Singapore Breakfast Briefing –The Fastest One Wins: How Wealth Managers Conquer New Market Segments With Digital Onboarding

Kong Eng Huat is the Senior Managing Director and CEO of EFG Bank AG Singapore Branch. He is also EFG's CEO / Business Head for South East Asia. He is a member of the EFG Asia Pacific Executive Committee and a Director on the Boards of EFG Asset Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd and EFG Trust Company (Singapore) Ltd.

Eng Huat is a banking veteran with more than 35 years' experience with various international banks in the Corporate Banking and Private Banking business.

As an industry veteran, Eng Huat provides thought leadership and contributes to various industry groups. He is a member of the IBF CACS CPD Advisory Group; IBF Wealth Management working group; IBF Standards Committee and Chairperson of the IBF Wealth Management working group.

Eng Huat graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Keith is a seasoned wealth management professional with over 30 years in financial services. He has extensive international experience having lived and worked in London, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Zurich, Miami, Geneva (twice) and Singapore (twice).

His career progressed whilst working for Price Waterhouse, Samuel Montagu, Standard Chartered, Coutts and Bank Hapoalim – holding a number of senior management positions in the past 20 years including CFO, COO, head of private banking, general manager and region head, Asia.

Keith is a chartered accountant (ICAEW) and a member of STEP. He joined Abacare in 2015 and is Chief Executive of Abacare Singapore Pte Ltd.

Kai Wing is a seasoned change management professional, with over 16 years in financial services and management consulting in London, Shanghai and Singapore. Kai Wing was instrumental in the sale and transfer of Merrill Lynch’s Asian wealth management business to Julius Baer, where he now heads the regional COO Business Management team.

As well as providing oversight for the regional back office in Singapore, Kai Wing’s team lead several strategic initiatives, one of which is to improve turnaround times for account opening.

Zennon is a Director at Kapronasia, an Asia-based financial industry market research firm. Kapronasia helps financial institutions and financial technology firms understand the challenges and opportunities in Asia’s Financial Industry.
Previously, he was Intel's Global Banking Industry Manager and prior to Intel, the CIO for Citigroup Portugal. Zennon holds a Computer Science degree from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD. He is the author of ‘Chomping at the Bitcoin’ published by Penguin.

Philip is the Product Lead for Appway Digital Banking and Onboarding. He has helped Appway transform from a local solution provider into a global company that serves the world's top financial institutions. Philip is an expert on compliance and onboarding, having contributed to several studies on the topics. Prior to joining Appway, Philip managed trade settlement products at UBS in Zurich and New York. He holds an MSc in Information Management from the University of Zurich.

Bruce is a chartered accountant with over 40 years financial services experience, previously a partner in PwC, latterly as Global leader of their Wealth Management practice and the key driver of their bi-annual Wealth Management Report. Bruce is now CEO of Weatherill Consulting providing advice on client centricity and wider strategic matters to wealth managers. He is the author of The Value of Trust: the quest by Wealth Managers for Trusted Advisor status and a number of other thought leadership reports. Bruce is chairman of ClearView Financial Media and Ten Lifestyle Group Plc as well as a non-executive of a number of companies including , The Wisdom Council and ComPeer.