Speakers
Top cybersecurity experts and thought leaders who are set to deliver invaluable insights and cutting-edge knowledge
Advisory Council 2025
As part of the CSO Conference, each speaker brings a wealth of experience, innovative ideas, and unique perspectives that will be instrumental in shaping the future of our industry. Click on a speaker to view their full bio.
Bryan Lee
CTO leader in engineering the Next-Gen Digital, Tech & Data AI strategy in Financial Services. Gen AI builder as the Managing Director in OCBC and the Head of Bank of Singapore Architecture. Experienced Chief Data Officer of AXA, who led the data transformation and governance. Serves as a Singapore FinTech Mentor and is part of the MAS & Global FinTech Hackcelerator judging panel.
Led the successful launch of OCBC GPT (Generative Al) from ideation to bank-wide rollout to 30,000 employees through the joint-collaboration of teams. Having reviewed over 200+ projects in the Group Wealth platforms as part of Technology Governance, and runs Monthly Architecture Forums and Tech Talks.
Event Sessions
Thursday, July 17 2025 1:50 pm | Location:
Panel Discussion – IT Teams for the AI Future: Attracting, Retaining, and Upskilling Talent for FutureTech
As IT organizations evolve into AI-infused enterprises, talent development has become critical. This session will delve into skill assessment, gap analysis, and strategies to equip IT teams with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape.
Jackson Ng
Jackson Ng is the chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Azimut Investment Management. He is also an award-winning C-suite executive recognized by IDG’s 2024 CIO100 and CSO30 Awards. As chief operating officer, he leads strategic business initiatives, drives digital innovation, enhances Azimut’s brand value, and oversees all aspects of business operations. Concurrently, as chief technology officer, he leads the company’s fintech, AI, digital transformation, and cybersecurity strategies. He also steers global and regional technology projects and initiatives.
Muhammad Suhada
Suhada is an IT strategist with more than 17 years of experience working in technology space while learning other things in life to the extent that he believes digital transformation is not just about technology, it is about people and culture.
He holds MBA in Strategic Management supported with various industry certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), Agile and Scrum, and several technical industry certifications.
He is currently engaged with Blue Bird, one of the largest land transportation companies in Indonesia – widely known with their taxi – helping them with their digital transformation as Vice President of Information Technology. Before joining Blue Bird, he spent 8 years working with one of the global leaders in ICT in their APAC hub in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.
Event Sessions
Thursday, July 17 2025 11:50 am | Location:
Panel Discussion – Navigating the New Geopolitical Landscape: Strategic Tech Choices for Future-Ready Financial Services
As geopolitical uncertainty intensifies, global banks are being forced to rethink their IT strategies with unprecedented urgency. Trade wars, sanctions, data localization mandates, and the fragmentation of the global tech ecosystem are prompting banks to reassess core technology choices—from cloud infrastructure and cross-border data flow to vendor dependencies and cybersecurity frameworks.
This session explores how IT leaders in the banking sector are navigating these pressures. Designed for IT strategists, architects, and decision-makers, this session provides a roadmap for building agile and secure technology infrastructures that can withstand the shifting geopolitical tides.
Frankie Shuai
Frankie is an award-winning Technology Executive & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with over two decades leadership experience in the financial & IT Industry. He is heading APAC regional information security in one of global largest asset managers in the financial industry. Prior to this, he headed cyber & technology risk at UBS (world largest private bank) covering Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked in Citibank, Microsoft and HP before. He has been featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as 2024 “Global CISO 100” award winner and featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition).
He is a frequent speaker about cybersecurity & emerging technology in the industry leading forums organized by IDC/IDG, Reuters, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Asia Risk, Economic Times (ET), etc. In 2024, he has also been invited by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to deliver speech in their 25th annual tech festival in Chennai India and also been invited by Central Bank of Indonesia to deliver the speech in their summit in Jakarta Indonesia.
He is also a digital transformation and innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as the sole inventor and his patent has been cited by other tech companies including Intel and Ericsson.
Except above awards, he also received other leadership awards including Global Top 100 leaders in Information Security, Top Global CISOs, World CIO 200, IDG’s CSO30 & CIO 100 ASEAN, Asia 200 Digital Leaders, Economic Times CIO SEA’s Transformative CIOs, etc.
Event Sessions
Thursday, July 17 2025 11:50 am | Location:
Panel Discussion – Navigating the New Geopolitical Landscape: Strategic Tech Choices for Future-Ready Financial Services
As geopolitical uncertainty intensifies, global banks are being forced to rethink their IT strategies with unprecedented urgency. Trade wars, sanctions, data localization mandates, and the fragmentation of the global tech ecosystem are prompting banks to reassess core technology choices—from cloud infrastructure and cross-border data flow to vendor dependencies and cybersecurity frameworks.
This session explores how IT leaders in the banking sector are navigating these pressures. Designed for IT strategists, architects, and decision-makers, this session provides a roadmap for building agile and secure technology infrastructures that can withstand the shifting geopolitical tides.
Gary Ho
Gary Ho is the Chief Technology Officer for Hong Kong and Macau AXA Hong Kong and Macau is a member of the AXA Group, a leading global insurer with presence in 50 markets and serving 95 million customers worldwide. As one of the most diversified insurers offering integrated solutions across Life, Health and General Insurance, our goal is to be the insurance and wellness partner to the individuals, businesses and community. At the core of our service commitment is continuous product innovation and customer experience enrichment, which is achieved through actively listening to our customers and leveraging technology and digital transformation. We embrace our responsibility to create shared value for our community.
Ed Bharucha
Ed Bharucha is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of international experience in the Financial Services industry, having held leadership roles across New York and Singapore. As Chief Information Officer at Mizuho Securities AeJ, he oversees end-to-end technology strategy and operations, spanning application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk management, and IT governance across both Front and Back Office functions.
Ed is known for driving technology transformation and digitization initiatives that deliver tangible business value, with a strong emphasis on controls, compliance, and operational resilience. He brings a forward-looking approach to leveraging emerging technologies to enhance business growth, efficiency, and user productivity.
A proven crisis leader and effective communicator, Ed excels in engaging stakeholders across all organizational levels, including C-suite executives. He is also a commercially astute negotiator, with deep experience in vendor and third-party management.
Event Sessions
Thursday, July 17 2025 1:50 pm | Location:
Panel Discussion – IT Teams for the AI Future: Attracting, Retaining, and Upskilling Talent for FutureTech
As IT organizations evolve into AI-infused enterprises, talent development has become critical. This session will delve into skill assessment, gap analysis, and strategies to equip IT teams with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in a rapidly changing landscape.
Meet our executive speakers
As part of the CSO Conference, each speaker brings a wealth of experience, innovative ideas, and unique perspectives that will be instrumental in shaping the future of our industry. Click on a speaker to view their full bio.
Sandra Ng
Sandra Ng is Group Vice President and General Manager for IDC Asia/Pacific including Japan (APJ) research. Based in Singapore, she is responsible for thought leadership and deep-dive insights and advisory content on IDC’s 3rd Platform disruptive pillars of Cloud, Mobility, Big Data Analytics, and Social along with C-suite (CIO, CMO, CEO, COO, CFO and CxO) research and tech buyer engagements as well as the Service Provider industry. In her role, she advises both tech buyers (CIO and LoB) and IT suppliers/enablers across the ICT marketplace.
As IT becomes the epicenter of our economy, IDC sees the intersection of Digital Transformation (DX) and the 3rd Platform’s Innovation Stage. Here is where we see governments, industries and consumers consuming the four technology pillars as well as increasingly the six innovation accelerators (Internet of Things or IoT, cognitive computing, 3D printing, robotics, next-gen security, and augmented/virtual reality [AR/VR]). To this end, IDC created a portfolio of tech buyer/end-user research and methodology frameworks, the IDC DecisionScapes, to provide targeted advice in an increasingly complex and fast-paced marketplace.
Sandra leads a team of IDC’s senior analysts with collective expertise across the ICT industry. This team leverages the core research created by IDC’s Asia/Pacific Domain Research Group, through contextualizing the content and increasing its relevance for clients and their businesses. This value creation process enhances the proposition IDC brings to strategy, planning and market intelligence stakeholders. This unique delivery of research content also brings with it IDC’s thought leadership analysis and business executive insights for marketing, product management, sales and strategic leadership teams within the client’s organization.
Along with the Domain Research team, the Practice Group extensively collaborates with IDC’s Integrated Marketing Programs (IMP), IDC’s Industry Insights, and IDC’s Consulting organizations to provide a comprehensive scope of intelligence services to meet the diverse needs of today’s dynamic and complex technology marketplace.
From research to IDC’s customized go-to-market services (GMS) to executive roundtables and end-user events, Sandra and her team provide independent and insightful perspectives of market conditions, assisting clients in making informed business decisions and achieving business goals.
Sandra’s role also extends beyond quality research content delivery. She plays a key role in driving forward-looking assessment and analysis, often sharing her market insights and predictions to Asia Pacific management teams and heads of strategy within her customer base. She moderates and engages extensively with the client communities, including both traditional technology buyers and increasingly influential line of business heads often leveraging the IDC DecisionScape methodologies and deep-dive research.
Sandra has been in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) advisory and consulting industry for 20 years. While her technology research expertise is vast and diverse, she is best known in the industry for her Telecommunications knowledge and opinions within the Asia Pacific region. Her ability to discuss broad, strategic and converged issues across the ICT industry enables her to engage with many C-level management teams and technology executives in Asia.
Prior to joining IDC, Sandra was with Gartner/Dataquest for more than four years, where she was managing a variety of IT research projects ranging from midrange systems to peripherals. In addition to base unit research, she was actively leading in channel and consulting work.
Sandra has established a keen following within the Asia Pacific media fraternity and is frequently quoted in leading regional business and trade publications such as the Asian Wall Street Journal, Computer World, Telecom Asia, tele.com and Wireless World, and also in locally-based media such as Singapore’s Business Times and Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. She is often invited to present IDC’s opinions on CNBC Asia, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. Sandra is also a regular keynote speaker at global and regional ICT conferences.
Fluent in English and Mandarin, Sandra graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.
Dr. Ashish Kakar
Ashish is responsible for managing and developing IDC’s Financial Insights programs in the Asia/Pacific region.
Ashish has over 20 years of experience in banking, insurance, and investments. His last experience was starting and scaling his own award-winning, algorithmic investments venture. Previously, he had managed large enterprise-wide transformation and growth programs.
Academically, he is obtaining his Doctorate in Business Administration from Durham University, UK, and Emlyon Business School, France. He attained an MBA from IIM Bangalore.
His research interests include private assets, financial services, ESG, financial inclusion, and data-driven transformation. He also teaches data-driven innovation to the Durham University MBA and EMBA cohorts as a guest lecturer.
Ashish also has two publications. He presented a co-authored policy document on smart cities in the House of Lords, UK. He has also published a paper on private assets valuation at the 4th Sophia AI summit in Sophia Antipolis, France. A European platform featured his interview on importance of AI.
Ashish enjoys spending time with friends and family. He reads, can spend hours watching current events, visits historical monuments, and plays golf for leisure.
Andrew Namboka
Annemarie Pucher
Balamurugan Jegatheesan
Bala is an experienced technology executive with a strategic mindset and strong business acumen. With over 24 years in IT, he has held key roles such as Head Architect, Chief Architect, and CTO across industries including financial services, telecommunications, airlines, consulting, and product development.
Currently serving as Chief Architect at FPT, he drives digital transformation, digital channels, and data analytics initiatives, leading innovation and business growth. He has a deep understanding of emerging technologies and excels in engaging with stakeholders, including C-level executives, to align technology with business goals.
Beyond his professional role, Bala shares his expertise through technology blogs and speaks at industry forums. He is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges and shape the future of digital innovation.
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Philip Lee
Philip Lee is the Head of Cyberdefense for Orange Business APAC. In this capacity, he is responsible for go-to-market (GTM) planning, business development, complex solutions design, strategic consulting, large deal pursuit, managed security services to service delivery across industries as well as effective engagements with C-suite clients and technical members.
Philip has over 26 years of regional experience and last 12+ years as a cybersecurity evangelist for providing thought leadership and security-related subject matter expertise around a wide range of technologies (SOC, SIEM, SOAR, SASE, SSE, MDR, XDR), application security, and business initiatives to drive secure by design and zero trust for cyber resiliency across APAC region.
Akther Ahmed
Akther Ahmed is Group Vice President of Splunk Asia Pacific, where he is responsible for Channels and Alliances across APAC. Prior to Splunk, Mr Ahmed led the Commercial business for Qlik across Asia Pacific. Mr Ahmed has been in the technology industry for 25 years in companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services and co-founder of two venture backed successful Silicon Valley based start-up technology companies. He was formerly the President of Microsoft Emerging Markets and was lead R&D scientist at Intel, developing Flash memory technology. Akther also led Tata’s US operations as Vice President of Partners and Industry Verticals. Akther has a B.S. and MS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He also holds an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School of Business. He has many publications in the area of semiconductor technology and co-authored technical papers in the area of Superconductivity. Akther’s research project in material science was funded by NASA and was one of the first projects on Superconductive material development in zero gravity environment.
Jyoti Lalchandani
Jyoti Lalchandani is a seasoned business executive with more than 25 years of experience in emerging markets across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). In his role as IDC’s Group Vice President and Regional Managing Director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), he has been instrumental in establishing IDC’s presence in the region – first, through the initial expansion of the Dubai headquarters and then by spearheading the development of IDC offices in Johannesburg, Istanbul, Riyadh, Casablanca, Lagos, Nairobi, and Cairo.
Jyoti is responsible for the planning, development, implementation, and coordination of IDC’s market intelligence and advisory services, sales, conferences and events, go-to-market services, and office development activities across the META region. As a respected authority on emerging market tech trends, he is also regularly invited to speak at major industry events throughout the region and is frequently quoted by both the national and international media.
His field of expertise includes key tech areas such as cloud, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things, and he is well known for providing guidance on digital transformation strategies for the entire C-suite. He is a trusted advisor to senior executives in the supplier/enabler space across the ICT ecosystem, as well as to tech buyers from the CIO and line-of-business communities.
Starting at IDC’s CEMA (Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) headquarters in 1995 in Prague, the Czech Republic, Jyoti served as IDC’s regional consulting manager. In this role, he headed several country-based project teams that advised local and multinational IT vendors on issues relating to entry strategy, competitor analysis, ROI analysis, distribution and partner evaluation, and market segmentation. He later took on the additional responsibility of overseeing the CEMA software practice, in which he was responsible for overseeing all related research (applications, system infrastructure, and tools) and advisory work across emerging EMEA countries.
Before joining IDC, Jyoti served on the national board of international non-profit organization AIESEC, where he managed the association’s partnership agreements with leading Indian conglomerates. He graduated from Loyola College, India, where his studies focused on strategy management and business policy. He later attended a corporate-sponsored program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts.
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Vice President, Data, Analytics, AI, Sustainability, and Industry Research
IDC Asia/Pacific
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Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Dr. Chris Marshall is Associate Vice President for IDC Asia Pacific, responsible for the Analytics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence practice. Dr. Marshall’s core research coverage includes the development of Data Analytics and Machine Learning competencies and their implications – the threats and opportunities facing organizations as they seek to augment and automate their knowledge-based work.
Previously, Chris was a senior executive in IBM Watson Financial Services where he led their AI-enabled risk and analytics practice in Asia. Before joining IBM, he held senior business development and management roles in big data and analytics at KPMG, Oracle and UBS.
- MA in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
- MBA from University of Chicago
- Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School
- Professor of Computer Science at National University of Singapore.
- Co-Founder and Director of NUS Program for Research in Intelligent Systems
- Co-Founder and Director of NUS Risk Management Institute
- Author of widely used textbook on Operational Analytics
- Frequent speaker, presenter and moderator at industry conferences
Michael Yeo
Michael Yeo is the Associate Research Director for IDC Financial Insights and Retail Insights in the Asia/Pacific region. Mr. Yeo’s core research coverage focuses on payments including the uptake of mobile payments in the Asia/Pacific region, digital banking, and the evolution of joint digital ecosystems involving ecommerce, mcommerce, and payments. Mr. Yeo has also significant experience in advising financial institutions on their fintech management strategies, placing particular emphasis on organizational and technology restructuring within banks to better cope with the demands of current-generation digital customers.
Prior to IDC, Mr. Yeo headed all financial services–related research at KPMG Malaysia. Previously, he served as a project manager at an advisory firm in China, where he advised multiple international clients with their China market entry strategies. Mr. Yeo started his career in an advisory role for financial services at Ernst and Young.
Credentials:
- B.A Accounting and Economics from the University of Reading, United Kingdom
- Frequent speaker in the region on mobile payments and digital ecosystems. Contributor to major global and regional media outlets including CNBC, South China Morning Post, Straits Times, and Global Finance
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Chandima Cooray
Chief Innovation Officer
Hatton National Bank, Sri Lanka | Director, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
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Chandima Cooray
Chandima Cooray is a seasoned digital transformation leader driving innovation at Hatton National Bank (HNB), one of Sri Lanka’s largest private banks. As Chief Innovation Officer, he leads the bank’s strategic shift toward agile, AI-driven financial services and ecosystem partnerships.
He also serves as a Board Director at the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, where he plays a pivotal role in shaping national digital economy policy and strengthening the startup and technology ecosystems. Chandima brings over two decades of cross-industry experience, and is recognized for his work at the intersection of technology and enterprise innovation.
Jeff Lim
Jeff Lim is a senior fintech sales leader with over a decade of experience driving digital transformation across Southeast Asia’s financial sector. As Senior Account Director, ASEAN at KX, he partners with C-level executives to deliver real-time data and analytics solutions that power next-gen decision-making.
With prior sales leadership roles at Finastra, SS&C Technologies, Broadridge, and FIS, Jeff has deep expertise in post-trade, investment management, and trading & regulatory tech. Passionate about the practical impact of GenAI, Jeff helps financial institutions move from exploration to execution—bridging innovation with real-world outcomes.
Philippe Damay
Philippe Damay has cultivated his career in Singapore over 21 years across various sectors including banks, hedge funds and fintech.
His expertise spans risk management, trading and quantitative trading. He is currently engaged with KX where his mission is to build a bridge that merges the worlds of finance, data science and database technology.
With KX, he has been involved in algorithmic trading solutions, real-time analytical solutions catering to brokerage businesses and securities houses, as well as engagements in data science and AI projects.
Sandeep Lodha
Sandeep Lodha is the CEO of Netweb Tech Pte Ltd and a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in high-performance computing, AI infrastructure, private cloud, and enterprise IT solutions. He has led transformative computing deployments across BFSI, healthcare, education, and research sectors.
Passionate about innovation and scalable architecture, Mr. Lodha has driven Netweb’s expansion into international markets. His deep expertise lies in bridging advanced computing technologies with strategic business outcomes – empowering organizations to accelerate digital transformation, enhance performance, and build future-ready capabilities in an increasingly AI-driven and data-intensive world.
Sourabh Chitrachar
Regional Vice President / Head Asia Technology Strategy & Operations
Liberty Mutual Insurance
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Sourabh Chitrachar
He is a Technology, Digital & Operations Leader. Accomplished leader with 20+ years of experience driving technology, digital transformation, operations, and strategic initiatives across business value chain in global enterprises. Adept at aligning technology with business priorities, optimizing enterprise-wide IT functions, and leading high-impact digital innovation, P&L management, and operational efficiencies without compromising on risk and security.
Proven expertise in AI strategy and operationalization, Cloud, Data-Driven Decision Making, modernizing legacy ecosystems and enhancing CX and EX. Managed consulting engagements with top firms to co-design operating models and shared services blueprints. Broad exposure to M&A Due diligence and Post Merger Integration.
Passionate about building future-ready enterprises through digital acceleration, automation, and next-gen technology solutions. Thrive in cross cultural environments and adept at building Talent strategies for Technology & Digital teams.
Muhammad Suhada
Suhada is an IT strategist with more than 17 years of experience working in technology space while learning other things in life to the extent that he believes digital transformation is not just about technology, it is about people and culture.
He holds MBA in Strategic Management supported with various industry certifications such as Project Management Professional (PMP), Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP), Agile and Scrum, and several technical industry certifications.
He is currently engaged with Blue Bird, one of the largest land transportation companies in Indonesia – widely known with their taxi – helping them with their digital transformation as Vice President of Information Technology. Before joining Blue Bird, he spent 8 years working with one of the global leaders in ICT in their APAC hub in Cyberjaya, Malaysia.
Ratikant Sahu
Ratikant is a Banking and Technology leader with proven experience in leading transformational programs at Global Banks. Solid track record of delivering business value through innovative usage of emerging technologies. He has played various leadership roles at Citigroup, ANZ bank and UOB banking group in several areas ranging omni-channel digital banking, customer-centric data analytics, core bank transformation and payments. Over the years, he has managed large technology functions while providing a safe and sound operating environment.
CIO.COM recognised Ratikant amongst the Top CIOs in 2023. ASIAN BANKER awarded Ratikant the “Leading practitioner of technology and innovation” for the role played in shaping the financial services industry.
A keen “Reader” of technology trends, he spends time in advising/mentoring/investing in startups leveraging technology to bridge the Digital Divide. Areas of interest include Fintech, Logistics, F&B Tech, Data Analytics-AI-ML.
Frankie Shuai
Frankie is an award-winning Technology Executive & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with over two decades leadership experience in the financial & IT Industry. He is heading APAC regional information security in one of global largest asset managers in the financial industry. Prior to this, he headed cyber & technology risk at UBS (world largest private bank) covering Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked in Citibank, Microsoft and HP before. He has been featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as 2024 “Global CISO 100” award winner and featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition).
He is a frequent speaker about cybersecurity & emerging technology in the industry leading forums organized by IDC/IDG, Reuters, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Asia Risk, Economic Times (ET), etc. In 2024, he has also been invited by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras to deliver speech in their 25th annual tech festival in Chennai India and also been invited by Central Bank of Indonesia to deliver the speech in their summit in Jakarta Indonesia.
He is also a digital transformation and innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed at United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as the sole inventor and his patent has been cited by other tech companies including Intel and Ericsson.
Except above awards, he also received other leadership awards including Global Top 100 leaders in Information Security, Top Global CISOs, World CIO 200, IDG’s CSO30 & CIO 100 ASEAN, Asia 200 Digital Leaders, Economic Times CIO SEA’s Transformative CIOs, etc.
Gean Lau
She Heads the Enterprise Architecture function for OCBC by defining and managing overall technology landscape, convergence initiatives to achieve regional alignment and synergy across Group. Double hat as Head, Technology Architecture for OCBC Hong Kong.
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William Lee
Dr William Lee is Senior Research Director for IDC’s Asia Pacific (exclude Japan) Cloud Services group. As a domain leader for the Cloud Services Research program, he defines and manages the research agenda offerings to IDC Asia Pacific clients covering Private, Public, Hybrid and Industry Cloud adoption and deployment. The research offers an overview of the market opportunity for Cloud Services market in Asia Pacific (exclude Japan), which includes vendor profiles, end-user surveys, executive briefs to bring out the changes taking place in the market.
Dr Lee represents IDC externally via media channels and internally as a domain lead to support bespoke consulting and integrated marketing program engagement. He engages with and advises clients at all levels, from C-level management teams to technology and operations executives.
With over 15 years of experience in the field of Industrial Infocommunications Technologies, Dr Lee is an accomplished speaker and practitioner in ICT, market research, innovation, and process excellence. Between 2011 and 2014, William was involved with IDC’s Manufacturing Insights Research for Asia/Pacific in Manufacturing best practices and its enabling ICT. Following this, Dr Lee started his own company to provide consulting and advisory services for IT-led Service Innovation and Digital Transformation.
Dr Lee graduated from Cranfield University, United Kingdom, with an engineering doctorate in industrial and systems engineering.
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Ed Bharucha
Ed Bharucha is a seasoned technology executive with over 25 years of international experience in the Financial Services industry, having held leadership roles across New York and Singapore. As Chief Information Officer at Mizuho Securities AeJ, he oversees end-to-end technology strategy and operations, spanning application development, infrastructure, cybersecurity, risk management, and IT governance across both Front and Back Office functions.
Ed is known for driving technology transformation and digitization initiatives that deliver tangible business value, with a strong emphasis on controls, compliance, and operational resilience. He brings a forward-looking approach to leveraging emerging technologies to enhance business growth, efficiency, and user productivity.
A proven crisis leader and effective communicator, Ed excels in engaging stakeholders across all organizational levels, including C-suite executives. He is also a commercially astute negotiator, with deep experience in vendor and third-party management.
Jackson Ng
Jackson Ng is the chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Azimut Investment Management. He is also an award-winning C-suite executive recognized by IDG’s 2024 CIO100 and CSO30 Awards. As chief operating officer, he leads strategic business initiatives, drives digital innovation, enhances Azimut’s brand value, and oversees all aspects of business operations. Concurrently, as chief technology officer, he leads the company’s fintech, AI, digital transformation, and cybersecurity strategies. He also steers global and regional technology projects and initiatives.
Dr Ke-Wei Huang
Executive Director, Asian Institute of Digital Finance
National University of Singapore (NUS)
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Dr Ke-Wei Huang
Dr Ke-Wei Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Huang joined NUS in July 2007. He received his PhD (2007), MPhil (2005), and MSc (2002) degrees in Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University, and his MBA in Finance (1997) and BSc in Electrical Engineering (1995) from National Taiwan University.
Dr Huang’s research interests are in the economics of information systems and data mining for financial applications. Currently, he focuses on various topics of pricing digital goods, labor economics of IT professionals, and data mining or econometrics issues for topics in accounting or finance.
Bryan Lee
CTO leader in engineering the Next-Gen Digital, Tech & Data AI strategy in Financial Services. Gen AI builder as the Managing Director in OCBC and the Head of Bank of Singapore Architecture. Experienced Chief Data Officer of AXA, who led the data transformation and governance. Serves as a Singapore FinTech Mentor and is part of the MAS & Global FinTech Hackcelerator judging panel.
Led the successful launch of OCBC GPT (Generative Al) from ideation to bank-wide rollout to 30,000 employees through the joint-collaboration of teams. Having reviewed over 200+ projects in the Group Wealth platforms as part of Technology Governance, and runs Monthly Architecture Forums and Tech Talks.
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Ramesh Narayanaswamy
Ramesh is an experienced Chief Information officer / Chief technology officer across Banking , Financial markets , Wealth management , Insurance , Mutual funds , Lending , e-commerce , logistics and Digital delivery . I am a seasoned Technology leader with a passion for executing Transformational projects, which creates value across industry verticals.
I believe and develop technology frameworks and innovative delivery models, which ensure standardization of operational process, products and platforms.I have immense interest in the area of public policy and technology .
The role of the government is very critical in ensuring that all citizens gets benefitted from technology.
Anand Mohan
Anand is an Experienced Software and Management professional with tonnes of experience managing teams across various domains, size and complexity. Have worked in past as Senior Java Developer and Devops Developer in Retail and Logistics and Finance & Banking domain and multiple tech stacks.
Rich experience in Content Management System and applying the CMS principles for one of the best sporting brands in the world. Have worked with multiple solutions for CMS including Documentum, Alfresco and Nuxeo.
Worked as Senior Devops engineer and later Devops Manager and spearheaded multiple initiatives and implementation including migrating TB of data from on-prem to Cloud , Organization failover and fallback,Cloud cost optimization, Development of common platform for Terraform, Adoption of CICD at Organization level.
Lead a team of around 60 team members globally, spread across 4 continents, and worked on critical project initiatives and implementation with best practices along with the mantra of Team motivation and Constant Value add as well as Automation.
He takes pride in problem solving and creating opportunities from problems and leading team to implement the best in class solutions.
Guillaume Cordina
Executive Director, Head of Open Banking & Platforms
Standard Chartered Bank
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Guillaume Cordina
Guillaume is a software product leader with extensive experience in developing products and services in SaaS and cloud startups and currently at a leading global bank.
Adept at using agile methodology and distributed architecture to build customer-centric solutions. Thrives in an environment where complexity demands innovative solutions.
Known for building and mentoring global teams and getting them to accomplish things they didn’t know they could, while developing relationships with partners and vendors.
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