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Singapore Chapter
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Board Members
Ramanthan Sivabalan
Chapter Chair
Compliance Though Leader and Industry Expert
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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Currently, Ram serves as an adviser to family offices, investment funds, and technology companies, leveraging his extensive expertise in financial crime compliance, regulatory frameworks, governance, and operational strategy. He is also actively involved in several startups, providing guidance on governance, compliance, and market entry strategies.
A member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Ram holds two degrees from the University of Mumbai and numerous professional certifications in financial crime compliance and governance. Outside of work, he enjoys volunteering with various organizations, exploring world affairs, and listening to music.
Lino Arboleda
Sr. Leader – International Trade Compliance APAC
GE Aerospace
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Before coming back to GE, Lino played a pivotal role as the Trade Compliance Governance Lead for APAC at Olympus. He further held significant positions such as the Trade Compliance Manager APAC for Shell Chemicals and a Senior Director role at FTI Consulting in their Export Controls, Sanctions, and Trade Practice.
Early in his profession, Lino lent his expertise in export control and sanctions compliance to GE Businesses across ASEAN, ANZ, and various Asian countries. He played a crucial part in improving and upkeeping GE’s Internal Compliance Programs to ensure strict observance to the relevant regulations. He also bridged communication between the ITC Center of Excellence, various business entities, and the Compliance leadership concerning sanctions and export control challenges in the region.
Lino holds a Master’s in Strategy and Security from the University of New South Wales in Australia and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines.
Robert MacDonald
Global Head of Compliance Oversight
ByteDance
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Over the years Robert has held the following roles, Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Sumitomo Mitsui (London), Compliance Specialist at Capital Group (London), FCC Anti-Bribery & Corruption (“ABC”) for UK and Europe at HSBC (London), Global Head of Programme Management & Regulatory Assurance at Standard Chartered Bank (London & Singapore), Regional Head Conduct, Financial Crime & Compliance Assurance Greater China & North Asia at Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore), Chief Compliance Officer & Head of Fintech Legal at Coupang Pay (South Korea), Global Head of Advisory for Sanctions, ABC and Counter-Terrorist Financing at Binance (Singapore) and latterly Global Head of Compliance Oversight at ByteDance (Singapore).
Julie Mills
Asia Sanctions Lead
Citibank
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Julie was previously at MUFG Bank, where she established a financial crime intelligence and analytics function in the APAC region. Among other things, her team was responsible for complex investigations as well as optimization of financial crimes monitoring and screening systems.
Prior to MUFG, Julie worked in several roles at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, most recently as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. In this role, she advised the Under Secretary in oversight of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and worked closely with OFAC colleagues in developing strategies to apply sanctions and other Treasury tools to address U.S. foreign policy objectives. Her previous Treasury roles included leading the Terrorist Financing & Financial Crimes Asia/Africa team and serving as North Korea senior policy advisor. Julie’s experience prior to Treasury centered on nonproliferation and export control in corporate, NGO, and public sector settings.
Julie holds a Masters of Arts in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Joaquin Tan
MLRO Singapore
TerraPay
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Joaquin has experience across various functions of compliance, starting from his humble roots from the onboarding functions to compliance advisory functions and finally stepping to the payments sector, overseeing the compliance function in the APAC region.
Ng Kian Mun, Ken
Head of Group Sanctions Policy, Advisory & Training
– United Overseas Bank (UOB)
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Prior to UOB, he was the Sanctions Advisor for BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered Bank covering APAC for almost 6 years where he advises on various sanctions matters from both sanctions regulations and Bank’s risk appetite perspective. He is also well versed with the Bank’s products e.g. Trade, Investment Banking, Global Markets, Securities Services etc.
Kian Mun started his career in the branch operations as part of first line of defense for almost 8 years. Then, he moved to third line of defense for almost 8 years where he was called upon as the lead reviewer for high risk areas of the Bank.
Kian Mun graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He holds certifications from ACAMS, CIA and CGSS and is an Associate Member of CPA and member of Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists.
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