Gan Kwai Liang (Speaker)

Who is Kwai Liang?

Kwai Liang is an experienced risk management professional with over 15 years of extensive experience in the areas of Business, Operational Risk Management (ORM), Technology Risk Management (TRM) and Business Continuity Management (BCM), Audit and pre-sales consulting. He has a proven track record in developing operational risk management frameworks, procedures and implementation strategies and ongoing risk and control monitoring programs in various banks and across the Asia Pacific. He has led end-to-end business process reviews, identified the key inherent risks, performed risk and control assessments to ascertain whether the controls are fit-for-purpose and recommended to businesses on the new or optimize the existing processes and controls to be implemented. Gan is actively involved in new product approval, business management forums, and business change management initiatives and is a trusted partner to the business and functions.

Academic Qualification

Masters in Accounting (Member of the CPA Australia)

CPA

Bachelor in Business Administration (Finance)

Completed the Operational Risk Management Course

NUS-RMI

Certified Operational Risk Management Professional

HKIB

Professional Qualification

Business Continuity Certified Planner BCM Institute
Certified Functional Continuity Planner DRI - USA
Certified ISO27001 Information Security Management System Lead Auditor
Certified Information System Auditor (CISA)
Certified Citrix XP Administrator (CCA)

Current BCM Career

Asia Pacific Head of Operational Risk Management, including Business Risk & Legal Entity Risk Officer Hong Kong Branch
Custody, Treasury Services, Markets, Issuing Services (Corporate Trust)
Bank of New York Mellon
Nov 2020 - Current

Past BCM Career

Asia Pacific Risk & Control Team Lead CIB Wholesale Payment (Trade and Cash Management), Market & Investor Services (Custody & Fund Services, Cash EQ and CEM - Currency & Fixed Income) J.P. Morgan (Hong Kong) Apr 2015 - Nov 2020
VP - Executive Management Nomura Investment Bank (Singapore) May 2013 - Apr 2016
Senior Manager - Group ORM Policy, Procedures & Regulatory & Capital Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Dec 2011 - May 2013
Securities Anti-Fraud Expertise (SAFE), Head of Singapore Branch Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Bank Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
Senior Manager (Group Risk - ORM Policies & Methods) OCBC Bank Mar 2008 - Dec 2009
Assistant Vice President (Group Technology & Operation Risk Management & BCM) DBS Bank Sep 2006 - Mar 2008
Executive/ Assistant Manager Ernst & Young Jan 2005 - Sep 2006
Service Delivery Manager S & I Systems (S) Pte Ltd Jan 2003 - Dec 2004
Distributed System Lead & Service Deliver Manager - Asia Pacific Computer Science Corporation (CSC) Jun 2001 - Dec 2002