- Advisors & Speakers & Judges-

2025 Advisors

Ms. Jeanette Lim

President

Singapore Insurance Institute

Mr. Ben Assanasen

Managing Director

Thai Setakij Insurance

Mr. Karl-Heinz Jung

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Kacalyst Partners

Mr. Sythan Prou

Chief Executive Officer

Forte Life

Mr. Ashvin S. Uttamsingh

Chief Operating Officer

Zurich Indonesia

Mr. Peter Crewe

Managing Director

Ziffa Group

Dr. Pongpanu Damrongsiri

Executive Director

Thailand General Insurance Association

Mr. Biren Kundalia

Chief Information Officer

Tokio Marine Asia

Mr. Kayzad Hiramanek

Chief Operating Officer

Edelweiss Life Insurance

Mr. Jeffrey Chew

Chief Executive Officer

Phillip General Insurance (Cambodia)

Mr. Manoranjan Sahoo

Chief Distribution Officer

GGI Nippon Life

Mr. Klaas Dijkstra

Chief Operating Officer

QBE Asia

Mr. Satyanandan Atyam

Chief Risk Officer

Tata AIG General Insurance

Mr. Pedro de Sousa Avelino

CIO | CTO | Technology, Operations, Digital Strategy

Mr. Sunil Kapoor

Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

Future Generali India Life Insurance

Mr. Edosa Odaro

Author, Advisor, LinkedIn Top Voice for Data & AI

Mr. Prasad Pimple

Executive Vice President & Head of Digital Business Unit

Kotak Life

Ms. Angela Hunter

CEO, Director

InsureProtect & Connect Consulting Asia Pte

Mr. Dilshan Perera

Chief Transformation Officer & General Manager

HNB General Insurance

Mr. David Piesse

Chairman of Ambassadors

International Insurance Society

Mr. John Spence

Managing Director

Asian Capital Advisors

Dr. Porus Peshoton

Executive Vice President - Underwriting, Claims and New Business Onboarding

Axis Max Life Insurance

Prof. Andy Chun

Professor of Practice, Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Lapman Lee

Professor of Practice (ESG, FinTech, Sustainable Finance)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2025 Speakers

Mr. Ashish Chand

Chief Transformation Officer, HuBS

Sun Life

Mr. Gaurav Saxena

Chief Distribution Officer - Bancassurance

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance

Mr. Lavneesh Gupta

Executive Committee Member & Chief Bancassurance Officer

HDFC Life

Mr. Soly Thomas

Chief Distribution Officer - Canara bank And Associates Business

Canara HSBC Life Insurance

Mr. Richard Ferryanto

Chief Executive Officer

Zurich Topas Life

Mr. Michael Shin

Chief Executive Officer, RGA Korea; Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Asia Pacific

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA)

Mr. Sandeep Mishra

Chief Distribution Officer - Proprietary

Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance

Ms. Ingrid Johnson

Seasoned Purpose- Driven Business Leader

Mr. Son Tran

SVP, Chief Information Technology Officer

Prudential Vietnam Assurance

Mr. Qin Lu

CEO Greater China

Aon

Mr. Nikesh Srivastava

Chief Analytics Officer

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

Mr. Franklin So

Deputy General Manager

Bank of China (Hong Kong)

Dr. Puneet Kaur Kohli

President IT & Data (CIO)

Liberty General Insurance

Mr. Sythan Prou

Chief Executive Officer

Forte Life

Mr. Prashant Vinod

Executive Director - Digital Hub

Tawuniya

Mr. Jacky Lio

Chief Medical Officer

Bowtie Life Insurance

Mr. Ibnu Hasyim

Chief Executive Officer

TASPEN Life

Mr. Alfred Cheung

Deputy CEO

BOC Life

Mr. Ratana Theam

Chief Technology Officer

CB General Insurance Plc.

Mr. Weishu Fan

Ex-Chief Executive Officer

Qianhai Reinsurance

Mr. Gary Ho

Chief Information Officer

AXA Hong Kong and Macau

Ms. Chelsea Jiang

Chief Technical and Innovation Officer, General Insurance, Greater China

AXA Hong Kong and Macau

Mr. Mohit Tandon

Chief Operating Officer, Technology

Prudential plc

Mr. Lasitha Wimalaratne

Chief Executive Officer / Principal Officer

HNB Assurance

Mr. Ken Lee

Deputy General Manager

Bank of China (Hong Kong)

Ms. Berry Chen

General Manager of Information Technology

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance China

Mr. Makoto Okubo

General Manager, International Affairs

Nippon Life Insurance

Mr. Joseph H. L. CHAN, JP

Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau

Mr. John Zheng

Chief Investment Officer & Chief Finance Officer

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance China

Mr. Xiaodong (Sheldon) Yu

Chief Executive Officer

Taiping Reinsurance

Mr. Rangam Bir

Chief Executive Officer

AmMetLife

Mr. Sandeep Gopal

Chief Executive Officer

Fairfirst Insurance

Mr. Bin Peng

Assistant General Manager

China Huanong Property & Casualty Insurance

Mr. Shinichi Kishi

General Manager at Sustainability Management & Development Dpt.

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company

Mr. John Morley

APAC CEO, Strategy and Technology Group

Aon

Ms. Orchis Li

General Manager

Gen Re, Hong Kong Branch

Mr. Jim Qin

CEO, General Insurance

Zurich Insurance Hong Kong

Dr. Yuhui Yao

Group Chief Data Officer

FWD Insurance

Ms. Laura Wang

Chief Executive Officer

PCA Life Assurance (Taiwan)

Mr. Sachin Dutta

Chief Operating Officer

Canara HSBC Life Insurance

Mr. Sean Deehan

Head of Hong Kong & Macau and Hong Kong Market Leader, Insurance Consulting & Technology

WTW

Mr. Michael Davies

Founder & CEO

Nextvestment

Mr. Jean Michoud

SVP Regional Head of Direct and Digital Distribution - Asia Markets

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Ms. Kitty Pang

Associate Director, Digital Innovation & Growth

BOC Group Life Assurance

Mr. Abhishek Dixit

Head of Platforms, Digital Health

HSBC Life

Mr. Penny Law

Head of Distribution Strategy Office

Manulife Hong Kong and Macau

Mr. Fasihul Mostofa

Head of Digital Channel and ADC

Guardian Life Insurance

Mr. Charles Chang

Vice President, Head of Digital Platforms

FWD Life Insurance

Mr. Rajnish Pal

Senior Vice President, Head of Transformation

MSIG Asia

Mr. Billy Yeung

Director of IT Strategy, AI and Data Governance

Prudential Hong Kong

Mr. Shammi Kapoor

SVP & Head Operations

Tata AIG General Insurance

Dr. Chris Ding

Adjunct professor

Melbourne University

Mr. Krishnan Badrinath

Senior Vice President Information Technology

TATA AIG General Insurance

Ms. Supattra Traiwijidkhun

VP of Data Governance

Generali Thailand

Ms. Ann Wong

Head of Transformation and Consumer Segment

QBE Asia

Ms. Cynthia Lee

Director, Customer Strategic Initiative

AIA Hong Kong and Macau

Mr. Sahil Talwar

Director

Prudential plc

Ms. Kathy Cheung

AVP, Regional Strategy & Enablement

Sun Life

Dr. Henrik Naujoks

Senior Partner, Hong Kong & Head of APAC Financial Services Practice

Bain & Company

Mr. Chirag Rathod

Global HNW Insurance Leader Strategic Transformation & Growth

Mr. Ryan Woollford

SVP - Digital Engagement Leader, Asia

Marsh

Mr. George Kesselman

President, Founder

InsurTech Asia Association

Mr. Dan Villaroman

Head of Transformation Office & Office of the Chief Digital Officer

Income Insurance

Mr. Trevor Laight

Chief Executive Officer

FVOR Financial Intelligence Group

Mr. Jean- François Raymond

Asia Head of Information Security and Controls Governance

Manulife

Dr. Efstratios Tsougenis

Head of Data and AI Strategy

Prudential plc

Mr. Valer Merenyi

Regional Director Digital and TechDev

Ageas Group

Mr. Sanjiv Kumar Dwivedi

President & Head - Investigation & Loss Mitigation

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

Mr. Arthur Siu

Head of Retail Services, General Insurance Business

Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong)

Mr. Luca Cacchiani

Head of Architecture APAC & MEA

Cigna Healthcare International Health

Mr. Priyank Rastogi

AVP -Strategy and Enablement

Sun Life Asia

Mr. John Spence

Managing Director

Asian Capital Advisors

Mr. Leo Lau

Director, MarTech Lead Asia

Manulife

Mr. Troy Barnes

Digital Business Transformation APAC

Chubb

Mr. King Leung

Global Head of Financial Services, Fintech & Sustainability

InvestHK

Mr. Sheng Jie Tan

Head of Strategy & Experience (Asia Market, Executive Leadership Team)

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Mr. Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi

Executive Vice President - Strategy & Innovation

Salaam Takaful

Ms. Manisha Chandwani Goyal

Director - Engineering

Sun Life

Mr. Jiitendra K Naik

Senior Vice President - Risk & Compliance - Financial Crime Investigation

HSBC

Ms. Luz Grande Vega

APAC Head of Sustainability & Operational Excellence

Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong)

Mr. Claudio Caula

Head of Group Data Analytics

AIA

Mr. Dimitri Fischler

Lemonade Foundation - Strategy and Operations Lead

Lemonade

Ms. Kannes Wong

Head of Strategy and Sustainability

Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong)

Mr. Abhishek Sharma

Group Director of Data & AI Platforms

AIA

Mr. Ronald Tam

Co-Chief Financial Officer

Huize Holding

Mr. David Piesse

Chairman of Ambassadors

International Insurance Society

Prof. Lapman Lee

Professor of Practice (ESG, FinTech, Sustainable Finance)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Mr. Enoch Chan

Partner, Hong Kong

McKinsey & Company

Mr. Paul Ricard

Asia Pacific Head of Insurance & Asset Management

Oliver Wyman

Mr. Bernhard Kotanko

Senior Partner

McKinsey & Company

Ms. Camille Or

Senior Partner Lead

Google

Mr. Steve Tunstall

Owner and Director

Tunstall Associates & PARIMA.org

Dr. Maxim Afanasyev

Financial Services Industry Head for JAPAC, Global Strategic Industries

Google Cloud

Ms. Connie Leung

Senior Director, Financial Services Business Lead - Asia

Microsoft

Ms. Alicia Menendez

President HKUCA - Hong Kong Underwriting and Claims &

Managing Director, InsurVerse

Ms. Celine ANG

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Kacalyst Partners

Mr. Emil Chan

FinTech Evangelist

Ms. Becky Wong

CEO Globex Capital Partners &

Senior Advisor, CSPro (HK)

Ms. Jamie Zuo

Executive Chairman

Greater Bay Area Healthcare Association (GBAHA)

Ms. Lynn Lin

Senior Vice President

Marsh

Mr. Jihad Faitrouni

Chief Executive Officer

Unlimited Insurance Services (UIS)

Mr. JingLong Pan

Digital Insurance Senior Management

Ms. Samah Babbo

Change and Transformation Leader

Ms. Wivinia Luk

Senior Manager of Policy Research

Financial Services Development Council

Mr. Joerg Sauer

Transformational Coach

Morphosis Coaching

Prof. Tek Yew Chia

Adjunct Professor, Asian Institute of Digital Finance

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Mr. Gurps Khaira

Keynote Speaker for Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation and Change Management Events

Mr. Andy Ann

CEO and Co-Founder

YAS Digital

Mr. Alain Le Couédic

Partner

Artificial Intelligence Quartermaster (AIQ)

Mr. Aman Pal Singh

Founder & CEO

B4E Insurtech

Award Judges

Mr. David Piesse

Chairman of Ambassadors

International Insurance Society

Prof. Andy Chun

Professor of Practice, Department of Computing

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Mr. John Spence

Managing Director

Asian Capital Advisors

Ms. Angela Hunter

CEO, Director

InsureProtect & Connect Consulting Asia Pte

Prof. Tek Yew Chia

Adjunct Professor and Advisor, Asian Institute of Digital Finance

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Dr. Pongpanu Damrongsiri

Executive Director

Thailand General Insurance Association

Mr. Peter Crewe

Managing Director

Ziffa Group

Mr. Karl-Heinz Jung

Co-Founder and Co-CEO

Kacalyst Partners

Mr.Tom Gerritsen

Director

Deloitte

Ms. Jeanette Lim

President

Singapore Insurance Institute

Mr. RAVI SESHADRI T

Strategic Advisor- Insurance and Insuretech