Contributors
Carol Grunberg
Carol is the Chief Business Officer at Yuno, a payments orchestration platform, serving a global customer base across 60 countries. With deep experience in the global payments and commerce industry gained through senior roles at Citi, AntGroup/Alipay, Google and Northwestern Mutual, Carol is passionate about transforming global commerce by revolutionizing the payments ecosystem and helping democratize finance worldwide. As CBO of Yuno, she leverages her expertise in new business development, client experience, and strategy to expand Yuno's reach and impact across markets and industries.
Outside of her work at Yuno, Carol is a dedicated investor and mentor for early-stage startups, with a particular focus on fintech, digital transformation, and social impact. She is also a champion for women in fintech, having served as President of the Board of Directors of Paytech Women. Currently, she sits on the Board of TeamUnity, which focuses on elevating communities within New York, especially in Harlem.
Cassandra Goh
Cassandra Goh Shiou Ling serves as Group Chief Executive Officer of Silverlake, a position she has held since 1 July 2024, having previously served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer. In her current role, she works closely with the Management team and Board to shape and execute the company's mission, business operations, and new initiatives.
Her career began at Cornerstone Research in the United States, where she spent 12 years as an economic consultant analysing complex litigation cases across financial services, energy, and commodities for bodies including the SEC, DOJ, and U.S. Futures Commodity Trading Commission.
She returned to Malaysia in 2014 to join the Silverlake Private Entities, where she led corporate restructuring, financing, and investment initiatives focused on growth and value creation. Ms. Goh holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Mathematics from Duke University, where she graduated on the Dean's List in 2010.
Catherine Ballantyne
Catherine Ballantyne has spent 25 years in IT, marketing and digital development specifically working with the data that drives these tools. She works with Tealium’s prospects and customers across the APJ region to help them develop a customer data strategy to successfully achieve a scalable, productionised digital transformation and subsequent cohesive brand experience. It is this work that informs her current thinking around customer data supply chain and the evolution of customer data asset management which is required to satisfy legislative and consumer expectations. She has special interest in the travel, retail and gaming industries.
Cheow Hoe Chan
Cheow Hoe Chan is a Partner of the Far East Area Financial Services Advisory Services at Ernst & Young.
Ching-Fong Ong and Sumit Kumar
Ching-Fong (CF) Ong, Managing Director and Senior Partner, SEA Leader for DigitalBCG, Boston Consulting Group.
Sumit Kumar, Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group.
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