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Mr Gan advises UBS' key clients and business owners on a global basis, drawing on his deep understanding of international capital markets and strong track record in leading businesses. Additionally, he advises and supports UBS senior leadership on a broad range of key business activities.

Prior to joining UBS AG, he was President of Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX), where he had a distinguished career, responsible for developing and growing the community of participants for the stock and derivatives exchanges. He was concurrently the Chief Executive of the two operating exchanges. He also led the drive to establish Singapore as the premier listings venue for IPOs and debt capital raising.

Mr Gan held several senior appointments in the capital markets over a 17-year period. This included Merrill Lynch where he was Managing Director responsible for South East Asia equities market, and Head of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia for Crosby Securities (which became SocGen Securities).

In addition, Mr Gan has served as director in a statutory board, several business entities and charitable organisations as well as co-opted member of several public service committees.

Mr Gan holds a Master of Business Administration from McMaster University, Canada, and a BA in Economics (Distinction) from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Before joining UBS, Mark was the co-founder and co-fund manager at Sonic Capital. He also served as a Managing Director at Matrix Capital Management.

A former lecturer and acting dean at Harvard University, Mark is a frequent contributor to numerous financial media, including CNBC, Bloomberg and the WSJ.

Mark received a BA from Princeton, and both an MA and PhD from Harvard University.

As a Fulbright Scholar, he also received an MA from the Australian National University.

Prior to joining UBS Global Wealth Management, Min Lan spent eleven years with the UBS Investment Bank where she held a number of senior appointments, and was ranked the number 1 analyst in Singapore by Asiamoney for ten straight years. Before joining UBS, Min Lan worked as a senior economist with the Econometric Modelling unit at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, as well as an economist and strategist at Merrill Lynch covering the Asian equities markets.

From 2002 to 2004, Kelvin was a Regional Telecoms Analyst with JPMorgan Chase where he was consistently one of the top 3 rated regional Asian telecoms analysts in international surveys such as AsiaMoney and Institutional Investor.

From 2000 to 2002, Kelvin was a Regional Telecoms Analyst with ABN AMRO (Asia) Ltd in Hong Kong, where he was ranked No.3 in AsiaMoney's Asia-wide regional telecoms analyst survey in 2001 and his team was ranked No. 1 in the 2000 Greenwich survey. Prior to that, Kelvin worked at Overseas Union Bank in Singapore as a credit analyst in loan syndications and capital markets.

In recent years, she has focused on technology investments in China, and is a general partner at Sky9 capital, a leading venture fund in China. A columnist for Project Syndicate and Caixin Magazine, the main economics and finance magazine in China, she writes widely about the Chinese economy and global finance, and have made multiple op-ed contributions to the Financial Times.

She has had prior experience at the IMF, the World Bank, the New York Fed, Goldman Sachs, as well as other financial institutions. She was named Young global leader by the World Economic Forum in 2014.

He had postings in Cambodia (where he served during the war in 1973-74), Malaysia, Washington DC and New York, where he served two stints as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Singapore Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. He also served as a member of Commission of Eminent Persons under the chairmanship of the former President of Mexico Ernesto Zedillo to advice the International Atomic Energy Agency from 2007 to 2008.

Prof Mahbubani has spoken and published globally. He is the author of Can Asians Think?, Beyond The Age Of Innocence, The New Asian Hemisphere, The Great Convergence (which was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best books of 2013) and Can Singapore Survive?, and co-author of The ASEAN Miracle. His latest book, Has the West Lost it? A Provocation was published in April 2018. More information on his writings can be found at www.mahbubani.net.

Prof Mahbubani was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 1967. He graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received a Master’s degree in Philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992. Prof Mahbubani was conferred The Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998. He was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005, and included in the March 2009 Financial Times list of Top 50 individuals who would shape the debate on the future of capitalism. He was selected as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011. In 2011, he was described as “the muse of the Asian century”. Most recently, he was selected by Prospect magazine as one of the top 50 world thinkers for 2014.

Prior to joining Capital, Matt was a senior advisor at McKinsey & Company. Before that, he served as a senior advisor in the White House Office of Management and Budget and was a White House Fellow serving as a special assistant to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was also a columnist for The Washington Post; the host of public radio’s “Left, Right & Center” program; and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has authored two books on public policy — The Two-Percent Solution: Fixing America’s Problems in Ways Liberals and Conservatives Can Love and The Tyranny of Dead Ideas — and has contributed to Fortune, Time, The New Republic and various other national publications. He holds a law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent scholar, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University, graduating magna cum laude. Matt is based in Los Angeles.

John has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Dartmouth College, Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Vassar College, and MBA from Harvard Business School.

He chairs the Emerging Markets Equity Strategy Committee and is based in Singapore.

Geoffrey joined UBS in 1997. His prior experience includes co-founding an Asian investment management firm, where he served as Director of Investment Management responsible for asset allocation and stock selection for global and regional institutional portfolios.

Geoffrey served on the board of directors of Singapore Exchange, the combined stock and futures exchange of Singapore between 2003 and 2006. He is a member of the Singapore Society of Financial Analysts and a Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance.

From 1999 to 2005 he has been in charge of the global IT sector. In 2005-2006, Mr. Issel was sent to New York to build up and lead the North American research unit of WMR in the United States at WM International, focusing on stock markets but also holding general financial market outlook presentations for clients. Starting 2007 he founded and was heading WMR India at the India Service Centre in Hyderabad (India), a team of research associates. In July 2009 he joined in Singapore as WMR head for the location and deputy head of APAC, also covering India and Indonesia. In addition he holds presentations on Asia-wide and global topics for investors in one to ones, at events as well as conferences.

Prior to joining UBS, she was in charge of handling sales and procurements in Asia, at Liven Agrichem, an award winning physical commodity trading company headquartered in Singapore.

She holds a Bachelor of Business Management from Singapore Management University, majoring in Finance. She can read and write well both in English and Mandarin.

She has been working within the financial markets for the past 18 years. Prior to joining UBS, she was servicing the corporate sector throughout her initial working years. Her previous experiences include Corporate Sales, Credit as well as FX in DBS, Citigroup and General Electric Commercial Finance. She spent the last 14 years in FX and has strong understanding in G10 and Asian currencies.

Wei Wei graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Business (Honors) in Banking.

Prior to joining UBS, he was a management consultant at KPMG Singapore, servicing Financial Services clients. Bryan holds a CFA charter and a CPA (Aust.) designation.

Mr. Lofton previously led the development of an internal risk system used to monitor Allianz Investment Management’s $70 billion global hedging operation and worked in risk management at Deephaven Capital Management. Mr. Lofton earned a BS in Finance and Certificate in Applied Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and an MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2007.

Mr Banerjee is an independent director on the Board of Singapore Airlines Limited, Piramal Enterprises Limited, The Indian Hotels Company Limited and GIC Private Limited. He is a Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation and his roles in the not-for-profit sector include serving on the Governing Board of Yale-NUS College and the Legal Service Commission of Singapore. Mr. Banerjee is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA). He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from Warwick University in 1977 and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) by the same university in 2014. Mr. Banerjee was a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2007 to 2009 and was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government in 2014.

Prior to his current role, Mischa held various roles in the Sales and Content Distribution space, ultimately heading the Sales Management function for the Asia Pacific region. He started his career in management consulting and moved on to head a distribution team at a domestic cooperative bank in Switzerland.

Mischa is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland where he obtained a Masters degree. After gaining some work experience Mischa went back part-time to his alma mater to pursue a doctorate in Corporate Governance. His book “Cooperative Governance” deals with harnessing governance structures and processes as a source for sustainable competitive advantage. Mischa is also a holder of the Alternative Investment Analyst charter (CAIA).

Mischa lives in Singapore with his wife and three children. He was born in Basel and has spent his school years in Frankfurt, Zurich, and Tokyo, where he spent almost 6 years in the 1990s. Mischa has been living in Asia for the past 10 years, including 3 years in Tokyo.

Anuj has rich ‘Go To Market’ knowhow across 14 Asian markets from ‘Japan to Jakarta’. He gained a wealth of experience in his career spanning across major consumer product MNCs like Procter & Gamble, Glaxo SmithKline Beecham, WIPRO, BIC. He is a strong contributor to Singapore & SEA startup ecosystem since 2013, and as such, has a deep understanding of pain areas for both founders and investors. He led scaling of an F&B SaaS platform in the region successfully, spent hundred of hours in training 160+ startup founders through a structured startup boot camp and mentored many others before he co-founded Startup-O in early 2016.
 
A strong proponent of the ‘Pay it Forward’ philosophy, he actively shares his knowledge and experience with entrepreneurs and investors alike. Originally from India, he is living in Singapore with his family since 2002.

She joined UBS in September 2017 from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Her previous roles in the respective Private Wealth Management divisions included product management and cross asset sales as a financial analyst. Meryl graduated with a Bachelor of Business Accounting Honours Degree from National University of Singapore. She is a certified Chartered Accountant of Singapore.

In 2008, Sean started managing the emerging markets strategies. In 2016, Sean formalized the firm’s approach to Thematic Active Equity solutions to better align fundamental and quantitative resources. Sean has been with the firm since 1991, and during his career, his equity coverage responsibilities have included Health Care, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Financials and Utilities.
 
Sean received a BS in economics from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Society Boston and the CFA Institute.

Sundeep joined UBS Global Wealth Management as an equity analyst in February 2007 and his coverage mainly focuses on both global and Asian technology sectors including semiconductors, hardware, internet and software & services. Additionally, Sundeep is also responsible for Asia ex Japan Focus 20, CIO's highest convictions stock ideas in the region and Taiwan equities. Before joining UBS, Sundeep worked as an equity analyst in PCS Securities, an Indian brokerage firm where he was covering the Indian IT & Telecom sectors.

Hong Wee has over 7 years of experience in Wealth Management. Prior to joining UBS, he was an Investment Consultant with ICBC Singapore, advising HNW and UHNW clients on multi-asset investments. He also spent a number of years with Bank of Singapore, in an Investment Counsellor role, where he advised clients on multi-asset portfolios invested in Fixed Income, Equities, Investment Funds and Structured Products. Earlier in his career, he was a Technical Instructor with SIA Engineering Company, specialized in aircraft maintenance training.

He graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and is a CFA charter holder.

With over 20 years of banking experience, Paterson has taken on various roles including equity research and advising UHNW clients on capital markets investment solutions. He had previously worked in Citibank and HSBC.
 
Paterson graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore with a Bachelor of Accountancy. He has also obtained his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification from the CFA Institute.