Our Advisory Committee

Our advisory committee comprises senior leaders from eight organisations that represent a range of stakeholder groups, including incumbent financial institutions and Tech/FinTech players. Their collective wealth of experience and perspectives generate valuable insights to support Elevandi's wide range of initiatives and activities.

The committee provides strategic guidance on:

Galvanising global conversations to shape FinTech industry agendas worldwide
Identifying key structural trends and issues shaping the future of financial services
Fostering an open dialogue between policymakers and FinTech players on Fintech risks and opportunities

It is chaired by FinTech veteran Matthias Kröner, Elevandi Board Member and Founder of Tradelite Solutions, as well as former CEO of Fidor Bank and DAB Bank.

Chen Leiming

Senior Vice President

Ant Group

Chen Leiming

Senior Vice President

Chen is the Senior Vice President of Ant Group and is responsible for international public policy and government affairs for Ant Group. He also oversees the international legal & compliance department for Ant International Business Group. In his day-to-day responsibilities, Chen undertakes a broad range of governmental and regulatory engagement in connection with the Group’s international business activities.

Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy

Circle

Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy

Dante Disparte is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, responsible for overseeing company strategy, communications, policy and public affairs. Since joining Circle in 2021, his leadership in driving market expansion, regulatory engagement, and more have been integral in furthering the company’s mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading policy, communications, membership and social impact. He also brings two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative. He also served as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council. Currently, he is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan 2016). He earned a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College, is a PLD graduate of Harvard Business School, and has an MSc in risk management from NYU Stern School of Business. Outside of work, Dante enjoys speaking and commentating, such as in media outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BBC, Forbes and Diplomatic Courier.

Dr Andreas Rosenthal

Chief Financial Officer

Prudential Singapore

Dr Andreas Rosenthal

Chief Financial Officer

Andreas is the Chief Financial Officer of Prudential Singapore. He oversees Finance (Operations), Financial Reporting, Actuarial Financial Management, Actuarial Products and Advisory, Distribution Compensation and Analytics, Performance and Expense Management, Finance Projects and Transformation, and Procurement.

Eric Anziani

President & Chief Operating Officer

Crypto.com

Eric Anziani

President & Chief Operating Officer

Eric Anziani is a seasoned tech leader with more than 16 years of experience in strategy, partnerships, and innovation in Fintech, payments and financial services. Prior to joining Crypto.com, Mr. Anziani worked at leading global companies Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, PayPal, and Global Fashion Group in London, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo.

Janet Young

Managing Director & Group Head, Channels & Digitalization, Communications & Brand

UOB

Janet Young

Managing Director & Group Head, Channels & Digitalization, Communications & Brand

Janet heads Group Channels & Digitalisation, Strategic Communications & Brand for UOB . She is responsible for delivery channels serving retail and business customers across branches, self service banking, websites and champions Fintech and ecosystem partnership initiatives across the UOB group. She also oversees brand management, strategic communications, community stewardship teams across the group to achieve UOB's brand vision to build strong community relationships.

Janet is a Board member of Singapore National Environment Agency, Singapore National Council of Social Service, Innoven Capital, Accuron Technologies and serves on the Advisory Councils of Nanyang Buisness School, NTU Singapore and Elevandi.

She has more than 25 years of banking and corporate experience. Prior to joining UOB, she held senoor roles at global banks and European MNC.

Laura Loh

Director, Investment (Blockchain)

Temasek International

Laura Loh

Director, Investment (Blockchain)

Laura is a Director at Temasek and is part of the team responsible for blockchain team investments and venture building, with a focus on accelerating and scaling blockchain technologies to create robust ecosystems, innovative products and impactful solutions.

She is a Founding Team Member and a Board Observer of Partior, a joint venture with JP Morgan, DBS and Standard Chartered Bank to setup new financial market infrastructure to enhance cross-border clearing and settlements.

Laura also contributes actively to the public domain. She sits on the Advisory Committee of Elevandi, an independent legal entity, founded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, to foster an active and open dialogue between the public and private sectors, to advance FinTech further in the global digital economy.

Laura joined Temasek in 2007, prior to her current role she has also held roles in the Consumer, Industrials, Transportation and Logistics groups looking at both investments and working closely with their Boards and management teams on strategy and value creation initiatives, ensuring sustainable and profitable long-term growth for the organizations she's working with.

Prior to joining Temasek, Laura was in General Electric and Ernst & Young in various roles, spanning several geographies including US, UK, China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia

She is a Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants and holds a BA(hons) in Accounting and Finance from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Marco Bizzozero

Head of International & Member of the Executive Committee

iCapital

Marco Bizzozero

Head of International & Member of the Executive Committee

Marco is Head of International at iCapital and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. In this role, he is responsible for the global expansion and overall development of the firm’s business outside the United States with a focus on EMEA, APAC and LATAM markets.

Marco has more than 25 years of international experience in the financial industry and has held senior executive positions in global organizations in wealth management and private equity. He joined iCapital from UniCredit, where he was CEO of Group Wealth Management and a member of the Group Executive Management Committee. Previously, Marco was with Deutsche Bank for 14 years, including nine years as Head of Wealth Management EMEA and CEO of Deutsche Bank Switzerland and, prior to this, as Global Head of Private Equity for the Wealth Management division. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Marco was Head of Private Equity Secondary Investments at LGT Capital Partners. He started his career with UBS where he held various roles in investment banking and private equity in Zurich, London, and New York.

He received a Master of Arts (lic. oec. HSG) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and has served on the boards of the Swiss Bankers Association, Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland, and the Swiss Finance Institute. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of Elevandi, an organization set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to foster an open dialogue between the public and private sectors to advance FinTech in the digital economy.

Richard Pu

Vice President, Joint General Counsel

Tencent

Richard Pu

Vice President, Joint General Counsel

Mr. Richard Pu currently serves as Vice President, Joint General Counsel. From July 2018 to July 2023, Richard served as a member of the Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a committee member of The Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies, and a member of First ChiNext Board Listing Committee of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Prior to joining Tencent in 2010, Richard had extensive experience in corporate legal practice where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and general commercial legal matters. Richard received his Juris Doctor from the Melbourne University Law School in Australia in 2005. Before that, Mr. Richard had worked in the banking and insurance industry in China for 9 years.

Sandeep Malhotra

Executive Vice President of Products & Innovation, Asia Pacific

Mastercard

Sandeep Malhotra

Executive Vice President of Products & Innovation, Asia Pacific

Sandeep Malhotra is the Executive Vice President, Products & Innovation, Asia Pacific at Mastercard. In his current position as head of the Products & Innovation group, he oversees the development and management of all consumer and commercial products in the Asia Pacific region. These span debit, credit, prepaid, commercial, payments gateway and processing to acceptance, account-to-account flows, remittances, open banking, digital platforms and everything in between.

Committee Members

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Chen Leiming Senior Vice President of Ant GroupChen is the Senior Vice President of Ant Group and is responsible for international public policy and government affairs for Ant Group. He also oversees the international legal & compliance department for Ant International Business Group. In his day-to-day responsibilities, Chen undertakes a broad range of governmental and regulatory engagement in connection with the Group’s international business activities.

Chen Leiming Senior Vice President of Ant Group

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Dante Disparte Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle

Dante is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, responsible for overseeing company strategy, communications, policy and public affairs. Since joining Circle in 2021, his leadership in driving market expansion, regulatory engagement, and more have been integral in furthering the company’s mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value.

Dante Disparte Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle

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Dr Andreas Rosenthal Chief Financial Officer of Prudential Singapore

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Eric Anziani Chief Operating Officer at Crypto

Eric is the Chief Operating Officer at Crypto.com where he oversees several global functions including product, growth, institutional sales, strategy, partnerships, blockchain, research and data. He previously served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer where he was instrumental in the conceptualization and implementation of the company’s major initiatives, including the Crypto.com App as well as several R&D initiatives around blockchain infrastructure and ecosystem building.

Eric Anziani Chief Operating Officer at Crypto

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Janet Young Member of the senior leadership team under the UOB Group CEO

Janet is a member of the senior leadership team under the UOB Group CEO, leading delivery channels, digitalisation initiatives, and customer experience & advocacy to achieve UOB Group’s vision of a premier regional bank in the Asia Pacific. Working with Business, Technology, and Country teams in UOB, FinTech, and ecosystem partners externally, she champions collaborative business models, and omnichannel strategy to drive better customer experience and outcomes for the bank and its customers.

Janet Young Member of the senior leadership team under the UOB Group CEO

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Laura Loh Director in Temasek’s Blockchain team

Laura is currently a Director in Temasek’s Blockchain team, which focuses on venture building and investment opportunities in the space. She was also part of the founding venture teams of 2 start-ups by Temasek – Partior, a joint venture with JP Morgan and DBS to setup a multi-currency payments network to enhance cross-border clearing and settlements; as well as Affinidi, a start-up that uses decentralised technologies to develop data and self-sovereign identity solutions.

Laura Loh Director in Temasek’s Blockchain team

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Marco Bizzozero Head of International at iCapital

Marco is the Head of International at iCapital and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. In this role, he is responsible for the expansion and overall development of the firm’s business outside of the United States (EMEA, APAC, LATAM).

Marco Bizzozero Head of International at iCapital

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Richard Pu Vice President

Richard currently serves as Vice President, Co-head of Tencent legal and a member of the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and GEM Listing Committee of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

Richard Pu Vice President

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Sandeep Malhotra Executive Vice President, Products & Innovation, Asia Pacific at Mastercard