Listed below is a full listing of all the professionals we believe are making a difference in the country today. This list is in alphabetical order of their first name.
Ms Chan San San is a certified Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a bachelor’s degree in accountancy with a minor in business law from Nanyang Technological University, Si...
Mr Dennis Tan is a veteran banker who joined Prudential Singapore as CEO in February 2020 after close to three decades at OCBC Bank and Citi. In July 2022, he was promoted to Manag...
Katsufumi Uchida most recently served as Head of Asia Business Development Division and Deputy Head of Asia Pacific Division, as a Managing Executive Officer of Sumitomo Mitsui Fin...
Amit brings over 30 years of experience in banking across different roles. He joined Citi as a Management Associate and has held several senior positions in Corporate Banking and R...
YS is a seasoned HR professional with a strong consulting background. He started his career with global professional services firm Deloitte Consulting in the US, where he advised F...
Winnie Chen, based in Singapore, holds dual leadership roles at BNY Mellon. As head of treasury services for Asia Pacific, she oversees all regional functions including relationshi...
Paul McCarroll is tasked with supervising every facet of IT operations and the implementation of strategies across Citi's business ventures throughout the Asia Pacific region. ...
In his role as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at SC Ventures, Viren collaborates closely with business stakeholders to enhance cyber security measures for strategic vent...
Tobias boasts over two decades of expertise encompassing information security, software development, application security, cryptography, electronic signatures, and global standardi...
Proficient in various domains including venture building, capital acquisition, strategic planning, technology implementation, cybersecurity, data resilience, and nurturing s...
Cindy will lead the Group's Compliance function, overseeing regulatory compliance, policy development and implementation, risk assessment and business advisory activities, to s...
Mr. Chan became part of UOB in 1998 and currently serves as the Head of Group Credit and Risk Management. Before relocating to Singapore in September 2012, he held the position of ...
Noel Gerald DCruz assumed the role of Group Chief Risk Officer (GCRO) at OCBC on January 1, 2023. In this capacity, he holds overall accountability for risk management, encompassin...
With over two decades of expertise in Risk Management across the banking and financial sectors, Amy Chua has amassed extensive experience in credit and operational risk management ...
With twenty years of experience in the financial services sector, both as a practitioner and consultant, spanning Europe, America, Africa, and Asia, Arvid Swartsenburg have assiste...
Mr. Praveen Raina took on the role of Head of Group Operations and Technology in June 2021. With over two decades of experience, he played a pivotal role in driving the bank's ...
Jimmy Ng serves as the Group Head of Operations and Regional Technology and Operations at DBS Bank, where he oversees operations across various sectors, including Consumer and Inst...
Ceridwen Choo, an experienced leader in global payment networks and fintech, has assumed the role of CEO at DCS Innov. With her guidance, DCS Innov aims to lead collaborative effor...
Carsten brings over 30 years of extensive experience in the banking sector to SMBC, having previously served at Credit Suisse for more than 25 years. In his recent role as Managing...
Spearheading Group Transaction Banking at UOB, So Lay Hua serves as the Managing Director. Her responsibilities encompass product management, digital transformation, and strategic ...
Melvyn Low oversees OCBC's transaction banking operations catering to SMEs, large corporations, financial institutions, and government entities across key markets including Sin...
Bhatia will undertake the task of implementing a unified business model, termed "One MUFG," aimed at strengthening the bank's global Global Banking and Securities (GS...
Ashutosh is the Managing Director and Head of Global Transaction Banking, Asia Pacific. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for the strategy and execution of the Global Tra...
Mr. Soon Chong Lim, a visionary leader and seasoned banker, oversees a team of devoted transaction banking experts throughout the region, dedicated to meeting client requirements. ...
Roel assumed the role of Chief Transformation, Technology & Operations Officer on April 1, 2022, after joining the Bank as Chief Digital, Technology & Innovation Officer in...
Michael Spiegel is the Global Head of Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered Bank. Before assuming his present role, he served as the Global Head of Trade. Prior to joining...
David Lynne is the Managing Director and Global Head of Deutsche Bank Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank. With over three decades of experience in the banking industry in Singapo...
Before joining Hugosave, Karl was the Chief of Staff to the Asia-Pacific Chief Operating Officer at UBS Wealth Management Singapore, where he oversaw the company’s regional b...
A 22-year Citi veteran, Tibor is currently the CCO for Thailand which he was appointed to in 2017. In his role, he was also given the responsibilit...
Mr Moo has more than 25 years of experience in private banking, wealth management and capital markets including 22 years with Goldman Sachs. Mr Moo joins Bank of Singapore from Ban...
Adeline has spent over 10 years at Visa in several leadership roles. Most recently, she was Head of Data Solutions for Asia Pacific based in Singapore, and was responsible for lead...
Erwin has over 25 years of experience in front office leading corporate and project finance covering multiple sectors such as power, utilities, renewables, water, waste, technology...
In this newly created role, Simone is responsible for leading SMBC’s M&A advisory efforts in Asia in the energy and infrastructure sector covering renewables and digital ...
Barclays today announce the appointment of Pushkaraj (Push) Gumaste as Head of Corporate Banking, Asia Pacific and Middle East. Based in Singapore, he will jointly report...
Based in Singapore, Mr. Kopitsis will focus on increasing awareness and distribution of PineBridge’s investment capabilities to private banks and distribution platforms in the re...
In announcing Walter’s new role, Aviva Singlife Holdings Chairman Ray Ferguson said, “Walter has been incredibly instrumental in the formation and development of Singlife and i...
Hungate will be reporting to Group CEO Anthony Tan, and oversee Grab’s mobility, deliveries and financial services businesses, as well as Grab’s marketing and user support func...
Soh Kian Tiong has served as Chief Risk Officer of DBS Group since November 2021, bringing over 25 years of experience in banking and finance. In his previous role as Managing Dire...
Having joined HSBC in 2006, Ms Yap has held various roles within the Bank’s GLCM business in Singapore including Head of Sales for Commercial Banking, and most recently,...
Jason is a senior banker who will serve the financial and wealth planning needs of RBC Wealth Management’s HNW and UHNW clients, with a focus on Singaporean and Chinese clients a...
Since joining DBS in 2006, Lim has led a broad range of assignments across a spectrum of functions including consumer, wealth, corporate treasury and risk management. Prior to his ...
Scott is responsible for the global processing services and cash and liquidity management of Barclays. Prior joining the bank, he was with Deutsche for 8 years. He handled several ...
Goldstein brings over 19 years of professional and regional experience to BNY Mellon Asia. His career spans over a series transaction banking and client relationship management pos...
Venkat brings onboard more than 25 years of banking experience across product, sales and marketing. Prior to his current position, he headed Asia’s payments and receipts busi...
Sudhanshu Ahuja (Sudh) is founder and CEO of Ideatory, a start-up operating an online platform, which helps companies to select the best talent in the field of data and analytics...
With more than 18 years of compliance experience, Ms. Koh’s expertise lies within the development and implementation of sustainable compliance operating frameworks across var...
As a Board member, Shivkumar Mahadevan makes decisions impartially in the company's best interests. Additionally, he serves as an Investment & Finance Committee Member of S...
As the Managing Director and Head of Sales & Distribution for Personal Financial Services across the region, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Ch...
Chin joined UOB in 2013, where he heads the Group’s wholesale banking business comprising commercial banking, corporate banking, transaction banking, structured trade and com...
Connolly oversees foreign exchange, trade finance, cross-border treasury management services, cross-border e-commerce, and cross-border investments. He leads teams located in Dub...
Hanning joined UBS in Hong Kong in 2006 and since 2009 has co-led UBS’s Asian business, excluding Japan and Australia, with David Chin. Before joining UBS, Hanning held a numbe...
Tay is responsible for leading the expansion of UniCredit’s commercial banking franchise in the region and extending its transaction banking footprint and product suite, includin...
Valet started his career as an analyst within the Economic and Financial Research Department of Banque Indosuez. At Societe Generale, he was head of the Securities’ European ...
Furlong is responsible for Lloyds Banking Group’s Asia Pacific financial institutions portfolio. He was formerly responsible for Asia Pacific’s Bank Relationships portf...
Menon joined the Asian regional corporate finance team of ING in 1998 after heading ING’s Indian country corporate finance team, which was responsible for origination and executi...
French is responsible for banking, markets, capital financing, securities services, balance sheet management, and payments and cash management. In his previous position as head of ...
Wee has been with BNP Paribas since 1989 in various roles - chief executive officer of Thailand, head of corporate coverage for Southeast Asia, and head of global trade solutions f...
Goldstein brings over 18 years of professional and regional experience to BNY Mellon, having served in a series of transaction banking and client relationship management positions ...
Eric has held senior banking roles at Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and most recently as Chief Operating Officer for the Asia Pacific technology office at UBS w...
David is responsible for technology strategy and architecture including enterprise architecture; application principles; cross-domain synergies; and technology direction and ...
David is responsible for technology strategy and architecture including enterprise architecture; application principles; cross-domain synergies; and technology direction and ...
Ramakrishnan is the head of Digital and ATM Channels, Retail Banking Asia Pacific at ANZ. Prior to joining ANZ in 2014, he worked with Standard Chartered Bank as digital programme ...
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Choong currently heads Technology, Retail Banking Asia Pacific; Wealth and Private Banking Asia, and Technology,Asia Pacific, Europe, and America. Before joining ANZ, Choong spent ...
Tay joined ANZ in June 2015 as head of the Singapore Information Technology Department. Prior to that, he was head of the Singapore IT department of CIMB for four years, providing ...
Kuo Siong is the chief information officer of Maybank Singapore. Kuo Siong was previously the executive vice president for Central Operations and e-Business for retail and commerci...
Sahuis currently the head of Digital Delivery (APEA) at ANZ Singapore, responsible for the delivery of next-generation digital solutions for ANZ clients. Before taking this role, h...
Crespin was appointed group head, Digital Bank, DBS Bank in March 2014. He joined DBS in July 2010 as managing director and chief operating officer for DBS Private Bank. Prior to j...
Cross is the managing director and chief innovation officer of DBS, where he drives the bank’s innovation agenda across its key axes of growth, namely, Greater China, Southeast A...
Gledhill is the group executive and head of Group Technology and Operations at DBS Bank, managing over 5,000 staff across the region. He focuses on strengthening the bank’s t...
Cobban is managing director and chief operating officer of the Technology and Operations group of DBS based in Singapore. He leads DBS’ Innovation group,overseeing operational ex...
Malligan heads ANZ’s core banking replacement program in Asia. Before being appointed as program director, Core Banking, Malligan headed ANZ’s Transformation and Project Delive...
Dr Gorriz, the former Vice President and CIO at car manufacturer Daimler AG - which owns a number of automobile and truck brands including Mercedes-Benz and the Smart Car - current...
Mr. Christopher Fix has served as Chief Executive Officer at DME since 2012. He spearheaded DME’s strategic development and established close ties with oil producers, custome...
Mr. Ang Swee Tian currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX). Mr. Tian was the former president of SGX, which he mould...
Anju Patwardhan was appointed group chief innovation officer at Standard Chartered Bank in July 2015. She is responsible for shaping the bank’s strategic innovation agenda ac...
Loh Boon Chye was appointed chief executive officer of Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) in July 2015. Loh’s career of 26 years began with him as an investment officer with the Mo...
Damien Cummings has been appointed global head of digital marketing at Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for providing digital and mobile marketing thought leadership as well as...
Lionel Choong is independent vice chairman of the board of Emerson Radio, ...
Robert Yap is the executive chairman of YCH group,...
Lim Khiang Tong joined OCBC Bank in September 2000 and assumed the role of Head of IT Management in January 2002. He was appointed Executive Vice President in December 2007 and He...
Asli Erginbas is Senior Vice President at DBS\' Business Intelligence Competency Center...
Paul Gerrard is currently the Global Head of Portfolio Management at Standard Chartered Bank based in Singapore. He built up a solid career at GE Money before leaving the post of s...
Head of group customer analytics and decisioning at OCBC Bank, Donald MacDonald oversees the bank’s data-driven and direct marketing activities, customer analytics and overall CR...
Wadivkar has more than 14 years of diverse wholesale and retail banking experience across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Asia covering senior/team management roles in p...
Mr. Farooq Siddiqi serves as Regional Head of Transaction Banking - MENA at Standard Chartered Bank Of Bahrain. He previously held the position of Managing Director and Head of Tra...
Walker is an institutional banker who has driven exceptional revenue growth and transformed businesses at major global banks in Managing Director and equivalent positions. He was p...
Franck is responsible for the key customers and market infrastructures in the sub-region. Prior to this position, he was Head of South-East Asia looking after all commercial act...
Boon, a seasoned professional in banking and capital markets for over two decades, brings a wealth of expertise in product development, regulatory advocacy, and innovation. His foc...
Lim is responsible over JP Morgan’s corporate clients and sales strategy in both the bank and non-bank sectors for cash management. He had been with Deutsche Bank for 12 year...
A 25-year veteran, Lum’s successful career began in Citi and ABN Amro. Since joining DBS, she has driven the bank’s product, sales and technology infrastructure, whic...
Ameen has been with the bank since 2010 as head of treasury products, APAC. He joined from Citi, where he headed up the Vietnam transaction services team, as well as holding variou...
Gupte is in charge of Citi Singapore’s businesses and operations, and for the leadership of Citi’s ASEAN cluster of markets. A 27-year Citi veteran, Gupte was previousl...
Sreeram Iyer is the chief operating officer for international & institutional banking. In this role, Sreeram is responsible for supporting ANZ business priorities, generating v...
Madan Menon is currently head of international banking for Asia Pacific at RBS, a position he has held since January 2012. He was previously country executive of RBS Singapore and ...
Mr. Teo Tzai Win, also known as Melvin, has been Group Chief Executive Officer of Yeo Hiap Seng Limited since April 24, 2015. Mr. Teo served as the President Director of PT Bank DB...
Lim Seng Sim joined DBS on September 1st 2010 as the country manager of DBS Singapore. Lim is responsible for helping the bank develop a more acute customer focus and better levera...
Nick Dean is a seasoned leader in technology and transformation, known for simplifying the complex and empowering individuals to achieve what they once deemed impossible. With over...
Kai Nargolwala, Chairman of 65 Equity Partners, holds key roles as Chairman of the Nomination & Remuneration and Investment Committees, along with membership in the Audit &...
Lee joined UOB, Singapore’s third largest lender by assets, in 1980 and has over three decades of experience in financial services. Before moving to Singapore in 2003, he was...
Wee joined UOB in 1979 and has been an executive director at the bank since 1990. He served as the deputy chairman and president from 2000 to 2007 and was appointed CEO in 2007 whe...
In May 2022, Shirish assumed the role of an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered PLC, and in January 2023, he was appointed to the Court of Standard Chartered B...
Seah joined DBS as a director in 2009 and assumed the position of chairman in 2010. He is also presently the chairman of Singapore Technologies Engineering, deputy chairman of Capi...
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Mr. Kaura holds the position of Managing Director and oversees Transaction Banking in the Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East regions. His responsibilities span various areas...
In his current role, Shankar is responsible for the continued development of the bank\'s business following the recent American Express acquisition. In line with the group\'s s...
Duggalis responsible for the payment, collection, liquidity management products as well as the electronic delivery channels used by the Bank\'s corporate clients. He has led th...
Advani leads the global trade team in Asia, focusing on strategy, sales, client services and product development, among other. An industry veteran with more than 20 years of experi...
Pollie Sim was appointed as CEO, International of Maybank Group since October 2013. Pollie is responsible for strategising, leading and transforming the Group’s overseas oper...
Gupta is the CEO and director of DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s biggest lender. He began his career with Citibank in India in 1982 and has, over the years,...
Mr Ching Wei Hong was appointed Chief Operating Officer since 2012. He is responsible for the Group Operations & Technology, Group Corporate Communications, Group Quality &...
David possesses extensive expertise in global and corporate finance, spanning investment and retail banking. He holds robust risk management qualifications and possesses a deep und...
Susan Hwee is currently head of group technology and operations at UOB. She joined the group in 2001 as an industry veteran with over 20 years' experience in IT and previous se...