Contributors

Mohamed Nasser Ismail

Mohamed Nasser Ismail is Senior Vice President and Head of SME Development & Listing at SGX. He previously held other roles within SGX including the Head of Issuer Regulations. Prior to joining SGX in 2005, Mr Nasser was State Counsel with the Attorney General’s Chambers. He graduated with a Bachelor of Law (Upper Division) from National University of Singapore in 1998.

Mohit Agrawal

Mohit is CEO of Tuzo, a company that helps retailers leverage technology to increase sales and conversions. Tuzo platform uses the self-learning power of Artificial Intelligence to enable retailers provide a personalised experience for their online and walk-in shoppers. He is leading the sales and marketing efforts to expand the company in South East Asia.

Mohit has vast experience in Strategy, Go-to-Market (GTM) & Marketing and has worked with PwC, Accenture, Microsoft and Nokia in the past before embarking on the entrepreneurial journey at Tuzo . He has worked across geographies and has lead teams at the global, regional and country level.

MoneySmart.sg

MoneySmart.sg is a personal finance portal in Singapore that aims to help people maximise their money with powerful tools and engaging content.

Moorad Choudhry

Professor Moorad Choudhry is Chief Executive of Habib Bank AG Zurich in London, and author of The Principles of Banking (John Wiley & Sons 2012).

Murali Jetti

Murali is the Vice President of the Customer Success Group (CSG) in Asia Pacific based in Singapore. The Customer Success Group are a team of trusted advisors, consultants, and experts crucial to the success of Salesforce customers. In his role as VP of CSG, Murali leads a dynamic team of success managers, consultants and architects who help customers unleash the full power of Salesforce and drive business growth for the APAC region.

With 18 years of business, management and technology experience under his belt, Murali’s expertise lies in building and managing businesses, their optimization and establishing strategic business partnerships. Murali joined Salesforce in 2005 from Hewlett-Packard.

Murali holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, and has an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Naina Subberwal Batra

Naina Subberwal Batra joined AVPN as our CEO from September 2013, and has been appointed as Chairperson in May 2018. Naina’s leadership over the past 6 years has grown the AVPN membership by more than 4x and elevated the organisation into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, the organisation has grown from focusing only on Venture Philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of Social Funders from philanthropists to impact investors and Corporate CSR professionals. She was instrumental in developing AVPN’s innovative services that connect, empower and educate the now 600+ members of AVPN. In 2019, Naina was awarded one of Asia's Top Sustainability Superwomen.

She has a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she graduated at the top of her class. She also holds a bachelor degree in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA and a General Course Diploma in economics from The London School of Economics.

Namita Sethi

Namita Sethi, CPA, is the CEO at Futurebooks. A Certified Practicing Accountant from CPA Australia (License 9607781), Namita has over 13 years of experience in finance and accounting in both Australia and Singapore, across multi-national Chartered Accounting firms helping small businesses establish and grow through funding rounds and acquisitions.

Nanny Eliana

Nanny Eliana is the Founder and Account Director of Bridges M&C.

Naomi Troni

Naomi Troni is the Global Chief Marketing Officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide

Narinder Kapoor

Narinder Kapoor is Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Asia Pacific.

On November 1, 2017, Narinder was appointed the region sales leader at HPE.

Narinder has more than 30 years of experience in general management and finance and has held several senior executive positions. He had earned for himself the reputation for turning businesses around and driving growth.

Prior to this, Narinder was the regional vice president and general manager for HPE Pointnext Asia Pacific and Japan. It was one of the most successful services teams across HPE.

Before that, Narinder was the vice president and managing director for HPE Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong for four years growing the enterprise business to become one of the largest sub-regions in HPE.

His career with HPE started when he joined Compaq as a finance director in 2000 for Southeast Asia. Since then he has done multiple roles like, managing director for Philippines, general manager for enterprise server and storage for Southeast Asia.

Narinder started his career with Goetze India in the manufacturing sector. Subsequently, as regional finance director with Bobst (Southeast Asia), he played a key role in setting up operations in Indonesia and Brunei for Oracle Systems (Southeast Asia) and as financial analyst in IBM Singapore.

Narinder holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class) from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He also graduated with first class honors in Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and in Cost Accountancy from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.