Each ambassador commits to providing structured advisory access, educational insight, community engagement or strategic introductions that directly support fintech founders and scale-ups.
Holly Fang is the President of the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA), the leading national industry body driving collaboration across Singapore’s fintech ecosystem.
Holly is also the Chief Business Officer at Finmo, a global Treasury Operating System for businesses, where she oversees strategic partnerships and market expansion.
Prior to joining Finmo, Holly held leadership roles at Aspire, a Singapore-based fintech providing all-in-one financial workflow solutions to SMEs, and at Airwallex, the global leader in cross-border payments. Holly began her career at the Singapore Economic Development Board, and brings over a decade of experience leading strategic partnerships across both the public and private sectors.
Chia Hock Lai is the co-founder of the Global Fintech Institute, venture partner of Tembusu Partners and partnership lead at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). He has two decades of experience in the financial and technology industries, having worked in Singapore’s GovTech and NTUC Income.
An alumnus of NUS and NTU, he is the co-chairman of the Global Fintech Institute and Digital Assets Association, and former and founding president and chairman of Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) and Blockchain Association Singapore (BAS).
He is a council member of and strategic advisor to numerous tech start-ups and organizations such as Bondevalue, RootAnt Global, RegTank, Morpheus Labs and IEEE Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standard Committee.
In addition, he is also an Institute of Banking and Finance fellow for digital transformation, fintech fellow at the SUSS and fellow at SkillsFuture Singapore.
Dr H.C. Cristina Amor Maclang is one of Asia’s most influential fintech and technology leaders driving national and regional innovation movements accelerating blockchain, Web3, fintech, e-commerce, healthtech, green finance, proptech, agritech, esports, and emerging technology adoption. She builds antifragile international ecosystems in BRICS and Global Majority regions enabling public–private–academia digital economy collaboration at scale.
Recognized internationally with the ASEAN Fintech Leader Award she stands as an influential voice in digital economies, innovation policy, crisis leadership, and reputation strategy.
Co-Founder & Secretary General – International Digital Economies Association (iDEA)
Monica Millares is a FinTech operator with 20 years across traditional finance and fintech startups, recently Chief Product Officer at a Southeast Asian neobank, BigPay. Monica led product organizations through zero-to-one builds, growth-at-all-costs environments, and the transition to sustainable profitability – across three geographies and business lines including payments, remittances, lending, and embedded finance.
Her work sits at the intersection of product strategy, delivery, and commercial. Customer experience, regulatory requirements, culture, and board accountability shape her decisions. She also is a successful podcast host, Purpose Driven FinTech, where she interviews founders and senior leaders to learn together and spotlight the people building FinTech’s future across the world.
Join our network of industry leaders shaping the future of fintech through mentorship, insights, and strategic connections.
Connect with fintech founders and innovators
Help scale-ups navigate challenges
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