Sarabjit Anand

Regional Chief Information Officer, Singapore and ASEAN & South Asia

Sarabjit is the Regional Chief Information Officer (CIO), Singapore and ASEAN & South Asia
(ASA) of Standard Chartered Bank. In this role, he leads teams across the Bank’s network to enhance the Technology Service framework. He has led many digital banking initiatives for the Singapore market and is also involved in global innovative projects.
Sarabjit has a deep understanding of regulatory frameworks and development across multiple markets, having also worked closely with regulators in Singapore and Hong Kong. Sarabjit is also instrumental in the development and implementation of the Bank’s digital and technology strategy for Singapore.
Most of Sarabjit’s career was spent in the areas of Technology and ITES/BPO. He started his career with Zenith Computers in 1989, before moving on to Citibank. He has been with Standard Chartered for 28 years. Sarabjit is experienced in Systems Integration, Project Management, Techno-commercial negotiations, Operations and Quality (Six Sigma, ISO 9002) and has had an extensive exposure to critical application support in the financial industry.
Sarabjit is a computer engineer by background with a passion for cricket, travelling, and cooking. He is married with two daughters and is based in Singapore.

Shyaamkumaar Krishnamoorthy

Advisory Lead

Shyaam is the Advisory Lead for ThoughtWorks Southeast Asia and has worked with clients primarily in the government and financial services sectors across APAC on diverse digital engagements from transformation consulting to delivery: ranging from defining target operating models to improving business productivity using digital technologies. Prior to ThoughtWorks, Shyaam led innovation labs building vertical specific use cases using digital technologies, pitching them to global clients for adoption.

Benny Tan

Sales Director

Benny is the Sales Director for FORCS Singapore, a subsidiary of FORCS Co., Ltd – the market leader of Enterprise e-Form and Reporting solutions in Korea. Benny started his career as a banker in OCBC and DBS. After 8 years, he moved into Management Consulting and accumulated over 10 years of experiences in Sales, Marketing and Change Management. With his vast experience in growing and expanding businesses in Asia, Benny understands the difficulties companies face during the digital transformation journey. To close the gap, he aims to help companies to transform more effectively and successfully with FORCS paperless technology.

Angeline Alexander

Head of HNW & Affluent Customer Segments

Angeline has vast experience in Segment strategies and Customer Experience programmes for Affluent & High Net Worth clients across Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  She is highly passionate about understanding what customers need and delivering solutions and experiences that matter to them.

SONALI VERMA

Head, Customer Experience and Innovation,

Regional Bancassurance, Asia Manulife

In her current role at Manulife Financial for Asia, Sonali is responsible for creating and consolidating experience frameworks across the Bancassurance business with a specific focus on DBS-Manulife countries. This includes building next-in class large insurers’ customer experience infrastructure across Asia by leveraging innovation principles, analytics and insight, and setting and driving key performance indicators. Sonali is also responsible for a Manulife joint fund, Technology and Innovation Fund.

Prior to joining Manulife, Sonali worked at Citibank Singapore for almost nine years. She launched and led a key initiative where her team embedded the ‘Client Excellence’ philosophy across Citibank Singapore. During her tenure, Citibank was ranked number one in the category in CSISG, an index compiled by the Singapore government to gauge client satisfaction scores across various industries. Sonali Verma over has 20 years of rich experience in organizational operations, service and customer experience. She has worked in leadership and senior management roles with large global organizations helping them in identifying and deploying appropriate solutions for improving client impacting processes.

Steve Pardue

Vice President, Asia and Industry, Tealium

An online pioneer, Steve’s innovations began before the internet’s digital ecosystem existed. Early years were spent creating real-time shared payment networks for the deployment of ATM/POS networks such as Star Network. Challenging without the ubiquitous internet.

Steve then joined Visa where he co-invented, patented and developed the international market for Visa ePay, the first online real-time zero-payment-risk bill payment and presentment system. Demand was fueled by explosive growth in IVRs, personal computers and “boxed” software delivering online financial services.

Quantum shift, the internet and TCP/IP! Steve joins a startup helping launch the world’s first internet bank, SFNB. Being first to market was the bleeding edge of architecture, regulatory compliance and market experimentation, becoming the benchmark for online financial services today. This grew into S1, one of the first fintech SaaS companies building initial internet banks for organizations like OCBC, Citibank, ANZ and thousands more.

From blind experimentation to data driven insights, Steve joins WebSideStory bringing the first real-time web analytics platform to Asia. Then from macro-to-micro insights, joining Tealium, delivering the world’s first 1:1 real-time enterprise data orchestration platform and Customer Data Platform.

Steve was Tealium’s first employee in Asia in 2013, building Tealium’s organizations in Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. After a couple years back in San Diego at Tealium HQ, Steve is now back in Singapore as Vice President, Asia & Industry.

Azim Mithani

Executive Vice President

Azim is an insurance industry business leader with 28 years’ commercial experience across Asia and the UK. He is currently EVP at Singapore Life  and prior to that spent 1 year at Sherpa UK. Azim previously worked for Prudential plc for 26 years, undertaking a variety of roles, most recent of which was Chief Operating Officer, Insurance, Asia in Hong Kong. He has deep intimate knowledge of the insurance landscape in Asia. He is consumer’s insurance needs by harnessing the power of technology and health sciences; he firmly believes that, combined together, those two advancements can have a profound impact, creating sustainable value for all stakeholders and wider society.

Judy Bei

Global Head of Payments and Receivables

Judy Bei is the Global Head of Payments and Receivables at Standard Chartered Bank. Based in Singapore, Judy has more than 15 years experience in cash management in the United States and in Asia. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Judy was in various global and regional leadership roles at Citigroup in New York, managing institutional and consumer transaction banking products. She launched the world’s first open loop transit payment platform in New York and advised Fortune 500 corporations on cash management needs. At the beginning of her career, Judy spent four years in management consulting helping multi-national corporations develop growth strategies. Judy was born in China and possesses an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. She has three daughters and enjoys spending time with friends and family.

Sham Arora

CIO, Foundation Services and Technology Strategy and Global Head, GBS Technology & Innovation

Sham is the CIO for Foundation Services and Technology Strategy at Standard Chartered Bank. He also leads Technology for Global Business Services, the offshore delivery centre of Standard Chartered Bank. In his current role, Sham oversees the Banks’ foundational technology components including data engineering and related assets, integration, open banking and operations automation. He shapes the overall Tech Strategy of the Bank and is responsible for cultivating an engineering culture, driving innovation and upskilling of the developer community.

Sham has been with Standard Chartered Bank for 16 years and have held several Technology and Operations roles, including Global Head of Tech and Ops for Trade and Cash, Head of Technology for Transaction Banking and Shared services, and Head of the Core Banking Program.