Contributors

Raed S. Haddad

Raed S. Haddad is Managing Director, Asia Pacific, ESI International. He is an in-demand speaker at conferences, events and with executive audiences worldwide. Raed holds a bachelor's degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a master's degree in Engineering, both from the University of Rhode Island. Additionally, he holds an MS in Engineering Administration in Project Management & MIS from The George Washington University.

Raen Lim

Raen Lim is the Head of Apps at Oracle Singapore. Prior to assuming this role, she was the General Manager responsible for bringing innovation and success to customers in the ASEAN region through leveraging Oracle’s social and mobile suite of Customer Experience solutions. Raen is a passionate cloud evangelist and has more than 15 years of industry experience in technology sales, market and business development, as well as channel recruitment and enablement. Prior to joining Oracle, she had spent 6 years with Salesforce growing the ASEAN business. She was also with Symantec Corporation in various enterprise sales positions before she joined Salesforce.

Raen holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Studies, majored in Marketing, from Nanyang Technological University. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree with Distinction, from University of Manchester.

Raghunath Subramanian

Raghunath Subramanian is President & CEO (India & APAC) of UiPath.

Raj Dhamodharan

Raj Dhamodharan is Group Head of Emerging Payments, Asia/Pacific at MasterCard. Prior to joining MasterCard, Raj worked at Visa in various product and technology leadership roles. He graduated from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Technology. Raj also holds MBA degrees from the Columbia Business School, Columbia University, NY and Hass Business School, and University of California, Berkeley.

Raj Singh

Raj Singh is the CEO of Safety@Work, a Singapore based Safety Consultancy involved in safety issues in Oil & Gas industries

Rajesh Ganesan

Rajesh Ganesan is the President of ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation. He is a part of the leadership team overseeing product strategy and direction for the overall suite. Rajesh has been with Zoho Corp. for over 20 years developing software products in various domains including telecommunications, network management, and IT security. He is currently focused on delivering enterprise IT management solutions as SaaS.

Rajesh Yohannan

Rajesh Yohannan is the Managing Director and CEO of OANDA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. An entrepreneurial, results-oriented executive with extensive experience in financial services, digital marketing, mobile banking, mobile payments, call center management, operations and technology, he is responsible for driving OANDA’s continued growth across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining OANDA, Rajesh was the Managing Director and Global Mobile Banking Head at Citibank.

Rajlingam Sokalingam

Rajlingam Sokalingam is the Regional Director South Asia of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. He has 19 years of experience in the IT industry spanning across enterprise resource planning (ERP) sales, infrastructure systems integration, and telecommunication services.

Rakesh Bhatia

Rakesh Bhatia is an experienced banker with over 26 years of experience with HSBC - across Asia, UK and Middle East - followed by a stint as the CEO of an independent Private Bank in India. Having done a variety of global, regional and country roles, his knowledge of the financial services industry ranges from Commercial & Corporate Banking, Trade & Receivables Finance, Investment banking and FinTech in recent years.

With his background as an International Manager at one of the most global organisations in the world, he has understood and assimilated different cultures.

For the past three years, Rakesh has travelled extensively across Silicon Valley, New York, London, Hong Kong, and Barcelona to interact, learn and gain insights into the trends and growth of FinTech, on its new business models, delivery modes, analytics, data usage and customer engagement merger and evolution.

As a traditional banker, he is aware of the magnitude of disruption caused by new technologies, and understands the significance of a merger between traditional and new businesses to build a powerful hybrid of a future financial company.

His current focus is to help companies - young and established - to navigate, bridge and emerge in the new world of Financial Technology.

He is a co-founder of a startup Hektor SG, a Singapore based financial intelligence app aimed at millennials to empower them with financial liberty to achieve their goals. He also holds C-level executive positions at B2B & B2B2C FinTech companies across SME Online Lending, Insurtech, SME Global Platform and a Co-working cum incubator in India.

Ravi Naik

Ravi Naik is the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy at Seagate Technology.

With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Ravi Naik has successfully led large transformative initiatives, leveraging ideas and technology platforms focused on future growth and opening new business models and markets. Prior to joining Seagate in 2017, Ravi was the senior vice president of technology at Katerra, a technology startup revolutionising the construction industry by transforming the way buildings and spaces come to life. Before Katerra, in 2007 Ravi joined SanDisk to lead an enterprise-wide transformation initiative. Following the success of the SanDisk transformation, he was appointed as CIO, remaining with the organisation through its sale to Western Digital in 2016. Before that, he held leadership positions at Mercury Interactive, Hewlett Packard, and 3Com Corporation. Naik holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bombay in India.