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Cai Lan, Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager, AIG Investments

Ms. Lan Cai is Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at AIG Investments. She is responsible for managing Merger Arbitrage portfolios and Insured Index Plus funds; overseeing research enhanced portfolios, long-short equities and high income funds. Prior to joining AIG Investments in 2000, Ms. Cai was Director of Financial Product Research and Development at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where she played a key role in developing financial derivatives products and building the electronic trading system, GLOBEX2®. Ms. Cai received an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a CFA charterholder.

Chang Feng, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley

Feng is a portfolio manager and the senior quantitative research analyst on the Systematic Active Equity team. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2004 and has 16 years of investment experience. Previously, he served as a senior research analyst at Citigroup Asset Management. Feng received a B.S. from Tsinghua University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.

Chang Kevin, Director, Credit Suisse

Kevin Chang is a Director in Equities at Credit Suisse, London. He is currently International Head of Derivatives Solutions, a recently created unit within Equities, designed to bring derivatives training and expertise to our most valued customers. Geographically, he focuses on Europe and Asia/Pacific. He joined CS in 1998 as a strategist in the Foreign Exchange Research and Strategy group and moved to the Equities Division in 2001.

Chen Show-Mao, Partner, Dvis Polk & Wardwell

Show-Mao Chen is a Partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department and has practiced in the Hong Kong office since 1994 and the Beijing office since 2007. The matters he has worked on recently include initial public offerings, privatizations and other securities offerings, as well as direct strategic or other investments in or by Asian enterprises, including many technology companies and financial institutions.He joined Davis Polk in 1992 and became a partner in 2000.Mr. Chen graduated in 1986 from Harvard College and in 1988 from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1992 he received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and in 2005 received his M.A. from Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. He is admitted to the bar of New York. Mr. Chen is listed in Chambers Global 2007 - Leaders in Their Field.

Chen Zhiwu, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management

Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory, securities valuation, emerging markets, and China's economy and capital markets. Dr. Chen is a frequent contributor to top economics and finance journals with research papers ranging from novel means of valuing stocks and pricing options, to studies of foreign exchange, market integration, mutual funds and profitable investment strategies. In the last few years, Dr. Chen has been actively doing research on market development and institution-building issues in the context of China's transition process and other emerging markets. What institutions are necessary for markets to develop? What roles do financial innovations play in a country's economic development process? These are among the issues which Dr. Chen's research focuses on. Dr. Chen's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Barron's, Far-Eastern Economic Review, and many newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and China. He is also a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines in China, on economic policy and legal reform issues.

Cho Ralph, Managing Director, WestLB

Ralph Cho is an Managing Director at WestLB AG in New York supporting both bank loan syndications and private placements for the Americas region. Mr. Cho joined WestLB in 2004 from Credit Suisse First Boston where he was in the Investment Banking Division within the Global Energy Group. He has been involved in a number of financings, concluding in excess of US$1 billion in the energy sector. Since joining WestLB, Mr. Cho has been involved in a variety of syndications for energy companies such as Caithness Energy (developer and acquirer of wind farms), Cheyenne Plains (developer of gas pipelines sponsored by El Paso), La Paloma and Wolf Hollow (acquisition of gas-fired plants in California and Texas respectively). Specifically in the biofuels sector, Mr. Cho has been actively involved in successfully syndicating approximately US$1.5 billion in Ethanol financings to date. These high profile financings include a US$275 million credit facility for ASAlliances Biofuel’s three 100 million gallon corn-based Ethanol plants in the mid-west sponsored by Cargill and DE Shaw, and a US$298.5 million credit facility for White Energy’s acquisition of an Ethanol plant in Russell, Kansas and construction of two 100 million gallon corn-based Ethanol plant in Hereford, Texas and Plainview, Texas. The most recent financing he has been involved with is Pacific Ethanol’s $325 million five plant destination portfolio syndicated in one of the more challenging market environments. Mr. Cho holds an MBA (Finance and Strategy) from the Yale School of Management

Chu Gang, Managing Director, Citigroup

Gang Chu is a Managing Director and a Senior Portfolio Manager for Citigroup Alternative Investments, where he manages a $1 billion capital municipal arbitrage fund. Prior to joining Citigroup Alternative Investments in May 2002, Mr. Chu comanaged a $6 billion municipal arbitrage portfolio at the Municipal Arbitrage desk at Citigroup Global Markets. Prior to April 2001, he traded a $5 billion municipal arbitrage portfolio in Citibank's Tax Exempt Structured Products business. Before that, he held several positions at Citibank, which he joined in September 1993. These posts included Head Trader of Emerging Market Derivatives desk for two years, Derivatives Structuring, Risk Manager and Risk Analyst where he gained extensive cross market and product expertise. Mr. Chu is a Phi Kappa Phi graduate with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. He earned a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Deng Kun, Managing Director, Lazard Asset Management

Mr. Deng is a Managing Director of Lazard where he has worked for over 10 years.  He is also a senior Portfolio Manager, managing, among others, The World Trust Fund, a London listed closed-end fund, Lazard Emerging World Fund, a Dublin-listed mutual fund, and Lazard World Alternative Value Fund, a hedge fund.  His past experience includes teaching at New York University, Hofstra University, and Peking University. Mr. Deng received degrees from Columbia University and Peking University. He holds the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter. Mr. Deng was ranked by Financial Times among the top 10 global equity managers for the years of 2000-2003.  He was also ranked among the top 10 global equity managers in each of the past 5 years in Financial Times. He has received numerous awards for Lazard Emerging World Fund, including the best 1 year, 3 year and 5 year performance awards for the past two consecutive years by Dachfonds. In 2006, he was rated No. 27 in Citywire's Top 100 Fund Managers in Europe. He served on the Advisory Board of the Emerging Powers Programme of the World Policy Institute. He currently serves as a director of the Board of Martin Currie "A" China Fund, and also as a director of the Board of Peking University Education Foundation (U.S.A.)..

Ding William, Chief Risk Officer, D.B.Zwirn

William Ding, Chief Risk Officer with D.B.Zwirn, has been named regional co-director of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA) Boston chapter. This is the fourth largest of PRMIA's forty-three chapters. Ding joins Debbie Williams, group vice president, corporate banking & capital markets for Financial Insights, who has been the leader of the chapter since its founding, a BS degree from Peking University.

Fan Jianqing, Professor of Statistics, Princeton University

Jianqing Fan was named professor of operations research and financial engineering. A specialist in statistics, he has served as a faculty member at the University of North Carolina and the Chinese University of Hong Kong over the last 14 years. He also has been chair of the statistics department of Chinese University, where he received teaching awards in 2001 and 2002. In addition, Professor Fan received the 2000 President's Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. He is a member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. He served on the board of the International Chinese Statistical Association from 2000 to 2002. The author of three books, Professor Fan serves as associate editor of The Annals of Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Statistica Sinica. He earned his bachelor's degree from Fudan University in China, his master's degree from Academia Sinica in China, and his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are quantitative finance and risk management, high-dimensional data analyses, likelihood theory, nonparametric tests, wavelets, generalized linear models, analysis of longitudinal data, nonlinear time series, model selections, data-analytic modeling, survival analysis, and statistical decision.

Feng Deng, General Partner, Northern Light Venture Capital

Feng has more than fifteen years of technical and managerial experience in the computer, communication and data networking industries. In 1997, Feng co-founded NetScreen Technologies, which has become one of the world's leading network security equipment vendors. In NetScreen, Feng served as VP of Engineering, Chief Strategy Officer and a board director. NetScreen went public on NASDAQ in 2001. In April of 2004, NetScreen was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion. Due to his contribution to the success of NetScreen, Feng was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award by E&Y in 2002 and the Innovator of the Year award by CRN in 2003. Prior to founding NetScreen, Feng worked at Intel Corp., where he held various technical and managerial positions. Feng holds a MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, a MS degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, and a MBA from Wharton Business School. Feng also holds five U.S. patents in computer system architecture and IC design.

Gong Frank, Managing director, China’s Chief Economist with J.P.Morgan Securities Inc in Hong Kong

Frank Gong, Managing director, Head of Research Division, as well as China’s Chief Economist with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc in Hong Kong. Currently, he is in charge of China’s credit interest market, securities, as well as the broad research work. Mr. Gong has a doctor degree in financial economics at Wharton Business School, master degree in Physics at Temple University in Philadelphia, and two degrees in Peking University (one master degree in logistics and economics, and one bachelor degree in physics)

Guo Shengbei, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank

Shengbei Guo is a Manaing Director of Deutsche Bank Absolute Return Strategy Group and the senior Portfolio Manager of the Noetic Global Diversified Trading Strategy, the Noetic Emerging Market Currency Strategy, and the Noetic U.S. Equity Long/Short Strategy. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 1997, Mr. Guo worked for Morgan Stanley in NewYork, where from 1996 until 1997 he was a trader and researcher in the Proprietary Technical Trading Department andfrom 1994 until 1996 was employed by the Equity Division as a project manager of risk management and accounting systems. From November 1992 until February 1994, Mr. Guo worked for the Equity Division of Morgan Stanley inTokyo, where he developed portfolio management and risk management software systems for equity and derivative trading. Mr. Guo received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Beijing University in July 1990, his M.S. degreein Computer Science from Columbia University in May 1991, and his MBA degree from Wharton School at Universityof Pennsylvania in May 1999.

Hong Pingfan, Head, UN

Pingfan Hong is a Director at UN, in charge of a team to produce global economic outlook for various UN reports, publications and speeches, including the World Economic Situation and Prospects, and the LINK Global Economic Outlook. He also contributes to the World Economic and Social Survey (these publications can be found at http://www.un.org/esa/policy/index.html) He is also in charge of the operation of the LINK Econometric Modelling System, a joint international project for studying international economic issues with participation of 100 experts from about 70 countries and several international institutions. His most recent publications and conference presentations outside of the UN include “Import Elasticity Revisited”, “Global Implications of the U.S. Trade Deficit Adjustment”, “Unbalanced Globalization and Ineffective Governance”, “Global Economic Implications of the ‘9-11’ Tragic Events”, “The Global Implications of the ‘New Economy’”, “The Impact of Higher Oil Prices on the Global Economy—a Tale of Two Different Cases”, “Flexibility versus Stability: Challenges for the Chinese RMB”, “Global Imbalances and the International Reserve System”, “China’s Prospects and the Sino-US Economic Relations”. Before joining the UN in 1989, he worked as an Officer in the State Planning Commission of China, and as a Research Fellow and Assistant to Professor Lawrence Klein at University of Pennsylvania. He earned a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania, a Dual Master in Computer Sciences and Management Sciences from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the McNamara Fellow of 1985.

Hu Dapeng, Managing Director, BlackRock

Dapeng Hu, PhD, CFA, Managing Director, Head of mortgage modeling at BlackRock Solutions' financial modeling group and a member of BlackRock's Fixed Income Global Research team. Dr. Hu's primary responsibilities include directing development of BlackRock's mortgage prepayment and credit models and conducting relative value research on MBS and ABS. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2003, Dr. Hu worked at Wells Fargo as a Director of financial modeling and at Citigroup as Vice President of empirical modeling. In these positions, Dr. Hu supported mortgage servicing valuations, whole loan portfolio management, and MBS trading. Prior to that, Dr. Hu was a member of the research faculty in the Real Estate Department at the Wharton School. Dr. Hu earned a Ph.D. in urban economics from University of Pennsylvania in 1998, a MS degree from the Chinese Academy of Science in 1993, and a BS degree from Peking University in 1990

Hu Joseph, Managing Director, Standard & Poor's

Joseph Hu is Managing Director at Structured Finance Ratings of Standard & Poor’s. Prior to joining Standard & Poor’s in June 1997, he served as Managing Director and Head of Mortgage Research at Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. Senior Vice President and Head of Mortgage Research at Nomura Securities International, Inc.Executive Vice President and Director of Mortgage Research at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.Senior Vice President and Head of Mortgage Research and Strategy at E. F. Hutton Inc.Vice President at Salomon Brothers IncHe also served as Economist at Federal National Mortgage Association and Assistant Professor at Economics Department of University of Maine. Dr. Hu received his Ph.D. degree in economics from Oklahoma State University; M.A. from the University of New Mexico; and B.A. from the National Taiwan University. He was 1989 inductee of Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, and 1990 inductee of Who’s Who in America. He is the author of Basics of Mortgage-Backed Securities, 2nd edition.

Huang Chi-Fu, CEO, Oak Hill Platinum Partners

Chi-Fu Huang is the CEO of Oak Hill Platinum Partners (OHPP), as well as a Principal of the firm. Dr. Huang received his B.A. in Economics from National Taiwan University in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Stanford Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1983 to 1994. Prior to founding OHPP, Dr. Huang was a Partner at Long-Term Capital Management L.P. from 1995 to 1999. Prior to that he was Head of Fixed Income Derivatives Research at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York from 1993 to 1994.(Taiwan University)

Huang Hui, Director, Teleos

CFA, FRM, was a Portfolio Manager and the Director of Quantitaive Strategies at Teleos Management LLC, a global macro hedge fund in Stamford CT USA until end of this October. He is currently on vacation and the co-founder of Advance Asia, a non-profit organization He was ranked Top 10 Global Macro Hedge Fund managers by Bloomberg (USTC)

Huang Katy, Head, Avendis

Ms. Katy Huang serves as Head of Structured Products and portfolio manager for Avendis Group. She primarily focuses on Asset Backed and Mortgage Backed Securities sectors and on development of structured finance initiatives. Ms. Huang is a member of the Investment Committee of Avendis Group. Ms. Huang joined Avendis Group in 2004 following 10 years of investment management experience at Alliance Capital Management Corporation, within their Fixed Income Structured Asset Strategies Group, where she was responsible for portfolio management of $6.5 billion in assets, which included ASAP Funding, a $3 billion high grade ABS arbitrage conduit. At Alliance, she ran the ABS, MBS, CMO and short term books of business and was responsible for providing recommendations, analysis, and trading of these securities for inclusion into hedge fund, CBO, institutional, private client, short duration, indexed and insurance strategies.

Huang Ming, Professor of Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Professor Huang's research interests range broadly: While his work in recent years has focused mainly on behavioral finance and, in particular, the applications of cognitive psychology to understanding the pricing of financial assets, he has also worked on credit risk and derivatives, on the effects of illiquidity on asset prices, and on the application of auction theory to takeovers. He has published in the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Finance, and has won awards for both research and teaching. Prior to coming to the Johnson School, Huang taught at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Professor Huang currently serves as an associate editor for the American Economic Review.

Huang Vivien, Head, Goldman Sachs

Vivien Huang is the head of ABS research at Goldman Sachs . She focuses on mortgage related ABS sector and is responsible for analyzing collateral performance and home price trends and developing prepayment and credit models for ABS products, including subprime mortgages and second liens. She is ranked #1 in ABS prepayment by Institutional Investor for 2006. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Vivien was a senior vice president of mortgage research at Lehman Brothers, and worked at Credit Suisse and Freddie Mac. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse University.

Jian Kevin, Managing Director, Citigroup

Kevin Jian is a Managing Director at Citigroup Risk Management. Mr. Jian oversees three global quantitative groups (Market Risk Analytics, Model Validation, and Counterparty Risk Modeling), provides advices regarding regulatory capital and economic capital, in the areas of market risk, counterparty risk, and operational risk and supervises key analysis and researches in risk management. He is one of the two point persons for Citigroup receiving VaR model recognitions from various regulators (FRB, OCC, SEC, FSA, etc). Mr. Jian has a Ph.D. in Physics from Courant Institute, New York University and a B. S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China.

Ju Xiongwei, Managing Director, Millennium Partners

Xiongwei Ju is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Millennium Partners, a multi-strategy hedge fund. He manages a team of researchers and traders and a global portfolio dedicated to various markets neutral arbitrage strategies. Previously he was a Director at Nomura Securities International's equity proprietary trading division, where he built a quantitative market neutral arbitrage operation. Mr. Ju holds a Ph.D. in finance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China.

Lee Wai, Ph.D., Chief Investment Officer & Director of Research, Lehman Brothers Asset Management

Wai Lee joined Lehman Brothers Asset Management in 2004 as head of Quantitative Investment Group, with overall responsibility for the quantitative investment function based in New York. Previously, he was the head of the Quantitative Engineering Group at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), responsible for the application of quantitative research across various products and strategies. At CSAM, Mr. Lee managed an equity portfolio and was a founding member of the Equity Investment Policy Group, which oversees the investment processes of all equity products. He was also a member of the Global Currency Group and Global Interest Rate Group. Mr. Lee joined CSAM in 2000 from J.P. Morgan Investment Management, where he was in charge of quantitative research and risk management for the Global Balanced Group. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Mr. Lee is the author of the book Theory and Methodology of Tactical Asset Allocation. Mr. Lee has served on the Advisory Board of The Journal of Portfolio Management since 1997. His research work has appeared in academic refereed journals and industry journals. Mr. Lee holds a B.S. (Hon.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Drexel University.

Li Anlong, Head, Barclays Capital

Anlong Li is Head of Quantitative Analytics for Emerging Market Credit and MBS at Barclays Capital. He has 16 years trading and research experience in derivatives including fixed-income, equity, weather/energy, credit and ABS. Mr. Li started his Wall Street career on swap desks at Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers. He was First Vice President and Head of Derivatives Modeling at First Chicago, Senior Vice President and U.S. Head of Structured Product Trading at ABN AMRO, Director in Quantitative Research at Citadel Investment Group, and Managing Director and Head of Research at XL Weather and Energy. He also served as a Research Fellow at the U.S. Federal Reserve and an Adjunct Professor in the Financial Engineering Program at Columbia University. He received his PhD in Operation Research from Case Western Reserve University in 1992. (Many of his publications can be found at http://ssrn.com/author=16402)

Li Bin, President, Entropy Partners

Mr Li is the President and Chief Strategist of Entropy Partners LLC. Mr. Li started his career in finance at Quantitative Analysis Group at Merrill Lynch and then was Executive Director and Head of Global Quantitative Trading Strategies at UBS. In 1998 Mr. Li co-founded Tradetrek.com) and its broker-dealer subsidiary - Tradetrek Securities Inc. Tradetrek.com provides a fully integrated investment platform to online investors. The online broker business was sold in 2004, and the online financial information business became FXTrek.com Inc, now a successful foreign exchange information and analysis provision company. In 2000, he co-founded AAStocks.com International Ltd (now the most successful financial website in Hong Kong). Before setting up Entropy Partners, Mr. Li was a senior portfolio manager at Paloma Securities LLC. He is also the co-author of the book "Quantitative Analysis, Derivatives Modeling, and Trading Strategies in the Presence of Counterparty Credit Risk for the Fixed-Income Market" (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007). Mr. Li has a Ph. D. in Physics from New York University in 1992 and he holds a B. S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1985

Li David, Quant Research Director, CICC in Beijing

David Li has recently join CICC in Beijing as quant research director. Previously he worked for banks in the area of risk management and credit derivativestrading. Mr Li has a Ph.D. degree in statistics from the University of Waterloo andmaster’s degrees in economics, finance and actuarial science from NanKai University. Heis an Associate of the Society of Actuaries and an elected Council Member of theInvestment Section of the SOA.

Li Shanquan, Managing Director, Oppenheimer Funds

Shanquan Li is a Managing Director at Oppenheimer Funds. Shanquan Li Graduated from Renmin University of China in 1982. After his graduation, he was recruited by the Development Research Center of the State Council. In 1986, he was selected as Humphrey Fellow and was invited to the United States by Winston Lord, Ambassador of the US in Beijing. He earned his Master degree in International Finance at Brandeis University in 1989. He started asset management practice as an analyst at Acadian Asset Management in 1990. He moved to Brown Brothers Harriman as a Senior Analyst in 1991. In 1995, he started with Oppenheimer Funds in the firm’s global equity group as a portfolio manager. Shanquan's blog

Lim Terence, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Terence Lim is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, he joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 1999. Terence has also been a senior researcher and head of international research on the quantitative research team. Previously, he taught at Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business as a visiting assistant professor in finance, and began his investment management career at Koeneman Capital Management in Singapore. Terence holds a PhD in financial economics from MIT Sloan School of Management, dual BS degrees summa cum laude from the Management and Technology Program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton and Engineering Schools as recipient of a Chase Manhattan Foundation scholarship, and the CFA, CPA and CFP professional designations. His research has been awarded a Q-group grant, and published in the Journal of Finance, the Derivatives Sourcebook, and Modern Investment Management: An Equilibrium Approach. Born and raised in Singapore, Terence now resides in Far Hills, New Jersey with wife Joanne and their three children.

Lin Junze, Managing Director, Bear Stearns

Junze Lin is a Managing Director at Bear Stearns. He is in charge of the quantitative support for credit derivative desk and structures, models, and prices all credit derivative products. Mr. Lin is a member of the team that pioneer "base correlation" in synthetic CDO modeling. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. of Mathematics and has a Ph.D. Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.

Liu David, Director, Merrill Lynch

David Liu is a Director in the Structured Credit Principal Investment Group at Merrill Lynch, is responsible for credit analysis and portfolio management of the structured product (ABS & CDO) trading book. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, he was executive director in the Securitized Product Strategy Group of UBS, where he was responsible for modeling and strategy of mortgage credit and mortgage-related ABS products. Liu was ranked first in non-agency MBS Research and third in ABS/prepayments in Institutional Investor's 2006 Fixed-Income Research survey. Before joining UBS, Liu was vice president of ABS research at Deutsche Bank, focusing on HEL and MH prepayments, defaults, and relative value analysis. He received his PhD in finance and economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

Lu Bill, Director, China Operations at Tudor Investment Corporation

Bill Lu is the Director of China Operations at Tudor Investment Corporation (都德投公司). In that capacity, he manages relationships for Tudor business and investment opportunities in China and oversees establishment of Tudor’s China office. In addition, he has been responsible for managing and developing global macro trading programs for Tudor BVI Global and Tensor System Funds. He has been with Tudor since January 2004. Previously, he was a quantitative strategist at QFS/Grossman Asset Management. From 1998 to 2001, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1998 and a B.A. in International Finance from Fudan University in 1991

Luo Jay, Managing Director, SAC

Dr. Jay Luo currently is a Managing Director, Head of Asia responsible for the Asia operations of SAC Capital Advisors, LLC, a Stamford, Connecticut based multi strategy hedge fund. Prior to joining SAC, Jay was a managing consultant at Reuters Risk Management Consulting group, (Peking University)

Ma Gene, Head, CEBM

Gene Ma is currently the Chief Analyst of CEBM. Before joining ISI - CEBM, Gene was the chief macro analyst at CITIC Securities, the largest securities firm in China. Gene has also worked at Ministry of Finance in Beijing, and Harvest Fund Management, one of the largest fund management companies in China. Gene has also taught graduate-level economics and finance courses at three US universities from 1998-2004 (University of Illinois, George Washington University and Georgetown University). Gene was born in Shanghai, and graduated from Peking University and Cornell University.

Min Zhu, President & CTO, WebEx Communications, Inc.

Min's career spans from the late 1980s, including experience with mainframes, database systems, networking and communications, telephony, PC collaboration software and expert systems. Min developed his technology expertise at the IBM Scientific Center in Palo Alto. He was also the deputy to the Chief Technical Officer of Price Waterhouse and the Vice President of Expert Edge, a software design company. In 1991, Min co-founded Future Labs, one of the first companies to produce multi-point document collaboration software. Quarterdeck acquired Future Labs in 1996, and Min went on to co-found WebEx. Min holds an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.

Qiu Glen, Portfolio Manager, Plinthos Capital

Glen (Guolu) Qiu is Portfolio Manager at Plinthos Capital, where he runs an equity long-short hedge fund with seed capital from one of the largest funds-of-funds in the world. Previously, he was Partner and Portfolio Manager of Altair Navigator Management, an equity long-short hedge fund. Prior to that, he was General Partner and Executive Vice President of Wedge Capital Management, an institutional investment manager currently with $10 billion assets under management.

Ruibin Meng, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

2002-Present, Head of Quantitative Trading, Goldman Sachs. Managing a team of trading and researching professionals. Managing a diversified investment portfolio for Amaranth.
Prior to joining Amaranth, Mr. Meng worked at BNP/Cooper Neff and Jemmco.
Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Oregon, 1989.
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 1983

Suo Stephen, SVP, Trust Company of the West

Stephen Suo, CFA, is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Trust Company of the West (with over $160 billion AUM), working for the Leveraged Finance division consisting of more than $10 bln credit portfolios including CLOs, credit opportunity funds, mezzanine funds, credit hedge funds and distress funds. Before joining TCW, he worked for 5 years in the Acquisition Finance Group of Fortis Bank responsible for high yield origination and distressed investments. Prior to that, Mr. Suo worked at the lending department of ICBC. Mr. Suo was a Ph.D. candidate in Energy Economics from Penn State University and received his MBA in Finance from University of Rochester. Mr. Suo is a guest professor at East China University of Science & Technology.

Tang Henry, Senior Portfolio Manager, Goldman Sachs

Henry is a senior portfolio manager at the quantitative investment strategies group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management where he helps run the flagship hedge fund Global Alpha. Henry was at Long Term Capital Management in Greenwich, CT. Henry crceived his BS and MS in computer science from MIT and CFA

Wei Alex, SVP, Delaware investmen

Mr. Wei is a Senior Vice President at Delaware investment, he manages and analyzes fixed income investments quantitatively with emphasis on structured credit securities including ABS, MBS and CDOs. He is a portfolio manager responsible for over $3 billion of credit-sensitive structured securities. He plays a leading role in launching and managing Delaware's ABS CDO business and oversees other CDO activities including corporate synthetic CDOs and high yield bond CDOs. Previously, Mr. Wei served as Vice President and led the structured product team at Conseco Capital Management, managing the structured portion of its affiliated insurance assets including MBS, ABS and CMBS of approximately $8 billion. He had extensive experience in analyzing the credit performance of residential mortgage-backed securities, including jumbos, Alt-As, home equity loans and manufactured housing loans. He also led the development of proprietary fixed income systems, including interest rate option models, prepayment models for MBS and ABS, and a risk management tool for managing high yield CBOs and was also responsible for trading and managing of derivative securities.

Yan David, Director, CDO Research Group

David Yan is a Director at Credit Suisse in the CDO Research Group. Dr. Yan has been working on quantitative research and modeling in the areas of CDO, credit derivatives, mortgage securities, credit cards receivables and other structured products since 1998. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Dr. Yan worked for FTN Financial and OCWEN Financial covering a broad area in fixed income securities. Dr. Yan has published many research articles on synthetic CDO, credit derivative, and interest rate in the journals including The Journal of Fixed Income, Derivatives Quarterly, and Fixed Income Strategies of Merrill Lynch. Dr. Yan received his Ph.D. in finance and M.A. in economics from The University of Alabama. He graduated with a B.S. degree in economics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. Yan is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Ye David, Managing Director, Nomura

David Ye advises the Chief Risk Officer at Nomura, and the Board of Directors on market and liquidity risk impacts of major corporate strategies including M&A transactions and repositioning of balance sheets. Prior to the most recent position, David developed market and counterparty risk analytics for derivative and cash trading activities within the firm. David holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and a PhD. in Mathematics from Duke University.

Yong William, Director, Credit Suisse Asset Management

William Yong is a Director and a senior Portfolio Manager in the Quantitative Strategies Group of Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), where he heads CSAM's U.S. quantitative equity research and products. Mr. Weng is responsible for the management of CSAM's U.S. equity long-short market-neutral fund, enhanced index funds, and other equity structured products. Mr. Weng also serves as a member of CSAM U.S. Equity Investment Policy Committee and a member of CSAM New York Product Control Committee. Before joining CSAM, Mr. Weng was a Vice President and senior quantitative analyst with Banc of America Capital Management. Mr. Weng holds a B.E. in Management Information Systems and an M.E. in Systems Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University.

Zhai David, Managing Director, Wachovia Securities

David Zhai, Ph.D., is a Managing Director and the Head of Market Risk - Traded Credit and Structured Products in Wachovia Securities. Previously he held senior market risk positions in hedge funds and Swiss Re Financial Products where he was responsible for portfolio construction and risk management. He also had front office roles in JP Morgan and Harvard Management, as well a senior credit officer role with Moody's Structured Finance Group. He has covered product areas including equity and derivatives, consumer and commercial credit products, credit and interest rate derivatives, asset-backed products and CDOs, emerging markets, and insurance/weather derivatives.

Zhang David, Director, MSTAR

David Zhang is Director and Head of MSTAR (mortgage strategy, technology, Analytics and Risk), a newly formed group providing analytical support for mortgage trading business at CS. Before joining CSFB, he was a senior director of research at FreddieMac, responsible for term structure, prepayment modeling and valuation of debt, derivatives and mortgage products for FreddieMac's investment portfolio. He also worked at CIBC Oppenheimer in New York and University of Chicago. He has a Ph.D from Princeton University.

Zhang Fan, Founding Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital China

Fan Zhang is a Founding Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital China. Prior to Sequoia Capital, he worked at DFJ ePlanet Ventures, where he served on the boards of Baidu Technology (BIDU) and Kongzhong Corporation (KONG), and led the investment in Focus Media (FMCN). Fan was named one of the "Top 10 Most Active Venture Capitalists" in 2004 and 2005 by zero2ipo, the leading venture capital consulting and research firm in China, and in 2006 was selected as one of the “Top Venture Capitalists in China” by Forbes magazine. Previously, Fan worked at the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs Asia. Fan studied Computer Science at Tsinghua University, and received a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.

Zhang Haiyun, Principal, Bank of America

Dr. Haiyun (Henry) Zhang is a Principal at Bank of America, focusing on debt and equity investments in China. He has been focusing on innovations in the corporate debt and credit derivatives markets since 2001, when he joined Toronto Dominion Bank as Director of Credit Derivatives Trading. Prior to that, Dr. Zhang worked in derivative risk management, management consulting, and financial technology. He holds a Ph.D. degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. degree in physics from Peking University.

Zhang Hongfei, Director, FSA

Hongfei is the head of risk management for the Financial Products Group at Financial Security Assurance and is responsible for all derivatives trading, investment and funding authorizations, asset liability management, risk monitoring, risk measure and risk infrastructure. During his tenure, FSA Financial Products’ fixed income portfolio that invests mainly in ABS/MBS grows from $2 billion to current $17 billion. Also Hongfei is heading FSA’s china business development effor, responsible for marketing, product design and presentations to major Chinese financial institutions and QDII investors. Prior to FSA, Hongfei was a vice president at Prime Brokeraage Division at Deutsche Bank in New York, responsible for developing risk analytics on a wide range of fixed income, equity and derivative related products for DB’s hedge fund and asset management clients. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Hongfei was a director of quantitative investment in the investment department of Nationwide Insurance Enterprise at Columbus, Ohio, where he was responsible for developing derivative, yield enhancement, ALM and risk management strategies and models. He led and managed one of the first dynamic hedging programs in the industry to hedge the exotic derivatives in their variable annuity business. Before his financial industry career, Hongfei was a Professor at Ball State University and University of Texas at Austin. He was also a research fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD in mathematics from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands and a B.S. in applied mathematics from Tsinghua University, China. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Zhang Jeff, Senior Managing Director, Bear Sterns

Jeff Zhang, Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, trades structured products(ABS/CMBS/MBS); he is based in Hong Kong, covering all Asia Pacific areas. Prior to relocating to Hong Kong, Jeff worked in New York as a member of CSFB's Mortgage ABS Strategy team, the team was ranked number one in 2003 Institutional Investors survey. Before joining CSFB in 1998, Jeff worked at interest rate derivatives desk of Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets and built portfolio analytics at Merrill Lynch. Jeff is a CFA charter holder; he holds MBA, M.S.and B.S. degrees from New York University, University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University, respectively.

Zhang Lizeng, Managing Director, Bear Sterns

Lizeng Zhang currently serves as a Managing Director at Bear Sterns, where he is responsible for quantitative strategies in convertible securities. Prior joining Bear Sterns, Dr. Zhang was a Vice President at Roberson Stevenson and at Bank of America. At BofA, he was responsible for credit risk measurement and management for the Bank's global trading portfolios, which are structured and traded across world markets and contain a wide range of financial products such as currency, interest rate, equity, commodity and credit derivatives. (PKU)

Zhang Zili, SVP, Quantitative Research

Mr. Zhang is a Senior Vice President, Director of Research and Fund Manager with American Century Investments, a premier money manager and top mutual fund company in the US with assets under management of about $100B. With more than 13 years of direct money managing experience and public track records. Dr. Zhang and his portfolio team manages the American Century Income & Growth, Equity Growth, Small Company, Disciplined Growth, Long-Short Equity and International Core Equity funds totaling more than $15 Billion. Besides directly managing various funds and supervising portfolio managers, Dr. Zhang also directs the whole equity research group responsible for investment strategies, stock selection models, and quantitative systems for global stocks. Prior to joining American Century Investments in 1995, he was a Research Fellow with Ilya Prigogine Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Zhang has a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin with Nobel Laureate Professor Ilya Prigogine. Dr. Zhang has publications in financial economics and co-authored a book on finance and investing. Working from American Century's Silicon Valley office, Dr. Zhang is a member of Executive Club of HYSTA and a Board Director of Noosphere Communications Inc.

Zheng Fan, Founder, Keywise

Mr. Zheng is now Founder and CIO of Keywise Capital Management. He is Co-founding Partner of Neon Liberty Capital, managed N. Asian equity portion of $500 million Emerging Markets Equity hedge fund; manager of Greater China Long/short fund, $95 million. His previous work experience includes Portfolio Manager of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Emerging Markets, Co-manager and Asian specialist for Global EM product with $4.0 billion AUM; Portfolio Manager of Global Small Cap EM product with $250 million AUM; Equity Research Analyst, Asian Financial & Property sectors, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, responsible for primary industry research and stock selection advice on JPM's EAFE, Global, and Emerging Market's products with total AUM of $4.0 Billion; Equity analyst, Rockefeller & Co., Inc.; Assistant to Chairman, China International Trust and Investment Corporation; Project Manager in power equipment department, Ministry of Machinery Building Industry. He holds M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, and is a CFA charter holder.

Zhou Fei, Managing Director, Lehman Brothers

Dr. Fei Zhou is currently a Managing Director in the fixed-income derivatives research group at Lehman Brothers, specializing in developing stochastic term structure models for pricing and analyzing various interest rate derivatives traded on the swap & option desk. Previously, Dr. Zhou worked in the area of equity portfolio optimization and strategies at Bear Stearns. He received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from New York University. (PKU)

Zhu Quan, SVP, Countrwide

Quan Zhu is currently an executive vice president in charge of fixed income research at Portfolio Risk Management Department of Countrwide Financial. His main responsibilities are interest rate modeling, prepayment analysis, derivatives pricing, and portfolio optimization. He has been with Countrywide since 1998. Previously, he worked as a vice president at Kamakura Coporation, a risk management software company, and as a computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of USC. Prior to that, he worked at Fermi National Lab, Brookhaven National Lab, and Los Alamos National Lab as a high energy physicist. He has a Ph.D in physics from Rice University. (USTC)

Zhu Steven, Head, America Securities

Steven Zhu is currently Head of Credit Analytics and Methodology at Bank of America Securities in New York. Steven has more than 12yrs industry experience in fixed income, credit and commodity products. Steven worked as a desk quant, exotics trader and structuring derivative products across different markets at First National Bank of Chicago (now part of JPMorgan Chase), Williams Energy Trading, as well as Citibank at both its New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo office.
Steven specializes in the field of quantitative modeling and risk management. He obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and subsequently spent one-year term as a NSF Research Scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management. Steven has presented at both RISK and GARP risk conferences and he has published in the subject of risk management and quantitative finance in numerous journals. (PKU)