Chua Wan An

Chek Ping Chua is Executive Director, Blockchain & Digital Assets at United Overseas Bank (UOB), a position he has held since June 2022. His mandate covers blockchain and digital assets at the Singapore-headquartered bank. Prior to this role, he served as Executive Director and Head of Strategic Alliances and Fintech within UOB's Group Channels and Digitalisation division from September 2017 to June 2022.

Before joining UOB, Chua spent approximately seven years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he held Director-level positions in the Global Corporate and Investment Bank. He served as Senior Regional MNC Coverage Banker in Singapore from 2014 to 2017, and prior to that set up and managed the North China MNC business from 2010 to 2014. Earlier in his career, he held several roles at HSBC Global Banking and Markets, including Head of MNC China North, Head of Chemicals and Resources MNC China, and SVP Resources and Energy, where he was involved in transactions in the Singapore utilities sector including genco privatisation and Newater projects. His total banking career spans approximately 29 years.

Khee Jin Yong is Executive Director, Blockchain Digital Assets at UOB, a position he has held since June 2023. His profile indicates a focus on blockchain and digital assets within the product function at UOB, alongside broader areas including leadership, management, corporate development, relationship management, corporate and investment banking, corporate finance, credit, M&A, capital markets, and fund-raising.

Prior to UOB, Yong headed corporate finance and investor relations at Carousell Group from February to December 2022. Before that, he served as Head of Corporate Banking 1 at Maybank from October 2020 to February 2022, covering clients in the GLC, large corporates, and ASEAN space with responsibility for the deployment of the bank's capital. He spent eight years at DBS Bank from June 2012 to October 2020 as a Senior Relationship Manager, covering clients in the GLC and TMT space and responsible for balance sheet utilisation and cross-sell. His total finance career spans approximately 19 years. No educational details are available in the source content.

Yewint is an ex-SRE Software Engineer at ByteDance and a final year Computer Science student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with experience in software engineering and technology.

Nathan Z. is a VP, Innovation Group at UOB, a position he assumed in June 2025. His LinkedIn profile describes his focus as Digital Assets, Tokenized Products Design & Solutions, and Payment. Prior to this role, he served as VP in the Data Management Office at UOB from January 2022 to May 2025, and before that as AVP, Data Management & Big Data Analytics from January 2019 to December 2021. He joined UOB in August 2014 as Manager, Data Management, giving him over a decade of continuous tenure at the bank across data and innovation functions.

Before UOB, Nathan Z. worked as a Business Process Analyst at Maybank in Singapore from July 2013 to June 2014. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Singapore Management University, graduating in 2013, and holds a Six Sigma Green Belt certification. More recent certifications include Neo4j Fundamentals and Cypher Fundamentals, both issued in January 2024, and a Professional Agile Leadership I (PAL I) certification from Scrum.org, issued in November 2022.

Srivatsan Tirumalai serves as Executive Director, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps and Enterprise Generative AI Platform Lead at United Overseas Bank (UOB), a position he has held since August 2024. In this role, he is building and scaling UOB's enterprise AI capabilities, including an Enterprise AI Bus and Enterprise Memory Bus, defining governance frameworks for responsible AI deployment, and establishing the operating model for human-agent collaboration across the organisation. He concurrently holds the role of Executive Director, CTO for Architecture and Engineering covering Retail, Wholesale Banking, and Digital Assets, a position he has held since October 2019.

Across his tenure at UOB, Srivatsan has served as CTO or Chief Platform Architect on several named programmes, including TMRW Digital Bank, Infinity Corporate Banking, Payments, Real Time Data Services, and Model Runtime Platforms. He was one of five architects on the first phase of Project Ubin, UOB's blockchain and digital assets initiative. He serves as a PolyFinTech100 advisor, a Non-Executive Member and Technology Advisor of Home Nursing Foundation, and as an advisor to multiple industry programmes across the region for the bank. He has delivered over one billion dollars of banking projects across Retail, Wealth, and Wholesale Banking. His technical background spans enterprise, domain, and solution architecture, engineering leadership, DevSecOps, legacy modernisation, distributed ledger technology, and real-time data services. He has 22 years of experience in technology management and operations across global financial institutions. In 2024 he spoke at DevOpsDays Singapore and at the Singapore Fintech Festival, where he participated in a session on AI and quantum readiness in banking infrastructure.