David Bensimon graduated with multiple awards and top of his class in a 5-year business program in Canada. He has 20 years of experience with interbank, exchange-floor, and proprietary trading and investing across foreign exchange, interest rate, equity index, and commodity markets. His institutional career at top-tier global investment banks in Europe over the course of a decade included positions of chief dealer, head of trading, and chief of staff, and he also spent a year on the floor of a major Asian futures exchange. For the past decade Mr. Bensimon has published his forecasts of global markets with well-documented precision His book, Polar Perspectives, won two gold medals at international competitions. His monthly series, PolarView, correctly forecast the exact recent movements in global stock and commodity markets. A sought-after speaker at conferences and seminars around the world for his compelling analysis and dynamic delivery, Mr. Bensimon is also frequently invited to share his views in the financial media. For links to clips from appearances on television and radio shows, and in newspaper, magazine, and internet articles see www.polarpacific.com. Mr. Bensimon's latest project, Polarcap Prosperity, is a Singapore-registered investment fund. See www.polarcap.sg

Jonathan Boyden has worked in commodities for 9 years. In 1999 and 2000 he worked in Australia in the mining sector for a brokerage house before coming to the UK. From 2001 to 2006 he worked in the Sugar Trade, working on the futures desk for Tate and Lyle. In 2007 he took up a position with Ambrian Commodities Ltd working in the softs, grains, base metal and energy markets. Jonathan has a degree in Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance.

Dermot S. L. Butler is Chairman of Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Ltd., which offers a full hedge fund administration service through globally integrated offices in Dublin, Chicago and Singapore. Custom House is authorised by the Irish Financial Regulator under Section 10 of the Investment Intermediaries Act, 1995. He is also Deputy Chairman of AMIA.

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.

Mr. Dash is a Managing Director of Crosby Capital Partners in Singapore and a member of Crosby’s natural resources and energy team. Mr. Dash joined Crosby in 2002 and has worked on most of Crosby’s mining and energy related deals over the last 6 years. Prior to Crosby, Mr. Dash was a Director with Triton Advisory, a corporate finance advisory firm based in Indonesia focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory work in the natural resources sector. Whilst at Triton, he was involved in the privatization of PT. Timah (at the time the world’s largest tin mining company), PT. Aneka Tambang (state owned nickel and gold producer) and PT. Bukit Asam (one of Indonesia’s largest coal producers). He was also involved in advising investors on the acquisition of various coal companies including Kaltim Prima Coal, Arutmin, Adaro Coal and Berau Coal all of whom are amongst the 5 largest coal producers in Indonesia. Mr. Dash has a Bachelors degree in Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K.

In 1990 after graduating from Keio University, joined Sumitomo Corporation and started metal business. In 1996 transferred to Sumitomo London office, then joined Metallgesellschaft Ltd. In 1998 back to Tokyo to move to MG Tokyo office as marketing manager for Asian Market. In 2000 joined Mitsui Bussan Futures Ltd. as chief commodity strategist. In 2007 joined Astmax Co., Ltd. as commodity fund manager and will launch “Commodity Global Macro Strategy” Fund shortly. Having physical business, futures and options trading background in metal market and many result of market forecast and investment strategy for metals, energy, grains and soft commodity, market. Published several books “London Metal Exchange Guide”, “New Investment in Metal Market”, “Smart investors must know Commodity Market”, etc. most active and influence opinion leader of commodity market in Japanese.

Helyette GEMAN is a Professor of Finance at Birkbeck, University of London and ESSEC Graduate Business School. She is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure in mathematics, holds a Masters degree in theoretical physics and a PhD in mathematics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie and a PhD in Finance from the University Pantheon Sorbonne. Professor Geman has been a scientific advisor to major financial institutions and energy and mining companies for the last 15 years, covering the spectrum of interest rates, catastrophic risk, oil, natural gas, electricity and metals. She was previously the head of Research and Development at Caisse des Depots. She has published more than 90 papers in top international finance Journals and is a Member of Honor of the French Society of Actuaries. Professor Geman's research includes asset price and commodity forward curve modeling, as well as exotic option pricing for which she won the first prize of the Merrill Lynch Awards. She was named in 2004 in the Hall of Fame of Energy Risk. Her reference book Commodities and Commodity Derivatives was published by Wiley Finance in January 2005. Prof Geman is a Member of the Board of the UBS-Bloomberger Commodity Index.

Frederic Hervouet is Managing Director, Head of Commodity Investor Derivatives Asia Sales & Marketing at BNP Paribas, covering all investment solutions for Commodities in Asia, based in Singapore. Born in France, he started his career in 1996 at Banque Indosuez on the Treasury Desk, specializing on swaps. He then joined Barep Asset Management, hedge fund arm of Société Générale and was based from 1997 to 1998 in Singapore, heading the South-East Asian Markets as a senior marketer. Fred returned to Paris in 1999 to head the European Markets distribution for Barep Asset management when the hedge fund firm grew up to EUR5.5 Billion as assets under management. In 2001, Fred participated in the launch of Systeia C.M., the hedge fund investment arm of Credit Agricole Group in Paris as a partner, covering European, South East Asian and Middle Eastern clients and stayed until the end of 2005 with up to USD1.4 Billion AUM. End of 2005, Fred was appointed as Global head of sales at Diapason Commodities Management, company launched in 2004 by Jim Rogers. He is a graduate from University Paris Dauphine in France from DESS203, equivalent MBA, Major in Financial, Commodity Markets, and Corporate Finance. He is a member of the AIMA (Alternative Investment management Association).

Joseph Ho is Managing Director, Head of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) Sales and Marketing, based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for expanding the bank’s ETF business across the Asia-Pacific region including developing new markets and products. Prior to joining, Joseph was with Barclays Global Investors in Hong Kong for 8 years as Regional Director, North Asia and Head of iShares, Asia ex-Japan. Joseph has over 25 years of experience in the asset management industry in the region, having worked in Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. He started his career as a portfolio manager and has since expanded his responsibilities to cover product/business development and marketing & sales. Joseph graduated from the University of Alberta, Canada, with a Master Degree of Business Administration and a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering. He is a qualified CFA in Taiwan.

Tim Hornibrook is a Director of Macquarie Pastoral Services. He has worked for Macquarie for the past 6 years and over the last 3 ½ years has been responsible for the formulation of the Macquarie Pastoral Fund. The Macquarie Pastoral Fund is the first fund of its kind globally; investing in Australian sheep and cattle production in order to leverage increasing protein consumption globally and Australia’s comparative production advantages. Tim has been involved in the analysis of a range of range of agriculture commodities in order to understand their risk/return characteristics and their potential attractiveness from institutional investment viewpoint. As a result, a major area of focus is conversing with some institutional investment managers globally about how they might go about analysing agriculture and the potential investment opportunities within the sector. His previous role with Macquarie was as Head, Macquarie Private Portfolio Management (MPPM). MPPM is an individually managed account business that invests across equities, fixed income, property and cash. Tim was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the business including management, dealing, operations, compliance, sales, marketing and investment management. At the time of his departure he was responsible for overseeing $AU1.5bn in FUM. Prior to Macquarie, Tim was responsible for the sales and marketing of BNP Paribas managed account business in Australia. The Macquarie group is a diversified international provider of banking, financial, advisory and investment services, headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Macquarie has established a leading position in specific asset class investor funds (specialist funds). At 31 March 2007, specialist assets under management totalled $A166 billion. Specialist funds activities are spread across a number of Macquarie’s Operating Groups and span sectors including infrastructure (toll roads, airports, communications infrastructure, energy utilities and other asset classes), sector-specific real estate assets (retail, office, industrial, commercial, global opportunity development), private equity, development capital, and agriculture.

Jennifer Ilkiw is a director of the IntercontinentalExchange’s® (NYSE: ICE) Asia Pacific operations. ICE operates the leading global, electronic marketplace for trading both futures and OTC energy contracts and the leading soft commodity exchange. ICE’s markets offer access to a range of contracts based on crude oil and refined products, natural gas, power and emissions, as well as agricultural commodities including cocoa, coffee, cotton, ethanol, orange juice, wood pulp and sugar, in addition to currency and index futures and options. ICE manages its Asia Pacific operations from its headquarters in Singapore which was officially opened in 2000. Prior to joining ICE, Ms Ilkiw opened and managed the Asia Pacific office of the New York Mercantile Exchange and helped to develop Singapore as a commodity derivatives trading centre in her role as Assistant Director with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Ms Ilkiw is a committee member of the Financial Women’s Association of Singapore and an active participant in Singapore’s financial community. She earned a bachelors degree in economics from Queens’ University in Canada and a masters of business administration from the University of Toronto in Canada. Ms. Ilkiw also contributed to a textbook on international business in the Asia Pacific published in 2004.

Roland A..Jansen, from The Netherlands, holds a degree in Business Administration (lic.oec.HSG) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He worked in New York, London and Zurich, Switzerland, as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and Cargill Investor Services. He has also been a Senior Vice President for the British bank Coutts & Co in Zurich. From 1995 – 2000 Mr. Jansen was Director of Fund Management at the Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein. He was instrumental in developing the bank’s fund business from scratch to CHF 2.5 billion. Mr. Jansen has been a 4 year Board Member of EMFA (European Managed Futures Association - former AIMA). and a founding Member of the Liechtenstein Fund Association. He served as a consultant to the Swiss Federal Banking Commission. He has been a featured speaker at asset management and alternative energy conferences in the USA, Europe and Asia. He has also lectured at the Warsaw University of Technology. He is the author of : „Profits from Natural Resources“, John Wiley & Sons, New York. (1998) where he forecasted the end of the bear markets and a new upswing in commodities. He is appearing regularly on the Asian Pacific, British and German channels of Bloomberg Television. By punching the name Roland Jansen in any Bloomberg terminal the interviews can be seen. He is an advisory board member of the “Chinese Reference Fund” in Beijing, which is a large private equity fund, restructuring companies in China. He is the CEO of Mother Earth Investments AG in Pfäffikon (SZ) Switzerland. The company issues the “Mother Earth Index” and the “Mother Earth Ex-Energy Index”, truly global indices of natural resources. The company manages assets of banks, private clients, pension funds and family offices in natural resources. He publishes his research weekly in the “Mother Earth Report”. Mr. Jansen serves as the honorary consul for The Netherlands in Liechtenstein. Mr. Jansen is fluent in Dutch, German, French, English and Swiss German. He has a good working knowledge of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

Mr Khoo Hock Aun graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Agribusiness) from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang in 1978 and was a Nuffield Foundation Study Fellow in 1988 with the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, United Kingdom where he examined developments in biotechnology: the institutional basis for innovation, the role of government policy and the various approaches to commercialise and finance innovation in the field of life sciences. He is Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Ark Bio Sdn Bhd, a regional biotechnology company focused on development of improved genetic material and mass propagation of planting material for jatropha curcas, other oil seed plants and organisms which can be utilized as feedstock for the biofuel industry. It also collaborates with research institutes on jatropha curcas agronomy, plant nutrition, farm mechanization, pest and disease management, precision agriculture as well as into alternative uses of the vegetable oil and its by-products. He also leads the Cosmo Biofuels Group which is actively engaged in establishing jatropha curcas plantations, biodiesel downstream processing and trading activities in the Asia Pacific region. He is presently developing markets and partnerships for an oilseed-to-biodiesel supply chain based on the Group’s proprietary processing technology. He was Senior Advisor (Regional Strategy and Business Development) 2004-2006 for the South East Asia operations of D1 Oils plc. For the last three years he has developed a strategic interface with related Government agencies in South East Asia overseeing the policy for biofuels and renewable energy. He is also Advisor/Strategist for the International Jatropha Organisation. From 1978 to 1983 he was Staff Writer for Malaysian Business magazine, published then by the New Straits Times Group of Companies and from 1983 –1985 was Head of the Market Research Department and Senior Executive for corporate planning in the Malaysian Overseas Investment Corporation Sdn Bhd; both positions required extensive professional research on economic, business and industry matters. He was subsequently appointed Executive Director of the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia from 1986-87 and concurrently held the position of Executive Director of the ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry. From 1989 to 1996, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the ASEAN Tourism Information Centre established by the ASEAN National Tourism Organisations. From 1996-1998, he was appointed the Executive Director of the ASEAN Business Forum; a regional association of corporations from South East Asia formed with the common objective of promoting intra-regional trade and business co-operation. From 1999-2004 he represented South East Asia on a global service platform for tourism e-commerce, was consultant to a company involved in multimedia advertising and was also Executive Director of the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia.

Rodney Lake is a Senior Investment Analyst in George Washington University’s (GW) Investment Office. Under the direction of the Chief Investment Officer, the office is responsible for managing the University’s $1.1 billion endowment fund. Mr. Lake’s responsibilities include developing investment themes, as well as identifying and recommending implementation strategies including the use of derivatives across all asset classes. Additional responsibilities include monitoring existing managers, performing due diligence for new investment opportunities, monitoring economic, political and geopolitical factors globally, as well as tracking capital flows in the public and private markets. Mr. Lake is also the Teaching Assistant for the Applied Portfolio Management course in the MBA program at the University. The primary focus of this course is a student-managed $1.5 million portfolio within of the University’s Endowment Fund. Previously, Mr. Lake was a Senior Financial Analyst in the Executive Vice President and Treasurer’s Office at GW. In this capacity he served as an internal consultant for projects raging from financial model building to developing spin-out strategies and valuations for internal businesses. Prior to joining GW he was a Financial Analyst in the mortgage division of California Federal Bank performing valuations for portfolio acquisitions, divestitures, and marks-to-market via proprietary valuation models. Mr. Lake graduated cum laude, from West Virginia Wesleyan College with a B.S. degree in business. He attended graduate school at The George Washington University and received an MBA in finance.

John Lee manages a precious metals hedge fund 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.

Dr Leonardo Bichara Rocha has a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex, England, and since 2003 has been serving as an Economist to the International Sugar Organization. During his past career in England, he worked as an Economics Consultant to ITS Consultancy at the port town of Felixstowe while also teaching Economics at the University of Essex between 1999 and 2002. Dr Leonardo Bichara Rocha has also done substantial research work using econometric modelling, in particular on issues such as sugar consumption, as well as ethanol production costs. More recently, Dr Bichara Rocha has been active in a number of International Consultations, such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Consultation on Sugar and the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Aglink Working group. Since joining the ISO, he has spoken at several sugar and ethanol events worldwide, organized by the International Sugar Council and other private organizations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Joining TOCOM in 1995, Mr. Seki has taken several positions at the Exchange in areas including market operations, public relations and international affairs. He started his career working for a system developer; and at TOCOM, he has been involved in a number of IT-related projects.

Mr. Mats Sjöström joined Altis Partners in 2006 as Head of Sales for Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Sjöström is responsible for client relations and business development in the Asia Pacific region. From 2003 - 2005, Mr Sjöström was Regional Director for Estlander & Rönnlund, responsible for business development in Asia and the Middle East. Mr Sjöström has worked in the hedge fund industry since 1999, in various trading, portfolio management and product development positions. Mats Sjöström holds a Masters degree in Finance.

Aaron L. Smith began his career at Morgan Stanley, working in the Private Client Group. Mr. Smith joined Superfund in March 2002 and has played an important role in developing distribution and marketing in various jurisdictions throughout Europe, the Middle East & Africa. Currently, Mr. Smith serves as the president and designated principal of Superfund Asset Management, Inc. and is currently based in New York. Mr. Smith holds the Series 3, 7, 24, 31 & 66 licenses and is an active member of the Managed Funds Association Commodity Trading Advisor Committee. He received his BS in Finance and International Business at the Leonard N. School of Business at New York University.

Danièle joined the EasyETF business development team in 2005. She has 19 years of experience in financial products. She has been with BNP Paribas since 1997. Before joining the EasyETF team, she helped develop the currency overlay management business (begun in 2001) for BNPParibas AM and Overlay Asset Management. In 1997 she created the sales desk for foreign exchange and FX derivative products for BNP Paribas’ fixed income division servicing central bank and supranational clients. Before joining BNP Paribas, Danièle held various positions as senior manager of Financial Futures on both regulated (MATIF, CBOT, CME, Philadelphia) and OTC markets for major US Investment Houses such as Drexel BL, Paine Webber and Smith Barney. Danièle holds a Masters in Business Administration and Marketing from University of Paris-Dauphine.