Pradyumna Agrawal (Prady) is a Managing Director at Temasek and a member of Temasek’s management committees. Prady is responsible for Temasek’s blockchain investments and broader venture building efforts. Prady has additional responsibilities in the financial services sector with a focus on asset management (Seviora Group), non-banking financial services (Fullerton Financial Holdings) and insurance.
Prady represents Temasek on the Boards of LemmaTree, Affinidi, Trustana, Marketnode, Partior, Menyala, Seviora (observer) and Fullerton Financial Holdings (observer). He is also a Committee Member of the Digital Trust Centre (Trust Tech Steering Committee), a national centre supported by NTU, IMDA and NRF and leading Singapore’s research and development efforts in trust technologies. He was previously on the Boards of C2FO, GoodWorker, GoJek, Pine Labs and Superscrypt, and Council Member of Diem.
Prady joined Temasek in 2013 and before his current role, he was involved in global financial services investing at Temasek, including the Americas, Southeast Asia, India, Middle East and Africa.
Prior to joining Temasek, Prady was with Morgan Stanley as Vice President, Investment Banking. He started his career as an Analyst with Sharad Dalal & Co and has worked at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young.
Prady graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Mumbai, is a qualified Chartered Accountant from India and holds a Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Hall A (Level 2)
Open
From private and permissioned blockchains to public blockchain networks which enable broad participation, the digital assets network space is evolving rapidly – and new models are emerging, from open and interoperable shared networks to sovereign networks that promise to strike their own balance between transparency, participation, and control. This panel session will gather leaders in the blockchain space to discuss the future of digital assets networks and which future models will strike the optimum balance.
Roundtable Room 1 (Level 2)
Open
The objective of this roundtable is to bring together regulators, financial institutions, and technology leaders, to advance industry thinking on the use of permissionless blockchain in financial services.
Key outcomes of this roundtable:
1. To identify why permissionless blockchains have not made significant inroads with industry incumbents, exploring whether the hurdles are primarily commercial, regulatory, reputational, or a lack of expertise
2. To explore how financial services can be provided on transparent, permissionless and immutable blockchain while advancing the goal of consumer protection
3. To assess the challenge posed by the fragmented landscape of blockchain infrastructure and brainstorm potential solutions to enable greater interoperability