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Speakers 
 Elena Ambrosiadou,
Chief Executive Officer,
IKOS (UK) Ltd
Elena established IKOS in 1991and is the Partner in charge of Business Management, and Business Development, responsible for functions including Legal, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Compliance. She has held a number of international management positions with British Petroleum in London, Sydney, and the US prior to joining KPMG Management Consulting In Bahrain. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering, an MSc in Technology and Development from Imperial College London and an MBA from Cranfield. Elena is an FSA Registered Representative and an NFA Associated Person.
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 Kelsey Biggers,
Managing Director,
K2 Advisors
R. Kelsey Biggers, Managing Director, Risk Management for K2 Advisors graduated from Columbia Business School in 1980. He has worked in financial services and institutional investing since 1983 when he joined General Electric Information Services as the Financial Services Marketing Manager developing global network solutions for Wall Street trading firms. In 1987, Mr. Biggers joined Bankers Trust as a Vice President responsible for on-line trust and performance measurement services for institutional investors. Over the next decade Mr. Biggers held a number of management positions in trust services, performance and risk analysis. In 1993, as a Managing Director, he developed the Bank’s RAROC 2020 risk measurement service that commercialized mark-to-market, Value at Risk and stress testing methodologies developed at Bankers Trust. In 1996, Mr. Biggers joined the Wall Street-based information technology company, Plural, as Executive Vice President responsible for Sales and Marketing. In 1998, as CEO and President he founded Measurisk, a web-based service company that provides risk analysis to institutional investors like General Electric and The World Bank. In April 2002, Mr. Biggers joined K2 Advisors, a Fund of Hedge Funds headquartered in Stamford Connecticut with $5.3 billion under management. He is responsible for risk management and sits on the Management committee.
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Sebastien Dovey,
Managing Partner, Head of Consulting,
Scorpio Partner Ltd
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Staffan Elmgren,
Advisor,
Wassum Investment Network
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 Lionel Erdely,
Head of Asset Allocations & Investor Relations,
Lyxor Asset Management
Lionel Erdely joined the Asset Allocation & Investor Relations department of Lyxor AM in 2002 and was appointed head of the team in 2004. Prior to joining Lyxor, he was Vice-President in Equity Corporate Finance at Société Générale, where he worked on several IPOs, Capital Increases and Convertible Bond Issues, mainly on the German market. Lionel ERDELY holds an M.B.A. degree in finance from ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) in Paris (1998).
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Jan Henrik Franck,
Chief Investment Officer,
Juristernes Og Okonomernes
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 Mr Guy Fraser-Sampson,
Founder and Managing Partner,
Mowbray Capital
Guy Fraser-Sampson is no stranger to the Middle East, having served for two years as an investment controller with ADIA. Subsequently he set up and ran for several years the international operations of Horsley Bridge, the well-known US fund of funds.
Guy has twenty years experience of the private equity sector but in recent years his interest has broadened into alternative assets generally, and to cover asset allocation and investment strategy. His new book “Multi Asset Class Investment Strategy” will be published next month as part of the Wiley Finance series and will be the first book to be published outside the US on this exciting new subject, and the only book in the world to examine it from the point of view of European pension fund investors.
Guy has an LLB with honours from King’s College London and an MBA majoring in finance from Warwick Business School. He has written for most of the leading pension and investment publications and is a well-known conference speaker. He is the creator of the Total Funding Model and the MAC Investment Model and previously designed a model to analyse the performance of buy-out managers.
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 Dr Toby Goodworth,
Head of Risk Management,
Key Asset Management UK Ltd
Toby is Head of Risk Management. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from University College London, and a First Class honours degree (MSci) in physics, also from UCL. Previously Toby worked at IO Investors as Quantitative Risk Manager, where he developed and ran bespoke risk management tools for the hedge fund of fund products. Prior to this he was a Risk Analyst focusing on global equity quantitative trading strategies within IO Investors.
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 Alf Guldberg,
Secretary General,
Swedish Association of Institutions for Retirement Provision
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 Mats Gustafsson,
Porfolio Manager,
Lannebo Fund
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Niclas Hagelin,
Senior Analyst,
Nordea
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 Mr Casper Hallas,
Portfolio Manager,
Scandium Invest (Copenhagen)
Casper was first exposed to the hedgefund industry in 1998 after leaving Copenhagen to join Neonet Securities AB in Stockholm as an institutional equity broker. At Neonet Securities AB he executed a variety of equity based hedging strategies for Swedish as well as overseas proprietary trading desks, hedgefunds and asset management companies.
It was at Neonet Securities, Casper gained an understanding of the dynamics of equity based, arbitrage type hedging techniques. Neonet’s multiple stockexchange memberships facilitated a variety of arbitrage opportunities such as those present when issuers choose dual listings (i.e. Nokia, Ericsson), basket trading, delta hedging and other basic arbitrage opportunities between the cash and derivatives/futures market.
Prior to joining Neonet, Casper worked as an institutional interest rate and currency broker at Nordea Markets, the trading division of Nordea Bank in Copenhagen. His primary responsibility was to advise corporate clients on risk management through the use of currency and interest rate products and their derivatives.
Subsequently, Casper went on the join Jiway Holdings Ltd., London. Jiway was the ambitious attempt by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and OM Group to set up the first pan-European, fully integrated stock exchange. Casper was based in Stockholm and head of sales in Scandinavia. It was his task to explain the concept to the banks and brokers that would be using this new equities trading platform. As a result he has a detailed knowledge of trading, clearing and settlement processes, their complexities and the issues that arise when integrating systems across a number of markets and stock exchanges.
Since January, 2002 Casper has been managing a portfolio of hedgefunds on behalf of a select group of investors. This multi manager, multi strategy investment approach has performed well and it is intended to launch a similar onshore product when the pending hedgefund regulation is adopted in Denmark as of July 2005.
Casper was previously licensed to act as an equity broker with the Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Frankfurt stock exchanges.
Casper graduated with a BSc in Business Studies from University of Buckingham and an MBA from Boston University (Beta Gamma Sigma). He is fluent in Danish, Swedish and English.
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 Simon Hopkins,
Chief Executive Officer,
The Fortune Group
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 Mr Bo Knudson,
Portfolio Manager,
Carnegie Worldwide Long/short
Bo Knudsen has 16 years of investing experience. He has an MSC from Århus University, supplemented by MBA studies from San Francisco State University.
He was employed in Carnegie Asset management from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2002. He was previously Head of equities at Nordea Investment management from 1998 – 2001. Then Chairman of the Danish Society of Financial Analysts and the Danish Society of Investment Professionals. From 1996-2002 he was Member of AIMR’s global IPC committee.
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 Remo Kraenzlin,
Managing Partner,
Primores AG
Mr. Remo Kraenzlin, born in 1973, is Swiss citizen. He co-founded Primores AG in 2003. Prior to forming Primores, Mr Kraenzlin was Managing Director at Fund Research Partner in Zurich. Before that he worked as a senior equity derivatives trader at Bank Vontobel and fixed income proprietary trader at Zurcher Kantonalbank. His knowledge in alternative investment strategies spans fixed income, convertibles, credit derivatives and equity derivatives. Mr Kraenzlin holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics and is CFA Charterholder. He board member of the Swiss CFA Society.
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Andrejs Landsman,
Portfolio Manger,
SEB Fixed Income Fund
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Bengt Lindblad,
Chief Executive Officer,
Alfakraft
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 Jon Malmsater,
Founding Partner,
Optimized Portfolio Management
Jon was a Founding Partner of Swedish Investment Bank Mangold Fondkommision, specializing in Primary Equity and Trading, as well as Founder and Chairman of the Board at Tradelab Systems AB and ORC Tradelab Robotic Trading AB in Stockholm. The companies develop and trade with software for automatic trading in financial markets. The latter company divested to ORC Software in the Fall of 2003. Previously, Jon was Head of Equity Trading at Aros Securities, Managing Director and Co-Head of European Equity Trading at Bankers Trust in London, Managing Director of European Equity Derivatives Trading at Bear Stearns International and Head of Northern and Southern European Interest Derivatives Trading for Swiss Bank Corporation. Jon holds an MSc in Finance and Statistics from The Stockholm School of Economics and Business Administration and a BA in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the Royal Swedish Air Force’s Interpreter and Interrogator School and Uppsala University.
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 Dan Moalem,
Partner,
Lett Law Firm
Dan Moalem is a Partner at the Copenhagen office and has practised law since 1999. From 1999-2004 he has also been a Ph.D. scholar (corporate and securities law) at the University of Southern Denmark co-financed by DLA Nordic, Denmark. Dan Moalem is specialised in all aspects of corporate and securities law, e.g. M&A, venture capital and private equity fund structuring and investments, UCITS' (investment funds), buy-out funds, hedge funds and financial institutions, investment services and regulated markets. Dan’s 2005 publications include ‘Hedge funds ("hedgeforeninger") - a new Danish investment vehicle’ in FinansInvest 7, and Hedge funds and taxation of hedge fund based investment activities in R&R no. 11.
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 David Mooney,
Portfolio Manager,
Opus Commodity Fund
“David Mooney has been involved in the commodity trading business since 1988. He joined NewFinance in 2005 from Merrill Lynch. At Merrill Lynch (2004-5) he had responsibility for making proprietary investments in commodities hedge funds. In this capacity, he developed portfolio construction and investment guidelines, as well as risk management processes specifically tailored for the commodities asset class. In 2003-4 he built a European Power and Gas business and a derivatives capability for Trafigura AG, a private oil trading company. From 1997 to 2003, he built and managed the Bank of America proprietary commodities trading business. David Mooney started his commodities career trading natural gas in North America. He began his career at Citibank in London in 1984 after graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 1984 with a 1st class degree in Economics. He is an Irish and a US citizen.”
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Richard Nordin,
Managing Director, Northern Europe,
Focus Investment Group
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 Peter Norman,
Chief Executive Officer,
AP7 Pension Fund
Mr. Norman has held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Sjunde AP-fonden (The Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund) since 2000, after four years as Chief Executive Officer of both Alfred Berg Transferator and Alfred Berg Asset Management. Peter’s distinguished career has also seen him work as Chief Economist at Alfred Berg Transferator and also Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden). In 1986 Mr. Norman was Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Stockholm.
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 Mr Stephen Oxley,
Partner,
Pacific Alternative Asset Management
Stephen is a partner of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company. PAAMCO is an institutional fund of hedge funds firm based in Irvine, California with offices in London and Singapore. It manages some $7.5 billion in multi-manager hedge fund portfolios for clients that include many large pension funds. Stephen based in PAAMCO’s London office is a member of the Investment Management Committee and is responsible for managing the firm’s Account Management Group globally and for developing relationships with European institutions. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Stephen was a partner and Senior Investment Consultant at Watson Wyatt, LLP in the UK, where he was responsible for advising European pension funds on their investment arrangements. He was also head of the European hedge fund manager research team.
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Stefan Peterson,
Head of Credit,
Storebrand Active Credit Fund
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 Peter Ramsay,
Managing Director,
Avenir Fund (Brummer Group)
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 Kaj Rönnlund,
Chairman & cofounder,
Estlander & Ronnlund
Kaj Rönnlund is chairman for Estlander & Rönnlund and is responsible for Business Development.
Kaj became involved in trading derivative instruments in 1987 with the founding of market-maker company Sophos AB in Stockholm. The year after, Servisen Arctos & Partners was established in Helsinki and then also in Frankfurt under the direction of Kaj Rönnlund and Martin Estlander. In 1991 it started managing its longest running Hedge Fund Program, Estlander & Rönnlund Global Markets. The company changed its name to Estlander & Rönnlund, following a management buyout in 1992. In 2002 Estlander & Rönnlund Global Volatility was launched and in 2003 the company began trading Estlander & Rönnlund Global Equity Arbitrage.
Kaj holds an MSc degree in Finance from the Swedish School of Economics in Vaasa.
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 Dag Rosmo,
Managing Partner,
Interkraft Capital Management
Dag has been the Managing Partner, Interkraft Capital Management ASA (ICM) since 2003. ICM is an Oslo-based, specialised asset manager currently managing approximately USD 140 million in the Nordic Power Market in cooperation with Elkem Energy. From 1998 to 2002, Dag was Partner and then Senior Partner in Alfred Berg Industrifinans (ABIF), which is part of ABN AMRO in Norway. At ABIF, he was responsible for product development/ structured products/hedge funds, 3rd party sales and key private accounts.
From 1996-98, Dag worked with Barclays de Zoete Wedd (BZW) and was responsible for all equity derivatives sales in Switzerland. Prior to this, Dag worked with Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland where he was promoted to vice President in end-1995. Dag majored in Banking and Finance from the University of St. Gallen for Business Administration, Law and Social Sciences in Switzerland.
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Patrick Safvenblad,
Head of Portfolio Manager,
RPM Risk
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 Jack Schwager,
Portfolio Manager,
The Fortune Group
Jack Schwager is a managing director and principal of The Fortune Group, an alternative asset management firm regulated in the UK and the United States. Schwager is the Senior Portfolio manager for Fortune’s Market Wizards Funds of Funds, a broadly diversified series of institutional hedge fund portfolios. He also serves on the board of Fortune's research affiliate Global Fund Analysis, a leading source of independent hedge fund research. His prior experience includes 22 years as the director of futures research for some of Wall Street’s leading firms and 10 years as the co-principal of a commodity trading advisory firm.
Mr. Schwager is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling Market Wizards (1989), and the equally popular The New Market Wizards (1992). A third volume in this series, Stock Market Wizards, published by HarperCollins, was released in early 2001. Mr. Schwager’s first book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets, which was published in 1984, is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field. More than a decade later he revised and expanded this original work into the three-volume series, Schwager on Futures, consisting of the following titles: Fundamental Analysis (1995), Technical Analysis (1996), and Managed Trading: Myths and Truths (1996). He is also the author of Getting Started in Technical Analysis (1999), which is part of John Wiley’s popular “Getting Started” series.
Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics with particular focus on the characteristics of great traders, hedge fund investment, performance measurement, technical analysis, and trading system evaluation. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in Economics from Brown University.
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Jakob Skjold,
Head of Credit,
Storebrand Kapitalforvaltning ASA
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Mr Paul H Smith,
Global Head of Alternative Fund Services,
HSBC
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 Gabriel Stein,
Chief International Economist,
Lombard Street Research Ltd
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 Mike Tauby,
Head of Marketing of Structured Products,
Ixis
Mike Tauby is currently Head of Marketing of Structured Alternative Investment Products at IXIS CIB. He started his career in CDC Capital markets (former name of IXIS CIB), as Fixed Income Sales to French Institutional Clients. He, then, became Head of Fixed Income Sales for France/Belgium/Switzerland and Luxembourg. He’s graduated with a European Master from ISG Business School.
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 Thomas Uhlmann,
Member of the Board,
Indexchange
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 Max Von Liechtenstein,
Founding Partner,
Scandinavian Institute of Finance
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 Peter Warren,
Chief Investment Officer,
Warren Wicklund Asset Management
Peter C. Warren (50) began his career in the financial markets in 1980 trading commodities for Rudolf Wolff & Co. In 1981 he was appointed Secretary of the Oslo Stock Exchange. In 1982 he joined the research firm Vogt & Vogt Bourseanalysis in Norway as partner and Head of Research. The company was bought by Christiania Bank (now Nordea) in 1983. In 1987 Peter Warren left the company and established the Norwegian Equity Options Market. His company, Moorgate Options, was the first options market maker in Norway. At the same time he helped establish the Norwegian Clearinghouse for futures & options, and he remains to this day one of their largest individual share¬holders. Moorgate Options was bought by Finance Bank of Norway in 1995 and Mr. Warren was first appointed Chief Dealer Derivatives and later Chief Dealer for all areas of the bank with particular responsibility for proprietary trading. In 2002 he left the bank and founded WarrenWicklund Asset Manage¬ment together with Bjorn Wicklund, a former partner in Moorgate Options. WarrenWicklund Asset Management today has two fund of hedge funds and several single manager funds and mandates within the absolute return area. AUM is US$700 million.
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 Diego Wauters,
Chief Executive Officer,
Coriolis Capital Limited
Diego Wauters is CEO of Coriolis Capital Limited, a hedge fund company based in London specialised in exotic products in the insurance/reinsurance sector. Coriolis was created in July 2003, following a friendly management buyout from Société Générale.
Prior to the management buyout, Mr Wauters was Global Head of Insurance and Weather Derivatives at SG. He joined the London office in 1998, after spending four years with AIG. Mr Wauters was founder, President and CEO of AIG Combined Risks, which specialised in insurance derivatives and was a pioneer in Catastrophe Bonds and Weather Derivatives. Prior to this, he spent 11 years at JPMorgan in New York, where he was involved in the creation of some of the biggest start up insurance companies established offshore, and London where he became Managing Director in charge of M&A Insurance and Financial Reinsurance.
Mr Wauters, who is Belgian, has five University degrees (including physics and insurance law) from the University of Louvain. He is married with four children.
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Ragnhild Wiborg,
Partner and Fund Manager,
Peter Edwall Asset Management (Pecunia Fund)
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 Rob Wood,
Leader for Product Management,
Storebrand Investments
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