Contributors

Valentina Drofa

Valentina Drofa is the founder and CEO of Drofa Group LLC. 

Company Specialization:
Advertising and PR services for Fintech companies:

• Valentina has over 12 years of experience in financial markets. 
• Member of the Advisory Council on Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy of the CIS Countries
• In 2010, launched an online platform ilearney.com, meant for traders and financiers. More than 30 thousand people used the service.
• In 2012, was nominated the «Best Entrepreneur» by the jury of the «Young Millionaires 2012» competition.
• In 2013, was accepted into the Advisory Council on Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy of the CIS Countries.
• In 2017, ranked among St. Petersburg’s most influential women.
• In 2018, spoke about PR of ICO-projects at the British Higher School of Art and Design.
• Currently Valentina Drofa works with financial events in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Conducts personal consultations on the creation and development of businesses.

Valerie Chow

Valerie Chow has 360° branding and marketing experience from retail consumer industry building her career from merchandising, operations management, marketing to business management expertise. Hence, a 360° in running retail brands and great passion in building brands and her career.

Vicky Melbourne

Vicky Melbourne is the Senior Director of Head Industrials, South-East Asia and Australia. Vicky now leads Fitch’s coverage across the Industrials sector in South East Asia. Vicky’s sector knowledge extends across gaming, mining and resources, agriculture and property.
 

Vicky Skipp

Vicky Skipp is Head of Sales Solutions, Asia-Pacific & Japan at LinkedIn.

Victor Cheng

Victor has more than 30 years of experience in pan-regional leadership roles with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and Veritas. A graduate from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science, he now manages the daily operations of Veritas in the Asia South Region.

Victor Mills

Victor Mills is the Chief Executive of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. He brings with him 30 years of organisational and professional experience from the financial services industry. Mr Mills is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors and of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. A Singapore Permanent Resident for over 20 years, he became a Singapore citizen in 2012. Mr Mills holds a B.A. (Hons) degree in History from the New University of Ulster and an MA in Area Studies from the University of London.

Victor Teoh

Driven by a passion for lifelong learning, Victor has a string of qualifications and is armed with a Master in Finance, a Bachelor in Economics, a Diploma in Business Administration, and a Certificate in Management Consulting. Victor spearheads both the financials of RecruitPlus Consulting - where he sits as a Partner - as well as the Company’s HR and Business Development functions.

Vihang Patel

Vihang Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of Finaxar, a Singapore-based fintech startup that is focused on changing the way small business financing is done using technology. He is passionate about working with startups and technology ecosystem.

Leveraging over 15 years of entrepreneurial, corporate and management consulting experience in Asia and Europe, he combines his deep expertise in financial services and enterprise
software at Finaxar.

A veteran in the startup scene with strong expertise in technology, Patel founded data management firm Avagam. Post its acquisition, he joined big data and AI firm Crayon Data as the first technology-focused pioneer, to drive the building of the product and its development. He was also instrumental in driving early revenues which facilitated in raising several rounds of funding. Patel was the Chief Technology Officer of Dragon Wealth Asia, developing marketing solutions for financial advisors before he founded Finaxar. Previously, Patel was at Deloitte developing solutions for large banks including ING and State Bank of India. He has advised or provided services to companies like Google, PayPal, GLH, Mastercard, CGI, etc.

Other than his role at Finaxar, he is currently an operating advisor of Monk’s Hill Ventures and part of the Investment Committee advising on key investments.

Vijoy Varghese

Vijoy Varghese is the Vice President - Asia Pacific for Genpact.

Vikas Gulati

Vikas spearheads business development at Vserv.mobi for South East Asia. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for driving key aspects of mobile adnetwork business – Developers, Publishers, and Advertisers. He has over 14 years of experience in media and marketing across emerging markets.