News: Singlife appoints Samantha Ghiotti as Deputy CEO

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Singlife appoints Samantha Ghiotti as Deputy CEO

The appointment comes as the company strengthens Singlife’s leadership team and prepares for expansion across key markets in Southeast Asia.
Singlife appoints Samantha Ghiotti as Deputy CEO

Singapore-based financial institution Singlife today announced that digital financial services veteran, Samantha Ghiotti, will join as its Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. The appointment comes as Founder and CEO, Walter de Oude strengthens Singlife’s leadership team and prepares for expansion across key markets in Southeast Asia.  

With more than 20 years of international experience as executive, investor and entrepreneur, Samantha will be taking on responsibility for the growth of the business in Singapore in its effort to reshape finance and unlock the potential of money for Singaporeans.

Newly appointed Singlife Singapore DCEO, Samantha Ghiotti, said: “Singapore is well recognized as an innovative global financial hub, yet many Singaporeans are still looking for smarter ways to make their money work harder. A next-generation financial institution is what it takes to address this need and introduce transformative, innovative financial services that help them manage, grow and protect their money in a smarter, connected way.”

Samantha’s appointment bolsters the leadership team at Singlife as the company extends its product offering to challenge the broader financial services industry and help its customers better manage their money.  

Singlife Founder and CEO, Walter de Oude, said of the appointment: “With Singlife’s ambitions for rapid regional expansion across Southeast Asia, requiring more of my time, Samantha’s leadership and experience brings a new strength and bandwidth to the firm in allowing us to realize these ambitions while successfully delivering on our Singapore opportunity.”

Prior to joining Singlife, Samantha was a Partner at Anthemis Group, a leading fintech venture investor and held several senior commercial and digital roles in some of the world’s largest financial institutions including American Express, First Data, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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