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Kathryn Petralia is the President and Co-Founder of Kabbage, a leading global financial services, cash-flow technology and data platform for small businesses.
Before co-founding Kabbage, Kathryn spent nearly 15 years with fintech and ecommerce startups. After graduating from Furman University with an English degree, Kathryn pursued her interest in technology to launch a number of successful startups. She also served as Vice President of Strategy for Revolution Money, which was acquired by American Express, and was the director of corporate development for CompuCredit. In 2017, she was named to Forbes’ 2017 list of the World’s Most Powerful Women. Kathryn recently co-founded Drum, a platform reinventing sales infrastructure by connecting businesses to their ideal customers through an infinitely scalable sales force.

Kathryn serves on the boards of CARE USA, Fannie Mae Advisory Board, The Woodruff Arts Center, Padsplit, Rented.com, and the Atlanta Chamber Music Festival.

Background
• Founder and Chairman, Atom Bank plc
• Founder and Chairman, Metro Bank plc
• Co-founder and Chairman, the Financial Services Forum
• Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation and Enterprise, Newcastle Business School
• Chairman and co-founder, 86 400

Anthony Thomson is the founder and former Chairman of not one, but two disruptive banks in the UK. Metro Bank, the UK’s first new bank in 150 years and Atom Bank, the UK’s first bank for mobile.

He’s raised in excess of $1billion in capital over the course of his career and is a highly respected financial services expert worldwide. He has served as the Goldman Visiting Professor for Innovation and Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and is the co-author of No Small Change: Why Financial Services Needs A New Kind of Marketing.

As Chair of 86 400, he brings his extensive experience in the financial industry and a hunger to shake up the banking landscape in the Australian Market.

Mr. Tang studied mathematics at Peking University, and gained a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of the South (Sewanee) in the US. In 2018, he was awarded the honorary doctorate degree of the University of the South (Sewanee) for his outstanding achievements in the fintech field. During his early career, Mr. Tang joined Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked on IPO, bond issuance and M&A in the areas of financial services, telecommunications, media and technology.

Mr. Tang founded CreditEase in Beijing in 2006. After efforts of 14 years, CreditEase has grown into an internationally leading fintech enterprise, promoting the development of inclusive finance and wealth management career in China. On December 18, 2015, CreditEase listed its online consumer finance and wealth management subsidiary, Yiren Digital, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:YRD), the first fintech company IPO from China in the global capital markets.

Mr. Tang serves as Chairman of Beijing Internet Finance Association and the member of Specialized Committee for Funds of Funds of China Securities Investment Fund Industry Association, Global Leadership Committee of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Shanghai Finance Institute. In September 2018, Mr. Tang was appointed financial advisor of Xi'an Municipal People's Government. CreditEase serves as member of Standing Committee of National Internet Finance Association of China as well as Vice Chairman of China Micro-credit Companies
Association. Invited by the Singapore Government, as from November 2018, Mr. Tang will sit on its International Technology Advisory Panel to advise Fintech developments. Mr. Tang is also a member of The Wall Street Journal CEO Council and Fortune CEO Initiative. In March 2019, Mr.
Tang became the executive director of China Mergers & Acquisitions Association.

Joseph is a career international banker. He has held executive positions at NAB, ANZ, CIBC World Markets, Citibank and Lloyds Bank.

As Group Executive/Divisional CEO, NAB Business Banking from 2008-14, Joseph was responsible for leading Australia’s largest and most profitable Business Bank and SME franchise.

A member of the Group Executive Committee, the Group Risk Committee and Group Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO), Joseph also chaired the Business Bank Divisional Risk Committee overseeing a loan portfolio of $220bn. At ANZ from 2000-4, Joseph developed a ‘Wall St. to Main St.’ strategy bringing advisory and private equity capabilities to the SME market.

From 2004-7, Joseph was ANZ’s Managing Director, Global Client Relationships. Joseph spent 12 years at Citi, where he had extensive credit and market risk training and held senior risk management roles. Joseph has deep customer, risk and business management experience, together with success in starting new businesses. Joseph holds a MSc (Finance), MBA, MSc International Management (China), MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies and MBA (Banking) degrees from University of London, London Business School and University of Nottingham in China and is currently studying for an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at Kings College, London. He is a fellow of FINSIA and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and authored three books: ‘Corporate Governance & Shareholder Wealth Creation’ (2003), ‘Chinese Firms Going Global – Can They Succeed? (2018) and ‘Breaking the Banks – What went wrong with Australia’s banking? (2019). Joseph is an Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland Business School, and was a member of the expert panel advising the Deans of Australian Universities on finance course content at Bachelor and Master Degree levels.

He was a Director of Football Federation Australia (FFA) from 2010-2018 and has five international football caps for Scotland at youth level.

Calvin Choi is the Chairman and CEO of AMTD Group, and the Founder and Chairman of AMTD Foundation. He is a seasoned banker with over 20 years of experience in the investment banking, international capital markets, and professional auditing sectors.

In 2017, Calvin was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was also selected by the Institutional Investor magazine as one of the global ‘‘Fintech Finance 35’’ in 2016.

Calvin currently serves as a board director of Bank of Qingdao Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 3866 and SZSE: 002948). He also serves as the director of ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN), which was founded by World Bank, Monetary Authority of Singapore, and ASEAN Bankers Association. Calvin is also appointed as the Vice Chairman of Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation, Honourable President of Hong Kong Army Cadets Association, and Vice President of Hong Kong Federation of Professions.

Calvin is the Founder and Chairman of “Regional Banks+ Strategic Cooperation Alliance”, an association which was initiated by Calvin, with a number of leading Hong Kong-listed regional banks of China as members, including Bank of Qingdao, Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank, Jiangxi Bank and Zhongyuan Bank; and the Founder and Chairman of “Greater Bay Young Entrepreneurs Association”, an organisation comprising a group of leading innovative enterprises in Greater Bay Area where its inauguration ceremony was officiated by Paul Chan, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong SAR.

Before joining AMTD Group, Calvin was formerly a Managing Director at the Investment Banking Division and a member of the Global Family Office Committee of UBS Asia. He also served as the China Chief Specialist, Asia Strategic Alliance under the Corporate and Investment Banking Division of Citigroup.

Calvin is currently a certified bank auditor and a certified public accountant in the United States. He graduated from the University of Waterloo in Canada with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree, in Chartered Accountancy Studies. He also studied in Saïd Business School, University of Oxford for Executive Education-Transformational
Leadership.

Naveen Kukreja is the CEO & Co-founder ofPaisabazaar.com - India’s largest marketplace for financial products.

Naveen has an experience of over 18 years in the financial services markets of India and Europe, having worked in leadership roles at Citibank, Capital One and Aviva Life Insurance before co-founding Paisabazaar.com under the Policybazaar Group in 2014.

Under Naveen’s strong leadership Paisabazaar.com has registered a ~170% y-o-y growth since inception and is the only independent online platform to disburse over Rs 11,000 crore of loans on an annualized basis. It also runs India’s largest credit awareness initiative by offering consumers their free credit report with monthly updates for life.

Naveen has been felicitated by Entrepreneur India as “Entrepreneur of the Year –Financial Services” & by Business World with the ’40 under 40’ award – are cognition to India’s top 40 leaders under the age of 40.

Naveen is an alumni of prestigious institutes like IIM Calcutta and the Delhi College of Engineering

Volt was the first neobank to receive an unrestricted authorised deposit taking institution (ADI) licence from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). Volt aims to transform the way that banking is done - to help customers be better off and live their life to the fullest.

Steve has over 30 years’ experience in financial services, including leadership roles at St George, Challenger, NAB and Barclays.

Prior to founding Volt Bank, Steve was CEO Mortgages and Managing Director of Retail Lending at Barclays in UK.

Jonathan Larsen is now Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.

Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in
Revenues and spanning 19 countries. He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for the last 29 years across the Asia Pacific region and
globally. He brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. He has led multiple large-scale,
successful businesses across a wide range of markets and has extensive experience in negotiating and managing partnerships and M&A transactions.

Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton where he spent eight years
advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe.

Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and was named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker
magazine. He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the
Economist as well as local media throughout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

Ramin founded finleap – the leading fintech ecosystem in Europe – in Summer 2014. As Founder & CEO he is among others responsible for
strategy, communications and group development. Acting as an active sparring partner and shareholder for finleap’s numerous founding teams,
Ramin is forging an ecosystem of leading Fin- and Insurtechs. Built on one vision: making finance 100% digital. Ramin is also a member of the
advisory board of solarisBank.

Previously, Ramin was Innovation Manager at DKB Deutsche Kreditbank AG, where he led the bank’s electronic and mobile payment innovation
projects alongside PayPal, Sofortüberweisung and Cringle. He holds a degree in Economics and at the age of 24, was named one of Deloitte
Consulting’s youngest Senior Consultants. Ramin was elected by Forbes Magazine into the Top 30 young shapers of finance in Europe (#30under30) and by Capital, Germany’s leading business magazine, as “Junge Elite – top 40 unter 40” (“Young elite – top 40 under 40”) in 2016 and 2017. Handelsblatt named him among the 100 smartest people in Germany

William Li is the Founder and CEO of Akulaku. Since founding Akulaku is 2014, he has grown the company to one of the largest and most well-funded financial technology groups in Southeast Asia with businesses including digital banking, BNPL, wealth management, and digital insurance. Before Akulaku, William was an investment management at PingAn Investment and a lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons. William graduated from Washington and Lee University with a M.A. in Law and Tsinghua University with a B.A. in Law.

Alokik leads as the Managing Partner at Fidelity International Strategic Ventures. This team builds and invests in innovative strategic financial services companies and technologies, including Moneybox, Kuvera, Clear, Conquest and SteelEye. He joined Eight Roads after ten years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Head of Principal Strategic Investments, APAC, based in Hong Kong. Prior to that Alokik spent time at Merrill Lynch in London and New York. He has a BA in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA from INSEAD.

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As the Co-founder and CEO of Lendingkart, Harshvardhan Lunia plays an imperative role in building and scaling a world-class team that designs innovative credit solutions and delivers growth for MSMEs. An exemplary leader and a pioneer at heart, Harshvardhan has always been driven by the passion of small business owners who despite being creditworthy were not served by existing lenders. 

With a vision to implement technology and enable easy MSME financing, Harshvardhan co-founded Lendingkart in 2014. Harshvardhan possesses an in-depth understanding of the evolving MSME ecosystems and has over 15+ years of experience. Harshvardhan's expertise includes managing the overall business leadership and growth conversations, developing the company's strategies, focusing on new business and growth opportunities, in addition to contributing to growth projections and trends.  

Prior to Lendingkart, Harshvardhan has served as the founder & director at Domestic Finance & Investment Private Limited, where he specialized in arranging alternative modes of financing for SMEs. As the relationship manager at ICICI Bank bank earlier to that, Hashvardhan’s primary role involved interacting with clients, understanding their requirements & structuring the deals, in addition to interacting with risk, credit, legal, operations, and executions. Harshvardhan has also worked with The Standard Chartered Bank and HDFC Bank in varying capacities. 

Harsh is a Chartered Accountant and pursued his Post Graduation from ISB (Indian School business).

Marius Jurgilas has brought his experience in both academia and government to the important role of Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania with responsibility for supervision, payment systems and research. During his tenure Lithuania emerged as a top jurisdiction for fintech companies within the EU under the leadership of the Bank of Lithuania, forging Mr. Jurgilas' reputation as a leading European thinker on the future of banking.

Joey Kim is the Founder and CEO of PeopleFund, Korea's #1 digital lender focused on consumer finance, which is opening doors to financial freedom through affordable loans and attractive alternative investment products. PeopleFund is the first and only digital lender in Korea to partner with a bank to originate and process loans within the national banking system.

Prior to founding PeopleFund in 2015, Joey was a venture capitalist working at Softbank Ventures, focusing on the internet/mobile industry. Prior to that, Joey started his career in the Corporate Finance team at Macquarie Securities' Investment Banking Division. After his experience in banking, Joey spent five years in management consulting at Bain & Company, conducting multiple corporate M&A, vision & portfolio strategy, and operation reengineering projects, from both the Seoul and Boston office.

Joey recently served as the President of the Korean Fintech Industry Association (KORFIN), an organization established for the advancement and growth of the fintech and Korean P2P finance industry. It is the official association affiliated to the Financial Services Commission. The association is currently made up of nearly 300 Korean FinTech companies ranging from payment services, blockchain, P2P lending, crowdfunding, Insurer Tech, and more.

Joey received his Bachelor’s in business from Korea University

Caecilia is the Co-Founder and CEO of YouTrip, a regional financial technology company dedicated to creating a next-generation digital banking experience in Asia.

Prior to founding YouTrip, Caecilia worked at Citibank overseeing growth investments in the consumer and technology sectors in the Southeast Asian and China regions. Additionally, Caecilia worked as a consultant at McKinsey, advising financial institutions across Asia on market entry, customer segmentation, and retail product strategies. Caecilia’s fintech experiences prior to YouTrip include positions at Lufax, China’s leading online wealth management platform, and QF Pay, Beijing based payments company backed by Sequoia China.

Caecilia has a MBA from Harvard Business School, and a bachelor degree (summa cum laude) from The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

Nick Hungerford is a Partner at Portag3 Ventures and is based in Southeast Asia. He is also the founder of Nutmeg, Europe's leading online investment management service and led the company from an idea through development and $100M of funding. Nick is a digital ambassador for the UK Department of International Trade, a member of the European Power 50 and recipient of Spears Entrepreneur of the year award.

He previously worked at Barclays in areas of product, trading and wealth management and was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin PLC. Nick was a founding Director of Innovate Finance, the association representing the UK’s global FinTech community and an advisor to and investor in a number of technology-led startups.

Nick obtained an Undergraduate degree from Exeter University in the UK and holds an MBA from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute and a member of the Global Entrepreneur Program. Nick is a volunteer teacher at several UK universities in the subjects of behaviour finance and entrepreneurship.

As Founder & Executive Chair of 10x Future Technologies, Antony defines our purpose - making banking 10x better.

Antony is committed to driving the digital economy beyond the boundaries of 10x; he serves as Group Chairman of Currencies Direct, the leading UK non-bank provider of foreign exchange and international payment services, a board member of Blockchain, the world’s leading software platform for digital assets, and Board Director for US mortgage lending giant Fannie Mae.

Additionally, Antony is committed to advancing digital education and skills in the workforce; his dedication to the advancement of learning is recognised in his role as
Chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, an employer-led organisation established to promote high-quality apprenticeships by 2020.
Before creating 10x, Antony served as Group CEO of Barclays plc for three years.

Neobank addict, Alex was part of the team who built Egg, is the Founder and CEO of Shift Happens Group, Co-founder of Australian unicorn, Judo Bank, Co-founder of UBank, Board Adviser and investor in multiple fintechs, including Douugh.com, Spriggy.com.au, Alex.com.au and Appeggio.com

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Yashish Dahiya is the co-founder & CEO of PolicyBazaar.com. In over 12 years, Yashish has grown PolicyBazaar to become a key influencer in consumer decisions around insurance. He believes death, disease, and disability products are the future of the insurance industry, as  India strives towards social security. He is an avid sportsperson and has worked in the past as MD of  Ebookers Plc and consultant with Bain & Co in their London office.

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Rohan Kumar is the co-founder and CEO of Toffee Insurance– micro insurance for millennials. He launched Toffee Insurance in 2017 to de-jargonize and digitize the insurance buying experience for millennials, making it accessible, relevant and rewarding.

Rohan has spent 17 years in various leadership positions, spanning a range of growth-stage and fortune 500 companies across AU/NZ. Prior to launching ‘Toffee Insurance’, he has spearheaded/founded multiple startups like Ballr, Startsmall & PlayUp and most recently has been consulting clients via DesignforUse - a product innovation firm with clients worldwide.

A global citizen, he holds a Master's degree in Marketing and a BBA in International Business. Outside of work, he loves to motorcycle and spend time with his two daughters.

Elizabeth is the CEO and founder of AZA, an established provider of currency trading solutions which accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure.  By leveraging cutting edge technology in our flagship products, TransferZero and BFX, AZA is able to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA is now a market-maker in every major African currency and facilitates payments into G20 currencies directly.

Elizabeth founded the company in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya and has expanded it to 10+ markets across Africa and Europe.  Before founding AZA, Elizabeth was a rating analyst for microfinance institutions across sub-Saharan Africa, consulting for Grameen Foundation, Gates Foundation and the Acumen Fund, as well as working with regulators and policy-makers on legislation for financial innovations.  Elizabeth co- chairs the World Economic Forum‘s Council on Blockchain and holds an M.A. in International Business and Finance from Columbia University.

Mr. Lau is currently Chairman & CEO of WeSure, Tencent’s Internet insurance platform. Tencent WeSure works with leading insurance companies to select and offer insurance services to over a billion users on the WeChat and QQ platforms. Before WeSure, he was Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. and Asia Head of McKinsey Digital. Mr. Lau graduated from Oxford University with a Master degree in Engineering, Economics and Management.

Brad Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of Wave Money, a role he has held for the last five years. Wave Money is a fintech joint venture in Myanmar owned by Telenor Group, Yoma Strategic Holdings and Yoma Bank. Wave Money is the leading mobile financial services provider in Myanmar, serving millions of customers monthly across a network of more than 57,000 agents.

Previously Brad headed mobile money and innovation for Visa in Asia Pacific, North Africa and the Middle East. He has also been an emerging payments consultant to World Bank Group, working in a variety of markets including the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh and China. Prior to Visa, Brad was the founding Managing Director of Wing Cambodia, the first bank-led mobile money deployment in Asia. Brad has worked in financial services for 18 years, and is well known in the emerging payments and mobile money industry as a delivery focused executive.

Brad holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Griffith University of Australia and post-graduate business qualifications from the University of Queensland.

Angelica Anton is the Founder and Managing Partner of SILK Ventures, an investment company built for the sustainability generation, with a portfolio of investments in technology companies that address systemic challenges such as financial inclusion, digital infrastructure, and healthcare. Prior to founding SILK Ventures, Miss Anton was a senior associate at London-based QVentures, and an Advisor in the department of foreign direct investment of the Chinese Government. An Oxford University alumna with a Masters degree in China’s Political Economy, an undergraduate degree in Business and a qualification in Computer Science, Ms Anton speaks 6 languages and is also an art collector and a pianist. She was featured on Innovate Finance’s “Women in Fintech Powerlist”, sits on the Innovation Board of the UK’s Confederation of Business Industry (CBI) and that of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and has been recognised as a Forbes 30 under 30.

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台。晁晓娟女士曾在德国、日本、澳大利亚等海外国家工作学习过。拥有18年跨界经验，曾就职于500强外企、上市国企、互联网公司，筹备并参与多家保险电商公司。曾任新华保
险电子商务公司总裁助理/CTO，历任NEC、汽车之家、阳光保险、新华保险等公司高管职位，有丰富的互联网+保险+技术的融合经验，致力于用科技手段推动保险产业的发展，是保
险行业创新发展的引领者。

Saemin is Managing Partner at Rakuten Ventures. He has held this position since the fund’s inception in 2013. Based in Singapore, Saemin invests in
diverse verticals such as advertising technology, artificial intelligence and on-demand business around the world. Some of the portfolio investments he
manages include Carousell, ViSenze, Gojek, Epic!, and Algorithmia.

Danny Yeung, serves as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Prenetics Group – the leading genetics-enabled digital health company in Southeast Asia, headquartered in Hong Kong, with offices in Asia, Europe and Africa. In 4 years, Prenetics has grown into a team of 120+ people and has raised more than US$50M in funding from Alibaba and more.

Prior to Prenetics, Danny was a Founding Partner at SXE Ventures. He also founded uBuyiBuy in 2010, a company that was acquired by Groupon. Danny was appointed CEO of Groupon East Asia before leaving the company in early 2014.

Danny’s entrepreneurial journey started at the age of 25 when he ventured into franchising Hong Kong dessert chain, Hui Lau Shan by taking it to the USA. After exiting Hui Lau Shan, Danny ventured into hospitality furniture, executed projects with MGM City Center, City of Dreams Macau and The Venetian. Danny received his BS in MIS from the University of San Francisco in 2002.

It’s Danny’s mission to give people the power to be in control of their own health. His life’s motto is: “Play Hard, Work Harder”.

At Oriente, Geoffrey is responsible for global business strategy, strategic partnerships, brand, and investments. He has nearly 20 years of experience founding, scaling and investing in technology companies across international markets. 

Before this, Geoffrey spent seven years as a founding Partner at Atomico, a leading global VC firm with over US$2 billion in assets under management where he focused on sourcing new investments and working with portfolio companies on their global business development and expansion initiatives. 

In 2002, Geoffrey co-founded Skype, where he also served as Chief Strategy Officer. At Skype, he worked with a small team to build a leading global telecommunications platform company and oversaw its expansion into Asia and Latin America in addition to driving its initial business plan development and fundraising activities. He also played an instrumental role in the $3.1 billion exit to eBay Inc in 2005. 

Geoffrey holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

Anthony is Chairman of MoMo, Vietnam’s leading e-wallet. MoMo is a ‘super app’ with a wide range of use cases for mobile payments, and has integrated directly with the vast majority of the country’s banks, telcos, utilities and public services. MoMo is accepted at leading merchants across supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations, food, and retail establishments as well as for online purchases across categories like food and grocery delivery, travel and entertainment. Beyond Payments, MoMo is building out its Financial Services business to enable lending, wealth management and insurance through the platfrom. Anthony was previously President and CEO of Mynt in the Philippines, the JV between AliPay and Globe Telecom with the Ayala group locally, that operates the GCash mobile wallet. He was part of Mynt's founding leadership team from 2015 and oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and reinforced market leadership for GCash. He remains an Advisor to the Board at Mynt. Prior to Mynt, Anthony was with Citibank's Global Consumer Group for 17 years across Asia, Latin America, and the US.

Yuval is co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, the New York-based technology company that created the DAML smart contract language. DAML is the only language for
designing, writing, and deploying applications to the DLT of your choice. Digital Asset works through an ecosystem of partners to develop DAML-driven platforms
and applications, allowing you to get to market first.

Yuval co-founded the company in 2014 and served as Chief Financial Officer until 2018 and Chief Operating Officer until he was named CEO in March 2019.

As a co-founder and COO, Yuval hired the majority of the company’s executive leadership, established its presence in six countries and facilitated the acquisition of four tech startups in two years. Yuval also helped the company secure more than $150 Million in funding from 15 strategic investors and grew trusted relationships with Digital Asset’s clients and partners, including the ASX, Broadridge, and VMware. Today, the company’s partners have enabled DAML to work with multiple distributed ledger platforms, such as VMware Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth, Corda and Amazon’s QLDB and Aurora.

Prior to Digital Asset, Yuval managed an algorithmic trading desk at DRW Trading and he launched DRW Venture Capital as a member of the firm’s investment team. He also worked as a developer at Citadel.

Yuval has a bachelors of science in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is based at the company’s headquarters in New York City.

Claire Calmejane began her career in 2006 in the Technology Transformation department of Capgemini Consulting, where she supported companies and especially financial institutions in their technological and digital transformation. Contributing to a study on the digital transformation of large companies led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, she joined the London office of Capgemini to lead the digital centre of the Financial Services sector. Recruited in 2012 by Lloyds Banking Group as Head of Digital Delivery in the Online Services Department, she was appointed Innovation Director and set up the Innovation Labs and the Digital Academy before being appointed Risk Transformation Director at Lloyds Banking Group.

In September 2018, Claire Calmejane joined Societe Generale as Group Chief Innovation Officer. She is a member of the Group’s Management Committee
Claire Calmejane studied IT Engineering with a degree from the École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées (EPITA) and a Masters degree from the HEC French school of management.

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Van leads Xinja's neobank technology and consulting business and is Fintech Australia's 2019 Female Fintech Leader of the Year. She is an expert in business
strategy and customer experience disruption, having worked across financial services, telco, energy and education sectors. Her experience spans public policy, regulatory strategy, business and product development, operational excellence, leadership and resilience programs and organisational change and transformation. Van has an MBA, is a former lawyer, regulator and lecturer at UNSW. She has also served on SDN Children’s Services’ research and ethics committee since 2013.

Mr. Schoneburg is one of the world’s leading and multi award winning AI experts and AI pioneer in many fields. He was a former German professor for industrial applications of artificial intelligence(AI) in the 1980’s and 1990’s.

He graduated from Free University in Berlin with a MSc in Mathematics. Mr Schoneburg has successfully launched over 20 AI companies in Europe, USA and Asia. Among others, he founded Artificial Life Inc, listed it on NASDAQ in 1998 and was its Chairman and CEO for over 20 years. He has written 5 lecture books about AI and over 150 scientific and popular science articles.

Mr Schoneburg is currently the CEO of Brain-Net and develops innovative brain-computer interface technologies and products.

Charles, French Citizen, is the Founder & CEO of HiNounou. He is a serial Entrepreneur in France and China. In January 2018 he was named, by French President Emmanuel Macron, as one of the top 3 French entrepreneurs in AI in China where he is based. Charles graduates from University of Oxford, UTC, HEC Paris. His Dream is to help the seniors to live Longer, Healthier and Happier at HOME and Bring Peace of mind to their children who live far away from them.

After a combined 12Y R&D in US, Canada, France and China, he launched the first disruptive AI Blockchain EHealth Data Platform for home telemedicine dedicated to 250 million seniors in China with AXA-Pingan. This Dream was born in his pain to help his widowed mother who lives far away from him. In 2013, he called his mother and she said I’m fine, don’t worried. But later his brother told Charles that she felt down and went to hospital for surgery. He sadly realized that he was blind about her health status asking himself: How is it possible to take care of our parents when we live afar? Motivated by his love, he gathered a Dream Team to achieve this humanistic Dream and deliver a preventative-predictive digital health platform that combine {Bio-Med-Insur}TECH and blockchain/Cloud data. HiNounou delivers his solution in Asia, Europe, US and Middle East. He is looking for partners to impact the world in home Senior&Chronic care.

Daniel is the Founder and Managing Director of Active Creation Capital, a family office.  

Prior to that, he served as the Group Chief Innovation Officer at Ping An Group from 2013-2017.  In that role, Daniel was one of the chief architects in driving growth through innovation and technology.  He was responsible for forging strategic partnerships, identifying new business opportunities, overseeing relationships with key global research institutions, and supervision of Ping An Ventures.  Daniel was both an executive and standing committee member reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Peter Ma.  In addition, he was the co-lead for Ping An's AI and blockchain initiatives.  Today, Ping An is the largest non-SOE in China, ranked 7th on the Forbes Global 2000, and the world's number one insurance company by market cap, revenue, and customers. 

Before joining Ping An, Daniel was the Group CIO of the largest commercial bank in Taiwan as well as leading one of the largest payments entities in Asia.  Furthermore, he was on the founding advisory team of the first internet company from China to list on Nasdaq.  

Daniel has enjoyed a distinguished career spanning four decades in leading and advising companies in digital media, sports, technology and financial services.  Today, he serves in board and advisory roles with leading global funds, Fortune 500 companies and tech startups in Asia, U.S. Europe and Israel.

Leo is the Co-Founder and Croup CEO of Crowdo. Crowdo is a leading neobank for micro and small medium enterprises in emerging markets. It’s strength lies in the digitalization of supply chain activities, facilitated by an advanced digital banking platform, a first of its kind AI-powered credit scoring engine, and product and services driven by ESG principles. Crowdo is fully licensed by the financial regulators in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.

Leo started his career with McKinsey & Company at the Tokyo Office later moving to its South East Asia complex while based in Thailand. During his time with the firm, Leo focused on technology, new businesses/ ventures, operations and turnarounds and supply chain related studies across emerging Asia. After graduating from the Firm he joined Diageo as their Strategy Lead for the Asia Pacific region focusing on strategy, innovation, M&A, go-to-market related projects.

Leo holds a Masters degree from INSEAD, and BA in Law from Keio University. He is a Japanese Citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident and currently based in the Lion City.

Renaud is the co-founder and CEO of Upgrade, Inc. a neobank that offers affordable and responsible credit to mainstream consumers. Under his leadership, Upgrade reached $100 million in revenue run rate, profitability and a billion-dollar valuation within 3 years of launch. Upgrade is the only neobank backed by one of the world’s top 10 largest banks. Prior to Upgrade, Renaud founded and ran Lending Club for 10 years. He took the company public, reaching a market capitalization of $10 billion in December 2014. At Lending Club, Renaud pioneered consumer fintech and grew the company to become the largest provider of
personal loans in America.

Renaud was ranked #23 in Bloomberg Markets’ 2015 Most Influential List, an annual ranking of the World’s top 50 most influential leaders across technology, finance, and politics. He was also recognized at the Clinton Global Initiative by President Clinton for expanding access to affordable and responsible credit. In 2014, he won the Economist Innovation Award in the consumer products category and was named the best start-up CEO to work for; by Business Insider. Renaud holds the Newport-Bermuda world speed sailing record.

Since 2016, Brian has been the Executive Director of Hyperledger, a project hosted at the Linux Foundation. He also volunteers on the boards of directors of the Mozilla Foundation (since 2003) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (since 2013) and chairs the Technical Advisory Board at ID2020. Brian's career has switched between starting early web and open source companies (Wired Magazine, Organic and CollabNet), to working for the White House 2009-2010 and as Chief Technology Officer at the World Economic Forum. Brian lives on a farm with chickens and goats, and once took a day trip to Antarctica.

Norris is Founder & CEO of the global banking service Monese. Monese was launched in 2015 by Norris, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country. Monese gives people the financial freedom to thrive anywhere, and is for the hundreds of millions of people who live some part of their life in another country - whether it’s for travel, work, business, study, family, or retirement. With its mobile-only multi-currency current account, its portability across 31 countries, and both the app and its customer service available in 14 languages, Monese allows people and businesses to bank like a local across the UK and Europe.

Since 2008, Norris has co-founded and built a number of financial and technology companies in the UK. Norris is passionate about financial education and is founder of the Artha Foundation, a charity that promotes financial literacy in schools.

Martha Sazon is the President & CEO of Mynt, which operates GCash. Previous to the role, Martha was a Senior Vice President at Globe as Head of the Broadband Business. With more than 20 years experience in various industries like food, OTC drugs and personal care, she is highly experienced in transforming organizations and businesses. In her 12 years in Globe, she has led various businesses such as Postpaid Mobile, Small and Medium Business, and Broadband. She has pioneered and executed breakthroughs, all anchored on addressing important customer needs such as the customizable plans in postpaid, Introducing tech solutions for SME’s, even created a new industry category in prepaid via the highly successful Globe Home Prepaid Wifi, while building agile and digital capabilities.

Martha has attended and finished IMD and INSEAD executive programs and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting (Cum
Laude), from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

Sergio Furio is CEO and Founder of Creditas, the main secured lending platform in Brazil. He was born in Spain and before moving to Brazil, worked as an Investment Banker at Deutsche Bank in Madrid for 5 years, then he moved to NY to join The Boston Consultant Group, where he worked for 7 years advising global financial institutions in strategic planning, product strategy and technology transformation. He co-founded the Brazilian Digital Credit Association, is a board member of HBS Alumni Angels in Brazil, Endeavor’s Entrepreneur, active angel investor, triathlete and marathon runner.

Staci Warden is the executive director of Global Market Development at the Milken Institute, where she leads strategic initiatives on developing capital markets, innovative finance, FinTech for financial inclusion, and access to capital. She co-founded a global program with the International Finance Corporation to train and mentor policymakers in financial policy, now in its fourth year.

Prior to the Milken Institute, she spent six years with JPMorgan in London, where she led its public sector client franchise in EMEA and two years in New York on the sovereign Debt Capital Markets team. Before JPMorgan, Warden was a director at the Nasdaq, where she ran its two markets for micro-cap companies. At the U.S. Treasury, she ran its international debt-for-nature restructuring program. She was the startup COO of the Center for Global Development, and prior to that worked as a senior economist at the Carnegie Endowment and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Warden has worked in over 50 countries and has served as a ministerial-level advisor on capital market development, sovereign-wealth management, and poverty reduction. She chairs the Board of the Rwandan Capital Markets Authority and sits on the Boards of the Global Blockchain Business Council and the Energy for Growth Hub.

Chibo Tang has been investing in early stage companies in the technology and media sectors in China for over a decade. He is Head of Hong Kong, and manages the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, for which Gobi is the exclusive General Partner. He’s led numerous investments including Airwallex, WeLab, Urban Revivo, Prenetics, GOGOVAN, Qupital, DayDayCook, AQUMON, and Sandbox VR.

Chibo is recognized in the industry as Silicon Dragon Venture Capitalist of the Year 2017,
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star 2019, Global Corporate Venturing Emerging Leader 2020, and is a member of The Tatler Tribe for Gen.T. Chibo received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard. He received his MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Chibo began his career as
strategy consultant with Monitor Group, focusing on ASEAN and MENA regions. He also spent time at Robert Bosch as Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy APAC.

Chibo joined Gobi Partners China in 2009 and is currently a Partner based in Hong Kong.

Bradley Leimer is Co-Founder of Unconventional Ventures, which connects founders to funders, provides mentorship to entrepreneurs, advisory to corporates, and broadens opportunities for diversity within the financial services ecosystem. Anyone with great ideas should have a chance to succeed.

Bradley’s personal mantra is to help make banking better. Over his twenty-five years in financial services, he’s done this through ongoing consumer advocacy and through evangelizing engagement banking strategies that achieve both customer intimacy and scale. A critical component of these efforts is understanding consumer behavior and technology and predicting how these will impact banking's evolving business model. Through leveraging his relationships throughout the fintech ecosystem, his teams have consistently helped deliver innovative customer centric banking solutions.

As the former Head of Innovation at Santander (US), he helped connect the bank to the fintech ecosystem and his team served as an observatory for the global organization for trends originating in the U.S. that had potential to accelerate globally. Bradley has added additional perspective leading marketing and technology teams and projects within the bank and credit union industry and from a decade driving database marketing and analytic programs.

Bradley writes and speaks about banking and technology trends, and advises corporates, startups, accelerators and key industry conferences in the financial services space. He is based in San Francisco.

Michele Ferrario is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of StashAway, a Singapore-based digital wealth management platform.

Michele spent half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and then as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, most recently as Group CEO of ZALORA, where he was responsible for it growing 15x and becoming the undisputed leader in the market.

Michele holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and in 2016 was invited by Singapore’s Minister of Finance to be a member of the Singapore's Committee for
the Future of the Economy.

Todd Schweitzer is co-founder and CEO at Brankas, the leading Open Banking technology provider in Southeast Asia. Todd has held senior roles in private equity and management consulting, spanning technology, the public sector, and financial services.

Todd founded Brankas in 2016 to address the technology gaps that hindered fintech-bank partnerships. Launching first in Indonesia, Brankas provides Open Banking technology to banks, insurers, mobile wallets, alternative lenders, and other suppliers and users of financial services APIs. The company has since expanded to the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore, and its technology has enabled new fintech products and partnerships that serve millions of users around the region.

Todd is closely involved with global Open Banking policy development. He has led technical workshops and provided draft policy guidelines for central bankers, financial institutions, and industry associations across the Asia-Pacific region.

Representing Brankas, Todd serves on the Strategic Advisory Council for the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN/APIX), a global Open Banking innovation lab created by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, International Finance Corporation, and the ASEAN Bankers Association.

Todd grew up in Southern California and attended the University of California, Irvine, earning dual Bachelor's degrees with honors in Economics and International Studies. He obtained a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government with a focus on economic development policy. Prior to launching Brankas, Todd was a management consultant with Booz and Company and PwC Strategy&, advising financial services and public sector clients in the US, Latin America, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, helping develop tourism operations for a newly designated national park. Todd currently resides in Manila, Philippines.

现年45岁， 于2016年加入本集团， 担任总经理，负责本集团商业策略与分析、以及科技应用。李先生拥有逾20年高端统计分析经验，曾在多间领先的商业数据分析公司负责咨询及管理工作。

Yinglan founded Insignia Ventures Partners in 2017. Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia and manages more than US$350 million from sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia. He also serves on the International Board of Stars – Leaders of the Next Generation, the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and is a Board Member at Hwa Chong Institution.

Shinichi Takatori is the Founder & CEO of Kyash Inc. Prior to founding Kyash, he worked as a strategic consultant at Kurt Salmon US Inc., B2C centered consulting firm after working at corporate strategy of SMBC for establishing overseas branches and developing partnerships with foreign banks.

Vartika Ambwani has extensive experience in various areas in the technology ecosystem and is an early FinTech leader. She’s currently a Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank’s FinTech Growth team which focuses on post-Series A venture-backed companies with annual revenues between $5M and $75M. Vartika is responsible for business development and portfolio management which involves sourcing and managing relationships with founders, C-level executives, VC/PE investors, Corporate VCs, and industry influencers. She also focuses on commercial lending which includes origination, structuring, pricing, and deal diligence for venture debt deals, and working capital lines including warehouse credit facilities.

Prior to SVB, Vartika led Operations at two late-stage (Series B and Series C) FinTech startups in San Francisco, California. Prior to FinTech, Vartika served in various banking roles in Toronto, Canada. In addition to industry experience, Vartika is actively involved in the startup community and serves as an Advisor/Mentor to several VC firms and accelerators including First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Alchemist Accelerator, and Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center where she advises founders/CEOs on fundraising, capital management, go-to-market, partnerships, product expansion, and growth strategies.

Vartika is a CPA, CMA (Ontario, Canada) and completed her degree in Business Management from Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto,
Canada.

Dato’ Ng Wan Peng is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). MDEC is a government-owned agency to pioneer the transformation of Malaysia’s digital economy, responsible for the development, coordination, and promotion of Malaysia’s digital economy, information and communications technology (ICT) industry, and the extensive use of ICT in Malaysia. 

As the COO, she is responsible for strategic execution of MDEC’s initiatives to drive the development of the digital economy, including attracting investors, catalysing industry-driven digital ecosystem, building critical enablers of the digital economy, and driving inclusive adoption of technology. 

She has more than 25 years’ ICT Industry experience, including startups and managing large-scale projects,  in the areas of Strategic Planning, Project Management, Systems Integration, and digitalization.  Dato’ Ng has been consulted for both private and public sector organizations in IT policy and project implementation across public, private and education sectors in Malaysia and abroad.

Dato’ Ng Wan Peng has a Bachelor of Computer Science from Universiti Sains Malaysia. In 2019, Dato’ Ng Wan Peng completed her Senior Executive Leadership Programme from Harvard Business School. 

In 2015, Dato’ Ng Wan Peng was conferred Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri (D.S.P.N) by the Head of State of Penang in recognition of her outstanding leadership, dedication and continuous contributions to drive and expand digital economy’s footprint in Malaysia and globally. 

鲍捷博士，文因互联CEO，联合创始人。爱荷华州立大学（Iowa State University）博士，伦斯勒理工学院（RPI）博士后，麻省理工学院（MIT）分布式信息组（DIG）访问研究员。曾任三星美国研发中心研究员，曾任 W3C OWL(Web本体语言)工作组成员，参与撰写了OWL2 知识图谱语言国际标准。现任W3C（万维网联盟）顾问委员会委员、中国中
文信息学会语言与知识计算专业委员会委员、金融知识图谱工作组主席、中文开放知识图谱联盟(OpenKG)发起人之一、中国计算机学会会刊编委，国际Data Intelligence杂志编委。

Prior to joining world-leading blockchain engineering firm ConsenSys, Charles was Head of Fintech with Hong Kong government department InvestHK.

He served 450+ FinTech companies and steered the growth of the Hong Kong Fintech Week to 10,000 global attendees.

Mr d'Haussy has 15 years of experience in Hong Kong private sector and holds SFC licenses 1 & 4. In 2018, Charles was elected TOP 50 & 200 Fintech influencer in Hong Kong and Asia. Charles is also the author of the book "Block Kong, 21 brilliant Hong Kong blockchain entrepreneurs".

Dr. Darko Matovski is the CEO of causaLens. The company is leading Causal AI research, a way for machines to understand cause & effect, and serves some of the most sophisticated organisations. Darko has also worked for cutting edge hedge funds and research institutions. For example, the National Physical Laboratory in London (where Alan Turing worked) and Man Group in London. Darko has a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA.

Nigel Verdon is a well known finTech entrepreneur and founded three finTech firms Evolution, Currency Cloud and more recently Railsbank. He sits on the board of FX Options Hedge fund LCJ and previously was a partner at finTech VC fund Orange Growth Capital, worked at Swiss Bank Corp (now UBS) and a director at Dresden Kleinwort Investment Bank - both banks recognised for their innovation in technology.

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Theodora (Theo) Lau is public speaker, writer, and startup advisor, whose work seeks to spark innovation to improve consumer financial well-being. As founder of Unconventional Ventures, she focuses on developing and growing an ecosystem of financial institutions, corporates, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to better address the unmet needs of consumers (e.g. older adults and gig economy workers), with keen interests in women and minority founders. As part of her work, she regularly mentors and advises FinTech startups. She is recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice for Economy and Finance, No. 1 Women in Finance by Onalytica, and Top FinTech influencer by various publications including Onalytica, Retail Banker International, and FinTech Finance. She is a host for One Vision, a podcast on entrepreneurship and fintech innovations, and runs a weekly blog on Irish Tech News. She is a speaker for top industry conferences, and contributing writer for industry publications, including Harvard Business Review, Nikkei Asian Review, and Journal of Digital Banking.

王洪涛，现任海通证券软件开发中心总经理。深耕证券期货业信息技术领域20余年，拥有丰富的系统建设及管理经验，主持了多个证券业核心应用系统建设，在《金融电子化》、《交易技术前沿》等刊物发表文章10余篇。长期致力于推动证券期货业的信息化和标准化工作，目前担任证券期货业金融科技创新中心（深圳）专家顾问、上海市国资委大数据中心专家顾问、中国计算机用户协会云应用分会副理事长等。

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