Welcome to the Asia FinTech Awards

Anu served in the largest monopoly in India at Life Insurance Corporation of India from 1994-1999, then moved on as a founder member of Birla Sunlife Insurance and AMP Sanmar Life and Reliance Nippon Life.

As the head of operations at Indiafirst Life, Anu anchored projects like driving 97% policy issuance on tab in 2013 and underwriting through iris recognition in 2014.

She transitioned to BD and Distribution in 2017, acquired the first Small Finance Bank for Edelweiss Tokio in 2018, and set up Star Union Dai-ichi’s first Banca Commercial Support unit that focussed on activating inactive bank branches, where she now serves as a part of the marketing and digital team at Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance.

Anu is an Angel Investor with Yatra Angel Network and has invested in several fintech startups in her personal capacity. She also volunteers for Sahamati Account Aggregator to support AA adoption amongst Insurers.

Mark S. Gorriceta is board trustee, corporate secretary and chief legal officer of Fintech Philippines Association. He is a trustee and founding member of the Blockchain Council of the Philippines. And also the chairman of the ICT Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines and a member of the Fintech Alliance.

Mark is the managing partner and head of the corporate, banking and finance, and technology media and telecommunications groups of Gorriceta Africa Cauton & Saavedra – a multi-awarded and fast-rising full-service Philippine law firm established in 2015.

Mark is the Philippines’ top lawyer in the tech/fintech sector with his pioneering legal expertise on fintech, blockchain, digital assets, web3 technology, e-commerce, data privacy, and artificial intelligence. He represents domestic conglomerates in their digitisation efforts as well as the Philippines’ top technology companies – both local and global entities.

He is currently a faculty member of the Ateneo de Manila University’s Graduate School and teaches Mergers & Acquisitions for the Advanced Module Diploma Course in Corporate Finance.

Rajkumar Kanagasingam is the founding president of FinTech Association of Sri Lanka. He has participated at a number of international forums—in India, Dubai and Singapore—as a speaker, moderator or a judge. 

Kanagasingam is the founder and chief executive officer of Asian FinTech Academy, which organises Asia Digital Finance Forum and Awards and annually conducts executive programs on fintech, blockchain enabled digital assets and artificial intelligence in finance. 

He is also the founder and chief executive officer of Ambuli International, a consultancy firm which focuses on the application of blockchain, AI and big data in the financial services industry.   

Yerbol Orynbayev is an independent financial services consultant and former Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan. He advises leading financial services and technology companies and has held a number of senior positions in private financial, research and technology companies.

Prior to his consultancy career, Orynbayev served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 2007-2013 and Aide to the President on economic policy from 2013-2015. He also worked as the Governor of the World Bank on behalf of Kazakhstan, and helped to steer the nation out of the Financial Crisis in 2008.

He was Chairman of First Heartland Securities and held a number of board-level roles at the National Bank of Kazakhstan and Agency for Regulations of Financial Markets.