Manoj Dugar is Managing Director and Head of Wholesale Payments for ASEAN based in Singapore. In this role, he is responsible for Treasury Services, Trade Finance and Merchant Services across Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. He leads the efforts to deliver market
leading solutions, ensuring resiliency and robustness in product offering, service model and control environment. He plays an instrumental role in driving the strategy on ecommerce, Fintech and transformative technologies.

Prior to this position,, Manoj was APAC Head of Core Cash Management for six years and lead the firm’s product development strategy for Receivables, Payables, FX and Channel offerings across the region, ensuring corporate and financial institution clients benefit from an integrated approach across the Corporate & Investment Bank.

During 23+ year career, Manoj has held various roles in transaction and corporate banking across product management, sales, relationship management and operations. Prior to joining J.P Morgan in 2014, Manoj was Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions Product, India at Citi.

Manoj holds a Chartered Accountancy and Company Secretary degree by background.

Lau Shih Hor is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Elixir Technology, a progressive and leading tools and platform provider of next-generation Smart Nation Solutions. Shih Hor plays a critical role in overseeing the strategic direction, planning, operations and business development for the company.

Under Shih Hor’s agile and dynamic leadership, Elixir has helped many enterprises across industry verticals transform their business digitally via smart nation solutions incorporating big data analytics and visualisation, video analytics, IoT integration among others.

A frequent speaker at events across the world, Shih Hor has successfully led the company into the global scene with Elixir’s suite of Business Intelligence products to more than 600 customers in over 80 countries. Shih Hor is a recipient of the SCS Fellowship, an honour conferred upon individuals with significant contributions to the IT industry in Singapore.

Dutch Ng, the co-founder and chief executive officer of i-Sprint, has been working for the company since 2000. Dutch is instrumental in providing strategic leadership in business development strategy and product directions. He plays a key role in managing the financial and business performance of the company.

Over the past 20 years, Dutch held senior management and executive-level positions for high tech companies and took on various challenging and operational roles with regional responsibilities. His vast operational experience has helped him to develop a wealth of practical and hands-on experiences in managing the critical operations from professional services organization, administration, and finance to customer care operations. He has worked in many countries such as the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand and is fluent in speaking many languages.

Before co-founding i-Sprint, Dutch spent four years in Citibank Regional Asia Pacific Technology Group, and he was responsible for implementing and deploying of technology solutions for the bank branches across 14 countries in the Asia Pacific region.

Currently, Mr Ng is the Chairman of Cybersecurity Chapter at SGTech and a member of Technical Work Group for Cybersecurity at WorldSkills Singapore.

Dutch received his Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

William Thomas is the Director of the Economist Corporate Network in South-east Asia. An experienced advisor to senior business and government leaders, he helps organisations understand the strategic, operational, and talent implications of geopolitical changes.

William holds a PhD in public policy from George Mason University in the US, as well as a degree in economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA. His academic research has centered on managing change in large, multinational organisations, with an emphasis on organisational culture.

William is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel, having spent much of his 21-year career as a strategic planner for complex operations such as humanitarian assistance and counterterrorism. He was Associate Professor of Political Science at the US Air Force Academy, and later taught at Georgetown University in Washington DC and as a Fulbright Scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Having worked in Asia since 2012, William has focused on leadership development and organisational change as a consultant, leadership coach, and training facilitator.