Each year, ALB assembles an independent judging panel comprising senior and expert industry leaders from various sectors, aligning with our diverse range of award categories. We're delighted to introduce some of these distinguished judges here. 

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Angie Ong, Esq.
General Counsel and Head of Policy, Partior

Angie Ong is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Partior.  As the General Counsel of Partior, Angie leads the product & commercial legal. She also sets and defines the regulatory and policy strategy for Partior’s expansion. As a Corporate Secretary, Angie oversees the corporate governance to guide the company's direction and business integrity, ensures compliance and builds trust with investors and the community.

Angie’s experience spans across multiple continents around the world - from Sydney to New York, to Silicon Valley and Seattle, and now Singapore. She joined Partior from Meta, where she was the Head of Product Legal overseeing Meta’s financial technologies. An accomplished fintech attorney, Angie brings with her legal acumen at the intersection of finance and technology. Her legal expertise expands across banking, payments and web3 blockchain technology/ cryptocurrency including from Stripe, J.P. Morgan and American Express.

Angie holds a graduate from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, as well as a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Masters of Laws (LLM) from Georgetown University Law Center.

Avalon Ingram
Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Data Intelligence and Cyber Initiatives,
APAC & MENA, Swift

Avalon currently leads the APAC and MENA Financial Crime Compliance Cyber initiatives expert team having re-joined SWIFT in 2019. She is responsible for driving take up of Swift’s value-added shared services solutions in the areas of AML, CTF and Fraud. Additionally, Avalon runs community enrichment, educational engagements and consultations geared to safeguarding the integrity of the financial system against evolving financial crime risks. She has 12 years’ experience in FCC, starting her career at Dow Jones managing sub-Saharan Africa. Following which she joined SWIFT in 2016 covering the UKI & Nordic markets.

In the years away from SWIFT, she joined a Regtech startup that focused on elements of AI and Natural Language Processing delivering a multisource KYC platform to the banking sector. Avalon sat on the board of the Regtech sub-committee of the Singapore Fintech Association 2020-2021 and is regular industry commentator at FCC events across the region

Daniel Lo
Chief Legal Officer, Acheron Trading

Daniel Lo is the chief legal officer at Acheron Trading, a digital payment tokens market maker. He is also a co-founder of LDU, a legal solutions platform and fractional general counsel service. Previously he was the chief legal officer at Cake Group and a senior legal counsel at UBS Asset Management. Daniel is highly involved with the Singapore crypto community, sitting on the board of directors with ACCESS Singapore and on the Web3 subcommittee with the Singapore FinTech Association. He was the winner of the ALB SE Asia 2023 Young In-House Lawyer of the Year award, and was a finalist for this year's ALB SE Asia 2024 Young In-House Lawyer of the Year and In-House Technology Lawyer of the Year awards.