Topic 1: FinTech in the Greater China Region
- Mr. Mikaal ABDULLA, CEO & Co-Founder, 8 Securities
- Dr. Caleb CAO, Senior Data Scientist, Director of Science Department, FDT AI Limited
- Dr. Alfred MA, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer, CASH Algo Finance Group Limited
- Mr. Joe NGAI, Director, Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company Greater China Office
Mr. Joe Ngai is Managing Partner of McKinsey’s Greater China office, which is comprised of more than 550 Partners and consultants across offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Taipei.
Previously he led McKinsey’s Financial Institutions and Private Equity Practices in Greater China. He has led many large-scale transformation efforts for Chinese as well as multinational institutions, and has advised senior management on topics pertaining to strategy, operations transformation, mergers & acquisitions, and organizational transformation.
Joe is quoted frequently in top-tier publications such as The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and in major local media in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He is the author of numerous reports and articles on China’s financial institutions, and he co-authored two editions of “Life Insurance in Asia” (John Wiley), the first comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities facing insurance markets across Asia. Joe speaks frequently at major international forums on a range of topics including financial services, leadership and management, and social enterprises.
Joe has been appointed to various government advisory committees, including the Financial Services Development Council and the Financial Infrastructure Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He is also a Board Member of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, the Antiquities Advisory Board, and the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme.
Joe is passionate about and active with several organizations in the social enterprise and education sectors. He is the Chairman of DiamondCab, an award-winning social enterprise that provides taxi services to handicapped people, a director of the Diocesan Boys’ School Foundation, and a former president of the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong.
Professor Chak Wong is currently Managing Director of Financial Products at Ping An Asset Management. Previously, he was Asia Head of Sovereign and Financial Institutions at Societe Generale. As Professor of Science Practice in the Mathematics department of HKUST, he taught courses on the application of stochastic differential equation to counterparty credit risk and funding valuation adjustment, the application of machine learning to finance markets as well as risk management for banks and insurances. He worked full time as Professor of Finance Practice at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Director of MSc in Finance program, Associate Director of MBA program and Director of Business Development of The Asia Pacific Institute of Business, while serving the Deposit Protection Board and its Investment Committee of HKMA. Before returning to academia in 2010, Professor Wong was Managing Director and Head of Structuring of IBD Asia including Japan of Barclays Capital. He was responsible for client risk advisory and risk management solutions across all asset classes. Professor Wong was Managing Director and trader in UBS London and Hong Kong, co-heading the APAC structured products groups which trades and designs products including all asset classes and hybrids. He also spent a number of years in London in Goldman Sachs as Executive Director, working as a strategist/quant and trader for rate, FX and inflation. Prior to that, he was a quantitative analyst in credit derivative and emerging market in Morgan Stanley, London. He built a language for constructing credit derivative products, models for interest rate and hybrid products, as well as high dimensional PDE solver and Monte Carlo engines.
