The 6th Asia Pacific Trading Summit

George Molina is the Asian head of trading for Franklin Templeton's Asian Trading desks located locally in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea and Shanghai. He joined Franklin Templeton Investments in 1997 as a member of their Global Trading Group based out of Florida, USA before being transferred to Hong Kong in 2002.

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Mr. Molina worked for the Scudder Kemper group trading Asian Securities. He is currently Co-chairman of FIX Protocol Limited Asia where he is responsible for the promotion of electronic trading in the region.

John Fildes
Co-Chair FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee and Managing Director, Instinet
FPL Asia Pacific Regional Committee

E. John Fildes is the Managing Director of Instinet Pacific, responsible for all the operations of Instinet in non-Japan Asia. Prior to this he was with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong for 10 years where he held positions as the Head of Equity Marketing and Head of Electronic and Program Trading for the Institutional Equity Division in Asia-Pacific. Before that he was the Head of MSCI for Asia Pacific and was actively involved in the launch of MSCI futures contracts for Taiwan and Singapore on SIMEX. He is also the Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific FIX (Financial Information Exchange Protocol) Steering Committee and is active in promoting the protocol throughout the region. He has been a member of the Steering Committee since 2000. He has written and spoken extensively on the subject of FIX and Electronic Trading.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Mr. Fildes held various positions in Europe with the Financial Times Group, Standard and Poor's and Reuters and has an extensive knowledge of the financial information marketplace.

Martin Wheatley
Chief Executive Officer
Securities and Futures Commission Hong Kong

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

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

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

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

Louis-Vincent Gave
CEO
GaveKal

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 and Anatole 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 the books Our Brave New World and The End is Not Nigh. Louis-Vincent manages the overall business from our main office in Hong Kong. Louis writes a weekly column, every Monday, for the Mingpao Daily in Hong Kong. Louis-Vincent is a French national. He speaks French and English and is rusty in Spanish and Mandarin. He is married with two sons.

Angelo Iannone
Director, Head of Equities Sales Trading
Deutsche Securities Asia Ltd.

Angelo Iannone is Director, Head of Equities Sales Trading for DB Taiwan. In this role, he has been working closely with the Taiwan Stock Exchange working towards Taiwan's market reform. He has presented at the Taiwan Stock Exchange's 46th Anniversary Celebration Conference in Feb 2008 and has been privileged to work with the exchange and many procedural and information gathering sessions. Prior to his relocation to Taiwan, he has numerous positions sales trading over 40 international markets ranging from the Developed markets of North America, Europe and Asia as well as those Emerging markets in Latam, EMEA and SE Asia. He began his career over 24 years ago, working for GS for approximately 14 of those years.

Gavin Williamson
Execution Trading
HSBC

Gavin Williamson joined HSBC in May 2005, initially working in London and then relocating to Hong Kong to work in Execution Trading, joining from Deutsche Bank in London where he worked as the Global Head of Institutional Execution services.

Prior to that he was Director and Head of Equity Electronic Trading with Salomon Smith Barney based in Hong Kong and Co-Chair of the Asia Pac regional FIX committee.

André Roberts
Director
BlackRock Investment Management (Australia) Limited

André joined BlackRock Investment Management in 1999 and is a Portfolio Manager for the quantitative investment process. He is also a key professional in terms of the design and delivery of systems for quantitative data, research and implementation.

André previously worked at County Investment Management as a Quantitative Analyst, Australian Equities, and as a Treasury Dealer at Bank of Melbourne.

André is a CFA Charterholder and currently serves as the President of the CFA Society of Melbourne.

Greg Yanco
Chief Executive Officer
AXE ECN

Greg Yanco is the Chief Executive Officer of AXE ECN. AXE ECN is a joint venture between NZX, Citig, Commonwealth Securities, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs JBWere, Macquarie Securities and Merrill Lynch formed to provide an alternative venue to trade Australian listed securities.

Greg's previous experience includes twenty years at ASX managing diversified teams within ASX's regulatory and commercial environments responsible for:

Market structure and product management for equities, interest rate securities, derivatives and futures;
Relationship management for brokers, institutions, clearers and financial planners;
Marketing ASX's equities, interest rate securities, derivatives and futures to retail and institutional investors; and
Market surveillance and broker compliance.

Greg has a Bachelor of Business and is a CPA and a Master Stockbroker (MSDIA).

David Klinger
Managing Director
Liquidnet Asia

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

Jason Keady
Chi-X Australia

Jason joined Chi-X Australia on 1 April 2008 and is responsible for implementing the successful Chi-X business model in the Australian market. Prior to joining Chi-X, Jason was a Senior Partner at FiNETIK Partners, a consulting and advisory firm that specialises in electronic trading and the highly fragmented markets of Asia-Pacific. Up until 2006, Jason worked at ASX in Sydney for 12 years in roles that included Head of the Information Services business, Head of Product Development and Deputy General Counsel.

Jason is a Master Stockbroker (MSDIA) and also holds legal qualifications.

Nick Leeson
Industry Commentator

Few stories have dominated the world's headlines quite like the collapse of Barings. Trusted with the finances of royalty and aristocracy for over two hundred years, Barings had apparently been brought down by the covert trading activities of just one man, leaving the bank with losses of £860 million.

Forever dubbed the "Rogue Trader", Leeson's own story of his rise and fall is both candid and compelling. He took one of the greatest gambles of all time and found himself sucked into a terrifying spiral of loss that rocked the City to its foundations and threatened to destroy his life.

Nick Leeson came from humble beginnings in Watford and worked his way to the heart of the cut-and-thrust empire he made his own: the SIMEX money market. Since his spectacular fall from grace he has experienced four and a half years in a Singapore jail, a marriage break-up and cancer of the colon.

Both his speech and his book reveal the pressure, the series of errors and the amazing chain of events that make this true story as crisp as any thriller. It also demonstrates the risks to which financial institutions in particular can still be exposed. As part of his presentation Nick is prepared to answer questions on any aspect of his experiences.

Nick is now based in Ireland. He still makes some reparation to Barings from his earnings. While some question whether his debt to society has been paid off, others are convinced he remains the scapegoat for a scandal that should never have been allowed to happen.

Nick Leeson works extensively for various cancer charities and in 2003 completed a psychology degree.

Chaiyoot Chamnanlertkit
Chief Information Officer
Stock Exchange of Thailand

Mr. Chaiyoot Chamnanlertkit is currently the chief information officer at the Stock Exchange of Thailand. He oversees the entire IT system development and operations for the exchange and all subsidiaries. He has over 20 years of extensive experience in capital market in both broker-dealer and exchange spaces. He also teaches at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining the SET, he was a system director at GE Capital in Thailand.

Eric Yip
Head of Cash Market
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

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

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

Brook Teeter
Director, Head of AES Sales, Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse

Brook Teeter has been in the financial services industry for over 12 years. His current role is Head of AES Sales, Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse. Brook is based in Hong Kong and is responsible for all sales relating to electronic trading products at Credit Suisse.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Brook was Head of Institutional Sales, Asia Pacific at E*TRADE residing in both Hong Kong and Singapore.

Brook has been an active member of FPL both in the US and Asia since 2000 has been previously Co-Chair of the Asia Education and Marketing Committee.

Ned Phillips
CEO
BlocSec

Ned Phillips is the CEO of BlocSec in Singapore. Ned joined BlocSec in November of 2007. Ned has worked in Asia for 16 years and he formally ran E*Trade Asia and was responsible for developing their institutional equity trading business throughout the region. Ned also spent three years at ITG in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Kent Rossiter
Head of Regional Asia Pacific Trading
RCM Asia Pacific

Kent joined RCM in May 1999 as the Head of Regional Asia Pacific Trading and is based in Hong Kong, which is one of RCM's 3 trading desks globally. As at end 2007, RCM managed approximately US$165bn and is part of the Allianz Group that has assets under management in excess of US$1 trillion. From 1996 until 1999, Kent was the Deputy General Manager of Asian Equity Sales at Nikko Securities. Prior to that, he was the Head of Japan Desk, Asian Equities at Sun Hung Kai Investment Services both in Hong Kong & Tokyo. He has sixteen years investment experience. Over the years Kent's been active as a speaker, panelist, & roundtable host of TradeTech events globally, on the Advisory Board and as a speaker at Institutional Investors' International Trader Forum (ITF) events, participated in The FIX Protocol Organization functions, and was a member of the OMGEO Advisory Board. He's a strong advocate of STP & Electronic Connectivity. Kent has a BA in Business & Economics/Int'l Business from Western Washington University, U.S.A., and an MBA from the University of Hull, U.K.

Srinivas Padmasola
Electronic Trading
Merrill Lynch

Srinivas Padmasola is Hong Kong-based Vice President of Electronic Trading for the Asia Pacific Region at Merrill Lynch. Previously, Srinivas worked for SWIFT in Mumbai and Hong Kong as well as a brief stint at Reuters. Srinivas has been an active member of FPL in the region and is the current co-chair of the Asia Pacific Education & Marketing Sub-Committee.

Anjan Choudhury
Chief Technology Officer
Bombay Stock Exchange

Anjan have over twenty three years of leadership and hands-on experience in developing and deploying technology-driven solutions. Presently Anjan is leading technology at Bombay Stock Exchange Limited, India. Prior to this, Anjan was working with Bharti Airtel limited, the biggest private sector telecom operator in India and responsible for enterprise-wide cross line of business transformation projects to cater to business growth until 2010 and beyond. Anjan did his graduation in 1984 in Electrical Engineering and did his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in 1986.

Himanshu Kaji
Industry Expert and Consultant - Capital Markets
HNK Consulting

With over 20 years in the banking and financial industry, Himanshu has been the consultant for ICICI Brokerage Services, Edelweiss Capital Ltd., Kaycee Group , BRICS Securities, Pioneer group, Anand Rathi Group, Citigroup Wealth Advisors, HDFC Securities, Citigroup Venture Capital International, Aptivaa Consulting, Centrum Group, Standard Chartered Bank, SMC Group, Sharekhan and Religare Securities etc.

Himanshu has been elected as the Honorary Treasurer & Official Spokesman of The Stock Exchange, Mumbai for the year 2000 - 2001, and was the Director from 1999 - 2002.

Graduated at the University of Mumbai in 1985, Himanshu is a Chartered Accountant and has been guest lecturer at IIM-A, BSE Training Institute, Government Law College, Lehman Brothers India, LIC and at various national and international seminars on the capital market.

Dewang Neralla
Director - Technology
Financial Technologies

DEWANG NERALLA co-founded Financial Technologies along with Jignesh Shah. He has been instrumental in setting a robust and reliable technology and trading platform along with library of strong globally competitive product portfolio. This infrastructure is a growth driver for all the current and future activities of Financial Technologies (FT) Group. He plays a strategic role in setting the architectural and product strategies and plans for FT's technology business and defining the blueprint and technology road map of the organization. He drives the strategy and vision of the FT architecture, are software products and related standards for FT's technologies.

Dewang is responsible for introducing new technology architecture and designing components and protocols to deliver cutting-edge technology. Along with the role of chief strategy officer, he constantly looks after emerging technology applications in the financial markets, market opportunities, and strategic partnerships. He is passionate about technology and firmly believes that innovation, and invention, would be the key for future group technological breakthroughs. His current interest lies is in taking up the challenge to work on mobile-based payment in lieu of credit card and ensuring that this concept is well accepted by the masses.

He holds a degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science.

He has been a featured speaker at several national and international academic, business and technology forums and industry events.

Omar Merican
Chief Operating Officer
Bursa Malaysia

Omar Merican, aged 49, a Malaysian, graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) in Economics degree from the University of Birmingham, England and Masters in Science from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Omar was founder and CEO of Merican and Partners Asset Management Sdn Bhd, a fund management company, from 1997 to 2004. Prior to running his own business, Omar worked in financial services institutions including Solomon Brothers in Hong Kong, James Capel (in Hong Kong and London) and O��Connor Associates between 1986 and 1996. Omar joined Bursa Malaysia on 16 September 2005.

Joel Hurewitz
Sales, Hong Kong
CLSA

Joel Hurewitz is the Sales, Hong Kong for CLSA, an electronic crossing network created to provide institutional investors with optimized execution for their Asian block trades, minimizing both transaction costs and market impact. Previous to CLSA, Joel was the Asia Pacific Head of Electronic Trading Products at HSBC, responsible for sales and marketing of the Bank's alternative execution products including FIX Connectivity, Direct Market Access and Program & Algorithmic trading. Joel is also an active member and supporter of FPL, the standards body for Electronic trading and is currently the Co-Chair of the Technical Committee of FPL in Asia. In addition, Joel has spent the past three years as the Asia Pacific editor of FIXGlobal, the de-facto journal of electronic trading, read by industry professionals worldwide.

Chris Jenkins
Executive Director
Tora Trading

Chris Jenkins is Executive Director for TORA Trading, responsible for the Asian offices, including a major data centre and sales operations for all non-Japan Asian business.

At TORA, Mr. Jenkins manages commercial activities based on TORA��s multi-broker electronic trading platform which is focused on Asia and has operations across the region. He was formerly the Regional Head of Sales for SWIFTNet FIX. Before joining SWIFT, Mr. Jenkins set up operations for Macgregor in Hong Kong. He spent 3 years working at AXA Investment Management in London and prior to that worked for Midland Stockbrokers.

Speakers