Each year, ALB assembles an independent judging panel comprising senior and expert industry leaders from various sectors, aligning with our diverse range of award categories. We're delighted to introduce some of these distinguished judges here. 

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Angie Ong, Esq.
General Counsel and Head of Policy, Partior

Angie Ong is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Partior.  As the General Counsel of Partior, Angie leads the product & commercial legal. She also sets and defines the regulatory and policy strategy for Partior’s expansion. As a Corporate Secretary, Angie oversees the corporate governance to guide the company's direction and business integrity, ensures compliance and builds trust with investors and the community.

Angie’s experience spans across multiple continents around the world - from Sydney to New York, to Silicon Valley and Seattle, and now Singapore. She joined Partior from Meta, where she was the Head of Product Legal overseeing Meta’s financial technologies. An accomplished fintech attorney, Angie brings with her legal acumen at the intersection of finance and technology. Her legal expertise expands across banking, payments and web3 blockchain technology/ cryptocurrency including from Stripe, J.P. Morgan and American Express.

Angie holds a graduate from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, as well as a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Masters of Laws (LLM) from Georgetown University Law Center.

Avalon Ingram
Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Data Intelligence and Cyber Initiatives,
APAC & MENA, Swift

Avalon currently leads the APAC and MENA Financial Crime Compliance Cyber initiatives expert team having re-joined SWIFT in 2019. She is responsible for driving take up of Swift’s value-added shared services solutions in the areas of AML, CTF and Fraud. Additionally, Avalon runs community enrichment, educational engagements and consultations geared to safeguarding the integrity of the financial system against evolving financial crime risks. She has 12 years’ experience in FCC, starting her career at Dow Jones managing sub-Saharan Africa. Following which she joined SWIFT in 2016 covering the UKI & Nordic markets.

In the years away from SWIFT, she joined a Regtech startup that focused on elements of AI and Natural Language Processing delivering a multisource KYC platform to the banking sector. Avalon sat on the board of the Regtech sub-committee of the Singapore Fintech Association 2020-2021 and is regular industry commentator at FCC events across the region

Daniel Lo
Chief Legal Officer, Acheron Trading

Daniel Lo is the chief legal officer at Acheron Trading, a digital payment tokens market maker. He is also a co-founder of LDU, a legal solutions platform and fractional general counsel service. Previously he was the chief legal officer at Cake Group and a senior legal counsel at UBS Asset Management. Daniel is highly involved with the Singapore crypto community, sitting on the board of directors with ACCESS Singapore and on the Web3 subcommittee with the Singapore FinTech Association. He was the winner of the ALB SE Asia 2023 Young In-House Lawyer of the Year award, and was a finalist for this year's ALB SE Asia 2024 Young In-House Lawyer of the Year and In-House Technology Lawyer of the Year awards.

Devonna Ng
Senior AML and Operation Manager, Tencent ,
Founder and President of Singapore Compliance Association and Network

As the head of compliance, Devonna is responsible for all AML and compliance aspects of the branch. This includes but not limited to updating of policies and procedures, advisory, staff trainings, transactions monitoring and STR filings. Prior to this, she was with DBS and OCBC Singapore, specializing in KYC CDD. Devonna is a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS), certified financial crime specialist (CFCS) and also certified global sanctions specialist (CGSS). She also contributes to the banking ecosystem by leading and advising her juniors on their future career paths in her alma mater via their industry network programme. Devonna is also one of the founders of Singapore Compliance Association and Network and recently awarded Certificate of Honour by Shinhan Bank.

Joel Pang
Executive Director, Head of Compliance and Governance (South East Asia), Razorpay

Mr Pang currently serves as the Executive Director and SEA Region Compliance Officer for Razorpay, leading the Compliance and Governance functions across SEA.

He is an alumnus of Imperial College London where he was awarded a Global MBA scholarship and Nanyang Technological University where he graduated with a Master of Social Science in Global Governance.

He is a senior executive having extensive Legal, Governance, Risk and Compliance management experience and has served on the boards of multiple Non-Bank Financial Institutions and an entity listed on the Cayman Island Stock Exchange, as a Board Director. His experience includes leading teams and business lines in Legal, Operations, Governance, Risk and Compliance in Payments, Wealth, Asset & Fund Management Operations within the NBFI. External Asset Management, Fund Management, FinTech, REIT, Retail and Private Bank and Corporate Treasury space.

Maree Myerscough
COO & General Counsel, Aquila Clean Energy Asia Pacific,

Maree Myerscough is the COO & General Counsel of Aquila Clean Energy Asia Pacific, a clean energy platform that funds, develops, builds and operates clean energy assets across the region.  Within her role she is responsible for all legal and operational matters including environmental, social and governance considerations for APAC.  Previously she worked with Conergy, SunEdison and with Latham & Watkins and Mallesons in private practice.

In 2023 Maree was awarded In-House Lawyer of the Year by The Legal 500 at the South East Asia Awards. Maree was honoured to win the “General Commercial” award the Global Counsel Awards at an event in New York and was included in ALB’s In-house Counsel “40 Under 40” List for Asia Pacific in 2018. Maree was short-listed for an FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific 2021 award, including for her work on pro bono projects, community service initiatives, mentoring and service leadership within the legal community. Maree was also included in Transition Economist’s TE100 Women of the Energy Transition in the Renewables category.

Prem Kumar
Head of Ethics & Compliance - India, South East Asia (i-SEA),
Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Prem is an accomplished ethics and compliance leader having extensive experience (> 17 years) in developing and implementing Ethics and Compliance programme, Anti – Bribery Anti-Corruption programme, and corporate governance strategy for leading corporates and Government institutions around the world. He has deeper understanding of various regulations and consequence of noncompliance, with proven track record of establishing and managing effective governance framework to identify, evaluate and mitigate compliance risk and embedding the continuous improvement element in a structured manner.

His work experience around anti-bribery, anti-corruption, ethics &compliance spread across various industries including pharmaceutical, banking & financial institutions, oil & gas, manufacturing distribution, IT & ITES, Infrastructure development, automobile, aviation, media and advertisement, and telecommunications with a geographical coverage across markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

His specialisms include establishing, implementing, and leading ABAC governance framework, Ethics and Compliance framework, Risk Assessment, Fraud prevention and Deterrence, Monitoring and investigations frameworks, Data Analytics lab for proactive monitoring, Third Party Risk Management framework.