Arvie is the Senior Vice President and Head of the Fintech Group at UnionBank, a team instrumental to the Bank’s transformation strategy. Under his leadership, the group has created award-winning fintech and blockchain solutions to future-proof the bank and promote financial inclusion.

He is passionate about tech-ing up the Philippines, and was recognized by the Singapore Fintech Association as a Top Fintech Influencer in Asia. A primary mover in the fintech space, he co-founded and serves as the Vice Chairman of the Distributed Ledger Technology Association of the Philippines whose purpose is to educate, regulate, and innovate on blockchain technology.

Being an ardent advocate of financial inclusion, Arvie also co-founded and serves as a board director of Tech Up Pilipinas - a movement that seeks to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs), individuals, and large corporates benefit from technological advancements in order to “tech up” the Philippines and pave way for inclusive prosperity.

Arvie is also a Founding Member and Board Director of the Fintech Philippines Association.

Prior to joining UnionBank, Arvie's extensive career spanned various industries including banking (Citibank), telecommunications (Globe/Singtel), and broadcast/digital media (TV5/ABC), with roles across product management, sales, finance, strategic planning, and business development.

Aside from leading UnionBank’s Fintech Group, Arvie also sits on the Board of the bank’s subsidiaries PETNET Inc. and UBX.

Despite being a banker with an MBA, Arvie graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Ateneo de Manila University. He is a loving husband and dad to 6 very animated kids.

Gustav is a Swedish serial entrepreneur based in Singapore. He has backed and started companies across technology, finance, real estate and e-commerce in Sweden and across Asia. Gustav is the founder and CEO of Collectius Group a fast growing Fin-Tech company with debt acquisition and receivables management space.

Gustav strives to embody authentic leadership and is on the mission to demonstrate that any company can be of positive impact to the world with the right values and culture. He emphasizes the importance of light and playfulness and is on a mission to support his team to expand into the highest and truest versions of themselves.

An Entrepreneur and Founder of GROVER Pte Ltd (formerly Kris FinSoftware) and KFS Digital, a leading regional provider of consultancy and innovative digital banking, digital lending and compliance solutions for banks.

I have a strong, proven track record of providing solutions to local banks in the Philippines to help them meet the challenges, transform and remain competitive against bigger players and more recently FinTech companies.

I have a clear understanding of challenges banks face in selecting software solutions particularly in Lending, financial supply chain management and compliance and in newly emerging digital banking and disruptive platforms for Financial industry in SEA. Now leading the company in its 8th year, I am committed to providing best of breed digital solutions to more banks in the Philippines and Vietnam.

Our innovative digital banking solutions include unique offerings that have helped banks expand SME and Retail client base serving their needs digitally, manage banks’ growth, mitigate risks and increase revenues while keeping costs low. These also allow the banks to bring new products to their clients far more quicker and thus enjoy first movers’ advantage.

Recent focus has been also in financial inclusion and providing branch less banking for Filipinos. I will be happy to share the experience and knowledge I have acquired while working with banks in using appropriate technology to reach out to this segment.

The software solutions and related consultancy and training, delivered locally, are also offered on cloud reducing the capital outlay and time to implement for banks .

Specialties: Building new business in emerging markets such as Vietnam,Indonesia, India and the Philippines and developing existing accounts through a network of contacts with clients and partners.
The vast experience in building and developing business from scratch for a number of global software companies in the region places me in a unique position to provide what the banks in the region always wanted but could not get locally. I am reachable on kgrover@krisfinsoftware.com

Aside from being at the helm of Esquire Financing Inc. (EFI), Rajan Uttamchandani is also the President and CEO of Esquire International Financing Inc., a leading financing company with significant operations in the Philippines, India, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. Rajan joined the financing industry at a very young age through Esquire International. This early exposure contributed a lot to his financial and business expertise — an expertise that paved the way to the attainment of his vision of creating EFI, a company that caters to the financial needs of Philippine businesses.

Rajan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Corporate Finance and Accounting from Bentley College and a Master’s in Entrepreneurship from the Asian Institute of Management. He also finished the Key Executives Program and the Owner/ President Management Program at Harvard Business School.

He has been an entrepreneur that's involved with growing small and medium enterprises through finance and strategic consultancy. Working within the realm of finance and business development for over 10 years.

Li Hao was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of FWD Life Philippines in January 2020.

He has over 25 years of leadership experience in financial services and consulting across Asia, the Middle East, United Kingdom, and the United States. His specialization includes sales distribution and transformation, corporate strategy, customer insights, marketing, change management, and organization restructuring.

In 2017, he joined FWD Group as Group Head of Agency Distribution. In a relatively short period of time, Li Hao created and executed the Elite Agency strategy across FWD’s six (6) regional offices, including the Philippines, and helped substantially grow the Elite Agency sales and the number of Elite agents. He has also initiated several differentiated components of the Elite Agency program such as Elite Learning, Elite Affiliates, and Elite Digital – highlighting the enthusiasm for enhancing the customer experience and driving FWD’s digital transformation.

Li Hao graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He obtained his Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.