Contributors

Tun Musa Hitam

Tun Musa Hitam is the Chairman of World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) Foundation and former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
 

Udayan Goyal

Udayan Goyal is the Founder and Managing Partner of Anthemis Group.

Umair Hameed

Umair Hameed is the Financial Services Sales Lead of Microsoft Singapore. He has an 18-year track record of successfully selling and delivering complex strategy, operations, technology and regulatory transformation initiatives at leading financial institutions across Europe, USA, MENA and Asia.

Usama DeLorenzo

Usama is ASEAN Initiative Director for SWIFT in Asia Pacific and is responsible for coordinating SWIFT’s support to ASEAN member states in their goal of realising an integrated financial system through various initiatives towards the envisioned ASEAN Economic Community.

Velayoudam Kuberan

Velayoudam Kuberan is a technology architect with Polaris Financial Technology Ltd., specializing in CBX technology.
His particular focus is on Customer Experience, Security, and Performance paradigms.

Vihang Patel

Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Finaxar, a Singapore-based fintech startup that is focused on changing the way small business financing is done using technology. He is passionate about working with startups and technology ecosystem.

Leveraging over 15 years of entrepreneurial, corporate and management consulting experience in Asia and Europe, he combines his deep expertise in financial services and enterprise software at Finaxar.

A veteran in the startup scene with strong expertise in technology, Patel founded data management firm Avagam. Post its acquisition, he joined big data and AI firm Crayon Data as the first technology-focused pioneer, to drive the building of the product and its development. He was also instrumental in driving early revenues which facilitated in raising several rounds of funding.  Patel was the Chief Technology Officer of Dragon Wealth Asia, developing marketing solutions for financial advisors before he founded Finaxar. Previously, Patel was at Deloitte developing solutions for large banks including ING and State Bank of India. He has advised or provided services to companies like Google, PayPal, GLH, Mastercard, CGI, etc.

Other than his role at Finaxar, he is currently an operating advisor of Monk’s Hill Ventures and part of the Investment Committee advising on key investments.

Vinayak HV and Prateek Bhargava

Vinayak HV is a senior partner in McKinsey & Company’s Singapore office, whilst Prateek Bhargava is associate partner at McKinsey & Company Bangkok.

Vincent Goh

Vincent Goh is President and General Manager, Asia Pacific & Japan at CyberArk. Goh leads the sales, pre-sales and channels teams, and is responsible for driving CyberArk’s growing customer base and channels across the region. Goh has more than 20 years of IT industry and sales experience helping grow companies including EMC, AST, Dell and Iomega.

Vincent Goh

Vincent Goh is President and General Manager, Asia Pacific & Japan at CyberArk. Goh leads the sales, pre-sales and channels teams, and is responsible for driving CyberArk’s growing customer base and channels across the region. Goh has more than 20 years of IT industry and sales experience helping grow companies including EMC, AST, Dell and Iomega.

Vincent O'Brien

Vincent is Chair of ICC Banking Commission Market Intelligence. He has been actively involved in trade finance for more than a quarter of a century and has delivered technical trade finance assistance in more than 70 countries.