Vincent Caldeira is Red Hat’s field chief technology officer (CTO) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) , responsible for engaging and building partnerships with strategic customers. In line with Red Hat’s vision, he reinforces the company’s leadership in the industry. He established trusted relationships with customers’ technology leaders while advocating for relevant emerging technologies. He has spent more than 20 years in the financial technology sector.

As a CTO, Caldeira leads the technology strategy and enterprise architecture as well as drives technology transformation roadmaps. He encouraged talented engineering teams to design, build and deliver software solutions in the financial software vendor industry. He is the technical advisory board member of OS-Climate, a Linux Foundation-backed open-source project. OS-Climate intends to build breakthrough technology and data platforms needed to fully integrate the impacts of climate change in global financial decision-making and risk management.

Danny Mu serves the chief information officer (CIO) professionals, focusing on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud, and the internet of things (IoT). His research provides practical advice to CIOs and technology executives on harnessing the power of emerging technologies to optimise digital customer experience and operational excellence.

Mu has over 10 years of experience in information technology as an investor, strategist, consultant, architect, manager, and academic researcher. Before joining Forrester, he was the senior vice-president (SVP) of China at Recruit Strategic Partners (RSP), the venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings, where he invested in innovative startups in enterprise services and helped the portfolio's startups in AI, big data, and IT architecture. He worked as an executive leader in Lenovo's CIO organisation, where he led the development of innovation strategy and deployed innovation projects for the company’s global supply chain. Prior to this, he worked at IBM as a technical architect, providing consulting and deployment services to finance and telecom customers on big data, private cloud, high-performance computing, and other enterprise infrastructure.

Colin has worked across financial services, consulting and vendor management in Asia and Europe. His role in VCB is to drive the transformation of the business to leverage digital and data ‘leap-frogging’ the traditional evolution, and positioning the bank to exploit new digital and data business models alongside the traditional banking capability. Prior to this, Colin has worked across several transformations in different Asian markets with a mandate to revamp the technology and operations capability, while driving through a transformation agenda. These included roles within a major consultancy as well as in the ‘C’ Suite, leveraging technology to exploit the new market capability. He was the CTO and Head of Operations of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB). Colin created new technology capability to provide advanced digital and data services, coupled with an increase in stability of the core technology capability. This journey entailed a leapfrog in technol-ogy architecture using core components such as data and orchestration API building out the decoupling layer and deploy-ment of micro services to increase speed and agility into the delivery. Incorporated in the migration is the move from tradi-tional to agile delivery with customer centric design thinking, ‘tagging’ this as assembly architecture in reducing time and cost to market. The journey into cloud computing progressed to provide scalability and more adaptable solutions for im-proved business agility. Additionally, disruptive technologies were exploited such as blockchain to provide the first live in-ternational remittance in Asia, second worldwide.

Previously, Colin was Group Executive for ANZ assigned with overall delivery responsibility to build a new wholly-owned ANZ subsidiary bank ANZ Thai in 9 months. This encompassed all aspects of the business and technical design, as well as property and resourcing with the final regulatory approval. Other roles in ANZ included strategic planning and solution de-livery, design and build of a regional-based retail and corporate banking model.

Colin has worked in Asia for 29 years, with various roles such as Managing Director of Fidelity Information Systems and Head of IT Strategy of Standard Chartered. Early in his career, he worked at HSBC (Midland Bank) in the UK covering tech-nical and business roles.

John Medina is the Chief Operating Officer of the Philippine Bank of Communications. He has more than 25 years of experience driving innovation, change and transformation for financial services in different countries.

He was a pioneer in the process and technology management practice in the 1990s when he helped transform the Asia Pacific operations of one of the largest multinational banks. He subsequently established a private consulting firm in the United States, helping design new digital business initiatives for financial institutions and startups.

Prior to joining PBCOM, he was the Head of Global Operations, Technology and Credit for the Philippine National Bank. He was also the Integration Director who oversaw the merger of Philippine National Bank and Allied Banking Corporation in 2013. Medina also worked at Union Bank of the Philippines where he conceptualised and implemented digital banking products and services.

Chalee Asavathiratham joined Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) in April 2020, and is currently the senior executive vice president (SEVP) and chief digital banking officer. Asavathiratham has extensive working experience at leading local and foreign companies. Prior to joining SCB, he was the chief research officer at WorldQuant, in charge of researching teams and data scientists in 14 countries worldwide. He also served as the portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch, New York, and Sun Trading in Chicago, responsible for quantitative trading. He was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Bangkok and London and analytics engineer at Pivotal Systems Corporation.

Christopher Tan has over 28 years of experience in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. As the director of global partner revenue acceleration for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), Tan is responsible for the business relationship and go-to-market programmes with global independent software vendor (ISV) partners such as VMware, SAP, Red Hat and SAS. He was the former data centre platform marketing manager in APJ for Xeon and Atom server product lines.

In his 17 years of service at Intel, he worked as a business development manager for Singapore and enterprise sales manager for Southeast Asia, where he managed the accounts of large enterprise end-customers, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners and service providers. Before joining Intel, he held multiple global account management and technical sales roles in telecommunication and networking multinationals such as Nortel, Avaya and Lucent Technologies. He held management and leadership roles in the IT organisation of the National University Hospital in 2004.

Neeti Aggarwal manages the financial technology and innovation research at The Asian Banker. With over 18 years’ experience, she specialises in banking, technology and fintech developments across APAC and MEA. She regularly engages the financial services community on critical transformational issues, speaking and moderating at various events. Previously she worked as research analyst with The Economic Times, India. She holds CFA from CFA Institute, USA and MBA (Finance) from India.

Andreas Spanner is leading the cloud strategy and transformation of Red Hat across Australia and New Zealand. His hands-on experience in startups and large-scale enterprise transformation programmes has given him a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Spanner has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, including full-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) migrations, human resource (HR), finance and accounting, manufacturing, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies. Since joining Red Hat in 2015, he helped customers build the necessary capabilities and make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices to be a successful digital competitor. He got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators.