Emmanuel Coucke leads Bain's Results Delivery® practice in Southeast Asia and has over 15 years of experience driving transformational change across multiple industries in both developed and emerging markets, including North America, Western Europe, Southeast Asia, India, China, Latin America and central Asia.

He holds deep expertise in telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), combining previous industry experience at Vodafone with advising clients in TMT on transformations, digital, growth strategies, performance improvement and customer experience. He also advises clients in Energy & Natural Resources and Oil & Gas on topics related to strategy-led transformation, digital and performance improvement.

Emmanuel holds an MBA from London Business School, as well as a two Masters degrees in Engineering and Computer Science.

Silvio Struebi heads Simon-Kucher’s banking practice in APAC. He has over 15 years of consulting experience in providing growth, pricing, and sales strategy advice to various national and international Wealth and Asset Managers, Retail and Corporate Banks, and leading FinTechs, Neobanks and Payments companies. Silvio advises clients on a broad range of commercial strategies and product management as well as assisting in market-specific implementation of growth and sales strategies. Recently, he has been focusing on the implementation of pricing software to increase revenues and to respond to regulatory developments in key markets in Asia.

Brandon is a Partner and a Insurance and Takaful Leader of Ernst & Young PLT in Malaysia, and the EY Asean Insurance Leader. He has over 24 years of experience in providing assurance and consulting services to public-listed companies, multinationals and local corporations, focusing on life and general insurance, takaful (Islamic Insurance), retakaful, reinsurance, Islamic banking, asset management and unit or property trusts.

Brandon’s professional experience includes leading engagements related to IPOs, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, financial due diligence and implementation of MFRS and IFRS.

He is actively involved in industry matters related to accounting and regulatory requirements, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Brandon is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA), as well as the MFRS 17 Working Group and Transition Resource Group of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board.

Benjamin is an Associate based in our Malaysia office. Prior to joining YCP Solidiance, he worked in a venture capital firm focused on the blockchain industry. He has experience advising clients in a wide array of commercial matters pertaining to market entry & growth strategy, commercial due diligence, and internal audit exercises across multiple industries including FMCG, F&B, E&E and healthcare industry.  He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Reading and has a professional certification from the Legal Profession Qualifying Board, Malaysia and is also an Unregistered Barrister of the Bar of England and Wales. 

Young Yang is the General Manager for the Southeast Asia market of ZA Tech Global Limited (‘ZA Tech’). He has led the development of SEA business since 2018 and formed different partnerships with some of the biggest ecosystems and insurers in the region.

Established in May 2018 in Hong Kong and headquartered in Singapore, ZA Tech is a Singaporean technology venture founded by ZA International and backed by Softbank’s Vision Fund 1. It aims to redefine the insurance value chain and the internet ecosystem through technology and fulfil the diversified demands of the customers by offering them comprehensive and innovative digitised solutions.

Obtaining both Master of MIT, and Bachelor of University of Science and Technology of China, Yang started his career as an engineer in PayPal and has over a decade experience in online payment, bank, and insurance industry.

Chris Eng is the Chief Strategy Officer at Etiqa Insurance and Takaful where he is responsible for the development and execution of strategic initiatives and marketing plans to support Etiqa's long-term growth. Under him, Etiqa ventured into Indonesia, strengthened its position in the Philippines and started operations in Cambodia. It also rolled out Robotic Process Automation, continued its Digitalisation agenda and embarked on its Sustainability journey. All of this contributed to Etiqa growing to be the 3rd largest ASEAN owned insurer with a Number 1 Brand position in Malaysia. Prior to his current role, he was Head of Research/Products and Alternative Investments where he set up the Equities and Fixed Income Research teams in Etiqa while personally specializing in broad macro-economic trends that could affect investment markets. He has over 25 years of experience in identifying market trends and business improvement opportunities having previously worked as a research analyst, an engineer and a management consultant around the region. He is a Chevening Scholar with a MPhil in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has won numerous awards for equity research in the past.

Mr Sammeer is the Country Head of Consumer, Private and Business Banking (CPBB) for Standard Chartered Malaysia.  

Mr Sammeer is a seasoned financial services professional with over 24 years of experience in driving strategic business transformation and change management actions across diverse markets. In his 20 years with Standard Chartered, he has built award-winning businesses across domains in digital wealth, investments, insurance, lending, payments, distribution and digital banking.  This gave him a wide exposure to complex and varied businesses, across multiple complex markets such as Malaysia, Singapore and India.