Programme

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.

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.