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Dhiraj is the Global Head of Sales for Financial Institutions at Standard Chartered Bank, and a member of the Transaction Banking Management Team, based out of Hong Kong. In this role Dhiraj is responsible for driving the Global FI sales strategy, positioning the business and delivery of transaction banking solutions across Payments, Liquidity, transactional FX, Trade & Working Capital Financing to our Institutional clients. Dhiraj joined the Bank in March 2024 and has over 25 years of experience in transaction banking and payments. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Dhiraj held various sales and leadership roles in FI transaction banking at Bank of America spanning a 17-year career across Mumbai and Hong Kong. Dhiraj started his career with Citibank in India in 1999 where he spent 5 years, followed by 3 years at HSBC in different roles covering transaction banking product and sales.

Mike Katergaris is Head of North America Financial Institutions, Payments at JP Morgan. He has been with JP Morgan since 2021. Based in New York, his team manages the Payments relationships of North American Banks, Insurance Companies, Asset Managers, Fintechs and Payments Processors, Broker Dealers, Foreign Banks and Broker Dealers and JP Morgan’s affiliates business. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mike spent two years in the Investment Banking Coverage group at Société Générale, and 20 years with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in various roles across Global Treasury Services, Commercial Banking and Corporate Banking. During his career, Mike has worked in Singapore, London and New York.

Miriam Ratkovicova is a Managing Director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions practice of Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience advising US, Canadian, European and Asian large financial institutions on various Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and other Financial Crime compliance matters. Specifically, Miriam has led multiple large and complex projects involving historical transaction investigations, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediations, AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) risk assessments, and customer risk ratings. Miriam has delivered AML/Sanctions engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Cyprus and Slovakia. Currently, Miriam is serving several large financial institutions based in China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.

Gagan Singh is Chief Investment Officer of The PNC Financial Services Group, and is responsible for managing the firm’s investment portfolio, balance sheet interest rate risk, mortgage servicing rights acquisitions and hedging, while also serving as chief executive officer of PNC Capital Finance, overseeing PNC’s private equity, mezzanine and alternative investments. In addition, Singh is a member of PNC’s executive committee, asset and liability committee (ALCO), and chairs the pension investment committee. Before joining PNC in 2004, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Derivatives Strategy at JP Morgan. Singh serves on the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business advisory board. He also serves on the board of Pratham USA, an NGO focused on primary education.

Deepa Sinha is the new Vice President of Payments and Financial Crime at BAFT, and will work to advance the goals of the payments and cash management industry through standardization, defining best practices and developing usable industry data. She will also be responsible for formulating policy recommendations and educating industry stakeholders including practitioners, regulators, policymakers and the broader business community. Prior to joining BAFT, Sinha accumulated more than 25 years of treasury and cash management experience at both corporations and banks. She formerly served as Treasurer at Caliburn International, now Acuity International, where she oversaw cash forecasting, working capital and debt management, and implemented policies and banking technology to support all core treasury functions. As the Associate Vice President of Banking Operations and Relationships at the Carlyle Group, she developed the cash management, FX and banking platforms, and built and managed the infrastructure for multicurrency cash management across 5,000+ bank accounts at more than 100 global banks. She also served on both the JPMorgan Chase Treasury and Wells Fargo Treasury Advisory Councils.

Patricia Sullivan is Managing Director and Global Head of Institutional Cash Management (ICM) at Deutsche Bank since January 2024. In this role Patricia oversees the business and teams within the Corporate Bank delivering a wide range of payment, transactional FX, risk management, and liquidity solutions to financial institutions (banks & central banks) and Deutsche Bank affiliates. Patricia has more than 20 years of experience in covering ICM, Criminal Prosecution, Litigation, Financial Crime Compliance and Core Compliance.

Mike Timoney is a Vice President for Secure Payments and has responsibility to understand the payments and fraud landscape and identify areas where security must be improved. Mike is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing key elements of the Federal Reserve’s strategy for payment security with a focus on efforts related to fraud definitions and improving fraud data, as well as research into fraud, cyber threats, and emerging technologies. Mike joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from Bank of America where he served as head of Global Card and Comprehensive Payables Fraud. Mike brings over 25 years of experience in financial services, treasury management, and fraud prevention and mitigation. While at Bank of America, he held various roles including in commercial and corporate treasury fraud, electronic payments, and program and portfolio management. Mike holds an M.B.A and a B.S. in Finance from the University of North Carolina Charlotte and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School.

Dr. Manuela Veloso is Head of J.P. Morgan Chase AI Research and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously Faculty in the Computer Science Department and Head of the Machine Learning Department. Her recent interests are in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Symbiotic Human-Robot Autonomy, Continuous Learning Systems, and AI in Finance. Dr. Veloso is past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the co-founder and a past President of the RoboCup Federation. In her career she has received numerous awards and honors, including: National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research, Radcliffe Fellow, Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award.

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.

Rich Clow is the Emerging Payments & Strategy Executive for Bank of America reporting to the Head of Enterprise Payments. In his role, Rich is responsible for evaluating the payments landscape, defining the strategic roadmap, and delivering solutions to scale Bank of America’s digital payment volumes. He engages across key ecosystem players like Visa, Mastercard, The Clearing House, Early Warning Services and digital payment partnerships ranging from PayPal to Uber. Rich also leads a Payment Innovation Process across Consumer and Small Business evaluating emerging business models and technologies such as Buy Now Pay Later, Zelle International, and Working Capital loans for small businesses with merchant service relationships.

Mariya George is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of cleareye.ai. Before starting cleareye.ai, Mariya was the Head of Banking and Insurance at UST Global. She was responsible for the industry group’s overall vision, strategy and investment priorities, developing the network of alliance partners and an aggressive revenue growth goal of 70%. She was also responsible for the global P&L, sales, business development, consulting, client relationship management and technology execution. Prior to this, Mariya was the Business Head for East and Midwest market in North America. She led the global sales organization across North America and primary markets in Asia (India, China), and built a team to lead and manage new Fortune 500 customer acquisitions and doubled her portfolio.

Chris joined smartTrade in 2020 as Director of Payments with responsibility for smartTrade's Commercial Banking and Payments platform which sits at the intersection of foreign exchange, cash management, and payments. CBP delivers FX, and cross-border payments to financial institutions globally while Chris delivers product demonstrations and captures feedback from anyone with an interest in FX and payments. Prior to smartTrade, Chris spent close to 20 years in Commercial and Wholesale Banking in Toronto and holds an LLB from the University of British Columbia.

Sari is an expert at scaling organizations through high growth. Over 25 years she's led companies through Chainalysis to advance our mission of bringing trust and transparency to the global crypto community. Sari has worked with IHS Markit, TheMarkets.com LLC, Dow Jones & Company and Kaplan, Inc. She serves on the boards of ComplySci, Venture Global LNG, and Opening Act.

Walter Hessert is an experienced entrepreneur and strategist, with a decade building software businesses in highly regulated industries. As Head of Strategy at Paxos, Walter leads Corporate Development and Growth functions. Walter has served as the primary architect of Paxos’ most complex and large-scale digital asset partnerships, including PayPal, Mastercard and Interactive Brokers. His agility and innovative approach to building long-term enterprise agreements has allowed Paxos to distinguish itself as the trusted, regulated infrastructure provider to multinational tech and financial brands. Additionally, he led the fundraising efforts for the Company’s Series C ($145 million) and Series D ($300 million) investment rounds. Before joining Paxos, he was co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Derby Games, a leading regulated gaming company based in NYC. Walter worked closely with regulators to get licenses to operate in 37 states and multiple international jurisdictions, led negotiations with operators globally to gain access to live racing content from over 200 race tracks around the world and worked with top tech companies such as Facebook and PayPal as a launch partner for their expansion in to serving real money gaming. After Derby Games, Walter built a software development studio based in Yerevan, Armenia.

Scott Miller is a senior mentor (non-resident) with the Executive Education, focusing on leadership development programs for public- and private-sector executives. From 2012 until 2017, he held the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at CSIS. The Scholl Chair focuses on key issues in the global economy, such as international trade, investment, competitiveness, and innovation. From 1997 to 2012, Mr. Miller was director for global trade policy at Procter & Gamble, a leading consumer products company. In that position, he was responsible for the full range of international trade, investment, and business facilitation issues for the company. He led many campaigns supporting U.S. free trade agreements and has been a contributor to U.S. trade and investment policy over many years. Mr. Miller was a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Earlier in his career, he was a manufacturing, marketing, and government relations executive for Procter & Gamble in the United States and Canada.

Matthew Parker-Jones joined Scotiabank in 2023 and serves as the Global Head of Product Management for Global Transaction Banking. In this capacity, Matthew is the global P&L owner for Scotiabank’s cash management, payments, channels, trade finance, and value-added services offered to clients in 25 countries. Under Matthew’s leadership Scotiabank has significantly grown its transaction banking business and has received numerous industry recognitions including Euromoney’s #1 Cash Management Bank for Corporate Accounts in North America and Euromoney’s #1 Trade Finance Bank in Latin America. Matthew also serves as Scotiabank’s executive representative on external industry bodies for payments, including on the Board of Directors of Payments Canada and Payments 20 (P20), as well as on Scotiabank’s enterprise Innovation Council, where he helps guide the Bank’s transformational investments into cloud, data, and artificial intelligence.

William Reinsch is senior adviser with the Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was a senior advisor at the law firm of Kelley, Drye & Warren and served for 15 years as president of the National Foreign Trade Council, which represents multinational companies on international trade and tax policy issues. From 2001 to 2016, he concurrently served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching a course in trade policy and politics. Reinsch also served as the under secretary of commerce for export administration during the Clinton administration. Prior to that, he spent 20 years on Capitol Hill, most of them as senior legislative assistant to the late senator John Heinz (R-PA) and subsequently to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). He holds a BA and an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies respectively.

Enigio´s Board of Directors has, as of October 1st, appointed Patrik Zekkar as new CEO to head up Enigio´s business and expansion. Patrik has strong and valuable experience for Enigio from the banking industry, recently as Head of Trade Finance & Working Capital Management in Nordea, and with various experiences of scaling and growth business in the trade and supply chain technology area. This is a key step in building Enigio to a global leading technology provider of standardised solutions for digitalised, authoritative original documents.