Abraham is an experienced lawyer in capital markets and financial services. Throughout his career, he has been involved in large and complex deals where he has provided legal support through a pragmatic and business oriented approach. He has advised on transactions with respect to structured products, debt capital markets, investment banking and derivatives. He is common law and civil law qualified, and he practices in both English and French. 

He is also a strong proponent of fintech. He focuses on the numerous potential applications of blockchain in the context of financial services as well as the burgeoning field of regtech. His background in law and banking along with his understanding of technological underpinnings allows him to provide counsel with a unique point of view that bridges the gap between these fields. 

Director, Digital Banking - European Bank

Alvin Wong is responsible for Regional products in SamsungPay, based in Singapore and has more than 10 years of experience in mobile payments. Deep experience in multiple perspectives within mobile payments end to end, from the early inception of NFC based payments from a service enabler, mobile proximity and remote payments, including mobile remittance during his time at SingTel and created mCash, now known as Dash.

His current work focuses on building new experiences in the region on mobile value added services  online expansion, merchant partnerships and on mobile transit. He is also passionate about the user journey and experiences in mobile fintech as well as on digital security.

Senior Manager, Regional Products, SamsungPay - Samsung

Chuang Shin Wee is the co-founder and CEO of Pand.ai, an AI-fintech company that specializes in building “smart chatbots” using deep-learning for natural language processing (deep NLP). Headquartered in Singapore, Pand.ai started serving financial institutions from around Asia since last year.

A fintech veteran, Shin Wee founded his first startup in Shanghai back in 2013, before moving to Geneva in 2015 as part of Switzerland’s first fintech accelerator. Prior to that, he was the Head of Digital Banking with Standard Chartered Bank and was named one of “Top 50 Business Innovators in China” by CBN Weekly for inventing probably the world’s first leads-capturing ATM.

Shin Wee is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 

CEO & Co-Founder - Pand.ai

Damien Gough leads the New Channels team at Visa across the Asia Pacific region.  This team engages closely with ‘New Payment Enablers’ (non-bank companies) to enable them to issue their own Visa accounts, either as a direct licensee or in partnership with banks. From FinTech start-ups through to fortune 100 companies, Visa is actively supporting new issuance programs and partnership models.

Damien has more than 10 years’ experience in the financial services technology and payment space across Asia Pacific, with the last 5 years being successive roles at Visa. Damien received his Bachelor of Business Management degree from Queensland University of Technology in Australia.

Senior Director, New Channels, Asia Pacific - Visa

Damien is a seasoned Executive with 14 years of experience in digital innovation, product strategy and technology consulting across Europe, North America and Asia. 

Currently Senior Technology Advisor at BluePool, an early stage startup focused on enabling the transformation of business models in the financial industry through sophisticated AI and Machine learning based decision algorithms; an Advisory Board Member at Vesl, a Trade Finance startup; an active Mentor in the StartupBootCamp Singapore program and an occasional speaker at Industry events.

Prior to BluePool, Damien was Chief Technology & Innovation Officer at GoSwiff, a mobile payment FinTech based in Singapore, leading product innovation, software engineering, projects implementation and operations. 

Fervent supporter of the Lean Startup movement focused on design thinking, experiment-led innovation and learning-driven performance management

Electrical Engineer by training and Executive MBA candidate at Kellogg-HKUST.

Senior Technology Advisor - Blue Pool Limited

Jon Scheele specialises in the strategy, capability development, and implementation of digital technologies. He currently leads projects enabling institutions to rapidly prototype and adopt FinTech technologies to transform their business. Focus areas include analytics and information management, customer engagement, and end-to-end process optimisation. At ANZ Banking Group, Jon established an innovation practice to pilot and implement digital technologies. Jon has led consulting and delivery projects in the financial services, telecommunications and technology industries in Singapore, Australia, USA and Europe. He holds an MBA, a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, and Graduate Diplomas in Applied Finance and Digital Communications.

Consultant / Former Senior Manager, Research & Innovation - ANZ

Paritosh is responsible for leading reporting automation efforts in the APAC region for Asset Management at a leading US Investment Bank. He has 12+ years of experience as a software programmer, architect and technologist in Finance, Insurance, eCommerce and Content Management industry in UK and Singapore.

His other interests include disruptive technologies, sustainable and eco-friendly systems helping him to advise and invest in such startups at early stages. He has approved and pending patents in Electronics, Semiconductor, Water Conservation systems and Ternary Logic in India and worldwide.

Executive Director, Asset Management Technology / Angel Investor - Leading US Investment Bank / Evogro (UK), EcoBillz (India)

Tanguy Lesselin is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder at Finquest. Before to founding Finquest, Tanguy was a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and advised on M&A post - merger integration and JV projects in the pharma and aerospace industries.

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Prior to that, he was with CDI (now Mercer) advising Fortune 500 companies on organic and acquisition-based growth strategies. Tanguy has also advised the leading leisure boat manufacturer on acquisitions and divestitures.

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As a serial entrepreneur in Europe and South East Asia, Tanguy has extensive experience in internet platforms and marketplaces, in both the B2B and consumer sectors. He graduated from HEC Paris with a Master of Science degree in Finance.

CEO & Co-Founder - Finquest

Varun Mittal is the ASEAN Fintech Lead at EY covering emerging technology and business models in financial services across ASEAN. Previously Varun was the first marketing and sales employee at helloPay (acquired by ANT Financial, Alibaba Group), led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and developed regional mobile payment solutions at Singtel Group. Prior his work in payments, Mittal worked at Microsoft and Gemalto. He holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore. Varun is also part of founding team of Singapore Fintech Association, working closely with startups, educational institutions, investors and regulators across ASEAN.

ASEAN FinTech Lead - Ernst & Young

Vishal Singhvi is the APAC Ecommerce Risk & Payments Lead for Microsoft. He currently leads a team of Human Intelligence Analysts focused on protecting out platform against Fraud and abuse . His team focuses on advanced analytics, Machine Learning(ML) models, building risk models and portfolio management to mitigate fraud losses globally while ensuring low false positive rates. Vishal has been at Microsoft for over 5 years where he has worked on eCommerce fraud Risk and Commerce Payments Partnerships with Leading Banks & Issuers across APAC to enable digital payments solutions on Microsoft Commerce platform.

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Prior to joining Microsoft in 2012, Vishal led the Digital Private Banking Risk & Payments Strategy at Credit Suisse in Europe and Asia. Vishal holds an MBA with specialization in Corporate Finance from Cardiff University, UK.

APAC Ecommerce Risk & Payments Lead - Microsoft