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Tod Burwell is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BAFT. Prior to being promoted to CEO, he served as the Senior Vice President of Trade Products with oversight of all trade-related initiatives including the Global Trade Industry Council, Trade Committees, and other strategic initiatives of the organization. Mr. Burwell has over 25 years of trade, supply chain and cash management experience as a banking practitioner, as well as serving as a consultant to global corporations and suppliers of strategically integrated trade solutions. Prior to joining BAFT, Mr. Burwell was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase and held senior global management roles responsible for trade operations, launching the logistics business and managing global product sales for trade finance and logistics management.

Arlene Gan is the Global Head of Global Implementation at Standard Chartered and a member of the Transaction Banking Management Team. She is responsible leading the Transaction Bank’s Cash and Trade Client Implementations. She has more than 25 years of banking experience. Arlene is the Chair of the Transaction Banking Women committee in Standard Chartered. Arlene is also a member of the Transaction Banking council of Bankers Association for Finance & Trade (BAFT). Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Arlene worked at Deutsche Bank where she led a team of Relationship Managers, Service & Implementation Managers and Trade Advisors in ASEAN & Australia for the firm’s Corporate Bank. Arlene also held various positions at HSBC, OCBC and Bank of America.