Alexander is Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific and Country CEO, Singapore. In his Country CEO role, he is responsible for managing and developing the franchise, including expanding and strengthening client relationships across the Corporate and Investment Bank platform. He is also responsible for maintaining strategic relationships with the regulator and the Singapore government for the respective businesses and functions within Singapore. 

In August 2021, Alexander was appointed Chief Operating Officer for Asia Pacific. In this role, he supports the strong growth agenda in the region, partnering with both regional and local senior stakeholders to drive complex multi-year strategies for Barclays in Asia Pacific. 

He is a member of the Asia Pacific Executive Forum and the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) COO Global Management Committee. Alexander is also an active supporter of Barclays’ regional citizenship and diversity agenda through his membership on the Asia Pacific Citizenship Council, and being former Co-Chair of the APAC Women’s Initiatives Network (WIN), former Co-Chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee for the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore, and a Male Champion at the Financial Women’s Association of Singapore. 

Alexander joined Barclays in 1998 and has over two decades of banking experience, spanning multiple roles and geographies. Prior to taking on his current roles, he was concurrently the Head of Corporate Banking, Asia Pacific and Middle East. Before relocating to Singapore from Dubai in 2015, Alexander was the Head of International Debt Finance, responsible for all non-UK debt origination across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. He also served as a member of the senior leadership team for Global Credit Products, where he supported Corporate Banking’s broader product agenda. 

Before his stint in Dubai, he was based in the UK, focusing primarily on leveraged finance and led the London Debt Finance team. Earlier in his career, Alexander held sector coverage roles in both the industrials (Chemical and Pharmaceuticals) and TMT sectors. 

Alexander holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from Birmingham University. Following his graduation, he undertook a post graduate research role at Leeds University 

Alvin Lee has 23 years of banking experience across wealth management, corporate and consumer banking and treasury, with specialisations in product and risk management, as well as business development. Alvin has worked in different geographies across Asia, Europe, Africa and Middle East in various global and regional roles. Past employers include JP Morgan, Citibank, Barclays in London and Burgan Bank in Middle East. His current role in Maybank is Head of Wealth Management for Maybank group and he sits on the Singapore Management Committee amongst other leadership committees including Asset Liability Committee and Group Community Financial Services Committee. Outside of work, Alvin is Honorary Treasurer of Singapore Rugby Union, a board member on Singapore Rugby Pte Ltd and President of Raffles Rugby Union. Alvin also serves in Singapore Armed Forces as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Amol Gupte is the Head of ASEAN and Citi Country Officer (CCO) for Singapore.

Based in Singapore Amol is responsible for the leadership of Citi's ASEAN markets of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand. As CCO for Singapore, he is responsible for all of Citi's businesses and operations in the country.

ASEAN is an important growth area for Citi having been in region since 1902. As one of the oldest financial institutions in this region, Citi is deeply embedded in the markets' financial services sector with representation in nearly every asset class and business, including Corporate and Investment Banking. Treasury and Trade Solutions, Global Markets and Securities Services, Commercial Banking, Private Banking and Consumer Banking. In Singapore, Citi is one of the largest financial services businesses in the country, providing employment to more than 9,000 people.

Amol is a 28-year Citi veteran, and has held a number of senior positions globally. Prior to moving to Singapore from Hong Kong, he was Region Head for the Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) business in Asia Pacific from 2012-16. He was based in New York from 2007-12 as the Region Head of TTS, North America and was based in London from 2003-07 as the Head of Payments for Europe. Prior to moving to EMEA, he was the Head of Transaction Services business for the Indian sub- continent. Before joining Transaction Services, Amol was with Citi's Consumer Business in India where he held roles in sales, product management and treasury. 

Amol holds a Master's of Business Administration from Bombay University 

Anshul is the Managing Director, Global Head of Trading and Markets Asia at ANZ Banking Group Limited since 2018. He is based in Singapore and in this senior leadership role, he has the responsibility for the Trading activities across 28 dealing rooms in 26 countries as well as all Financial Markets activities for Sales and Capital Markets, across 13 countries in Asia. Under his leadership, the bank experienced a period of significant growth.

Since joining ANZ in 2012, Anshul has held a number of senior positions such as Head of Trading & Balance Sheet, Head of Rates & Local markets, Head of Rates in addition to regional roles such as Head of Markets Singapore, Head of Markets South-East Asia. 

Most recently, Anshul has been actively involved as a key business sponsor for ANZ’s Markets “Women In Leadership” (WIL) global initiative which aims to move the dial on women in leadership roles and promote gender diversity & inclusion (D&I) in the workplace.

In a career spanning close to two decades, Mr. Sidher has worked in various global investment banks such as Barclays Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort, ABN Amro and Citigroup. He was first made Managing Director whilst at Dresdner in 2007. 

Anshul holds a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, a Master of Technology in Biochemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology as well as a certificate in Quantitative Finance from the University of London. Anshul has also completed an executive program at MIT on “Digitisation and Industrialisation: Unlocking the Potential of Digitisation”.  

Based in Singapore, Ashish Goyal is responsible for the OMERS Capital Markets business for the Asia region. The Capital Markets team is focused on public markets investments across the capital structure of Asian companies. It works in close collaboration with the Real Estate, Private Equity, and Infrastructure businesses, in delivering stable and secure pensions to our members.

Prior to joining OMERS in 2019, Ashish has built, managed and led high performance investment teams at leading global Asset Managers, based out of offices in Mumbai, Singapore and Hong Kong, with management responsibility for over $20B in client assets. Ashish has over 28 years of investment experience in Asia and the Global Emerging Markets space.

Ashish is a Mechanical Engineer, has an MBA and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is actively committed to advocating and advancing financial literacy as well as diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Ashish Shastry (Singapore) joined KKR in 2016 as a Partner kand serves as the Co-Head of Private Equity for KKR Asia Pacific, and the Head of Southeast Asia. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Shastry served as a managing partner of Northstar Group for five years, which at the time managed over $2 billion in private equity and venture capital funds with a focus on Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Northstar, he worked at TPG Capital for over 13 years, ultimately running TPG’s Southeast Asia business. Mr. Shastry previously worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in New York 1996 to 1998. He currently serves or has previously served on the boards of Goodpack, PropertyGuru, MMI Holdings, Joulon Holdings, Bank BTPN, Parkway Holdings and Parkway Trust Management (manager of Parkway Life REIT). He graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. degree in economics (with honors) and currently serves on the advisory board of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Mr Chua Kee Lock is Group President & CEO of Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd.

Prior to joining Vertex Group, Mr Chua was the President and Executive Director of Biosensors International Group, Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional cardiology and critical care procedures. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Chua was a managing director of Walden International, a U.S.-headquartered venture capital firm. Between 1987 to 1997 and 2001 to 2003, he served in various senior roles within NatSteel Group. Positions held included Vice President of Transpac Capital, a venture capital firm, CEO of Intraco Ltd and Deputy President of NatSteel Ltd. Between 1998 to 2000, Mr Chua was the Co-Founder and President of MediaRing.com Ltd, a voice over-Internet services company which was successfully listed in Singapore in late 1999.

Mr Chua serves on the boards of several companies, including Yongmao Holdings, a publicly listed company in Singapore.

He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and an MS degree in Engineering from Stanford University under Natsteel scholarship.

Danny Yong is the CIO and Founder of Dymon Asia Capital. Established in 2008, the alternative investment management firm has assets under management of US$5 billion across hedge funds, private equity and venture capital strategies (including notional assets and committed capital) as of January 2018. The Firm is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Thailand too. In May 2014, Temasek invested USD 500 million in one of Dymon Asia’s funds, and took a minority stake in the company. Dymon Asia Capital has 150 employees, comprising of 79 investment professionals.

The Firm’s flagship Dymon Asia Macro Fund is a discretionary global macro strategy which invests in currencies, fixed income and equity indices. The investment team has consistently capitalized on trends, events and idiosyncrasies across the globe, in particular the Asian markets where domestic regulations and cultural nuances matter a lot. Demonstrative of the Firm’s specialty and expertise, the Dymon Asia Macro Fund was ranked in the top 50 by Bloomberg Magazine in 2016’s Top-Performing Funds with assets over $1 billion. Prior to 2016, the Dymon Asia Macro Fund ranked amongst the top ten hedge funds globally in 2011 and in 2014. 

Danny has over 20 years of experience trading FX, fixed income and futures in Asia. Before Dymon, he was a founding partner and CIO of Abax Global Capital, a hedge fund based in Hong Kong. Previously an MD at Citadel Investment Asia, Danny established and ran the Asia Macro trading business from 2005 to 2007. Prior to Citadel, he was Goldman Sachs' Head of Trading for South East Asian FX and Derivatives where he spent almost six years in the Hong Kong and Tokyo offices. Danny started his trading career at JP Morgan in 1997 as a FX currency and interest rate derivatives trader.

Mr. Mitchell is an executive vice president and head of marketing APAC. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for leading the marketing strategy in the region and overseeing a team of channel, digital, and content marketing professionals. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2022, he was head of the APAC client management office at abrdn. Previous roles with abrdn included global head of marketing, global head of digital, and head of marketing APAC. Prior to this, Mr. Mitchell spent 21 years at Fidelity Investments and Fidelity International in various marketing and sales leadership roles based in the U.S., South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has 26 years of investment and financial services experience and holds an undergraduate degree in communications from Boston College and a certificate in financial planning from Boston University.

Dennis Tan is CEO of Prudential Singapore as well as Council Member at IBF Singapore.

A veteran banker, Dennis has 26 years of experience in consumer banking spanning product development, segment management, marketing as well as sales and distribution.

Prior to joining Prudential in February 2020, Dennis was with OCBC Bank for 10 years and last held the role of Head, Consumer Financial Services.

He also spearheaded the growth of OCBC’s Premier Banking business in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and China as Head of Branch and Group Premier Banking. He was also a member of OCBC Bank’s Management Committee.

He began his career as a Management Associate with Citibank Singapore in 1993. In 16 years, Dennis rose through the ranks to become Managing Director, Sales and Distribution where he was responsible for 20 branches and 700 frontline staff.

Dennis holds a Bachelor of Science in Business (Honours with Distinction) from Indiana University and has completed the Stanford Executive Programme at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a Certified Financial Planner.

Gautam Banerjee is a Senior Managing Director and Chairman of Blackstone Singapore. Mr. Banerjee served as Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Singapore for nine years until his retirement in December 2012. He spent over 30 years with the firm in various leadership roles in Singapore, India and East Asia. 

Mr Banerjee is an independent director on the Board of Singapore Airlines Limited, Singapore Telecommunications, Piramal Enterprises Limited and GIC Private Limited. His roles in the not‐for‐profit sector include serving as Chairman of raiSE, the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise.

Mr. Banerjee is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA). He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from Warwick University in 1977 and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) by the same university in 2014. Mr. Banerjee was a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2007 to 2009 and was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government in 2014

Hanli Mangun is a Managing Director of Värde’s Asia-Pacific team, with a focus on Corporate and Traded Credit. Based in Singapore, he joined the firm in 2011.

Prior to Joining Värde, Hanli worked a research analyst at King Street Capital Management and as an associate at Ripplewood Holdings, a global private equity fund focusing on leveraged buyouts in the U.S. and Japan. Prior to that, Hanli was an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, where he provided M&A and corporate finance advisory services. 

Hanli received a B.S. in Systems Engineering and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

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.

Hian Goh is a Founding Partner of Openspace Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on Technology, Media and Internet companies in South East Asia. 

Openspace Ventures manages over US$500 million across 4 funds. Openspace funds are ranked upper quartile performing according to Cambridge Associates global VC benchmarks. Selected investments let by Hian include Series A into Gojek, Love Bonito, a leading online female fashion label, FinAccel, leading fintech player in Indonesia, Chope Group, the dominant restaurant reservations business in South East Asia, and Kumu, a top live streaming company in the Philippines. 

Hian was the Founder of the Asian Food Channel (AFC), a 24-Hour food and lifestyle Pay TV network, which was acquired by Scripps Networks in 2013. 

Hian began his career as an investment banker and was a founding member of the Salomon Smith Barney Technology investment banking practice in Asia, (now part of Citigroup) in 1999. 

Hian graduated with a degree in Jurisprudence (Law) from Trinity College, Oxford, and an MBA from INSEAD. He is also a Reserve Officer with the Singapore Navy and is a Board Member of the Singapore Science Centre.

Ian Macdonald joined Aberdeen in 2013. As the firm’s Head of Hong Kong and Deputy Head of Asia Pacific, he works together with Hugh Young to lead the continued development of our business in the region.  His direct reports include Aberdeen’s APAC Market Heads as well as the regional Heads of Product, Human Resources, Business Risk, Compliance and Legal.

In 1998 Ian qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London before joining Lazard as an M&A banker. In 2005, he moved to Hong Kong to head HSBC’s Asia Pacific private equity coverage team. Since 2008, Ian has been based in Singapore and was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of the emerging markets equities fund management firm, Arisaig Partners.  Ian is an alumnus of both IMD (Program for Executive Development) and Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program). Ian is a member of the Executive Committee of both IMAS and the ASIFMA Asset Management Group. 

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 BlackRock 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.

Mr. Jacky Ang is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asia Pacific Division, based in Singapore. He is the Branch Manager of Credit Suisse AG, Singapore Branch and Senior Corporate Officer of Credit Suisse (Singapore) Limited.

Jacky is also the Chief Operating Officer for Southeast Asia & Frontier Markets, as well as the Chief Operating Officer for Singapore.

Jacky joined Credit Suisse First Boston in July 1997 and has worked in various leadership roles in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong.

Jacky holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics (Banking and Finance) from the University of London.

Jakob Nilsson is the Head of Distribution for the Asia Pacific region for Federated Hermes.  He is also a member of the Business Development Executive Committee and the Management Committee of Federated Hermes International.  

Mr Nilsson joined Hermes Investment Management (majority acquired by Federated Hermes Inc in 2018) in 2012 as a Director, initially to focus on promoting the firm’s investment strategies to large European investors.  In 2014 Mr Nilsson re-located to Singapore to head-up the firm’s business development efforts in the Asia Pacific region.  

Prior to Federated Hermes, Mr Nilsson spent 15 years on the sell-side working for Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mr Nilsson started his career as a European equity institutional salesperson and latterly moved to prime brokerage origination. Over the course of his career he has worked with a broad range of asset managers, investors, products, and geographies.  Mr Nilsson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from the University of Rochester, New York and has completed the Stanford-National University of Singapore Executive Program in International Management. 

Jean-Paul is region head for Private Wealth Management (PWM) in South East Asia and Australia, responsible for PWM client and market coverage in the region. He is a member of the Goldman Sachs Singapore Leadership Group and sponsor of the South-East Asia Women’s Network. Previously, Jean-Paul was head of the Markets Solutions Group within PWM in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining the Consumer and Investment Management Division, he worked in the Securities Division, most recently as head of the Global Institutional Asia business from 2010 to 2014. Before that, Jean-Paul worked on the Asia Derivatives and Convertible Bond Sales desks in Hong Kong and Tokyo. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 as a vice president on the Convertible Bond Sales desk in Tokyo and was named managing director in 2011.

Jean-Paul serves on the Board of Governors of Wellington College China. Jean-Paul earned a BA in Political Science from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1998.

Jeremy B. Smith is Executive Vice President and APAC Regional Chief Risk Officer (“RCRO”) at Wells Fargo.  In this role, he is responsible for leading independent risk management for APAC and is accountable for oversight and credible challenge of risk-generating activities across all businesses, risk types, and enterprise risk programs spanning all jurisdictions in the region.

Jeremy brings over 20 years of financial services experience to his role. He was most recently global Chief Market Risk Officer for Wells Fargo and prior to that, he was head of Wholesale Market, Counterparty, and Liquidity Risk with responsibility for oversight of all market, counterparty, liquidity, and model risk across traded products. Earlier on in his career, Jeremy was a loan supervisor in Commercial Banking, where his responsibilities included credit oversight as well as policy and portfolio management for several states in the Midwestern region of the U.S.

Jeremy received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics with a minor in International Finance from the University of Washington in Seattle. He was born in Totnes, United Kingdom, and has lived and worked in the U.K., Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Monaco, and various parts of the U.S. Jeremy resides in Singapore, with his wife and daughter.

Joris Dierckx is the Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking for Southeast Asia and CEO of Singapore Branch at BNP Paribas. 

Joris started his banking career in 1995 as a graduate trainee at Generale Bank in Belgium. At Generale Bank and subsequently at Fortis, he held various roles in export and project finance in Brussels, Dublin, Mumbai and Singapore. In 2008, Joris was appointed country head for Japan at Fortis, while also serving as interim Head of Merchant Banking Asia during the integration with BNP Paribas. Since joining BNP Paribas in 2010, Joris was successively country head for Greece, South Korea and India. 

Joris holds a Post-Graduate diploma in Sustainable Development from the University of London, a Post-Graduate degree in Finance from the University of Leuven, a Master of Laws degree from the University of London and Master’s degree from the University of Antwerp.

Mr LIM Chow-Kiat is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of GIC. As Chief Executive Officer, Mr LIM holds the responsibility for the overall performance and capabilities of GIC. He joined GIC in 1993 as a portfolio manager. He has held various leadership roles, including most recently as Group Chief Investment Officer, and previously as President of Public Markets, President of Europe and Director of Fixed Income Currency and Commodity. 

Mr LIM is a member of the Singapore’s Committee on the Future Economy (CFE). In addition, he is a trustee of Nanyang Technological University, Deputy Chairman of Wealth Management Institute, member of Strategic Committee of Agence France Tresor and board member of Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global. He is also Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Lee Kuan Yew Education Fund as well as the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism. 

Mr. Lim graduated with first-class honors in accountancy from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).

Mr Loh Boon Chye joined Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) as CEO on 14 July 2015. He is also an Executive and Non-Independent Director on the SGX Board.

With a career in the financial industry that spans three decades, Mr Loh has played a key role in the development of Southeast Asia’s capital markets. Prior
to SGX Group, he was Deputy President and Head of Asia Pacific Global Markets, and Country Executive for Singapore and Southeast Asia at Bank of
America-Merrill Lynch. He spent 17 years in Deutsche Bank where his last role was the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for Asia Pacific.
Mr Loh currently sits on the board of GIC Pte Ltd. He is also Chairman of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board, Co-Chair of the Council for Board Diversity, Vice-Chair of the World Federation of Exchanges, as well as a council member and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Banking & Finance Singapore.

Leading SGX Group’s efforts in sustainability and climate action, Mr Loh serves as an independent advisory committee member in the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative, Co-Chair of the Singapore Green Finance Centre advisory board, as well as advisory board member for the Climate Governance Singapore Limited and Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)’s Asia-Pacific Network. He is also a member of the GFANZ’s CEO Principals Group.

Mr Loh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore.

Nars is the Head of Global Human Resources and Corporate Citizenship for Asia Pacific and is currently based in Singapore. Nars has spent the past twelve 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 in 2007 as the Head of HR for India where he had responsibility to set up and grow the operation from scratch to 200 people across Operations, IT and Corporate support functions. In 2009, he moved to London to work as the Chief Operating Officer for HR in EMEA. This was a two-pronged role that helped drive the HR transformation efforts across 17 countries in EMEA and lead the Mergers and Acquisitions activity in support of doubling revenues in the region. He led high profile acquisitions that State Street undertook from a HR standpoint with deals in Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, Channel Islands, Switzerland and Ireland.

He moved to Hong Kong in 2011 to lead Talent Acquisition for APAC and was based in Hong Kong before relocating to Singapore in August 2014. During his time in Singapore, he has responsibility for leading HR for SE Asia while having regional functional responsibility for Talent Acquisition. His roles have progressively expanded with time and he was appointed to the role to lead the function in early 2019.Nars joined State Street from Bank of America where he had helped set up their HR practice in India during the startup stages and had grown to be Head of Compensation and Benefits for the 6,800-people organization. As an additional role, he was also 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 and IT-enabled service organizations doing various roles in the Human Resources space. An industrial engineer by qualification, he 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, cooking, tennis, and distance running. He is a marathon finisher on 4 continents and has completed the Abbotts Series of  Six World Majors Marathons ( Tokyo, London, Boston, New York, Chicago and Berlin) becoming only the 29th Indian in the world to complete this as of April 2019.   

Nicolo Magni is Head of Global Banking South East Asia & India for UBS. Prior to that Nicolo was Co-Head of the Strategic Equity Solutions Group ("SESG") for UBS in APAC as well as Head of Private Financing Markets ("PFM") for APAC. Nicolo is now based in Singapore from March 2020; he joined UBS in Hong Kong in 2011. Prior to that, Nicolo was at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan in London. Nicolo holds a Master degree from ESCP-EAP, Paris.

Nitin Jaiswal is Asia Pacific Head of Strategic Relations and Initiatives at Bloomberg LP., the world's most trusted source for real-time and historical financial data, news, research and analytics. Based in Singapore, Mr Jaiswal works with senior stakeholders from government, capital markets, corporates and foundations in identifying and executing joint strategic initiatives to enhance market transparency, build local communities and to bring Mike Bloomberg initiatives around climate, health, cities and governance into Asia-Pac.

Mr Jaiswal has held various leadership roles with Bloomberg in Asia since joining the company in 1997. 

With its rich history and culture, Mr Jaiswal feels passionate about Asian Philosophy and feel when blended with western thoughts can play an important role in building the next generation of Asian leaders.

Mr Jaiswal has a bachelor's degree in finance, economics and marketing from Osmania University Hyderabad in India

Mr. Piyush Gupta is Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group.

Prior to joining DBS, Piyush was Citigroup's Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Piyush began his career with Citibank in India in 1982 and over the years, held various senior management roles across Citi's corporate and consumer banking businesses, including Head of Strategic Planning for Emerging Markets and Regional Director for Global Transaction Services for Asia Pacific. He has also served as Citi's Country Officer for Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore respectively.

Piyush is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of International Finance, Washington. In addition, he sits on the boards of Enterprise Singapore, The Institute of Banking and Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship Fund and National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office. He is also the Chairman of The Association of Banks in Singapore and Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board, and a term trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA).

Piyush has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Piyush was named Singapore Business Awards' Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year in 2016. In 2014, he was named as the Singapore Business Leader of the Year by CNBC.

Rajeev Natarajan is the Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific for ICONIQ Capital, a privately-held investment firm that serves some of the world’s most influential families and organizations. Prior to ICONIQ, Rajeev spent nine years within the Investment Management and Securities Divisions of Goldman Sachs, across the London, Sydney, and Singapore offices. He also spent two years in a raw material and commodity trading business in Hong Kong and four years as a Management Consultant with Accenture in their Melbourne and Atlanta offices. Rajeev holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from London Business School.

Raphael Cheminat is appointed Group Country Head for Singapore and Head of South East Asia at Societe Generale on 8 September 2021.

Immediately prior to this role, Raphael was Group Country Head for Japan, Representative Director at Societe Generale Securities Japan Limited, and Branch Manager at Societe Generale, Tokyo Branch from 2016.

Raphael joined Societe Generale in 1998 and has held several positions within the Group. He started in the Audit department of Corporate and Investment Banking in Paris and then New York, and in 2003 moved to International Retail Banking in Bulgaria, where he was Head of the Inspection department. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2006 to join the Compliance department covering the Global Markets’ Equity businesses. In 2009, he was appointed Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer of Asia Pacific and worked extensively on Asia business development initiatives across the region. He was appointed Chief Country Officer for South Korea in 2012 prior to becoming Group Country Head for Japan in September 2016. 

Raphael holds an Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille and a Master’s degree from ESSEC Business School, Paris.

Rene leads our business across Asia Pacific and joined Standard Life Aberdeen in March 2021. He has deep experience of leadership roles in global financial markets, including in corporate banking, wealth and asset management. 

Before his appointment, Rene spent 29 years at UBS. Between 2014 and 2019 he was Head of Asset Management Asia Pacific and part of the regional UBS Group Executive Committee. He was responsible for managing and developing the business across segments and distribution channels, as well as ensuring engagement with clients, regulators, industry bodies and key stakeholders. In addition, he was managing and developing the global Wholesale business strategy. 

He moved to Asia in 2005 to support UBS Wealth Management's expansion in the region, heading a number of leadership roles - including Global Head of Investment Funds and Head of Investment Products & Services Hong Kong. In addition to his experience in Asia, he also spent 4 years in New York as Head of Lending Products Americas before taking on the functional responsibility for UBS Wealth Management's lending products across all of its global locations out of Zurich.

Rene graduated from the TRIUM Global Executive MBA program issued by New York University, London School of Economics and HEC Paris. He is a Swiss-certified banking expert with Federal Diploma.

Richard Barclay, the Global Financial Services Sales Lead for the APJ region at AWS. Richard is responsible for assisting institutions with their cloud journey by helping customers in the development of solutions, offering education, and sharing his expertise in fields such as high-performance computing, digital transformation, and machine learning. Richard has held many technological leadership positions in the financial services companies, including Head of Shared Services for Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities at Citigroup. His career spans more than three decades.

Richard's cloud experience and enthusiasm are an important factor for helping customers to succeed in the digital age. He works directly with FSI customers to identify their specific requirements and assist them in realizing the cloud's full potential.

Sage has been with IHS Markit for 9 years, starting with the legacy Markit entity.

Prior to joining Markit, Sage was responsible for Pricing and Valuations at Fitch Solutions. He spent a portion of his career at key tier one Investment banks, starting at Salomon Brothers into Citi Global Markets, Bank of America N.A and RBC Capital Markets in the leadership role within Trading, Product Management and Product Development functions in London, New York and Toronto.

Over the last 9 years, Sage has been driving IHS Markit’s expansion into the APAC Credit & Fixed Income markets, more recently expanding his responsibilities into IHS Markit’s Derivatives business. The key mandate is to provide solutions addressing challenges faced by our customers in today’s ever-changing landscape.

Sage graduated from Manchester Business School, UK with a BSc (Hons) International Business, Finance and Economics

Samuel is Senior Relationship Manager, Asia Pacific, and is based in Singapore. Partnering closely with teams from Investment Banking and Global Markets, he focuses on delivering the entire firm to its largest and most complex institutional clients around the world. He is also a member of the Singapore Management Team. 

Prior to his current appointment, Samuel was the Head of Real Money and Hedge Funds Macro Distribution, a role which he took on in 2016, and was responsible for distribution of Macro products into the Hedge Fund and Real Money client base.

Samuel was previously Head of Macro Real Money and Official Institutions Sales with teams in Singapore and India where he managed the delivery of currency, interest rates and precious metal products to Asset Managers, Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

Since joining Barclays in 2006, Samuel has held a number of leadership positions with various responsibilities, including Emerging Market and FX sales to Official Institutions.

Samuel is also a member of the Barclays APAC Citizenship Council and is active as a Male Champion for the Financial Women’s Association of Singapore. 

He joined Barclays from Merrill Lynch where he worked in Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong, having started his career as a FX Forwards trader in London in 2001.

He graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 with a MA in Geography.

Samuel Rhee is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Endowus, Asia’s leading digital wealth platform. He is the former CEO and CIO of Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Asia, with nearly three decades of institutional investing experience in Singapore, Hong Kong, and London.

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Today, Sam heads the Endowus Group Investment Office and ensures every client has greater access to holistic portfolios that are thoughtfully designed to meet their specific wealth goals. He is  responsible for the company’s asset allocation and investment selection across all offerings, with a vision to provide individual investors with the same knowledge, resources, and products traditionally only made available to institutional investors, at a low, fair fee. 

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Against this backdrop, Sam passionately advocates for greater financial literacy, time-tested and evidence-based advice, lower costs, the industry elimination of hidden fees, and a corporate culture that puts the client’s needs first. Endowus solves the biggest problems of wealth and investing, and retirement adequacy, leading the firm to become the first and largest digital advisor for CPF investing in Singapore.

Mr Shinbo Won is a Director and Head of Asia ex-Japan of BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship (BIS) team. He is responsible for engaging and voting on BlackRock’s portfolio companies in Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Korea on behalf of BlackRock's clients globally. The BIS team actively engages with BlackRock's portfolio companies to address governance, environmental, and social issues that could materially impact the long-term sustainability of the company and clients' value.

Prior to joining BlackRock, he was Head of Asia ex-Japan Research at Institutional Shareholder Services, providing proxy research and recommendations to institutional investors for more than 5,000 companies in 14 Asia-Pacific markets. Mr Won holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and BA Economics from Yonsei University. 

Simon Cooper is Chief Executive, Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking. He is a member of the Bank’s Group Management Team and is based in Singapore. From January 1, 2021, he will also be CEO, Europe & Americas.

Simon joined Standard Chartered Bank in April 2016 as CEO of Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB). This global business is the bank’s largest segment, offering corporate and financial institution clients a range of advice, products and services including corporate finance, financial markets and transaction banking in more than 50 countries. In March 2018, he was asked to additionally lead Standard Chartered’s commercial banking segment, which serves around 40,000 clients in over 25 countries, and which has since been fully integrated with CIB.

Simon has extensive experience across our markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He joined the bank from HSBC where he held a number of senior roles including Group Managing Director and Chief Executive of Global Commercial Banking, CEO of HSBC Middle East and North Africa, CEO Korea and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, Singapore. 

He serves on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He a trustee of the Standard Chartered Foundation.

Simon graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MA in Law and is an alumnus of Columbia Business School.  

Sridhar Nishtala is the Director of Equity Research Asia in the International Equity Division. He is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Singapore Private Ltd.

Sridhar’s investment experience began in 2000, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2004, beginning in the Equity Research department. Prior to this, Sridhar was employed by J.M. Morgan Stanley Private Limited in Mumbai as an analyst.

Sridhar earned a B.Com., with honors, in commerce from the Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi and a P.G.D.M. from the Indian Institute of Management.  He is fluent in English, Hindi, and Telugu.

Thomas Kaegi is the Head of UBS Asset Management Singapore & SEA, as well as Global Head of Sales Management. 

He is the CEO and a member of the board of UBS Asset Management (Singapore) Ltd.

As head of Asset Management Singapore & SEA, Thomas is responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for the location, as well as ensuring engagement with clients, regulators, industry bodies and key stakeholders.

As the Global Head of Sales Management, Thomas drives sales activities in close collaboration with the client coverage teams across the various regions. 

Before moving across to UBS Asset Management in 2015, Thomas worked in various leadership roles within distribution and research for UBS Global Wealth Management. 

He started his career with UBS in 2002 in Zurich and moved to Singapore in 2005.

Tim has over 15 years of experience in the wealth management sector across Asia, Australia and New Zealand in a variety of leadership roles. Tim joined FNZ in June 2015 to launch the FNZ business in Singapore and South East Asia and in 2019 was appointed to the role of CEO, APAC. He is responsible for all aspects of the APAC business including strategic growth in this region through local and global client management, targeted new client acquisition and entering new markets that align with FNZ’s regional and global strategy. Prior to joining FNZ, Tim had 10 years with ANZ Bank in Australia and Singapore where he held a diverse range of leadership positions including running several of ANZ’s Wealth Management Platform businesses. Tim has qualifications in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney and now resides permanently in Singapore with his wife and young family.

Valentin heads the Client coverage team covering South Asia for MSCI since 2021. He is based in Singapore since 2008. His previous roles include leading MSCI analytics business since 2020, ESG business since July 2018 and index business since 2017. Prior to that he had spent 14 years in MSCI’s analytics business selling multi asset class risk management and performance solutions across all client’s segments across Asia and Europe. 

In his early days, Valentin worked at Goldman Sachs equity derivatives desk and the Spanish Exchange of Futures and Options. 

Valentin earned his University Degree in the University of Carlos III in Madrid.

Wei Han is the Senior Country Business Manager (SCBM) for South and Southeast Asia responsible for the governance and operations of JPM wholesale businesses in the region that employ 5000 employees across 7 countries (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, India). He is also the Location Leader for the Singapore Corporate Centre, responsible for key support functions across technology, operations, finance, human resources, audit and other Chief Administrative Office (CAO) functions in the strategic hub.

Prior to the SCBM role, Wei Han held a number of regional leadership roles in JP Morgan including Senior Business Manager for Asia currencies and emerging markets trading responsible for the trading business in 14 countries, Business Control Officer and Asia Lead for legal entity strategy and derivatives reforms.

Prior to JP Morgan, Wei Han spent 6 years in the Credit Suisse Group audit department as an audit manager covering Asia Pacific investment banking and private banking businesses and 4 years in PricewaterhouseCoopers as an audit supervisor of multinational companies.

Wei Han holds a Master of Finance from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a Chartered Accountant with membership in the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (CA ANZ) and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA).