Arpit Agarwal is amongst the first few who launched the business of Private Banking in India as early as 1993. During the last 14 years, he has conceptualized, launched and successfully built sizeable Private Banking businesses for DSP Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas and ICICI Bank Ltd. in India and has hands on experience with high net worth Indian Resident and Non-Resident clients across the world. Under his leadership, the Private Banking business of ICICI Bank was ranked as the largest in India in February 2005 by CLSA and also amongst the top 3 in Asia Pacific in September 2005 by Private Banker International. Arpit is now the MD & Group CEO of the Financial Services business of Dawnay Day AV in India. Dawnay Day AV is a specialized financial services provider, formed through a joint venture between Dawnay Day International (DDI) and Alok Vajpeyi. The operations of the new venture in India cover Wealth Management, Stock Broking, Retail Distribution, Corporate Finance, Portfolio Management, Fund Management, Real Estate Advisory, Art Advisory and Research Services. A startup in India, the group has grown, in just over two years, to over 750 employees and 20 branches and targets to cross 4000 employees and 150 branches by March 2010. Arpit Agarwal is a Post Graduate in Finance from Delhi University and a Graduate of Science from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi, India and is also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP). A first in India, Arpit has been instrumental in launching Private Banking elective programmes in over 26 MBA schools and also teaches Private Banking. Arpit is an authority in his area of specialization and has been invited to speak at several conferences and seminars to share with the rest of the world his knowledge about the India markets and the financial services industry. His articles and interviews have been published in the Journal of Financial Planning, financial dailies and other forms of media.

Sam brings over a decade of Strategy, Investment Banking, and M&A experience across Australia and Asia Pacific. Currently, Sam is an Executive Director for Makara Capital based in Singapore. In his role, Sam is Head of Special Situations for the Makara Special Situations Asia Fund. Previously, Sam was Director, Strategy Kraft Foods International, Asia-Pacific where he managed all strategic projects and M&A and activity with deal sizes ranging from US$50MM to US$1Bn. In addition, Sam led Kraft’s entry strategy into India, and establishment of its office management team. He has led development of Kraft’s expansion strategy in Vietnam. Sam also led several buyouts of Kraft’s minority partners in the region. Prior to Kraft, Sam was a Senior Investment Analyst with Brierley Investments overseeing investments in companies. Sam has also worked for General Electric as Manager of Business Development within the M&A group in Australia, as well as an Analyst with Deloitte & Touché within the Capital Markets group. Sam has Master of Applied Finance and Bachelor of Commerce from the University Of Melbourne.

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

James Bryson was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he earned an honours degree in Economics and Politics. James has worked in the Asian equities business, since leaving the British Army in 1995. Most of his time in the industry has been spent on the equities sell side in Indonesia, as Head of Equity Sales respectively for BZW Securities, ANZ Securities and then Merrill Lynch Indonesia, followed by 2 1/2 years with ML Hong Kong. James returned to Indonesia in 2004 to start and run the equities business for PT CIMB Niaga Securities until 2005. He and partner Roland Haas, launched Komodo Fund, the first Indonesia Absolute Return Fund, in November 2006.

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.

Jennifer brings over 20 years asset management experience to her role as Chief Executive Officer of 3A Asia Limited. She has been managing funds of hedge funds since 2001. Carver's industry experience in Hong Kong dates back to 1987 when she spent four years on the institutional sales desk for brokerage firms in the region including holding the position of Director, Emerging Markets for Credit Lyonnais Securities. She founded her own investment advisory firm in 1991 and managed portfolios investing in regional equities, global fixed income and global mutual funds. From 1991 to 2001 Carver also worked for several investment firms including Credit Agricole Asset Management (then Indosuez Asset Management), MetLife and Fortis Investment Management (then called Grande Generale Asset Management) both on the asset management and marketing sides. Jennifer holds a degree in International Business from Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. and has been a registered investment advisor in either Hong Kong or the United States since 1987. She was also recently one of three finalists out of 70 nominees for the Hong Kong Business Woman of the Year Award 2005.

Shoham is the co-founder and director of ESC Financial Services Pte Ltd. in Singapore. Shoham has over ten years of international experience in Asia, Europe, and USA. Shoham founded ESC Financial Services Pte Ltd. In 2005 based on the proprietary Funds Life Cycle Theory. ESC provides startup and capital introduction services to managers of new and niche funds / strategies, offering professionals the chance to share a common investment vision together, and to create an improved and contemporary wealth management environment. Previously Shoham was a director in several hedge fund management companies.

Peter Douglas has 21 years experience in the investment management industry, gained in London, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. . He is principal of GFIA Pte Ltd www.gfia.com.sg , a Singapore-based consulting firm, established in 1998, engaged exclusively in the research of hedge funds and their managers. GFIA is Asia’s oldest hedge fund consultancy, compensated solely by fully disclosed fees from investors and allocators. Since 2004, GFIA has also offered coverage of the Latin American hedge fund industry. Peter began his career spending 10 years with the Foreign & Colonial group of asset management companies, including managing the product development of Latin American Securities (latterly F&C Emerging Markets), before setting up Aberdeen Asset Management’s business activities in Singapore, and working with Investor Select Advisors, a global fund of hedge funds, where he was responsible for research and allocation to Asian hedge funds. Peter is the inaugural Council Member for Singapore for the Alternative Investment Management Association www.aima.org , the global industry body for hedge fund practitioners. He was the inaugural honorary secretary and a founder of the Financial Planning Association of Singapore www.fpas.org.sg and remains special advisor to the association. Peter holds an honours degree from the University of Exeter, U.K., an Investment Management Certificate from I.I.M.R. in the U.K., an MBA from INSEAD in France, and is a pioneer-cohort Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) www.caia.org . Peter sits on the advisory board of the CAIA Association and on the MBA Admissions Committee of INSEAD. He serves in a non-executive fiduciary capacity for a number of investment vehicles, is trustee and chairman of a Singapore charity, teaches masters’ students at Singapore Management University, and is a frequent media commentator on the industry.

J. Mark Fisher is the Finance Manager & Fund Advisor for Arlan SA in Geneva, a Multi-Family Office where he is responsible for the Wealth Management, Fund Advisory & the Discretionary Portfolio Investment divisions. Arlan is a regulated Swiss Financial Intermediary and member of the Swiss Association of Independent Financial Advisors (GSCGI) in Geneva and Mark is an active delegate of the GSCGI Commission for Banking Relations. Mark holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston, and a Bachelor of Business degree in International Finance from the University of Texas. He has worked in private banking beginning with Robeco Bank Switzerland and then Vice President and Head of Personal Banking at Rabo-Robeco Bank now Sarasin Bank. He has held key positions with the Investment Committee, Marketing & Operations Committees and also the Chief Investment Officer for several trusts and foundations. Mr. Fisher is the Fund Advisor for Custodia Finance Ltd. & the Custodia Funds group domiciled in Gibraltar with Credit Suisse. Mark is the President of The Fletcher Club of Switzerland, affiliated with Tufts University in Boston.

Richard Gröttheim is Executive Vice President at the Seventh AP fund since April 2000. Prior to that he was head of the Monetary and Foreign exchange policy department at the Swedish central bank. He has also been chief economist at the Swedish brokerage firm Aragon Securities. The Seventh AP fund acts within the premium pension system (PPM), the state defined contribution system. It is a global equity fund with 10 per cent Swedish index linked bonds and 8 per cent in alternative investments. The fund mainly manages money for people that didn’t select a private fund within the PPM system..

She has been one of the first few employees of the company and has been instrumental in obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals for commencement of the various businesses for the group in India. She has been instrumental in launching the wealth management business of Dawnay Day AV both from the product as well as process and customer segmentation point of view. She is a Director and on the board of the company and in addition to her ongoing responsibilities, is also personally managing the Real Estate and the Art and Collectibles Investment portfolio. Her responsibilities also include handling the Group Treasury and overseeing the Finance, Accounts, Legal and Compliance functions for the group Prior to joining Dawnay Day AV, she was with ICICI Bank in Private Banking where she moved up the ranks quickly from being a successful client relationship manager to the National Product Head for the largest Private Banking business unit in India. She was a key member of the strategy team that played its part in making the Private Banking business of ICICI Bank,the largest in the country. She has a deep and rich experience with an extremely diverse range of private clients both in terms of risk appetite as well as demographics. She has personally advised on several hundred million dollars worth of Private Client portfolio's and therefore has a unique experience of building a successful private banking business as well as managing clients.

Hesham, Joined Bank of Alexandria as member of the new senior management team responsible for reengineering, modernizing and privatizing the bank, with the task of bringing together the strands of risk management. He is leading a team of experts in the fields of credit, operational and market risk. He is responsible for Risk Management, Central Credit Administration, and Central Investigation & Information.

Hesham is also a member of the Board of Directors in two distinguished companies:
- Egyptian Banks’ Credit Bureau
- Egyptian Iron and Steel Company

Mr. Harajchi is the Co-founder and chairman of N1 Fund and has over 10 years of experience in the financial field. Before establishing N1 Fund, Mr. Harajchi joined K1 Global Ltd in 2003 as Regional Director of Sales for the K1 Global Ltd. Shortly after, he founded K1 Fund Distribution Ltd; the exclusive distribution company for K1 Fund and K1 Asset Management Ltd. During that assignment, Mr. Harajchi's responsibilities included portfolio management, building up and strengthening new and existing regional distribution channels, and creating strategic alliances and partnership. Believing that investors of the East would welcome K1 as an alternative investment product, Mr. Harajchi set for course to Hong Kong. After two years of building relationships and introducing K1 products to different parties all across Asia, Nicu had successfully managed to raise over 300 million USD. These include distribution through institutions such as banks, securities houses and other well recognized high net worth advisers. After working closing with many counter parties across Asia and realizing the nature of different Asian investors, Mr. Harajchi then went on to create a new line of funds that catered to a variety of investor’s demands with the goal to give clients first class service in the hedge fund industry. This included featuring an online chat function which offered direct access to our sales representatives to give clients the feeling of being closer to the N1 team and to always be in the loop with latest developments, as well as an online login to be able to view their investment positions. Ultimately, Mr. Harajchi aims to promote N1 fund as an interactive client oriented hedge fund that promotes company and investment transparency. Currently Mr. Harajchi acts as chief portfolio manager of N1 Global Fund and sits on the board of the investment committee. As portfolio manager, Mr. Harajchi is responsible for actively building the portfolio, conducting stringent risk management, and carrying out strict due diligence procedures of the underlying managers, as well as constantly monitoring the portfolio for investment opportunities. Mr. Harajchi is also a guest speaker and is featured on CNBC and Bloomberg on a regular basis. Aside from speaking on television, he is also a speaker, panelist and moderator on numerous hedge fund conferences such as Terrapin and MARHedge.

Jeremy Higgs is the Managing Director of Hong Kong based Bowen Capital Management and the fund manager of the Green Dragon Fund, an equity absolute return fund investing in Asian environmental growth. He has twenty years experience as a fund manager previously being General Manager of IG International, CIO and Principal Founder of Carlson Investment Management Far East and Director of Investments at Indosuez Asia Investment Services. Jeremy first came to Hong Kong in 1976 when he joined the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. He left as a Chief Inspector in 1983.He is a Trustee of WWF Hong Kong.

Frank Holle co-founded Quant Asset Management in 2003, and founded Capital Fund Management in 2001. Prior to this, he managed Holle Guilonard, a company specialising in international electronic equities trading. From 1992 until 1998, Frank worked at Merrill Lynch in London, where he was a director of institutional equities. 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.

Prior to establishing 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 traded over US$7 billion face amount of distressed debt in Asia spanning the past decade with over 100 counter-parties globally. Mr. Ibrahim has many years of experience analyzing and trading the debt of distressed companies, and specializes in the operational and financial turnaround of troubled companies. A United States Citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident, Mr. Ibrahim presently resides in Singapore.

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.

Mr. Ingham, Senior Vice President, is the Head of Hedge Fund Investments, Asia on the Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management Investment Team. Prior to joining LBAIM, Mr. Ingham spent three and a half years at Coronation International Ltd, a $1.3 billion fund of hedge funds manager, where he was a portfolio manager and senior sector analyst. Responsibilities covered portfolio construction, manager selection, due diligence and risk management. Prior to Coronation he spent three and a half years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the corporate tax division, advising global financial institutions on international structuring and M&A. Before Coronation he worked as a research intern with the COBA Group, a strategy consultancy based in London. Mr. Ingham is a qualified chartered accountant in the United Kingdom (ACA) and holds an MA from Oxford University. Mr. Ingham holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst.

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.

Michael Levin is the Chief Executive Officer and Portfolio Manager of AsiaCrest Capital, an Asian strategy fund of hedge funds. He has over twelve years of experience in hedge funds and venture capital. Previously, Michael served as a portfolio manager and strategic advisor at Hite Capital. He was also a managing director of Metropolitan Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which he co-founded in 1999. Prior to Metropolitan, Michael developed and managed hedge funds with Larry Hite (Market Wizards, 1989) at Man Group. Michael graduated Magna Cum Laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

GEMS, a London-based fund of funds with $2.5 billion in assets, is opening an Asian office in Singapore. Jeng-Tek Low, currently head of investor education for the AIMA Singapore Chapter, will spearhead Gem Advisors (Asia) and be responsible for the development of business in the Asia-Pacific region. Low will be directly reporting to Miguel Abadi, chief executive officer of Gem Advisors. From 2003 to 2007, Low set up the Singapore operation for Everest Capital, where he was the head of business development for the Asia-Pacific region and took care of operations and administration for the Singapore Office. From 1994 to 2001 Low was also finance manager and eventually CEO of Homestead Holdings - the third-largest furniture retailer in Singapore. And from 1992 to 1993 he was a corporate banking officer with DBS Bank - the largest bank in Singapore.

Mr. Andy Mantel is Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Hong Kong-based Pacific Sun Investment Management and Portfolio Manager of The China Mantou Fund. Mr. Mantel was the founding Portfolio Manager for China’s first fund management company Shanghai International Asset Management, a joint venture set up in the early 1990’s between the Shanghai government and one of Taiwan’s largest business groups. He was with the firm from inception in 1992 until 1998 and was responsible for managing their listed securities portfolio. Mr. Mantel also worked at Taipei-based Capital Securities where he helped open one of Taiwan’s first QFII accounts in 1991 and prior to that he worked with Lehman Brothers in San Francisco. Altogether he has more than 16 years experience in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Mr. Mantel has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California-Davis, a Diploma in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a M.A. in International Relations in conjunction with the China Business Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Jay Moghe is a graduate of the London School of Economics with over fifteen years experience in financial markets in the UK and in Asia. He was a Fund Manager with Lloyds Bank in London, managing several UK equity portfolios as well as a balanced fund. Jay was also the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of APS Asset Management, an Asian focused fund management firm based in Singapore with funds under management in excess of US$2 billion. He is a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute and also spent a number of years with Bloomberg L.P building their brokerage business in Asia.

Lavin Mok joined Tremont Capital Management (Asia) Limited as Managing Director in November 2006. Mr. Mok is responsible for day-to-day management of Tremont’s business operations and development in Asia. Tremont Capital Management is widely recognized as a leading investment manager of fund of hedge fund products and multi-manager portfolios. Tremont and Credit Suisse created The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index as performance benchmark of Hedge Fund Industry. Previously, Mr. Mok was Managing Director of OppenheimerFunds (Asia) Ltd., where his primary focus was to build distribution across Asia for OppenheimerFunds’ offshore product range. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds (Asia) Limited, Mr. Mok was the Head of Retail Sales at INVESCO, where he spearheaded the wholesaling business of offshore funds in Asia. He has extensive experience working with private banks and retail distribution channels in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and other Asian countries. Mr. Mok has over ten years of experience in the asset management industry. Mr. Mok holds a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds. He is also a Certified Financial Planner. Mr. Mok is now taking the New Leadership Advance Course hosted by Tsing Hua University, Beijing China.

Malcolm has more than 35 years experience in financial services and IT, giving him a strong experience base from which to trade automated systems on Foreign Exchange In his early career, Malcolm was a professional Foreign Exchange Trader with Bankers Trust International in London, Bank of Nova Scotia in London and Toronto and Provident National Bank in Philadelphia, USA. Malcolm then held a number of positions as a project manager and systems consultant with large international banks including Citibank, the Bank of NT Butterfield and Credit Suisse. Malcolm specialised in designing, managing and implementing IT banking and treasury systems during this time. Malcolm's most recent role was that of Chief Information Officer of Prudential Bache Securities up until the time they pulled out of Australia.

Russel's professional background has been in investment banking and management consulting. Most recently, Russel was a management consultant where he worked with a number of medium sized businesses on strategic growth, operational efficiency and capital raising. Prior to this he was an Associate of Investment Banking of CIBC World Markets, where he assisted in raising more than $100 million for a variety of clients. Russel also worked as a management consultant with Bain International in Sydney and Poynton and Partners in Perth. Russel thrives on being a creative analyst. He has strong mathematics and statistics skills, but also enjoys the interaction and networking involved in sales and marketing.

Willy is the Senior Portfolio Manager. Prior to joining J.H. Whitney Investment Management, LLC, he was President of Holding Capital Group Inc.’s hedge fund. In addition, he was a deal principal in Holding Capital Group Inc.’s LBO group and was responsible for the group's Asia activities. Prior to joining Holding Capital in 1998, he was with Lehman Brothers’ Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group. He has also held business development and engineering positions at Zygo Corporation. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester with a B.A. and a B.S. (Economics with Highest Distinction and Engineering with High Distinction ) and a M.E. from Cornell University.

Mr. Nuni holds a bachelors degree (B.Tech) in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Chennai India, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, India and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) / member of the CFA Institute. Mr. Nuni started his investments career at SBI Capital Markets Ltd, Mumbai (SBICAPS) a unit of State Bank of India, India’s largest Bank in 1988 and has worked for funds in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain from 1991 to 1995 investing in Asian equities. Mr. Nuni setup MarshalFunds in 1996 in Mumbai & Singapore initially for providing third party equity research for global investment banks., which eventually led to the management of two private investment mandates from 1997 to 2001 investing in Indian equities with exceptional returns. He also Co-founded Singapore based “Springboard Harper Technology Fund”, a Private Equity Fund backed by TIF Ventures a unit of Singapore Government’s Economic Development Board. and funded several technology start ups founded by batch mates from IIT as an angel investor in India and Silicon Valley. From 2002 Mr. Nuni focused on Proprietary Investments with absolute / directional strategies based on the fast growing NSE Derivatives markets in India with a team of Fundamental and Quantitative analysts for hedge strategies and set up the Marshal Asia Opportunities Fund – an India Hedge Fund in August 2004.

Pieter Oyens is Head of Asia Fund Linked Derivatives Marketing and Structuring, responsible for expanding the bank’s solutions capability in the fast growing market of fund linked derivatives in the Asia Pacific Region. In this area he covers all asset classes in the traditional and alternative space. Mr Oyens joined ABN AMRO in the Netherlands in 1998 where he held various positions with ABN AMRO Asset Management in the Netherlands before relocating to Hong Kong in 2004 to become Head of Product Management for Asset Management in the Asia Pacific Region. Mr Oyens graduated in 1998 with a Masters degree in Law from the University in Leiden, the Netherlands and holds a CFA charter from the CFA Institute.

Tushar Patel is Managing Director and Investment Manager at Hedge Fund Investment Management Ltd (‘HFIM’) a London based fund of hedge funds Investment Manager. He manages the HFIM Evolution Funds, a range of funds of hedge funds focused on investing in emerging and newly established hedge funds. HFIM’s investment approach is to capture returns from new and emerging hedge fund strategies that can come from innovation and evolution within the global hedge fund industry. Tushar has more than 12 years' experience in the management of funds of hedge funds and single-strategy hedge fund managers. Prior to HFIM, he worked at GAIM Advisors, Sabre Fund Management, Tachibana Securities and Prudential Bache. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Securities Institute, an alumnus of the London Business School and an Associate member of the U.K. Society of Investment Professionals. He holds an honors degree in Economics and Quantitative methods.

- Previously at Alcor Capital responsible for the pan-Asia portfolio which produced a 15% annualised net return in 2005. Portfolio included long/short book, macro trading and options strategies - CIO has traded and invested in Asia since 1989 and lived in the Asia Pacific region since 1993 - From 1985 was a financial analyst at Salomon Brothers before joining Morgan Stanley equity derivatives in 1989. Moved to Hong Kong in 1993 and built its Asian derivatives business - Recruited as managing director in charge of Asia ex-Japan equity business by Nat West markets in 1997. Business purchased by Deutsche Bank in1998 and role expanded to include Australian business - Holds MSc inEnvironmental Technology 2001-02 from Imperial College and MA in Financial Analysis. Experienced in applying the technologies commercially as well as a broad knowledge of developing technologies which will become tomorrow’s standards

Mr. Ducchi T. Quan is an attorney licensed to practice in a number of jurisdictions in the United States. He began his legal career as a litigator with the Dallas, Texas complex commercial litigation firm Bickel & Brewer. Later, Mr. D. Quan moved on to join the Washington, D.C. office of the Wall Street law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. There his practice focused on representing public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and debt financing transactions. Mr. D. Quan holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and was a member of the Law Review. He also graduated from the State University of New York and pursued graduate work at Cornell University. Mr. D. Quan is conversant in Vietnamese.

Mr. H.D. Quan has two decades of experience in the financial services industry, with the last decade and a half spent in the South East Asian region, particularly Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Prior to relocating to Asia in the early 1990s, he worked in New York City, with muni-house broker-dealer Douglas & Co. and the hedge fund Millburn Corp. Mr. H.D. Quan spent eight years in banking in Asia with Indosuez and Standard Chartered. Mr. H.D. Quan's depth of experience and connection in Vietnam was evidenced by the State Bank of Vietnam's approval of his appointment as CEO of a local joint stock bank. He is the first, and, still currently, only foreign national to have been so approved by the SBV. Mr. H.D. Quan has also served on the Board of Directors for AmCham in Vietnam and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

An accomplished professional with 8 years experience in operations and marketing, is skilled in business development and implementing procedures to maintain an efficient operational process. A graduate from the University of Greenwich in London, Mr. Rasmussen holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies with a major in Business Economics. Prior to joining Capricorn in August 2004, Mr. Rasmussen worked as a Creative Director for a media company he co-founded. Since the inception of Capricorn Asset Management (Schweiz) AG in 2001, Mr. Rasmussen has played a key role in the company’s marketing as a consultant. Mr. Rasmussen is responsible for all operational aspects of Capricorn including the internet-related marketing. His key daily responsibilities include processing and recaps of trades, and handling client/broker relationships.

Mark has been involved with trading and risk management since graduating from Macquarie University (Australia) in 1990 with a Bachelor of Economics (Major Actuarial Studies & Finance). He gained his Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University in 1994. Prior to Attunga Capital, Mark was a director of RL Energy, advising on Energy Derivatives Trading and developing proprietary risk management and trading concepts for the energy market. From 2000 to 2001 Mark was General Manager, Commercial for Australian National Power with strategic, commercial and operational responsibility for energy sales, trading and risk management. From 1998 to 2000 Mark was an energy market consultant, advising energy market participants primarily in the areas of trading and risk management. From 1995 to 1998 Mark was Energy Trading Manager at United Energy, with responsibilities including wholesale electricity purchases, trading and risk management aspects of United Energy's electricity retail business. From 1990 to 1995, as Treasury Manager at State Bank New South Wales, Mark's responsibilities included asset/liability management, risk management, swaps and futures trading, foreign currency dealing and options trading.

He is a head of Fund management at MAI. He launched Monex Alternative Investments supported by Monex Beans Holdings, one of largest online security companies in Japan, and Asuka Asset Management, leading hedge fund investment firm in Japan. Prior to his present position, he was Vice President for Asuka Asset Management, and was in charge of its strategic development. He was Vice President for UFJ Bank Limited, managing hedge fund portfolio and looked at Japan and Asian strategies. He was also Vice President at UFJ Partners Asset Management, setting up its fund of funds business and helping development of equity market neutral strategy from 2000 to 2003. He was portfolio manager at UFJ Asset Management, managing pension money from 1999 to 2000. Prior to UFJ Asset Management, he started investing in hedge funds in 1996 at UFJ Bank (ex-Sanwa Bank). He has experience in fixed income investment as a trader. He obtained Masters in Finance from London Business School. He graduated Keio University majoring in Economics. Chartered Member, the Security Analyst Association of Japan. Executive committee member and Vice Chairperson in AIMA Japan Chapter

Felix joined GCI Investment Management Singapore (“GCI”) in 2006 and was responsible for establishing and executing the trading and reconciliation operations process for the GCI-managed funds. In the same year, Felix was given the responsibility of hedge fund analysis and materialized a proprietary fund research and due diligence process emphasizing on the qualitative aspects of manager evaluation, from which the main risks of fund management emanate. This process had since become a major part of the investment research process for the GCI-managed Fund-of-Funds. Felix was the manager-in-charge of investment operations and fund origination/analysis activities of GCI since 2007, and contributed extensively to a hedge fund seeding joint venture project. Prior to joining the company, Felix worked in the Treasury Department of Mizuho Corporate Bank Singapore. Other than fulfilling his primary role as a Forex sales trader, Felix developed systems in MS Excel that interacted with the bank’ s deal tracking systems to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the sales team. Before joining Mizuho, Felix served in the Plans & Doctrine branch of HQ Guards in the Singapore Armed Forces. Felix holds a Diploma in Business and Information Technology from Temasek Polytechnic, a Diploma in Wealth Management accredited by the American Academy of Financial Management and is currently a candidate for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). Felix is also the founder of OSHedge.com, an open-sourced, community driven hedge fund portal.

Amitabh Singhi is a director at Amrit Capital. Amrit Capital advises Amrit India Value Fund which has a long-only, absolute return focus and holds a concentrated portfolio of securities of Indian companies. Amitabh has an audited track record of 7 years in the Indian securities markets as a portfolio manager of an India based portfolio management and investment advisory company based in India. Prior to this, Amitabh worked with Credit Suisse First Boston (New York) in their Technology Investment Banking & Advisory Division and Goldman Sachs in their Equities Sales & Trading Division. Amitabh graduated with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Finance and Management.

- 23 years experience in the alternative fund management industry (11 in Hong Kong). - Chief Exceutive Officer of Asia Alternative Asset Partners Limited, a Hedge Fund investment and seeding business. - held senior management and board positions with Ermitage International Ltd, Bank of Bermuda and HSBC in Paris, London, Hong Kong and New York. - Chartered Accountant, CFA, Council Member of AIMA in Hong Kong, holds numerous fund directorships in Asia. - Holds Types 1, 4 and 9 Licenses from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

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.

Christian Stauffer is a finance expert in emerging markets and in particular in Asia. He has been permanently living in Asia for 10 years and is now running EuroFin Asia, an Asian based (Singapore and Hong Kong) operation advising local and international customers on Structured Trade and Commodity Finance. As a former Director of Noble Trade Finance Limited, the Structured Trade and Commodity Finance vehicle of Noble Group Limited based in Hong Kong, he was instrumental to the establishment of its global business. Before Noble he was the head of FINCO Asia, the merchant banking department of Andre Group in Asia-Pacific, based in Beijing and Singapore. He has more than 15 years of experience in trade, projects and financial products. Christian Stauffer graduated with a Masters Degree in Engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology. He was President of the Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Beijing and a board member of the Asian Pacific Countertrade Association in Singapore.

Charles Supapodok is one of the leading silver analysts in the mining industry today. He began following the precious metal markets in 2000, with a keen eye on silver investments. He was one of the first analysts to realize silver's potential within the mining sector, and since then he has achieved impressive results for his private managed accounts. Over the years he has developed key contacts within the mining industry, giving him a clear advantage in his stock selection strategy. During the early 90’s Charles worked for several years as an equities analyst in Bangkok, covering stocks on the Stock Exchange of Thailand with Deutsche Bank, and later he joined CSFB in New York as an analyst in the M&A department. Charles has developed his own resource valuation model, which he uses to evaluate mining companies. Using this model, traditional equity analysis and market timing, Charles has developed a solid track record for his managed accounts; Charles obtained a B.S. degree in economics with distinction at the University of Wisconsin Madison and went on to graduate at Columbia University in New York, where he studied computer science.

- Joined SGAM AI Paris Hedge Funds Group in 2001 - Re-located from Paris to Singapore to launch asian Volatility Arbitrage Single Hedge Funds - Served as Head of several trading desk during tenure at Banque Paribas from 1992 till 2001 including: - Proprietary Trader on the Convertible Bond desk - Head of European Swap Options desk in London - Caps, Floors and Bond Options - Co-Head of FRF Swap desk in Paris - Received an Economist and Statistician diploma from ENSAE - Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Melvyn Teo is Assistant Professor of Finance and Director, BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at the Singapore Management University. His primary research interests are in hedge funds, institutional investors, and empirical asset pricing. His articles on hedge fund alpha, style investing, and behavioral finance have appeared in top finance journals. Melvyn consults for FDO Partners and State Street Associates in Boston. He has also designed a customized course on investments for the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). Melvyn received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from Cornell University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2002.

Patrick Tuohy joined HSBC Private Bank in May 2004 as the Head of the Alternative Funds Group based in Hong Kong with overall responsibility for the hedge fund investment platform in Asia and took over responsibilities as Global Head of Sales & Marketing for the Alternative Investment Group in September 2007. Patrick has over 27 years of industry experience and has been directly involved in the hedge fund business and managing client portfolios while in his own firm Tressider, Tuohy and Partners since 1996. Prior to joining HSBC Private Bank, Patrick was involved in the Hedge Fund of Funds business in Hong Kong when he established Momentum Asia Limited in 1998 jointly with Momentum Asset Management; the Bermuda based Alternative Funds specialists. As Managing Director of the Asian business, Patrick was involved in managing key relationships and advising on Asian manager selection. Patrick began his career in financial services in the UK working for the Life Insurance and Mutual Fund Manager Clerical Medical. He was one of the early members of their offshore subsidiary CMI and established their businesses in Spain and the Middle East before moving to Hong Kong in 1990.

Mr. Mark Weiss, is the Senior Managing Director and Founding Member of Bengal Asset Management LLC, an asset management company focusing on investments in Bangladesh. Prior to his formation of Bengal Asset Management LLC, from 2003 to 2007, Mr. Weiss was the Director of Marketing at LW Asset Management LLC, New York, New York, a United States registered investment adviser and investment manager to three private alternative investment funds focusing on Emerging Markets, and was responsible for business development, client servicing, sales and marketing. In 2003, Mr. Weiss helped establish the Institutional Sales and Trading desk of Jesup & Lamont Inc., New York, New York, a United States broker dealer, where he sold and traded emerging market fixed income securities and high yield and distressed U.S. fixed income securities. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Weiss was employed by H. Rivkin & Co., Pennington, New Jersey, a United States broker dealer, where he worked on the Institutional Sales and Trading desk, dealing in various equity and fixed income products. Among the markets he covered were Russia, India, Indonesia and Thailand. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Weiss was employed by First Albany Corporation, New York, New York, a United States broker dealer, where he worked on the Institutional Sales desk, selling fixed income securities, including mortgage backed securities, municipal bonds and whole loans. Prior to his entrance into the securities industry, Mr. Weiss was a commercial and securities litigation attorney for 13 years from 1983 to 1996 for Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler, and Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon, two large New York City based law firms. Before entering private law practice, Mr. Weiss was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Richard J. Cardamone of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Weiss received his Juris Doctor degree, cum laude in 1981 from Albany Law School of Union University, where he was a member and editor of the Albany Law Review, and his Bachelor of Science degree in 1978, with distinction, from Cornell University, with a major in Civil Engineering. Mr. Weiss is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.

Gary West: a main board director of Harmonious Group, which owns Port Funds. Gary was a Corporate Business specialist for a major financial services group in the UK prior to moving offshore, where he was director of an international investment firm. He originally trained and qualified in the UK and was awarded the LIA Gold Medal in 1986 for industry examination excellence and has been instrumental in the group's development.

Dr Geoffrey Williams is a founder and Managing Director of Owens, Williams & Wood Consulting in Malaysia and Singapore. He has designed and directed numerous research projects for the UK Government (DTI), European Commission (DG-Research), and European Standards Agency, among others. He has also worked with private companies and charities including PA Consulting Group, leading UK law firm Allen & Overy, and the Wellcome Trust UK. He is a member of the EU Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) CSR Committee. Geoffrey has held academic positions at London Business School, Pembroke College University of Oxford and elsewhere. He has published extensively in leading academic journals worldwide. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society, School of Management, University of Bath, United Kingdom and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2004. Geoffrey’s most recent research has focussed on Corporate Social Responsibility in a global context and in particular, on the factors that determine the success of CSR initiatives in different socio-political contexts. He has also published original research on the profile of SRI investors in a cross-country setting and the factors that determine the decision to invest in SRI products. Geoffrey also has an active research interest in the development of practical management tools for the assessment and implementation of successful CSR systems within companies, which led to the development of the OWW Responsibility™ CSR Assessment Tool. OWW Consulting has also established the first SRI Index in Malaysia and will launch the first SRI Index for Singapore in March 2007. His work has been published in leading academic journals including Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, Research Policy, Business Ethics: A European Review, Review of Income and Wealth, European Competition Law Review, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Information Economics and Policy, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, International Review of Business and Economics. His research output has had direct impact in the business world and has been covered in the media including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, the Edge (Malaysia) and the Sun newspaper in the UK. His speaking events include the American Economic Association Meeting 2004 (San Diego), chair of a special session on culture and economics; the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) CSR Conference 2006 in KL; the MIA 2006 National Accountants' Conference in KL in a special session on CSR. He will be speaking on SRI at the major CSR Conference in KL on 1-2 March 2007 and at the International Institute for Research (IIR Middle East) CSR Summit 24-28 June 2007 in Dubai. He has also been invited to write a series of four articles on CSR for the Malaysian Institute of Management, the first of which, on Socially Responsible Investment, will appear in the April 2007 issue of their quarterly journal.

Xie Xuefeng has over 15 years of experience in portfolio management. Prior to co-founding Value Star Asset Management with Gary Wang in 2005, Andy Xie founded YDF Investment Co. in 2000 and assumed CEO/CIO role until 2005. During 1997-2000, he was CIO at Highwin Investment Co., a local asset management company in China.He also served as Head of Proprietary Trading Department during his tenure at J&A Securities Co. (one of the leading securities firms in China and now merged with GuoTai Securities Co. as Guotai Junan Securities Co.) from 1992 to 1997. Xie started his career from the People’s Bank of China (the central bank of PRC) in 1990. He holds a Bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China.