William Fung

PhD (London) PhD (Manchester) is Visiting Research Professor of Finance at the London Business School. He is a leading expert on hedge funds, both through research and hands on involvement in management and consultancy. Bill currently serves on the JP Morgan Alternative Beta Reference index committee and other advisory boards of hedge funds as well as financial services companies. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Maple Financial Group Canada and a member of the Supervisory Board of Maple Bank GmbH.

Melvyn Teo

PhD (Harvard) is Associate Professor of Finance and Director BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre at the Singapore Management University . Melvyn's research spans hedge funds, institutional investors, and capital markets. His articles on these topics have appeared in top peer-reviewed finance journals including the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies , and have garnered awards from the European Finance Association, Inquire, AIMA, and INSEAD. Melvyn has also taught and consulted for various banks, sovereign wealth funds, and investment management firms.

Bart Broadman

MBA and PhD ( University of Southern California ) is co-founder and Managing Director of Alphadyne Asset Management. Prior to forming Alphadyne, Dr Broadman spent 14 years in Asia for J.P. Morgan, most recently as Vice Chairman of Asia and Head of Markets (Credit, Rates, and Equities) in Asia. Before that, Dr Broadman was Assistant Professor of Finance at Arizona State University. Dr Broadman is currently a Board member of DBS Bank, the Central Provident Fund (CPF) and the Singapore American School. He is a
member of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Investment Committee and has recently been appointed Chair of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Financial Research Council (FRC).

Tan Chin Hwee

CFA, CPA and MBA (Yale) started Apollo ( Singapore ) in 2007 and runs the Asia capital market business of Apollo Global Management, a leading USD55bn global investment firm. Prior to joining Apollo (Singapore), Mr. Tan was a managing director at Amaranth, where he pioneered a number of historic capital market "firsts" in public and private investment opportunities across the capital structure in India, Singapore, Pakistan, Indonesia and Taiwan from June 2003. Prior to joining Amaranth, from September 2001 to May 2003, Mr. Tan worked part-time for Derosa Research and Trading Inc. as a forensic accounting associate while pursuing his MBA education at Yale School of Management on a DBS Bank sponsorship. From 1999 to 2001, he ran the proprietary credit portfolio for Development Bank of Singapore (DBS). Mr. Tan began his career in 1995 at the treasury division of Keppel Corporation, where he traded proprietary Asian equities and fixed-income until 1999. He received a Bachelor of Accountancy degree and graduated with 2nd Class Upper Honors in 1995 from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on a Keppel group sponsorship. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is both an Australian and Singapore-registered Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Mr. Tan speaks fluent Mandarin, Taiwanese and Cantonese and he has taken lessons on Bahasa Indonesia up to intermediary level. Mr Tan is honored as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders 2010 and also voted as among the emerging top 40 absolute return investors globally.

Stephen Diggle

BA and Masters degree (Oxford) is co-founder of Artradis Fund Management (2001) and has been involved in trading equities in both Asia and Europe since 1986. His prior experience includes more than seven years spent with Lehman Brothers commencing with 3 years in Hong Kong where he held the position of Head of the Asian Equity Derivatives Trading Department, which involved trading in all derivative products, from futures to structured products. He was also Head of Lehman Brothers Hong Kong Futures. Subsequently, Stephen was based in London and was Executive Director of the European Equity Emerging Market Trading Department. In this role, he led a team of traders dealing in the equities, ADRs and equity derivatives of a group of European emerging markets. He was also responsible for making markets in 60 Asian GDRs and worked closely with the Asian Risk Group of the Hong Kong office of Lehman Brothers. In December 1998, he was appointed as Executive Director of the European Equities Syndicate and led a team of four in that role. In March 2000, he was appointed as Executive Director of the European Equity E-commerce team dealing with a wide range of internal and external E-commerce initiatives.Before working for Lehman Brothers, Stephen was employed with several major securities firms and gained wide experience in trading equity derivatives, developing numerous derivative products and managing proprietary trading on behalf of those securities firms.

James Liu

MBA (Chicago) and AMP (Harvard) is founder and Managing Director of the OAKS Family Office, a single family Family Office based in Singapore . Mr Liu started his career with Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia and served as interim Representative in Brazil . At Chase Manhattan Bank New York he was variously head of the corporate and institutional lending team for the Eastern Arab States & North Africa, Deputy General Manager in Lebanon , Head of Strategic Planning for Asia Pacific, and Head of Non Presence countries for the Western Hemisphere . At Arab Bank he was Chief Executive for Asia Pacific, Chairman of the Executive Committee for Global Personal Banking and Global Investment Management, where he had oversight of private banking and asset management activities of the bank.