EPAA AMBASSADORS

ELEVATING EPAA: PAYMENTS & LOCAL MARKET EXPERTISE

Our carefully selected ambassadors represent
EPAA at events and in local APAC markets

Antony Morris
Managing Director – Hong
Kong, Triniti

Markets:
Hong Kong, Asia, Global Trends

Expertise:
Payment UX/ Fintech Venture 
Building/ Stored Value/ Ecash/ Wallets/ Open API’s

Dr Brad Pragnell
Principal, 34 South 45
North

Markets:
Australia, NZ, Canada, US

Expertise:
National Roadmaps/ Policy/ Regulation/
Real Time Payments/ Open Banking/ CBDC

Jan McGrath
Consultant & Advisor, TXNPlus Consulting P/L

Markets:
Australia

Expertise:
Global Payments System/Digital Payments Design/Card-based Payment Networks

Lance Blockley
Managing Director, The Initiatives Group

Markets:
Australia, NZ, APAC

Expertise:
Payments/ Commercial Constructs/ Pricing
Economics/ Cards/ Market Strategies

Lars Sjögren
Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company

Markets:
Europe

Expertise:
Payments/ Fintech/ Infrastracture/ Crypto/
Finance/ Dig
ital Banking

Leanne Bradley
Co-CEO & Principal, Suite2Go

Markets:
Australia, Singapore

Expertise:
Fintech/ Crypto/ Tokenisati on/ Mobile Apps/
Loyalty and Rewards Linked to
Payments/
Data and Open Banking/Payments

Mary Ann Francis
Global Payments & Strategic Initiatives
Advisory

Markets:
US

Expertise:
Payments/Banking/Treasury/Quantum/
Blockchain

Mika von Haartman
Vice President Digital Payment Products,
Krungthai Card PCL

Markets:
Thailand, Asia

Expertise:
Digital Payments, Digital Wallets, Cross Border
Payments, QR Code Payments, Faster Payments,
Digital
Currencies, CBDC

Monica Jasuja
Chief Growth and Partnership Officer

Markets:
India, Indonesia, Asia, Global Trends

Expertise:
Fintech/ Payments/ CBDC/ Open Banking/
Digital
Banking/ Platforms Eco

Nilixa Devlukia
Chair, Open Finance Association

Markets:
UK, Europe

Expertise:
Payments/ CBDC/ Cryptoas
sets/ Policy/ Regulation/
Cro
ss Border Payments/ Open Banking

Pratyush Prasanna
Ambassador, EPAA

Markets:
India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand

Expertise:
Payments/ Defining Products/ POS/ Terminal
Management/ Partner Acquisition

Rahul Bhargava
Global Payments Leader

Expertise-Markets:
Singapore

Expertise-Areas of
Interest:
Payments/ Fintechs/Techfins/
Consulting firms and International bodies

Rajiv Madane
Senior Vice President Asia Pacific,
COVR Security

Markets:
Singapore, Asia

Expertise:
Fintech/ Digital Banking/ Payments
(Cards, Real time)/ Open Banking/
Open API’s/ Platforms

Raphael Jansa
General Manager,
FAHK

Markets:
Hong Kong, Asia, Europe

Expertise:
RTGS/ Fintech/
Swift/ B2B/Cross-Border Payments

Richard Reid
Director of Business
Development, 3SKYE

Markets:
NZ, Australia,
EMEA

Expertise:
Fintech/ Wealth/
Ecommerce/NZ Banking Eco-System/
Cross Border Payments/
Open Banking

Tony Seno Hartono
Senior Information
Technology Consultant,
The
World Bank

Markets:
Thailand, Asia

Expertise:
Cloud/ Security/ Data
Center/ NetworkingAI/ Digit
al Identity/ EGovernment/ECommerce/
Open
Data/ Digital Banking/ Wallets/
Digital
Currencies/ Policy

“We make a difference in the payments industry. Emerging Payments Association Asia provides our members a unique collaboration platform for Asia Payments.”

Lance Blockley
MD The Initiatives Group

Alumni Ambassadors

 

Anurag Vasisth
Co-Chair and Group CEO,Loyalty Now

Markets:
APAC, Australia

Expertise:
Loyalty Tech/Fin Tech/Pay Tech/Travel Tech

Cary Horenfeldt
Independent Consultant & Advisor

Markets:
Canada, The UAE, Singapore

Expertise:
Credit, Debit, Prepaid, Commercial,
Virtual/ Acquiring/ Processing /
Digital Convergence, Faster payments/
Payment Product Manufacturing
(Plastics and Chip)

Fannette Hsin
Ambassador, EPAA

Markets:
Hong Kong, Asia, US

Expertise:
RTGS/Payment Issues/Resolutions/CBDC

Natalie Shiori Fleming
Executive Officer & Head of
Corporate Design, Infcurion

Markets:
Japan, Asia

Expertise:
Fintech/ Payments/ Cross
Border Payments/ Regulation/ Policy/
Embedded Finance