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.

Andrew is a Managing Director within Investment Banking, South-East Asia. He is responsible for client management and deal origination efforts in Singapore and parts of SE Asia with a focus on corporate clients. Andrew has 20 years of experience in corporate finance work.

Prior to joining Barclays in July 2001, Andrew worked at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for their debt capital markets business in Singapore, focusing on both domestic and cross border bond origination. Before Deutsche Bank, he was a member of Bankers Trust’s mergers and acquisitions advisory team in Asia between 1997 and 1999. In 1993, Andrew started his investment banking career with Schroders Plc as a member of the South East Asia corporate finance team.

Mr. Loh graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) degree majoring in Accounting and Finance from the University of Western Australia.

Having been with PwC in London for over 27 years, with tours of duty in New York, Zurich and nine years in Japan/Asia-Pacific, Antony is now based in Singapore where he is the firm’s Financial Services practice leader.  Across Asia-Pacific he also leads our Banking and Capital Markets practice. He has specialised in Investment Banking since very early in his career, working closely with most of the key players in the industry, in both an audit and an advisory capacity.  Most recently, Antony was leading the global relationship and service delivery for Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank, and his major previous clients include JPMorganChase, Standard Chartered Bank, BNP Paribas, and UBS.  Currently, in Singapore, he serves HSBC and Bank of America Merrill Lynch and is a global relationship partner for SMBC.

Antony is a member of PwC’s Global Financial Services Leadership Team, with a specific remit to ensure that quality is at the heart of everything we do.  In his role he interacts closely with various global regulators, as the environment continues to evolve following the onset of the financial crisis, and consequently he has developed a deep insight into expectations and the impact of regulatory changes being implemented.

Passionate about harnessing the talents of all of our people, Antony was a member of PwC’s Global Inclusion and Diversity Council and established a working group across our financial services businesses to ensure we always act fairly and in the best interests of all of our partners and staff.

Antony is a member of the Banking and Finance committee of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Bal is Managing Director at Barclays, based in Singapore. He has held the position of Chief Financial Officer for the Asia Pacific region since September 2014.

Bal joined Barclays in January 2005 as Head of Financial Control for South East Asia, and was the Head of Financial Control for Asia Pacific from 2008. In this role, he was instrumental in the build out of Barclays’ India and Singapore finance teams and in the development of the Financial and Regulatory Reporting teams across Asia Pacific.

He has worked in Investment Banking for the majority of his career, having previously held positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, covering a variety of Finance-related role. Bal has worked outside the UK since 2000 and, during his career, has lived in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Prague.

Bal graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Law from the University of Southhampton in 1990, trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, and is a member of the Institute of Directors. He also sits on the Banking and Finance Committee of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants. 

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.

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.

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.

Jason is the regional manager for Private Wealth Management (PWM), Singapore, responsible for client and market coverage in South East Asia and Australia.

Previously, Jason was head of the Market Solutions Group and head of the Alternative Capital Markets in Asia, and before that he worked in the Equities Merchandising Group in New York. Jason joined Goldman Sachs in PWM in Singapore as a financial analyst in 1998 and was named managing director in 2007.

Jason earned a BA in Economics and East Asia Studies, with focus on Japan, from Brown University in 1998.

Joel Kim, CFA, Managing Director, is the Head of Asia Pacific Fixed Income within BlackRock's Alpha Strategies Investment Group and is based in Singapore. In this role, Mr. Kim is responsible for Blackrock's Fixed Income team in the Asia Pacific region. He is the lead portfolio manager for the BGF Asian Local Bond Fund and the co-portfolio manager for the BGF Asian Tiger Bond Fund.

Mr. Kim joined Blackrock from ING Investment Management in Hong Kong, where he had a similar role and was responsible for a broad range of Asian debt strategies and co-managed Global Emerging Market Debt funds since 2002. Prior to this, he managed global fixed income portfolios at ING Investment Management in the Netherlands.

Mr. Kim obtained a MA degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in 2001.

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.

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.

Kevin Gould is president of Markit and a co-founder of the company. He was appointed head of Markit’s Asia Pacific business in July 2013. Previously, Kevin led Markit’s North America business. Under the leadership of Kevin and the rest of the management team, Markit has grown from a start-up to a global company with over 3,000 employees in more than 20 offices worldwide, serving over 3,000 customers.

Prior to Markit, Kevin worked at TD Securities for five years, most recently as head of European fixed income. He joined TD Securities from CIBC World Markets where he worked for nine years in fixed income trading and sales.

Kevin Hardy, Managing Director, is BlackRock's Head of Beta Strategies in Asia Pacific and Country Head of Singapore. He is responsible for the portfolio management and strategy teams for the institutional and iShares index equity product range. As Country Head, Mr. Hardy is responsible for the management, leadership, and strategic direction of BlackRock's operations in Singapore. He is also a member of the BlackRock Asia-Pacific Executive Committee.

Mr. Hardy has had an international career in fund management dating back to 1993 and has worked in Hong Kong, Chicago and London. Before joining BlackRock he spent nine years in various leadership roles at Northern Trust including; four years as the Head of the asset management in Asia-Pacific and country Head for Hong Kong, two years leading international sales, and three years leading global transition management. Mr. Hardy had previously spent a combined ten years in equity index fund management in London at State Street Global Advisors and Legal and General Investment Management.

Mr. Hardy earned a BSc degree, with honours, in business studies from the City University Business School in 1993.

Lim Chow Kiat joined GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, in 1993 as a portfolio manager.  He is currently its Group Executive Committee co-chair, managing director and group chief investment officer (GCIO).  As GCIO, he leads GIC’s investment process and strategy, including asset allocation, active capital allocation and large investments. Previously, he served as deputy GCIO and president of public markets group and European operations.  

He is a board member of Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore and Wealth Management Institute.  He also serves on the strategic committee of Agence France Tresor and the advisory board of Focusing Capital on the Long Term. In 2012, he became the youngest inductee of the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of fixed-income analysis and portfolio management. In 2013, he was given an alumni achievement award by his alma mater Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Mr. Lim graduated with first-class honors in accountancy from NTU in 1993, and has attended the Stanford Executive Program.  He is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).

Matthew Driver is President, SEA for MasterCard, based in Singapore. In this role, he is responsible for managing all aspects of the MasterCard business in ASEAN including business strategy & development, customer management, business operations and stakeholder engagement as the company seeks to expand the reach of electronic payments to facilitate inclusive economic growth and achieve its vision of a “World Beyond Cash”.

Mr. Driver joined MasterCard in 2002. Before that, he was the global lead for the ABN AMRO Global Account team based in London. Mr. Driver has more than 25 years of experience in business development, consulting, product management and marketing in banking, payments and business services at MasterCard, American Express, Edengene and group companies of WPP plc. Mr. Driver started his career at Westpac Banking Corporation.

With his extensive experience in payments, banking and consulting Mr. Driver regularly speaks on the role of payments in driving economic growth appearing on CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg, Channel News Asia and the Wall Street Journal. He has represented MasterCard at APEC, WEF East Asia, and in many other ASEAN payments events as well as participated in panel discussions directly on inclusion and digitalization of payments at WEF, the GPFI Forum at the G20, as well as the Responsible Finance Forum.

Born in New Zealand, Matthew has MBAs from Columbia University in New York, and from the London Business School. A Singapore citizen, he is married to Patricia, an executive coach and they have five children.

Dr. Michael Wiegand manages the global retail deposit portfolio for Standard Chartered Bank.  He joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2005, and was Head of Strategy for the Consumer Bank, after which he spent four years in Botswana managing the Bank’s Consumer Banking businesses across Southern Africa. 

Before joining Standard Chartered Bank, Dr. Wiegand spent 6 years with McKinsey & Company.  As a member of the Financial Services practice, he served leading banks and insurance companies in the U.S., Australia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Michael has a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University, and a Masters in Public Management & Policy from Carnegie Mellon.

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.

Peter is currently Chief Administrative Officer for RBS in Asia Pacific. He has over 20 years of experience working in financial institutions and MNCs globally e.g. Deutsche Bank, KPMG and IBM. He is currently Board member at RBS Berhad and a member of APAC Executive Committee. Peter is also the sponsor of the Diversity Committee in Asia Pacific and was instrumental in setting up the inter‐bank multi‐cultural as well as STAR 100 network in the UK. He represented Great Britain in Triple Jump and has outside interest in connecting Asia investors to Africa.

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.

In 2012, Mr Lee was awarded The Public Service Medal (Pingat Bakti Masyarakat) for his services as a board member of the Singapore Government’s Land Transport Authority.

Mr Lee has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Master’s in Business and International Finance from the Stern School of New York University.

Piyush Gupta is Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group, as well as Director of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) and The Islamic Bank of Asia. DBS is the largest financial services group in Southeast Asia, with assets of over S$400 billion. Prior to joining DBS, Piyush was Citigroup’s Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Some of Piyush’s external appointments include serving as the Deputy Chairman of SPRING Singapore, as a member of the Group of Experts to the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum, and on the boards of the Institute of International Finance, Washington, The Institute of Banking and Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship Fund and the MasterCard Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa Regional Advisory Board. He is an advisory board member of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics and a council member of The Association of Banks in Singapore. Piyush is also a Managing Council member of Indian Business Leaders’ Roundtable (under SINDA).

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.

He holds an MBA (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.  He is married with two children and lives in Singapore.

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Tolan Steele has overall management responsibility for Visa’s business in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei.  In addition, he is the lead relationship manager for several of Visa’s key global clients whose business with Visa spans the Asia Pacific region.  In both roles, Tolan is responsible for ensuring Visa’s strategic and business objectives are achieved, all through strong partnerships with its clients and other stakeholders in the Visa payment system.

Tolan joined Visa in 1999, and has held a variety of positions across the organization. Prior to his current role, Tolan led the Risk Services team for Visa Inc., a global function focused on Visa’s in-market engagement of clients, merchants, regulators and others on risk-related issues. In that role and working from Singapore, Tolan managed staff in Visa’s hubs and local offices in Asia Pacific, Central Europe-Middle East-Africa, Latin America and North America.

Before joining the Risk team and moving to Singapore, Tolan served as Head of Global Interchange for Visa Inc. In that capacity, he was responsible for ensuring that Visa’s interchange rates and structure effectively advanced the issuance and acceptance of Visa products, globally. Earlier in his Visa career, Tolan also managed the Product Innovation and Coordination team, assessing the opportunities and impacts of emerging payment applications and technologies on the Visa payment system.

Tolan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Grinnell College, a Master of Public and Private Management degree from the Yale School of Management, and a Master of Environmental Studies degree from the Yale School of Forestry.  He lives in Singapore with his wife, daughter and son.