The 3rd BankTech Executive Summit 2012

Mr. Rajiv Biswas
Senior Director & Asia Pacific Chief Economist
IHS Global Insight

Mr. Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific Chief Economist, IHS Global Insight is responsible for overseeing the macroeconomic forecasts and analysis for Asia-Pacific. Previously, Biswas was South-East Asia Director for The Economist Group. He also previously served as Executive Director for Asia-Pacific Country Risk for UBS and prior to that as Director in the Economic Research Department of UBS, focusing on the regional and global economy, country risk and international public policy. His previous experience includes having worked as Senior Economist in the International Finance and Capital Markets Department of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Senior Economist at QIC Fund Management and as an international economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has a M.Sc. and D.I.C from Imperial College, London University.

Mr. Michael Barnes
VP & Research Director
Forrester Research

Michael serves Vendor Strategy Professionals; he is a leader of software industry and cloud computing research and consulting. His team creates market intelligence about future trends in enterprise software, especially in the growth markets of Asia Pacific.

Michael joined Forrester through its acquisition of Springboard Research. Prior to Springboard, he led software infrastructure research in Asia Pacific for Gartner, advising large organizations on strategies for sourcing, implementing, and managing enterprise applications and software technologies. He previously conducted software research and implementation at Meta Group, Hurwitz Group, and Prudential Insurance.

Michael holds a master's degree in economics from Northeastern University. Want to learn more about Michael Barnes? Visit http://www.forrester.com/rb/analyst/michael_barnes.

Mr. Daryl Pereira
Director - Management Consulting
KPMG

Daryl Pereira is a Director in the Management Consulting group at KPMG Singapore focusing on the Financial Services industry. He is also the current President of ISACA Singapore, the professional association for IT audit, security and governance practitioners with over 98,000 members globally.

Daryl has 16 years experience in IT consulting and banking technology. He previously worked at Deutsche Bank in a global role as the Program Governance Manager & Head of Project Management Office for Global Banking IT and Capital Markets overseeing a €170M portfolio of programs and projects. Prior to this, Daryl was the Regional COO Business Manager for Investment Banking IT Asia-Pacific at Deutsche Bank. In this role, Daryl was responsible for general management of the Technology Function with over 2000 staff, where he managed budget/P&L optimisation, technology risk & regulatory management, PMO, IT governance, and IT performance measurement (MIS). Previous roles include Regional Head of IT Audit APAC at Deutsche Bank, Group IT Audit Manager at Westpac Bank Australia, and Senior Accountant with Price Waterhouse Australia.

Mr. Victor Keong
Partner, Management Consulting
KPMG

Victor is a Partner in the Performance & Technology group in KPMG Singapore. He joined KPMG after spending 18 years in North America with Deloitte, where he was Deloitte’s Global Leader for Vulnerability Management Services. He was appointed to the Americas Advisory Board of International Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² in 2004. Victor currently is an advisory board member for SCIPP International, a global non-profit organization that delivers information security awareness training and certification programs for enterprises throughout the world. Victor also leads KPMG’s emerging technology advisory practice, and lead KPMG’s efforts in cloud computing security consulting services.

Victor’s wide spectrum of Information Security experiences include directed several large scale enterprise-wide deployment of secure IT infrastructure, addressing management, high availability as well as secure perimeter defences. Technologies deployed included leading products/solution sets in firewalls, intrusion detection systems, content filtering devices, anti-virus technologies, data loss protection, cloud, as well as implementing leading solutions in the Security Information and Event Management space.

He have led several Governance and Security Risk Framework engagements for large Public and Private Sector entities.

Leads KPMG’s PCI-DSS service offering, and led several engagements to address clients' compliance to PCI-DSS in varying degrees of complexity. The range of service provided includes: identifying and understanding clients' cardholder data inventory (i.e. the PCI compliance footprint); defining appropriate strategies to remediate issues of non-compliance; as well as addressing other applicable concurrent compliance requirements (i.e. SOX, EU Data Directive, HIPAA etc.).

Led several global penetration test/security reviews for Fortune 500 companies, oftentimes in several locations around the world.

Lead KPMG’s ‘post-911’ physical security offering. Recent work of note included reviews of large petrochemical facilities against Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) and Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), and Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) standards.

Mr. Dirk Sibiet
Country Technology Officer Singapore - UAE
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

I am currently the CTO for ABN AMRO Singapore and UAE and I have been with ABN AMRO Bank in various roles for the last 27 years. Prior to moving into the current role I was the Global Market Data Systems technology manager in ABN AMRO for 10 years followed by a regional program management and service roles in Europe and Asia.

As part of the carve up of old ABN AMRO and creation of the new ABN AMRO in 2009 I was the program manager for the separation from RBS of the ABN AMRO Private Banking Asia business unit and designed and implemented the new IT infrastructure environment in Asia based on a application virtualised environment.

In 2010 I received the Finalist award of the NetApp Innovation Awards - Individual section for the architecture design and program execution of the ABN AMRO Private banking separation program.

Mr. Ian Rae
CIO, Asia Pacific, Europe and America
ANZ

Ian’s role as CIO is to collaborate with the APEA businesses to achieve competitive technology-enabled business outcomes. He is the key point of contact between the businesses and the Group Technology business units.

Ian is based in Singapore and joined ANZ in January 2011 as General Manager Segment Delivery Institutional and moved into the CIO APE&A role in September 2011. Prior to joining ANZ, Ian was Chief Information Officer for RBS in Asia Pacific where he integrated the RBS and ABN AMRO technology teams, delivered regional platform changes and delivered operational efficiencies for the Global Banking & Markets business.

Ian has 30 years of technology experience in financial services (in London until 2006) working primarily for financial markets/investment banking firms such as RBS, ABN AMRO, ING Barings, Bankers Trust, NatWest Markets and UBS.

Mr. Vipula Samarakoon
Head of Technology Services Group, Asia Pacific
Bank of New York Mellon

Vip Samarakoon is the Managing Director of TSG Asia Pacific for The Bank of New York Mellon, based in Singapore. He is responsible for the strategic, tactical and operational leadership of a regional technology team focused on the delivery of state-of-the-art infrastructure and services that are designed to be business-enabling, scalable and secure. Vip has over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and has held regional leadership roles of increasing accountability and scope since 2004.

Prior to joining The Bank of New York Mellon, Vip was the Performance Delivery manager for Michelin Asia Pacific, focused on IT service delivery, operations and performance enhancement of one of the world’s largest IT outsourcing contracts. Before Michelin, he was the Regional Head of Service Delivery for Becton Dickinson, managing a team dispersed over 12 countries and responsible for regional infrastructure, operations, service delivery and global service management.

He started his technology career with HP Australia in technical support. This was followed by BASF Australia/NZ in progressive roles ranging from data centre administration, business analysis and project management before expatriating to Singapore as a regional project manager involved in the creation of the company’s inaugural Shared Service Centre.

Vip holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Monash University, Melbourne. He is also an Executive Management Program graduate from Melbourne Business School, a trained prosthetist/orthotist and an internationally published photographer.

Mr. Leonard Ong
Head of Global Information Security Risk and Operation, APAC
Barclays Capital

Leonard Ong is currently the Head of Global Information Security Risk and Operation, APAC for Barclays Capital based in Singapore. Previously, he has worked for Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks in various security management and business roles for over 10 years. He is a member in ASIS International and its IT Security Council. Apart from being Board member of ISACA Singapore Chapter, Leonard is the Honorary Chairman of ASIS International Singapore Chapter. He is board certified in Security Management by ASIS International as Certified Protection Professional (CPP), he is also certified as:

CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CSSLP by (ISC)²

CISM, CISA, CRISC by ISACA

GCFA, GSNA, GCIA, GCIH by GIAC

Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) by ACFE

Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI

In July 2011, Leonard received distinguished Information Security Leadership Achievement (ISLA) from (ISC)². It is awarded in recognition for his achievement in Senior Information Security Professional category.

Mr. Derek Schneidt
Regional Information Security Officer, Asia Pacific
Citi

Derek Schneidt has twenty-eight years of experience in the Information Security Industry and he has focused on security in large financial organizations since 1996. Derek has managed Information Security, Computer Operations, Risk Management and Business Continuity functions as well as IT Compliance (SOx), Program Management and Strategic Planning functions in large technical and business environments.

Derek’s career in Information Security began in 1984 with the US Air Force performing work with classified and encrypted communications. His roles include Security Operations for the US Air force, US Army, Information Security and Business Continuity Manager for the Eighth District of the Federal Reserve Bank, Group Information Security Officer for CitiMortgage, Citi Auto, The Student Loans Corporation, Consumer Lending Group and Global Consumer Technology International, Citi. His roles have included responsibility for information security operations in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Mr. Ratikant Sahu
Director, Global Consumer Technology
Citi

Ratikant is a Director in technology at Citigroup. He is currently responsible for Online banking platform across 30+ countries within Citigroup International. In his current role, he oversees conceptualization, development and deployment of various consumer facing online banking solutions.

Prior to that he led the delivery of an industry standard Business Intelligence platform for consumer bank spanning areas such as Sales & Marketing; Performance management, RISK and Compliance management. In his 15+ years of experience in banking industry, he been instrumental in several transformational efforts within Citi which was founded upon implementation of next generation multi-channel CRM / sales and service platforms, BI platforms, product processors.

Innovative application of technology continues to be a critical enabler for Citi to achieve its customer centricity goals and Ratikant has been driving some of those initiatives over last 10 years.

Ratikant is a graduate of Electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management.

Mr. Kuo Siong Lim
SEVP and Head, IT & Ebusiness
Maybank

Mr Lim is currently with Maybank Singapore, overseeing both e-Business and IT. Before that, he had worked for a major local bank and two international European banks.

Over the last 20+ years, he had covered back-office and systems operations related to consumer banking, corporate banking, B2B/B2C commerce, payment, securities & custody operations, private banking and treasury businesses.

Mr Lim has IT and business operations experiences in Asia, Europe and US, with exposure to different works and companies cultures, covering joint-venture company and regional partner offices.

Mr. Kevin Austin
Head of Assurance - Corporate Security Services, APAC and India
The Royal Bank of Scotland N.V.

Mr. Niguel Brooks
SVP, Head Architecture and Infrastructure
Singapore Exchange

Mr Brooks joined the Singapore Exchange (SGX) in January 2009 as a Senior Vice President and Head of Architecture and Infrastructure. His responsibilities include identifying and implementing strategic and transformational initiatives as well as, the management responsibility for IT Infrastructure, IT Operations, Telecommunications and Data Centres.

Prior to the SGX, Niguel was a senior manager within Markets Technology Group at the Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX). He was responsible for the technical development and management of the Integrated Securities and Derivatives Trading System (ITS), the 24-hour Future's trading system (SICOM) and a software development team. Throughout his 11 year tenure he played a key role in the evolution of electronic trading within the Australian financial markets.

Prior to this, Niguel's held various senior technical / network specialist roles during his 11 years with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) main headquarters in Asia Pacific.

Mr. Justin Lister
Group Head, Information Security
Standard Chartered Bank

Justin Lister is Group Head of Information Security for Standard Chartered. Standard Chartered is a leading international banking group and has operated for over 150 years in some of the world's most dynamic markets. The Bank has 1,700 offices across 70 markets, and employs around 90,000 staff. Standard Chartered is committed to building a sustainable business over the long term and its heritage and values are expressed in its brand promise, ‘Here for good'.

As a proven technology risk professional, Justin has over 15 years experience in financial services. He has held a number of senior Audit and Security positions with international investment banks including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. Prior to this, Justin served as a consultant with KPMG and Arthur Andersen providing security consultancy to the Australian government, military and ASX 100 companies.

During the mid-Nineties, Justin was also a member of the Centre for Computer Security Research (CCSR), a group recognized for their work in the field of cryptography where they developed one of the fifteen candidate algorithms for the Advanced Encryption Standards (AES). Justin's research at the Centre included Intrusion Detection Systems, where he established the Intrusion Detection Systems Mail forum (ids@uow.edu.au), which brought together over 3000 participants across 60 countries from various academic, commercial and government entities and continues today as Symantec's "Security Focus, Focus-IDS".

Mr. Krishnan Narayanan
Head of Singapore and APAC Emerging Markets IT
UBS Singapore

Krishnan Narayanan is the Head of IT, Singapore and also regional head of Emerging markets IT. Krish has over 18 years of experience in the Financial IT industry, 10 of which has been in Japan where he has worked for Citibank and UBS. More recently he spent 3 years helping Prudential setup a regional IT and operations centre in Malaysia to serve the APAC region. Since rejoining UBS, Krish has been working on managing Equities support, overall outsourcing and offshoring operations and more recently IT for the emerging market locations in APAC.

Mr. Biren Kundalia
Regional Chief Technology Officer
Chartis Asia Pacific

Mr. James Conway
Regional Director
Actuate Asia Pacific

As the Regional Director, James Conway currently heads the Asia Pacific Sales organisation for Actuate, winning business in countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore, India and Japan. Previously, James held a number of executive positions at Actuate including Director of Channels for EMEA and UK Senior Account Manager where he was responsible for new-name business and named accounts, selling Performance Management Solutions into Government and Corporate sectors. Throughout his 10 years with Actuate, James has worked closely with customers, across a variety of business verticals, to help integrate and deploy Actuate technology to address critical business issues. James holds a Honours degree in Business Management from the University of Plymouth, England.

Mr. Woo Wen Siang
Technical Manager
Actuate Asia Pacific

Woo has more than 15 years of experience in Information Technology and commands a proven technical and working knowledge of Actuate BIRT (Business Intelligence Reporting Tools). As the Technical Manager, Woo is responsible for managing key strategic client relationships and helping them in successfully implementing their BI requirements. Some of his customers include Manulife Japan, Daimler Southeast Asia, HSBC Korea and Allianz Malaysia. Woo graduated from Campbell University with a Bachelor of Computer Science. Prior to joining Actuate, he was a Senior Solution Architect with IBM. He also had technical field sales and consulting experience, specialising in the areas of Business Process Management and Enterprise Content Management.

Mr. Anthony Ong
Regional Director Sales
Arbor Networks

Anthony has been in the IT banking industry for more than a decade. His current portfolio with Arbor Networks, a director of ASEAN, responsible for business development and involving in assisting in mitigation of a a number of recent cyber activities within his region. He has had been working with various Local Telco’s IP core team and Government Agencies and Central Banks in theregion on Cyber preparedness and business solution models. Prior to joining Arbor, he was from AT&T , Intel and PictureTel the video conferencing company.

Mr. Andrew Namboka
Enterprise Security Technologist
Check Point Software Technologies

Andrew is the security consultant for Check Point's key customers in Singapore. He is responsible for developing partnerships with customers to build effective solutions for their current and anticipated IT security challenges. He is a well-known security advocate and industry speaker and has more than 20 years of IT industry experience, helping government, telecommunications and commercial companies with their networks.

Prior to joining Check Point, Andrew worked as Chief Technologist and Engineering Director for Nokia Enterprise Solutions in Singapore, supervising sales engineers and managing technical support engagements for customers and channel partners around the Asia/Pacific region, across 14 countries including China and Japan.

Andrew brings with him over 20 years of experience in the data communications and security industry. He started his career in the field as a lead engineer with IBM UK where he was responsible for building secure retail banking infrastructure. He then worked with MCI WorldCom as a VPN/PKI implementation specialist across EMEA. In 2000, Andrew joined Nokia UK as a European senior technical consultant before taking on the role of technology manager and subsequently engineering manager for EMEA.

Andrew holds an Engineering Honors Degree in mechanical engineering with specialization and post graduate work in robotics and artificial intelligence.

Mr. Wesley Lim
Director, Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Sales
Emerson Network Power Asia Pacific

As the Director for DCIM Sales in Emerson Network Power Asia Pacific, Wesley Lim manages a team of regional subject matter experts targeted at driving high DCIM adoption in the enterprise market space. Wesley first joined Avocent at the start of 2011 to lead the newly-formed APAC software sales division. He comes with more than 16 years of experience spanning regional sales management, business development and consultative sales.

Prior to working with Emerson, Wesley held positions in leading IT multinational organizations such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Dimension Data and Extreme Networks

Mr. Richard F. Feldmann
Global Director of Financial Services
Red Hat Inc.

Rich is a recognized thought leader in the financial services industry and financial oriented solutions with over 35 years of domestic and international experience in general management, sales, finance, and information technology.

In November 2010, Rich joined worldwide open source leader, Red Hat Inc. as the Global Director of Financial Services. In this capacity, he is responsible for Red Hat's global financial services strategy and key partner alliances. Before joining Red Hat, he was Managing Director of Microsoft's $1.4 billion North American Financial Services business with overall responsibility for industry strategy, marketing, solutions sales, and partner management.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, Rich held a variety of senior management positions in the financial and technology industries including senior vice president for a regional brokerage and investment banking firm; chief financial officer for a software/data processing company; and vice president of currency risk management for a money center bank. In the early 90s, Rich founded a successful consulting firm based in California's Silicon Valley to provide banking & treasury related services to many of the Valley's most prominent firms. He began his career as an auditor and information management consultant.

Rich holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin. He is a certified public accountant (retired) and has held NASD Series 7 and Series 24 licenses. He and his wife Tracy live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their son Ryan.

Mr. Jan Holzer
Senior Engineer
Red Hat Inc.

Jan Mark Holzer is a Senior Consulting Engineer in Red Hat's CTO office.

In his role, Jan is helping Red Hat's large and strategic customers to leverage new and upcoming emerging technologies in their IT environments. This includes building proof of concept deployments as well as working with customers to (re)architect their IT environment around OpenSource technologies.

As a member of the CTO office he is leading the team responsible for Emerging Technologies.

He also is the primary interface for customers into Red Hat's R&D organization and the CTO office.

His current focus is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Large System Scalability and Automation, Stateless, High Performance Computing and many other emerging technologies in the Linux and datacenter space.

He has consulted various large customers and government organization in building their next generation IT and Cloud Computing infrastructure to include OpenSource technologies.

Jan has more than 20 years experience as an IT/Datacenter Technologist/Architect and Senior Consulting engineer at Digital, Compaq, Hewlett Packard and Red Hat.

He is a regular speaker at industry events covering a broad range of topics.

He has also worked with many mission critical customer on remedial issues and was the technical lead for a group of consulting engineers providing fly and fix support directly out of the Engineering/R&D organization at HP. Before joining Red Hat he was a member of the Strategic Planning and Architecture group of HP's Business Critical Server group.

In his role he has worked with many of the Fortune 100 companies and worked on (and supported) various UNIX, Linux, Windows and other operating systems.

He can be reached via email at jmh@redhat.com