Webinar: ELIFT 2021 - Day 3 - 2 Sep 2021 by ATC

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Benoît BROOKENS III

Founder & CEO, Accrue (Dr. Big Data)

Benoît is the CEO and Founder of Accrue, a very large database and machine intelligence company that is building the Almanac™ for global event analytics across industries. He is affectionally known as Dr. Big Data and notably participated in the World's First Data Scientist Summit in 2011.

Benoît had an early start in technology, learning to type before he could write. A successful participant of the M.I.T. Media Lab's program, he was programming by the age of four. Founding his first data company at 14, he pioneered multiple-class IP web hosting creating a breakthrough for internet marketers in the Google PageRank algorithm. As a young web developer, he built websites for the US Congress, Universal Music Group, and Vespa.

At age 20, he became the youngest FX asset manager at Dukascopy Bank in Geneva, Switzerland and was ahead of the alternative data science industry leveraging algorithms on new datasets that materialized on the internet during the 2000s decade.

Benoît is a graduate from the Columbia University Business School. In 2016, the UK Government and the London Stock Exchange recognized Accrue as one of the World's Most Promising FinTech Companies.

Kaneran MUDELIAR

Executive General Manager, Treasury, Lendlease Group

Kaneran has global responsibility at Lendlease for Financial Risk Management, Group Liquidity and Banking Platforms. He is also a member of the Lendlease Sustainable Finance Working Group. Prior to joining Lendlease in 2013, Kaneran spent 16 years at Macquarie Group in Australia and the UK.

At Macquarie he held several roles in Financial Markets and Treasury with most of this time spent in Group Treasury on funding, liquidity and financial risk management. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University, Sydney. He is a qualified Actuary and a Certified Finance & Treasury Professional Senior.

Martin JARZEBOWSKI

Director, ESG & Responsible Investing, Federated Hermes

Martin is responsible in leading firm-wide ESG integration and active engagement across all asset classes. Federated Hermes has 68 ESG subject-matter experts and one of the world’s largest ESG engagement databases with 16 years of proprietary data analytics representing over $1.5 trillion in assets under stewardship. He is a senior member of Federated Hermes’ Risk Management Committee, Proxy Voting Committee, Sustainability Leaders Council, ESG Faculty and is a former Equity Portfolio Manager.

Martin is an Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Finance at the University of Rochester, member of the CFA Institute ESG Technical Committee, member of the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Advisory Council, serves as an advisory member on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and is a monthly Forbes ESG Contributor.

He graduated from Cornell University magna cum laude with a BS in applied economics, earned an MS in Law & Accounting from the London School of Economics (LSE) and completed a post-grad in advanced risk management from the Yale School of Management. Martin is a CFA charterholder and FSA credential holder.

Stefan ULLRICH

Director, Fixed Income & Sustainability, Eurex

Yvonne ZHANG

Director and Southeast Asia Risk Advisory Climate & Sustainability Leader, Deloitte

Yvonne is also a director with Deloitte Risk Advisory practice in Singapore. Yvonne has been working with corporates to unlock value in doing business sustainably.

Yvonne has more than 15 years of experience in building and trading commodities products (metals, renewables, energy, agriculture) in global banks (Morgan Stanley, Societe Generale, ANZ), led the development of commodities and digital assets at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) and founded start-ups to digitalise sustainable commodities and trade finance.

Yvonne holds double degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of Sydney. She is the deputy chair of ISO/TC 307(Blockchain) for Singapore, an expert contributor to standards making in sustainability reporting (GRI agriculture & fishing sector standards), cross-border terms of trade (International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards Initiative) and a teaching fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Lin KAN

Founder and Managing Director, Asia Treasury Community (ATC)

Lin is a curious and creative leader who sees potentials to transform into sustainable realities. She is committed to working with best of minds to equip and empower communities in competitive business environments. Educated at Sydney University and the Australian National University, Lin has 20+ years’ experience in the banking and technology industries in APAC and the US. She has successfully collaborated with Regulators, Industry and Academia to build a robust and free-membership regional platform for the finance and treasury community – www.atc.asia

Since inception in 2014 ATC – Asia Treasury Community has grown into a global brand, evolving the ELIFT forums and ELIFT webinars – a dynamic platform for Emerging Leaders In Finance & Treasury. Next is the launch of AirProjects which is driven by community for community, connecting employers with candidates.

Lin is also committed to Diversity and protecting our human capital and their mental health. She is an ambassador for the Shake It Up Foundation in partnership with the Michael J Fox Foundation.