Ms Cassandra Lister
Cassandra advises clients on enhancing their top line performance drawing on her 25+ years experience in the global financial services industry across the Asia-Pacific region. Her commercial experience spans Client Origination, Corporate Governance, People Leadership, Profit & Loss responsibility, Business Growth, Strategy, Transformation and Negotiating complex deals. Her recent career portfolio encompasses roles as: Associate Faculty with Singapore Management University coaching CEO & CFO students, Advisor to several startup Founder CEOs, Angel Investor with Free Agent Technologies, and designing & delivering bespoke Leadership workshops. For two years (Jan2022-Dec2023), she sat on the Advisory Board with Hex Trust Capital, a digital assets service provider in the scale-up phase. Prior to this (2019-2021), she was a member of the Advisory Board for ‘Mission for Migrant Workers’, a Hong Kong-based NGO. Cassandra held various senior leadership roles with multiple global financial institutions including Wall Street institutions, JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank, based in Australia and Hong Kong. She holds a Master of Applied Finance Degree obtained in May 1999 from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). A proud mother to 21-year old twins studying at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Cassandra is an avid dragon boat paddler, adventure traveller and passionate about connecting with people towards a common goal.