Mathew Page is the founder of Sprout Financial Services and has worked in the profession for 19 years, specializing in helping professionals and business owners with life, health and income protection planning. He is also passionate about mentoring other advisors and building strong client relationships through clear, practical advice. With a background in business ownership, Page is known for bringing structure, energy and a bit of humor to everything he does.

Papassorn Paisan is a life insurance advisor with Bangkok Life Assurance Public Co. Ltd. She has more than six years of experience in life insurance and financial advisory services. Her expertise focuses on health planning and designing coverage solutions that support clients’ long-term needs. Her professional achievements include recognition for riders performance, earning the highest riders premium award in 2022 and ranking second in riders premium in 2024. She holds a bachelor’s degree and is committed to continuously enhancing professional knowledge and service standards.

Craig Palfrey, CFP, is founder of Penguin Wealth, a firm based on practical strategies and clear communication — from team leadership and branding to generational wealth transfer and AI adoption — which has laid the foundation for their culture, growth and client loyalty. Palfrey has strong expertise on topics such as behavioral finance and trust planning and has built a reputation for blending professional expertise with humor and storytelling that makes complex topics accessible.

Aileen Mari Palmes is a financial advisor at Insular Life, with 12 years of experience in the life insurance profession. Having a background in the hospitality industry, she is known for combining service and authenticity to build lasting client relationships. Her expertise lies in service-led growth strategies, client retention and insurance portfolio cleanups. Through this unique approach, she has doubled her business and continues to mentor fellow advisors in building authentic, scalable practices.

Dr. Helen Papagiannis is a globally recognized thought leader in immersive technologies, specializing in AI, spatial computing, frontier technologies and their transformative impact. Her work connects advanced technologies with the needs of diverse industries, providing compelling insights into the future of AI, extended reality (XR) and brain-computer interfaces. She is the bestselling author of “Augmented Human: How Technology is Shaping the New Reality” and founder of XR GOES POP, a consulting firm focused on experiential retail, luxury lifestyle and pop culture.

Jae Sung Park is the director of the headquarters at Incar Financial Service. Park is an expert in protected asset planning, retirement planning and financial consulting, holding qualifications as a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), Fund Investment Advisor and Securities Investment Advisor. Park has 16 years of experience in the financial services profession, won the Platinum Annual Award as a director consultant at PCA Life and worked as a professional consultant at Mirae Asset Life.

Phasit Pasukulpun is a comprehensive financial planning specialist with more than eight years of experience. He currently serves as a life insurance advisor with AIA Thailand and an investment advisor with Finnomena. His expertise includes designing life insurance solutions and mutual fund investment strategies. Previously, he worked as an investment advisor at Robowealth, providing advisory services across diversified portfolios. He holds a bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Chulalongkorn University, and is committed to continuously advancing professional standards in financial advisory services.

Surawut Pattanabandit currently serves as a district director at AIA Thailand, with more than 29 years of experience in the financial services profession. He specializes in planning and advising high-net-worth clients. He has received the Thailand Agent of the Year award for more than 10 consecutive years, reflecting his experience, expertise, credibility and strong commitment to professional excellence.

Robert Paylor was experiencing the pinnacle of athletic achievement, competing for the Collegiate Rugby National Championship, when he suffered a severe spinal cord injury, leaving him unable to move or feel anything below his neck. Through an unbreakable vision and years of relentless determination, Paylor stood to receive his diploma from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and can now walk 500 yards. His message stirs organizations and individuals to identify and conquer that which paralyzes them by cultivating purpose in their work and fully accessing the resilience of their team while maintaining positivity and gratitude through even the most daunting challenges.

Avraam Pekris, BSc, MBA, is the CEO and founder of Huminance Insurance Agents and Consultants. He has more than 20 years of experience in the financial services profession and specializes in leadership development, recruitment and building exceptional agency cultures. An actuary by training, Pekris holds first-class honors from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from the Cyprus International Institute of Management.

Katarzyna Pilczuk is a financial advisor, team leader and trainer with more than 15 years of experience in the financial services profession. She specializes in working with premium clients, increasing sales effectiveness and developing strong advisory teams while also mentoring advisors and building leaders. As founder and former president of the Polish Association of Recommended Insurance Advisors, Pilczuk helped increase MDRT membership in Poland more than tenfold in five years.

Alejandro German Pisano is the founder and CEO of Startup Group Consultores en Seguros, a brokerage firm specializing in personal and group insurance. He started his career in the insurance industry more than 3 decades ago as an independent insurance advisor. Throughout his prominent career, he has received numerous awards from leading insurance companies. In addition to his role as an agent, Pisano is a lecturer and mentor to insurance agents, sharing his extensive knowledge and experience. He currently serves as MDRT Company Chair for Life Seguros.

Svetlana Plitin-Tamaviciene has been a financial advisor atAllianz since 2014, specializing in retirement planning and insurance solutionsfor business owners. She has a bachelor’s degree in maritime engineering and amaster’s degree in maritime law, which shaped her strategic and disciplinedapproach to financial planning.

Mark Pollock inspires leaders and their teams to build resilience, optimize performance and collaborate effectively to achieve more than they thought possible. Unbroken by blindness in 1998, Pollock became an adventure athlete, competing in ultra-endurance races, and the first blind person to race to the South Pole. Since 2010, left paralyzed by a fall, he has catalyzed collaborations worth over USD 100 million to help cure paralysis. He is a Wings for Life ambassador, was on the board of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and is the subject of the documentaries “Blind Man Walking” and “Unbreakable — The Mark Pollock Story.”

Thomas Pourlidas has been an insurance agent with NN Hellas since 2005, specializing in financial and insurance planning advisory services. He holds financial planning certifications SQF levels 3 and 4 from EFICERT, as well as a diploma in sales management from the University of Piraeus and the Hellenic Insurance Institute EIAS. He is a long-standing member of the Circle of Successful Life Insurance Agents and Hellenic Financial Planners Association and received the “G. Skalingos” award for ethics in 2014, the highest distinction given to professionals who demonstrate exceptional integrity, professionalism, collegial spirit and outstanding performance.

Plabita Priyadarshi is chief advisor at Kotak Life Insurance Company Ltd. and has been in the financial services profession for 21 years, specializing in annuities and mutual funds. Priyadarshi is an active MDRT member and has received numerous awards for her accomplishments, such as being named Topmost Advisor at her company since 2005 and as one of the top 100 women in finance by the Association of International Wealth Management of India.

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. As co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, he laid much of the groundwork for a service that’s grown to more than 275 million subscribers, fundamentally altering how the world experiences media. Randolph has founded or co-founded six other successful startups, mentored hundreds of early-stage entrepreneurs and helped seed dozens of successful tech ventures. He is the author of the international bestseller memoir, “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea,” and host of the top 10 Apple podcast “That Will Never Work.”

Ted Rusinoff is managing partner at Wealth Design Partners. With more than 30 years in the profession, Rusinoff has discovered creative ways to better manage insurance and investment assets for a significant community of individuals and businesses nationwide. He’s mastered how to build the systems and structures necessary to effectively manage an office, meet clients’ needs and educate the public on financial matters. He has spoken at industry leading events including MDRT EDGE and on Main Platform at the MDRT Annual Meeting. He served as the 2019 MDRT Foundation President and is an Excalibur Knight of the MDRT Foundation.

Ariadna Salazar Leon has been an advisor in the financial industry for more than a decade, specializing in life and health insurance. In addition to her successful professional career, Salazar Leon co-authored the book "Eternity in a Conversation," hosts her own finance podcast and publishes content on her blog.

Supaporn Samsittichok earned her bachelor’s degree in human resource management before beginning her career while simultaneously working as a life insurance agent with AIA for five years. She later transitioned to full-time agency work, accumulating 16 years of experience in the life insurance profession. She specializes in sales, service and planning employee benefits in health, critical illness, legacy and retirement. Throughout her career, she has received the National Quality Agent Award as well as the company’s Thailand of the Year distinction for many consecutive years to the present.

Nattakun Sandesh, CFP, is a financial planner with extensive hands-on experience in delivering structured financial advisory services. He has developed more than 500 comprehensive financial plans for a diverse client base, including corporate employees, government officers, executives and business owners. His expertise focuses on transforming financial plans into actionable strategies clients can implement through a six-step financial planning process, from relationship building and data analysis to plan presentation and ongoing review. He emphasizes trust-building, insightful questioning and long-term client care to cultivate sustainable relationships, professional credibility and natural client referrals over time.

Rodrigo Santana Leiva entered the financial services industry in 2018 after failing to find professional development or growth in traditional jobs. Thanks to his outstanding performance in the life and health insurance fields, where he has specialized since the beginning of his career, he has received several awards from his company, GNP, where he also serves on the advisory board. In 2019, he opened his own firm, an extension of the family business in wealth protection started by his father, thereby consolidating his success and growth, as well as a solid specialization in personal lines.

Dandapani Satgunasingam is a Hindu priest, entrepreneur and former monk of 10 years. After earning a degree in electrical engineering, he left it all behind to embrace a life of rigorous personal discipline and spiritual training as an ordained monk. Today, Satgunasingam’s mission is to empower people with timeless tools for self-mastery, helping them cultivate unwavering focus and live with intention. His TEDx talk has garnered more than 7 million views, his teachings have reached tens of thousands of students across more than 120 countries, and his app has been downloaded more than 140,000 times.