Alain Robert is the world’s leading free climber and is known all over the as the ‘French Spiderman’ and the ‘Urban Climber’. He is internationally renowned for having ascended over 100 skyscrapers without ropes. In 2011, he climbed Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. Robert uses his bold ascents, to raise funds for charity. Spiderman Alain Robert is one of the most famous men on earth. His legendary feats, climbing 200 of the world’s tallest buildings ‘with his bare hands’ have brought him celebrity status in 150 countries. In 1997, he climbed without authorization the world’s tallest skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur. The impact on the media was so great that Sabah Foundation asked him to climb its building in Borneo. With government authorization, the event grew enormously, drawing a crowd of 15,000 people and raising over US$150,000. These days, Alain is fast becoming one of the world’s most inspirational and compelling ‘Motivational, Keynote, Risk and After-dinner’ speakers too; having given talks internationally for a number of global corporations.

“Ali is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief at “Fintech Finance” and creator of “The Payments Race.” He runs the editorial for Fintech Finance Video Channels and Magazines, interviewing some of the best and brightest representatives across the financial services landscape.” “I founded Fintech Finance back in 2015 in my kitchen with my brother in law. Since then we have grown at breakneck speed. I spend most of my time on production and editorial for the Fintech Finance​ Video Channels and Magazines, as well as host the episodes, which means I get to interview some of the best and brightest representatives across the financial services landscape and attend some damm cool events!”

Amit Dua is President, SunTec Business Solutions. Based in London, he leads Sales, Business Development, Client Engagement, Alliances, and Industry Solutions functions for SunTec globally. Prior to joining SunTec, he served as Vice President & Regional Head for Europe, Americas and Australia, New Zealand as well as Head of Global Alliances for the banking product business of Infosys Limited, a $12 BN global firm. He also served as the Executive Sponsor of the Finacle Client Advisory Board, and has a proven track record of building businesses, providing executive level sponsorships to clients, and helping banks go through business and technology transformations. Over last 26+ years, Amit has handled all the markets in advanced and emerging economies – Europe, Americas including LATAM, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa interacting with global and local banks alike. He is a keen business strategist and regularly comments on a range of banking and technology related issues. He has authored several articles and speaks regularly on contemporary topics like trends in banking technology, customer experience management, digital banking, channels, and core banking transformations, to name a few. Amit has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA in Marketing.

Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme

Corporate Banking Group Head, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), Philippines

Futurist and Expert on Global Trends

Chandramouli comes with over 20 years of experience in research-based consulting engagements in the B2B and B2C market spaces. He has positively impacted over 400 organisations through his work, by helping them build effective stakeholder engagements, identifying their votaries, and building a growth strategy aligned to customer expectations and business priorities. He has been the chief architect of Feedback Insight’s growth into a leading research and consulting firm in the B2B space for all ‘active stakeholders and market listening’. In an earlier role, he has led B2B market sizing, go-to-market plans, partner identification engagements etc and has streamlined and built processes and systems relevant to B2B Market Research. He has rich domain experience across various business sectors such as IT/BPM, professional services, knowledge services, the start-up space, financial markets, chemicals, rural markets, electrical & electronics, oil and gas, infrastructure, engineering, healthcare, retail etc. He has worked with leading Tech services organisations in India and globally and has a keen understanding of the market, customer pulse and challenges faced by this sector. EX™, Experience Index, a framework to assess and track customer experience, has been conceptualised by him and has become the most tracked bench mark amongst tech services leaders in India today.

Clinton Abbott is the Director for Banking and Innovation at Arise, a leading African investment company. He is a diversified core banking and IT specialist, who is passionate about spearheading functional design within the banking sector both locally and abroad to enhance the customers banking experience. A seasoned expert with more than 25 years’ experience across multiple core banking platforms he has played an instrumental role in using technology and innovation to transform banking systems across the globe. Prior to joining Arise he fulfilled the role of Head of Functional Architecture at Standard Bank.

Gilles Ubaghs is a Strategic Advisor with Aite-Novarica Group’s commercial banking practice where he is focused primarily on commercial payments and the role that digital transformation is having across the enterprise and broader financial services sector. This includes a range of horizontal industry wide topic areas, such as the role of shifting payment regulations, fintech’s and artificial intelligence, as well as more tactical granular topics such as commercial cards, and payment clearing and settlement systems. Gilles brings over 15 years of experience in the analysis and financial services space creating a range of syndicated off the shelf, and bespoke consulting projects for a wide array of clients at the enterprise, vendor, investor and regulator level internationally. Gilles has direct professional experience in European, Asia Pacific and North American markets and always aims to bring local context into global payments issues. Prior to joining Aite-Novarica Gilles was a Principal Analyst with Ovum where he helped to build up its retail payments practice across a range of key topics. Originally from Belgium but raised in the US, Gilles is fully fluent in French and English. Gilles holds a bachelors’ degree in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and is currently based in beautiful Toronto, Canada.

John Sanei is a world-renowned keynote speaker, futures strategist, lecturer, best-selling author, and your guide to future trends and visionary leadership. With a knack for sharing knowledge and creating connections, John’s path lies at the intersection of human science, neuroscience, quantum technology, futurism, and business strategy. He decodes future trends, ignites ideas, connects with crowds and leaves an empowering perspective that lasts long after he’s left the stage. John’s keynote talks and masterclasses have taken him around the world and earned global recognition. He is Africa’s first Singularity University Faculty Member, a lecturer at Duke Corporate Education, and an Associate Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. John stays on top of future trends by publishing a new book every year and his fifth book, Who Do We Become? is launching in July 2022. When he’s not inspiring audiences, John’s convincing his friends, family and fans to adopt abandoned dogs. You can find John on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, or tune in to his critically acclaimed podcast – The Expansive Podcast.

Kartik comes with over 15+ years of experience internationally working as a senior finance leader. He has an outstanding track record of achieving results across customer and shareholder outcomes. He started his career in banking in GE Money in UK as a Risk Analyst and transitioned into Product and Pricing Management in CBA, having led large teams and transformation programs across the transactions and deposits business across both the retail and business bank’s over the last 5 years. This included leading the liabilities portfolio through very tumultuous low interest rate environment, developing and rolling out new products, large scale end to end transformation programs on productivity, customer experience etc. Currently he is the General Manager for business deposits and customer pricing, where he leads a team of over 100 people across business and technology and is accountable for Australia’s biggest deposit book. He also leads the delivery of the Strategic Billing and Pricing program committed to offering superior and seamless experiences to customers negotiating a price and subsequently the overall billing experience.

Likhit Wagle has led and advised Banking and Insurance clients around the world on business transformation programs that have realized major improvements in the clients’ net promoter scores, revenue growth and profitability. Likhit is responsible for IBM’s world-wide banking business – IBM’s largest sector by revenue and profits. Likhit’s mission is to grow the industry on a consistent, sustainable and profitable basis by making IBM the partner of choice for Digital Re-invention. Likhit is responsible for developing and executing IBM’s strategy, including the enhancement of external eminence, selection and development of IBM’s client portfolio in the sector and the deployment of industry specific solutions including a rapidly growing ecosystem of partners. Nurturing, managing and developing industry talent and expertise which underpins IBM’s strategic differentiation is a key part of his responsibilities. Likhit is a member of IBM’s Management Board for the Industry and also a member of the Acceleration Team which consists of the top 300 executives in the Corporation that has been hand-picked by the Chairman of IBM. He is also a founder member of the Industry Academy – a community of the foremost industry experts in IBM.

Founder, Umber

Madhur Jain is the Executive Vice President, Global Head - SaaS & Solution Consulting, SunTec Business Solutions. He has 25 years of experience with specialization in the Financial Services industry with specific focus on Cross Industry Convergence, Open Banking & Monetization, Digital Transformation, Business Innovation, Customer Centricity and Customer Experience Management.

Michael [Mike] Yesudas is the Chief Technology Officer at SunTec and heads the technology and engineering functions, including platform engineering, product engineering, and release engineering. He has nearly three decades of experience in systems, software and AI solutions and has worked with Fortune 500 clients across verticals – telecom, retail, financial services, manufacturing, and software, to name a few. Prior to this, he has played several significant technology leadership roles across organizations, including IBM, Sterling Commerce, GE, and HP and has handled key projects across EMEA, APAC and America. In his previous role in IBM, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of IBM Sterling and AI Applications Expert Labs. He completed his BTech at IIT Kharagpur and has an MS in Engineering from the University of Houston and MS in Computer Science from Monash University. He has several U.S. and international patents and has been a CISSP Certified Security Expert for 15 years.

A technology evangelist with over 30 years in the industry, Nanda Kumar (NK) has shaped the wave of customer-centric software platforms and solutions for pricing and billing, particularly in transaction-intensive verticals. He pioneered the concept of relationship-based pricing – an idea industry analysts and thought leaders now acknowledge as the key to balanced pricing dynamics. NK has made SunTec one of the global leaders in revenue management and business assurance space in the financial and telecom industries. Under the guidance of NK, SunTec has forayed into areas such as offer management, loyalty and relationship based pricing. Under his leadership, the company has won several awards and is considered as a leader in enterprise products. He has delivered numerous talks across global forums such as SIBOS, 3G Mobile Forum, Indian Banking Summit, Gartner Summits etc. He is also a widely read writer who has written for many technology oriented newsletters and blogs. NK holds a master’s degree in management and physics.

Neal Cross is a globally recognized corporate, social and start-up entrepreneur with a long track record across blue-chip technology, finance and data companies. He is currently co-founder and chairman of PictureWealth, one of the world’s fastest growing wealth fintech companies and is non exec director at ASX listed, Peppermint Innovation. Prior to this, Cross was the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, where in his tenure he drove their transformation into a global innovation powerhouse culminating in achieving the world’s best Digital Bank 2016 and 2018 and worlds best bank 3 times across 2018 and 2020. He has personally been awarded the world’s most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is a regular winner of best innovation lab and innovation leader awards.

Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Liquidity Management, Citizens Commercial Banking

Peter Yorke is Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing at SunTec. A seasoned marketing professional, he brings strategic marketing and internal communications competencies to SunTec.He handles SunTec’s global branding and marketing initiatives to strengthen the company presence across the world. He has over 30 years of experience in branding, corporate communications, marketing, high-tech public relations, content marketing, training, and strategic communication. He was earlier the Founder and CEO of Yorke Communications Pvt. Ltd., a content marketing firm that created marketing programs for brands. He has also served as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Oracle Financial Services Software [formerly i-flex solutions]. He earlier had stints in Tata Consultancy Services [TCS] and Wipro Systems in the editorial and communication function. He has done his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Bombay and a Diploma in Journalism from the Bombay College of Journalism. He is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).

Principal Solution Architect, AWS

Partner/Principal, EY

Sathish heads the Demand Fulfilment Group at SunTec comprising Product Engineering, Delivery, Support, Product & Delivery Assurance and CoE teams. With more than 25 years of experience in the software industry and nearly 15 years in revenue management and customer experience, he ensures delivery of our solutions with the highest quality, in the shortest time possible. He manages a proactive support organization which is aligned with our clients’ needs.

Stephen Miller is a Senior Director, Working Capital Management Solutions & Transformation at RBC. He leads teams responsible for the strategy, development, partnerships and commercialization of RBC’s Payments, Cash Management & FX Solutions supporting RBC’s commercial clients from Small Business to Multinational. Stephen has been involved in Commercial Banking for over 20 years, holding leadership roles in product, strategy and sales across domestic and global Financial Institutions. Stephen is passionate about bringing solutions to market that enable and simplify commercial clients digital and Working Capital Management strategies providing them competitive advantage.

Steven Reiter is the Lead – Business Consulting Practice for Financial Services at EY. He advises banking clients on retail, commercial and payments operating models, core technologies, application architectures, integration architectures and large-scale program execution. His domain expertise includes core banking solution evaluation, transformation and replacement, mortgage loan origination and securitization, commercial banking, treasury management and payments. With more than 40 years of experience, Steven has spent the last 20+ years assisting clients with aligning technology transformation with business initiatives.

Managing Editor, Disruptive Asia