Speaker

Samson Leo is currently the Chief Legal Officer of Fazz and Xfers, which are both high-growth “Fintech 250” companies. Since his time as co-founder and Chief Legal Officer in Xfers, he has grown Xfers from a 3-person start-up to a regional company with more than 200 people across Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam and Philippines, and now more than 800 people in the merger to form Fazz. Today, he heads the Fazz Financial Group’s legal team of 6 legal counsels in Singapore & Indonesia, and oversees the Fazz Compliance committee consisting of senior compliance professionals and their team. Prior to co-founding Xfers, Samson was a corporate lawyer in a Singapore “Big-Four” law firm, WongPartnership LLP, where he worked on capital markets and financial regulatory matters. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2012.