The 3rd BankTech Executive Summit 2012

Mr. Terick Chiu
Executive Partner, Gartner Executive Programs, North Asia
Gartner

As an Executive Partner for the Gartner Executive Programs, Terick works with CIOs across North Asia supporting Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, assisting CIOs in many first tier organisations in a wide range of strategic information technology decision matters. Terick is responsible for providing personal advisory to CIOs from IT strategy formation, positioning of IT organisation, technology selection to IT organisation transformation.

Prior to joining Gartner, Terick was the Asia Pacific Regional IT Director for MindShare and GroupM, the largest and leading advertising media group in Asia Pacific supporting 25 offices and 3000 users. Key achievements included leading the transformation of the IT operation to support rapid business growth and established best practice IT operation processes across the whole Asia Pacific region.

Previously, Terick also took on regional management roles in a number of companies including MRO Software in Asia and IBM Global Services in Australia providing IT advisory and services to many leading organizations in Asia Pacific.

Terick has a degree in Computer Science from University of Sydney and a post graduate degree with Australia Graduate School of Management.

Mr. Ashley Veasey
CIO Hong Kong
Standard Chartered Bank

Ashley Veasey is CIO of Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong. He is an experienced technology leader with a career that spans over 20 years in retail, investment and wholesale banking.

In his current role, Ashley is responsible for Standard Chartered's operations, systems development and technology infrastructure in Hong Kong. Under his leadership, the Bank is successfully leveraging smartphone technology to find new ways to engage with and address the changing needs of customers.

Ashley has worked in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam over the past 10 years with the Bank.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered, he held senior technology positions with JP Morgan and Citibank.

Apart from his responsibilities as CIO, Ashley is active in Standard Chartered's sustainability programmes and is a Global Ambassador for the Bank's Living with HIV programme.

Ashley interests include travel, digital photography and Italian motorbikes.

Mr. Geoff McClelland
Program Director
CIO Connect HK Limited

Geoff has over 25 years' experience in Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T), having held senior roles or consulting extensively in a number of industry sectors; notably in Telecommunications, Petroleum, IT, Finance, Defence, Retail and Hospitality. Always having a strong technology focus, Geoff has held traditional IT&T staff roles as well as broader R&D, strategic marketing and corporate planning positions.

From 2000, Geoff was the Group Enterprise Architect for Dairy Farm International (DFI); then the VP Technology - Hotel Development for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG) until mid-2010; he continues to provide IT governance services to DFI's and MOHG's parent company, Jardine Matheson Limited.

Professionally Geoff's very strong background in Enterprise Architecture led naturally to IT strategy, governance and risk management. His successful transition into broader management roles outside of IT as a Business-Technology professional has heightened his understanding of the challenges faced by organisations in achieving convergence, not just alignment, of IT with the business.

Geoff is a well-respected technology commentator in the Asia Pacific region especially in the areas of IT strategy, security and governance. Geoff is an Australian, married with two children and lives in Hong Kong. He holds a MBA in Finance from the University of Technology Sydney and is a Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), a Senior Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS); and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD).

Mr. Leroy Yau
Partner, Advisory Services
Ernst & Young

Leroy has over 16 years of IT/Business advisory and assurance experiences. Leroy is an Advisory Partner in Ernst & Young Hong Kong and has worked on a wide range of assignments covering IT strategy, IT due diligence, IT risks and assurance, IT security and privacy, business continuity planning, enterprise risk management, internal audit out/co-sourcing, regulatory compliance and corporate governance advisory.

Mr. Michael Mudd
Chief Representative, Asia - Pacific
The Open Computing Alliance (UK)

Mike Mudd is the Chief Representative of the OCA in the region, please see (www.opencomputingalliance.org) He brings many years of regional experience to the OCA, encompassing Japan to Australia and China to India. This region, home to half the world's population is also amongst the most dynamic and challenging for the ICT industry. He is based in Hong Kong and administers the OCA through his own company, Asia Policy Partners LLC.

Before joining the OCA, he was Director of Public Policy for Asia Pacific for one of the world's leading IT associations, CompTIA, opened the A-P office in Hong Kong, in 2004. Prior to this Mike was a Senior Manager with Standard Chartered Bank PLC, a major UK emerging market bank in the wholesale banks e-commerce group. Previously he was the Commercial Director for the e commerce division of the Noble Group, Asia's fastest growing trader of physical commodities.

With 32 year's experience in multicultural management in the Asia Pacific region, including extended assignments in China and Vietnam, Mike brings to the OCA hands on experience of working with high-level decision makers in both government and industry. Holding positions in general management in the information/service and communication industries, he has a proven track record in developing pro-business positions by working with governments from Minister, Vice Minister and Director head level and CEO's MD's, CFO's, CTO's, CIO's, in industry.

Mike studied at the University of Western Australia where he read economics and has written detailed research reports on a number of Asian economies on the economic impact of technology and science, and regularly contributes to regional media on the IT industry on open trade and the positive impact to development of emerging economies that ICT brings.

He is a presenter at regional IT forums, including OECD and APEC events and is an appointed expert to the ISO in Geneva for JTC-1 for IT related standards. An invited advisor on ICT in Vietnam, he was also recently appointed an advisor to the Ministry of Information and Communications, Thailand, and is also head of the Business Advisory Group in the ongoing US - Vietnam ICT Dialogue. He also represented CompTIA and the IT industry at the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong in 2005.

Mike also regularly acts as chairman, moderator and speaker at regional ICT events; is a frequent contributor to the business press. He is an active member of the IT, IP and Telecom committees at a number of Amcham's in Hong Kong, Beijing, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Hanoi, where he is the Chair of the IT, IP and Telecom's Committee, since 2007.

When not occupying seat 54C on Cathay Pacific, Mike enjoys boating in Hong Kong with his wife, Lily. He recently completed a long-standing dream to sail around Cape Horn, Chile, as skipper of a 13-metre alloy sloop.

Mr. G. V. Pathi
Head - Compliance & Security
AEON Credit Service (ASIA) Co. Ltd.

Mr. Pathi has 20 years experience in banking operations, system implementation, security review and system education to users etc. in India. In Hong Kong, he currently has over 6 years of experience on BS7799 Information Security Management implementation; ISO 27001 ISMS Risk Management; J-SOX (Japanese Sarbanes Oxley) Internal Controls and Project Management; PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard) - security compliance with card networks (VISA/Master); Data Protection Manager for compliance with internal data protection.

Mr. Ray Kan
Head of IT, Hong Kong
Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific GmbH

Ray Kan is the Head of IT, Hong Kong for Allianz Global Investors Asia Pacific, a leading global active asset manager. Ray relocated back to Hong Kong from North America in 2008, where he held IT management positions in various financial technology consulting firms, such as Citigroup and JP Morgan.

Mr. Michael K. M. Leung
Senior Vice President & CIO
China Construction Bank(Asia)

Michael Leung was appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Bank of America (Asia) in March 2000 . Supported by a team of over 240 associates, he manages the Bank's IT functions in its entirety, and also heads up operations planning, products support and corporate services functions.

Michael has many years of local and international experience in IT, focusing largely in the banking and finance industry. Before his current position, he had worked with a number of regional banks in IT and business development positions. Michael's earlier career was in business consulting and sales support with three leading international firms in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong.

Mr Leung holds a Master's degree from The Netherlands and a Bachelor from CUHK. He has attended several executive programs at LBS, MIT Sloan, and has a 1st honor diploma from Retail Banking Graduate School at University of Virginia. A Fellow of the HK Computer Society and HK Institute of Directors, Mr. Leung is a seasoned speaker and panelist on a range of topics.

Mr. Sanker Narayan
Director, Equity IT APAC
Credit Suisse

With 20+ years of experience in financial services IT, Sanker Narayan currently manages the Equities Trading platforms for Credit Suisse in the region and has been responsible for delivering a best in class electronic and Equities trading platform to Credit Suisse's clients for the past 10 years. With experience in Retail and Commercial platform banking platform solutions prior to Credit Suisse, Sanker has been a regular contributor to and participant in industry forums and conferences, bringing a business focused perspective in delivering technology to further the aims of end clients and investors.

Mr. Micky Lo
Head of I & TRG Regions (APAC & EMEA), Information & Technology Risk Governance
Deutsche Bank AG

Over 20 years of IT experience in Financial Service Industry that spans across a diversified IT management disciplines including regional and location management, IT and security architecture, distributed computing engineering, technology infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, IT risk management and technology audit.

Micky's currently manages the extended arms of Global Information & Technology Risk Governance (I&TRG) for EMEA and APAC regions. He holds the end-to-end responsibility from defining policies and procedures to implementing control processes (e.g. self assessments and mitigation programmes) in I&T Risk/Security and drives a consistent I&T risk governance framework across the Bank. The Regional Teams provide guidance to their respective regional businesses and Global Technology Organization in the application of I&T Security related policies and regulatory requirements, and assist them in their effort to identify and manage these risks.

Micky has held various management positions in IT risk, Infrastructure management and Audit with JPMorgan and Citibank prior to his current role.

Mr. Richard Leung
SVP and Co-Head, IT Division
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.

Richard Leung joined Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) in October 2011. He is currently the Co-Head of HKEx’s IT Division. In his position, Mr. Leung works with the Platform Development team to spearhead a number of strategic system developments including the next generation market data and securities trading systems, as well as the central gateway development.

Mr. Leung has worked with exchange and financial sector technology over the past two decades. Prior to joining HKEx, Mr. Leung was the Chief Technology Officer for Chi-X Global, where he was responsible for directing trading platform development, technical support and operations activities for all of the company’s market centres globally.

Mr. Leung joined Chi-X Global in conjunction with Chi-X Global’s 2008 acquisition of Cicada. Upon joining Cicada in 1999, he established a technology centre in Hong Kong responsible for software development and related support activities for the company’s real-time mission critical solutions for exchanges. Before joining Cicada, Mr. Leung held a 14-year career with Dow Jones Telerate in the Asia Pacific region, where he served in various senior technical positions. As head of technical development, he focused on developing product solutions to meet regional requirements, including local language financial terminals and the integration of regional exchange data.

Mr. Leung holds a Master of Science degree in E-Commerce from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Mr. Anil Mahtani
Executive Director, Chief Operational Risk Officer
ING Asia Pacific

In this role, Anil Mahtani has Regional responsibility for Non-Financial Risks including: Regional Enterprise Risk Strategic Development and Implementation, Solvency II Implementation - ORSA and Risk Governance, Operational Risk Management, Investigations, Fraud Risk Management (Anti-Fraud), Technology Risk, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Physical Security, Personnel Security, Travel Risk and Expatriate Risk Management, SOX Testing Management.

Prior to his current position, Anil was Chief Compliance Officer (in addition to Chief Op Risk Officer role) at ING Asia Pacific, Regional Head of Information Risk Management at ING Insurance Asia Pacific, Vice President, Head, Information Risk Management for ING Wholesale Banking Asia at ING Bank N.V Asia, Assistant Vice-President, Project Manager & Process Analyst - OCBC Bank Singapore.

Anil focuses on executing what he believes is the current primary role of risk management: to be a Change Agent to change organization culture so all staff understand & accept risk management responsibility for their areas of work; Educate and Facilitate staff to recognize and address key risks in their responsible areas; reduce risks by adopting real, practical and sustainable improvement actions; hiring, leading, developing and retaining excellent teams region-wide.

Mr. Dennis Lee
Head of IT Governance and Control, Asia Pacific
Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Dennis is currently the head of IT Governance and Control for Asia Pacific. He has joined Nomura since 2007 to lead IT risk management and to provide technology governance strategy. He has over 15 years investment banking technology operations experiences and was previously held the position of Asia Pacific GTI Information Risk Management head in JPMorgan.

Dennis has a Bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering, Post-graduate Diploma in Information Technology, Master degrees in Business Administration, Investment Management, and English for profession. He also holds professional qualifications of CISA, CISM, and CRISC.

Mr. Ashok Kalyanswamy
CIO Asia Ex-Japan, Head of APAC Equities & Prime Services IT
Nomura Securities

Ashok currently manages APAC Equities IT and Prime Services technology for Nomura. He used to manage Global Futures and Global Connectivity at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers. He have worked in Market Risk IT at Greenwich Capital Mkts, middle office technology at Merrill, and the Speech Technology group at NYNEX Research and Development

Mr. Lewis Tam
Head of Information Security
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China

Mr. Lewis Tam is the Head of Information Security of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, which is the first integrated financial services conglomerate in China with diversified business profile including insurance, commercial banking, securities brokerage, trust and investment, asset management and corporate pension, since November 2007.

Lewis has over 25 years' international experience in risk management, information technology and project management, specializing in the banking and finance industry. In particular, Lewis directs information security strategies for enterprises for more than a decade, and received the Information Security Leadership Achievements honor from (ISC)2 in 2009.

Lewis previously served as a Vice President for Bank of America, and headed a number of different functions including Information Security, IT Compliance, Technology Risk Management, Internal Control and Project Management. Prior to this, Lewis was the Principal IT Auditor and also leaded the worldwide financial system development for American Express. While most of these assignments were with regional responsibilities, Lewis has offices based in different countries including China, Hong Kong, and Australia.

Mr. Patrick Raths
Director of IT
Swiss Reinsurance Company

Patrick Raths is Director IT for Swiss Reinsurance Company in Hong Kong. He has over 20 years of experience in IT in the insurance industry. Patrick held several positions in both business and IT functions at Swiss Re and is a thought leader in the area of IT strategy & architecture, IT service management, customer service, IT infrastructure and information security.

Mr. Sandeep Mehta
Managing Director and Head of Technology Infrastructure, Asia Pacific
UBS

Sandeep Mehta is a Managing Director and Head of Technology Infrastructure for Asia-Pacific at UBS. Before joining UBS, he was a Managing Director in Technology at Goldman Sachs where he held senior technology management roles in New York, India, the Middle-East and Asia. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Sandeep held senior technology roles at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers. His background in computing includes research and publications while at Philips Research Laboratories, NYNEX Science and Technology and the University of Rochester.

Mr. August Chan
Head of IT
CASH

August Chan is the Head of IT of CASH, a conglomerate with businesses in financial services, retails and on-line entertainment, operating as CASH Financial Services, CASH Retail Management/Pricerite and Moli. He has taken up various, both business and technical, roles in different business units within the group in China and Hong Kong. August has rich IT experiences in diverse industries like finance/insurance, retails, entertainment, government and university, in China, Hong Kong and Australia.

Mr. Russell Yan
Regional Director
Arbor Networks Inc.

Russell Yan is Regional Director, Greater China at Arbor Networks. In this role he is responsible for the company’s operations in the Greater China region.

Yan joined Arbor in April 2007. Prior to joining the company, he was employed as a senior executive by various US and Asia-based technology companies, such as Network Associates, Network General and Nettasking.

Yan is a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and English.

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. Kenneth Ma
General Manager, Hong Kong Sales
CITIC Telecom International CPC Ltd

Mr. Kenneth Ma joined CITIC Telecom CPC (formerly known as CPCNet Hong Kong Limited) in June 2000 as an Account Manager and was promoted to General Manager, Hong Kong Sales in March 2010. Mr. Ma is responsible for leading CITIC Telecom CPC’s sales and operations in HK, enhancing partner and channel relationships, and formulating effective sales strategies to capture new target customer segments.

Prior to joining CITIC Telecom CPC, Mr. Ma worked for Nanyang Commercial Bank as the Account Officer, serving key corporate clients for 3 years. With over 13 years of sales and management experiences, including 10 years of which were focused on communications and information security solutions industries, Mr. Ma has equipped with full market knowledge and experience for leading the HK sales team to expand the market share.

Mr. Ma is a certified NLP practitioner with extensive people management experience. He has delivered a wide range of professional presentations to multi-national corporations, public associations and industry conference. He also dedicates himself to providing trainings and development to sales professionals, with many of them were being recognized in the Distinguished Salesperson Award (DSA).

Mr. Ma holds a BBA Degree in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Benson Shum
Managing Director, Professional Services – Financial Sector, Asia Pacific and Japan
Dell Hong Kong Limited

Benson has 27 years of banking and consulting experience. Prior to joining Dell, he was the Banking Solutions Leader for Greater China at Capgemini. Benson has also been with Deloitte and IBM Consulting leading various strategy, business and process consulting projects for major institutions, including state-owned commercial banks and multi-national companies. In 2002, he was the COO for a Beijing-headquartered outsourcing company with Deutsche Bank and IFC of the World Bank as major shareholders. In 1999, he set up the first virtual bank in HK as COO for the bank after spending 16 years holding various executive positions at the Chase Manhattan Bank. Benson graduated with MBA and Industrial Engineering degree at the University of Toronto.

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

Mr. Wee Toon Chwee
Chief System Consultant
VMware

Mr Wee Toon Chwee has over 10 years of professional experience in information technology, including Information Security, System Network, Application Integration, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Server virtualization.

As Chief System Consultant, Toon Chwee is responsible for providing pre-sales technical support to the Territory Manager, handling major accounts in the Hong Kong territory. He also provides technical assistance for local marketing events. He has also obtained the Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) and VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification.

Prior to joining VMware, Toon Chwee was a pre-sales Consultant at RSA Security, where he was involved in many major information security implementations in South Asia.