SPEAKERS Keynote Speakers

A former banker and academic, Dr. Thanong Bidaya has held the position of Minister of Finance of Thailand twice. He was first appointed as the finance chief in 1997, when the country was in the Asian crisis and was working with various international organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund, on restructuring debt, recapitalising domestic banks and other measures to revive the economy. In 2005, Dr. Bidaya was once again appointed Minister of Finance, the portfolio he currently holds.

He was previously Minister of Commerce and served as the Vice Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to the Prime Minister from 2001-2005. Dr. Thanong also chaired the National Economic and Social Development Board and was Chairman of Thai Airways International Public Co. from 2002-2005.

Before his appointment as the finance chief in 1997, he was President of Thai Military Bank, one of Thailand's largest banks and was Chairman of Commercial Union Insurance of Thailand. He also held directorships in a wide spectrum of corporations, ranging from hotels to communications to engineering.

Dr. Bidaya holds a variety of views about the future of the financial services industry in Asia, particularly within the context of global competition. In his keynote address to the Summit, Dr. Bidaya is expected to discuss his observations on Asian banks' competitiveness in a global marketplace.



Respected for his independence and prudence as Thailand's central bank governor, M.R. Pridiyathorn Devakula has helped steer the development of the Thai economy against potentially destabilising forces. Through sound policy advice, Mr. Pridiyathorn has on various occasions helped temper the populist policy trends to boost the Thai economy , thereby helping to ensure a sustainable current account position and stable growth.

Mr. Pridiyathorn has been a vocal proponent of the need for strong governance in both the public and private sectors. His ability to hold his own recently won him The Central Banker of the Year (Asia) Award by The Banker.

Mr. Pridiyathorn's foresight and market sense have been apparent since his early years in office. One of the first things he accomplished when he assumed the role of central bank governor in 2001, when Thailand was still smarting from the Asian crisis, was to sharply reverse a crucial policy adopted by the Bank of Thailand. Mr. Pridiyathorn raised policy interest rates, which had the effect of slowing down foreign debt repayments and safeguarding the value of the Thai baht.

Over the past five years, and with the strong support from the financial community, he has steered Thailand's banking system back to health, from losses of more than 106 billion baht in 2000 to a currently profitable environment. He also played a crucial role in various restructuring and reform efforts such as the unprecedented debt restructurings, the massive bank recapitalisations and other recovery efforts in the late 1990s.

The governor started his career at the Thai Farmers Bank in 1971, where he remained for 21 years and last held the position of Director and Senior Executive Vice President. He was Deputy Minister of Commerce from 1991-1992 and later moved to the Export-Import Bank of Thailand for eight years, where he served as the bank's President.

At the Summit, Mr. Pridiyathorn will address the issues Asian financial institutions face when adopting Western models of governance.

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The Leadership Advisory Forum

Mr. William Seidman

Widely acknowledged as an “elder statesman” to the financial industry, Mr. Bill Seidman has provided invaluable counsel to Asian banks, regulatory authorities and asset management companies since the 1990s, when his experience was indispensable during the Asian crisis. This year, Mr. Seidman, who delivered a provocative keynote address last year, returns to the Summit as Chairman of The Leadership Advisory Forum.

Although he has played a wide variety of roles in public administration, business and academia, Mr. Seidman is most renowned for his role as the first chairman of the Resolution & Trust Corp (RTC), which was established to resolve the US’s savings-and-loans (S&L) crisis of the 1980s. Under his direction, the RTC handled thousands of failed banks and S&Ls. During the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s, many Asian financial institutions and governments looked to Mr. Seidman for guidance on managing the region’s collapsing banking systems.

Mr. Seidman also served as chairman of the powerful Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and was President Ronald Reagan’s co-chair of the White House Conference on Productivity in the 1980s. In the 1970s, Mr. Seidman was assistant to President Gerald Ford for US economic affairs.

Today, Mr. Seidman remains an influential figure in corporate boardrooms and in the media. As the chief commentator on CNBC, he regularly gives his intrepid views on the economy, corporate action and investing. He sits on the board of various corporations such as GMAC Commercial Mortgage and GMAC Bank; and several others. He is also a consultant to the Deposit Corporation of Japan, Morgan Stanley in Asia, the World Bank, Freddie Mac, and various other institutions. He is also the publisher of Bank Director magazine and founder of the Board Member magazine. He is, in the words of Kenneth Guenther, a former senior official at the Federal Reserve Board, “a national treasure”.

Mr. Gordian Gaeta

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 and 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.

Previously an academic and a bank executive in several countries, Mr. Gaeta started with Booz Allen & Hamilton in London, but later moved to Hong Kong in the early 1980s to become the strategy advisor to Standard Chartered Bank. He subsequently became managing partner for Booz Allen & Hamilton for financial services across Asia.

Mr. Gaeta is currently a private equity investor and serves as a director or advisor to a range of entrepreneurial companies while continuing to advise financial services companies at board or CEO level. He has published about 20 articles on banking and financial services and several books, notably “Frontiers in Credit Risk”. A highly regarded moderator at the Summit since its early years, Mr. Gaeta will return this year to moderate several keynote sessions, as well as helm proceedings at The InterBank Conference on Cash, Trade & Treasury.

Dr. Wei S. Yen

As Moody’s head of financial institutions in the Asia Pacific, Dr. Wei S. Yen is responsible for ratings of financial institutions in the region. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Yen was senior vice president with the investment banking department of Lehman Brothers. Immediately before re-joining Moody's in 2001, he was the CFO of a technology company. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Yen was a senior analyst for Moody's Investors Service in New York covering high-yield credits. From 1991 to 1993, he was an assistant vice president with Rothschild Inc. in New York, responsible for venture capital investments in technology and biotechnology. Dr. Yen will be at the Summit’s Leadership Advisory Forum to present his ideas on “Institutional Reforms: Creating Winning Structures for Asian Banks”.

Mr. David Marshall

Mr. David Marshall has been responsible for rating financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region since 1994, when he was based in London. He moved to Hong Kong in 1997 to establish the Hong Kong office of Fitch IBCA. Mr. Marshall joined IBCA in London in 1987 as an analyst covering banks in the UK, Europe and Japan. He later moved to the firm’s Tokyo office as the main analyst for Japanese banks. At the Summit, Mr. Marshall will be outlining the industry outlook for Asia’s banks and financial services industry in 2006.

Mr. Nicholas Rushton-Young

In the 15 years that Mr. Nicholas Rushton-Young has been in the business continuity industry, he has aided many institutions in their recovery from disaster situations, including coordinating recovery efforts from command centres. He has worked for the largest business continuity and disaster recovery service provider, in which his key responsibilities included providing plans and assessments to building internal and external disaster recovery centres throughout the world, including relocation projects for customers in the financial sector, as well as recovery testing and the selection and assessment of hot sites. Mr. Rushton-Young has also been head of business continuity management of a bank, vice president for business continuity, head of emergency operations centre (EOC) and leader of incident response team (IRT), head of the crisis management team, among other key roles at major institutions. His work has included implementation of recovery sites and recovery strategies on a global scale, such as helping financial recovery during and after the July bombings in London and the 911 incident at New York’s World Trade Center. At the Summit, Mr. Rushton-Young will discuss the implications of an avian flu pandemic and other disasters for Asian banks, and steps the region’s financial institutions can take to prepare for contingencies.


Mr. Christian Kapfer
Research Manager, The Asian Banker

As Research Manager at The Asian Banker, Mr. Chris Kapfer’s role is to grow the retail banking benchmarking practice of the firm in the Asia Pacific region. He continuously monitors the key issues in tactical approaches and business lines facing financial institutions. He works closely with the Asian Banker Research team and sales managers for customised research products and advisory assignments.

He has undertaken various studies, including industry outlooks, competitor analyses and best practices. He routinely presents to senior-level banking practitioners in major cities throughout Asia and at roundtables in the region. Mr Kapfer has been quoted regularly in various media such as BBC, CNBC and local media. Prior to joining the Asian Banker research arm, he held assignments in various South East Asian countries. He was a research analyst at the German Thai Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, where he covered various industrial sectors. He was also working in the cultural affairs department of the German Embassy in Singapore. At the Summit, Mr. Kapfer will present The Asian Banker’s survey on Asian banks’ preparedness for an avian flu pandemic.

Mr. Sam Evans

Mr. Sam Evans has spent more than 27 years in the financial services IT industry, providing the financial services community with technology solutions. During this time, he has held senior positions at major firms such as NCR, Sequent, Cray Research and Sun Microsystems. He has worked at Sun for more than 16 years, holding management positions in the UK, Asia as well as global roles. Most recently, he was Global Account Director for Sun's relationship with Reuters, one of Sun’s largest customers. He now has responsibility for growing Sun’s financial services business in the region by providing solutions that address banking business needs using Sun's rich base of partners. Some of these areas include pandemic business continuity, microfinance, risk and compliance. At the Summit, Mr. Evans will discuss business-level issues for CEOs to consider should an avian flu pandemic erupt.

Mr. Harsha V. Singh

Mr. Harsha V. Singh has spent 12 years at the World Trade Organization (WTO)/GATT Secretariat, with responsibilities in various parts of the organization. In his current role as WTO’s Deputy Director-General, he is responsible for various portfolios, including the Trade in Services Division, which deals with financial services.

Mr. Harsha V. Singh has played significant roles at the Office of the WTO Director General, the Trade and Environment and Technical Barriers to Trade Division, Rules Division, Trade Policy Review Division and the Economic Research and Analysis Unit. His work covered diverse areas, such as servicing committees in the area of GATT Rules, serving as secretary of dispute settlement panels, participating in Uruguay Round negotiations, interacting with other agencies, and a range of other activities in the Director General’s office.

A respected adviser on policy and regulatory matters, Mr. Harsha V. Singh was previously economic adviser to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and since 2001 has served as the Secretary cum Principal Advisor to the authority. He has been a member of various trade advisory committees of the Indian government and has contributed to India’s foreign trade policy. Mr. Harsha V. Singh has also chaired various dispute settlement panels at the WTO.

At the Summit, Mr. Harsha V. Singh will deliver a keynote address to the InterBank Conference on Trade, Cash & Treasury. He will discuss the WTO’s view on developments in global trade and how they are changing the nature of financial services, which in turn are playing a role in the future growth of world trade. How does the WTO see the financial services community’s role evolving within the development of global trade?

Mr. John K. Ball

Mr. John Ball is responsible for the overall client relationship management in Asia, including Japan, of Deutsche Bank’s cash management business with financial institutions. He is also in charge of new business development across the full range of cash management and trade finance products for financial institutions in the region.

Mr. Ball started his banking career with Bankers Trust in London in 1974 and worked in a number of operational and product management roles before transferring to New York in 1981. After completing the Bankers Trust credit training program, he assumed the role of relationship manager for financial institutions in the U.K., Canada and Bermuda. He relocated to Hong Kong in 1986, covering the Hong Kong, Taiwan and China markets before assuming responsibility for all cash management services in Asia in 1992. At the Summit, Mr. Ball will review key developments in payments in the European Union and the implications for Asia.

Mr. Michael D. Hogan

As regional head of financial institutions at Standard Chartered Bank, Mr. Michael Hogan is responsible for all the institution’s business with banks, investment institutions, governments and development organisations in, to and from the Southeast Asia region. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Hogan held group responsibilities for defining the strategy, product and sales approach for cash and trade solutions for institutions. He also held direct client relationship roles for Asian markets, including Australia, Japan and Korea.

Mr. Hogan has spent 14 years at Standard Chartered, during which he played various roles in the areas of client relationship and product sales and management. His career at the bank began in the group’s head office in London before he moved to Asia in 1997. He was responsible for the bank’s middle market corporate portfolio in Indonesia during the Asian crisis before moving to Singapore, where he is now based. He contributes regularly to institutional journals and publications. Mr. Hogan will be at the InterBank Conference on Cash, Trade & Treasury to discuss key developments that are reshaping the business of white labelling financial services.

Mr. Charamporn Jotikasthira

Mr. Charamporn Jotikasthira began his career with Siam Commercial Bank in 1985 as a manager in the areas of technology, treasury, and credit. Mr. Charamporn has played the role of managing director of the bank’s subsidiaries SCB Asset Management and Thai Thamrong Finance Company. He was also president and CEO of SCB Securities before returning to the bank as executive vice president in charge of risk management in 1999 and chief information officer in 2001. When the bank set up its Business Cash Management Division in 2002, he was appointed to head this strategic division. At the Summit, Mr. Charamporn will discuss critical developments that are affecting Asian banks’ and corporates’ cash management requirements.

Mr. Charles Brough

Mr. Charles Brough has been specialising in forfaiting since 1986 and has held a wide range of responsibilities in commercial banking with a major UK-based bank before joining the HVB group’s headquarters in Munich in 1991. In Munich, Mr. Brough established HVB’s secondary market unit for forfaiting activities. He moved to Singapore in 1998 to set up HVB’s primary and secondary forfaiting activities in the Asia Pacific region. Recently, Mr. Brough was appointed head of all forfaiting and trade finance business for the HVB group in the Asia Pacific. At the Summit, he will speak about critical developments in counter-party risk, within the context of trade finance and forfaiting.

Mr. Daniel Darst

As executive director of Saxo Bank, Mr. Daniel Darst is responsible for the Danish bank’s white label business. He manages the bank’s relationships with more than 60 financial institutions worldwide and works with them on market strategy, sales, positioning, product pricing and account structures. Saxo Bank is rapidly becoming one of the industry's leading and innovative providers of white label financial services. With this growth, the complexity of the bank’s relationships has also expanded.

The bank does not merely offer a trading and risk platform, but is instead “delivering a fully integrated value chain of functions that help provide for the entire client experience,” Mr. Darst explains. For instance, the bank supports partners' business development needs and account management needs through a combination of practical on-line marketing and lead generation services, as well as website and marketing services. In addition, the Bank's capabilities extend to include the delivery of daily research, sales ideas, trading commentary and a live video broadcast from the Danish bank's own studio.

Mr. Darst, an American, joined Saxo Bank in January 2003 from Bank of America, where he was the Executive Director of Marketing for the High Net Worth / Private Bank. He has also held senior positions at Smith Barney / Citigroup, with responsibilities for fund marketing, private account marketing and high net worth asset management services and products. At the Summit, Mr. Darst will speak about the future direction of white label financial services.

Dr. Pakorn Peetathawatchai

Dr. Pakorn Peetathawatchai joined Siam Commercial Bank in 1999 as a vice president in the treasury division. He was appointed executive vice president and head of the division last year, and is currently responsible for the bank’s treasury products and services, which include foreign exchange, money market, fixed income and derivative instruments. Respected for his forward-looking approach, Dr. Pakorn is a specialist in structured products. At the Summit, Dr. Pakorn will speak about the front-office opportunities and challenges in treasury management for Asian banks operating in the midst of an increasingly global economy.

Mr. Jonathan Power

Mr. Jonathan Power has been in the information technology industry, supporting the financial services sector for almost 20 years. Over the past six years, Mr. Power has been involved in the product development and sales of banking solutions throughout the Asia Pacific and is now the Head of Business Solutions for Misys Banking Systems in Asia Pacific, which includes responsibility for Misys Universal Banking, Trade Services, Treasury & Capital Market, Commercial / Syndicated Lending and the Misys Online Banking Platform. At The InterBank Conference, Mr. Power will examine a global development that is causing trade finance, cash management and treasury to converge and how Asia’s banks can benefit from this trend.

Mr. Nanda Kumar

Nanda Kumar is the founder, President and CEO of SunTec Business Solutions, the world’s first CMM Level 5 billing company. He pioneered the concept of transaction pricing in the financial services industry and developed a tool for revenue enhancement and customer retention. He is a keen proponent of relationship-based pricing across industries. At the Summit, he will join a discussion on the evolution of the cash management and payments business in an interconnected global economy.

Mr. Richard Brown

Mr. Richard Brown is the Regional Head of Global Treasury Services at the Bank of America in the Asia region. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Brown is responsible for the bank’s services to multinational corporations, financial institutions, governments and multi-lateral agencies in Asia. Bank of America has Global Treasury Services teams in 13 Asian countries, who report to Mr. Brown.

The Global Treasury Services, or GTS, division of Bank of America provides integrated working capital management and treasury solutions to clients that include multi-nationals, correspondent banks, governments and top 1,000 global businesses. GTS services include treasury management, trade finance, foreign exchange, short-term credit facilities, and short-term investing. Bank of America GTS is the number one treasury and trade services provider in the United States. Unique to Bank of America, the GTS Global Banking System is the only common technology platform for offshore banking functions, providing global support to more than 500 units in 40 locations. It has 2,500 users.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Mr. Brown worked for Citigroup for 18 years, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions for the Asia-Pacific region. In that role, he was responsible for business with financial institutions active in Asia, and also for securities services activities in Asia. He joined Citibank in Canada in an M&A capacity, and subsequently ran a variety of businesses, including funds and syndications, real estate, capital markets, transaction services, and financial institutions. He was also Chairman and President of Citibank Canada Securities Limited, a fully-licensed investment dealer. Prior to banking, Mr. Brown was with the management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Roger Packham

Based in Singapore, Mr. Roger Packham is responsible for building revenue momentum for Deutsche Bank’s trade franchise in the region as well as spearheading the development of new trade programmes around exporter initiatives.

Mr. Packham was previously from Citigroup, where he spent the past eight years. His most recent position was Regional Trade Services Product Manager Asia Pacific, Global Transaction Services. Prior to that, he held senior positions in Westpac Banking and HSBC in various locations, including the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia.


Mr. Neil Daswani
Global Head, Financial Institutions, Standard Chartered Bank

As Global Head of Financial Institutions at Standard Chartered Bank, Neil Daswani is responsible for cash management and trade finance for a variety of client segments, including banks, investors and intermediaries and development organisations. His primary role is to develop customer value propositions for these client segments. A career banker, the bulk of his career has been with Standard Chartered Bank, spanning a period of 15 years. He has held a number of senior positions with the bank in Client Relationships, Transaction Sales and Product Management. He has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. Prior to this current assignment his last two roles have been: Head of Transaction Banking for the Middle East & South Asia Region , where he was based in Dubai, between mid 2003 to 2005. During this period he played the role of Head of Local Product management with responsibility for customizing global standard solutions for cash, trade and securities services to suit local needs and regulatory requirements. Between 2001 to 200, Mr. Daswani was the Product Head for Securities Services and CLS based in Singapore. In this role, he was responsible for the development of the bank’s i-Custody web browser reporting and transaction initiation channel and also pioneered the first fund administration proposition for Asian fund managers. He spearheaded the bank's CLS third-party banks product offering.

Professor Arnold Schilder

As executive director of the Netherlands’s central bank, Dr. Arnold Schilder is responsible for prudential supervision of financial institutions. He is also a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and serves as the chairman of its Accounting Task Force. He is also a member of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors and is chairman of its Accounting and Auditing Expert Group. He also serves on the Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board. Dr. Schilder, an influential and prolific writer on the subjects of risk management, corporate governance, accounting, auditing, compliance and the regulation of financial institutions, is also a part-time Professor of Auditing at the University of Amsterdam.

His distinguished career includes many years as a senior international audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he served clients such as Unilever, Reed Elsevier and other significant corporations. The scope of his consultancy work included boardroom consultancy, arbitration, mergers and takeovers, restructuring and technical auditing and accounting issues.

Dr. Schilder holds strong views on improving the compliance framework for a global marketplace and will be presenting his key concerns and suggestions in his keynote address to The Risk Management & Governance Conference. He will also examine the tension banks are increasingly facing while attempting to make regulatory use of economic capital.

Dr. Michael Ong

A critically acclaimed author of several books on risk management, Dr. Michael Ong made his mark in the industry when he served as head of risk management at Credit Agricole Indosuez in New York, the Carr Futures Group and ABN AMRO Bank. He was responsible for managing risk across the enterprise, which included corporate and merchant banking, asset management and other major areas.

Dr. Ong has written extensively on risk management and his latest book, “Risk Management – A Modern Perspective”, has just been published. He is also the author of “Internal Credit Risk Models – Capital Allocation and Performance Measurement”, its sequel “Credit Ratings – Methodologies, Rationale and Default Risk” and “The Basel Handbook – A Guide for Financial Practitioners”. Dr. Ong has been providing thought leadership to the Summit’s risk management proceedings for the past two years and returns this year as the chairman of the Risk Management & Governance Conference. He will be guiding the discussions toward an examination of balance sheet issues, concerns for chief financial officers in a risk-based regime and emerging risks rising from the increased use of financial innovations.

Dr. Robert Mark

An award-winning risk manager and author, Dr. Robert Mark’s distinguished career has extended into nearly every area of risk management, compliance and governance. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Black Diamond, which provides corporate governance, risk management consulting and transaction services. He serves on several boards, such as the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, The Deep Computing Institute and Checkpoint Canada, and is an Advisory Director for Digital Sandbox. In 1998, the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) named him Risk Manager of the Year.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Mark was the Senior Executive Vice-President and Chief Risk Officer at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and was a member of the bank’s management committee. Here, he held global responsibility for all credit, market and operating risks for all of CIBC as well as its subsidiaries.

Prior to CIBC, he was the partner in charge of the Financial Risk Management Consulting practice at Coopers & Lybrand(C&L). He was also the managing director for the Asia, Europe and Capital Markets Group at Chemical Bank, where his responsibilities included risk management, asset/liability management, quantitative analysis, strategic planning and analytical systems. Dr. Mark co-authored the books “Risk Management”, published by McGraw-Hill in 2000, and “The Essentials of Risk Management”, published in December 2005.

At the Summit, Dr. Mark will anchor a seminal discussion on the evolving role of the chief financial officer and the finance function in a risk-oriented environment. He will also discuss the growing need for risk-adjusted information in corporate cultures that are increasingly attuned to risk management principles.

Mr. Nick Minogue

Nick Minogue joined Macquarie Bank in 1993 as the Head of Credit. He was promoted to Executive Director in 1996 and in March 1999 assumed his current role of Head of the Risk Management Division, the central risk management function covering credit, market, compliance/regulatory and operational risk. The Risk Management Division currently has 225 staff and is independent of all businesses, reports direct to the managing director and the board and has responsibility for prudential management throughout the Macquarie group.

Mr. Minogue is a member of Macquarie’s Executive, Operations Review and Remunerations & Promotions Committees. Prior to joining the bank, he worked in a number of corporate banking roles in Hong Kong and London with Standard Chartered Bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Williams Glyn’s Bank Limited in London. At the Summit, Mr. Minogue will join the keynote discussion with Professor Arnold Schilder of the Bank of International Settlements and present his perspective on the need for risk-adjusted information in a risk-oriented corporate culture.

Dr. Guan Seng Khoo

Dr. GS Khoo is currently responsible for designing and implementing an enterprise-wide risk management system, underpinned by a risk-based performance management framework, for RHB Capital in Malaysia. He will be at the Summit to speak about the insights he has gained from the project. Over his 20-year career in financial services, Dr. Khoo has worked with all phpects of data-mining research, education, pre-sales and project management, encompassing financial risk management (market, credit, operational and enterprise risks), trading and investment analytics, customer-relationship management (CRM) analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile financial applications and molecular simulations.

Previously, he was the Chief Representative for the US-based Academy for Business & Financial Services, the authorised American Bankers Association (ABA) certification body for the ABA training programs in Southeast Asia as well as the authorised LUTC certification provider in Greater China for the American College. He was also an adjunct professor at the Singapore Management University (SMU), teaching a course on “New Technologies in Global Financial Markets, including ECNs”.

He was also the Regional Director for PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers’ International Association) in Thailand from 2003 to 2004 and the SAS User Group President of Singapore from 1999 to 2001. In these roles, he formulated and designed training programmes and curriculum contents on risk management topics for senior management and directors encompassing Basel 2-related topics like credit and market portfolio stress testing (Pillar 2 requirements), neural network & AI applications in AMA OpRisk, AML, BCM and DRP in the context of COSO (SOX) and OpRisk, information security, credit scoring and behavioural scoring for credit cards, SMEs and other applications, portfolio VAR and Basel II implementation roadmap.

Mr. Ansgar Herkert

Mr. Ansgar Herkert joined the risk methodology team at Dresdner Bank in 1996, where he worked on improving the bank’s VaR methodology. At the same time he was helping the bank to prepare for the regulatory approval of the VaR model by the German regulators. He moved to Tokyo in 1997, where he was initially responsible for risk control of the bank’s global debt division. He was subsequently in charge of risk control for all of the bank’s Asia-Pacific activities. He has been Head of Market Risk Control at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein since 2005. At the Summit, Mr. Herkert will explore the effect of financial innovation on market risk management today.

Mr. Il-Yong Ko











In the US, Mr. Charles Richard is a frequent commentator on the subjects of interest rate risk management, portfolio management, asset liability management and servicing evaluation. His articles on these and other risk-related topics have been published in various industry journals such as Asset/Liability Management for Depository Institutions and The Handbook of Mortgage Banking, among others.

Mr. Richard co-founded QRM, a consulting and systems development firm specialising in enterprise risk management systems used for asset/liability management, market risk management, credit risk management, funds transfer pricing and other functions.

Prior to QRM, Mr. Richard was Director of Institutional Products Marketing at GNP Financial, a Chicago-based research and trading firm. Here, his duties included marketing sophisticated hedging strategies and arbitrage programmes to institutional clients. Prior to that, he represented the futures department of Goldman, Sachs Company in Madrid, Spain, where he taught financial, currency and energy futures and options strategies to the Spanish trading and investment community.

Mr. Richard has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of risk management and in his current position as Senior Vice President of QRM, he is responsible for all phpects of marketing. He also sits on QRM’s executive committee, which directs the daily operations as well as the future direction of the firm. At the Summit, Mr. Richard will discuss issues in identifying, assessing and managing off-balance-sheet risk.

Mr. Andy Hirst


Andy Hirst is Senior Director of Industry Marketing for Business Objects. He is responsible for the industry marketing function overall and marketing to the financial services sector .He has been with Business Objects for four years.

Hirst has more than 22years of experience in the high technology and financial industries. From 1999 to 2001, he worked for Brewin Dolphin Securities, the UK's private client broker, where he was marketing director for the online and telephone trading division, Stocktrade.

Previously, Hirst worked for seven years in Hewlett Packard’s financial services business unit, where he held the position of worldwide marketing director of eBanking solutions. He was instrumental in developing and driving Hewlett Packard's plans for marketing solutions and services in the Internet banking, e-payments and CRM sectors.

Andy is a keen sportsman and regularly plays field hockey and golf and coaches children’s soccer teams.

Mr. Henry Norwood

A Chartered Financial Analyst, Mr. Henry Norwood has been at QRM since 1995. He is responsible for product management and client support of the firm’s product for enterprise risk management. Before joining QRM, Mr. Norwood was a financial analyst for the Bank of Boston Corporation and was earlier a finance and operations specialist. At the Summit, Mr. Norwood will speak about issues in identifying, assessing and managing off-balance-sheet risk.


Donald H. Mackenzie
Chief Risk Officer, Kookmin Bank, Korea

Mr. Donald MacKenzie is a Senior Executive Vice President at one of South Korea’s largest financial institutions, Kookmin Bank. He has been heading the risk management division at Kookmin since 2002 and prior to that, he served as the bank’s senior advisor from 2000-2002.

He was previously Managing Director of ING Barings and Country Manager for ING Bank in Japan for six years, until 2000. He has also held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, KPMG Peat Marwick, KPMG in Japan and Canada.

Mr. John Dahlberg

John Dahlberg is currently an Executive Vice President of OCBC Bank, where he previously served as head of the OCBC Group’s back-office operations and information technology divisions. Most recently he has led the start-up and launch of a new business division for OCBC, which focuses on developing solutions for under-banked segments across East and Southeast Asia.

Mr. Dahlberg has more than 25 years of experience in the technology and financial services industries. Before joining the OCBC Group in January 2003, he was Head of Global Private Banking at DBS Bank in Singapore. Prior to that, he was with Citibank in Asia for 11 years in various IT and operations roles. His last position at Citibank was as the Six Sigma Leader for the Asia Global Consumer Bank division. At the Summit, Mr. Dahlberg will be Chairman of The Technology & Operations Council Annual Meeting.

Dr. Neil Katkov

Dr. Neil Katkov is manager of Celent’s Asia Research group and is based in Tokyo. His areas of expertise include the financial services industry in Asia, financial services distribution channels, anti-money laundering, business continuity planning and other compliance issues. Before joining Celent, Dr. Katkov was responsible for corporate communications for Softbank Inc. In this capacity, he helped define phpects of the firm’s business and marketing strategies. Previously, Dr. Katkov was in the equity research department of Salomon Brothers Asia Limited. He has lived for eight years in Asia, where he engaged in academic research at the University of Tokyo and the National Central Library of Taiwan. He is widely quoted in the international and regional press, including The New York Times, Financial Times, Time, BusinessWeek, The Banker, CNBC and CNN. At the Summit, Dr. Katkov will be presenting key developments in fraud prevention and anti-money laundering in Asia. He will also be moderating discussions on the effect of an avian flu pandemic on Asia’s financial industry; customer relationship management; and counter-party risks facing financial institutions.

Mr. Steve Ingram

In recent years, DBS Bank, Singapore’s largest, has been aggressively growing its business interests in the region and refining its strategy. During this phase of tremendous changes, the demands upon the institution’s IT capabilities have been increasing, requiring a fresh and daring approach to using IT as a key component in meeting business goals. Today, Mr. Steve Ingram continues to lead a business-oriented IT programme, which plays a significant role in helping DBS meet the critical challenges of the day. Mr. Ingram’s incisive comments have shaped the thinking of his peers at the Summit for the past three years and he will be at the Summit again this year to review the most important technology-related decision DBS made in 2005 and also to identify the key trends that will influence banks’ technology decisions in 2006. He will also discuss the insights he has gained from building a core banking system that meets the bank’s business goals.

Mr. Andreas E. Susetyo

Mr. Andreas Susetyo has held the position of chief information and technology officer (CITO) at Bank Mandiri, Indonesia, since October 2003. As a senior executive vice president of the bank, he serves on the Executive Committee of Bank Mandiri providing technology leadership on eBusiness initiatives and oversees enterprise IT Governance. As CITO, he is responsible for the Central Information Technology Services throughout Bank Mandiri, and is responsible for Business Solutions development and deployment; IT Infrastructure establishment and operations; Information provision and content management; strategic technology planning and alignment including risk management, value and performance management, technology policies and standards. Mr. Susetyo is also a member of the IBM Worldwide iSeries Board of Advisors, Dallas, Texas.

Before joining Bank Mandiri, he held several positions at Bank Niaga including Managing Director of Operations and Technology, and Senior Vice President of Information Systems & Technology. He has received numerous awards, including Hewlett Packard’s Outstanding IT leader of 2000; the 2004 MIS Innovation Award for IT Governance, which was presented to Bank Mandiri in recognition of the bank’s IT Integration programme carried out under his direction in 2003; and The Asian Banker Excellence in Retail Banking Technology Award 2004. Mr. Susetyo is a core member of the Technology & Operations Council, which meets annually at The Asian Banker Summit to provide a rare insight into the thinking of Asia’s most influential heads of technology and operations.

Mr. Peter Robertson

Mr. Peter Robertson has played several significant roles in Standard Chartered Bank’s Group Technology function since 1988. Currently, he is Group Head of Technology Production Services within Group Technology and Operations, reporting to the Group Head of Technology and Operations. His experience spans a variety of functions, including aligning business and technology strategy, global software and infrastructure development, support services, strategic sourcing and vendor management and change management.

Mr. Robertson first joined Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong as a technology architect from Australia in 1998. With a software services background and over 24 years of technology experience in banking, he is instrumental in several major change programmes within the bank, including the design and implementation of the major core systems in use across Standard Chartered Bank today. Mr. Robertson has had wide influence over the major IT sourcing strategies of the bank and has helped shape the infrastructure model of today. He has led numerous teams across multiple countries globally in his various capacities, has helped shape many management teams and is an active change agent within the Group Technology and Operations community.

In addition to his management role, he is a member of the bank’s Leadership Team, chaired by the CEO, and also a member of the Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong Limited Executive Management Team. With his experience in business strategy, technology architecture and his interest in technological advances, Mr. Robertson is able to use technology to fulfill business objectives and adopts a commercial view in technology implementations towards achieving corporate objectives. At the Summit, Mr. Robertson will review the significant technology decisions made last year and he will also identify the key trends that will influence banks’ technology decisions in the year ahead.

Mr. Pravir Vohra

Mr. Pravir Vohra is highly regarded in the industry for his immense experience and knowledge in IT architecture, domain expertise in financial products, process re-engineering, IT operations and strategy, gained over three decades in financial services. He is currently Senior General Manager responsible for the technology function at ICICI Bank, one of India’s fastest-growing banks. He also heads the Technology Management Group (TMG), which constantly validates emerging technologies and technology opportunities. He is also responsible for ensuring a consistent strategic IT approach across ICICI Group. Mr. Vohra is a core member of The Technology & Operations Council, which meets annually at The Asian Banker Summit to discuss key developments and trends that are defining and reshaping financial services today.

Mr. John Beggs

Mr. John Beggs is responsible for the delivery of a full range of fixed interest, derivatives, currency, commodities and equities products at the Commonwelath Bank of Australia, along with the CommSee banking platform.

CommSee is CBA’s new customer management platform, which makes it easier to view customer information and provides ready access to imaged client documents. More than half the bank’s branches are now operating on the CommSee platform and the bank is receiving 90,000 referrals a month, with a conversion rate of around 30 per cent.

At the Summit, Mr. Beggs will discuss the factors that have made CommSee a success and give insights into the implementation process.

Mr. Beggs joined CBA as the Head of Equities Division and was responsible for the bank’s development as a major player in the Australian retail equity market. Before joining the bank, Mr. Beggs was a founding partner of a boutique fund management subsidiary of a large US manager called GMO. He was also the founding chief executive of the Australian stockbroking subsidiary of Daiwa Securities, a large Japanese securities firm. He was previously an assistant professor at Yale University.

Mr. Petr Benes

Based in GE Money’s headquarters in the US, Mr. Petr Benes’s main area of expertise is in core banking system implementation. Over the last eight years, he has managed or participated in six large-scale integration projects, where three different packages and two custom-built solutions were implemented. Mr. Benes has also been involved in various banking initiatives, such as banking model strategies, mergers and acquisitions, and distribution channel strategies. Before joining GE Money, he spent seven years as a banking consultant with Accenture.

Since 2002, he has been with GE Money in Central and Eastern Europe and in Southeast Asia. He recently managed the implementation of a banking solution for GE Money Retail Bank in Thailand, which opened on 6 January 2006. Mr. Benes will be at the Summit to share his experience with this project and to discuss salient issues facing core banking implementations today.

Mr. David J. Vander
Mr. David Vander’s background is as a strategist within financial services, specialising in business transformation around technology, with a focus on strategic execution. He has more than 15 years’ experience developing business strategies, strategic infrastructure planning and implementing technology projects, which have included bespoke and package implementation, enterprise process design and management, applications management and systems selection for a range of clients in the financial services industry.

At Microsoft, Mr. Vander oversees industry strategy, marketing, solution development, partner development, thought leadership, and executive relations, ensuring that the full extent of Microsoft’s vision and value proposition is realised by banking institutions worldwide. Mr. Vander will be at the Summit to discuss critical developments in branch and multi-channel distribution strategies.

Mr. Steve Wright

Since the late 1990s, Mr. Steve Wright has been a leading industry expert within the electronic billing, e-invoicing and electronic payments markets. He has been instrumental in growing CheckFree’s e-billing market globally and has worked closely with billers, biller service providers and national e-bill consolidators worldwide. His business and technology background includes e-billing and payment, document creation and delivery, data mining, banking and financial applications. Mr. Wright also serves on the Executive Council of the Global Billing Association and presently leads the GBA Global Payments Initiative. At the Summit, Mr. Wright will examine developments in Internet and other direct delivery channels in the industry today.

Mr. David B. Miner

As director of Financial Services Industry Solutions at Symantec, Mr. David Miner assesses business challenges in the financial services industry and develops security strategies or solutions that enable financial institutions to ensure information integrity and customer trust. Mr. Miner assists companies in assessing risk, understanding and mitigating ever-expanding online fraud realities and managing for regulatory compliance. Mr. Miner, whose banking experience includes 17 years in retail banking, specialises in placing a perspective on how banks can protect customer trust and brand equity within the context of emerging threats. Before joining Symantec, Mr. Miner spent eight years as director of the financial services industry business unit for Oracle Corporation. He has also served as vice president for the retail banking division and as operations manager for Sanwa Bank in California. He had also held positions with California Federal, First Interstate Band, and Household Finance Corporation. Mr. Miner will be at the Summit to examine emerging issues in fraud prevention, anti-money laundering and privacy.

Mr. Sanjay Dalmia
Head of Product, CashTech

Mr. Sanjay Dalmia has the mandate to deliver to CashTech’s global customers flexible, robust and innovative products, tat meet their practical needs.
He leads the team of Research and Development, Software Engineers and Product Managers, at the group’s corporate headquarters in Pune, India.

Before joining CashTech, he was the Head of Global Trade & Advisory, India at ABN AMRO for more than six years, where he had been responsible for managing about 25 existing products as well as for new product development.

Often responsible for leading the financial institutions drive for automation, Mr. Sanjay not only helped the company realize on an increase in profit by 40 per cent to around Rs. 720 million but was also involved in guiding ABN’s e-commerce effort.

At the Summit, Mr. Sanjay will speak about key trends in cash management and trade finance.

Kishore Kapoor
CEO, i-flex solutions pte ltd

Kishore Kapoor is CEO, i-flex solutions pte ltd, the Asia Pacific subsidiary of i-flex solutions limited. He has been with i-flex for 15 years, as part of the company's sales and marketing team, and is currently responsible for i-flex’s Asia Pacific operations.

During his early years at i-flex, he single-handedly consolidated business initiatives in Eastern Europe and Indonesia, which were new markets for the company at the time. With his creative sales skills and positive work approach, he generated several new client relationships, both in the products and services area.

He was also responsible for creating the Corporate Marketing and Corporate Communication Group, to help direct and consolidate the company's growth. This involved setting up a strong network of distributors and alliance partners. Under this function, he established alliance partnerships with Oracle and Microsoft.

In 1999 Kishore headed the sales operations for the Southern and East African region, the Indian sub-continent, in addition to Asia-Pacific region. During this period he successfully built and established FLEXCUBE, i-flex's flagship product, as a strong contender to other established products in these regions.

Since 2000, as Regional Head - Asia-Pacific region, he has been instrumental in spearheading growth for the company, generating annual compounded sales growth of over 100% in revenue terms since 1999. The company's geographical customer base has, as a result, also grown beyond ASEAN countries to include markets, such as - Japan, Greater China and Australia.

Kishore has a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad (India), and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering. He has a total of 17 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining i-flex, he worked in Fujitsu-ICIM as Marketing Manager for 5 years, and Philips India Ltd. as Management Trainee for 1 year.

Tony Horrell
Marketing Director, Makeena Corporation

Mr. Tony Horrell has spent more than 22 years in the banking, payments and IT industries and has held a wide variety of roles, including sales, marketing, managing director and CEO. He has worked for global multi-nationals such as VISA, ACI and Thorn EMI, with assignments in Asia, South America, Africa and Europe. Mr Horrell has also founded a number of successful start-up companies. He now provides strategic consultancy services and sits on the board of a number of companies, including Makeena Corporation. Makeena is a technology solutions company that delivers comprehensive innovations across a wide array of retail verticals. The firm provides integrated solutions covering the entire card payments area, internet banking, branch banking, mobile banking, system monitoring, as well as cost-effective solutions in the fraud and risk management areas.