Andrew Monroe is the Head of Gaming & Media, Digital Commerce, and acting VP of Direct Sales at Worldline.

With more than 15 years of experience in eCommerce and sales, Andrew has a deep understanding of the payments industry. He has managed teams in Fintech organizations on multiple continents, delivering customized solutions across different verticals and regions.

Before being appointed as Head of Gaming & Media, Andrew was General Manager for the North America division of Ingenico ePayments. Prior to that, he served as the Head of Business Development for North America, Head of Business Development, EMEA and Head of Account Management, EMEA for Ingenico ePayments. In each of these roles, he has increased clients’ revenues and created seamless payment experiences for consumers.

Andrew is an active speaker in the payments arena, giving presentations at technology summits, leading webinars, and educating professionals around the world. He shares Ingenico’s commitment to knowledge-sharing initiatives and has co-authored white papers on market analysis and strategy, and led case studies with high-profile companies, such as Levi’s and Rail Europe.

He has a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and MIS from North Carolina State University and an MBA from TIAS School for Business and Society. He lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife and three kids and enjoys keeping fit and being outdoors.

Grace recently joined Worldline as APAC Regional Director for Travel and Airlines. She has over ten years of experience in the digital payments industry. Grace has previous experience from PayPal and Amadeus, where she was responsible for key commercial relationships with digital and travel merchants in Asia-Pacific. 

Damien leads the Airlines and Travel Vertical for Worldline's Digital Commerce Business. His team is focused on supporting global travel businesses to increase their market coverage, improve their customers' payment experience and ultimately help them grow in a sustainable and effective way.

Damien has more than 20 years of experience in leading payments and transaction services teams across all segments of the market, with a particular focus on Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Worldline, he led the transactional business for one of Australia’s largest banks. He has also led payment services for fintechs and large merchants.

David Cabreza joined XanderPay as CCO in 2021 to help build a hotel payment network for OTAs to pay hotels by bank transfers. Prior to then, he worked Hilton, InterContinental and Le Meridien in payments, distribution, strategy and finance. David has championed innovation in hotel payments particularly through his active involvement in HEDNA's payments working group and on its board of directors. He graduated from Cornell's School of Hotel Administration in 1993 and holds an MBA from London Business School. 

Devinda has decades of successful experience in IT network infrastructure and automobile technology. He has worked with finance and automobile companies in Sri Lanka and overseas, gaining valuable experience before joining Aman, a global luxury hotel brand, in 2011. Devinda currently holds the position of Director of Shared Services Operations at Aman, where he oversees four teams across Rates, Reservations, Sales Contracting and Data Processing. Along with managing these teams, he also consults with Aman global teams on revenue conversion strategies and provides guidance on technology adoption and designing systems and tech roadmaps for the company. Devinda's skill set includes business intelligence and data analysis, which makes him an invaluable asset to the Aman team.

Gary is Director of Check-in Asia, a travel and consumer trends research firm based in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Kuala Lumpur. He is a sought-after speaker and consultant with more than two decades of expertise as a travel industry analyst. He is also an Asia Travel Analyst for Phocuswright and provides monthly consumer, travel, and technology trends analysis for Mintel.

With a background in operations and a passion for systems, Heidi George was always going to shine in an operational excellence role.  She began her career with TFE Hotels at Medina Grand Melbourne in housekeeping and quickly transitioned through the ranks to Area Manager.

With a passion for projects, Heidi has led five hotel pre-opening teams and spearheaded the integration of eleven Rendezvous Hotels properties into the portfolio. Most recently, Heidi and her team have implemented Buy Now Pay Later, Payment Gateways, Integrated payments, and merchant agreements.  

Heidi is passionate about using systems and processes to deliver memorable guest experiences and uses her extensive operational background to best effect by leading the team who supports TFE’s hotel operating systems globally.

Travel & technology entrepreneur based in Singapore and Tokyo with 20+ years of experience. He led his company to an IPO, a MBO, two exits and one acquisition.

As a founding CEO, Kei is running Venture Republic that owns a group of online travel businesses across Asia and the rest of world, including "TRAVEL.jp", Japan’s largest travel metasearch & travel guide media, “TRAVEL jp for Business”, a chat based corporate travel management service in Japan, and “Trip101”, Singapore based global online travel guide media that curates world’s best short-term rentals, accommodations and destinations.

In 2008, he took the company public in Japan (2177. JASDAQ) after 7 years in operation. In 2018, company made a strategic partnership with LINE Corporation, one of the leading messaging apps in Asia.

He received the "WiT Hall of Fame" award in 2019 which honors individuals who have had the greatest influence on the progress and professionalism of the digital travel industry in Asia Pacific.

Angel investor in the travel & technology space. Serving as a board of director for various startups including BeMyGuest, Singapore.

As a co-founder/organizer, he also runs WiT Japan & North Asia, a leading international conference in North Asia focusing on technology & travel industry.

Harvard MBA. Chairman of Keio University's alumni association for startup founders/CEOs. Avid Nordic cross country & alpine skier/snowboarder. Love jazz, coffee and working from vacation homes.

Laurie’s interest in payments and current job with Worldline came from her understanding of the fulfilment and distribution processes in the commercial airline industry. During her more than 30 years in the travel industry (she started as a teenager!), Laurie was responsible for building & delivering solutions based on the foundations of the fulfillment process. She has led many teams which have designed and implemented enterprise wide projects for payment services such as Fraud & Risk Management, customer notifications, sales reporting and ancillary sales opportunities. She now utilizes her global airline & travel industry experience as a member of the Professional Services Group at Worldline. As a consultant for the Sales Teams in the Americas she provides insight to optimize the merchant’s Payment Strategies & Customer’s Payment Experience.

Liyana Khan is a seasoned expert in the digital payments industry, with a focus on the travel sector. With over a decade of experience delivering exceptional results and exceeding expectations, she is known for her ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders, leveraging her deep understanding of her clients’ payment needs to provide personalised support, guiding companies through the complexities and reducing fraud risks.

Liyana is currently the Key Account Manager at Worldline, based in Singapore.

Ng Woon Chian is the Asia Pacific economist in Visa. With 7 years of experience as an economist, Woon Chian is able to draw insights on how economic developments and trends can affect payments and travel. He has also published several research pieces in Visa on travel, and small and medium businesses.

Prior to Visa, Woon Chian worked in various agencies within the Singapore Government as an economist. He worked on forecasting models and has published a few research pieces on the digital economy.

Sandeep Mander is Vice President of Global Sales for airlines at Continuum Commerce having held the post for the last 7 years. Sandeep helps airlines understand how they can help generate new revenue streams through Multi-Currency Pricing whilst increasing sales conversion. Previous to Continuum, Sandeep held posts helping airlines globally enhance their payment and fraud capabilities at CyberSource, a Visa company and Accertify, an American Express company.

Sascha Münger is currently working as Head Competence Center Crypto Related Products & Metaverse within the Global Business Division Commercial Acquiring at Worldline Global. In this role, he is responsible for products related to crypto payments at the point of sale and in eCommerce as well as future commerce scenarios in the Metaverse. Previously, he was responsible for the implementation of the payment processing module within the TWINT system at SIX Payments Services (predecessor organization of Worldline). Sascha holds a Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Business Organisation and he started his career 2007 in Zurich at Telekurs Group (later SIX) in various positions within the finance department. In 2010, he moved to Würth Finance International B.V. to work within the Treasury Services division. He then returned to SIX Management in the position as a Cash Manager, before taking on leading positions within Accounting and Billing at SIX Payment Services.

An accomplished professional with international experience in the payment and banking industry, Shabab Muhaddes brings key local and global insights from the financial services fintech and payment ecosystems. of extensive knowledge of payments (10 years in Asia) at both Visa and Mastercard. At Visa, Muhaddes served as Head of Digital Partnerships and Ventures for APAC, where he drove notable growth through developing deeper partnership opportunities across his focus markets. Prior to Visa, he spent eight years with Mastercard in a range of roles focused on building strategic alliances to drive growth in emerging markets and product strategy development.

Before payments, Shabab spent six years in the wealth management industry in New York and consulted for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York. He moved to Singapore from the United States of America in 2010 and has been living in Singapore for 10+ years.

Siew Hoon has been covering the travel industry beat in Asia Pacific for decades, starting off as a rookie reporter and going on to lead and launch the region’s key industry media titles. In 2005, she founded WiT (Web in Travel) to tackle how technology was changing travel in Asia Pacific and created a new space in the fast-growing, dynamic region with a dedicated media and events platform.

Over the years, she took WiT to new places, launching editions in Tokyo, Seoul, Middle East and Europe to keep the world’s attention focused on the three pillars of travel, technology and Asia.

Following the acquisition by Northstar Travel Group in 2014, she led the launch of Travel Weekly Asia and M&C Asia and formed the editorial team to execute the entry of Northstar to Asia.

Her work has been recognised by numerous institutions including the Singapore Tourism Board which recognised her as Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014. The WiT Singapore conference, which remains its tentpole event, has won several awards including Most Innovative Marketing Initiative and Trade Conference Of The Year.

In 2020, WiT Singapore became the first travel conference to go fully hybrid, paving the way for a new model in events.

Other than writing about travel, Siew Hoon is also a published author of titles such as “Around Asia In One Hour: Tales of Condoms, Chillies & Curries”, children’s books such as “Adventures of Habibie The Turtle” and “The Story of Baitong and Boon” and host of “A Life In Travel” podcast.