Ripjar Summit Singapore 2023

Moderator

Gabriel Hopkins

Chief Product Officer, Ripjar

As Chief Product Officer, Gabriel leads Ripjar’s product management with the responsibility for setting and delivering the company’s product strategy. With 20 years of product management and marketing experience, Gabriel understands the challenges of developing sophisticated software solutions while balancing innovation with customer needs.

Prior to Ripjar, Gabriel was Vice President, Product Management at FICO overseeing the development of the company’s next generation fraud and financial crime solution. He has also served as Vice President, Product Management and Marketing at WorldPay (now FIS).

Josh Heiliczer

Managing Director – Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Managed Services SEA, PwC

Josh has over 15 years of experience working with financial institutions and corporate service providers on name screening, transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC and source of wealth issues. In particular, Josh has led a number of large, complex remediations across all areas of financial crime compliance.

Josh has also undertaken a number of transaction monitoring reviews and inspections on behalf of regulators including the HKMA and SFC.

Andrew Chow

Senior Advisor, Synpulse 

Andrew is a practitioner within the legal & regulatory compliance spaces in the APAC region,where he has spent more than 20 years working in various financial services firms. He has had a diverse portfolio of senior appointments, covering corporate & investment banking, private & retail banking, securities & futures licensees, fund management, digital transformation as project manager for regulatory projects, and which includes a period as external regulatory legal counsel.

Within those portfolios, he advised on anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism, sanctions, fraud, new products, data privacy, LIBOR and LIBOR-related rate setting issues and transition, technology and data center related issues, digital transformation and digital asset advisory.

Andrew is currently the Co-Chair of the ACAMS Singapore Chapter, and the Co-Chair of the Fraud & Scams APAC work group under the GCFFC banner.

Simon McClive

General Manager of Labyrinth Screening, Ripjar

As the General Manager of Labyrinth Screening, Simon oversees the direction and execution of Ripjar’s Labyrinth Screening business.

Prior to Ripjar, he specialised in data analytics and capability development within the British government. He has also created and led technology across a number of sectors as the co-founder and CEO of a knowledge-sharing start-up and a software engineer in the financial services industry.