Jonathan is the Global Emerging Markets Economist for UBS Investment Bank. Before joining UBS in 2003, he worked at Goldman Sachs; he also spent eight years at the International Monetary Fund, including three years as Resident Representative in China and three years as Resident Representative in Russia. From 2003 through 2007 Jonathan was Chief Asian Economist for UBS, and was top-ranked in a wide range of broker polls including Asiamoney, Institutional Investor, The Asset and FinanceAsia. He is the author of “The Five Great Myths About China and the World", and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and Russian.

Aged 46, Geoffrey has worked in Asia Pacific economic and market research since 1986. He graduated from Bath University in 1985 with a BSc in Economics and Politics, and then in 1986 from City University Business School in London with an MBA. Geoffrey worked initially at Smith New Court in London as an Asia Pacific economist, then at Barings in Tokyo as Chief Economist - Japan and Head of Japan Research, at Schroders in Hong Kong as Chief Economist - Asia Pacific and Head of Asia Pacific Research, and at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as Head of Asia Pacific Economics and Strategy. From 2000 to 2004 at HSBC he was Chief Economist - Asia Pacific, and Head of Asia Pacific Research, with responsibility for all currency, fixed income and equity research. He has lived in the region for seventeen years, from 1991 to 1995 in Japan, and since 1996 in Hong Kong. Geoffrey joined BIA in October 2005 with lead responsibility for the firm’s economic and market research. He has been Portfolio Manager of the BIA Pacific Macro Fund since its inception in March 2006.

David Ben-Ur, CFA, Partner, Portfolio Manager and Director of Research is responsible for research and portfolio management for the firm, with a focus on equity strategies. Prior to joining Corbin Capital Partners in March 2004, Mr. Ben-Ur worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was Vice President, Senior Investment Strategist and the senior leader responsible for U.S. equity investments for the company’s $14B manager of managers business. Prior to joining Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Ben-Ur worked at Fidelity Management & Research, as a Senior Fund Analyst and Assistant Investment Strategist at Fidelity’s fund of funds unit. Mr. Ben-Ur graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in Spanish Literature and Comparative Religion and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society. Mr. Ben-Ur received his Master’s in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and was awarded the CFA charter in 1998. He is the co-author of An Asset-Management Approach to Manager Selection, a chapter in "Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach," by Bob Litterman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

Kevin R. Birkett is Director, Asset Management, at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the world’s fastest-growing financial centre. In this role within the Business Development Unit of the DIFC, he is responsible for attracting asset managers to the DIFC and helping them to obtain the appropriate licenses to operate within the financial centre. Mr. Birkett, who brings considerable experience to the position, interacts with asset management companies and at all levels, including Boards of Directors. Mr. Birkett, whose professional qualifications were previously registered by both the UK Securities and Futures Authority and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, served many years at Merrill Lynch in a range of roles, focused on Europe and the Middle East (EME) region, He joined Merrill Lynch International Bank in 1982 and later became Head of Business Unit, EME. In 1996 with a change of focus to wealth management he transferred to Merrill Lynch Global Asset Management where he became Sales Director with responsibility for the EME region. Mr. Birkett began his professional career at National Westminster Bank, which later became part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, and Morgan Guaranty Trust Co

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.

Previously, Managing Director, Head of Equities, and member of the Executive Committee of Morgan Stanley Japan; Chairman of the Foreign Securities Council of the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA); and CEO of PCA Asset Management of the UK Prudential Group. Began his career in finance as a derivatives trader at Bankers Trust. A.B., Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1986 (Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude (highest honors)), and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University. Author of Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy, 1975-1993, winner of the Arisawa Prize. (“Callon's findings are extraordinary... It is essential for anyone trying to get a little closer to the core of what makes Japan tick.” Japan Times). Has lived in Japan for eighteen years; fluent in spoken and written Japanese. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Clemente founded The Sturgeon Investments Ltd in 2006 after working as an Investment Analyst in New York at Haussmann Holdings, a Fund of Hedge Funds. Before, he briefly worked at HSBC Corporate Finance Advisory Division in London, Bear Stearns' Trading Floor in New York, and at Goldman, Sachs, in the Investment Management Division, London. Clemente holds a degree in Business Administration and Finance from Bocconi University – Milan. He is fluent in Italian, English, French and has a basic knowledge of Spanish and German.

Mr. Carroll is Managing Director and CIO of the Absolute Return Hedge Fund at Diversified Global Asset Management (DGAM), a $2.7 billion alternative investments firm. He joined DGAM from RBC Capital Markets, where he developed, structured, and implemented risk management solutions for the bank and corporate clients. Mr. Carroll has a Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of Florida, an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Dalhousie University, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Joseph Cavatoni joined UBS in September 2003 as the Head of Equity Swaps and Collateral Trading in Asia. He has over 16 years of experience in the banking industry. He has recently taken responsibility for the regional management of all Asian SBL and Equity Swaps activity for the firm. Prior to joining UBS, Joseph served with Merrill Lynch as a Credit Analyst and was responsible for Merrill's Equity Prime Brokerage business in Asia. Prior to that, he was trained as a credit officer for Bank of America. Joseph has a Bachelors of Business Administration from the George Washington University and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Clark Cheng joined the HSBC Group in March 2005 and is the Head of US Research. In this role, he is responsible for managing the hedge fund due diligence process in the Americas. Additionally, he is a member of the Alternative Investment Group Management Committee and Alternative Investment Policy Committee, which is responsible for $55B in hedge fund investments across both discretionary and advisory mandates. He has been integral in developing quantitative tools and improving the investment process and risk management for the investment platform. Before joining HSBC, Mr. Cheng performed hedge fund research at Guggenheim Partners and Morgan Stanley between 2002 and 2005. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he worked in Credit Suisse First Boston’s equity research department in 2001. He spent six year building and establishing West Coast Economics before joining Credit Suisse. Mr. Cheng holds the Chartered Financial Analyst, Financial Risk Manager and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations. He completed his Masters Degree in Business Administration at Duke University in 2002 and received a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Business/Economics and Psychology from UCLA in 1994.

TK is the managing partner of Ajia Partners, a privately held alternative investment firm focused on real estate, special situations, hedge funds and fund of funds. He has been involved in all aspects of the firm’s development since its founding in 2000. Ajia Partners presently manages over $2.5 billion in assets for some of the largest institutional investors and family offices around the world. He has over 22 years proprietary investment experience in the alternative investment class as well as venture capital.

Robert Chin joined the ATC Group in March 2003 as Chief Executive Officer of ATC Fund Services. Prior to joining ATC, Robert was the managing director of Fortis Fund Services (Curaçao) N.V. for ten years, where he was responsible for approximately 75 staff members and US$ 22 billion of assets under administration. Robert's previous professional experience includes a seven-year tenure as CFO of a Dutch brokerage firm, where Robert was a member of the European Option Exchange and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. Before that, Robert spent the first 8 years of his career as an accountant with Ernst & Young Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

Prior to founding AsiaSource Capital, Simon spent his career on the buy-side with the asset management division of Prudential plc in London and Hong Kong, and on the sell-side with Cazenove in Hong Kong. Simon is a CFA charterholder, graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) in Oriental Studies, and holds a China-focused MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology School of Business. Simon has written for and featured in various financial publications on the topics of Greater China markets and hedge funds, and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. AsiaSource Capital is a niche investment manager with offices in Singapore and New York. In February 2007, the manager launched the ASC Greater China Fund, a fund-of-funds focused solely on the Greater China investment universe. The principals of AsiaSource Capital have extensive experience in global and Greater China capital markets.

Mr. Cunningham is President and Co-Founder of Touchstone Group, LLC, a financial services firm that raises institutional capital for hedge fund and private equity managers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australasia. Touchstone was founded in 2002 and operates with six full-time professionals in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia. The company’s principals have helped raise over $2.5 billion in institutional capital. Previously, Mr. Cunningham co-founded and served as President of an investment management firm that advised the first life-cycle mutual funds focused on retirement investing, and advised pension fund trustees on a variety of asset-liability and governance issues. Prior to this, he served as a investment consultant to a number of major institutional investors on alternative asset allocations. Mr. Cunningham co-founded and managed a group of venture capital funds headquartered in Philadelphia. He has co-authored two books on investing. Mr Cunningham holds a Masters of International Management (with honors) from the American Graduate School of International Management and a BA (magna cum laude with highest honors) from Williams College.

As Senior Strategist and Head of Capital Introductions – Asia, for Newedge Prime Brokerage Group, Kirby Daley services hedge fund investors and managers all over the Asia-Pacific region. 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 Newedge Group in Tokyo (formerly called Fimat Group) in 2001. At Newedge, Kirby worked initially as a Japan Strategist, but added the Hedge Fund Capital Introductions role in late 2002, and currently handles all of these duties out of the Newedge office in Hong Kong. Kirby is featured prominently in the media for his views on the global economy, markets and politics, having had a regular Monday morning weekly spot on CNBC Asia (Asia Squawk Box) from early 2003 through Spring 2008, and continuing frequent appearances on CNN International, Bloomberg TV, the BBC.

Teall Edds is a Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager of Stark Investments. He is responsible for the Hybrid Credit and Fixed Income strategies as well as the investment research team in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Stark in 2003, he served as Regional Head of Credit Risk Management at Credit Suisse Financial Products (Hong Kong) and as Director, Head of Credit Risk Management for Southern Asia Pacific at CSFB (Singapore), where he was involved with structured finance and distressed loan management during the Asian financial crisis. Prior to his arrival in Asia in 1997, he spent six years in New York with Credit Suisse Financial Products and Citicorp Securities, with experience in municipal finance, Latin American Emerging Markets and structured finance transactions. Teall holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from Denison University.

Michael Feldschuh is a portfolio manager on the Japan Equity Market Neutral Investment Team, focusing on the creation and management of absolute return strategies. Michael re-joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 and has 15 years of investment experience. Prior to re-joining the firm, he was a managing director and portfolio manager for Millennium Partners, where he created and managed multi-country, process-driven strategies for non-U.S. markets including Japan, Britain, France, Germany and Sweden. Previously, Michael was a proprietary trader in the equity division of Morgan Stanley & Co. In that role he developed and traded process-driven strategies for several world markets. Prior to that, Michael was with D.E. Shaw in New York as a proprietary trader of Japanese equities and derivatives. He received a B.A. in pre-med from Columbia University.

Justin Ferrier is the CEO and founder of Myo Capital. The Myo Capital Master Fund seeks high capital appreciation and a low risk of capital loss by investing in four complimentary credit related strategies that can be dynamically sized depending on the most attractive opportunity set: (i) distressed debt, (ii) private debt financings, (iii) high yield, and (iv) credit event driven equity. Prior to founding Myo Capital Justin spent eight years with ADM Capital, as a Director and a member of the investment committee, where he was responsible for identifying, researching and investing in distressed debt and private debt financings across the Asian region. He has eight years experience in corporate finance and worked for the Warburg group in Australia and Indonesia and Peregrine Capital in Hong Kong, where he was responsible for managing mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions in a wide range of industry sectors. He has two years experience as a management consultant with Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) in Australia. Mr Ferrier's qualifications include: MBA (Monash University) and Bachelors of Science (University of South Australia). Mr Ferrier is an Associate CPA (Australia) and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

Peter C. Ferry graduated with a B.A. in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and an MBA in Finance from Hong Kong University in 1993. Prior to the establishment of Ward Ferry Management, he was the fixed income investment specialist at Lloyd George Management. Over the past 28 years he has experience both on the buy-side and sell-side with Morgan Stanley, CSFB and Lloyd George Management. He has been in Asia since 1986.

Peter H. Fletcher is managing director of Parly Company, a Geneva-based family office that invests internationally in alternative investments. Fletcher has more than 30 years of international experience covering a broad spectrum of financial management functions in the trust and banking industry in Canada, Australia, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Switzerland. In addition to holding numerous directorships of investment funds and companies, Fletcher has served on various government financial regulatory bodies.

Fuyuki Fujiwara, CFA, is a founding partner of Speedwell and advises the Nezu Cyclicals Fund. Previously, Mr. Fujiwara worked as an analyst at Tiger Management in Tokyo and as a sell-side analyst at Salomon Smith Barney Securities and BZW Securities in Tokyo. A graduate of Yale University, he was born and raised in the United States but has been a resident of Japan since 1991.

Ashutosh Gupta is the Head of the Private Equity group and Chief Transition Officer for Investment Research at Evalueserve. Prior to Evalueserve, Ashutosh was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He worked in several capacities at Goldman Sachs in New York and London including the New Products group and the Equities division. His last job was at the Equity Finance trading desk in London where he was part of a structuring team that put together large structured trades for corporations and financial institutions. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ashutosh attended New York University Stern School of Business and before that worked as a consultant with Roy F Weston, Inc., an engineering consulting firm in Philadelphia, USA. Ashutosh served as a reviewer for several leading journals in Environmental Engineering. In 1997, he also qualified as a Professional Engineer in District of Columbia. At New York University Stern School of Business, Ashutosh was named ‘Stern Scholar’ based on his academic performance. At Goldman Sachs, Ashutosh held several positions over a six year sting in New York and London and won an early promotion to Vice President. Ashutosh Gupta received his BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1990, his MS in Environmental Engineering from University of Cincinnati in 1993, and his MBA from New York University in 1999.

Renee Haugerud is the Founder, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Principal of Galtere Ltd., which is the registered investment advisor of a Commodity based Global Macro Hedge Fund established in 1999, with current assets under management in excess of $1 billion. Ms Haugerud is noted for pioneering a unique methodology that combines a diverse profile and theme investment strategy along with rigorous risk management techniques. An early focus on exposures employing agricultural instruments and bio energy markets, as well as a belief in the potential of commodity markets since the late 1990s have been among the hallmarks of Ms Auugerud's successful investment career. Ms Haugerud has been trading in global financial markest on four continents since 1980. Her expertise spans all asset classes and instruments. She began her tenure in financial markets by trading cash commodity markets in the United States and Canada for Cargill Inc. and Continental Grain. Her interests in the relationship between financial markets and geopolitics led to her first international post in Geneva Switzerland, where she ultimately served as Cargill's Foreign Exchange Trading Manager. During her 15-year career at Cargill, Ms Haugerud developed expertise in a broad and diverse range of securities by assuming the positions of Manager of teh US Fixed Income trading desk, Minneapolis, MN; Financial Division Manager of teh Melbourne Autralia Office; board membership of Cargill Australia; and finally Vice President/Structural Trading Manager at Cargill's corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. Following her years at Cargill, Ms Haugerud served as the Financial Trading Manager at Hunter Douglas, NA, New York. She also spent two years in Hong Kong with Natwest Markets Asian headquarters as the Head of Proprietary Trading for their Global Financial Markets. Ms Haugerud's insight into how global markets are affected by the psychology and relationships of macroeconomics trends, makes her a sought after speaker and panelist at global investment events. Ms Haugerud has been interviewed on CNBC, CNN and the PBS Nightly Business Report, and has also been profiled in Barron's, Forbes Magazine, eFinancial News and MAR Futures. Ms Haugerud received her B.S degree with Honors in Forest Resource Management from the University of Montana in 1980. She is active in the community of women and business leaders, a founding member of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Project, and an active advocate for numerous global health initiatives.

Kevin M. Heerdt, joined Campbell & Company in March 2003 and has served as Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research since July 2007, was Executive Vice President-Research from March 2003 to June 2007 and Chief Operating Officer from June 2005 to June 2007. His duties include risk management, research, and the development of quantitatively based hedge fund and options strategies. Mr. Heerdt is also the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of both Campbell & Company Investment Adviser LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Campbell & Company, and The Campbell Multi-Strategy Trust, a registered investment company. From February 2002 to March 2003, he was the sole proprietor of Integrity Consulting, a start-up business consulting firm. From December 1990 to February 2002, Mr. Heerdt worked for Moore Capital Management, Inc., and affiliates, a private investment management firm, where he was a Director and a Managing Director. Mr. Heerdt holds a B.A. in Economics and in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Mr. Heerdt became registered as an Associated Person and listed as a Principal of Campbell & Company effective April 15, 2003. Mr. Heerdt became registered as an Associated Person and listed as a Principal of Campbell & Company Investment Adviser LLC effective December 14, 2005 and December 12, 2005, respectively.

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).

Frank Holle co-founded Quant Asset Management in 2003, and founded Capital Fund Management in 2001. From 1992 until 1998, Frank worked at Merrill Lynch in London, as a director at the International Equities Department. He joined ABN AMRO Bank in 1989, where he was trained and worked in the international investment banking division. He began his career as an academic researcher at the corporate law department at the University of Utrecht. Frank graduated from the University of Utrecht with a Masters degree in Business Law.

Mr. Ibrahim is the Founder and Managing Principal of 3 Degrees Asset Management Pte Ltd. He is the portfolio manager of The Asian Debt Fund and oversees all of the firm’s activities in distressed debt. Prior to founding 3 Degrees, Mr. Ibrahim spent seven years at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, where he founded Lazard’s Asian distressed debt business and was a senior member of the Lazard Debt Recovery Fund, a global distressed debt fund. Mr. Ibrahim has transacted over US$8 billion face amount of distressed debt in Asia spanning the past decade with over 100 counter-parties globally. He has many years of experience analyzing and investing in the debt of distressed companies, and specializes in the operational and financial turnaround of troubled companies. Mr. Ibrahim is on the Board of several of the firm’s portfolio companies: Bintan Lagoon Resort, Indonesia, Baan Yin Dee Boutique Resort, Thailand and Senbel Fine Chemicals, Philippines. Mr. Ibrahim holds a B.S. in Biology from Siena College. A United States Citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident, Mr. Ibrahim presently resides in Singapore.

Richard set up Albourne Partners (Asia) Limited in September 2004 in order to expand Asian coverage for Albourne Partners Limited, a leading UK based independent hedge fund advisory firm representing over 111 clients with over $150bn invested in hedge funds. Albourne Partners Limited was establish in 1994 and now has over 131 employees in 11 countries. Richard had spent the previous eleven years with UBS AG in Hong Kong and Singapore, in various senior positions managing equity proprietary tradings, convertible bonds and prime brokerage in the region. Prior to this, he was with Baring Securities in London and Tokyo, specialising in arbitrage trading and risk management. Richard graduated in Computer Science from Manchester University, UK in 1981 and was admitted as a member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales in 1984.

Mr. Katzman was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management, Inc. from its inception in 1995 until his retirement in April, 2005. In this role he was responsible for developing and managing hedge fund of fund products for J.P. Morgan Chase's institutional and private banking clients. During his tenure the group grew from $7 million to over $9 billion in assets under management. At the time of his retirement the group had over 70 staff and invested with over 120 hedge fund managers. Mr. Katzman joined J.P. Morgan Chase in 1975. He was involved in the firm’s alternative investment business beginning in 1988 and became head of the group in 1993. Prior to his responsibilities in alternative investments he was involved in the bank's strategic planning, financial management and treasury functions, both domestically and overseas. Mr. Katzman received a B.S. in Finance from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Ms Alexa Lam is an Executive Director and the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the SFC. She heads the Policy, China and Investment Products Division. Her role covers the development of overall policy for the SFC as a whole, with a particular emphasis on mainland China, as well as the regulation and approval of investment products. Ms Lam also represents the SFC in different forums with mainland Chinese government and business leaders on macro and market issues. She is involved in bilateral discussions with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (“CSRC”) on market development and regulatory matters. Ms Lam is appointed by CSRC as member of the CSRC QDII Experts Committee. At the International Organization of Securities Commissions (“IOSCO”), Ms Lam has participated in formulating IOSCO principles governing ongoing disclosures in the secondary market, auditors’ independence and oversight, and regulatory issues regarding securities analysts. Recently, in her capacity as a representative to the Standing Committee 5 of the IOSCO Technical Committee, Ms Lam participated in formulating principles of valuation for hedge funds. Outside the SFC, Ms Lam performs a wide range of public duty. She is member of the Education and Manpower Bureau – Continuing Education Fund Financial Services Focus Group, and the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law – Asian Institute of International Financial Law Advisory Board. In addition, Ms Lam sits on the Hong Kong Trade Development Council – Financial Services Advisory Committee. Before joining the SFC, Ms Lam had over 20 years experience in corporate and commercial law practice in New York and Hong Kong. Working in international law firms in New York, Chicago and Hong Kong, where her practice included advising a number of Fortune 100 multinationals on their direct investments in mainland China and structuring M&A transactions in the United States. Ms Lam holds a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Hong Kong and a Master of Laws (Distinction) from the London School of Economics.

Nikos is responsible for the hedge fund investments at Alpheus, a European family office with a considerable allocation to alternatives and emerging markets. Prior to Alpheus, Nikos was the Managing Director of IKOS SA, an investments and technology firm backed by the IKOS hedge fund. Between 2001 and 2004, he was a senior hedge fund analyst at Merrill Lynch and Schroders in London. Prior to that, he was a hedge fund analyst and financial engineer with the Man Group in London, developing structured products on hedge fund portfolios.

Gerard Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings. He was previously the head of Temasek’s Fund Management Division. Before joining Temasek, he had held positions as Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Deutsche Asset Management Singapore, Head of Fixed Income Sales at SBC Warburg Singapore and Head of GIC's New York Office. He takes an active interest in the professional development of the Singapore capital markets and is currently an advisor to ACI Singapore - The Financial Markets Association. He is also active in other voluntary work. He was the President of the New York - Singapore Association during his stint in New York. Currently he serves on the School Management Committee of his Alma Mater, Catholic Junior College and the Board of Governers of St Gabriel’s Foundation. He also serves as chairman of Boys’ Town Home. Gerard, a CFA charter holder, graduated from the National University of Singapore with B Sc (Hons) in 1984.

- CEO, Pinpoint Investment Advisor Ltd. - Over ten years Wall Street financial industry experiences in risk management, structured financing, prime brokerage, and quantitative modeling for risk management and derivative pricing, both in New York and Hong Kong. worked as the head of Asia Risk for Deutsche Bank Global Prime Finance before joining Pinpoint. - Received Ph.D in Mathematics from MIT, also studied in the Ph.D in Finance program at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

Bernard Lo is co-anchor of Bloomberg Television's flagship programme, Bloomberg LIVE, focusing on breaking business news and how it affects Asia's markets. With updates from Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney and beyond, Bloomberg LIVE is the most-watched international news programme in Hong Kong, according to Nielsen Media Research. Bernard also hosts the daily talk show Bloomberg Voices, talking to senior business leaders and politicians. Guests have included Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Sumner Redstone, CEO Viacom Inc, Vincent Cheng, Chairman HSBC Hong Kong, Gloria Arroyo, President of the Philippines, and Richard Branson, Chairman Virgin Group. Bernard started his broadcast career with Hong Kong’s ATV, moved to TVB, TCS in Singapore, and CNBC. Originally keen to pursue a career in business, he discovered a broadcasting talent and then found how to merge both interests - through business TV.

James Loh is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of JL Capital Pte Ltd, an asset management company based in Singapore. The company manages several hedge funds focused on Asian markets. James began his career with Salomon Brothers Inc., New York in 1976 and was made Vice President of Non-US dollar proprietary trading in 1981. From 1982 to 1991 James worked with CS First Boston both in New York and in Hong Kong where he was Managing Director in charge of foreign exchange, global non-US dollar proprietary trading and Asian sales & trading. In 1991, James joined Union Bank of Switzerland (now UBS AG) in Singapore, initially as First Vice President, Interest Rate Risk Management group and subsequently as Senior Vice President taking on the roles of Ad Interim Regional Head of Equities, Global Head of Emerging Markets as well as Head of Interest Rate Risk Management, East Asia. After the merger between Swiss Bank Corp and UBS, he was made Managing Director and Regional Head of Interest Rate and Asian Currencies Risk Management, East Asia. James left UBS in 1999 to join Barclays Capital as Vice Chairman, Asia Pacific and Managing Director, Regional Head of Trading, Asia Pacific whilst based in Singapore. He was responsible for all trading activities in the Region. Since 2000, James has been serving the National University of Singapore (NUS), where his current roles are member of the Board of Trustee; BOT Executive Committee; the Entrepreneur Committee, and the Investment Committee. In these capacities, James helped revamp the investment process of NUS and formulated investment strategies and policies which helped to grow its endowment fund to its current value of SGD3 billion. James Loh graduated from the University of Chicago in 1976 with a Master degree in Business Administration, Finance.

Glenn Maguire is the Asia Pacific Chief Economist for Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking based in Hong Kong. Having joined the bank in 1996, Glenn has principal carriage for regional economic research. Glenn is a member of the Global Capital Markets Economics Team that produces a number of highly regarded economic and cross asset publications. Additionally, Glenn also produces a suite of economic products specific to the Asian Market. Glenn has over 15 years of applied economic forecasting experience in demanding public and private sector roles. Previous to joining Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, Glenn was an economic adviser in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra, Australia. Working with the Reserve Bank and Federal Treasury (the Joint Economic Forecasting Group) he helped to formulate the Government’s official forecasts for the Australian economy and provided in depth economic analysis for the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Prior to this, Glenn worked as a research Assistant to Professor Bary Hughes at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Dr Hughes is widely regarded as one of Australia's leading macro-economists.

Farhat Malik is chief executive officer of the Hong Kong headquartered PMA. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry in connection to positions such as executive director responsible for new initiatives in Asia for Goldman Sachs, as well as head of strategy (Asia Pacific Region) and country manager (Hong Kong) for Credit Suisse. Along with his core team, he founded PMA in 2002 as the largest ex-Japan hedge fund manager. PMA has a broad range of strategies with a focus on Asia ex-Japan with assets of more than $2 billion.

Mehraj Mattoo is the Global Head of Alternative Investment Strategies (AIS) group at Commerzbank. Dr. Mattoo joined Commerzbank in March 2006 from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) where he was Managing Director and the Global Head of Alternative Investments Group since April 2001. Prior to DrKW, he was the Co-head of Fund Derivatives Group at BNP Paribas where he pioneered the use of structured products on alternative investments especially hedge funds. Dr. Mattoo has also worked for CIBC Financial Products as an Executive Director and NatWest Markets as a Director and Head of Structured Products. Dr. Mattoo holds MBA and Ph.D (Financial Economics) degrees from the University of London and is also a recipient of Diploma of Imperial College (DIC). He is the author of Structured Derivatives published by Financial Times, London.

Chris is responsible for the trading of the Japanese and Asian portfolio. Prior to founding Phalanx he managed the Japanese multi-strategy portfolio for Daiwa Securities America. He joined Daiwa from Goldman Sachs where he ran Japanese and Asian relative value trading for the Spear, Leeds & Kellogg division. Prior to "SLK" he was in charge of trading and managing the Japanese convertible bond portfolio for Marin Capital Partners. Chris‟ earlier experiences include managing hedge fund sales for the convertible bond and equity divisions for Merrill Lynch -London, managing convertible bond sales for SBC Warburg-Tokyo, overnight relative value equity sales for BZW Securities, and trading commodity options for his own account on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Chris graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Marquette University in 1991.

Craig Mercer works within the Watson Wyatt’s Global Manager Research team. Craig currently heads our research efforts in the Asia ex-Japan, Emerging Markets and Japanese equity space as well as leading the newly formed Emerging Wealth team. He is also an active member in the equity long/short hedge fund team, where his primary focus is on the Asian universe of managers. In February 2008, Craig relocated from the UK to Hong Kong. Prior to joining Watson Wyatt in the Craig worked with Stamford Associates, a specialist multi-manager where his responsibilities involved coverage of both Japanese and Asian firms, and Aon Consulting, where he was a member of the manager research team. Craig graduated from the University of Dundee in 1999 with a 1st class degree in Financial Economics and Statistics and is a holder of the Investment Management Certificate.

Mr. Smith is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for NYLIM Equity Investors. He is responsible for the development and implementation of international quantitative equity strategies. Mr. Smith was previously a Senior Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Gartmore Investment Management in London where he co-managed long/short market-neutral hedge funds investing in Europe, Asia, and the US. Prior to that, he was a quantitative equity research analyst at Putnam Investments. He has 13 years of investment experience. Mr. Smith began his career at IBM as a software developer and consultant specializing in numerical applications. He received a Masters of Science in Finance from Boston College and a BA in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude from Holy Cross.

Suzanne Elizabeth Murphy joined Acorn partners as a managing director, due diligence and business development, and member of the investment committee in August 2003. Murphy, who has been in the investment business for more than 15 years, was most recently managing director in charge of alternative investments for CE Unterberg Towbin, a boutique investment bank in New York. While at CEUT, she developed the firm's brand in the alternative investment area and was instrumental in launching a hedge fund in partnership with Standard & Poor's and a fund of funds. She also has experience in the private equity and real estate areas of the investment business. Prior to joining CEUT, her career was in capital markets, where she developed expertise in convertible bonds and US equities at firms like Drexel Burnham and Morgan Stanley. Murphy received a BA, magna cum laude, from Wheaton College in 1988. She currently serves on the president's commission of the college as well as on its investment committee.

Presently, Dr. T. C. Nair is Whole Time Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He is also presently on the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Securities Market (NISM) set up by SEBI. Prior to this assignment Dr. Nair, was Managing Director, Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Limited, Bangalore (wholly owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India). A Central Banker by profession, Dr. Nair, has held various important positions in the Reserve Bank of India since February 1978. He was Chief General Manager, Department of External Investments and Operations, General Manager of Internal Debt Management Department, General Manager - Currency Management, Senior Faculty Member – Bankers’ Training College, Assistant Chief Officer in the Department of Banking Operations and Development and Assistant Director in Management Services Department. Dr. Nair has also been Member of various Committees formed by the Government of India, Reserve Bank of India and Securities and Exchange Board of India. A post-graduate in Monetary Economics from the University of Mumbai, Dr. Nair was awarded Ph.D. by the University of Mumbai for his thesis entitled “Offshore Banking: A Benefits Maximizing Model for India”. Dr. Nair has published several articles in various national and international publications. He has travelled widely and is a regular visiting faculty at various institutes and universities in India.

William Nobrega is president and founder of The Conrad Group Inc., an emerging market strategic planning and merger and acquisition facilitation firm based in Miami. He has more than 10 years experience in this field and is widely credited for initiating global business models in emerging geographies including Brazil, India and China. Mr. Nobrega’s experience includes healthcare consulting, pharmaceutical and medical device consulting, global strategic planning and project management and advisory work in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Nobrega is the author of numerous articles and white papers about emerging market strategic planning. He is a frequent contributor to major media outlets including CNN, FOX News and The Wall Street Journal. He is co-author of the recently published and released book, Riding the Indian Tiger: Understanding India the World’s Fastest Growing Market. Prior to joining The Conrad Group, he served as a manager for Deloitte & Touche in Europe and the United States and was a founding member of its pharmaceutical and medical devices practice. Mr. Nobrega is a veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces. He served in Kurdistan and other operational areas during the Gulf War. Mr. Nobrega has a master’s degree from the University of Leuven, in Brussels, Belgium, and a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio. He lives in Boca Raton, Fla., with his wife, Carla, and son Devon.

Michael N. Nock, a director of Investment Advisor, the Fund Manager and the Fund Sub-Manager, has direct and overall responsibility for investments made by the Fund. He has over 31 years of experience working in the securities industry in Asia and Australasia, having worked originally for Bain & Co. (now owned by Deutsche Bank) in Australia and then for Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong. In 1983 he was a founder of Anderson Man Investment Services Limited (now Lippo Securities Limited), a securities broking house in Hong Kong. Subsequently, from 1987 to 1990 he was the managing director of E.D.&F. Man Pacific Limited, the Hong Kong publicly listed subsidiary of E.D.&F. Man Ltd (now Man Group Plc), a public company based in London. During this time, he was also a director of Yeo Hiap Seng (Hong Kong) Ltd, a beverage company with operations in Hong Kong and China, North American Foods Limited, Bakeland Limited and Way Lung Waste Management Limited. From 1992 to 1998 he was the chairman of Wu Ming Ventures, a high technology investment company established to make investments in businesses that developed multi-media products and provided digital animation services in the USA. From 1994 to 1997 he was the managing director of CCM Capital Corporation Limited and from 1997 to 1999 of Cupola Capital Corporation, subsidiaries of The Mingly Corporation Limited, providing investment management and financial services. He is also the managing director of Composite Capital Holdings Ltd., the holding company of each of the Fund Manager, the Fund Sub-Manager and the Investment Advisor. Mr. Nock holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Film Video Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. He is also licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission as a responsible officer of the Investment Advisor to carry on Types 4 (advising on securities), 5 (advising on futures contracts) and 9 (asset management) regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Ordinance of Hong Kong.

Peter Noris is Chief Investment Officer of Ivy Asset Management, a position to which he was named in February 2007. In this capacity, Mr. Noris works with the investment team and is a strategic advisor to four key areas including research, portfolio management, risk management and operational due diligence. Mr. Noris serves as Chairman of Ivy's Investment Committee and is a member of its Executive Committee and Investment Risk Management Committee. Prior to joining Ivy, Mr. Noris was Chief Investment Officer of AXA Equitable (1995-2004) and Northstar Financial Services (founded in 2005). At AXA Equitable he was responsible for Equitable Life's general account investment portfolio and separate account mutual funds. Prior to joining AXA Equitable, Mr. Noris was at Salomon Brothers Inc. (1992-1995) and Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (1984-1992), where he provided investment strategies to insurance companies and also structured synthetic equity products. Previously, he held senior investment management positions at Continental Asset Management and General Reinsurance Corp. Mr. Noris holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Nitin graduated from Oxford University in 1986 and completed an MSc in Economics from London University in 1989. He has over fifteen years of investment experience. He was Global CIO of Credit Suisse (2002 to 2004) where he was responsible for all discretionary assets of the bank. During that time he implemented in a new investment strategy and process which had total return at its core. He managed a team of some 60 investment professionals across all asset classes. Prior to that he was CIO of HSBC Asset Management in HK (2001-2) and worked for CSFB in HK (1996-2001) building the Asian franchise. He was a rated Strategist in all the leading surveys. He started his career at Royal Bank of Scotland (1990-1994) before moving to HK. During his time he founded PMA Capital Management, the premier hedge fund in Non-Japan Asia. He has detailed knowledge and understanding of the hedge fund industry and his experience will mitigate substantially many of the start-up risks associated with such a venture

Mr Brian Pohli established and presently manages the CQS (Hong Kong) Limited office and is responsible for daily management functions, including compliance and oversight, for the operations of the firm. He is the Responsible Officer for the Securities and Futures Commission Hong Kong. Prior to joining CQS in 2004, Mr Brian Pohli worked at CSFB in Hong Kong as Vice President on the Equity Finance desk, having previously worked for Sanwa Bank in London where he was a principal and market maker for the bank’s U.S. treasury and agency primary dealership. Before this, he worked for Discount Corporation of New York where he established and worked in the firm’s bond trading operations in Hong Kong. Brian holds a BA degree in Economics from Bates College, Maine.

Claude is Managing Partner and CEO of 47 Degrees North Capital Management (47°N). Before founding 47°N in 2006, Claude was the head of RMF Hedge Fund Ventures within RMF Investment Management. She was a member of the management committee and the investment strategy committee. Prior to joining Swiss Life Hedge Fund Partners in 2001, which was subsequently merged with RMF, Claude spent eight years with Hunter Douglas Management as a director, responsible for treasury management and supervision of the in-house hedge fund portfolio. Prior to this she worked for Salomon Brothers International from 1986, in New York, London, Tokyo and Zurich, initially as a Japanese equity salesperson and subsequently marketing OTC derivatives to institutional clients. Claude started her career in 1981 with Caterpillar Overseas in Geneva, working as a field engineer. Claude received her degree as a Mechanical Engineer from the Haute Ecole Arc Ingéniérie, Switzerland, and her MBA from INSEAD, France. 47 Degrees North Capital Management is a premier alternative investment firm offering sophisticated institutional investors a unique line-up of specialized fund of hedge funds products. One of its flagship products, the 47 Degrees North New Generation Fund, offers investors access to a diversified portfolio of early stage hedge fund managers.

Bruce Richards is President & Chief Executive Officer of Marathon Asset Management. Mr. Richards is responsible for general oversight of the firm, managing its strategic direction, including its current businesses and development of new business lines. Involved in all phases of the firm’s development since its founding in 1998, Mr. Richards’ oversight currently includes 170 professionals domiciled in New York London and Singapore, as well as satellites offices in Hong Kong, India, Turkey and Brazil, Washington D.C. and Los Angles.

Origo Sino-India PLC (“Origo”) is a London Stock Exchange listed private equity investor focused on the Chinese and Indian markets. Origo manages several funds and has a strategic relationship with GLG Partners, one of the world’s leading financial institutions. Chris has the overall responsibility for Origo's operations, investments and services worldwide. A Norwegian national based in Beijing since 1997, Chris was the Founder and Managing Partner of Ascend Ventures, the predecessor of Origo. Now residing in Beijing and Mumbai, Chris was previously Managing Partner of MINT, a PwC Consulting's joint venture investment arm in China. Before that, he served as a Regional Director of Asia with Elkem, an Oslo and Frankfurt listed company. At Elkem, Chris led one of the largest equity and project finance deals in western China to date, for which he was awarded a symbolic honorary citizenship of China. In total, Chris has over 15 years of emerging and established market experience, gained in China, India, Russia, Japan, France and the US. A graduate of ESSEC in Paris, Chris holds an MBA with a specialization in Finance from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.

Anu Sahai has over 15 years of investment experience spanning convertibles, high yield and equities. She founded Anew Capital Management to capitalize on the India opportunity in the global marketplace. She is the Portfolio Manager of the Anew India Opportunity Fund, an opportunistic long /short India focused fund that invests primarily in equity and convertible securities. Prior to that she was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Convertible portfolios at ING Investment Management for almost five years. In her earlier years at ING she served various analytical and portfolio management roles in equities, high yield and convertibles. Prior to that she was Head of Indian Research Sales in Hong Kong with Marlin Partners, a London based institutional stockbroker. She started with them as an Indian Equity Analyst and helped develop the research product and methodology for analyzing Indian companies. She started her career researching potential investment ideas as part of corporate planning for Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest public engineering firm. Ms. Sahai has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from Bombay University. She is a director on the board of the AZ Foundation for Women, a member of the CFA Institute and a member of the American Mensa. She was recently selected as one of the Top 20 Rising Hedge Fund Stars of 2008 by Institutional Investor.

Laura Santini is a reporter covering Asian financial markets for The Wall Street Journal, with an emphasis on hedge funds, asset management and private equity. Occasionally, she writes about non-business topics, such as Australian swimming and classical music in China. Before moving to Hong Kong in 2004, Laura covered Wall Street for financial publications run by Institutional Investor and for Investment Dealers’ Digest in New York City. She also spent the summer of 2007 writing features in Berlin as a recipient of the Arthur Burns Fellowship. Laura has a Master’s degree from Columbia School of Journalism and a Bachelor’s in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she got her start writing for The Daily Pennsylvanian. She grew up in Wilmington, Delaware.

Mr. Scott is a Managing Director based in Hong Kong responsible for relationship management in the region and oversight of fundamental research coordination. Specifically this includes: - Fostering relationships with investors and potential investors in the region - Fostering and managing relationships with investment banks and other counterparties in the region Coordinating efforts of research professionals in making company visits and meeting with strategists, economists and analysts in the region to support our investment strategies.

Mr. Punit Shah is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with a post qualification experience of more than 20 years. He is an Executive Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd. and he is the national leader of the Financial Services tax practice of PwC. Punit has in-depth knowledge and experience of banking and financial services laws in India. He renders extensive professional advice to Private Equity Funds, Real Estate Funds, Venture Capital Funds, Indian and Foreign Banks, Insurance Companies, Non-Banking Financial Companies, Mutual Funds, etc. He has been a regular contributor of articles on the above subjects in leading financial newspapers as well as journals of several professional Institutes. He has also authored a book on “Inbound and Outbound Investments” published by The Chamber of Income Tax Consultants, Mumbai, India. He has been a speaker for various forums including Professional Institutes, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and International Fiscal Association.

BP has an experience of more than 15 years in capital markets including credit rating, equity broking and Asset Management. He set up Atlantis India Advisors and advised Atlantis India Opportunities Fund, Dublin. Was the Head of Equities, India - at Deutsche Asset Management. Prior to that, he was the Head of Research at SSKI and Director-Research at UBS Warburg, India. BP has done masters in finance from SPJIMR.

Ashutosh Sinha is the Managing Partner and CIO of Amoeba Capital Partners, Singapore which manages the Amoeba Capital Asia Fund, an Asia-Pacific long/short equity hedge fund, launched in July 2006. The Firm manages 700 MM USD in Assets. Prior to founding Amoeba Capital, Ashutosh Sinha was Managing Director, Head of Asian Investments and Co-Portfolio Manager for Global Emerging Markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In this role, he was managing around US $ 10 bn in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan and achieved top quartile performance for Asian equities. During his eleven years at Morgan Stanley, he was CIO for Asia – ex Japan equities; co-portfolio manager Asian equities; and fund manager for Indian equities. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Sinha worked as an analyst at SBI Funds Management Ltd. and as a software consultant for Citibank. Sinha received a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors, Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Duncan has experience in a wide range of international capital markets, corporate, investment and private equity funds and restructuring matters. Duncan has been BVI counsel to ISDA since 1997. Duncan was also a member of the committee devoted to drafting a new Insolvency Act for the territory in 1999 & 2000 and is a member of the advisory committee charged with implementation. Duncan received his Bachelor of Commerce, from Natal University, South Africa in 1991, then went on to complete his Bachelor of Law, from Natal University, South Africa in 1993. Duncan is a member of Kwazulu Natal Law Society The Law Society (England and Wales) and the Bar Association (British Virgin Islands). Duncan is listed as recommended counsel in the International Who's Who Legal of Business Lawyers for Private Funds - 2005, 2006 and 2007. He is ranked recommended counsel Corporate & Commercial Lawyer - Chambers & Partners - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, Top 40 Movers and Shakers of 2006/7 Chambers & Partners and recommended counsel - Legal 500 - 2005, 2006, 2007.

Paul Smith is CEO of Asia Alternative Asset Partners Limited (Triple A Partners), a provider of business support services to asset management businesses in Asia. These services include the provision of seed capital, equity finance and fund distribution. Triple A Partners has offices in Hong Kong, London, New York and Los Angeles. From 1996 to 2006, Paul was global head of HSBC PLC Alternative Fund Administration (previously the Bank of Bermuda Ltd) where he was responsible for over 1,000 staff in 14 locations and for the administration of over US$250 billion of client assets. From 1984 to 1995, he was managing director for the Ermitage Group, a UK based alternative asset manager. Paul is a past member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission committees on Unit Trusts and Real Estate Funds and serves on the Hong Kong council of the Alternative Investment Management Association. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a degree from Oxford University, England. He is a director of numerous investment funds in Asia.

Mr. Smith is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for NYLIM Equity Investors. He is responsible for the development and implementation of international quantitative equity strategies. Mr. Smith was previously a Senior Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Gartmore Investment Management in London where he co-managed long/short market-neutral hedge funds investing in Europe, Asia, and the US. Prior to that, he was a quantitative equity research analyst at Putnam Investments. He has 13 years of investment experience. Mr. Smith began his career at IBM as a software developer and consultant specializing in numerical applications. He received a Masters of Science in Finance from Boston College and a BA in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude from Holy Cross.

Martin Soong, one of Asia's best-known television journalists, is the co anchor of the network's signature morning programme Asia Squawk Box which focuses on what viewers need to know after the markets close in the US and before the markets open in the region. Based in the network's regional headquarters in Singapore, Martin was part of the team that launched Asia Business News in 1993 (prior to the channel's merger with CNBC in 1997). During his distinguished tenure over more than a decade at CNBC, Martin has anchored almost all of CNBC's flagship business shows. Martin has won many prominent awards, including the Best News and Current Affairs Presenter Award at the Asian Television Awards in 1996 and 1998, and Silver World Medal for Best News Anchor in the 1997 New York Festivals of International Television Programming and Promotion. With over 20 years of industry experience, Martin has covered many major stories from across Asia and interviewed many key political leaders and business personalities, including former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author Kenichi Ohmae.

Bryan T. Southergill is an Executive Director and heads JPMorgan's proprietary Asia property investing business. Based in Hong Kong, Bryan joined JPMorgan in October 2007. Prior to joining JPMorgan, Bryan spent 10 years in Morgan Stanley's real estate group based in New York, London and Hong Kong and had responsibility for both corporate finance advisory assignments and principal investing projects in the United States, Europe and Asia. Bryan served as a director of many entities involving Morgan Stanley’s real estate investments, including the AIM-listed Songbird Estates. Bryan received a BA degree, magna cum laude, from Amherst College, majoring in both Economics and Political Science.

Henry W. Stein is the manager of the Indus Structured Finance Fund. Mr. Stein has 20 years of experience in workout, restructuring, acquisition and growth situations in the U.S. and Asia. Mr. Stein has acted as chief executive officer or senior executive for businesses ranging from communications, healthcare, insurance, energy and manufacturing. His clients have included both high net worth and institutional investors. Mr. Stein is a former U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant, as well as a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Business School. Mr. Stein is a member of ISFF”s Investment Committee.

Jason joined the Aurum Group in 2001 as a Portfolio Advisor with responsibility for investment advice on the Asia Pacific region and specifically the Aurum Asia Pacific and India Funds. Aurum started investing in the first Indian hedge fund in 2003, and started the first Indian Fund of Funds in 2004. Jason has been investing in emerging markets, and specifically Asia, since 1997, starting his career at the beginning of the Asian crisis working for VZB Partners, an emerging market hedge fund. In 1999 he was part of the team that managed the top performing emerging market mutual fund in the US. Jason graduated Cum Laude from Brandeis University Boston, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

Chris Tang is a founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management, a hedge fund management company founded in 2004 that specializes in China-related securities. Ms. Tang manages a dedicated A-share hedge fund and a Greater China hedge fund for Marco Polo Pure Asset Management. She leads a team of six investment professionals in Hong Kong and Shanghai, focusing on value investing through a unique audit based approach. Ms. Tang obtained an Associate Diploma of Accounting and a Bachelor of Business in Sydney, graduating from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1997. Ms. Tang was previously employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong, where she gained substantial experience in assessing value through auditing Chinese companies and participating in securities offerings, such as IPOs of Chinese companies and asset securitizations. She is a Certified Practicing Accountant of Australia, a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong, and a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Over the years, Mr Kushal Thaker have accrued experience as a Commodity Trading Consultant, and his practice has been concentrated in the areas of Commodity Trading, Commodity Research, and Hedging strategies, for clients from modest margins to very large margins. As a seasoned presenter, who has made numerous presentations to commodity exchanges, international commodity associations, corporates and management institutions during his professional career, Mr Kushal Thaker is well qualified to educate workshop participants on topics related to Commodity Trading and Research. Over the years, his articles on Commodity Trading scenario and trading related articles have appeared in several national publications.

Owen is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Asia and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Owen joined Morgan Stanley in 1987 in the real estate group within the Investment Banking Division and has over 20 years of investment industry experience. He began managing the firm’s real estate investing business in 1994, was named Managing Director in 1995 and head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate in 2000. Morgan Stanley Real Estate is a leading global real estate financial services practice that grew significantly during Owen’s leadership. Owen was named president of MSIM in 2005. MSIM, one of the world’s largest active asset managers, is Morgan Stanley’s global asset management arm, offering institutional and individual clients a diverse array of equity, fixed income, alternative and asset allocation investment strategies. MSIM’s investment capabilities and assets under management expanded significantly while Owen was President. Owen is the former Chairman of the Pension Real Estate Association and a Trustee of Woodberry Forest School. He received a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Tjia co-founded Income Partners with Mr. Emil Nguy in 1993 with the aim of creating an Asian fixed income fund management specialist. Today Income Partners is recognized as a leading Asian hedge fund manager specializing in Asian credit and fixed income assets. Mr. Tjia is a Dutch citizen and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Master’s Degree in Economics and an MBA from Boston University. Mr. Tjia speaks English, Dutch, and Indonesian.

Ophelia Tong is co-founder and Investment Director of HT Capital Management Limited which manages two funds, the HT Asian Catalyst Fund and the HT Asian Alpha Amoeba Fund; combined AUM for the firm is US$600 million. Responsible for day-to-day portfolio management, Ophelia has almost 30 years experience in the Asian markets. She has received numerous fund management awards and superior ratings in various fund surveys. Ophelia was previously fund manager at Sofaer Global Research, CIO & CEO at National Mutual Funds Management (now AXA) and held senior positions at Scimitar and Schroders. Ophelia has achieved average compound returns of +15.2% for the Catalyst Fund since inception in March 2001. Ophelia holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree, Summa Cum Laude, from McMaster University in Canada.

Shiba is a co-founder of Triskele Capital Management Limited. He was born in Shanghai. Prior to joining TCM, he was a Senior Fund Manager at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management since 2001. He set up the New China Fund for SMAM which become the biggest China fund in Japan with fund size over USD1.2 bn. The fund was selected as “Lipper Fund Awards 2008 Japan”. Before he became a fund manager, he was a strategist/economist for Sumitomo Insurance (1999-2001), Mitsubishi Securities (1995-98) and Kokusai Asset Management (1992-95), covering the US, Japanese and Asia economy. Shiba has a Bachelor of Physics from Eastern China Normal University in 1984 and a MSc Financial Theory in Chuo University in 1991. He is a Chartered Member of Security Analysts Association of Japan.

Mr. Van Drasek is an Executive Director with the fund management firm of LIM Advisors, based in Hong Kong, which currently manages over US$ 600million in client assets, invested exclusively in Asia. He co-manages the high yield and special situation investment portfolios for a number of LIM’s funds. Prior to joining LIM Advisors, Mr. Van Drasek was a Director with Charlemagne Capital in London, where he specialized in private equity and structured finance investments in Eastern Europe and Russia. Before embarking on a career in fund management, he spent 12 years in investment banking in Asia, serving as Co-head of Asia for Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin (a US investment bank specializing in debt restructuring), Managing Director with Bank of America, and as Director of Credit Agricole Indosuez (previously known as W.I. Carr and Carr Indosuez). In the latter position, he also headed the equity capital markets division and country funds division for a number of years. He has spent over 18 years in Asia, and has lived in Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, S. Korea (where he was a Foreign Legal Counsel with the firm of Shin & Kim), Indonesia and Singapore. Prior to moving to Asia, he was an associate with the US law firm of Dykema Gossett, based in Michigan. Dean graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986, having been a staff member of the Yearbook of International Legal Studies and where he received the William Bishop Jr. Award for contributions to the study of international law. He received his undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University, with honors in History, and as part of his undergraduate studies program attended Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku, in Japan.

Dr. Wang, automatician, is specialized in Automatic Financial Process Control. He has over 19 years of experience in the automatic process control field for different industrial and financial processes. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science with a specialization in Automatic Control Systems from University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France. He spent several years performing research work at INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control). He completed his M.S. in Computer Info Graphics at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) in Switzerland and his B.S. in Automatic Control Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. Dr. Wang is the founder of Abaxs, a fund management boutique specialized in quantitative process.

Jerry is the founder of Vision Investment Management. He has been in the asset management industry for 17 years. In 2000, Jerry established Vision, aspiring to develop a comprehensive alternative investment management company with efficient investment process, stringent risk management and producing superior risk-adjusted absolute returns. As the CIO of Vision, Jerry works closely with the investment team to continuously enhance every phase along the investment process. The concerted effort results in a sound combination of a meticulous qualitative manager selection process and a proprietary quantitative analysis platform. As of December 2006, Vision has attracted a solid clientele globally with US$1.5 billion of assets under management. Prior to forming Vision, Jerry was an Executive Director at Scudder Kemper Investments, preceded by the engagement as Vice President at Merrill Lynch Capital Management Group. Jerry received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University in the United States. Jerry is an approved Responsible Officer of Vision Investment Management (Asia) Limited by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission under the Securities and Futures Ordinance for Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities.

Mr. Wang is a Managing Director of Vision Investment Management. He has 17 years experience in the investment management industry and joined Vision in May 2006. Mr. Wang is responsible for the Group’s Angel-investing platform to provide seed capital to start-up and emerging hedge funds. Prior to joining Vision, Mr. Wang was Senior Managing Director of Ritchie Capital in Hong Kong, running the Asian operations for this multi-strategy alternative investment firm based in the United States. Before that, he spent 5 years with Search, a prominent family office, where he managed a multi-strategy fund of funds consisting of a diversified group of 50 hedge funds in a multi-billion portfolio. In addition to his hedge fund experience, Mr. Wang invested private equity in companies in Greater China and has significant operating experience. He was Managing Director of three companies specializing in turnaround situations. Mr. Wang graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1981 with a BA in Economics Summa Cum Laude and began his career with IBM and later joined Boston Consulting Group. In 1991, he attained his MBA degree from the Harvard Business School.

Scobie D. Ward, CFA, is Director and the Chief Investment Officer of Ward Ferry Management which he founded in November 2000. He is a graduate cum laude both of Philips Academy Andover and Harvard College. He has 13 years experience managing Asian Portfolios. Prior to the establishment of Ward Ferry Management, he was Chief Investment Officer of Lloyd George Management where he was a founding director and responsible for managing several of Lloyd George Management’s major accounts. Among those accounts managed by him were the LG Asian Smaller Companies Fund and the LG Asian PLUS Fund. Between 1989 and 1991, he served as an investment analyst and then investment manager at Indosuez Asia Investment Services where he managed the US$100 million Himalayan Fund.

Suresh Withana, together with John Nicholls, launched Harmony Capital in 2005, with the backing of a multi-billion dollar US based multi-strategy fund, to focus on pan-Asian small and mid-cap special situations. Harmony operates from offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney. Prior to moving to Singapore, Mr. Withana was most recently a member of London based Mizuho International Plc’s Global Special Situation Group where he focused on Asia. Prior to that, he was with Merrill Lynch in the investment banking group in London focused on leveraged buyout financing and advisory work. Originally from Sri Lanka, Suresh attained his tertiary education from the University of Sydney (Economics and Law) and is a dual British/Australian citizen.

Andrew Wood joined the Financial Times in August 2007 as the Asia Capital Markets and Investment Correspondent based in Hong Kong. Prior to this, Andrew was a news editor at Dow Jones in Singapore, covering interest-rate swaps, credit derivatives and FX options. He also created and launched B2B magazines in Singapore for his own company and Reed-Elsevier. Before moving to Singapore, Andrew spent 10 years with BBC News in London, Seoul and Ankara, reporting mainly on business, economic and political issues. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from King’s College, University of London and an MBA from INSEAD.

YanPing has over 17 years of experience in a broad range of financial markets. During this time, she has developed extensive connections with key individuals in organizations across the region, particularly in Greater China. From 1998 to 2003, she was at Goldman Sachs as an Executive Director in its Investment Management Division. At Goldman, she managed more than US$500 million assets for ultra-high net worth individuals and institutions. From 1993 to 1997, as the Head of China Investment Banking Division for SBC Warburg (now UBS Investment Bank), she helped the Chinese government develop the B-share market in Shenzhen and Shanghai and led the first China B-share IPO. She also assisted in several H-share listings in Hong Kong and ADR listings in the U.S., such as Yizheng Chemical (HK1033) and Harbin Power (HK1133). Prior to that, she was a stock analyst for three years with ABN Amro and Bankers Trust. She is a graduate of Beijing University and Eastern Michigan University.