John Laurens

Mr. John Laurens serves as our Audit Chair and member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Laurens is a leader in digital banking and has global large scale general management experience, with a particular expertise in transformational platforms, customer journeys, data, and design thinking. Mr. Laurens possesses deep, current, on the ground Asian experience across 19 Asia Pacific markets over 27 years. From November 2014 to January 2020, he served as the Chairman of AXS Pte. Ltd., Singapore’s largest retail e-services and bill payment provider. In this role, Mr. Laurens guided the executive team towards a digital strategy and helped to evolve AXS from a small kiosk network to a mass market payment business, enabling the public to pay bills and access government services through mobile and ‘e-Stations’ nationally. During his time as a Managing Director and Group Head of Global Transaction Banking at DBS Bank Ltd., from November 2014 to August 2021, Mr. Laurens managed strategy, goal setting, profit and loss performance, talent development, stakeholder engagement, major client relationships, regulatory, risk governance, growth execution, marketing, and participation in M&A. In his role as Senior Advisor at DBS Bank Ltd. from August 2021 to January 2022, Mr. Laurens served as an advisor to the executive leadership team where he provided guidance and expertise across a broad range of strategic initiatives, such as: creation of new digital currency and digital asset custody business propositions, target market and client segmentation redesign, data driven business model design, and development.