On-Demand Webinar

Discover how organizations today are scaling their AI, Analytics and Cloud operations more efficiently with SAS Cloud in Asia

Cost: Complimentary • Duration: 60 minutes • Originally presented: April 23

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About the webinar

As banks and insurers across Asia Pacific accelerate their AI, analytics, and cloud adoption, many are rethinking how to modernise core functions—from actuarial and financial reporting to fraud detection and customer engagement.

SAS Cloud enables organisations to run mission-critical workloads in a secure, scalable, and fully managed environment—reducing complexity while improving performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.

What You’ll Learn

  • Cloud adoption strategies among insurers in the Asia Pacific - balancing innovation, legacy systems, and regulatory requirements  
  • How SAS Cloud drives efficiency and scale 
    Optimise costs, improve resilience, and dynamically scale for high-demand workloads 
  • Real-world transformation experiences 
    Lessons and outcomes from insurers that have modernised their SAS environments on the cloud 
  • Best practices for AI and analytics on the cloud 
    Manage enterprise analytics, AI/ML workloads, pricing, reserving, and financial reporting with performance, governance, and compliance in mind, as well as other use cases

Why SAS Cloud

  • Cost Efficiency – Reduce infrastructure and maintenance overhead with a flexible, consumption-based model
  • Scalability – Scale compute on demand for intensive analytics and AI workloads
  • Security & Compliance – Built to align with global standards and regional regulatory requirements
  • Resilience – High availability and reliable performance for critical operations
  • Fully Managed – End-to-end support by SAS experts, so teams can focus on business outcomes 

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About the experts

Erick T. Pineda

Erick T. Pineda

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Malayan Insurance Company, Inc.

Erick T. Pineda is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Malayan Insurance Company, Inc. With over 25 years of experience, he brings expertise in financial management and reporting, strategic and corporate planning, internal and external audit, treasury, controllership, investment management, collections, tax planning, internal controls and project management across various industries. Prior to Malayan, he worked as the Shared Services Director of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Business Service Center from 2013 to 2014. In GSK, he managed the migration of finance processes of GSK Asia Pacific countries in its business service center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Earlier, he served as Senior Director of SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. (SGV) from 2008 to 2013. In SGV, he handled various internal and external audit accounts and consultancy projects in various industries such as oil and gas, real estate, banking, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and business process outsourcing. He also worked as Senior Accountant with Globe Telecom in early years of his career from 2001 to 2005.

He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Controls Self Assessor. He has also as certification on Customer Experience. He is a Finance Committee member of the Philippine Insurer and Reinsurers Association (PIRA) and an active member of Financial Executive Institute of the Philippines (FINEX).

Vasudevan Chandrashekran

Vasudevan Chandrashekran

Principal Risk Advisor, ASEAN (Insurance), SAS

Vasudevan is a strategic technology and business leader with over 22 years of experience driving digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and enterprise-scale implementations across the ASEAN financial services and insurance sectors.

Currently, he leads regional efforts in Cloud Strategy, AI Adoption, and Modernization, helping insurers navigate complex replacement and growth strategies. Throughout his career, Vasudevan has been instrumental in setting enterprise technology visions and leading innovation initiatives that bridge the gap between technical capability and business outcomes.

During his tenure at SAS, he built a strong Analytics and Accounting business in Southeast Asia, securing over 25 major banking and insurance customers across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. His prior experience includes delivering turnkey solutions for channel growth, sales, customer service lifecycle, campaign management, trade & treasury operations, and financial reporting and compliance.

Manoj Jasrotia

Manoj Jasrotia

Principal Cloud Business Development Manager, SAS

Manoj Jasrotia is a Principal Cloud Business Development Manager in the Cloud, Managed Services & Hosting organization at SAS with 25 years of experience. He leads SAS Cloud in the ASEAN region and focuses on driving cloud adoption, managed services, and strategic engagements across enterprise and regulated industries.

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