Ray Barros
Professional Trader, Fund Manager, Author and Educator

Ray Barros is a professional trader, fund manager, author, and educator. Since he started trading twenty years ago, his track record reflects a whopping 39 percent per annum return on a compounded basis. A means a hypothetical investment of $1,000 returned over $200,000 in the 15-year period between 1990 and early 2008. He is also the author of two books – ‘The Nature of Trends' and ‘The Ray Wave'. Ray has appeared on CNBC's Cash Flow, Bloomberg and Channel news Asia. He has also been regularly featured in regional newspapers and publications like Sydney Morning Herald, Your Trading Edge Magazine, Business Times, and Smart Investor. Ray has given public and in-house seminars in Sydney, Singapore, Bombay, Shanghai, London, Tokyo and Taiwan.

Peter Chiang
Vice President
DBS Asset Management Ltd

Peter joined DBS Asset Management Ltd in June 2002, and has 23 years of investment experience for in managing mutual funds in both Asian and global equities. At DBSAM, Peter is responsible for investments in the US, European, and Australian markets. In addition, he holds country responsibilities for China and Hong Kong. He is also responsible for management of absolute-return mandates and the Shenton Global Opportunity Fund.

Peter began his career in UOB Group as a trainee officer in May 1984. He subsequently joined UOB Asset Management Ltd in August 1986 as a fund manager and left in April 2002. During that time, he covered various major global equities markets including Asian and Singapore markets and headed the global capital sector and the Greater China markets. From 1995 to 2002, he was responsible for the management of the SGX-listed fund "United International Securities Ltd", a closed-end investment trust investing in global equities and bond markets. He managed the award-winning United Greater China Fund (1997-2002), the United APEC Equities Fund (1995-2002), United Asia Fund (1990-1993), Unifund (1987-1989) and the United Millennium Trust Funds I, II & III (2000-2002).

Peter graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts and Social Science Degree, majoring in Economics and Political Science.

Ooi Lid Seng
Vice President - Structured Products Asia ex-Japan
Société Générale

Ooi Lid Seng is a Vice President at SG Equity Derivatives, He is responsible for structured warrants in Singapore focusing on sales, marketing and education. He joined SG in 2006 and has more than 15 years of experience in the stock broking industry – both in Singapore and Malaysia. Before joining SocGen, Lid worked with a local broking house previously where he conducted seminars on structured warrants for dealers and remisiers. He was also working as a dealer servicing institutional hedge funds from United States and United Kingdom.

Lid wrote for Societe Generale's Warrant weekly column in the Straits Times and Lian He Zao Bao on the "practical side of warrants". He has also contributed article on behalf of Singapore Investment Banking Association (SIBA) for publication in newspaper and makes occasional appearances on television to talk about derivative products. He is also on the Equity Derivatives Investment Education Sub-Committee of SIBA which main objective is to raise the knowledge of derivative financial products among retail investors. On this end, Lid has conducted many seminars and workshop to educate the investing public, Trading Representatives and the Media industry (newspaper, magazine, TV and radio) on warrants, their functions and the workings of warrant.

Lid graduated with an MBA from the University of Oregon majoring in Finance and Management from US.

Martin Wong
Associate Director – Equity Derivatives, Global Financial Markets
Rabobank International

Mr. Martin Wong joined Rabobank International in 2005 and is currently Associate Director of the Equity Derivatives division. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for Rabobank's structured warrants in both Hong Kong and Singapore.

Martin is also part of the marketing team that serves private banks and other financial institutions in common equity-linked products, structured products and correlation linked structures. Working with corporate clients including listed blue chip companies in Hong Kong, his market exposure also covers Singapore.

Prior to joining Rabobank, Martin was a Dealing Officer in Hui Kai Securities Ltd between 2004 and 2005, specialising in the Hong Kong structured warrants market. Before that, he was an Information Risk Management Consultant with KPMG Hong Kong.

Martin graduated with a Master of Science in Insurance and Risk Management at the City University Business School in London. He also holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) from the Imperial College, London.

Gabriel Yap
Senior Dealing Director
DMG & Partners Securities

Mr Gabriel Yap,CFA is  an eminent stockbroker who is popular as a guest analyst with foreign media like CNBC, Bloomberg TV, UTV, CNBC 18 Online TV and local media like Channel NewsAsia, FM Radio 93.8 and Moneyweek in their analysis and commentaries programmes on the equities market, funds flow and listed companies evaluation.  He has been advising international institutional and high network clients on the major equity markets, including the US, Japan and Asian stockmarkets via many financial seminars held in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Virginia, San Diego, London, Frankfurt and Paris for the past 1.5 decades.
 
Mr Yap has also lectured for reknown institutions like the Stock Exchange of Singapore (for 5 years), Institute of Banking and Finance (for 9 years), the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (for 5 years) and the Singapore Institute of Management (for 5 years) in their various financial and investment programs.  Mr Yap has also lectured for the SEASEN program organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Asian Development Bank and various insurance companies like GE Life and AXA Insurance.  

Richard Jones
Assistant Vice-President - Investor Relations Department
Thai Beverage PLC.

Mr. Richard Jones is Assistant Vice President for Investor Relations Department and Head of Investor Relations at Thai Beverage Public Company Limited. He joined Thai Beverage in 2006, shortly after its listing on the Singapore Exchange. Prior to that, he was Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Shin Satellite Plc in Thailand.

Mr. Jones holds a bachelor degree in Arts from the University of Wales and an eMBA from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.

Noemie Alintissar
Business Development Manager
Premium Liquid Assets

"Noemie Alintissar has been Premium Liquid Assets' Business Development Manager since 2007.

With a strong investment-focused background, a "can-do" approach and a passion for Fine Wines, Noemie has successfully been fronting all marketing, advertising and corporate communication initiatives for the organisation.

Prior to her time at Premium Liquid Assets, Noemie's career was spent with Citigroup in Dublin, in their Corporate and Investment Banking division."

Her presentation topic is Wine, A Profitable Indulgence and it covers,

• Introduction to Fine Wines
• Introduction to Bordeaux region
• Mechanics of fine wine collection
• Advantages and benefits of wine collection

Albert Lam
Director – Investment Division
IPP Financial Advisors Pte Ltd

Albert Lam is the Investment Director of IPP Financial Advisers. He is the chairman of IPP Investment Committee, responsible for the oversight of economic and investment research. Prior to joining IPP, he worked as an analyst with DBS Vickers and has extensive experience in stock analysis, fund management and investment advisory. Mr Lam is well-versed with financial instruments, including complex ones such as hedge funds. He was in the mortgage financing business in Canada and Singapore in his early years. He holds a BA in Economics, York University, Canada.

Ron Ianieri
Co-Founder, Chief Options Strategist
Options University

Ron Ianieri started his career on the floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange working on the Foreign Currency Options Floor. He later moved to the Equity Options Floor and was trained in option theory by well known technical and analytical traders Cooper, Neff and Associates.

Ron then joined TFM Investment Group as the Option Specialist in Dell Computer where he developed his highly respected Option Trader Trainee Course. He later became a manager at a large, fast growing specialist unit, Gateway Partners, where he was an integral part of their expansion.

Ron was responsible for hiring and training new trader trainees and finalized the development of his Option Theory and Trading Course. He also aided in the development of the firms proprietary trading and strategic risk management program that featured several sophisticated pricing models and analytic tools.

During his years on the floor, Ron served on several Philadelphia Stock Exchange Committees including; the Marketing Committee, the Automation Committee, and the Electronic Book Development Sub-Committee.

He later went off the floor and joined a proprietary trading desk. Since then, Ron has consulted various mutual funds and hedge funds on investment selection protocols, risk management, and position and portfolio hedging techniques. He is also the co-founder and Chief Options Strategist for The Options University where he has been featured in numerous media articles for his immense knowledge in Options trading.

Wong Sui Jau
General Manager
Fundsupermart.com

Wong Sui Jau was born in 1974. He graduated in 1998 with Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University. He then joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 1998 and worked as a tax consultant. In 2000, he joined iFAST Financial Pte Ltd as Senior Analyst and was appointed Research Manager in April 2003. Subsequently, he was appointed General Manager of Fundsupermart.com in August 2005. He regularly contributes articles and quotes to the media.

Adam Sprague
Director
optionsXpress Singapore Pte Ltd

Adam Sprague is the Director of optionsXpress Singapore and has over 15 years of experience in the Finance industry, specializing in equities and derivatives.  Adam has extensive knowledge of online broking having previously been Head of Trading for Charles Schwab Australia, and State Manager for Challenger First Pacific, a full service stock broking firm in Victoria, Australia.

Ee Chee Koon (CK Ee)
Chief Operating Officer
Asia Charts Pte Ltd

A full-time active trader in the equities and derivatives markets. CK is a co-founder of Asia Charts Pte Ltd He is also the Chief Trainer as well as the Chief Operating Officer of the Company. He is practitioner of technical analysis and has been actively trading since 1993 in both Singapore, Malaysia and US Markets.

He focuses in trading growth stocks that have potential for big gains and using derivative instruments like options and warrants for better returns. In his 15 years of trading experience, CK has developed dozens of trading systems and methods for medium and short term (both swing and intra-day) trading.

CK hold a bachelor degree of Science from University of London and Master of Science from National University of Singapore. He is also a certified behaviour consultant.

Robert Miles
Internationally renowned speaker, author, and acclaimed Warren Buffett expert

Pursued by renowned journalists and media moguls on just about each and every move that Warren Buffett makes, Robert is not only a long term shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway,  he has had the great honor of getting to know Warren Buffett, the man and the remarkable wealth-building strategist. He has spent years studying, speaking and writing about Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway. He is also a long-term shareholder of this company.

A widely quoted expert, he has been featured in major media including PBS Nightly Business Report, CNN, Bloomberg TV, Channel News Asia, Shanghai Today TV, Sky Business News, New York Times, Investors Business Daily, The Australian, The Times of India, Money and USA Today.

He is the writer of the top-selling books The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets From the Berkshire Hathaway Managers and 101 Reasons To Own the World's Greatest Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Miles is also the author of Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor. He is host of the Buffett CEO Talk video series. Miles' presentations have been heard throughout North America, Europe and Asia, the Sub Continent, and Australia.

Miles is a graduate of the University of Michigan Business School and resides in Tampa, Florida.

Philip Ng
Executive Chairman and Executive Director
Karin Technology Holdings Ltd

Mr. Ng Yuk Wing, Philip, is the Executive Chairman and an Executive Director of KARIN Group. He was appointed to our Board on 5 September 2002. Mr. Ng is one of the founders of our Group, having established Karin Electronic Supplies Company Limited in 1977 and is responsible for the overall strategic planning and business development of our Group. Philip has over 30 years of experience in the components distribution business. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor Degree of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1972.

Henry Pek
Business Development Manager
CMC Markets Singapore

With 20 years of experience in the financial markets, Henry's career in the derivative industry career began in 1989 with Refco and continued with Standard Chartered Bank, holding senior positions. He has covered a wide range of instruments ranging from CFDs, FX, LME, Equities, Futures and Options spread across major Global Exchanges.

With experience from open outcry floor trading to online trading, he has developed practical insights into the various trading cycles and strategies.

Henry joined CMC Markets in Jan 2007. He is responsible for its retail sales performance and identifying opportunities with intermediaries in providing wholesale CFD trading solutions tailored to various business models.

Mark Smith
Corporate Communications Manager
UK Land Investments International

Mark is British and was educated at John Moores University Liverpool, where he studied International Business Studies and Japanese. Mark has spent 6 years working and living in Asia. While working for the Planning and Finance Department of the Japanese Government he was involved in the implementation, marketing and operation of a number of international events for foreign management teams and diplomats. Among these projects was the construction of the North Akita Airport. In Malaysia he has worked for one of Japan's largest retail companies. Having recently joined UKLII as Corporate Communications Manager, Mark is delighted to be a part of this dynamic and fast growing industry.

Keane Lee
Founder, T3B Sytems, MetaTrend Asia & C20 Options
T3B Holdings Pte Ltd

Keane Lee is the founder of T3B System, Metatrend Asia and C2O Options.

Keane is highly proficient in intraday and short term swing trading in Stocks, CFDs, Futures, Options, and Forex. Keane's proprietary T3B System tracks the price movement of stocks before they break up or down, thus profiting in both buy and sell-short positions. He has since become a multi-millionaire through trading and investing using his formulated system. Keane and his system have helped many beginners, intermediate or aggressive traders to achieve wealth in the stock and money market. As a result, Keane and his system have been featured in major newspapers and magazines in Singapore and Asia. These include the Straits Times, Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Star News Uniquely Singapore, Leading Business Magazine Shang Hai, Money Savers, Fundsupermart, Invest, City Portal etc.

Keane has been regularly interviewed by financial magazines and newspapers for his views on market trend and is a contributing writer to financial magazines like Asia Financial Planning Journal and Share Investment.

Having helped many ordinary people achieved excellent returns from the stock and money markets, Keane and T3B System has been awarded the Professional Enterprise Prestige Award from Dr Ahmad M Magad Member of Parliament Pasir Ris Punggol GRC and featured in the book "Asia Top Investments To Make your First Million."

Brandon Wendell
Instructor & Trader Mentor
Online Trading Academy

Brandon Wendell, CMT - Senior Instructor and Trader Mentor Brandon has appeared as a guest on CNBC Asia's Cash Flow and conducted special seminars for CNBC staff on technical analysis of the financial markets. He has published articles in The Trader's Journal Magazine and was interviewed in Share Investor Magazine. Brandon was also an industry expert speaker at the Asia Traders and Investors Conference 2008.

As a former stockbroker, brokerage trader, and hedge fund trader, Brandon brings various market views and insight to his trading classes and lectures. A wealth of knowledge, he has held NASD securities series 7 and 63 licenses. An Online Trading Academy graduate himself in 1998, Brandon has been trading equities, options, forex, and futures in his own account since. Brandon taught for Online Trading Academy in 1999 to 2001 before becoming a Realtor and commercial mortgage broker also managing a venture capital firm. Returning to the Online Trading Academy family late 2005, he now balances trading, teaching and a real estate career. Brandon is also a member of the Market Technicians Association and holds the Chartered Market Technician Designation.

Christian Lamprecht
Associate – Global Markets Equity, Asia
Deutsche Bank AG

Christian Lamprechtjoined Deutsche Bank's warrants team in 2005 and is responsible for product development and investor education.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Christian ran a financial market research company in Hong Kong, serving a number of financial institutions, such as ABN AMRO, Citibank as well as various German media channels.

Christian holds a degree in Business Management from the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Leonard Soekichoahman
Assistant Vice President, Share Financing Department
OCBC Securities Pte Ltd

Mr Leonard Soekichoahman is the Assistant Vice President for Share Financing in OCBC Securities. Prior to joining OCBC Securities, Mr Soekichoahman is a leading sales relationship manager with United Overseas Bank's Share Margin unit. Under his leadership, he succeeded in increasing UOB share margin loan volume. Prior to that, he was involved as business development manager in a local enterprise. Mr Soekichoahman holds a bachelor degree in Economics and Finance from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.

Vincent Ng
Associate Director, Equity Research
Standard & Poor's

Vincent Ng is an Associate Director with Standard & Poor's Equity Research, a position he has held since February 2003. Based in Singapore, Vincent is responsible for coverage of industrial stocks including transportation companies across Asia.

Vincent has been an analyst since joining the stockbroking industry in 1993. He was the Head of Indonesia Research at J.M. Sassoon & Co. In addition to having worked at Vickers Ballas Securities and DBS Vickers Securities, Vincent also spent a short time at the Singapore Economic Development Board as a project officer.

Vincent holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, majoring in Finance, from the University of Southern California.

Ma Xi
Application Manager
ShareInvestor Pte Ltd

Ma Xi joined ShareInvestor in September 2005 and currently leads the development of SI Station. His main responsibility involves analyzing, scheduling and implementing the key technologies in SI Station to help users make knowledgeable decision when trading.

Prior to ShareInvestor, Ma Xi worked as a senior developer in a Database Company. Ma Xi has a Master Degree of Computer Science from the National University of Singapore(NUS).

Hillary Ho
Investment Analyst
Phillip Securities Pte Ltd (Jointly organised with Singapore Exchange)

Hillary Ho Investment analyst Hillary was a Economics major from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and is now part of the team at Phillip Securities Research. In addition to issuing research reports, she also contributes to financial magazines like Smart Investor and gives monthly seminars in Singapore and Malaysia. Hillary's focus is largely on macro-economics.

Christine Huang
Investment Analyst
Phillip Securities Pte Ltd (Jointly organised with Singapore Exchange)

Christine Huang is Vice President - Exchange Traded Funds, responsible for sales and marketing of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) launched by Lyxor Asset Management for the retail and institutional markets in Asia. She has been conducting extensive ETF educational programs in the Asia Pacific regions, advocating indexing benefits and ETF investment approach.

Prior to joining, Christine was Sales Manager at FTSE Group, responsible for the product development, sales and marketing activities for FTSE and FTSE Xinhua Index licensing, and Associate Director at Standard and Poor’s Fund Services, responsible for promoting the fund rating services in Asia Pacific.

Christine graduated from University of Wisconsin, USA, with a Master Degree of Business Administration.

Thomas Matthew
MBA Financial Services
IPP Financial Advisors Pte Ltd

Thomas Mathew holds an illustrious career journey spanning the military to financial industry to management business to coaching and mentoring field.

In each of his career engagement, Thomas has been instrumental in transforming the landscape of his working community..... all through his sheer passion for excellence.

His passion for the extremes has also brought him to the unusual sports of sky-diving, deep sea diving and many more.

Having coached, trained and mentored thousands in the Asia-Pacific Region, Thomas is highly sought-after for his private coaching and inspirational seminars by companies, financial institutions and universities in the region.

He is also a regular guest speaker on the conference circuit and he has been invited to News Radio 93.8, CNBC, Channel NewsAsia's "Money Mind" program, Smart Investor, SIAS and Money Sense Programme.

A prolific writer, Thomas has endeavored to share his life experience and knowledge through the many best-seller books he has authored – "Dream Journey", "Survival Journey", "Opening and Closing of a Sales", "PEACE", "What is Your Formula?" and the latest "My Formula – Financial Planning for Lifetime Success".

In the topic of "Career Planning Strategies", he has shared this with universities like Metropolitan and UTM in Malaysia and NUSS in Singapore and also in many open sessions organized for the top advisory groups in Singapore.

Mohan Nainan Nainan
Chief Executive Officer,
Assetton Pte Ltd

An entrepreneur at heart. Who has spent much of his working life proving to others that not only was there a gap in the market but, importantly, also a market in the gap. From his earlier years as a regional manager in Time Magazine, to the founding and running of Travelsutra.com, it has been a recurring theme in his life. A Direction setter of inventive solutions with the willingness to absorb situations and get on with it. He transforms strategies into genuine results.

• He Co-Founded Travelsutra.com, an integrated travel & IT company. With institutional investors like Changi Airport investment arm & NSTB and individual investors like the current Chairman of Singapore Airlines and other Captain of Industries.

• Created one of Singapore's first interactive, infotainment TV shopping shows, Shopper's Paradise (Paravision).

He started Assetton to educate and give investors an opportunity to invest in Real Proven Assets that are Safe & Timeless which was only available to High Net Worth Individuals.

He shows you the ways to a safer WINE, LAND and ART investment that is Historically proven!

Ku Swee Yong
Director, Marketing & Business Development
Savills Singapore

Swee Yong is currently heading up Savills Singapore's regional Marketing and Business Development efforts. He is involved in the managing of the residential sales teams and the growth of corporate business and cross border investments.

Swee Yong joined Savills from Far East Organization where he was the General Manager of the organisation's representative office in Indonesia.

Prior to that, he was a Director heading up Singapore Tourism Board's Jakarta office, helping drive up tourist traffic to Singapore from more than 20 Indonesian cities.

Swee Yong's colourful career which spanned over 12 years revolved around the activities of sales and market development for corporations such as Singapore Airlines, HSBC Securities and Shell Chemicals.

Swee Yong has an MBA in Marketing awarded by the University of Hull, UK, a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (First Class), from the Imperial College, University of London, UK, and the Institut Louis Pasteur, University of Strasbourg, France.

Ridzuan Mohamed
Research Manager
HLG Securities Sdn Bhd

Ridzuan Mohamed is the Head of Research for HLG Securities, managing a team of five analysts. Prior to joining HLG, he was an equities analyst for Merrill Lynch and UBS in Kuala Lumpur. He has 10 years of experience in the stock-broking industry, including participation in major equity capital market deals in Malaysia. His recent industry awards include mentions in the Edge and Business Times/Starmine broker polls. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and a graduate of the London School of Economics.