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Speakers/Panellists

Arvindran Manoosegaran, Investment Manager, Omni Bridgeway

Arvindran Manoosegaran is an Investment Manager in Omni Bridgeway’s Singapore office, responsible for assessing and managing funded cases throughout Asia, including arbitration, litigation and insolvency claims. Prior to joining Omni Bridgeway, he was in private practice representing a variety of multinational clients in international arbitrations and litigation.

Belle Chan Moffat, Executive Director, CITIC CLSA

Belle is currently with CITIC CLSA based in Singapore, covering their SE Asia FICC Solutions business. She has over 18 years of experience as a private practice lawyer, in-house counsel, and credit structuring for 3 international financial institutions. She was part of Standard Chartered Bank’s Group Special Assets Management in London during the financial crisis, working out the Lehman Brothers and Icelandic banks derivatives close-out situations, as well as sitting on the steering committee for a Kazakh bank debt restructuring. Belle has worked on structuring and execution of high yield private credit lending and refinancing transactions across Asia Pacific. She also had experience in structuring leverage for high yield loans and bond investments in the Asia Pacific region, including investments in the Chinese Real Estate sector. 

David Chew, Partner, DHC Capital 

David has over 25 years of experience in restructuring, turnaround and special situations having worked as an advisor with Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen, investment banker with Morgan Stanley, in senior management as a CRO, CFO and interim CFO and Board member to distressed companies. David has worked with and advised private and publicly listed corporates, bank creditors, bond holders, alternative capital providers and distressed investors across the full range of the restructuring transaction cycle, including crisis stabilisation, business and strategic reviews, strategic option analysis including planning and implementing in and out of Court solutions, operational restructuring and turnaround, debt restructuring and schemes of arrangement, liquidity management initiatives, distressed M&A, rescue financing, refinancing and recapitalisations. As an investment banker, David was involved in the sourcing, structuring and execution of high yield, stressed and distressed investment opportunities across Asia Pacific for Morgan Stanley prop books. 

Eric Trijbels, Executive Director - Trade Portfolio Management, Standard Chartered Bank

Eric is a Dutch native that has been domiciled in Singapore for more than 12 years. With over 17 years of risk management experience in banking, insurance and private equity, he is a seasoned risk manager who understands client needs for growth as well as he does portfolio management and distressed asset management.Eric has worked in Europe, United States, Australia and currently Singapore and has been with Standard Chartered Bank for 9 years. His responsibilities include amongst others management of the South Asia and Africa/Middle East Trade Portfolio, as well as strengthening the risk infrastructure within Trade.Before Standard Chartered Eric managed the Asia Pacific multinational portfolio for Allianz Credit Insurance.After work Eric is anavid trail runner, mindfulness trainer, coach and mentor.

Jonathan Ong Shyue Wen, Director, Restructuring and Insolvency, EisnerAmper PAC

Jonathan is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner in Singapore. Having started his career in the restructuring and insolvency, he has more than 18 years of professional experience in corporate financial advisory, restructuring and insolvency matters.  His experience includes more than 12 years in a Big Four firm and 4 years in Bermuda where he took on offshore appointments. His insolvency appointments include Singapore, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Cayman Islands.  Because of the cross-border nature of his appointments, his experience is across jurisdictions such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Bermuda, BVI, the Cayman Islands and USA.

Kian Foh Then,  Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Group Chief Operating Officer, Collectius

Kian is currently the Deputy Group CEO and Group COO of Collectius. Collectius primary business focus is to purchase portfolios of non-performing consumer and SME loans and recover them. The company also service financial institutions to help them resolve overdue accounts. The company is currently operating in 7 countries namely, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and India.  Kian is a professional with more than 20 years of extensive hand on experience in traditional, under banked consumer market, Fintech and Startup. Primary focus on investment valuation of non-performing loan, credit policies, underwriting, collections operations, fraud control, operational risk, startups nonbank lending, launch new product lines and in-depth understanding of Consumer market. He has also transformed the traditional way of collections into a human-centric approach solutions, one that we seek to amplify through the thoughtful use of technology and AI. 

Sarjit Singh, Chief Executive Officer, InCorp Global (Singapore)

Sarjit Singh is the Chief Executive Officer, Singapore of InCorp Global. Headquartered in Singapore, InCorp is an award-winning and leading professional services firm with a regional presence across 8 countries in Asia-Pacific. Recognised by Nanyang Technological University as a ‘financial industry talent’, Sarjit was the winner of the Nanyang Alumni Achievement Award in 2012. He has built an extensive career in assurance and advisory, including 16 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to InCorp, Sarjit was the CFO of AIA Singapore and Aviva Asia. He was responsible for formulating and implementing the financial, investment and commercial strategies for AIA Singapore and Aviva's diverse businesses in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific region respectively. Sarjit also served as CFO of AIG Global Investment Corporation, AIG Global Real Estate and AIG Private Bank.

Sumit Bhandri, Lead Portfolio Manager, Asia Private Credit, Alternative Investments, Asia Pacific

Sumit Bhandari is the Lead Portfolio Manager, Asia Private Credit, Alternative Investments with Allianz Global Investors based in Singapore. He joined the firm in 2018 and has over 20years ofexperience in investment management and business development.Before joining AllianzGI, Sumit was a Portfolio Manager and Head of Private Credit for Abraaj in Asia. He was instrumental in setting up Abraaj’s Private Credit business in Asia and was a key-man for the fund.Prior to joining Abraaj, Sumit was a Director and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock in Singapore where he co-managed BlackRock's Asian Creditportfolios and was responsible for its illiquid, distressed and liquid fund investments. Prior to BlackRock, he was a Vice President in the Principal Investments Group at Lehman Brothers in New York where he was responsible for co-managing Lehman’s US$ 2 billion portfolio of direct fixed income/mezzanine investments. He was involved in a number of prominent global restructurings post 2008.Before which, he was anM&A Analyst and then an Associate in the Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers in New York.Sumit holds a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and a M.S. from University of Michigan.

Wilson Leung, Director, Madison Pacific

Mr Leung has over a decade of professional and corporate finance experiences, especially in restructuring and insolvency and enforcement across Asia and various offshore jurisdictions. Prior to re-joining Madison Pacific Trust Limited, a Tricor Company, in 2018, Mr Leung worked at Credit Suisse managing the bank’s North Asia impaired/distressed credit portfolio, including major markets such as Greater China.  Before joining Credit Suisse, Mr Leung worked in the restructuring and insolvency team with a Big 4 firm and a leading independent restructuring firm, which Mr Leung advised clients from private equity firms, institutional banks, bondholders group and worked closely with multiple professional parties on a number of notable restructuring transactions and court appointed administration.  Mr Leung is a Certified Public Account and has been awarded Specialist Designation in Insolvency by the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.