FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR:
Mr Pierre Maria
Senior Treasury Officer
Swiss Re Asia

Pierre Maria has 15 years of insurance and reinsurance experience in both Finance and Actuarial Science. He worked in FP&A, actuarial modelling, economic valuation and capital management in Paris, Tokyo and Singapore.

Pierre started from a direct global insurer side, notably working on setting up management accounting framework, solvency II implementation, actuarial closing and leading an insurance M&A sell-side.

Since joining Swiss Re, he rapidly became an advisor to the business in transactions as a designated structurer, and he pioneered through leadership on IFRS 17 reinsurance strategy for Swiss Re and its clients as a subject matter expert.

As a Vice President Senior Treasury Officer since 2021, Pierre is managing Swiss Re's balance sheets in Asia. He notably supervises capital topics such as regulatory framework, fungibility and large transaction impacts.

Pierre holds a Master degree in Finance from the Skema Business School and speaks French, English and Japanese.

FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR:
Mr Sanjeev Kumar
Senior Country Manager, Singapore, and Head of South East and South Asia
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking, Asia Pacific

Sanjeev joined Natixis in March 2021 as the Senior Country Manager for Natixis Singapore branch, and the Head of South East and South Asia. Based in Singapore, he is also a member of the APAC Executive Committee. Sanjeev has 25 years’ banking and finance industry experience across New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has worked for various firms including Barclays Capital, Citigroup, and RBS.

Prior to joining Natixis, Sanjeev was with MUFG in Singapore, as Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) Head of Sector Coverage and Acquisition Finance. Sanjeev has an MA (Cantab) from Trinity College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom.