Arpit is a veteran of the Private Banking industry in India, who successfully conceptualized, launched and built a sizeable Private Banking business, as early as 1993, for DSP Merrill Lynch (1993-1998). As Head of the Private Clients Group at DSP ML, Arpit built considerable brand equity within the Ultra High Networth Individuals space. Post DSP ML, Arpit moved on to replicate his success of setting up a scalable business, for a multi-national French bank, BNP Paribas (1999-2002) to cater to high networth Indians, both resident as well as non-resident, across the globe. Being a banker, this experience involved advising on both the Asset as well as the Liability side of the private clients’ balance sheets and within a short span of two years, the bank’s AUM were in excess of USD 600 million. In 2002, Arpit took on the challenge to establish a Private Banking offering for ICICI Bank Ltd., India’s largest and fastest growing retail bank (2002-2006). Notably, his efforts were recognised both locally and internationally, when ICICI Bank’s Private Banking business, with AUM of over USD 6.5 billion in India, was ranked the largest by CLSA in February 2005 and amongst the top 3 in the Asia-Pacific region by Private Banker International in September, 2005. Arpit moved to becoming an entrepreneur in February 2006 and set up from ground zero, a full service financial advisory and intermediation business for the Dawnay Day AV group in India, as the Managing Director & Group CEO for Financial Services. This was a joint venture with Dawnay Day, UK and Alok Vajpeyi with 25% in an Employee Trust, for Arpit and his team. The group obtained a Portfolio Management registration with SEBI and BSE, NSE, CDSL, NSDL registrations. Dawnay Day was also granted an in-principle approval as a sponsor, to set up an Asset Management Company in India. The JV was targeted at clients across all segments, both in the individual and institutional space and offered a wide range of services like wealth management, stock broking, portfolio management, asset management, real estate advisory, retail distribution and research services. In a short span of three years, the business of Dawnay Day AV, grew to over 1500 people in 8 cities and over 40 branches and was successfully sold to a large Private Equity firm in 2008. It was at this stage, that Arpit and his core team decided to move on and set up their own independent venture. Post Dawnay Day AV, Arpit founded ARYSS Group which aims to identify fundamentally strong businesses and power them with private investments and strategic management expertise to realise their true value, as well as set up new ventures. With a clear gap and opportunity in the wealth management space, Arpit is himself working on setting up a greenfield Multi Family Office business in India and identifying a team to set up a high end Wealth Management, Derivatives & Fund Management accredited education venture to bridge the knowledge gap in the Wealth and Asset Management industry in India. Arpit is an avid trainer with several hundred man hours of Private Banking training, under his belt. A first in India, Arpit has been instrumental in launching Private Banking elective programmes in over 26 MBA schools. Across his 15 years career in Private Banking, Arpit traveled extensively not only to train but also keep himself updated with the international best practices. He is now a regular invitee to chair and speak at Private Banking Seminars and Conferences across the globe. Arpit, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) himself, served as the Chairman of CFP’s Examination and Certification committee for many years. Arpit holds a post-graduate degree in Finance from the University of Delhi, and a graduate degree in Science from St. Stephens College, New Delhi. Before he began his career in financial services, he worked in the corporate finance department of Ballarpur Industries, of the Thapar Group in India, which he joined in 1991 upon completing his post graduation.

Mr. Amour has worked with AIF Capital since 1998 and became Chief Executive Officer in 2003. He has resided in Hong Kong since 1985 and has over 20 years of private equity investment, finance and industry experience in Asia. He was a director of the investment banking arm of Standard Chartered Bank prior to joining CP Group, one of Asia’s largest Chinese business groups, where he was the Vice President of Finance covering a wide range of businesses. Mr. Amour holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne in Australia. He studied Chinese language at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1984-1985 and speaks and reads Mandarin.

King joined the Financial Risk Management Group as CEO of FRM Hong Kong in September 2008. He is responsible for FRM's fund of hedge funds business in Asia ex Japan and Korea. Previously, King held senior management positions at HSBC Global Asset Management, GMO and Baring Asset Management. King serves on a number of public committees and tribunals. He was Chairman of the HK Securities Institute from 2006 to 2008 and Chairman of HK Investment Funds Association between 2003 and 2005. In July 2008, King was awarded the Medal of Honour (MH) by the HK SAR Government for his valuable contributions to the securities and asset management industry. King holds a BA in Physics from Oxford University and a PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics from Durham University.

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

Responsible for Schroders Asian property multi manager business. He joined Schroders in 2008 and is based in Hong Kong. He has 14 years experience in analyzing property investments, market trends, feasibility modelling, development and project implementation and has been advising on the Asian property markets since 2000. He was previously Director of Investment and Acquisition for Harvest Capital Partners, responsible for direct real estate acquistions in China. He also worked for Grosvenor where he played a key role in establishing three Asian real estate funds which acquired assets in Tokyo, Osaka and Hong Kong. Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. Masters in Land Economy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

A 1997 graduate of Edhec Business School, Sébastien worked at both CCF Capital Management (now a member of the HSBC Group) and SGAM (SOCIETE GENERALE ASSET MANAGEMENT). In 2005, he joined HDF Finance in Paris, where he took charge of the development of HDF's activities outside France. In 2008 he relocated to Singapore in order to launch HDF’s operations in Asia and he was appointed Managing Director of HDF FINANCE ASIA Pte Ltd.

Michael Carsley joined Red Kite in 2007 as a Managing Director and is the portfolio manager for the Explorer Fund. Mr. Carsley was a Managing Director and a member of the Executive Committee and Investment Committee at Silver Creek, a $7 billion hybrid investment management firm. He designed and was the portfolio manager of the Early Advantage Fund from its inception, grew it to over $700MM, and received the Fund of the Year award in its category 3 years in a row from Invest Hedge. Additionally, he structured private/illiquid transactions for the private equity products and covered hedging efforts for all investments. Prior, he was a Principal at Summit Energy, a private equity firm focused on non-production energy efficiency solutions, where he was in charge of all acquisitions and strategic investments. Mr. Carsley brings over 17 years of international finance skills, including tenures on the trading floor of JP Morgan (now JP Morgan Chase) and in the Treasury Department of Microsoft Corporation and has direct investment experience in public equity, fixed income, private equity, venture capital, alternative investments; and has an extensive derivatives and risk management history.

Mr. Chinappi is a Managing Director with RREEF Alternative Investments based in Hong Kong. RREEF Alternative Investments is the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. Brian is the Head of Acquisitions for RREEF's products and clients investing in Asia Pacific. Such investments include real properties, property developments, non-performing loan portfolios and real estate operating companies. Prior to assuming his present role in 1999, Brian was a member of Bankers Trust's Real Estate Investment Banking Group (a predecessor group to RREEFIDB Real Estate) based in New York and Hong Kong. During his tenure with Bankers Trust, Brian completed numerous debt and equity financings and merger and acquisition assignments for clients, including REITs, public real estate operating companies and private investment partnerships. Brian joined Bankers Trust in 1994. Mr. Chinappi has a B.A. degree in Economics from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Henry joined Watson Wyatt as an Investment Consultant in Oct 2007. He is responsible for covering identifying, researching and monitoring managers focusing on illiquid alternative investments on behalf of clients, and working with colleagues locally, regionally and globally. He is also involved with various aspects of general client consulting, including assisting clients with manager structure and selection decisions. Prior to joining Watson Wyatt, Henry worked for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board as a senior associate whose primary focus is on strategic asset allocation, research and the implementation of new asset classes with specific focus in alternative assets. He was also involved in making a number of direct private and fund investments. Henry received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and his Master of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada. He is also a charter-holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations.

Ms. Chow is a Managing Director of Squadron Capital. Ms. Chow joined Search Investment Group in 2002, left in late 2004 to assist the chairman of a public-listed company in Hong Kong set up his private investment office, and rejoined the Group in early 2006. Previously, she was with QED Global Limited, a Hong Kong-based technology and media ventures company, which she joined following work as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, the international business strategy consulting firm, in New York. Ms. Chow started her career in cardiovascular research with Genentech, Inc. Ms. Chow holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA in Molecular Biology from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Chow speaks Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.

Josephine is the Director of CompliancePlus Consulting Limited. CompliancePlus provides full range of compliance solutions and compliance support and services to fund management companies and hedge fund managers, including start up hedge funds in Asia Region. Before that, Josephine was the Head of Legal and Compliance for Prudential Asset Management Hong Kong and had oversight of compliance and legal issues of investments around US$20 billions for Prudential Asset Management Hong Kong Office (investment management arm of business of the UK Prudential Group) With almost 10 years of working experience with fund managers and regional exposure on legal issues and regulatory matters in Asia on asset management, Josephine is very familiar with licensing requirements of fund management in the Region and has a complete understanding of the operation, setting up and internal control of fund house. Her very recent transaction experience includes setting up of a QFII fund (with QFII investment quota) raising US$200 millions from Korea and setting up of a Cayman domiciled multi strategies hedge fund. Before joining Prudential, Josephine was legal counsel-VP with Citigroup Asset Management specialized in Hong Kong Taiwan and Korea’s fund business and retail fund registrations and distribution issues across the Region. She joined Citigroup Asset Management from Franklin Templeton Investments where she was the member of their Asia Legal Team Josephine obtained Bachelor of Laws Degree (1995) and Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong (1996), and subsequently obtained Master of Laws from People’s University of China (Beijing). She is qualified to practice as a lawyer both in Hong Kong and UK. She is fluent in Cantonese, English and Mandarin.

Russell has been employed by Horseman Capital Management Limited since April 2006 where he managed a part of the portfolio in Emerging Market equities for the Horseman Global Fund Ltd. He has been solely responsible for the management of Horseman Emerging Market Opportunities Fund Limited since its launch in October 2006. Russell started his investment career at UBS Wealth Management in 2000 and, in January 2002, transferred within the UBS group to GAM London as an investment analyst, a post he held until he left in January 2006. He now has 7 years experience investing in emerging market stocks on a global basis. Russell has a Bachelor degree (Honours) in Economics and a Bachelor degree in Asian Studies from the Australian National University. Russell became a CFA Charterholder in 2004.

Brad Cole is President of Cole Partners Asset Management, LLC and Cole Partners LLC, overseeing all investment, management, and strategic activities of the firms, based on his broad alternative investment experience. Brad's professional career spans more than 20 years in the derivatives industry and includes more than 10 years' experience developing and implementing successful marketing strategies for alternative investment managers. Brad founded Cole Partners Asset Management in 2002, building on his diverse experience in commodities and alternative asset management. Cole Partners Asset Management offers investors active asset management in the commodities sector, managing a natural resources fund of funds that was named “Best of Breed” at the GAIM conference in November 2006. Prior to founding Cole Partners in 1998, Brad served as the Vice President and Director of Sales and Marketing for Sjo, Incorporated, a Chicago-based alternative investment manager. Brad began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was hired as part of their currency arbitrage group on the International Monetary Market (IMM). He applied this analytical foundation as Vice President at Dean Witter, where he managed the institutional currency futures and options desk. Brad is a member of the Managed Futures Association (MFA), and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). Brad's research has appeared in a variety of industry publications and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events. He is a registered member of the NASD and the NFA. Brad received a BA from the University of Illinois.

As Senior Strategist and Head of Capital Introductions – Asia, for Newedge Prime Brokerage Group, Kirby Daley services hedge fund investors and managers all over the Asia-Pacific region. After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Kirby started his career as a trader for the Special Commodities Division of the Pillsbury Company in the early 1990's. He made a move to Japan in 1993, where his work experience included broking Japanese commodity futures and dealing foreign exchange, with a focus on Japanese yen crosses, before joining Newedge Group in Tokyo (formerly called Fimat Group) in 2001. At Newedge, Kirby worked initially as a Japan Strategist, but added the Hedge Fund Capital Introductions role in late 2002, and currently handles all of these duties out of the Newedge office in Hong Kong. Kirby is featured prominently in the media for his views on the global economy, markets and politics, having had a regular Monday morning weekly spot on CNBC Asia (Asia Squawk Box) from early 2003 through Spring 2008, and continuing frequent appearances on CNN International, Bloomberg TV, the BBC.

Commander Jerry D. Davis is the Employee Representative on the Board of Trustees for the New Orleans Employees’ Retirement System. He was first elected to this five-member board in 1986 as the Employee Representative, and has just been re-elected for his eighth term, beginning July 1, 2008. He was elected Chairman of the Board in 1994, after serving as Chairman of the Investment Committee for seven years, during which time the Fund progressed from a fixed-income-only allocation to a balanced mix of asset classes. During his unprecedented tenure, the Fund has grown from $94 million to $420 million, while providing generous pensions and allowing for the lowest employer cost ratio in the state. In his CEO role, he manages relationships with 47 investment firms, as well as four law firms, the Board’s consultants and actuaries. Jerry pursued a dual career in military service and civilian government for over forty years before retiring from the Coast Guard in 2002. During that career he alternated between reserve and active service, being called to active duty six times. He was selected three times to command Coast Guard forces, and served for several years on the staff of the Commandant and/or the District Commander. He earned eleven decorations and was promoted through thirteen ranks, finally serving as a port operations commander during Operation Desert Storm. He subsequently retired from City of New Orleans employment in May of 2006, where his last post was Personnel Administrator, responsible for all training and performance evaluation for the City’s 8000-member workforce. He continues, as an unpaid volunteer, in two roles: in addition to his trustee responsibility, he is serving a six-year term as the Employee Representative on the Civil Service Commission, appointed by the City Council in 2005. His role there is both legislative and judicial, with responsibility for adopting changes to Civil Service Law as well as adjudicating employee appeals of wrongful discipline. A 1970 graduate of Tulane University, Jerry has addressed over 200 audiences in eleven countries, on issues as varied as fund management, securities litigation and military logistics. He is married to Dr. Linda Ledbetter, a retired professor and former trustee; for the past fourteen years they have produced educational conferences for national audiences of fiduciaries through their non-profit association.

Patric de Gentile-Williams joined FRM Capital Advisors in August 2007 as Chief Operating Officer and as a member of the investment committee, he also focuses on assisting new managers in establishing their businesses. Previously, Patric was Chief Executive Officer of PCE Investors Ltd, a European based Hedge Fund Platform. As founder of the business, Patric was responsible for business strategy, manager assessment and selection as well as risk management and day to day implementation of the company’s business plan. From Launch in Jan 2004, PCE grew to $1bn AUM spread across 16 Hedge Funds. In August 2000 Patric became a partner and Chief Operating Officer of Liquid Capital, a derivatives market making company where he established the infrastructure of the firm. Prior to this, in 1997, Patric was CEO of TARMS an Australian software company specialising in Fixed Income and FX trading and risk management systems. Following a brief period as Chief Executive Officer of CSFB UK Ltd between 1991 and 1992, Patric was a Managing Director of Banque Indosuez, responsible for helping transform the European Equity division from a research driven agency business to a full derivatives operation. This involved establishing the Listed and OTC Options Trading desk, the Warrant and Convertible Arbitrage desk and the Stock Index Arbitrage Books in Europe. He was also responsible for establishing a sales team to market these desk products to institutional and corporate clients. Patric began his career in 1984 as a Trainee Equity and Derivatives Trader with Morgan Grenfell Securities. In 1987 he became Senior Executive for James Capel & Co, where he was responsible for creating several trading and derivative businesses for the company. Patric studied Engineering and Mathematics at Cambridge and London Universities and has a first class BSc in Mathematics.

Mr.Djumanov has over 13 years of investment management, investment banking and advisory experience in emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS countries including in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. He has worked in major international financial centers such as New York, London and Zurich. Mr. Djumanov is Chairman of Eurasia Capital Group, a Singapore-based holding group with extensive investments and partnerships across major countries of Eurasia including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. He manages a family of regional and country funds including: Central Asia Opportunity Fund, Eurasian Financial Institutions Fund, Central Asia Real Estate Fund and Mongolia Discovery Fund. He was co-founder of Ansher Group, an investment group with investments in Central Asia as well as CEO of Ansher Capital, the first Western-styled investment bank in Uzbekistan. He was Vice President of Auerbach Grayson & Co., a brokerage house in New York advising US institutional investors on portfolio investments in emerging markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He was Head of Corporate Finance in Central Asia and the Caucasus at Ernst & Young as well as investment banker at Renaissance Capital in Moscow and Credit Suisse First Boston in Zurich and London. Mr.Djumanov received his Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Oxford University. Mr. Djumanov speaks fluent Uzbek, Russian, English and Arabic.

Paul Donovan joined the UBS in 1992 and is a Managing Director and Global Economist. Paul is responsible for formulating and presenting the UBS Investment Research global economic view, drawing on the bank’s world-wide resources. He co-authors the Global Economic Perspectives publication with the other members of the Global Economics team and writes Global Economic Specials that focus on key topics of interests to investors. Paul regularly appears on the CNN, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC television stations. Paul took a degree, and was a scholar, in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University. He is a senior member and Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He holds an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of London. He is a co-founder of the Peter Culverhouse Memorial Trust, a charitable fund that raises money for cancer research and patient care, and an economic adviser to the East London Business Alliance.

Vincent Duhamel is a Senior Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors of SAIL Advisors Limited and other SAIL related entities. Mr. Duhamel has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry in Europe, North America and Asia. Prior to joining SAIL in September 2008, Mr. Duhamel was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong serving as Head of Asia ex-Japan for its asset management business and subsequently responsible for all the investment activities for Central Banks and Official Institutions. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Duhamel was a Senior Principal and Chief Executive for Asia, and a member of the Global Executive Committee of State Street Global Advisors’ business. Before relocating to Asia in 1997, Mr. Duhamel established and managed State Street Global Advisors’ business in Canada from 1993 to 1997. He also worked at Pictet International as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager in Switzerland and Canada from 1989 to 1993. Mr. Duhamel is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from University of Ottawa in Canada. He has also served as a CFA Institute Governor from 2000 to 2008 and served as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Governors in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

Charles Dumas has been with Lombard Street Research since 1998 and is Chief Economist and Head of the World Service. His work encompasses global issues, including China, the Eurozone and Japan and he is a recognised authority on financial markets and the US economy. Charles has had extensive experience in the financial world as an investment banker as well as an economist and journalist. He is a sought-after speaker on global economic issues and hosts LSR’s quarterly seminars.

Feng joined York Capital in February 2007 and is a Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of York Capital Management Asia (HK) Advisors Limited. Feng is also the Co-Portfolio Manager of the York Asian Opportunities funds, and is based in Hong Kong. From 2004 to 2006, he worked at Citadel Investment Group as a Portfolio Manager, where he was responsible for event-driven investments across Asia. For the seven years prior, he worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in the Merchant Banking and Investment Banking divisions and was a Strategy Consultant for McKinsey & Company. Feng received a B.A. in Government, cum laude, from Dartmouth College.

Mr. Fernandez serves as JPMorgan’s Head of Emerging Asia Research team. Before joining JPMorgan in January 1998, Mr. Fernandez spent five years as a professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins University International Studies School where he taught international macroeconomics. He was named Professor of the Year in 1996. Earlier, he served as an Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the administration of U.S. President George Bush. In 1987, he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its OECD economic research department and in the foreign exchange intervention group. Mr. Fernandez has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Doctorate in Economics from Princeton University where, as a National Science Foundation fellow, he wrote his dissertation under Ben S. Bernanke. In addition to his work at JPMorgan, Mr. Fernandez is on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University’s School of Economics and Social Sciences.

Mr. Peter H. Fletcher is the Managing Director of Parly Company SA, Geneva, Switzerland, a family office which invests internationally in private/direct equity and alternative investment strategies. Mr. Fletcher has over 30 years of international experience covering a broad spectrum of financial management functions in the trust and banking industry in Canada, Australia, Bermuda, Hong Kong and Switzerland. In addition to holding numerous directorships of investment funds and companies, Mr. Fletcher has served on various governments financial regulatory bodies. He holds the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr. Mark Fuchs is CEO and CIO of Fuchs Capital Partners and leads the investment process as well as the management and growth of the company. Mr. Fuchs has been involved in the equities business in Asia for over 15 years, and was most recently Credit Suisse Group’s Managing Director and Head of Equities for Southeast Asia, also serving on its Chairman’s Board for Asia Pacific. During his near decade at Credit Suisse, Mr. Fuchs built and managed the firm’s equities business for the markets of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and start up plans for Vietnam. During this time he achieved top rankings and market share in several SEA markets, as recognized by various awards and market share rankings. Mr. Fuchs has also served on various advisory boards and committees, including the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Global Markets Sub-Committee, and Thailand's Association of Securities Companies. Mr. Fuchs received two separate Masters Degrees from Oxford University and scholarships from Mellon Foundation for his research on European Financial Integration.

After receiving his bachelor's degree from Duke University and studying Mandarin at Nanjing University, Louis-Vincent joined the French Army where he served as a second lieutenant in a mountain infantry battalion. After a couple of years, Louis-Vincent left the army and joined Paribas Capital Markets where he worked as a financial analyst first in Paris, then in Hong Kong. Louis-Vincent left Paribas in 1999 to launch GaveKal Research with Charles Gave and Anatole Kaletsky in London. In 2002, Louis-Vincent left the London office and returned to Hong Kong; the idea at the time was that Asia was set to become an ever more important factor in global growth and that, consequently, GaveKal needed to offer its clients more information, and more ideas, relating to Asia. Louis-Vincent contributes frequently to the research and was the main author of our books “Our Brave New World” and “The End is Not Nigh”. Louis-Vincent is CEO of Gavekal and Marshall Wace GaveKal.

- Co-founder of Pacific Alliance Group and VinaCapital Group - 10 years of transaction and investment experience in Greater China - Previously Engagement Manager with McKinsey in Hong Kong 99-02 - Board M&A experience, including transactions in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Germany and USA - Joint masters in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University

Patric Gysin heads RMF’s Equity Hedge team for Asia & Emerging Markets and is the portfolio manager for RMF Equity Hedged Strategies, RMF Asian Opportunities and RMF Emerging Markets Long Short. He is also a senior hedge fund analyst within the Hedge Fund Research team of RMF Investment Management, based in Singapore, focusing on Asian & Emerging Markets long/short equity hedge funds. Mr Gysin joined RMF in January 2000 as a private equity investment manager covering Europe and the US and moved to the Hedge Fund Research team in 2003. He holds a Masters degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Basel (lic. rer. pol.). He is a CFA and CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) charter-holder and is a member of the Swiss CFA Society.

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

Paul has over ten years investment experience in Hong Kong, most recently as Managing Director for a major Hong Kong family's technology, media, and telecommunication investments, including hedge funds, private equity, direct investments, and listed securities. Prior to this, Paul was the Founder and CEO of CFN, a financial software company with operations in Hong Kong and London. Paul was also a Partner and Managing Director for Shun Loong Securities in Hong Kong and began his career in Hong Kong with Morgan Stanley. Paul received his BA from Trinity College and MBA from Columbia University.

Ms. Hu is the Chief Investment Officer of the Fund of Funds Group of Rockhampton Management Limited, Hong Kong. She chairs the Rockhampton Management’s Fund of Funds Investment Committee and leads the Portfolio Management Group. Prior to joining Rockhampton in 2009, Ms. Hu served as the Portfolio Manager at SAIL Advisors Limited – an Asia based family office and fund of hedge funds, where she managed the firm’s primary Asia Pacific & Japan portfolios and a number of segregated accounts. Prior to this, she spent five years at Merrill Lynch's Global Equity Derivatives Group where she was an Asia Pacific Equity Derivatives Strategist and a key member of the bank's research team ranked #1 by Institutional Investor for Asia Pacific Quantitative/Derivatives Research. Ms. Hu brings with her over 10 years of experience in the alternative investment industry with an in-depth understanding of the Pan Asian hedge fund business and its development since its early phase. She received a BA degree from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, majoring in both Business Management and Economics.

Mr. Huttenlocher is Managing Director of Highbridge Capital Management, LLC ("HCM") and Senior Portfolio Manager of the Asian Equities and Convertibles Group. Mr. Huttenlocher joined HCM in 2002 and has been a member of HCM’s Investment Committee since September 2007. Prior to joining HCM, Mr. Huttenlocher was the Portfolio Manager for Asian Convertibles and Equity Derivatives at Long Term Capital Management from 1995 to 1999. He established the Japanese Convertible Bond strategy and a U.S. options relative value strategy at Long Term Capital Management. Mr. Huttenlocher began his career at Citadel Investment Group where he served as European Convertible Bonds Trader. He also founded Intelligent Markets - a financial software company in 1999 and served as CEO from 1999 to 2001. Mr. Huttenlocher graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Mathematics.

Prior to establishing 3 Degrees, Mr. Ibrahim spent seven years at Lazard Frères & Co. LLC, where he founded Lazard’s Asian Distressed Debt business and was a senior member of the Lazard Debt Recovery Fund, a global distressed debt fund. Mr. Ibrahim has traded over US$7 billion face amount of distressed debt in Asia spanning the past decade with over 100 counter-parties globally. Mr. Ibrahim has many years of experience analyzing and trading the debt of distressed companies, and specializes in the operational and financial turnaround of troubled companies. A United States Citizen and Singapore Permanent Resident, Mr. Ibrahim presently resides in Singapore.

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

Nirav Kachalia is a Managing Director of Investments at Morgan Creek. Mr. Kachalia joined Morgan Creek in December 2004. Mr. Kachalia was co-founder and Vice President for Strategy for HiFusion, an education technology company. Mr. Kachalia assisted in all start-up activities including raising over $16 million and growing the cornpany to over 150 employees before negotiating a successful sale to a joint venture corporation established by Sylvan Learning Systems and Aether Systems in 2001. Prior to starting HiFusion, Mr. Kachalia was with Winslow Partners, the personal investment vehicle for Kenneth Brody, a former Management Committee member of Goldman, Sachs. He joined Winslow in 1998 where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating and negotiating investment opportunities within early stage and late stage private equity. Prior to joining Winslow Partners, Mr. Kachalia was an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley in the health care group from 1996-1998. Mr. Kachalia sits on a number of advisory boards across all asset classes globally. Mr. Kacllalia received his Bachelor of Science in Biology and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aud a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

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

James Jung-Beck Kim serves as Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Woori Absolute Partners. Mr. Kim was formerly Head of Global Proprietary Trading in Equities, Fixed Income, FX and Commodities for Woori Investment & Securities. Mr. Kim has 13 years of trading and risk management experience, mainly in Asian equity derivatives, with leading global firms including Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. He has focused on equity volatility trading and risk management for both single stocks and indexes, as well as index arbitrage and other proprietary trading products. He holds an MS degree in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University and a BA degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from UC Berkeley.

Eugene Kim has over 17 years of experience in finance in both the US and Asia. He began his career at Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management (“NCRAM”), at the time one of the largest dedicated high yield fund managers in the world. At NCRAM, he helped manage a portfolio of over US$ 3.0 billion in high yield assets and was involved in the structuring and marketing of new investment products. Subsequent to NCRAM, Mr. Kim was a high yield research analyst at UBS Securities, covering the media and telecommunications sectors. After UBS, Mr. Kim was an investment banker with ING Barings where he was responsible for high yield origination in Asia. Prior to forming Tribridge, Mr. Kim was an investment banker at Barclays Capital, where he was responsible for debt origination from Korean clients. He is a graduate of Yale University.

Masahiro Koshiba is CEO of United Managers Japan Inc. (“UMJ”) and Senior Advisor to the UMJ Kotoshiro Fund launched in November 2008. The Kotoshiro Fund is a Japanese equities Long/Short fund. Before Mr. Koshiba established UMJ in December 2004, he had been a Representative of Japan Advisory, Ltd. Tokyo since 2000, where his primary role was to advise the Whitney New Japan Fund and the Whitney New Japan Select Fund. Prior to joining Japan Advisory, Ltd., he was head of the Japanese large-cap equity management division at Deutsche Asset Management. At Deutsche, his team managed various types of funds, including Japanese and overseas pension funds, unit trusts, and absolute return funds. Before joining Deutsche in 1998, he worked for Daiwa International Capital management (“DICAM”) as a fund manager in its pension fund management department, and later managing equity portfolios for overseas markets, especially in Asian countries. Prior to that, he was a fund manager at Daiwa International Capital Management (Hong Kong) Limited, managing regional funds, country funds, and segregated accounts. Between 1990 and 1993, he managed absolute return funds at DICAM investing in equities, convertible bonds, options, and futures. Mr. Koshiba has experience with investing institutional funds into Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Australia. He began his career at Daiwa Securities in 1986 as a broker, dealing with equities, CB, warrants, and futures. He graduated from Doshisha University with a BA in law in 1986 and is a member of The Security Analyst Association of Japan. Mr. Koshiba holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is fluent in Japanese and English.

Angelina Kwan is the Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer – Asia Pacific for Cantor Fitzgerald and is responsible for all operating aspects of the company’s existing businesses and future ventures in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining the Group, she was with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. There she was a Director of the Supervision of Markets Division as well as a Director of Enforcement. Ms. Kwan has over 23 years of experience in Management, Regulation, Compliance, Audit and Internal Audit across a wide range of businesses in both Asia and the US. A Certified Public Accountant both in Hong Kong and the United States, Ms. Kwan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business administration (Accounting), an M.B.A. (Finance) and a Bachelor of Laws. She is an Honorary Professor of Finance for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a SFC appointed Director and Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities Institute and lectures frequently for Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Asian Development Bank, and various international regulatory organizations.

Mr. Lee has over 22 years in the finance field. Since joining SPARX in 2001, Mr. Lee has been researching hedge funds globally, but with an emphasis on Asia and managing a number of FoHF portfolios. As Senior Portfolio Manager, he managed money for a number of large global institutions. Mr. Lee is currently a Responsible Officer for SPARX’s Hong Kong activities. Prior to joining SPARX, Mr. Lee was the CFO for Legacy Advisors, a Hong Kong-based family office. As CFO, Mr. Lee’s responsibilities included oversight of security portfolio holdings, which had a significant allocation to hedge funds. Mr. Lee graduated with honors from New York University’s Stern School of Business, earning a BS in International Business and Accounting. He is also a US Certified Public Accountant and a charter holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Christophe is the Chairman of the Hong Kong national group of The Alternative Investment Management Association Limited (AIMA). AIMA is the hedge fund industry's global, not-for-profit trade association with over 1,100 corporate members worldwide. The Hong Kong national group of AIMA was setup in 1999 and it has approximately 100 local members. Christophe is also the chief executive officer of SHK Fund Management (SHKFM). SHKFM is a fully owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed Sun Hung Kai Financial which is Hong Kong’s largest non-bank financial institution. SHKFM is an asset management company that specialises in alternative investments, including global hedge funds, Asian hedge funds and private equity funds. Christophe sits on the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Financial Services Advisory Committee. He was also appointed by the Government of the HKSAR to sit on the advisory committee of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) from June 2007 to May 2009. Christophe has over 18 years experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining SHKFM in 2000, he was an executive director at Goldman Sachs.

Dr. Ma is a Managing Director in the Houlihan Lokey’s New York office, where her primary responsibilities as part of the firm’s Financial Opinions & Advisory Services business include providing valuations, financial opinions, and expert witness testimony. She leads the firm’s Illiquid and Complex Securities Valuation practice and is a member of the firm’s Technical Standards Committee. Dr. Ma has over 20 years of extensive training, academic expertise, and hands-on experience in commodities, derivatives, securities, fixed incomes, structured transactions, hedging strategies, and risk management issues. She has a deep understanding of the economic, operational, and institutional aspects of the securities and derivatives markets. Since the beginning of the current global credit crisis in July 2007, Dr. Ma has been focused on valuing illiquid securities including asset-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, collateralized loan obligations, mortgage derivatives, auction rate securities, distressed debt instruments and private equity investments for financial reporting, transaction advisory, restructuring alternatives and litigation support purposes. On October 29, 2008, she served as a panelist in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s roundtable concerning mark-to-market accounting. Dr. Ma participated as the valuation expert, focusing on potential improvements to the current accounting model and implications of possible changes. Dr. Ma joined Houlihan Lokey from NERA Economic Consulting, where she established and led the Employee Stock Options Valuation practice. Before that, she was a partner at Ernst & Young. She directed a number of significant litigation and dispute resolution projects related to derivatives valuation, securities trading, hedging, and risk management. She also advised the boards of directors of energy and financial companies on risk management, valuation, and corporate governance issues. For over five years, she traded derivatives and designed new risk management products for a global commodity firm. Dr. Ma served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where she taught an M.B.A.-level course in futures and options. She also developed several corporate training programs on the complex aspects of capital markets. Dr. Ma has qualified and testified as an expert witness in the United States District Court, United States Bankruptcy Court and in arbitration and deposition proceedings. Dr. Ma graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Business with a Ph.D. in finance and from Indiana University with highest distinction with a B.S. in accounting. She holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst and is a Certified Public Accountant. She is licensed with FINRA (formerly the NASD) as a General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7 and 63). She is an adjunct member of the Futures and Derivatives Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar. She was also a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Option Valuation Group. Dr. Ma has published several articles on energy, derivatives, risk management, valuation, and corporate governance. Her Ph.D. thesis addressed energy futures and options markets. She also co-authored a college textbook on futures and options..

Dr Jane Murray joined Jones Lang LaSalle in 1998. In 2005 she was appointed to the position of Asia Pacific Head of Research and in 2008 she was appointed as an International Director of the Firm. In her role, Jane leads a team of over 100 professional researchers in the region, which forms part of a network of over 250 researchers in 60 countries around the globe. The Asia Pacific research team produces a range of outputs to assist the clients with their decision making. These outputs include: • The Real Estate Intelligence Service (REIS) which provides comprehensive market monitoring, analysis and forecasts across major institutional-grade real estate markets throughout the Asia Pacific region. • Consultancy projects for investors, developers and occupiers. • Thought leading research papers on topical issues. • Regular publications including the Asia Pacific Property Digest. Jane’s previous roles within the Research team were: • Australasian Head of Research, August 2000 – April 2005 • Director, January 1999 – August 2000 • Manager, Forecasting Services, February 1998 – December 1998

Reiko Nahum is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Amber Partners. Mrs. Nahum founded Amber Partners in July 2004 and launched Amber Partners’ Operational Certification in November 2005. Mrs. Nahum is widely acknowledged to be the market leader in Operational Risk due diligence across the hedge fund sector, advising investors and hedge fund managers globally on operational best practice issues. She is also a frequent speaker on operational risk management at industry conferences. Prior to founding Amber, Mrs. Nahum was President and Director of UBP Asset Management (Bermuda) Limited and a Member of Senior Management of Union Bancaire Privée. As global head of UBP’s Operational Risk due diligence function, Mrs. Nahum was responsible for the creation and development of UBP’s Operational Risk group, leading a team of Operational Risk analysts based in Bermuda and New York. At UBPAM, Mrs. Nahum was also responsible for overseeing investment management, compliance, accounting, registrar and transfer agency, corporate secretarial and other administrative services to investment vehicles under UBPAM’s management, which had assets in excess of $2bn. Mrs. Nahum has served as a director of numerous UBP sponsored funds, including the bank’s flagship Dinvest products. Mrs. Nahum began her career with Ernst & Young and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Distinction from the University of Alberta and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bermuda.

Tom Naughton (CIO, Equities) who joined PMA in July 2002 as one of the founding members has worked as a Portfolio Manager since 1995 focusing exclusively on Asia ex-Japan. Prior to joining he worked for USS Ltd, the third largest private UK pension fund managing US$1 billion in their Asia Ex-Japan long only fund. Tom graduated from University College London with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics & Economics and is an Associate Member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals.

Dr Netherwood is a founding partner of Beach Horizon LLP with responsibilities for investment management and research for Horizon. He was responsible for designing and building the Horizon trading system. He has over 16 years experience in designing and building trading systems and large-scale risk management systems in a number of investment banks. Prior to founding Beach Horizon in May 2005, Dr Netherwood was at Beach Capital Management from 2001 where he was responsible for building systematic trading systems. Paul started his career at AHL (now Man Investments Limited) in 1993 where he was involved in trading system development. He later moved to Nomura to build risk management systems. Following that, he was Chief Architect at a risk management software house responsible for building Credit Risk Management systems for Deutsche Bank. He has a PhD in Pattern Recognition and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Kingston University.

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

Michael Perry, Chief Compliance Officer for Balyasny Asset Management LP (“BAM”) and Chief Operating Officer for Balyasny Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited (“BAM HK”), has over 14 years of Financial Markets experience working within operations, accounting, administration, legal and compliance. Since joining BAM in 2005 Michael has had the opportunity to work in the New York, London and Hong Kong offices and has been instrumental in developing BAM’s international presence. In addition he has gained a considerable amount of experience within the hedge fund and securities industry in senior operational and legal roles for COMAC Capital, RCG Capital, The OBEX Group, Stratos Advisors, and VZB Partners. Michael received an undergraduate degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a MPA from New York University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. His securities credentials have included National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) Series 4, 7, 24, 27, 55 and 66 licenses. He has also been registered with the National Futures Association (NFA) as a Series 3 Principal and under the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) scheme carried out the CF3, CF8, CF10, CF11, CF27 and CF30 controlled functions. He is currently the Responsible Officer and Compliance Office for BAM HK. Mr. Perry is admitted to the practice of law in New York and New Jersey and is a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserves (Retired). He was awarded the United States Merchant Marine Expeditionary Medal and has held US Coast Guard Third Mate and Third Assistant Engineer licenses.

Peter Ryan-Kane is Watson Wyatt's Head of Portfolio Advisory for the Asia-Pacific region, based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for driving investment solutions for clients in Asia. He sits on the firm’s Global Investment Committee and chairs the regional Portfolio Construction Group. Peter has more than 20 years of experience in financial markets as an advisor, investor, borrower and risk manager. He rejoined Watson Wyatt in 2009 after two and half years at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for Product Development, Investment Solutions and Institutional Coverage for Asia Pacific. Prior to that, Peter was a Principal Investment Consultant at Watson Wyatt where he worked with Watson Wyatt clients on a broad range of investment issues and contributed to strategic thinking and sector research. Prior to joining Watson Wyatt in late 2004, Peter was an Investment Consultant with Towers Perrin’s asset consulting business in Australia. Peter was responsible for research into Fixed Income, Commodities, Global Property and Capital Markets, together with general consulting work with clients. Before joining Towers Perrin, Peter was Head of Interest Rate Risk Management at National Australia Bank, with responsibility for all non-traded interest rate risk, management of the Asset and Liability Management (ALCO) process and global best practice. Prior to this, Peter spent nine years with INVESCO Asset Management, initially as Head of Australian Fixed Income and finally as Global Chief Investment Officer, Worldwide Fixed Income. Peter developed the fixed income investment process at INVESCO in Australia, a team of investment professionals, and a dynamic risk management system for client portfolios. As Global CIO, Peter worked in Louisville, Kentucky and London with global responsibility for process improvement, product quality, process engineering and risk. From 1986 to 1994, Peter worked for the South Australian Government, initially as a Financial Analyst and finally as Manager, Financial Markets at the South Australian Financing Authority. Peter received a Bachelor of Economics Degree from the University of Adelaide (1986), qualified for the Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia (1992), and received his CFA Charter in 2001.

Rohit is the Co-Founder of Client Associates. He has more than 13 years of experience behind him in the areas of Corporate Finance & Private Banking. Prior to setting up CA he worked with Deutsche Bank, ANZ Grindlays Bank and Kotak Mahindra. Over the years, Rohit has earned the distinction of carving out innovative Financial Planning solutions for Wealthy Families and some of the best known corporate heads, professionals and entrepreneurs in India. In recognition of his pioneering efforts towards Financial Planning profession in India, Rohit was conferred with the Grandfatheree status of Certified Financial Planner (CFPCM) in 2003 by Financial Planning Standard Board (FPSB), India. Rohit is frequently called upon to contribute towards various initiatives of FPSB in India. Rohit has been invited several times as a guest and visiting faculty by various educational institutions of repute in India. He is also frequently invited by the industry as a guest speaker at various national and international business conferences. Rohit is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). He is also actively involved with the communities of Nasscom and CII. Rohit has done his B. Planning from School Of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi and received his Masters degree in Finance and Control (MFC) from University of Delhi.

Michael is the head of Risk Management for CQS in Asia and is responsible for assessing and controlling all aspects of risk including market, credit and operational risk. Prior to joining CQS in April 2008, Michael was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers based in various locations including Tokyo as the regional head of market risk, New York as the global head of market risk for Equity trading and most recently in Hong Kong as the risk manager within the Prime Services business. Before this, Michael was a Director at CSFB, working in various locations, including Tokyo & Singapore as the regional head of market risk and in London as the global head of emerging markets risk management. Prior to joining CSFB, Michael worked at Deutsche Bank where he began his finance career in 1993, initially in Frankfurt and subsequently in Tokyo in a market risk capacity. Michael holds a PhD in Physics from King’s College London.

Jaswinder (Jas) is a international finance lawyer practicing international law with Goldstream Partners as a co-founder of the law firm, specializing in complex and alternative funds and structured investment products. Jas was also part of the Corporate and Commercial practice group and the Local Head of the Structured Finance legal team for a magic circle offshore law firm in the BVI. He is also a special advisor to one of the Governments of the Emirates, in developing a leading international finance centre. With over 20 years experience in all aspects of investment banking, complex cross border financial arrangements, corporate finance, alternative and structured investments, taxation and intellectual property law and has worked in this field with leading international firms and banks in the UAE, Sydney, London and the British Virgin Islands. He has particular asset expertise in intellectual property, biotechnology and innovation, real estate and REIT’s, unit trusts and securitization, hedge funds and infrastructure assets. Jas has published many leading books and edited many international practitioner publications in domestic and international tax and is a sought after public speaker. Some of his publications include the CCH; “International Offshore Financial Centres Manual”, “The International Tax Handbook” ,(editor and author) and “The International Tax Planning Manual.” (editor and author). Jas graduated with a Masters in Law from the University of Sydney with undergraduate degrees in Law and Jurisprudence (with an Accounting and Financial Management major) from the University of New South Wales and is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia. Jas is admitted in N.S.W. (Australia) to practice as a solicitor and barrister, in England & Wales and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (BVI) and is a legal consultant in the United Arab Emirates.

Lionel Semonin is the portfolio manager of Four Elements Capital’s flagship fund: The Earth Element Fund. The Fund is a commodity, long/short, fundamental-systematic fund investing in up to 30 commodities across Energy, Metals and Agriculture. Prior to this Lionel was Global Head of Commodity Investor Derivatives at BNP Paribas (London) where he was responsible for trading, structuring and distribution of commodity derivative products targeting investor clients. In particular, Lionel’s role encompassed setting up and managing systematic commodity strategies (e.g. CMRI Index, BNP Paribas Comac strategies, ARAG strategies). Previously, Lionel spent 10 years at JPMorgan Chase where his last responsibility was to head the global Commodity Investment strategies group including the development of all of their systematic commodity strategies (e.g. Commodity IGAR, DCR). Lionel is a CFA charter holder (2001) and has an MSc (Applied Mathematics and Telecommunications) from the École Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland (1995). From 1991 to 1993 Lionel worked as a teaching assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Mr. Shah is a Managing Director at Diversified Global Asset Management (DGAM), and leads the firms customized mandates and strategic partnership initiatives. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Shah worked at RBC Capital Markets where he was the global head of the Financial Engineering Deal Team that specifically sought to identify, structure and execute the FX and Commodity risks inherent in cross border Mergers & Acquisitions. Mr. Shah’s responsibilities also included the structuring of sophisticated financial products and solutions to corporations and financial institutions. Mr. Shah holds a B.A. (Hons) in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University. DGAM is an institutional hedge fund and fund-of-hedge funds manager based in Toronto and New York. It was founded in January 2004, and now comprises 36 professionals and approximately $2.6 billion of assets under management. The firm’s client base is 100% institutional and includes a geographically diverse set of sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public pension plans, insurance companies and endowments.

BP has over 14 years experience spanning both credit risk and equity research analysis. Over the last five years he has been a fund manager managing equities within Deutsche Asset Management, India and an advisor to the Atlantis India Opportunities Fund at Atlantis Investment Advisors. Prior to joining Deutsche Asset Management, BP was Head of Equity Research at SSKI Securities, a premier brokerage house in Mumbai. Before joining SSKI, BP worked in the research team at UBS Warburg. BP developed his foundations in Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL) in India, which is now a subsidiary of Standard & Poor’s. BP is a management graduate from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research in Mumbai.

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

Mr. Stucke is the Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim Investment Advisors. In this role he chairs the Guggenheim Investment Advisors Investment Committee and leads the Portfolio Management Group. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2006, Mr. Stucke served as an Executive Director on the Portable Alpha Team at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (Morgan Stanley AIP) where he opened and managed the firm’s London-based European alternative investments research office. Mr. Stucke has worked in the alternative investments, private equity, mezzanine, structured debt (public and private, taxable and tax-exempt) and interest rate derivative markets in London, Philadelphia, New York, Berlin and St. Louis. He holds an A.B. and an M.B.A. (first in class) from the University of Missouri. He also holds a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Nick has over 15 years experience investing in both Asian long/short hedge funds and long-only absolute return funds. Prior to joining TT, Nick was a Senior Partner at Pembroke Capital Management, where he was a Pan-Asian Portfolio Manager for the Magenta Fund. Before this Nick was a portfolio Manager at Cazenove Fund Management and an Analyst at NCL Investments. Nick is a graduate of the University of St Andrews where he received an MA in 1991.

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

Mr. Tan is a Vice President of Deutsche Asset Management Hong Kong Limited and a RREEF researcher covering the Asia Pacific Region. In this role, he is responsible for building and coordinating RREEF’s coverage of real estate capital markets in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining RREEF in November 2006, Mr. Tan was the Chief Analyst at DTZ in Hong Kong responsible for Greater China real estate market study and various valuations. Before this, he has also held research position at University of Western Sydney 2000-2004. Mr. Tan holds an Executive MBA in Real Estate and a PhD in Property Investment from the University of Western Sydney (Australia). He is also a CFA with membership in the CFA Institute and the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts. Mr. Tan’s numerous research articles and papers can been seen in both regional and international property journals as well as trade magazines and conference proceedings.

The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is a financial institution that manages funds primarily for public and private pension and insurance plans. As at December 31, 2007, it held $155.4 billion of net assets. The Caisse is one of the leading institutional fund managers in Canada. Mario Therrien has joined the Caisse in 1992. He has been Vice-President, Funds of Hedge Funds since 2002. He oversees a team whose mandate is to develop strategies using hedge funds. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in finance from Université de Sherbrooke. He has also completed the Canadian Securities course given by the Canadian Securities Institute and holds a chartered financial designation from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.

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

Marc joined PAAMCO in Singapore where he is head of Operational Due Diligence for Pan Asia Alpha Strategies in December 2008. Prior to that Marc was based in Hong Kong and was the head of Operational Due Diligence for KBC Alpha Asset Management. Before joining KBC in 2006, Marc was Chief Operating Officer of Azura Capital Advisors in Singapore, where he established and then managed the operations of a multi-strategy Asia macro fund (2004-2006). From 1997-2004, Marc worked for Credit Suisse First Boston, originally in London and then later in Asia, in a number of different roles, including Chief Operating Officer and prior to that, Head of Product Control for the Emerging Markets Division in Asia. Marc commenced his career in 1991 at Ernst & Young in Perth, Western Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Business Degree with a double major in Accounting and Business Law from Curtin University. Marc is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Jeffrey Tumolo is the Chief Investment Strategist of TAG Associates, LLC, an alternative asset management firm founded in 1983 and a subsidiary of GF Capital Management & Advisors, LLC, based in New York City. TAG has approximately $6.0 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2008, including over $2.0 billion in alternative assets, primarily hedge funds. TAG has been investing in alternative strategies for over 20 years. Mr. Tumolo has over 16 years of institutional investment management experience, including fixed income trading, manager due diligence, risk management and asset allocation for multi-manager products. For the past four years, Mr. Tumolo has served as the Chief Investment Strategist for the firm, where his primary responsibilities include asset allocation strategy and manager selection for both TAG’s proprietary fund of funds products and for individual client portfolios. He is currently the Portfolio Manager for two proprietary fund of funds products. Mr. Tumolo joined TAG in 2000 as Director of Investment Research and Portfolio Manager of the TAG Relative Value Fund, which was TAG’s first hedge fund of funds product. Prior to joining TAG, Mr. Tumolo managed two offshore, multi-manager hedge fund portfolios. He began his portfolio management career building and managing multi-manager portfolios for Charles Schwab Investment Management as the sole Senior Analyst for Schwab’s mutual fund of funds products. Mr. Tumolo received his BS from Cornell University in 1991 and his MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business in 1996.

Nick heads Macquarie Capital’s Fund business in Asia. He has been with Macquarie Capital since 1997 and based in Asia since 1998. Prior to joining Macquarie, Nick spent 10 years working in project finance and investment management, mostly in the United Kingdom. Over the past decade, Nick has gained specialised experience in the areas of infrastructure investment and funds management throughout Asia and the Middle East, where Macquarie has raised and managed some US$7 billion of investor’s capital. In particular, Nick lead the development of Macquarie's infrastructure fund business in Korea, which saw investment into a multitude of transport and energy related projects at different stages of project development. In addition to being directly responsible for the management of Macquarie Capital’s existing funds across Asia, Nick’s also oversees the ongoing development of new initiatives in the region, particularly at this time in India and China.

Laure L. Wang is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Asia Alternatives. Ms. Wang co-leads Asia Alternatives’ Hong Kong office, which serves as the Firm’s base for fund and direct investing, market research and portfolio management. Ms. Wang is on the Firm’s Investment Committee and leads Asia Alternatives’ investments in venture capital across the region, and direct co-investments. Prior to joining Asia Alternatives, Ms. Wang was a General Partner of Pacific Venture Partners. She co-headed the China and US operations and was one of five members on its investment committee. PVP is a pan-Asian venture capital firm with over US$800 million under management. Previously, Ms. Wang also worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. (Hong Kong, San Francisco and New York) and Warburg Pincus (Hong Kong). Ms. Wang received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and holds a bachelors degree in Economics and International Relations with honors from Stanford University. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English and has working knowledge of Japanese and French. Ms. Wang is based in Hong Kong. Ms. Wang currently serves on the Advisory Boards for Nexus India Capital I and II ad Morningside China TMT Fund.

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

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

Douglas is a Director and the Regional Head of Hedge Funds for Credit Risk Management - Asia Pacific, Japan and Australia/New Zealand, based out of Hong Kong. He is responsible for hedge funds in the region, maintaining the credit relationships, monitoring exposures and setting collateral levels, and negotiating credit covenants. Doug is also responsible for resolving termination and default events by hedge funds in the region. Prior to that, Doug was a Senior Credit Analyst with the European Hedge Fund Team at Citigroup in London, UK, responsible for a number of the largest, top tier HF clients in the region. Before that he spent four years at Deutsche Bank as a Credit Officer in the Credit Risk Management Hedge Fund Team in the New York Office. Doug holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and International Relations from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

Mark Woodhams is Head of Infrastructure Equity, Asia, within HSBC Specialist Investments. Mark has been with the infrastructure equity team since its inception in 1997. During this time he has been involved in a broad range of transactions in the transportation, health, education, defence and telecoms sectors, including recently the Singapore Sports Hub, Tyne Tunnel, and the Allenby & Connaught barracks project. In 2008 Mark relocated to Hong Kong to lead the team’s expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. In 1995 Mark joined Charterhouse Bank, which became part of HSBC in 2000. Previously Mark worked for Total SA as an economist. Mark has an MA in economics from the University of Cambridge.

Nobuki Yasuda joined Pension Fund Association as of October 2007 and is responsible for its hedge fund investments activities. Previously he worked for building up and managing the hedge fund investment program at Sumitomo Life Insurance Co.

Mr. Ye has over 15 years of private equity investment, executive management and consulting experience in technology, manufacturing and other industries, both in China and the U.S. He is currently a managing partner of NewMargin Ventures, one of the most established domestic private equity firms in China, focusing on investments in the cleantech, IT and manufacturing sectors. NewMargin is currently managing over USD 500 million in multiple funds. Prior to NewMargin, he was a Group Director of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Cadence, the #1 EDA software company in the world and a Fortune 500 company, where he was in charge of business development effort in Greater China. Prior to Cadence, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he spent six years advising high-tech. and financial services companies based in the U.S. and Asia on a wide array of business and financial strategy issues, ranging from venture financing, IPO, mergers and acquisition, business reorganization to global expansion. Mr. Ye received his MBA from Harvard Business School, his Master of Accountancy degree from Missouri State University and BSEE from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant. He currently also lectures in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, on the topic of “Raising Private Equity Funds”.

Harold Yoon joined SAIL Advisors in July 2009 as the Chief Investment Officer and has over 15 years experience in the fund of hedge funds industry. Harold joined from ING Investment Management, where he was the CIO and Head of ING Fund of Hedge Funds since 2002. From 1994-2000, he was the Head of Trading Risk Management at ING Barings in the Americas. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering and his M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Zummo is a managing director of J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management and head of investment analysis, research, due diligence and portfolio management. Prior to joining JPMAAM in July 1994, Mr. Zummo served as the manager of retirement plan investments for the Interpublic Group of Companies from 1992 to 1994, where he was responsible for analysis, asset allocation and manager selection. From 1990 to 1992 he worked at the former Chase organization as an investment analyst and consultant for institutional clients of the Chase Consulting Group. Mr. Zummo received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from New York University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.