Ms. Gillian Hammah

Group Chief Marketing Officer

Databank Financial Services, Ghana.

With over 23 years experience in financial services, including 18 years in Marketing Communications and Project Management, Gillian Hammah has proven success in creating and executing award-winning marketing campaigns, and has been recognized for her strong management and strategic planning capabilities.

Gillian Hammah will be the Summit Chairwoman at #DBS2021.

Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari

FIRST DEPUTY GOVERNOR

BANK OF GHANA

Maxwell Opoku-Afari is a Ghanaian economist and currently the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. He was appointed to this position on August 7, 2017.

Prior to assuming the role of Deputy Governor, Opoku-Afari worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Opoku-Afari also worked for 13 years at the Bank of Ghana, rising through the ranks to become the Head of the Special Studies Division in the Research Department between January 2005 and June 2006, and later elevated to the position of the Special Assistant to the Governor of Bank of Ghana from June 2006 until he left the Bank of Ghana in October 2009.

Ronald Raffensperger

CTO, Digital Transformation - Financial Industry Business

Huawei

Ron has over 30 years of experience in the IT, software and telecom industries, with in-depth knowledge of the Financial Industry.

He has a broad background in cloud computing, databases, big data and high-performance computing. Ron has held senior positions in Marketing, Strategy, Sales and Development at Siemens, IBM and ROLM Telecommunications, along with startup companies in the database and SaaS industries.

Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari

FIRST DEPUTY GOVERNOR

BANK OF GHANA

Dr. Maxwell Opoku-Afari was appointed as the First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana on August 7, 2017.

Prior to his appointment, Dr. Opoku-Afari worked at the IMF in various capacities including as Mission chief and Deputy Division Chief in the African Department of the IMF. His work at the IMF focused on IMF negotiation missions, policy design in the area of monetary policy modernization and macro financial linkages, and was a reviewer of policy documents on a number of developing countries.

He holds a first degree in Economics and Statistics, and an MPhil in Economics, both from the University of Ghana, Legon and also a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

Chen Kun Te

CHIEF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OFFICER

GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, HUAWEI EBG

Mr. Chen Kun Te graduated from the Department of Statistics and Information Science of Fu Jen Catholic University in 1979. He served as the system engineer, sales consultant, and deputy general manager at Unisys Taiwan from 1979 to 1996; the deputy manager and deputy general manager at Chinatrust Commercial Bank from 1996 to 2004; and the president of Ping An Bank from 2004 to 2007.

Mr. Chen then worked in China Merchants Bank (CMB) as the director of wealth management from 2007 to 2014 and chief information officer from 2014 to 2019. After retiring from CMB, he joined Huawei and is now the chief digital transformation officer of financial services at the Enterprise Business Group.