Director of Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department | Asian Development Bank (ADB) 

Executive Director | The SEACEN Centre

Mangal Goswami is currently the Executive Director at The SEACEN Centre in Kuala Lumpur. He was the Deputy Director at IMF-South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Centre in New Delhi. He also served as the Deputy Director of the IMF’s Singapore Regional Training Institute (STI) during June 2010- December 2016. He has a range of experience with IMF macro and macro-financial capacity development work in Asia. Prior to joining the STI, he was a Senior Economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF. Notably, he was a member of selected IMF working groups during the Global Financial Crisis. He participated in the IMF’s surveillance work on Large Complex Financial Institutions and was part of several Financial Sector Assessment Programs. Before joining the IMF, he was an Economist at ABN AMRO Bank in Singapore during the Asian Financial Crisis, and he served in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in the US.

Chief Operating Officer | Fullerton Financial Holdings

Mr Mukherjee has over 25 years’ financial services experience covering Commercial and Consumer Banking business across Asia. As Chief Operating Officer, Anindo oversees the company’s operational activities and works closely with the investee companies to implement their business plans, manage risk and governance and develop operational capabilities.

Prior to joining FFH, he held various senior roles including Chief Risk Officer in Fullerton India, Regional Credit Officer for the Consumer Business for South Asia at Standard Chartered Bank & Head of Retail Credit & Risk at HDFC Bank. Anindo started his initial career at Bank of America and ABN Amro Bank.

Group Chief Data Officer | Pepper Group

Andy joined Pepper in 2018 as Group Chief Data Officer.  Based in the UK. He has global responsibility for managing and driving commercial value from data and analytics and identifying new business opportunities through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

Before joining Pepper, Andy had a varied career in large UK and global corporates including spending 11 years at Telefónica O2, latterly as general manager for business intelligence, sitting on the UK executive of News UK as its first chief data officer and latterly as Sainsbury’s chief data officer. Since early 2016, he has also been a non-executive director on the board of Global Data, an AIM-listed business information business. Andy has extensive experience across a wide range of industries of driving transformational change in businesses through the exploitation of big data.

Regional Lead | Digital Finance Serves Practice Group

Meetu Singh is the regional lead for the Digital Finance services practice group within the FIG Advisory team at IFC. The DFS team works with IFC’s FI clients across the region to advice and support them on their digital transformation journey. Prior to joining IFC, Meetu has spent over 20 years in the banking industry, working across various disciplines with the last 15 years in Transaction banking supporting corporates for their trade, supply chain, cash management and liquidity requirements globally. Her experience spans large globals like JPM, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, MUFG and DBS, and across countries like India, Australia, Singapore and the US.

Managing Director | Citi

Kelvin Goh is the Head of APAC Insurance for Financial Institutions Group, Investment Banking as well as the Head of Singapore Corporate Finance. He has 17 years of experience in the investment banking industry, and has been focused on the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Citi, he was the Head of Southeast Asia FIG and Head of Singapore IBD at Morgan Stanley. He has advised Asia’s leading Financial Institutions in a broad variety of strategic and capital markets transactions.

Managing Director | CarVal Investors

Mr. Colcord is responsible for originating and executing investment opportunities in emerging markets and loan portfolios across Asia. Mr. Colcord first joined Cargill in 1993 in the Strategy and Business Development Group in Minneapolis. In 1997, Mr. Colcord moved to Shanghai to start Cargill’s Trade and Structured Finance Group’s office there. In 2004, he transferred to CarVal Investors where he led China investments until 2014. Mr. Colcord rejoined CarVal in 2017 after working as an independent consultant to funds investing in Greater China. Prior to joining Cargill, Mr. Colcord worked in investment banking for Kidder, Peabody & Co. in New York and Hong Kong. Mr. Colcord received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and his B.A. in economics and psychology from Yale College, graduating magna cum laude.

Co-Head of Principal Investments Asia - ASEAN & India |   Pepper Group                                                                    

Ravi oversees Pepper’s sourcing, assessment and monitoring of new investment opportunities across ASEAN & India. Ravi has over 38 years’ experience in South East Asia, Europe and USA in managerial roles across various industries including banking, covering operations, finance, investment banking and corporate finance. Ravi is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a BA in Accounting & Operational Research from Dundee University, Scotland.

Co-Head of Principal Investments Asia - Greater China & SE Asia | Pepper Group

Chi-Nang has over 19 years experience as a senior executive banker and advisor within corporate finance specialising in financial services and M&A, and have been supporting numerous financial institutions with core/non-core strategies and execution.

He currently leads Pepper Group business and expansion in Greater China and SE Asia. Prior to joining Pepper, he led Deloitte’s Portfolio Lead Advisory Services (“PLAS”) business in Asia and advised banks, globally renowned funds and government agencies in the region. Prior to that, he was the Head of Portfolio Strategy for the Global Non-Core Division of Lloyds Banking Group (“LBG”) – one of the largest distressed banks in Europe during the Global Financial Crisis – where he was part of the senior executive team leading the successful deleveraging of LBG’s £300bn of Non-Core assets

Supporting LBG since the inception of the “Bad Bank”, he was also a member of the Group Asset Reduction Forum which is the key decision forum for LBG’s deleveraging programme and significant transactions. The Division comprised of multiple asset classes including Shipping, Aircraft, Leasing, CRE, SME, Resi, etc, across numerous international jurisdictions.

Peter Rosenkranz is an Economist in the Regional Cooperation and Integration Division in the Economics Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). His knowledge work focuses on financial development and stability within the context of regional financial integration and cooperation in Asia, and the identification of related policy options. Recent work includes research on macrofinancial implications of nonperforming loans (NPLs) and policy options for NPL resolution, US dollar funding conditions, regional financial safety nets, and FinTech. He further supports ADB’s participation in regional policy forums, such as ASEAN, ASEAN+3, APEC, and ASEM.He held prior positions at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as an Advisor on economic and development policy, and the European Central Bank (ECB) as a Market Infrastructure Expert. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland; and his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Head of the Financial Institutions Group in Asia Pacific Ex-Japan | Goldman Sachs

Partner | Ares SSG Group

Aziz has over 19 years of experience in international banking and finance, and in setting, enforcing and providing training on regulatory policies and standards. He joined the SEACEN Centre in September 2016 on a sponsored career break from the Bank of England. Aziz is responsible for providing technical assistance, capacity building and delivering training programmes to SEACEN’s 35 Central Banks and Regulatory Authority stakeholders on issues related to Supervision, Financial Stability, Risk Management, Climate Risk and Financial Market Infrastructures. Before joining SEACEN, Aziz spent 7 years working as a Senior Technical Specialist at the Bank of England / Prudential Regulation Authority, undertaking asset quality and Non-Performing Loan reviews globally and managing the wholesale Concurrent Stress Testing programme. Aziz began his career in the Strategy, Finance and Economics practice of Andersen Business Consulting in London, and later worked at Standard Chartered Bank UK, covering the Origination, Structuring and Syndication of loan products. He also worked at Lloyds Banking Group in Leveraged Finance Loan Restructuring and Workout. Aziz is a graduate in Economics and Philosophy from The University of Nottingham, UK, and also studied for an M.Sc. in Computing for Industry at Imperial College London.