Citywire Selector Symposium, Singapore 2026

Amanda Lee is Director and Head of Portfolio & Traditional Specialist - Asia Pacific, for Citi Global Wealth Investments. She is responsible for driving the sales and marketing efforts for Citi Discretionary and Mutual Funds business across all client segments in Asia Pacific.

Amanda has over 24 years of experience within the financial industry. Prior to joining Citi, she spent 12 years at JP Mongan Private Bank where she held various senior roles including investment marketing, mutual fund specialist, managed fixed income specialist, and most recently, Asia managed solutions specialist. Amanda started her career at as an investment planner at Citibank before she become a Primer relationship banker at HSBC Bank. Subsequently she spent 7 years at Eastspring Asset Management heading the distribution sales, investment marketing and regional business development in Singapore. 

Amanda holds a Bachelor degree in Business with double major in Economics and Finance from RMIT University in Melbourne.

Mr. Wong Meng Keet joined the UOB Group in 2013 and is Head of Managed Products and Alternative Investments at UOB Private Bank. Mr. Wong is responsible for the Bank’s Managed Product Solutions, including traditional long only funds, alternative investments, and discretionary portfolio management (DPM) sales. In this role, Mr. Wong also oversees the Bank’s Fund Advisory and Fund Due Diligence teams. Before joining UOB Private Bank in 2016, Mr. Wong managed the UOB Group’s proprietary investments in three vintages of private equity and a hedge fund of funds.

Prior to joining UOB Private Bank, Mr. Wong was a Partner and Senior Analyst at Albourne Partners, the world’s largest consultant on complicated assets with over USD 650bn under advice. There, he advised institutional investors, including sovereign funds, state and corporate pension plans, endowments and foundations and family offices on alternative investment allocations. Earlier in his career, Mr. Wong held positions at UBS AG and BearingPoint.

Mr. Wong has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Law from Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and a Bachelor of History from Yale University.

Yan D’Aloia Genhart is Head of Investment Advisory, Asia, Private Clients, at Lombard Odier.

He oversees the development and delivery of strategic investment advice, guiding teams to provide tailored portfolio solutions that support the complex financial goals of high-net-worth clients. Yan has over 14 years of advisory and portfolio management experience, including over 12 years with Lombard Odier.

Before relocating to Singapore in 2023 to focus on clients across Southeast Asia, he spent six years at Lombard Odier in Geneva, advising high-networth clients and their families. Prior to joining Lombard Odier, Yan held roles at PepsiCo in the Strategy and M&A team, the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, and a Geneva-based Single Family Office, where he started his investing and asset allocation journey.  

He holds a Bachelor in Finance from Geneva Business School. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Wealth Management Advisor (CWMA). 

Yazid is the Head of Funds Selection at Bank of Singapore and he plays a key role in developing the funds platform and ESG framework for funds in the Bank.

He has over a decade of experience in the institutional investment space in which he was primarily responsible for the external fund management and asset allocation in a sovereign wealth fund in Brunei.

He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Economics.  He is also a CFA Charterholder and obtained the Certificate in ESG Investing from CFA. 

Karen is Executive Director, Fund Solutions Lead, Asia for Pictet Wealth Management, focused on managed solutions advisory for Asia. She joined Pictet Wealth Management in 2020 as a Fund Specialist.

Before this, she was with UBS Wealth Management where she was an investment specialist at the Advisory and Sales team, covering under contract solutions including discretionary mandates, advisory mandates, private assets and funds. Prior to that, she covered managed solutions advisory including Funds, Alternatives, discretionary and advisory mandates during her tenure at Bank Julius Baer. Karen has more than 20 years of experience in the Private Banking industry.

She started her career at Merrill Lynch and has also worked at HSBC Private Bank and Bank of Singapore. Karen graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Business, Banking. She is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and Certified Financial Analyst in ESG Investing. 

Shafali Sachdev is Head of Investment Services, Asia for BNP Paribas Wealth Management, responsible for the regional investment services platform.

Before taking on her current role, she was Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC), Asia, based in Singapore. She was responsible for leading FICC development, advisory and execution efforts for the wealth management business in the region.

Shafali has extensive sales and structuring experience in Asian markets. Prior to joining BNP Paribas Wealth Management as Head of FX, Asia in 2017, she was Head of Structured FICC Products for the Citi Private Bank for Asia, handling foreign exchange, rates, commodities and credit products. She also did stints as Head of FX Bank Sales for Greater China, Regional FX Structuring covering Asian Institutional and Corporate clients and FX Sales for Corporates & Institutions in Citi and in Bank of America.

She holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Delhi University, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

As the Head of Investment Management Asia, Qian is responsible for leading and developing Indosuez’s Investment platform in the Asia region and providing managed portfolio solutions across different asset classes, in both public and private markets.

She is currently in charge of Discretionary Portfolio Management, Public Fund Solutions and Private Markets. She also has a solid long-term record as a Fund Manager specialising in Asia and China Equity investments since 2011. Qian has close to 20 years of experience in Financial Markets, with strong expertise in portfolio management and fund management, providing holistic investment strategies and portfolio solutions for Asia clients. As a native Chinese with a wide breadth of working experience from Mainland China, to Western Europe and Asia including Singapore, she has a deep understanding of Global and Asia markets and delivers highly-customised investment solutions and services for clients.

Qian joined Indosuez in Switzerland in 2011 as an Equity Portfolio Manager. She relocated to Indosuez in Singapore in 2016 and was put in charge of the Asia Equity investment strategy and discretionary portfolio management. Prior to joining Indosuez, Qian started her career in 2007 in Macroeconomics & Market analysis and Commodity trading with Total Energies, based in Paris and in Geneva.

She holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Economics and Management at IFP school (Paris). Qian is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Qian is fluent in English and French, and native in Chinese (Mandarin).