Gilles Ubaghs Gilles Ubaghs is a Strategic Advisor with Aite-Novarica Group’s commercial banking practice where he is focused primarily on commercial payments and the role that digital transformation is having across the enterprise and broader financial services sector. This includes a range of horizontal industry wide topic areas, such as the role of shifting payment regulations, fintech’s and artificial intelligence, as well as more tactical granular topics such as commercial cards, and payment clearing and settlement systems. Gilles brings over 15 years of experience in the analysis and financial services space creating a range of syndicated off the shelf, and bespoke consulting projects for a wide array of clients at the enterprise, vendor, investor and regulator level internationally. Gilles has direct professional experience in European, Asia Pacific and North American markets and always aims to bring local context into global payments issues. Prior to joining Aite-Novarica Gilles was a Principal Analyst with Ovum where he helped to build up its retail payments practice across a range of key topics. Originally from Belgium but raised in the US, Gilles is fully fluent in French and English. Gilles holds a bachelors’ degree in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and is currently based in beautiful Toronto, Canada.
Chandramouli Srinivasan Chandramouli comes with over 20 years of experience in research-based consulting engagements in the B2B and B2C market spaces. He has positively impacted over 400 organisations through his work, by helping them build effective stakeholder engagements, identifying their votaries, and building a growth strategy aligned to customer expectations and business priorities. He has been the chief architect of Feedback Insight’s growth into a leading research and consulting firm in the B2B space for all ‘active stakeholders and market listening’. In an earlier role, he has led B2B market sizing, go-to-market plans, partner identification engagements etc and has streamlined and built processes and systems relevant to B2B Market Research. He has rich domain experience across various business sectors such as IT/BPM, professional services, knowledge services, the start-up space, financial markets, chemicals, rural markets, electrical & electronics, oil and gas, infrastructure, engineering, healthcare, retail etc. He has worked with leading Tech services organisations in India and globally and has a keen understanding of the market, customer pulse and challenges faced by this sector. EX™, Experience Index, a framework to assess and track customer experience, has been conceptualised by him and has become the most tracked bench mark amongst tech services leaders in India today.
Alasdair Paterson “Ali is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief at “Fintech Finance” and creator of “The Payments Race.” He runs the editorial for Fintech Finance Video Channels and Magazines, interviewing some of the best and brightest representatives across the financial services landscape.” “I founded Fintech Finance back in 2015 in my kitchen with my brother in law. Since then we have grown at breakneck speed. I spend most of my time on production and editorial for the Fintech Finance Video Channels and Magazines, as well as host the episodes, which means I get to interview some of the best and brightest representatives across the financial services landscape and attend some damm cool events!”
Peter Yorke Peter Yorke is Senior Vice President and Head of Marketing at SunTec. A seasoned marketing professional, he brings strategic marketing and internal communications competencies to SunTec.He handles SunTec’s global branding and marketing initiatives to strengthen the company presence across the world. He has over 30 years of experience in branding, corporate communications, marketing, high-tech public relations, content marketing, training, and strategic communication. He was earlier the Founder and CEO of Yorke Communications Pvt. Ltd., a content marketing firm that created marketing programs for brands. He has also served as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Oracle Financial Services Software [formerly i-flex solutions]. He earlier had stints in Tata Consultancy Services [TCS] and Wipro Systems in the editorial and communication function. He has done his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Bombay and a Diploma in Journalism from the Bombay College of Journalism. He is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Michael Yesudas Michael [Mike] Yesudas is the Chief Technology Officer at SunTec and heads the technology and engineering functions, including platform engineering, product engineering, and release engineering. He has nearly three decades of experience in systems, software and AI solutions and has worked with Fortune 500 clients across verticals – telecom, retail, financial services, manufacturing, and software, to name a few. Prior to this, he has played several significant technology leadership roles across organizations, including IBM, Sterling Commerce, GE, and HP and has handled key projects across EMEA, APAC and America. In his previous role in IBM, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of IBM Sterling and AI Applications Expert Labs. He completed his BTech at IIT Kharagpur and has an MS in Engineering from the University of Houston and MS in Computer Science from Monash University. He has several U.S. and international patents and has been a CISSP Certified Security Expert for 15 years.
Wei Ke Wei Ke is a Managing Partner at Simon-Kucher & Partners. He currently heads the company’s financial services activities in North America and is Managing Partner of Simon-Kucher Canada. Wei has advised leading banks and financial institutions on pricing strategy, customer value management, risk management, value communication, consumer behavioral biases, and big data analytics.
Santanu Dutt Santanu Dutt is the Head of Technology for South East Asia with Amazon Web Services based in Singapore where he along with his technology organization is responsible in educating companies with the service offerings of the AWS platform, as well as helping them in architecture best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud. Santanu has been part of AWS for over 9 years now as a Technologist interfacing with businesses of all sizes from startups to Enterprise CXOs and partners.
