Contributors

Velayoudam Kuberan

Velayoudam Kuberan is a technology architect with Polaris Financial Technology Ltd., specializing in CBX technology.
His particular focus is on Customer Experience, Security, and Performance paradigms.

Vihang Patel

Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Finaxar, a Singapore-based fintech startup that is focused on changing the way small business financing is done using technology. He is passionate about working with startups and technology ecosystem.

Leveraging over 15 years of entrepreneurial, corporate and management consulting experience in Asia and Europe, he combines his deep expertise in financial services and enterprise software at Finaxar.

A veteran in the startup scene with strong expertise in technology, Patel founded data management firm Avagam. Post its acquisition, he joined big data and AI firm Crayon Data as the first technology-focused pioneer, to drive the building of the product and its development. He was also instrumental in driving early revenues which facilitated in raising several rounds of funding.  Patel was the Chief Technology Officer of Dragon Wealth Asia, developing marketing solutions for financial advisors before he founded Finaxar. Previously, Patel was at Deloitte developing solutions for large banks including ING and State Bank of India. He has advised or provided services to companies like Google, PayPal, GLH, Mastercard, CGI, etc.

Other than his role at Finaxar, he is currently an operating advisor of Monk’s Hill Ventures and part of the Investment Committee advising on key investments.

Vinayak HV and Prateek Bhargava

Vinayak HV is a senior partner in McKinsey & Company’s Singapore office, whilst Prateek Bhargava is associate partner at McKinsey & Company Bangkok.

Vincent Goh

Vincent Goh is President and General Manager, Asia Pacific & Japan at CyberArk. Goh leads the sales, pre-sales and channels teams, and is responsible for driving CyberArk’s growing customer base and channels across the region. Goh has more than 20 years of IT industry and sales experience helping grow companies including EMC, AST, Dell and Iomega.

Vincent Goh

Vincent Goh is President and General Manager, Asia Pacific & Japan at CyberArk. Goh leads the sales, pre-sales and channels teams, and is responsible for driving CyberArk’s growing customer base and channels across the region. Goh has more than 20 years of IT industry and sales experience helping grow companies including EMC, AST, Dell and Iomega.

Vincent O'Brien

Vincent is Chair of ICC Banking Commission Market Intelligence. He has been actively involved in trade finance for more than a quarter of a century and has delivered technical trade finance assistance in more than 70 countries.

Vishal Prabhakar

Vishal Prabhakar is Vice President with MasterTrust Group, one of India's top financial services organisations. He is holding an MBA in Finance with 17 years in Banking and Financial Service having started his career with Standard Chartered Bank. His other interests are travelling, reading and adventure sports.

 

Vito Henjoto

Vito Henjoto is a Technical Analyst at GFT focusing on the Asia Pacific region. He is well versed on a variety of technical indicators, but favours Ichimoku Kinko Hyo as his style of analysis and trading. Vito has run trading workshops in Australia and Asia throughout his trading career.

Vivek Luthra and Alexander Trott

Vivek Luthra, Data & AI Lead, Growth Markets, Accenture

Vivek Luthra is Accenture’s data & AI Lead in Growth Markets. He has 25+ years of experience and is responsible for bringing Accenture services together across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Accenture Song, Industry X and Operations to help clients reinvent and optimize their businesses with data and AI.

A trusted advisor in data modernization, Vivek has enabled businesses to grow using AI and generative AI, especially in supply chain, sales & marketing across multiple industries including financial services, telco and life sciences. Vivek has also held leadership roles in Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations business. Before Accenture, Vivek worked across Schlumberger, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Infosys, Patni (now Capgemini), and two technology start-ups.

Alexander Trott, Banking Lead, Growth Markets, Accenture

Alex Trott is the Managing Director for the Banking Industry across Growth Markets (Asia and LATAM) and the Go To Market Lead for Data & AI in A&NZ. He has been based in Sydney since 2018 following 10 years based in Hong Kong. 

Alex Trott has more than 24 years of experience in the banking and financial services industries. His expertise is in wealth management and retail banking, customer channel solutions, operating model and business architecture design. He has led large scale transformation programmes as well as programme mobilisation including business case validation and solution development. He has also set-up innovation programmes and future channel laboratories for clients to help them better interact with their customers.

In his time with Accenture, Alex has held a number of roles in the Financial Services Industry Practice. He was responsible for the Retail Banking Branch and Channel practice in the UK. Alex has also held positions in a number of markets across Europe and Asia Pacific, including UK, Ireland, Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Will Dombrowski & Bradley Ziff

Will Dombrowski is Strategy & Business Development Consultant while Bradley Ziff is Senior Risk Advisor, both at Misys.