Guy Harvey-Samuel is the Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Singapore.

Guy started his banking career in 1976 in a small City based bank in the UK. He joined HSBC as an International Officer in 1979 and has since worked in 12 different countries across the world. Guy’s various postings have seen him take on senior management roles including State Manager Victoria in Australia; CEO of HSBC Armenia; Area Director City of London; General Manager Midlands, and Head of Personal Financial Services Europe & the Middle East. The last three roles were based in the UK.

Guy has also spent a considerable part of his career with HSBC in Asia, performing roles in treasury, securities and operations in Hong Kong, Malaysia and the Middle East. 

In his previous role as Head of Personal Financial Services Europe & the Middle East, Guy was responsible for bringing increased focus and growth to the HSBC Group’s Personal Financial Services businesses in continental Europe and the Middle East.

He has also worked closely with the regional Personal Financial Services Heads in Asia Pacific and the Americas to deliver the Personal Financial Services element of the Group’s global strategy: Managing for Growth.

Leon Hindle is managing Director and Head of CDO & Structured Credit Asia-Pacific for Lehman Brothers. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 2002, Leon held positions with bank of America and Rabobank. Prior to joining the financial industry, Leon qualified as a barrister at the London Bar.

William Ross is the Asia-Pacific head of HSBC's Structured Capital Markets team. In this capacity, he is responsible both for origination within the region, as well as the marketing of HSBC's global Asset Securitisation offerings to Asia-Pac clients. Prior to joining HSBC, William was the global head of Structured Credit Research at ABN. Previously, he has also worked in Structured Credit research for both JP Morgan and Merill Lynch in London and New York. William studied at Queen's University in Canada and is a CFA charterholder.

Bill has 17 years of derivatives trading, structuring and marketing experience. He joined HSBC in Hong Kong in 2007 to focus on marketing structured credit into Asia.

Bill joined HSBC from SG Australia where he successfully completed some of the largest Bespoke CDO transactions in the Asia region as Head of Structured Products. Prior to SG, Bill was at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, marketing fixed income and derivatives into Asia and before that at Dresdner trading and structuring interest rate options and swaps.

Bill has a Degree in Economics and Graduate Diploma in Finance from the Australian National University.

Jacob has over 10 years of fixed income experience, principally in the credit markets. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2005 as part of HSBC's build-out of structured products in Asia and is responsible for pricing and risk managing credit structures in real time throughout the region. Prior to that he assumed a similar role in HSBC London, trading CDOs, FTDs and credit-linked notes. He previously worked for BNP Paribas in Credit Exposure Analytics and then Credit Derivative Structuring.

Jacob graduated from Cambridge University with a 1st Class Honours degree in Physics.

Matthew Cannon is Managing Director, Structured Credit Trading, Structuring and Marketing, Asia-Pacific in HSBC.

Matthew has almost 20 years of experience in credit, emerging markets and structured derivatives. Prior to his current position in Hong Kong overseeing the Asia-Pacific region, Matthew was responsible for marketing of Structured Credit Products for HSBC in Europe and the Middle East. Previous experience includes running EM sales teams in New York and Tokyo.

Matthew is a trained credit analyst and fluent in Japanese.

Gaurav Tejwani is a Structured Credit / CDO Strategist at Lehman brothers. As a member of the Credit Strategy team, he is responsible for the coverage of portfolio products such as synthetic CDOs, liquid tranches, and index swaptions.

The global Structured Credit and CDO Strategies team delivers research and investment recommendations on the Credit Derivative and CDO market to institutional investors. They have been consistently recognized as among the leading teams for Structured Credit research in the industry by independent surveys and are currently top ranked in the credit derivative category by both - the Instutional Investor Magazines and Greenwich Associates.  

Mr. Tejwani has been with Lehman Brothers since 2001. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also obtained a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

George Sun is Managing Director and Head of Global Credit Products Sales for Lehman Brothers in Asia ex-Japan. Mr. Sun heads up a team that is responsible for the distribution of all credit products including money markets, high grade credit, high yield credit, loans, private placements, structured credit, CDOs, and emerging market assets. Previously, Mr. Sun was head of Structured Credit Products for Bear Stearns in Asia. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director in Global Structured Credit Products, Fixed Income, for Merrill Lynch covering all markets in Asia. Before moving back to Asia, Mr. Sun was a Senior Director in the Structured Finance Department for Standard & Poor, serving in both its New York and London offices, and was a member of the management team in the ratings firm Global CDO Group. Mr. Sun holds an Economics degree from Harvard University, where he also taught an undergraduate Economics course, and he holds a Law degree from Harvard Law School.

Ian Croft joined Lehman Brothers in April 1998. He is a senior vice president and is responsible for corporate credit securitisation opportunities in Asia ex-Japan, as well marketing and distribution of structured credit products in Singapore and South East Asia.  Ian has worked Asian fixed income markets since 1999; in Tokyo, Hong Kong and currently in Singapore.  Ian has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from The University of Bath.

Patrick Kaye is a Senior Vice President, responsible for Lehman Brothers’ Principal and Structured Finance practice in non-Japan Asia.  He and the group arrange securitization financings on behalf of clients as well as asset-based principal investments on behalf of the Firm.  Mr. Kaye joined Lehman Brothers in 1997 and has been based in Asia since late 2000.   He has a total of more than 14 years of experience in the field of structured finance.

Mr. Kaye and his team have participated in transactions and advisory engagements relating to a number of asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial real estate and non-performing assets.  The team has been active in many different jurisdictions within the region, including Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia.  Mr. Kaye plays a leading role in developing Lehman’s residential mortgage origination program in Asia, which will rely principally on capital markets securitization financing.  Mr. Kaye initiated the Firm’s entry into the Korean mortgage market by way of its new subsidiary, Korea Central Mortgage Inc.  He now serves as a Director of KCMI and is responsible for implementing KCMI’s mortgage securitization program.

Mr. Kaye holds a BA in History and Philosophy from Duke University and an MBA with Honors in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Steve Baker is a Senior Vice President in the CLO Banking group at Lehman Brothers.  Steve is focused on origination, structuring and placement of corporate credit securitizations, CLOs and related products. 

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Steve was a Director in the Structured Credit Products group at Natixis from 2003 to 2006, and was responsible for origination of cash flow and market value CLOs and other structured credit products.  Previously, Steve was an Executive Director with the Asset Securitization group at CIBC World Markets in New York from 1997 to 2003, focusing on the structuring and placement of CLOs collateralized by non-investment grade and distressed collateral and various asset-backed transactions.  Prior to joining CIBC New York, Steve worked in the Asset Securitization group at CIBC in Toronto.

Steve holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, a BASc in Computer Engineering, First Class Honors, from the University of Waterloo, and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Brian P. Lancaster joined Wachovia Securities as Managing Director, Senior Real Estate Strategist and Head of CMBS Research in July 2001, and is now Head of the 18 member Structured Products Research team.

Before joining Wachovia Securities, Lancaster was a Managing Director (Principal) in Structured Products at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. from 1990 to 2001. From 1987 to 1990, he was a Vice- President in New Financial Products and Engineering at Chemical Securities Inc., and from 1984 to 1987 he was a Senior Capital Markets Economist at both the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England in London. From 1996 to 1999, Lancaster served as an Adjunct Professor of Finance in Columbia University’s MBA program where he taught courses on the bond and derivative markets. Currently he periodically lectures at Harvard, Wharton, and New York University business schools. Lancaster was voted to Institutional Investor’s All-America Fixed-Income Research Team in 2001, 2000, and 1999, and was voted best CMBS Analyst of the Year in 2003 by Real Estate Finance & Investment, an Institutional Investor publication.  In 2006, National Real Estate Investor (NREI) magazine named Lancaster a "CMBS Pioneer" and one of "Ten to Watch" in real estate.  The annual top ten list of real estate leaders includes brokers, developers and finance professionals who are shaping the future of the commercial real estate markets.  In 2006, Lancaster was awarded the CMSA/CMBS World annual best research report award for his report, Understanding Commercial Real Estate CDOs, an award he also received in 1999.  Lancaster is also Vice Chairman of the Global Commercial Real Estate Advisory Council and a Governor of the Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board the Mortgage Bankers Association where he consults periodically with Chairman Bernanke and the Federal Reserve Board.   

Lancaster holds an MBA from New York University, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, where he was selected as an International Fellow, and a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a contributing author to numerous books and reports in English, German, French, and Chinese on the bond, structured product, and real estate markets as well as the co-author of Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Strategies. His forthcoming book Structured Products and Related Credit Derivatives, co-edited with Glenn Schultz and Frank Fabozzi, Wiley Publications, will be in bookstores this April. He has also published numerous articles in professional journals including the Journal of Fixed Income Securities, The Financier, The Securitization Conduit, Journal of Housing Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance, and CMBS World, where he is a managing editor.  

Galen is responsible for the origination of equity investment and financing transactions throughout Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Wachovia, he was a senior vice president in the real estate investment banking team at DBS Bank, where he executed transactions raising over US$2 billion of equity capital for Asian real estate investment trusts via initial public offerings or secondary offerings. Galen’s transaction experience covers REITs comprising assets in Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and India, and across property classes .  Before joining DBS Bank, he worked in Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division in Singapore. He has a Masters of Business Administration degree from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from Nanyang Technological University.

Glen McDermott is a Managing Director and Head of SCP Distribution, Asia-Pacific for Wachovia Securities. Glen works with Wachovia's Asian-Pacific sales force to optimize its multiple distribution channels, and he is responsible for implementing an overall marketing strategy to maximize sales of SCP products into Asia-Pacific, including Australia and Japan. In this role he also partners with other members of Wachovia's Asia -Pacific team on local markets origination and principal activities.

Prior to joining Wachovia, Glen was a salesperson in the Structured Credit SalesGroup at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., where he sold credit derivatives and CDOs to a wide array of institutional fixed income clients. Previously, Glen wasa highly ranked research analyst and Global Head of CDO Research and Strategy (2000 - 2005) where he led a five-person team dedicated to analyzing a multitude of structured credit products, both cash and synthetic. Before Citigroup, Glen worked for six years (1994-2000) at Standard & Poor's Ratings Services where he analyzed many structured finance asset classes. Glen's work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Fixed Income. He is also an author of The Structured Credit Handbook (John Wiley & Sons, 2007) and he is a contributor to the Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities (John Wiley & Sons, 2001). Glen received his B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Mark has over 18 years of extensive experience in commodities trading and marketing. He has been appointed Calyon Regional Head of Commodities for Asia in April 2008.

In addition to overseeing Calyon’s commodities business in Asia, Mark will also be responsible for the development of the regional commodities platform.

He joins Calyon from Dresdner Kleinwort Singapore, where he was Head of Commodities, Trading & Sales for Asia. Prior to that, he worked for JPMorgan Chase Bank commodities team in London, Sydney and Johannesburg for 8 years.

Mark is a Chartered Accountant and graduate of University of the Witwatersrand of South Africa and University of South Africa.

Currently Pierre supervises credit structuring globally for both the cash and synthetic activity. The Structured Credit Market team is located in London, NewYork, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

After graduation, Pierre started his career in Asia at SG where he spent three years concentrating on fixed income derivatives from interest rates, foreign exchange, commodities and credit products. He joined Calyon in 2001 and was in charge of the trading, structuring and sales activities for credit products in Asia Pacific. He has over nine years experience in credit and financial analysis in Asia before being promoted to London in 2007 as Global Head of Structuring.

Born in France in 1974, Pierre has an engineer background with a degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris. He completed his financial expertise with a Master of Probability and Finance at University Paris VI.

Samy Beji joined Calyon in 2002. He was appointed Head of Structured Credit Markets for Asia ex-Japan in 2007. He is responsible for the structuring and origination of structured credit products in Asia. Before being based in Hong-Kong, Samy spent 3 years in London where he was involved in the structuring of various products such as Synthetic, Cash CDOs and CPPI. He holds a post-graduate Master of Finance from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) and graduated from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble engineering school.

 
Marjan van der Weijden is a managing director in Fitch Ratings’ structured finance group. She is head of the structured finance team in Asia-Pacific and is based in Singapore. The structured finance team is responsible for rating CMBS, RMBS, ABS and REITs composed of assets located throughout Asia-Pacific.  Previously, Marjan started Fitch’s Structured Finance Business Development platform in Asia-Pacific, headed up the cash flow arbitrage and balance sheet CDO rating team within the CDO group in London and was part of Fitch’s European residential mortgage-backed securities team.

Before joining Fitch in 1999, Marjan spent five years at Rabobank International in various roles. She started as a management trainee, then became a corporate account manager in the Netherlands, and lastly worked in the securitisation group of Rabobank’s London Branch. Marjan earned a degree in economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam

Craig Lee joined Assured Guaranty to expand the business platform in the Asia-Pacific region and is responsible for Assured Guaranty’s full product range across Asia.

With more than 20 years of experience, including previous roles in Tokyo, Singapore and Sydney, Mr. Lee has a track record of building businesses across the structured finance space for international banks in the Asia Pacific region and an understanding of key jurisdictions, cultures and languages. Immediately prior to joining Assured Guaranty, Mr. Lee was the General Manager, Front Office at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Australia, where he was responsible for all of the bank's major business operations, including treasury, corporate, structured and project finance.

Mr. Lee holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the Australian National University, Canberra; Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) degree from ANU including studies at Sophia University, Tokyo; and a Master of Business (Banking & Finance) degree from University of Technology, Sydney.

A graduate of Rouen Business School, Cedric started his career at BNP Taiwan as a convertible bond trader, moving to Hong Kong in 1999 to set up and head the Bank’s credit derivative structuring activity in Asia.

In 2001, Cedric moved to BNP Paribas London, where he focused on origination and execution of premium transactions. Since 2003, Cedric has headed BNP Paribas’ Credit Derivative Structuring team - Asia Pacific (ex Japan), responsible for structuring and distributing products including CDO, CPPI and other credit structures. The team has grown significantly and gained an enviable reputation in Asia, being named AsiaRisk’s 2007 and 2005 Credit Derivatives House of the Year, as well as Global Finance’s Best Credit Derivatives Provider in Asia in 2007 and 2006.

Stephen Wong joined RBS in 2005 as Head of Structured Credit, Ex-Japan Asia Pacific to run the structured credit business in this region. Stephen previously worked at UBS London, where he was Head of European CDO's. Prior to that, he was at Lehman Brothers for 8 years (4 years in New York and 4 years in London) where he participated in all aspects of structured credit / CDO transactions including origination, structuring and distribution.

Angus Duncan is a Partner in the Capital Markets Department of the London office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.

His practice is focussed on structured finance transactions with a particular focus on CDOs, repackagings and derivative securities. His CDO practice has covered cash and synthetic transactions and assets such as leveraged loans, investment grade corporates, ABS and CDOs of CDOs. He has also worked on securitisation, straight debt and equity transactions. Angus joined Cadwalader in May 2005, having spent 11 years at Allen & Overy, nine as Partner. He worked in Tokyo from 1996-2000.

In his CDO practice Angus has worked on Copernicus, Balthazar, Robeco, Callisto, KC CLO, Cheyne CLO, Amstel, Sundial, Prospero, and has recently worked on the innovative Grosvenor Place and Harbourmaster Pro Rata I transactions. He also advised one of the first Chinese asset management companies to use the new QDII regulations to invest in foreign structured transactions.

He is currently working on a number of commercial real estate related CDO transactions and has advised a wide range of clients including ABN AMRO, Bear Stearns, CIBC, Citigroup, CQS (UK) LLP, CSFB, JPMorgan, Rabobank and Robeco.

 
Walt is a Vice President of Business Development at Eaton Vance Management, focusing on marketing the firm’s institutional bank loan capabilities globally and introducing market-driven new product ideas.   Prior to joining Eaton Vance, Walt was a partner and chief marketing officer at a New York City investment management firm.  Previous to that, he served as a pension fund consultant in Honolulu, Hawaii. Walt graduated from the United States Military Academy with a B.S. and received his M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii. 

Ibrahima Kobar is Director of Fixed Income and Structured Credit at Natixis Asset Management. He joined Natixis Asset Management in 1994 as a Portfolio Manager in the Insurance Management team of the Euro Fixed Income department. In 1998 he was made head of Insurance Management activities, specifically Assets and Liabilities Management, structured products and derivatives.

It is within this department that Mr. Kobar initiated the CDO activity for the company, entering the market as an investor within its insurance mandates in 2000. In 2002, as the team mastered the market as CDO investors, the move to CDO management was just a step away, a step taken with the launch of Natixis Asset Management’s first CDO, a full capital structure named Callisto II.

Today, the CDO team of Natixis Asset Management is composed of 35 talented dedicated professionals. As of December 31, 2007, the team manages over USD 5.5 billion issued through 25 public and bespoke CDOs, 2 CPPIs and one CPDO on behalf of a sophisticated institutional clientele located in 34 countries around the world.

Natixis Asset Management is the 3rd leading manager of corporate synthetic CDOs (according to Creditflux Data+, 20 June 2007, by (unweighted) tranche notional in US$m).

Mr. Kobar began his career with Société Générale in 1989 as a statistician and later joined HSBC Midland Bank as a European Fixed Income portfolio manager and actuary.

Mr. Kobar holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics. He is an Actuary and a member of the French Institute of Actuaries (Paris) as well as a CFA charterholder.

Ahmet is a Managing Director and the Global Head of the Quantitative Analytics and Advisory Team, at Fitch Solutions. His role involves research on credit markets, risk assessment and pricing at instrument and portfolio levels and innovation.

Ahmet has extensive experience in corporate credit evaluation as well as ABS, CMBS, RMBS, and Credit Derivatives. Prior to the formation of Fitch Solutions in 2008 he was heading the Quantitative Financial Research team at Fitch Ratings, which provided the analytics and modeling tools for the Rating Analysts for their risk assessments. His role  involved  assessment  and  research  on areas  and  enhancement  of  existing  models  and  methodologies. He also initiated and has been co-managing the Fitch-wide academic advisory committee.

Ahmet   was   earlier  Senior  Director  of  Moody's  KMV  where  his responsibilities  have  included  being in charge of the Default Risk Group and being the Developer and Leader of Moody's RiskCalc Suite of Default  Probability  Models for North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin  America  and  the  rest of the world. Prior to 2000, he was an    Assistant   Professor  with  The  Pennsylvania  State  University,  a Research  Assistant  with  the  National  Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Assistant with Columbia University - Center for the Study of Futures Markets.

He is a referee for several prominent industry journals, such as Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Investment Management, and is also a program committee member of the JOIM.

Alistair is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Bluestone, and has held this position since April 2000. His background and experience, together with hands on knowledge of the specialist mortgage industry in the United Kingdom, has enabled Bluestone to quickly become a leader in Australia with an enviable record of growth and development.

Originally from New Zealand, Alistair moved to London in 1989 to join Goldman Sachs as Associate Director, where he gained specialist experience in mortgage-backed securitisation and subsequently became Director, Principal Finance Group (PFG) at Nomura International plc. As one of the founding members of PFG, he was involved in a team that expanded Nomura's assets by over $UK10 billion and defined PFG as a highly profitable investment banking sector.

It was here that Alistair's knowledge of non-conforming residential lending was developed, being directly involved in establishing one of the UK's leading non-conforming mortgage lender. He was responsible for overseeing the origination company, and managing the restructuring and execution of the securitisation of mortgages.

Alistair's return to Australia was stimulated by his intention to apply his specialist financial knowledge and skills to opportunities in the region. After undertaking over a year of research he concluded that there was an opportunity to develop a respected and dynamic specialist mortgage lender in the Australian marketplace.

Andrew Twyford is the General Manager, Securitisation and Treasury for the Challenger Mortgage Management business. He has been employed by Challenger Mortgage Management Pty Limited since 2000 and prior to taking on this existing position he was Chief Financial Officer.

Andrew is responsible for the securitisation and treasury functions which incorporates the Challenger Millennium and Titanium Securitisation Programs. Andrew has driven Challenger’s mortgage funding platform to be Australia’s most prolific issuer of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities transactions, has been responsible for bringing to market a number of innovative structures as well as diversifying and significantly widening the business’ investor base. He holds a Bachelor of Business degree and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Anthony Cutcliffe is an Executive Director at UBS Principal Finance and is responsible for investing in CDO’s and asset backed structures across Asia and Australasia.

Anthony had been with UBS for over 10 years and was the Head of Structured Products and Structured Debt including ABS in Asia. Previously he was with Citibank in London for 10 years working in the ABS and Capital Securities areas. Anthony was responsible for many securitisation “firsts” including the first cross-border securitisation from Taiwan, the first Korean ABS deal, the first USD NPL deal in Asia, the first public USD credit card securitisation from Korea and the first securitisations in Italy and Spain.

Angelina Tee has worked on securitisation transaction across Southeast Asia spanning a broad range of asset classes including CMBS, RMBS and consumer receivables. Angelina worked on the landmark Tunnels and Toll roads transaction for the HK SAR government and in recent times has extensive experience in REIT related CMBS transactions across SE Asia and most noteably in Singapore. Previously at HSBC Hong Kong, Angelina has joined Unicredit Singapore as a Director in Securitisation, Asia Pacific.

ChangHo Moon is head of the structured finance department I at Korea Investors Service (KIS), Moody’s affiliate, where he has worked since 1999. He is now in charge of various types of structured product ratings such as RMBS, consumer asset-backed securities, CDOs and other structured credit products including credit derivatives. Prior to joining KIS, he worked in the international banking department of Korea Long Term Credit Bank as an investment manager. He graduated from Business Administration of Yonsei University (Seoul) with a bachelor’s degree and also earned an MA in finance from graduate school of Yonsei University.

Mr. Chong Jiun Yeh joined UOB Asset Management as Chief Investment Officer for Alternative Investments in March 2008. Mr. Chong was formerly the Managing Director (Fund Management) and Co-Head of Portfolio Management for ST Asset Management (STAM). Prior to joining STAM, he was Head of Fixed Income and Currencies at OUB Asset Management, and has also spent part of his career with Newton Investment Management.

Mr. Chong has over 15 years of experience in managing fixed income and structured finance portfolios, including emerging market sovereign and investment grade credits (cash and synthetic), G-7 bonds & currencies, as well as collateralized loan obligations and asset backed securities. He has worked with rating agencies, insurers, investment partners and banks in structuring investment products and customizing solutions for investors.

Mr. Chong graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Estate Management), Honours degree from the National University of Singapore.

David is the head of fixed income at Principal Global Investors (Europe) and is responsible for global bond mandates. David joined the firm in 2007. Prior to his current role, David was at Merrill Lynch Investment Management/Blackrock in the global bond department. His background also includes positions at Lee Overlay Partners, Putnam Investments, and JPMorgan Investment Managers, where he specialized in currency, global tactical asset allocation, and global bonds. He received a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Imperial College, London University in the area of portfolio construction; a diploma in mathematical statistics from Cambridge University and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Liverpool University. David is a research council member of the Institute of Quantitative Investment Research and has published several academic articles on the theory of active portfolio management.

David Millison is the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of Trimaran Advisors, a credit-based alternative asset management firm he co-founded in 1998 which currently manages approximately $1.5 billion of high yield loans in four cash flow CLO funds.

Prior to joining Trimaran, Mr. Millison founded Millison Investment Management, was Director of Research at Dabney/Resnick & Wagner and President of Dabney/Resnick Asset Management (Beverly Hills-based firms now known as Imperial Capital), and served as the Co-Head of Research in Drexel Burnham Lambert’s High Yield Bond department in Beverly Hills, where he followed the broadcasting, cable, media and telecommunications industries. He began his professional career at Westinghouse Broadcasting & Cable, and then analyzed broadcasting, cable, media and other equities for Value Line, both in New York.

He has a BS with distinction in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and earned his CFA charter in 1988.

Dr. Lee Shyan-Yuan is a Commissioner of Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), a financial regulatory authority established by the government in July 2004 as part of initiatives to promote an integrated financial supervision and to promote financial market development. The main task of Commissioner Lee is to oversee and formulate policy for Taiwan's fixed income, asset securitization and derivatives markets, and fund industry. Prior to joining the FSC, Commissioner Lee was a professor in the Department of Finance at National Taiwan University.  Commissioner Lee received his PhD from Columbia University in USA.

 
Duong Thi Phuong is an economist and has a Master Degree in Public Policy from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy- Harvard Joint-program, Kennedy School of Government and National University of Singapore. At present, Ms. Duong is the Deputy Director of Securities Market Surveillance and Compliance Department, State Securities Commission (SSC),  Ministry of Finance, Viet Nam. She had spent two year as the Senior Expert in the Securities Market Development Department (SSC) before her recently promotion. She had been the coordinator of the SSC and participated in the Government Negotiation Team for Program Loans funded by the ADB and World Bank for ten years.  She used to be in charge of developing the WTO accession commitments in securities industry and participated in multilateral and bilateral negotiation rounds for Viet Nam to access the WTO. She also used to work as the contact person of Viet Nam for the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO). 

She is the author of a number of papers on assessment of impediments for listed companies in the securities market of Viet Nam, international cooperation in detecting cross-border violations of securities markets in the context of international integration, and securitization and possibility of application in Vietnam.

• Philippine Securities Laws: Provisions of the Securities Regulation Code and its Implementing Rules and Regulations affecting exchanges, alternative trading systems,  over the counter markets, clearing agencies and depository, transfer agents and registrars, brokers, dealers, investment houses, self-regulatory organization, investor protection fund and securities borrowing and lending.

• Market Rules and Regulations and Operational Procedures: Rules and Procedures adopted by Philippine Stock Exchange, Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines, Philippine Depository and Trust Corporation, Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation, Electronic Direct Registry System of the Philippine Association of Transfer and Registry Agents, Inc.

Lehman Brothers

• Policy Formulation: Policies concerning securities regulation and supervision, anti-money laundering; corporate governance, risk management, capital adequacy, clearance and settlement, central depository, direct registry system.

• Supervision and Enforcement: Conduct of market surveillance, investigation, and direct and oversight examination of market participants and SROs.

• Research Study: Study on practices, laws, regulations of securities markets in other jurisdictions.

WORK EXPERIENCES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION           Since June, 1989 up to present

EDSA Greenhills, Mandaluyong City, Philippines

OFFICER IN CHARGE - DIRECTOR           Feb. 05, 2007-present
Market Regulation Department

• Concurrently acts as Head of the Department
• Oversees the day-to-day operations of the Department which include, among others, development of the registration criteria for all market participants and supervises them to ensure compliance with said registration requirements and endorses infraction of the Securities Regulation Code and other relevant laws and their Implementing Rules and Regulations to the appropriate Department. The Department covers three (3) Divisions, namely: Broker Dealer Division, Investment Houses Division and Exchanges Division.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR             Dec. 01, 2000 - Present  
Exchanges Division,
Market Regulation Department

• Heads the Exchanges Division of the Market Regulation Department, the office responsible for the developing registration criteria and other rules and regulations for all market participants and supervising them to ensure compliance with said registration requirements, rules and regulations, the Securities Regulation Code (SRC), Anti Money Laundering Ac (AMLA), Investment Houses Law (IHL), and Code of Corporate Governance (CCG)

Senior SE SPECIALIST             Aug. 5, 1996 – Nov. 30, 2000
Market and Exchanges Division,
Brokers and Exchanges Department

Senior SE SPECIALIST              Feb. 15, 1993 – Aug. 4, 1996
Capital Market Development Division
Brokers and Exchanges Department

SE SPECIALIST II                         Nov. 2, 1990 – Feb. 14, 1993
Securities Division,
Investment and Research Department

DATA CONTROLLER II                June 1989 – Nov. 1, 1990
Securities Division,
Investment and Research Department

 
Mr. Heesuk Noh joined MBIA Insurance Corporation as Director in August 2005. Based in Tokyo, Heesuk is primarily responsible for developing and originating transactions in Asia Pacific for MBIA. Prior to joining MBIA, Heesuk was a Principal at the Bank of America’s Hong Kong office responsible for the Bank’s conduit and term securitization in the Asia Pacific region.

Over the past 10 years, Heesuk has led and worked on over a dozen of notable Asian structured finance and securitization transactions in the public, private and asset-backed commercial paper markets. Heesuk’s transaction experience includes asset classes such as mortgage loans, credit cards, trade receivables/promissory notes, hire purchase, auto loans and future flows in jurisdictions such as Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, China and Japan.

Heesuk holds a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from University of California.

"Kingsley Ong is a senior structured finance lawyer at Mayer Brown JSM, Hong Kong. He is a Barrister and Solicitor (with full higher rights of audience) of England & Wales, an Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore and a Solicitor of Hong Kong. Kingsley currently sits on the accounting and tax committee of the Asia-Pacific Securitisation Association (APSA).

Kingsley's transactional experience includes the securitisation of trade receivables, credit cards, auto-loans, real estate assets, whole businesses, master trust structures and asset-backed commercial paper conduits; and has acted on behalf of sponsors, issuers, servicers, arrangers, underwriters, swap counterparties, enhancement providers, liquidity providers, trustees and rating agencies.

Kingsley also has considerable litigation and dispute resolution experience, including negotiating and advising on several high-profile insolvency workouts in defaulted securitisations (including TXU and Enron)."

Mr. Issam Al Tawari is currently the Vice Chairman and CEO of Rasameel Structured Finance company a securitization focused investment company supervised by the Central Bank of Kuwait.

He started his career with Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) , Bahrain working in the area of loans & syndication covering European market, than covered the GCC market at later stage. He then worked extensively on Corporate Finance issues with ABC what then was a newly incorporated subsidiary in 1994 ABC Islamic Bank to become Associate Director with main responsibility on syndication and marketing.He joined The International Investor, Kuwait in 1998 at the Structured Finance area working on Project Finance , asset backed leases and broad range of Islamic investment products . His last position with TII was the Chief Operating Officer and a Partner with the structured Finance Group .

He served on the board of directors of a number of companies and funds. He is also the chairman of Ain Takaful Insurance company , Kuwait, co founder of Ritaj Investment Company , Kuwait and ex-chairman of Bina& Nama(Sorooh) Investment company specialized in financing B.O.T. projects . He constantly speaks in Islamic Banking industry conferances and seminars .

He is both a Harvard University and Henley Management Collage Aluminus and has also received his MBA from University of Hull (Dist.), England in 1998 and his B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from Kuwait University in 1987.

Jason Humphreys is a partner in Allen & Overy’s Tokyo office. He specialises in structured finance, derivatives, securitisation and capital markets transactions. He has advised on products including CLOs, CDOs, CDS on various asset classes, TRS, equity derivatives, credit, equity and commodity linked notes and credit linked loans, RMBS, CMBS, repackagings, stand alone note issues and MTN programs.

He advised Mizuho Securities in relation to a ¥279.9 billion (US$2.5 billion) synthetic CLO for Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. relating to a portfolio of loans advanced to non-Japanese corporate borrowers. 

Jason has also advised on a number of credit default swaps and total return swaps on loans, TMK bonds and trust beneficial interests which hedged or syndicated loan risk in relation to various leveraged finance and real estate transactions.  He was also involved in the recent J-LOC 36, J-LOC 37, J-LOC 38 and Titan Japan, Series 1 GK CMBS transactions.

Jason regularly contributes to articles in relation to the Japanese securitisation and derivatives markets and has lectured at various conferences including on behalf of ISDA.

Jock Jones is the Global Head of Credit Correlation and Volatility Trading at Lehman Brothers. He has worked in the Structured Credit markets since joining Lehman Brothers in 1995. Prior to his current role Jock ran the Liquid Tranche and Credit Volatility business. Jock’s trading background includes trading asset swaps, structured notes, single name default swaps, credit options and liquid tranches. He has been based in both the New York and Tokyo offices for Lehman Brothers. In 2003 Jock was one of the original people involved in the creation of the CDX indices. He also served as the first acting chairperson for CDS Index Co (which owns the CDX Indices) from Oct 2003 to Jan 2005.

Jock received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1995 and is a CFA charterholder. Jock is a member of the Lehman Brothers Asia Network and is Lehman team leader for MIT undergraduate recruiting.

Keith is a managing director of the Capital Markets Group at Principal Global Investors. He is responsible for the CDO issuance platform and the Funding Agreement - backed Medium Term note programs, as well as other structured spread - lending opportunities including synthetics. He joined the firm in 1996 and managed CBO and ABS derivatives portfolios. Previously, Keith was an MBS trader and financial modeling analyst with First Federal Savings and Loan of Rochester. He received an MA in economics from the University of Rochester and a bachelor's degree in economics from the National University of Singapore. Keith holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.

Kim Cannon founded the FirstMac business as a Mortgage Manager and Originator to various third-party funding programs in 1988. Today FirstMac is a leading Australian funder with a national distribution network of third-party mortgage brokers and originators.

Kim has a long involvement in the Australian home loan market and has been instrumental in enhancing many products, including developing the first non-bank loan for residential construction, blended loans, and many of the then new-style discounted and honeymoon loans in the market.

In December 1991, Kim was elected to sit on the Committee of the Queensland chapter of the Mortgage Industry Association of Australasia (MIAA, now known as the MFAA).
Kim has continued to develop the business with the company entering the securitisation market in 2001 through the acquisition of management rights to the FirstMac program and its subsequent restructure.

Lim Heong Chye is one of the key founding partners of APS Komaba Asset Management (APSK), a fixed income investment specialist firm which focuses on Asian and Global bonds.  Heong Chye is CIO at APSK and brings with him over 24 years of experience in portfolio management, research, and proprietary trading in global as well as regional financial markets.  Before APSK, Heong Chye was in DBS Asset Management (DBSAM) from 2001 to 2005 as MD & CIO (Fixed Income). Together with the management team, Heong Chye quadrupled the assets under management at DBSAM and achieved top quartile investment performance.

Prior to joining DBSAM, Heong Chye was Director of Fixed Income (Asia Pacific) at ABN AMRO Asset Management for about 4 years where he was responsible for the fixed income business and investments in the Asia Pacific region. During his tenure at ABN AMRO, Heong Chye managed the Asia Bond Fund and Global Emerging Market Bond Fund.  Both funds achieved consistent top quartile performance relative to peers, and the Asia Bond Fund was also named the top bond fund globally by German ‘Investor Magazin’ in 1999.

Heong Chye also spent a substantial part of his career with the Monetary Authority of Singapore/Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) from 1983 to 1992. His main responsibilities included managing Asia-Pacific fixed income portfolios covering Japan, Australia and the US.  Heong Chye was GIC’s first Representative in Tokyo from 1988 to 1991.

Between 1992 and 1996, he headed the Cross Market Proprietary Trading teams based in Singapore, trading in global foreign exchange, bonds, equities, swaps and derivatives, for JP Morgan and Nomura respectively.

Heong Chye holds a degree in Bachelor of Arts from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.  He is a member of Chartered Financial Analysts Institute (CFA) in US.