Contributors
Velayoudam Kuberan
Velayoudam Kuberan is a technology architect with Polaris Financial Technology Ltd., specializing in CBX technology.
His particular focus is on Customer Experience, Security, and Performance paradigms.
Vihang Patel
Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Finaxar, a Singapore-based fintech startup that is focused on changing the way small business financing is done using technology. He is passionate about working with startups and technology ecosystem.
Leveraging over 15 years of entrepreneurial, corporate and management consulting experience in Asia and Europe, he combines his deep expertise in financial services and enterprise software at Finaxar.
A veteran in the startup scene with strong expertise in technology, Patel founded data management firm Avagam. Post its acquisition, he joined big data and AI firm Crayon Data as the first technology-focused pioneer, to drive the building of the product and its development. He was also instrumental in driving early revenues which facilitated in raising several rounds of funding. Patel was the Chief Technology Officer of Dragon Wealth Asia, developing marketing solutions for financial advisors before he founded Finaxar. Previously, Patel was at Deloitte developing solutions for large banks including ING and State Bank of India. He has advised or provided services to companies like Google, PayPal, GLH, Mastercard, CGI, etc.
Other than his role at Finaxar, he is currently an operating advisor of Monk’s Hill Ventures and part of the Investment Committee advising on key investments.
Vikas Srivastava
Vikas Srivastava serves as Chief Revenue Officer at Integral. He leads global revenue growth, drawing on senior leadership experience from Citi and Barclays Global Investors across FX, fixed income, and electronic trading.
He joined Integral in 2010 as the global head of business development, responsible for strategic partner relationships and product innovation.
Vinayak HV and Prateek Bhargava
Vinayak HV is a senior partner in McKinsey & Company’s Singapore office, whilst Prateek Bhargava is associate partner at McKinsey & Company Bangkok.
Vincent Goh
Vincent Goh is President and General Manager, Asia Pacific & Japan at CyberArk. Goh leads the sales, pre-sales and channels teams, and is responsible for driving CyberArk’s growing customer base and channels across the region. Goh has more than 20 years of IT industry and sales experience helping grow companies including EMC, AST, Dell and Iomega.
Commentary
APAC has mastered domestic payments. The next challenge is connecting them.
Why fragmented communications are becoming a hidden governance risk for Asia Pacific banks
From automation to agency: Asia’s wealth leaders can reinvent, not just streamline
Singapore aced its FATF evaluation — now comes the hard part
Are Asia’s digital banks prepared for the stablecoin era?
Why APAC is building home-currency stablecoins
Why Southeast Asian wealth managers must design the business before buying the technology
Why trust in Asian banking increasingly gets built off the record
Hong Kong cleared stablecoins for take-off. Getting them to work across Asia is the hard part
The financing challenge behind Asia’s wealth transfer