Asia Pacific Risk Symposium 2021

Annabelle Taggart has over 20 years of experience in delivering complex information technology programs with high levels of business transformation. Annabelle is also adept at implementing constructive governance and risk management structures and delivering impactful stakeholder engagement strategies. Annabelle has specialist expertise in managing complex change in government.

Antoine Cadoux has over 15 years of experience in industry and consulting roles.

Antoine has worked with companies across a range of industries—including industrial products, transportation and logistics, automotive, retail, and mining—as well as across regions from North America, Europe, to Asia.

He has deep expertise in end-to-end supply chain and works closely with companies to design and implement market-back strategies for competitive advantage.

Antoine has helped various organisations leverage the opportunities of supply chain 4.0: incorporating IoT, robotics, and analytics to digitally connect ecosystems and enable real-time visibility, resulting in lower costs, smaller inventories, and fewer lost sales.

Cecile Espost joined Metcash in late November 2020. Her experience spans 20 years across finance, corporate strategy and transformation management within specialty retail, department stores and supermarkets in Australia and South Africa, including Country Road Group, David Jones and Woolworths South Africa. Prior to joining Metcash, Cecile studied full-time for 18 months, recently completing her Senior Executive MBA at Melbourne Business School. Before this, she led the Corporate Strategy and the Transformation Office for Country Road and David Jones and was a member of their Executive Committee, driving business development growth, transformation and optimisation strategies and the execution of strategic initiatives across the group.

Greg Unsworth is PwC Singapore’s Risk Assurance and Digital Business Leader and has previously served as PwC’s technology sector leader for the Asia Pacific region. He oversees a team of 20 partners and 400 professional staff who help clients manage business risks, enhance governance and controls programmes, comply with regulations and build digital trust.

He also serves on our firm’s Leadership Team and has significant experience advising clients around digital business initiatives and managing risks.

Greg is a member of a number of our global advisory and editorial committees involved in the development of our Firm’s industry thought leadership and he regularly works with our global and regional industry networks and specialists.

Shaun Willcocks joined PwC Japan in 2011 from the UK to lead the Internal Audit (IA) and broader Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) services PwC provides to its foreign, non-financial service clients in Japan. He has 20 years’ experience delivering internal and external assurance services to companies, as well as providing advice on improving their management of risk and control.

Shaun works with teams around the world, coordinating multi-location engagements and ensuring that PwC brings the best international perspectives to clients operating in Japan. He also supports Japanese organisations to align their responses to risk and control globally, and enhance governance over their foreign subsidiaries.

Shaun also currently supports the Advanced Risk and Compliance Analytics (ARCA) team for non-financial services companies by using data tools and techniques to optimise IA and GRC activities, investigate and respond to incidents, and provide better insights to management.

So Cheer Kwek is a partner at PwC Singapore where he leads the defining and designing of digital and technology strategies for clients. He also oversees the overall client program as the lead of the Program Steering Committees, typically comprising multiple downstream efforts to realise the strategies.

Some of the initiatives delivered include SAP Hana on Cloud, centralised finance and procurement, e-Commerce sales and ordering, digital logistics and supply chains with demand forecasting, delivery scheduling and tracking, inventory management with IoT, AI in healthcare, biometrics access security, industry 4.0, data lakes analytics dashboards, cybersecurity initiatives, global SD-WAN rollout, etc.

So Cheer enjoys working in teams, coming up with strategies to achieve hyper growth and solve difficult problems.

Andrew Hodges has held many roles spanning his 35+ years in the ICT industry, a consistent theme is that with his passion for technology he has driven engagements in public sector. These included domains such as cloud, eGovernment, innovation, and citizen services in both the mature and emerging markets across Asia, and in all levels of government. In the information security domain, and prior to AWS, he was a Chief Information Security Officer and Privacy Officer. He is well credentialed with certifications in ethical hacking, penetration testing, forensics encryption technologies, and recently joined a small but growing group who have achieved the ANSI accredited Certified Chief Information Security Officer. He is currently the Senior Security Advisor in AWS World Wide Public Sector APJ.

Andre Shori is the Asia Pacific Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Schneider Electric, one of the World's leading manufacturers of energy management and industrial automation. As data custodians, Schneider identifies customer data as a top-tier risk and gives data protection the utmost strategic and operational importance. Andre meets this challenge by owning and operating Schneider's IT and OT cybersecurity posture in over twenty countries and more than 250 individual sites, keeping 40,000 employees safe and secure from cyber threats.

Andre has over 30 years of experience. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Security Management from SANS Technology Institute and has over a dozen cybersecurity certifications. He also serves as a board member of the Association of Information Security Professionals and ISC(2) Singapore Chapter.

Dr. Frank Wang has 17 years’ experience in risk management and casualty underwriting with several leading international insurance and reinsurance companies.

Frank has a compound educational background of insurance, law and management. He has a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Nice, an LLM from the University of Southern California, an LLM from East China University of Political Science and Law, and a BA in Economics from Nankai University.

He also holds many international insurance professional designations including CPCU, RPLU, FLMI, ARe, ARM and ANZIIF (Fellow). He is also the international ambassador at Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) Society and graduate student external supervisor of Nankai University.

Dr. Wang focuses on insurance and reinsurance and he has strong expertise in various liability insurances including but not limited to general liability insurance, employer’s liability insurance, products liability insurance, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, professional indemnity insurance, cyber insurance, etc.

Jimmy Sng is a partner of PwC Singapore’s Risk Assurance practice focusing on cybersecurity. He previously led the cybersecurity consulting practice across South East Asia. Jimmy is active in the development of technology risk community. He has previously served on the board of directors for ISACA (2005-2007) and was an executive committee member for AISP (2008-2016).

Patrick Wong is a director in PwC Hong Kong’s Cybersecurity and Privacy practice with over a decade of experience in leading regional cyber security teams specialising in cyber security risk, strategy, architecture and operations. As an APAC cybersecurity impact centre lead, he connects clients to experts and experience from across the PwC global network to help them deal with digital disruption and accelerate their digital transformation securely.

Patrick has led a number of red team and security assessment engagements to help clients identify weaknesses and provide recommendations to improve their cyber security posture. In addition, he has led multiple global managed security services and network security transformation projects for clients globally.

Patrick is recognised as a Fellow of Information Privacy by IAPP and holds multiple industry certifications which include Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP), Information Systems Architecture Professional (ISSAP), Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC). He also holds multiple patents in the malware detection and network security and is often invited to speak at major events and vendor summits across the region.

Patrick publishes articles regularly and had been quoted and featured in the media where he shares insights and trends from data breaches to help drive awareness as well as approaches to manage cyber threats.

In his professional career, Shao Fei Huang has served in various roles at Singapore Land Transport Authority, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Defence Science Organisation National Laboratories, Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technology and the InfoComm Development Authority.

As a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society, Shao Fei currently serves as President of the Cyber Security (CS) Chapter of the Singapore Computer Society, and as a nominated Executive Committee Member of the Association of Information Security Professionals (AISP). Shao Fei is a member of the Coordinating Committee for Cybersecurity formed under the Singapore Standards Council, EC-Council Global Advisory Board, Black Hat Asia Board of Advisors, and GIAC Advisory Board.

Shao Fei received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Tokyo under the support of the Singapore Public Service Commission and Japan Monbusho scholarships. He holds Master of Business Administration from the University of Leicester, in addition to qualifications for CITPM, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, TOGAF, CCSP, CCSK, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty and GCFE certifications.

Shao Fei was inducted as Professional of the Year at the prestigious Singapore Computer Society IT Leader Awards 2020. He was also nominated to The Cybersecurity Observatory's Hall of Fame in January 2020, and inducted as AISP Validated Information Security Professional (AVIP) in March 2021.

Clarence Chan is a director leading the digital trust and payments practices within Risk Assurance in PwC Malaysia. For over a decade, he led multiple projects advising clients in the area of cybersecurity, data privacy, technology risks and regulatory compliance, and provided strategic advices to executives on how to embed digital trust as a value creation to their businesses. Clarence also leads a team of CREST registered penetration testers providing red teaming exercises and intelligence led penetration testing, and other threat and vulnerability management services.​

Ervin Jocson is a partner at PwC Singapore in the Transformation practice. Ervin has over 20 years of international experience in cloud transformation, business and IT consulting, implementation, risk management, IT Audit and assurance. He specialises in digital trust bringing together the various technology risk domains – cyber, big data, business process and controls, project/programme and third-party outsourcing. Prior his relocation to Singapore in 2014, Ervin spent 10 years based in London servicing clients across EMEA and advising boards, audit committees and CIO/CSIO’s on proactive digital trust and IT transformation risks and opportunities.

Ervin was also the CTO for a major utilities company in United Kingdom. He services a portfolio of IT audit and tech risk clients spanning multinational corporations and listed companies in Singapore. He is PwC Singapore’s Cloud Transformation Leader.

Kok-Tin is a partner of PwC Hong Kong's Risk Assurance practice with over 12 years of experience in IT governance, cyber security strategy and framework, cyber security governance, security management, IT risk, technology architecture and ethical hacking.

Kok-Tin is extremely well-versed in developing a holistic cyber security strategy, banking technology risk management guidelines and technical review tools. He also co-authors many technology risk management guidelines issued by the financial regulators in Asia.

Kok-Tin is a Certified Chartered Account (CCA), Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

Luka Debeljak is a General Manager, Azure Infrastructure at Microsoft in the Greater Asia Region and is an experienced business and people leader with over 20 years in the industry, with an extensive sales and technical background.

Luka leads an Asia-wide team of Azure sales specialists in the Global Black Belt organisation, striving to holistically engage customers, helping them realise benefits of the public cloud platform, consulting them on their cloud journey, and supporting them with their technical adoption plans. The team specifically focuses on complex cloud workloads (SAP, HPC, hybrid cloud, advanced networking and migration, Azure VMware Solution etc.) and in many cases also spearheads business development efforts by landing new Azure services across various markets in Asia and enabling partners with their go-to market efforts.

Miao Song newly joined GLP as Global Chief Information Officer in June 2021. Prior to GLP, Miao was the Global Chief Information Officer at Mars Petcare. Before that, she worked at Johnson & Johnson as VP/CIO. She has over 23 years of global experience in the IT industry, with broad exposure to the oil, energy, natural resources as well as consumer goods and health care businesses.

She has extensive IT management experience, having headed all IT disciplines in both global and regional capacity – strategy and planning, program management, project delivery, delivery management (application and infrastructure support and operations), business systems management, business engagement, IT supplier management, and IT transformation.

Miao graduated from the Peking University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and master degree of Business Administration. She has lived and worked in China, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Belgium and more. She is a strong sponsor and supporter of diversity and inclusiveness, and headed the Netherlands D&I council and led the IT Women Leadership Institution at Johnson & Johnson.

Nan Maguire has over 15 years of experience in the cyber security industry and has worked extensively with Fortune 350 and FTSE 100 companies across the globe. After graduating as an Electronic Engineer, Nan worked in a number of large banks in the UK before moving to a reputable international professional services firm as a senior consultant. She was the cyber security executive advisor to multiple government agencies and a number of large international financial institutions globally through which she developed strong management and delivery skills with broad knowledge and expertise in cyber security, security strategies and operations, and technology risks. Today, Nan is a recognised cyber and privacy subject matter expert in the finance industry. Having spent almost 7 years in Singapore serving the APAC region, she believes in forward thinking and fit-for-purpose cyber strategies and solutions and is committed to help her organisation to shape up its future to be secure, adequate, understandable, future proof and operationally flexible. Nan was awarded Top 20 Women in Cyber in Singapore 2020 and Top 30 Women in Security ASEAN Region 2021. She is also an active mentor for those looking to develop their careers in cyber security.

Rao Baskara is the Chief Technology Officer of Seviora Holdings. Rao was previously the Deputy CEO and COO at Infosys Compaz Pte Ltd, furthering the mandate of the Temasek and Infosys joint venture in marketing and delivering next-generation digital services to clients.

Before that, he was the Global Chief Information Officer at  Neptune Orient Lines, GlobalFoundries Inc. and Chartered Semiconductors. He was also the Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Stone Apple, and has undertaken a series of Chief Information Officer roles in the Philips Group across Asia Pacific.

Rao holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Jennifer Ho is the Risk Assurance Leader of PwC Mainland China and Hong Kong and is also the PwC Global Risk Assurance Leader. Risk Assurance helps organisations better identify and manage risk, giving them the confidence they need to act, adapt and succeed in a complex, digital world. We are at the forefront to help our clients solve important problems in areas such as cyber security, data privacy, responsible AI, enterprise system risks, data and analytics, internal audit, enterprise risk management, financial crime/AML and regulatory compliance.

Jennifer’s can-do attitude, collaborative working style, action-focused approach and a strong commitment to help organisations and their people succeed have resulted in trusted relationships with her clients.

Jennifer is a Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant (Canada) and a member of the HKICPA. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control. She is also a certified PRINCE2 practitioner and certified in ITIL v3 Foundation.

Chris Mo is a partner at PwC Hong Kong with over 17 years of experience in AI and analytics-related consulting service including AI/machine learning implementation, privacy and data ethics assessment, technology strategy and governance, operational review, data lake and warehouse design, analytics implementation and IT/data policies and standards formulation.

Beyond his expertise on AI and analytics, Chris also has extensive experience in technology-related consultancy service for financial services clients, especially on asset management organisations. He is specialised in business process and application controls, IT systems and operational procedures implementation, IT project assurance and risk management, electronic and algorithmic trading, regulatory compliance and reporting, testing management, business continuity and resilience management, FATCA/CRS reporting, etc.

Chris is Certified Public Accountant (HKICPA) in Hong Kong. He has professional qualifications including Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (CRISC), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) and Certified Associate in Python Programming (PCAP). Chris is also a regular speaker at industry seminars, forums and training events.

Feng-Yuan Liu is a senior executive at Aicadium, Temasek's global centre of excellence in artificial intelligence which aims to develop and scale end-to-end AI solutions. 

Feng-Yuan previously cofounded Singapore-headquartered AI software company, BasisAI and was the CEO of the company before it was acquired by Aicadium in August 2021. Prior to that, he was responsible for leading and driving Smart Nation data initiatives for the Singapore government, including setting up and growing the data science and AI capabilities within Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech).

Mark Jensen is proudly based in Singapore since 2004. He leads PwC Singapore’s Data Trust Services practice. He is also responsible for PwC’s Responsible AI program which focuses on how companies can scale AI through an enterprise approach to managing AI. Mark has 20+ years of experience working across the financial services sector having led multiple local, regional and global programs of work. Mark also spent three years as the PwC Singapore Technology, Media and Communications Leader.

Mark is passionate about strategy, innovation and helping clients make their businesses better. This includes the impact that digital, data and technology can have in driving positive change and importantly building trust in society. He has also led multiple transformation programs for companies covering operations, finance, risk, regulations and compliance. Mark has been working with clients on their digital and automation strategies for the last two decades.​

Mark’s recent notable projects include the development of a world first data valuation framework and trusted data sharing framework for the Singapore Government. He has also worked with the banking industry to develop a technology risk and control framework for services providers and helped drive the adoption and implementation by the Singapore banking industry. He is currently working on cross-sector programs to enable data sharing and industry transformation. ​

Mark has also worked with startups and has invested in a number of them. In his spare time, he participates in triathlons and cycling races across the region and globally. ​