Bios of Speakers & Moderator

BHARAT PADMANABHAN

Regional Head of Global Banking, ASEAN and South Asia – Corporate & Institutional Banking

Bharat Padmanabhan is the Regional Head of Global Banking, ASEAN & South Asia, Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB).

Based in Singapore, Bharat is a member of the CIB Management Team, reporting to Global Head of Banking, CIB, Paul Skelton and Regional CEO of ASEAN & South Asia, Anna Marrs.

Prior to this role, Bharat was the Global Head of Sales & Client Management of Transaction Banking. Further, he has also been a global product head in Corporate Finance and head of Client Coverage in both Indonesia and China. The primary responsibility in these roles were to lead the client sales organization for origination & building client relationship strategy with corporate and institutional clients.

Bharat is a seasoned banker with over 22 years of experience in banking, principally with Wholesale Banking in roles across several regions within Standard Chartered Bank, covering all major businesses and clients across corporates and institutions.

Bharat has a MBA degree in Banking & Finance from University of Birmingham, UK and Masters from Ecole Nationale de Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, France.

CHUA CHEE SENG

Partner, Arisaig

Chua Chee Seng joined Arisaig Partners (Asia) Pte Ltd in April 2009 as Chief Financial Officer, providing oversight over the middle and back office functions of the business, and was appointed a Partner in January 2016. 

Prior to joining Arisaig Partners (Asia) Pte Ltd, Mr. Chua worked for Macquarie Bank in its listed infrastructure division. Mr. Chua qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2004 with PricewaterhouseCoopers, London where his primary focus was on assurance, risk, compliance and governance projects for investment management clients in London and Singapore.

Mr. Chua is a Fellow of the Institute of Charted Accountants in England and Wales and graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

ASHISH GOYAL, CFA

Head of Emerging Markets Equity

NN Investment Partners (Singapore)

(Formerly ING Investment Management)

Ashish heads the Emerging Markets Equity (EME) team at NN Investment Partners. The NN Group is a leading European Asset Manager with over USD 200 billion in client assets under management.

Prior to joining NN Investment Partners, Ashish was the Chief Investment Officer at a leading asset management company where he was responsible for USD 20 billion of client assets and managed a team of 22 investment professionals.

Ashish has over 23 years of investment experience in emerging markets equity and has worked out of Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai. He holds an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune, India.

As a member of the FTSE Asia Pacific and FTSE Singapore committees Ashish takes a keen interest in the role of indices in the capital allocation process. Other areas of interest are financial literacy and the fiduciary responsibility of the financial sector.

NARASIMHAN SL

HR Director
Head – Talent Acquisition APAC & Head of HR – SE Asia

State Street

Nars is the regional Head of Talent Acquisition for APAC and the Head of HR for State Street’s SE Asia based businesses, based in Singapore. He’s spent the last 7 years with State Street doing key HR roles that have had a direct and significant impact on organization and HR strategy.

He started with State Street as the Head of HR for India where he had responsibility to grow the site from scratch to 200 people across Operations, IT and Corporate support functions. He then transferred to London to work as the Chief Operating Officer for HR in EMEA. This was a two pronged role that would help drive the HR transformation efforts across Europe and lead the regional M&A activity in support of doubling international revenues. He led high profile deals in Italy, Luxembourg, Channel Islands and Ireland. The other key part of his role was to help the HR organization with process improvements using the LEAN methodology. The focus was to simplify, document and eliminate redundant processes in each of the 17 different countries State Street did business in Europe. He then moved to Hong Kong to head Talent Acquisition for APAC, based in Hong Kong.

He joined State Street from Bank of America where he had helped set up the HR practice during the startup stages and had grown to be the Head of Compensation and Benefits for the 6800 people organization. As an additional role, he was also the Head of HR for the Investment Banking back office in Mumbai, India.

His formative years were spent in India working with large, fast paced Indian IT & IT enabled service organizations doing various roles in HR.

An Industrial engineer by qualification, Nars also holds a Master’s degree in Human Resources. An aficionado of Formula One racing and a diehard Ferrari fan, he also has interests in cricket, hiking, running and tennis.

JALIL RASHEED

Chief Executive Officer

Invesco Asset Management Singapore Ltd

Jalil Rasheed joined Invesco in 2013 as Chief Executive Officer. Based in Singapore, he leads the Singapore investment team, managing an ASEAN Equity strategy & leads Invesco’s overall business in South East Asia. Prior to joining Invesco, Jalil was with Aberdeen Asset Management. Jalil joined Aberdeen as Graduate Trainee, and in 10 years was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Aberdeen Asset Management in Kuala Lumpur.  Besides managing money, Jalil’s experiences include setting up two greenfield asset management operations, and acquiring and restructuring another.

Jalil is a regular commentator on equity markets, having undertaken investment visits to 30 countries. Jalil is a Malaysian national and has lived in 7 countries. Jalil earned his Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics & Political Science in 2003.

IWAN ZAKARIA

Managing Director

Blackrock

Iwan Zakwan Zakaria (known as Iwan) is an established ICT professional specializing in managing large global technology operations. He has close to 20 years of experience working with top business establishments and financial institutions, among them are Andersen Consulting where he served as CIO in South East Asia, he heads Production Services for DHL Asia Pacific with a 40 million Euro annual budget (providing infrastructure and application support) managing over 400 people in Cyberjaya, Prague and Scottsdale, served as Head of Global Infrastructure managing 200 IT professionals in Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco and Singapore. After the merger in December 2009 with Black Rock Inc, Iwan currently has the responsibility as Head of Technology Operations base in Singapore.

Notable of Iwan achievements are his many critical project successes and an example of this is in partnership with Telekom Malaysia installing the largest Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) with Deutche Post Worldnet (DHL) to deliver the Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) infrastructure for a Hyperband service with the capacity of 10 Gbps, which is a first in Malaysia in 2005. Iwan was also responsible in consolidation 25 data centers in Asia Pacific into Cyberjaya, Malaysia during his tenure as Head of Production Services between 2002 to 2006. His application support team also received the CMM (Capability Maturity Model) Level 5 certification in 2005 and 2006, and later in 2007, the Production Services team was awarded CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) Level 3.

Whilst in Andersen Consulting and later known as Accenture, he was responsible for establishing Accentures’ Bangalore delivery Center in late 1996 and was the keyperson for building the Accenture Asia Pacific IT Help Desk. He was also involve in a few client engagements which he was responsible in building up call centers for the clients.

Iwan holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the National University of Malaysia. Upon his graduation he wrote a thesis on Multimediate Development which earn him a seat to pursue a Phd. Program. He did not pursue the program but instead joined the industry which he spent his first 5 years doing software development and application support.

TREVOR CHUDLEIGH

Head of Business Development

Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd

Trevor is the Head of Business Development, responsible for developing the asset management business globally. His remit includes institutional and wholesale distribution, marketing and communications, client services and product development. He is also Chairman of Fullerton Luxembourg Funds, and sits on the board of Fullerton Fund Management Japan and Fullerton Fund Management Europe.

Trevor has over 25 years of investment industry experience in Asia, and speaks fluent Japanese. His long history of engagement with the region includes senior leadership roles at County NatWest, where he was responsible for overall client relationship management, and led the marketing and client service operations for the firm’s Japan business. He subsequently spent ten years at Vanguard Investments, culminating in his role as Head of Asia and Japan. During this time, Trevor was responsible for substantially increasing the firm’s AUM by driving the sales effort, and implementing global strategies at the regional and country level.

Trevor holds a Commerce Degree from the University of Western Australia, and a Master of Applied Finance (Portfolio Management) from Macquarie University, Sydney. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

JULIAN CHESSER

Managing Director and Head of Processing (APAC)

Markit

Julian Chesser is a Managing Director and Head of Processing APAC, the most widely used electronic trade processing service for OTC derivative transactions, in Asia. His responsibilities span product management and strategy, client relations and business development for the region.

Julian joined Markit in 2012 from Fidelity Worldwide, where he was Chief Operating Officer for fixed income products in London. Before Fidelity, Julian was at J.P. Morgan from 1997 to 2002 in London, New York and Milan and was co-head of fixed income operations between 2000 and 2002. He holds an LLB from Warwick University.

Moderator:

LOW CHIN LOO

FWA Events and Male Champions Chair

Chin Loo is Channel Partner with GNOWBE, a tech platform that provides an engaging yet scalable micro-learning solution to onboard, train and update individuals on the smartphone. Prior to this, she was Programme Director at The Wealth Management Institute (WMI), Asia’s first centre of excellence for wealth management education.

Chin Loo was President of the Financial Women’s Association (FWA) of Singapore from 2011-2015. The FWA is a non-profit professional association established in 2001 to promote the professional and personal development of women in the financial services industry. She remains in the exco as events and Male Champions chair for FWA.

In addition to FWA, Chin Loo has contributed to the development of female professionals in her position in the executive committee of BoardAgender, a non-profit organization that seeks higher representation of women on boards. She is the founding president of MixCity SEA, a female networking platform in BNPP. Chin Loo is a legislative assistant in parliament. In this role, she researches on issues in the local community, hoping to play a part in impacting change through policy changes.

Before her transition to the educational and non-profit sector, Chin Loo was Director in the Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Strategy research team in BNP Paribas. She spent 16 years with the Bank, developing the Bank’s research team in the APAC region. Prior to BNPP, she worked for 7 years in the Treasury department of DBS Bank.

Chin Loo holds a Masters of Science in Applied Finance from NUS. She is a mother of two. 

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