Contributors

Yulianawati Kusuma

Yves Roesti and Rahul Bansal

Yves Roesti is a Managing Partner and Co-CEO of Synpulse Group, a global management consulting firm specialising in transforming the  FSI industry. He architected the group’s presence in Asia Pacific in 2008 and has grown it into 9 offices with over 500 consultants in key markets. 

Since joining Synpulse in 2006, Yves has supported the largest players in the banking industry by shaping numerous digital, large-scale transformation programmes. His latest focus is on accelerating the build-up of neobanks and embedded finance use cases.
Yves holds a Masters in Computer Science and a Diploma in Economics and Information Systems from the University of Zurich. He also completed a Leadership Programme at the IMD Business School. 

Rahul Bansal is an Associate Partner of Synpulse, a global management consulting firm specialising in transforming the FSI industry. He leads the Digital Transformation & Retail Banking practice in Asia Pacific and was involved in the launch of Singapore's newest digital bank. 

Since joining Synpulse in 2014, Rahul has supported the largest players in the banking industry by shaping numerous digital, large-scale transformation programmes. His latest focus is on accelerating the build-up of neobanks and modernisation of retail banking architectures. 

Rahul holds a Degree in Business Administration with a Major in Finance from the National University of Singapore. 
 

Yvonne Yiu

Zennon Kapron

Zennon Kapron is the Founder & Managing Director of Kapronasia.

Zheng Yu

Zheng Yu is a Partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel, A.A.R.P.I. Beijing Representative Office.
 

Zhiguo Ma

Zhiguo Ma is the Founder and CEO of WooshPay, a next-generation payments infrastructure platform designed to make cross-border transactions seamless for emerging markets, founding the company in 2021 with the mission of removing the barriers that exclude billions of consumers and businesses from the global economy.

Prior to this, he spent over 11 years at Alibaba and Alipay, including as General Manager of the Alipay Consumer Division and a key role in developing the Alipay Wallet, leading a technology team of hundreds to build scalable systems supporting payment infrastructure accessible to up to 190 million users per second, and holds a master's degree in software engineering from Zhejiang University, and is currently based in Singapore.
 

Zhongdong Chen

Zhongdong Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Finance Department, College of Business Administration, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
 

余雅倫 (Sun East 孫東)

余雅倫 (Sun East 孫東) is Dr. Sun Yat Sen's grand nephew who worked as a real estate investment consultant and studied global financial affairs.