Howard Lee is responsible for monetary management, financial stability surveillance and financial infrastructure including payment systems. He joined the HKMA in 2009 as a Division Head in the Banking Policy Department. He also worked in the Corporate Development Division before his appointment as Executive Director (Corporate Services) in 2010. He took up the position of Executive Director (Monetary Management) in May 2013 before he was appointed to his current position on 26 February 2016. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr. Lee was an Administrative Officer in the Hong Kong SAR Government and had worked in different policy bureaux and departments with responsibilities for policy formulation, regulatory issues, and administration.
Gabriel has over 15 years' experience in cyber security and technology risk management, specialising in the banking and financial industry. His current responsibility in ABN AMRO is to manage the information security risk exposure in the Greater China region, including the security control governance, risk assessment, information security risk management and cyber threat response. Prior to his current role, Gabriel served as the cyber forensic investigator for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and before that he was the regional lead of the ethical hacking team for JP Morgan. Gabriel first started his career as a system and network specialist in Bank of China (HK).
Gabriel received a Master of Computer Science from University of Hong Kong. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2001, and is also certified in other security area such as computer hacking, digital forensic and information security management.
James is a partner in Ashurst's Hong Kong dispute resolution team. His practice is dedicated to advising clients on complex regulatory, financial and commercial disputes. He has particular expertise in contentious regulatory matters and has acted for various major financial institutions, asset managers and brokerages in investigations conducted by the Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police.
James was ranked as an Up and Coming lawyer for contentious regulatory matters in Hong Kong in the Chambers Asia Pacific 2016 edition, where he was singled out as an "excellent lawyer with a big future."
His recent publications include "Prepare or Beware: Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Hong Kong" and "Will the Panama Papers have a Hong Kong focus?", both published on ashurst.com.
David Copland is a consultant at Duff & Phelps in Hong Kong serving the Asia region and focuses on cybersecurity, algorithmic trading and operational risk in their Regulatory Consulting division. Drawing on a significant technology background and communications with jurisdictional regulators, he has consulted on a regulation risk based approach to cyber security. Experienced in asset management, the sell-side finance industry and private banking, he has assisted clients in achieving compliance and reducing cybersecurity risk by threat and vulnerability risk assessments on a range of cyber security risk domains such as governance, people, technology infrastructure, internet defence, service providers and social engineering. David is able to comment strongly on approaches to mitigating cyber security risk for financial services institutions.
David has over 17 year’s financial experience in Asset Management and Brokerage operations. He spent over 9 years at Man Investments on the senior management team as Global Head of IT and the COO of the Man Investments Trader Hotel. During their growth phase from $1Bn to $70Bn AuM until 2007, he was responsible for the creating Operational and IT risk frameworks across AHL Managed Futures, RMF, Glenwood and the Man Investments Fund of Fund platforms.
David has spoken at Asset Management conferences and has also published papers on cyber security and operational risk in the financial services media, including the Hedge Fund journal. He is a Member of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer, holds a BSc Hons in Computer Science & Physics and an MSc in Information Technology and Change Management.
Adrian Culley is a Consulting Engineer with Palo Alto Networks, specializing in Threat Prevention, Malware and Advanced Persistent Threat actors. He is a graduate of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an occasionally visiting lecturer there. Adrian was previously a Detective with Scotland Yard, working around the world with their Special Operations Directorate, and latterly served with the Computer Crime Unit there. He has also worked directly for UK Central Government in a global role.
He has subsequently been Regional Manager Europe for Guidance Software, Head of UK Regional Forensic Technology for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Head of UK Digital Forensic for Tenon Group. He was Global Technical lead with AccessData, then global technical lead with Damballa, specialising in Advanced Threats. Adrian continues to work with government, NGO, military, intelligence, law enforcement, and commercial clients around the world.
A sought after industry commentator, he has been interviewed regarding his professional work by CNN, BBC Television, BBC Radio 4 Today program, the Financial Times, Telegraph and Economist amongst others.
Mark Goudie serves as a Security Principal in the Cisco Global Security Services organization in the Asia Pacific Japan and China (APJC) region. He is a recognised expert that has learned many lessons from investigating security incidents and data breaches in the APJC region as well as in the United States. He has been awarded citations from national law enforcement agencies for his contribution into the illegal activities of international organised crime rings. These investigations resulted in arrests and convictions in four countries. Mark has over 20 years of technology experience to complement his investigative skills, which adds real world practicality to breach containment and security remediation recommendations.
He has a wide range of security knowledge within Corporate Governance and IT environments (Network, Systems, Applications, and Cloud), with focused strategic business and IT transformation at the executive and board level. Mark has successfully designed, implemented and managed compliance programmes in line with, in-country legislative requirements (e.g. Privacy law, Employee law, Sarbanes-Oxley etc.), as well as ITIL practices, PCI DSS and ISO27001.
Mark is a frequent speaker, an active member of numerous industry associations, regularly contributes thought leadership to media, and currently serves as the President of the High Tech Crime Investigators Association (HTCIA) of Australia. He is also a founding member of the SANS/GIAC Advisory Board, the Asia Pacific representative on the GIAC Ethics Committee and was formerly a contributing author to one of the security industries most widely lauded annual security reports.
Albert Hui is a cyber security guru.
Having spent years breaking and protecting IT systems for investment banks, government and national critical infrastructures, Albert is most adept in securing sensitive mission-critical systems. His multidisciplinary background has given him the versatility to speak the languages of investigators, auditors, risk managers, developers and senior management.
Ever a thought leader, Albert has spoken at Black Hat, ACFE Fraud Conference, HTCIA Forensics Conference, GIR Live and Economist Corporate Network. He takes great pride in having co-designed the original digital forensics curriculum for the Hong Kong Police Force.
Alban Kwan is the country manager for CSC® Digital Brand Services based in the Hong Kong office. He leads the team responsible for all key accounts within the China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan markets. Alban has been with CSC Digital Brand Services and affiliated companies since 2009. He has developed his expertise through managing and assisting 60 of the high profile brands within the APAC region with their new gTLD applications, and by providing strategic consultation on the application process, ICANN policy, and brand protection strategy. Alban is responsible for the overall market development for Northern Asia, advising global companies and top local companies in how to best protect their brands through effective domain management strategies. Alban has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in management from Monash University in Australia.
Eric Lam leads the Enterprise Cybersecurity Group within the Enterprise & Partner Group at Microsoft. The ECG’s mission is to empower enterprises to confidently move to the cloud and modernize their platforms by delivering the security solutions, expertise and services needed to keep their infrastructure & information safe.
Before joining Microsoft, Eric was Director for Fraud & Risk Intelligence, Asia-Pacific & Japan for RSA Security, the leading Security and Fraud Prevention solutions provider. Prior to RSA, Eric was with Symantec, as Sales Director Asia-Pacific & Japan, holding responsibility for various lines of business, including Endpoint Security, Data Loss Prevention and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) solutions. In these roles, Eric has served as a trusted advisor to organizations in identifying security risks to their information technology infrastructures, helping protect their information technology systems and applications from cyber-attacks and achieving compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
Eric is a cybersecurity industry leader with a proven track record for building and leading high-performing global enterprise solution teams. Eric is a frequent speaker on topics of cybersecurity best practices, online banking fraud, identity & information security, mobile security, privacy and compliance.
Eric is a graduate of National University of Singapore, with an MBA from the same university.
Michael Leung was appointed Chief Information & Operations Officer of China CITIC Bank International in December 2013. In this capacity, he manages the Banks operations, information technology and innovative projects towards enhancing service quality and operational efficiency. At the same time, Michael serves as a key member of the Bank's management team, looking after a wide range of functions.
Michael is a Fellow and President of the HK Computer Society, a Fellow of the HK Institute of Directors, an Exco Member of the HK Institute of Bankers, Chair of the IS Departmental Advisory Committee of CityU, Chairman of the HK Down Syndrome Association. Separately, Michael has chaired many QF accreditation panels for HKCAAVQ in the past years.
Micky Lo joined BNY Mellon in July 2013 as Chief Information 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).
Andrew Mahony's key areas of focus include cyber risk and financial lines policy wording efficacy. Before joining Aon, he was a Senior Associate at a leading Australian insurance law firm, where he provided coverage advice to major insurers and defended third party claims specialising in professional indemnity and directors' and officers' liability programmes.
Andrew moved to the financial services and professions group at Aon to develop solutions in Asia. His focus is on cyber risk, product efficacy and complex claims, where he leverages his legal background to empower positive results for key clientele. He has worked closely with Aon's offices across the region to develop tailored policy solutions and improve terms for clients across professional indemnity, cyber, directors' and officers' liability, crime, bankers' bond and medical malpractice insurances.
Saqib Sheikh is the Head of Sales Services for the Asia Pacific region of SWIFT. His team of solution architects design solutions for SWIFT clients in the region and manage key projects during the pre-sales cycle. His portfolio of SWIFT products & services comprises of the core SWIFT messaging services, traditional and enterprise-wide interface and integration solutions, professional services and support.
Saqib has been with SWIFT for over 14 years. Prior to this role, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SWIFT India, a joint venture with leading Indian banks, and Head of Markets for India and the Subcontinent. He has also held a variety of roles across marketing, change management, IT programme management and delivery across SWIFT in Singapore, Mumbai, Belgium and the US.
Saqib holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, a Masters in Computer Science from George Washington University, and an MBA from the University of Maryland. Saqib is based out of Singapore and fluent in English & Urdu.
Raymond is a Director in the Global Compliance and Risk Services division of Trustwave and heads up the Professional Services Consulting team across Asia-Pacific. He is based in Sydney, Australia.
He has more than 15 years Information Security experience and his career experience spans Education, Fashion Retail, Commercial Banking, Investment Banking and Fund Administration.
Raymond has spent the last 10 years working in the Payment Card Industry dealing with clients in more than 50 countries, assisting them in implementing fit-for-purpose Risk and Compliance programs to meet their Security and Regulatory requirements.
Raymond is a frequent speaker at Industry events pertaining to Governance, Risk and Compliance.
Todd Stewart has over 20 years of IT Risk and Security experience having worked in a wide range industries including Healthcare, Government, Finance, Insurance, Mining and Defence. Prior to EY, Todd was Cathay Pacific’s global head of IT Risk and Security, managing the security of diverse systems servicing over 200 offices around the world.
Todd holds a Master of Information Systems Security and his experience includes a breadth of knowledge across all aspects of IT Security including Identity and Access Management, Governance, BCP/DR, Physical and logical security, including the associated policy frameworks. Todd also has diverse international experience, having lived and worked in locations including Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
Tony Teo holds the position of Regional SE Director, Asia Pacific at Arbor Networks. Based in Singapore, his responsibilities include driving all of Arbor’s technical operations, and assist sales force in developing new business opportunities in APAC region.
With over 16 years’ experience in the ICT industry, Tony’s areas of solution expertise include network security, application delivery and infrastructure management.
Prior to joining Arbor Networks, Tony had worked in HP, TippingPoint, Radware, F5 Networks and Motorola.
Tony graduated with a Computer Engineering Degree from the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and holds a Master Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Rob van der Ende is Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) at FireEye.
He drives strategic vision and new business across the region, develops and drives revenue for new and existing service lines, provides leadership, support and coaching to the Security Consulting Services team at Mandiant, a FireEye company, and has ultimate responsibility of customer engagements for the region.
Prior to FireEye, Rob was Director for Cybersecurity & Public Sector across Asia within the Enterprise Services Business unit of Microsoft Corporation, where he successfully led the expansion of Microsoft's Cybersecurity and Public Sector Solutions and Services across the geography. Before that, Rob was Vice President for Consulting at Oracle Corporation.
Rob van der Ende also held regional senior management responsibilities with EDS (now HP) in Asia Pacific from 1999 to 2004 and in Europe from 1996 to 1999. Before EDS he carried IT- and General Management responsibilities for various Dutch multinational corporations.
Ben Yates is a commercial disputes lawyer with a focus on handling complex court and arbitration cases, often with a cross-border element. He advises clients on a wide range of complex disputes with a particular emphasis on fintech, cyber law, data protection and fraud.
Ben has a broad range of experience in cyber law, and in particular with advising on the collection, use and exploitation of personal data and on the management of data security incidents (including wire fraud and email hacking) when they occur. He is a core member of RPC's ReSecure data breach response team.
Ben is qualified as a solicitor in both Hong Kong and England & Wales. In addition to English, Ben speaks French, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
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