South East Asia Conference & Awards 2009 - Speakers

Magnus Böcker will join Singapore Exchange Limited as CEO with effect from December 1, 2009. He has more than 20 years’ leadership experience in the exchange industry, including the creation of OMX and subsequent key role in the merger of OMX and NASDAQ.
As CEO of OMX (2003-2008), Böcker strengthened the position of the Nordic region as a part of the international financial market, integrating seven national stock exchanges in northern Europe into one. He was crucial in making OMX the world’s largest provider of technology solutions for exchanges, clearing organizations and securities depositories.
Böcker has long been an advocate for, and key actor in, the transformation of the global exchange industry. He is a member of the board of the World Federation of Exchanges and serves as chairman of the board of Dustin Group. In 2000-2006 he was chairman of Orc Software, and is also a member of the Mount Sinai Surgery Advisory Board in New York.

Shane Smith is founder, chairman and CEO of Independent International Investment Research (IIR). He began his career in equity research in 1986 with stockbroker Williams de Broe in London, and subsequently joined the early team behind Bloomberg in London. In 1992 he established his own practice focused on global currencies, and in 1996 founded Pronet Analytics.com, which became IIR in 2000.
Smith is managing partner in Europe for PSQ Analytics, the research service launched in March 2009 with the support of the London Stock Exchange for sub-FTSE 350 companies. He also represents his firm at the council of the British Olympic Association Appeal, helping Team GB prepare for London 2012.

Richard Jones is assistant vice president and head of IR at Thai Beverage, Thailand’s largest alcoholic beverages company. He joined the firm in August 2006, shortly after its listing on Singapore Exchange, and set up the IR department. Prior to that, he was head of IR and corporate communications at Shin Satellite (now Thaicom).

Jones holds a BA in English literature from the University of Wales in the UK and an executive MBA from Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He and his team have won the IR Magazine Award for best IR by a Thai company in the Singapore market in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Cameron Tough is head of IR at PT Adaro Energy. He has more than 10 years’ experience in the Indonesian mining sector in finance and investor relations for both listed and private equity firms.

Tough is known for his international award winning in-house annual reports, and his pioneering of the creation of an informal network of top-tier IR practitioners in Jakarta, as well as his founding of the Indonesian IR blog and Facebook presence. He hopes to eventually create an Indonesian IR Society.

Tough assisted on the company’s secondary listing on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1999 and recommended and executed the upgrade to the more stringent full listing status in 2002.

Chris Calvert is CEO of Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT) Management. He works with the board to determine the overall business, operational and investment strategies of CIT and is responsible for the day to-day management of the trust.

Calvert joined CIT in December 2008. He has more than 17 years of property and management experience in valuation, consultancy, real estate funds management and investment management in Asia-Pacific.

Prior to joining the company, he was CEO (Asia) of the MacarthurCook Industrial real estate investment trust. Most recently, he was CEO (Asia) of Blaxland Funds Management, a real estate funds Manager.

Calvert holds a bachelor’s degree in business and property and is a qualified valuer with the Australian Property Institute. He is also an active advocate of the Asian Public Real Estate Association.

Carey Wong is an investment analyst with more than 15 years’ experience in the financial industry. He started as a money market trader with a local bank and later went to manage a fixed-income fund at a foreign bank.

During the Asian financial crisis, Carey moved into fixed-income research to capitalize on his extensive and in-depth knowledge of the Asian fixed-income market. Since then, he has extended his coverage to telecommunications, manufacturing and commodities.

Carey has been widely quoted by local and foreign media (both print and TV) and frequently presents his fundamental and technical views at seminars and forums organized by Singapore Exchange and bodies such as the Securities Investors Association (Singapore).

YJ Lim is responsible for Hektar Real Estate Investment Trust’s strategic planning, investor relations, industry research and analysis. He has appeared and spoken at real estate conferences and investment seminars throughout Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Middle East.

Previously, Lim was assistant vice president of the investment and business advisory division of Henry Butcher Malaysia, consulting for real estate organizations. Prior to this, he was with Global Asset Capital, a private equity firm based in San Francisco in the US, where he was responsible for investments and working with portfolio companies in North America.

Lim graduated with a BA in finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Vincent Van Pelt is managing director and head of equities and commodities at Standard Chartered. He joined the firm from Bear Stearns, where he spent 14 years, most recently as co-head of European equities and a member of the European executive committee, where he led over 300 professionals across sales, trading, structuring and research. Under Van Pelt’s leadership, equity derivatives became Bear Stearns’ most profitable non-US business.

Prior to this, he held a range of sales and trading positions with Bankers Trust Company from 1987 to 1994 in New York, Tokyo and London.

Joseph Chia is an executive director at Maximus Connections and general manager of the Investor Relations Professionals Association (Singapore).
Before starting his own consultancy in 2008, he was IR manager at ST Engineering, where he managed all IR functions of the ST Engineering Group, one of the largest companies listed in Singapore, with 19,000 staff and operations in more than 20 countries.
 
Prior to ST Engineering, Chia worked for Keppel Corporation and Singapore Exchange.
He gained his chartered financial analyst qualification in 2003, and has a BSc in economics and a BA in economics and philosophy, both from the National University of Singapore.

Mohshin Aziz has more than 10 years’ experience ranging from engineering to fund management and his current position in investor relations with AirAsia.He joined AirAsia in 2004 to help out with the company’s IPO preparatory works and pioneer the investor relations department.

Aziz has successfully built a diverse and global shareholder base for AirAsia: around half the company is currently owned by US, European and pan-Asian shareholders.

Jonathan Zax is an executive vice president and head of investor relations at Bank Mandiri (Persero). He has been active in the IR field in Indonesia since 1996 with his appointment as director of corporate development at Sampoerna. He joined Bank Mandiri in 2002 and was instrumental in the preparations for the company’s ground-breaking 2003 IPO.

Zax has received many accolades for his IR activities from institutions including Asiamoney, FinanceAsia, IR magazine and Lafferty Asia. He is the founder of the Investor Relations Forum Indonesia, and an active member of Cameron Tough’s IR network. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Wharton School.