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Speakers 
Mr Andrew Alexander,
Director,
Asia Pacific Asset Management
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 Mr. Peter Bennett,
Gottex Fund Management ( Hong Kong ) Limited
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Kevin Birkett,
Director, Asset Management,
DIFC
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John Blin,
Chairman and Co-Founder,
Advanced Portfolio Technologies, Inc.
John Blin is chairman and co-founder of Advanced Portfolio Technologies, Inc. APT is a global provider of risk and portfolio analytics for the financial industry. APT’s full and strict implementation of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory enables the firm’s clients to manage global risk exposures across all asset classes – equities, bonds, commodities, FX, indices, and derivatives – in one integrated and open system. Building on a state-of-the-art statistical risk model combined with a robust flexible risk attribution system, APT offers buy and sell side users a complete turnkey, user-friendly system.
APT serves clients worldwide through its offices in New York, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Milan, Sidney, Singapore, and Seoul. The APT model is used to run multi-billion dollar portfolios and manage risk exposures in all the world markets. For the last five years, the APT_RaP funds ratings have shown fund managers everywhere the power of APT as a unique portfolio management tool. Each quarter, leading European dailies report the APT_RaP (Risk-Adjusted Performance) ratings under the Eurofunds banner. The FT Group has also adopted the APT_RaP in its FT Fund Rating System (http://funds.ft.com/funds/)
Before he founded APT, John was a professor of mathematical economics, econometrics and international finance at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He then served as senior vice president of the New York Futures Exchange, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange, focusing on the trading of financial derivatives. John has also served as a consultant to governments, leading corporations, securities firms and exchanges in the U.S. and abroad. He has published more than 70 articles and books in mathematical economics, econometrics, statistics and finance. His articles have appeared in such journals as Econometrica, Investment Management Review, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Forecasting, The Journal of Futures Markets, The Journal of Investing, The Review of Economic and Statistics, and The Review of Economic Studies among others..
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Frank Brochin,
Managing Director,
StoneWater Capital LLC.
Frank Brochin is a partner of StoneWater Capital LLC, a specialized asset management firm based in New York City and run by a small group of partners with significant public and private equity investment experience. The firm was founded in 2004 and manages over $150 million in a global family of long-bias, funds of hedge fund vehicles. Frank is responsible for the firm’s Asian offering, including its Asia ex-Japan, Japan and Indian funds.
Frank was most recently a partner of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity and venture capital firm, where he worked in both the New York and London offices, making and managing direct investments in the areas of enterprise software, IT services and communications technologies. Prior to Warburg, Frank started his career as a research engineer with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) in Tokyo, Japan, before joining Nortel Japan as a manager of its Advanced Technology group.
Frank holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He currently is the chairman of the board of trustees of the French-American School of New York, and has also served on several boards of directors of companies in the United States, Israel and Europe.
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Mara Caboara,
(contact person),
International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA)
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Ted Chen,
Director,
Greenwoods Asset Management Limited
Ted is a director at Greenwoods Asset Management, manager of the Golden China Fund.
Golden China Fund is a pure China play which invests exclusively in companies that generate a significant portion of their revenues and profits from Mainland China.
Ted has over 15 years’ professional experience in financial market. Commencing his career at Thomson Financial Services in Sydney, Australia in 1990, Ted provided research coverage in G7 currencies, U.S. Treasuries, Aussie bonds, JGBs and the Australian equity market. In 1994, his success led to expanding coverage to the regional markets and a move to Hong Kong to better serve Asian clients. Ted has furnished a weekly column for the Asian Wall Street Journal on the Hang Seng Index for three years during 1994 and 1997. Ted then joined Indosuez W. I. Carr Securities as a technical strategist covering regional equity markets for five years and was consistently ranked by institutional brokers’ survey. Ted is a former chairman of the Technical Analysts’ Society in Hong Kong (TASHK) and a lecturer in the Hong Kong Securities Institute (HKSI). Ted holds a Master of Business Administration from Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), and also holds Diploma in International Technical Analysis (DITA) by the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA).
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 Mr Peter Coates,
Senior Investment Manager,
HFA Asset Management
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Shoham Cohen,
Director,
ESC Financial Services Pte Ltd
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Ms Kate Colchester,
Director of Marketing,
Eurekahedge
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Michael J. Coleman,
Managing Director,
Aisling Analytics Pte Ltd
Career History
April 2004 to present Aisling Analytics Pte Ltd
Founder and Managing Director.Managing The Merchant Commodity Fund
2001 to April 2004 UDerivatives Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
COO and Founder.A Marubeni company trading Rubber .
2000 to 2001 Cargill Asia Pacific, San Mateo California and Singapore.
Entrepreneur in Residence, Cargill e Ventures
1997 to 2000 Cargill International SA, Singapore.
Managing Director, Asia- Pacific, Energy Division.
1992 to 1997 Cargill Asia Pacific, Singapore.
Managing Director, Global Rubber Division.
1991 to 1992 Cargill PLC, London.
Divisional Director, European Rubber Department.
1984 to 1991 Cargill International Trading, Singapore.
Manager, Rubber Department.
1982 to 1984 Cargill UK, London.
Commodity Trader (Rubber)
1982 Exeter College, Oxford.
BA, Hons. Natural Science,Geology
Current Directorships: Aisling Analytics,The Merchant Commodity Fund and various SISU Capital Funds.
Former Chairman Singapore International Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association and Director of SICOM.
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Paul Cuthbert-Brown,
Chief Operations Officer,
Creo Capital
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Stephen Diggle,
Managing Partner,
Artradis Fund Management (Pte) Ltd
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 Kieran Dolan,
Marketing Manager,
Citco Bank Nederland N.V., The Netherlands
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Peter Douglas,
Principal,
GFIA
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Aadil Ebrahim,
Investment Manager,
Bowen Asia
Aadil Ebrahim is an Investment Manager focusing on Asian equity markets. Mr. Ebrahim began his career in 1997 as a chemicals analyst for Schroder & Co. in New York and eventually in Hong Kong where he worked on several Greater China corporate finance transactions. He then worked as a financial analyst for a start-up technology company until 2001. He spent a summer working with Bowen Capital Management until he left to attend business school in London in late 2002. Mr. Ebrahim graduated from University of Michigan Business School, and has a Masters degree in Finance from City University Business School in London where he did his thesis on the Indian IT and Consumer sector. Mr. Ebrahim was born in India, but grew up in Hong Kong.
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Toby Elliman,
Managing Partner,
Guidance Capital
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Luc Estene,
Chief Investment Officer,
Partners Advisers
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Todd G. Everts,
Wall Street Global (HK), Ltd.
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 Ms. Alison Fleming,
Aurum Funds, United Kingdom
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Adam L. Geiger,
Chief Investment Officer,
Ivy Asset Management
Adam L. Geiger is Managing Director, a member of the Executive Committee and Global Head of Investments responsible for overseeing the entire investment process, including manager research, due diligence and monitoring, portfolio construction and investment management, and quantitative analysis and risk management. He is also a member of Ivy’s Strategic Operating Committee, which collectively manages the business operations of the firm and serves as the Chairman of Ivy's Manager Approval Committee.
Prior to joining Ivy in July 1997, Mr. Geiger spent seven years with Twenty-First Securities Corp., a broker-dealer and money management firm, where most recently, he served as Vice President, Trading. While at Twenty-First, Mr. Geiger was responsible for managing various hedging and arbitrage strategies, as well as several tax-advantaged investment strategies. Previously, he was a registered representative for Merrill Lynch, where he helped manage low-risk investment programs for several institutional investors. Mr. Geiger graduated Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.S. in Economics. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Managed Funds Association.
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 Michael Hennessy,
Managing Director,
Morgan Creek Capital Management
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Steve Howell,
Chief Investment Officer,
Basis Capital
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Xin Huang,
Managing Director,
Persistent Edge Management
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Mr Moe Ibrahim,
Head,
The Asian Debt Fund
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Kim Ivey,
Managing Director,
Vertex Capital Management
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 Richard Johnston,
Managing Director,
Albourne Partners (Asia) Ltd
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Richard Keary,
Division Director, Alternative Investment Solutions,
BT Financial Group
Before joining BTFG in 1997 (through the acquisition of Rothschild’s Australian asset management business), Mr. Keary was a product specialist in domestic fixed income, asset allocation and currency overlay products at Bankers Trust. From 1988 to 1995, Mr. Keary was with A G Bisset & Co., Inc, a pioneering firm in the area of currency overlay. He taught undergraduate finance at CIT for two years. Richard began his career with Mitsubishi Corporation as a commodity trader.
Richard is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he received a BA in Oriental Studies. He received a B.Bus in Banking and Finance from CIT and an MBA from Melbourne Business School. He is Chairman of the Applied Portfolio Management Task Force with FINSIA (Financial Services Institute of Australia).
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Mr John Knox,
Founder,
KGR Capital
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Jesper Koll,
Chief Economist,
Merrill Lynch Japan
Jesper Koll has been researching the Japanese economy since becoming a resident of Japan in 1986. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in August 1999, he was a Managing Director of Tiger Management L.L.C. and before he was the chief economist and head of economic and market research for J.P. Morgan in Tokyo. Before that, he was Chief Economist covering the Japanese economy at the then S.G. Warburg. Koll joined
Merrill Lynch in August 1999.
Koll has been serving on several Japanese government advisory councils, including the MITI committee on Big Bang 2001 - Japan’s Financial System Reform. Koll is also a member of the Subcouncil on Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions in the Council on Customs, Tariff, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions, Ministry of Finance.
He was ranked in the 2000 and 2001 Nikkei analyst ranking for his coverage of Japan economics.
He holds a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University, SAIS.
He graduated from the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific in 1980.
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Ms Eliza Lau,
Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer,
SAIL Advisors Limited
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 Christophe Lee,
CEO,
SHK Fund Management Ltd
Christophe Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of SHK Fund Management Ltd. ("SHKFM"). SHKFM is a fully owned subsidiary of SHK Financial Group, a financial services conglomerate listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
SHKFM is a specialist in alternative investments. The Alternative Investment Division partners with leading global hedge fund managers to create SHK branded funds for distribution to intermediaries and institutional investors in Asia. The Hedge Fund Division provides an institutional platform for Asian hedge fund managers and is in the process of launching a series of hedge funds. Its first fund, SHK Quant Asia Fund was launched in May 2005. SHK Quant Asia Fund is a pan-Asian quantitative market neutral equity long/short fund. Its second fund will be launched in June 2006.
Mr. Lee is also the Chairman of The Alternative Investment Management Association Limited ("AIMA"), Hong Kong Chapter.
Prior to joining SHKFM in 2000, Mr. Lee was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. Mr. Lee is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Paul Leo,
Investment Advisory Head,
UOB
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Bernard Lock,
Regional Head of Research,
FX Concepts
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Paul E. Mann,
Partner,
Rock Creek Partners, LLC.
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Sean McGould,
Chief Investment Officer and President,
Lighthouse Partners, LLC.
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Chris McGuire,
Chief Investment Officer / Founding Partner,
Phalanx Capital Management, LLC.
Christopher S. McGuire manages the trading of the Japanese and Asian portfolio. He most recently managed the Japanese multi-strategy portfolio for Daiwa Securities America. He joined Daiwa from Goldman Sachs where he ran Japanese and Asian relative value trading for the Spear, Leeds & Kellogg division. Prior to "SLK" he was in charge of trading and managing the Japanese convertible bond portfolio for Marin Capital Partners.
His prior experiences include managing hedge fund sales for the convertible bond and equity divisions for Merrill Lynch - London, managing convertible bond sales for SBC Warburg-Tokyo, overnight relative value equity sales for BZW Securities, and trading commodity options for his own account on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade.
Chris graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Marquette University in 1991.
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Angus McKinnon,
Senior Partner,
Tozai Investment Advisory Limited
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Tim McNamara,
Portfolio Manager,
Tricom Investment Management
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Raj Mehta,
Managing Director,
Persistent Edge Management
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Albert Ming,
Vice President, Hedge Fund Development and Management Group,
Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd
Albert Ming is a Vice President and Regional Sales Manager within the Merrill Lynch Hedge Fund Development and Management Group. In this role, he is responsible for the sales and distribution of alternative investment products, including hedge funds, managed futures and private equity funds, to Merrill Lynch Global Private Clients within the Asia Pacific Region. Mr. Ming joined Merrill Lynch in 2000 after working on the institutional fixed income sales and trading desk as Vice President at Nomura Securities International in New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science/East Asian Studies from Columbia University in New York.
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Ng Namsin,
Executive Director,
MAS
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Edward Ng,
Chief Executive Officer,
PRIMASIA Pacific Asset Management Limited
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Mr Michael Nock,
Managing Director,
Doric Capital Corporation
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Mr Andrew Pernambuco,
Chief Eexcutive Officer,
Deniad & Company
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Alan Quasha,
Chairman,
Carret Asset Management Group LLC
Mr. Alan Quasha is Chairman of Carret Asset Management, LLC. Over the last 25 years, Mr. Quasha has successfully invested in, restructured and turned around 30 companies in the United States as well as emerging markets.
Mr. Quasha is Founder and President of Quadrant Management, Inc., an investment firm, which acquired Carret in 2003. Mr. Quasha is also Chairman of Harken Energy Corp, a publicly traded independent oil and gas company (AMEX: HEC) and Director of Compagnie Financiere Richemont AG, a world leading luxury goods company that include premier brand names such as Cartier, Piaget, Dunhill and Mont Blanc.
From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Quasha served on the Board of Governors at the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Quasha is Chairman of the Visiting Committee at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and a member of the Overseers Committee on University Resources at Harvard University.
Mr. Quasha is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School and New York University Law School.
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Abhijit Raha,
Chief Executive Officer,
Cornerstone Asia Investments
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Gary Sabshon,
President, Investment Management,
Tremont Capital Management
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Paul Saunders,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
James River Capital Corp.
Paul Saunders is a Founder and Principal of the James River Capital group of companies, and portfolio manager for JRCC fund of funds and managed futures funds. He currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of James River Capital Corp. and James River Financial Corp., an affiliate that provides research and administrative services to JRCC’s funds. He is also President of James River Securities Corp., a registered broker-dealer that distributes JRCC’s products. Paul joined Warburg Paribas Becker’s Corporate Finance Department in 1979 and worked in the Commodity Department of A.G. Becker Incorporated from 1980 to 1983. From 1983 to December 1994, he was Director of Managed Accounts and Commodity Funds at Kidder, Peabody & Co.; became a Managing Director of Kidder Peabody & Co. and was President of KP Futures Management Corp., the predecessor company to James River Capital Corp., from 1986 until January 1995. Paul received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1977 and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1979.
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Werner Schlossmacher,
Director, Head of Structured Products Asia Pacific,
Credit Suisse Private Banking
Werner Schlossmacher leads a regional team responsible for the development and marketing of structured derivatives and invest-ment funds, including alternative investments. His team deploys a consultative and proactive approach that enables clients to capitalize on the market opportunities identified by Global Re-search.
In his last appointment, Mr. Schlossmacher set up the Investment Consulting department in Hong Kong with personal responsibility for Australian, Taiwanese, Korean and New Zealand equities and global convertible bonds. In total, his career with Credit Suisse spans a period of seventeen years.
Mr. Schlossmacher graduated from the Zurich Business School and has been a CFA charter holder since 2003.
He is married with two daughters.
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Kiat Seng Seah,
Director,
Millennia Investment Management Pte Ltd
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 Shashi Shekhar,
Founder President,
Supply Chain & Logistics Group
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Sandy Shipton,
Head of Asset Management,
Dubai International Finance Centre, Dubai
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 Ms Chris Tang,
Lead Fund Manager,
Marco Polo Investment Group
Ms. Tang was born in the PRC. She graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney, majoring in Business in 1997. Miss Tang started her career in a securities brokerage subsidiary of a ‘Red Chip’ company listed in Hong Kong. Ms. Tang joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong in 1998 and relocated to PricewaterhouseCoopers USA in 2002. She left PricewaterhouseCoopers in July 2004 to form the Marco Polo Pure China Fund. At PricewaterhouseCoopers, she specialized in the banking and capital markets, analyzing borrowers’ credit quality, conducting audits on Chinese companies, and consulting IPO pricing for Hong Kong listings. The Marco Polo Pure China Fund is predominately invested in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges via the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors Scheme (QFII). Since July 2004, Miss Tang has been traveling across China with her research teams to visit companies which are listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. Her performance as the Lead Fund Manager has put her among top performers in Asia and China. Ms. Tang’s emerging market active management approach (Dark Market Management) which focuses on intense travel and contact with corporate management combined with extensive bottom-up analysis have proven to yield significant returns.
Ms. Tang is a CPA in both Hong Kong and Australia. She is a member of Global Association of Risk Professionals. She is licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission as an investment advisory and assets management responsible officer. Ms. Tang speaks and reads fluent English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
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Charles Target,
Director,
Bowen Asia
Charles Target is a Director of Bowen Capital Management. He founded Bowen Finance, the precursor company to Bowen Asia, in 1991 to invest in Vietnam. He was previously a general partner and director of Alan Patricof Associates. In 1998, Mr. Target served as managing director of Business International Asia/Pacific Ltd., an economic research and consulting company owned by the Economist Group, where he was responsible for the Asian regional operations of the company. Mr. Target is chairman of Agravina Limited, a company investing in agribusiness ventures in Vietnam. He is also a deputy managing director of W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd., responsible for international development. Mr. Target holds a degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Kay Torshen,
President,
Torshen Capital Management, LLC
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Yuji Tsukagoshi,
Director,
Orion Investment Managers Pte Ltd
Mr. Yuji Tsukagoshi is the founding director of Orion Investment Managers. Prior to establishing this company, he was a fund manager with Henderson Global Investors for fifteen years and had experience in both their Tokyo and London offices. Before joining Henderson, Mr. Tsukagoshi was employed as a fund manager for Nikko Asset Management Company Limited and prior to that undertook research analysis and investment advisory work at Nikko Financial Intelligence Inc. Mr. Tsukagoshi is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo and holds an MBA from Pepperdine University in the United States of America.
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Ted Uemae,
President,
Alternative Investment Products Co., Ltd
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David Walter,
Director, Head of Research,
KBC Alpha Asset Management
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 Mr Jerry Wang,
Chief Executive Officer,
Vision Investment Management, Hong Kong
Jerry is the founder and CEO of Vision Investment Management (VIM). As an investor and an industry participant, Jerry recognizes the investment value and benefits that alternative investments can deliver. In 2000, he established VIM, aspiring to develop a comprehensive FOHF investment management company with effective investment style, stringent risk management and solid investment returns.
Jerry works closely with the investment team to continuously enhance every phase along the investment process. The concerted effort resulted in a sound combination of a meticulous qualitative manager selection process and a proprietary quantitative analysis platform. With 3.5 years into operation, VIM has attracted a solid clientele globally with over US$570 million of assets under management.
Jerry has 14 years of experience in the investment management industry. Prior to forming VIM, Jerry was an Executive Director at Scudder Kemper Investments, preceded by the engagement as the Director of Marketing at Merrill Lynch Capital Management Group.
Jerry received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in the United States.
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Christopher Wang,
Head of Investment Services (Asia),
American Express Private Bank
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Christopher J. White,
Chief Financial Officer,
Alpha-Pac Japan
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Mr John Wisnioski,
Chief Investment Officer,
BaseTen Capital Management
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Huimin Wu,
Fund Manager,
Prime Capital Management Limited
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