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Eddie Lee
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Pilon Pte Ltd
Eddie Lee has spent nearly 30 years building technology and financing businesses across Asia, and a good part of that time building the ecosystems around them.
He co-founded the Cambodia FinTech Association and served as its Vice President from 2018 to 2020. In 2018 he hosted the Singapore FinTech Festival Global Roadshow in Phnom Penh, and he led a delegation of Cambodian fintechs to exhibit their technology at SFF that year. During the same period he was Vice President of the Singapore FinTech Association, serving from its founding in 2016 until 2020 and working closely with the Monetary Authority of Singapore on industry initiatives.
Today Eddie is Co-Founder and CEO of Pilon, a Singapore-based platform that helps banks win and scale supply chain financing programmes with large corporate anchors. Pilon works with tier-1 banks in the Philippines and Vietnam on programmes for anchors such as Nestlé and Coca-Cola. It is also a lender in its own right in Singapore. Pilon is backed by Wavemaker Partners and Kaya Founders, and is a finalist for the Singapore FinTech Festival FinTech Excellence Awards 2026.
Before Pilon, Eddie founded a technology solutions company in 1997 and sold it in 2014. He then co-founded New Union, an MAS-licensed marketplace lending platform that has funded over USD 2 billion to businesses across Asia Pacific. He was nominated Most Inspiring Entrepreneur by the Spirit of Enterprise and won the 2012 Promising SME 500 Award.
Interventions lors du Sommet
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3:30–5:00pmdim. 15 nov.RoundtableRoundtable 2Open
Phsar - Finance That Reaches People
The Missing Majority: Designing Finance for Informal Economies
À propos de cette session
Much of the world's workforce earns outside formal payroll systems. Income can arrive daily, seasonally or irregularly, while many savings, credit, pension and insurance products still assume a stable monthly salary. Informal workers are therefore not a marginal customer segment; in many emerging markets they are the economy's centre of gravity. Digital payments and alternative data have made it possible to build financial histories for people previously invisible to formal institutions, but access alone does not guarantee trust or sustained use. The roundtable compares products and distribution models designed around irregular income and asks what makes an informal worker continue using a formal financial product after the first transaction.
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10:00–10:40amlun. 16 nov.Forum StageMain Plenary StageOpen
Chaktomuk - Rails Across Borders
From Sandbox to Scale: What Does It Take for Financial Innovation to Become Infrastructure?
À propos de cette session
A sandbox can show that a financial product works under controlled conditions. It does not prove that the product can survive licensing, integrate with existing institutions, win customer trust or expand into another jurisdiction. The harder question is what happens after testing ends. The panel examines the conditions that should allow an innovation to move from experiment to licensed market participant, including infrastructure access, capital, governance and regulatory readiness. It also explores a more difficult possibility: whether successful testing in one credible jurisdiction can reduce the cost of entering another, and what regulators would need to recognise in each other's processes before regulatory portability becomes possible.
