Howard Lee is responsible for reserves management, financial infrastructure and fintech. He is also an Executive Director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited. He joined the HKMA in 2009 as a Division Head and has worked in various areas including monetary management, financial stability surveillance, corporate services and banking policy. He was appointed as a Deputy Chief Executive on 1 January 2018. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr Lee worked in the Hong Kong SAR Government in areas relating to economic development, financial services and other public policies.
Lionel Bruchez is the COO of the UBS Intelligence Center, head of Market Insights and Business Advisory (MIBA) service and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Singapore, deputy CISO APAC.
In his roles, Lionel acts as a close advisor to the wealth management, investment bank and asset management leadership of UBS AG providing insights and guidance on how to handle business risks, protect the firm’s capital and navigate a challenging security landscape. Lionel comes from an academic background at ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne, where he specialized in Quantum Cryptography, probabilistic machine learning, and research on next generation Internet architectures.
Steve is an expert in immersive training, evaluation, and upskilling with over a decade of experience in consumer behavior. He has led award-winning teams across the globe with significant emphasis on employee training and development.
Gabriel has 20 years' experience in cyber security and technology risk management, specialising in the banking and financial industry. As the Head of Global IT in Gaw Capital, he is responsible for the technology development, IT operation and cyber security strategy across the international group. Prior to his current role, Gabriel served as the Regional Head of Information Security (Asia) for ABN AMRO Bank. Before that, he was the cyber forensic investigator for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Back in 2005, he worked in JP Morgan as the regional lead of the ethical hacking team. And Gabriel first started his career as a system and network specialist in Bank of China (HK).
Gabriel received a BSc IT degree from City University of HK and a Master of Computer Science from University of Hong Kong. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2001, and certified in other IT security area such as computer hacking, digital forensic and information security management.
Eddy Chiu is the solutions architect for presenting Micro Focus security solution in identity powered approach. With over 10 years of experience in the identity security field, he is responsible for understanding customers’ needs in enterprise security, providing consultation to customer and sales enablement in Hong Kong and Macau.
After obtaining his Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering (BEng in IERG), he earned a Master of Science in Applied Accounting & Finance (MScAAF).
Sam Coco is the Head of Global Information for Fidelity International. Based in Hong Kong since 2011, Sam oversees information security program across the globe while also having management oversight for technology risk and cyber security in Asia Pacific.
Sam has over 10 years of experience in the security field. Prior to his current role, Sam was the Information Security, Senior Manager for Asia Pacific where his role focused on governance, risk and compliance well as supporting security assurance across the region. Previous to that, Sam was part of Fidelity International’s Corporate Security function where he was involved in internal investigations, background vetting and due diligence activities in addition to supporting information security in the region.
Sam started his career in Sydney Australia in 2003 and held a number of technology roles before joining Fidelity International in 2005.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from The University of Western Sydney. He is also a Certified Chief Information Security Officer (CCISO), Certified Information Systems Security Professional(CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
Dirk has over 29 years of Information Security experience starting his career in Melbourne, Australia with Fujitsu. He began working with federal government and defence along with retail, local and state government industries. He has worked in global cyber security teams across various financial services organisations including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ANZ Bank, National Australia Bank, AIG. Dirk joined the Hong Kong Jockey Club as the Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Technology Risk in 2019 and is driving a transformation and move to automate cyber security capabilities. Prior to joining the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Dirk worked as the Global Head of Cyber Security for Australia’s latest Bank helping to build one of the first digital banks in South Africa, Tyme Digital. He is a transformation leader of cyber security delivery and risk methodologies with a strong focus on digital banking and development of cloud strategy for financial services, government, and critical infrastructure services.
Dirk studied Computer Science & Technology at La Trobe University, and has numerous industry qualifications. He was appointed Chair of Cyber Committee for Fintech Association Hong Kong in 2018, and Co-Chair of the Cyber and Cloud Committee in 2020.
Steven is the Head of Technology Risk Management of livi bank, a Virtual Bank in Hong Kong. Prior to joining livi, Steven is the Group CISO of Emperor Group, and has been working in financial industries for over 20 years including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and State Street Bank. Throughout his career, Steven realises that people always underestimated the importance of information security. His goal as a professional is simple, to make people understand that information security is not a technical monster or some mysteries that can’t be comprehended. But something simple that happening around you and me every day. Steven is a CISA, CISM, CDPSE and a Platinum member of ISACA.
Christophe is the Chief Information Security Risk Officer of Mox Bank, one of the new Hong Kong virtual bank. He has over two decades of experience in Information Security Management mainly in the finance industry. Prior to his current role Christophe was the Deputy Global Head of IT Risk and Cyber Security for a major European bank.
Christophe has worked mainly in a large and complex corporate environment which gave him an exposure to all aspects of information security as well as to the diverse cultures.
His main technical expertise covers cloud security, threat intelligence, incident handling and information security risk management. In his career, he also successfully managed the execution of various global security programs. Currently his centre of interest is focused on securing agile, cloud-based environments.
Aside as being a digital security expert, Christophe is a cloud architect and scrum master. He has an MBA from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Kok-Tin is a Partner in PwC’s Cyber Security Privacy practice with over 16 years of experience. Kok-Tin is also the founder of PwC’s Darklab Hackaday and Hackbot. Kok-Tin is currently the Vice Chairman of ITSMf HK Chapter and the member of security committee of Fintech Association of HK. Kok-Tin has co-authored a number of cyber security and technology risk related guidelines for different Regulators in the region. Kok-Tin has also led ~500 small to large size of security assessment / transformation engagements and has worked across different continents including, Asia, America, Europe and Africa.
Kok-Tin’s key areas of expertise and experience include Cyber security strategy, framework (ISO 27001 NIST, Multi Level Protection) architecture design, application security (OWASP, OWASP Mobile) and data security (e.g., PCI DSS), secure development life cycle, DevSecOps Cloud security, IT risk, security / technology architecture, security operations / Managed Detection Response, incident response, red teaming (MITRE).
Kok-Tin was a professional white hat hacker, when he first started his career. To-date, he has led more than 1000 systems penetration test / red teaming exercise and have also assumed incident response lead role for a number of high profile cyber attacks in the region. At the same time, he also published a number of proprietary cyber intelligence on https://blog.darklab.hk/.
In recent years, he also founded:
Kok-Tin is a TED talk speaker and he also founded a dot.com company during his early days of his career.
Ms. Ying Han is Vice President of Technology and Cybersecurity Policy and Partnerships (TCPP) and is responsible for JP Morgan Chase (JPMC)’s Asia Pacific TCPP agenda. She leads policy development and advocacy on key technology and cybersecurity issues to improve the cybersecurity of the firm, its customers and clients, and the broader financial sector.
Prior to JPMC, Ms. Han was Policy Director at United States Information Technology Office (USITO), and led USITO’s cybersecurity, technology and data advocacy. She created and guided USITO’s Emerging Technology Initiative focusing on AI, blockchain and other emerging technologies.
Han Ying served as a Trade Commissioner covering ICT and Digital Media sector at the Canadian Embassy where she counseled Canadian technology companies on China ICT policy and market.
Han Ying holds a Master degree in Journalism from Iowa State University, and a B.A. in English and Telecommunication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT).
Kev Hau is the Head of Security Engineering, Hong Kong and Taiwan at Check Point Software Technologies and the Cyber Security Evangelist, a member of the CTO office. Kev has over 10 years of experience in cyber security industry.
In Check Point, he works closely with all the Check Point partners and customers through his team of security experts by providing consultation and advice on how to deal with the cyber threat. He is also the leadership point of contact between partners, strategic customers and channels, as well as Check Point’s product research and development team.
Kev holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brunel University.
Jason Harrell is Executive Director and Head of External Engagement at DTCC, where he leads the firm’s global advocacy and engagement for cybersecurity and cyber resilience, new and emerging technology, outsourcing and third-party risk management. In this role, he partners with industry peers, supervisors, regulators, international standards-setting bodies, government officials and trade associations to address policy initiatives and implement solutions that further improve the resilience of the financial services sector. He is an active participant in several global industry organizations and is also on the board for the Cyber Risk Institute.
Jason joined DTCC in 2016 as the Head of TRM Risk Analysis and Reporting where he was responsible for cyber-risk assessment and performance metrics programs. Prior to DTCC, Jason was the Corporate Senior Information Risk Officer for BNY Mellon Investment Management. He previously held cyber-related positions within IT, Risk and Business Operations at ABN AMRO, Royal Bank of Scotland and the New York Board of Trade.
Jason has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology (IT), Privacy, and Cybersecurity Risk Management within financial services and holds several certifications in technology, information security and data privacy. A frequent conference panelist, Jason often speaks about cybersecurity, resilience, and emerging technology public policy. He has published several articles on these topics and has contributed to the development of several industry white papers.
Paul Jackson first arrived in Hong Kong almost 33 years ago upon joining the HK Police in 1988. Qualified as an electronics and telecommunications engineer in the UK, after a few years in uniform chasing smugglers in speedboats, Paul's past caught up with him and he was asked to lead a tech-focused team to work with all the new mobile phone operators that were granted licences in 1995. Thus, began a long career in technology related crime investigation and cyber-security.
As we moved safely past Y2K, he became a founding member of the Technology Crime Division in the HKP leading cybercrime and forensic investigations. At the same time, Paul worked extensively to develop and facilitate cybercrime investigation, intelligence and forensics training programs for Interpol across APAC and occasionally in Europe. He co-founded the HTCIA Asia Pacific Chapter in 2005 and ran cyber-security for the HK portion of the Olympic Games in 2008 among the highlights.
New adventures beckoned in 2010 when Paul joined JPMorgan, and he was soon to move to New York to build (virtually from scratch) the global high-tech investigation team, which to this day remains a leading capability in corporate America. The time spent heading this global team was full of extraordinary challenges, dealing with front-page news incidents and high-pressure situations.
Paul moved back to Asia in 2014 keen to bring all the knowledge back with him and work with the community in Asia to uplift capability and standards. Paul transitioned into the consulting world and now heads Kroll's rapidly growing Asia Pacific Cyber Risk Practice working to protect major organisations throughout the region. He is also a frequent speaker at APAC events and is often quoted in media articles and is a regular radio commentator.
Matthew Joseff has been with Splunk since 2015 and currently serves as our Director of Specialization for the Asia Pacific Region.
At an early age, Matthew had a passion for computers and game theory; he started out setting up computers at trade shows and managed an ISP while at university.
As the dependent of two government intelligence officers, Matthew was raised in several countries, including Japan and Italy, and later applied his real-world knowledge to his passion. With over three decades of substantial experience Matthew was a critical part of maturing several startups and integrating cutting edge technology with real world productivity.
Proficient in several languages, Matthew is also the youngest candidate to ever run for Governor of Louisiana, a former National Guardsman, and a former elected and appointed member of his towns' Economic Development Commissions as well as a Certified Fraud Examiner.
“Constantly looking for ways to automate and optimize process and increase revenue; I help companies achieve their financial and strategic goals through non-oppositional strategies.”
Tony Lee is the Head of Consulting at Trend Micro – a global leader in cyber security solutions. He is responsible for the provision of security advice and solution consultation for large scale IT users and key channel partners in Hong Kong.
Tony has more than 14 years experiences in strategic planning and requirements analysis, with special focus on cloud security deployment, cyber threats response and emerging technologies analysis. As a technology evangelist for Trend Micro, he has been acting as a high profile speaker for major industry events in the region, specialized in evolving cyber threats such as ransomware and APT attacks.
Tony is a graduate of the Hong Kong Baptist University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.
Micky Lo joined BNY Mellon in July 2013 as Chief Technology Risk Officer APAC. He is leading the regional team with the mission to enable business solutions while proactively protecting BNY Mellon from information risks in a balanced control environment. He oversees and govern the implementation of the bank wide information risk roadmap in the region with particular focus on IT regulatory compliance.
He has over 30 years of IT experience in Financial Service Industry that spans across a diversified IT management disciplines including regional and location management, IT and security architecture, distributed computing engineering, technology infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, IT risk management and technology audit.
Before joining BNY Mellon, Micky was the Head of IT Security APAC and Head of Technology Greater China for Deutsche Bank. Micky has held various management positions in IT management, IT Security/Risk management and Audit with JPMorgan and Citibank.
Micky serves as an industry advisor of the Bachelor of Management Science and Information Management Programme of Hang Seng Management College.
Micky received a Bachelor of Mathematic degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from University of Western Ontario (Canada).
Keith Loi joined Palo Alto Networks as System Engineer in 2011. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he worked for Crossbeam Systems, Nortel Networks and ZTE for over 15 years. Keith has been successfully implementing Next Generation firewall and endpoint in lots of Enterprises, especially focusing on Finance and Banking, Casino and Higher-education sectors. He specialises in integrated threat prevention solution and next-generation security operating platform. He is also an active member of CISSP and GCIH.
Tony is the Information Security Officer at Allianz Global Investors and has over 20 years of experience in information risk management, information security, business resilience, outsourcing, process reengineering, transformation programs, crisis management and cybersecurity operations. He also held multiple senior roles at HSBC Private Bank, JP Morgan and First Data International.
Tony holds an MSc in Information Security from the Royal Holloway, University of London and a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from King’s College London. He is also a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and PRINCE2 practitioner.
Murrey Mak is the Chief Control Officer of Digital Business Services at Hang Seng Bank. He focuses on technology and operational risk and controls associated with both retail and corporate banking businesses, including control assurance and risk data analytics. He previously acted as the first line of defence, leading the operational resilience, particularly during social unrest and COVID-19 in the past 2 years, including corporate security, business continuity, incident management, and third party risk management for the Bank.
Murrey had over 20 years of experience in systems development and deployments, cybersecurity, technology risk governance and auditing fields to deliver business solutions for a global bank, based in Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City and Hong Kong.
Calvin Ng, regional director of Cyberbit Ltd in North Asia, is responsible for charting the overall business strategy, executive level engagement, and business operational management in the region.
A well-rounded executive, Ng has a proven track record and extensive experience in multiple disciplines, ranging from business development, channel management to sales and operations, bringing Cyberbit in Greater China region business portfolio to its heights, triple the business revenue from 2017-2019 prior to his current appointment.
Ng has over 24 years of experience in the IT industry and has a strong background in the Security sector which has over 21 years. He has been engaged in the IT industry across various capacities including product management, sales and marketing.
Ng holds a Bachelor (hons) in Business Administration.
Miro is a Deloitte Partner in Hong Kong with over two decades of international experience in various areas of Cyber. He has worked across numerous industries and delivered Cyber strategies, architectures, policies, standards, and Cyber solutions and services. Before joining Deloitte he held positions in various industry sectors including FSI, CP&R, Public Sector and TMT. Most recently Miro has been serving Deloitte's biggest global clients including a major global bank where he led a Cyber Transformation program focused on building a repeatable and standardised framework to assist in design and delivery of their future Cyber initiatives.
Jeremy Pizzala is currently EY’s APAC leader for Cybersecurity in the Financial Services sector, with 28 years’ experience in Consulting, Outsourcing and Business Transformation. He is also EY’s Greater China Technology Consulting Leader and Hong Kong Financial Services Consulting Leader, covering both Business and Technology consulting. Jeremy has helped clients across the banking, capital markets and insurance sectors implement large scale technology led systems to manage their Cyber risk. He has also developed novel solutions leveraging quantitative modelling techniques to help clients get a firmer grip on their potential cyber economic losses and the associated responses. Jeremy also has in-house banking experience gained from working in a leading regional bank for 5 plus years. He has diverse international experience, having lived and worked in locations including Hong Kong, London & Sydney.
Perry Pow is the Regional Director of State Street Bank & Trust for Asia Pacific. He is based out of Hong Kong and leading a team to oversee key aspects of cyber security and information protection, secures State Street assets and customer data from information risks, support a 24x7 security operation center that is specialized in active detection and countering of cyber threats. He works closely with a global team to help adept and evolve the security postures while embracing technologies like BYOD, cloud security and digital transformation.
He has over 20 years of experience in Financial Services and Telecommunications industries spanning across technology auditing, enterprise risk management, IT governance, risk and compliance, as well as business continuity and cyber security. He was one of the standing committee members of the Hong Kong Whole Industry Simulation Exercise (WISE) in 2015 who contributed to infrastructure design and cyber-themed scenarios. Prior to State Street, he worked for PCCW on fraud investigation and revenue assurance.
Perry serves as the Chair of the Hong Kong Community Support Program of State Street which is responsible for the oversight of community programs including grant making, volunteering and environmental education activities. He led the HK team to win the CSP award of the 2019 and the CEO’s Award for Exceptional Volunteerism in 2020.
He graduated from the University of British Columbia with an honor degree in Computer Engineering. He also holds an MBA and is married with two children.
Benjamin Then is the Product Director for H3C Technologies Co., Limited. He is responsible for providing pre-sales consultancy, product management and development for the Hong Kong and Macau Market. Additionally, he focuses on major account strategy planning and solution trend analysis.
With more than 20 years of experience in the IT and networking industry, he has handled a number of major projects for H3C. These include MTRC’s highly resilient Corporate Data Network as well as Gaming & Resort Projects in Macau.
Before joining H3C in 2011, he started his career at Brocade Communications Systems, Emerson Electric and Siemens Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronics engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Paul Tsang has more than 20 years of experience specializing in security infrastructure design, IT risk assessment, Cloud security, and data loss prevention strategy.
With over 11 years of experience in McAfee, Paul has been working closely with customers around Greater China regions. Paul is specialized on data protection technologies from device-to-cloud like Endpoint DLP / CASB / SASE Framework. He has been working as the endpoint specialist for the Asia regions. He provides expertise advice on threats and association with different frameworks such as MITRE / NIST. Prior to joining McAfee, Paul was employed by US cybersecurity vendors as presale consultant and KPMG as the assistant manager. He played a key role in the IT security advisory services specialized in technology risk management, technical security assessment and IT audit advisory.
Mr Tsang is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He holds a Master of Science and a bachelor’s degree of Engineering from the University of Hong Kong.
Yvonne Tsui is the Regional Director, Greater China Region, Menlo Security Inc.
Yvonne has over 20 years of experience in the information technology sector. Prior to joining Menlo Security, Yvonne was the Country Manager for FireEye Hong Kong where she responsible for leading and directing the growth, profitability and market share leadership of FireEye in Hong Kong and Macau. She has driven the FireEye business to a new level of operational excellence, efficiency and effectiveness.
She also worked for Symantec through the acquisition of Veritas, managing the enterprise account team in Hong Kong and worked for 12 years of service in Symantec and Veritas.
She has a Bachelor degree in Business Administration with major in Marketing from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia.
Frank Versmessen is the (acting) head of SWIFT’s Customer Security Programme (CSP). This programme was introduced to support customers and drive industry-wide collaboration in the fight against cyber fraud. Frank and his team are responsible for the CSP security controls, the customer attestation and assurance processes.
Between 2014 and March 2019 Frank was Head of Regulatory Affairs at SWIFT. In this role Frank and his team were responsible for monitoring the global regulatory landscape, for liaising with regulators, and for identifying regulatory-related issues and opportunities.
Previously, Frank was the Global Head of Post-Trade at SWIFT focusing on equities and fixed income. In this role, Frank was based in Singapore, and was responsible for developing SWIFT’s global strategy in post-trade services.
Between 2000 and 2010, Frank headed various roles within SWIFT’s securities markets division, looking after large infrastructure initiatives, which included projects with major central securities depositories in EMEA, Asia and the Americas.
Frank joined SWIFT in 1996. He introduced the ISO 15022 standards concepts and worked on a range Trade Initiation and Confirmation, Settlement & Reconciliation, Corporate Actions and Collateral Management projects. Prior to joining SWIFT, Frank worked at Euroclear Bank in IT and Product Management functions.
Frank holds a Master’s degree in Polytechnic Engineering from the University of Leuven (Belgium).
Paul Wan is the Head of Programme and Projects for Standard Chartered Bank. He is responsible for the governance and delivery of the Bank’s regulatory programme and projects in Asia region. Lately, Paul’s focus is to take lead in transforming the Programme and Project delivery to operate in the New Way of Working (NWOW) which aims to improve the bank’s overall effectiveness and responsiveness to client’s needs. Paul double heads as Head of Risk & Control for Operations covering markets of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Paul has been with Standard Chartered Bank for close to 20 years and has held multiple management positions within the Bank covering areas such as IT Risk Management, Cyber Security, Third Party Risk Management and Data Management.
Graduate with Distinction, Paul has a Master of Engineering Science (e-Commerce) from the University of Hong Kong.
Steven Wilkinson is a Principal in Control Risks’ Asia Pacific practice, based in Hong Kong. He is the regional practice leader for Control Risks’ technology group in the Asia Pacific, and leads on large and complex matters involving investigations and technology in the region. He has particular expertise in leading internal and independent investigations for companies subject to investigation by authorities across multiple jurisdictions.
Before joining Control Risks, Steven has been employed in a number of Digital Forensic and Information Security roles within the EU and the MENA area. He also served in the UK Royal Air Force Police as a Counter Intelligence Operative with responsibility for Information Security, Physical Security and Counter Terrorist activities. In addition, he led the Royal Air Force Computer Crime team which investigated criminal and high level security incidents both domestically and internationally.
Steven is a qualified computer forensic and e-discovery specialist and is certified in the conduct of mobile telephone forensics and the operation of general forensics equipment. He has over 20 years’ experience of criminal and security investigations and had led teams in hostile environments, carrying out both investigative and digital forensic activities.
Ricky is currently the Executive Director, Chief Information Security Officer of a multi-national financial institution. He was also the Head of Technology Risk Strategy & Policy of one of the largest financial institutions in Hong Kong, overseeing the entire technology risk governance framework and various control measures. During his tenure, the institution won the First Computer IT Governance Achievement Award from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and it was the only winner of non-public sector.
Mr Woo has held senior management positions in various international consulting firms, heading the technology risk consulting, IT auditing and consulting services in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Mr Woo has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to network security and technology risk management, he was also the head of IT operations and managed services, data centers, and system development of several international IT service providers. He also has extensive experience in IT operations and process optimization.
Ricky is also the Convenor of Cyber Security Specialist Group of Hong Kong Computer Society. He has shared his view and professional advice on various topics in many newspapers and publications during the period. In addition, he has organized several large-scale cybersecurity forums and seminars and contribute in promoting cybersecurity and experience sharing in the industry.
Raymond Yeung is the Senior Sales Director of Greater China and Korea for Thales DIS CPL Data Protection business line, where he heads the Data Protection sales teams in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and South Korea, responsible for delivering business growth, developing partner and channel networks.
Raymond has more than 20 years of experience in information security. Prior to his current role, he held various Sales and Sales Engineering management positions of Japan, South East, Australia and New Zealand at SafeNet.
Raymond is a CISSP since 2004 and received an MBA from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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