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Aidan Houlihan is Head of business development for Alternative Investment Services for BNY Mellon in APAC. He is responsible for the development of BNY Mellons Alternative Investment services in the region which includes both sales and relationship management. Aidan relocated to Hong Kong in February 2008 from BNY Mellons operations in Bermuda to support and develop the AIS business in the Asia Pacific region. Whilst in Bermuda Aidan was responsible for the service delivery of a number of significant clients predominantly based in North America. Aidan has been with BNY Mellon since early 2004 and he has held a number of roles within Alternative Investment services since joining. Aidan has extensive experience in the alternative investment services space with over 10 years experience, Aidan began his career with Deutsche Bank Ireland as a fund accountant and spent a number of years working in the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin, Ireland.

Alex Wise is the Managing Director of Orchard Harbour (Pty) Limited, an alternative investment consultancy business established in Sydney, Australia. In 2002 Alex joined Atlas Capital Limited as Group Legal Counsel and later moved within the group to Sigma Asset Management (Guernsey) Limited where he was a Managing Director. In November 2007 Alex left the Atlas Group to establish Orchard Harbour. Prior to Atlas, Alex entered the legal profession with Herbert Smith in London and then in an in-house capacity with Sthree Plc. Alex qualified as a Solicitor and Barrister in England and holds an Honours degree in Law from Cardiff University.

Ms Alexa Lam is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the SFC and Executive Director of its Policy, China and Investment Products Division. Her major role covers the development of overall policy for the SFC as a whole, with a particular emphasis on the market development in mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as the regulation of the retail investment products market in Hong Kong.

Major initiatives led by Ms Lam include: Enactment of the Securities and Futures Ordinance; Reformed margin financing rules and industry practice; and Actively developed Hong Kong as an international asset management centre, including the launching of retail hedge funds, development of Hong Kong as the second largest exchange-traded funds (ETFs) trading market in Asia, as well as the implementation of cross listings of ETFs in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

On mainland policies, Ms Lam has been representing the SFC in different forums with mainland Chinese government, regulatory agencies and business leaders on macro economic, market development and regulatory issues on a regular basis. Ongoing efforts have also been made by Ms Lam to promote cooperation in financial strategies between the mainland and Hong Kong. This includes her participation in the formulation of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between the Mainland and Hong Kong (CEPA) and her acting as a member of the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) Experts Committee of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). In addition, under Ms Lam’s leadership, the SFC has entered into regulatory cooperation agreements with China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) to enhance regulatory cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong. On international efforts, Ms Lam is on Standing Committee 5 of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Before joining the SFC, Ms Lam had over 20 years experience in corporate and commercial law practice in New York and Hong Kong. She had also provided legal advice to a number of multinationals on their direct investments in mainland China. Outside the SFC, Ms Lam performs a wide range of public duty. She is member of the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law - Asian Institute of International Financial Law Advisory Board, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council - Financial Services Advisory Committee and the Asian Financial Forum 2009 and 2010 Steering Committees.

Mr. Alexander Shaik is General Counsel and a Partner of ADM Capital. He has over 11 years legal and commercial experience working on corporate and structured finance transactions. Mr. Shaik has been involved in innovative capital markets transactions in most Asia jurisdictions, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and Australasia.

Before joining ADM Capital, Alexander Shaik was employed in the Hong Kong office of the US law firm, Sidley Austin, and he has also worked with the Tokyo office of UK magic circle firm, Allen & Overy.

Mr. Shaik’s role as General Counsel involves supervising legal risks (including structuring, documentation, enforcement and litigation) and regulatory risks relating to ADM Capital Group’s investments in Asia and Europe, stemming from deals originated by ADM Capital’s offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Mumbai, Istanbul, Singapore and London.

Prior to joining Riley Paterson in April, 2009 Andrea was the Head of Operations and IT for Japan Advisory LLC, the Tokyo-based investment advisor to the Whitney funds. Before Japan Advisory, Andrea was a Vice-President in Equity Operations at Morgan Stanley Japan Securities, where he built and was responsible for middle-office operations for all equity and equity derivative products, for regulatory and transaction reporting, and a variety of control functions. Andrea also worked in Morgan Stanley's San Francisco office as an associate in the Private Wealth Management division, where he assisted in the management of discretionary equity and fixed income portfolios for high net worth individuals and many leading private and public companies. Andrea started his financial career at Sutro & Co. (now part of RBC Wealth Management – previously RB Dain Rauscher) and has also completed internships with Goldman Sachs, Smith Barney, and Deloitte & Touche. Andrea earned a B.A. from Miami University (Oxford, OH) with a double major in Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs and Political Science, and a minor in East Asian Studies, holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and has held Registered Representative and Internal Control Manager licenses from the National Association of Securities Dealers and the Japan Securities Dealers Association.

Andrew Gordon, Executive Vice President, is responsible for Broker-Dealer Services and Alternative Investment Services for BNY Mellon in Asia, based in Hong Kong. This includes the Global Collateral Management and Clearing businesses, as well as fund administration services and other banking services for hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative investment vehicles. He took up this position in January 2008, and is also General Manager of the Hong Kong branch.

Andrew has held various positions within BNY Mellon since joining in 1985, and has now spent 13 of the last 15 years based in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Andrew Quah is the Chief Operating Officer of JL Capital and is a qualified England and Wales, and Singapore lawyer. Andrew Joined JL Capital as Head of Legal in 2008 and subsequently took on the Compliance and Operations portfolios, and was made the Chief Operating Officer. Andrew has 10 years of legal and regulatory experience and has worked in London, Hong Kong and Singapore with international law firm (Linklaters) and banks (Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse). As a lawyer, his main areas of practice have been in Derivatives, Structured Products, Structured Finance, Debt Capital Markets and Funds.

Annie Lai has been with Ward Ferry Management since 2004 and is the Chief Financial Officer of Ward Ferry Management, an investment adviser managing hedge funds focused on Asia Pacific long short equities. Ward Ferry Management has about US$850 million under management. She is responsible for risk management, compliance and operations. Prior to joining Ward Ferry Management, she spent seven years with Lloyd George Management as Assistant Director of Finance. She began her career as an auditor with PriceWaterhouseCoopers and has about fourteen years of experience in audit, finance, compliance and fund management. On investment side, she has four years of experience in direct investments in China and is familiar with issues in joint ventures and investing in emerging markets, in particular in infrastructure projects.

Brian established and presently manages the firm’s Hong Kong office and is responsible for daily management functions, including compliance and oversight for the operations of the firm. He is also a member of the CQS Operating Committee. Prior to joining CQS in 2004, Brian worked at CSFB in Hong Kong on the Equity Finance desk, having previously worked for Sanwa Bank in London where he was a principal and market maker for the bank’s U.S. treasury and agency primary dealership. Before this, he worked for Discount Corporation of New York where he established and worked in the firm’s bond trading operations in Hong Kong. Brian holds a BA degree in Economics from Bates College, Maine.

Mr. Carlos Ferreira is Head of Operational Due Diligence at LGT Capital Partners and based in Pfaeffikon , Switzerland. Prior to joining LGT CP in June 2007, Mr. Ferreira was at KBC Alpha Asset Management in London where he was the CFO/COO from February 2005. In this capacity he was responsible for the non-investment activities of the business, including fund accounting, fund and managed account structuring and conducting operational due diligence on underlying funds. Having begun his career with KPMG in Toronto, Canada as an auditor, Mr. Ferreira subsequently worked with Arthur Andersen (now Deloitte) in their Toronto and London offices from 1994 to 2000, as an international corporate tax practitioner working on diverse engagements including M&A, securitization and other financing transactions. From July 2002, Mr. Ferreira worked for Morgan Stanley’s London-based Private Wealth Management division, where he worked in their client strategy and hedge fund groups, focusing on the structuring and delivery of derivative and alternative investment solutions to high net worth individuals. Mr. Ferreira holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto (1991) and an MBA degree from the London Business School (2002). He is also a US Certified Public Accountant.

After University, Choo San Yeoh worked in Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) for seven years. At the time of departure, she was an Audit Manager specializing in financial services. In 1991, she became the Financial Controller for Smith New Court (now part of Merrill Lynch) in Japan and on her return in the UK continued to be involved in Japan as product controller; later her brief expanded to include coverage of the group’s US activities. She moved to Smith New Court in Singapore and joined the equity sales team. After leaving Smith New Court and taking a brief career break, she worked for UBS where she worked on projects in the Chief of Staff department. She joined Deutsche Bank in 1997 in the controlling function covering corporate finance, structured finance and private equity. She left Singapore to move to Hong Kong in 1998 and has since worked in education as well as in the research team in Lloyd George Management (Hong Kong) Ltd. She joined Albourne Partners in 2004 and has been part of the team developing the group’s operational due diligence processes.

Christopher Addy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Castle Hall Alternatives. Chris is one of the hedge fund industry's most experienced due diligence practitioners, having been involved in the analysis of hedge fund operations for more than a decade. He has completed more than 1,000 due diligence reviews of hedge funds, fund of funds, managers and administrators and has spoken regularly at industry conferences as an expert on operational risk. In May 2008, Chris was also named a “Rising Star” of the hedge fund industry by Institutional Investor. Chris was previously Principal and co-founder of Amber Partners, a Bermuda company providing operational certifications to hedge fund managers. Prior to forming Amber, Chris was Senior Vice President of UBP Asset Management (Bermuda) Limited (2001-2004), where he supervised a team of analysts responsible for operational due diligence on a large number of hedge funds and administrators. Chris previously held the position of group financial controller of The Atlantic Philanthropies (Bermuda) Limited, a multi-billion dollar foundation, where his responsibilities included operational due diligence across a significant investment portfolio. He began his career as an auditor with Deloitte in the United Kingdom before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in Bermuda. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Ordre des comptables agrees du Québec. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Derek is a Managing Director and Group COO of Pacific Alliance Group and has extensive experience in financial services and fund management, with 10 years exposure to Asia. Prior to joining Pacific Alliance in 2007 Derek held positions with ICAP Plc as CFO for Asia based in Hong Kong and with UBS AG in Jersey Channel Islands as a Director responsible for fund structuring and administration. Derek is a FCMA, FCSI & MHKSI.

Desmond Low-Kum is a Senior Manager, and heads up the Operational Risk Management and Compliance group at Stanford Management Company (SMC), which was established to manage Stanford University’s financial and investment real estate assets.

Desmond is responsible for planning, managing and conducting the operational risk management/operational due diligence reviews for both pre investment and post (ongoing) investments and compliance. Focus of the operational reviews is on the non-investment activities of investment managers in the following asset classes: Absolute Return (Hedge Funds), Private Equity, Public Equity, Natural Resources, Real Estate, and Fixed Income. Desmond started visiting Hedge Funds in 2000.

Prior to joining SMC in 2005, Desmond spent 16 years working at the University's Internal Audit and Institutional Compliance Department. He previously worked in the savings & loan and mortgage banking industry in San Francisco, and public accounting (KPMG in Johannesburg, South Africa).

Desmond qualified as a Chartered Accountant (South Africa), a Certified Investments and Derivatives Auditor, an Associate of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. Desmond holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Rhodes University, South Africa, and a Bachelor of Accounting Science (Honors) from the University of South Africa.

Ed Rogers is CEO of Tokyo headquartered Rogers Investment Advisors. RIA advises the Wolver Hill Japan Fund which invests solely in Japanese Hedge Funds and has outperformed TOPIX by over 55% in its first three years of investing. RIA also advises the Wolver Hill Asia Emerging Manager Fund, a private equity fund that launched in November 2009. Mr. Rogers was head of Prime Services sales for Deutsche Bank in Tokyo and a member of the DB Tokyo Equities Management committee prior to opening RIA in 2006. Before joining DB Mr. Rogers was a proprietary structured products trader at Merrill Lynch in London.

Mr. Rogers Asian career began in 1987 when he was awarded a Princeton in Asia Fellowship. Mr. Rogers worked in the Japanese steel industry for two years, followed by eight years working in currency forward swap trading.

Mr. Rogers received a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Eric S. Lazear is Head of Operational Due Diligence for Frey Quantitative Strategies, which is a global fund of funds founded by former Renaissance Technologies managing director Dr Robert J Frey. FQS takes a scientific approach to hedge fund investing, combining quantitative and qualitative investment techniques. Prior to joining FQS, Eric S. Lazear was a Director of Operational Risk Due Diligence for Duff and Phelps, an independent provider of financial advisory and investment banking services where he and his team provided independent third party assessments of hedge fund manager’s operating policies and procedures to Pension Plans, Endowments, Family Offices and Fund of Hedge Funds, as well as any investor allocating to alternatives. In his role, he assessed the operational risks associated with their alternative investments and provides solutions to mitigate those risks. He was responsible for assessing the operational and business risk of hedge fund managers globally and overseeing all operational risk reviews for an array of hedge fund strategies worldwide. Prior to Duff and Phelps, Eric S. Lazear was Head of Operational Due Diligence for FIM, responsible for assessing the operational and business risk of hedge fund managers globally. Prior to FIM, Eric was Head of Operational Risk with IAM (International Asset Management) in a similar role. Eric joined IAM from JPMorgan Chase where he was AVP within the J.P. Morgan Performance Measurement, Analytics & Consulting Group between 1998 and 2005, specialising in performance analytics and manager searches. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association. Eric holds a BBA from Hofstra University (1992), and an MBA from Baruch College (2001).

Irfan joined the Group in 2007 and focuses on assessing and analysing the operational risks at both Manager and Fund level. He has previously worked at Ferox Capital and Lane Clarke and Peacock as an Investment Analyst. Irfan graduated from University College of London in 2003 with a degree in Economics and Business with East European Studies and achieved a Masters in Investment Management in 2004 from Cass Business School.

Jim is the Chief Operating Officer at Artradis Fund Management Pte Ltd. He has been in the global capital markets for over 17 years. Before Artradis Jim was at Credit Suisse, where he was a Managing Director running the Fund Linked Products group in New York. Jim began his career as a lawyer at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett in New York and has held a variety of positions at Société Général, Bank of America, UBS and Lehman Brothers in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Jim holds LLM in Taxation from New York University and a JD from Fordham University, New York.

Josephine Orgill is General Manager of the Hong Kong Branch of the Alternative Investment Management Association Limited. Prior to working with AIMA, Jo was Chief Operating Officer for Hong Kong based hedge fund manager First Horse Capital Limited. This followed 10 years with Credit Suisse in Singapore, London and Hong Kong in a variety of roles predominantly in Equities including Chief Operating Officer for Non Japan Asian and Head of Client Relationship Management for Asia Pacific. Jo began her career with Ernst & Young in Australia and is a qualified Australian Chartered Accountant. She has also worked as a private client adviser in equities and is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia.

John joined NFR&TA in 2004 and is the COO responsible for corporate operations, operational due diligence, and marketing. He is a member of NFR&TA’s management committee and sits on many of NFR&TA’s investment management committees. Previously John was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with The Halpern Group, Chief Operating Officer of ROC Capital Advisors, an equity long short hedge fund, and a Managing Director of an affiliate of W.P. Stewart & Co., Inc. where he was global head of trading and principal of their Bermuda broker dealer. John Started his career with Shearson Lehman Brothers in 1987.

Mr. Zeng is Head of Greenwoods Asset Management’s Hong Kong office. Greenwoods is an investment management company specializing in managing hedge funds and private equity investments into mainland China companies, and has long and strong track records. The Fund’s net return in 2009 was 148.4%, vs 58.8% of MSCI China and 62.1% of H-share Index, and its cumulative return is 546.1% and annualized return is 39.7% from July 2004 to December 2009, vs the annualized return of 21.1% of MSCI China and 21.6% of H-share index. Golden China Fund was awarded “Asia’s Best Hedge Fund” (over $100 million) of 2009 by Bloomberg, and the “Single Country Fund” of 2007 by AsiaHedge for its 1-year net return of 158% as of Sept 2007.

Before joining Greenwoods, Mr. Zeng was a vice president with JPMorgan’s Investment Banking Department covering China banks, insurance companies, and asset managers. He also helped manage the relationships with China’s financial regulatory authorities. Prior to moving to the investment banking side, Mr. Zeng was an equity analyst with JPMorgan, covering Chinese banks.

Mr. Zeng graduated with a Master of Science degree in Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he won the Robert Fleming scholarship. Mr. Zeng also attended the Master of International Finance program of the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China in Beijing, and he holds the bachelor degree in international finance from Wuhan University. Mr. Zeng is a holder of the CFA designation. He was a member of the New York Society of Securities Analysts and the American Finance Association (AFA), as well as the chairman of the American Alumni Association of the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China.

Kam Bahra is the Chief Operating Officer at PMA Investment Advisors Limited. He has over 17 years experience in the financial industry within investment banking and asset management. He joined PMA from Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong where he was in charge of Product Control for the hedge fund and convertible bond businesses. Prior to coming to Hong Kong, Kam was with Deutsche Bank in London where he worked in Equity Control for European emerging markets and product development of programme trading and corporate actions. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank he was at Nikko Securities and Credit Suisse First Boston where he was involved in the fixed income emerging markets and treasury financing business. Kam holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of London and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Kapil Kirpalani is currently Associate Director, Legal and Head of Compliance, for the Pacific Harbor Group. Mr. Kirpalani’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and restructuring in a number of Asian jurisdictions, with varying governing laws. He has extensive experience in high yield, stressed and distressed debt transactions, as well as private placements with a focus on undervalued, relatively liquid sub-investment grade debt investments, in Asia. Prior to joining the Pacific Harbor Group, Mr. Kirpalani worked with the Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law teams at Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partners, in London and Frankfurt. Mr. Kirpalani is a frequent contributor at seminars and conferences, most recently speaking about topics related to fund structures and regulation. Earlier this year, he was featured on CNN.

Marc Towers, ACA is a Director in PAAMCO’s Investment Operations Group working out of the firm’s Singapore office from where he oversees PAAMCO’s firm-wide Operational Due Diligence team. Prior to joining PAAMCO, Marc was the head of Operational Due Diligence for KBC Alpha Asset Management based in Hong Kong. Before joining KBC in 2006, Marc was Chief Operating Officer of Azura Capital Advisors in Singapore, where he established and managed the operations of a multi-strategy Asia macro fund. Prior to this, he worked for Credit Suisse First Boston, originally in London and then in Asia in a number of different roles including Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product Control for the Emerging Markets Division. He began his career at Ernst & Young in Perth, Western Australia. Marc holds a Bachelor of Business degree with majors in both Accounting and Business Law from Curtin University. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Mr. Wheatley became the executive Chairman on 1 October 2005 and subsequently was appointed to be the Commission’s first Chief Executive Officer on 23 June 2006. Mr. Wheatley’s current term will end on 30 September 2011.

Mr. Wheatley is a member of the FSB Sub-Committee on Standards Implementation, as well as the IOSCO Technical Committee. Currently, Mr. Wheatley chairs the IOSCO Technical Committee Task Force on Short Selling.

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

Mr. Wheatley was also Chairman of the FTSE International and sat on the Listing Authority Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Authority of England.

Mr. Wheatley qualified as an accountant in 1984, has a degree in Philosophy and an MBA.

Matt Auriemma is UBPAM’s Head of Operational Risk Management. Mr. Auriemma has tackled hedge fund operational risk from virtually every angle during a 15-year career as an auditor, administrator and senior executive, including building three operational risk departments from the ground up.

In his previous role as Head of Operational Due Diligence for both Barclays Wealth and Barclays Global Investors, Mr. Auriemma designed and implemented the operational risk platforms, and was a member of the firm’s investment committee. Prior to joining Barclays, he was Head of Operational Due Diligence for Julius Baer Investment Management, ran operations for two U.S.-based hedge fund managers, and was instrumental in establishing a U.S. presence for Citco Fund Services. Mr. Auriemma began his career as an auditor. He received a BS in Accounting from St. John's University, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

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, compliance 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.

Miodrag Janjusevic is a Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer responsible for investment portfolio risk analysis and operational due diligence, and a member of the Board of Directors of SAIL Advisors Limited and other SAIL related entities. He joined SAIL in April 2009 from Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong where he was a director and headed up cross asset structured products within the Strategic Solutions Group. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Janjusevic worked at JPMorgan for 16 years in various capacities. He was Global Head of Equity Derivatives Research, and Head of Debt/Equity Solutions Group. Mr. Janjusevic moved from London to Hong Kong in 2005 to run JPMorgan’s Convertible Bond sales and trading in Asia and later on JPM’s Asian Corporate Derivatives origination. He started his financial career as a trader at Kidder Peabody New York, trading Asian convertible bonds. During his career, Mr. Janjusevic pioneered an innovative approach to cross asset default links creating new models for hedging debt with equity that enabled better pricing and risk management of complex financial products and portfolios. Mr. Janjusevic holds a PhD in Physics from City College New York. His work on the problems of laser atom interaction and fusion plasmas has been published in leading physics journals. He was a thesis advisor at Oxford University Graduate School of Mathematical Finance in 2003.

Oscar is Chief Operating Officer and joined LIM in 2005. In charge of group finance, compliance, corporate accounting and tax, general administration, counterparty risk and other business risk issues. Previously was a Director within the New Business function at CSFB in Hong Kong and has worked within Product/ Financial Control at Barclays Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Brothers in London. Prior to this worked for 5 years at KPMG in corporate audit for financial institutions. He holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham and is a Qualified Chartered Accountant.

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 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, a member of the UK Institute of Directors and holds a degree from Oxford University, England. He is a director of numerous Asian based hedge funds.

Peter Douglas CAIA is the founder and principal of GFIA pte ltd. Established in 1998, the Singapore-based firm researches skill-based managers and their funds, exclusively those investing in emerging markets, focussing on Asia. GFIA works for investors and allocators as a consultant, advisor, and money manager. Prior to founding GFIA, Peter spent ten years in various roles with the Foreign & Colonial group of asset management companies, both in London and Tokyo. He then spent three years as a director of Aberdeen Asset Management in Singapore.

Peter is Council Member for Asia-Pacific for the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) representing Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore. He is one of only 38 Financial Industry Certified Professionals in Singapore, and the only one from the alternative investment management industry. He is also a director of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association. He chairs the Student Advisory Centre, a Singapore charity working with youth at risk, and is a director of Returns Invested in Children and Education (RICE), an Asia regional charity. He established the Singapore chapter of AIMA, sat on the INSEAD MBA Admissions Committee, and was a founder of the Financial Planning Association of Singapore. He holds an honours degree from the University of Exeter, an MBA from INSEAD, and is a pioneer-cohort Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Phil has been a senior fixture of the Asia finance industry for the past 14 years of his 20 year plus career. Philip launched DragonBack with his two partners in early 2007 having spent the previous three years with PMA, one of Asia’s largest Hedge Funds, where he was the Chief Financial Officer. Previously he worked at Credit Suisse where he was Director in the Prime Brokerage unit with regional responsibility for Asia Pacific. Phil has also held a number of other senior positions at Credit Suisse including Chief Operating Officer for Asian Equities and head of the Strategic Projects Group within the finance department. Before Credit Suisse, Phil worked at KPMG in both London and Hong Kong focusing on providing audit and consulting services to banking and securities companies across the region. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Essex and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Philip is also a Director of The Hong Kong Securities Institute and a member of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Chapter of the Alternative Investment Management Association.

Queenie Chang, CPA, CFA, Senior Operational Due Diligence Associate Ms. Chang has over 15 years of experience in hedge fund due diligence and hedge fund accounting. Previously Queenie served as a Vice President at DB Advisors Fund of Funds and an Assistant Vice President at Julius Baer Investment Management LLC, in both cases with responsibilities for global operational due diligence. She began her career as an auditor at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in Hong Kong and then moved on to senior credit and accounting positions at the Bank of Bermuda (Hong Kong and New York), and at SAGEN Asset Management, LLC.

Dr. Ranjan Bhaduri is a Managing Director and Head of Research at AlphaMetrix Alternative Investment Advisors. Prior to this he was a Vice President and on an Investment Committee at Morgan Stanley where he conducted due diligence and helped design customized portfolios of Alternatives. Earlier, he was at a Canadian Fund of Funds, and at a multi-billion dollar capital management firm where he was involved in all aspects of its fund of hedge funds and structured finance business. He has also worked with two major Canadian investment banks in the Financial Strategy Consulting Group and in Global Risk Management & Control, respectively. Dr. Bhaduri has held advisory roles at the East-West Center, a leading think tank on the Asia-Pacific region, and at ClassMouse, an early stage software company. He has taught finance and mathematics at several universities and lectured on Derivatives for the Montreal Exchange. Dr. Bhaduri has authored articles on, and been invited to speak worldwide regarding hedge fund issues, and advanced portfolio and risk management techniques. He holds both the CFA and CAIA charters.

He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Toronto CFA Society, and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Dr. Bhaduri is a member of the All About Alpha Editorial Board.

Steve Knabl is Swiss national with more than 10 years of experience in the financial services field at a general management level. Steve acquired over 8 years of experience in the financial services field at a general management level with Swissquote Bank, the leading online Broker in Switzerland. Steve has in-depth knowledge of brokerage and customer services operations as well as experience and proficiency in project coordination and operational implementation of complex business development strategies. With his wide-ranging experience as Head of Trading and Treasury operations has allowed him to acquire extensive general product knowledge in the financial services area with a wide experience in business processes.

Steve joined Swiss-Asia Financial Services Pte Ltd as Chief Operating Officer in February 2008 and has taken on responsibility for Operations, Compliance, Fund of Funds Operational Due Diligence process, Structural Risk Management for our firm as a whole. The Operations and Risk Management focuses on carefully managing the processes and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient, effective and compliant with applicable regulations. Steve attended the University of Neuchatel - Switzerland, in the “Faculte des Sciences Economiques” and continued to acquire a Bachelor of Sciences Degree (BSc) in International Hospitality Management at the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne – Haute Ecole Specialisée (HES).

Uzi Rosha is the Chief Compliance Officer of CarVal Investors, LLC in Minneapolis. He has global responsibilities on all compliance related matters. Previously, he was the Director of Compliance at Fulcrum Global Partners, LLC. Uzi started his Wall Street career as an attorney and Senior Compliance Officer at Bear Stearns. Prior to his career on Wall Street, Mr. Rosha worked as an attorney. He holds a JD from Tel-Aviv University in Israel and an LL.M from Columbia Law School in New York. Uzi is the author of number of articles on compliance matters. He was named as one of “20 Compliance Rising Stars” for 2008 by the Institutional Investor magazine and has been recently named on the “Who’s Who in America” and “Who’s Who in Finance and Business” for his achievements in the compliance world.

Warren Allderige serves as the CEO of Pacific Harbor Group, a Special Situations Fund that invests in High Yield, Stressed and Distressed Debts and Private Placements. The investment activities of the Fund are directed by Mr. Allderige. He is responsible for the investment management team of the Pacific Harbor Group as well as the general management responsibility for its 8 affiliated Asian regional offices. Mr. Allderige has 18 years of experience in debt trading and investment as well as 23 years of total experience in fixed income. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Singapore with primarily pan-Asian assignments in credit trading and investment.

Prior to Pacific Harbor, Mr. Allderige was President and a Founding Shareholder of Amroc Investments Asia Limited, CEO of Peregrine Korea, and a Director of Peregrine’s Executive Committee. Mr. Allderige began his finance career at Lehman Brothers, and was Managing Director of Lehman’s Singapore Branch Office. He holds a BS from Cornell University, and an MBA from Harvard University