Enterprise running its innovation portfolio including cloud. Prior to SingTel, he was the Chief Strategy Officer for LG Electronics North America. He also served as the Chief Marketing Officer at FAST where he successfully positioned FAST as a leader in the enterprise search space which culminated in a US$1.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. At Gartner, he ran the North American strategy consulting practice. Zia was a member of the M&A team at Sun Microsystems where he led or co-led 8 acquisitions and 6 minority equity investments. In the earlier part of his career, he was a management consultant in TMT.

Zia is a frequent keynote speaker on matters relating to inclusion, insurtech, and innovation. Zia has spoken at WEF Davos, IIF, Global Summit for Women, Milken, InsurTech Connect, RISE, Digital Hollywood, Consumer Electronics Show, and UN Women. Much of Zia’s inspiration for new thinking sprouted on the two campuses where he studied, Stanford and MIT. As a writer, his work is broad-ranging spanning probability, traveling salesmen, small towns in Asia, parenting special needs children, The Price Is Right, innovation culture, and hockey. He has occupied various board positions at tech startups and was a board member on Viking. He currently sits on the Board of the Energy Market Authority of Singapore. Zia is a Fellow in the Aspen Institute’s First Mover fellowship. Zia holds an MBA from Stanford’s GSB. He also has a bachelor’s degree from MIT in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in operations research, also from MIT. Zia is married with two children and lives in Singapore.

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Paul Lennie

Chief Financial Officer, Southeast Asia

Asurion

Topic:

Panel Discussion: What New Technologies Are Disrupting The Finance Function?

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Paul is currently the Southeast Asia CFO of Asurion. Asurion helps 300 million people protect, connect and enjoy the latest technology.

Paul has previously held numerous Finance & Product roles in Asurion, including being one of the founding finance members of the Australia team, developing and growing the business.

Before joining Asurion, Paul was a Business Partner at TAL (a large Australian life insurance company) and PwC New Zealand, where he was a Manager in the Private Business department. Paul is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.

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Ken Soh

RPA Expert

AI Singapore

Topic:

Digital Financial Transformation For Enterprises Through Effective Open-Source Robotic Process Automation

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Ken works in the Product Engineering team at AI Singapore, our national AI initiative funded by the National Research Foundation under the Prime Minister’s Office. He is the creator of TagUI, a leading open-source and free RPA software used by over 10 thousand users, including some accounting firms in Singapore.

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Sachin Tonk

Director, Advanced Analytics, Data and Privacy

Standard Chartered Bank

Topic:

Know Your Data – Next Generation Analytics Intelligence And Data Governance To Drive Efficiencies

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Technology Leader with 16+ years in delivering bespoke technology solutions by engaging agile and waterfall methodologies. Seasoned in Program and Project management in Banking and Consulting Industry. Diverse professional exposure in international settings across India, Singapore, United Kingdom and the Middle East (Riyadh/Dubai).

Outstanding track record in automation, artificial intelligence, data analytics, business intelligence, Innovation, business transformation, governance, migration and architecture. Proven abilities in leading high-performing, multi-cultural and cross-functional teams in the delivery of multiple concurrent projects and operations of technology solutions.

An excellent communicator capable of translating complex technical ideas into actionable solutions. Excellent ability in engaging clients, vendors, stakeholders across all levels to bring commercial and business growth and achieve organizational KPIs.

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Vineet Mehra

General Manager, Product Head - Order to Cash

A.P. Moller - Maersk

Topics:

  • How OCR Powered With AI/ML Creates Higher Productivity And Accuracy In Finance & Accounting
  • Panel Discussion: The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Digital Transformation Efforts

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An award-winning leader who takes pride in leading change and creating impactful outcomes.

Vineet leads team of product owners and business process owners who co-creates solutions to solve business problems creating bottom line impact, multimillion-dollar savings and improved NPS by leveraging emerging technologies to automate processes using RPA, AI and ML, ERP implementation and bolt on tools deployment to optimize working capital and reduced cost through productivity improvements.

Having completed degree in accounting in 2003 and post-graduation in business administration in the year 2007 he continues to improve his skills on digital transformation and agile methodologies with recent certification from Indian School of Business.

On a personal level, Vineet and his wife, Richa lives in Manila, Philippines with their son Aarav. As a family, they enjoy travelling, cooking, reading and listening to music.