The Founders Peak Podcast

Ang Xing Xian is the CEO and Co-Founder of CapBay, a leading Supply Chain Finance platform that helps businesses obtain smarter financing. Under his leadership, CapBay has provided more than USD 500 million in digital financing to businesses in Southeast Asia. Xing Xian has extensive experience in management consulting as a management consultant with Accenture Strategy, advising multinational comp...

Derrick Lee is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Accredify. He oversees the entire process of Accredify's new products and features from ideation, to development and release. He is responsible for the firm's technical roadmap, policy, operational processes, and the growth of Accredify's tech team. Derrick began his career in tech at the age of 12, founding a series of multiple entrepr...

Arvin Singh is the co-founder of hoolah, Southeast Asia’s first Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment provider that empowers consumers to afford the things they want through flexible payment options while helping merchants grow their payment capabilities. With combined experiences in both the corporate and startup world, he currently leads ShopBack’s Partnerships team in scaling its Financial Services...

Yunus Sevimli is the co-founder and CTO of Almond FinTech. His work centres around promoting equitable access to technology across a breadth of fields. Prior to Almond, Yunus held leadership roles in early-stage ventures commercialising cutting-edge medical research, and devised low-tech approaches to poverty alleviation in rural Southeast Asia. He is the author of several patents and scientific p...

Joshua Bao is one of SUNRATE's co-founder and is responsible for driving the sales and marketing strategy of the organisation. Prior to co-founding SUNRATE in 2016, Joshua has more than 16 years of experience in global financial and corporate services. As a co-founder, Joshua had to make countless unpopular decisions that he believed were right. While the majority of those decisions have proven to...

Nirav Choksi is the Co-founder and CEO of CredAble, India's largest working capital technology platform that enables more than USD 3BN in working capital and has witnessed 500% year-on-year growth. He co-founded CredAble with the aspiration of building an enterprise that empowers the business ecosystem with a seamless flow of credit. Today, CredAble caters to large, mid-sized, emerging corporates,...

Edmund Ng is a serial entrepreneur, founder of 3 start-ups, one of which grew to $20m valuation in 2 years. A military soldier turned technologist, he has contributed significantly to Singapore’s tech ecosystem, pioneering mainstays like the self-service SAM kiosks and financial and procurement networks behind the scenes. His experience culminates in Doxa Connex, the Collaborative Trade Platform t...

Pratik Gandhi is the Co-Founder and COO at Nium, a leading fintech company that provides banks, payment providers, and businesses of any size with access to global payment services. As Co-Founder and COO at Nium, Pratik leads the Global Finance, Compliance, Operations & Customer Service teams. Pratik brings over 25 years of leadership experience into Nium, having worked for companies such as A...

Dhruv Arora is the Founder and CEO of Syfe, Asia’s leading digital wealth management platform with a mission to empower people to build their wealth for a better future. Having pursued a career as a trader with a leading investment bank, Dhruv realised that he had a different calling. Having seen the impact of offering wealth management services to high net-worth individuals, Dhruv founded Syfe to...

Debbie Watkins has lived in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Singapore over the past 20 years, and worked in 30 additional countries throughout Africa and Asia. Her focus for this entire period has been technology-enabled inclusive finance - mobile products and services, business and strategy consulting and management - building multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams in a number of c...

Michele Ferrario is the Co-Founder and CEO of StashAway, the largest digital wealth manager in SEA and MENA. Michele spent half of his career in and around financial services, as a consultant to large financial institutions at McKinsey & Co., and as a Private Equity investor. He then spent the second part of his career building consumer internet companies, as Managing Director at Rocket Intern...

David Brear is the CEO of 11:FS and since his dream of being a sportsperson was crushed (along with the ligaments in his knee!) and he had to get a proper job, he has worked in pretty much every angle of the financial services industry never losing that competitive desire to drive forwards and win. Having pitched, established and run billion-pound transformations for some of the biggest FS compani...

Feng-Yuan Liu is Vice-President of Business Development of Aicadium, Temasek’s AI centre of excellence. Feng-Yuan is a serial entrepreneur and intrapreneur, with a passion for applying data-driven methods and artificial intelligence both in the service of the public good and launching new ventures. He successfully co-founded and exited an early stage Sequoia-backed startup building technology to e...

Walter de Oude founded Singapore Life in 2014 and grew that business both organically and inorganically to a value of S$3.2bn by 2020.  Walter's new venture, Chocolate Finance aims to deliver best in market cash savings returns for almost anyone, almost anywhere.  Based on his entrepreneurial experience, Walter has also established Chocolate Ventures, an early stage VC through which Walter invites...

Coen Jonker is the Chairman and co-founder of Tyme, a multi-country digital banking group operating in Asia and Africa. Tyme launched its flagship bank, TymeBank, in South Africa in 2019 with over five million customers, making it one of the fastest-growing digital banks worldwide. Following a successful legal career, Coen joined Standard Bank as its Director of Inclusive Banking in 2005. In 2011,...

Ilya Melkumov was a professional esports player and captain who successfully sold his team to NaVi, one of the biggest gaming organisations in the world. After playing for more than 12 years Ilya decided to switch his career path and move to FOM Capital, a VC firm investing in groundbreaking technology companies. Using the knowledge from FOM Capital and his degree from the London School of Economi...

Jenny Li is a strategy focused and results orientated finance leader, with more than 15 years’ experience in improving financial governance, working in and advising multinational business to high growth start-ups undertaking rapid change and growth. Jenny co-founded AsiaVerify in 2019, a Singapore incorporated regtech company empowering global businesses to verify businesses in Asia, in real time,...

Sean Lam was the co-founder of Jewel Paymentech which was acquired by Fintech unicorn Advance Intelligence Group in 2022. His passions include imagineering solutions to complex fraud and security problems that impact the whole of society. He previously served as a risk director at the world's leading payment network and prior as a security consultant with a Big 4 accounting firm. Outside of work,...

Phase #0: 15 year intra-preneur, with many firsts in corporate life. Start-up #1: RedPill, pioneered Analytics revolution, exited to IBM Stupidity Gene #2: Crayon Data, go bolder with AI, build a platform - ⁠maya.ai⁠ . Uppers: sparky daring people, purpose & values-driven journeys: deadly cocktails - of data & intuition; right & left brain; long term persistence & short term impati...

Serey Chea is Assistant Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. She is passionate about financial inclusion and women economic empowerment. Achievements under her leadership include the establishment of Credit Bureau Cambodia in 2012 that propelled Cambodia's Ease of Access to Finance to number 7 worldwide in 2017 by the World Bank, the introduction of Bakong, a national backbone payment system...

Michael Shaulov is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. He is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He pioneered mobile security in an elite military technological unit (8200) where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor, prior to co-founding Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point. In this talk, Michael s...

Jonathan Levin is Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, where he is regularly called upon to testify for the U.S. Congress and other government hearings on the emerging risks and opportunities in cryptocurrencies. Jonathan is also a mentor for the Techstars Alchemist Blockchain accelerator. Prior to Chainalysis, he was the CEO of Coinometrics, which...

Naveen Kukreja, one of the most prominent faces of India’s fintech industry, is the Co-founder & CEO of Paisabazaar – the country’s largest marketplace for lending products and free credit score platform. In less than 9 years, Paisabazaar has served over 33 million consumers from 823 cities. Naveen has 2 decades of deep experience in the fintech and financial services markets of Europe and Asi...

Monika Martinsson's journey kicked off in the dynamic realm of FinTech, where she dazzled as a developer and sharp-witted analyst. Over 12 years in global capital markets, she commanded high-octane trading software and led thriving teams across EMEA. In 2017, she took a bold leap alongside three visionary colleagues, birthing the brainchild that is Deedster. This powerhouse is on a relentless...