Contributors

Chris Tan

Chris Tan is an Engineering Consultant at FM Global, a leading commercial property insurance company. With over 12 years of experience, Chris has established himself as a seasoned professional in property loss evaluation and business interruption risks. Specializing in the advanced technology industries, including semiconductors and data centres, he has successfully partnered with top companies such as Micron, Globalfoundries, and Samsung to identify and mitigate manufacturing process risks. His contributions to the industry involve participating in standards revisions and mentoring the next generation of engineers in the semiconductor specialization. Chris continues to be an influential voice in the events and technology landscape, and has led to well-received presentations at large conferences, including the recent SESHA Symposium in Phoenix, USA.

Dave Russell and Rick Vanover

Dave Russell is the vice president of enterprise strategy, Veeam; and Rick Vanover is the senior director of product strategy, Veeam.

Diana Guzman

Diana Guzman is the Group Director for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) at Prudential Plc. She joined Prudential in January 2023 from the World Economic Forum (WEF), where she was the Head of Sustainable Development Investment Partnership & Development Finance. Prior to that, Guzman was Director for CDP (former Carbon Disclosure Project), the global environmental disclosure system.

Eduard Sargsyan

Eduard Sargsyan is the head of Insurance Business Advisory (ASEAN), SAS Institute. 

Sargsyan has over 10 years of experience in Value, Business Case Driven Sales of data monetization and process automation projects in Insurance. Before joining SAS ASEAN Sargsyan worked in SAS CEMEA region and took part in more than 35 digital transformation projects for major insurers for the last seven years.

These projects have already earned the insurers 100+ USD million in revenue. Sargsyan has accumulated a lot of practical expertise in using digital technologies to boost revenue in both General and Life Insurance. The key focus of Sargsyan's work is to help customers transform the data they collect into increasing scale, capitalization, and sustainability of their businesses. He assists insurance companies in finding growth areas in business processes & business models, formulating business cases and digital transformation strategies for data monetization initiatives, and bringing high-tech projects to a specific financial & operational result.

Eileen Tay and Eunice Tan

Eileen Tay is an insurance analyst whilst Eunice Tan is the head of credit research in Asia-Pacific at S&P Global Ratings.

Elton Qiu

Elton Qiu is the Head of Product, Insurance for OneConnect Financial Technology. Co. Ltd. (NYSE: OCFT), a leading technology-as-a-service platform for financial institutions, and an associate of Ping An Group which ranks 21 st on 2020 Fortune Global 500 and 7 th on Forbes 2020 Global 2000. Building upon Ping An’s extensive knowledge and expertise, OneConnect brings the best of China’s financial technologies to empower financial institutions and banks in Asia. Elton is responsible for driving growth in our insurance technology product strategy, roadmap and project delivery to ensure that OneConnect’s insurtech solutions remain innovative and effective.

With an actuarial background, Elton brings more than 15 years’ experience in the insurance and healthcare sectors. Most recently, he was at Salesforce as a Master Solution Engineer, leading insurance and healthcare industry solutions in Asia that provided best practices for customers using Software-as-a-Service. Prior to that, Elton held leadership positions at eBaoTech, an international insurance solutions vendor, where he led the product solution team and built the product market strategy for Asia. Elton holds a Master of Science, Actuarial Science and a Graduate Diploma, Actuarial Science from the University of Kent, and a Bachelor’s degree in Auditing from Nanjing Audit University.

Eunice Tan and Eileen Tay

 Eileen Tay is an insurance analyst whilst Eunice Tan is the head of credit research in Asia-Pacific at S&P Global Ratings.

George Kesselman

George Kesselman is the CEO and Founder of InsurTech Asia

Greg Crowl

Greg is the Director of Sales Engineering, Asia Pacific & Japan, for Kofax. For more than 20 years, he has helped organizations succeed in adopting and exploiting process automation solutions to deliver bottom-line business improvements. He’s worked with clients from many industries across APAC, EMEA and the Americas.

Harpreet Bindra

Bindra is HSBC Life's (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Chief Executive Officer. He joined the company in 2018 and was appointed as CEO back in 2023.

Prior to his appointment in Singapore, Bindra was the Global head of Strategy and Business Development for HSBC Global Insurance and Partnerships. 

Additionally, he has over 20 years of leadership experience in the industry.