l joined BNP Paribas, Japan in Aug 2006. I am responsible for strategic planning and development of advanced execution products, which encompasses algorithmic trading, program trading, trade analysis tools, crossing networks etc for BNP equity execution business globally.

Prior to joining BNP, I've worked with Barclays Global Investors and Mizuho Securities in Japan in various roles in Investments and Trading groups covering Japan and Asia. I began my career as Financial IT consultant with Aptech Limited, Mumbai.

I've earned Bachelors in Commerce and Economics with specialization in Tax Procedure and Practice from Mumbai University, India and Masters in Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia.

Tony Mackay is Chief Executive Officer of Chi-X Global Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of global securities firm and Nomura Holdings, Inc. subsidiary Instinet. In this role he is responsible for the strategic direction of the firm’s Chi-X trading platforms, including Chi-X Europe, Chi-X Canada and Chi-X Australia.

Mr. Mackay joined Instinet in 1995 as Dealing Director for Instinet’s Asia-Pacific operations, based in Hong Kong. In 1999, he moved to London to establish Instinet’s Asian operations in Europe and, in 2001, moved back to Asia, where he served as President and CEO of Instinet Japan and Head of Instinet Asia, where he was actively involved in improving the development of an alternative market for Japanese equities and the sponsorship of independent research boutiques. In 2004, Mr. Mackay was appointed President and Managing Director of Instinet Europe Limited, during which time he spearheaded the establishment of Chi-X Europe Ltd.

Mr. Mackay began his stockbroking career in 1980 in Australia and has worked for both traditional and electronic brokerage firms in Sydney, Hong Kong, London and Tokyo.

Greg Yanco is the Chief Executive Officer of AXE ECN.  AXE ECN is a joint venture between NZX, Citi, Commonwealth Securities, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Macquarie Securities and Merrill Lynch formed to provide an alternative venue to trade Australian listed securities. Greg's previous experience includes twenty years at ASX managing diversified teams within ASX's regulatory and commercial environments responsible for:

Market structure and product management for equities, interest rate securities, derivatives and futures;
Relationship management for brokers, institutions, clearers and financial planners;
Marketing ASX's equities, interest rate securities, derivatives and futures to retail and institutional investors; and
Market surveillance and broker compliance.
Greg has a Bachelor of Business and is a CPA and a Master Stockbroker (MSDIA).

Mr Yip is the Head of Cash Market of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) responsible for managing the business and market infrastructure for equity trading and cash market products such as derivative warrants, callable bull/bear contracts, exchange traded funds and debt securities.

Before joining HKEx in 2003, Mr Yip worked for The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and McKinsey & Company in Hong Kong and the United States respectively.  He received a PhD in economics from Harvard University. 

Mr Caisley is an Executive Vice President and the Chief Information Officer of Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX). He is responsible for managing the Technology group which comprises the functions of IT planning and governance, enterprise architecture, solutions delivery and services management.

He provides leadership and oversees the development and delivery of proven IT services and new technologies, such as the roll-out of the new Order Management System (OMS) and SGX’s new trading engine in 2008, to serve the needs of the industry well into the future. He also assists the Chief Operations Officer in ensuring a robust and reliable technology infrastructure that reinforces SGX’s strategic business and growth plans.

With more than 25 years of experience in IT project management and operations, Mr Caisley also provides strategic guidance in technology direction and business development at SGX.

Mr Caisley joined SGX on 14 January 2008. Prior to SGX, he was responsible for the management of all the Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) business solutions projects. In his career, he has been responsible for the successful implementations of key IT projects with the Kuwait Investment Office and Commercial Union PLC. He was also the project leader for the development and implementation of the UK’s electronic funds transfer system under BACS (Banker Automated Clearing Service) Ltd.

Mr. Wheatley became the executive Chairman on 1 October 2005. With the commencement of the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2006, which amends the SFO to provide for the separation of the role of the Chairman and Chief Executive, Mr. Wheatley became the first CEO of the SFC on 23 June 2006.

Prior joining the SFC, Mr. Wheatley was Deputy Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

Mr. Wheatley was also Chairman of the FTSE International and sat on the Listing Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in London.

Mr. Wheatley qualified as an accountant in 1984, has a Masters degree in Business and a first degree in Philosophy.

Jan Friederich is Senior Economist in the Global Forecasting team and Deputy Product Manager, Country Forecasting Services, at the Economist Intelligence Unit. He works on the Economist Intelligence Unit's global forecast and in cooperation with country specialists he also analyses trends in major regions and has given numerous presentations on economic prospects for the world economy, the US, the EU and Asia to Economist Intelligence Unit's clients and to various other high-level audiencs. He has appeared frequently on the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC and CNN and has been quoted by major international newspapers. Mr. Friederich is currently based out of Hong Kong, but previously worked in the Economist Intelligence Unit's offices in London, New York and Beijing.

Before joining the Economist Intelligence Unit, he worked for an economic consultancy in London, providing analysis on western Europe to the economic research departments of major investment banks. After undergraduate education in politics, economics and law at the Free University of Berlin, Jan received a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and in Financial Economics from the University of London.

Chai Yit Sheng currently runs the DMA desk at RHB Investment Bank, which is largest such desk in Malaysia, in terms of market volume. He is regarded as a pioneer in electronic trading and DMA having set-up Malaysia’s first ever DMA connection in 2007.

Trained in both finance and computing, he holds both a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Charter and a Master’s degree in Information Technology. Chai Yit Sheng is also active on the board of CFA Malaysia, having served as treasurer since 2005.

Shin Kao Jack, aged 29, is a Technical and Technology analyst of OSK Research Sdn Bhd. Mr. Shin holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from University of Nebraska-Omaha, U.S.A where he graduated with two scholarships. He was an Intern with Dain Rauscher Inc in U.S.A before joining OSK Research Sdn Bhd in 2002 where he has been responsible for covering technology sector, MESDAQ market and technical analysis.

Mr. Shin was nominated as Top Technology Analyst in the “2006 & 2007 The Edge Poll” by the fund managers. Fund managers also nominated him as Third best Technical Analyst in the “2007 The Edge Poll”.

He holds an Investment Representative license issued by the Securities Commission. He has been a Continuing Professional Educations (CPE) speaker for Securities Commission from 2003-2006 and 2008. Recently, he is appointed by Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC) as the speaker for Industry Transformation Initiative (ITI) and Capital Market Workshop (CMW). He is also appointed by Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd (MDEC) as the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Research & Development Grant Scheme Commercial Assessment Consultant.      

Gabriel Butler is Director for Sales & Trading for Asia Pacific at ITG. As such, he works closely with traders and portfolio managers using statistical techniques to determine and implement optimal trading strategies. Prior to this position, he was Senior Vice President of ITG Algorithms Trading, Analysis & Research in the U.S. Before joining ITG in 2002, he worked as Portfolio Manager and Trader for FDO Partners, a hedge fund specializing in emerging markets currencies. Gabriel has also worked as a researchert in econometrics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Harvard Institute for International Development, and has an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University.

David joined Liquidnet in June 2006 with more than 20 years' experience in the Asia Pacific financial markets. As Managing Director, David oversees the company's Asian business, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Liquidnet, David worked at Credit Suisse from 1999 to 2006, spending the last five years in Credit Suisse's Hong Kong office as head of Asia Pacific execution services. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, he was head of Westpac Investment Management's dealing room in Australia.

Been with Prudential Asset Management (Singapore) Limited since April 2006 and prior to joining here I was with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) for just over four years as Head of Asian Dealing.  Before then I worked with Scottish Widows in Edinburgh.

Rakesh Shah is the Head of Trading Strategies at Ten Point Trading Ltd, which is a trading consultancy and investment management firm. He has 15 years of experience using both fundamental and technical analysis techniques and started his career in Corporate Finance in 1992. In 1996 at BZW he worked on the leveraged currency trading desk  and in 1998 he established a Margin Trading Desk at ABN AMRO Bank London . In 2001 he moved to Wall Street working with Credit Agricole Indosuez, CARR Futures. Finally working at Deutsche Bank as a Director he left to trade independently in 2004. He regularly speaks on CNBC, for his next appearance look at www.tenpointtrading.com/events 

Giovanni Beliossi is Managing Partner at FGS Capital LLP, where he is the CEO and is responsible for portfolio management. Previously he was Associate Director of hedge funds at First Quadrant Ltd, where he set up and was the portfolio manager of its Pan European long/short equity market neutral portfolios, and was responsible for UK-based hedge fund business. He has extensive experience of managing equity market neutral portfolios since 1995, when he joined the firm. Prior to that he was a tenured Research Fellow with the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in Italy, and he has held appointments with Barra International and Eastern Group Plc. He co-founded the Real Options Group to look at research and applications of Real Options to corporate finance and investments. He is an active member of AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and a Research Committee member of Inquire UK. He is a Board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is the European Chair of the Steering Group of the Investor Risk Committee (IRC) of IAFE working on guidelines for disclosure and transparency for hedge funds. Giovanni is a CFA Charterholder

Chris Ryan
Managing Director Asia (ex-Japan)
Fidelity Investments

Chris Ryan joined Fidelity in February 2008 as Managing Director, Asia (ex-Japan) and has over 20 years experience in asset management in the Asia Pacific region. Chris is responsible for Fidelity’s operations in Hong Kong, the PRC, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea consisting of over 500 staff.

He reports to Brett Goodin, President for Fidelity, Asia Pacific and is a member of the Fidelity Asia Operating Committee.

Chris joined Fidelity from ING Investment Management, the second largest investment management company in Asia (ex-Japan), where he held the position of Chief Executive Officer for Asia Pacific for five years. In this role, Chris was responsible for the firm’s operations in 13 locations across Asia with more than US$150 billion (house style) AUM and over 1,000 staff. Chris was a member of the ING Global Leadership Council and executive team.

Prior to this role, Chris was ING’s Regional General Manager for North Asia, responsible for operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the PRC, South Korea and Japan. In this position, he engineered ING’s first joint venture fund management company in the PRC, managed the merger of three ING-owned fund management entities in Taiwan, and successfully restructured the firm’s operations in Japan.

Prior to ING, Chris held the position of Managing Director of HSBC Funds Asia Pacific for seven years where he was responsible for the firm’s Asset Management retail fund operations consisting of operations in Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, US$25 billion of assets and approximately 180 staff. 

Chris has a Bachelor of Business degree from Monash University in Melbourne,  Australia.

He is married with three children and has lived in Hong Kong since 1995.

Imran Ahmed joined Mashreq as the Managing Director of the Asset Management division in January 2004. He is responsible for the establishment of Mashreq’s Asset Management business, including the Makaseb family of five mutual funds and the discretionary managed account business, with the launch of the Makaseb Emirates Equity Fund in February 2005.

As Managing Director of Asset Management, Imran is responsible for the strategic growth and developments of Mashreq’s fiduciary investment management business. He is also a member of the Asset Allocation Committee which provides investment guidance for the portfolios under Mashreq’s management.

With almost 20 years of experience in the financial service industry, Imran is a regular speaker on Middle East capital markets at conferences and seminars internationally. He has assumed a variety of regional and global positions within treasury, corporate finance and investment management departments, across Singapore, Pakistan and the UK. Prior to joining Mashreq, Imran worked for Citigroup, Singapore in the Asset Management division for a total of ten years. His last role was as a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for the management of global balanced discretionary accounts. Imran additionally worked with the Bank of America in the Corporate Finance area where he led the team that issued Pakistan’s first publicly listed corporate bond (or term finance certificate).

Imran received a BA (Honors) in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College, Los Angeles in 1988. In 2001, he obtained an Investment Representative License issued by Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Peter is responsible for Thomson Reuters Asian Enterprise Information business, which consists of real-time feed services together with several newer initiatives such as machine readable news, low latency direct feed access and tick history archive database. Having joined Reuters many years ago, Peter has held a number of positions within different parts of the company, including 1 year in Asia, several years in Geneva, Zurich and Paris working to manage major client technology relationships and in Palo Alto with the group’s Tibco acquired assets before returning to Tokyo in 2007 to develop the Enterprise Information real-time business in the region. Peter has an HND in Computer Science from Glasgow College of Technology.

Matt Samelson is a senior analyst at Aite Group, LLC, specializing in equity market structure, trading venues, and transaction cost analysis. He brings to Aite Group a wealth of experience in global equity sales and trading. He has in-depth knowledge of trading strategy formulation, algorithmic trading, transaction cost measurement and management, trading venues and market mechanics.

Prior to joining Aite Group, Mr. Samelson was director of product management at Liquidnet, Inc. where he took part in formulating and implementing value-added enhancements to the existing service. Before that, he was vice president of global portfolio sales and trading with Investment Technology Group (ITG), where he developed new business, marketing equity portfolio and single stock trading services to investment managers, mutual funds and hedge funds.

Mr. Samelson received his M.B.A. in Finance and Business Policy from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in Economics from Columbia University. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 licenses.

Deborah Ho was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DBS Asset Management in September 2007.  Ho has direct responsibilities in further strengthening synergies between asset management and the rest of the DBS franchise.

Ho brings with her over 20 years of experience in Finance, Sales & Marketing and Management. Since 1985, she has worked in leading global financial institutions such as Citigroup, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan and UBS. She has a proven track record in building up and directing high performance teams. Prior to joining DBSAM, Ho was a consultant and lecturer at Temasek Holding’s Wealth Management Institute (WMI).

James T. Leman is Head of Capital Markets and is a Principal at Westwater. Jim is currently consulting after having spent years leading global electronic trading and external connectivity, global operations management and regulatory groups at Citigroup, HSBC and the New York Stock Exchange and their affiliates. Jim also served as the President of SunGard BRASS. Jim has in-depth skills in financial and operational aspects of the brokerage industry, and continues to lead firms and the industry, in creation of innovative technologies and standards for trading and managing the processing of securities transactions. Recognized as one of the top technology innovators of the ‘90s by Wall Street & Technology Magazine, Jim is a founding member of the FIX (Financial Information Exchange) Industry committee; he led the global creation of the FIX committee in Europe, Japan, and Asia. Jim was also a founding member of Thompson/DTCC Omgeo (US) Advisory committee. Jim holds a BS in Accounting St. Peter’s College and an MBA in finance from Fordham University.

Mark Wheatley is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Asia Execution Services at Merrill Lynch. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of the Firm’s electronic trading initiatives in the region.

Mark joined Merrill Lynch in 2004 in London and held a number of positions including Head of EMEA Portfolio Trading and Head of EMEA Cash Equity Trading. In 2007, he was named Head of Execution Services for EMEA in the run up to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Over the three years he spent in Europe, Mark helped Merrill Lynch roll out its X-Act Electronic Trading platform, which incorporates the X-Direct low-latency DMA, the advanced Algorithmic Trading platform, the MLXN Internalisation Engine and the Smart Order Routing technology, resulting in Merrill Lynch’s No. 1 ranking on the London Stock Exchange and position as the largest participating broker on Chi-X when it went live in earnest post MiFID.

Before joining Merrill Lynch, Mark spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley where he ran the Portfolio and Delta 1 Trading business in Europe. He also worked at RBS in the Global Custodian and Trustee Division.

Prior to that, Mark studied Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

Robert Rooks joined Chi-X as Business Development Manager for APAC in October 07 and was appointed as Chief Administration Officer for the Asian business in May 2008 with responsibility for all aspects of legal and regulatory applications across the region. Prior to Chi-X he was the Regional Sales Director for APAC for ORC and Global Head of FIX Sales for NYFIX based in New York before relocating to Hong Kong to head their Asia Pacific operations and prior to that General Manager of Misys Wholesale Banking Systems Japan and Korea.

Matthew Andresen is Co-Head of Citadel Derivatives Group, an affiliate of Citadel Investment Group, LLC.  Citadel manages over $20 billion from its headquarters in Chicago and offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Tokyo. 

Citadel Derivatives Group is the largest Options Specialist and the largest Options Router in the U.S., executing over 25% of US Option volume.  Citadel Derivatives Group is also one of the country’s largest Equity Market Makers, executing over 300 million shares a day on behalf of Retail Brokerage firms.  Each day, Citadel executes 8% of US Equity volume.

Prior to joining Citadel in June of 2004, Mr. Andresen was President and CEO of Island ECN, the largest electronic stock market in the United States, until its 2002 sale to Instinet.  After the merger, he served as COO of the combined ECN. 

Mr. Andresen has appeared as an expert before many Congressional Committees on subjects as diverse as Venture Capital in Biotechnology, the Future of Electronic Markets, the Impact of Technology on Commodity Markets, and the Effect of September 11 on Financial Markets. Mr. Andresen was named as one of the “Top Ten Executives in Online Finance” by Institutional Investor.  Crain's Magazine named him one of the “Top 40 New Yorkers under the age of 40”.

Mr. Andresen holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.  A former world-class Fencer, Mr. Andresen was a National Champion, a four-time All-American, and an alternate for the 1996 U.S. Olympic Team.

Carl Linaburg is Vice President and Cofounder of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute. He is credited for the development of the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index, a method of rating levels of disclosure for sovereign wealth funds worldwide.  Currently, Carl Linaburg also works in the asset management industry for CapTrust Financial Advisors in Tampa, Florida USA.

Mark Howarth joined Chi-X as Chief Operating Officer of the Asian business in May 2008, covering all of Chi-X's regional businesses in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and ASEAN.  He previously spent two years as CEO of Thomson Financial in Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.  His professional background is in institutional equities, starting out with Merrill Lynch and UBS in London, followed by a series of roles at Instinet in Europe, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Ms. Sarah Ali Khan is Vice President, International Equity Sales and has been with associated with the equity brokerage industry since 2000. At BMA Capital, Ms. Khan has played a key role in developing the International Sales desk and positioning BMA Capital as one of the market leaders in international brokerage. In addition, she has also developed the BMA sales distribution platform that facilitates over 200 international investors with coverage of the Pakistan equity market.

At BMA, Ms. Khan was initially involved with the asset management division and responsible for structuring and managing the BMA Pakistan Opportunities Fund, a USD denominated open ended fund focused on Pakistan equities. She played a key role in developing the investment strategy, trade execution methodology and performance-monitoring techniques of the fund.

Prior to joining BMA, Ms. Khan has worked as an equity investment analyst at KASB & Co., Karachi, an affiliate of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific, where she produced several in-depth company and sector reports on Pakistan using Merrill’s regional platform. Ms. Khan has also worked with CLSA Emerging Markets and Al-Falah Securities in their respective equity research departments where she furthered her experience in financial analysis and stock valuation.

Ms. Khan holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Greenwich University. She has attended several international seminars including CLSA Investors’ forum 2007 in Hong Kong where she was the panel speaker on the presentation entitled “ Pakistan: Asia Pacific’s Top Performing Equity Market”

Kotaro YAMAZAWA is an Executive Officer in charge of Business Development of Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (OSE).

Prior coming on loan to OSE, he has worked for the Bank of Japan, holding various positions such as General Manager of Hakodate Branch.

He joined the BoJ in 1980, after graduating from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He holds a MBA from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania.

Educated in Finance at Philadelphia University and La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S, Mr. Johan Nyvene joined Dragon Capital Group in February 2007 as a director following a 17-year career in corporate and commercial banking. He became HSC’s CEO in 2007.

After 9 years with Wachovia Bank in the US, Mr. Nyvene began the latter half of his corporate banking career in HCMC with The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation (“HSBC”) in 1998.  From 2005 to 2007, he managed HSBC’s new Hanoi Branch, and was concurrently HSBC Vietnam’s Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking, Head of Securities Services, and Head of Cash Management.

Mr. Nyvene also served a two-year stint as a board governor of the American Chamber of Commerce (“AmCham”), where he contributed to improving the banking system and financial environment in Vietnam through his participation in working groups and committees. In addition, he was a keynote speaker on the development of Vietnam’s capital markets on his trips with various government bodies and agencies to promote Vietnam’s investment opportunities to foreign investors.

Tony joined Lehman Brothers in 2007 as Head of Japan Electronic Trading Sales and has overseen the expansion of the electronic trading sales team across Asia while increasing the profile with electronic clients.

Tony has strong regional client connectivity and a decade of experience in the electronic trading sales space and as such is well placed to drive the fast-growing ETS business throughout the region

Ravi Manchi is Head of Business Strategy and Global Delivery and is a Principal at Westwater. Ravi has in-depth business knowledge on several aspects of financial services industry, and has assisted many organizations leading complex business transformation projects the deployment of enterprise-wide solutions. Ravi has managed efforts within the areas of trading, straight-through-processing, risk management, clearance & settlement, business intelligence (MIS) and compliance solutions. Ravi has provided strategic planning and implementation expertise in several business areas throughout Banking and Capital Markets. Ravi has worked at a premier investment bank and in various capacities at a top consulting firm. Ravi has an MBA in finance.