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Connie Lam is Sector Head of Brokers and Digital Assets, Financial Institution Group Hong Kong at DBS Bank, a position she has held since April 2018. In this role, she leads the Brokers and Digital Assets team within the bank's Financial Institution Group in Hong Kong.

Her work sits at the intersection of traditional financial intermediaries and digital assets, with her LinkedIn activity reflecting engagement with topics including digital asset custody, regulated digital asset infrastructure, and Hong Kong's fintech landscape. Prior to her current mandate, she held a Senior Relationship Officer position at Shanghai Commercial Bank. She holds a bachelor's degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Evy Theunis is Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets, Strategy and Solutions, and Business Enablement at DBS Bank's Institutional Banking Group, where she oversees the digital asset customer segment and the development and execution of the bank's digital asset strategy for institutional clients. Prior to this role, she served as Regional Head of Customer Segments and Customer Science, responsible for driving data-led customer and distribution operating models, frontline tooling, and hyper-personalised digital offerings across the bank's consumer banking and wealth segments. She also played a central role in developing the DBS iWealth platform, subsequently renamed DBS digibank, which enables wealth customers to manage portfolio investments digitally.

Theunis joined DBS in 2015 to build its digital proposition for wealth customers. Before DBS, she worked at Accenture Belgium, where she engaged with European banks on operating model optimisation and led the design and delivery of digital platforms across Europe and Asia. Earlier in her career, she served as Program Manager for the separation of ABN AMRO Transaction Banking from RBS, overseeing eight large programs, and subsequently negotiated a Partnerbank Agreement between ABN AMRO and RBS following the 2008 financial crisis. She grew up in Kersbeek, Belgium, and studied Computer Science at the University of Leuven, teaching herself to code as a teenager before pursuing formal education. She holds a Masters in Computer Science from KU Leuven. Theunis has been based in Singapore for close to eleven years.

Gary Chua is Blockchain Platform Technology Lead at DBS Bank, based in Singapore, a position he has held since January 2018. He is responsible for designing the digital asset architecture spanning trading to settlement, working with the Information Security Officer to assess vulnerability in that architecture, managing three Development Leads, overseeing project budgets, and conducting RFI/RFP processes to evaluate vendor solutions. He has served as Program Manager for the DBS Digital Exchange project.

His work on the DBS Digital Exchange, custody, and tokenisation contributed to a FutureEdge50 Award for technology innovation. DBS also received the Best Custody Specialist, Digital Assets award from The Assets in APAC in 2021 and a Global Custodian of Innovation recognition during his tenure. Prior to his current role, he accumulated experience in core banking, corporate internet banking, host-to-host client channels, and securities and fiduciary services applications, including fund accounting, custody, and transfer agency systems. His career spans over 20 years in banking and financial services, with professional experience in Singapore and South Korea.

Jiaquan Lu is Head of Digital Assets, Investment Products Management at DBS Bank in Singapore, a role he has held since October 2022. In this capacity, his stated product scope covers crypto, cash equity, and FX within the Consumer Banking Group in Singapore.

Prior to moving into his current role, Lu spent nearly a decade at DBS as Deputy Functional Audit Head, covering Private Banking, Treasury and Markets, Digital Exchange, Debt and Equity Origination, and Brokerage. Before joining DBS, he worked in Product Control at Barclays Capital in Singapore from December 2009 to December 2012, and before that in audit at Deloitte and Touche Services LP from September 2007 to November 2009. His total professional experience spans approximately 18 years. He holds a degree in Accountancy and Business Law with First Class Honours from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, graduating in 2007.

Mark Han is Executive Director, Team Head of Banks, Non Bank Financial Services and Digital Assets, Global Transaction Services at DBS Bank, a position he has held since July 2025. Prior to this role, he served as Executive Director and Head of Global Banks and Private Banks within the Financial Institutions Group from March 2023 to July 2025, and as SVP and Head of Global Banks and Private Banks, Financial Institutions Coverage from March 2020 to March 2023.

Before joining DBS Bank in February 2018 as a Senior Relationship Manager in Financial Institutions, Han spent approximately six and a half years at Scotiabank across offices in Toronto, Hong Kong, and Singapore. His roles there included Associate Director positions in Regional Strategic Investments, Regional Transportation and Corporate Banking, and Financial Institutions APAC. Earlier in his career, he held an Assistant Vice President position at Citi Group from March 2005 to July 2007, where he was part of an internal strategy and project management team focused on Citigroup restructuring efforts in Japan. His total professional experience spans approximately 19 years.

Patrick Yeo is Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets GFM at DBS Bank, where he leads the bank's crypto trading and structuring desk within Global Financial Markets. He established the crypto trading infrastructure at DBS, working with internal teams and regulators to build the desk's operational foundation. He also led the launch of the bank's cryptocurrency options trading and structured notes, making DBS the first Asian-headquartered bank to offer financial products linked to Bitcoin and Ether prices. He joined DBS in 2017 as a FX Asia and Rates trader, responsible for market making on NDFs and balance sheet management on local emerging market bonds, before moving into crypto trading leadership.

Prior to DBS, Yeo held senior trading roles at Standard Chartered, where he was Director and NDF Trader from December 2014 to April 2017, and at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, where he served as VP and Asia NDF Options Trader from July 2010 to December 2014. He also held a role as Index Rates Futures Dealer at UOB from June 2008 to June 2010, and began his career at Mizuho Corporate Bank's treasury and FX desk. He holds a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University and a BSc (Hons) in Finance from the University of Manchester.

Raymond Chong is Senior Vice President, Digital Currency Unit, Global Transaction Services at DBS Bank, a position he has held since March 2025. In this role he sits within the Digital Currency Unit of Global Transaction Services. Prior to this appointment, he served as VP, Digital Currencies Commercialisation Specialist within the same GTS group from October 2021 to March 2025, where he was part of the product management team covering digital currencies and payments, with primary focus on ideating, defining, and executing product commercialisation strategies for digital currency and blockchain/DLT-based payment propositions for the Institutional Banking Group franchise.

Before joining DBS Bank, Chong spent four years at HSBC in Singapore as VP, Product Manager, International Payments, Global Liquidity and Cash Management, where he managed the international payments business for HSBC's Singapore operation, with responsibility covering P&L, risk, and commercialisation of the corporate payments, FX, and currency clearing portfolio. Prior to HSBC, he held roles at J.P. Morgan in Singapore, serving as Associate in the Global Corporate Bank from June 2015 to September 2017, covering large inbound multinational corporations across Americas, LATAM, EMEA, and MENA regions, and before that as an Analyst in Treasury Services from November 2013 to June 2015. No educational background is referenced in the available source material.

Xiaomeng L. is VP, Tech Lead, Blockchain at DBS Bank, a position she has held since June 2020. In this role, she leads blockchain systems work across tokenization — including digital bonds, digital securities, and digital SGD — institutional DeFi, digital identity, blockchain-based payment systems, and crypto exchange infrastructure. She also works on crypto staking.

Prior to joining DBS Bank, Xiaomeng served as Senior Blockchain Developer at imToken from April 2018 to January 2020. Before that, she held a series of firmware engineering roles at EDMI Limited between May 2013 and March 2018, progressing from Firmware Engineer to Senior Firmware Engineer to Staff Firmware Engineer, where her work focused on smart electronic meter development, including metering metrology. Her total professional experience spans over 16 years. She holds education from the National University of Singapore.

Zhen Li is Head of Foreign Exchange and Digital Assets, Global Financial Markets at DBS Bank, a position he has held since November 2023. In this role, he oversees the bank's FX and digital assets business within its Global Financial Markets division. He has spoken publicly on the structural shift in how investors approach Asian currencies, noting that currencies such as the Singapore dollar and renminbi are increasingly viewed through a fundamental rather than purely cyclical lens. On the application of technology to market-making, he has described how DBS deploys AI and machine learning to analyze client flows, improve pricing precision, and support real-time surveillance and anomaly detection. He has also referenced a recommendation-and-analytics engine called Hi-P (hyper personalization), which DBS uses to deliver tailored FX recommendations to its corporate sales desk based on client risk profiles and transaction flows.

Prior to his current role, Li spent 13 years at DBS Bank as Deputy Head of FX Derivatives, from October 2010 to October 2023. Before joining DBS, he was an FX Options Trader at UOB from April 2008 to September 2010. He holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, completed in 2008, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, completed in 2006.

Zilong Li is Head of Digital Currency Unit, Global Transaction Services at DBS Bank, where his unit focuses on building next-generation transaction capabilities through tokenised money and payments. He led the rollout of DBS Token Services, a suite of transaction banking capabilities powered by tokenisation and smart contracts, enabling use cases including 24/7 liquidity management, conditional payments, and programmable rewards. He was part of the founding team of Partior, a technology company focused on cross-border payments and settlement. He also contributes to CBDC, tokenised deposit, and stablecoin-related projects, working with industry partners on digital finance initiatives.

In November 2025, Li participated in a roundtable at the Singapore Fintech Festival titled "Digital money adoption and regulation: Strategies for commercial banks and FinTechs," alongside representatives from J.P. Morgan, Circle, KASIKORNBANK, OCBC, the European Central Bank, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. DBS and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan announced a collaboration to develop an interoperability framework enabling tokenised value transfers between DBS Token Services and Kinexys Digital Payments, with the aim of enabling exchangeability and settlement of tokenised deposits across public and permissioned blockchains.