2024 Featured Ambassadors

Anjali D'Mello is the Head of Public Relations for Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa at Nium, where she spearheads strategic communications and media efforts for the global fintech leader across these pivotal regions. With over thirteen years of expertise in marketing and communications, she brings a wealth of experience to her role.

Prior to Nium, Anjali spent a decade specialising in tech PR, where she helped boost the visibility of high-growth tech startups, particularly across the APAC region.

A passionate advocate for women in tech, Anjali is dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in the industry. As she prepares to welcome her second child, she strives to inspire other women to find success and balance whilst navigating their professional and personal journeys.

Arjun is a Partner with Arthur D. Little's Global Financial Service Practice. His areas of focus include Fintech, Payments and Digital Assets. He is deeply involved in the overall Fintech Ecosystem across the MENA region – as an angel investor, advisor, mentor and commentator. He is also a special advisor to the board of Elevandi. 

He also the hosts a podcast called ‘Couchonomics with Arjun’ which focusses on the Future of Financial Services and is a Founding Member of the largest grassroots Fintech Community in the MENA region called ‘Fintech Tuesdays’. In 2022, Arjun was selected as the Voice of Gulf Region by Linkedin. 

Arvin is the co-founder and CEO of hoolah, a leading 'Buy Now, Pay Later' service provider that revolutionized the retail industry in Singapore. Under his leadership, hoolah quickly gained market traction and became the go-to BNPL platform for thousands of retailers and consumers alike. In late 2021, Arvin successfully led the sale of hoolah to ShopBack, Asia's leading shopping & rewards platform.

Prior to founding hoolah, Arvin held key positions at global payments giants Visa and Worldpay, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the future of payments and fintech innovation in the Asia Pacific region. 

With his extensive experience, deep industry knowledge, and strong track record of success, Arvin also advises tech startups seeking to drive innovation and growth, including Fly Fairly and Cinch.

Currently working as Industry Principal Architect for Financial Services, APAC at Google Cloud and based out of Singapore.

Banker Turned Technologist!
With over 22 years of experience working with Standard Chartered, IBM and Oracle.

Worked Extensively in the Digital Banking Space for Standard Chartered launching state of the art Internet Banking and Mobile Banking Solution across 33 consumer banking markets. These apps were used by over 5 Mn Digital Active Customers with 95% of the Payments, Sales and Services Transactions performed Digitally. The apps won various awards notably Webby’s, Global Finance for 5 years running.

Passionate about Data, Digital and AI and has over the years helped multiple clients in the APAC region transform with Technology. Always looking to come with new platform ideas that help connect various ecosystems.

Meet Betty, Specialist Fintech Director at Austrade Singapore (Australian government trade and investment development agency), passionately driving productive fintech foreign investment to Australia while facilitating global expansion for Australian fintech exporters. With a rich 17-year background in Southeast Asia's fintech and financial services realm, she founded and led a successful regtech startup for 5 years after a thrived 5 years of VC investments. Betty holds a Master of Science from Nanyang Technological University and is an esteemed member of the Singapore Institute of Directors and the Singapore Fintech Association.

Cassandra has been working in the healthcare space for the last decade. Trained academically in communications management, with a strong interest and solid experience in Healthcare Operations and Strategy, she believes in building a strong and inclusive ecosystem with like-minded stakeholders to build strong business collaborations. 

She is passionate about de-stigmatising mental health and making it accessible. She advocates that we should take a proactive approach in caring for our mental wellbeing and is excited to journey with Intellect to make this vision a reality. Cassandra has recently obtained her graduate diploma in Counselling Psychology. 

As the VP of Partnerships and Solutions, Cassandra oversees partnerships, corporate solutions, expansion in regional markets as well as Intellects' chain on clinics.

Eelee Lua is an accomplished business leader in the FinTech and RegTech space, specialising in risk mitigation, market development and strategic partnerships. With over 16 years of experience, Eelee has spearheaded diverse initiatives that have fuelled the growth and success of large corporates and early-stage startups alike. She is currently the Chief of Staff to the founder of xcube.co, a Corporate Venture Studio specialising in venture building with web3 & AI technologies via an ecosystem approach.

Eelee's active engagement in industry events, such as keynote speeches, panel discussions, and participation in prestigious conferences, underscores her thought leadership and influence in the technology and risk management landscape. Her latest article, “Circular Financial Identity - The Missing Piece for Financial Inclusion”, is also featured on IDC's The Next Big Thing - Editor's Pick.

Eelee recently obtained the SID-accredited Board Director designation, one of her latest professional qualifications. She is committed to leveraging her knowledge and skills to contribute meaningfully at the board level and promote good corporate governance across the tech industry.

Huy Nguyen Trieu is the Co-Founder of CFTE. CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship is a global leading education platform for finance professionals with the mission to bridge the gap between technology and people in finance through education at scale. Huy is a recognised speaker at global platforms in the fields of emerging technologies in finance, fintech, blockchain, Skills and Talent in the Tech world. He has been a keynote speaker, chaired roundtables, delivered workshops and masterclasses, etc. Huy and CFTE have been Knowledge Partners and Professional Development Partners of the premier thought leadership forums globally including the Singapore Fintech Festival since its inception, Point Zero Forum, Global Fintech Festival, 24 Fintech, Japan Fintech Festival, Abu Dhabi Finance Week, OMFIF Digital Summit, Citi Digital Money Symposium, Dubai Fintech Summit, Money 2020, Finnovate Europe, and many more. Huy led CFTE as a close collaborator with Elevandi with whom CFTE co-created and launched the course “Rearchitecting the Financial System” during SFF 2023. 

With Singapore Fintech Festival, Huy has been an SFF Ambassador from 2022 and hosted roundtables at last year’s SFF on the topic: Bullish or bearish: The Impact of Generative AI on Financial Services; he has chaired several roundtables with regulators, CXOs, Global Heads of Data and AI on topics around the impact, potential, skills and outlook of AI. 

Recently, in May 2024, Huy also pioneered the CFTE Future Skills Forum in the Museum of the Future, Dubai, leading a symposium of over 800 leaders in fintech, financial services, and central banks to address the future of work.

An MIT engineer by background, an entrepreneur by nature, and more generally a “big picture” person, Huy Trieu Nguyen has held senior leadership postions at RBS, SocGen and Citi as Managing Director. As a leader in the Fintech world, Huy has also dedicated to teaching and preparing the next generation for digital finance as a Fellow at Oxford and Fintech Advisor at the World Economic Forum. 

He is also the CEO of The Disruptive Group, a business builder and advisory firm in innovation and finance, and Venture Partner at Mundi Ventures, an early-stage VC fund in Fintech and Insurtech. He believes that in a world led by technology, we shouldn’t forget the importance of people, which is why he co-founded CFTE to help people improve their skills and find opportunities. Before banking, he was the CEO of Ukibi, a VC-funded startup in the US. He is a frequent keynote speaker in Europe and Asia, likes to teach and share with professionals and entrepreneurs, and is regularly quoted in articles on innovation and finance. 

He writes the blog Disruptive Finance, is an Entrepreneurship Expert at Oxford Said Business School and a Fintech Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at Imperial College. He was the co-creator Oxford Said’s Fintech Course. He was also a member of ESMA’s Consultative Working Group for financial innovation and a founding member of the Asian SuperCharger, one of the largest Fintech accelerators in Asia. Huy is currently writing a book ‘The AI-fication of Jobs’ that discusses key questions around the impact of AI on the future of work using a newly researched innovation impact model.  Huy is a graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (US), École Polytechnique (France) and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees (France).

An enthusiastic and long-term member of the Fintech community, Irina is an accomplished Fintech marketing leader with almost two decades of hands-on experience building world-class brands at the intersection of Payments and Technology across Europe and Asia. Currently, she is the CMO at Volt, a real-time payments platform driving innovation in Open Banking.

Before joining Volt, Irina was CMO at Thunes, a global fintech focused on modern payment infrastructure connecting developed and emerging markets. She also played a pivotal role at Rapyd, leading its go-to-market strategy in APAC and managing brand, communications, and social media.

Irina’s experience includes launching GrabPay and GrabRewards at Grab, Southeast Asia's super-app, and several years at Visa, where she contributed to marketing efforts across APAC and the Innovation Centre.

She is passionate about super-apps, embedded finance, alternative payment methods, and the future of payments.

Jon Scheele leads technology strategy, implementation and training with leading enterprises in the financial services and telecommunications industries. A special focus is helping companies to scale their business through digitally-enabled partnerships within and beyond their industry.

In fostering the technology community in Singapore, Jon organises apidays Singapore, an annual two-day conference on the business and technology of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Jon also hosts the API Connections podcast, and organises the API Craft Singapore and Platform Engineers Singapore meetup groups.

As a Fellow at National University of Singapore’s Advanced Computing for Executives, Jon teaches software development, APIs and RPA on NUS’s Advanced Professional Certificate in Fintech program.

As the project manager for numerous platform projects, Jon has implemented technology-enabled change initiatives for large and medium-sized companies across 7 countries. Jon is adept at addressing the technical and organisational obstacles that need to be overcome for successful implementation.

With over two decades of experience across fintech, product marketing, and strategy, Ms Puah has led high-impact product and partnership initiatives, driving financial inclusion and transformation. Her career spans leadership roles, including CEO, President of Fintech Association Malaysia, and country-level marketing head positions, where she built and scaled fintech ecosystems. Passionate about driving sustainable growth, Ms Puah thrives on creating meaningful partnerships and crafting compelling narratives that bring value to businesses and communities.