Contributors

Sebastian Sohn & Aicha Mauduit

Sebastian L. Sohn is a Director with Aurexia, a boutique management consulting firm and thought leader in ESG and Sustainable Finance. He is based in Singapore and assists his clients in the financial services sector with delivering strategic and operational ESG and regulatory projects.

Aicha Mauduit is a Senior Consultant with Aurexia, with experience in ESG and regulatory topics. She is based in Singapore and assists clients, typically asset managers and owners across the French and APAC markets.

Sharat Sinha

Sharat Sinha is the Vice President at Palo Alto Networks, for the Asia Pacific region. Sharat has over 19 years of experience in the IT & Telecommunications industry. Most recently he managed APAC business for Tellabs and at Cisco Systems in multiple sales, business development, marketing and product management roles. Sharat has a bachelor’s in Electronics engineering and a Master’s in Industrial & Management engineering from Indian institute of Technology (IIT).

Sharon Toh

Sharon Toh is Head of ASEAN for Swift in Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. She leads the ASEAN relationship management team, supporting existing customers and expanding ASEAN businesses in this fast-growing region. With more than 22 years’ experience in financial services industry, Sharon has developed deep client relationships across the ASEAN region, with strong connections with banks, corporates, regulators and market infrastructures. Prior to joining Swift, Sharon was Sales Director, Indochina at Thomson Reuters, overseeing Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. Previously, she was Regional Head of ASEAN for the Client Specialist team, responsible for the region’s sales, marketing and client training. In addition to her successful sales career, Sharon has worked in various roles across content acquisition, marketing and client support at leading financial information providers, including Telerate (later acquired by Thomson Reuters) and Bridge Information Systems.

Profile from the SWIFT official website.

Shaun Woodhouse

Shaun Woodhouse is the Commercial Director for Singapore at Digital Realty, where he is responsible for overseeing the company's commercial development in Singapore. Shaun has over 18 years of data centre design and infrastructure experience across Asia Pacific, Africa, and Europe.

Shayne Nelson

Shayne Nelson was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Global Head of Standard Chartered Private Bank in July 2010. He is alsChairman of the Islamic Banking Board of Standard Chartered Saadiq, Chairman of the publicly listed Standard Chartered Bank Pakistan and a Director of Scope International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered providing global shared services in Malaysia and India.

Shekar Ganesh

Shekar Ganesh, formerly a senior banker from Asia, is an independent consultant providing training to bankers in credit and relationship management. He is also a consultant for leadership and management.

Shrikant Bhat

Shrikant Bhat is the Head of Wealth Management at Citibank Singapore Limited. He has 15 years experience in consumer Banking industry on both liabilities and asset groups.

Shripad Vaidya

Shripad Vaidya heads the Global Retail Banking Practice at Polaris Financial Technology Ltd. He has many years of experience in Retail Banking and new generation Online Banking Channels including social media.

Shuang Tao

Shuang is member of SAS Risk & Finance Advisory team for Asia Pacific, with over 20 years experience in systems implementation, and 8 years experience in Financial Risk Management. Shuang gained her FRM and SCR (Sustainability and Climate Risk) certification in 2020. Currently, Shuang leads the Solvency ll and Climate Risk initiatives for SAS in Asia Pacific.

Shuang has extensive experience as a subject matter expert in Risk Management including IFRS17, IFRS9 and Stress Testing. Shuang has also has key project implementation roles for Credit Risk Management systems and AML for several Mega-Banks in Japan.

Shuang has a masters degree in Decision Support Systems, and joined SAS in 2010 from Sony and Canon where she was an expert in supply chain information management. She also has experience of doing Data Analysis for Retail, Transition and Telecommunication industries in Japan.

Shuang grew up in China and now resides in Japan. She enjoys ballet dancing and reading.

Shuang Yang

Dr. Shuang is a Senior Director and the Head of Machine Learning at Ant Group. He's dedicated to build the machine learning technologies that enable Ant to provide a wide spectrum of financial services (payment, banking, credit, loan, insurance, wealth management) to 1.2 billion users around the world.

Before joining Ant, Dr. Shuang was the Cofounder and Chief Scientist of Operator Inc. (2014-2017), where he created the world's very first conversational bot for e-commerce (shopping concierge). Prior to that, he was the Lead Scientist and a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter, where he led Twitter's machine learning infrastructure, content understanding, personalization and recommendation (2012-2015).

Dr. Shuang earned his Ph.D from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of multiple awards including Best Paper Awards from ACM SIGIR (2011), UAI (finalist, 2010), PAKDD (2008) and CCAI (2008), a Facebook Fellowship (finalist, 2011), a Yahoo! Key Scientific Award (2011), and the President's Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008).