Peter Leong

Program Director, APAC Advisory | Cognizant

Peter Leong has over 30+ years of working experience, started his career in Banking &; Finance, mainly in Shared Services, Financial Services, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing in a Regional/Global IT role, inclusive of Business Processes (BPI) & Continuous Improvements (CI), Digitisation, Cybersecurity, Risk/Governance, FinTech and Blockchain.

He has been in Senior Management team since 2010 engaging with Gartner, Pikom &; CIO World for Technology solutions and managing senior stakeholders. Leading Digitalization, IoTs, Data Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech & Transformation initiatives.

He’s a regular panel speaker, Roundtable for IDC, MediaCorp CIO Conferences in Digitalization, IoTs, Security, WAN Summit & Columnist of APAC CIO Outlook. Some of his main Achievements include Data Center Relocation/Migration/Consolidation at Citibank, Scope/SCB & iPerintis/Petronas-ICT, Y2K Compliance, Operating Systems Upgrade, Application ownership from Hong Kong into Kuala Lumpur, Transformation Program, and Regional/Global Program ie: Regional Rewards, Global Voice Program, Office365, Office New set- up/Relocations, Video Conferences Optimization, SAP Odoo ERP & S/4 Hana, and FinTech/Blockchain startup.

DBA from Manipal GlobalNxt University, MBA from Nottingham Trent University (NTU-UK), ISO/IEC27001 ISMS, Yellow Belt, COBIT5 & AD ManageEngine Manager certified, attended KPI, CMMi, ITIL & PMP; pursuing his DBA@myBrain15 program after Viva stage at a Global University.