Alfred Evans is responsible for Bunge’s emissions credits business.  He joined Bunge’s Financial Services Group in 2003 and has15 years of experience structuring and executing investments in emerging markets and brings emissions experience from the US EPA and GE Power Systems.  Mr. Evans holds a JD from Columbia Law School and a Masters of International Finance (Mathematics) from the University of Amsterdam. Bunge is an integrated, global agribusiness and food company operating in the farm-to-consumer food chain. Founded in 1818 and headquartered in White Plains, New York, Bunge has 25,000 employees. Bunge is the world’s leading oilseed processor, the largest producer and supplier of fertilizers to farmers in South America and the world’s leading seller of bottled vegetable oils to consumers.

Ali H. Khalil has over 20 years’ investment banking experience. During his career, he structured, launched, and participated in the management of several investment funds covering a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, derivatives, real estate and private equities. In addition, he led several investment banking mandates including equity and debt issues, and M&A transactions in the MENA region. Mr. Khalil is currently the Executive Vice President at Markaz and its Chief Financial Officer since 1997.  He heads the investment banking division, which includes Corporate Finance, Real Estate, Oil & Gas and Structured Finance.  He joined the Markaz Group in 1988 as Vice President of Mar-Gulf Management, a Markaz subsidiary in Los Angeles, California and is currently its Managing Director and in charge of Markaz’ real estate investments in the US. He is also a Director of Markaz Energy Fund. He received a BS in Industrial Engineering and an MS in Operations Research from Texas A&M University and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Brad Cole is President of Cole Partners Asset Management, LLC and Cole Partners LLC, overseeing all investment, management, and strategic activities of the firms, based on his broad alternative investment experience.  Brad's professional career spans more than 20 years in the derivatives industry and includes more than 10 years' experience developing and implementing successful marketing strategies for alternative investment managers. Brad founded Cole Partners Asset Management in 2002, building on his diverse experience in commodities and alternative asset management.  Cole Partners Asset Management offers investors active asset management in the commodities sector, managing a natural resources fund of funds that was named “Best of Breed” at the GAIM conference in November 2006. Prior to founding Cole Partners in 1998, Brad served as the Vice President and Director of Sales and Marketing for Sjo, Incorporated, a Chicago-based alternative investment manager. Brad began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was hired as part of their currency arbitrage group on the International Monetary Market (IMM).  He applied this analytical foundation as Vice President at Dean Witter, where he managed the institutional currency futures and options desk. Brad is a member of the Managed Futures Association (MFA), and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). Brad's research has appeared in a variety of industry publications and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events. He is a registered member of the NASD and the NFA. Brad received a BA from the University of Illinois. Cole Partners Asset Management is dedicated to finding opportunities in non traditional investment products, like hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, managed futures and commodities. CPAM  is an Investment Adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and was established in 2004. The firm's principals are recognized industry professionals with expertise in alternative investment research and product development, as well as the analysis and due diligence of niche investment managers with varied investment strategies within the commodities and natural resources sector. They share a commitment to consistently superior long-term investment performance, risk management, and client service. 

Chris began his career at Baden-Württembergische Bank AG in Stuttgart. He worked as a proprietary trader in the banks’ trading division where he was also in charge of setting up the commodity trading desk. Aside the proprietary trading he also took care of the development of commodity derivatives. After four years with the bank, he joined DresdnerKleinwortWasserstein (DrKW) in Frankfurt, where he was responsible for trading with international customers in the fields of precious metals and commodities. Business with mining operations, central banks, hedge funds and commodity investors contributed to his substantiated record. At Tiberius he is in charge of trading. Tiberius is an asset management group domiciled in Zug, Switzerland, with offices in Geneva and Stuttgart. The founding partners combine over 30 years of experience in commodity trading and alternative asset management. The Tiberius team is composed of 18 experienced professionals in the fields of portfolio management, quantitative research and IT development. Tiberius specializes in commodity fund management with global exposure to Energy, Industrial Metals, Precious Metals and Agriculture derivatives. We aim to provide investors with actively managed commodity investment vehicles not correlated to other asset classes. We focus on research to build strategies based on strong quantitative models. To generate alpha Tiberius
focuses on active management of commodity futures funds and European and International bond funds. Firm’s total asset under management: USD 1.4 Billion (as of August 2007)

David Lee Hargitt graduated from Wabash University and was a Fulbright Scholar to France after which he taught at the University of California in Los Angeles. He subsequently worked for the Bank of America as a Loan Officer in the International Division in San Francisco.  He then worked in Investment Banking with Lehman Brothers in the United States, Milan, Italy and in Paris, France. He was later a Vice-President and shareholder of Drexel Burnham Lambert as an Investment Banker in charge of Southern Europe and was located in Brussels, Belgium (where he was registered as a principal with the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade), before becoming the Senior Advisor to the Dunn & Hargitt and Winchester Life International Groups more than 20 years ago and then the CEO."  The Dunn & Hargitt and the Winchester Life International Groups specialise in the management of money in the Commodity, Precious Metals, Currencies and Financial Futures Markets for High Net Worth Individuals, Family Offices and Financial Institutions throughout the world.  The Dunn & Hargitt International Group was first founded in 1965 in the United States and compiled the first Data Bank on Commodity Futures prices.  The Dunn & Hargitt International Administration Offices were set up in Brussels, Belgium in 1975.

Deborah A. Fuhr, Managing Director, heads the Investment Strategies Group at Morgan Stanley based in London.  The unit consults with institutional investors and writes on the implementation and strategy on the use of Delta 1 products - including Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on equity, fixed income and commodity indices globally, OPALS (Optimised Portfolios As Listed Securities), certificates, swaps, futures, TOPAS, Index Funds, out-performance trades, securities lending and yield enhancement trades. In 2007, Ms Fuhr won an award for the Greatest Overall Contribution to the development of the Global ETF industry in 2006.  In 2006, the organisations honoured Ms Fuhr for meritorious service to the ETF Industry.  The award recognized her as one of the early strategists to cover exchange traded products, specifically for her work on OPALS and ETFs.  In addition, the Greenwich Associates survey of institutional investors in Europe in 2002 - 2006, ranked Morgan Stanley first for ETF strategy.  Ms Fuhr was also ranked in the 2007 Financial News Top 100 Women in Finance, a distinguished list of the most influential women in European Finance.

Dr. Noma is the portfolio manager for the BTOP50 fund, a diversified portfolio of managed futures programs. He is a member of the Investment Committee that oversees all fund of funds investments for Asset Alliance. Dr. Noma is also responsible for the risk oversight of Asset Alliance's single- and multi-manager product offerings.
Prior to joining Asset Alliance, Dr. Noma was Senior Risk Analyst, Fixed Income Products, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (2000-2003). Dr. Noma graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with a BA in Mathematics. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology in 1982 from The University of Michigan. His research has been published in numerous industry journals and scholarly periodicals. Asset Alliance is a multi-faceted investment management firm, specializing in alternative investment management - specifically hedge funds and hedge fund products. Founded in 1996, Asset Alliance offers strategic opportunities for highly skilled hedge fund managers; provides advisory services to organizations worldwide; and manages investment products for high net worth and institutional investors. Asset Alliance and its affiliate managers have in excess of $3 billion of assets under management.

Eric Kolts is responsible for the S&P GSCI business. The S&P GSCI is the premiere commodity index and is widely used on a global basis as a benchmark for commodity investing. Eric has over 15 years derivatives trading experience beginning with Prudential Bache on the New York commodity exchanges and shifting to interest rate trading and dealing in the inter-bank money markets with The Bank of New York and Lasser Marshall. Eric holds a BA Economics from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from Fordham. Standard and Poor’s is the world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data.

Ernest A. Scalamandre was born on March 23, 1963 in New York, New York, and received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) in 1985. Mr. Scalamandre has worked in the alternative investment industry for eighteen years and has managed a hedge fund of funds and its predecessor since 1993. In April 2006 he founded Aurelian Capital Limited, a provider of niche fund of hedge funds.  From July 1995 until December 2005, Mr. Scalamandre was the Founder and Managing Member of Pinnacle Associates GP LLC (Pinnacle), a fund of hedge funds firm serving as the Managing Member for several entities.  During this time he founded and managed the Pinnacle Natural Resources Fund, which received numerous industry awards with assets in excess of $1 Billion, including Absolute Return’s Commodities award in 2006.  Concurrently, Mr. Scalamandre was the lead portfolio manager for the Silver Creek Early Advantage Fund, which won Absolute Return’s Emerging Managers award in 2004 and 2005.   Prior to this, he was a Managing Member of Nest & Co., a registered broker-dealer and floor trading partnership, and has served as a partner in several floor trading investment firms. AC Investment Management, LLC (ACIM) is a private New York based investment advisor specializing in focused niche fund of hedge funds.  Currently, we have a particular emphasis on active commodity strategies on a global basis.  ACIM manages capital on behalf of high net worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors.

Farzam Kamalabadi, a Persian American, born and raised in Iran, educated in Boston, now residing in Shanghai China for over two decades, is one of the very few personalities widely acclaimed both by the Chinese media and also recognized by the China government leadership at large as a true "China Hand" and a leading authority on China. Kamalabadi reads and writes Chinese, including writing quality brush calligraphy and composing articles and papers on Chinese ancient philosophy. Moreover, he speaks mandarin as a native, as well as a number of other dialects such as Cantonese and Shanghainese. Kamalabadi is the only known foreigner who before the end of the Millennium had visited over 500 cities & townships covering virtually every single province of China. Also, by then he had personally visited some 2000 factories in China; had conducted scores of major public lectures in Chinese, including several key-note addresses to the national leaders of China at the Great Hall of the People and the State Guest House; and was published or featured in over 1000 Chinese media (magazines, newspapers, radio, television programs, and internal circulars and periodicals).  In 1993, he established Future Trends International (Group) Corporation, a China specialist US Corporation engaged in investment and trade consulting, oil and gas and energy, government lobbying, and so on. It is recognized as the leader in grassroots government, enterprise, and media relations and networking throughout China. This network encompasses over 900 Mayors or Deputy Mayors, as well as over 50 Governors or Deputy Governors in over 250 cities in virtually every province of China. Moreover, it covers hundreds of media organizations, thousands of local government agencies, numerous private and public entities and prominent personalities. On the national level, Future Trends enjoys equally effective relationship with major ministries, agencies, prominent personalities; and with over 100 individual leaders in the top Central Government circles in the ministerial level and above.  Certain of the articles, reports, suggestions, lectures and conferences of Future Trends have been instrumental in definitive policy changes, or new policy making on the national level (such as China Outbound Investment, First Policy Conference for the Modernization of the Housing Industry, First Policy Conference on the Development of the Western Regions; series of national strategy dialogues & events), creating new policies and strategic trends. In particular certain of Kamalabadi's proposals on ideological innovation such as "China Peace versus China Threat" had been endorsed and signed by President Jiang Zemin, Premier Zhu Rongji, Vice-Premier Qian Qichen, and other senior leadership. Kamalabadi has been appointed by nearly twenty municipal and regional governments in China as "Senior Economic Advisor".  A well known figure in the oil and gas and energy sector in China, Farzam Kamalabadi has also served in various capacities for business development or as Senior Advisor to a number of national oil systems such as Oman, Iran, Kuwait, and also China, and has successfully concluded various oil and petrochemical trading deals and projects such as securing oil exploration rights or concessions for specific clients. He is the only foreign personality who is a leader in the two national and also the few provincial private oil and gas associations of China. Future Trends International (Group) Corporation is a group of companies conducting business in various regions, diverse industries, and with multiple formulas and modes of operation.  The core focus of the corporation is oil and gas and energy, and related funds and investments in China.

Mr. Mian joined Rasmala after having served as a Senior Fund Analyst at CIBC Mellon in Toronto for two years. He holds a BA in Finance and Economics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is currently a Level II candidate in the CFA Program, a Level III candidate in the CMT (Chartered Market Technician) Program and has completed an Islamic Finance Qualification from the UK Securities & Investment Institute. Rasmala is a regional investment bank headquartered in the Dubai International Financial Centre with operating subsidiaries in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and London (UK).  Rasmala’s business activities cover three main areas, namely private equity, assset management, and brokerage.  The company carries out a full range of activities in a Sharia compliant manner through our dedicated Islamic subsidiary – Rasmala Investments (Saudi Arabia). Rasmala is led by a team of partners who have considerable international experience in the financial services industry, combined with a deep knowledge and understanding of the Middle East region.

Mr. John Lee manages two precious metals hedge funds at Mau Capital Management. Mr. Lee is a CFA charter holder and has degrees in economics and engineering from Rice University. He studied under Mr. James Turk, a renowned authority on the gold market, and founded Mau Capital Management in 2004. Since 2001 John has researched hundreds of mining companies and personally met with dozens of management teams. This hard work and dedication has enabled him to provide solid returns for his clients. John is an in-demand speaker at various resource conferences and shares his thoughts and analysis at various international media sites. John has gained invaluable insights by living in three continents: Europe, Asia, and North America. Mau Capital Management LLC oversees the Golden Omega Fund LP. The Golden Omega Fund is focused on small-cap precious and base metal mining companies. The fund specializes in negotiating private placements in public companies and seeks investments in under-appreciated companies with good growth prospects and strong management teams.

Leon is the principal trader of Aliquot Commodity Fund. Leon joined Castlestone Management in 2004, specializing in trading and research of global instruments. Leon previously worked for Folkes Asset Management, a London based multi-strategy hedge fund advisor and E.L.&C Baillieu in Australia. He received a Bachelor of Business in Finance from Queensland University of Technology and completed his post graduate studies through the Australian Securities Institute. Castlestone Management Group is an independent fund manager.  The company invests in traditional and alternative assets for clients globally, offering a broad range of funds, structured around assets including gold bullion, precious metals, commodity and stock indexes, currencies, hedge funds property and art. Castlestone Management was founded in December 1996, initially as a family office, by managing principal and acting chief investment officer Angus Murray, a former president of Macquarie Bank (USA) and co-head of the international equity department of NatWest Markets USA. Castlestone began managing alternative assets in October 1997, and since then has built up a unique expertise in structuring investment products. Today the company operates in five continents, with principal offices in London and New York, and manages about $1 billion of assets.

After a period of seven years as a Senior Investment Officer, including four years as a Vice-President, for a Dutch Investment House, Mr. Pieterse has been an independent strategic and gold analyst over 30 years in the role of Public Relations advisor to gold exploration companies. He is organiser of road shows to give companies exposure to the European professional  investment community and a regular Speaker at worldwide Gold and Uranium conferences. Goldletter International began covering the Uranium Industry in January 2005 and started the separate publication of Uraniumletter International in October 2005.  Thanks to its distinct approach, Uraniumletter International has become the premier source in Europe for investing in the world-wide uranium resource and development industry. Goldletter International is the premier independent gold investment source in Continental Europe, focusing on the global gold resource and development industry.  It publishes Special Region Reports, with overviews of exploration/development companies active in these regions, and features companies individually. As a separate publication, Uraniumletter International has become a premier source for investors in the worldwide uranium resource and development industry.

Mark is founder and Managing Director of Dawnay Day Quantum, a specialist investment management firm.  Dawnay Day Quantum specialises in commodities investments and quantitative funds. It was launched in 2003. DDQ was awarded “Best Commodities Fund Manager 2005”  by Global Investor Magazine. Mark started his career in the City as a Fund Manager at Thornton Investment Management and holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.  He has held various positions within investment including being MD of Finsbury Asset Management, running structured products at Legal & General, and marketing director of closed end funds at Henderson Global Investors. Dawnay Day Quantum Limited is a specialist investment management firm, and part of the Dawnay, Day Group. Originally established as an investment bank in 1928, today the Dawnay, Day Group is a diversified financial services and property investment business. Dawnay Day Quantum (DDQ) was judged “Best Commodities Fund Manager 2005’’ by Global Investor, and was also awarded the title of “Best UK Distributor 2005’’ by Structured Products Magazine. They specialise in quant and risk controlled investments, and in commodities. Dawnay Day Quantum Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.
Registered under Financial Services Authority No. 451462.

Matthew Serynek is currently the Senior Vice President of European Operations for SunGard’s Kiodex. During his 7years with Kiodex, he has played a strategic part towards the company’s Project Management and Marketing efforts. Prior to joining Kiodex, Mr. Serynek was with Clearcross where he worked as a Project Associate in the engineering department for supply chain management applications. He was responsible for facilitating project methodology and assisting the project lead in the management of a web-based track and trace program. Mr. Serynek holds a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Louisiana State University.A Web-based trading and risk management solution for commodities traders, Kiodex integrates deal capture and risk management capabilities with valuation models and independent market data. Banks, FCMs, hedge funds and corporations with exposure to commodity prices use Kiodex to help measure risk, design optimal trading strategies, improve price execution, manage positions, process trades and comply with financial reporting and regulatory best practices.  Visit SunGard's Kiodex at www.sungard.com/kiodex.

Mike has over 20 years of experience in the trading and analysis of a wide diversity of global derivatives markets. He is a former proprietary trader of financial futures and options on London’s LIFFE derivatives exchange. Mike joined Platts in 2000. As global lead for Platts Risk Management, in particular leading the development of the suite of Platts forward curve products, he has been involved in assessing, analysing and explaining these markets to a wide diversity of specialists and non-specialists alike. In addition to coverage of all key oil derivative markets, and US gas and power forward curves as far ahead as 20 years, he now directs and presents a global series of seminars and conferences on risk management and hedging.

Dr Miroslav Mitev is a managing director and head of quantitative securities research and portfolio management at Siemens/fin4cast. Dr Mitev is responsible for the development of innovative, systematic long-short investment strategies for institutional investors world wide based on Siemens/fin4cast technology. After joining Siemens in 2001 Dr Mitev successfully formed a qualified team of 25 professionals which is continuously developing the Siemens/fin4cast Technology and building mathematical forecasting models for a variety of financial instruments like currency futures, commodity futures, stock index futures, bond futures, single stocks and hedge fund indices. Dr Mitev is in charge of the Siemens/fin4cast’s research cooperation with various universities and is actively involved in the scientific management of numerous master thesis and dissertations. Dr Mitev is a regular speaker at international conventions on liability driven investing, asset management, hedge funds, portable alpha, advanced quantitative studies, algo-trading and system research. Dr Mitev’s research is published on a regular basis in international journals and presented on international scientific conferences. Prior to joining Siemens Dr Mitev was at CA IB, the Investment Bank of Bank Austria Group, where he was in charge of the quantitative research of the securities research division. Dr Mitev received a Master of Economics and Business Administration with main focus on Investment Banking and Capital Markets. Dr Mitev also received a PhD in Economics with main focus on Finance and Econometrics.

Moaz Barakat is a graduate of the American University of Beirut where he obtained his Bachelor degree in 1984 and his Masters degree in 1986 in Business Administration. After receiving his Masters degree, Moaz Barakat joined Gulf Eternit Industries in 1986 as the Finance and Administration Coordinator. In 1988 Moaz Barakat joined Price Waterhouse as Senior Manager, Audit & Business Advisory Services. In 1995 Moaz Barakat joined the World Gold Council as Regional Finance, Administration & Planning Manager for the Middle East & India Sub-Continent, a position he held till he was appointed to his current position in 1999 as the Managing Director of the WGC for the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan. Moaz Barakat is a US Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and received a Personal Acknowledgment letter from the President of California State Board of Accountancy. He is a member of Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Advisory Board in addition to Gold & Jewellery Group Board. Moaz Barakat is also a member of several  professional bodies such as the  American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Oregon Society of Certified Public Accounts, Virginia Society of Certified Public Accounts, Association of MBA Executives, American University of Beirut Alumni Association and American Management Association. He is also a visiting faculty instructor to American University of Dubai, Buffalo State University, Becker CPA Review Course, Becker CMA Review Course and Becker CIA Review Course.

Philip Moss is Carbon Markets Manager at MASDAR (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) where he oversees commercial operations for the CDM carbon finance arm, Masdar Carbon. Prior to joining MASDAR, Philip was Vice President with CantorCO2e where he managed corporate finance activities related to carbon project investment and cleantech. Philip has several years of experience across a range of environmental investment products and financial vehicles, having spent time in the public sector with the IFC and UNEP as well as in traditional finance with GE Equity, HSCB and Tara Capital. He holds BS degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Richard Kang has been active in both institutional and individual asset/risk management for over twelve years with extensive experience in multi asset class mandates as well as strategies applying the use of passive instruments. Richard spent six years with a Toronto based investment firm whose services for institutional investors focused on various hedge fund strategies.  Subsequently, he built and managed the investment management subsidiary of a private wealth firm. In 2002, Richard co-founded an investment firm managing long-only GAA mandates for private investors and short-only “beta filtering” overlays for multi-strategy hedge funds/FOFs.  In addition to running his firm, Richard was retained by a FOFs for two years as its Chief Investment Officer.  He currently writes a blog, The Beta Brief (www.thebetabrief.com), which is a commentary and analysis on matters related to beta including indexing, exchange traded funds (”ETFs”), derivatives, their application in the portfolio management process and their effect on the investment industry.

Sam Y. Chung, Ph.D., is Associate Dean & Associate Professor of Finance at the School of Business -Long Island University in New York City, USA.  Dr. Chung is also a research associate of Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets (CISDM) at the University of Massachusetts and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Alternative Investments.   In the Hedge Funds industry, Dr. Chung has had 12+ years of experience as an active researcher, advisor, and senior manager. Dr. Chung is currently the Vice President and Director of Risk Management at the Parker Global Strategies LLC.  Dr. Chung received his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Master of Finance from Boston College, and M.B.A from Illinois State University.  Dr. Chung has published various articles in journals such as the Journal of International Business and Finance, the Journal of Alternative Investment along with numerous research and consulting endeavors in the area of financial risk management and measurement.  Dr. Chung’s current research interests include: Risk Measurement (VaR) and Management through Derivatives Markets, Alternative Investment (Hedge Funds, CTAs, Managed Futures, etc.) strategies, Futures Market Microstructure, and International Banking and Finance. Dr. Chung is an active member of both Academic and Practical Affiliations such as American Finance Association (AFA), Financial Management Association (FMA), European Finance Association (EFA), and Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). Dr. Chung currently also serves the Korea-America Finance Association (KAFA) as Secretary General.

Joined Van Eck in 2005. Serves as senior analyst focusing on energy; also investment
team member of Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund and Van Eck Worldwide Insurance Trust’s Worldwide Hard Assets Fund. Prior to joining Van Eck, an energy analyst covering U.S. oil and gas exploration and production companies at Petrie Parkman & Co. From 1991 to 2001, covered North American, European and global energy companies out of New York, Australia and London with Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse First Boston. From 1987 to 1989, an exploration geologist at Tenneco Oil Company. Chosen as Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street” for exploration & production stock selection, 2000; recognized as one of the “Best Up and Comers,” exploration & production sector by Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Poll, 1999. MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society), Finance,
Columbia Business School, 1991; MA (Phi Beta Kappa), Petroleum Geology, University of Texas, Austin, 1987; BS, Engineering, Cornell University, 1985. 

Stan Ehrlich started in the Futures industry in 1971 as a runner on the Chicago Futures Exchanges.  In 1978 Stan Ehrlich invented the Ehrlich Cycle Finder™, a universal technical analysis tool, and now the oldest physical technical analysis device in the Investment Industry worldwide. Stan has brokered for some of the most famous market analysts in the world, including Robert Prechter, the Elliot Wave Theorist, Beatrice Foods Corp., and other large corporations.He has been quoted in numerous financial papers, magazines, is written up in about 20 different books, and has appeared on CNBC, international financial TV, and many other television and radio stations worldwide, including radio programs and internet interviews. He is also a member of AAPTA, American Association of Professional Technical Analysts. Stan is now the president of Solid Gold Financial Services, Inc. A Commodity Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), commodity pool operator (CPO), commodity trading adviser (CTA), in the San Francisco financial district.

Thomas Holmes is a Political and Trade Credit Risk insurance broker at Miller Insurance Services Limited (Miller).  His expertise lies in working with traders, financiers, corporates and export credit agencies/multi-laterals throughout the Middle East and Africa. These include the Saudi Export Program (SEP) and The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investments and Export Credit (ICIEC). He has worked to structure and place risk for these clients in territories as diverse as Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Iran and Zimbabwe.  With over nine years’ experience in the insurance industry, Thomas joined Miller in 2005 and has extensive knowledge of the technical insurance aspects of political and trade credit risk, including the practical implications of Basel II compliance.
Miller is the UK's largest privately owned insurance and reinsurance broker, operating internationally and at Lloyd's. Founded in 1902, Miller employs over 450 people and handles an annual premium throughput approaching US$2 billion.

Mr. Sperandeo, known globally as “Trader Vic”, is a professional trader and investment adviser with over 40 years experience in the stock, bond, futures, commodities, and currency markets, trading independently for, among others, George Soros, Leon Cooperman, and BT Alex Brown. He is well known for his ability to make money in declining financial markets. Through years of extensive research, Mr. Sperandeo developed the Diversified Trend Index which has been “branded” by Standard & Poor’s and is now called the S&P Diversified Trends Indicator. In addition he also developed the S&P Commodity Trends Indicator. Alpha Financial Technologies LLC is a Dallas, Texas based company that designs and develops sophisticated, derivative based financial products. AFT is the creator of the S&P Diversified Trends Indicator (DTI) and the S&P Commodity Trends Indicator (CTI), both of which are quantitative long/short strategy indices that have been branded by Standard & Poor’s and are used as an underlying for a number of derivative based financial products.