She leads the team behind the banking-as-a-service network and platform - stewarding its latest expansion phase as one of the Philippines' largest financial networks also providing digital transformation tools to all financial service providers. Over the last 17 years, Anne has had extensive experience in strategy, business models, human resources, and products across diverse fields including media, telecommunications, web, and financial technologies. She has led teams in Business and Product Development at eCompareMo; Project Management and as a founding team member of Rappler; Globe’s digital transformation PMO; and as a multi-hyphenate with ABS-CBN. In real life, she crochets, sings off-key, bakes sporadically, and watches anime with her kids.

Rosalia Gitau, Esq. is a Tech Executive, Attorney, Author, and Humanitarian. She is the CEO of Bixie, a wealth generation app for women recognized as a Top FinTech company by The Manila Times, The Manila Bulletin, 1Million Startups, the Financial Alliance for Women, and Women’s World Banking. Rosalia has over 15 years of international private and public experience in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas with the United Nations, Alibaba, Shearman & Sterling, and the governments of the USA, Liberia and Sierra Leone. She is a PEN Award nominee and the co-founder of the Humanitarian Women’s Network. She is a United Nations University and Brookings Institution scholar and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is based in Bangkok and hails from the Philippines and Kenya, by way of California.

Cathy has over 19 years’ experience in the banking and finance industry spanning a breadth of roles from Treasury and Market Risk to being at the forefront of the future of finance as UnionBank’s Head of Blockchain Business Development.

Prior to joining the Bank’s Fintech Business Group, Cathy gained experience through handling Market Risk and Statistical Analysis roles. She later joined the Treasury team wherein she stayed for over 12 years, eventually heading its Fixed Income (Indonesia and South Asia) and Derivatives Desk.

Transitioning from traditional banking roles, Cathy currently leads her team which harnesses blockchain technology to prepare the Bank for the future token economy. Under her leadership, her team launched BitBox, UnionBank’s Virtual Currency ATM- the first central bank compliant, bank-operated bitcoin ATM in the world.
Cathy is also a certified Money Market and Foreign Exchange Trader and a licensed Fixed Income Salesperson. She graduated with a degree in Statistics from the University of the Philippines – Diliman and is a candidate for Master of Science in Financial Engineering at De La Salle University.