Contributors

Saurabh Bhalerao

Saurabh Bhalerao is an Associate Director and manages the Industry Research team at CARE Ratings. Saurabh currently writes on multiple perspectives around the Indian BFSI industry. He has close to 15 years of experience in managing research services and has familiarity in dealing with global teams consisting of analysts with different cultural backgrounds.

Sebastian Dovey

Sebastian Dovey is Managing Partner at Scorpio Partnership the leading consumer insight and strategy consultancy to the global wealth industry.

Sebastian Sohn & Aicha Mauduit

Sebastian L. Sohn is a Director with Aurexia, a boutique management consulting firm and thought leader in ESG and Sustainable Finance. He is based in Singapore and assists his clients in the financial services sector with delivering strategic and operational ESG and regulatory projects.

Aicha Mauduit is a Senior Consultant with Aurexia, with experience in ESG and regulatory topics. She is based in Singapore and assists clients, typically asset managers and owners across the French and APAC markets.

Sharat Sinha

Sharat Sinha is the Vice President at Palo Alto Networks, for the Asia Pacific region. Sharat has over 19 years of experience in the IT & Telecommunications industry. Most recently he managed APAC business for Tellabs and at Cisco Systems in multiple sales, business development, marketing and product management roles. Sharat has a bachelor’s in Electronics engineering and a Master’s in Industrial & Management engineering from Indian institute of Technology (IIT).

Sharon Toh

Sharon Toh is Head of ASEAN for Swift in Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. She leads the ASEAN relationship management team, supporting existing customers and expanding ASEAN businesses in this fast-growing region. With more than 22 years’ experience in financial services industry, Sharon has developed deep client relationships across the ASEAN region, with strong connections with banks, corporates, regulators and market infrastructures. Prior to joining Swift, Sharon was Sales Director, Indochina at Thomson Reuters, overseeing Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. Previously, she was Regional Head of ASEAN for the Client Specialist team, responsible for the region’s sales, marketing and client training. In addition to her successful sales career, Sharon has worked in various roles across content acquisition, marketing and client support at leading financial information providers, including Telerate (later acquired by Thomson Reuters) and Bridge Information Systems.

Profile from the SWIFT official website.

Shaun Woodhouse

Shaun Woodhouse is the Commercial Director for Singapore at Digital Realty, where he is responsible for overseeing the company's commercial development in Singapore. Shaun has over 18 years of data centre design and infrastructure experience across Asia Pacific, Africa, and Europe.

Shayne Nelson

Shayne Nelson was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Global Head of Standard Chartered Private Bank in July 2010. He is alsChairman of the Islamic Banking Board of Standard Chartered Saadiq, Chairman of the publicly listed Standard Chartered Bank Pakistan and a Director of Scope International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered providing global shared services in Malaysia and India.

Shekar Ganesh

Shekar Ganesh, formerly a senior banker from Asia, is an independent consultant providing training to bankers in credit and relationship management. He is also a consultant for leadership and management.

Shrikant Bhat

Shrikant Bhat is the Head of Wealth Management at Citibank Singapore Limited. He has 15 years experience in consumer Banking industry on both liabilities and asset groups.

Shripad Vaidya

Shripad Vaidya heads the Global Retail Banking Practice at Polaris Financial Technology Ltd. He has many years of experience in Retail Banking and new generation Online Banking Channels including social media.