Asian Banking & Finance and Insurance Asia Summit - Singapore - July 1, 2026

Silvio Struebi leads Simon Kucher’s Financial Services Practice in APAC. He has over 18 years of consulting experience advising banks and financial institutions on commercial excellence, digital banking, pricing, and sales transformation across private, retail, and corporate banking, asset management, fintech, and payments. He has led high profile engagements including post-merger integrations, digital banking transformations, value proposition development, and dynamic pricing initiatives on both sides of the balance sheet, working with clients from strategy through implementation including software rollout and AI driven commercial initiatives.
 

Shrikant Bhat is the CEO of the AIA Group’s Investments Linked & Pensions Business that includes over $60B of investment assets across the 18 markets that AIA Group serves.

Shrikant Bhat joined AIA group over 6 years ago, as part of AIA Group Investments Management team to set up and oversee the funds strategy. Asia has amongst the fastest growing and largest pools of savings and investments. A veteran wealth management professional with 3 decades of business experience across sales management, product management, retail banking, wealth management, business transformation, treasury and credit cards, he has held various senior positions covering client segments from High Net worth Individuals to Mass Affluent and across diverse functions.

Since his appointment in AIA, he has led the Funds business strategy leveraging his expertise to drive the AIA Group’s ambition to help customers save and invest better for the long term. Starting with establishment of funds vehicles in Luxembourg and Singapore across traditional and private assets respectively, he now heads the Unit Linked and Pensions Business for the Group to partner with Business Units in creating wealth propositions and enhancing investment advisory capabilities to develop AIA’s wealth pillar.

Prior to joining AIA Group in 2019, he was Managing Director and Regional Head of Investments, Citibank overseeing 17 markets in Asia, Europe and Middle East. In that role he was responsible for overall P&L and Investments strategy covering mutual funds, fixed income, structured products, equity brokerage and portfolio finance for consumer banking clients.

Shrikant holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University as well Post Graduate from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM, Calcutta). He is also Exco on the AIA AMC in Singapore.