2022 Speakers

David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and serves as the head of the MIT Data Science Lab.  He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics.

His Ph.D. students have accepted faculty positions in leading academic institutes including U. of California Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon U., Columbia U., Duke U., Georgia Tech, Harvard U., U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U. of Michigan, Purdue U. and Virginia Tech.

Professor Simchi-Levi is the current Editor-in-Chief of Management Science, one of the two flagship journals of INFORMS. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for Operations Research (2006-2012), the other flagship journal of INFORMS and for Naval Research Logistics (2003-2005).

In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize for playing a leading role in developing and disseminating a new highly impactful paradigm for the identification and mitigation of risks in global supply chains.

He is an INFORMS Fellow and MSOM Distinguished Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Award given to an outstanding publication in military operations research; Ford Motor Company 2015 Engineering Excellence Award; 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice; 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award; and 2009 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize.

He was the founder of LogicTools which provided software solutions and professional services for supply chain optimization. LogicTools became part of IBM in 2009. In 2012 he co-founded OPS Rules, an operations analytics consulting company. The company became part of Accenture in 2016. In 2014, he co-founded Opalytics, a cloud analytics platform company focusing on operations and supply chain decisions. The company became part of the Accenture Applied Intelligence in 2018.

Anita Menon was appointed as Chief Risk Officer of Prudential BSN Takaful in May 2012. She is responsible for the Risk, Compliance, Legal and Government Relations functions and to drive the Company’s Risk & Regulatory programme. Additionally, Anita has led the implementation of a number of strategic regulatory projects across PruBSN. As CRO, Anita is also a member of the PruBSN Executive Committee and provides risk challenge in the development and execution of the company’s business strategies. She has also been an active contributor at the industry level through her participation in working groups involving both takaful & insurance associations.

Prior to joining Prudential, Anita served at KPMG Malaysia for 12 years and was a Partner and Head of Financial Risk Management and Strategic Management Services. She was also a member of KPMG’s Global Islamic Finance and Investments Group and was leading the Islamic Finance practice in Advisory for Malaysia at the time of leaving. Anita has worked extensively with clients locally and globally in the financial services sector in areas of strategic management, risk management, performance management and feasibility studies while at KPMG.

Anita is frequently invited as a speaker at trainings and conferences and has trained clients in areas such as Risk Management, Islamic finance and Performance Management. She also contributes to thought leadership development in these areas and has had a number of articles published. Anita was a working group member of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) that was involved in developing a set of new standards for the Retakaful Industry and was one of the invited speakers at a takaful training organized by the World Bank for the development of takaful in Abu Dhabi. She was also a panel member of the inaugural Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Industry Advisory Executive Panel (IAEP). Anita holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Nottingham, UK. 

Campbell Nicoll is chief risk officer (CRO) at Regional Australia Bank, with 15 years' experience in credit and operational risk management. His previous roles in the financial sector include general manager positions at ASB Bank and a CRO role at the Bank South Pacific.

With more than 15 years’ international experience in derivatives trading and risk management, Yves currently holds the position of country chief risk officer for MUFG Bank Singapore. Previously, he was head of the market risk department for Asia, responsible for monitoring the bank's market and funding liquidity risk, and overseeing the implementation of the latest local regulatory requirements across the region.

Prior to joining MUFG Bank, Yves worked as an interest rates options trader at Standard Chartered Bank in London, Dubai and New York, covering interest rates derivatives in various markets before joining the risk management team in Singapore. He started his career at Dexia Bank in Brussels as a derivatives structurer and holds a master's degree in business engineering from ICHEC Brussels.

Prateek joined HSBC in 2021 and is responsible to provide technology, cyber & data risk management for HSBC Australia.

Prior to joining he was at Westpac, Sydney where he managed technology & cyber risk teams for the Institutional bank and at JP Morgan, London where he held a number of senior roles in technology risk and cyber security including leading the regional EMEA technology risk & cybersecurity team.

He has also previously worked with PwC and EY, Melbourne in the technology risk space. He completed his Computer Engineering and Cybersecurity research with Monash University, Melbourne, has an MBA from the London Business School and is an adjunct associate professor at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Frankie is an award-winning Chief Information Security Officer with 20 years+ experience in Financial and IT industries. He headed Singapore Cyber & technology risk at the world largest private bank UBS and worked at Citibank, Microsoft and HP.

He is a frequent speaker at industry leading forums organized by Reuters, IDC, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asia Risk, Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Central Bank of Indonesia, etc.

As a digital transformation and innovation catalyst, Frankie holds a US patent about next generation wireless networking as sole inventor. The patent has been cited by other big technology companies like Intel and Ericsson.

He was featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as 2024 Global CISO 100 award winner and featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition). He is also recipient of Global Top 100 leaders in InfoSec, World CIO 200, IDG’s CSO30 & CIO 100 ASEAN, etc.

Donald has a real passion about exploring the balance between innovation and cyber and tech controls, as well as making banking simpler and more intuitive. These days, Donald focuses on virtual banking as he was one of the founding team members of Mox Bank, a virtual bank backed by Standard Chartered. Prior to joining Mox, Donald has extensive experiences in shaping and implementing business and tech risk strategy in investment banks such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Nomura on a global and regional scale. As a CPA and CISA, he offers a multidisciplinary approach bridging the gap between banking, cybersecurity, and technology risk.

Michael Grimwade is managing director, operational risk, at ICBC Standard Bank and has previously held senior op risk management roles at MUFG Securities, RBS and Lloyds. Prior to this, he held management consultant positions at PwC and Deloitte Consulting. Grimwade has been a director of the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR) and is currently the chair of the Association of Foreign Banks' Operational Risk Expert Panel. He has authored a number of articles on setting appetite for op risk; scenario analysis techniques; climate change; quantifying emerging risks; and modelling op risk capital. He received an award in 2014 from the IOR for his contribution to the profession. His second book, Ten laws of operational risk, was published in December 2021.

Sara Hunt is an independent reputational risk management consultant with a particular interest in the development of best practice principles for reputational risk management in banking including reputational risk strategy, policy frameworks, governance and controls.

She was previously Standard Chartered’s Head of Reputational Risk Management and Reporting, a role she held for five years. Prior to this she was responsible for the Bank’s corporate reporting suite including the annual report, half year report and sustainability review. During her eleven years at Standard Chartered, Sara also held a number of senior corporate affairs roles including Head of External Communications, Europe, and Head of Corporate Affairs, Wholesale Banking for the integration of American Express Bank.

Before joining Standard Chartered, Sara was Marketing and Communications Manager for ABN AMRO’s global markets business. Prior to this, her career included five years in account management at a leading advertising and communications agency specialising in financial services.

Sara is an advocate for diversity and inclusion and mental health and has been a mentor to the junior talent pipeline since 2012.

Iain is presently the Head of Technology and CISO for the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has enjoyed a long and varied career across multiple industries including, Banking, Telecommunications, Online Media, and Education lading divisions spanning all areas of Technology.

During his career, he has held Global Head of Operational Risk roles at ANZ, CBA, and Macquarie Bank.

Bernard Aw is the Chief Economist for Asia Pacific region at Coface. In this role, he leads macroeconomic and country risk analysis of the Asia Pacific region, and manages the regional economic research team. He is a member of the region’s senior management, and contributes macroeconomic insights to the Group’s risk decision-making process.

Prior to joining Coface in Singapore, he was Principal Economist at IHS Markit. His other previous roles include Market Strategist for IG Asia and Regional Economist at 4CAST. Bernard has also conducted research on trade and economic issues at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. Bernard holds a M.Sc. in Economics from the Singapore Management University and a B.Sc. in Economics and Finance from the University of London.

An internationally recognized financial services expert, Soon Kit offers deep and wide experience accumulated over 15 years in the financial services sector. Bringing a global perspective enriched with grounded experience, he is currently Enterprise Resilience Officer at BNY Mellon assuring the firm broad business and operational resilience across multiple lines of business.
 
Prior to this, he was Risk Vice President of Fullerton Fund Management and Wolters Kluwer’s Asia-Pacific Risk Practice Director guiding regional risk and financial practices for its software clients. At OCBC Bank Group, Soon Kit was managing the risk of Global Treasury, Investment Banking, OCBC Securities and Bank of Singapore. He complements his expertise with international advisory experience garnered at financial software firm Misys / Finastra where he led the risk management teams to solve broader subjects of banking risk with financial firms, banks, regulators in Europe and Asia. Prior to this, Soon Kit provided consulting at Moody’s Analytics.
 
Recognized for his practical expertise by regional banking conferences and professional media, Soon Kit has contributed many live and case interviews to breaking news developments and industry best practice conferences. 

Graduating with honors in Quantitative Finance from the National University of Singapore, he is also a certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and an Energy Risk Professional.
 

Based in Hong Kong, Wei Yao is leading the economic and cross-asset research on the Asia Pacific region at Société Generale. Wei also offers unique insights on China’s macroeconomic development, having been continuously ranked among the top forecasters for China since 2012 by Bloomberg.

She joined Société Generale Corporate and Investment Banking in April 2010. Prior to joining Société Generale, Wei worked on Asia economic research for Kuwait-China Investment Company (now Asiya Investment), based in the Middle East.

Wei was educated at Fudan University in Shanghai, and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Tufts University in the United States.

Edmund is an experienced Risk and Technology professional in the financial and technology industries. At The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS), he oversees the Technology and Operational Resilience initiatives. Prior to joining ABS, he worked at institutions in the private and public sectors, including Deutsche Bank, UOB, Monetary Authority of Singapore and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. He holds an MBA (Distinction) from the University of Manchester and a BEng (First Class) from the Nanyang Technological University.

Khang Nie Lee is the Head of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) for Asia Pacific (APAC) at Credit Suisse.

She is a trained accountant and is a Fellow at the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (FCA). Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Khang Nie was a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers where she ran a number of process improvement projects for clients in the financial services sector.

In Credit Suisse, she headed various functions across the CFO Division in APAC, including Investment Banking Finance, South East Asia Legal Entity Finance and SOX program before joining NFR in the CRO Division.

Based in Hong Kong, Surjeet is leading Third Party Risk Management for the Asia Pacific region at HSBC. Surjeet is a risk and change management leader and has extensive experience in operational resilience, large scale transformations and using digital and emerging technologies for better customer experience and risk management.

He joined HSBC in 2011. Prior to joining HSBC, Surjeet worked in IBM and Hexaware Technologies, based in India and the USA.

Surjeet holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Engineering in Information Technology.

David joined CSOP Asset Management Limited as COO in 2017 and oversees Trading, Client Solutions, Risk Management, Operations, Technology and ETF Operations for the firm. He is responsible for designing and driving the infrastructure strategy of CSOP to support its business growth and development and is also currently leading the digital transformation initiative for CSOP.

Prior to joining CSOP as COO, David was the Head of Business Controls and Management for South East Asia at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, responsible for the governance and business management of the Global Banking and Markets Businesses in the region. David is also part of the local management committees of Merrill Lynch Singapore, Bank of America Singapore Branch and Bank of America Securities Limited

Previously, David had worked in a number of large financial institutions such as Barclays Capital and Morgan Stanley in a variety of roles covering operations, middle office and finance. David started his career in Deloitte as an auditor in Australia.

David holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago – Booth School of Business and a Master of Applied Commerce(Accounting) and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.

Sharon has over 13 years of experience in banking and finance throughout Asia. She has been based in the Philippines, in Cambodia leading the Financial Crime and Compliance team there and providing advisory counsel for Indonesia and China, and most recently in Hong Kong. She is continuing her prolific career with ANZ Banking Group as the HK Head of Financial Crime and MLRO. Sharon has a degree in Consular and Diplomatic affairs and finished a specialized course on International Development Studies.