About our speakers

Dominic Wu, Head of Operational Risk, Risk Management and Credit, Non-Japan Asia, NOMURA (HK)

Dominic is the Regional Head of Operational Risk Management with the Nomura Group based in Hong Kong covering front to back activities in Asia excluding Japan. His role is to put the global operational risk strategy into practice by integrating operational risk activities into daily business operations and fulfilling regulatory requirements.

Dominic has more than 16 years of extensive experience in the investment, commercial, consumer and private banking practice gained from Japanese, European and US banks, and also in an international accounting and consulting firm specialising in information and operational risk management formulation and execution.

Dominic is a sought out speaker and has spoken in various ERM, ORM and Financial Services conferences and forums. He has also led several industrial working groups to address the issues and work out the roadmap for the ORM practice. Formerly, he has been a tutor with the University of Hong Kong lecturing on investment and accounting to the
general public. He has also written articles on promoting ORM awareness and programs in Asia-Pacific.

Dominic is a Chartered Accountant (UK), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Information Auditor, Chartered Company Secretary, a Professional Member of the Institute of Operational Risk, Certified Fraud Examiner (US) and did his MBA from the University of Hull, UK.

Andreas Jobst, Economist, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF)

Andreas (Andy) Jobst is a mid-career economist at the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. His work focuses on structured finance, risk management, sovereign debt management, financial regulation, econometrics, and Islamic finance. He is one of the contributing authors of the Global Financial Stability Report published by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF. In 2007, he was inducted in the Risk’s Global Who’s Who directory of risk management and has recently been named by Op Risk and Compliance magazine as one of the top 50 faces of operational risk for the decade.

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Rajit Punshi, Head of Group Operational Risk Policy, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

Rajit has worked with Standard Chartered in various roles ranging from Operations, Front Office to Operational Risk Management. The Operational Risk management responsibilities have included stints at the Country, Regional and Group levels.

Currently as Head of the Group’s Operational Risk Policy, Rajit is responsible for Group’s Operational Risk Policy and Strategy, ensuring that the Operational Risk Framework integrates with the Group’s Risk Framework, implementing and embedding Basel 2 and managing Mergers & Acquisition from the Group Operational Risk perspective.

He represents Standard Chartered in various industry working groups – Financial Services Authority (FSA) – Operational Risk Standing Group; Institute of International Finance (IIF), British Bankers Association, Association of Banks Singapore. Additionally, he has been / is playing a leading role in the further development and enhancement of OR practices and framework in Standard Chartered’s leading markets, working closely with industry practitioners and regulators.

Rajit has been recognized as one of the ‘top 50’ faces of Operational risk globally, by Oprisk & Compliance magazine in 2009, the industry’s leading journal.

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Stacey Coleman, VP, Risk and Policy, Credit Risk Management Unit, THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND

Ms. Coleman currently oversees the Risk and Policy unit and the Credit Risk Management unit in the Banking Supervision and Regulation Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Bank). In this capacity, she is responsible for ensuring that risks are accurately identified and addressed across the District’s supervised institutions and oversees the Bank’s discount window lending and intraday credit extensions. Ms. Coleman joined the Federal Reserve Board in 1993 and then moved to the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in 2007. While at the Board, Ms. Coleman focused on policy development in the areas of payments system risk and banking supervision. From 2004 - 2007, she also served as the Board’s representative to the Accord Implementation Group for Operational Risk (AIGOR) under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Ms. Coleman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Business Administration as well as Art History from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Simon Wills, Executive Director, ORX

Simon Wills is Executive Director of the Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX). Simon is responsible for the strategy and development of ORX. Under his leadership the association has grown into the world’s leading operational risk data consortium serving 52 members from 18 different countries. Prior to working with ORX, Simon was a Director with the British Banker’s Association where he led the engagement on the reform of the Basel Accord. Simon has led various industry groups including the European Banking Federation Supervisory Committee. He is a regular speaker at industry events and has had articles published in various industry journals.

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Patricia Jalleh, Group Head of Operational Risk Management
United Overseas Bank Group

Ms Patricia Jalleh has more than 10 years of experience in operational risk management. She is currently the Head of Operational Risk Management for the UOB Group responsible for the design, development and implementation of strategies and framework for managing and measuring operational risks across the Group.

Prior to this role, she was Vice President for Operational Risk Management within the Technology & Operations Division of DBS Bank and she worked in Standard Chartered Bank for more than 13 years initially in internal audit and later as Head of Operational Risk for the Group Consumer Bank.

Patricia is currently the Chairperson of the Operational Risk Management Task Force of the Association of Banks in Singapore. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, UK and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

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Gunawan Husin, Head of BCM, Global Banking and Markets, Southeast Asia, RBS

Gunawan manages the Business Continuity Management (BCM) program of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in Southeast Asia and Australia. Prior to joining RBS in 2007, he spent 8 years with an European bank in Singapore focusing on BCM and Security Operations, and was instrumental in development of several of its key BCM initiatives.

Outside his Banking activities, together with the Terrorism Research Centre of RSIS at Nanyang Tech University Singapore, he continues to actively build regional capacity and conduct awareness training, focusing on Countering the Financing of Terrorism. Together they established a Consortium to manage these initiatives in February 2008.

Gunawan holds a Bachelor of Business Management from Monash University - Melbourne and MBA from University of Westminster in London. He is also an Adjunct Fellow with S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Fellow with the Association of Banks in Singapore.

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Sven Scholz, Regional Head of Operational Risk, DRESDNER BANK (SINGAPORE)

Sven joined Dresdner Bank AG 8.5 years ago and he studied Business Administration in Germany. He is also a Certified Internal Auditor- CIA (Institute of Internal Audit) since 2006. He started his career with Internal Audit, took part in the SOX implementation project of the company and was Audit Manager before he joined Operational Risk Management as Regional Head Asia.

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Eric Lim, Director, Manager Research, AJIA PARTNERS

Eric Lim is the Director – Manager Research of Ajia Partners. He is responsible for conducting investment/operational due diligence on Asian hedge funds and developing operational risk policies. Before joining Ajia Partners, he was the Asia Regional Head of Market Risk Control of UBS Global Asset Management. He was responsible for the overall risk management activities of the Alternative and Quantitative Investments in Asia. He also worked for Hong Kong Monetary Authority and for Hang Seng Bank. He has 13 years+ experience in market & operational risk controls. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager.

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Kenneth Lo, VP, Operational Risk, UNITED OVERSEAS BANK

Kenneth LO has 13 years’ experience in the Singapore financial industry. He started his career in operations and was actively involved in the DBS and POSBank integration in 1999. He went on to spend one year in Bangkok doing project management and process re-engineering in a regional integration project. Upon his return to Singapore in 2001 he made the switch to operational risk management and eventually took on the role of operational risk and business continuity programme manager. Kenneth has been with the UOB Group since 2005 and currently serves as the ORM relationship manager for its Retail Banking business line.

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Caben Thancanamootoo, Head of Operational Risk, MEDICAPITAL BANK

Caben is Head of Operational Risk at Medicapital Bank London responsible for development and implementation of an operational risk management infrastructure across the bank’s network in Europe and Africa.
Caben has more than 10 years’ experience in Operational Risk Management, first at Deutsche Bank UK where he ran the KRI and Risk Assessment programmes in Asset Management, then as a VP at ABN Amro UK, responsible for implementation of Risk Self Assessment processes and capital methodologies across the bank’s EMEA region in Capital Markets. Prior to his current role, Caben was heading the operational risk function in the UK branch of Societe Generale.
A Mathematics graduate of Southampton University, Caben holds a PhD from Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh) in Building Engineering and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

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Manoj Thulasidas, Associate Director, Senior Quantitative Developer, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK

Dr. Manoj Thulasidas works as a senior quantitative professional dealing with the design and deployment of trading systems for exotic products, and managing the interactions among various front office and downstream business units. The differences in the focus and perspectives of these business units, and the need to bridge the gap, is the subject matter of his new book “Principles of Quantitative Development” (to be published by John Wiley & Sons). A regular columnist for the Wilmott Magazine , Dr. Thulasidas has published several articles on a variety of topics related to quants and quantitative finance.

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Nayeem Khan, Head of Operations, BANK JULIUS BAER

Khan has 15+ years of cross functional experience across Operations, Business Process Reengineering and Technology, in Banking/Financial Services. He
has driven and managed large strategic projects and transformation programs comprising of several Multi disciplinary projects (Operations and Technology) to achieve regional, M&A related integration and off shoring. Designed and Implemented Business
Process Management, Change Management and Service Improvement programmes using methodologies like Six Sigma and ISO. Khan has in-depth understanding and knowledge of Banking operations across Consumer, Corporate & Private Banking areas and strong understanding of technology and experienced in managing software
development and implementation programmes. Currently employed as Executive Director and Head of Operations at Bank Julius Baer, based out of Singapore.

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Pardi Sudrajat, Group Head and Senior Vice President for Market and Operational Risk, BANK MANDIRI

Pardi is Group Head and SVP for Market and Operational Risk Group, over¬seeing Assets liability management, Liquidity risk, trading risk, loan and deposits pricing, operational risk management and Enterprise Risk Management, and acting as the secretary of Risk and Capital Committee. From 2006, He is also the president commissioner of PT Mandiri Sekuritas, one of the largest investment banks in Indonesia. He lectures in international finance and risk management topics at the Graduate School of Management, Gadjah Mada University. He is also Executive Director of Bank Association for Risk Management (BARa), He holds a Civil Engineering degree, a BA degree in Management from the University of Indonesia, and MBA degree in Finance and International Business from Stern School of Business – New York University.

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