Bio

A two-decade career spent primarily with one of the most globalised Financial institutions (Citigroup) and a globally respected premier public service institution (Monetary Authority of Singapore). Have established an extensive leadership network spanning from Asia, Africa, the Middle -East, Europe and the Americas. Share mindshare with people and institutions worldwide via speaking engagements in conferences, roundtables and meet-ups; established deep government and private sector relationships with over fifty impact making countries. https://g.co/kgs/n6A6Xm I take pride in three things: - Hacking people's ability to make an impact - Solving structural/systemic challenges to progress - Promoting empathy My professional capacity and competencies encompass: - Conceptualising and launching public good projects ab initio - Developing partnerships across governments & multi-lateral agencies - Championing creation of growth support systems for start-ups - Championing financial inclusion, fairness and sustainability - Developing support systems to seed, nurture and grow talent, and - Executing leadership functions in Financial Sector and Impact Investing Funds Select recent few ground-up manifestations of these to include: - Connecting global minds via the Singapore FinTech Festival - Creating Public Good rails via Paynow, SGQR, SGFindex & more - Connecting SME businesses in APAC via Proxtera - Simplifying collaboration between FIs and FinTechs via the API-Exchange - Securing our planet’s future via GreenPrint - Nurturing talent via the Asian Inst. of Digital Finance at the NUS, and - Investing in future technologies via Project UBIN, VERITAS, and more Select Innovation related work at Citi: Involved in rolling out various innovative smart banking initiatives, which includes patented work in: - Designed interactive devices for digitally-enabled customer touchpoints (United States Patent: 10,861,089) - Developed call verification and authentication process by allowing an electronic transaction to be performed upon determining, via biometric data, that an authorised individual is conducting the transaction (United States Patent: 10,074,089) - Built an enhanced Next-Gen ATMs with the functionality of completing a transaction at a financial transaction terminal using a mobile device ( United States Patent: 8,972,297) - Design of a financial transaction terminal (United States Patent: D722,739)