Mr Chan was appointed the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury on 16 August 2017.
Mr Chan has many years of senior executive experience in the banking industry. He was a Managing Director in the Global Markets Division of Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, and was a Managing Director in Financial Markets of Standard Chartered Bank.
Prior to joining the Government, Mr Chan held multiple roles in a number of public and professional bodies, including Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, Director of Hong Kong Securities & Investment Institute, Advisor of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society, as well as a General Committee member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Mr Chan was also a member of the Central & Western District Council.
Mr Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Hon) and Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Damian Bierman is a Founding Partner of Blackwired Pte Ltd, responsible for business development and expanding relationships, across the region and globally. Blackwired is a next-generation cyber intelligence firm trusted by governments, law enforcement, global corporations, and systemic institutions.
Damian is active within the FIX Trading Community, serving as Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Education and Marketing Committee. He has been a mainstay of the community and an enthusiastic promoter of FIX since landing in Hong Kong almost 20 years ago.
Prior to Blackwired, Damian was APAC Head of Trading Solutions for FactSet, following its acquisition of Portware in 2015. Damian established the Portware EMS business in Asia-Pacific in 2007.
Prior, Damian ran FIX Services in APAC for NYFIX (a Broadridge business) and was an early employee at Wall Street startup Javelin Technologies, bringing its Appia FIX engine to market from early 2000.
David has over 16 years in the area of information security including risk management, penetration testing, application security, mobile security, DevSecOps and application development in various industries such as government, private sectors, utilities and FSI and is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Hang Seng Bank. Prior to joining the bank, David led a team of security consultants being part of the to deliver hands on security testing and solutions to various industries as well as led the cyber security operations center for incident management and was trained by various institutions in practical penetration testing and cyber security risk management.
Ryan is the CISO of Fusion Bank overseeing technology and cyber risk management of the bank. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of the IT department managing the IT teams and driving various projects such as building a new public cloud environment for the bank.
Ryan is a passionate and energetic technology leader, and keen to explore new technology as well as the associated risks. With over 14 years of experience, Ryan has worked in consultancy firm, multi-national conglomerate and various financial institutions such as Standard Chartered and Mox Bank on information security management, risk management and technology audit related areas.
Darren Joined Delinea in Jan 2022 as Principal Sales Engineer for APAC. He has over 13 years of Cybersecurity experience and is a Zero Trust Advocate. He is responsible for developing and assisting customers and organisations as they adopt and implement the Delinea Privileged access solutions. He regularly collaborates with customers from the Government sector & many of the Global 2000 companies in APAC.
Before Joining Delinea, Darren spent over three years at Forescout, leading a team of presales engineers across APJ.
Eric Chiu is the Head of Business Partnership and Innovation at China Mobile International, responsible for partnership development and innovation of new products and solutions.
Eric has over 14 years of experience in the telecommunications field, focusing on driving new technology and ecosystem development between telecom and partners, enabling enterprise customers innovate during digital transformation journey. Eric’s latest focuses are the strategy development on network-integrated emerging technologies, likes Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Cybersecurity, Software-defined Network, XaaS to address the latest challenges in Cloud-enabled and Cloud-native environments in the market among different industries.
Eric graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a degree in Computer Engineering.
Richard Chiu has more than a decade of experience across infrastructure and cloud platform, covering both technical and business development across the APAC region. He has been delivering innovation cloud and security solutions in modernizing customer digital transformation journey. He is responsible for key management and encryption areas at Thales.
Dominic is the Head of IT Risk Control & Governance at China Citic Bank International Limited responsible for Cybersecurity and Technology Risk Control and Governance.
Prior to that, he was Head of Technology Governance and one of the early members building up Mox Bank.
Dominic is a passionate technology leader with rich experience in digital transformation, risk control and cybersecurity governance. Dominic started his career in Sydney Australia in 2003. With over 20 years’ experience in conglomerate, consultancy firm and Investment Banking.
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A veteran specialising in cybersecurity, Alvin has a proven track record to architect the security portfolio and formulate best-fit cybersecurity solutions for enterprises of all sizes. He was the security architect of a hyper-scale technology infrastructure project for a local charity in 2021, facilitating his client’s digital transformation journey.
Alvin is devoted to life-long learning and embraces new technology to catch up with the latest trends. He started his career as an NOC Engineer and later progressed into a cybersecurity expert, obtaining academic qualifications and vendor-neutral certifications including GDSA, CISA, CCSP, SABSA and CEH.
Steven is the Head of Technology Risk of Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited. He has over 25 years of experience in financial industries and held various management positions in technology risk management and Cybersecurity areas. Prior to his current role Steven was the Head of Technology Risk Management of livi bank. He also was the Group CISO of Emperor Group and held other positions in Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and State Street Bank. Steven is a committee member of ISACA HK Chapter.
Chris Ford is the RVP of Product and Engineering for F5’s App Infrastructure Protection and Observability (AIPO) business. He has more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and product management for innovative networking, cybersecurity and SaaS companies. Most recently, Chris was the VP of Product Management for Threat Stack, acquired by F5 in 2021.
Kok-Tin is a Partner in PwC’s Cyber Security Privacy practice with over 18 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/.
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Kok-Tin is a TED talk speaker and he also founded a dot.com company during his early days of his career.
David Gao is a seasoned technologist with over 25 years of experience in networking and cyber security. He has led engineering teams for 15+ years at several Silicon Valley-based security companies, developing security products and solutions to address cyber threats. Currently, he works as a Principal Security Solution Architect at NSFOCUS, where he partners with clients to understand their requirements, analyze cyber security risk exposure, and design effective and scalable solutions to secure their businesses.
Paul Jackson started his career in APAC in 1988 with the Royal Hong Kong Police. With an engineering background, he helped found and ultimately led the Force’s cybercrime investigation and forensics capabilities for many years. He was also involved with Interpol during his law enforcement career, developing training and leading capacity building for police forces throughout APAC. In 2010, Paul moved to JP Morgan where he was relocated to New York to head up and build 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, managing insider threat, dealing with front-page news incidents and high-pressure situations. Upon ultimately returning to Hong Kong, Paul transitioned into the consulting world and now heads Kroll's rapidly growing Asia Pacific Cyber Security & Investigations 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.
Eva is a Partner of the Risk Advisory practice in Deloitte Hong Kong office. She has over 23 years of experience in the information system industry during where she worked in Deloitte Toronto for 3 years and transferred to Deloitte Hong Kong for more than 16 years.
Eva is the APAC Cyber FSI Leader. She mainly focuses on Cyber security and Technology Risk consulting, implementation service including Cyber Strategy, Cloud Governance & Security, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Information Protection and Security Analytics, and IT & Data Governance. In addition, she has been leading Cyber security projects for a note-issuing bank in the past several years.
Meet Kenny Lai, a seasoned Solutions Architect with over 10 years experience in the Financial Services Industry (FSI). Kenny is an expert in designing and implementing cloud solutions for banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions. With a deep understanding of regulatory compliance, security, and scalability, he has helped many organizations to streamline their operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.
Dennis is the VP, Head of Information Security, APAC, in MUFG Securities Asia Limited. Dennis has 20 years in information and cyber security during where he worked in banking, financial services and consulting industry. Dennis specializes in cybersecurity transformation and technology risk. And his key focus areas include Security Architecture, Security Operation, Threat Hunting, Incident Response (IR), Offensive & Defensive Security, cloud and DevSecOps. He is also certified in AWS-Security Specialty, AWS-Solution Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, PSM, CISM, CISA, CISSP, PMP, ITIL, CCNA, CCDA, and MCSE.
Alan Lee is a Partner of EY Financial Services Consulting practice. He has over 20 years technology consulting experiences focusing on regulatory compliance, cyber security and data privacy. He led numerous regulatory advisory projects to assist banks in various key initiatives including core banking systems migration and relocation, cloud adoption, outsourcing, banking services digitalization, and cyber security assessments. He has led cyber security framework development projects for regulator, government and top-tier enterprise.
He is also specialized in data privacy where he has established and implemented enterprise-wide data privacy governance programme for large enterprises covering multiple jurisdictions as well as advising territory-wide initiatives from data privacy perspectives.
He is a frequent speaker in seminars to share his insights and experiences to senior management of corporations. He spoke in the Hong Kong first and second launches of KnowledgeNet (CPE) events and Asia Privacy Forum of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), CPE seminars of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and Hong Kong Institute of Bankers (HKIB) on data privacy.
He has contributed to professional publications where he is a development team member of “ISACA Privacy Principles and Program Management Guide” published in 2016 and “ISACA Implementing a Privacy Protection Program” published in 2017. He is one of the two expert reviewers of “GDPR Data Protection Impact Assessments” published in 2017.
Meng Keng is responsible for driving NTT’s Security portfolio and expanding its presence within the APAC region.
Meng Keng’s acute strength and experience in Services and proven ability to understand client business challenges have enabled him to successfully deliver cybersecurity solutions that have resulted in improved competitiveness, operational efficiency, and healthy returns in investment for clients.
With over 13 years of experience in driving IT out-sourcing services, Meng Keng has proudly earned the trust of clients, and continues to actively deliver integrated technology and services solution to senior managements of global and multi-national organizations alike. Armed with good understanding in the industry’s best practices, compliance and regulatory standards such as ISO, ITIL, NIST, Project Management, etc, Meng Keng is constantly sought-out to provide counsel.
Meng Keng graduated with a Bachelor of Data Communications in Queensland University of Technology.
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 IT Customers and Partners in Hong Kong and Macau.
Tony has more than 15 years experiences in strategic planning and requirements analysis, with special focus on information 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 industry Cyber Security events, specialized in evolving cyber threats such as ransomware and APT attacks.
Before joining CLSA as Head of Information Security, Vivian worked at start-up’s in Silicon Valley and financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She held various roles such as Global Head of Networks, Chief Information Security Officer, and Data Security Engineer. Vivian is passionate about security and speaks at local schools to promote security awareness.
Perry Pow is the Vice President of Global Cybersecurity at State Street Bank & Trust for Asia Pacific. He is based out of Hong Kong and leading a team to oversee key aspects of cybersecurity and data protection, run mature programs in vulnerability management and prioritization, regularly conduct penetration testing and red- and blue-team exercises, support incident management and run 24x7 security operation centres (SOC) by developing data loss prevention and cloud security alerts handling procedures for SOC to follow. He collaborates with a global team to help adept and evolve the security posture to build a sound governance model that all of these components work well together.
He has over 20 years of experience in financial services and telecom industries spanning across technology auditing, enterprise risk management, IT governance, risk and compliance, as well as cyber resiliency. He was one of the standing committee members of 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 and Telstra 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 oversight of community programs including grant making, volunteering and STEM education activities. The HKCSP accomplishments brought the CEO’s Excellence Award for Perry in 2019, 2022 and the Volunteer Honour Roll in 2021.
Perry graduated from the University of British Columbia with an honour degree in Computer Engineering. He holds an MBA and is married with two children.
JF is the Asia Head of Information Security and Controls Governance at Manulife Asia. He leads a talented team of controls governance professionals that help Manulife make sense of its risks and develop effective and practical controls, across technology and operations. With a diverse background spanning technology, operations, management consulting and academia JF focuses on delivering tangible business results and building high performing teams.
Prior to joining Manulife, JF held roles in compliance, management consulting and academia. JF spent the early years of his career conducting research in cryptography and privacy enhancing technologies at leading universities and a start-up.
JF is married with two young children, and loves to play tennis and run long distances in his, limited, free time.
Colin is the Security Consultant at Check Point Software Technologies Limited (Hong Kong and Macau) and a seasoned cyber-security professional with plenty of experience in dealing with the ever-changing cyber threats. Before joining Check Point, Colin worked in the telecommunications industry for about 10 years, serving customers mainly in FSI sectors with specific focus on both design and implement on digital transformation related solution or solution fulfilling regulator requirement.
Colin holds a Bachelor of Information Technology, Network Programing, from RMIT University, Australia.
Edmund Tsui is Director of Solution Sales at CyberArk. As part of the Asia Pacific & Japan leadership team, he oversees the solution sales specialists responsible for growing the market share of CyberArk's Identity Security business. Edmund also chartered the transformation of CyberArk from perpetual focused to modern subscription and SaaS business.
Prior to joining CyberArk, he was at Automation Anywhere leading ASEAN sales and at Symantec leading their Singapore Government sales team. Before moving into sales, Edmund was the Sales Engineering Manager in RSA. He was responsible for providing security solutions including two-factor authentication, single-sign on, data loss prevention, network forensics as well as security information and event management.
Edmund has over 20 years of experience in cyber security industry, helping enterprises defend against advance cyber threats. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, with Distinction in Diploma in Information Systems from Singapore Polytechnic and graduate from RMIT University with Merit in Bachelor of Applied Science.
Josiah is the APAC Regional Information Security Officer at Wells Fargo Bank. He is based in APAC (Hong Kong) and responsible for information security risk for APAC and Enterprise Global Services. He provides the regional governance & oversight as well as handling the local regulatory request on information security risk areas in order to facilitate the business objectives.
Josiah has over 20 years working in the Financial Services industry and focused on Risk Management, Audit Compliance, Information Security and Operational Controls. He has been with Wells Fargo since 2015. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Josiah was a Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where held the APAC Technology Risk & Governance role for Wholesales Banking. Before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he worked in JP Morgan as a Technology Auditor for Investment Banking and Information Security Officer in Credit Suisse.
Josiah graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia with a degree in Computer Science. He is the member of several information security and audit societies such as High Technology Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA), Financial Services – Information Sharing Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and Hong Kong Computer Society. He is also a GIAC Certified Forensic and Exploit Researcher, Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISO27032 Lead Cybersecurity Manager.
Ricky is currently the Executive Director, Chief Information Security Officer of DBS Hong Kong. In his current role, he is responsible for establishing and maintaining robust security governance framework to make sure that information and digital asset of the bank are adequately protected. Before joining DBS, Ricky was the Head of Technology Risk Management of Bank of China (Hon Kong) overseeing the entire technology risk governance framework and various control measures of the institution. 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. He was appointed as the Convenor of Cyber Security Specialist Group of Hong Kong Computer Society from 2018 to 2022 and he is now the advisor of the group. He has shared his insight and advice on cybersecurity topics in many newspapers and publications. In addition, he is the organizer of several large-scale cybersecurity forums and seminars, and contributed in promoting cybersecurity and experience sharing in the industry.
Jackson Yip leads the North and East Asia Solution Architects at SWIFT, to support users to embark on a instant and frictionless journey towards Swift platform. He has expertise in various technologies and has been subject matter expert for different solutions namely Swift APIs, Integration Solutions, ISO 20022 Programme for CBPR+, PMI ISO 20022 migrations as well as for Swift Customer Security Programme (CSP).
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