Ketan Samani

Ketan is an accomplished leader with a track record of building award-winning solutions, teams and data-driven value propositions across multiple brands, segments and geography. For the past year, he has been a freelance consultant to various CEOs, navigating through the complexity of delivering digital transformation. With 25 years of commerce and financial industry insights, he has successfully delivered strategic digitisation initiatives for international banks across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and APAC regions.

Ketan has held many senior C-suite positions such as COO and CDO. He has delivered major transformations in UBS, DBS, Standard Chartered, Barclays and HSBC banks. At UBS, he led and established UBS Wealth Management as the best-in-class digital wealth manager in APAC 3 years earning 19 industry accolades from 2015 to 2018. He also successfully lead a strategic shift in DBS bank’s digital transformation for their Wealth, SME and Digital Banking venture.

Ketan firmly believes that the time is right now to take advantage of disruptive technologies to help transform business outcomes.