Aaron is the CIO of Auspac Investment Management and a Director of Auspac Ventures Fund VCC. He has 20 years of experience in business development, fundraising, private equity and portfolio management. 

Before joining Auspac Investment Management, Aaron held investment positions in hedge fund, private equity, and venture capital. Over the years, Aaron has built up a track record in deal origination, investments, and divestments in diverse sectors in SEA, Australia and China. He was also involved in fundraisings for private equity, real estate, and hedge funds with Asian based institutional investors. 

Aaron holds a MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce (Second Upper-class Honours) in Economics and Finance from the University of Melbourne. He is also a CAIA Charterholder, a Chartered Market Technician (CMT), a Qualified Listed Entity Director, and a member of Singapore Institute of Directors. 

Jenna is the Co-founder and CEO of FortNynja, a cybersecurity company with an interest in tackling the talent drought in cybersecurity and fintech in the APAC region via E-Fintech School APAC.

Some of Jenna’s achievements include:

1. Top 14 Fintech Influencer in Malaysia
2. 40 under 40 - Prestige Malaysia 2020
3. Top 100 Women in Fintech (Global) 2021
4. Top 15 Women in Fintech (APAC) 2021
5. Strategist for Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
6. Co-author of the Regtech Book

Kent is from Plug and Play, the world’s top 5 most active VC and the largest corporate-startup innovation platform.

He looks after APAC Insurtech & Healthtech verticals, partnering with insurers such as Tokio Marine, MSIG, Swiss Re, Aflac for the past 4 years. He'd be sharing today how insurers can partner with startups to increase sales, cut costs and make customers happier.

Over the past decade, Jo Weng has built his professional career in the area human capital transformation and strategic talent management covering a wide range of the HR spectrum as a management consultant.

In his previous role with Willis Towers Watson, he was the practice lead for Organizational Alignment. He specializes in operating model and organizational design, people strategy, workforce planning and job evaluation. His breadth of knowledge also expands to include competency modelling, rewards management, talent management and performance management.

Apart from these area of expertise, he often assumes the role of a project manager and subject matter expert, leading team members in ensuring multiple complex modules are being integrated seamlessly.

Over the years, he has led multiple end-to-end people transformation projects across various industries both locally and regionally that aim to develop and deliver impactful and practical business solutions.

Through his early working years in the Investment Banking sector, Jo Weng has experience in various fields within the industry mainly, derivatives and structured products, portfolio management, equity and debt capital market.

Jo Weng holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics & Finance from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Mic is the Director of Investments at kipleX, an early-stage Venture Capital fund and startup studio based in Kuala Lumpur.  Mic is also the Founder of Homeground, a management consulting and deal advisory firm with SEA tech business focus. Mic was an ex-M&A lawyer.

Mona has been working with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for the last 30 years, the last 15 of which have been in the Insurance Sector in India and APAC. In her present role of Senior Business Consultant, she helps articulate solutions for the Insurance industry uniting domain, technology and flavoring it with her understanding of operational needs.

She is experienced in the implementation and management of Policy Administration Systems and integration with peripheral applications in the ecosystem.

She received her PhD from the Department of Computer Science, University of Pune. The topic was “A query and result visualization mechanism for data in complementary web-sites” – from Database Theory. In continuation to this, she has worked in the field of Big Data and Machine Learning recently.

Principal Investment for MAVCAP overseeing and managing MAVCAP investment portfolio across various technology vertical from early up to growth stage of startups, with latest partnership with Orbit Malaysia Fund I. He’s responsible to work closely with fund managers under MAVCAP portfolio in championing local startups to scale up to become a regional champions. Currently, he is a director of Efinix, Inc.

Muzzaffar is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Permodalan National Berhad. PNB is the leading asset management company in Malaysia with approximately RM 300 Billion AUM (asset under management) with over 11+ million unique unit holders and 14+ million accounts.

Previously, he was an EVP of Digital Strategy and Transformation for Maybank with a mandate to explore and develop new Maybank Digital strategy, new digital business model and potential collaboration with Fintechs

Nayan heads the Innovation Evangelize function for TCS Asia Pacific. He has 16+ years of experience in evangelizing innovation, commercializing disruptive innovations leading products from conception to market success.

He has fulfilled several roles in research, product development, project and program management, business development and sales, innovation management in a customer organization and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of R&D organizations. 

He promotes open innovation, providing technology foresight and building co-innovation strategies for TCS customers in APAC Geography. People look upon him for combining strategic thinking with a passion for hands-on execution across different geographies.   

Nayan is an MBA in Marketing and Service Operations. He also holds a graduate degree in Electronics. 

He holds passion for designing clothes and owns a private label. A foodie with sweet tooth loves music, travelling and photography.

Shalini is the Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian Insurance Institute (MII), the leading professional body and education institution for the Malaysian insurance industry.  MII is highly respected as a regional centre offering an extensive range of professional qualifications, certifications, and training programmes for insurance professionals. MII also administers the licensing examinations for intermediaries namely insurance agents, brokers, loss adjusters and financial planners. 

Shalini also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the ASEAN Insurance Training & Research Institute (AITRI) in view of MII being given the mandate as the Secretariat of AITRI.  AITRI was established by the ASEAN Insurance Regulators and serves as a regional centre for insurance education and research focusing on capacity building of regulators and supervisors in the region.

Prior to joining MII, Shalini has over 20 years’ experience in various sectors within the financial services industry.

Shalini holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Malaya, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of London and has completed the Certificate of Legal Practice.

Srikanth Gonuguntla is Banking and Financial Services Industry Leader for Architecting Solutions on Oracle Cloud. He has more than 25 years of working experience in the Information Systems Industry, 18 of those years have been with Oracle across different roles spanning Product Development, Products Implementation, Solution Architecture and Business Development in APAC and EMEA. In his current role he engages with Customers at CXO level to deliver on their Innovation and Transformation Initiatives.

As a Industry Lead he delivers three key outcomes

1. Digital Transformation Advisory for Industry specific Strategic accounts.
2. Advise Clients on their Cloud Journey with Industry use cases.
3. Develop and Execute Industry Specific Go to Market Sales Plays, Campaigns and Assets.

Dr. Stamatis is a technology expert with 20 years experience in delivering projects primarily for telecom companies around the world. Throughout his career, he has been utilizing data analytics in order to gain insights that would assist his customers in their decisions in diverse areas, such as enhancing network performance, and managing customer experience.

In 2015, he successfully delivered a POC project for a GLC to showcase how data analytics can be used to gain insights that will drive the GLC’s decision process. The result  of this POC project greatly set the GLC’s course as an organization to embrace data-driven decision making, thus becoming a data-driven organization.

Dr. Stamatis has been working in the field of HR analytics by developing products that would assist private and public companies is using data to decide on various aspects of HR operations ranging from recruitment, talent development, performance management etc.

Board Director; Governance, Risk, Insurance and Compliance; Speaker and Author;
Open to additional board positions with an Asia focus after 20 years’ experience in the region

Current Roles include:

Director, Head of Compliance and Risk Wadzpay.com
Director & Owner, Tunstall Associates Pte Ltd
Director, CEO & Co-Founder, Inzsure.com
Director, General Secretary and Co-Founder, Pan Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association
Pan-Asia Ambassador, International Insurance Society

As Director and Head of Compliance and Risk at Wadzpay, Steve is helping this crypto wallet startup, backed by Mastercard, navigate the challenges of regulatory management in Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, India and elsewhere for this fast evolving and exciting space.  Recently Steve has been heavily involved in thought leadership globally in the emerging areas of Insurtech, Fintech and the application of distributed ledger technology generally.

Steve runs and/or advises multiple captive / insurance companies in Asia, Europe and USA. He currently sits on the boards of several captive insurers (Singapore, Isle of Man, Montana). He is non-executive Chairperson of several Insurance Linked Security vehicles regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore managing natural catastrophe risk in Texas, Florida and California amongst other matters. 

As Director, General Secretary and Co-Founder of the Pan Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association and the Pan-Asia Ambassador of the International Insurance Society, Steve is at the heart of building risk management expertise across Asia. Steve is a member of the Nominating Committee of the Singapore Fintech Association. 

Steve has over thirty years of experience in owning, running and future proofing companies, mostly in Asia. He has been CEO, Managing Director, Chairman or equivalent in twelve companies in four countries managing teams of up to 500 employees.

Earlier career roles include:

• Head of Compliance, Insurance, Legal and Risk at Cathay Pacific Airways and risk advisor to the rest of the Swire Group globally. Hong Kong based.
• Vice President of Risk for Genting Singapore & Resorts World Sentosa, responsible for enterprise risk management, insurance and business continuity management. Singapore based.
• Managing Director for Jardine Pacific, Schindler Lifts Singapore

MSc in Project Management & Risk, BSc in Surveying and a Diploma in M&E Engineering. Member of the Institute of Risk Management, the Business Continuity Institute, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Association for Project Management and the Association of Cost Engineers.

“The InsurtechBook” contributing author, Amazon best seller in 2018.

“RISK and the Asian CEO” published on Amazon Kindle in 2016. 

Recognised as a No.1 worldwide influencer in Insurtech. Features in the Top 20 Global Influencer lists for Insurtech, Fintech and Blockchain. Has a significant presence on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Tumblr with a network of over 100,000 followers across multiple platforms.

• He is experienced in insurance and healthcare domains and has involved in program management, innovation, and business solutions.
• He is certified in agile, project management, six sigma, and system administration. He is also a certified Yoga Protocol Instructor from Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.