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Ubiquitous payments is not an option and innovative payment services enable and foster industry convergence.

May Lam

EY Oceania FinTech Leader, EY Asia-Pacific Payments Leader, EY Oceania Financial Services NextWave Innovation Leader; Partner, Financial Services Consulting, Ernst & Young

Entrepreneurial and people leader thriving a connected sustainable world by fueling payments and fintech innovation. Mother of two wonderful children, wife, runner and pianist.

May is a Partner at Ernst & Young in Technology Consulting, based in Sydney. She has over 20 years of technology leadership and business transformation experience across the Banking and Financial Services, FinTech, Payments and Public Sector in Australia, Greater China and Asia-Pacific regions.

Her areas of knowledge include payments ecosystem, enterprise agility, Technology Business Management disciplines, product and services innovation, operating model optimization, B2B2C go-to-market strategy and program delivery and governance.

She is passionate about providing purposeful and measurable outcomes that generate sustainable value to clients; creating opportunities to cultivate our future leaders and amplifying the social responsibilities for our communities and future generations.

Prior to EY, she was the Chief Information Officer of Assembly Payments, Chief Customer Officer of mx51, IT Director at TfNSW and Head of Technology of AMP Bank.  She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

How May is building a better working world

“I am passionate about leveling the inequality of wealth distribution. I believe the work we do in financial technology and leveraging ubiquitous payments innovation can support industry convergence creating a unified new service driving financial inclusion and helping serve the underserved. I embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in our ecosystem to thrive and foster innovation to build a better working world.”

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