FWA thanks Nomura for the kind sponsorship of the venue and lunch.
THIS IS A MEMBER AND INVITE ONLY EVENT.
FWA is pleased to organize the third round of the Male Champions initiative focused on “Corporate & Investment Banking”. Arguably, Corporate & Investment Banking is the area where gender gaps are the most significant. This makes for interesting debate in the third instalment of our Males from the Top series, as we bring together a panel of senior Male Champions for a discussion on this topic. They are: Managing Director, Vice Chairman, Philip Lee of Deutsche Bank Singapore as our keynote speaker and our panelists: Samir Bhandari, Head of Institutional and Corporate Sales, Asia ex-Japan Global Markets of Nomura; Kenneth Tan, Managing Director, Head of Corporate Group S.E Asia Global Market, Singapore of BNP Paribas; and Henry Quek, Senior Managing Director, Head of Official Institutions, Asia Pacific Sector Solutions of State Street Global Markets.
FWA Singapore announced the Male Champions initiative at the annual celebration of International Women’s Day on 6 March 2015. FWA Male Champions actively support the advancement of women in their financial careers. The role of men in supporting the advancement of women is of paramount importance given that they constitute the majority of senior leadership positions and make key hiring and promotion decisions. In this regard, FWA is proud to feature selected male champions who support and are committed to the development of women.
FWA's second dialogue session with Males from the Top – Chapter 2: Digital Banking and Financial Technology received overwhelming interest from both members and guests. The Male Champions gave real cases on the reality of the working environment, suggested that supporting women in the workplace should be a business imperative, and recommended for women to put themselves forward for promotions.
Event Agenda
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12.00pm
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Registration, lunch & networking
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12.30pm
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Opening speech by FWA
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12.40pm
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Keynote speech by Philip Lee, Managing Director, Vice Chairman, South East Asia and Chief Country Officer, Deutsche Bank Singapore
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1.00pm
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Panel discussion:
Panelists:
Samir Amir Bhandari, Head of Institutional and Corporate Sales, Asia ex-Japan Global Markets, Nomura
Kenneth Tan, Managing Director, Head of Corporate Group S.E Asia Global Market, Singapore, BNP Paribas
Henry Quek, Senior Managing Director, Head of Official Institutions, Asia Pacific Sector Solutions, State Street Global Markets
Moderator:
Jennifer Lewis, Managing Director, Communications, GIC Pte Ltd
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1.50pm
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Q&A
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2.00pm
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Close
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Panelists’ & Moderator’s Bios:
PHILIP LEE
Managing Director, Vice Chairman, South East Asia and Chief Country Officer
Deutsche Bank Singapore
Philip Lee is Vice Chairman, South East Asia and Chief Country Officer, Singapore for Deutsche Bank in Asia Pacific. He is the senior representative of the Deutsche Bank Group for Singapore where its Asia-Pacific Head-Office is based. In this capacity, Mr Lee oversees over 2,000 employees in Singapore responsible for its universal banking operations from transaction banking, asset and wealth management to investment banking.
As Vice Chairman of South East Asia, Mr Lee is a member of Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific Executive Committee that oversees the overall franchise in Asia Pacific. He is also a board member of Deutsche Bank International (Asia) Limited and Deutsche Asia Pacific Holdings Pte Ltd, and is responsible for the development of Deutsche Bank’s client franchise in South East Asia.
Mr Lee is currently a council member of both the Singapore Government’s Institute of Banking and Finance and the Association of Banks in Singapore. He is also a member of the Investment Board of the Public Trustee administered by the Singapore Government Ministry of Law. He was also a board member of the Singapore Government’s Land Transport Authority and Chairman of its Finance Committee from 2006 to 2012. In 2015, Mr Lee was appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry as one of the three Singapore Representatives to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council.
Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Lee was at JP Morgan from 1995 to 2013, where he most recently held the roles of Senior Country Officer, Singapore, and CEO, South East Asia Investment Banking from 2005. Before JP Morgan, Mr. Lee held various investment banking roles with Citibank and Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. He started his career as an industrial engineer at the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Plant in California.
Samir Bhandari
Head of Institutional and Corporate Sales, Asia ex-Japan
Global Markets, Nomura
Samir Bhandari is Head of Sales, Asia ex Japan based in Singapore. He has a total of 26 years experience in Asia in different financial institutions, the last 7 years being in Nomura Singapore.
He previously spent 9 years at JP Morgan based in Singapore as Managing Director, Head of Sales for South East Asia. Prior to that he worked with UBS in Singapore and Bank of America in Hong Kong and India.
He is also the “Brand Ambassador” in Singapore for Magic Bus a charity in India which promotes education of children through sport.
Kenneth Tan
Managing Director, Head of Corporate Group S.E Asia Global Market, Singapore
BNP Paribas
Kenneth Tan, Managing Director and Head of Corporate Group S.E Asia under Global Markets Division, joined BNP Paribas Singapore in 1995. He has responsibilities in the marketing and distributing of Global Market’s multi-product coverage to Corporate Clients in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.
Kenneth has 28 years market experience where he had covered both corporate and institutional clients. His current S.E Asia team provides a “ One Stop Hub” to Corporate client with both flows and tailor-made solutions in FX, rates, credit and derivatives products.
Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Kenneth was the Treasurer for Asia Pacific in Merrill Lynch Private Banking Group. He started his banking career with DBS Bank in 1987 where he was made the Head of Treasury Sales before joining Merrill Lynch in 1993.
Henry Quek
Senior Managing Director, Head of Official Institutions, Asia Pacific Sector Solutions
State Street Global Markets
Henry Quek is a Senior Managing Director and Head of Official Institutions for the Asia-Pacific region for State Street. He is also APAC Head of Foreign Exchange Sales.
Besides leading the Official Institutions Sector in APAC, he is also responsible for growing the Foreign Exchange business in the region through our offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Sydney and Beijing.
He has a degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and has been a member of Mensa since 1981.
Henry has 30 years of financial markets experience including managing relationships with Official Institutions. He has been with State Street for the past 11 years.
Ms Jennifer Lewis
Managing Director, Communications
GIC Pte Ltd
Ms Jennifer Lewis is responsible for the strategic management of GIC’s internal and external communication activities. She joined the sovereign wealth fund in 2007 after more than twenty years as a journalist with television, print and online experience. She was the founding Editor of both Straits Times TV, Singapore's first television news organisation owned by a newspaper, as well as STOMP (Straits Times Online Mobile Print), a news website that leveraged online tools to change the way news was received and distributed in Singapore. Jennifer serves on the board of the Singapore International Foundation and has been a Governor since 2007.