Date 24th - 25th September, 2014
Time
September 24, 2014 (08:30 – 17:00) HKT
September 25, 2014 (08:45 – 16:00) HKT
Location The Mira, Hong Kong
Speakers Asheesh Mehra, Vice President and Head – Asia Pacific, Japan and Middle East, Infosys BPO
Event overview
The CFO Innovation Hong Kong Forum is an annual gathering of one of the biggest forums in Asia, attracting over 400 attendees from the Global 2000. This closed-door forum will bring together CFOs, financial controllers, treasurers, and other finance executives to share ideas and insights with their peers. Mark your calendar and register today to attend the exclusive CFO Innovation Hong Kong Forum 2014.
Connect with Infosys
Infosys BPO will be a part of the panel discussion ‘Innovations in Financial Management II’ on day two of the event, featuring Asheesh Mehra, Vice President and Head – Asia Pacific, Japan and Middle East, Infosys BPO. This session features CFOs who have successfully designed and executed transformative innovations in their company’s financial management. Infosys BPO will also provide an opportunity for networking, where our experts will be available for focused discussions on outsourcing strategies for your business.
Why attend?
The 5th CFO Innovation Hong Kong Forum will focus on the challenges and opportunities arising from ongoing structural changes in China’s economy. It will address action steps for enterprises and their finance functions in Hong Kong and across the border in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Macau, and other cities in the Pearl River Delta.
- Economic and political developments in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, including China’s economic restructuring and universal suffrage in Hong Kong
- Creating China’s Silicon Valley: The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone
- Transformation and refinements in strategy-setting, financial planning and analysis, and risk management to respond to any eventuality
- Gaining access to capital, market direction, innovation in finance, and cash management
- Harnessing technologies and platforms such as automation, business intelligence, Software-as-a-Service and cloud-based planning and forecasting
- Developing the connected CFO: How to prepare for future roles and career paths, including becoming the next CEO
Who should attend?
Global business service directors, CEOs / CFOs, financial controllers, treasurers, and other finance executives to share ideas and insights with peers from large enterprises as well as business specialists and other experts.
Session details
Innovations in Financial Management II
25th September, 2014
10:50 HKT
The Mira, Hong Kong
Asheesh Mehra, Vice President and Head – Asia Pacific, Japan and Middle East, Infosys BPO
Cesar Bacani, Editor-in-Chief, CFO Innovation
Noel Wan, CFO, Bayer Group Companies Hong Kong
Jinfu Chan, CFO, GE Capital
Asheesh Mehra, Vice President and Head – Asia Pacific, Japan and Middle East, Infosys BPO
Jim Pang, CFO, Royal Furniture Holdings
Digby Ross, Director, Global Business Development, TMF Group
Session description
This session features CFOs who have successfully designed and executed transformative innovations in their company’s financial management in the following areas:
- Centers of excellence, finance shared services, treasury centers and other in-sourcing, and outsourcing solutions
- Financial and accounting automation and optimization
- Software-as-a-service and other technologies
Speaker profile

Asheesh Mehra, Vice President and Head – Asia Pacific, Japan and Middle East, Infosys
Asheesh Mehra heads Asia Pacific, Japan, and Middle East regions of Infosys BPO. He manages operations for Infosys delivery centers at Manila (Philippines) and Hangzhou (China). Asheesh is an outsourcing veteran with over 11 years of cross-industry global sourcing experience. He has driven business transformation through outsourcing for several Fortune 500 companies.
Related reading
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