Evolution through collaboration

Kingshuk Ghoshal

Kingshuk Ghoshal (KG) is the Co-founder and CEO of TASConnect. A Singaporean, KG has more than 25 years of proven management and leadership track record in Financial Services and Technology sectors in Asia.

KG has held various senior roles in Corporate & Investment Banking and leading technology firms such as Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Siemens, where he has led successful businesses and teams in client coverage, sales and business development. Prior to joining TASConnect, KG spent the last 15 years at SCB, eventually holding the title of Managing Director & Head of Global Subsidiaries business for ASEAN markets. In his role, he led his team to several client mandates in treasury, trade & supply chain, financial markets, and corporate finance areas.

KG holds an MBA from the INSEAD Business School. When not at the work desk, KG loves to spend time with his wife and 2 teenaged children, or enjoying a few rounds of golf with friends.

Sujay S K

Co-founder, Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Sujay S K (Sujay) is the Co-founder and Deputy CEO of TASConnect. He is a career banker with over 25 years of experience and deep knowledge of multiple geographies having lived and worked in India, the UAE, Singapore and South Africa.

He has held various roles in Standard Chartered Bank across Corporate Banking Coverage, Transaction Banking, Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Corporate Finance and SME. As a Senior Banker, Africa, he was responsible for Coverage and providing Risk oversight to some of the largest Corporate & Institutional Banking clients in the region. Prior to joining TASConnect, he was the Managing Director & Global Head for Partnerships and Working Capital, Business Banking. Based in Singapore, he was responsible for B2B partnerships and overseeing Working Capital and Trade.

Sujay has an MBA from SIBM, India. Outside of work, he is a passionate audiophile, keen golfer and loves travel.

Lily Low

Chief Operating Officer

Lily is responsible for overseeing the company’s daily business operations, leading key initiatives and implementing company-wide strategies. She has over 20 years of business management experience in both Corporate & Institutional Banking and Consumer Banking.

Lily started her career as a strategy consultant in the technology sector before joining the financial sector where she has worked for Barclays Capital and JPMorgan in managing their investment programmes and operations. She spent the last 13 years in Standard Chartered Bank where she has held various leadership roles including managing various strategic change initiatives and heading the Process Effectiveness team for ASEAN & South Asia. Prior to joining TASConnect, she was the Executive Director for the bank’s Data & Privacy team where she set up and operationalized the transformation programme. A global citizen, Lily has worked in Singapore, San Jose, London and Hong Kong.

Lily holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from the University of Sheffield. Outside of work, Lily enjoys traveling, pilates and spending time with her dog.

Madhivanan Periannan

Chief Technology Officer

Madhivanan Periannan (Madhi) joined TASConnect with over 2 decades of technology and digital transformation experience across Digital Banking, Payments and Supply Chain Finance. Armed with a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications, Madhi has held various roles at Standard Chartered Bank, DBS Bank and IBM. During this time, he has overseen multiple strategic digital transformations, and large-scale technology initiatives across Asia and Asia Pacific region.

Madhi is passionate about photography. He is also an avid connoisseur of fusion cuisine, and hence is happy to live in the melting pot that is Singapore.

Hansel Quek

Chief Risk & Compliance Officer

Hansel is responsible for overseeing the company’s risk and compliance governance strategies, frameworks and the implementation thereof across the company.

He has worked across multiple risk disciplines from credit risk, asset & liability management, funding & liquidity risk, capital management, technology risk, operational risk and ESG risk in different markets, prior to joining TASConnect. Previously in his career, Hansel held various key roles in the risk management space across the financial services industry and Big four where he also led risk & compliance engagements, strategy and developed due diligence for mergers & acquisition of companies for different sectors including private equity, specialty finance fund (Islamic) & sovereign wealth fund, multinational-banks, insurance and corporations.

Hansel holds a Masters Degree in Business from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from the Curtin University of Technology.

Patrick Zambrano

Chief Financial Officer
Patrick is responsible for driving TASConnect’s financial management, strategic finance and investor relations activities.

Patrick brings with him experience in senior finance roles across several industries including the finance and technology sectors in Hong Kong, London and Sydney. Most recently, he held the Head of Finance role of a corporate backed technology venture. He has over 10 years of financial services experience in the HSBC Group across Wholesale and Retail Banking and in group finance in Hong Kong and London. Additionally, he has also worked in finance roles in Genworth Financial and Cisco Systems.

Patrick holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Sydney and is a member of CPA Australia.

Patrick considers himself a global citizen as he was raised in Sydney, born in Manila, and had solid stints in London and Hong Kong. He is married with two boys. In his spare time, he enjoys watersports with his family, and tries to keep fit with boxing as well as keeping up with his two boys.

Gao Yihong

Head of Business Development & Marketing

Gao Yihong (Apple) drives origination, product strategy and marketing at TASConnect. She has spent over 12 years in the banking industry, mainly in Trade and Supply Chain Finance.

She has held various roles in Standard Chartered Bank and Bloomberg. Prior to TASConnect, she spent 7 years as the Global Product Manager for Open Account Trade at Standard Chartered Group, where she led the growth of Greater China & North Asia receivables financing and global correspondent factoring business. She was also in charge of selected global projects driving trade digital agenda and overall growth strategy for supply chain finance.

She holds a Master’s degree in Economics from National University of Singapore. In her free time, she can be seen making a dash for the airport. She has explored 35 countries, at last count.

Himanshu Srivastava

Head of Partnerships

Himanshu is responsible for developing the company’s partnership ecosystem, with the objectives of bringing in value enhancing capabilities to the platform and developing joint sales and marketing strategies for driving revenue and client acquisition. He has over 20 years of growth, partnerships and new business development experience in the Financial Technology and Professional Services industries.

Himanshu started his career in IT consulting in the US before joining the financial sector, where he worked at Fidelity Investments’ India country office, driving strategic growth initiatives such as the planning and launch of a global shared services centre, a domestic asset management business and a digital funds distribution platform for the Indian market. Since then, he has essayed a variety of partnerships and new business development roles at leading MNCs and start-ups in the financial technology space, including stints at Mastercard Asia Pacific and TechProcess, a digital payments start-up in Mumbai. Himanshu has extensive cross-cultural experience, having worked with distributed teams, partners and regulators across the US, the UK and all parts of Asia Pacific.

Himanshu holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, music and tinkering with audiophile equipment.

Vernon Loh

Head of Legal and Corporate Secretariat

Vernon is the Head of Legal and Corporate Secretariat of TASConnect. He has over 20 years of legal experience and is qualified to practice in the jurisdictions of Singapore, England and Wales and New South Wales respectively.

Vernon began his career as a legal practitioner where he represented clients before the Singapore courts on contentious matters. He also practiced as a lawyer in mergers and acquisitions, corporate insolvency and restructuring and most recently as a banking and finance partner in an international firm. His career in banking and finance began at Standard Chartered Bank where he assumed leadership roles in legal and compliance across Wholesale and Consumer Banking in Singapore and South East Asia, and in specialist areas such as Privacy and Data Protection and Anti-Money Laundering for over a decade. He subsequently joined OCBC Bank where he provided legal support to the Personal Financial Services Division in areas such as Wealth Management, Payments, Digital Banking and Innovation, and Privacy and Data Protection. He was awarded the CEO’s innovation award for the development of an online will generating platform together with his business stakeholders.  Prior to joining TASConnect, he was the Head of Legal and Compliance at HL Bank where he supported the roll-out of the bank’s digital product channels and digital KYC capabilities. He was awarded a Minister for Home Affairs National Day Award in 2021.

Vernon holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Laws Degree from the University of San Francisco where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He pursues travel, photography, epicurean adventures and the great outdoors as his passions outside of work.

Manish Joshi

Head of Information Cyber Security and Technology Risk

Manish is a Senior Cyber Security and Information technology Leader with more than two decades of experience in Global Banks (Singapore, London, New York) and Investments.

He started his career in Investments, setting up first Infrastructure Fund in India. Later moved to Information Technology, where he has worked in Cyber Security, Risk, Compliance with deep Change Management, Program/ project delivery experience in Global Banks such as UBS, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered in Asia, Europe and US.

He holds Bachelor of Technology (Honours) from Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur; MBA from Indian Institute of Management -Bangalore.

He is a Certified Cyber Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) –(ISC)2, USA; Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) – (ISC)2, USA; Certified Product Owner (CPO) – Scrum Alliance, USA; Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance, USA; Project Management Professional (PMP) – PMP Org, USA.

Deeraj Karnani

Asia Sales Director

Deeraj is an energetic, experienced career banker with more than 14 years of experience in managing various large multinational companies. He is in charge of driving sales initiatives for TASConnect’s Asia business.

Deeraj has held several roles in Standard Chartered Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland across client coverage, financial markets, business planning and operations. Before TASConnect, he spent almost a decade as a Regional Network Banker at Standard Chartered Bank, where he led the Western Technology, Media & Telecom growth in Asia. He brings with him a deep understanding of the various financial products that meet the requirements of complex treasury organisations, ranging from trade finance to hedging strategies.

Deeraj holds a Bachelors (BSc) degree in Information Systems Management from Singapore Management University.

Ivan Poon Sai Cheung

Lead Data Scientist

Ivan brings with him 20 years of A.I. and quantitative modelling experience from commercial banks and commodities trading houses.

He started his career as in I.T. consultant in Accenture, moved to quantitative credit risk in banks (Bank of East Asia, Bank of China), and later to market risk and quantitative trading in global commodities trading houses (Noble Group, Cargill, Anglo American) where he continues to utilize his commercial experience in applying advance machine learning and quantitative analytics in banking and trading.

He is an alumnus of Monash University, RMIT University and The University of Hong Kong. He is a Certified TensorFlow Developer in A.I. Deep Learning, a CFA holder for Finance, has 2 master’s and 2 bachelor’s degrees.