Asian Banking & Finance Forum - Bangkok - April 23, 2024

Pariwat Kanithasen is Deputy Director of the Payments & Fintech Department of the Bank of Thailand and is in charge of cross-border payment connectivity. 

He has recently led several projects on payment infrastructure linkages between Thailand and Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Laos.

He is Co-Chair of the ASEAN Working Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, Vice Chair of the EMEAP Working Group on Payment and Market Infrastructures and country manager for “Project Nexus”, an upcoming multilateral payment linkage project. 

Prior to this, he worked on regional financial integration, regional financial cooperation and also acted as the Bank of Thailand’s chief negotiator of financial services and investment chapters of several FTAs.

He was also seconded to the IMF in Washington D.C., as an Advisor to the Executive Director.

Nerijus is a Managing Director and Partner in the Singapore office of BCG. Throughout his BCG tenure Nerijus has mainly supported FI and PE practice areas in Europe and South East Asia.

Prior to joining BCG, Nerijus has also worked at HSBC's distressed credit trading desk in London, and spent 4+ years in Singapore working at a boutique investment bank, where he was involved in a number of M&A and capital raising transactions.

Nerijus holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in Political Science. He is fluent in English, Russian, and native in Lithuanian.

Dr. Thaicharoen was appointed as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Wealth Banking Officer on December 18, 2023. Previously, he was Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Wholesale Banking Officer and Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Wealth Banking Officer since March 1, 2022, and held position as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Economist (EIC) in 2021.

Prior to joining SCB, Dr. Thaicharoen was Director at the Monetary Policy Department, Monetary Policy Group, Bank of Thailand, overseeing overall monetary policy analyses and policy recommendations on interest rate, exchange rate, and capital flow policies. Prior to that, he held executive positions in various central bank divisions, including macroeconomics, corporate strategy, and financial stability. During 2009-2010, he was on secondment to serve as Director of the Capital Market Research Institute at the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

Dr. Thaicharoen is an expert on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and capital market. He has published numerous research and commentary articles in local and international publications. He is also a frequent invited speaker for external organizations and public seminars.

Dr. Thaicharoen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics, majoring in finance and international economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, under the Bank of Thailand’s scholarship.

Saurabh advises corporates across Southeast Asia on their financial services strategies, including FinTech and ecosystem partnerships.

With vast experience as a strategy advisor to financial institutions across the Asia-Pacific region, he covers diverse aspects of business transformation. These include developing corporate and customer strategies, customer experience design and operating model transformation. He also assists businesses in their innovation agendas and governance as well as corporate culture change.

Prior to EY, Saurabh was a partner at a global management consulting firm and held several strategy and business management leadership positions at major banks.
 
Saurabh holds an MBA from INSEAD, France and is a qualified chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Jamjun Siriganjanavong is currently the Head of Debt Capital Markets and ESG Finance Department with over 17 years of experience in Debt Capital Markets area and more than 26 years of banking experience with wide range of product knowledge.

Jamjun has extensive experience in providing guidance, overseeing, and actively participating in debt capital markets transactions and sustainable finance products from public and private sectors. This is further underscored by a multitude of awards received from both domestic and international entities, recognizing the pioneering efforts in introducing innovative financial products and sustainable financing strategies in the evolution of Thai Baht bond market in Thailand.

Since March 2021, Jamjun has been appointed as Thailand’s representative as part of the Industry Advisory Panel for the Joint Sustainable Finance Working Group (JSFWG) under ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF). The objective of JSFWG is to develop sustainable finance area including but not limited to a Sustainable Finance Taxonomy for ASEAN countries, Disclosures, Strengthening Demand and Supply for Sustainable Finance and Transition Standards.

Nongnuch has 20-year experience in modelling and banking through various roles. She was the Head of Financial System Development and Planning at Ministry of Finance before moving to UK academia in 2009 and getting an Associate Professorship in 2019. In 2020, she joined Krungthai Bank as SVP Corporate Strategy and later be Head of Credit Risk Modelling & Analytic. Now, she is Head of Enterprise Risk and Infrastructure at CIMB Thai Bank and a visiting academic for School of Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton (UK). Since 2007, she has won several national and international research grants and published 19 research articles in Banking, Investment, Sustainability, Risk Modelling and Machine Learning.

Mak is a seasoned consultant with experience across financial advisory and consulting projects across Asia, including Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore. His project management experience includes market entry, strategy formulation, business turnaround, business due diligence, valuation, deal sourcing, and post-merger integration, across a variety of industries such as manufacturing, F&B, tobacco, construction, healthcare, FMCG, automotive, and private equity.

Arapat Sangkharat is the Chief Executive Officer of Maybank Securities Thailand (MSTH).  He was previously the Deputy CEO of MSTH and Regional Head of Transformation of Maybank Investment Banking Group (MIBG).  

Arapat is an “executional strategist” with more than 26 years' experience in financial services and management consulting in Asia and the United States.  

Prior to joining Maybank, he led major business & digital transformation initiatives at Siam Commercial and Krungthai Bank.  And during his extensive career with Deloitte Consulting and PwC in the United States, he worked with financial services institutions such as FDIC, BNY Mellon, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, AIG, and American Express.

He holds an MBA in Financial Investments from the University of Southern California.

Gary is a seasoned consultant and Partner of YCP Holdings (Global) Limited. His team provides hands-on management service to commit to leaving an impact on clients, leveraging his experiences in project management office (PMO) services under topics of spending reduction, strategic sourcing, partner search, distributor search, go-to-market strategy implementation, organization optimization, post-merger integration, and mergers and acquisitionmas (M&A) target search, as well as financial advisory. He leads the finance institution industry at YCP and serves clients in banking, non-bank financial institutions, securities, and fintech.

Before joining YCP, Gary gained management consulting and business development experience across 10+ Asian countries at Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia and Bank of America (previously Merrill Lynch) in Japan. Gary has a Master of Business Administration from the Sasin School of Management, Thailand.

Alex is a seasoned M&A professional with extensive experience in cross-border transactions across Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

His sector expertise spans the Financial sector, Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT), Consumer Goods, F&B, Automotive, and Healthcare. He has expertise in deal sourcing, financial modeling, valuation advisory, project management, and negotiation, successfully leading numerous significant projects.

Add is a financial risk manager with a decade-long experience in the financial services industry in the US before moving back to Thailand in 2020.  Add is currently the head of consumer credit risk model development & technology at Krungsri. 
 
Prior to Krungsri, Add was the director of quantitative risk management at Mnementh Analytics, a fintech startup, building a CECL software solution and provided model development advisory services to one of the largest monoline credit card providers in the US among others.  Add also has working experience from community banks, regional banks, and a global bank.  Preceeding a banking career, Add was in market risk analytics at SS&C GlobeOp, a Long-Term Capital Management legacy, supporting chief risk officers from large hedge funds clients. 

Add holds two master’s degrees in operations research and statistics from the H.Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (“ISyE”) at Georgia Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree in economics from Thammasat University.

Sanphet Sukhapesna is currently the First Senior Vice President at Kasikornbank. His experiences include establishing risk appetite statement/metric and risk limit as well as risk policies with the integration with strategic/business planning, and capital planning processes. He also conducted the development of innovative transmission-mechanism analytics for scenario/stress testing analytics to assess impact from unconventional systemic shock such as pandemic. In addition, he led the team to prepare the bank's readiness for new regulatory landscapes including the revision of Basel III. His current roles emphasize developing innovative credit risk analytics and transforming end-to-end credit processes. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering (Operations Research), MS in Financial Engineering, MA in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan, and M.Eng in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

Supanwongse (Dean) is HSBC Thailand’s Director and Country Head of Global Payments Solutions (GPS). He initially joined HSBC Thailand in 2018 as Senior Vice President, TH Country Head of Sales - Global Liquidity & Cash Management (GLCM) before being promoted to his current role. Prior to joining HSBC, Dean was with Citi for 12 years in a variety of roles including operations, account management, product management, and sales in Direct Custody & Clearing, Markets & Securities Services, and Treasury & Trade Solutions in both Bangkok and Singapore. 

Dean holds a Bachelor’s degree in Bio-Medical Science from Mahidol University International College graduating with First-Class Honors and a Master’s degree in International Business and Law from the University of Sydney with Distinction.