Contributors

Brih Aguilar

Carrie Tong

Carrie Tong is Chief Strategy Officer Hong Kong and Macau and Head of Macau Branch, Manulife (International) Limited. As Chief Strategy Officer Hong Kong and Macau, Ms. Tong is responsible for setting the overall strategic priorities of the business, ensuring that strategic choices are made in line with strategic objectives, and the execution of plans is aligned to Manulife's priorities. She is also responsible for making sure that future changes to the company's business model are properly assessed and pursued in a deliberate, structured, and impactful manner.

Prior to Manulife, Ms. Tong worked at the Hong Kong Jockey Club overseeing new markets development and partnerships. She was formerly a senior consultant at Bain Company. Carrie began her career working at Willis Towers Watson in Toronto. She holds an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University, Canada.

Chandni Motwani

Chandni Motwani is the Strategy Director of Appnovation in Asia Pacific. Chandni is an experienced product and strategy lead in digital innovation. She believes that the first step to creating a successful product or service is to deeply know your user. She loves to explore how world shifts impact the interaction between human experience and technology. Chandni is keen to build disruptive digital solutions that have an eye on the future but are grounded in today. She believes in creating human-positive solutions that deliver true value for their users.

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.

Clemens Philippi

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.

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