Contributors

Kathryn Burke

Kathryn Burke is the managing director of Clara. 

She has more than 20 years of experience across law, corporate governance and compliance, with much of her career focused on the establishment, governance, and management of companies. 

Having started her legal career in Australia, she has spent more than a decade working in the UAE, developing deep expertise in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) and Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). 

She is currently Managing Director of Clara, an Ascentium company and a leading technology-enabled Corporate Service Provider in the UAE, supporting thousands of companies, founders, investors. and advisers with company formation, governance and ongoing regulatory compliance.

Kausheya Chakraborty

Kaveri Venugopal

Kay Yeow Ling

Keerthana Jaisankar

Keith Noyes

Keith Noyes is the Regional Director for Asia-Pacific at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc (ISDA).

Kelly Spiteria, Lee Toms and Mike Pavey

Lee Toms is Head of Operations at LGIM.
Kelly Spiteria is the Manager of Trade Services at LGIM.
Mike Pavey is Head of Group Portfolio Services at Schroders.

Kelvin Tan

Kelvin Tan is the CEO of audax Financial Technology ('audax'), a corporate venture backed by Standard Chartered Bank, focusing on empowering banks and financial institutions to evolve future proofed business models through the rapid delivery its AI and digital asset ready digital banking platform. Under his leadership, audax has built a strong pipeline of leading banks as clients – such as Maybank and Standard Chartered, helping them unlock new revenue models and drive ROTE through scalable digital transformation.

Before founding audax, Kelvin conceptualised, led, built and delivered Standard Chartered nexus, Standard Chartered’s comprehensive Banking-as-a-Service business. Kelvin has held multiple roles in Standard Chartered, ranging from Transaction Banking to Retail Products and Payments to Strategic Programmes, between 2012 and 2018. In those roles, he has led cross-functional, cross-border teams to deliver multiple capabilities for the bank including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay in multiple locales and the MyWay program (Singapore’s first silver generation targeted product programme). 

Ken Wallace

Kenneth Bok

Kenneth Bok is the Head of Growth and Strategy at Zilliqa. With over a decade of cross-disciplinary experience in the fields of entrepreneurship, finance, and deep technology, Kenneth is responsible for driving the enterprise adoption of Zilliqa’s blockchain platform.

In 2017, Kenneth founded Blocks Pte Ltd, a distributed ledger technology research firm specialising in blockchain market assessment. Having been involved in the space since the initial Ethereum crowdsale in 2014, Kenneth has accumulated a wealth of industry knowledge on crypto-fund strategies, research and analysis, crypto regulations, and market investments. With his keen instinct of business opportunities, Kenneth has also been a seed-stage and angel investor in numerous notable blockchain projects, and is a regular speaker and writer across prominent industry platforms.