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Speakers 
 Tarun Anand,
Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy and Head of Sales, Asia,
FXMarketSpace
Tarun Anand is based in Hong Kong with responsibility for building the business across Asia and developing customer relations. With more than 16 years experience in the FX industry he most recently worked for FXMarketSpace in New York. Previously he was Global Head of Treasury Services at Reuters, serving across Asia, Europe and USA. Prior to Reuters, he worked for Standard Chartered and HSBC.
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 Ajay Bagga,
Chief Executive Officer,
Lotus India Asset Management Co Pvt Ltd, India
Ajay Bagga is the CEO of Lotus India Asset Management Co., set up by Fullerton Fund Management Group and Sabre Capital Worldwide in India. Fullerton is a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd ,Singapore. Lotus India AMC is the Fund Advisor for the Fullerton Sabre Lotus India Fund, Mauritius(FSI), which is a long /short India focused equity fund .
An MBA and CFP, Ajay has more than 16 years experience in financial services.He has been the CEO of Kotak Mahindra AMC, managing USD 1.6 billion in AUMs. Ajay has earlier worked with Citigroup, with the Indian subsidiary of Pioneer Global Asset Management (of Boston), which was bought over by Franklin Templeton, and with GE Capital
He works on many pan fund industry task forces and committees. He brings to the table a strong experience and understanding of the Indian capital markets,consumers and investors. In 2005 ,he was shortlisted by the magazine “Business India” as one of the 30 "Young Indian Stars of Tomorrow" .
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 Professor Les Balzer,
Head of Investment Research & Board Member of Investment Strategy Committee,
HFA Asset Management
Professor Les Balzer is currently Head of Investment Research and a Member of the Investment Strategy Committee of the Board of HFA Asset Management, a leading absolute return manager in Australia. He is also Professor of Finance in the School of Banking & Finance at The University of NSW. Prior to this, he was a Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager at State Street Global Advisors, the largest global investment manager of institutional funds in the world, with $1,500 billion under management. Prior to this, he was Investment Manager for MLC Investment Management, one of the largest funds management businesses in Australia, where he personally managed $3.5 billion in Australian equities, achieving above average returns with below average risk for more than 90% of the time, against other low risk institutional fund managers. Professor Balzer was a Principal of William M Mercer Inc, the world’s largest firm of consulting actuaries, Head of Quantitative Research at Pring Dean & Co, stockbrokers, and Dean of Engineering at RMIT University. Professor Balzer has served on many ministerial, government, university and industry committees, and was elevated to the grade of ‘Senior Fellow’ by the Securities Institute of Australia, as “a reflection of the high regard, in which Les is held” and in “recognition of his contribution to raising standards in the [investment & finance] industry”. He is a Fellow of several local and overseas professional associations and a former President of the Q-Group (Australia), an incorporated association of leading quantitative finance practitioners & academics in Australia.
Professor Balzer holds a PhD in Control & Management Systems from The University of Cambridge, UK, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, a BE (Hons I) and a BSc from The University of New South Wales. He is the author of a major chapter in the book, Managing Downside Risk in Financial Markets, published by Butterworth-Heinemann in Oxford and has received the prestigious David Garrick Halmstad Memorial Award from the American Actuarial Research & Education Foundation for the best contribution to the international actuarial literature. He was also the first non-American to receive the Paper of the Year award from the Journal of Investing, NY, for a paper on measuring investment risk. He has published a generalised theory of investment utility, which contains Harry Markowitz’s Noble Prize winning theory as a special case. He was invited by US Centre for Investment Research, with two Nobel Laureates on its Board, to give the opening address at the CIR conference, Is Variance Dead?, where he received a plaque inscribed “For outstanding contribution to the advancement of investment knowledge”. Professor Balzer was the only practising investment manager in the world invited to the workshop on non-linear & non-stationary investment dynamics at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. He was a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Research Council’s $1.75 million Financial Integrity Research Network.
Professor Balzer has been chairman or non-executive director of several public and private companies, including a subsidiary of Australian Stock Exchange Limited and is listed by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, UK in Outstanding People of the 21st Century and Who’s Who in the 21st Century.
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Mr Ashok Bhaskar Hegde,
Global Head for Securities trading,
Wipro Technologies, India
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 Mr Kevin Birkett,
Director - Asset Management,
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), UAE
Kevin Birkett has spent most of his career in finance in the City of London. His first employer was Westminster Bank (later NatWest) before moving to Morgan Guaranty Trust Company (later J P Morgan).
For the past 19 years he was employed by Merrill Lynch International, initially in the International Private Banking Group where he was Regional Head for the Middle East and for the final 6 years with similar responsibility for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. Throughout his time with Merrill Lynch Kevin enjoyed considerable exposure to the Middle East both in the Gulf and beyond.
He has been part of the DIFC team, specialising in Asset Management, since mid-2004.
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Mr. François Bloch,
Chief Investment Officer,
Hinduja Family Office, Switzerland
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Mr Roop Chand Betala,
Chief Executive Officer,
BETALA – Stock Broking limited, India
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 Mr Weng Cheah,
Head of Asia-Pacific – Electronic trading systems,
Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong
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 Kirby Daley,
Head of Sales & Capital Introductions,
Fimat Alternative Investment Solutions - Asia, Hong Kong
As Head of Sales & Capital Introduction for Fimat Alternative Investment Solutions – Asia, Kirby Daley services hedge fund investors and managers all over the Asia-Pacific region, leveraging the resources of Fimat’s full prime brokerage group.
After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Kirby started his career as a trader for the Special Commodities Division of the Pillsbury Company in the early 1990's. He made a move to Japan in 1993, where his work experience included broking Japanese commodity futures and dealing foreign exchange, with a focus on Japanese yen crosses, before joining Fimat in 2001. At Fimat, Kirby worked initially as a Japan Strategist, but added the Hedge Fund Sales and Capital Introduction roles in late 2002, and currently handles all of these out of Fimat’s office in Hong Kong.
Kirby is featured prominently in the media for his views on the Japanese economy, markets and politics, with a four-year running, regular Monday morning weekly spot on CNBC Asia (Asia Squawk Box) and frequent appearances on the BBC, CNN and Bloomberg TV.
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John Fildes,
Managing Director,
Instinet
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 Mr Andrew Freyre Sanders,
Head of Algorithmic Trading – EMEA & Asia,
JPMorgan, Hong Kong
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Ms Kathleen Grey,
Director - Systems,
HSBC Limited, Hong Kong
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 Mr Nicu Harajchi,
Managing Director,
K1 Fund Distribution, Japan
Nicu Harajchi is a ten year veteran in the Hedge Fund industry specialized in derivative sales, marketing and sales related strategies. In his prior career he has been responsible for coordinating sales strategies and directing the marketing. In these positions, he has been intimately involved in helping to set the strategic direction for campaigns, programs, branding and lead generation for the company as well as providing strategic assistance with partners and clients.
He arrived at the X1 Group in 2003 and took over the position Head of Sales - Middle East in 2004 he was promoted to Head of Global Sales, finally in 2005 Nicu Harajchi founded the X1 Fund Distribution Ltd. which is the exclusive distribution company of X1 Fund Allocation GmbH and all related products.
Before joining the X1 Group Nicu Harajchi held priority positions with Swiss Security Bank & Trust, Saxo Bank & Superfund.
Nicu Harajchi received his diploma in Portfolio Asset Management from New York Institute of Finance and is a registered stock broker at the Austrian Stock Exchange.
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 Mr. Richard Hills,
Global Head of Electronic Services,
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, UK
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 Mr Frank Holle,
Founder – Director,
Quant Asset Management, Singapore
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Mark Howarth,
Managing Director,
Thomson Financial, Hong Kong
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Mr Kevan Hull,
Head of Marketing & Business Development,
Saxo Capital Markets, Singapore
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Kevan Hull,
Head of Marketing & Business Development,
Saxo Capital Markets Pte Ltd
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Mr Phill Jeffrey,
Managing Director,
Ullink, Hong Kong
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Dr Kingsley Jones,
Chief Investment Officer,
Bernstein Global Wealth Management
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 Shams Karim,
Chief Executive Officer,
Nirvana Financial Solutions, USA
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 Mr Neil Katkov,
Head group research - Electronic Trading Systems,
CELENT, USA
Neil Katkov, based in the firm’s Tokyo office, is manager of Celent’s Asia Research group. His areas of expertise include the Asian financial services industry, financial services distribution channels, and compliance issues including anti-money laundering and business continuity planning.
Dr. Katkov produces Celent’s popular reports on IT spending trends in the Asian banking, securities, and insurance industries. He regularly advises leading financial institutions and technology vendors on their business, technology, and compliance strategies.
Dr. Katkov is widely quoted in the press, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, Time, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, South China Morning Post, Dow Jones Newswires, Associated Press, American Banker, Securities Industry News, and The Banker. He has appeared on CNBC and CNN, and is a popular speaker at conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe.
Before joining Celent, Dr. Katkov was responsible for corporate communications for Tokyo-based Softbank. In this capacity, he helped define the firm’s business and marketing strategies. Previously, Dr. Katkov worked in the equity research department of Salomon Brothers Asia Limited. Dr. Katkov has lived for eight years in Tokyo and Taipei, where he engaged in research at the University of Tokyo and the National Central Library of Taiwan.
Dr. Katkov holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and MA and PhD degrees from Harvard University. He is fluent in English, Japanese, and Chinese.
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Mr Shuya Kekke,
Executive Director Equities – Execution,
Goldman Sachs, Japan
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Mr. David Kilinger,
Managing Director,
Liquidnet, Hong Kong
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 Mr Santi Kiranand,
Chief Executive Officer,
Bond Electronic Exchange, Thailand
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 Mr Felix L. Adam,
Chief Executive Officer,
ACT Currency Partner AG, Switzerland
Mr. Felix Adam is the CEO and founder of ACT Currency Partner in Zurich,. Mr.. Adam has more than 25 years of experience in financial markets. During his distinguished career, Mr. Adam worked for Citigroup and JPMorgan which enabled him to gain valuable inside knowledge and understanding of managing foreign currency exposure.
His longstanding market involvement has enabled him to become an authority in Switzerland on Currency Overlay Management. He is frequently appearing on CNBC and other News Networks, and has written a variety of articles which have been published a various Financial Newspapers in Switzerland.
ACT Currency Partner target is to become one of the leading currency managers in Europe as well as a globally recognized leader in Currency Overlay Management.
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Mr KC Lam,
Head of Electronic Brokering System,
ICAP (EBS), Singapore
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Jason Lapping,
Head of Program Trading & Electronic Services Asia,
Societe Generale Asia Limited
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Mr Eric M. Karpman,
Head of Electronic Trading,
BNY Asset management, USA
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 Asoka Markandu,
General Manager,
FXall Asia, Singapore
Asoka has overall responsibility for FXall's operations in Asia, working closely with the Singapore and Tokyo offices to drive sales and distribution across the region. Asoka joined FXall from Reuters Asia, where he worked for 14 years in a variety of sales, marketing, and product management roles, most recently as Business Manager & Head of Sales for Reuters Transactions, Sale & Trading Division, Asia. In this role, he was responsible for managing and growing the Reuters Electronic Trading (RET) business in Asia and in leading the successful sale and implementation of a multi-bank portal at CFETS in China. Prior to this, he was posted to Mumbai, India as the Reuters Marketing Manager for South Asia with responsibility for business development, product and data management, public relations and marketing support for the region.
Before joining Reuters, Asoka worked briefly for Citibank and Andersen Consulting. Whilst at Andersen's he was posted to Indonesia for an extended period of time with responsibility for design and development of banking solutions for the retail segment. Asoka completed his post-graduate studies (MSc) at the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) on the back of a Raffles scholarship from the British Council in 1991. He did his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore where he achieved Honours in Economics in 1988.
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Endre Markos,
Director of Bloomberg Law - Asia Pacific,
Bloomberg LP
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Mr Roger McAvoy,
Regional Director – Corp IB&IM,
Thompson Financial, Hong Kong
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 Mr Matt McKeith,
Head of Equity Dealing,
First State Investments , Hong Kong
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Mr Punit Mittal,
Head of Execution Products - GES,
BNP Paribas, Japan
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Mark Monahan,
CEO of Electronic Brokerage - Asia Pacific,
ICAP
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 Jayaram Muthuswamy,
Associate Processor of Finance,
Singapore Management University, Singapore
Jay Muthuswamy is currently with the Finance Faculty, Singapore Management University. Jay holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Chicago, an MS in Finance from Stanford, an MBA in Finance from Wharton, and a bachelors degree from the London School of Economics.
His research interests are in the pricing of derivatives, asset price quilibrium, Financial Econometrics, and high-frequency hedge fund trading strategies.
He has previously been with Griffith University, University of Sydney, National University of Singapore, and Duke University.
Jay serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Futures Markets, as well as the Review of Futures Markets. Among his many research papers is one co-authored with the late Nobel Laureate Merton Miller to do with the regulation of stock index futures markets, and published in the Journal of Finance.
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 Mr Ronald Newell,
Senior Vice President & Head of Market Services Management,
Singapore Stock Exchange, Singapore
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Ms. Gyan Newman,
Director and Head of Ecommerce for Asia Pacific,
Barclays Capital, Singapore
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Mr Nigel O'Shea,
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director,
Global Electronic Trading Pty Ltd, Australia
Nigel O'Shea is a qualified accountant with 12 years experience in the banking industry. Specifically he has been employed during that time by a number of international banks as a foreign exchange, and money market price maker and trader. His exposure to futures markets has been extensive, trading on many of the international exchanges taking hedging and speculative positions. Nigel is a Registered Representative of the Sydney Futures Exchange and an Accredited Dealer of the Australian Financial Markets Association.
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 Mr Tetsuo Otashiro,
General Manager & Chief Representative,
Tokyo Stock Exchange
• 2003 to Present: Partner & Chief Executive Officer
- MCP Asset Management Co., Ltd.
• 1999 to Present: MCP K.K., Director
• 1997 to 1999: Managing Director
- Head of Corporate Group / Structuring Group
- Credit Suisse Financial Products
• 1994 to 1997: Director / Managing Director
- Structured Products
- Credit Suisse First Boston
• 1988 to 1994: Senior Vice President and Head Trader
- Equity Derivatives / Swap and Financial Products
- Lehman Brothers
• 1988: MA in Interdisciplinary Studies of Social Sciences
- (focus on time series modeling and game theory)
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- The University of Tokyo
• 1985: BA in Liberal Arts
- The University of Tokyo
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Ms. Leslie R. Sutphen,
Global Head of E-Brokerage Strategy,
Calyon Financial, USA
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Mr Rene Raiss,
Chief Investment Officer,
Precise Asset Management Pte Ltd, Singapore
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 Sam Riter,
Managing Director,
BlackRock
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Mr Guillaume Roux-Chabert,
Head of Electronic trading,
Calyon Financial, Hong Kong
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 Stefano Russo,
Chief Executive Officer,
Renaissance Institutional Management (UK)
Renaissance Institutional Asset Management was started by Jim Simons in 1982. Its $6 billion Medallion Fund has averaged 37% annual returns, after fees, since 1989, and is considered in the industry to be the most consistently successful hedge fund in the world.
Stefano Russo joined Renaissance Institutional Management (UK) Limited in 2006 as CEO. Prior to this, he spent 13 years with Morgan Stanley Investment Management as Managing Director, heading the European and Middle East institutional business. From 1988 to 1993, he worked at ING Milan as CEO of the asset management division. Stefano holds an MBA from the New York University Graduate School of Business and a BA in Engineering and Architecture from Rome University.
In his address, Stefano will look back at the evolution of the hedge funds industry over the last 20 years and make predictions for where he sees the industry heading over the next decade.
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Mr Karsten Schroder,
Chief Executive Officer,
Amplitude CAP LLC, UK
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Mr Lawrence Shan,
Vice president and head of Trading Departing,
Taiwan Stock exchange, Taiwan
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James Sinclair,
Head of Research,
ICAP Electronic Broking, USA
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 Brook Teeter,
Director Equity Sales - Alternative Execution Services,
Credit Suisse
Brook Teeter has been in the financial services industry for over 11 years. His current role is Director Equity Sales for Alternative Execution Services at Credit Suisse. Brook is based in Hong Kong and looks after sales for all electronic trading products in the Asia Pacific Region.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Brook was the Head of Institutional Sales for Asia Pacific at E*TRADE where he managed the Sales and Connectivity team.
Brook has also worked for Javelin Technologies in Hong Kong as Head of Electronic Sales and ran US sales for Gordon, Haskett and Co., a boutique brokerage in New York City and San Diego.
Mr. Teeter has been an active member of the FPL both in the US and Asia since 2000 and has previously been Co-Chair of the Asia Education and Marketing Committee.
Mr. Teeter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and advanced degrees in Finance and Marketing from the University of Delaware.
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 Mr Olivier Thiriet,
Head of Asia-Pacific Advanced Execution Products,
Credit Suisse , Japan
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 Kurt Winkelmann,
Managing Director, Global Investment Strategies,
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Kurt is the Head of the Global Investment Strategies group, focusing on strategic issues (including strategic asset allocation) for institutional clients. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 1999, Kurt spent five years in London as part of the Goldman Sachs Fixed Income Research Group, where his focus was Global Fixed Income Portfolio Strategy. Before joining Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1993, Kurt worked in the investment technology industry (BARRA and Vestek) and as an Economist for First Bank Systems. Kurt has 20 years of industry experience. He received a BA from Macalester College in 1978 and a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1987.
Kurt is a prolific writer and has authored many white papers with portfolio management themes. His paper, “Improving Portfolio Efficiency” (August 2003), was published in the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has co-authored several chapters in the book: Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach, written by Bob Litterman and the Quantitative Resources Group. In addition, Kurt has co-authored numerous articles with other members of the GSAM team including: “Active Risk Budgeting in Action: Assessing Risk and Return in Private Equity” (April 2005); “Active Risk Budgeting in Action: Understanding Hedge Fund Performance” (May 2004); “Getting More Out of Your US Equity Portfolio: An Active Alpha Approach” (March 2004); “Active Risk Budgeting in Action: Evaluating Historical Characteristics of Traditional Managers” (October 2003); “Rethinking the Barbell: A Spectrum Approach to Risk Budgeting” (August 2002); “A Strategic Role for Hedge Funds” (January 2002); “Single Stock Holdings: A Risk Budgeting Approach” (October 2001); “Developing an Optimal Active Risk Budget” (July 2001); “Risk Budgeting and the Currency Hedge” (January 2001); and “Risk Budgeting: Managing Active Risk at the Total Fund Level” (January 2000).
In addition, Kurt and Bob Litterman co-authored two Goldman Sachs publications: “Managing Market Exposure” (January 1996), which also appeared in the Journal of Portfolio Management and “Estimating Covariance Matrices” (January 1998). Both papers explore risk management themes and their importance to portfolio management.
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 Mr Philip M York,
Chief Executive Officer,
Empyreal Group
Mr. York commenced trading equities and derivatives in 1984, after extensive research. Mr. York commenced trading Managed Accounts in 1992, forming his first hedge-fund in 1996. The audited performance of Mr. York’s trading from 1996 through to 2003 has resulted in a return on capital well in excess of 15% per annum.
Through this period Mr. York developed and implemented statistical trading systems and methods, money management systems to normalize allocation risk and statistical allocation methods. Mr. York also designed computer systems to fully automate the process and carry out walk-forward testing of dynamic portfolio allocation methods. Through this period he solved many of the problems related to the application of Gaming Theory and Modern Portfolio Theory in portfolios that are actively traded and those using leveraged investments.
As CEO of Empyreal Investments (AFSL 237850) Mr. York now specializes in seeding and promoting new managers as well creating Fund of Funds for institutional clients.
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