Singapore 2024

Flora Shi is an Implementation Director at Wise Platform. Dedicated to delivering seamless integrations and providing the best experiences for partners and their customers, Flora has helped multiple organisations, such as Mox Bank and Qonto, launch a faster and more transparent international money movement service. Prior to Wise, Flora spent over six years at Visa, where she led complex client engagements for new payment solutions and drove the digital currency arm of the Visa APAC Innovation Center.

Nilan is Chief Product Officer at Wise, where he leads on growth across channels including product and platform.

Prior to Wise Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction.

Samarth Bansal is the General Manager, Asia Pacific at Wise Platform, Wise’s global payments infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and enterprises around the world. He leads the Wise Platform team in APAC, and is responsible for driving the growth of Wise’s infrastructure offering to banks and enterprises in the region, including the partnerships with Mox Bank, Bank Mandiri and ZA Bank. Prior to joining Wise, Samarth has held leadership positions at other fintechs in the B2B cross-border payments space across product, expansion and business development.

Ser-Jin leads the Wise Compliance team in the Asia-Pacific region, covering regulatory advisory, financial crime and monitoring. He also serves as the Executive Director for Wise’s licensed entities in Japan, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Ser-Jin has held senior management positions at Nium and Grab, where he was the Group Head of Compliance. He started his career at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) where he worked in banking supervision, monetary management, and prudential policy. He was also the Head of the MAS’ New York Representative Office. Ser-Jin has degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago.

SK Saraogi is the Head of Banking and Expansion, APAC, at Wise, leading a team spread across 10 countries. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for expanding and improving Wise’s regional product offerings and managing Wise’s relationships with regulators, governments, payment systems, and banking partners across the region. SK is also the Singapore Country Manager, providing leadership to local teams and functional leads to ensure smooth operations in Wise’s APAC Hub.

Prior to Wise, SK was the Head of Strategy at Funding Societies, a Singapore-based fintech which provides financial services to SMEs across SEA. SK started his career at DBS Bank, where he gained extensive experience in Corporate and Investment Banking. SK has an MBA from Duke University in the USA and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance from Singapore Management University in Singapore. He has also completed all levels of the CFA Program.

Sonia-Carla Ciocirlie is the Head of Business Operations at Wise Platform, Wise’s market-leading global payment infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and enterprises around the world. She leads the Servicing teams providing enterprise-level support to Wise Platform partners, ensuring scalability, whilst reducing costs and improving SLAs. The Servicing teams include Compliance Operations, such as KYC and KYB, Risk Assessment and Monitoring, Enterprise Support, Customer Success, FinCrime Operations and Payment Operations. Since joining Wise in 2016, Sonia has held various positions including in Marketing and Sales. 

Smrithi Ravi is the Engineering Lead for APAC at Wise. She leads teams of highly skilled engineers that focus on building scalable and resilient products for Wise in the region. Smrithi’s expertise involves building technical solutions by working closely with central banks and partners ensuring high technical standards and resilient, seamless customer experience. Prior to Wise, she started her journey in fintech at Bloomberg in New York after obtaining her Master’s degree from Columbia University. She then worked in Groupon in California.

Steve Naudé is the Managing Director of Wise Platform, Wise’s market-leading global payment infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and enterprises around the world. Wise Platform provides these organisations with the capabilities, technology and network to enable fast, secure and cost-effective international payments for their customers. Previously, Steve has worked on payments international expansion, as well as direct connections to payment schemes such as UK Faster Payments and Swift.