Speakers

Chan Chun Sing, Singapore’s minister for trade and industry, is responsible for driving Singapore’s economic and industrial development. He was appointed to this role and that of minister in charge of the public service in May 2018. He has also been the deputy chairman of the People’s Association since October 2015. Chan was secretary-general of NTUC from May 2015 to May 2018. At NTUC, he expanded the Labour Movement network to represent all working people in Singapore and led efforts to curate and deliver timely and relevant training for workers. His other previous appointments included acting minister for community development, youth, and sports and minister of state for information, communications, and the arts.

Tan Su Shan serves as the president commissioner for PT Bank DBS Indonesia in addition to the head of institutional banking at DBS Bank. Prior to leading the institutional banking group, she oversaw consumer banking and wealth management areas for close to a decade. Su Shan previously worked at Morgan Stanley, where she served as head of private wealth management for Southeast Asia, as well as at Citibank and ING Barings Bank in Hong Kong, London, and Tokyo. The recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, she was named to the Forbes list of top 25 emergent Asian women business leaders. Active in numerous charities, she sits on the board of Singapore’s KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital Health Endowment Fund.

Tan Hooi Ling is the Co-Founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading everyday super app. She oversees critical pillars of Grab’s operations, focused on business strategy and growth, analytics, customer experience and people operations. Prior to returning to Grab in 2015, Hooi Ling led high priority strategic and operational projects for Salesforce.com in San Francisco. There, she specialised in Corporate Strategy, Corporate Operations, Pricing Intelligence & Monetisation. She was also previously a consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising global corporations in Southeast Asia, North America, Latin America and Australia.

As General Manager, Choong Luen leads a team of 150 technology and operations employees. Together, they drive GO-JEK’s commercial and business operations in Singapore. He joined GO-JEK from the National Research Foundation Singapore, where he worked directly with the Prime Minister’s office to set the national direction for R&D in the country. In this role, he worked to develop policies, plans, and strategies to encourage and enhance research, innovation, and enterprise. Passionate about social causes, he served as a United Nations Peacekeeper in East Timor and helped reform the healthcare sector in Sierra Leone after the Ebola crisis.

Jun co-founded and is now leading the end-to-end product creation of Stey, an urban living solution offering an innovative blend of home, hotel, and co-living spaces. Headquartered in Beijing, Stey combines traditional hospitality with the latest digital solutions and flexibility that busy, on-the-move professionals need. Drawing on her academic background in architecture and design and deep, on-the-ground business expertise, Jun is currently working to strengthen and expand Stey’s presence across Asia. Jun began her career at McKinsey & Company, where she spent almost six years working with clients – primarily in Asia.

Saket is the co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, a global cybersecurity firm that protects and counsels Fortune 500 companies, intelligence agencies, and special task forces operating across 16 different countries since 2012. A visiting faculty member at numerous universities in South Asia and North America, Saket regularly lectures on information systems and security. He has trained more than 5,000 individuals across 100+ colleges, corporations, and government agencies. At the National Education Awards in 2013, Saket was recognized for his work and received the title of 'Indian Ambassador of Cyber Security in Education.”

In 2014, Siew Choo joined DBS Bank as the Managing Director and Head of Core Systems Technology. She leads the technology transformation agenda for the bank and the enterprise-wide technology solutions strategy for core banking, data analytics, finance, risk, compliance, and audit in the 16 countries in which DBS currently operates. In 2017, she led the bank’s effort to build an enterprise data platform and managed DBS’s acquisition and integration of ANZ’s retail and wealth businesses in 5 countries in Asia. Prior to this, Siew Choo served as Head of Technology for Asia banking at JPMorgan for 19 years. She was named a recipient of the ASEAN Pre-University Scholarship by the Public Service Commission of Singapore.

Bin Ru is currently the CEO of OneConnect Financial Technology, a leading Fintech software as a service (SaaS) provider of advanced technology-enabled business solutions to small and medium-sized financial institutions and banks. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading international expansion. Recently named one of the Top 100 Fintech leaders in Southeast Asia by LATTICE80, Bin Ru has played an active role in growing and developing the fintech ecosystem. With over 20 years of experience in sales and operations, she has led successful sales strategy and operational improvement initiatives for multinational corporations – including Microsoft and Hewlett Packard – and start-ups alike.

Vihang serves as Head of Centre of Excellence, Digital Productivity at Electrolux. In this role, he leads the company’s business transformation efforts and drives improvement in back-office productivity. Prior to his current position, he held various senior IT leadership roles across Asia and EMEA. Over the course of his career, he has successfully led numerous transformation programs. Before joining Electrolux almost 22 years ago, Vihang began his career as a web design and development consultant in India.

A retail banking and consumer finance veteran with nearly 25 years of experience with global leaders in the financial services, Kalidas’ journey with VPBank started when he was appointed as Head of the Consumer Finance Division in April 2011 and concurrently managed Retail Banking Division at VPBank from 2012 to May 2015. Under his leadership, both divisions’ businesses have been going through historic significant transformation projects. The Consumer Finance Division was eventually spun off from VPBank and became VPBank Finance Company (FE Credit). Mr Kalidas was then appointed as the CEO cum Vice Chairman of FE Credit in April 2015 after 5 months as Acting CEO. Prior to joining VP Bank, Kalidas held several leadership positions in ANZ Bank, Prudential, and Citi Group.

Henrik advises clients on technology strategy, business and technology operating models, and digital transformations. His work spans sectors – including retail, advanced industrials, high tech, financial services, and energy – and includes both B2B and B2C clients. Recently, much of Henrik’s work has involved transforming clients’ IT organisations and architectures in response to digital trends, such as meeting (B2B & B2C) customers in a more digitally-enabled manner; adopting automation, artificial intelligence and process digitalization; and embracing advanced analytics and IoT in products and services.

Jeremy is a highly experienced leader and manager who has driven growth and transformational change in global financial firms as well as early stage, agile technology companies. After a distinguished career in finance, during which he held senior leadership roles in Europe and Asia at Salomon Brothers, JP Morgan, Barings/ING and UBS, he shifted his focus to mentoring, investing in, and supporting founders, entrepreneurs and leaders in early stage businesses looking to achieve critical mass and create value. Amongst these were the founders of QuantumBlack, which he joined permanently in 2014. QuantumBlack is focused on helping organisations improve their performance by deploying highly skilled teams to exploit data and analytics, and is active in many industries including Pharmaceuticals, Financial Institutions, and Advanced Engineering.

Junaid leads the fast-growth technology SaaS work for McKinsey globally, helping privately-held companies under $500 million in revenue grow their enterprise value. He advises CEOs, founders, and investors on how to scale growth through improved customer acquisition, pricing, customer success, and strategic initiatives. His clients have achieved IPOs, successful M&A exits, and fundraising that have exceeded expectations on growth and valuation. Prior to joining McKinsey, Junaid spent two decades working in Silicon Valley. Among his many duties, he developed product and company strategy, brought products to market, led growth-focused strategic and business operations initiatives, and executed mergers and acquisitions.

Lalatendu specializes in bringing agility to digital organisations. He works primarily with banks and telecommunications firms to modernize IT architecture and implement agile operating models that deliver dramatic performance improvement. As a leader of McKinsey Digital Labs in India, Lalatendu has established and nurtured a team of designers, engineers, and software specialists. These teams work with McKinsey clients in all industries, transferring digital capabilities and bringing new businesses, products, and experiences to market. Fully certified by Scrum Alliance, Lalatendu is a regular speaker at agile and technology events, conferences, and meet-ups across India and the United States.

Mads Lauritzen coleads McKinsey’s work on Industrial Internet of Things technology. He helps clients in the high-tech, consumer-electronics, oil and gas, and automotive industries grow and transform their performance.

Mads’s specific expertise includes global transformation architecture and implementation, digital transformation, and Internet of Things strategies and architecture design. He works across all aspects of the business, including supply chain, procurement, and manufacturing, and is familiar with numerous market scenarios, including how to turn emerging-market performance into a key differentiator for a global company. He first joined McKinsey in 1998.

A McKinsey alum, Nick now serves as a Senior Advisor to the firm. Nick works with clients on matters related to innovation-led growth, disruptive business models, digital, brand and marketing strategy, and customer and product experience transformations. Drawing on years of private-sector experience, he has led numerous successful innovation and growth initiatives. He is equally skilled in embedding creativity and agility into organisations at scale. Nick previously worked as the Head of Marketing for Apple Corporation Asia, VP and CMO for Motorola Asia Pacific, and Senior Director for Worldwide Marketing & Business Intelligence at Oracle Corporation.

Raphael leads McKinsey Digital Labs in China. Drawing on his deep expertise in building new digital strategies and businesses, he helps clients across China and Southeast Asia develop and execute digital programs. He is equally skilled in uniting and leading product managers, designers, technologists and data engineers to actualize and successfully launch new digital businesses. Raphael has been involved in launching seven digital businesses in Asia and is currently working on two more. While his experience launching digital businesses, products, and teams spans industries, he has worked extensively in financial services, telecom, and real estate.

Sahil helps clients thrive in an environment of constantly changing technology, customer preferences, and ways of working. He serves clients on both the strategic and operational aspects of digital transformation to deliver commercial, customer, and employee engagement outcomes while building internal capabilities and transforming how work gets done. From consumer-packaged goods and telecommunications to automotive and industrials, Sahil’s work spans sectors. Additional expertise includes: online commerce and distribution, multi-channel marketing, social media, digital consumer engagement, customer communications, and the data infrastructure and business processes required to achieve deep personalization. Prior to re-joining McKinsey in 2015, Sahil was an active entrepreneur who founded seven businesses.

As the leader of the McKinsey Analytics Practice in Southeast Asia, Wojtek oversees the firm’s work on analytics and digital in the region. With extensive expertise in strategy, marketing, sales, digital media, and mobile internet, he helps clients implement practical analytics solutions.

Before joining McKinsey’s Singapore office, Wojtek spent several years in the Warsaw office, where he advised telecommunications clients across central Europe on commercial transformation, advanced-analytics capabilities, and digitisation strategies.

Wolf is one of the leaders of McKinsey Digital. With deep expertise in cybersecurity, data protection, and IT risk management, he serves clients in a range of industries, including financial services, automotive, and aerospace and defense.

Having advised clients all over the globe, Wolf is currently dedicated to serving industrial clients in America and Europe on challenges related to data, cybersecurity, and compliance. He is also one of the pioneers of McKinsey’s global cybersecurity work.