Speakers

As the national leader of KPMG’s Financial Services sector, Adrian has helped KPMG’s clients capitalize on the disruptive changes in the Financial Services market. In this role, he interacts regularly with regulators and C-level executives locally and regionally, allowing him to bring perspective to discussions on financial, regulatory and governance matters. Adrian draws on over 26 years of experience at KPMG, auditing and advising clients that include large multinationals and financial institutions. He has led engagements in financial due diligence and risk management reviews on various banks and finance companies. He is also a Member of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board Working Group on Financial Instruments, and an active speaker on IFRS and MFRS9. Within the Malaysian firm, Adrian holds additional roles as Head of People and Head of KPMG Business School. Under his leadership, KPMG in Malaysia has won multiple awards including the Malaysia's 100 Leading Graduate Employers, Graduates’ Choice Award (2018 & 2019), Graduan Brand Awards (2016–2019), CSR Company of the Year Award (2017–2019), National Best Employer Brand (2017 and 2019), and many others.

MC currently leads the Kantar Malaysia Insights division in Malaysia. He has worked with clients across a wide array of sectors and industries, helping them to grow their business With more than 26 years in Consumer Understanding and Insights domain, he has worked with clients across many markets, leading various regional client accounts previously. Being a curious, passionate and people person enabled MC to deliver impact to client's business and help their business grow Being a Qualitative researcher at heart, MC love to be involved in running strategy workshops, Ideation sessions and Action planning sessions with clients. As a leader, he is very people focused and take pride in ensuring the team can flourish and be successful in their career.

Sameer is a partner in McKinsey & Company’s Financial Services Practice and based out of the Kuala Lumpur office. He leads McKinsey’s work on small and medium-size enterprise (SME) banking in Asia and the Risk Practice in Southeast Asia.

A. Asohan is the Senior Editor, News at Star Media Group. He was previously the Editor of The Star’s popular In.Tech pullout until 2005 before being posted to Bangkok as the Editor of the Asia News Network (ANN). In 2007, he returned to KL to take charge of The Star’s digital media operations, before leaving in 2010 to take on the role of senior public relations manager at Microsoft Malaysia. He returned to journalism in 2012, forming Digital News Asia with other technology journalists. In 2016, he returned to The Star to assume his current position.

Luc Jodet is the Co-Founder of Arianee and Executive Director of Aria Labs. With over a decade of experience in energy, technology and entrepreneurship, Luc started his career as a Business Analyst in a Fortune 500 company. He then co-founded BUYECO, a renewable energy marketplace in Switzerland where he discovered blockchain technology while working on energy traceability solutions. This eventually led to him being part of the Arianee founding team, where he is well-positioned to seamlessly blend both the technology and business side of the equation to transform global digital standards for brands to benefit consumers with augmented ownership.