Stephen Chu, chief executive director, executive director and a responsible officer of Prosperity REIT, was previously CEO of ARA Asset Management (Singapore), which manages Fortune REIT.  Chu originally joined the ARA Group in 2007 as a non-board director of Fortune REIT. Before that he held senior posts with various international companies.

Chu has more than 19 years of international property experience in leasing, sales, facility and property management, and marketing work covering the retail, residential, hotel and commercial sectors of the real estate market. He holds a BA and an MBA.

Jamie Allen is secretary general of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA). He has more than 20 years’ experience as a writer, editor and analyst covering Asian business, finance and economics from Hong Kong.

Prior to the establishment of ACGA in mid-1999, Allen acted as a consultant for multinational companies, carrying out customized research on mainly finance-related topics, including corporate governance. From 1992 to 1995 he worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit as editor of Business Asia, a regional management newsletter, and was a contributor to The Economist from 1994 to 1996. He began his career in the late 1980s as a reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

Allen is a graduate of the Australian National University, Canberra, where he received a BA in political science and Chinese language. He furthered his Chinese studies during a two-year period as a student in Taiwan in the early 1980s.
In 2006 he was appointed to the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and from 2001 to 2007 he served on the Public Shareholders’ Group, an advisory body formed by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission.

Dr Eva Chan is head of IR at CC Land Holdings. With more than 18 years’ experience as a CFO and company secretary at various listed companies in Hong Kong, she is mainly responsible for formulating the company’s IR strategies and conducting meetings with investors and fund managers all over the world.

Chan graduated from the City University of Hong Kong with a BA in accounting. She then earned an MBA from the University of Nottingham and a DBA from the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong.
  
She is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries, a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

David Douglas is global head of equity capital markets at Standard Chartered, based in Hong Kong. The global ECM business advises issuers and shareholders on the structuring, pricing, timing and distribution strategy for all types of equity issues including IPOs, rights issues, follow-on offerings and block trades.

Douglas has more than 25 years’ investment banking experience. Prior to Standard Chartered, he was Asia head of ECM for Lehman Brothers; before that, he was with Credit Suisse First Boston.

He has an MA from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Lo Ka Wai (Claudia) is vice president of investor relations at Anta Sports Products. Prior to joining the company, she worked for international accounting firms for 10 years. She was financial controller of China Mengniu Dairy Company and chief financial officer of Bosideng International Holdings.

Lo graduated with a MA in business administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Haikuan (Dennis) Lu is head of the investor relations department of Golden Meditech. He has 15 years’ experience in media, corporate communications, marketing, strategic planning, equity research and IR.

Prior to Golden Meditech, he was with ITT Corporation, where he supervised strategic growth initiatives in Asia-Pacific from 2004 to 2007. Before that, he worked as a financial news editor and reporter with Xinhua News Agency, China’s largest media conglomerate.

Haikuan has a BA in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1995 and two diplomas in financial journalism and media management from China Journalism College and the UK-based Thomson Foundation. He also holds an MBA in finance and marketing from William E Simon School of Business Administration, University of Rochester.

Denise leads the financial communications practice in the region, encompassing transactions, M&A and IPOs, ongoing financial communications and investor relations for listed companies, and work for clients in the financial services industry.

Maguire has worked on a number of the largest IPOs and other transactions in Hong Kong in recent years, including PetroChina and Ping An Insurance IPOs, the privatisation of the MTR and GDE’s restructuring.  She also provides ongoing financial communications counsel for a number of listed companies.

Her experience also includes corporate and marketing communications and issues management for financial and professional services firms in the fields of banking, insurance, legal and accounting. Maguire works closely with the regional business and financial media based in Hong Kong.

Gary Ng is vice president of IR of Lenovo Group. He has worked for a number of Hong Kong-listed companies including Esprit Holdings and Guangdong Kelon, as well as for several US-based IR agencies, including Gavin Anderson, Dewe Rogerson and Ogilvy & Mather.

Prior to joining Lenovo, Ng was director of IR and corporate communications and company secretary at Clear Media, China’s largest outdoor media company listed in Hong Kong.
Ng holds a MA in international communication from Macquarie University, Australia, an MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a BSc in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong. He is founder and former chairman of the Investor Relations Association Asia.

Robert Gardner is managing director of the Asia-Pacific region at Ipreo, where he oversees the operation of the firm’s Hong Kong office. He has nearly 15 years of experience in working alongside IR professionals in the area of shareholder identification and market intelligence.

Prior to Ipreo, Gardner was managing director at Christensen, responsible for managing outbound workflow for the firm’s mainland client base. He started his career as an analyst at the Carson Group, a forerunner in stock surveillance that was acquired by Thomson Financial.

Gardner is a graduate of Stanford University and is a frequent speaker at regional industry events.