Takeshi is a serial Fintech entrepreneur, and Vice-chair of Fintech Association of Japan and leads international partnerships.

Aside from those activities, he sits on a committee for the Government of Japan's Regulatory Sandbox and an experts group of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for cross-border transfers of data.

Prior to establishing his own startup, he worked for Merrill Lynch as an investment banker and has 12 years experience in capital markets in total. Before joining Merrill Lynch, he worked at Boston Consulting Group.

Amit Goel is a seasoned entrepreneur and fintech expert and built and sold a global Fintech company. He was the founder of MEDICI Global, a leading platform that was known as the Bloomberg of Fintech. MEDICI platform tracked 17000 fintech and insurtech cos on a daily basis through in-house tech and offered subscriptions. It was acquired by Prove, a growth-stage US tech unicorn, in 2021. As the former head of Prove India, Amit spearheaded the launch of innovative identity and authentication products in the Indian market. Now, he's channeling his passion for the fintech space and startup growth into venture capital, fund management, and advisory roles. Over the past 4-5 years, Amit has made numerous early-stage investments, some of which have grown to be successful businesses. He is an angel investor in some top FinTech & InsurTech cos. He has been rated as both Global and Asia Top 100 experts in FinTech by various agencies. 
 

A sought-after advisor, investor, and speaker, Kristy has dedicated her career to empowering the professional and personal development of women in the payments and fintech industry. She founded Women in Payments in 2012, a global organization that connects, educates, and champions women in the payments industry. Prior to that, Kristy was a leading global payments consultant. She advised C-suite leaders at global financial institutions, payments networks, fintechs, regulators, and more. Prior to that, she held leadership positions at a tier one Canadian bank in the areas of corporate treasury, transaction banking, finance, and operations. Today, Kristy works closely with fintech founders to help them build pivotal relationships, secure funding, and take their businesses to the next level.

Other career and personal highlights:

● UK’s Innovate Finance and Lloyds Bank named Kristy to their Women in Fintech Power List in 2019, 2018, and 2017, notably in the elite Standout 35 category in 2019.

● Singapore-based Lattice 80 named her to their Global 100 Power Women in Fintech List twice.

● Kristy holds a Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Certified Cash Manager designation

Camilla is the CEO and the co-founder of Emerging Payments Association Asia. Her role is to bring together the different participants in the value chain of payments for collaboration. The core of the EPAA activities is policy and advocacy to enhance the industry. Camilla has a long career in the financial technology industry, starting in London in early 2000 working for Reuters (today LSEG)  and often talks about coming home when she started her work in the payments industry. Payments is the part of the financial service that touches peoples lives every day, and through EPA Asia work lives can be improved. The payments industry offered her an opportunity to combine her passion for fintech and humanitarian questions.

Suresh Sethi has over three decades of diversified global experience in the financial services industry and works extensively in the financial inclusion space leveraging fintech and digital led innovation to make a difference. He is currently the Managing Director & CEO of Protean eGov Technologies Ltd. (formerly NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Ltd.). In his last role, as the Founder CEO & MD of India Post Payments Bank, he established the largest inter-operable banking infrastructure for public good at scale in India. Prior to India Post Payments Bank, as the Managing Director & CEO of Vodafone M-Pesa, he was responsible for defining and developing the M-Pesa business strategy for India and shaping the digital and mobile payments space in the country. In his earlier assignments, he has worked with leading financial services companies such as Citigroup and YES Bank across multiple geographies covering India, Kenya, UK, Argentina and US. He has held senior CXO and Managing Director level positions at Regional & Global levels across business strategy, product development, sales & client management, and operations. Suresh has been a key industry spokesperson and closely engages with the government and regulatory institutions to aid policy formulation in a rapidly changing industry. For his contribution to the financial services sector, Suresh has been recognized by The Asian Banker and is part of The Asian Banker’s "List of Leading Practitioners". He was also recognized as the CEO of the Year (India Post Payments Bank) at the India Banking Summit & Awards, 2019. Suresh has a B.E. degree from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh and an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, Delhi.