Contributors

Shuang Tao

Shuang is member of SAS Risk & Finance Advisory team for Asia Pacific, with over 20 years experience in systems implementation, and 8 years experience in Financial Risk Management. Shuang gained her FRM and SCR (Sustainability and Climate Risk) certification in 2020. Currently, Shuang leads the Solvency ll and Climate Risk initiatives for SAS in Asia Pacific.

Shuang has extensive experience as a subject matter expert in Risk Management including IFRS17, IFRS9 and Stress Testing. Shuang has also has key project implementation roles for Credit Risk Management systems and AML for several Mega-Banks in Japan.

Shuang has a masters degree in Decision Support Systems, and joined SAS in 2010 from Sony and Canon where she was an expert in supply chain information management. She also has experience of doing Data Analysis for Retail, Transition and Telecommunication industries in Japan.

Shuang grew up in China and now resides in Japan. She enjoys ballet dancing and reading.

Shuang Yang

Dr. Shuang is a Senior Director and the Head of Machine Learning at Ant Group. He's dedicated to build the machine learning technologies that enable Ant to provide a wide spectrum of financial services (payment, banking, credit, loan, insurance, wealth management) to 1.2 billion users around the world.

Before joining Ant, Dr. Shuang was the Cofounder and Chief Scientist of Operator Inc. (2014-2017), where he created the world's very first conversational bot for e-commerce (shopping concierge). Prior to that, he was the Lead Scientist and a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter, where he led Twitter's machine learning infrastructure, content understanding, personalization and recommendation (2012-2015).

Dr. Shuang earned his Ph.D from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of multiple awards including Best Paper Awards from ACM SIGIR (2011), UAI (finalist, 2010), PAKDD (2008) and CCAI (2008), a Facebook Fellowship (finalist, 2011), a Yahoo! Key Scientific Award (2011), and the President's Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008).

Sidrah Arif

Sidrah Arif is a Senior Associate at Allen & Overy LLP.
 

Silvio Struebi and De Liu

Silvio Struebi is a Partner at Simon-Kucher's Hong Kong and Singapore Office.

De Liu is a Senior Consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners.

Sim Wee Yang & Alan Lau

Alan Lau is Executive Director and Sim Wee Yang is Senior Manager at KPMG in Singapore.

Simon Faure-Field

Simon Faure-Field is the founder and CEO of visionary customer experience consultancy, Equal Strategy. The company, which has offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, advises global brands across multiple industries how to achieve consistency in “brand atmospherics”, specifically telephone and customer environment (‘sensory’) touch points which enable companies to achieve powerful competitive advantage in the context of their long-term business strategy.

Simon Tong

Simon Tong is a Senior Manager in Deloitte Southeast Asia’s Financial Services Consulting practice. His successful background in strong business strategy and transformation within the banking sector has enabled him to manage end-to-end delivery of key strategic transformation initiatives including changes to banking operating models to support growth and business efficiency. Simon typically plays the role of a business architect, guiding and advising clients on making the right decisions for their future business and technology operating models whilst working with multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment and a common direction.

Siow Hwei Liew

Siow Hwei is the Director of BNP Paribas Securities, Head of the Business Implementation and Change Management covering Asia. In this role, she is instrumental in establishing the governance structure of the new function with the objective of leading the team to transition clients’ back-end processes successfully and instituting efficient change programs. 

Sisi Liao

Sisi Liao is a Senior Financial Researcher at the Lafferty Group.

Sofia A. Johan

Sofia A. Johan is an Adjunct Professor at Schulich School of Business and Extramural Research fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Center, University of Tilburg