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Kevin Cronin is the Global Head of Equity Trading and is responsible for trading desks in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Kevin joined Invesco in 1997 as the Head of Listed Equity Trading for Invesco Aim and later became Director of Equity Trading. In January 2007 Invesco named Kevin the Global Head of Equity Trading. Before joining Invesco, Kevin was Director of Equity Trading for First Union Capital Management in Charlotte and served as the lead fund manager of the Evergreen Enhanced Equity Fund. Kevin holds the Chartered Financial Analyst certification. He is Chairman of the ICI’s Equity Markets Committee and serves as a member of the Georgia Securities Association, the Houston and Atlanta Societies of Financial Analysts and is the former Chairman of the NYSE Institutional Traders Advisory Committee. Kevin received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Economics from Indiana University and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.
Joined Resona Bank in 1999. In charge of the trading in equities, bonds, foreign exchange and money market in Asset Management Div. Started the career as a buy side trader at Daiwa Asset Management in 1998. Joined Barclays as a new graduate in 1988. Traded Euro dollar warrants and Nikkei 225 future & options as the proprietary trader and traded Japanese equities as the proprietary and execution trader. Master of Economics Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan
Richard Coulstock, Director, Head of Dealing, Prudential Asset Management (Singapore) Richard has been with Prudential Asset Management (Singapore) for just over 5 years and heads up a multi-asset team focusing mainly on Pan-Asia, but also with exposure to Latin American and Global emerging markets Prior to moving to Singapore, Richard worked for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for just over 4 years. Before that, he worked for Scottish Widows in Edinburgh
Mr. Bruenjes is a senior vice president and equity trader in the Singapore office. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2011, he was a vice president for active equity trading at DWS Investments, responsible for Asian developed and emerging market equity, derivatives and foreign exchange execution. Previously he was a vice president in Asian and U.S. equity trading for Deutsche Asset Management, where he was also a specialist biotech trader. He has 13 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a bankers degree in conjunction with Deutsche Bank AG and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Bremen.
Matthew has been Head Trader on the Asia ex desk for the last eighteen months, overseeing a team of seven traders. He moved to Hong Kong from Australia nearly nine years ago.
Kent joined RCM in May 1999 as the Head of Regional Asia Pacific Trading and is based in Hong Kong, which is one of RCM’s three global trading desks. As at end of March 2011, RCM managed approximately USD153.7bn and is part of the Allianz Group that has assets under management in excess of USD2,279 bn. From 1996 until 1999, Kent was the Deputy General Manager of Asian Equity Sales at Nikko Securities. Prior to that, he was the Head of Japan Desk, Asian Equities at Sun Hung Kai Investment Services both in Hong Kong and Tokyo. He has eighteen years investment experience. Kent has been active as a speaker and served on the Advisory Board of Institutional Investors’ International Trader Forum (ITF), worked closely with the Asian Regional Steering Committee of FIX Protocol Organization and OMGEO Advisory Board. He is a strong advocate of STP & Electronic Connectivity. Kent has a BA in Business & Economics/Int’l Business from Western Washington University, U.S.A., and an MBA from the University of Hull, U.K.
Anand Narayan is a Senior Dealer with HSBC Global Asset Management (Singapore) and has been working in the Asset management and Broking industry since 1991. Prior to joining HSBC in 2008, Anand worked with Credit Suisse as a Sales Trader. He holds a Master Degree in Financial Management from NMIMS (Mumbai).
Mr. Li Shu joined Changxin Fund Management Co., Ltd in 2002. He is the Head of Trading Department since 2006.
Phillip joined Karara Capital as an Equities Trader in December 2008. He previously worked for NAB where he spent 3 years trading foreign exchange options and a year as an Associate in Institutional Banking. Phillip holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business (Banking & Finance) from Monash University and a Diploma of Financial Services (Financial Markets).
Saurabh has over 16 years of experience in working for leading Investment banks and hedge funds. He manages two business ventures - Ankam Partners and also Sankhyaa Research. Saurabh joined Indea Capital as a Principal in May 2008 from Deutsche Bank to launch the Ankam Fund - a new market neutral hedge fund with a focus on trading Equities Stat-Arb. The fund had a good run and was very profitable. Saurabh started his career in Tokyo with Banque Indosuez in 1992 on the equity index arbitrage desk and subsequently worked for Credit Suisse First Boston, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, (all based in Tokyo) in a number of trading and research roles. The quantitative models he designed were utilized to manage portfolios aggregating over USD 250 million. His career in hedge funds includes trading positions at Harborview Trading Associates, a NYC based stat-arb hedge fund, and at Manchester Trading Partners, Connecticut where he traded equity derivatives. He was part of the senior management team of Bdellium Asset Management, Tokyo and Singapore. His last assignment prior to running the Ankam Fund was with Deutsche Bank, Mumbai. His team built world class data-intensive analytics that rank very high on robustness, power and sophistication. He has written several articles and a book titled Magic Squares. He has delivered academic lectures at several universities and has taught Structured Finance as an adjunct faculty member at the Singapore Management University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1991) and a Masters in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1997).
Mr Zhijian Wu is the Chief Executive Officer of Woodsford Capital Management Pte Ltd. Woodsford Capital Management is a Singapore based hedge fund manager to manage two global macro hedge funds based in Cayman Island. Zhijian is also the managing editor of www.chinatells.com, a web based portal to provide investment advice and business information about China. Zhijian obtained a bachelor degree from Fudan University in China and a master degree from National University of Singapore’s Business School.
Glenn Lesko is CEO of Instinet in Asia, and is responsible for the firm’s business units – Instinet Japan Limited, Instinet Pacific Limited, Instinet Singapore Services Private Limited and Instinet Australia Pty Limited – in the region. Mr. Lesko, a CFA charterholder, previously headed Instinet’s U.S.-based International Trading Group. Mr. Lesko joined Instinet in 2006 from CF Global Trading, where he had served as a partner since 2003, and before that, served two years as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, directing the firm’s international trading desk. Prior to that, Mr. Lesko spent 10 years at ABN AMRO and its affiliates, first heading its Asian trading desk in Hong Kong and later its international trading desk in New York.
Based in Liquidnet’s Hong Kong office, Lee joined Liquidnet in July 2007 and now heads up Liquidnet’s Asia Pacific offices. Lee has nineteen years of industry experience and has been based in Asia for the last nine years.
Prior to Liquidnet, Lee was a Director at Credit Suisse, heading up Regional Cash Equity Operations. He worked at Credit Suisse for ten years, where he held a variety of roles in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and New York, covering Relationship Management, Middle Office, Capital Markets, Settlements, Cash management and Control functions across all asset classes. Lee has also worked for Citibank, Mitsubishi Corporation Finance, and HSBC.
James Rae is a Credit Suisse Director and Head of AES Sales for Southeast Asia, located in Singapore. James has been in the financial industry for 18 years, 15 of which have been in the development and sales of electronic execution services in the U.S., Japan, and Southeast Asia. In 2005 he joined Credit Suisse's AES team in New York and in 2008 moved to Singapore to head their SE Asia sales effort.
Mr. Quentin Limouzi is Head of Electronic & Algorithmic Trading Services (BEATS) Asia Pacific for BNP Paribas Global Equities & Commodity Derivatives. He is responsible for the equity electronic trading platform across the Asia Pacific region.
Quentin joined BNP Paribas Japan in 2007, where he oversaw the development of the Japanese electronic trading platform. After this successful launch, he has spent the last three years based in both Hong Kong and Singapore where he has spearheaded the expansion of the bank's Asia Pacific e-trading platform.
Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Quentin was with TradingScreen in Tokyo, as their Head of Sales for Asia Pacific as well as a partner of the firm.
Quentin obtained a Master’s degree in Management from EM LYON Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Lyon where he majored in Quantitative Analysis.
Kevin Snowball, Chief Executive Officer, PXP Vietnam Asset Management Limited LL. B, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London • 24 years investment experience • Co-founded PXP Vietnam Asset Management in 2002 • Responsible for investment policy and strategy • Portfolio Manager of PXP Vietnam Fund, Vietnam Emerging Equity Fund and • Vietnam Lotus Fund Kevin Snowball spent a decade in Hong Kong from 1985 as a specialist manager and trader of proprietary funds in equity and equity derivatives markets in Hong Kong and South East Asia. During that period, among other activities he established the Hong Kong equity derivatives businesses of Baring Securities and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. On returning to the United Kingdom in 1995, Kevin expanded his coverage to encompass global emerging markets at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Bear Stearns and ABN Amro before returning to Asia to establish PXP Vietnam Asset Management in 2002.
Robert is Tora's Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Tora, Robert spent eleven years in the software industry covering all major geographic regions – Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Robert has held executive management positions in several start-up and early stage software companies including WebPartner, a software provider of corporate testing applications, and AudioSoft, a software services company providing online music licensing solutions, which was sold to Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN). Robert started his career at Deloitte & Touche LLP working in various positions in audit, consulting and mergers & acquisitions groups. Robert holds a B.A. in Economics with an emphasis in Mathematics from Princeton University.
Peter Douglas, CAIA, a pioneer of the Asian hedge fund industry, is the principal of the firm, GFIA pte ltd. He has been researching the hedge and absolute return fund universe in Asia since 1998, and has been a fund management professional since 1985, working in London, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. He was an Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Council member for 10 years, and was the inaugural Chairman of the Singapore National Group and the inaugural Asia-Pacific regional representative of the Association. He holds a MBA from INSEAD (France), and is a pioneer-cohort CAIA charterholder. He is the only Singapore Financial Industry Certified Professional from the alternative investment industry.
Kelvin Chiu is Joint Chief Technology Officer of Japannext, one of the leading Proprietary Trading Systems ( PTS ) in Japan. Kelvin has spent majority of his career in New York City. Since 1996, Kelvin has held various trading technology related positions at renowned financial institutions such as Reuters, MetLife, KBC Bank, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. Joint Japannext in 2008, with Kelvin’s financial and technical expertise and experiences, along with contributions from many talented individuals, Japannext has established as the prominent alternative trading venue in Japan where for centuries the equity market has always been dominated by a single primary exchange. Kelvin holds Bachelor Degree from National Taiwan University and Master Degree in Computer Science from New York University.
Alan Donoghue is based in Singapore as CEO of Nyenburgh Asia, a high frequency algorithmic trading company that specializes in market making primarily on cash markets. His global market experience spanning two decades, covering a wide range of asset classes & roles has given him the skills necessary for his current role as CEO in Asia. Being responsible for both trading & corporate strategies, he has engineered its growth from establishing the company in 2006, Nyenburgh now works with all regional exchanges, issuers and institutions to help provide & drive liquidity in their products.
Dr Andy Xie is an independent Economist based in Shanghai. Current positions are (1) guest columnist, South China Morning Post, (2) guest columnist, The New Century Weakly, (3) guest columnist, Bloomberg, (4) director, Boqi Environmental Sciences, and (5) director, Rosetta Stone Capital. Dr Xie is one of the few economists who has accurately predicted economic bubbles including the Southeast Asian Financial Crisis (1997) and the US Subprime Financial Crisis (2008). He was voted by Institutional Investors annual poll the best economist in Asia Pacific between 2000-06. Dr Xie joined Morgan Stanley in 1997 and held the role of Managing Director and Head of the firm’s Asia/Pacific economics team until 2006. Prior to that he spent two years with Macquarie Bank inSingapore, where he was an associate director in corporate finance. He also spent five years as an economist with the World Bank, which he joined through the Young Professionals Program. Dr Xie was responsible for the World Bank programs in industry and finance inIndonesia and telecom and power programs in other Asia-Pacific countries. Dr Xie earned a PhD in economics in 1990 and an MS in civil engineering in 1987 from the Massachusetts
Zhen Liu, CFA Mr. Liu graduated from Peking University in 1987 with a BS degree in Physics, continued his graduate study in Astrophysics at University of Utah, and received MS degree in Physics in 1993. Mr. Liu then went on to study Computer Science at University of Southern California, received MS in Computer Science in 1995. 1995 Mr. Liu started his career on Wall Street at D. E. Shaw & Co, a pioneering hedge fund, currently one of the largest in the world, well-known for their advanced quantitative investment strategies. Since then Mr. Liu worked at Banc of America Securities, Sagamore Hill Capital Management, UBS Investment Bank, and Brevan Howard Asset Management LLC, managing diversified global equity portfolio using quantitative strategies. In the past 10 years, Mr. Liu has researched, developed and implemented multitude of cutting-edge quantitative investment strategies, covering over 20 markets in US, Japan and Europe, managing up to $2 billion in risk capital, and with a proven successful track record. In August 2008, Mr. Liu started his own hedge fund, The Red Capital, LLC, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, focusing on both global and Asian equity opportunities using quantitative strategies. The Red Capital maintained a quantitative research facility in Beijing, China, with the intention to combine the know-how, experience and capital from Wall Street, with world-class quantitative talents in China, to achieve a competitive edge in the global hedge fund industry, and to help the development of the embryonic hedge fund industry in China. In 2009, after serving as a senior investment advisor for an extended period to E Fund Asset Management Company, one of the largest asset management companies in China with over $35 billion AUM, Mr. Liu joined E Fund as Managing Director, Head of Index and Quantitative Strategies. Currently Mr. Liu is responsible for the research and development, marketing and investment management of all index and quantitative related products, with $12 billion AUM. Mr. Liu is also spear-heading the effort at E Fund to develop new absolute-return strategies in the Chinese market, promoting the scientific approaches to the investment management practices, and advocating for the open and free financial markets in China.
Tobias Hekster has been actively trading for the past 14 years in various different roles in several markets across the globe. Starting at IMC as a pit trader in Amsterdam, Tobias has established the off-floor arbitrage desk, headed the Chicago office in the transition from floor trading to electronic trading and set up the Asian volatility arbitrage desk in Hong Kong. At present, Tobias is Managing Director at True Partner Education and a Senior Strategist at Algorithmic Trading Group of Hong Kong. Tobias also teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and National Taiwan University.
Greg Lee is Head of the Deutsche Bank Autobahn Equity trading group for the Asian region. Deutsche Bank Autobahn Equity is the Bank's Direct Market Access and Algorithmic trading platform. Greg has spent his entire career in electronic trading, starting out at Tibco Finance Technology before moving to Reuters and UBS and has built, deployed and managed trading systems in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Switzerland, Japan, India, Thailand and Hong Kong.
Zach is responsible for Program Trading, Electronic Trading and Transition Management across the Pan Asian region. He joined Morgan Stanley in January this year. Prior to that he held a similar role at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. Zach has been involved with program and electronic trading for over 15 years and has worked at Dresdner Bank and Merrill Lynch in London, Tokyo and Sydney before. Zach achieved a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Queensland in 1988.
Anshuman Jaswal is an analyst in Celent’s Securities and Investments group and is based in the Bangalore office. Mr. Jaswal has varied experience in Corporate Banking (erstwhile UTI Bank), Research and Consulting (AC Nielsen ORG-Marg) and finally Insurance (ICICI Prudential Life Insurance). At UTI Bank, he worked with some of the leading companies in India, providing credit-related services. He was part of a three-person team that set up ICICI Prudential’s network of branches for high net worth clients. He has also been a founding partner in an education-based business. Mr. Jaswal has done his B.Sc. Economics (Honours) from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, with a specialization in the Economics of Japan, China and India. He then did an MBA in Finance from NMIMS Mumbai, a top ten B-school in India. Mr. Jaswal is a Fellow in Management (equivalent of a Ph.D.) with a specialization in Economics from India's premier B-school, IIM Ahmedabad. His doctoral thesis was titled ‘Commodities Spot and Future Markets in India: Efficiency, International Integration, Returns and Risk.’ He is fluent in English and Hindi, is currently studying Spanish at the intermediate level and has also studied basic level French and German.
Ashish (42) works as the Deputy CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Asia’s first stock exchange. BSE is ranked 1st in the world in terms of number of stocks listed, 5th in the world in terms of number of trades per day and 9th in the world in terms of market capitalization. From 2000-2009, Ashish worked as the Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Reliance group. Reliance group is India’s largest business house with turnover in excess of US $ 35 billions. In addition to his responsibilities at Reliance Industries Limited (RIL, the flagship company of Reliance group), Ashish was involved in setting up Information Technology for Reliance Communications, Reliance Retail, Reliance Oil and Gas, Reliance Life Sciences and several other businesses within Reliance group. Ashish was ranked amongst the top 50 CIOs in the world by several magazines and institutions from 2005-2009. In addition, as a part of his responsibilities within Reliance group, Ashish served as the CEO of Mumbai Indians, a cricket team with legends such as Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Sanath Jaisurya, Lasith Malinga and Dwayne Bravo. Ashish holds a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1989) and MBA from IIM Calcutta (1991). Ashish serves on several government and regulatory committees currently.
Abhi Shroff, Vice President, Greenwich Associates, consults with the firm’s investment management clients in Asia and Japan – covering predominantly asset managers and institutional investors. Abhi also works with banks in Asia using the firm’s FICC sales and trading research. Abhi began his career as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting working with clients in the investment management and banking sectors in Australia. Prior to joining the Greenwich Associates, Abhi worked with UBS Investment Bank in London. Abhi earned his MBA from the London Business School.
Edward Stockreisser has been developing our business throughout Asia since he joined Lombard Street Research in early 2005. He moved to Hong Kong in April 2008 to set up our new headquarters in Hong Kong. After 2 years working in our London office, he joined our operation in New York as Vice President, Sales and Marketing, and gained valuable experience of our North American clients and marketplace. Prior to joining Lombard Street Research Edward spent 6 years in financial services with Euromoney plc and BMI in London. He was born in Switzerland, is a native French speaker and has a degree in International Relations from Nottingham University. He is a keen skier and enjoys playing squash.
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 banks U.S. treasury and agency primary dealership. Before this, he worked for Discount Corporation of New York where he established and worked in the firms bond trading operations in Hong Kong. Brian holds a BA degree in Economics from Bates College, Maine.
Ralph is the CEO of True Partner Holding as well as an adjunct professor in finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been active in finance since the late 80's. He started his career as a quantitative analyst at the Pacific Investment Research Institute. Soon after that he founded his own investment fund. Besides Asset Management he founded a trading software development company in 1995. This firm has been providing technology evolving with the market from floor based solutions to co-located HFT setups. The last 10 years he was the CEO and partner of a proprietary market making trading firm active in the global financial markets. This company was sold in 2009. Besides the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he also lectures at the National Taiwan University in Taipei and the NTU-SGX in Singapore.
Steve is responsible for Fidessa’s strategic development. This includes the development of new geographic markets and strategic partnerships and driving new industry initiatives. As part of this Steve heads up the firm’s strategy in response to the new post-MiFID trading landscape, managing the firm’s initiatives in conjunction with both the established exchanges and the new and emerging alternative liquidity venues and dark pools. Steve has also played a significant part in bringing the Fidessa Fragmentation Index (FFI) and the Fragulator™ to the wider trading community. He provides a regular commentary on the issues surrounding fragmentation of the markets on the community forum that was launched at the end of 2008. On joining Fidessa in 2004 Steve led the development of the company’s multi-asset trading capabilities. For four years, he worked to extend the core strengths of the Fidessa platform and ensure that all enhancements support an asset agnostic architecture to deliver multi- and cross-asset trading across its product lines globally. Prior to joining Fidessa Steve was the founder and CEO of specialist derivatives software house Future Dynamics which was one of the companies at the vanguard of the shift from open outcry to screen based trading in world derivatives markets. This business grew to be one of the major facilitators of workflow based derivatives trading and was eventually sold in 2004.
Born in September 1966 in Japan, Mr. Kato graduated from Keio University in 1990 and entered the Tokyo Stock Exchange upon graduation. His professional career at the exchange includes various fields such as listing, settlement, derivatives and information services. In June 2004, Mr. Kato was appointed as the head of Index Business at TSE. He led the TSE’s index operations and oversaw the development and licensing of Indices including the TOPIX index. Mr. Kato was also seconded to the Bank of Tokyo (presently known as the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ) from April 1994 to March 1996. In November 2010, he was appointed as General Manager and Chief Representative of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. Singapore Representative office. Under this new position, he is responsible for promoting TSE’s products such as Arrowhead, Co-Location, derivatives and ETFs, as well as managing TSE’s relationships with other exchanges and financial institutions.
Mark Hemsley is chief executive of BATS Europe, the innovative and technology-leading European multilateral trading facility (MTF) and a dominant player amongst pan-European trading venues. Mr. Hemsley was previously managing director and chief information officer at LIFFE, running its market solutions group. At LIFFE from 2001-2004, he won major contracts with top exchanges and transformed the technology organization to capture greater revenue from its exchange businesses. A LIFFE board member, he was also heavily involved in the sale of LIFFE to Euronext, the predecessor company to NYSE Euronext. Mr. Hemsley also previously held executive roles at Deutsche Bank GCI and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Mr Chew Sutat is Head of Sales & Clients and is responsible for the Exchange’s distribution network including growing market participation and the Membership base. Mr Chew joined SGX in June 2007 and was appointed to the Executive Committee in May 2008. He was previously Group Head, Investment & Treasury Products at Standard Chartered Bank. He was responsible for the Global Wealth Management investment and treasury products business, strategy and development in the bank’s existing geographic franchises as well as new ventures. Before Standard Chartered Bank, Mr Chew was with OCBC Securities, where he headed the development of non-traditional investment products and services for its customers. He began his career with DBS Bank in the Custody function, and held varying portfolios in strategic planning and business development for institutional banking, as well as private clients. Mr Chew graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Honours) degree in Philosophy Politics & Economics (PPE) from Oxford University, Keble College in 1996. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from Oxford.
Mr. Hans B. Sicat was named President and CEO of The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) in January 2011. He also served as Chairman and Independent Director of the PSE from May 2009 to January 2011. Currently, he is Vice Chairman and Director of LegisPro Corporation. Mr. Sicat also holds positions in various business entities such as Independent Director of Serica Balanced Fund and Master Fund, Independent Director of the Philippine Dealing System Holdings Corporation, and Board of Trustee of Securities Investors protection Fund, among others. Mr. Sicat has more than two decades of experience as investment banker. He was Chief Representative of Citigroup Global Markets Asia Pacific Limited in the Philippines from July 2000 to September 2008; Director and Head for Philippine Investment Banking at Salomon Smith Barney Asia Pacific Limited from April 1996 to June 2000; and Managing Director for Asian Fixed Income (Emerging Markets) at Citicorp International from December 1993 to March 1996. He was also Vice President and Capital Markets Asia Head of Citicorp Securities, Inc. in New York City. Mr. Sicat earned his coursework for Ph.D. Economics Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and Master of Arts in Economics and Bachelor of Science in Economics at the University of the Philippines.
Born in Frankfurt/Germany in 1977, Matthias started his professional career with Deutsche Boerse AG in 1998, first as a trainee and then served in various roles within the group. Matthias left Deutsche Boerse AG in 2003 for a short half year stint with Monex Securities Inc. in Tokyo, one of the leading Japanese online brokers. After returning to Europe, Matthias joined the Global Markets team at Deutsche Bank, covering Euro-bonds and Autobahn trades for the London desk before taking up a role as ECB watcher for the Japanese Ministry of Finance in Frankfurt. Matthias joined Osaka Securities Exchange in 2006 to facilitate the international business development of the exchange. Since then he actively engages in promoting and marketing OSE’s derivatives market as well as the Co-location and remote membership initiatives to traditional and non traditional end users globally. Matthias studied economics and Japanese studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt; 2003 Matthias received a CDG-fellowship grant by the German parliament, he is married and has one son.
After graduating from Novosibirsk State University in 1998 Danil has joined Relativity Technologies where he used his skills of automatic graph visualization for re-engineering the large COBOL systems and helping the industry to overcome the year 2000 problem. Then, from 2001 he took part in developing QUIK – a leader in Russian DMA systems with more then 100 000 screens all over the world. At present Danil is responsible for developing solutions that meet growing demands of HFT world. For the last three years he has also been a member of the Technical Committee at the RTS Exchange.
Ben Collins is Sales and Marketing Director of Morningstar Real Time Data based in the UK, where he is responsible for sales, marketing, channel sales and all other commercial activity for the Real Time Data Business globally.
Ben was previously Sales and Marketing Director of Tenfore Systems Limited, before its acquisition by Morningstar in December 2008. He manages specialist sales teams located in London, Frankfurt and Chicago and acts as a real time data specialist for all other global Morningstar offices.
Before joining Morningstar, Ben worked in various Sales Management roles at Thomson Financial, Bloomberg and Informa Global Markets. Prior to these roles Ben spent 10 years as an officer in the British Army. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in German Studies from the University of Manchester.
Ned Phillips is Chief Executive Officer of Chi-East, a joint venture of Chi-X Global Inc. and Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) Mr. Phillips was most recently the CEO of BlocSec, an Asia-based crossing network. In the 18 years that he has lived and worked in Asia, he has focused on agency and electronic equity trading – in particular, on growing the alternative crossing network community. He graduated with an honours degree in Economics from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh in 1990, and moved to Asia in early 1991, working in Australia and Hong Kong. He began his career in the financial industry in 1994 when he joined Edinburgh Financial Publishing in Hong Kong. In 1999, he joined E*TRADE to work in its agency equity division, specalising in the Asian equity markets. Four years later, Mr Phillips joined Investment Technology Group (ITG) as Head of Sales and established its Singapore office. He then returned to E*TRADE in 2006 to be its Asian and Japan Managing Director, responsible for its entire regional institutional equity business.
Mr. Hanna is a Managing Director advising the Liquid Markets Fund and the Asian Macro Fund on global macro trends. Don is based in Singapore and has spent 27 years working on macroeconomics and market analysis, much of that time focused on emerging markets, including 17 years in Asia. Prior to joining Fortress, Don worked for Citigroup Global markets for almost ten years, ending his tenure as Acting Chief Economist. He had earlier led Citi’s emerging market economic research team and, while based Hong Kong, their Asian Economic Research team. Previously, he covered Southeast Asia for Goldman Sachs and spent seven years with the World Bank as a macroeconomist covering developments in Latin America and parts of Asia and Eastern Europe. Don received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1987 and a BA, summa cum laude, in Economics and Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley in 1980. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at Australia National University. Don is fluent in both Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Mr York a Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Empyreal Investments Group. Mr York’s has been involved in derivatives and equity trading for over 20 years. In 1992, Mr York commenced trading Managed Accounts. In 1996 Mr York formed his first hedge fund and in 2004 merged with the Empyreal Investments Group. As CEO of the Empyreal Investments Group Mr York manages a diverse group of traders specialising in systematic trading of the global derivative markets. Mr York’s strong background in trading remains a significant factor as he continues to work with Empyreal’s traders in the development and implementation of their systems and methods.
Sang Lee is a co-founder and serves as the Managing Partner at Aite Group. Mr. Lee's expertise lies in the securities and investments vertical and has advised many global financial institutions, software/hardware vendors, and professional services firms in sell-side and buy-side electronic trading technology, market structure, retail brokerage technology evolution, and wealth management. Prior to joining Aite Group, Mr. Lee was a founding member of Celent Communications and served as the Manager of the Securities & Investments Group as well as the Operations Group. At Celent, Mr. Lee played a pivotal role in creating and growing one of the leading Securities & Investments practices in the financial services research industry. Mr. Lee received his BA from the University of Michigan and his MA from Columbia University. Mr. Lee is fluent in English and Korean, and desperately trying to become fluent in Japanese.
Colin is the Country Manager of IPC Japan and Director of Business Development for the Asia Pacific region. Within this role, Colin is responsible for IPC’s business activities within Japan and the coordination of strategic sales and for the fostering of productive business relationships with IPC’s partners throughout APAC. He works closely with the sales and operations teams and spans IPC’s trading systems and network services divisions. Prior to this role Colin served for 2 years in IPC’s HQ in Jersey City as Director of Product Management, focusing on IPC’s desktop productivity solutions. Prior to that, Colin held several roles within IPC in Asia Pacific, including Director of Customer Solutions APAC and Japan Operations Manager. Colin graduated from Hull University in the UK with a degree in computer software engineering. He moved to Japan in order to undertake a research project within KDD’s R&D division and to study Japanese. Prior to joining IPC, Colin served as the Asia Pacific Information Systems Manager for Bloomberg L.P.
David Wilkinson joined Equinix in 2002. He has spent more than 10 years living and working in Japan and has primarily focused his career on the development of business in the Japan market for foreign companies and helping Japanese companies introduce foreign technologies and services to the market. Prior to joining Equinix, Wilkinson served as President of CCC Network Systems K.K. for four and a half years, leading CCC to entry into both the Japanese and Korean Markets. He also worked for the Fujitsu Group for more than 10 years, both inside and outside of Japan. Wilkinson is currently serving as Director and Treasurer of Futures Industry Association (FIA) Japan. He is also in the Japan Regional Committee of FPL (FIX Protocol Limited) and a member of FIA Asia.
H-W baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken born in Holland in 1938. Spent his younger years with his Parents in Indonesia and after WW 2 a year in the USA. Schooling and military service in The Netherlands. In 1960 joined a Dutch Shipping company and was posted to South Africa (1961- ’65) and subsequently to their headquarters in Hong Kong (’65-69) Joined the Cargill Inc group of companies in 1969 in Geneva, Switzerland. After various positions in Holland (training), Brazil (grain trader, 1970), Belgium (building and operating a Holiday Inn franchise motel, 1971-‘74), New York (metal trader for Cargill subsidiary C.Tennant Sons, 1974 ) and Tokyo (responsible for Tennant’s Asian operations, 1974-’79), returned to Geneva in '79 to concentrate on non grain related acquisitions. Joined the brokerage company of the group (CIS) in 1984 as futures broker, but concentrated, since 1989, on Hedge Funds and their developments. Retired from the Cargill group , upon reaching the compulsory retirement age, in 2003. Remained an advisor to CIS for the next years, until the brokerage business was sold in late 2005. Was elected in 1992 to the Board of the Cargill International Pension Board. Retired from this position in 2003. In 1997 joined the Board of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA, London) initially as Vice Chairman and from 2001 to ’03 as Chairman. From 1997 to 2001 represented The Netherlands in the French speaking part of Switzerland as Honorary Dutch Consul General. Since retirement joined a wide variety of Boards as non executive director or similar functions in financial and shipping industries.
Chi Lo is the Chief Executive Officer at HFT Investment Management (HK) Ltd. Before joining HFT Hong Kong, Chi was the Head of Overseas Investment at Ping An of China Asset Management (HK) Ltd. Before that, he was head of research and chief economist for HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank based in Hong Kong. Before working in Asia, Chi was an economic advisor to the Canadian Treasury in Canada.
Sung Taek Hwang chairs the Investment Committee and has oversight responsibility for all aspects of portfolio management at Truston Asset Management. Mr. Hwang co-founded Truston as IMM Investment Management in 1998, serving as CIO and director of Korean Equity Management. Following the joint-venture between IMM Investment Management and Macquarie Bank in 2000, Mr. Hwang served as Director and Head of Korean Equity Management at the new equity, Macquarie-IMM investment Management, which is now an affiliate of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Subsequently, he returned to IMM Investment management in 2001. Previously, he was an equity fund manager at Hyundai Financials. In total, he has 17 years of experience in Korea equity investments. Mr. Hwang also serves as an advisor to the International Financial Bureau, the Economic Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Global Leadership Center at Seoul National University. Mr. Hwang completed the Ad Fontes Program (AFP) at the College of Humanities at Seoul National University. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Seoul National University.
Stan is a founder and director of Teneo Partners. He has over twenty-five years of experience in dealing with Japanese institutional investors. He began his career in the financial industry with Smith Barney where he was responsible for U.S. equity sales to Japanese institutional investors. From Smith Barney, he moved to Morgan Stanley where he managed the foreign equity sales team in Tokyo and headed the U.S. equity Japan desk. Prior to founding Teneo Partners, Stan has been involved in the hedge fund industry in Japan working as the Japan Branch Manager for Investor Select Advisors, a fund of hedge funds whose investors were principally Japanese financial institutions. He has been active in AIMA, the Alternative Investment Management Association, where he served as Vice Chairman for both the Tokyo and Singapore Chapters. Stan was born and raised in Japan and is a native speaker of the language. He holds a Bachelors Degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
Neil Scrase is the Head of Capital Formation for EXS Capital, an independent Asian alternative investment firm and has joint responsibility for business development and deal sourcing/analysis. Neil has been involved with the Asian alternative investment industry since 2004, having worked with multi-asset, macro and equity long/short single manager funds at Ballingal Investment Advisors (BIA) and Doric Capital and with market-neutral, asset-based and Asia focused strategies at the Swiss multi-billion fund of hedge fund group Gottex.
Simmy Grewal is a senior analyst at Aite Group, specializing in the European equity trading markets. She covers equity market structure, including primary exchanges, multilateral trading facilities and dark pools, electronic trading, and high frequency trading, and focuses on the impact of European regulation on each of these areas.
Ms. Grewal has been widely quoted in the press, in publications including Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Financial News, FTSE Global Markets, Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE), The Trade, and Advanced Trading. She has spoken at key industry events across Europe and Asia, including TradeTech Europe, TradeTech Japan, The International Trader Forum, High Frequency Trading World Europe, and FPL EMEA. She was honored as one of Financial News’ “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Trading and Technology” in 2011.
Prior to joining Aite Group, Ms. Grewal was with Morgan Stanley, serving on the Emerging Market Cash Trading, Midcap Cash Trading, Single Name Options Trading, and Sales and Marketing for Electronic Trading teams. In this capacity she worked closely with both brokers and clients, and worked to generate new, profitable trading ideas and sales techniques.
Ms. Grewal holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Imperial College, London.
With 20 years of capital market experience, Donna has earned a solid international reputation for her innovative and strategic approach to business development and her successful track record working with regulators, multiple stakeholders and banking consortiums across three continents.
Recent successes include leading the product development of key industry initiatives such as Markit Boat, Markit MSA and chi-east. Prior to this, Donna spent eight years working in the investment arm of TD Securities where she was responsible for the business and distribution strategy for TD Securities Global Fixed Income E-commerce Solutions.
Donna now resides in Asia and is the Managing Director of Balmoral Advisory, a consultancy committed to providing customized product and business development advice to financial institutions and start-ups. She also sits on the Advisory Board of UK consulting firm, Piccadilly Group.
Donna holds a bachelor degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario
Hongsong Chou is Nomura’s Head of Equity Quantitative Analytics and Algorithms, Asia-Pacific, and leads a team of quantitative strategists and developers to develop and implement quantitative models for algorithmic trading and analytics products for Nomura’s institutional clients. Hongsong is an expert in global market microstructure studies with recent works in Japan trading strategies and algorithms after Arrowhead system change, Hong Kong trading liquidity modelling, pan-Asia dark pool cross trades analysis and smart order routing algorithm design. Before joining Nomura in 2008, Hongsong worked in the New York and Tokyo offices of Lehman Brothers, where he conducted quantitative research in portfolio optimization and trading cost modelling as well as providing execution consulting services to top trading clients. Hongsong holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Harvard University.
Peter Sulivan has been involved in the US financial markets since 1989, when he joined Lehman Brothers in New York City as an account executive. In his 23+ years of experience, he has held the positions of Financial Representative, Financial advisor, Branch Manager and Senior Vice President. His responsibilities have included overseeing a client base with assets under management in excess of $100MM, as well as all aspects of back office operations, including compliance. He has also managed an office of 10 brokers, maintaining compliance with all relevant US commissions. He joined Check Fund Manager LLC in 2011 to establish our presence in Singapore and the Asian markets.
Peter is a graduate of Providence College, with a BA in Business. On a personal note, Peter have two daughters, one a senior at Boston College studying Accounting and his second daughter is a first year law student at Suffolk Law in Boston, MA.
The New York based Currency Manager & Research Firm was founded in 1981 and has been specialized in FX programs for both risk-hedge overlay and alpha generation. The firm is currently one of the world largest Currency Manager in term of AUM, which exceeds USD 6.7 billion.
Prior to joining FX Concepts since 2002, Bernard Lock had actively traded in foreign exchange and derivatives markets as a senior trader in leading banks for 20 years. Mr. Lock was the Chief Dealer of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi Hong Kong from 1990-1994 and of BNP Paribas Singapore from 1994-1997. He was in charge of Emerging Market currencies & FX Option trading for HSBC Singapore between1997-2002.
Mr. Lock majored in Finance & Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained his Executive MBA Degree from Birmingham Business School of UK. He is both a Chartered Financial Analyst with CFA Institute and a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) with GARP.
Christopher Brandon is a principal and founder of Rhicon Currency Management. Mr Brandon began his career in 1995 at Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva and thereafter in London as a foreign exchange dealer. He relocated to UBS Warburg Singapore in late 1998 as a proprietary trader and the senior technical analyst for Asia. In mid 2000 Mr Brandon co-founded Rhicon Currency Management in Singapore. The firm subsequently opened an office in London and currently manages approximately 380 mio USD across two currency-only strategies. He holds an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Edinburgh.
Edgar Perez is widely regarded as the pre-eminent networker in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. His book, The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, has been published in May 2011 by McGraw-Hill Inc. He is the host of High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour business receptions in New York City, which have drawn the world's top industry practitioners.
Mr. Perez has been featured on CNBC Cash Flow with Oriel Morrison, BNN Business Day with Kim Parlee, TheStreet.com with Gregg Greenberg, Channel NewsAsia Cent & Sensibilities with Lin Xue Ling, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, iMoney Hong Kong, Hedge Fund Brief, Oriental Daily News Hong Kong, and more. He has been engaged as speaker at Harvard Business School’s 17th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference, High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011 (New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Singapore), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University (New York), Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), Middle East Hedge Funds Investors Summit 2012 (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), among other global forums.
Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer.
Dr. Catalin Burlacu took his PhD in Control Systems from the University of Tokyo in 1997, and started his financial career same year as Analyst for Interest Rates Sales and Trading team, building the local Analytics Group for Dresdner Kleinworth Wasserstein. He worked as Portfolio Manager and Proprietary Trader for Barclays Global Investors and respectively, Morgan Stanley in Japan, before coming to Singapore in 2007 to run Quantitative Trading for Japanese Equities with Millennium Partners. Employing quantitative methodology for financial analysis and risk management, he is co-founder of Nexus Alpha Capital Management Singapore and running the Investment side of the business, and managing intraday/high-frequency models.
Jordan has over fifteen years of experience designing and supporting various complex networks worldwide with eight years of experience in trading infrastructure design and operations. Before assuming his current position as CEO and Senior Consultant of BulByte LLC, he was the IT Director at Allston Trading, a premier high frequency market maker in over forty financial exchanges globally. Aside from directing the start up of a new trading infrastructure, he was also involved in the operational management and analysis of various trading networks.
Patrick joined Caplin in 2000, and is now Caplin’s Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the company’s overall product direction and technical vision; he heads a team of architects, product managers and UX specialists. Patrick spends much of his time with customers and prospects, identifying trends and requirements; he also represents the company at conferences and trade events worldwide. He previously headed Caplin’s entire product design, development, testing and documentation operation.
Prior to moving to Caplin, Patrick worked at Smiths Industries PLC, a major player in the defence industry, where he was responsible for the development of automated testing tools. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Warwick University. He enjoys technology as a hobby as well as part of his full-time role; in what spare time he has he enjoys participating in a variety of sports including cycling, running, squash and football, and is an enthusiastic supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC.
David Chin is the managing director & founder of Basis Point Consulting, a market intelligence consultancy established in 1996 to cover Asia’s hedge funds and derivatives industry. He was previously Head of Marketing at the Sydney Futures Exchange from 1990 to 1996, and has 25 years experience in the financial markets, including roles in trading and treasury management. Clients of Basis Point include exchanges in London and Chicago, as well as the Australian Government's trade development agency, Austrade. He is also a novelist, having written a fantasy novel, Thy Fiefdom Comes, with movie rights optioned to a Hollywood production company.
David Gilmour has worked in Corporate and Investment banking for over 20 years. He was educated and grew up in Sydney and has since worked in The Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea. During his career, David has work extensively in equity, fixed income and global markets operations in both stock brokers and Securities Services for financial institutions in global and regional roles.
In his current role, David is Managing Director of Standard Chartered Bank’s North Asia Cash Management and Securities Sales for the Investors and Intermediaries segment that covers the Insurance, Fund Managers, Banks and Broker Dealer clients.
Additionally, David has experience in Transaction Banking , Financial Markets and corporate banking Operations.
David has lived in Asia for the past 14 years and during this time held Group and regional management roles in Investment Banks and Corporate Banks .
Patrick Mohr is a Director, Trading Research and Development in Equities at Barclays Capital. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Mohr manages the roll out of the firm's next generation analytics platform, Portfolio WebBench®, in Asia.
Prior to joining Barclays Capital, Mr. Mohr was Head of Quantitative Research and an Equity Strategist for Citigroup in Tokyo. Before that, he was Head of Japan Quantitative Research for both Mizuho Securities and Merrill Lynch Japan.
Mr. Mohr has conducted sell side quantitative and strategy research in Japan for more than 20 years. His current research focus is on the integration of macroeconomic and earnings events with market microstructure analysis. He is also focused on simulation systems that incorporate serial optimization and market impact models to quantify equity strategy capacity constraints.
Mr. Mohr holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University.
Hai-Tao is a senior trader at Marshall Wace in Hong Kong where he has been since 2006, relocating from London to help start up the business there. He is responsible for the implementation and execution of trading strategies in Asia, as well as the portfolio optimisation and construction process. Prior to this he worked for four years at Merrill Lynch in London, implementing their global equities trading platform.
Richard Waddington is a trader, technology entrepreneurand business builder with over 15 years
experience in Financial Markets. Richard was Global Head of Rates & FX Options Trading for Emerging Markets at Barclays Capital, and previously traded FX and Rates options at Bankers Trust in London and New York. Richard also set up and ran a finance-technology company in Tokyo for 5
years. Richard writes the mathematics and algorithms for the Fund. Richard holds an M.A.(Hons) and a P.C.D.M.M. from Cambridge University where he read Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Alison Crosthwait leads Instinet’s Global Market Structure Research initiative. Ms. Crosthwait is regularly quoted in the financial press and takes a lead role in market structure debates around the world. Ms. Crosthwait was previously Head of Research at ITG Canada. Prior to that, she was a program trader at ITG, primarily covering quantitative investment firms. Ms. Crosthwait also held various roles in Goldman Sachs’ high frequency trading group and on Credit Suisse’s program trading desk. She is a CFA charter holder and holds a Masters degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.