Armand Angeli is a recognized expert in shared services and outsourcing, RPA (Robotic Process Automation), Intelligent Automation, and international business development.
Armand leads the RPA/Intelligent Automation /Shared Services and Outsourcing Committee of DFCG, the French CFO Institute, a Think Tank with more than 400 CFO’s, Shared Services/GBS, Automation coE and Finance Transformation Leaders
Since 2016, he is an independent Strategic Business Advisor in the areas of International Business Development, Digital Transformation, Automation / RPA, Outsourcing and Shared Services.
He has introduced in France and Southern Europe, a number of key added value software and solutions to improve the performance, quality and compliance of Finance functions.
From end of 2014 until May 2016, he was the Lead of the newly created Business Process Services (BPS / BPO for F&A, Payroll, HR, Procurement, Multichannel Cx / Contact Centers) Practice of Hewlett Packard Enterprise for EMEA South (focus on France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Northern Africa).
As a Partner, from 2004 to October 2012, with Grant Thornton, the global audit and accounting network, Armand held several roles over eight years including Director Global Outsourcing Services, heading business development for Finance Transformation and Outsourcing, and serving as Global Lead for Travel, Tourism and Leisure sectors, and head of Payroll Outsourcing Services. He was previously with PwC as European Business Development Director BPO, responsible for business development for shared services, outsourcing and consulting businesses for Continental Europe.
Armand has degrees in engineering from INSA Lyon (including an exchange program with IIT Chicago) (1981) and an MBA from INSEAD (1990), and served in senior international roles, including as Purchasing Director, Sales Manager, Internal Audit Director and CFO, over a 15-year period with IBM, General Electric and CNH. He has successfully led numerous financial re-structuring, IT, consulting, shared services and BPO projects. Armand is a French native and he is fluent in English and Italian.
Active in key professional and leadership organizations, Armand was for 9 years the President Europe, Middle East and Africa for the International Association of Financial Executives Institutes (IAFEI, www.iafei.org ). He is currently President of the DFCG International group (the French CFO organization, www.dfcg.fr ). He is a member of the Board of DFCG and of the Editorial Board of the CFO monthly magazine. Recognized as expert and influencer in his field, he is a frequent chairman and speaker at key international conferences. He leads and delivers executive level and certified professional training in RPA, Shared Services, Outsourcing and New Technologies.

Rakhil Fernando was appointed the Managing Director by Daraz, an Alibaba Company, the pioneer of e-commerce in South Asia, in 2019 to oversee its operations in Sri Lanka. In his role, Rakhil leads the business strategy and operations of Daraz Sri Lanka and has been instrumental in growing the company to be the largest online e-commerce platform in the country, achieving over 100% YoY growth. In 2020, he was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka, a cause that he is involved in with passion.

A veteran of the startup ecosystem in SouthEast Asia, Rakhil was previously the Director of Innovation at MetLife's innovation arm in Asia, LumenLab, leading external innovation and startup engagement. Prior to that, he spent many years in the Singapore startup ecosystem, where his last role was founder and CEO of Kashmi, a peer to peer payments and digital first banking platform that serviced Singapore and Sri Lanka. Through his career, Fernando has also worked at Credit Suisse, Coutts & Co Bank, and Batey Advertising in various roles.

Julia Lamm is a Partner in PwC's Financial Services People & Organization practice, based in New York. She has more than 15 years of experience helping clients address complex organization transformation challenges, driven by disruption from digitization, regulation, business model changes and cost pressures.

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP has been working in diversified management domains since last about 30 years that includes Government Sector and United Nations. He is a Business Graduate having concentration on ‘Digital Technologies Management (DTM)’ with distinction (Winner of ‘Chancellor’s Award’) from Royal Roads University, British Colombia, Canada and a certified ‘Project Management Professional (PMP)’ from the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.

Lynn Hay have worked in Operations and Financial Services for the majority of the last 31 years. I started in the WM Co in Edinburgh who provided outsourced pensions and unit trust fund accounting valuation and performance measurement in the Market Data operations team. On returning to work after my daughter was born, I joined Bank of Bermuda in 2003 to do similar work before it was bought over by HSBC. I moved from Operations to Transformation ten years ago & for the last three years have had the privilege of leading change globally for Banking Operations within HSBC Ops.

Rakesh brings over 25 years of international professional experience in Operational Excellence, Business Transformation and Robotics & Intelligent Automation. He experience also comes from HSBC and JP Morgan Chase & Co where, he was head of Transformation, Strategy & Robotics Automation. And previous to that, he led global teams at General Electric (GE Corporate and GE Healthcare), Deutsche Bank AG, Accenture and EY.

Rakesh is a B Tech Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. He is a GE Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, who also has TOGAF Enterprise & Technology Architecture design capabilities. “

Satpreet is a Director in PwC’s Products and Technology Consulting practice, specializing in Intelligent Automation (IA). He has helped clients establish Enterprise & Citizen-led strategies and operating/governance models, create frameworks and methodologies for opportunity assessment, delivery execution and support, and delivered training. Prior to focusing on IA, Satpreet specialized in large-scale transformation across Operations, Risk and Compliance. His experience includes Division/Business Unit strategy development and planning, Target Operating Model design and implementation, global program and project management, business analysis, and execution.

Education and certifications
Satpreet holds a Masters in Science from Cass Business School, UK, specializing in Strategy, where he was inducted to Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Business School Society. Satpreet earned his Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from Warwick Business School, UK, with a focus in Management.

As an agile strategist and an agile coach, Niroshan works with organizations to build high performance
through OKRs and agile strategies. As a speaker, his purpose is to educate and inspire you, spark discussion
and motivate change through game-changing growth and agile strategies.
Niro currently works as the head of projects at Vetstoria, a UK based agile - Technology company. Working
in highly diverse cultures over the twelve years, in global corporate giants such as Pearson, HSBC and
fast-growing tech Netherlands scale-ups, he brings expertise to companies who are looking for effective
agile delivery and agile transformation strategy, product development and high performance.

Dr Leong is an AI Specialist and Senior Lecturer with the School of Computing, Singapore Polytechnic where he teaches Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concurrently, he is a consultant in the Data Science and Analytics Centre (DSAC), where he works on industry projects in Data Science and AI. Dr Leong has conducted an executive course on Machine Learning and AI at the PWC Academy in Sri Lanka where he trained senior managers and executives in the telco, manufacturing and banking industries. In his previous role, Dr Leong was the Centre Director for the Applied ICT Research Centre in Singapore Polytechnic where he formed a new team of researchers creating innovative ICT applications for industry partners. Prior to joining academia, Dr Leong was a technopreneur and he was Director of R&D in an internet software start-up and CTO in a communications hardware startup. Being passionate about AI and Big Data, he keeps up to date with the latest research breakthroughs and participates actively in technical communities including the SGTech AI HPC Chapter and Singapore ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42 Artificial Intelligence Standards Technical Committee. He is a founding member of the AI Professionals (AIP) Association. He was a reviewer for the AI Ethics and Governance BOK by Singapore Computer Society. Data is the New Oil and AI is the New Electricity for the 21st century; and Dr Leong wants to help transform ideas to innovations.

Dynamic, enthusiastic corporate professional with 25+ Years of experience in the field of Information Technology. Driving Strategy and building high performance teams, establishing practices of Intelligent Automation, Data Analytics & App Modernization. Experience in working with local and international clients. Strong believer of keeping things simple and helping companies in the Digital Transformation Journey.

An Award-winning Innovator with an interest in Business Transformation, Technology, Management and Economics, helping clients achieve exponential performance and growth through Intelligent Automation and Business Insights. With over 21+ years of global experience covering multiple industries including; Banking, Manufacturing, FMCG, Retail, Healthcare, Transportation, System Integration, Software and Technology Consulting, Dhanusha has helped many organizations across APAC to transform their businesses with the adoption of Technology in a meaningful manner.

Process Standardization and Process improvement Excellence for Business Process Automation. Expertise in analysis of Processes with specialized Banking expertise in Finance, Operations and Trade.

A subject matter expert on IFRS 15, IFRS 16 and IFRS 09 accounting standards. Leading Accounting Transformations on IFRS Implementation. Managing and Leading Transformation projects inclusive of managing client expectations, planning using Agile Framework, improving the overall Process Design and ensuring a successful Deployment.

RPA Workflow/ code development using Best practice framework such as Re Framework and other concepts. Development of the Process Design Blue Print to illustrate the Automated Solution Design with the transformation requirements through standardization and Re-engineering of the current process. Part of the Global exchange program servicing in EY UK working on Finance Transformation and Accounting engagements. Development of suitable Dashboards for data analytics and visualization. Machine learning solution development.

A Digital Transformation professional with over 6 years of experience, emanating from an extensive Finance & Accounting background and application consultancy covering multiple business industries including 3PL ,Freight and logistics , Retail ,Distribution, Back office finance /Shared service , BFSI ..

BA (Hons) Business Management –Staffordshire University
Associate charted management account ,Charted Global management accountant (ACMA ,CGMA )

Nisha Arunatilake has been a Research Fellow at IPS since 2000 and was appointed as the Director of Research in January 2018. She has extensive post-doctoral experience in conducting policy related economic research in labour market analysis, education, public finance and health. She heads the Labour, Employment and Human Resource Development unit at the IPS. Her work is published in both local and international journals, book chapters and reports.

She has collaborated with, and has been a consultant to different organizations, including the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Children’s’ Fund (UNICEF), Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), and International Labour Organization (ILO) in numerous research studies. She was the lead author of the second National Human Development Report (2012) for Sri Lanka. She is a Research Associate of the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Institute of the Tulane University of New Orleans, USA. She is also a Research Fellow of the Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP).

She has served in national level committees on labour, employment, human resource development, migration, health sector reform, and tobacco and alcohol policy formulation.

Nisha Arunatilake holds a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics with summa cum laude from the University of the South, USA and an MA and PhD in Economics from Duke University, USA. All three of her degrees were fully funded by university grants.

Suren is responsible for providing strategic technology direction to overall technology and product development at Muve. He has worked in numerous business domains and has led highly focused teams to deliver tech solutions for start-ups as well as established enterprises alike. Suren has engaged with tech start-ups in Europe and the US while his precious engagements include working as a CTO, Product Development Director, Tech Consultant and Advisor.

Mario Gooneratne is a passionate entrepreneur who co-founded LinearSix, a leading fintech products and services company, serving some of the most forward thinking banks and finance companies in Sri Lanka He is passionate about building financial technology based solutions to tackle the global poverty gap. Mario has over 20 years of experience in the service provider and Fintech industry. Prior to founding LinearSix, He set up and headed MillenniumIT’s Banking Solutions business that provided cutting edge business applications to some of the leading banks in Sri Lanka. He undertook solution development, implementation and support of over 10 complex business applications such as Core Banking, Electronic Banking, Treasury, ALM/FTP and Mobile Banking. Mario worked for Dialog Broadband Networks for 4 years, heading product development in Managed Services and Internet Services. He holds a B.Sc. in Information Technology from Middlesex University, UK.

Umeshi was appointed Chief Technology Officer / Director IT of AIA Sri Lanka in January 2019. He is a
highly sought after transformational strategic leader with exposure to a diverse range of industries. He is
responsible for providing leadership of business solutions focusing on technology, digital, analytics,
cyber security, and governance of the IT organization. An attentive and people focused business
technology specialist who strives to link people, processes, and technology to improve business IT
alignment and optimize costs in an organization.

He completed his BSc at Staffordshire University and holds a Master’s degree from Cardiff Metropolitan
University. Recently he obtained certification in Digital Business Strategy from MIT Sloan Management
School. He is a member (Fellow) of the British Computer Society.