About Your Speakers

CV: Co-founder of Japaninvest, Mark has 17 years of Japanese equity sales experience gained at JP Morgan, Robert Fleming and BZW. Mark has an MA in History from St John's College Cambridge and also read Economic History at Pavia University, Italy.

In 1990 after graduating from Keio University, joined Sumitomo Corporation and started metal business. In 1996 transferred to Sumitomo London office, then joined Metallgesellschaft Ltd. In 1998 back to Tokyo to move to MG Tokyo office as marketing manager for Asian Market. In 2000 joined Mitsui Bussan Futures Ltd. as chief commodity strategist. In 2007 joined Astmax Co., Ltd. as commodity fund manager and have launched “Astmax Commodity Global Macro Fund” in May 2008. Having physical business, futures and options trading background in metal market and many result of market forecast and investment strategy for metals, energy, grains and soft commodity, market. Published several books “London Metal Exchange Guide”, “New Investment in Metal Market”, “Smart investors must know Commodity Market”, etc. most active and influence opinion leader of commodity market in Japanese.

Jesper is the President and CEO of our new Tokyo office, Tantallon Research Japan KK.

Jesper has been researching and investing in Japan since becoming a resident in 1986. For the past eight years he was the Chief Economist of Merrill Lynch Japan. Prior to that, he had worked for the Tiger Fund. He was also the head of research for JP Morgan in Tokyo (1994-1998) and the chief economist of SG Warburg (1989-1994). His analysis and insights have earned him a spot on several Japanese government advisory committees. He is also one of the few non-Japanese members of the Keizai Doyukai, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

He has a masters degree from SAIS The Johns Hopkins University and was a research fellow at both Tokyo University and Kyoto University. He is a graduate of the Lester B.Pearsn College of the Pacific.

Jesper joined Tantallon in June 2007.

ROBIN GRIFFITHS joined Cazenove in 2008 and is responsible for the day to day management of the Cazenove Worldwide Absolute Return Fund (CWARF). For over 30 years Robin Griffiths has been one of the most respected technical analysts of world stock markets, bonds, currencies and commodities. He became a technical analyst with WI Carr, based first in Hong Kong and then Tokyo before returning to London. During this time he started to develop his own trading system, analysing stock and market trends. He was then chief technical strategist with HSBC for over 20 years. His most recent position was as Head of Asset Allocation with Rathbones.

He has been an advisor to the ECU fund, a hedge fund using technical analysis to capture movements in currencies since 1985 and latterly to the Rathpeacon fund, a long short equity fund concentrating on the largest 500 companies in the world by market capitalisation. This hedge fund has historically produced good returns with low levels of volatility and correlation. CWARF will now be managed using Robin's work, an approach we believe CWARF shareholders will find profitable.

Mark Brady joined Instinet in September 2008 to oversee sales and distribution of the firm's Transaction Cost Analysis products in the Asia-Pacific Region. He previously spent five years on the trading desk at JPMorgan Asset Management in Tokyo. His work experience in Japan spans over fifteen years and he is fluent in Japanese.

Kazuyori YAMAMORI joined Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (OSE) in 2004 and was appointed Senior Advisor, Information Technology in 2007. In 2008, he was additionally appointed as Deputy Project Manager, OSE-FX Market Development.

Prior to joining OSE, he worked for Resona Bank, Ltd. After working for Head Office Business Department and Systems Division, he went on loan to the joint venture company established by The Daiwa Bank, Ltd. (current Resona Bank) and IBM Japan, Ltd., where he engaged mainly in system development for derivatives on interest rates and foreign exchange.

He joined The Daiwa Bank, Ltd. in 1992, after graduating from the Department of Information and Computer Sciences, School of Engineering Science, Osaka University.

Michael Maduell is President and Founder of the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

He conducts extensive research in the field, manages key relationships, and executes the organization's mission. As an expert on sovereign wealth funds, Mr. Maduell is a frequent guest speaker on the topic. Mr. Maduell currently works as a Consultant to the Investment Management and Banking Industry for an international services firm. Previously he worked for CalPERS, one of the largest public pension funds in the world. He has been featured in several prominent finance and trade publications. Mr. Maduell has been a guest on CNN and the Business News Network.

He holds a MS in Finance from Saint Mary's College. He holds a BS in Finance & Risk Management from California State University, Sacramento.

Tomoyuki Makino has been involved in the IT business for over 20 years with special focus on the Financial Industry.

He had worked for Phillip Financials Japan as an IT Manager since 2003. Prior to this, he has worked at a Securities Exchange to launch a new trading platform and at an Inter Bank Electronic Broking Company for 8 years, since the foundation of Inter-bank Electronic Broking Service.

His extensive IT working knowledge and exposure includes FX Trading systems (Inter-bank Trading / Retail Trading / Algorithm Trading / STP Systems) and Securities Trading System for Exchange (Market-Make Methods / Auction Methods).

The scope of his experience extends to both B2B and Retail markets.

Concurrently, he is also the Legal and Compliance Manager for Phillip Financial Japan, a member company of the Phillip Capital Group.

Nobuo Wazaki joined Credit Suisse Japan in April 1988. He worked at the company for 19 years holding a variety of positions such as CB/Warrant Trader, Equity Sales Trader, and Algorithmic Sales Trader. He joined Lehman Brothers Japan in May 2007, and has managed the domestic execution trading service including Sales Trading as well as Electronic Sales Trading desk. Subsequently, he has joined Mizuho Securities in October 2008 to be senior manager of the Electronic Trading team.

Glen Gee is the Asia Pacific Head of Analytical Products and Research at ITG, and he moved to Tokyo in 2008 to lead ITG’s business operations in Japan. Since joining the firm in 2000, Glen has overseen the development of ITG's pre- and post-trade analysis tools, TCA^® andITG Logic™. Prior to joining ITG, Glen worked as an Equity Portfolio Manager at BGI Australia and also held positions at ABN Amro Securities and ANZ Securities. He holds B Ec and M App Fin degrees from Macquarie University (Australia) and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Gwen Robinson is a Tokyo-based correspondent and editor for the Financial Times. She writes commentary and a daily newsletter for the FT's financial blog, FT Alphaville, focusing on financial, business and markets news. This is her second stint in Tokyo. Before moving back to Japan in 2007, she was the FT's Comment Editor based in London from 2003-07 and news editor of the FT's online edition, FT.com, from 2001. She joined the FT in Tokyo in 1995 and in 1997 became the FT's Australia-Pacific correspondent before moving onto report and edit for the FT out of London, New York and Washington. From 1993 to 1995 she was Japan correspondent for The Times of London. She was born in Australia and began her journalistic career in 1981 with Australlian newspapers

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.

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.

Director of Marketing, joined ATC in 2003 to market to new clients as well as service existing clientele. He graduated The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Economics in 1991. In 1997 he received his MBA with a focus in Marketing from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining ATC Shaun operated a sports marketing company that placed elite athletes in instructional clinic environments around the world. His sponsors included NIKE, Dell Computer Corporation, and The Pepsi Bottling Group. Shaun was a member of the 1988 and 1992 USA Olympic Swim Teams, winning two Olympic Gold Medals.

Tim Wildenberg is the Managing Director running the Equity Direct Execution business in Europe for UBS Investment Bank. As such he is responsible for the product development, sales, marketing and day to day operations of UBS's award winning DMA and DSA (Direct Strategy Access) services. He has also recently taken responsibility for coordination of the Direct Execution sales teams around the world.

Tim was one of the founding Director's of FIX Protocol Ltd. In prior roles Tim was a market maker in European Equities at BZW and a “Blue Button” on the London Stock Exchange prior to “Big Bang”.

Kazu Ooki is Regional Head of Sales for ICAP Electronic Broking‘s FX Division in Japan and Korea and has also been the representative director for the EBS Dealing Resources’ Japan subsidiary since April 1999.

Ooki joined Citicorp/Quotron as Sales Executive of Quotron FX Trader in 1991 and was responsible for the successful launch of the new product in Japan.

He was responsible for the MINEX/EBS integration project in 1996, which resulted in an increase in EBS’ USD/JPY market share from 10% to 42% in just two months. From 1997 to 2000, he held the position of Senior Relationship Manager for EBS Japan, responsible for expanding both customer base and trading volume.

In 2002, Ooki was appointed Regional Sales Manager for EBS in Japan. In 2005 his remit was extended to include Korea and most recently he has been responsible for the recently signed strategic alliance with Korean Money Brokerage.

Ooki has been a member of the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market Committee since April 2003 and is also the chairperson for the Committee’s sub-committee on public relations.

ICAP is the world’s premier interdealer broker with average daily transaction volume in excess of USD 2.3 trillion, more than 40% of which is electronic. ICAP’s award-winning electronic EBS platform provides the primary market of natural interest for more than 2800 global spot FX, precious metals and NDF traders in over 50 countries around the world. The EBS platform delivers anonymous, transparent, reliable and highly liquid trading opportunities, as well as authoritative real-time and historical market data.

I joined Industrial Bank of Japan in 1994 and traded FX till 1998from 2000, I traded Japanese equity and convertible bond till 2007 joined BlackRock since June 2008.

Mr. Kiyomi joined Nomura Securities in April, 1986. As Managing Director, he now oversees the company's Pan-Asian equity sales trading business including portfolio sales trading/ executions and domestic futures/options, based in Tokyo.