The Board

Anson Zeall

Anson Zeall

Chairman of the Board

Anson is a multifaceted professional with a rich blend of entrepreneurial, technical, regulatory, financial, and educational expertise. He excels in navigating and innovating within complex, emerging, and regulated landscapes, particularly in the blockchain and cryptocurrency domains. As the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Compliance at dtcpay.com, he plays a pivotal role in steering the company’s strategic direction while ensuring rigorous adherence to compliance standards.
In his dual capacity, Anson leads the development and implementation of key strategic initiatives, aligning them with the company’s long-term vision and the dynamic nature of the blockchain industry. His expertise in regulatory compliance is instrumental in maintaining dtcpay.com’s status as a licensed Major Payments Institution in Singapore, harmonizing its operations with both the spirit and the letter of governing laws.
 

Katherine Ng

Katherine Ng

Secretary General

Katherine was the Head of Global Marketing for Liquid, the world’s first global cryptocurrency platform regulated in Japan, that provides high performance trading and exchange services for digital currencies. She served as the Co-Head of the Digital Currencies Subcommittee for ACCESS from 2017-2019.

Katherine was the Commercial Director at Luxola Indonesia (acquired by Sephora-LVMH). Katherine spearheaded commercial initiatives across data-driven digital marketing channels to drive revenue across email, onsite, social media, paid ads, and partnerships.

Previously, Katherine was the Head of Marketing at GrabTaxi and GrabCar Indonesia (now known as Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride hailing app).

  

 

Zann Kwan

Zann Kwan

Treasurer

Zann Kwan brings with her over twenty years of professional experience in finance and investments, of which the last seven were spent in cryptocurrency.

Ms Kwan is the co-founder of Bitcoin Exchange Pte Ltd, a cryptocurrency pioneer that launched the first public bitcoin machine in Asia in early 2014. Her team also developed Itsybit, making it easier and cheaper to buy small amount of cryptocurrency.

Ms Kwan has been on the board of ACCESS since 2015. She is also a fellow of the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), providing support for and advice on their FinTech education and research activities. Being one of the first accounting-trained entrepreneurs in the cryptocurrency space, Zann has played an instrumental role in the development of tax regulations of digital tokens in Singapore. She has been called the “The Crypto Queen” by The Accounting and Business Magazine in 2019 for her contribution in the space.

As a frequent speaker on FinTech and blockchain technology, Ms Kwan has been invited to speak in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and China, and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Channel News Asia, The Straits Times and The Business Times, among others. She has also been a keynote speaker at various cryptocurrency and blockchain conferences and events organised by leading universities, societies and financial institutions in the region.

Ms Kwan was previously a vice-president in real estate investment with GIC, one of the world’s largest global investors. She started her career in 1998 in financial auditing with Arthur Andersen and KPMG in Singapore and the United States. Subsequently, she worked in real estate investments in New York City, covering assets in hospitality, retail, office, industrial and mixed-used developments. She has led teams on a range of operations, such as fund-raising, deal sourcing, due diligence, asset management and disposition.

Ms Kwan is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder, Chartered Accountant (CA, Singapore) and a Fellow of Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA). She is also a proud mother to two young children, whom she is raising to be digital citizens.

  

 

 

Antonio Alvarez Lorenzo

Board Member

Antonio is a global payments and remittances compliance officer with global experience building and leading regulatory compliance programs for cash, electronic payment forms and crypto-based business models.
Expert project management experience across Product Innovation, Customer Service Operations, Transaction Processing, Financial Control, Operational Risk, Business Transformation, Regulatory Compliance and Governance, Payment Network Rules and Quality disciplines. Extensive local work experience in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Dual US and European citizen fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Grace Chong

Grace Chong

Board Member

Grace Chong heads the Financial Regulatory practice of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher in Singapore. The practice was recently named Law Firm of the Year at the 5th Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2022. Grace was named Fintech and Digital Assets Lawyer of the Year at the Law.com Asia Legal Awards 2023.

Grace has extensive experience advising on cross-border and complex regulatory matters, including licensing and conduct of business requirements, regulatory investigations, and regulatory change. A former in-house counsel at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), she regularly interacts with key regulators, is closely involved in regional regulatory reform initiatives and has led discussions with regulators on behalf of the financial services industry. Grace also brings a strategic outlook from an in-house perspective having previously been a counsel in the Global Internal Investigations Group at the Hong Kong headquarters of a large leading multinational bank.

She is a certified cybersecurity GIAC GLEG, IAPP CIPP/A/E and IAPP CIPM professional, and regularly conducts cybersecurity assessments and investigations in Asia. In addition, she is an International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Fellow of Information Privacy and is part of the IAPP Women Leading Privacy Board.  She was named as a Global Data Review’s Top 40 Data Lawyers for 2021, and was awarded “Privacy and Data Protection Lawyer of the Year” by Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Awards 2021.

 

 

 

Daniel Lo

Board Member

Daniel is a digital assets lawyer based in Singapore, focusing on decentralized finance, crypto regulation and venture capital investments. He is currently the CHief Legal Officer at Cake Group.

Daniel has prior experience in asset management, investment funds, PE/VC, and M&A. Experience with building and leading a legal, risk and compliance team at a Web3 company as the chief legal officer, data protection officer, corporate secretary and MLRO. He also co-founded a consultancy platform that provides legal and legaltech support for startups and SMEs in the Southeast Asia region.

🏆 Asian Legal Business - SE Asia 2023 Young In-House Lawyer of the Year
🏆 Fintech Nation - 2023 Fintech65 list
🏆 Asian Legal Business - Asia 2023 Top 15 In-House Teams
🏆 Asian Legal Business - Asia 2022 40 under 40 list

 

 

Chris Holland

Board Member

Chris is co-founder of Holland and Marie and responsible for managing and operating a compliance and legal solutions firm, providing practical solutions for asset managers, hedge funds, private equity funds, payments businesses, family offices, broker-dealers, insurers, wealth managers and investment banks in Singapore and Hong Kong.