Mobility Payments Asia Pacific 2024

As President Director & CEO at PT MRT Jakarta, Pak Tuhiyat leads Indonesia’s first metro company in the development of integrated public transport services for South-East Asia’s largest country. Pak Tuhiyat has a background and qualifications in accounting, audit and treasury in the public and private sector and has 10 years of experience in leadership and senior management of public transit authorities and operators. He was appointed President Director & CEO of MRT Jakarta in 2022 after heading up PT Moda Integrasi Transit Jabodetabek (MITJ - integrated transportation company for the Jakarta metropolitan area) since 2020. From 2013 to 2020 Pak Tuhiyat was President of Finance and Corporate Management at MRT Jakarta.

Silvester Prakasam headed the Fare System for Public Transport for Singapore from 1989 to 2017 and subsequently became Senior Advisor. The Fare System team under Silvester has undertaken several ticketing initiatives. In 1998, he was Project Director for the Enhanced Integrated Fare System project which implemented a common smart card system across the public transport network at a total cost of US$200m and subsequently issued 10 million cards. He led a team that implemented an open system to merge payments for public transport and congestion pricing. He also led the development of the CEPAS standard for e-purse, in partnership with leading card suppliers. Silvester and his team implemented the SeP (Symphony for e-Payments) system which launched in January 2009, and a new fare structure called Distance Fares (DF) which launched in July 2010 and accounts for 5.7m daily trips. He continued to be involved in new initiatives and, specifically, Account-Based Ticketing which was launched in April 2019. He continues to actively engage with MSI Global, delivering ticketing projects overseas including Doha, Bangalore, Bangkok and Manila.

Dr. Somprasong Suttayamully is currently the Director of Fare Media Business Department at the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA). He is a transportation planner of 25 years’ experience and specialises in strategic transport planning, model, safety, GIS systems and state-of-the-art traffic technologies. In Dr. Somprasong’s current role he is responsible for the management of all fare products of MRTA and also the Thai national common tickets. His previous role was Director of Business Development, responsible for all MRTA commercial developments. Prior to that he was in engineering roles with responsibility for conducting feasibility studies for all new transit lines, and extensions of existing lines, including sourcing new suitable technologies for mass rapid transit.

Mr. Cho is Global Business Development Manager at Tmoney. Tmoney is Seoul based integrated ticketing platform operator handling more than 40 million transactions from public transport, taxi, express bus and micro-mobility services every day. His current role is to promote global sales of AFC based solutions especially Tagless, Tmoney’s latest BIBO solution which won Ticketing Technology of the Year Award at Transport Ticketing Global 2024, and Technological Innovations Award at UITP 2023. He joined Tmoney in 2016, since then he had worked as AFC solution designer, MaaS service designer, and Data Scientist before the current role as Global sales manager. He has extensive knowledge in Seoul’s public transport system, MaaS (Mobility as a Service), and big data analysis.

Desmond Chin joined Touch 'n Go in November 2020 as Head of Tech Design & Solutioning. He was promoted to Chief Technology Officer on 20 May 2022. He has over 17 years of experience in application, system, infrastructure, enterprise, and solution architecture design.
Prior to his role in Touch 'n Go, Desmond was Director, CIMB Group Venture & Partnership division. He was responsible for the delivery of digital product solutions. Before that, he spent 11 years in the CIMB Group Technology division, in leadership positions across multiple roles from PMO, technical architect, integration, digital solution architect to regional enterprise architect. During his tenure in CIMB, he contributed to the success of multiple vital programs and projects, such as CIMB Malaysia & CIMB Niaga (Indonesia) Core Banking migration, CIMB Vietnam Digital Core Banking implementation, CIMB x Touch 'n Go micro-lending platform solutions, and many more.
Desmond holds a egree in Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Multimedia University.