Family Office Forum 2023

Carolyn is Managing Director of Bordier & Cie Singapore and a pioneer of Malaysia's Private Banking sphere with over 20 years of experience. She was former Head of Maybank Private Malaysia, Wealth Management. Prior to joining Maybank Private, Carolyn was attached to CIMB Private Banking since its launch in 2002, with the last position held being Head of Private Banking in Malaysia. During the tenure, Carolyn had built and led teams to drive client relations, as well as expanded the Private Banking business by establishing presence in four new states - Penang, Sarawak, Sabah and Johor. She had also served at unit trust and mutual fund companies namely CIMB Principal Asset Management in Malaysia, and Templeton Management Limited, one of Canada's largest mutual funds, where she managed sales for the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Carolyn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons) in Economics from the University of Toronto and has completed various Financial Planning courses.

John Shoemaker is Senior Counsel with Butler Snow in their Singapore office. John has more than 30 years’ experience in tax, legal & regulatory compliance, and is a common law lawyer with educational emphasis on taxation, trusts & estate planning. He also has extensive experience in ensuring multi-jurisdictional compliance for fiduciary product offerings (working with multijurisdictional outside counsel & adapting products for sale in relevant jurisdictions), including product management skills to direct complex products from concept to fully operational status.

Han Wee Tan is Partner, Wealth & Asset Management Consulting, EY Singapore. He is recognised for helping clients link technology to business strategy, gain insights from data and leverage emerging technologies to improve business performance. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services, having led multiple wealth management technology initiatives and system implementations for global and local clients, across the areas of strategy, program management, as well as solution design and delivery. Han Wee holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD, as well as a M.Sc. (Financial Engineering) and a First Class B.Eng. (Electrical Engineering) degree, both from the National University of Singapore.

Spencer is part of EY’s private tax services team focusing on providing comprehensive solutions to family offices, covering areas such as tax, trusts, succession planning, family governance, operations, philanthropy etc. Prior to this, Spencer charted a career of close to 15 years with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). His most recent role involved leading the team responsible for the development of Singapore’s wealth management industry. The team’s responsibilities included assessing the tax incentive applications for family offices. As part of these responsibilities, he was closely involved in efforts to develop Singapore’s family office strategy, working with stakeholders from across the eco-system to enhance Singapore’s attractiveness to family offices from around the world. Between 2015-2017, he was also based in Beijing (China) as a representative at the MAS’s Beijing Representative Office. Spencer holds a degree in Social Sciences (with Honours) from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, where he majored in Psychology, and was part of the University Scholars Programme.

Lucia is responsible for the delivery of trust services and oversees a number of administration teams in Equiom’s Singapore office. Lucia has more than 15 years’ experience assisting family offices in senior roles, first from a corporate secretarial angle and later in her career in trust services. She has helped international clients from LATAM, Europe, China and ASEAN set up shop in Singapore, supporting their market entry and expansion in the region and beyond. For many years, she has guided the same families with family governance and their estate planning needs. Lucia holds a Masters in Law from the University of Bologna, a Master in Management and Corporate Governance, she is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, a Member of the Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore and ICA Certified Professional in Governance, Risk and Compliance. She is fluent in Italian and English.

With 30+ years of experience in ultra-high net worth wealth management, Rob co-founded and led Eton Advisors, the highly successful multi-family office that initially developed the AtlasFive platform. Rob’s passion for systems development and client service led him to establish Eton Solutions as a technology and services provider to the ultra-high net worth office. Prior to Eton, Rob held key roles at the UBS Multi-Family Office Group, the Private Asset Management Group at NC Trust Company, Arthur Andersen, and Price Waterhouse.

Kevin Hayes joined Eton Solutions in 2020. Kevin’s day-to-day responsibilities are wide-ranging, including client interactions, sales, implementation, and services. As President of Eton Solutions, Kevin also serves as a visionary leader for the company and ensures Eton Solutions’ mission drives every decision the company makes. With significant asset management experience in both the US and the UK, Kevin brings a global perspective to Eton Solutions, along with more than 30 years of experience in international financial services. Kevin’s decade-plus years of experience with listing public companies on global stock exchanges positions Eton Solutions to become a world-renowned company. Most recently, Kevin was CFO of River and Mercantile Group PLC and facilitated their efforts for a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2014. While leading this charge, he was responsible for Finance, Legal, Compliance and Operations of the Pension Advisory and Asset Management businesses. His previous experience prepared him well for that task, as he was instrumental in the spin-off and listing of MF Global on the New York Stock Exchange during his role as Finance Director and Board member of the FTSE 100 listed asset manager Man Group PLC (2007-2012). During his time with Man Group PLC, he was responsible for the finance and treasury functions in the UK, Switzerland, the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Kevin’s leadership roles in international financial services and his experience listing public companies make him an invaluable asset to the Eton Solutions executive team. Prior to these roles, Kevin spent over a decade with Lehman Brothers. He started there in 1995 as Managing Director, CFO Capital Markets, and covered the Fixed Income, Equities, and Private Client businesses before moving to the UK in 2001 to become Lehman’s International CFO (covering Europe and Asia). He further expanded his international management experience when he became Head of Productivity and Process Improvement in 2005. In this position, he co-led the Lehman India offshoring operations. Kevin started his career at Ernst & Young in New Zealand, where he started in Audit. While there, he was seconded to the NZ Securities Commission to assist in the rewrite of the Companies Act due to his accounting and legal experience. He moved to EY New York in 1989 where he became a Partner in the Financial Services practice covering publicly listed investment banks and foreign registered banks operating in the US. Kevin is a graduate of Victoria University, New Zealand, with bachelor’s degrees in both Law and Accounting. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Kevin is also a Certified Public Accountant in California.

Bryan Henning is a wealth management specialist with over 30 years of experience. He represents Eton Solutions as Senior Vice President of International Sales. Bryan is based in Singapore, where he leads Sales & Marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific region. As Senior VP of International Sales, he leads client interactions, sales, implementation, and services throughout the Asia Pacific region and supports all company operations in Singapore. Throughout his multi-decade career, Bryan has worked in banking and wealth management, leading divisions for Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Wealth, and HSBC, where he developed and managed all aspects of wealth management offerings to retail, mass affluent, HNW, and UHNW clients. While Bryan has successfully built and run wealth management and investment product and services businesses in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, the majority of his experience is based in Asia. He is a Permanent Resident of Singapore, where he currently resides, and he has Canadian and Australian roots.

Satyen has previously held senior management positions in several multinational companies and has worked all over the globe. He started his career with Grand Metropolitan PLC/The Pillsbury Company, based out of Minneapolis, MN, and served as their Director of Strategic Development. He continued his business development work in the food and beverage industry when he joined Pepsi-Cola International in New York, where he worked as Director, International Business Development. After his work with Pepsi-Cola, he relocated to Singapore to act as Managing Director for Nike Southeast Asia. He continued his career in Singapore as non-executive director at 3i PLC Asia-Pacific before setting off to found Cambridge Solutions Ltd. while being based in London. In addition to his years of experience in senior management for business development, Satyen has held a variety of board positions in different global companies. He is currently a member of the board for Neilsoft Ltd, Credo ESG and of DharmaLife. Formerly, he was a board member for ICON Aircraft Inc. He’s also founded companies: He was the co-founder and former Executive Chairman for Prescient Inc., and he was the co-founder and former Executive Vice Chairman for Cambridge Solutions Ltd. a publicly listed IT and BPO company in financial services.

For 30+ years, Murali has built and managed teams that deliver best-in-class software projects and products at Fortune 300 companies and startups worldwide. He also co-founded Digite, a Silicon Valley-based start-up that develops and sells software tools that streamline engineering collaboration. Prior to Eton, Murali held key consulting and engineering roles with DXC Technology, Xchanging, Banctec, and HCL customers including ETrade, American

Nimish comes to Eton with 25+ years of experience as an entrepreneur and in senior executive roles at listed companies across the world. Nimish leverages his deep expertise in large implementations and operations by developing and building Eton Solutions’ onboarding and client operations teams. He has put in place best-in-class methodologies and practices to allow Eton Solutions to quickly scale the operations. Prior to joining Eton, Nimish started his career at Cap Gemini and later founded several companies including ProcessMind and FirstLife. ProcessMind became a 5000 employee company with employees and customers around the world. After several M&As, ProcessMind became a part of Xchanging (listed in London) where Nimish served as part of the global executive management board.

Roxanne Davies is a senior investment professional with multi decade experience running family offices and UHNW departments within private banks. She has invested globally in all asset classes, with a particular emphasis in direct investing and alternative asset classes. She has originated, managed, operated and exited several successful direct equity investments, both in control and minority positions. Roxanne has held both public and private company board membership across various industries and countries and maintains several advisory board positions, with global family offices. She moved to Asia in 2011 to set up and run Parly Singapore - the Asian arm of a 900 year old European family based out of Switzerland. Currently she has morphed that into a licensed investment management company in Singapore, Proprietary Capital Holdings, to run family assets. She has been a speaker at multiple industry conferences, such as SALT, Milken, Campden and others, and sits on the Investment Committee board of several global family offices. She has a Masters degree in Finance and an MBA from HEC Geneva, and is fluent in 4 languages.

Vikna is a leading lawyer in the Tax, Trust & Private Wealth practices. He is regularly engaged to advise leading trust companies and ultra-high net worth families to create multi-generational structures that best address their succession planning needs, ensuring smooth transition of management and ownership of operating companies to preserve their value. Vikna is also known for his tax expertise which he honed during his time as legal counsel advising the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and he led Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP’s tax practice to clinch Singapore’s Tax Disputes and Litigation Firm of the Year by the International Tax Review 2017. Vikna has been named as one of the world’s Leading Experts in Private Client Practice by Who’s Who Legal since 2017 and ranked as a Band 1 Lawyer in Private Wealth law by Chambers Net Worth 2022. Most recently, he won “Lawyer of the Year” for Trusts and Estates in Singapore by The Best Lawyers in Singapore as well as “Private Client Lawyer of the Year” at The Asia Legal Awards. Further, he is recently ranked “Distinguished Practitioner” in tax by Asialaw Profiles 2022 and is also ranked “Leading Individual” in tax by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022.

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially Variable Capital Companies (VCCs) and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice at major Singapore law firm Shook Lin & Bok LLP. He is ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014 and top 100 lawyer in Singapore by Asia Business Law Journal in 2023. He advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds and segregated portfolio companies). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents and is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched about 100 VCCs as at May 2023. He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafts trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Woon Hum is bi-lingual (English and Mandarin), has a law degree and a MBA (Finance). He is a highly sought after speaker and speaks regularly at public conferences, forums and seminars since 2002 in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur.

Dr. Silvio Struebi is a Partner at Simon-Kucher's Hong Kong and Singapore Office. He is a member of the Global Banking Practice and heads the company's banking operations in APAC. Silvio focuses on international Private Banking and B2B Banking in Hong Kong and Singapore. Silvio has more than twelve years of consulting experience. He advises a broad array of local and global financial institutions on multiple topics, starting from monetisation and product management to market-specific implementation of growth strategies. Prior to focusing in the APAC region, Silvio served Retail, Private Banks and Asset Managers in Switzerland and Europe. Prior to joining Simon-Kucher, Silvio worked for an international Private Bank in Zurich and at a consulting start-up. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of St. Gallen and has a Masterʼs degree in business administration.

Zac has experience in all areas of international private client law including cross border tax, trust, estate, family, divorce and succession laws. Zac also has extensive experience advising in relation business family and family office governance and succession planning, and international private client regulatory laws, including the Common Reporting Standard, Mandatory Disclosure Rules, Economic Substance Rules and Beneficial Ownership Registers.

Andrew Hull is the Chief Executive of the Todd Family Office, having joined the New Zealand based family business in 2016. Andrew brings extensive financial services experience having held senior management roles in global investment banking and wealth management organisations in both Asia and London over a 15 year period. During this time he was responsible for functions spanning strategy, business management and strategic change management. Andrew counts among his achievements the establishment of multiple award-winning private banking and trust administration businesses across such diverse geographies as Japan, India and Singapore. Andrew is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration from Victoria University of Wellington.

Prior to Tsao Family Office, Bryan ran investments and product principally at Bordier & Cie and DBS Private Bank. He has managed multi asset traditional and alternative portfolios in family offices and private banks in his career of over 25 years.

Satyen has previously held senior management positions in several multinational companies and has worked all over the globe. He started his career with Grand Metropolitan PLC/The Pillsbury Company, based out of Minneapolis, MN, and served as their Director of Strategic Development. He continued his business development work in the food and beverage industry when he joined Pepsi-Cola International in New York, where he worked as Director, International Business Development. After his work with Pepsi-Cola, he relocated to Singapore to act as Managing Director for Nike Southeast Asia. He continued his career in Singapore as non-executive director at 3i PLC Asia-Pacific before setting off to found Cambridge Solutions Ltd. while being based in London. In addition to his years of experience in senior management for business development, Satyen has held a variety of board positions in different global companies. He is currently a member of the board for Neilsoft Ltd, Credo ESG and of DharmaLife. Formerly, he was a board member for ICON Aircraft Inc. He’s also founded companies: He was the co-founder and former Executive Chairman for Prescient Inc., and he was the co-founder and former Executive Vice Chairman for Cambridge Solutions Ltd. a publicly listed IT and BPO company in financial services.

Dr. Silvio Struebi is a Partner at Simon-Kucher's Hong Kong and Singapore Office. He is a member of the Global Banking Practice and heads the company's banking operations in APAC. Silvio focuses on international Private Banking and B2B Banking in Hong Kong and Singapore. Silvio has more than twelve years of consulting experience. He advises a broad array of local and global financial institutions on multiple topics, starting from monetisation and product management to market-specific implementation of growth strategies. Prior to focusing in the APAC region, Silvio served Retail, Private Banks and Asset Managers in Switzerland and Europe. Prior to joining Simon-Kucher, Silvio worked for an international Private Bank in Zurich and at a consulting start-up. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of St. Gallen and has a Masterʼs degree in business administration.

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially Variable Capital Companies (VCCs) and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice at major Singapore law firm Shook Lin & Bok LLP. He is ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014 and top 100 lawyer in Singapore by Asia Business Law Journal in 2023. He advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds and segregated portfolio companies). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents and is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched about 100 VCCs as at May 2023. He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafts trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Woon Hum is bi-lingual (English and Mandarin), has a law degree and a MBA (Finance). He is a highly sought after speaker and speaks regularly at public conferences, forums and seminars since 2002 in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur.

Roxanne Davies is a senior investment professional with multi decade experience running family offices and UHNW departments within private banks. She has invested globally in all asset classes, with a particular emphasis in direct investing and alternative asset classes. She has originated, managed, operated and exited several successful direct equity investments, both in control and minority positions. Roxanne has held both public and private company board membership across various industries and countries and maintains several advisory board positions, with global family offices. She moved to Asia in 2011 to set up and run Parly Singapore - the Asian arm of a 900 year old European family based out of Switzerland. Currently she has morphed that into a licensed investment management company in Singapore, Proprietary Capital Holdings, to run family assets. She has been a speaker at multiple industry conferences, such as SALT, Milken, Campden and others, and sits on the Investment Committee board of several global family offices. She has a Masters degree in Finance and an MBA from HEC Geneva, and is fluent in 4 languages.

John Shoemaker is Senior Counsel with Butler Snow in their Singapore office. John has more than 30 years’ experience in tax, legal & regulatory compliance, and is a common law lawyer with educational emphasis on taxation, trusts & estate planning. He also has extensive experience in ensuring multi-jurisdictional compliance for fiduciary product offerings (working with multijurisdictional outside counsel & adapting products for sale in relevant jurisdictions), including product management skills to direct complex products from concept to fully operational status.

Carolyn is Managing Director of Bordier & Cie Singapore and a pioneer of Malaysia's Private Banking sphere with over 20 years of experience. She was former Head of Maybank Private Malaysia, Wealth Management. Prior to joining Maybank Private, Carolyn was attached to CIMB Private Banking since its launch in 2002, with the last position held being Head of Private Banking in Malaysia. During the tenure, Carolyn had built and led teams to drive client relations, as well as expanded the Private Banking business by establishing presence in four new states - Penang, Sarawak, Sabah and Johor. She had also served at unit trust and mutual fund companies namely CIMB Principal Asset Management in Malaysia, and Templeton Management Limited, one of Canada's largest mutual funds, where she managed sales for the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. Carolyn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons) in Economics from the University of Toronto and has completed various Financial Planning courses.

With 30+ years of experience in ultra-high net worth wealth management, Rob co-founded and led Eton Advisors, the highly successful multi-family office that initially developed the AtlasFive platform. Rob’s passion for systems development and client service led him to establish Eton Solutions as a technology and services provider to the ultra-high net worth office. Prior to Eton, Rob held key roles at the UBS Multi-Family Office Group, the Private Asset Management Group at NC Trust Company, Arthur Andersen, and Price Waterhouse.

Zac has experience in all areas of international private client law including cross border tax, trust, estate, family, divorce and succession laws. Zac also has extensive experience advising in relation business family and family office governance and succession planning, and international private client regulatory laws, including the Common Reporting Standard, Mandatory Disclosure Rules, Economic Substance Rules and Beneficial Ownership Registers.

Spencer is part of EY’s private tax services team focusing on providing comprehensive solutions to family offices, covering areas such as tax, trusts, succession planning, family governance, operations, philanthropy etc. Prior to this, Spencer charted a career of close to 15 years with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). His most recent role involved leading the team responsible for the development of Singapore’s wealth management industry. The team’s responsibilities included assessing the tax incentive applications for family offices. As part of these responsibilities, he was closely involved in efforts to develop Singapore’s family office strategy, working with stakeholders from across the eco-system to enhance Singapore’s attractiveness to family offices from around the world. Between 2015-2017, he was also based in Beijing (China) as a representative at the MAS’s Beijing Representative Office. Spencer holds a degree in Social Sciences (with Honours) from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore, where he majored in Psychology, and was part of the University Scholars Programme.

Bryan Henning is a wealth management specialist with over 30 years of experience. He represents Eton Solutions as Senior Vice President of International Sales. Bryan is based in Singapore, where he leads Sales & Marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific region. As Senior VP of International Sales, he leads client interactions, sales, implementation, and services throughout the Asia Pacific region and supports all company operations in Singapore. Throughout his multi-decade career, Bryan has worked in banking and wealth management, leading divisions for Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Wealth, and HSBC, where he developed and managed all aspects of wealth management offerings to retail, mass affluent, HNW, and UHNW clients. While Bryan has successfully built and run wealth management and investment product and services businesses in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, the majority of his experience is based in Asia. He is a Permanent Resident of Singapore, where he currently resides, and he has Canadian and Australian roots.

Prior to Tsao Family Office, Bryan ran investments and product principally at Bordier & Cie and DBS Private Bank. He has managed multi asset traditional and alternative portfolios in family offices and private banks in his career of over 25 years.

Vikna is a leading lawyer in the Tax, Trust & Private Wealth practices. He is regularly engaged to advise leading trust companies and ultra-high net worth families to create multi-generational structures that best address their succession planning needs, ensuring smooth transition of management and ownership of operating companies to preserve their value. Vikna is also known for his tax expertise which he honed during his time as legal counsel advising the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and he led Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP’s tax practice to clinch Singapore’s Tax Disputes and Litigation Firm of the Year by the International Tax Review 2017. Vikna has been named as one of the world’s Leading Experts in Private Client Practice by Who’s Who Legal since 2017 and ranked as a Band 1 Lawyer in Private Wealth law by Chambers Net Worth 2022. Most recently, he won “Lawyer of the Year” for Trusts and Estates in Singapore by The Best Lawyers in Singapore as well as “Private Client Lawyer of the Year” at The Asia Legal Awards. Further, he is recently ranked “Distinguished Practitioner” in tax by Asialaw Profiles 2022 and is also ranked “Leading Individual” in tax by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022.

Andrew Hull is the Chief Executive of the Todd Family Office, having joined the New Zealand based family business in 2016. Andrew brings extensive financial services experience having held senior management roles in global investment banking and wealth management organisations in both Asia and London over a 15 year period. During this time he was responsible for functions spanning strategy, business management and strategic change management. Andrew counts among his achievements the establishment of multiple award-winning private banking and trust administration businesses across such diverse geographies as Japan, India and Singapore. Andrew is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration from Victoria University of Wellington.

Lucia is responsible for the delivery of trust services and oversees a number of administration teams in Equiom’s Singapore office. Lucia has more than 15 years’ experience assisting family offices in senior roles, first from a corporate secretarial angle and later in her career in trust services. She has helped international clients from LATAM, Europe, China and ASEAN set up shop in Singapore, supporting their market entry and expansion in the region and beyond. For many years, she has guided the same families with family governance and their estate planning needs. Lucia holds a Masters in Law from the University of Bologna, a Master in Management and Corporate Governance, she is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, a Member of the Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore and ICA Certified Professional in Governance, Risk and Compliance. She is fluent in Italian and English.

Nimish comes to Eton with 25+ years of experience as an entrepreneur and in senior executive roles at listed companies across the world. Nimish leverages his deep expertise in large implementations and operations by developing and building Eton Solutions’ onboarding and client operations teams. He has put in place best-in-class methodologies and practices to allow Eton Solutions to quickly scale the operations. Prior to joining Eton, Nimish started his career at Cap Gemini and later founded several companies including ProcessMind and FirstLife. ProcessMind became a 5000 employee company with employees and customers around the world. After several M&As, ProcessMind became a part of Xchanging (listed in London) where Nimish served as part of the global executive management board.

Han Wee Tan is Partner, Wealth & Asset Management Consulting, EY Singapore. He is recognised for helping clients link technology to business strategy, gain insights from data and leverage emerging technologies to improve business performance. He has over 20 years of experience in financial services, having led multiple wealth management technology initiatives and system implementations for global and local clients, across the areas of strategy, program management, as well as solution design and delivery. Han Wee holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD, as well as a M.Sc. (Financial Engineering) and a First Class B.Eng. (Electrical Engineering) degree, both from the National University of Singapore.

For 30+ years, Murali has built and managed teams that deliver best-in-class software projects and products at Fortune 300 companies and startups worldwide. He also co-founded Digite, a Silicon Valley-based start-up that develops and sells software tools that streamline engineering collaboration. Prior to Eton, Murali held key consulting and engineering roles with DXC Technology, Xchanging, Banctec, and HCL customers including ETrade, American

Kevin Hayes joined Eton Solutions in 2020. Kevin’s day-to-day responsibilities are wide-ranging, including client interactions, sales, implementation, and services. As President of Eton Solutions, Kevin also serves as a visionary leader for the company and ensures Eton Solutions’ mission drives every decision the company makes. With significant asset management experience in both the US and the UK, Kevin brings a global perspective to Eton Solutions, along with more than 30 years of experience in international financial services. Kevin’s decade-plus years of experience with listing public companies on global stock exchanges positions Eton Solutions to become a world-renowned company. Most recently, Kevin was CFO of River and Mercantile Group PLC and facilitated their efforts for a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2014. While leading this charge, he was responsible for Finance, Legal, Compliance and Operations of the Pension Advisory and Asset Management businesses. His previous experience prepared him well for that task, as he was instrumental in the spin-off and listing of MF Global on the New York Stock Exchange during his role as Finance Director and Board member of the FTSE 100 listed asset manager Man Group PLC (2007-2012). During his time with Man Group PLC, he was responsible for the finance and treasury functions in the UK, Switzerland, the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. Kevin’s leadership roles in international financial services and his experience listing public companies make him an invaluable asset to the Eton Solutions executive team. Prior to these roles, Kevin spent over a decade with Lehman Brothers. He started there in 1995 as Managing Director, CFO Capital Markets, and covered the Fixed Income, Equities, and Private Client businesses before moving to the UK in 2001 to become Lehman’s International CFO (covering Europe and Asia). He further expanded his international management experience when he became Head of Productivity and Process Improvement in 2005. In this position, he co-led the Lehman India offshoring operations. Kevin started his career at Ernst & Young in New Zealand, where he started in Audit. While there, he was seconded to the NZ Securities Commission to assist in the rewrite of the Companies Act due to his accounting and legal experience. He moved to EY New York in 1989 where he became a Partner in the Financial Services practice covering publicly listed investment banks and foreign registered banks operating in the US. Kevin is a graduate of Victoria University, New Zealand, with bachelor’s degrees in both Law and Accounting. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Kevin is also a Certified Public Accountant in California.

Bryan Henning is a wealth management specialist with over 30 years of experience. He represents Eton Solutions as Senior Vice President of International Sales. Bryan is based in Singapore, where he leads Sales & Marketing efforts in the Asia Pacific region. As Senior VP of International Sales, he leads client interactions, sales, implementation, and services throughout the Asia Pacific region and supports all company operations in Singapore. Throughout his multi-decade career, Bryan has worked in banking and wealth management, leading divisions for Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Wealth, and HSBC, where he developed and managed all aspects of wealth management offerings to retail, mass affluent, HNW, and UHNW clients. While Bryan has successfully built and run wealth management and investment product and services businesses in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, the majority of his experience is based in Asia. He is a Permanent Resident of Singapore, where he currently resides, and he has Canadian and Australian roots.