2026 Speakers

Glenn Hou is a Founding Partner at China Insights Consultancy (CIC), a leading Industry Consulting and Expert Network company. Glenn oversees CIC's overall operations and business development. He leads CIC’s consulting services, commercial due diligence, financing and IPO advisory services.

Mr. Hou possesses 20 years of consulting experience, having managed and participated in over 1,000 consulting projects. As an experienced industry consultant, Mr. Hou has indepth insights into the high growth industry sectors in China. Glenn also maintains strong collaborative relationships and close communication with stock exchanges around the world.

Mr. Hou serves as an independent Director for two listed companies:  OBIO (688238.SH) on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and  Hualan New Pharmaceutical Material (301093.SZ) on the ChiNext Board. Glenn is also a Member of the Academic Committee of the China Association for Public Companies.

Yung is the Head of Global Payments Solutions at Hang Seng Bank, bringing over 20 years of extensive experience in corporate and transaction banking. Her expertise spans a diverse range of clientele, including Large Corporates, Middle Market, SMEs, and Financial Institutions, focusing on their digital transaction banking needs.

Yung holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Monash University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and a member of CPA Australia. Additionally, Yung has earned the International Cash Management Certificate from The Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Grace Cheung is General Manager Sustainability at Cathay. Leading the Group Sustainability Department, Grace oversees sustainability strategy and ESG performance of the whole Cathay Group. Under Grace’s leadership, sustainability has changed from a standalone specialist function to an integrated strategic and operational imperative in the airline group.

During Grace’s tenure, Cathay Pacific has committed for its net zero carbon emissions goal by 2050, supported by its mid-term target for using 10% sustainable aviation fuel and 12% carbon intensity improvement by 2030. The airline has also launched the first major Corporate Sustainable Aviation Fuel Programme in Asia in 2022.

Grace has also led Cathay’s effort in circular economy, reducing its environmental footprint on materials and waste. The airline has reduced its customer-facing single-use plastic items from an average of 7.7 pieces per passenger in 2019 down to 3.1 in 2023. A new target is set to bring it down further to 1.5 pieces per passenger by 2025, supported by additional targets on recycled plastics usage and recycling rate.

Grace represents Cathay in a number of industry working groups advocating for supportive policies and best practices sharing for further development of sustainability in the airline industry. Grace was the Chair of the Environment & Sustainability Board at the oneworld alliance and the Vice Chair of the Sustainability & Environment Advisory Council at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and currently the members.

Grace Shao is an analyst and writer covering AI and technology, with a focus on Asia-Pacific and China. She publishes AI Proem, an independent subscription research publication read by thousands (13k+) of investors, executives, and industry professionals worldwide. Drawing on a decade of experience across tech journalism and strategy, including roles at CNBC and Alibaba, and advisory work with PayPal and Kuaishou. She provides in-depth analysis on how AI is reshaping companies, industries, competition, and society.

Gracy Chen is the Chief Executive Officer of Bitget, the world’s largest universal exchange, a category she helped define. Bitget serves more than 125 million users globally. Appointed CEO in 2024 following two years as the company's first Managing Director,  she has overseen Bitget’s expansion into a broader financial ecosystem integrating crypto assets, tokenized equities, commodities, and AI-native trading infrastructure.

Under Gracy’s leadership, Bitget has become one of the industry’s fastest-growing platforms, with strong institutional growth across futures liquidity, tokenized assets, and automated trading technologies. She is particularly focused on the convergence of AI, decentralized finance, and traditional capital markets and coined the term “Universal Exchange” to describe Bitget’s ambition to offer tokenized access to any asset class in the world. In parallel, Gracy serves as a lecturer at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where she teaches Crypto Finance to graduate students and researchers. Her course explores Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, stablecoins, RWAs, institutional adoption, and AI-driven crypto protocols through practical market case studies and strategic analysis. She is also a columnist for Forbes where she publishes articles on blockchain and digital finance. She was also named a WEF Global Shaper in 2015. Gracy founded the #Blockchain4Her and #Blockchain4Youth initiatives, programmes aimed at advancing gender equality and access to blockchain education.

Guillermo Ginesta is Managing Partner, Asia Pacific at Brinc, a Hong Kong-headquartered global venture accelerator and investor backing founders solving major challenges through technology. Based in Hong Kong, Guillermo leads Brinc's APAC operations across venture acceleration, corporate innovation, portfolio development, partnerships and investment activity. He works with startups, corporates, government partners and investors to move emerging technologies from pilot to adoption, with a focus spanning AI, climate and sustainability, clean energy and mobility, hardware and robotics, and impact-led venture building.

Guillermo has over a decade of experience in startup investing, accelerator operations and corporate innovation, including work with multinational companies across automotive, luxury, consumer electronics, food technology and financial services. At Brinc, he has helped build and run programs supporting startups from markets across Asia and globally. He is also an active angel investor with two exits and a regular speaker, host and moderator across Hong Kong's innovation ecosystem, including Asia Health Innovation Summit, StartmeupHK Festival, LEAP East Hong Kong and Hong Kong FinTech Week.

His perspective for HKFTW x StartmeupHK sits at the intersection of fintech, venture capital, AI and real-world technology adoption: how founders can access capital, corporate partners and cross-border pathways to scale from Asia to global markets.

Hangyu is an award-winning senior financial journalist and television host, serving as Hong Kong Bureau Chief and Chief Correspondent of Yicai Media Group. Specializing in international reporting, she has covered top global agendas including the World Economic Forum in Davos and Abu Dhabi Finance Week.

Her interviews have included senior officials from international financial institutions and influential policymakers and business leaders. She created and hosts Global Bourse Talks, China's first professional dialogue programme focused on chief executives of global exchanges, and has moderated numerous top-tier international conferences.

Hanna Raftell is a fintech and digital finance investor, advisor and entrepreneur with more than 30 years of international experience across banking, capital markets, fintech and emerging financial infrastructure.

Based in Stockholm, Hanna is Founding Partner of Stratum 3 Ventures, where she works with early-stage companies building the infrastructure connecting traditional finance with the next generation of digital financial markets. Her focus spans tokenisation, digital assets, digital identity, payments, compliance and the evolving infrastructure underpinning institutional adoption of digital finance.

Hanna spent a decade in London and a decade in Hong Kong, holding senior roles across investment banking, capital markets and financial information businesses, including Citigroup and Copal Partners. She subsequently moved into fintech entrepreneurship, including as Co-founder and CEO of Fimento, where she built a B2B embedded-finance platform connecting financial services and technology.

She is a Board Member of Blockchain Sweden Association, contributing to discussions around digital assets, regulation and the development of Sweden and Europe's digital financial ecosystem, and Senior Advisor to Trust Anchor Group, which develops infrastructure for tokenisation, digital identity and payments.
Hanna combines deep institutional finance experience with hands-on experience in fintech and digital assets, giving her a practical perspective on how traditional financial institutions can navigate—and participate in—the transition toward more programmable, interoperable and digitally native financial markets.

Harald Eltvedt is an Operating Partner at SC Ventures, a dynamic division of Standard Chartered launched in March 2018. SC Ventures spearheads innovation, invests in disruptive fintech companies and pioneers groundbreaking business models.

SC Ventures has made strategic investments in over 25 companies, including unicorns like Instabase and Ripple. The team has also incubated more than 30 ventures, such as Mox and Trust (the world's fastest-growing digital bank), Solv, Olea, Zodia and Libeara.

A serial entrepreneur and investor, Harald brings over two decades of unparalleled experience in building and scaling technology startups from the ground up to successful exits. Before joining Standard Chartered, he served as Managing Director at Havas and co-founded RevSquare (acquired by Pentalog, NYSE: GLOB) and healthme (acquired by WMD - Internet Brands).

Harald holds a MBA from INSEAD and is deeply passionate about swimming and sustainability, driving forward-thinking initiatives that harmonize with his personal and professional values.

Helen Chen is the Chief Strategy Officer of FGA Trust, with many years of experience in traditional and digital finance. Her expertise includes licensing business, brand promotion, marketing, fundraising and investor relations, payment solutions, and strategic partnership building. Chen also has 8 years of experience in financial auditing and consulting, including regulatory consulting, risk management, and tax consulting. She has provided auditing and consulting services to banks, asset management companies, public and private equity, MPF, and hedge funds, and has experience in taxation and listing of cross-border enterprises.

Henry Chen is Chief Business Officer (CBO) of SNZ Holding and Partner at BlockUnion, with over 16 years of experience across financial services and fintech. Over the past eight years, he has focused on the institutionalization of digital assets, large-scale Web3 adoption, and the convergence of traditional and onchain finance. He has extensive experience connecting traditional capital markets, fintech, and the digital asset ecosystem, with expertise spanning real-world assets (RWA), stablecoins, institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure, and onchain financial innovation.

At SNZ, Henry leads ecosystem partnerships and innovation initiatives with financial institutions. He is also a Partner at BlockUnion, a Web3 business and ecosystem platform. In April 2026, he led BlockUnion’s collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation to establish Ethereum HK Hub in Hong Kong, Asia’s first physical Ethereum community hub and incubation center. The initiative aims to deepen connections among developers, entrepreneurs, institutions, and the global Ethereum ecosystem across Hong Kong and Asia, while supporting innovative Chinese companies in expanding into international markets.

Prior to joining SNZ, Henry worked in the Capital Markets divisions of UBS and Goldman Sachs. He subsequently served as Managing Partner at a fintech private equity fund and as Head of Capital Markets at a leading global crypto asset exchange. Drawing on his cross-sector experience across traditional finance, fintech, digital assets, and Web3, Henry continues to facilitate collaboration between financial institutions and onchain ecosystems across strategic investment, infrastructure, product innovation, and market development.

Henry Huang (Yigeng Huang), currently serves as Vice President and General Manager of Public Affairs Center in PCI Technology Group Co., Ltd. He holds a dual bachelor's degree in English Language & Literature and International Politics & Diplomacy from Peking University, a Master’s degree in International Politics from the University of Sheffield (UK), and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Henry Huang possesses the profound cross-sectoral working background, having previously worked at the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, Carrefour Group, Alibaba Group, and Yatsen Holding Limited. He has developed an outstanding strategic vision and hands-on experience in government affairs, public-private collaboration, and market brand building. Since joining PCI Technology Group, he is responsible for the company’s government relations, policy engagement, public affairs systems, and market brand development. By establishing efficient government-enterprise communication mechanisms and an integrated brand communication system, he has secured key policy and industrial resources for the company in core sectors such as artificial intelligence and intelligent transportation, while continuously enhancing the company’s industry influence and brand awareness.

Meanwhile, Henry Huang serves as a council member of the Guangdong  Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment and Deputy Director of its Youth Entrepreneurs Committee, as well as a member of the Guangzhou Haizhu District Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He is actively involved in organizing exchange activities for young entrepreneurs from Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, promoting the integrated development of domestic and foreign-invested enterprises, and contributing continuously to the optimization of the regional business environment. He also acts as an external mentor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), where he is dedicated to education, offering students career planning and industry practice guidance, and actively advancing university-enterprise collaboration in talent development.

Henry Zhang is the Founder and Group CEO of DigiFT, a licensed digital asset platform focused on institutional-grade tokenized real-world assets. He brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience across global banking, financial technology, and regulated market infrastructure.

Before founding DigiFT, Henry held senior executive roles at major international financial institutions, including Deputy CEO of China at Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank, and CEO of Greater China at East West Bank. His career spans banking leadership, risk management, franchise development, cross-border finance, and financial technology innovation.

In 2020, Henry founded DigiFT in Singapore to build regulated infrastructure for the tokenization, issuance, distribution, and trading of real-world assets. Under his leadership, DigiFT became the first on-chain RWA exchange to be licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, with its Hong Kong entity licensed by the SFC for Type 1 and Type 4 regulated activities. The platform supports institutional-grade tokenized assets across money market funds, fixed income, private credit, real estate, gold, and other real-world asset strategies.

Today, Henry works closely with regulators, asset managers, banks, and Web3 ecosystem partners to advance the adoption of compliant tokenized finance. He is a frequent speaker and commentator on the convergence of traditional finance and digital asset infrastructure, with a focus on how blockchain can improve distribution, settlement, transparency, and access within regulated financial markets.

Dr. Hongjuan Liu is the Chief AI & Data Officer for Hong Kong and Macau at Manulife (International) Limited. As a member of Manulife Hong Kong’s senior management team, Dr. Liu plays a key role in advancing the company’s AI and data agenda. He leads Manulife Hong Kong and Macau’s cross‑functional AI & Data team, driving the development and execution of advanced analytics, AI deployment, and data platform strategies, while ensuring strong governance and operational excellence. He also represents Manulife Hong Kong and Macau in external AI and data‑related forums and industry dialogues.

Dr. Liu brings over 20 years of experience in AI, data strategy, analytics, and digital transformation across multiple industries and geographies. Before joining Manulife, he served as Vice President, Data at McDonald’s China, and previously held senior data and analytics leadership roles at a few global technology and automotive organizations. He also has extensive experience in the insurance industry, having served in data, CRM, and analytics leadership roles at major insurers such as Ping An Insurance, Ageas, Cigna, and Prudential.

Dr. Liu holds a PhD in Management Science and a Master of Science in Operational Research from Lancaster University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from South China Normal University.

Professor/Dr. Hong, XIANG

- Member of National Cryptography Industry Standardization Technical Committee.
- Chinese Member on Quantum-Safe Cryptography Committee, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI QSC).
- Director, Jiangsu Financial Advanced Security Technologies lab with Quantum (FAST-Q) .

China's Ministry of Science and Technology has made arrangements for two national key R&D projects on post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration in the financial and banking sector since 2023, in step with international PQC pilot projects in this field (such as BIS Project Leap). China’s projects have yielded research results that are world-class and domestically leading, and have carried out extensive exploration for PQC migration across China's financial and banking industry. Under the guidance of the competent financial and banking authorities, China is now conducting the preparatory deployment of PQC migration for the financial and banking sector. The Jiangsu FAST-Q Laboratory is responsible for the wider adoption of the outcomes of these key R&D programs.

Hong Zhang is Chief Executive Officer of PayPal Greater China, Chairmann and General Manager of PayPal’s licensed entity in China, PayPal Payments Co., Ltd. She oversees PayPal’s strategic planning, business innovation and operational management in Greater China, leading the team to drive the company’s long-term growth in the Greater China market.

Hong Zhang joined PayPal in 2023 as Vice President, leading the execution of several key global initiatives in China. With nearly three decades of experience in international financial markets and executive leadership, she brings deep insights into China’s policy landscape and industry trends.

Prior to joining PayPal, Hong Zhang served as Senior Managing Director and Chief Representative of the New York Office at China Investment Corporation (CIC). Her extensive background spans corporate strategy, cross-border investment, corporate governance and international business development, with proven expertise in managing cross-regional operations across China and North America.

Hong Zhang holds an LL.M. from Columbia University, and both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in law from the University of International Business and Economics.

Honnus Cheung is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of On-us, an agentic incentive intelligence platform driving scalable customer engagement through FinTech and AI-powered hyper-personalized rewards.

With more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology ventures across Asia, Honnus was a founding executive behind Yahoo’s and Travelzoo’s expansion across the region, contributing to the growth of both businesses into multi-billion-dollar enterprises.

Honnus holds an MBA from Kellogg-HKUST and is a Fellow of CPA Australia (FCPA) and a member of HKICPA. She also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hong Kong-listed companies and as a Visiting Lecturer at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

杨桦，现任广东兴发铝业有限公司集团副总，是兴发铝业数字化转型与产业生态构建的核心推动者。他拥有清华大学学士学位与华南理工大学硕士学位，兼具深厚的学术素养与跨行业管理经验。加入兴发铝业之前，他曾任中国平安集团副总、平安智慧医疗事业部总经理，碧桂园集团ITDT委员会主任，及IBM中国电信与媒体事业部CTO，在数字化转型领域积淀深厚。

在兴发铝业，杨桦将过往的数字化经验注入铝型材制造场景，主导建设了工业+AI互联网，以AI垂类模型作为工业大脑，凝聚百年工艺与生产要素知识，大幅提升产能与质量。他的视野不止步于工厂内部，更着眼于兴发铝业作为广东省“链主”企业的生态角色，推动构建产业互联服务平台，目标是实现交易、供应链、生产、物流等“七链融合”，带动产业链上下游数百家中小企业从“物理扎堆”走向“数字协同”。他提出兴发铝业要从“制造商”进化为“产业服务商”，并规划以AI驱动智能工业控制，探索“全球协同”的数字化路径。杨桦正以其跨界视野，推动一家传统制造龙头在产业生态层面构筑新的竞争力。

Mr. Xu is the Executive Director & CEO of AInnovation Technology Group（02121.HK）. He has nearly 30 years of experience in sales, customer service, technology and corporate management, and has held executive positions at Fortune 500 companies – Microsoft, SAP, IBM, Wanda. He was former vice president at Microsoft Greater China, former vice president of SAP Greater China, former general manager of IBM Greater China Finance Unit and Global Information Service Unit, former vice president of Wanda Internet Technology Group. Mr. Xu has served multiple industries, including manufacturing, financial service, retail, telecom, health care, education and public service, and has in-depth knowledge and understanding to a variety of industries in China.

Mr. Xu founded AInnovation in February 2018, and led the company to successfully listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 27, 2022, becoming the first "AI+ manufacturing" stock in China.

Mr. Xu graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and holds an EMBA degree from Peking University. Mr. Xu has extensive industry connections. He actively participates in public benefit activities such as education and charity. He is a corporate mentor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, and the School of Management of Fudan University. Mr. Xu has served as an independent director of Honma Golf, a leading global golf brand and a Hong Kong listed company, since June 2016. At present, Mr. Xu serves as the chairman of the Frost & Sullivan LeadLeo Expert Committee on Innovation.

Mr. NIU Hu holds a Master of Management in Tsinghua University and is Ph.D. in economics at the Institute of Finance and Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in Transportation & Systems Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong University (formerly known as Northern Jiaotong University). He was also a visiting researcher at the High - Speed Railway Technology System Research Center of the School of Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid under the Scholarship.

Mr. NIU Hu has extensive experience in international and domestic business linkages and senior management positions in large - scale central state - owned enterprises, leading AMC asset management companies, management consulting firms, business schools, investment banks, and well - known listed companies. He has also served as a strategic development advisor for numerous enterprises and governments.

In addition, Mr. NIU Hu is actively involved in social activities and public welfare, devoting himself to promoting friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries.

Hyunsu Jung is Chief Executive Officer of Hyperion DeFi, the NASDAQ-listed DeFi company building institutional products and services on the Hyperliquid blockchain. Previously, he was a Portfolio Manager at DARMA Capital, a $1B+ asset manager registered with the CFTC and NFA. Hyunsu started his career as Consultant at EY-Parthenon where he led Finance and Digital Transformation for major enterprise M&A deals.

Ian Wallis is a director within Baillie Gifford’s Digital Assets team, bringing more than 25 years of experience across technology, financial infrastructure and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Baillie Gifford, he held senior leadership roles at Consensys, where he helped launch and scale blockchain networks and worked with exchanges, custodians, wallet providers and financial infrastructure firms to bring new products and services to market. Earlier in his career, Ian held senior technology and leadership roles at Oracle and Accenture.

Inès Gafsi is an impact entrepreneur and ecosystem builder who has spent more than a decade connecting founders, corporates and investors to turn ambition into action and mobilise capital for impact.

She is Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of Blissmi Health, an AI-powered preventive health company scaling across Asia-Pacific through partnerships with employers and insurers. From 2025 to 2026, she consulted on the EQT x SCMP Impact Challenge, a deep-tech competition for climate, nature and health ventures offering €100,000 in investment and access to EQT’s global network. She led startup recruitment and prepared founders to engage investors.

As Chapter Chair and CEO of Inspiring Girls Hong Kong, Inès created SolveHers, a challenge-led innovation programme connecting corporate priorities with the next generation of problem-solvers. Corporate partners set real business challenges, engage employees as mentors and fund student teams through micro-grants to prototype AI-powered solutions spanning climate, food security and digital inclusion. The programme is designed to move beyond sponsorship towards real-world adoption, with corporate partners able to identify and implement promising ideas. Since 2020, she has helped expand the charity’s reach to more than 6,000 secondary school students, mobilised 2,500 industry role models and raised over HK$2 million annually from global financial institutions and listed companies.

Previously, Inès co-founded Female Entrepreneurs Worldwide and spent a decade growing it into a community of 20,000 founders, supported by more than 300 corporate and institutional partnerships and an annual ESG-focused accelerator.

Irene is a cross‑disciplinary financial executive with over 20 years of experience covering fintech, web3, regulatory governance and family‑office practice. Currently Head of Securities and Structured Investment Division at Bank of China (Hong Kong), she spearheaded the end‑to‑end build‑out and scaling of BOCHK’s retail digital equity business. By adopting innovative approaches for the retail equity business and partnering with fintech and market ecosystem players, she expanded retail stock trading, broad‑based ETF distribution and investor‑centric structured product suites for mass‑affluent clients.

Drawing on her hands‑on family‑office experience, Irene uniquely bridges commercial business ambitions with regulatory opportunities. She focuses on unlocking fintech and digital‑asset potential, translating regulatory requirements into practical market‑ready solutions for retail, institutional and ultra‑high‑net‑worth clients.

She previously held senior compliance leadership roles at UBS and Huatai Financial Holdings, specialising in private wealth, regtech roll‑out and cross‑border Greater Bay Area supervision. This gives her dual, ground‑level perspectives on business delivery and multi‑jurisdictional risk oversight.

Appointed to the HKSAR Hong Kong‑Shenzhen Financial Cooperation Committee, she contributes to GBA fintech policy‑making and industry standards. Irene frequently speaks at global summits, sharing actionable insights on growing compliant retail digital finance and reconciling market innovation with robust investor protection.

Jack Collier is chief growth officer at io.net, one of the largest decentralised compute (depin) networks, which pools global gpu supply into a marketplace built as an alternative to the centralised cloud giants.

He has spent close to a decade bringing decentralised technology to the forefront, as marketing chief across some of the most influential names in digital finance. at circle (2016-2018) he was there in the early days, helping build the real infrastructure behind digital dollars. at natwest (2018-2021) he launched a disruptive digital-banking brand from inside one of the uk's largest incumbents. at near (2021-2024) he led marketing for a leading layer-1 blockchain ecosystem. jack now drives growth at io.net, where web3 and ai infrastructure collide. he also advises ai companies on growth and strategy.

What runs through all of it is a simple conviction: this technology should put power, and privacy, back in people's hands, rather than concentrate it in a few big platforms. based in auckland, jack brings a candid, builder's eye to digital assets and ai, less interested in what a technology promises than in where the real value, and the real bottlenecks, actually sit.

Mr. Jacky Yuen is the Investment Director of qonvolv Ventures. He leads venture capital investments and partnerships focused on driving sustainability within the industrial sector. Leveraging the group’s extensive background in sustainable and smart manufacturing, qonvolv Ventures collaborates globally with founders, industry partners and academia to foster innovations in manufacturing excellence, digital value chains, climate action and the future workforce.

Before his current position, Jacky served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of Esquel Group and a general management talent at Swire Group. He holds a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Jacqueline Teoh is a Technology & Transformation Partner at Deloitte Southeast Asia and leads the firm's Wealth Management services across the region. With more than 30 years of experience across Europe (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (AP), including 18 years in Switzerland, she advises boards and senior executives on business transformation, core banking modernization, digital wealth platforms, and AI-driven innovation. A recognized leader in wealth management, Jacqueline has helped leading financial institutions across EMEA and AP navigate growth, transformation, and operating model change in an increasingly digital and competitive landscape.

Ms. Zhang is a Partner and Investment Committee member at HOPU Investments.

At HOPU, Ms. Zhang is deeply involved in the sourcing and execution of HOPU's investments, specializing in complex structures and negotiations, playing an important role in a broad range of investments such as Ceva Santé Animale, FWD Insurance, Xiaomi, Full Truck Alliance, Sensetime, among others.

Ms. Zhang started her career at the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley in New York, following which she served as Vice President at TPG, where she led multiple investment projects in the technology and consumer sectors. Ms. Zhang currently serves on the boards of directors for the HOPU ARM Innovation Fund and a number of HOPU portfolio companies.

Ms. Zhang holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Mathematics from Yale College (cum laude).

Jade Lu is the Wealth CEO & CEO of International Region at Alpha Ladder Group, an international fintech group, where she leads the group's expansion across Hong Kong, the Middle East, Europe, the United States and Latin America, with a focus on wealth management, cross-border financial services and fintech innovation.

Prior to Alpha Ladder, Jade served as President and Executive Director of Shanghai Innovation Bank, and concurrently as President of Silicon Valley Bank Asia from 2020 to 2023, playing a leading role in China's innovation finance ecosystem by providing full lifecycle financial services to high-growth innovation companies and venture capital institutions. She brings over 20 years of international banking experience, with senior leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Citibank.

Jade holds a Bachelor of Economics from Fudan University and an International MBA (IMBA) from the University of Hong Kong, and served as a member of the first Sci-Tech Innovation Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Jame DiBiasio is a media entrepreneur, board director, author, podcaster, and fintech writer.

He is editor the The JDB Report, “tech+money, retold”, a newsletter and video platform providing insight and conversations in digital finance (visit https://www.jdibiasio.com). He was previously founder of DigFin, a media company he sold, and founding editor of AsianInvestor, a publication covering asset management that is part of UK publisher Haymarket. He also served as editorial director for all of Haymarket’s financial titles.

His latest book is ARABIAN CRYPTO: UAE EDITION, about digital-asset success stories in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. His other business books include PLANET VC, COWRIES TO CRYPTO, and BLOCK KONG. He has also written books on Southeast Asian history, as well as fiction.

Jame currently chairman of the Fintech & DeFi Committee of Financial Executives Club, and previously served on the board of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong.

James Lie is the Regional Head of E-Commerce, Asia Pacific at Allianz Trade, where he leads digital growth initiatives across one of the world's most dynamic and fast-growing regions. He is responsible for expanding Allianz Trade's e-commerce portfolio in APAC, accelerating the adoption of Allianz Trade pay, and delivering embedded finance and trade protection solutions through API-driven integrations and strategic partnerships.

With more than 15 years of experience in trade credit insurance, credit risk management, and commercial leadership, James has built a strong track record of driving profitable growth, developing customer-centric solutions, and helping businesses navigate complex risk environments across Asia Pacific.

Prior to his regional role, James served as Head of Trade Credit Insurance and Country Manager for Allianz Trade in Indonesia, where he successfully strengthened the company's market position, expanded its portfolio, and delivered sustainable growth. Before joining Allianz Trade, he played a key role in establishing Coface Indonesia's presence, building strategic partnerships and contributing to the development of Indonesia's trade credit insurance market.

A certified Qualified Credit Risk Officer (QCRO), James combines deep risk expertise with commercial acumen and a passion for innovation. He is a strong advocate for the convergence of e-commerce, embedded finance, trade credit insurance, and data-driven risk intelligence, helping businesses trade with greater confidence and scale successfully in the digital economy.

James co-founded Elliptic in 2013, building one of the world's most trusted blockchain analytics and compliance platforms from the ground up. With a PhD in Computer Science from Oxford and experience as an interest rate trader, he brings a unique combination of technical rigor and financial markets expertise to the growing digital asset industry.

His journey into blockchain began when Bitcoin was still a curiosity among technologists, navigating abandoned warehouses to meet early crypto enthusiasts and recognizing the potential for data-driven solutions to establish trust in digital asset ecosystems. Today, as Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director, James leads Elliptic's strategic initiatives, helping financial institutions, regulators, and crypto-native businesses combat financial crime through sophisticated analytics.

James's contributions have been instrumental in bridging the gap between traditional finance and the crypto economy, enabling the compliant growth of an industry he's been shaping since its earliest days.
James was recently named to the Stablecoins most influential 2026 by Stablecon, this list recognizes leaders shaping the future of the global stablecoin ecosystem.

Jandy Qiu (Qiu Jiandong) Professor-Level Senior Engineer; Chairman, SUTPC  International Company (Shenzhen Urban Transport Technology Group Co., Ltd.)

Mr. Jandy Qiu is a Professor-Level Senior Engineer and Chairman of SUTPC International. He has 18 years of professional experience in multimodal transport modeling and simulation, autonomous vehicles self-driving automobile (AV), and related fields.

He led the development of multiple system platforms, including the transport modeling software TransPlan, the big-data computing platform TransPaaS, and the low-carbon transport system EmissionModel. These platforms have been successfully deployed in over 20 major cities across China and overseas, including Hong Kong (China), Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chongqing.

He participated in the project "Key Technologies and Applications of Intelligent Simulation and Precision Control for Complex Transport Systems in Large Cities," which received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He has also received multiple First Prizes of Science and Technology Progress Awards at ministerial and provincial levels. He authored five transport monographs and published 50 papers, and serves as a review expert for the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2015, he founded the "Future Transport Laboratory" with a global outlook. He was named one of the "Top Ten Young Craftsmen" of Shenzhen's state-owned assets system and recognized as a Shenzhen High-Level Professional Leading Talent.

Janti Tahawokh is an industrial designer, inventor, and Founder & Director of Earocam Science & Technology Co. Ltd, a Hong Kong-based AI hardware and wearable technology company.

He holds a Master’s degree in Product Design, a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, and a Diploma in Jewellery Design and Manufacturing. With more than 22 years of professional experience, his design journey includes projects connected to Mercedes-Benz, Panasonic, Sony Music, and the German Museum of Technology.

Combining his passion for industrial design and jewellery craftsmanship, Janti has focused on developing wearable technologies that integrate naturally into everyday life.

Through Earocam, he is pursuing a vision of screen-independent, human-centered AI wearables that bring voice interaction, visual context, and intelligent assistance closer to the user. His broader PAC vision — Personal AI Companion — explores how personalized AI could support productivity, accessibility, independent living, and everyday safety while prioritizing privacy and user control.

After years of developing inventions alongside his professional career, Janti decided in 2026 to dedicate himself fully to his entrepreneurial ambitions.

With encouragement and guidance from InvestHK Berlin, he discovered Hong Kong’s innovation ecosystem and its connections to the Greater Bay Area. He established Earocam in Hong Kong and has explored potential R&D collaborations through the Hong Kong Science Park ecosystem and ASTRI.

He sees Hong Kong as a strategic bridge connecting international innovation, applied research, entrepreneurship, and advanced manufacturing opportunities.

Jiang Yu​ is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of cross-industry expertise spanning banking, insurance, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. His career bridges Greater China and global markets, combining deep technical foundations with strategic leadership in financial services innovation.

He began his career at IBM China, where he spent several years in software development, solution architecture, and technical consulting. In this role, he partnered closely with leading domestic banks to advance distributed systems adoption and drive large-scale digital transformation initiatives, establishing a strong reputation for translating complex technologies into business outcomes.

He later joined Anbang Insurance Group, where he led overseas technology strategy and post-investment technology management. His mandate covered cross-border integration, technology due diligence, and the alignment of global technology portfolios with corporate growth objectives—work that demanded both diplomatic acumen and rigorous technical oversight.

Jiang Yu subsequently held strategic roles at Huawei​ and Tencent, focusing on digital transformation for the financial services industry (FSI). He advised top-tier banks, insurers, and securities firms on cloud adoption, platform modernisation, and ecosystem strategies, helping clients navigate the intersection of legacy infrastructure and next-generation technologies.

Prior to his current role, he served as Chief Architect of HSBC China, responsible for infrastructure technology strategy, core banking system architecture, and AI architecture design. He played a pivotal role in modernising HSBC’s China technology stack.

Currently, Jiang Yu serves as General Manager of Tencent Cloud, leading efforts to deliver cloud and AI solutions to financial institutions across Hong Kong and Macau. He is committed to advancing the digital capabilities of the financial sector in the Greater Bay Area, fostering innovation while ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Mr. Jay M. Dizon is the Head of the Payments and Settlements Department (PSD) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). The PSD administers the operation of the Peso Real-time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, which is a Systemically Important Payment System (SIPS) in the Philippines. Mr. Dizon is the BSP Representative to the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Community of Practice on Central Bank-operated Payment Systems (CPMI-CoPS).

Mr. Dizon was one of the BSP officers who pursued the establishment of the country’s National Retail Payment System (NRPS), which is a regulatory framework that enabled interoperability among banks and other payment service providers.

Mr. Dizon was a bank supervisor with extensive experience in policy development and examination of various areas of banking operations, including treasury, derivatives, and information technology.  

He obtained a master’s degree in finance from Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA where he also served as a teaching assistant. In 2022, he finished the Global Bankers Program of the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.  Mr. Dizon is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

Jaylen is a repeat entrepreneur whose path has spanned continents. Raised in Zimbabwe, he moved to the United States to study Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. He went on to found a California prop-tech startup providing SaaS for real estate property management, which grew to more than $150 million in assets under management, and joined Y Combinator in 2019. He has also built businesses in consumer products and real estate. In 2023–2024, he and his team deployed and fine-tuned open-source large language models for the European headquarters of a Fortune 500 company, hands-on work that shaped his view of where AI was heading.

That work led to a more fundamental question: if AI can increasingly understand and perform knowledge work, why should people still spend so much of their time operating computers themselves?

Jean-Luc Gustave is an international financial services executive specializing in building strategic partnerships, opening new markets, and connecting financial ecosystems across Europe and Asia.

Combining deep expertise in traditional banking with a forward-looking perspective on digital finance, he operates at the intersection of financial innovation, regulation, and commercial strategy.

At Qivalis, he leads strategic partnerships, market development, and distribution across Asia, building the institutional network and commercial partnerships needed to drive adoption of a regulated euro stablecoin.

His focus is on turning emerging financial technologies into scalable business opportunities, particularly in cross-border payments, institutional liquidity, trade finance, and tokenized capital markets.

Jeff is the China Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures, a global venture capital firm managing over $2 billion in assets. In this role, he oversees startup investments, fundraising, growth strategies, and corporate partnerships in China, Hong Kong, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. He also leads Pegasus’ China network, bridging the gap between global companies seeking opportunities in these regions and local companies aiming for worldwide expansion.

Prior to joining Pegasus, Jeff co-founded High-Cloud, a pioneering cloud computing company that he guided from inception to its acquisition by DCSS Technology (837072) in 2016. Earlier in his career, he served as Managing Director at Boku (LON: BOKU) and worked with tech giants such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and IBM.

Jeff is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and also holds Master of Science degrees from the University of Oxford and HEC Paris.

Jennifer Cheng Lo is the Founder & Chair of NewChic Capital Family Office and the Founding Partner, CMO & Head of Investor Relations at Ace Investment Management, a private fund providing bespoke asset management solutions to a highly curated group of family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Across her portfolio, Jennifer leads strategic capital formation, institutional partnerships, investor relations, and global alliances within the private equity and alternative investment sectors, with a focus on supporting visionary founders, fund managers, and emerging technologies.

An award-winning investor and entrepreneur, Jennifer has contributed to more than $500 million in capital raises, over $3.9 billion in aggregate revenue generation, and more than 20 IPO and M&A transactions, including multiple unicorn exits. She previously served as Honorary Co-Chair of the U.S. Consulate Trade Mission for Hong Kong, Macau, and Greater China, an initiative that engaged more than 100 LPs, where she also performed as a concert pianist.

Beyond her investment activities, Jennifer holds strategic C-suite and board leadership roles across her portfolio companies, including as Founding Partner & Chief Strategy Officer of BeyondMood AI Mental Fitness and Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Fortix Cybersecurity Vault & Messaging.

An internationally recognized speaker, concert pianist, cultural ambassador, and entrepreneur, Jennifer has delivered several hundred keynote talks across more than 50 cities worldwide on AI, Blockchain, Deep Tech, Family Offices, Women's Leadership, next-generation entrepreneurship, legacy, and impact.

Jenny Au is the Founder & CEO of FundFluent and a serial entrepreneur working at the intersection of AI and financial inclusion. Previously at BCG Digital Ventures, she launched 10+ corporate-backed startups across the US, Australia, China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia before focusing her expertise on the businesses most underserved by the funding system: small businesses and startups.

FundFluent is building an AI-first Funding Operating System that turns the slow, fragmented work of accessing funding into a repeatable, largely automated workflow. It is built on over a decade of deep expertise helping small businesses and startups genuinely secure capital and scale, expertise productised into structured knowledge that compounds. By turning hard-won judgment into a system that scales, FundFluent can serve more businesses, faster, and make funding fundamentally more inclusive.

Chat to her about: AI-first operating systems, B2B fintech, small businesses & startups, generative AI, AI workforces, financial inclusion, and alternative data.

Jens-Peter is an expert in the transportation sector for 30 years and a Fellow of IET.

He has degrees in electrical engineering and economic psychology, because for him, technology and people belong together, especially when it comes to digital transformation and the application of artificial intelligence.

By living and working throughout Europe, America and Asia, he became passionate about diversity and leveraging cultural synergies for the development of disruptive innovations.

As the CEO of Siemens Mobility in Hong Kong, he is working with his team and local partners to turn Hong Kong into a sustainable and smart city.

Holding patents by himself, he is always looking for bright ideas and supports talents and their visions. And still today he is dealing with latest technologies and is using AI for developing apps by himself, just for fun.

历任腾讯、快手广告商业化行业负责人，深蓝保、叫叫核心高管， 14 年互联网商业化经验。

当前在来画负责产品和运营两个板块，统筹 AI 软件、AI智能硬件与海外电商落地，拉通「流量 → 商机 → 销售」全链路。

Jess Cheng is the Co-Founder and Head of Hong Kong at CHARGESPOT. As part of the team that founded CHARGESPOT in 2017, she led it to become the world's first transnational power bank sharing service provider with over 6,000 spots in Hong Kong and over 96,000 spots worldwide. She has played a pivotal role in establishing CHARGESPOT as the market leader in Hong Kong and spearheaded its expansion across APAC, including Japan, Mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, United Kingdom and Italy, as well as its acquisition by INFORICH.

Jess holds a degree in Marketing and Management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), graduating in 2005. Her career began with the Management Trainee Program at L'Oréal Hong Kong, where she excelled in sales and marketing for the Japanese beauty brand Shu Uemura. Driven by a passion for new challenges and innovation, she seamlessly transitioned between roles and industries, from managing advertising and promotions for Columbia Sportswear at Swire Resources, to leading the launch of the luxury French beauty brand La Biosthetique in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Currently, Jess is dedicated to powering new possibilities for the business, innovating CHARGESPOT's products, services and delivery to meet the ever-changing needs of society and businesses, and expanding its partner network to create new and exciting touchpoints to support more customers around the world.

Jessica is the Co-Founder and CEO at Planto, as well as the Hong Kong Lead and Executive Committee Member of Global Women in AI and ex board member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong. Planto operates at the intersection of open finance and artificial intelligence. Planto's technologies have been adopted by multiple financial institutions, including global banks, lenders, fintech startups, and wealth management firms.

Jessica regularly speaks at major finance and technology events, such as Hong Kong FinTech Week, Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Leap East, Dubai Fintech Summit and Money20/20. In her role as a board member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong, she co-leads the GBA Work Group and serves as a board sponsor for quantum computing and cybersecurity. Additionally, she serves as the ambassador for the MENA Fintech Association. Jessica has lived and worked in Singapore, the UK, and Hong Kong. She was also the lead singer in a post-rock band.

Jess Ng is a banking executive and strategic leader in consumer finance and SME lending. She has strong track record of driving product innovation, digital transformation as well as green finance development in banking.

Jess currently serves as Assistant General Manager, Head of Unsecured Lending Division at Bank of China (Hong Kong). Her work sits at the intersection of product, credit, digital journey and green finance. She has led to launch key fintech projects including Interbank Account Data Sharing (IADS) and Cross-boundary Credit Referencing (CBCR) which is the first-in-market on personal lending use cases.

Jess also possesses solid experience in green finance areas including launch of new green finance products, education campaign to raise ESG and green finance awareness, and partnered with a university on a joint research which shed lights on future green finance development.

Prior to joining Bank of China (Hong Kong), Jess was the product head of Hang Seng Bank for Secured and Unsecured Loan Products as well as the Director of Hang Seng Finance Limited. She is committed to using digital infrastructure to scale access to credit and green products to support Hong Kong’s low-carbon transition.

Jia Hang is a seasoned global payments leader with more than 20 years of experience driving innovation across financial services, digital commerce, and payment infrastructure. As Executive Chairman of DCS Group, he leads the Group's strategic vision to build trusted payments infrastructure that bridges traditional finance with next-generation digital payment ecosystems. With deep expertise in global payments, corporate strategy, business development, and international market expansion, he has led multicultural teams and scaled payment businesses across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Prior to joining DCS Group, Jia Hang served as Global Head of Payment and Financial Services at Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, where he led payment and financial services strategies across Alibaba's international businesses, including AliExpress, Alibaba.com, Lazada, Daraz, Trendyol and Miravia. Earlier at Ant Group, he held several senior leadership positions, including Regional General Manager for Southeast Asia and Europe, and General Manager for Alipay+ Global Partnerships, where he played a key role in expanding the company's international payments ecosystem. He began his career at China UnionPay and UnionPay International, where he led the expansion of UnionPay across the Americas and established UnionPay USA in 2009. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University.

Jie LAI，Founder and CEO of Astribot Co., Ltd., has over 17 years of experience in robotics R&D. He was the first member of Tencent's robotics lab and led Baidu's "Xiaodu Robot" project. Having designed several innovative robots, he led the development of the wheeled-legged robot Ollie at Tencent, and continues to advance the integration of robotics and AI, turning AI-powered robots from a dream into reality.

Mr. LAI graduated from Xidian University (XDU), where he specialized in robotics and reinforcement learning. He has published over 10 papers at top international academic conferences such as IROS and ICRA.

Astribot was founded in Shenzhen in December 2022. As a leading AI robotics company, our vision is to empower billions of people with AI robotic partners, and our mission is to promote co-existence, co-creation and co-prosperity between humans and robots. The company has pioneered a software-hardware integrated system architecture for AI (Design for AI, DFAI), deeply coupling 'AI capabilities' with 'optimal manipulation'.

Peking University: B.S. in Mathematics, M.S. in Computer Science

Over 15 years of practical and management experience in China's quantitative investment industry

Formerly with Sohu and Tencent, focused on internet big data mining; proficient in machine learning, statistical learning and related algorithms.

Began quantitative investment career in 2009; conducted quantitative research and managed client & proprietary capital at Bosera Funds and CITIC Securities.

Founded Alpha2Fund in 2015.

Dr. Jie Yu is co-founder and CEO of Kinetix AI, dedicated to developing innovative embodied AI technologies and bringing them to market for the benefit of society. Previously, Dr. Yu served as General Manager of Commercial Vehicle Autonomous Driving and Chief Scientist of Autonomous Driving at Huawei. Before that, he led AI systems R&D at several Fortune 500 companies in the United States, with extensive experience in building and managing multinational technical teams, developing innovative products, and driving algorithms from research to commercial success.

An internationally recognized AI expert, Dr. Yu has over 20 years of research experience in computer vision, machine learning/deep learning, natural language processing, and data mining. He has published more than 40 papers in top-tier international conferences and journals in these fields, filed over 20 U.S. and international patents, and received multiple major international academic awards.

Li jing is chief strategy officer of stepfun, leading corporate strategy and ecosystem development. he drives ai applications across intelligent agents, finance and content creation, with deep experience scaling innovative products from concept to commercialization.

Han Jingyun, currently serving as Vice President of ZTE Corporation, is responsible for the marketing of ZTE's operator and enterprise business solutions in overseas markets, as well as the branding of overseas sales.

Mr. Han obtained his master's degree from Xidian University and joined ZTE Corporation in 2006. He has held positions such as Head of the European Region and Head of the Overseas Integrated Solutions Department, accumulating nearly 20 years of experience in overseas marketing and business expansion. He has managed multiple key global operator projects and overseas enterprise business projects, with his work spanning Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa. He has provided highly commercially valuable and competitive solutions for business transformation and innovation to several world-leading clients, demonstrating deep insights into industry trends, technological innovation, and business transformation, along with extensive practical experience.

Joanne Hon joined Equinix in 2024 as Managing Director of Equinix Hong Kong, leading the company’s business strategy in the market. She focuses on expanding the company’s capacity and digital services to accelerate customers’ digital transformation.

Ms. Hon brings to Equinix more than 25 years of extensive financial technology, investment, insurance, legal and professional services experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to her role at Equinix, she has held leadership positions at several publicly listed multinational companies and private equity-backed technology firms, including Thomson Reuters, Mercer, Dealogic, CPA Global and Broadridge.

Ms. Hon holds a master’s degree in Financial Management from the University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. She also serves on the boards of several NGOs, including The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association and Child Development Centre.

Joe Bonanno is the Head of Wealth Intelligence at Citi Wealth where he leads Wealth’s strategy across data, artificial intelligence, and client and advisor experience. In this role, he is responsible for transforming Citi Wealth into an AI-powered, intelligence-driven platform -integrating data foundations, advanced analytics, and next-generation digital experiences to redefine how wealth management engages and operates. He is the leader of OneWealth, Citi’s unified data and intelligence ecosystem, which connects client, account, and investment data to power real-time decisioning and personalized engagement at scale. This foundation enables capabilities such as Advisor Insights, Ask Wealth, Citi Scribe, and Citi Sky -Citi’s next-generation AI interface designed to deliver conversational, intelligent experiences for both advisors and clients.

Joe is also driving strategic partnerships with leading technology firms, including Google and Palantir, to accelerate the adoption of generative AI, agentic workflows, and large-scale data intelligence across the platform. Prior to this role, he led Data, Digital & Innovation for Citi’s Securities Services business, where he drove cloud transformation, AI/ML adoption, and digital asset innovation. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where he built enterprise data platforms, advanced analytics capabilities, and next-best-action engines supporting millions of clients.

Johannes Kern is the Managing Director of the Frankencoin Association, the Swiss non-profit supporting Frankencoin (ZCHF), the largest decentralised Swiss franc stablecoin. He leads the association, building the connections that bring Swiss franc payments, savings and lending into everyday use. His work spans decentralised finance, tokenised assets and financial infrastructure, with a focus on sound incentives and long-term monetary stability.

John is HSBC’s Managing Director of Digital Assets & Currencies, CIB, responsible for the bank’s activity in digital assets, asset tokenisation, CBDCs, and other forms of digital money. John has led the creation of HSBC Orion, the digital assets platform that is now live in Hong Kong and Luxembourg. John has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets. Prior to joining HSBC, he held various leadership roles at ICE Futures Europe (previously the London International Financial Futures Exchange – LIFFE), finally becoming head of the FICC business.

Mr Johnson Chui joined HKEX as Managing Director and Head of Global Issuer Services in September 2024.

In his role, Mr Chui leads HKEX’s Global Issuer Services teams based in Hong Kong, Mainland China, London and Singapore, driving the Group’s efforts to further diversify and expand its listed issuer base.

Mr Chui has more than 25 years of experience working in international capital markets. Prior to joining HKEX, he held senior positions at Nomura, where he was Managing Director, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Head of Equity Capital Markets, Asia ex-Japan.

Prior to Nomura, Mr Chui spent nearly 18 years at Credit Suisse, where he was Head of Equity Capital Markets for Asia-Pacific and a member of the Operating Committees for Global Equity Capital Markets and Asia Pacific Investment Banking & Capital Markets. He has also held senior investment banking roles at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.

Mr Chui holds Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) degrees from the University of New South Wales in Australia.

Mr. Johnson Zhang Wei is currently the General Manager of the MyLink Centre at China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited (CMHK).

Since joining CMHK in 2016, Mr. Zhang has held various senior management positions, including Head of Engineering Department, General Manager of Planning and Construction Department, General Manager of Network Development Department and Head of Northern Metropolis Development Planning, General Manager of Corporate Business Department, and General Manager of MyLink Centre.

Since 2022, Mr. Zhang has served as a Director and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Greater Bay Area 5G Industry Alliance. In 2023, he was appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government as a member of the Sub-committee on Transport and Other Infrastructure under the Advisory Committee on the Northern Metropolis. In 2024, he became a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).

Born and raised in Hong Kong, John emigrated to the United States when he was a Form II student at La Salle College. He continued his education at Stuyvesant High School in New York City and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to complete master’s degrees in Bilingual Education at Boston State College and in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He worked in the Boston Public Schools as a teacher and in curriculum development.

John returned to work as a public official, an Administrative Officer, in the Hong Kong Government in 1982, and after 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. During his 30 plus years in public service, he took up a number of posts relating to commerce and finance. After reunification, he was appointed Director-General of the Economic and Trade Office in London, Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Secretary for Planning and Lands, Secretary for Commerce, Innovation and Technology, Director of the Chief Executive’s Office and in 2007, Financial Secretary where he served until 2017. He ran for the post of Chief Executive and lost.

John is currently engaged in a number of diverse activities. He is the Founder of Esperanza, a non-profit charity organization, a board member of HATCH, a social impact charity organization of Social Ventures Hong Kong, a board member of Dalton School Hong Kong, an international school, the Vice Chairman of Ion Pacific, a financial institution that specializes in technology investments, the Senior Advisor of Bowtie, a virtual insurance company, an advisor of StashAway, an intelligent wealth management platform, an advisor of Mercury Technology Solution, a software solutions provider, an advisor of Halo Energy Limited, a provider of EV charging systems, an advisor of The Asia Group, a strategy and business advisory group to corporations and organizations with business interests in the trans-Pacific region, a board member of TOJOY, a business matching platform, the Chief Advisor of Comfiknit and Eczewear, smart clothing companies, the host of a weekly music program on Hong Kong Commercial Radio and the fencing coach of La Salle College.

John is married with two grown children and three grandchildren.

Jonathan Au Yeung brings over a decade of deep expertise in digital assets, stablecoins and digital payments, with a proven track record of turning emerging technology into products that financial institutions can deploy at scale. At Ant Digital Technologies, he leads product solutions for Anvita, spanning tokenised deposits, digital asset custody, asset tokenisation and an agentic payment network, serving banks and financial institutions in Hong Kong and overseas. He is also closely involved in work under the HKMA’s Project Ensemble.

Prior to joining Ant Digital Technologies, Mr. Au Yeung held product leadership positions at leading fintech companies, including RD Technologies, Eqonex and YouTrip, building stablecoin, digital asset custody and cross-border payment products. Earlier in his career, he worked in consulting at Accenture and Deloitte, serving banks and insurers in Hong Kong.

Jonathan “Jon” Low is Co-Founder and CEO of Elephants Inc., where he is building a new financial operating system for businesses operating across markets, currencies, and borders.

With over 15 years of experience in banking, payments, lending, and digital assets, Jon is a three-time founder who has launched more than 15 financial products across nine markets in Asia-Pacific and Europe, helping raise over US$150 million across his ventures.

Previously, Jon served as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Product Officer at Zipmex and Global Head of Point-of-Sale Lending at ING. He also co-founded Fresh Canvas, leveraging AI and automation to transform financial services.

At Elephants, Jon is reimagining business finance by bringing payments, cards, cross-border transfers, stablecoin infrastructure, and AI into one connected platform. He brings a practical perspective on financial innovation, entrepreneurship, and building the next generation of financial infrastructure for global businesses.

Jonathan is the APAC Credit Desk Lead at Morpho, bringing over 14 years of experience across institutional digital assets, capital markets, trading and treasury management. At Morpho, he focuses on expanding institutional participation in onchain lending and borrowing across APAC, working with lenders and borrowers on credit opportunities, liquidity and risk.

Previously, he was Head of Treasury at Matrixport, where he managed digital asset treasury and yield strategies spanning DeFi yield, structured staking and institutional lending. Before that, he served as Head of Trading at Copper, building and scaling its OTC desk and establishing its institutional client base. Earlier in his career, Jonathan was an equity derivatives trader at J.P. Morgan.

Jonathan Yip leads HSBC’s Innovation Banking franchise across Asia Pacific, overseeing the regional sales force, underwriting, investor coverage, and relationship advisory teams. Innovation Banking is HSBC’s dedicated platform powering the innovation economy – supporting highgrowth startups, scale-ups, and investors with a full suite of globally-connected expertise, digitalfirst solutions, and deep ecosystem partnerships. Under Jonathan’s leadership, HSBC Innovation Banking delivers tailored banking and credit solutions designed to meet unique client needs at various stages of growth.

Previously, Jonathan served as Head of Client Coverage for HSBC Commercial Banking Hong Kong and Head of Corporate Institutional Banking for HSBC Korea where he expanded the Bank’s reach across the new economy and strategic growth sectors. Since joining HSBC in 2008, he has built a global career across Corporate and Investment Banking where he managed teams in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong with a focus on global telecom, technology, and media clients.

Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada.

Jovan Trajceski is a Partner at BrightPath Holdings and an AI, analytics, and digital transformation leader with more than 15 years of international experience across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America. He advises senior executives on AI strategy, enterprise transformation, strategic partnerships, and cross-border innovation, helping organizations translate emerging technologies into measurable business impact.

His career spans multinational enterprises, AI and analytics consulting, and entrepreneurship, with leadership experience across financial services, retail, telecommunications, energy, and the public sector. He previously served as a Global Analytics Partner for a leading global retailer, led APAC growth and partnerships for an AI consultancy serving Fortune 500 clients, and founded an HKSTP-backed AI startup.

Jovan is also active across Hong Kong’s technology, business, and academic communities through industry leadership, university advisory, and startup mentoring. He serves on the Board of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong, chairs the Innovation Committee at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).

Joy Ghose is Head of Partnerships and Growth at Tyme Group (GoTyme), based in Hong Kong. He builds partner ecosystems and drives commercial growth in fintech, banking and lending.

At Tyme, Joy leads bank and lending partnerships across the region. He works across industries, financial institutions and lending partners to expand distribution, funding and product reach. This includes structuring merchant cash advance deals with merchants and platforms, and building the partner networks that support them.

Joy’s career began in hospitality and large-scale attractions. He was on the pre-opening team of Universal Studios Singapore and went on to international sales and marketing at Resorts World Sentosa, and had further stints at Merlin Entertainments and the Hong Kong Tourism Board. He later led global sales and distribution at Klook and partnerships at Headout, helping both build supply and partner networks across Asia Pacific. Joy has worked in 5 different countries, spanning from the USA to Australia.

He has since held senior commercial roles at technology start-ups, including Chief Commercial Officer, and has helped scale companies from seed through Series A, B and C, with revenue growth of 400% or more. His strengths are negotiation, go-to-market strategy and distribution. He also builds high-performing teams across Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Joy holds an MBA and a Master’s in International Business from Cardiff University. He speaks English, Bengali and Hindi, and is learning Korean.

Ms. Yang Juan is a co-founder of Haizhi Technology. As a pioneer in graph-model fusion technology and a leader in enterprise-grade AI, Haizhi Technology is dedicated to the practical implementation of AI. The company’s proprietary AtlasGraph database set a new world record in the authoritative LDBC benchmark tests—achieving the top global ranking for overall performance with a throughput 45% higher than the previous record. AtlasGraphRAG, built upon AtlasGraph, scored over 50% in MuSiQue—an industry-recognized benchmark for complex reasoning and hallucination resistance—whereas traditional large models scored less than 10% during the same period; recently, AtlasGraphRAG also topped both tracks of the GraphRAG-Bench leaderboard. In February 2026, Haizhi Technology successfully listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. To date, the company has served over 430 leading enterprises across key sectors, including finance, government, energy, manufacturing, and telecommunications.

Julia Clyne is a strategic transformation leader and founder of Entelica, a consultancy dedicated to helping enterprises drive transformation that utilises their existing talent whilst taking advantage of today’s cutting edge technologies. Her mission is to empower business leaders to drive scalable growth by redesigning workflows for the AI era that support and amplify human intelligence.

For over 12 years, Julia drove commercial strategy, P&L growth and digital transformation for some of the world's most prestigious legacy media institutions. Operating across the Asia Pacific region, she held leadership roles including Deputy Managing Director & Head of Sales (APAC) at Bloomberg Media, Vice President (APAC) at Dow Jones, and Executive Director, Media Sales (APAC) at The New York Times.

Recognizing that the true bottleneck to successful transformation is rigorous process engineering as well as human change management, Julia now focuses on the critical intersection of AI, workflows and organisational design. By pairing technological deployment with tailored capability-building programs, she partners with enterprises to unlock commercial value. Her approach elevates existing teams into confident designers and users of technology, ensuring their careers are protected and future-proofed.

Julia holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and certifications in People Analytics from The Wharton School, Artificial Intelligence Strategy from MIT Sloan and Applied Agentic AI through MIT Professional Education.

Julian Gordon is VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East, for LF Decentralized Trust, the premier open source foundation fostering collaborative development of technologies and standards that deliver the transparency, reliability, security and efficiency required for a digital-first economy.

LF Decentralized Trust is home to an ecosystem of open source blockchain, ledger, identity, interoperability, cryptographic, agentic and related technologies. It has 130+ members - including in AP the Bank of Korea, HKMA, MAS, NPCI, Partior, Silence Laboratories, Sooho, TCS and many more.

We host 19 projects, 50+ labs and 200 local, regional and industry groups, convening tens of thousands of contributors worldwide.

Billions of dollars of assets are already moving across production systems powered by LF Decentralized Trust technologies, with more large-scale deployments going live in the coming weeks. Our community and our technologies are at the core of the next generation of money, including tokenized assets, stablecoins, and CBDCs.

Julian is engaged with technology, business and finance leaders, government agencies and academia in Asia Pacific and Middle East. He builds and supports LF Decentralized Trust membership and communities and links them with global initiatives.

Julian’s career began in London at HSBC and Lloyds Bank, where he developed risk management, payment, equity trading and treasury systems. In Hong Kong he went on to hold Asia Pacific leadership roles with technology companies including HP, Cisco and Sun Microsystems.

Julien Martin is the CEO and Founder of Digital Capital Group (DCG), a neo-investment bank focused on powering the infrastructure of tomorrow - across energy, future-proof infrastructure, and food security that underpin economic and social resilience. Under his leadership, DCG operates at the intersection of finance and technology, with a strong focus on Asia and the Middle East.

DCG is redefining investment banking for the industries of tomorrow, creating innovative financial solutions that unlock capital for next-generation energy, future-proof infrastructure, and food security projects. Julien’s leadership ensures that DCG’s offerings uphold the highest standards of compliance, integrity, and technology integration, while enabling cross-border capital flows and seamless connections between investors and transformative projects shaping the economy of the future.

Julien has more than 25 years of experience across sell-side, buy-side, and financial infrastructure, with 18 years based in Asia (8 years working at HKEX, 6 years at Bond Connect, and 18 years at BNP Paribas). As a dynamic leader, Julien is recognized for his expertise in building and managing teams, his entrepreneurial mindset, and his ability to innovate within and beyond large organizations.

Moreover, Julien’s deep expertise spans digital assets, tokenization, DeFi, stablecoins, and blockchain, with a special focus on Real-World Asset tokenization, including bonds, asset-backed securities, and data marketplaces. His core strengths lie in structuring complex investment solutions, building regulatory-grade financial platforms, and bridging traditional finance with digital innovation.

Julien’s career includes pioneering contributions to China’s financial market opening, notably as the architect of Bond Connect, which enabled global investors to access China’s fixed income markets. His broad expertise also encompasses derivatives, ETFs, crypto, private equity, and fixed income, with a robust network across buy-side, sell-side, regulatory, and government entities.

As a leader, Julien is known for his strategic clarity, execution discipline, and ability to build high-performing international teams. Under his direction, DCG is scaling globally to deliver next-generation investment solutions that support the industries and infrastructure shaping the future economy.

Dr. Yu received a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors from the University of Hong Kong and a Doctorate in Computational and Communication Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His long-standing research interests span 3D vision, autonomous driving, world models and embodied intelligence. Prior to joining Westlake University, he held research positions in related fields at the Intel Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Abacus.AI and Alibaba Damo Academy. After joining Westlake University, he founded the Autonomous Intelligence Laboratory and focuses on developing next-generation autonomous intelligence systems centered on data-driven world models. In early 2026, he launched Awomo, dedicated to building latent world models for physical-world scenarios including embodied intelligence, autonomous driving and industrial automation.

Dr. Kang Qu currently serves as the Deputy General Manager at Global Corporate Banking Department at Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited (“BOCHK”). His primary responsibilities include strategic planning and financial performance management for the Corporate Banking sector. Before moving to Corporate Banking, he worked at the bank’s Economics & Strategic Planning Department and the Hong Kong Financial Research Institute of Bank of China focusing on BOCHK’s sustainability strategy, ESG regulatory and listing disclosures and green research. Prior to joining BOCHK in 2021, Dr. Qu spent years working in London, where he joined Bank of China Limited London Branch in 2006 and held positions as Head of Macro Research, Strategic Planning, and Sustainability.

Dr. Qu’s work is highly regarded within the industry. He has received multiple professional awards, including the Bloomberg Businessweek ESG Elites Award in 2025 and the Second Prize in the 2025 Green Finance Skills Competition organized by the Chinese Financial Workers' Union. Furthermore, he has published over 50 articles in both international and domestic journals, covering research areas such as macroeconomics, financial and banking development, and green finance.

In addition to his roles at Bank of China, Dr. Qu serves as the Chinese expert for the Special Policy Study (SPS) group of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), a Member of Directors of the China International Finance Society, the Vice President of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA), and a member of a Working Group led by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Information and Communications Technology Sector).

Dr. Qu holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), a MSc degree from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a PhD in Finance from University of Durham in the UK.

Karen Yip is the Founder of InnoGlobe, where she works hands-on with founders, especially mainland Chinese SMEs, from their first step into Hong Kong through to their first investor meeting.

Karen’s strength is her network and her ability to put it to work. Over two decades serving high-net-worth members and families, she has built trusted relationships with angel investors, venture funds and family offices, and she knows how to prepare founders for those rooms, turning customer acquisition costs, lifetime value and margins into a story investors can back. She pairs this with deep commercial connections across distributors, retail buyers, manufacturers and logistics partners, so a meeting becomes a sales channel rather than a business card.

She also brings credibility. Through the InnoGlobe ecosystem, Karen connects brands with university partners including CUHK, CityU and PolyU, an advisory bench of HKUST scientists and consumer-goods leaders who have run brands at Danone and Nestlé, and member companies across eight sectors, from food tech and biotech to fintech. Her founders gain third-party testing, expert endorsement and visibility on Hong Kong’s biggest stages, from government and chamber events to the Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo.

Her approach is co-building, not consulting: she stays alongside a business long after the introduction is made, until the product is on the shelf and the right partners are at the table.

Kavi Harilela is the Director of Hong Kong-based FGA Trust and a Director of its parent company, Payment Asia Group. He is also an investor whose career spans principal investing, venture advisory, corporate finance and fiduciary governance. Founded in 1999, Payment Asia Group operates an end-to-end fintech ecosystem across digital payments, asset management, trust and custodian services, licensed lending and digital marketing, with more than 25 years in operation, a presence in multiple jurisdictions and seven operating subsidiaries. At FGA Trust, the Group's trust and custodian services arm, he oversees the corporate and personal trust teams, manages trust assets prudently and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements while acting in the best interests of beneficiaries.

He brings a rare combination of deal origination, financial modelling, structuring, execution and portfolio management, together with trust and fiduciary oversight, to venture investors and founder-led businesses across Asia-Pacific.

Kazimierz holds PhD in Innovation Finance from the University of Bath, UK. Kazimierz leads the Digital Channels & AI business for HSBC Hong Kong Retail Banking and Wealth division. In his role he is accountable for all Digital Channels performance across all digital estate, mobile app development, open banking, incubation of new digital technologies and digital design. In his role he is also responsible for development and embedding of AI technologies for the business.

Mr. Fang Ke (方科) is co-founder, executive Director, chief financial officer and secretary to the Board of Astribot. He is primarily responsible for compliance and financial management, capital operations, risk control and strategic decision-making of the group.

Mr. Fang obtained his bachelor’s degree in law from China University of Political Science and Law (中國政法大學) in the PRC in July 2009. He has over 17 years of experience in compliance and financial management, investment banking, capital markets and technology-related industries.

Astribot was founded in Shenzhen in December 2022. The company has pioneered a software-hardware integrated system architecture for AI (Design for AI, DFAI), deeply coupling 'AI capabilities' with 'optimal manipulation'.

Keith Rumjahn is an entrepreneur, AI educator, and creator focused on helping professionals use AI practically in their work. With over 15 years of startup experience, Keith has built and led venture-backed technology companies, raised more than US$20 million in funding, managed teams of over 40 people, and developed products used by millions globally.

Today, Keith runs **Keith AI**, where he teaches AI agents, automation, AI coding, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, local AI systems, and real-world workflows. His audience includes over **13,000 YouTube subscribers**, **11,000 Threads followers**, and **6,000 LinkedIn followers**.

Keith has taught AI to more than **2,000 students** through online courses on Udemy and other platforms. He has also trained over **300 professionals** through corporate workshops and in-person programs at **HKU SPACE** in Hong Kong. His teaching style is practical, hands-on, and focused on helping people move from simply understanding AI to actually building useful workflows, automations, and products.

Keith is also a practitioner. Using AI-assisted coding, he developed an app that now grosses over **US$1,000 per month**, and he maintains an open-source AI coding project with over **420 GitHub stars**. This gives him a grounded perspective on what AI can actually do beyond demos and hype.

His work focuses on the future of AI-powered productivity, including how individuals and teams can use AI agents, automation, and AI coding to work faster, build better systems, and stay relevant in an AI-first world.

Kelvin is the General Manager of Platform Tech, Senior Vice President of Ant International.

Since joining Ant in 2016, Kelvin took a number of leadership roles in the Global Funds & Treasury team where he led the team in building the world’s leading next-generation global liquidity and treasury system leveraging cutting-edge in-house developed DLT and AI technology to support the growing needs of our corporate clients in a more scalable and sustainable manner. Under Kelvin’s leadership, together with major partner banks including JP Morgan, Citibank, SCB, HSBC and Barclays, Ant International was able to propel transformation of FX and liquidity management framework connecting five global treasury hubs in Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, New York and London, covering more than 100 currencies. Ant was awarded the Adam Smith Awards Asia in 2021 as the winner in the best liquidity management solution.

Prior to joining Ant, Kelvin was the Head of Corporate Solutions Group for Citigroup China from 2010-2016. He was also the Head of FX of JP Morgan China from 2009 to 2010. Kelvin was an alumni of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Ken Han is the Chief Commercial Officer APAC at Flow Traders, a global liquidity provider specialised in Exchange Traded Products and Digital Assets. As part of his broader responsibilities, he leads the Institutional Sales & Trading and Digital Assets Business Development teams across Asia, covering investors and market participants to develop liquidity and trading solutions across the region.

Prior to joining Flow Traders in 2016, Ken has held roles in Singapore and Hong Kong at a global Investment Bank, providing banking solutions to financial institutions across Asia.

Kenny Man is the Founder and Managing Partner of 01Fintech Limited. He has more than 20 years of extensive investment, management consulting, and operational experience specializing in Fintech and e-commerce.  While in the Alibaba family of companies, he successfully built the international investment teams for both Alibaba and Ant Group.

While Kenny was at Ant Group, he built a twenty-person team from the ground up.  Since 2015, He invested USD 5bn in over 30 Fintech companies, and was managing approximately USD 20bn in AUM when he left the company to form 01Fintech.  This propelled Ant's globalization strategy by investing or establishing partnership with Fintech companies around the world, including Paytm (India), Ascend Money (Thailand), Dana (Indonesia), GCash (Philippines), Alipay HK (Hong Kong), TNG (Malaysia), Gcash (Philippines), Bkash (Bangladesh), Kakao Pay (Korea) amongst others.  He has been appointed to more than 10 companies' board of directors and has participated the journey in turning many of those companies into Unicorns.

Prior to Ant Group, Kenny was Senior Investment Director at Vision Knight Capital, a USD 800mn private equity firm Founded by ex-Ant CEO. He led the 91.com project from deal execution and the sale of the company to Baidu for USD 1.9 billion, which was, at that time, the largest internet M&A in China. He also led the 500.com deal and supported that company’s listing on the NYSE.

Before Vision Knight Capital, Kenny was the Director of Alibaba.com Investment & Acquisition Team where he built the first Alibaba international M&A team from scratch. While completing multiple deals during his tenure, he executed the first overseas acquisition for Alibaba and the first acquisition for Alipay. His deals included Vendio, Auctiva, and Singlefeed in the US and Oncard Payments in China. He also worked in the Corporate Finance team in Alibaba Group prior to joining the investment team and was deeply involved in the Alibaba.com IPO.

Kenny has also held positions at Pepsi and McKinsey and Company. He received an Executive MBA, Joint Degree program at the Kellogg School of Management Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  He has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in University of British Columbia. He has been listed in the Global Corporate Venture Top 100 Powerlist for several years.

Twenty years as a senior equity trader at BlackRock. Seven years helping fintechs find their commercial footing in financial markets. Two careers that continuously inform each other.

I am a Managing Partner at Finceler8, where I focus on commercial growth for fintech firms operating in financial markets. I spent those previous twenty years as a senior equity trader at BlackRock, trading pan-European equity investment products and that practitioner background is central to how I work. I understand the markets these firms are trying to serve from the inside, and that changes the quality of the conversations I can have on their behalf.

I am based in Hong Kong, having spent the majority of my career in London. I work across global financial centres, and as a fluent Arabic speaker, I have a particular affinity for Middle Eastern markets. I am also a mathematics graduate of University College London and a mentor at Level39.

I am deeply passionate about elevating the public visibility of senior women in fintech. I actively work to put them in front of the right audiences, platforms, and opportunities and to connect them with each other.