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.

Tan Yong Nien joined Manulife Insurance Berhad as Head of Information Technology in January 2017 and has since taken on expanded role to lead Transformation and Project Management Office. Primary responsibilities include providing operational and strategic leadership over the areas of Information Technology, Transformation and Project Management. 25 years of in the technology sector across a wide span of industries including financial, manufacturing, telecommunication and e-government. Holds a Master of Science in Information Systems and Technology from John Hopkins University, USA, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA.

He bring together 20 years of experience in IT Management in Financial Institutions, Islamic Banking and Corporate Banking. He has solid experience in IT Risk Management, Application Development, IT Security and Strategic Planning. He is passionate about Cyber Security, digital transformation and emerging technologies. He also has experience in security strategic advisory for Malaysia operation and regional country and currently serve as the Chief Information Security Officer at Mizuho Bank (Malaysia) Bhd.

Bryan TAN is a partner at Pinsent Masons LLP. He practises in such areas as data protection, finance, technology, media and telecommunications and advises corporates as well as governments and is ranked top tier in several categories by Legal500 and Chambers. He is a legal adviser to the ASEAN Single Window project and the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade and Transport in Asia and the Pacific and also the co-chair of the TMT sub-committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and is a member of the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore, Consumer Association of Singapore. He is the editor/author of several law texts on information technology, e-commerce, electronic evidence, data protection and digital trade..

Danielle is a Business and Technology leader with 20+ years of success strategising and leading large organisations, startups in various transformation and business initiatives. Her experience spans across Global FSIs such as Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of America, Bank Julius Baer and UOB, one of Asia’s largest banks.In her last stint, she was the Delivery Lead for a successful Digital Transformation, transforming an incumbent bank with traditional ways of working, legacy systems to an award winning Challenger Bank. She had evangelised product innovation through design thinking, new agile ways of working with modern and scalable technology platforms and importantly, cultural change. This pure Digital Only Bank has the Third Highest Net Promoter Score within a year of launch.Having joined Red Hat’s APAC Transformation Office, Danielle’s vision is to help leaders and organisations globally build a workplace based on open culture, open practices and open source technology for the future. She believes that these are the ingredients to be a successful market leader.

As the country manager, Eric Quah is responsible for overall sales and business aspects of Red Hat Malaysia, leading the country team to drive sustainable growth, as well as help in building stronger relationships with enterprise customers and partners.Eric joins us from Oracle Malaysia where he leads the Middleware business for Malaysia. Prior to Oracle, Eric was with Hitachi eBworx responsible for their sales and marketing function for ASEAN.In the past, Eric also worked with IBM Software group for close to 10 years in different roles and functions - account management, enterprise marketing, business analytics and to his last role as Software Business Partner. One of his memorable moments as part of the management role at Oracle was to lead the team to achieve the 100% quota club including all individual sellers.

Sammeer Sharma was appointed as the Head of Wealth Management for Standard Chartered Malaysia on 1 January 2019. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director and Head, Bancassurance, Wealth Management where he led the Bank’s Bancassurance business in Malaysia and ASEAN and South Asia cluster markets. A banking professional with over 20 years of experience in developing businesses, leading transformations and change management actions across diverse markets, Sammeer has been with the Bank since 2002. His responsibilities have spanned across the Consumer Banking spectrum covering P&L Management, New Business Development, Product Management, Portfolio Management, Sales Management, Project Management, Analytics & Performance Management. In his 18 years with Standard Chartered, he has successfully built and transformed businesses across several domains like Insurance, Lending, Payments, Retail Segments, Distribution and Digital Banking. This gave Sammeer wide exposure to complex and varied businesses, across multiple complex markets such as Malaysia, Singapore and India.