Contributors

Reto Gruenenfelder PhD

Reto Gruenenfelder PhD is a distinguished Engineer. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Financial Services at IBM Asia Pacific. 

Reuben Bernard

Head of Marketing @ Payjo (https://payjo.co/) is an experienced marketing professional with 12+ years experience. Possess excellent analytic skills and skilled at managing risks and handling challenges. He blogs regularly on Chatbots and artificial intelligence in banking industry.

Rich Chun

Richard Chun is Head of Asia Pacific at Tradeweb, overseeing the firm’s business operations, client engagement efforts, and strategic growth initiatives across the region. A seasoned fixed income investor and trading leader, Mr. Chun brings over three decades of experience in global markets.

Prior to joining Tradeweb, Mr. Chun was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at HPS Investment Partners. He was previously a Portfolio Manager at Claren Road Asset Management, where he established the firm’s Hong Kong office in 2008 and served as Co-Head of its Asian business strategy.

Mr. Chun spent over 14 years at Citigroup, where his most recent role was Head of Credit Trading for Asia. Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2001, he traded high-yield corporate debt, focusing on Emerging Markets, in New York. He began his career in the Sales and Trading Program at Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Chun holds a Bachelor of Science from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Richard Cox

Richard Cox is head of research in Prime Capital Bank . He is also  a university teacher in international trade and finance. 

Richard Davies

Richard Davies is the Director of APAC, Logica.

Richard Farmer

Richard Farmer is the Director of Randstad – Professionals.

Richard Gardner

Richard Koh

Richard Koh is the Country Manager of Red Hat, Singapore.

Richard Noonan

Ricky Kapur

Ricky Kapur is Head of Asia Pacific for Zoom, leading the company’s go-to market strategy for key APAC markets: Australia and New Zealand, ASEAN, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Korea, and Taiwan (excluding Japan).

Bringing over 25 years of experience to his role, he oversees the region’s growth and expansion across cross-functional teams, engaging closely with business leaders in APAC to empower and support organisations in their digital transformation strategies.

Prior to joining Zoom, Ricky was Vice President of Sales and Marketing Operations at Microsoft APAC, and served as Managing Director at Google where he was responsible for overseeing the growth of Google Cloud Platform across APJ.

Ricky also held leadership positions at prominent technology companies like Oracle, Siebel Systems, Unica Corporation, and Chordiant Software.

Ricky is a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in India and holds an MBA from the University of Melbourne.