Efficiencies, Innovation and Regulation: Getting the Balance Right, Whatever Your Business Model

Andrew Deane is co-founder of ClearView Financial Media, head of business development for ASIA and Middle East and WealthBriefingAsia publisher. Andrew has over 32 years experience in financial services with a focus on the wealth management sector since 1998. He previously worked in the City of London as a Stockbroker and has covered back, middle and front office.

Andrew has an entrepreneurial approach to business and has previously advised startup companies and pre-IPO businesses looking for capital raise. He has extensive contacts across Asia and Middle East both from within the wealth management sector but also through a network of HNWI’s and family offices.

Although based in the UK, Andrew travels regularly to Singapore, Hong Kong, UAE and Switzerland. Outside of ClearView Financial Media, Andrews passion is rugby which he still actively plays.

Kaushiq Kodithodika joined Advent in 2006 and is now Regional Sales Director, responsible for sales and business development of Advent products and solutions in the Middle East, North Africa ( MENA ) and the Indian Subcontinent region. Kaushiq has over 15 years of direct sales experience in the MENA region and has been actively involved in providing strategic software solutions to the Banking and Finance Industry. Prior to Advent, Kaushiq worked with EastNets and was responsible for sales and key account management of SWIFT and AML solutions, before which he was business development manager for the MENA region at Logical Access S.A, a Geneva based Private Banking software house providing document management and archiving solutions to BFSI segments. Kaushiq holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from University of Madras, India.

Gary Tiernan has worked in the international finance industry for over three decades. He now runs his own consulting business supporting UHNWIs and families. He is an experienced CEO and CIO in the MFO and EAM areas.
He started his career in investment banking, holding management roles in London and Switzerland. In private banking, he has held several global roles, and multiple senior regional roles in Asia and Europe, and worked extensively with clients internationally. These roles have covered investments, fiduciary and wealth planning, and sales management.

Martin has 15 years’ industry experience previously working as a stockbroker for Edward Jones and in asset management with HSBC Investments in London. Martin Co-founded Farringdon Group in Malaysia in 2007 and holds a degree in Economics from the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom.

Martin is currently heavily involved in the Singapore Robo Adviser market as Farringdon Asset Management is working in conjunction with several Singapore based parties to offer investment strategies for the Robo market. These will be used in thematic baskets and other Virtual Mutual fund technologies.

Martin is also involved with Farringdon Groups efforts and will shortly announce the formation of Algebra which will be Asia’s first Sharia Complaint Robo Adviser. Algebra will operate in Malaysia under Farringdon Groups licence and is also in discussions with the Malaysian regulators to launch the world’s first Robo Adviser integrated with a Fintech/Digital only Bank.

Martin is an expert on Robo Advisers in the USA and the UK and has carried out extensive research into the reasons that many Robo Advisers have failed. Martin is also very much a thought leader in Asia on the regulatory issue’s affecting the Robo Adviser market and has been interviewed by the press on several occasions on the subject.