Dr Andrew Sheng
Chief Advisor, China Banking Regulatory Commission & former Chairman, Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong
Andrew Sheng is the convenor of the China Banking Regulatory Commission Council of International Advisors, a member of the G-30 Accounting Project, the interim chairman of the International Organization of Securities Commissions Technical Committee and former chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, a post he has held since October 1998. As the deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority from 1993 to 1998 he was responsible for the Reserves Management and External Departments. Prior to this, Dr. Sheng worked with the Financial Sector Development Department of The World Bank in Washington, DC. as well as various positions at Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia, including chief economist and assistant governor in charge of bank and insurance regulation. He holds a first class Honours degree in economics and a Ph.D in law from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Mr Masamoto Yashiro
Former chairman of Shinsei Bank and International Advisor to China Banking Regulatory Commission
Masamoto Yashiro is the senior advisor of Shinsei Bank, previously known as the Long-Term Credit Bank (LTCB), which was nationalized in October 1998. Mr Yashiro was the chairman & CEO from 2000 until 2005, and chairman of the Board from 2005 until 2006. Prior to Shinsei, Mr Yashiro spent five years building up Citigroup’s retail franchise and oversaw Citicorp activities in Japan until 1997. His positions at Citicorp included executive vice president (Citicorp/ Citibank N.A.) and chairman of Citicorp Japan. Prior to Citicorp, he served Exxon for 30 years, including Esso Japan as CEO, and Esso Eastern as the executive vice president. Mr Yashiro is also a member of the Council of International Advisers of the China Banking Regulatory Commission. From September 2004 until June 2007, he was an independent director of China Construction Bank, and in June 2007 he became advisor. In January 2006, he became a member of Temasek International Panel.
Mr John F. Bovenzi
Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
John F. Bovenzi is Deputy to the Chairman and the Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a position he has held since 1999. In this position, he directs the day-to-day operations of the Corporation and serves as a principal advisor to the Chairman. Prior to this, Mr Bovenzi was the Director of the FDIC’s Division of Resolutions and Receiverships. In that position, he oversee the FDIC’s bank closing and receivership management activities. Prior to that appointment, he was the Deputy Director of the FDIC’s Division of Research and Statistics. He is the author of numerous publications, and was the editor of Managing the Crisis, the FDIC and RTC Experience.
Mr Tang Shuangning
Chairman, China EverBright Bank
Mr Tang is the Chairman of both EverBright Group and EverBright Bank. He was a Vice Chairman of China Banking Regulatory Commission from April 2003 till June 2007. In his 25 years in banking, he has served in a number of senior positions in organisations such as the China Construction Bank and People’s Bank of China. He is known to be open-mind and highly intelligent and an outstanding leader. Mr Tang is also a professor and consultant at Tsinghua University.
Guest Speakers
Mr Tang Zhihong
Executive Vice President, China Merchants Bank
Mr Tang Zhihong is the executive vice president for China Merchants Bank. Prior to this, he was the secretary of Party Commission and director of the China Merchants Bank Shenzhen Management Department from 2000 to 2004. From1999 to 2000, he served as secretary of Party Commission and president of the China Merchants Bank Shanghai Branch. He has also held various senior positions such as president of the China Merchants Bank Lanzhou Branch, vice president of the China Merchants Bank Shenyang Branch, director of the State Foreign Exchange Regulatory Bureau Jinzhou Municipal Branch, vice president of the People’s Bank of China Jinzhou Municipal Branch amongst others.
Dr Jin Weihong
President, Beijing Rural Commercial Bank
Dr Jin Weihong is the Vice Party Secretary, Vice Chairman and President of Beijing Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd.since October 13, 2005. He is responsible for the routine operation and management of the bank and the Human Resource Management Department of the Head Office. He is also the Chairman of Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center Co.,Ltd. In 2004, he was featured in the Chinese Outstanding Entrepreneur Database by the China Enterprise Confederation and China Enterprise Directors Association. In the course of his financial career spanning 19 years, he was given many awards for his outstanding achievements, amongst them are the “Chinese Rural Financial Figure of the Year 2005”, “10 Outstanding Financial Figures of China in 2006”, “Outstanding Entrepreneur of Brand Building of China”, and the “Awards for Asian Brand Innovation”. Dr Jin holds a Ph.D in Economics and was known as creating the Chinese enterprise value quantity management for his findings on “Enterprise Value Quantity Management Mode”. He is also an adjunct professor with such universities as Tsinghua University and Nankai University.
Mr Andrew Carriline
Chief Risk Officer, Westpac Banking Corporation
Since joining Westpac Banking Corporation in 1996, Andrew played a key role in Westpac’s extensive outsourcing and M&A agenda, including the sale of AGC and acquisition of BT and Rothschild. Since 2002, Andrew has had a number of senior roles in Risk and Sourcing areas of Westpac. Andrew’s current responsibilities include Group Risk, Group Operational Risk and Compliance, Group Secretariat and General Counsel. Prior to joining Westpac, Andrew practiced law firstly in the public sector at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department and then in private practice at Freehills.
Mr Kohnke was appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Group Risk Management in September 2005, covering the full spectrum of risk, including Credit, Information Security, Liquidity, Market and Operational risk management. Jointly reporting to both the CEO and the Board Risk Committee of OCBC Group, he has been leading the change in redefining the risk management approaches used by the Bank in a Basel II world. He has over 19 years of banking experience. Prior to joining OCBC, he was Head of Risk Management for Asia at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and subsequently, Head of European Portfolio Management for CIBC, based in London.
Mr Jack Niu
Deputy Group Chief Credit Officer, Standard Chartered Bank
Mr Jack Niu recently just became the Deputy Group Chief Credit Officer in Standard Chartered Bank. Mr. Niu has been the Chief Risk Officer of the global consumer bank in Standard Chartered Bank. Mr Niu has many years of banking experience in major global banks. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Mr. Niu worked in various managerial positions in MBNA America, FleetBoston Financial, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Bank of New York, etc. Mr Niu spent most of his banking experience in risk management. With a career centered around risk management across major global markets, Jack has also managed M&A, pricing and marketing functions. Jack studied engineering at Tsinghua University, China and holds an MBA from Wharton Business School. Within Standard Chartered Bank, Jack is an Executive Forum member and sits on the SCB (China) Board.
Professor Cao Fengqi
President, Research Center for Finance and Securities, Beijing University
Professor Cao is the president of Research Center for Finance and Securities, Beijing University. He not only is an academic authority figure in finance at the Beijing University specializing in micro-economic management, shared economics, finance and securities research and teaching, but is also the first scholar on the innovation of China property order. He was also one of the “Top 10 Chinese Economic Scholar” in June 2007.
Professor Cao has written more than 20 books in his career, amongst them are “Capital Market”, “Capital Fund” and “The Innovation and Reform of Chinese Commercial Bank”.
Mr Allister McCallum
Head of Counterfeit Analysis Centre, European Central Bank
Mr Allister McCallum joined the Bank of England Printing Works as a Banknote Technology Manager, looking into the development of security elements to prevent counterfeiting and acting as an expert witness in court in numerous criminal cases involving banknote counterfeiting. Having served, during the 1990s, on several task forces and working groups connected with the introduction of the euro, he moved to Germany to join the European Central Bank, where contributed to the effort to produce and distribute the euro banknotes ready for their launch in 2002. He now heads the ECB’s Counterfeit Analysis Centre. He has extensive experience as a speaker at international conferences, seminars and training events connected with the fight against counterfeiting.
Mr Sahba Saint-Claire
Chief Information Officer, Wholesale Banking, Standard Chartered Bank
An experienced IT and Operations executive, Sahba has had over 20 years of experience managing global and Asian regional teams in major Financial Institutions in Sydney, London and Singapore. As Chief Information Officer, Mr. Saint-Claire is responsible for Technology and Operations globally for the Wholesale Bank. Under his leadership, Standard Chartered Wholesale Banking has achieved the highest growth rate of its business globally and is executing against a well established strategy. Prior to this current role, Sahba was a Managing Director with DBS in Singapore where he led the strategic Business Process Management team. Before DBS Bank, Sahba Saint-Claire was the Managing Director as well as the Regional Head of Technology and Operations for JPMorgan in Asia.
Mr Gary J Purtill
Advisor, Office of the President, Bangkok Bank Limited.
Gary Purtill has been an advisor to Bangkok Bank in the areas of finance and risk management for the past five years. Before that he was Bank Treasurer with BankWest, the Bank of Scotland’s Australian subsidiary where he oversaw the bank’s ALM process ; and General Manager Treasury with the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington. He started his banking career with the Barclays Group in South Africa where he initiated the bank’s first ALM project in 1987 after developing the bank’s management accounting systems. His current focus at BBL is the implementation of support systems for the Bank’s value-based performance management concept.
Mr Clive Haswell
Chief Executive Officer, Standard Chartered Bank, Sri Lanka
Clive Haswell is the Chief Executive Officer for Standard Chartered Bank in Sri Lanka. Prior to taking up this post in Sri Lanka Clive Haswell was the Programme Director for Standard Chartered Bank’s Bohai Bank Project, in China. Previously, Mr. Haswell set up and became the first Head of Governance for Asia. In this role he held governance responsibilities for and coordinated the work of all Standard Chartered Bank’s Chief Executive Officers across the region. Mr Haswell has over 16 years experience with Standard Chartered Bank and previous roles include Group Head of Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management and Group Head of IT Infrastructure Development.
Dr Huang Jinlao
Marketing Director, Personal Banking Dept, Bank of China
Huang Jinlao, born in Anqing of Anhui Province in 1972, is a Doctor of Economics, and a scholar entitled to Special State Council Subsidy, with a Masters from the Graduate School of People’s Bank of China. He is an appointed researcher at the Research Centre of International Finance of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Venture Capital Research Centre of Renmin University of China, as well as the commissioner of WTO Law Institute of China Law Society and China International Finance Society. He used to be the Director of Research Office, Institute of International Finance, Bank of China and Assistant Governor of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Dr Huang is now working at Personal Banking Department of Bank of China and is the Deputy Chief Editor of Studies of International Finance.
Dr Li Lin
Head of Strategy & Development Department, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
Dr Li has a Bachelor in Engineering, Master in Economics, and a Ph.D in Management. He has been working for a famous state-owned bank for several years before joining Shanghai Pudong Development Bank as the Head of Strategy & Development Dept. The major areas he specializes in include Credit Management, Risk Management, Industrial Risk Control, Value Assessment, Strategy Management, Regional & Industrial planning, and Asset Management.
Dr John Zuo
Senior Vice President, Risk Management, Wachovia
Dr John Zuo is a senior vice president at Wachovia, the fourth largest bank in the US in terms of assets. He is the manager of analytics and modeling group that supports the credit underwriting and portfolio management for small business lending at Wachovia. His group is responsible for strategic analytics and statistical modeling in the areas that include new credit origination, existing credit renewal, early warning system, delinquency collections, dynamic risk rating, and Basel II implementation. Dr Zuo has more than 10 years of extensive experience in risk management in the US financial industry, including tenures at Wachovia, First Union National Bank (Home Equity), Citibank (Consumer Credit Card), and Advanta (Business Credit Card). In addition, Dr Zuo was a faculty member of College of Management at Zhejiang University from 1985 to 1991, when he was a deputy director of Institute of Management Sciences.
Mr Chris Smith
Head of Regional Security & Fraud Risk, HSBC
Chris Smith has spent the past 25 years in the corporate security environment, in the UK, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He has worked for international hotel groups and financial institutions. His current role in HSBC, as the Head of Regional Security & Fraud for Asia Pacific involves financial crime risk management, physical protective security, business continuity management, security intelligence and information assurance. Chris is a Steering Group Member of the Asia Crisis and Security Group, Co-Chairman of the Asia Sister Banks Group, Member of the OSAC Steering Committee for Hong Kong & Macau, Fellow of the Security Institute of the UK and a member of the UK’s Risk and Security Management Forum. He is a Board Certified Protection Professional and has a masters degree in crime risk management. He is a former detective.
Ms Katja Boerger
Former Head of Capital Markets, Commerzbank, North America
Katja Boerger has 17 years in global capital markets experience, working in New York, Frankfurt, London and Tokyo, and joined Commerzbank AG, the second largest German bank, in 1990. Starting her carreer in Risk Management for Derivatives, she gained detailed experience in credit risk managment. In her most recent position, former Head of Capital Markets, North America, she was a member of CCMC, Commerzbank Capital Markets Corp. executive committee. Among other responsibilities she had to develop and establish a integrative business model of IR derivatives and capital markets products to feed the corporate customers needs for innovative solutions, including the overlap to products of the mortgaged backed devision. Following the bank’s strategy it was the aim to maximize share holder value within a strict given risk-on-return-profile.
Mr David Millar
Chief Operating Officer, PRMIA
David Millar is the Chief Operating Officer of PRMIA and has extensive experience in process, IT and risk management, including the New Basel Accord (Basel II), Sarbanes-Oxley and their control and supervisory requirements. He has worked at board and operational management levels in Europe, Africa, Asia and the USA in investment banking, brokerage and exchanges, clearing and settlement services, and is an active industry influencer.
Mr Gordian Gaeta
International Resource Director, The Asian Banker
Mr Gordian Gaeta has been a banking consultant for some 25 years. He has advised and served many of the leading financial services organisations across Asia and close to half of the top 100 banks worldwide. He specialises in developing and implementing analytical solutions for complex strategic issues in financial services related industries undergoing significant change or being exposed to intricate risk issues. He has led or participated in various projects that have shaped the Asian banking industry both in commercial and
investment banking.
Mr Varun Sabhlok
Director, AVS Asia Ventures , Former Regional Audit Director, Citibank Global, Consumer Banking Division, Asia Pacific
Mr Varun Sabhlok, director of AVS Ventures, has been engaged in bank consulting and advisory in the Asia Pacific region for the last seven years, primarily in the areas of risk assessmentand credit risk management, wealth management, relationship management and CRM, strategic business planning, equity investment, and financial restructuring. Mr Sabhlok also spent 11 years with Citibank in its global consumer banking division in Asia as South Asia regional audit director, country credit director in Thailand, and as CFO of the Singapore business.
Mr Matthew Kovac
Editor, The Asian Banker
Matthew Kovac is the Editor of The Asian Banker Journal based in Singapore.He is responsible for producing the bimonthly Journal as well as several respected research-based publications, such as The Asian Banker 300. Prior to The Asian Banker, he was Taiwan/China Correspondent for BusinessWeek, the weekly U.S. business magazine. He has also worked as a banking, insurance and personal finance reporter for Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper
in London.
Mr Benny Zhang Wei
Senior Researcher and Manager, The Banking Industry Data Center, The Asian Banker
Mr Benny Zhang Wei is a senior researcher at The Asian Banker, where he is in charge of all data-centric research programmes and related business specific programmes. Mr Zhang manages The Asian Banker 300 - a ranking of the top and strongest banks in the region - since 2005 and also develops The Asian Banker Islamic 40, the inaugural ranking of the top Islamic banks in the Asia Pacific region. Mr Zhang also serves as a member of the “Annual Report Award Working Committee” at the Investment Management Association of Singapore. He is quoted regularly in all of the various print and broadcast media including the BBC, CNBC and the various local print media and broadcast stations in the different countries.
Ms Kathryn O’Keeffe
Senior Writer, The Asian Banker
Kathryn O’Keeffe is a senior writer at The Asian Banker. Previously she worked at the Estee Lauder Companies’ MAC brand in New York where she was responsible for liaising with 56 international markets and issuing monthly performance reports with analysis of retail and net sales data. She graduated from Princeton University where she majored in international affairs.
Mr Charles Richard III
Co-founder, Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing of Quantitative Risk Management, Inc
Mr Richard is a Co-founder, Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing of Quantitative Risk Management, Inc. Mr Richard has over 20 years of experience in the field of enterprise risk management, balance sheet management and mortgage banking secondary marketing, and is a frequent speaker at industry-related conferences and events. During his tenure at QRM, Mr. Richard has consulted with hundreds of financial institutions world wide and helped QRM build and international client base that now lists over 250 long term engagements.
Mr Tony Kieffer
Managing Director, People’s Republic of China, Fair Isaac
Mr Tony Kieffer brings over 17 years of experience in consulting and international management positions focused on market entry and business development, helping clients adopt world-class analytics and technology to drive growth. As the managing director for China, Mr Kieffer is responsible for establishing Fair Isaac’s go-to-market strategy and all of the operational aspects of its business.
Throughout his consulting career, Tony has aided many global companies in developing corporate IT strategies for investing in the Internet and other analytic technologies. He specialises in building the organizational capabilities and processes needed to adopt analytic and marketing systems based on best of breed Enterprise Decision Management technologies. His industry experience has also included financial services, environmental technology, energy and publishing.
Mr Afzal M. Tarar
Managing Director & Leader of Greater China Financial Services Practice, BearingPoint
Mr Afzal M. Tarar is a Managing Director at BearingPoint and leads the Greater China Financial Services practice. He has close to 20 years of global financial services industry and related consulting experience, both in the US and Asia. His experience ranges from risk and compliance, finance transformation, wealth and investment management, cost optimisation solutions, business and technology strategy, integrated solution building and business process improvement. His past and current clients include the top US and Chinese financial institutions.
Mr Ronen Lamdan
Marketing Director, Asia/Pacific Enterprise Content Management IBM Software Group
Ronen Lamdan leads IBM’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) marketing group in Asia/Pacific and is responsible for the company’s go-to-market, sales enablement, communications, PR, analyst relations, channels marketing and customer acquisition strategies in the region including Japan, Greater China, South Asia, India and Australia. Lamdan joins IBM, through its acquisition of FileNet, with over 12 years of management, sales and marketing experience in the high-tech industry. Lamdan joined FileNet from Mercury Interactive, where he held leadership marketing positions for more then 8 years, most recently as Senior Director of Asia/Pacific Marketing.
Mr Matthew Ding
Managing Director, Financial Services Practice, BearingPoint Greater China
Mr Matthew Ding has over fourteen years consulting experience in business solution delivery in China, Canada and USA with additional expertise extending into Information Security, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), E-commerce Solution Delivery and functional proficiency in Customer Relationship Management.
Mr Geoff Hart
Head of Risk Solutions Business, Misys Treasury & Capital Markets,Asia Pacific
Geoff has over ten years of experience in financial risk management and has successfully implemented systems that cover market risk, credit risk, and liquidity risk.His experience spans four continents and includes both the buy and sell sides.
Mr Hubert W.E. Knapp
Senior Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton Booz, Allen &
Mr Knapp has over 25 years of management and consulting experience in the financial services industry. He specialises in corebanking enabled transformation, corporate and consumer lending, risk management, business process reengineering, rural banking/micro finance and strategy development. In his most recent project Mr. Knapp managed the setup of a sovereign wealth management fund for a large Asian country. His consulting assignments include some of the largest commercial banks in Asia. Prior to his consulting career, Mr. Knapp managed retail and wholesale banking operations, risk management and loan recovery for major global banks in Europe and Asia. He established and led significant consulting operations for Accenture, Booz Allen & Hamilton and IBM Global Services. Mr. Knapp’s career in banking and consulting covers assignments in Greater China, India, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Turkey, Nepal, Sri Lanka, ASEAN and others.
Ms Saloni P Ramakrishna
Principal Architect, Risk & Compliance Solutions & Head, Business Development, Reveleus & Mantas, Japan & Asia Pacific
Ms Saloni P Ramakrishna is the principal architect of risk & compliance solutions and head of business development for Reveleus & Mantas at i-flex Solutions - a global software solution provider focused exclusively on the banking & financial services industry. Saloni also heads the business development initiatives of the leading edge Risk & Compliance stack of Solutions from Reveleus & Mantas for Japan & Asia Pacific. Saloni led the design, development and implementation of the risk solutions and has been focusing on Japan & Asia Pacific Markets architecting Enterprise analytics Solutions for banks in the region for the last three years. Saloni graduated with double Majors and has a rich banking experience spanning over 15 years in most areas of banking, specialising in credit, finance and asset liability management.
Other speakers include:
Mr Michael Wei, Senior Vice President, Credit Cards Department, China Merchants Bank*
Mr Mao Xiaolin, Head of Credit Risk Management Department, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Mr Lian Yongxi, Head of Risk Management Commission, China Minsheng Bank*
Mr Yang Ming, Deputy General Manager, Personal Banking Department, China EverBright Bank*
Mr Luo Ping, Director, Educational Department, China Banking Regulatory Commission
Mr Mu Naimi, General Manager, IT Department, China Construction Bank*
Speakers and panelists are at various stages of confirmation. Please continue to visit this site for the latest updates.
