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China Rising IR Breakfast Seminar - Speakers


Session leaders include:

Carl Yeung, CFO, ATA

Crocker Coulson, president, CCG Investor Relations

Jan Childress, director of investor relations, Consolidated Edison (USA)

Sandeep Mahindroo, senior manager of IR, Infosys

Robert Wotczak, managing director and regional head of global client group, NYSE Euronext

John Ma, director of China research, ROTH Capital Partners

Verdun Edgtton, corporate governance officer, The Bank of New York Mellon

Carl Yeung

Carl Yeung

Carl Yeung is currently the chief financial officer of ATA, a NASDAQ listed company. Prior to joining ATA, Yeung worked as an analyst and associate at Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) from 2002 to 2006. He is an independent non-executive director at China Natural Gas, which is an OTC Bulletin Board traded company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with concentrations in finance and operations management from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in applied science with a concentration in systems engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.


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Crocker Coulson

Jan Childress

Crocker Coulson is responsible for the development of investor relations strategies for private and publicly held companies. As president of CCG Investor Relations, CCG Asia (China) and CCGK (Israel), he has been the primary driver of the firm's national and global expansion. He has designed and overseen investor relations campaigns for more than 60 public companies, including numerous IPOs, secondary offerings, acquisitions and proxy contests. Many of the campaigns he has overseen have won top industry awards.

Coulson is a frequent public speaker on subjects relating to investor relations strategy, initial public offerings, reverse mergers, investing in China, disclosure issues and corporate governance. He is regularly quoted in national and local publications on topics related to accounting issues and the capital markets. Coulson served for two years as the co-chairman of the AeA's Capital Sources conference and for two years as the chairman of the Investment Capital Conference, hosted by the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA). He is a board member of both LAVA and the Los Angeles Chapter of NIRI.

Prior to joining CCG, Coulson served as a writer-researcher for the New Republic magazine in Washington, DC, and wrote for a number of leading publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and ArtNews. He also produced five independent films, several of which were selected for the Cannes Film Festival and Sundance. Coulson graduated summa cum laude from Yale College, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied philosophy at the Freie Universitat in Berlin.


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Jan Childress

Jan Childress

Jan Childress has served as director of investor relations for Consolidated Edison for the past 10 years. He previously served as vice president of investor relations for KeySpan, where he was employed for 17 years.

Prior to joining KeySpan, he served four years as a special assistant to a US Congressman representing the 14th Congressional District in New York.

Childress is an instructor and international competitor in the Chinese martial and healing arts of tai chi chuan and chi kung. He earned three gold medals and one silver medal in the 2005 International Chinese Martial Arts Championship in Orlando, FL; a bronze medal in the 2004 7th Chung Hwa Cup International Tai Chi Chuan Championship in Taipei, Taiwan; and one gold and one bronze medal in the 2004 International Chinese Martial Arts Championship in Orlando.

He has a bachelor of arts in industrial labor relations from the State University of New York's Center for Labor Studies, and certificates in industrial labor relations and real estate finance from Cornell University and New York University, respectively.


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Sandeep Mahindroo

Sandeep Mahindroo

Sandeep Mahindroo has been with Infosys for nine years. For the last three years he has managed the US investor relations for Infosys and the three years prior to that he handled Indian investor relations.

Infosys has won multiple IR awards in the past in different categories (tech sector, regional) in areas as diverse as best disclosures, IR website and corporate governance. Infosys also won the IR Magazine Award for best IR by an APAC company in the US in March 2008.

Mahindroo is a CPA (US) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (the equivalent of CPA in the US).


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John Ma

John Ma is the director of China research and chief representative of ROTH Capital Partners' representative office in Shanghai, China. He joined ROTH in 2006 as an international research analyst and focuses on China-related securities. Prior to joining ROTH, he was a portfolio manager at Innovus Financial Solutions, a Houston wealth management firm affiliated with AIG American General. Prior to Innovus, he was a senior financial consultant at FleetBoston Financial (now a Bank of America company).

Ma received his BA in journalism from Fudan University in China, his MA in mass communication from Louisiana State University, and an MBA in finance from University of Houston. He is also a chartered financial analyst.


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Verdun Edgtton

Verdun Edggton

Vice president Verdun Edgtton is the corporate governance officer of The Bank of New York Mellon’s Depositary Receipt Division in New York. A member of the International Corporate Governance Network, he monitors on behalf of issuers and their investors US legal, regulatory and corporate governance developments from the NYSE, NASDAQ and the SEC that affect the obligations of foreign issuers in US markets. He provides issuers with information concerning proposed rule changes and the impact such proposals might have on foreign issuers’ internal structures and processes. As a recognized specialist, he consults with clients concerning a wide range of corporate governance issues, both external and internal, that affect issuers’ board structures or shareowner processes.

A New Zealand national, he has a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a master’s degree in law from the New York University School of Law. He joined the Bank in 2003. Prior to that, he worked as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in New Zealand and the UK and undertook consultancy work for BP in the UK.


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