Judges

Anu Ghosh is an executive committee member at India InsurTech Association. She served in the 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 Daichi’s first Banca Commercial Support unit that focussed on activating inactive bank branches. Currently, she is serving to set-up the digital business.

As a firm believer and advocate of the higher purpose of insurance, Anu contributes as the honorary president of WICCI Insurance Council to the cause of women and insurance, and as an executive committee member of India Insurtech Association’s efforts in bringing the insurance and insurtech ecosystem together. She also volunteers for Sahamati Account Aggregator building the Insurance Use Cases and supporting adoption within the Insurers.

Chia Hock Lai is the co-founder of the Global Fintech Institute, venture partner of Tembusu Partners and partnership lead at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). He has two decades of experience in the financial and technology industries, having worked in Singapore’s GovTech and NTUC Income.

An alumnus of NUS and NTU, he is the co-chairman of the Blockchain Association Singapore, and former and founding president of Singapore Fintech Association.

He is a council member of and strategic advisor to numerous tech start-ups and organizations such as Bondevalue, RootAnt Global, RegTank, Morpheus Labs and IEEE Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standard Committee.

In addition, he is also an Institute of Banking and Finance fellow for digital transformation, fintech fellow at the SUSS and fellow at SkillsFuture Singapore.

Jason Hsu is senior research fellow at The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Harvard Kennedy School. 

From 2016 to 2020 Hsu served as legislator-at-large in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (national parliament) overseeing technology policy, entrepreneurship and innovation. Among the crucial legislations that he initiated and sponsored include FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act, Amendment on Anti-Money Laundering Law, and Digital Economy Principle Act.  

After leaving government, Jason worked in several high-profile roles of international organisations including senior adviser of head of legislative research of Blockchain Climate Institute, council member of International Digital Asset Exchange Association, and advisory board member of Global Fintech Institute.  

Jason is a proponent for cryptocurrency and blockchain. Jason is credited for setting up Asia Blockchain Alliance, Taiwan Parliamentary Coalition for Blockchain, and Self-Regulatory Organisation. 

Jason is also an advocator for socially progressive legislation. He co-led the effort to pass Same Sex Marriage Act and championed for End-of-Life Dignity Act.  

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.

Paul Pong is the managing director of Pegasus Fund Managers. He has been working in the fund management industry for over 30 years.

Being a leader and pioneer in the finance industry, Paul also contributes heavily towards public services on fostering industry development and talent cultivation in Hong Kong as an advisor for regulatory bodies and professional associations. He is currently a member of Academic and Accreditation Advisory Committee, Securities & Futures Commission as well as the advisory committee of Hang Seng Indexes.

Paul has previously served as chairman at the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong from 2016- 2018 and 2010-2012. He later founded the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia in 2018 to nurture talents and ecosystem in the booming FinTech industry.

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.   

Raphael Jansa serves as general manager of the FinTech Association Hong Kong. In his role, he is running the association, its initiatives and campaigns, and executes its strategy.

He is a corporate banker by background, having held various senior roles over a 15-year span, especially in the payment arena, including in the correspondent banking and clearing space, market and client intelligence and corporate treasury advisory, working closely with fintechs operating in the blockchain, payments, ecommerce and fraud detection areas.

Reuben Lim is chief operating officer at Singapore FinTech Association. He leads the secretariat and works with the executive committee to spearhead initiatives that strengthen the FinTech ecosystem in Singapore.

With over 16 years of experience in business development and management, Reuben has empowered both large enterprises, SMEs and government agencies in uncovering valuable revenue and growth opportunities through active business partnering and strong leadership. He has led teams across the industries of aviation, real estate investment, marine, investment, intellectual property, amongst others.

Takeshi Kito is a fintech entrepreneur and vice-chair of Fintech Association of Japan.  

He also sits on a committee for the Government of Japan’s Regulatory Sandbox and an experts group of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for cross-border transfers of data. 

Prior to establishing his own startup, he worked for Merrill Lynch as an investment banker and has 12 years’ experience in capital markets. Before joining Merrill Lynch, he worked at Boston Consulting Group.