Frankie Shuai

President @ PMI Singapore Chapter

About

Frankie is an Award-winning Technology Executive and CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) in Financial & IT Industry with two decades leadership experience. He has been featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as Global CISO 100 award winner and also been featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (APAC special edition). He is heading regional Information Security in one of global largest Asset Managers in Financial Industry across the whole APAC region (9 countries/markets). He was former Head of Cyber & Technology Risk at world largest private bank UBS AG (Singapore, Australia and New Zealand) and worked in Citibank, Microsoft & HP with leadership roles as well. With strong business enabling and people engagement mindset in the digital transformation and cyber defence, Frankie is also a seasoned technology innovation catalyst and practitioner. He is the sole Inventor of patent (next generation wireless networking) filed at US patent office and his patent has also been cited by other big tech like Intel and Ericsson in their patents. Frankie is a frequent keynote speaker about Cybersecurity & Technology in industry forums delivered to thousands audiences including on-site speeches invited by Central bank of Indonesia, Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Thomson Reuters, IDC, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Asia Risk, Economic Times (ET), etc. He has also been invited to deliver on-site opening keynote speech at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Chennai, India. His perspective on Cybersecurity & Technology has been featured by international media like IDG, Economic Times, CIO.com, CSO.com, Enterprise Security, Cybersecurity Review, CIO Review, CIO Outlook, etc. He is the winner of industry Cybersecurity / Technology Leadership Awards: - Global CISO 100 from Hottopics - Global Top 100 leaders in Information Security from Business-of-Infosec under Corinium Intelligence - World CIO 200 Global Champion from Global CIO Forum - Top Global CISOs from Cyber Defense Magazine - CSO30 ASEAN Award from Foundry (IDG, International Data Group) - CIO100 ASEAN Award from Foundry (IDG, International Data Group) - Asia 200 Digital Leaders Award from SPARK (formly CIO Academy Asia) - Transformative CIO Award from Economic Times (ET) CIO SEA

Country

City

Singapore

Industry

Financial Services

Skill

Strategic Planning, Financial Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Business Development, Technology Enabled Business Transformation, Service Delivery Management, Team Leadership, Technology Transfer, Performance Management, IT Service Management, Outsourcing Management, Data Center, Pre-sales, Telecommunications, Product Management, Project Management

Experience

President

PMI Singapore Chapter

2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Singapore

I am honored to have been elected as President of Project Management Institute (PMI) Singapore Chapter on my personal capacity and voluntary basis in the AGM. PMI (Project Management Institute) Singapore has rooted in Singapore for 25+ years and it has 2500+ active local members now. It's one of the largest PMI chapters globally and also one of the largest not-for-profit organizations in Singapore. Since its inception in 1969, PMI is the world's leading advocate of the project management and it has creatively formulated the industry standard. The "Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBoK) compiled by PMI has become the most authoritative textbook in the field of project management and is also known as the "Bible" of project management! PMI (Project Management Institute) is well known for it's Project Management Professional (PMP) certification born in 1984 which is the most recognized and most popular international project management certification worldwide with more 1.6 Million active holders now. PMP certification is also ranked by Forbes as the 2nd most valuable certification.

APAC CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)

DWS Group

2023-1 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Singapore

DWS Group (Asset Management subsidiary of Deutsche Bank) is one of global largest Asset Managers in the financial industry with over EUR 1 Trillion Asset Under Management (AUM). Heading APAC regional information security and covering all the 9 countries/markets in APAC.

Director, Head of Cyber & Technology Risk (Singapore and ANZ)

UBS

2021-1 - 2023-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Singapore

UBS is global largest Private Bank and top tier Asset Manager & Investment Bank. Heading the cyber & technology risk for 3 countries (Singapore, Australia and New Zealand).

Standing Committee Member of SCCS (Standing Committee on Cyber Security)

The Association of Banks in Singapore

2021-5 - 2022-10 · 1 yr 6 mos

Standing Committee member cum Chair of IT Change Management Working Group.

CISO Regional Information Security Lead

Citi

2014 - 2021-1 · 7 yrs

Singapore

- CISO (Chief Information Security Office) Regional Information/Cyber Security Lead (covering 17 Citi markets) - Regional Technology Risk & Control Lead in Corporate/Wholesale/Transaction banking business of Citi (Treasury and Trade Solutions) (FYI: Citi is world No.1 Transaction bank operating at 100 countries and best digital bank in the region)

Regional Team Manager

Microsoft

2012 - 2014 · 2 yrs

Singapore

Set up the team from scrach and lead the 15 professionals to provide Fortune Top 50 Enterprise Key Account Digital Transformation Service Management

Security Tech Service Manager

Certis CISCO Security Technology

2011 - 2011

Singapore

Lead the team of 15 professionals to provide pre-sales and post-sales Security Technology Service management for corporate and government key accounts

Presales Manager

TE Connectivity

2010 - 2011 · 1 yr

China

Lead the strategic technical consulting and business development on global key account Huawei

Enterprise Networking Research & Development Lead

2006 - 2010 · 4 yrs

Singapore

Enterprise networking system design, pre-sales and compliance consulting. Patent (sole-inventor) about Next Generation Wireless Networking Access Control filed at US patent office and cited by other big tech companies like Intel and Ericsson in their patents.

Education

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Signal Processing

AI & Data Analytics focus

National University of Singapore

• Undergraduate Scholarship awarded • NUS Engineering Student Club - IT Director • NUS Chinese Student Community (CSC) - Founding Treasurer & Executive Committee member