Sopnendu Mohanty
Chief Fintech Officer
Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
Sopnendu Mohanty is the Chief Fintech Officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He joined MAS in August 2015 responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation. Since 2015, Singapore has become one of the top global fintech hubs covering a wide range of financial asset classes including adjacent technology innovations in areas like insurance, digital assets, blockchain, artificial intelligence, reg-tech and green-finance.
Before MAS, Sopnendu spent over 20 years in various leadership roles in technology, finance and innovation with most of his career in Citigroup. Sopnendu is a member of multiple advisory committees of multilateral global agencies, associations, universities, and governments. He is an avid speaker, global thought leader in FinTech, and advocate of accelerated transformation to a digital economy for solving financial inclusion and sustainability challenges.
Walter de Oude
Deputy Chairman
Aviva Singlife
Walter de Oude is the Deputy Chairman of Aviva Singlife, a homegrown insurer formed following the merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife, one of the biggest insurance deals in Southeast Asia. Prior to the merger, Walter was the founder and Group CEO of Singlife, a Singapore based digital insurer that aims to unlock the potential of money by making financial services more convenient, transparent, accessible and affordable.
Before founding Singlife, Walter also held a range of roles at HSBC Insurance (Singapore) from Chief Actuary and Head of Products, Deputy CEO and CEO for nearly a decade with the global insurance conglomerate. With an illustrious career in insurance and actuary across Asia, Walter has a deep understanding of the insurance landscape and has made it his life mission to make insurance and wealth management more accessible through cutting-edge digital technologies. His passion as a leader and an entrepreneur landed him the award of ‘Outstanding CEO of the Year 2018’ at the Influential Brands 2018 CEO Asia Summit and was recently named by Business Insider as one of the 100 People Transforming Business in 2020.
Rob Burr
CEO Asia Pacific
iptiQ from Swiss Re
As Chief Executive Officer of iptiQ APAC, part of Swiss Re Group's risk-tech solutions, Robert is responsible for the development of new and innovative business solutions covering a wide range of smart and digital distribution solutions for Life & Health and Property & Casualty across Asia Pacific. Expanding iptiQ into the region as a leading innovator in digital solutions, Robert oversees the company's regional growth strategy, widening Swiss Re's footprint and enhancing its ability to close protection gaps across global communities. He sits on the iptiQ Executive Committee that spearheads strategic development of the business globally.
Robert joined Swiss Re in July 2011. Prior to his role at iptiQ, he served eight years as Managing Director, Head of Life & Health, Reinsurance Client Markets Asia, driving the fastest growing line of business in the Group. Under his leadership, the Life & Health reinsurance business grew into one of Swiss Re’s largest business units today. His passion for bringing change to the industry has led to the shaping of many innovative client strategies, including the
formation of the first Swiss Re Solutions Group. Robert also sat on the High Growth Markets Committee committed to expanding Swiss Re's emerging markets around the world, as well as various Swiss Re committees and Boards across the region.
Robert has over 35 years' experience in the insurance sector, starting his career in London as an Aviation broker before moving to the Life & Health industry with CIGNA, Sun Life and AIG. He has also held senior roles within global marketing and advertising agencies, specializing in the financial services sector.
Melita Teo
Chief Customer & Digital Officer
AIA Singapore
Ms Melita Teo is the Chief Customer and Digital Officer of AIA Singapore. Drawing on a wealth of industry experience, Melita is responsible for strengthening the Customer, Brand, Health and Wellness propositions, advancing the enterprise-wide Analytics capabilities and usage, and accelerating the delivery of an integrated Digital experience across Customers and Distribution.
Melita leads the division to identify strategic areas of growth for the business and service excellence to customers through an unwavering focus on customer experience and outcomes, and integrated digitalisation transformation of business and services.
Prior her role as Chief Customer and Digital Officer, Melita served as the Chief Operations Officer of AIA Singapore since 2016, developing and driving the digital transformation for customers and distribution, delivery of quality and sustainable healthcare for customers in addition to overseeing operations, which include customer service, policy services, underwriting and claims departments. Under her leadership, AIA received multiple industry accolades in Digital, Healthcare and Customer Service Excellence.
George Kesselman
Head of Commercial
ZA Tech
George is a recognized fintech leader in Asia. Following a successful insurance career, George had founded and grew both InsurTech Asia Association and an early-stage insurtech startup.
He currently leads commercial for ZA Tech, the technology venture created by the global online insurance leader, ZhongAn Online, and backed by the visionary investor Softbank.
George is a regular speaker at leading events, and his views are regularly featured across global publications, including Insurance Thought leadership, AM Best, Asia Insurance Review, APAC CIO Magazine, Fintech News, and TechInAsia. George contributed as a co-author of “The InsurTECH Book,” published by John Wiley & Sons in 2018.
Steve Tunstall
CEO & Co-Founder
Inzsure
Steve is currently CEO of Inzsure which aspires to provide affordable, appropriate insurance for every company. He has over thirty years of experience in owning, running and future-proofing companies.
He has been CEO, Managing Director or equivalent in eight companies in four countries and based in Asia for over 20 years. He has deep domain knowledge in Insurtech, Fintech, commercial insurance, compliance, risk and crisis management.
A contributing author to The InsurtechBook, author of “RISK and the Asian CEO”. Recognised as a worldwide influencer in insurtech, fintech and blockchain with a social media network of over 100,000 followers.
Tom Duncan
Head of Insurance
Grab
Tom is the Head of Insurance at Grab, where he oversees the strategic direction and development of the insurance offering in Grab Financial Group. He and the team are on a mission to help address the insurance gap in Southeast Asia, by using technology and data to design innovative digital solutions.
Prior to joining Grab, Tom was part of the early team at Chubb Digital, where he was Head of Digital Partnerships APAC. In this role, he built strategic partnerships with technology companies and financial institutions across Asia. Tom has over 15 years experience in financial services including at ANZ and Barclays in Australasia and Singapore. He has also been part of several startups including as Head of Partnerships for an insurtech-focused digital consultancy and as COO of an early stage HR tech startup.
Tom has a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and Finance from the University of Otago in New Zealand and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.
Michael Gourlay
Chairman
QBE Asia
Michael worked in executive positions in the insurance industry with Aviva and MSIG for over 40 years, mostly in Asia, with intervening periods in London, Bermuda and New Zealand.
He is currently Non Executive Chairman of QBE Asia and acts as an independent director and advisor to insurers and insurtech companies on innovation through digitalisation, business performance improvement and mergers and acquisitions.
Matthias de Ferrieres
CEO
Wellnex & My-Insurer
In Asia-Pacific since 2000, Matthias de Ferrieres, spent 15 years within AXA. Regional CMO, he leaves the firm in 2014 to found & lead a series of successful Start-ups that aims at delivering disruptive, customer-centric yet easy to operate digital insurance based solutions. After Stark Group & My-insurer, he launches Wellnex (www.wellnex-singapore.com) to provide access to affordable Healthcare and Fitness Services to all Singaporean.
Economist with a legal background (Chicago University, Sydney University), he has over 19 years of insurance experience in Asia. He is also actuary by training and currently a PhD scholar.
Jonathan Rake
CEO APAC
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
Jonathan was appointed as Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' CEO of Asia Pacific in July 2017, having previously held the role of Head South East Asia.
Based in Singapore, Jonathan will oversee the business and implement the company’s expansion strategy in Asia Pacific. He will also extend Corporate Solutions' reach with brokers and clients in the region, providing local access to traditional insurance offerings as well as innovative solutions and services. Jonathan is an experienced commercial insurance executive and has held positions in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Prior to joining Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Jonathan worked for Zurich Insurance Group where he was Country CEO and CEO of General Insurance for Zurich’s operation in Singapore, overseeing the Singapore market and selected countries in Asia. Jonathan worked for the company in London, Zurich and Hong Kong.
Cole Sirucek
CEO & Co-Founder
DocDoc
Cole Sirucek is an investor and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience founding, investing into and otherwise supporting entrepreneurial ventures. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of DocDoc, the world's first patient intelligence company. Prior to DocDoc, Cole spent seven years in the direct investment team of Temasek Holdings. In this capacity, he has successfully invested over US$500M in private equity direct and secondary transactions. He has also served as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors for Global Eagle Acquisition Corp, a US$190M, NASDAQ listed SPAC focused on the media and entertainment industry. Cole attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Tomasz Kurczyk
Chief Transformation & Digital Officer
AXA
Tomasz started his career in Poland as an entrepreneur, then turned into a consultant. After working across multiple industries and 16 countries, he now serves as Chief Transformation and Digital Officer at AXA in Singapore.
He is a geek at heart. From the moment he wrote his first application and created his first website at the age of 12, he got fascinated with the opportunities that technology creates around us.
Since that moment he decided to focus on helping create, build and grow businesses and organizations that harness the potential of technology compounded with strategy and customer focus to deliver real impact and realize what’s possible in the digital age.
Tomasz actively participates in FinTech and InsurTech ecosystem development as SFA ExCo and Chair of the InsurTech subcommittee. He is also a start-up advisor, mentor and angel investor.
Tomasz holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management (US) and HKUST (Hong Kong) and MSc in Computer Systems from Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
Justin Yiu
Head of Innovation, Solaria Labs East (Asia)
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Justin Yiu is passionate about building initiatives from scratch and exploring spaces which are rapidly evolving. That's why over the last 6 years, he has led the launch and growth of Solaria Labs, Liberty Mutual's innovation arm, and launched insurtech products across Asia.
Justin is currently the Head of Innovation and oversees Solaria Labs for Liberty Mutual’s Asia operations which includes China, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His team leads new-product development, using human-centric design to create solutions which make insurance simple and accessible to the everyday consumer. Since starting the operation in 2017, the team has built a portfolio of new products and customer experiences that span motor, health, and life insurance.
Prior to coming to Asia, Justin worked and studied in the United States. His experience includes roles in strategy, operations, and analytics. He is an actuary by background and holds an Associateship of the Society of Actuaries. During his free time, he likes to spend time with family, try new restaurants, experiment with new workouts, and read books on business and investing.
Rosaline Chow Koo
CEO & Founder
CXA
Rosaline invested $5M of her savings and borrowed another $5M to build her startup CXA after 5 years trying to convince her firm to invest in Asia. CXA won Insurtech of the Year and Rosaline won Woman Leader of the Year from the Asia Insurance Industry Awards.
Rosaline supervised P&G factory lines in Iowa and then worked on Wall Street. She launched two dot-com start-ups before moving to insurance. Rosaline also grew Mercer and Marsh Benefit’s 14 APAC countries 800% over 8 years. She graduated from UCLA Cybernetics and Columbia Business School.
Al-Noor Ramji
Group Chief Digital Officer
Prudential
Al-Noor, who joined Prudential in January 2016 as Group Chief Digital Officer, is responsible for developing and executing an integrated, long-term digital strategy for all the Group companies in Prudential. He runs the Digital Business as well as providing the platform for the traditional business.
Before joining Prudential, he worked at Northgate Capital, a venture capital firm in Bay Area, where he raised money and ran the technology-focused funds. Prior to this Al-Noor was at Misys, the financial services software group, and he has previously held leading technology and innovation roles at BT Group, Qwest Communications, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Swiss Bank Corporation.
Dr. Deepak Gandhi
Head – New Business Underwriting
Great Eastern Life Insurance
Dr. Deepak Gandhi has over 20 years of experience and is a well-rounded risk manager with extensive experience in life and health insurance underwriting, claims management, products, process automation, operations transformation, clinical and insurance medicine. He has completed his degree in Medicine, holds an MBA in insurance and has worked with insurers and reinsurers across different markets. As Head of New Business Underwriting at Great Eastern Life Assurance, Singapore, Dr. Deepak is responsible for ensuring process digitalization and operations management. Great Eastern Life Assurance in partnership with Munich Re is working towards enhancing customer’s onboarding experience with more seamless underwriting journey, while ensuring agile turnaround time, coupled with gain in operational efficiencies.
Ned Lowe
CTO
Singlife
Ned Lowe is the Chief Technology Officer at Singlife, where he drives excellent engineering solutions and oversees the work on Singlife’s tech stack.
Ned always had a burning passion for technology — he had picked up coding at the age of 8 and had always envisioned himself being a chip designer as he studied for his Masters of Engineering at Imperial College London.
After graduating, Ned stepped into the banking sector, where he began carving out an illustrious career for himself through stints at finance and tech giants, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Amazon Web Services. Prior to Singlife, Ned also built his own SaaS FinTech firm, Argomi.
Lee Sarkin
Chief Analytics Officer (Life & Health) - APAC, Middle East, Africa
Munich Re
Lee has over 16 years’ experience in actuarial, AI / data analytics, research and consulting roles at primary insurers, reinsurers and independent consulting. As a regional Chief Analytics Offer, Lee leads the APAC, Middle East and Africa AI (advanced analytics) team, located in Singapore covering Life & Health for Munich Re. By combining data, AI, tech and deep risk expertise into digital solutions, Munich Re is transforming the customer experience and operational efficiency of insurers. Lee’s specialist skills include AI and predictive analytics, actuarial pricing, epidemiological and demographic modelling, analysis of medical scheme cohort data and healthcare intervention cost-effectiveness. His Master’s degree, presented at the 2014 International Congress of Actuaries in Washington D.C., provided many South African insurers with the first credible South African research for underwriting HIV and applied advanced analytics methods to medical scheme and managed care data. Lee is now completing a PhD in AI and advanced analytics, is a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the Actuarial Society of South African where he chairs its Demography & Epidemiology committee.
Shawn Lau
Vice President - Partnership Solutions
Swiss Re
Business development executive and former business owner with multiple years of success devising / executing digital-first strategies and leading team efforts that have produced multi-million dollar results, valuable business partnerships, and solid growth avenues for insurance and technology services.
Technically sophisticated presenter, team leader and strategic planner with documented strength in building sustainable executive-level relationships.
Hugh Terry
Founder
The Digital Insurer
Hugh Terry is the Founder of The Digital Insurer. Hugh has more than 20 years’ experience in the Insurance industry including operational, consulting and entrepreneurial roles. He is an actuary by profession and lives in Singapore. He is passionate about the application of technology to insurance business models and as well as writing articles he actively shares his experience via consulting assignments, speaking opportunities and participation in entrepreneurial initiatives in the field of digital insurance.
Nikhil Kapur
Partner
STRIVE
Nikhil Kapur is a Partner at STRIVE and has led more than a dozen investments in the region. Two-time SaaS entrepreneur and developer by training, he leads the fund’s activities across South Asia. After building a profitable media-tech venture in India, he completed his MBA in Finance from NUS Business School. A Computer Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, he previously developed the first version of Excel for mobile while at Microsoft, deploying to over 10M users. He was listed as Forbes 30-Under-30 in Asia and also runs a popular VC blog: grayscale.vc
Sonali Verma
Head, Digital, CX and Innovation, Regional Bancassurance
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 digital experiences. 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 SGD100M fund that drives investment in making insurance available for all.
Prior to joining Manulife, Sonali worked at Citibank Singapore for almost nine years. She launched and led key initiatives 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.
Selvam Moorthy
Director - Investments
Singtel Innov8
Selvam is a director of Investments at Singtel Innov8 and is focused on investments in South East Asia and Australia.
Before Singtel Innov8, Selvam was the Head of Investments at tryb Capital, leading investments in the fintech space. Prior to that, he was a Principal with the investment team for Formation 8, which focused on diversified technology and investments globally. Selvam was also a Vice President with Economic Development Innovations Singapore (EDIS), that specialises in global real estate investments. Prior to EDIS, Selvam was part of the investment banking team at UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Before joining UBS, Selvam was part of the investments team at Temasek Holdings, covering consumer and lifestyle sector.
Tan Bin Ru
CEO (SEA)
OneConnect Financial Technology (OCFT)
Tan Bin Ru is the CEO (Southeast Asia) of OneConnect Financial Technology Co. Ltd. (NYSE: OCFT), a leading technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions. OneConnect is an associate company of Ping An Group which ranks 21st on 2020 Fortune Global 500 and 7th on Forbes 2020 Global 2000. In her role, Bin Ru is responsible for expanding OneConnect’s fintech solutions outside of China.
Bin Ru has over 20 years of experience in driving successful sales strategies and operational improvements at MNCs and startups. At Microsoft, she was the Regional Sales Director for One Commercial Partner and Small, Mid-market Corporate Customers for Southeast Asia. She also worked at Hewlett Packard for 10 years where she held various roles in Singapore and Houston in the area of Sales Strategy, Alliance Management, Business Planning, Worldwide Operations, and Strategic Management.
Bin Ru is also a Co-Chairwoman of Blockchain Association Singapore which seeks to promote the adoption of blockchain and scalable technologies, advocate the best practices and build a strong pipeline of talents, so as to drive business growth and transformation in a digital economy.
At the Singapore FinTech Awards 2019, Bin Ru has been recognized as one of the “Top 5 Women in FinTech” for her exceptional contributions to the Singapore fintech industry, and “Asia FinTech Leaders” for her leadership in building a sustainable company amidst its rapid expansion in the region. She is also named an exemplary female role model in the tech sector on the inaugural Singapore 100 Women in Tech List, 2020.
Bin Ru graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Science (Statistics and Operations Research). She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Supply Chain Management and is a certified Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma.
Kalai Natarajan
General Manager, DX and Innovation
Dai-ichi Life Insurance Asia Pacific
Kalai Natarajan, General Manager, Digital Solutions and Marketing at Dai-ichi Life Asia Pacific, is a Digital Transformation Evangelist in the Life and Health Insurance industry, having actively driven internal and external transformation agendas over the past 4 years. She has led multiple engagements with Fintech, InsurTech, RegTech, MedTech and HealthTech companies in addition to non-technology partners in adjacent industries to help drive process improvement and health outcome strategies. One of her key achievements is the design, development and delivery of a customer facing digital health application that focused on wellness management and improving customer experience.
Kalai is a market development expert whose experience cuts across payments, pharmaceutical, brand marketing, market research and communications industries. She has worked across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America and brings with her more than 25 years of experience in marketing and solutions design in the B-to-B and B-to-C spaces.
Richard Leftley
Executive Vice President
Micro Insurance Company
Richard started working on micro insurance in January 2002 when he joined Opportunity International a leading microfinance provider from Benfield Greig (now Aon Benfield), a global reinsurance intermediary. At Benfield he worked as a reinsurance broker responsible for the African account and worked in a team covering the Middle East and South East Asia.
Richard pioneered the introduction of insurance products within the Opportunity Network which lead to the establishment of MicroEnsure in 2006. As a leading insurance intermediary for the mass market, MicroEnsure provides life, health and weather index insurance to over 60,000,000 people in 16 countries in Africa and Asia. In October 2007 MicroEnsure was awarded a $24.3m grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its pioneering microinsurance and experiment with a wider range of distribution channels.
Richard also served on the steering committee of the ILO "Micro Insurance Innovation Fund" a $35m fund provided by the Gates Foundation and he has served as a member of the Micro Insurance Network Board.
Cherie Wang
Founder
Planner Bee
Cherie is the founder of Planner Bee, a mobile app dedicated to simplifying and automating financial planning for the masses. She has ranked in the top 5% of financial advisors globally for the past 10 years running.
Cherie graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Minor in Technopreneurship. She is also a certified Chartered Financial Consultant and Chartered Life Underwriter.
She built Planner Bee in response to the feedback she's received from thousands of clients, to solve their pain points and help them build towards their life goals. She hopes the creation of more apps like Planner Bee will help bring the century-old tradition of financial planning to the digital generation.
Jinesh Patel
Partner
Integra Partners
Integra Partners is an early stage fund focussed on financial services, insurance and digital healthcare in the ASEAN region. Having spun out of Dymon Asia Capital in 2020, the fund maintains a sector focussed approach. In his capacity as Partner, Jinesh oversees all fund investments. Prior to Integra Partners, Jinesh managed capital in the alternatives space. The early part of his career was spent covering the TMT sector within the investment banking divisions of Goldman Sachs and UBS. Jinesh graduated with a BA Honours in Economics from the University of Exeter.
Max Ang
Insurance Analyst
CELENT
Max is an analyst with Celent’s insurance practice and is based in Singapore. Max’s research concentrates on APAC insurance technology markets, with a specific focus on data science, deep learning, digital innovation, process automation, and emerging technology of core systems. As part of consulting engagements and analyst's access, he has provided perspective and recommendations in business and technology trends both globally and in an APAC capacity.
Prior to joining Celent, Max worked in financial technology and banking, where he developed machine learning algorithms for optical character recognition and image processing at OneConnect Financial Technology, subsidiary of Ping An Insurance Group. At DBS Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Max was a data analyst in the domains of retail banking and credit risk. He has also worked on content marketing, with a research focus on gamification.
Oscar Ramos
Partner & Managing Director
Chinaccelerator
Oscar Ramos, Partner & Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, is a "full-stack innovator" with expertise ranging from hard technology and product design to corporate strategy and venture capital.
After getting his Master of Engineering in Telecommunications, he started off his career in Ericsson as an R&D engineer and later joined Telefonica Research Center working on deep tech topics such as mobile network protocols, cybersecurity, RF and media technology. He then transitioned to the world of HealthTech and startups after working on a user-centric design mode and discovering Business Model Innovation in his previous position. His passion for innovation propelled him to move to China in early 2008 and drop out of his Biomedical Ph.D. program to start his first venture.
Since then he has been involved in various areas of innovation as an entrepreneur, investor and advisor to startups and multinationals.
Alex Kimura
Partner
McKinsey
Alex Kimura is a strategic and operations expert in the financial services industry and Asia markets.
Prior to McKinsey, Alex worked in investment banking and management consulting; later, held C-Suite positions in leading global insurance firms. He had profit and loss and line operational responsibilities that included distribution and wealth management, strategy, innovation and customer experience, M&A, corporate development, data analytics, digital transformation, and venture capital in several countries across Asia. A main area of recent focus has been on digital innovation where he spearheaded efforts to build the next generation of insurance business models and also chaired the digital innovation roundtable of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
For more than two decades, Alex has led top-tier insurance organizations and has been responsible for transformational development efforts across life, property and casualty, and health insurance businesses. He was also instrumental in executing the major transactions and structuring activities across the region, directing portfolio acquisitions, partnerships, joint-ventures, and divestments.
Over the years, Alex has served on a number of boards, an extension of the network and partnerships he built together with the leading financial institutions and national champions in Greater China, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, and India.
Pieter Kemps
Principal
Sequoia
Pieter joined Sequoia in 2014 as one of the first members of the firm’s Southeast Asia investment team. He advises on early stage investments in consumer internet, fintech, with a special focus on B2B software and SaaS. He serves on the board of 10+ companies, including Insider, Funding Societies, Zenyum and Qoala. Recently, he has been focusing on seed investments and is a core member of the Surge team.
Pieter previously ran his own startup, worked at an incubator and held various leadership roles at tech companies such as Cisco and Amazon, where he was responsible for Amazon Web Services’ business with VC's, accelerators, and the broader startup ecosystem across Asia.
Having lived and worked in Amsterdam, Madrid, and Tokyo, Pieter currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two daughters. He holds an MBA (High Honors) from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he specialized in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital.
Ajit Rochlani
Principal, Insurance - Asia Pacific
Oliver Wyman
Ajit is a Principal in the Insurance Practice at Oliver Wyman, based in Singapore, and leads the Bancassurance topic for the practice in the region. Ajit specializes in Banca deals, partnership integration, sales force effectiveness, customer journeys, etc., and has worked with multiple leading banks and insurers across the region, supporting all aspects of Banca partnerships. Before joining Oliver Wyman, Ajit was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group.
Ajit is a thought leader on the topics of Banca, InsurTechs, Innovation, Sales Force Effectiveness in Insurance, etc. and publishes regularly for Oliver Wyman Insights and leading industry journals, some of his recent publications include:
Six ways to accelerate value creation in Banca
https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2020/mar/bancassurance-in-asia.html
Insurance Redefined
https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2020/dec/insurance-redefined.html
Ajit has a Masters in Insurance and is also a Fellow of Insurance Institute of India (FIII)
Jonas Thürig
Head F10, Singapore
F10 Incubator & Accelerator
Jonas Thürig is the Head of F10 Singapore, the Asia launchpad for F10 Global, which is Europe’s leading incubator and accelerator for InsurTech, FinTech, RegTech and DeepTech.
F10 Singapore first launched in January 2020 to create new opportunities for its Asia-based startups to collaborate with banks, insurers, and the wider ecosystem. Overall, F10 has incubated over 150 startups in the past five years with solutions ranging from end-to-end digital insurance platform, parametric insurance, digital assets, alternative data, payments, cloud-native core banking solution and more.
Before joining F10, Jonas Thürig worked at the Embassy of Switzerland in China as the Deputy Head of the Science, Technology, Education and Innovation Section. He has also held roles in companies like SIX Group, in addition to co-founding a startup in the IoT space.
Stephen Barnham
Chief Information Officer, Asia
MetLife
Stephen Barnham joined MetLife in June 2017 as the Chief Information Officer of Asia and a member of the global insurer’s Asia Leadership Group.
Stephen believes passionately in the power of innovation to disrupt financial services. As part of his role at MetLife, he advises several Fintech and Insurtech startups. He is responsible for driving MetLife’s digital strategy and through the development and implementation of contemporary technology, is reimaging insurance.
Stephen is a board member of PNB MetLife, MetLife’s insurance joint venture in India.
With decades of experience in global financial services and technology, he joined MetLife from Standard Chartered Bank where he was Group CIO for Financial Markets.
Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, he held various senior technical roles at Nomura Securities, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley and started his career developing software for guided weapons system at BAE Systems.
Currently residing in Singapore, his career has also taken him to other parts of Asia and Europe.
He speaks fluent Japanese and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Derren Teo
Co-Founder
Surer
Derren is an experienced, versatile and knowledgeable Insurance professional with over 10 years of non-life insurance experience at 4 major insurers. He has a keen understanding of the industry with a background in claims, underwriting, risk management and business development. As Co-founder of Surer, Derren drives the company's commercial partnerships and business development efforts. Derren is also a certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner.
Sara Roberts
Founder
Kettlewell Consulting
Sara Roberts is the Founder of Kettlewell Consulting, based in Singapore. She has an extensive international career in Human Resources, working with corporations across industry sectors, BioTech, Insurance, Financial Services, Consumer, Technology, and has lived and worked in Europe, US and over 20 years in Asia. She partners with CEOs, C-suite and diverse senior leadership teams to drive business aligned culture, organization and people strategies and practices with a strong focus on creating inclusive, agile, high performing organizations.
Moshe Pinto
CEO
Bambi Dynamic
Moshe Pinto is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bambi Dynamic which was founded in mid 2017 in Israel. Moshe has over 20 years of experience in business management of international and local companies holding C level positions in various companies in the media, finance and insurtech fields. He started his career in the late 90’s as a CPA in KPMG where he worked for 2 years. Moving forward acted 2 years as deputy CFO in VISA Israel. He then was one of the pivots forming the international media company Dori Media Group who acted as a TV programs producer and television programs distributor traded in the London Stock Exchange with wide international business in the US, Argentina, Switzerland, Israel, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Moshe was the CFO and the COO of Dori Media Group and overlooked Finance, operations, M&A and various different business management roles over time.
Moshe is mostly involved in developing the business of Bambi Dynamic worldwide with a strong appeal to innovation and technology.
Nathan Thomas
Director of Data Science & Multinational Sales
Montoux
Nathan Thomas has over 20 years of global life insurance experience and has previously held the roles of Chief Actuary, Appointed Actuary and Head of Customer Propositions. Nathan is currently the Director of Data Science & Multinational Sales at Montoux based in NZ while completing an Executive MBA at Victoria University of Wellington. Nathan is passionate about improving the experience and value customers get from life insurance products and is exploring ways this can be achieved through the innovative use of data and technology.
Louis Lee
Partner
Deloitte
Louis is a qualified actuary and a Partner in Deloitte’s Actuarial and Insurance Solution practice based in the Hong Kong office, where leads the practice for the General and Health Insurance sector. He joined the firm in 2020, and has more than 20 years experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry across Asia and Australia, for both General and Life & Health Insurance companies. Most recently, he was the Asia Pacific Chief Financial Officer for Scor Global Life.
Louis has extensive experience in strategy, M&A, market expansions, ecosystem and Insurtech partnerships, products and propositions, pricing, customer analytics, finance transformations, actuarial reviews, and reinsurance optimization.
Gurindar Singh
Head of Insurance Business Development - APAC
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Gurindar Singh Head’s the Insurance Business Development at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Asia Pacific region based out of Singapore. In his role, Gurindar is responsible for development and execution of AWS’s Go-To-Market initiatives across all facets of Insurance (life and non-life insurance, reinsurance and brokers) across the Asia Pacific region. Gurindar has close to 20 years’ experience in insurance industry across insurance carriers and software solution providers, resulting in an extensive experience and understanding of core systems, distribution, underwriting and claims process in the insurance industry.
Prior to joining AWS, Gurindar was the leading the insurance solutions and product portfolio and the digital insurance initiatives at DXC Technology Asia. At DXC, he helped guide the transition from on-premise software to cloud-based software and also launch of the digital insurance platform for Asian market. Before DXC he was an underwriter and claims and group operations leader at Birla Sunlife Insurance and Aviva Life Insurance.
Shan Aboo
CEO ASEAN
Euler Hermes
Shan Aboo is the CEO for Euler Hermes ASEAN, overseeing their operations for six ASEAN markets. In his previous capacity, Shan was the Regional Director for Euler Hermes World Agency APAC since April 2016, was based in Hong Kong and led the APAC business for large-corp & multinational companies. Prior to joining World Agency, Shan was the Commercial Director for Euler Hermes ASEAN, where he oversaw all regional commercial activities in key ASEAN markets. Shan joined Euler Hermes in 2008 in Dubai and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering. He is married and has 4-year old twin daughters.
Gary Hoberman
CEO & Founder
Unqork
Gary Hoberman is an entrepreneur and technology chief executive who has been innovating and bringing transformative solutions to market for more than 25 years. In 2017, Gary founded Unqork to break through the biggest barrier to growth he saw serving in technology leadership roles at Fortune 500 organizations: code.
Unqork invented the first completely visual, enterprise no-code platform that helps organizations build complex, custom software faster, with higher quality and lower costs than code-based methods. Unqork’s customers are global industry leaders, including Goldman Sachs, Marsh, Liberty Mutual, Maimonides Medical Center, New York City and the District of Columbia. In 2020, Unqork received a $2B valuation at the time of its Series C financing.
Based on Unqork’s work providing a codeless platform that supports the complexity, scale and security of mission-critical enterprise applications, Gary was named a New York Entrepreneur of the Year by EY and one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs in 2020. Unqork has been named one of LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2020, Crain’s Best Places to Work 2020 and Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 among other recognitions.
Prior to founding Unqork, Gary served as Executive Vice President and Global CIO for MetLife, overseeing technology across 47 countries, and was one of the youngest Managing Directors in Citi’s history. Gary holdsseven patents, six of which are still in use in the finance industry today. Since 2019, Gary has been a member of the HERE to HERE Business Council, helping facilitate a track for success for underprivileged youth in NYC. He is a member of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute, a non-profit committed to realizing a free and just equitable society. Gary also served on the Advisory Board member for PLAY ON, a 2020 concert series that raised money for Why Hunger and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In 2021, Gary joined the Board of Directors for The Shed, a cultural institution for the 21st century in NYC’s Hudson Yards.
Gerald Carroll
Area Vice President, Customer Workflows APJ
ServiceNow
Gerald is the Area Vice President for Customer Workflows Solution Sales covering Asia Pacific & Japan.
Gerald joined ServiceNow in 2016 to build out the IT Transformation business across EMEA before relocating to Singapore in 2019 to join the Asia Pacific leadership team. In this role he is responsible for driving adoption and customer success of ServiceNows Customer Workflows products and more recently working with our clients, partners and government agencies to support vaccine rollout with ServiceNows vaccine administration management capabilities.
Gerald has more than 15 years experience in the software industry having previously worked with Oracle, CA and BMC Software and is also an advisor to Her Capital, a venture capital fund located in Singapore with a focus on female founded companies based in South East Asia.
Gerald holds a BSc. from Dublin City University in Chemical & Pharmaceutical Science.
Tomas Holub
CEO & Founder
CoverGo
Tomas is the CEO and Founder of CoverGo. Prior to starting CoverGo, Tomas worked on insurance and banking consulting projects at PwC London and also managed operations of an insurtech startup in Singapore. Overall, Tomas worked in 15 countries across 3 continents and obtained 4 master degrees in risk management, international business, public and business administration. He is also a speaker of 8 languages.
Tomas is a frequent speaker at conferences, mentor of fintech startups and an active contributor to the insurtech and fintech community. He is part of the Insurtech Committee of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong and Fintech Task Force of the Insurance Authority, also awarded Fintech Entrepreneur of the Year 2019.
The CoverGo management team consists of 4 partners including insurance, tech, no-code and fintech experts.
Brune de Linares
Chief of Sales
Akur8
Brune is Chief of Sales at Akur8. She started her career at IBM in consulting before transitioning to sales and sales management positions for complex products, including Cloud solutions. She left IBM to join Google Cloud where she spent 2 years in commercial roles before joining Akur8 and taking the lead on global business development.
Shwetank Verma
General Partner & Co-Founder
Leo.Capital
Shwetank is the co-founder of Leo Capital, an early stage VC firm investing in India and South East Asia. He leads their insurtech and digital health investments - portfolio companies include BeatO (Diabetes Management) , RIA (digital health insurance) amongst others. His other experiences include being an entrepreneur (founder – Mobile Health Solutions) and leading open innovation at MetLife Asia
Jake Sloan
Global Industry Leader, Insurance
Appian
Jake Sloan is Global Industry Leader of Insurance, Appian. Jake has spent 20+ years utilizing technology to deliver innovative, digital transformation initiatives that often result in “largest,” “first in history,” or “unattainable” change. Jake brings extensive experience to Appian as a change leader driving strategy and business transformation in the Insurance industry. He has held senior Operations roles with Farmers Insurance, including front-line Insurance/licensed field operations, and served as CIO of Aon National Flood Services. Jake volunteers as a mentor to the Global Insurance Accelerator, holds an MBA from Baker University and a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) of Harvard Business School.
Greg Carter
Managing Director - Analytics
AM Best
Greg's career started with Standard & Poor’s and has spanned over 30 years in the insurance sector. Greg worked for Bank of America in the mid-1990s and he established AM Best's first overseas office in London in 1997. In 2001, he joined Fitch Ratings and led the analytical team for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Greg has also spent time with the U.K. regulator, the FSA as was. He served on the board of Capita Commercial Insurance Services and prior to his current role was based in Hong Kong with Ernst & Young.
In September 2015, Greg re-joined AM Best as Managing Director - Analytics in the London office and is responsible for the agency’s credit ratings in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. In July 2019 Greg relocated from London to Singapore.
Myles Gould
Head of Analytics
AM Best Asia-Pacific
Myles Gould is Head of Analytics at AM Best Asia-Pacific (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, responsible for AM Best’s rating coverage in South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Myles joined AM Best in 2013, initially based in the London office before relocating to Singapore in 2018. Whilst working for AM Best in London, Myles covered a variety of insurance markets including the UK, Europe and the Middle East, with exposure to non-life, life, insurance and reinsurance entities. Myles previously worked for Willis Towers Watson in the Global Market Security division based in the UK. Myles holds a BA (Hons) Business Management Degree.
Satoshi Nerio
Head of Nippon Life X
Nippon Life
Satoshi has been leading the application of innovative technologies as a head of Nippon Life X (innovation office) since 2021. He has been involved with Nippon Life's core systems
development for over 20 years and is familiar with life insurance and medical insurance operation systems in general. Through his experience he believes that, "The most important thing for a large institution to adopt innovative solutions is to improve company-wide digital literacy and to have everyone involved accurately understand the basics of the latest technical solutions”. With this belief he has been inspiring the organization from the middle management by organizing study groups with middle managers and conducting regular meetings with the senior leadership.
As a result, he helped open a Silicon Valley office within two years and was appointed to be a head of Nippon Life X.
Nippon Life X has now been allocated a ¥30B budget to lead large institutions in life and health insurance to transform their business with the new innovative solutions.
Kayvon Deldar
Director - Singapore InsurTech, FinTech & HealthTech
Plug and Play
Kayvon Deldar is the Director of Fintech and Insurtech at Plug and Play Singapore, which covers Plug and Play's financial services innovation platform for Southeast Asia. Previously, he was the Innovation Manager for Plug and Play Insurtech in Silicon Valley, responsible for advancing both business development and venture capital projects of the vertical. In this role he spearheaded corporate innovation best practices, primarily focusing on corporate piloting and investment in startups. Kayvon has a B.S. in Environmental Economics from the University of California-Berkeley.
Michael Waitze
Founder
Michael Waitze Media
Michael Waitze worked in Global Finance for more than 20 years, employed by firms like Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, primarily in Tokyo. Michael lived and worked in Tokyo from February 1990 until December 2011. Michael always maintained a particular focus on how technology could be used to make businesses more efficient and to drive P/L growth.
Michael is a leader in the digital media space, building one of the biggest and fastest growing podcast listener bases in the region. His AsiaInsurTechPodcast.com show has listeners in 150 countries and his company, Michael Waitze Media produces some of Asia’s most popular podcasts.
Aly Madhavji
Managing Partner
Blockchain Founders Fund
Aly Madhavji is the Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund which invests in and venture builds top-tier start-ups and consults companies and governmental organizations on emerging technologies. He is a Limited Partner on Loyal VC. Aly is a Senior Blockchain Fellow at INSEAD and was recognized as a “Blockchain 100” Global Leader by Lattice80. He currently consults organizations on emerging technologies such as INSEAD and the UN on solutions to help alleviate poverty and advises InsurTech’s such as Jauntin. He is an internationally award-winning author and a mentor with Chinaccelerator, operated by SOSV with $500M+ AUM and the Mobile Only Accelerator.
Peter Ohnemus
President & CEO
dacadoo
Peter Ohnemus founded the dacadoo Health Score/dacadoo ag, Zurich/Switzerland in 2010. The patented dacadoo Health Score & AI-based Lifestyle Navigation Platform is being licensed to keyLife & Health Insurance companies (Payers) and global healthcare operators (Providers). Peter has been involved in high-tech and bio-tech investments over the last 25 years and this had led to four IPO’s and multiple trade sells. Peter was CEO & co-founded ASSET4 in 2004 with Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch as investors. ASSET4 was sold to Thomson Reuters, New York in November 2009.
Peter Ohnemus previously held senior executive positions with Sybase, Logic Works, The Fantastic Corporation and COS – all of which went public during his tenure. Peter Ohnemus was Entrepreneur of theYear (EoY) for Switzerland by EY. Peter is a frequent speaker and has spoken at World Economic Forum (WEF), Fortune Brainstorm Health, Google Tech Talks, McKinsey’s Life Leaders CEO Forum, The Royal Society of Medicine, Stanford LIGHT Conference, CommunicAsia, Mobile World Congress, European Health Forum by the EU, Economist Global Healthcare Forum, Mobile Health Summit DC, European Tech Tour, Red Herring, WWW/Digital Disease Detection, etc. Peter occasionally teaches digital innovation & entrepreneurship at Universities such as ETH, HSG
– Switzerland, Bocconi – India.
René Papesch
CTO
Riskwolf
12 years of business and technology consulting. 8 years of experience in large-scale data processing projects. Bridging the gap between tech, data and processes, with the last 5 years in the re-insurance industry. Experience working in Vienna, Zurich, Frankfurt and Bratislava and founded two other companies.
Thomas Krapf
CEO
Riskwolf
Two decades of re-/insurance business development and execution across the complete value chain. Has held senior roles globally, including in New York, London, Paris, Munich and Zurich. Helped build 3 startups and electronic re/-insurance initiatives such as Rueschlikon, ACORD (eBOT and eCOT).
Dominique Roudaut
Head of Asia Insurtech Partnership & Innovation Solutions, Head of Asia Personal Lines
Hannover Re
Dominique is an anthropologist, awarded and patented inventor in insurance.
He has owned insurance P&Ls for 20 years at a country, regional and global level at AIG and Chubb where he was Chief Underwriting Officer Global A&H and currently at Hannover Re Asia Personal Lines.
He is also leading insurtech partnerships and innovation solutions for Hannover Re Asia, where he orchestrates an ecosystem of partners to deliver innovative services for end users and relevant solutions for insurers with a dozen of initiatives delivered in 2021.
Dominique holds several master degrees from the University Paris 2 Law School, HEC Paris Business School, the French institute of geopolitics and University College London in anthropology.
Dominique has also served as consultant and advisor for a number of start-ups, notably Blackpanda and Pandamatics underwriting in Asia.
Melissa Wong
Group Chief Digital Officer
bolttech
Melissa works closely with our colleagues in customer experience, product and distribution as part of a wider mandate to build and enhance our digital ecosystem. She has a proven track record as a digital leader in the financial sector, having worked in banking and financial services for over a decade. She joins us from DBS Bank Singapore, where she spearheaded customer-led digital transformation projects and customer journey initiatives. In her spare time, Melissa enjoys crewing on sailing yachts, trail running, and road biking.
Shiwei Wu
Chief Technology Officer
Huawei Cloud APAC
15 years working in the IT industry, I have experienced various roles from developer to lead solution architect, with various projects in various environments from a startup of a dozen people to a top 100 MNC. As CTO of Huawei Cloud, APAC region, one of my key responsibilities is to lead the solution team to address technical challenges from various projects/clients with proper solution designs; advise R&D team regarding to product/service enhancements as well as support building partner eco-system of Huawei Cloud in this region.
Colin Priest
VP of AI Strategy
DataRobot
Colin Priest is the VP, AI Strategy for DataRobot, where he advises businesses on how to build business cases and successfully manage data science projects.
With more than three decades of experience in financial services, Colin has held a number of C-Suite roles, where he has championed data science initiatives in banking, fintech, insurance, risk management, and marketing. Colin is a sought-after public speaker and thought leader, and a firm believer in data-based decision making and applying automation to improve customer experience. He is passionate about how humans and AIs can work together, and is an advisor to the Singapore Government on AI ethics, AI governance, and the future of work. Colin is passionate about the science of healthcare and does pro-bono work to support cancer research.
Rashmi Sharma
Head of People & Capability Building (Talent, Leadership and Learning)
GovTech Singapore
Rashmi Sharma is Head of People and Capability Building at GovTech (the Government Technology Agency of Singapore), this includes Talent Management, Leadership Development and Learning. She also serves on the panel of Harvard Business School (Publishing) as a moderator for their Corporate Learning programs.
Prior to joining GovTech, Rashmi was responsible for Design and Delivery of Business Learning Programs to clients across Asia-Pacific at Harvard Business School (Publishing.
Rashmi has over 20 years of working experience in large Multinational Organizations across a wide range of industries. In various HR generalist as well as specialist roles, she has held local and regional responsibilities, and led projects with global scope and impact. Organisations that she has previously worked with include Citibank, GE Capital, Deutsche Bank, Allianz and Saab Scania.
Carlos Ordoñez Sánchez
Head of Digital Insurance
NTT Data EMEAL
A senior executive with 20 years of experience in Insurance, passionate about innovation and change management with a proven track record of bringing innovative ideas into organizations and putting them into practice. Recognized change agent. Last 4 years leading Digital practice in NTTData EMEAL for insurance industry. Previously, Carlos was Global Head of digital transformation of Mapfre Group, Insurance leader in Spain & Latin America markets and also IT Digital Director for AXA.
Jake Choi
Overseas Biz Owner
SmallTicket
Jake Choi is an IT consultant with more than 15 years of delivering Process Innovation & IT Consulting projects for Asia insurance companies including Korea, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia. Throughout his 13 year with Accenture Korea & Hong Kong, Jake has built a reputation for digital transformation and managing large-scale IT implementation projects. He is an analytical and a conceptual thinker who effectively partners with senior managers to assess opportunities, facilitate strategic decisions, and drive successful implementations.
Jake is currently based in Hong Kong, where he is focused on expanding the InsurTech business in HK & other Asian markets as a Overseas Biz Owner in Smallticket.
Daniel Thafvelin
Executive Director, Global SaaS
Contemi Solutions
Daniel Thafvelin leads Contemi’s SaaS division by driving the company’s SaaS strategy and Contemi’s focus on the success of clients. Based in Norway, Daniel is responsible for innovation and revenue growth for the company’s SaaS offerings worldwide, beginning with the recently launched Seamless Insurance SaaS platform.
Daniel holds a master’s degree from the University of Manchester in Political economy with a specialisation in Finance, Business and Employment. Today he is a strong technology services professional with over 11 years’ experience in the financial software and services industry, having held commercial and customer facing roles in companies like Software Innovation, Storebrand, Tieto and Cxense.
Paul Hughes
Head of Asia-Pacific
UnderwriteMe
Life and Health insurance leader with over 25 years of experience in Asia Pacific. Held positions in direct and reinsurance sectors in both country and regional roles. Focused on business growth and transformation across the value chain with some of Asia’s leading insurance companies
Paul is now the Head of Asia Pacific for UnderwriteMe, a leader in Underwriting automation technology which is helping everyone get protected
Max Tiong
VP - Digital Transformation Office
NTUC Income
Max leads the Transformation Office at NTUC Income, a leading composite insurer in Singapore. He and his team of venture launchers are responsible for the creation of innovative insurance models such as the first stackable lifestyle insurance - SNACK, rain surge pricing insurance - Droplet, as well as partnering digital ecosystems to create region-first insurance products such as Pay-per-trip micro insurances and true usage based motor insurance. Max also leads Income’s engagement with the start-up community and the adoption of exponential technologies.
In the Applied Innovation Institute Singapore Insurance Innovation and Digital Benchmark, which ranked the innovation and digitisation efforts of 25 insurers in Singapore, Income was ranked overall first in 2018.
Sunny Mishra
Business Development Manager
Comarch
Sunny leads the ASEAN Insurance sector for Comarch. He carries over 10 years of experience leading Project & Sales teams for ASEAN and global markets.
Sunny understands well key driving factors of any business and the people he works with leading him to have multiple success stories with multi-national and domestic clients in the region.
Anupam Sahay
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Boston Consulting Group
Anupam Sahay is a Managing Director & Senior Partner at BCG, focused on the Insurance industry. He brings extensive international advisory and executive experience in life, health, and general (property and casualty) insurance, notably across Asia-Pacific. He advises clients on strategy, digital and data-driven transformation, distribution, insuretech, and M&A.
Prior to BCG, Anupam was a member of the group Executive Committee at a multinational insurer, as well as a Partner at two other professional services firms. He has lived and worked in Asia, Europe, Australia and USA, and is now based in Singapore, with his family and two cats.
Michael Saputra
COO
Pasarpolis
Michael Saputra is the COO of PasarPolis, one of Southeast Asia's leading insurtech firm whose mission is to make insurance accessible and affordable through technology and innovation. Leveraging his engineering background, he co-founded multiple tech startups and demonstrated ability to scale up resulting in an acquisition of Klik-Eat. Prior to PasarPolis, he served Xiaomi Indonesia as Head of Operations.
Yamini Bhat
CEO & Co-Founder
Vymo
Yamini Bhat is recognized as a thought leader in driving sales transformation for enterprises. She co-founded Vymo, in 2013 and has since led the company's growth as CEO. Under her leadership, Vymo's sales & distribution cloud has been deployed at AXA, Allianz, Sunlife, AIA, Generali, and 60+ leading financial enterprises to improve sales efficiencies across business channels.
Today, over 200K insurance agents & leaders in 7+ countries use Vymo to improve their sales productivity & manage critical customer/partner relationships.
Yamini was previously Engagement Manager at McKinsey, where she specialized in Marketing Strategy and Sales & Distribution across Banking, Credit, and Insurance.
Yuman Chan
Founder
e-MD
Yuman is a passionate executive with over 25 years of professional experience. An executive with multiple regional experience in Asia, Europe and the US, giving him strong cultural acumen to connect and adapt in changing environments. With a background in Technology, Risk Management, Strategy, M&A, and transcending across into general management to lead a business as CEO, he has all the tools to drive innovation and transformation with a commercial mindset.
Yuman recently founded his HealthTech startup, e-MD, to build a digital platform to support Medical Doctors in Hong Kong provide quality care and easy access to a virtual network of specialists. Prior to starting his own company, Yuman was the CEO for Cigna Hong Kong, and Chief Strategy and Business Development officer for Cigna International Markets.
With a strong passion in the health services field and the experience to identify the consumer’s unmet needs, enables him to focus on how to develop desirable solutions that can be life changing. With this objective, his goal is to bring to Asia a positive change to how the health industry can better help people live fuller lives.
John Weber
Senior Associate Editor
AM Best
John has been covering the insurance industry for over 13 years. He has interviewed hundreds of insurance executive and moderated countless insurance and risk management panels. Aside from his work in insurance journalism, John is the fill in host for Morning Edition on WHYY in Philadelphia, an NPR member radio station.
Sebastien Gaudin
CEO & Co-Founder
The CareVoice
Sebastien’s career has been dedicated to healthcare. With an academic background in pharmaceuticals and business, Sebastien Gaudin worked as Corporate development, Marketing and Business leader on multiple therapeutic and geographic markets at Sanofi for twelve years, taking a management position within Sanofi China in 2011. Working with Chinese Ministry of Health representatives and hospital leaders, Sebastien soon noticed how wary Chinese patients were of their national healthcare system and started The CareVoice by early 2014. Witnessing private medical sector taking off and insurers’ growing interest to become health partners of their members, he pivoted the company business by late 2016 aiming to make health insurance more human.
CareVoice is now recognized as a leading Asian health insurtech. Thanks to its unique CareVoiceOS platform, enabling a Connected Health Insurance Ecosystem and driving insurance product innovation, CareVoice has been working with over 20 insurers in Mainland China and Hong-Kong, and is expanding in Southeast Asia and Europe.
After graduating from PingAn first accelerator program and soft-launching the first health benefit and insurance for start-ups in China, Sebastien co-founded StartupCare a related insurtech dedicated to commercializing innovative health insurance so that SME employers, their family-minded employees and specific individual populations can access faster to tailored and valuable health insurance.
Juergen Weiss
Head of Global Financial Services Industry Research and Advisory
Gartner
Juergen Weiss is heading Gartner's Financial Services, Research and Advisory group. Mr. Weiss focuses on insurance industry research, covering a broad range of business and technology topics. Among his focus areas are digital transformation, best practices in innovation management and collaboration with startups. Mr. Weiss has more than 15 years of IT experience. Prior to joining Gartner, he had several executive roles in product management, development and consulting at SAP, where he was globally responsible for one of SAP's product lines in financial management.
Guiam Wainwright
CEO & Co-Founder
JAMM
With a diverse background that spans entrepreneurship, AI, hacking, and behavioural science, Guiam co-founded JAMM in 2020. JAMM is built on the intersection of AI and behavioural psychology to understand and influence drivers behavior, allowing insurance companies to grow, loss ratios to reduce, and drivers to become safer.
Gui's early career was spent consulting for global governments on national and international data-driven behavioural change projects before moving into start-ups, founding his first company at 25 which he sold at 30.
Since then he has served as Chief Product Officer for Panalyt (predicting company outcomes based on employee behaviours) and lead Special Projects & Data for Circles.life.
Tony Chuang
CEO & President
Taiwan Life Insurance
Tony Chuang is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Taiwan Life Insurance Company, the country’s oldest insurance entity established in 1947. Since its long-standing historical origins, Taiwan Life has provided a full range of life and health insurance protection and savings products and services to its customers throughout Taiwan. Taiwan Life is a key business unit of the group, CTBC Financial Holding Co, offering market leading retail banking, property and casualty, and security brokerage services, throughout Asia. CTBC has been featured on the Forbes Global 2000 list since 2017. Prior to Taiwan Life Insurance, Tony has had extensive experience within CTBC for its life insurance expansion in China. Prior to CTBC, Tony was Vice President, Bank and Insurance Department of AIA Group Limited (China) / Acting General Manager of Shanghai Branch. Tony has a background in International Trade & Commerce from Chinese Culture University, and a EMBA from National Chengchi University.
Anthony Lee
CEO
Knowtions Research
Anthony Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Knowtions Research, an applied AI company on a mission to insure the next billion people. Anthony leads an eclectic, multi-disciplinary team of bioinformaticians, AI researchers, and actuaries to help insurers leap-frog into the world of Pay How You Live Insurance products. Insurers use actuarially-based dynamic health risk predictions to provide new personalized digital health experiences that motivated to stay healthy. A trilingual global trotter at heart, Anthony hails from his hometowns St John’s (Newfoundland), Toronto, Taiwan, and Tokyo. Established in 2015, Knowtions Research is backed by Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Information Venture Partners, and the Canadian Government.
Neil Liang
CPO & Co-Founder
The CareVoice
Neil is a creative technologist passionate about building innovative technology products. With deep roots in the Silicon Valley tech culture, he has over 15 years of experience in product management and innovation design, starting with product management and R&D roles at WebEx (a pioneer in the SaaS industry), and growing with WebEx through its acquisition by Cisco.
In 2009, Neil returned to his birthplace of Shanghai to join frog design, a global innovation and design firm. He spent several years at frog as part of the management team, before becoming GM of Fitch, a global retail experience design consultancy. Before joining The CareVoice, Neil was an R&D and innovation consultant for several technology brands in China. He joined The CareVoice after the start-up’s shift toward insurtech.
Paul Oudenhoven
Wellness Services Head
Prudential (US)
Paul Oudenhoven joined Prudential in February 2019 as the head of the Vitality Center of excellence, a new Prudential service company that will be located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Paul is the primary point of contact for Vitality within PII and has overall responsibility for the success of the wellness programs. He also oversees the strategy and all work streams and acts as the strategic liaison between the Vitality Group and Prudential.
Paul has more than 20 years of experience as a C Suite executive in sales, marketing and innovative project implementations for insurance and financial services. He has international experience acquired in 5 different countries: USA, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Spain. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
During 2018, he worked for a Venture Capital fund based in London, where he was in charge of connecting start-ups with corporate Open Innovation projects. In the ten years prior to that, he held various commercial roles at Liberty Mutual in their Spain and Brazil operations as well as regional roles for LATAM in Miami.
Before that, he worked as a CMO in several large financial services companies and developed several projects as an entrepreneur.
Paul received a Master of Business Intelligence and Big Data from EOI in Spain and a Master of International Management (MBA) from Thunderbird in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from the College of Charleston.
Ian Gregory Tan
Game Designer
Ian Gregory is a professional purveyor of fun, having spent the last decade as a game designer, creative consultant, and educator. After co-founding and leading award-winning game studios, he now meshes his passions in gaming, business strategy and education by consulting for companies, schools and government agencies interested in weaving game design into their engagement and products. Aside from such endeavors, Ian can be found at the head of a Dungeons & Dragons table or elbow-deep in Lego.