Varun Mittal is a seasoned professional adept at value creation across Southeast Asia's digital business and financial services. As part of the founding management team, he orchestrated the scale-up, rapid growth and acquisition of Singlife (by Sumitomo Life) and helloPay (by ANT Financial). He has developed and implemented digital strategy, innovation management, and ecosystem development across insurance, financial advisory, payments, and banking domains.

As Chief Innovation Officer at Singlife, he manages new product and distribution innovation, ecosystem partnerships, and emerging technology rollouts like the AI Center of Excellence. Earlier in his career, he served as a Partner at EY, leading global emerging markets fintech & ASEAN digital banking practice supporting fintech startups, financial institutions, and regulators. Previously, he led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and developed regional mobile payment solutions at Singtel Group.

Varun is the founder of Fintech Nation™, an ecosystem platform comprising a book series, a mentorship platform (Fintech 65™), an investment fund to support Singapore's fintech community, and a public policy initiative to advance the unique Singapore model of economics, Singanomics™. As an accomplished author, he has written four books covering the journey and evolution of Singapore as a global fintech hub. He has been awarded as one of the top ten people in Singapore Fintech by the Monetary Authority of Singapore in 2019 and 2021.