Contributors

Betty Wilkinson

Betty Wilkinson is Director for Public Management, Financial Sector, and Trade Division, Central and West Asia Department at Asian Development Bank. She has over 30 years of professional field experience in the financial sector development and public management.

Bharath Vellore

Bharath Vellore is the general manager, APAC, for Provenir.

Bien Nguyen

Bien Nguyen is a Director of Strategic Partnerships and member of Strategy Committee at a Vietnamese leading retail bank. He is also a seasoned management consultant and an expert in Strategy, Market Access, JV/M&A, and Retail. Mr. Nguyen received an MBA with honors from Golden Gate University in 2005 and several bachelor degrees from prestigious Vietnamese universities. He can be reached at [email protected]. 

Bijon Mehta

Bijon Mehta is the Global Head of Financial Services at Twilio.

Blaik Wilson and Günther Peer

Blaik Wilson is a Solutions Consulting Manager at Reval in the Asia Pacific region. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and an international instructor and consultant specializing in financial instruments, hedge accounting and treasury policy.

Günther Peer is Regional Vice President, Solution Consulting EMEA at Reval. His focus is on the provision of thought leadership with regards to cash, liquidity and risk management.

Brandon Lee

Brandon Lee is Chief Strategy Officer of NTT Com Asia.

Brendan Carney

Brendan Carney is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Citibank Singapore Limited and Global Consumer Banking (GCB) ASEAN Cluster Head.

Based in Singapore, Brendan manages the Consumer Business for Citibank Singapore and is responsible for the leadership of the consumer franchise in the ASEAN cluster, comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, excluding Citi’s International Personal Bank. He is a member of Citi’s GCB Regional Leadership Team and the ASEAN Management Team.

Prior to this appointment, Brendan was the Consumer Business Manager (CBM) for South Korea, a role he took on in July 2015. During his tenure, he led a successful turnaround of the Korea consumer business, launching award-winning new digital platforms, doubling mobile banking usage, increasing digital acquisitions, introducing state-of-the-art wealth management centres and transforming its branch network.

Since joining Citi in 2002 as Country Business Manager for Portugal, Brendan has held various senior positions across the globe. He was appointed Consumer Business Manager and Vice President of the Management Board for Citi Handlowy in Poland in 2012, and CCO and Country Business Manager for Belgium in 2010, where he steered the consumer business to profitability within two years before leading its successful sale to Credit Mutuel Nord Europe in 2012. Prior to starting his banking career with Citi, Brendan held several key roles in consulting and general management of start-up companies.

Brendan serves as a Director of Citibank Singapore Limited, Chairperson of Singapore’s Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Consumer Banking Industry Workgroup and a member of IBF’s Standards Committee. Brendan holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Brett Hodge

Brett joined Fenergo in 2014 as VP of Sales for APAC to build out Fenergo’s footprint across Asia Pacific. With over 25 years’ experience in the fintech industry, Brett brings extensive experience to the role having worked as Manager of Asia for Avox for seven years and Regional Director of Algorithmics for nine years previous. Brett studied Marketing & Finance in Charles Sturt University and Applied Finance & Investment with FINSIA – the Securities Institute of Australia.

Brian Thung

Brian is the EY ASEAN Financial Services Leader and is responsible for leading the EY financial services organization (FSO) across Southeast Asia. 

He is also a member of the EY Asia-Pacific regional leadership team where he focuses on providing strategic counsel across the key ASEAN markets, managing people and talent development, as well as ensuring alignment across the global and regional organizational strategies and business outcomes.

Brih Aguilar