Executive Director, Enforcement
Securities and Futures Commission Hong Kong

Mr. Steward is a member and Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission.  He is responsible for the SFC's investigation and enforcement functions.  He was formerly Deputy Executive Director, Enforcement, at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.  He has a law degree from the University of Melbourne and is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia.

He has practised extensively in Australian courts and is a regular speaker on issues concerning corporate, financial services and markets law and regulation.

Executive Director
Pacific Harbor Holdings, Limited

Mr. Ang is an Associate Director for Pacific Harbor Advisors (HK) Limited.  Mr. Ang focuses on China and is based in Hong Kong. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Ang was an Associate Director for Amroc Asia in Hong Kong, and helped establish Amroc Asia's Taipei office.  Mr. Ang has over 9 years experience in handling financial transactions in global markets.  From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Ang worked in a variety of posts both in Asia and the United States. Mr. Ang served as Technology Product Manager for Communications, Monitoring & Controls, Product Manager for Air Pollution Control Equipment and was Project Manager for Halbinsel Research in Hong Kong and Malaysia.  Mr. Ang was also an Operations & Trading Specialist for Albano, LLC in Chicago, a position that he had previously held from 1993 to 1994.  From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Ang was a futures and securities trader for Marleau, Lemire Securities in Vancouver, Canada.  Mr. Ang was awarded a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1995.

Senior Vice President
EFG Bank Hong Kong

Richard joined EFG in July 2008 from HSBC where he was Director and Portfolio Manager of Alternative Assets in Hong Kong managing portfolios of hedge funds on an advisory and discretionary basis.

During his fourteen years with HSBC/Bank of Bermuda (HSBC purchased Bank of Bermuda in 2004) Richard served in Bermuda, Europe and Hong Kong and specialised in the management of private client assets, in particular those held within trusts and other specialised investment vehicles.  He sat on the CFA Institute Private Wealth Advisory Committee and has published numerous articles on Private Wealth including in the Journals of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.  He represented Asia in the Bank of Bermuda Investment Policy Committee and chaired their global committee overseeing all of the Bank’s private client fiduciary assets.

Richard is both a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation (CFA).  He is presently studying for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst examinations.

Executive Vice President, Head of Hong Kong
RBS Coutts Bank Limited

Ignatius K. K. Chong, Executive Vice President, was appointed Head of Hong Kong in March 2006 of RBS Coutts, Hong Kong Branch.  In addition to managing the accounts of a select number of Hong Kong clients, Iggy leads a team of private bankers focused on the Hong Kong market.  He also serves as deputy to the Head of Private Banking, Hong Kong Branch.  Iggy has worked at RBS Coutts since 1994, starting as Vice President and building up many successful long term private banking relationships.  Iggy believes such success starts with excellent trust and partnership with fellow team members.

Between 1982 and 1994, he worked for Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in various managerial postings around British Columbia, Canada and also in Hong Kong, to which he was transferred when RBC launched their Asian Private Banking operations.

Iggy was born in Singapore in 1961 and emigrated to Vancouver in 1977.  He graduated from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1982 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance. He obtained his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1996 and served on the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts from 1997 to 1999.  He has always been active in community work, more recently on the Editorial Committee of the Hong Kong Securities Institute, the Finance and Administration Committee of the Canadian International School, a vice Chairman of the Chinese Canadian Association (HK) and for many years Past President and Governor of the UBC Alumni Association in Hong Kong.

He is married and has three young children.  Other interests include the outdoors and long distance running.

Director
China and Southeast Asia, Deputy Head of Jewellery Department, Sotheby's

Currently the Deputy Head of Jewellery Department, Ms. Terry Chu, is both FGA (UK) and G.G. (US; Graduate Gemologist) qualified and possesses profound knowledge of the features and market values of various gems and period jewellery.

Prior to joining Sotheby’s in 2002, Ms. Chu had 15 years experience as a jewellery merchandiser and also a lecturer at GIA Hong Kong.  Combining her solid front line market experience and academic knowledge, Ms. Chu is at the centre of Sotheby’s jewellery authentication and valuation in Asia.

Senior Philanthropy Adviser
HSBC Family Office Services Limited, HSBC Private Bank

Cynthia D’Anjou-Brown has gained a wealth of experience working in the not-for profit sector over the past 25 years.  In Hong Kong she has specialized in consulting with respect to family philanthropy, non-profit management, and fundraising.

Previously, Cynthia was a Vice-President at the United Way of Greater Toronto, the largest community funder of social services in the city.  Before joining the United Way, she was the Executive Director of a municipal social planning organization responsible for community needs assessments, co-ordination of NGOs, public policy analysis, and new service development.

Cynthia has pursued her passion for generating support for charities as a professional and volunteer with several grant-making organizations.  This has naturally led her to helping wealthy families with their philanthropic activities.

A graduate degree in Social Work and an undergraduate degree in Family Studies underpin her years of work as a practitioner.

Senior Consultant – Wealth Management
Bank of China

Dr. Jinlao, born in Anqing of Anhui Province in 1972, is a Doctor of Economics, scholar entitled to Special State Council Subsidy, Master’s supervisor at Graduate School of People's Bank of China, appointed researcher at China Financial Policy Research Center and Research Centre of International Finance of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and commissioner of WTO Law Institute of China Law Society and China International Finance Society.  He used to be the Director of Research Office, Institute of International Finance, Bank of China and Assistant Governor of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in Jilin province, and Vice General Manager of Personal Banking Department of Bank of China.  He is now working as a senior consultant of wealth management at Bank of China.  His main works are Research on Finance Globalisation (co-written by Dr. Huang and Professor Li Yang in 1999) and Financial Deregulation and Frangibility (in 2001), and he also translated Commercial Bank Financial Management (in 2004), Global Capital Market and Banking Industry (in 2005),and Financial Statecraft, the role of financial markets in American Foreign Policy (in 2008).  Dr. Huang is now mainly doing research on wealth management, corporate governance, internationalised finance and misbehaviours in bonds market and so on.

Managing Director
Chateaux Management Group

Mr. Huneau is the Managing Director, in charge of the development and organization of Chateaux Management Group's services in Asia and Europe.  Benjamin’s passion for wine started when he was 18, with the influence of older friends collecting Bordeaux wines. After years, the passion turned into a serious occupation when Benjamin met the founder of Chateaux Management Group.  Benjamin now enjoys the exposure to some of the world’s best wine, while using his skills and experience to develop CMG and provide clients and investors with the highest level of service and performance.

Benjamin has an engineering degree from Supaero (Toulouse, France), a business degree from Essec (Paris), and studied at Imperial College in London. His career has included consulting at Accenture and Boston Consulting Group.

Benjamin is fluent in French and English, and competent in German and Mandarin.

C.F.A., Managing Director, Wealth Management – Key Client
Asia Pacific, UBS AG

Mr. Lau was born and raised in Hong Kong, received his university education in Canada where he worked as public accountant.  He returned to Hong Kong with Rice Waterhouse in 1987 as a tax consultant, specialized in tax planning structures with high net worth families in Asia.  He has been with UBS since 1991 and has more than 15 years experience in leading a team of advisors in advising Asian families on wholistic wealth management issues including asset structuring, strategic asset allocations and investments in all asset classes.  He joined the Key Client team in 2005 to focus on advising ultra high net worth clients in UBS Wealth Management.

Mr. Yan holds a B.A. Hons in Business Administration from University of Western Ontario, qualified as a Canadian Chartered Accountant in 1985, CPA in Hong Kong and also a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) holder.

Partner
Lovells

Mr. Lin is a partner in the commercial dispute resolution department of Lovells.  He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1990 and a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1991.

Mr. Lin specializes in disputes relating to the corporate and financial services sectors, with a particular focus on contentious regulatory work, such as SFC investigations and disciplinary actions.

Mr. Lin has been heavily involved in some of the most significant SFC investigations into and disciplinary actions against the IFA industry over the last 5 years.  He is also a member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute as well as the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.  He is a co-author of the Hong Kong Chapter of Conflicts of Interest, 2005/2006, European Lawyer Reference.

Mr. Lin is widely recognised as an outstanding practitioner and is named in legal directories, including Asia Pacific Legal 500 2006/07 and 2007/08 as a leading lawyer in the field of financial services & regulatory work, Chambers Asia 2008 as a leading lawyer in dispute resolution, Chambers Global 2007 as a leading lawyer in dispute resolution and international arbitration, and PLC Which Lawyer? as a highly recommended individual in dispute resolution.

Managing Director, Head of Equities & Derivatives - Asia
BNP Paribas Hong Kong Branch

Mr. Pang is Managing Director and Head of Equities & Derivatives for Asia at BNP Paribas.

Mr. Pang joined BNP Paribas in 2000 to head up the equity derivatives sales department in Asia.  Since joining the bank, his team has won key awards including “Wealth Management House of the Year Award, 2004” by AsiaRisk and "Equity Derivatives House of the Year Award, Asia Pacific, 2005", by the Banker.

Mr. Pang has over 10 years of experience in derivatives and had previously worked for Credit Indosuez W.I. Carr, ABN AMRO and SBC Warburg.  Mr. Pang holds a Chartered Accountant qualification from the ICAEW and an MA degree from the University of Cambridge.

Chief Economist & Strategist - Asia
antor Fitzgerald

Mr. Parpart is Cantor Fitzgerald’s Chief Economist and Strategist for Asia based in Hong Kong.  He joined the firm in July 2006 as a Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income and Currency Research, Asia.  Prior to joining Cantor, Mr. Parpart was a Senior Currency Strategist at Bank of America in Hong Kong responsible for coverage of Japan, China (Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong), and Korea.  Previous to that he was a Senior Director at Commercial Intelligence, Singapore, a firm engaged in distressed asset trading and resolution.  Concurrently, Mr. Parpart was a columnist and contributing editor of Forbes Global magazine.

Mr. Parpart’s experience in business and finance in Asia dates back to the late 1980s.  Since that time he has been an adviser to Manila Bank and the Thai prime minister’s office, worked with the Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, and from 1995 to 1997 served as deputy editor of Asia Times, a regional business daily.  During the first US Reagan administration he worked with Dr. Norman Bailey at the US National Security Council on international economics affairs.

Following service as a naval officer, Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Parpart received a Fulbright scholarship for graduate work in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.  He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.

Mr. Parpart has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers and until recently was a columnist for Shinchosha Foresight magazine, Tokyo.

Group Compliance – Head of Asia
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Ms. Tham has been a compliance professional for over 10 years.  She has worked for a number of global investment banks in Singapore, Hong Kong and London including Bankers Trust Company, Barclays Capital Asia Ltd and Deutsche Bank AG. Prior to her career in Compliance, Ms. Tham was a corporate securities lawyer in Vancouver, Canada and in Washington, D.C. for a total of 10 years.  She has also had experience with the British Columbia Securities Commission in Canada.

Ms. Tham graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Urban Land Economics from University of British Columbia, Canada and obtained a Bachelor of Law from Dalhousie University and a Master of Law in Securities Regulation (with Distinction) from Georgetown University Law Center.

Executive Director
Superfund Financial (HK) Limited

Johann Santer graduated with a Master degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Applied Science BFI Vienna.  After completing graduate studies in Montreal at McGill, Mr. Santer started his career at the “Credit and Rating Department” of the CENTRAL Bank of Austria (OeNB). In July 2004, he joined Superfund Asset Management GmbH in Vienna and soon became responsible for institutional clients all over Europe and Africa.  After the promotion to the Superfund management team as Country Manager for Sweden in September 2005, Mr. Santer took care of the whole setup of the Superfund Investment Center in Sweden and in the Nordic region.  Besides focusing on distribution, he directed also public relations as well as marketing.  Since December 2006 Mr. Santer is located in Hong Kong, taking care of the Asian Market for Superfund. As executive director of Superfund Financial (HK) Ltd. and DirectorCEO of Superfund Financial (Singapore) Pte Ltd. he is in charge of the company’s expansion in Asia.

Founder and Chairperson
Chi Heng Foundation

Mr. To is founder and chairperson of Chi Heng Foundation, a charitable organization founded in 1998 in Hong Kong, China.  Utilizing innovative and pragmatic approaches, Chi Heng has excelled in education and care for children orphaned by AIDS and HIV prevention among vulnerable groups.

Over the past seven years, Mr. To worked tirelessly in Central China for children orphaned by AIDS, whose parents contracted the virus via unsanitary blood trade in the 1990s.  Despite political sensitivity and other difficulties, he developed a systematic and sustainable program which currently sponsors the education and care for over 7,500 children whose parents have died of or are dying of AIDS in six provinces in China.  Viewed by many as a best practice model of its kind, the program has become the largest non-governmental effort focusing on helping children impacted by AIDS in China (www.chfaidsorphans.com).

In addition to its direct service programs serving AIDS-impacted children and other vulnerable groups, Chi Heng has also raised significant awareness of AIDS in the public through organizing exhibitions, launching media campaigns and giving talks in universities.  Named as “Ten Future Leaders of China” by People Magazine and “Ten Model Citizens in China” by Phoenix TV, Chung has been a visionary leader in the NGO field, contributing to the development of civil society in China through constructive dialogue with government leaders.  Chi Heng’s program has been personally visited by supporters like President Bill Clinton and Yao Ming, and has received support from numerous organizations, such as UNESCO, The Global Fund, The Clinton Foundation, The Asia Foundation, etc. Chi Heng was the recipient of the inaugural “Public Service Award” from the Asia Society in 2006.

Prior to moving to Hong Kong in 1995, Mr. To resided in the United States for 13 years, where he received a bachelor’s degree at Columbia University and a master’s degree at Harvard University.  Before taking his 6 year sabbatical to work full time for Chi Heng on a pro bono basis, he worked in investment banking in New York and Hong Kong for ten years, including working in corporate and project finance with Lehman Brothers and UBS.  In 2007, he rejoined the financial market and is now working as Vice President for a European bank, while continuing his involvement with Chi Heng as its Chairperson.  In addition to his involvement with Chi Heng, he also was a Board member of AIDS Concern for four years, including serving as Chairperson of the Board in 2003.  Since 1999, he has been a member of the AIDS Prevention and Care Committee (APCC) appointed by the Hong Kong Government.

Mr. To was featured as “Ten Anti-AIDS Heroes in China” in 2004 by People Weekly Magazine in China, and as “Ten Most Touching Persons” in 2005 by China Charitable Foundation.  He was a recipient of “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” of Hong Kong in 2003 and of the World in 2006.  He has received numerous awards, including “AIDS in Hong Kong for 20 years: Ten Most Inspiring Persons Award” in 2004, “Rotary Club Centennial Service Award for Professional Excellence” in 2005, the “Ramon Magsaysay Award” and Hong Kong’s First “Humanity Award” in 2007.

Managing Director
Cheetah Investment Management Limited

Mr. Wong has 14 years’ experience managing hedge fund allocations.  He founded Cheetah Investment Management in 2001, one of the first SFC registered investment advisers focusing on hedge fund investments.  Cheetah and its group companies have seeded and launched seven Asian strategies alternative investment funds with total assets under management surpassing US$800 million.  Mr. Wong is a member of the executive committee of AIMA Hong Kong / China Chapter.

Mr. Wong holds a B.A. in engineering from Cambridge University and an M.A.Sc. in systems control from the University of Toronto.  Mr. Wong is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.