DIGITAL ASSETS IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT FORUM 2022

Singapore Police Force Scholar with a BEng (First Class) in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Started PT Erindo : a ship building & repair company based in Batam and was one of the biggest shipbuilding contractor in Batam. A founding member of Inquiro Consulting Pte Ltd which specializes in computer/digital forensic, claims & loss adjustment, Intelligence gathering services and corporate investigation. Independent director, designated Chairman of the Nomination Committee, providing independent judgement to bear on issues of strategy, policy, performance, accountability, resources and standard of conduct for GT Steel Construction Group Limited, a Singapore based firm listed on the GEM board, Hong Kong. Chief Operations Officer (2013 to 2015) for TAT Petroleum, a distributor of ExxonMobil. Developed the offshore sector for STX Pan Ocean, specializing in semi submersible heavy lift vessels with high profitability.

Tuhina is the founder and CEO of Propine, Singapore's only licensed digital asset custody solution. Through Propine, Tuhina is helping financial institutions invest in digital assets within a regulated and safe environment. She's a thought-leader, keynote speaker and regularly advises financial institutions about navigating the Metaverse and leveraging the Web 3 opportunity. She was recently awarded the Fintech Leader award by SFF. Prior to Propine, she traded equity, forex and fixed income derivatives for financial institutions. In her last banking stint, she set up the derivates trading desk for a private bank in India from scratch. Tuhina holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Michele is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway, the largest digital wealth manager in SEA and MENA. Michele spent the first half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, as Managing Director at Rocket Internet and later as Group CEO of ZALORA, where he was responsible for it growing 15x and becoming the undisputed leader in the South East Asian fashion ecommerce market. Michele holds a BA from Bocconi University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Richard is a prolific business development professional, as well as a serial entrepreneur with a financial advisory background. At METACO, he is in charge with Tier 1 Sales and Account Management in the Asia Pacific Region. Prior to joining us, he was a business development manager at Singapore-based financial technology consultancy, Luxoft.

Hao Yang heads the Options unit at Bybit which provides innovative products and services for crypto lovers - empowering them to trade digital assets at lower cost and risk. Hao’s extensive expertise in options trading and financial engineering stems from a diverse background in financial services. Before joining Bybit in 2021, Hao provided consultancy services for OKEx Options. Prior to that, he worked as a quantitative analyst modeling energy options with exotic pay-off structures at energy firm PZEM, and as a trader at Optiver, he focused on interest rates and index options. Hao began his crypto journey as a miner before building the trading system for a crypto exchange start-up. Hao holds an MSc in Finance, Duisenberg Honors Programme in Quantitative Risk Management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Sharon Yeo is a Senior Manager of Group Commercial & Supply Chain Sustainability Solutions in PSA International Pte Ltd. In her current role, she leads a team to actively pursue and realize a holistic sustainable supply chain strategy that supports PSA’s long-term global scope 3 carbon emission objectives in collaboration with stakeholders for value chain optimization and climate action collaborations. Besides the supply chain sustainability portfolio, Sharon also works closely with the key global shipping lines to drive and develop strategic relationships and partnership opportunities as part of her commercial development role. Sharon joined PSA as a Management Associate in 2011 and with over a decade experience in the port industry, she held previous roles covering operations, logistics and manpower planning and business strategy and was also previously part of the team for manpower planning for Pasir Panjang Phase 3 & 4 expansion plan.

Julian was born and raised in Sydney Australia holding degrees in Real Estate from the UNSW, and Mandarin from BLCU. He has co-founded 8 companies, including social media, real estate investment & development, proptech and blockchain. He is focused on building key infrastructure connecting DeFi (Decentralized Finance) + TradFi (Traditional Finance) . Julian is the co-founder and CEO of InvestaX (Singapore Security Token Platform) and IX Swap (1st Automated Market Maker for security tokens/NFTs). Julian is also the host of the Infinity and Beyond Podcast. He lives in Singapore with his co-founder Alice, daughter Kennedy and two dogs Chase and Marley. 

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Mauricio believes that wealth management should always be about transparency and honesty. His 14 years of experience as a private banker, managing portfolios for high and ultra-high net worth individuals, has taught him that success in the industry means connecting to what is most meaningful, and empowering people to live to their fullest potential. Starting his career as an entrepreneur who founded three companies, Mauricio entered private banking in Hong Kong after a successful exit – he sought to learn how to manage his own created wealth. He served as a Managing Director and as Head of the International and Independent Portfolio Management Service Desk at EFG Bank Hong Kong; Director at Bank Julius Baer Hong Kong; and became partner at Multi-Family office Carret Private. After seeing that the industry largely did not serve client needs, Mauricio discovered his lifetime mission to bring transparency and honesty to wealth management. He earned his MBA (Finance) from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and has been a strong technologist, investing in Bitcoin since 2011. Mauricio strongly believes that crypto, blockchain and Web 3.0 will dictate the future and that clients should learn, educate themselves and (eventually) invest into this asset class. Through moiq capital he has been an enthusiast, speaker and in the forefront of the intersection of traditional Wealth Management and Digital Assets.

Lee is the Head of Business Development at Independent Reserve. He is responsible for leading new business initiatives and strategic commercial partnerships. Lee has over fifteen years of experience in financial services and wealth management, providing strategic tax and portfolio construction advice to HNW clients. Prior to joining Independent Reserve, Lee worked in various roles at KPMG Australia, E&P Financial Group and the Department of Foreign Affairs. Lee holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Asian Studies from Australia National University and obtained his CFP certification in 2013. Lee is based in Sydney, Australia.

Sudeep Chatterjee is currently Head of Product and part of the management team at AsiaNext (Asia Digital Exchange Pte Ltd), the joint venture between SBI Digital Asset Holdings Co., Ltd. (SBI DAH) and SIX Digital Exchange (SDX). AsiaNext is a trusted digital exchange for institutional investors in Asia and globally offering integrated listing, trading, and post trade services for digital assets, including digital payment tokens. Sudeep is responsible for client engagement, product strategy & roadmap, go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, product management, product commercialization, and marketing for AsiaNext globally. Before joining AsiaNext, Sudeep worked with financial institutions for 17 years covering capital markets and wealth management for multinational and regional banks such as Lehman Brothers, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Bank Of Singapore (OCBC subsidiary) with international experience across Asia, Europe, and Americas. He has held transformation, product, and platform leadership roles in these banks, delivering solutions and innovation in trading, execution and investment advisory processes. He has strong expertise across all asset classes and functions, including trading operations, risk, product, technology, and COO/CDO office, to meet the needs of institutional, ultra-high, and high-net-worth investors. Sudeep holds a Master's degree in Financial Economics from EDHEC Business School, France, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from University of Delhi, India. When not working on product and digital asset innovations, he enjoys activities like trekking, diving, swimming, tennis and homebrewing. Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chatterjeesudeep/ Company Website: www.asianext.com

Raymond leads SDAX as CEO with over 3 decades of experience across engineering, information systems, cross asset businesses and corporate structured market solutions serving global organisations. In his 20 years at JP Morgan, he pivoted the Global Markets Cross Assets Corporate business and pioneered origination opportunities that led to innovative products and new business streams for the bank. He actively led across different businesses partnering with compliance, legal, operations, and drove digitisation efforts of trading processes with Six Sigma methodologies. Across his leadership roles at JPMorgan and previously General Electric, he has developed and mentored cross-functional teams to achieve significant revenue, productivity and business achievements through shifting economic environments. Raymond has a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He was among the senior leader graduates of the Asian Financial Leadership Program in 2018 involving top universities.

Christian Hsieh is the co-founder and CEO of Tokenomy, a crypto investment platform offering spot and margin trading, yield-enhancing products, crypto loans, and custody services. Tokenomy is a licensed money broker with approval to conduct digital financial services under the Labuan Financial Services Authority in Malaysia. Prior to this role, Christian was the Chief Financial Officer of INDODAX, the largest regulated digital asset exchange in Indonesia. He has been following the cryptocurrency sector since 2013 and is knowledgeable about bitcoin, crypto assets, blockchain technology, and its various applications. Christian is also on the board of the IDK Foundation, the issuer of an Indonesian Rupiah stablecoin on the blockchain. Christian is a former Executive Director at J.P. Morgan based in Singapore. As a financial advisor, he provided investment consulting services and built partnerships with entrepreneurs and leading enterprises in Southeast Asia. Christian holds an MBA from Brigham Young University. He is an active investor in technologies and social ventures.

Rajeev works in HSBC Securities Services Digital product in support of the overall digital agenda of HSBC Securities Services. He has been primarily involved in developing the capability to service Digital Assets and is engaged with Clients, Financial Market infrastructure providers to create solutions for custody, issuance and asset servicing for digital assets and tokenizing traditional assets. Rajeev is with HSBC Securities Services since April 2018 and prior to that he spent 10 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in various leadership positions in Global Markets Technology and Securities Operations transformation teams in Asia. He is a business technologist with a keen eye for exploring the effective use of emerging capabilities of technology in Markets & Securities Services. He has worked with Broker Dealers and Securities Services Technology providers for over 22 years (in India, Japan and Singapore) across a range of Innovation, Technology, Data, Change and Service delivery roles. His focus has been on business transformation and he has deep experience in business domain and technology strategy, transformation and cost optimization. He led the technology teams and innovation work streams to drive change led by digital capabilities. Rajeev holds MBA (High Honour’s) from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS-Pilani in India.

Steve is a Swiss national who now calls Singapore home. He joined Swiss-Asia in January of 2008, and has 20 years’ experience working in the Trading, Wealth Management and Alternative Funds space. Before joining the Swiss-Asia team, Steve spent 10 years as the Head of Trading and Treasury for Swissquote Bank in Geneva. Steve specialises in translating business goals and visions into actionable, profitable and sustainable business lines. He conceptualises and builds Swiss-Asia’s projects from the ground up, handling all required negotiation and structuring of deals throughout the Asian market. He is an innovator who delivers solid projects in which he is responsible for all aspects of risk, compliance, finance and operations. Steve is a respected industry expert whose dedication to Swiss-Asia’s delivery of excellence, integrity, and financial independence garner many invitations to speak regarding the current climate and future of Wealth Management and Alternative Investments. He is a frequent lecturer at the Singapore Management University (SMU) MBA Class and guest speaker at many International Wealth Management Conferences and Forums throughout Asia. In addition to his role as COO & Managing Partner for Swiss-Asia, Steve is the President of the Association of Independent Asset Managers in Singapore (AIAM). AIAM is committed to the growing Independent Asset Management Industry and its role in strengthening Singapore’s economy. Steve is also registered as a Professional Director with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and sits on the board of Directors of a large panel of Hedge Funds.

Thierry Beck is the founder and Group CEO of SingAlliance. Thierry has over 2 decades of experience in private banking, asset management and wealth management. He first started his career in 1993 in the private banking department of Swiss Bank Corporation Geneva before transferring to UBS S.A. after the merger. In June 2004, armed with his extensive experience in managing the wealth of High Net Worth Private individuals as well as Institutional clients, Thierry started his new endeavour as an independent asset manager and held the position of Executive Managing Director at a Swiss-based firm. Founded in 2011, SingAlliance has expanded beyond Singapore with offices in Geneva, Hong Kong and Dubai.

Phillip Brett is a Director for Institutional Sales, APAC based in Singapore. Prior to Fireblocks, Phillip spent 12 years as a derivatives trader, three of which were managing a crypto trading desk at a market maker. Phillip holds a BA of Commerce from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Prof PS Lee serves as the Executive Director of the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the Director of the Singapore Energy Centre (SgEC), the Director of the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) and the Programme Director of NRF-funded Cooling Energy Science & Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) national consortium. Prof Lee’s research interests include high-efficiency data centre cooling techniques (in particular single and two-phase microchannel cooling), energy-efficient air conditioning and low-grade waste heat recovery. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Energy Institute (EI) and the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES). Prof Lee is passionate about translating R&D outcomes into innovations & enterprises and have founded CoolestDC Pte Ltd to commercialise his group’s liquid cooling solutions for sustainable tropical data centres.

Chris has worked in Investment Banking for over 26 years, based in the APAC region while covering clients and markets spread across the globe. Most recently he was Managing Director responsible for APAC futures execution at UBS, based in Singapore and prior to that he ran the institutional equity derivative sales desk at UBS, Lehman Brothers/Nomura and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney. His product experience ranges across FX and commodities, futures, options, structured products, volatility trading, market access products as well electronic trading of equity and derivative products.

Vipul is the Global Product Manager for Digital Assets with Standard Chartered Wealth Management business. In addition, he manages wealth product lines of FX and Lending for the Singapore business. He has over 15 years of experience in various functions within Wealth Management spanning sales, advisory, product management and platform design for major financial institutions as well as family offices. He has driven the digital agenda for Wealth Management across traditional asset classes and services. Currently, he is implementing the strategy for digital assets and their applicability in Wealth Management at StanChart. He is excited about the possibilities that digital assets can create in the space of Wealth Management - emerging as an alternative investment asset class, a novel revenue stream for businesses and enabling economies of scale for products that are otherwise inaccessible to most investors.

Lasanka is the chief operating officer at Independent Reserve. He oversees the operations and growth at Independent Reserve (established in 2013), Australia’s number 1 crypto exchange and the first crypto exchange in Singapore to receive a licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Before joining Independent Reserve, Lasanka’s experience spanned across markets and trading, including establishing several regulated consumer-facing financial services businesses. During his career in TradFi, Lasanka noticed the inefficiencies of foreign currency transfers and saw a huge potential in Bitcoin and the benefits the technology brings to improve people’s lives, leading him to pivot his career into the crypto space. As an early crypto adopter and avid crypto advocate, Lasanka is a regular participant at trade conferences and industry events, connecting like-minded advocates and businesses to foster the industry's growth. Lasanka resides in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two daughters but has fallen in love with Singapore. Watch this space.

Aleksey Mironenko is Global Head of Investment Solutions at Leo Wealth, an independent global wealth advisor. Based in Hong Kong, Aleksey is responsible for constructing client portfolios and overseeing the firm’s investment function. He is a strong believer in cost-efficient portfolio construction and asset allocation as the primary drivers of investor returns and thrives on achieving meaningful results and providing considered counsel to clients. Prior to Leo Wealth, Aleksey was Partner and Chief Distribution Officer at Premia Partners, a Hong Kong ETF provider. During his time there, Aleksey helped build the fastest growing ETF provider in Hong Kong, taking the firm from inception to 8th by assets in Hong Kong in 3 years. Before Premia, Aleksey held various leadership positions at iShares, including Head of APAC Fixed Income and Head of Asia ex-Japan Institutions. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he was based in BlackRock’s London, Tokyo and New York offices, helping institutions invest globally. Aleksey earned a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in Finance and General Accounting from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He is an avid rower, runner and traveler, and, most importantly, father to two beautiful girls and husband to one awesome Aussie.

Irfan Ahmad is the product lead for State Street Digital in APAC, State Street’s newest division focused on digital assets and technologies, encompassing the setup of a new integrated business and operating model to support clients’ entire digital investment cycle from pre-trade, trade, and post-trade as well as other initiatives designed to enhance the client experience. Irfan joined State Street in EMEA in December 2014, where he worked in the company’s Business Architecture function. Since then, he has worked in strategy, regulatory product development and sales in London and Hong Kong. He is now based in Singapore and leads efforts relating to digital assets in the region. Prior to joining State Street, he worked across Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) technology at Barclays Investment Bank, where he was responsible for their ‘Run the Bank’ project portfolio, service management and business continuity management in EMEA. He later joined the Algorithmic Electronic Trading Technology and Trade Processing Engine team, where he oversaw risk and control practices within EMEA. Irfan holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in economics and economic history from the University of Manchester.

Bee Lay leads the alignment and implementation of SDAX’s sustainability initiatives, policies and goals to drive the Sustainability agenda as well as to realize the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout SDAX’s markets. With a core focus on SDAX’s commitment to help transition clients towards an inclusive and resilient net-zero economy, Bee Lay is at the forefront of SDAX’s work on sustainability, advising stakeholders including asset owners and investors on climate transition, technology, innovation and wider development issues. Bee Lay brings with her more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant and has worked with both public and private sectors on value management. These include de-carbonization roadmaps, sustainability policies and processes as well as carbon accounting. She is also active in the sustainability and management consulting circles, and is a certified member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) and Senior Practising Management Consultant (SPMC). An environmental chemist by training, Bee Lay received her Bachelor of Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Master of Science from the University of Brighton, United Kingdom.

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 – first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now Thomson Reuters) to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also started the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David’s College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. And is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Lasanka is the chief operating officer at Independent Reserve. He oversees the operations and growth at Independent Reserve (established in 2013), Australia’s number 1 crypto exchange and the first crypto exchange in Singapore to receive a licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Before joining Independent Reserve, Lasanka’s experience spanned across markets and trading, including establishing several regulated consumer-facing financial services businesses. During his career in TradFi, Lasanka noticed the inefficiencies of foreign currency transfers and saw a huge potential in Bitcoin and the benefits the technology brings to improve people’s lives, leading him to pivot his career into the crypto space. As an early crypto adopter and avid crypto advocate, Lasanka is a regular participant at trade conferences and industry events, connecting like-minded advocates and businesses to foster the industry's growth. Lasanka resides in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two daughters but has fallen in love with Singapore. Watch this space.

Mauricio believes that wealth management should always be about transparency and honesty. His 14 years of experience as a private banker, managing portfolios for high and ultra-high net worth individuals, has taught him that success in the industry means connecting to what is most meaningful, and empowering people to live to their fullest potential. Starting his career as an entrepreneur who founded three companies, Mauricio entered private banking in Hong Kong after a successful exit – he sought to learn how to manage his own created wealth. He served as a Managing Director and as Head of the International and Independent Portfolio Management Service Desk at EFG Bank Hong Kong; Director at Bank Julius Baer Hong Kong; and became partner at Multi-Family office Carret Private. After seeing that the industry largely did not serve client needs, Mauricio discovered his lifetime mission to bring transparency and honesty to wealth management. He earned his MBA (Finance) from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and has been a strong technologist, investing in Bitcoin since 2011. Mauricio strongly believes that crypto, blockchain and Web 3.0 will dictate the future and that clients should learn, educate themselves and (eventually) invest into this asset class. Through moiq capital he has been an enthusiast, speaker and in the forefront of the intersection of traditional Wealth Management and Digital Assets.

Phillip Brett is a Director for Institutional Sales, APAC based in Singapore. Prior to Fireblocks, Phillip spent 12 years as a derivatives trader, three of which were managing a crypto trading desk at a market maker. Phillip holds a BA of Commerce from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Chris has worked in Investment Banking for over 26 years, based in the APAC region while covering clients and markets spread across the globe. Most recently he was Managing Director responsible for APAC futures execution at UBS, based in Singapore and prior to that he ran the institutional equity derivative sales desk at UBS, Lehman Brothers/Nomura and Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Sydney. His product experience ranges across FX and commodities, futures, options, structured products, volatility trading, market access products as well electronic trading of equity and derivative products.

Richard is a prolific business development professional, as well as a serial entrepreneur with a financial advisory background. At METACO, he is in charge with Tier 1 Sales and Account Management in the Asia Pacific Region. Prior to joining us, he was a business development manager at Singapore-based financial technology consultancy, Luxoft.

Christian Hsieh is the co-founder and CEO of Tokenomy, a crypto investment platform offering spot and margin trading, yield-enhancing products, crypto loans, and custody services. Tokenomy is a licensed money broker with approval to conduct digital financial services under the Labuan Financial Services Authority in Malaysia. Prior to this role, Christian was the Chief Financial Officer of INDODAX, the largest regulated digital asset exchange in Indonesia. He has been following the cryptocurrency sector since 2013 and is knowledgeable about bitcoin, crypto assets, blockchain technology, and its various applications. Christian is also on the board of the IDK Foundation, the issuer of an Indonesian Rupiah stablecoin on the blockchain. Christian is a former Executive Director at J.P. Morgan based in Singapore. As a financial advisor, he provided investment consulting services and built partnerships with entrepreneurs and leading enterprises in Southeast Asia. Christian holds an MBA from Brigham Young University. He is an active investor in technologies and social ventures.

Thierry Beck is the founder and Group CEO of SingAlliance. Thierry has over 2 decades of experience in private banking, asset management and wealth management. He first started his career in 1993 in the private banking department of Swiss Bank Corporation Geneva before transferring to UBS S.A. after the merger. In June 2004, armed with his extensive experience in managing the wealth of High Net Worth Private individuals as well as Institutional clients, Thierry started his new endeavour as an independent asset manager and held the position of Executive Managing Director at a Swiss-based firm. Founded in 2011, SingAlliance has expanded beyond Singapore with offices in Geneva, Hong Kong and Dubai.

Vipul is the Global Product Manager for Digital Assets with Standard Chartered Wealth Management business. In addition, he manages wealth product lines of FX and Lending for the Singapore business. He has over 15 years of experience in various functions within Wealth Management spanning sales, advisory, product management and platform design for major financial institutions as well as family offices. He has driven the digital agenda for Wealth Management across traditional asset classes and services. Currently, he is implementing the strategy for digital assets and their applicability in Wealth Management at StanChart. He is excited about the possibilities that digital assets can create in the space of Wealth Management - emerging as an alternative investment asset class, a novel revenue stream for businesses and enabling economies of scale for products that are otherwise inaccessible to most investors.

Aleksey Mironenko is Global Head of Investment Solutions at Leo Wealth, an independent global wealth advisor. Based in Hong Kong, Aleksey is responsible for constructing client portfolios and overseeing the firm’s investment function. He is a strong believer in cost-efficient portfolio construction and asset allocation as the primary drivers of investor returns and thrives on achieving meaningful results and providing considered counsel to clients. Prior to Leo Wealth, Aleksey was Partner and Chief Distribution Officer at Premia Partners, a Hong Kong ETF provider. During his time there, Aleksey helped build the fastest growing ETF provider in Hong Kong, taking the firm from inception to 8th by assets in Hong Kong in 3 years. Before Premia, Aleksey held various leadership positions at iShares, including Head of APAC Fixed Income and Head of Asia ex-Japan Institutions. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he was based in BlackRock’s London, Tokyo and New York offices, helping institutions invest globally. Aleksey earned a Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in Finance and General Accounting from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He is an avid rower, runner and traveler, and, most importantly, father to two beautiful girls and husband to one awesome Aussie.

Michele is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway, the largest digital wealth manager in SEA and MENA. Michele spent the first half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, as Managing Director at Rocket Internet and later as Group CEO of ZALORA, where he was responsible for it growing 15x and becoming the undisputed leader in the South East Asian fashion ecommerce market. Michele holds a BA from Bocconi University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Steve is a Swiss national who now calls Singapore home. He joined Swiss-Asia in January of 2008, and has 20 years’ experience working in the Trading, Wealth Management and Alternative Funds space. Before joining the Swiss-Asia team, Steve spent 10 years as the Head of Trading and Treasury for Swissquote Bank in Geneva. Steve specialises in translating business goals and visions into actionable, profitable and sustainable business lines. He conceptualises and builds Swiss-Asia’s projects from the ground up, handling all required negotiation and structuring of deals throughout the Asian market. He is an innovator who delivers solid projects in which he is responsible for all aspects of risk, compliance, finance and operations. Steve is a respected industry expert whose dedication to Swiss-Asia’s delivery of excellence, integrity, and financial independence garner many invitations to speak regarding the current climate and future of Wealth Management and Alternative Investments. He is a frequent lecturer at the Singapore Management University (SMU) MBA Class and guest speaker at many International Wealth Management Conferences and Forums throughout Asia. In addition to his role as COO & Managing Partner for Swiss-Asia, Steve is the President of the Association of Independent Asset Managers in Singapore (AIAM). AIAM is committed to the growing Independent Asset Management Industry and its role in strengthening Singapore’s economy. Steve is also registered as a Professional Director with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and sits on the board of Directors of a large panel of Hedge Funds.

Rajeev works in HSBC Securities Services Digital product in support of the overall digital agenda of HSBC Securities Services. He has been primarily involved in developing the capability to service Digital Assets and is engaged with Clients, Financial Market infrastructure providers to create solutions for custody, issuance and asset servicing for digital assets and tokenizing traditional assets. Rajeev is with HSBC Securities Services since April 2018 and prior to that he spent 10 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in various leadership positions in Global Markets Technology and Securities Operations transformation teams in Asia. He is a business technologist with a keen eye for exploring the effective use of emerging capabilities of technology in Markets & Securities Services. He has worked with Broker Dealers and Securities Services Technology providers for over 22 years (in India, Japan and Singapore) across a range of Innovation, Technology, Data, Change and Service delivery roles. His focus has been on business transformation and he has deep experience in business domain and technology strategy, transformation and cost optimization. He led the technology teams and innovation work streams to drive change led by digital capabilities. Rajeev holds MBA (High Honour’s) from Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS-Pilani in India.

Irfan Ahmad is the product lead for State Street Digital in APAC, State Street’s newest division focused on digital assets and technologies, encompassing the setup of a new integrated business and operating model to support clients’ entire digital investment cycle from pre-trade, trade, and post-trade as well as other initiatives designed to enhance the client experience. Irfan joined State Street in EMEA in December 2014, where he worked in the company’s Business Architecture function. Since then, he has worked in strategy, regulatory product development and sales in London and Hong Kong. He is now based in Singapore and leads efforts relating to digital assets in the region. Prior to joining State Street, he worked across Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) technology at Barclays Investment Bank, where he was responsible for their ‘Run the Bank’ project portfolio, service management and business continuity management in EMEA. He later joined the Algorithmic Electronic Trading Technology and Trade Processing Engine team, where he oversaw risk and control practices within EMEA. Irfan holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in economics and economic history from the University of Manchester.

Raymond leads SDAX as CEO with over 3 decades of experience across engineering, information systems, cross asset businesses and corporate structured market solutions serving global organisations. In his 20 years at JP Morgan, he pivoted the Global Markets Cross Assets Corporate business and pioneered origination opportunities that led to innovative products and new business streams for the bank. He actively led across different businesses partnering with compliance, legal, operations, and drove digitisation efforts of trading processes with Six Sigma methodologies. Across his leadership roles at JPMorgan and previously General Electric, he has developed and mentored cross-functional teams to achieve significant revenue, productivity and business achievements through shifting economic environments. Raymond has a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University and is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He was among the senior leader graduates of the Asian Financial Leadership Program in 2018 involving top universities.

Singapore Police Force Scholar with a BEng (First Class) in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Started PT Erindo : a ship building & repair company based in Batam and was one of the biggest shipbuilding contractor in Batam. A founding member of Inquiro Consulting Pte Ltd which specializes in computer/digital forensic, claims & loss adjustment, Intelligence gathering services and corporate investigation. Independent director, designated Chairman of the Nomination Committee, providing independent judgement to bear on issues of strategy, policy, performance, accountability, resources and standard of conduct for GT Steel Construction Group Limited, a Singapore based firm listed on the GEM board, Hong Kong. Chief Operations Officer (2013 to 2015) for TAT Petroleum, a distributor of ExxonMobil. Developed the offshore sector for STX Pan Ocean, specializing in semi submersible heavy lift vessels with high profitability.

Prof PS Lee serves as the Executive Director of the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the Director of the Singapore Energy Centre (SgEC), the Director of the Centre for Energy Research & Technology (CERT) and the Programme Director of NRF-funded Cooling Energy Science & Technology Singapore (CoolestSG) national consortium. Prof Lee’s research interests include high-efficiency data centre cooling techniques (in particular single and two-phase microchannel cooling), energy-efficient air conditioning and low-grade waste heat recovery. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Energy Institute (EI) and the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES). Prof Lee is passionate about translating R&D outcomes into innovations & enterprises and have founded CoolestDC Pte Ltd to commercialise his group’s liquid cooling solutions for sustainable tropical data centres.

Sharon Yeo is a Senior Manager of Group Commercial & Supply Chain Sustainability Solutions in PSA International Pte Ltd. In her current role, she leads a team to actively pursue and realize a holistic sustainable supply chain strategy that supports PSA’s long-term global scope 3 carbon emission objectives in collaboration with stakeholders for value chain optimization and climate action collaborations. Besides the supply chain sustainability portfolio, Sharon also works closely with the key global shipping lines to drive and develop strategic relationships and partnership opportunities as part of her commercial development role. Sharon joined PSA as a Management Associate in 2011 and with over a decade experience in the port industry, she held previous roles covering operations, logistics and manpower planning and business strategy and was also previously part of the team for manpower planning for Pasir Panjang Phase 3 & 4 expansion plan.

Sudeep Chatterjee is currently Head of Product and part of the management team at AsiaNext (Asia Digital Exchange Pte Ltd), the joint venture between SBI Digital Asset Holdings Co., Ltd. (SBI DAH) and SIX Digital Exchange (SDX). AsiaNext is a trusted digital exchange for institutional investors in Asia and globally offering integrated listing, trading, and post trade services for digital assets, including digital payment tokens. Sudeep is responsible for client engagement, product strategy & roadmap, go-to-market strategy, product-market fit, product management, product commercialization, and marketing for AsiaNext globally. Before joining AsiaNext, Sudeep worked with financial institutions for 17 years covering capital markets and wealth management for multinational and regional banks such as Lehman Brothers, Barclays, Credit Suisse, and Bank Of Singapore (OCBC subsidiary) with international experience across Asia, Europe, and Americas. He has held transformation, product, and platform leadership roles in these banks, delivering solutions and innovation in trading, execution and investment advisory processes. He has strong expertise across all asset classes and functions, including trading operations, risk, product, technology, and COO/CDO office, to meet the needs of institutional, ultra-high, and high-net-worth investors. Sudeep holds a Master's degree in Financial Economics from EDHEC Business School, France, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics from University of Delhi, India. When not working on product and digital asset innovations, he enjoys activities like trekking, diving, swimming, tennis and homebrewing. Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chatterjeesudeep/ Company Website: www.asianext.com

Hao Yang heads the Options unit at Bybit which provides innovative products and services for crypto lovers - empowering them to trade digital assets at lower cost and risk. Hao’s extensive expertise in options trading and financial engineering stems from a diverse background in financial services. Before joining Bybit in 2021, Hao provided consultancy services for OKEx Options. Prior to that, he worked as a quantitative analyst modeling energy options with exotic pay-off structures at energy firm PZEM, and as a trader at Optiver, he focused on interest rates and index options. Hao began his crypto journey as a miner before building the trading system for a crypto exchange start-up. Hao holds an MSc in Finance, Duisenberg Honors Programme in Quantitative Risk Management at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Tuhina is the founder and CEO of Propine, Singapore's only licensed digital asset custody solution. Through Propine, Tuhina is helping financial institutions invest in digital assets within a regulated and safe environment. She's a thought-leader, keynote speaker and regularly advises financial institutions about navigating the Metaverse and leveraging the Web 3 opportunity. She was recently awarded the Fintech Leader award by SFF. Prior to Propine, she traded equity, forex and fixed income derivatives for financial institutions. In her last banking stint, she set up the derivates trading desk for a private bank in India from scratch. Tuhina holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Lee is the Head of Business Development at Independent Reserve. He is responsible for leading new business initiatives and strategic commercial partnerships. Lee has over fifteen years of experience in financial services and wealth management, providing strategic tax and portfolio construction advice to HNW clients. Prior to joining Independent Reserve, Lee worked in various roles at KPMG Australia, E&P Financial Group and the Department of Foreign Affairs. Lee holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Asian Studies from Australia National University and obtained his CFP certification in 2013. Lee is based in Sydney, Australia.

Julian was born and raised in Sydney Australia holding degrees in Real Estate from the UNSW, and Mandarin from BLCU. He has co-founded 8 companies, including social media, real estate investment & development, proptech and blockchain. He is focused on building key infrastructure connecting DeFi (Decentralized Finance) + TradFi (Traditional Finance) . Julian is the co-founder and CEO of InvestaX (Singapore Security Token Platform) and IX Swap (1st Automated Market Maker for security tokens/NFTs). Julian is also the host of the Infinity and Beyond Podcast. He lives in Singapore with his co-founder Alice, daughter Kennedy and two dogs Chase and Marley. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/julian2kwan.
Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliankwan/.
Company Website: www.investax.io.
Company Website: www.ixswap.io

Tuhina is the founder and CEO of Propine, Singapore's only licensed digital asset custody solution. Through Propine, Tuhina is helping financial institutions invest in digital assets within a regulated and safe environment. She's a thought-leader, keynote speaker and regularly advises financial institutions about navigating the Metaverse and leveraging the Web 3 opportunity. She was recently awarded the Fintech Leader award by SFF. Prior to Propine, she traded equity, forex and fixed income derivatives for financial institutions. In her last banking stint, she set up the derivates trading desk for a private bank in India from scratch. Tuhina holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Bee Lay leads the alignment and implementation of SDAX’s sustainability initiatives, policies and goals to drive the Sustainability agenda as well as to realize the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout SDAX’s markets. With a core focus on SDAX’s commitment to help transition clients towards an inclusive and resilient net-zero economy, Bee Lay is at the forefront of SDAX’s work on sustainability, advising stakeholders including asset owners and investors on climate transition, technology, innovation and wider development issues. Bee Lay brings with her more than 25 years of experience as a management consultant and has worked with both public and private sectors on value management. These include de-carbonization roadmaps, sustainability policies and processes as well as carbon accounting. She is also active in the sustainability and management consulting circles, and is a certified member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) and Senior Practising Management Consultant (SPMC). An environmental chemist by training, Bee Lay received her Bachelor of Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Master of Science from the University of Brighton, United Kingdom.