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Event Details
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IDC Business Transformation
in Financial Services 2005
Are You Ready for the Evolution?
Conference
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22 July 2005
The Leela Kempinski, Mumbai |
Hurry!! The first 100
registrants will receive a FREE one-year subscription each of Businessworld,
India's leading business weekly, compliments of IDC and Financial
Insights |
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| Speakers |
Overall
Conference Coordination
Cyrus Daruwala, Managing Director, Research and
Consulting, Financial Insights Asia/Pacific (an IDC
Company) |
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Cyrus is the Managing Director for Financial Insights,
Asia/Pacific. He is responsible for growing the
Financial Insights AP teams, their research coverage as
well as new business in the region. Cyrus brings with
him more than 12 years of financial services experience.
Before joining IDC, he was a director in a research and
publication firm in Singapore where he was instrumental
in growing their regional events, proprietary and
subscription based research businesses. He also was a FX
and Bullion trader with Wells Fargo. He started his
career as a private banker for Midland Bank. Cyrus has a
very close working relationship with most of the banks
and financial institutions as well as vendors and
service providers in the AP region.
For the past 10+ years in the AP region, Cyrus has
been working with banks and vendors to help them better
understand their customer base and create effective
go-to-market strategies. His understanding of a range
business, market, regulatory and investment related
issues, enables him to work closely with financial
institutions, consultants, vendors and government
agencies on various multi-disciplinary initiatives.
Before joining Financial Insights, Cyrus was Director -
Global Clients Services with a Singapore based research
and publication firm. He was instrumental in growing
their proprietary as well as subscription based research
business along with their events and editorial
businesses.
He also served in senior management positions with
Marcus Evans - a conference company. He was with Wells
Fargo for nearly 4 years in their FX & Bullion
Trading division and before that he was a Private Banker
with Midland Bank. Cyrus has lived and worked in Hong
Kong, Japan, Malaysia and Australia for nearly 10 years
before he moved to Singapore in 2000.
Cyrus has a Masters Degree in Business Finance,
Economics and Business Law and is a Commerce Graduate
with Accounts, Political Sciences, and Business Planning
as specialist subjects. In addition, he has advanced his
studies through a 2-year comprehensive on-the-job
training program in leveraged foreign exchange and
bullion trading with further coursework at the
International Monetary Market on fund displacement,
investment strategies, insurance and trust planning. |
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Transformation
in the Banking Industry - Infrastructure View
Mahesh C Ramanayake, iSeries Marketing &
Solutions Executive IBM Asia Pacific |
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| Mahesh
Ramanayake is iSeries Marketing and Solutions Executive
for IBM Asia Pacific. Mahesh has been with IBM for the
last 15 Years and has held various positions in IBM Asia
Pacific in Server group and Solutions. He has a very
good knowledge of Technology, Solutions and Industry
requirements. Mahesh is a regular speaker at IBM events.
He hold a degree in Engineering and an MBA. |
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Banking on Applications: Why the
end-user experience is key
Brian Spring, AM Technical Practice
Manager, APAC, Mercury |
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Spring is Mercury's Application Management (AM)
Technical Practice Manager for Asia Pacific. With 10
years in enterprise software experience, Brian is
responsible for Mercury's Application Management
solutions for Mercury's customers in Asia Pacific.
Additionally, Brian is responsible for ensuring that
Mercury's technical resources for AM are trained and
enabled to ensure customer success.
Brian's experience includes five years with Mercury's
enterprise accounts in the United States such as Bank of
America, Nationwide Financial, Bank One and in APAC
includes Citibank.
Previous to Mercury, Brian was with Platinum
Technology where he acted as Manager of System
Engineering Operations and was the Senior System
Engineer. |
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Customer Experience and Sales
Effectiveness within the World's Top 300 Retail Banks
Dan Bognar, Director, Financial Services,
Asia Pacific & Japan, Siebel Systems Inc. |
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is responsible for ensuring that Siebel’s Financial
Services customers achieve world-class results from
their implementation of Siebel Business applications.
Dan joined Siebel Systems in May 2000 and works
closely with some of Asia Pacific’s largest retail
banks in providing business solutions to help them move
from a product centric business, to a more integrated,
customer focused business.
Prior to joining Siebel, Dan worked as a Director at
PriceWaterhouseCoopers within the Tax Technology
Consulting practice, providing technology solutions to
large corporate tax departments. During this period, Dan
worked in PriceWaterhouseCoopers offices in Australia,
England, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.
Dan received his Bachelor of Commerce from the
University of New South Wales
and MBA from the Australian Graduate School of
Management. |
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Manage your customers and Increase
Profits
Srikiran Raghavan, Regional Manager, RSA Security,
India |
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is the regional sales manager for RSA Security India and
is responsible for business development for India. He
has more than 8 years of experience in the IT industry
and has served as a consultant in Ernest & Young. |
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Top 10 Strategic Initiatives in Banking for 2005 in
the Asia-Pacific Region
Douglas A. Jaffe, Associate Director, Financial
Insights Asia/Pacific (an IDC company) |
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Jaffe is Associate Director, Asia Pacific Banking
Service specializing in business and technology issues
of relevance to the regional banking sector.
Jaffe has expertise in a number of operational areas
across retail and corporate banking including channel
strategies, payments, trade services, financial systems
and outsourcing. He advises banks and vendors on
customer trends, competitive positioning, strategy and
operational issues. He meets with government bodies to
offer opinions on new technologies and trends such as
outsourcing and electronic payments. Clients include
IBM, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Oracle, Fidelity Information
Services, and Cisco. Jaffe also manages a variety of
consulting projects from due diligence exercises to
market studies.
Jaffe joined Financial Insights in May 2003 to further
expand coverage of the Asia/Pacific region. Previously
with IDC, he helped build its regional financial
services practice and authored an extensive research
catalog across a number of banking areas. Involved with
Asia since 1994, Jaffe has lived, worked or studied in
China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Jaffe is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and
is quoted in publications like The Business Times, South
China Morning Post, Asian Wall Street Journal, Asia
Banking and Finance, CIO Magazine, American Banker, and
The Asian Banker. He has also appeared on CNBC, BBC,
Reuters television and Channel News Asia.
Jaffe holds a bachelor of arts degree in
international affairs from the University of
Pennsylvania, a masters in Chinese studies from the
School of Oriental and African Studies at the University
of London, and a masters of international affairs from
the School of International & Public Affairs at
Columbia University. He spent two years studying at
National Taiwan Normal University and one year at
Beijing Qinghua University. He is conversant in
Mandarin. |
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Industry
Challenges and Business Drivers for the Transformation
Process
Sanjeev
Borwankar, Managing Director, Wincor Nixdorf Pte Ltd.
Thomas Schulze, Regional Marketing Director, Wincor
Nixdorf Pte Ltd. |
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Policy Compliance Framework.
Jeffrey Hoo, Services & Management Systems Field
Director, Regional Product Marketing, Symantec
Corporation |
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Hoo is the Field Director for Services & Management
Systems. He works for Symantec Corporation, world leader
in providing solutions to help individuals and
enterprises assure the security, availability, and
integrity of their information. Prior to Symantec
Corporation, Jeffrey has been working in the IT Security
Industry for eight years in Southeast Asia. His past
experience has been representing his previous security
companies as Trusted Security Advisor to governments and
large commercial organizations particularly the banks in
the region. With the Banking Industry undertaking
measures to comply with BASEL II, Jeffrey will focus on
the information systems of Operational Risk Management
and illustrate how Symantec Enterprise ManagerTM enables
banks to define, measure, and report on the compliance
of information systems against Basel II. |
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