Ned Phillips

Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur at Bambu

Speaker

Ned Phillips is the Founder, and Chief Executive Officer of Bambu, founded Bambu in 2016. Under his leadership, the firm has grown into a global leader in robo-advisory technology solutions that offer digital wealth services to financial and consumer businesses to integrate and benefit from the ongoing digital transformation in wealth management. Today, Bambu is working with 18 global clients in the Banking and Financial sectors, and have been named "Best of Show" by Finovate, "Best Early Stage Startup" by Fintech Finals, and "Fintech Employee of the Year" by Singapore Fintech Association.

Before founding Bambu in 2016, Ned was one of the first online brokers and was promoted to Managing Director at E*TRADE. He was also part of the stock exchange transformation, where he developed two pan-Asian exchanges, one of which is in conjunction with SCX and Chi-X. Ned had the opportunity to experience the first dot-com boom with one of the original FinTech companies and become appointed as a consultant to 8 Securities when they launched the first Robo-advisor in Asia.

With such insightful exposure and development over the years, Ned saw an opportunity in the B2B space to build a solution for various sectors that lead to Bambu's birth.