Joseph Cherian is Practice Professor of Finance, Asia School of Business and Cornell University (Visiting). He was the former Practice Professor of Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to NUS, Joe was Managing Director, Global Head and CIO of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse in New York where he had direct responsibility for over US$67 billion in client assets managed to a quantitative discipline. While at Credit Suisse, Joe served on the Global Executive Committee, as well as various senior management, investments, and risk committees of the Asset Management division. He joined the financial industry in New York after an academic career in the U.S., including as an Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University. He was formerly an Executive-in-Residence and a two-term member of the Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council at Cornell University and is now an Emeritus Member of the Dean’s Council. Joe currently serves as an Advisor to Xen Capital, a boutique global digital wealth and alternatives asset manager in Singapore, Singapore Exchange (SGX), Asia Asset Management in Hong Kong, as well as the Mercer-CFA Institute Global Pensions Index’s Advisory Board in Australia. He has had appointments at Singapore’s Central Provident Fund (CPF) Advisory Panel and the National Research Foundation’s Early-Stage Venture Fund Evaluation Panel. He was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, a Scientific Advisor to Nipun Capital, a boutique hedge fund based in San Francisco, a scientific consultant to Fullerton Fund Management, a Temasek subsidiary in Singapore, and on the Journal of Alternative Investments’ Editorial Board in the U.S. Joe holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Cornell University

Gregory Van is the Chief Executive Officer of Endowus, a leading fee-only wealth platform in Asia. Endowus’ mission is to democratise wealth management by providing people with access to better advice and products, empowering everyone to invest better to live easier today, and better tomorrow.

As CEO, Greg is responsible for driving the company’s growth and strategic execution. He started his career in investment banking at UBS, advising and fundraising for private equity and venture capital firms in the Asia Pacific region. Greg then joined Grab in its early days and was part of the pioneer team that launched the firm’s digital payments services across Southeast Asia.

He saw the need to combine his expertise at the intersection of finance and technology to empower all investors with access to expert advice and institutional-quality products at low, fair fees.

Greg believes in advancing the human experience of money. Alignment of incentives by being fee-only, coupled with personalising and automating wealth management provides every investor with the highest probability of success in reaching their financial and life goals.

Greg was recently awarded the CEO of the Year for the Singapore market at Asia Asset Management’s Best of the Best Awards 2022.

Angus Hui is the Head of Fixed Income at Fullerton Fund Management. He leads the fixed income team and has oversight of all fixed income portfolios. Angus also oversees the fixed income investment process and suite of solutions.

Angus was previously Head of Credits, Asia at Schroders. Angus was a member of the leadership team for the global credit platform and led the investment team in Asian and Global Emerging Market Credits. He was the lead portfolio manager for Asian and Emerging Market Credits and had overall responsibility for RMB credit.

Before assuming his leadership role at Schroders, Angus has managed Asia, Emerging Markets, Global Fixed Income portfolios, and also had credit research responsibilities.

Prior to joining Schroders in 2000, he had research roles at HSBC in Hong Kong and Standard and Poor’s in Australia.

Angus holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Accounting) and a Master‘s degree in Commerce (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Cheryl is Head of Issuance at ADDX. She oversees the execution and listing of products on the ADDX platform. She has over 15 years of experience in raising debt, equity, and mezzanine capital for and from institutions and individuals.

A former investment banker based in Hong Kong for almost a decade, Cheryl worked in capital markets at UBS, Mizuho and Scotiabank, heading up capital markets teams that covered the Greater China and Southeast Asia regions. She began her career structuring and marketing interest rate derivatives in New York City with JP Morgan.

Prior to joining ADDX, she worked at a cryptocurrency fund manager and a fixed income fintech start-up. She had also been a corporate finance consultant and ran her own family office focusing on advisory and investment services.

Cheryl graduated with a dual degree in Finance and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Masters in Counselling from Monash University.

Dan is CEO of NR Instant Produce Public Company Limited (NRF) and a sustainability & climate champion. For more than two decades Dan has been investing into the food and consumer industry with market exceeding returns. He was the first CEO to IPO a purpose driven company on the stock exchange of Thailand with the mission to transform the food system for a more inclusive and sustainable world. In 2020, he joined the sub-committee on environment of the Global Compact Network Thailand, United Nations. With his strong commitment and his passion to change the world he led NRF to be the first company in Thailand to sign the 1.5 degree pledge and first to join the Race to zero. To serve as a leader in the industry, he led NRF to be the first food company in Thailand to be certified as “Carbon Neutral company”. In 2022, he became President of Technology and Innovation Subcommittee, Thailand Carbon Neutral Network and Council Board Member of Thailand Carbon Neutral Network. He has a number of accolades over the years such as Entrepreneur of the year by Bangkok post, Tatler magazine and Master Entrepreneur of The Asia Pacific Enterprise Award 2022. Dan serves on the advisory committee to Unovis Asset Management and the Executive advisory committee of Proterra Partners one of the world’s largest food funds.