Charles Li became Chief Executive of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) on 16 January 2010. Mr. Li has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services sector, including in corporate and securities law practices, corporate finance and advisory services in Hong Kong, the Mainland and New York.

Before he joined HKEx, Mr. Li was chairman of JP Morgan Chase China. He joined JP Morgan in March 2003 and was responsible for all of its China businesses. Mr. Li has also worked for Merrill Lynch and was president of Merrill Lynch China, responsible for its China investment banking operations. Before moving to Merrill Lynch in 1994, he practiced law in New York with Davis Polk & Wardwell and Brown & Wood.

He obtained a BA degree from Xiamen University of China in 1984, a MA degree from the University of Alabama in 1988 and a JD degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York in 1991.

Mr Li worked as an offshore oil worker in the north China sea prior to college, and a newspaper editor-reporter for China Daily from 1984-1986.

SFC: Chairman (from 1 October 2005 to 22 June 2006) and Executive Director, Supervision of Markets Division (from 6 June 2005 to 30 September 2005); Member, FSB Sub-Committee on Standards Implementation; Member, IOSCO Technical Committee; Chairman, IOSCO Technical Committee Task Force on Short Selling; Member of Council of the Treasury Markets Association and HKEx Listing Nominating Committee. Deputy Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange (LSE) 2001 – 2004; Board Member, LSE 1998 – 2004; Chairman, FTSE International 2000, 2002, 2004; Member, Listing Authority Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Authority of England 2003 – 2004.

Chairs Executive Committee. Member of Advisory Committee, Budget Committee and SFC (HKEC Listing) Committee.

Mike Rowse first came to Hong Kong in 1972 and has lived there ever since. After brief spells as a tutor and a tabloid journalist, he joined the Independent Commission Against Corruption on its establishment in 1974. After working in both the Operations and Corruption Prevention Departments, he joined the Government proper in 1980 as an Administrative Officer.

After a variety of different postings, Mike became the first Director of the Financial Secretary’s Office from 1997 – 2000, and from 1999 – 2000 was appointed concurrently as the first Commissioner for Tourism. In those twin capacities, he was the lead negotiator with the Walt Disney Company which resulted in the building of Hong Kong Disneyland. In July 2000, Mike set up Invest HK, the investment promotion agency established by the Hong Kong Government, and was its first Director-General up to his retirement in December 2008. The agency won several awards during his tenure and was recently recognized as the best investment promotion agency in Asia.

In 2001, Mike became the first expatriate civil servant in Hong Kong’s history to naturalise as a Chinese National.

Since his retirement, Mike has written a best-selling book (“No Minister & No, Minister: The True Story of HarbourFest”) and been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Mike is married to Fanny Wong, former Political Editor of the South China Morning Post, and now a communications consultant. They have one daughter and one son. Mike also has two adult sons from a previous marriage.

Rob Agnew is publisher of INSIDE - the Asian Institutional Investor Journal (www.inside-journal.com). He is founder and managing director of Matrix, a leading research and publishing company focused on the Asian financial services, technology and media industries. Rob has more than 15 years of experience in the Asian financial services industry. He is author of the ‘Capital Guide to the Chinese Investment Management Industry’. He is a graduate of University College Dublin, has an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and is a Doctoral candidate at the University of South Australia’s International Graduate School of Management.

Scott Atwell is the Manager of FIX Trading and Connectivity for American Century Investments, a leading investment manager committed to delivering superior investment performance and building long-term client relationships since 1958. Serving investment professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, American Century Investments offers a broad array of products across a variety of investment disciplines. With offices in New York, Mountain View, Calif. and Kansas City, Mo., the company manages more than $90 billion in assets through mutual funds, institutional separate accounts, commingled trusts and subadvisory accounts.

Mr. Atwell developed American Century’s FIX system providing FIX connectivity to virtually all of the brokers used for their equity trading worldwide. He currently serves as Co-chairperson of the Global Steering Committee for FIX Protocol Limited (FPL), the non-profit organization which manages the FIX Protocol. He has served as Co-chairperson of the FIX Global Technical Committee from 1997 through 2005 and actively participates in several other FIX committees and working groups.

Tobias Bland has the primary responsibility for managing Enhanced Investment Products. Prior to EIP, Bland was employed by Jardine Fleming Securities Limited (now JP Morgan) from 1993. He was responsible for establishing and running the proprietary trading desk for Jardine Fleming Securities Limited in 1995. As manager of the proprietary desk he was responsible for a relative value portfolio invested in South East Asia.

Prior to establishing the proprietary trading desk, Bland was involved in convertible bond, tax and warrant arbitrage. He joined Jardine Fleming as a member of the securities lending department in Hong Kong.

Bland has a Bachelor of Sciences degree from Southampton University, United Kingdom. He has obtained qualifications in financial derivatives and financial engineering, as a broker's representative and as an options/futures trading officer with the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. He is a patron of HOPE for Children, and dedicates time to philanthropic pursuits in Asia.

Joseph Cavatoni is responsible for the management of all iShares capital markets relationships across the Asia Pacific region. His primary focus will be on counterparty management including market making activities, broker-dealer education, and thought leadership with respect to ETF trading analytics.

Joseph has over 18 years of experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining iShares, he worked in UBS as the Head of Equity Swaps and Collateral Trading in Asia. He was responsible for the regional management of all Asian SBL and Equity Swaps activities for the firm. Prior to joining UBS, Joseph was at Merrill Lynch as Head of Prime Brokerage in Tokyo.

Joseph has a Bachelors of Business Administration from the George Washington University and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Mr. Chia is Executive Director and Head of Asia Equity Research at MSCI Inc. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Chia overseas the benchmark research and analytics applied research operations in Asia and manages the index applied research function globally.

Mr. Chia is a key member of the MSCI Equity Index Committee responsible for editorial decisions related to MSCI indices and also sits on the MSCI New Product Development Committee. Mr. Chia is a regular speaker at industry events on topics related to asset allocation, portfolio construction and investment risk management.

Before joining MSCI, Mr Chia was a buy-side analyst at HSBC Asset Management and held Director level position at the Ministry of Trade & Industry Singapore. Chin Ping holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Economics from the National University of Singapore and is a CFA Charter holder.

Paul joined Citi in 1993 in the European Banks credit and risk management team based in London. He subsequently worked in the securities business in product development and then moved on to sales account management functions.

In 2000 Paul transferred to Tokyo as Citi’s Securities Country Manager, and was a member of Citi’s management committee in Japan. After a brief tenure with Misys, a global IT firm, Paul returned to Citi in Hong Kong to manage the regional relationship strategy for banks and broker dealers, and has assumed responsibility for driving the strategy for Financial Institutions in Asia Pacific.

He is responsible for expanding Citi's business relationships in Asia Pacific for the Intermediaries sector which include broker dealers, custodian banks, and financial infrastructures such as exchanges CCPs and CSDs.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.

Zoltan Feledy is an Equity Trader at State Street Global Advisors where he is responsible for best execution in Asia’s Emerging Markets. He is the co-chair of FPL’s Asia Pacific Regional Committee where he is actively involved in the management of the organization. Previously, he was a member of FPL's Algorithmic Trading Working Group where he helped with the development of FIXatdl (FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language) an XML based language used to define algorithmic trading parameters.

Joseph Ho is Managing Director, Head of Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) Sales and Marketing based in Hong Kong. He is responsible for expanding the bank’s ETF business marketed under the brand name of its subsidiary, Lyxor Asset Management, across the Asia-Pacific region including opening up new markets and developing new products.

Joseph has held various positions in the asset management industry within the region including Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan, with over 25 years of experience. He started his career as a portfolio manager and subsequently joined Barclays Global Investors (BGI) as Regional Director for North East Asia. Before joining Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, Joseph was Head of BGI’s iShares ETF business in Asia ex-Japan.

John Honeyman is responsible for the Asian high frequency trading initiative in JP Morgan. John is a 15+ year veteran of Asia with more than 10 years' experience in electronic trading and client connectivity.

Prior to joining JP Morgan in 2005, John was head of Asian connectivity sales at Lehman Brothers Tokyo. John has dual bachelor's degrees in International Business and Japanese from North Central College, Naperville, IL, and an Executive Master of Science Degree in Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York. He is fluent in Japanese. Prior to his IB career, he held senior business roles in technology firms delivering solutions for system integration, digital imaging, data broadcasting, and consumer electronics.

Joel Hurewitz is the Head of Sales - Broker Dealer & Liquidity for Instinet, responsible for the sale of products to other broker dealers as well as management of their unrivaled suit of alternative execution venues. Prior to Instinet, Joel was Head of Sales for BlocSec at CLSA. Previous to CLSA, Joel was the Asia Pacific Head of Electronic Trading Products at HSBC, responsible for sales and marketing of the Bank's alternative execution products including FIX Connectivity, Direct Market Access and Program & Algorithmic trading. Joel is also an active member and supporter of FPL, the standards body for Electronic trading and has held the post of Co-Chair of the Technical Committee of FPL in Asia as well as the Co-Chair of the Business and Practices Committee. In addition, Joel spent three years as the Asia Pacific editor of FIXGlobal, the de-facto journal of electronic trading, read by industry professionals worldwide.

Angelina Kwan is the Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer – Asia Pacific for Cantor Fitzgerald and is responsible for all operating aspects of the company’s existing businesses and future ventures in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining the Group, she was with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. There she was a Director of the Supervision of Markets Division as well as a Director of Enforcement. Ms. Kwan has over 23 years of experience in Management, Regulation, Compliance, Audit and Internal Audit across a wide range of businesses in both Asia and the US.

A Certified Public Accountant both in Hong Kong and the United States, Ms. Kwan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Accounting), an M.B.A. (Finance) and a Bachelor of Laws. She is an Honorary Professor of Finance for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a SFC appointed Director and Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities Institute and lectures frequently for Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Securities Institute, various international regulatory organizations and course providers.

Greg Lee is Head of the Deutsche Bank Autobahn Equity trading group for the Asian region. Deutsche Bank Autobahn Equity is the Bank's Direct Market Access and Algorithmic trading platform.

Greg started his career at Tibco before moving to Reuters and UBS and has built, deployed and managed trading systems in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Switzerland, Japan, India, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Glenn Lesko is CEO of Instinet in Asia, and is responsible for the firm’s business units – Instinet Japan Limited, Instinet Pacific Limited, Instinet Singapore Services Private Limited and Instinet Australia Pty Limited – in the region.

Mr. Lesko, a CFA charterholder, previously headed Instinet’s U.S.-based International Trading Group. Mr. Lesko joined Instinet in 2006 from CF Global Trading, where he had served as a partner since 2003, and before that, served two years as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, directing the firm’s international trading desk. Prior to that, Mr. Lesko spent 10 years at ABN AMRO and its affiliates, first heading its Asian trading desk in Hong Kong and later its international trading desk in New York.

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

Prior to joining Franklin Templeton Mr. Molina worked for the Scudder Kemper group trading Asian Securities. He is a former Co-chairman of FIX Protocol Limited Asia where he was responsible for the promotion of electronic trading in the region. He has been quoted in numerous industry periodicals and actively works with the community in an effort to internationalize best market practices around the Asian Region.

Srinivas Padmasola has been a principal driver of Electronic Trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch since the early days of electronic trading in Asia. Srinivas has been an active member of FPL Asia committee since 2003 and is the current co-chair of the Asia Pacific Education & Marketing Sub-Committee.

Rahul Parulekar is Chief Business Office and Head of Markets at the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Scott returned to Sydney in 2008 following an extended stay in Europe. Scott was a Director of Chi-X Europe where he was responsible for the Chi-X Post Trade market model and all Post Trade solutions. This included the relationship with Fortis which become known commercially as EMCF, the European Multilateral Clearing Facility.

Scott has a long experience in the post trade arena including industry representation on the European Code of Conduct MOG (MOnitoring Group) for the implementation of an improved Clearing and Settlement framework.

Scott previously held the role of Director, Strategic Marketing at LCH.Clearnet where he was responsible for strategic relationships and marketing to further extend LCH.Clearnet's business model of pan-European services. Prior to this Scott was one of the founding team to establish and launch the Australian Derivatives Exchange where he was again responsible for all post trade services.

Scott has also worked for (sell side) industry firms such as Merrill Lynch, ABN and Bank Austria.

Martin Rogers is Head of the Asia Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and Co-Head of the Asia Regulatory Group of Clifford Chance. He is a member of the Clifford Chance Partnership Council. Martin is admitted both in England & Wales and Hong Kong and has 20 years' experience in Asia, advising on complex litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters, with a particular emphasis on the financial services industry. Martin is independently recognised as one of Hong Kong's leading litigation and financial services regulatory lawyers and acts for major international and Asian financial institutions and corporations, as well as for regulators (including the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Mercantiles Exchange and (previously) the Securities and Futures Commission).

Martin's professional appointments include: Fellow, Hong Kong Securities Institute; General Editor, Sweet & Maxwell Asia’s Hong Kong Civil Procedure – The White Book; General Editor, Sweet & Maxwell Asia's CJR Practice Manual; Member, Hong Kong Government Law Reform Commission Sub-Committee on the possible introduction in Hong Kong of Class Action Procedures; Representative for PRC and Hong Kong of TRACE (non-profit making, anti-corruption organisation). He is also Honorary Lecturer in Law, University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong and was a Temporary Deputy Registrar, Hong Kong High Court, 2001-2002.

Damien Ryan is founder and director of Ryan Financial Communications, which is a Hong Kong-based specialist in public relations, media training and crisis management for companies across Asia-Pacific.

The company was established after Damien’s career as a financial journalist. This included 8 years as a reporter and anchor with Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong and London. Damien has also worked for business network CNBC and various leading newspapers. He began his reporting career in Australia.

Ryan Financial Communications works with a range of money managers, investment banks, brokers and financial service providers. Clients include Russell Investments, Janus Capital, Liquidnet, Tora Trading, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered, Newedge and Copal Partners.

Damien travelled extensively as a senior reporter and news anchor, where he interviewed the largest names in the business world and politics. Business leaders interviewed included: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO; Stephen Green, HSBC Chairman; George Soros, Co-Founder of Quantum Fund; Robert Diamond, Barclays President: Zhou Xiaochuan, People’s Bank of China Governor: Jack Welch, Former General Electric and Fu Chengyu, Cnooc CEO.

Damien is also an experienced moderator and has participated in dozens of conferences including the World Economic Forum.

Francis So is the Asian head of dealing for BNP Investment Partners based in Hong Kong. He has been a senior dealer at Fidelity and was the head of dealing at Barings Asset Management before joining ABN Amro Asset Management in 2000. Since then he has since been through 2 mergers, the first with Fortis Investments taking over ABN Amro Asset Management and more recently with BNP IP taking over Fortis Investments.

Mr. Suzuki is General Manager and Chief Representative of Singapore Representative Office of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.(TSE). 　He is involved in the management of business relationship with market participants and relevant organizations such as exchanges and regulators in Asian area.

He assumed current position in Singapore in July, 2007. 　Before coming to Singapore, he was Head of Asian Relations of the Global Business Development.

He joined TSE in 1989, and throughout his career with TSE, he has been in charge of various fields such as Trade Monitoring, Clearing and Settlement, IT Development.

Christine To is the Pacific Regional Head of Trading for T Rowe Price based in Hong Kong with 20 years of trading experience.

Zach is responsible for Program Trading, Electronic Trading and Transition Management across the Pan Asian region. He joined Morgan Stanley in January this year. Prior to that he held a similar role at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong. Zach has been involved with program and electronic trading for over 15 years and has worked at Dresdner Bank and Merrill Lynch in London, Tokyo and Sydney before.

Zach achieved a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Queensland in 1988.

Ben Valentine is a Director, Head of Electronic Execution Sales for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Prior to Hong Kong, Ben was based in Sydney where he ran the Citi Electronic Execution Sales desk for 7 years. Over the years, Ben has played an active role in market reform, working closely with both the buyside, sellside and local exchanges/regulators.

Mark Wheatley is a Managing Director, Head of Japan Equity, and Head of Electronic Trading for the Asia Region at Merrill Lynch. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of the Firm’s electronic trading initiatives in the region.

Mark joined Merrill Lynch in 2005 in London and held a number of positions including Head of EMEA Portfolio Trading and Head of EMEA Cash Equity Trading. In 2007, he was named Head of Execution Services for EMEA in the run up to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). Over the three years he spent in Europe, Mark helped Merrill Lynch roll out its X-Act Electronic Trading platform, which incorporates the X-Direct low-latency DMA, the advanced Algorithmic Trading platform, the MLXN Internalisation Engine and the Smart Order Routing technology, resulting in Merrill Lynch’s No. 1 ranking on the London Stock Exchange and position as the largest participating broker on Chi-X when it went live in earnest post MiFID.

Before joining Merrill Lynch, Mark spent 15 years at Morgan Stanley where he ran the Portfolio and Delta 1 Trading business in Europe.

Prior to that, Mark studied Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

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

Prior to that he was Director and Head of Equity Electronic Trading with Salomon Smith Barney based in Hong Kong.

Jianfeng Wu is Deputy Director of Technology Center at Shanghai Stock Exchange. His major responsibility area includes the architecture design of the trading system and the planning of IT Governance.

He joined the Exchange in December 2000 and later became the chief architect of the New Generation Trading System Project. The new system successfully meets the demanding requirements of the largest retail market. In particular, it can support the trading conducted by 80 million investor accounts and continuously match 90 thousand orders per second. The capacity and performance of the system can be escalated linearly by adding more computers into the distributed architecture.

Jianfeng Wu used to undertake research at Tsinghua University, focusing on high performance computing, and work as the lead designer to construct a powerful parallel-processing computer system listed on HPC Top 500.