Speakers A-H

Andrew Parker
Asia Pacific Business Development Manager
M-Com, New Zealand

Andrew has been selling and delivering electronic payment technologies for over a decade to the biggest and best banks in New Zealand and Australia.

Previously in sales management roles with point of-sale leaders Keycorp and ProvencoCadmus, Andrew is well established within the Australasian payment eco-system, including issuing and acquiring banks, payment switches, card schemes and industry associations.

Andrew's responsibilities at M-Com include working with M-Com customers across Asia Pacific to ensure they develop a compelling business case to invest further in the mobile channel and successfully execute on their mobile banking and payments strategies.

Bin Zhang　Managing Director
Union Mobile Pay

Mr. Zhang founded Union Mobile Pay, a leading mobile payment provider in China in 2003 and has been the Company’s Managing Director since then.

Prior to joining UMPay, Mr. Zhang worked for Nortel Networks, Microsoft and Texas Instruments.

Mr. Zhang graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1994 and holds an MBA from the University of Illinois.

Craig Richman
Director, Mobile Payments
Visa Worldwide Pte. Limited

Craig Richman is responsible for product and project management of mobile Visa payWave
within the Asia Pacific region. Craig works closely with Visa’s clients, partners and technology
vendors on the planning and execution of pilot implementations and is also leading initiatives
to commercialize Visa payWave on near field communication (NFC)-enabled mobile devices.

Craig joined Visa in August 2007 after four years in financial clearing and settlement of
international mobile roaming traffic, where he helped set up an operations centre to service
the Asia Pacific region. He spent three and a half years with IT consulting firm Consult
Hyperion which included work on the Hong Kong smart ID card project. His previous roles
have also included product development in the area of smart cards and public key
infrastructure.

Married, with two children, he is based in Singapore.

David G.W. Birch
Director
Consult Hyperion

David G.W. Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, the IT management consultancy that specialises in electronic transactions, where he provides specialist consultancy support to clients around the world. Before helping to found Consult Hyperion in 1986, he spent several years working as a consultant in Europe, the Far East and North America. He graduated from the University of Southampton with a B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics.

Described by The Telegraph as “one of the world’s leading experts on digital money”, by The Independent as a "grade-A geek", by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation as "one of the most user-friendly of the UK's uber-techies" and by Financial World as "mad", Dave is a member of the editorial board of the E-Finance & Payments Law and Policy Journal, a columnist for SPEED and well-known for his blogs on Digital Money and Digital Identity.

He has lectured to MBA level on the impact of new information and communications technologies, contributed to publications ranging from the Parliamentary IT Review to Prospect and wrote a Guardian column for many years. He is a media commentator on electronic business issues and has appeared on BBC television and radio, Sky and other channels around the world.

Enrique Beza
Senior Manager mCommerce,
Emirates Telecommunications Co. (Etisalat),
UAE

Enrique as a Spanish national was born and raised in Germany and has spent most of his professional carrier in that country. He is fluent in German, Spanish and English. Enrique has a strong ePayment background especially since he joined EUROCARD (EURO Kartensysteme and eurocheque GmbH, Frankfurt) in 1998, back then the leading acquiring bank and MasterCard licensee for Germany.

Enrique was seconded in September 2005 to the UAE by the German business unit of Atos Worldline - a leader in end-to-end services for critical electronic transactions, specialized in electronic payment services (issuing, acquiring, payment solutions, terminals and card processing), services for financial markets as well as eCS (eServices for customers, citizens and communities), and services for critical transactions for Telecom Prepaid.

In June 2007 Enrique joined the Emirates Telecommunications Co. (Etisalat) in the UAE. He started his career at Etisalat heading the Prepaid Recharge section, responsible for the development of electronic recharge distribution channels. After achieving important milestones, in October 2009 Enrique was called to join the newly established EMCS (Etisalat mCommerce Services) business unit to head the mCommerce section directing the Product Marketing of Mobile Financial Services, mobile Money, MMT, and mPayments.

Speakers I-N

Joanne Avendano, Technical Group Head,
G-Exchange Inc, Philippines

 

Lena Tan
Product Manager, Consumer Products – Mobile
SingTel Singapore

Lena Tan is the Product Manager in SingTel responsible for driving Mobile Payment initiatives and productising mobile payment related services.

Liisa Kanniainen
Executive Director, Mobey Forum

Liisa Kanniainen holds Master of Science degree in International Economics. After university studies Liisa worked a few years as a polytechnic teacher and acquired also Polytechnic Teacher qualification.

Liisa Kanniainen has worked on mobile financial services for the past 15 years. Liisa has led several pioneering projects during the early days of this industry. First she worked at Digital B.V. in the Netherlands, then the next 6 years in Finland at Nokia Corporation. During her Nokia Mobile Phones years Liisa worked in various management positions in product development. Her last position at Nokia Ventures was Head of R&D, mobile commerce.

In 2001 she changed to Nordea Bank and Mobey Forum in order to full time concentrate on creating the cross-industry collaboration required for making the mobile financial services market as the Mobey Forum Workgroup Executive. In Nordea she has been in charge of mobile financial services on corporate level. In Mobey Forum she carries since Feb 2007 the full operational responsibility of all activities and daily management of the Forum as the Executive Director of the rapidly growing cross-industry consortium.

Liisa Kanniainen is a widely known and knowledgeable industry expert who often contributes to industry conferences as Chairman or Keynote presenter. She has been the editor of several important industry white papers and topical articles, and has chaired the work of several pioneering working groups in the mobile financial services business area.

Mahzan Mahfudz
Vice President, Product Innovation
Celcom Axiata

Mahzan Mahfudz, 45, currently holds the position of Vice President for Product Innovation in Celcom Axiata Berhad, and is in charge of the direction, conceptualization, planning and implementation of various initiatives for Celcom's Value Added Services (VAS).

His forte being in Systems Analysis and Design, as well as Software and Product Development, Mahzan is acknowledged as one of the key members in the first mobile commerce roll-out for Axiata companies. Joining Celcom ten years ago in 2000, Mahzan brought with him twenty years of skill and working experience from the airline and telecommunication industries respectively.

Martin Strommer
Director, Business Development,
Mobile Solutions,
Home & Networks Mobility,
Motorola Asia

Martin Strommer serves Director of Business Development, Mobile Solutions for Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business in Asia. He works with regional Mobile Operators and other Motorola customers specializing in the fields of Mobile Commerce, Mobile TV and Mobile Data Networks.

He has joined Motorola from Amethon Solutions where he held the position of CEO and executed the company’s new product go-to-market strategy and successfully secured its second round of funding. Prior to Amethon, Martin worked Alcatel Australia where he held the position of Director, Business Development, Network Operator Solutions for the Asian and Pacific regions. In this role, Martin directed a team of solution specialists and managed Alcatel’s budget and P&L for existing and new software solution business with Alcatel’s customers in Asia Pacific.

Prior to joining Alcatel, Martin successfully started up the Asia Pacific organization of Tantau Software, a Compaq/Tandem spin-off company. Tantau Software was later acquired by 724 Solutions where Martin served as Director of Sales Support, based in Hong Kong.

Martin has close to 20 years of sales and management experience in the information technology industry, specializing in the mobile telecommunications sector. He holds a degree in computer science and business economics from the Akademie fuer Datenverabeitung, Boeblingen, Germany and lives in Sydney, Australia.

Makoto Shibata
Principal Analyst, eBusiness & IT Initiatives Division
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ

Mr. Shibata is leading the bank’s R&D initiatives in emerging technology and planning of online / mobile financial services. Since he has been in eBusiness area for the past 11 years, he was involved in wide range of development projects in new financial services channels for both retail and wholesale customer. His previous career in banking includes Corporate Planning, Accounting, Corporate Finance, and Retail Customer Services.

He is also active in promoting new global standard, XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), for processing financial data, serving as Chair of Financial Services Working Group for XBRL Japan.

Mr. Shibata made presentation on variety of topics, such as Payment, Data Standard, Channel Management and Mobile Finance in many industry conferences, including for BOJ, TSE, EFMA and SWIFT.

He has BA from the University of Tokyo (with a year at Harvard University), and MSc from Oxford University.

Naresh Vyas
Global Head of Channels, Technical Solutions Delivery
Standard Chartered Bank

With over 15 years of experience in the Financial Systems, Naresh has experience in a broad range of technologies from Mainframe upto Mobile. He currently manages the Consumer Transaction Banking technology at Standard Chartered Bank, which consists of Core Banking Mainframe systems, and front-end channels, including ATMs, Internet, and Mobile. This includes Standard Chartered’s award winning Internet website in over 25 markets.

Naresh is an inventor in the Online Financial space, with a patent entitled “Methods and Systems for implementing on-line financial institution services via a single platform” issued in the European Union and United States. He has also written a paper titled “Symphony: exploring user interface representations for learner-centered process scaffolding” published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Speakers O-S

Rajesh Yohannan
Regional eBusiness and Direct Banking
Head
Citibank Asia

Rajesh Yohannan is the Regional eBusiness and Direct Banking Head for Citi’s regional consumer bank franchise in Asia. In this role Rajesh has overall business ownership for the Internet, mobile, email channels covering new customer acquisition, cross-sell, customer service, customer experience and electronic payments. Rajesh Yohannan is part of the Consumer Bank leadership team in Asia and is also responsible for formulating and driving Citi’s strategy to significantly improve and digitize its remote banking and communication capabilities. Prior to this, he was the Regional CitiPhone Sales Head for Asia. Rajesh joined Citi in 2003. Rajesh is a Computer Science Engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

 

Rahul Shinghal
Regional Mobile Manager
for PayPal Asia Pacific

Rahul Shinghal is Regional Mobile Manager for PayPal Asia Pacific, where he is responsible for mobile product strategy, development and growth across the region. In this role, he drives mobile payment adoption amongst developers, merchants, mobile operators and handset manufacturers and oversees the development of PayPal’s mobile products to deliver leading mobile payment services to PayPal’s millions of Asian customers.

Mobile will be key to the growth and development of ecommerce, especially here in Asia, and as the leading global online payment service, PayPal will continue to innovate and drive growth in the area of mobile payments. As part of this innovation, Rahul strives to build products and services that enable mobile developers, manufactures and operators to capitalise on this growth and monetise mobile payments.

Prior to joining PayPal, Rahul has over 10 year experience in Mobile and Internet based commerce services. Rahul spent 2 years as Head of Mobile and Internet services at NETS Singapore. Rahul also spent 7 years as Asia Pacific Sales Director for SmartTrust, a Swedish telecom company which developed mobile internet and mobile transaction based solutions. In that capacity he closely worked with Mobile Operators and Financial institutions to drive the adoption of mobile transaction services in the region.

Rahul holds an MBA from NMIMS India and a Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University.

Rob Jonker

Before joining the banking community, Rob worked at the Department of Justice for 14 years in several management functions.

In 1996 he joined Deutsche Bank Amsterdam and became Head of Cash Operations in which he coordinated several important project during the years to come (e.g. EURO implementation and Y2K project)

In 2005 he moved over to the Global Transaction Bank within DB and was nominated as Head Country Product Management for Belgium, France and the Netherlands, responsible for the local Cash Management products.

In 2006, Rob was asked to join the SEPA project full time in his role as Senior Product Manager for Global Payments, being responsible for the seamless implementation of the SEPA products within the Continental European branches of Deutsche Bank.

Recently (as of January 2010), Rob joined Deutsche Bank’s Emerging Payment Streams Unit, being responsible for Global Corporate Business to Business Mobile Solutions.

Rob is married, has two boys in the age of 15 and 18 and is an active football player on Sundays.

Rocky Scopelliti
Head of Banking, Finance & Insurance Industry Development
Telstra Enterprise & Government, Australia

Rocky Scopelliti is the Head of Banking, Finance & Insurance Industry Development at Telstra Enterprise & Government. In this role, Rocky is responsible for accelerating the awareness of and adoption of Telstra’s technology solutions in the Financial Services sector.

Rocky has extensive experience in both the Information Technology and Financial Services sectors whereby he has held senior management responsibilities covering Product Development, Strategy & Planning, Business Development and Strategic Marketing.

Educated in Australia and the United States at Sydney University and Stanford University, Rocky has a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Management and a Masters in Business Administration.

Neeraj Bansal
Executive Vice President, Business Development & Co-Founder, Rêv Worldwide, USA

Samir Garud,
Senior Vice President, Direct Banking, YES Bank, India

Samir Garudis Sr. Vice President – Direct Banking, Transaction Banking Group, at YES BANK. He is involved in developing and implementing the product strategy for ATM, Debit and pre-paid cards, Mobile Banking and Merchant Acquiring in the Direct Banking business at the Bank.

Samir has over 11 years of experience in the Financial Services industry in India across various areas of Direct Banking like technology, physical set-up and ATM operations, transaction migration, conceptualizing innovative revenue streams, product development, P&L management, market segmentation, program implementations vendor management etc.

Prior to joining YES BANK he was with ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank, where he had exposure to work in an established organization as well in a start-up business environment.

An alumnus of SIBM, Pune, Samir Garud also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical) from Pune University.

Speakers T-Z

Takeo Tohara, President & CEO,
Jibun Bank, Japan

Tony Poulos
Sector Head – Revenue Management
TM Forum

Tony Poulos has been involved with software development and systems integration in travel and telecommunications for over 20 years.

He is a regular contributor to industry publications worldwide, was a Contributing Analyst for IDC and Editor, Asia Pacific for Telecom TV. Tony was an executive of the Global Billing Association for five years prior to its merger with the TM Forum. He now heads up the Revenue Management Sector of the TM Forum and is an active participant in the TM Forum’s Cloud Initiative. He is also Anchor for The Telecom Channel.

Teppo Paavola
Vice President, General Manager of Mobile Financial Services
Nokia

Teppo Paavola is Vice President, General Manager of Mobile Financial Services in Nokia. Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries.

Mobile Financial Services brings multiple financial services to consumers in growth markets and the developed world. Mobile devices are already in the hands of 4 billion people across the globe, while there are only 1.6 billion bank accounts in the world. Nokia, with its leading distribution network and trusted brand, is in a unique position to help bridge that gap and bring financial services to both the banked and underbanked in more convenient and cost-efficient ways. Its offering, mobile payment ecosystem Nokia Money is an open platform for the cooperation between operator, banks and service providers, enabling a handset independent service offering that enables the core capabilities of the players and allows branding based on the players contributions.

Teppo has had several roles in Nokia since joining in 2004. Most recently, as Head of Corporate Business Development, Teppo led Nokia’s new business creation activities (“Strategic growth areas”) and strategic partnering.

Teppo is a five-time entrepreneur who founded his first company as a teenager in 1981, most recently as CEO of Oplayo (2002-2004), a mobile video company. In the early 90’s he went into consulting and was in charge of several productivity consulting projects for e.g. Nokia in the role of Project Director of IMPAC Ltd. After consulting and before returning to his entrepreneurial career in the software industry, Teppo spent four years in financial services with GE Capital in Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Development positions in London and Stockholm, and most recently as Managing Director of GE Capital Equipment Finance in Finland.

Teppo earned his M.Sc. in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration in 1991, and MBA in General Management from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France in 1996. He is based in New York.