Contributors

Joe Ong

Joe Ong is the Vice President and General Manager, ASEAN at Hitachi Vantara. Based in Singapore, he provides overall leadership and guidance on business direction, including go-to-market strategies for the ASEAN region.

Joe Ong possesses close to three decades of experience in the IT industry, a substantial number of those years in the storage solutions business. In the first 31⁄2 years at Hitachi Data Systems, Joe grew the local business in Singapore by 67%, bringing it from Top 6th player in the storage market to 3rd position. He continued to scale the ASEAN business, becoming the top revenue producer in the Asia-Pacific region by 2016. Having built up a strong selling engine, Joe led the ASEAN team to win the Top Region Award for growing the largest number of new customer accounts in 2019. 

Prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems in 2012, he was the Country Manager for Singapore, Brunei at EMC, where he managed the Singapore team (Direct Sales and Channel team) and enabled EMC Singapore to maintain number one market share in Singapore for 4 years , according to IDC.

Joe graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems and Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. Outside of work, he enjoys a good round of golf. He is also an avid reader, diving into business, economics and strategic management.

John Danilovich

John Danilovich is the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Jon Golding

Jon Golding ATT (Fellow) TEP is a Trusts and Tax Advisor with Absolute Financial Solutions, Malaysia.

Jonathan Koh

Joon Kim and Arnon Goldstein

Joon Kim is Global Head of Trade Finance Product and Portfolio Management at BNY Mellon Treasury Services.

Arnon Goldstein is Regional Head of Relationship Management APAC, at BNY Mellon Treasury Services. 

Jordan Griffiths and Pascal Gautheron

Jordan Griffiths is Accenture’s Financial Services Finance and Performance Management lead in Australia.

Pascal Gautheron is managing director of Accenture’s banking practice in Asia-Pacific. 

Joseph Alfred

Joseph Alfred is the Head of Policy and Technical of ACCA – the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Singapore.

In this role, he is responsible for the formulation of policies as well as development and implementation of Professional Insights initiatives to drive ACCA’s public value mission and brand objectives, ensuring that ACCA members, regulators and other stakeholders are updated on ACCA’s global technical policies.

He also works closely with stakeholders and organisations to identify opportunities where ACCA can contribute to the agenda in relation to accounting and business in Singapore and in ASEAN.

Joseph has been with ACCA since 2004. He is currently a Fellow member of ACCA, Fellow Chartered Accountant of Singapore. He holds an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.

Judy Hsu

Judy Hsu is the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore and ASEAN Markets (Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Rep Offices) at Standard Chartered. She is responsible for steering the business development and execution of strategy for the bank in Singapore, the second highest contributor to the group and major driver of the performance in ASEAN and South Asia (ASA) region.

Judy Vas

Judy Vas is the Asia-Pacific Regulatory Leader for Financial Services at EY. She also serves as a member of EY’s Global Regulatory Network and works within the global leadership team of senior former regulators to help clients manage the emerging global regulatory agenda. Judy has extensive experience of regulatory and compliance leadership and in working with regulators across the Asia-Pacific region.

Julia Smith

Julia Smith is Executive Director, Human Capital at Ernst & Young Solutions LLP.