Adjunct Associate Professor
(MSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Randall E. Duran is the Chief Executive Officer of Catena Technologies Pte Ltd. He is responsible for general management and strategic customer engagements. Catena Technologies advises financial services firms on business process automation and enterprise integration solutions. Mr. Duran's current focus is on using innovative technologies to improve wholesale and retail banking processes.
Prior to founding Catena Technologies in 2002, Mr. Duran was the Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Reuters PLC. In this capacity, he managed a team of consultants across Asia Pacific, who worked with banks, brokerages, and stock exchanges to create efficient and streamlined trading systems.
Mr. Duran began his career in the Silicon Valley in the early 1990s as one of the founders of TIBCO Inc., a pioneer in the field of middleware messaging technology. During his eight years at TIBCO, he worked with investment banks such as Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Nomura Research, and HSBC in New York and London, developing high-speed data distribution technology that supported the world's largest trading floors.
Randall E. Duran was awarded master and bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T).
Adjunct Associate Professor
(MBA, University of Michigan)
Sandeep was part of the PayPal executive team for eight years, from 2000 through mid-2008. In PayPal's pre-IPO phase, he was the Senior Vice President and head of Customer Service and Operations. Prio to PayPal's IPO and after their acquisition by eBAY, Sandeep served as a Vice President responsible for International Business. Finally, from 2005 through mid-2008, Sandeep was the PayPal executive responsible for all business in Asia.
Prior to joining PayPal, Sandeep spent 17 years at Citibank in a wide variety of roles in Operations and Technology as follows:
Vice President and Regional Head Operations & Technology (Treasury & Financial Markets) Singapore, 1996-2000, overseeing the operations 200+ staff covering settlements, reconciliations, middle office functions and a budget of $12M covering Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, Money markets.
Vice President and Derivatives Operations Head, New York, 1995- 1996, responsible for delivering on daily settlements, reconciliations, risk reports and middle office functions.
Vice President and Retail Banking Operations Head, Japan, 1994-96, Supervising 200+ staff and $14M budget (100 in phone banking and credit card support) in one of the most customer focused and quality conscious markets.
Vice President and Treasury and Financial Markets Operations Head, Japan, 1992-1994, automating the front end and back end operations for derivatives and delivered on control quality and 60% improvements in operational efficiency.
Vice President and Accounting Policy and Finance Head of the Trading and Capital Markets Business, Japan, 1989-1992, automating backend processes and providing guidance on complex accounting issues.
Vice President and member of the Internal Audit Treasury Risk Assessment Traveling Team, New York, 1987-1989, assessing the trading rooms in different countries covering (derivatives, foreign exchange, money markets and fixed income), operations and related front end and backend risk assessment .
Assistant Vice President - Internal Audit Head for India, Thailand, Sri-Lanka and Nepal 1984-1987, running the audit program provided assessments on internal control and operations quality of the Consumer, retail and Trading businesses to the internal audit function and country management.
Manager and Executive Development Trainee, India 1982-1984
Sandeep obtained an MBA, Finance and International Business, from the University of Michigan, and a BA, Economics honors, from Delhi University.
Wei Choong is Managing Principal of Veros Consulting, a firm that specializes in complex project
management and solutioning, IT audit and IT dispute resolution primarily in the e-Government and
Financial Services sectors.
Wei Choong spent 27 years with IBM in a variety of technical and client management positions before moving on to building and managing businesses both locally and across the Asia Pacific region.
He has advised and assisted government bodies and financial institutions regionally in strategic
business and IT alignment as well as sophisticated large scale program and project implementations.
Executive appointments held, included:
Regional Managing Partner ASEAN / South Asia, Business Consulting Services (now, IBM Global Business Services)
Asia Pacific General Manager, Financial Services Sector , Business Innovation Services
(Consulting and Systems Integration)
Asia Pacific Director of Operations, Financial Services Sector
Asia Pacific Partner & Leader, Applications Management Services (Outsourcing)
Asia Pacific Managing Principal, Mergers & Acquisitions
General Manager, IBM China (East region)
Work aside, Wei Choong spends time on social concerns issues and is currently on the Board of Governance, Methodist Welfare Services as well as being a Management Committee member of the Chen Su Lan Methodist Children’s Home.
Wei Choong graduated with a Bachelors degree in Mathematics (Honours Computer Science) from
the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Adjunct Professor
(MBA, Indian Institute of Management)
Sajeeve has over 30 years of all-round experience in Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Capital Markets, Treasury, Risk Management and back-office processing and operations, retiring from Shinsei Bank Ltd., Japan in Oct 2006.
He joined Shinsei Bank in May 2000 as Chief of Staff to the Chairman and member of its management team and was subsequently appointed Senior Managing Executive Officer and Head of Retail Banking Group to establish a new business to serve its retail customers. In the five years of its operations from June 2001, the Group acquired over 1.8 million customers, became profitable within three years, and won several awards including being ranked No. 1 by the Nikkei Keizai Shimbun in Customer Satisfaction (2004-2006), Best Retail Bank in Japan by The Asian Banker (2005 & 2006), and for its popular internet banking, creative branch design and a unique and visible brand in Japan.
Sajeeve was with Citibank in New York (1999-2000), Japan (1988-1998) and India (1975- 1988). Among his various responsibilities, he was Country Treasurer & Head of Capital Markets at Citibank Japan, Member of Citicorp's Credit Risk Policy Committee and Market Risk Policy Committee, Head of Risk Management Division for Asia-Pacific, Country Treasurer & Head of Capital Markets for India and Sri Lanka, a Relationship Banker and Operations Officer in Citibank India .
He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India having passed out of its Post-Graduate Programme in Business Administration in 1975.
