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Speaker Profiles
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John W. Allen is Chairman & CEO of Greater China Corporation (www.greaterchinacorp.com). He has been actively involved in Asia and China for over 30 years. He is also a Trustee of the Chinese Cultural Foundation (www.chineseculturalfoundation.org/about.html) and Member of the China Investment Group LLC (www.chinainvestmentgroupllc.com). He assisted in founding AIESEC in China, in Mongolia and throughout Latin America and has served as Chairman of the Board of AIESEC, U.S. (a student-run exchange program operating in more than 100 countries) and Chairman of AIESEC Yale.
Upon graduation from Yale University and the Harvard Business School he became Assistant to Professor George Cabot Lodge for the development of case material for Harvard in Central America. He then joined the Bank of Boston where he eventually headed the global investment subsidiary, Boston Overseas Financial Corporation with investment activities in 36 countries throughout the world including the startup of IBJ Leasing in Japan. Later, he joined Schroder Bank and Trust Company as Assistant to James D. Wolfensohn (recent head of the World Bank). Following this he became President of the International Securities Exchange Corporation. He is also CEO of Spring Investment Corporation whose activities have included serving as Chairman of "Venture Japan", and Turtlesnap Ventures (www.turtlesnap.com), which is developing a network of facilities for starting entrepreneurial led companies around the world.
In the philanthropic arena, Mr. Allen has served as Trustee of the Soros Open Society Institute and as one of three Trustees of the International Science Foundation along with George Soros and Nobel Laureate James Watson. He has been actively involved in helping to formulate global policy initiatives as Vice Chairman of the Business Council for the United Nations, Director of the World Policy Institute, Director of the International Business and Academic Council, Advisor to Womensphere and the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights - USA. |
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Duncan Edwards is president and CEO of Hearst Magazines International, a unit of Hearst Corporation. Mr. Edwards is also executive vice president of Hearst Magazines and vice chairman of Hearst Magazines UK, Hearst’s publishing business in the U.K., and a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation.
As the largest U.S. publisher of magazines worldwide, Hearst Magazines International publishes more than 300 editions for distribution in more than 100 countries. Major titles include powerful brand equities like Cosmopolitan and ELLE, both international super-brands with more editions than any other women’s magazines in the world; ELLE DECOR; Esquire; Good Housekeeping; Harper's BAZAAR; Popular Mechanics; and Seventeen.
In addition, Hearst Magazines International publishes other titles through joint ventures, including Men’s Health and Runner’s World in the U.K., Grazia and Madison in Australia, and The Robb Report in Russia and China. In Great Britain, a wholly-owned subsidiary, Hearst Magazines UK, publishes 19 magazines and 19 digital assets. Hearst Magazines publishes 20 titles in the U.S.
From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Edwards was chief executive of NatMag, which publishes 20 magazines in the U.K., reaching 14 million adults. He joined NatMag in 1989 and served in various executive roles since then, including publisher of Company magazine, director of business development and managing director.
During Mr. Edwards’ time at NatMag, the company grew from publishing nine magazines in 2000 to 20 in 2009, through a mix of launches, acquisitions and joint ventures. Its digital business expanded to include not only online versions of its major magazines but also the U.K.’s leading women’s interest portal, handbag.com, and the leading consumer health website, netdoctor.co.uk.
Mr. Edwards spent the early part of his career at Media Week Ltd. and holds a dual honors degree in geography and politics from Sheffield University. |
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Xiaohong He is the founding chair of the International Business Department at the School of Business, Quinnipiac University, where she has been teaching for more than 20 years. Professor He received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas in International Management Studies. She also holds an M.S. in Finance and an M.A. in International Business. Her undergraduate degree is in Mechanical Engineering from China. Prior to coming to the US, Dr. He worked as a research engineer for the National Academy of Agricultural Mechanization of Sciences in China for eight years. She also worked as a business consultant and executive in the transportation sector in the US before she joined the academia. Dr. He teaches international business, global entrepreneurship, and international finance. She has also taken students to Nicaragua on microfinance mission.
Prof. He has published many papers in refereed journals and several books in both English and Chinese. A widely travelled person, Dr. He conducts research on multinational corporations, international monetary system, global entrepreneurship, and globalization. Her most recent travels, as part of her research on entrepreneurship development in emerging markets, took her to China, India and Turkey. Professor He is a recipient of the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award at Quinnipiac University. Professor He also received several international awards on research excellence and grants for conducting international business research. She is active in the academic community and is currently serving as the Treasurer of the Academy of International Business-US Northeast Chapter. |
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Ann Lee focuses on issues of global economics, finance, and U.S.-China relations. A former investment banker and hedge fund partner, she is a frequent media commentator on economic issues. In addition to television and radio appearances on MSNBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, and NPR, her op-eds have appeared in such publications as The New York Times,The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Businessweek, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The American Prospect, and The American Banker.
She has been quoted in hundreds of publications and has been an invited speaker at numerous industry and academic conferences. Ann is also an adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University and a former visiting professor at Peking University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives.
While she was teaching at Peking University, she also acted as an economic adviser to Chinese economic officials as well as to several large Chinese asset management firms. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley, Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and Harvard Business School. |
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Edgar Perez is widely regarded as the preeminent global expert in the specialized area of high-frequency trading. He is author of The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), in Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012) and currently being translated into Bahasa Indonesia. He is course director of The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX (Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Moscow, Ho Chi Minh, New York, Dubai and Chicago), and was Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he taught Algorithmic Trading and High-Frequency Finance. He contributes regularly to The New York Times and China’s International Finance News.
Mr. Perez has been engaged to present to the CME Group‘s Global Financial Leadership Conference 2012, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), Hult International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace University (New York), among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Harvard Business School’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional Investor’s Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London).
Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez resides in the New York City area and is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer.
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DavidRiedel is President, Riedel Research Group. Mr. Riedel has wide experience in company analysis, valuation, equity research and business management. Experience living and working in China and Taiwan in the 1980’s and education and work in Thailand in the 1990’s provided the foundation for Mr. Riedel’s expertise in the Emerging Markets.
Building on his education in Chinese and his MBA from Chulalongkorn University, Mr. Riedel had a successful career in equity research at Salmon Smith Barney both in Asia and the US. In 2003 Mr. Riedel founded the first independent equity research service focused on the global emerging markets. Riedel Research Group is a recognized leader in Emerging Market research.
Mr. Riedel is a frequent contributor to CNBC, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and other press outlets. Mr. Riedel holds a BA in Chinese Studies and Political Science from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in Finance from the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Mr. Riedel is the author of Finding the Hot Spots: 10 Strategies for Global Investing (Wiley, 2006). This accessible guide opens with a detailed discussion of how international investing can help your portfolio keep up with the rapid pace of globalization. Here is where the risks and rewards of this approach are explained, and where the myths are debunked. Finding the Hot Spots moves on to examine the numerous ways in which you can invest in international companies through U.S. markets: from direct listings, where the foreign company simply trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), or the NASDAQ; to Depository Receipts (ADRs) and trading unlisted securities over the counter (OTC). |
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Christopher Thorne is Executive Chairman of Broadline Principle Capital (BPC). BPC is a global investment firm and early pioneer of Asia’s private equity industry whose team has been managing high-performing, multi-industry private equity investment funds in China for more than a decade. He has spent his entire career building trust-based relationships globally with business leaders, industry experts, and entrepreneurs.
Previously, Chris served leadership roles at McKinsey & Company. He also founded a software technology company whose solutions create efficiency gains for manufacturers, distributors and retailers in the consumer packaged goods, retail, and foodservice industries. The resulting company managed more than $200 billion of annual transactions and built a customer base of more than 5,000 suppliers and 100,000 retail operators. The company sold to institutional investors at a nine-figure valuation in 2007 and subsequently sold to Roper Industries for $525 million in 2010.
Chris received his AB (Magna Cum Laude) from Harvard University, MBA from Harvard Business School, and Juris Doctor (Honors) from Harvard Law School, where he founded Harvard Negotiation Law Review and served as Executive Editor of Harvard International Law Journal. |
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Robert Vambery is the coeditor and coauthor of the book International Business Knowledge: Managing International Functions in the 1990s with W. Dymsza and the author of the book Capital Investment Control in the Air Transport Industry. He presented papers including "High-Tech Global Export Strategy Model for Accelerated Growth of Developing Countries" with T. Um, at the Academy of International Business, British Columbia, and Canada. He also authored a two volume monograph with L. Kanuk, for the U.S. Department of Commerce entitled "Industrial Policy for the Maritime Industry."
He is a cofounder of the journal Maritime Policy and Management. For nearly ten years he served as Managing Editor and Editor at Large of the Journal of International Business Studies, the refereed journal of the Academy of International Business.
Dr. Vambery has extensive international experience including academic work assignments to all five continents and visits to over fifty countries and territories. He was part of a joint project with KPMG Peat Marwick and the Global Economic Action Committee that lead to the development of a training program for East European University graduates. He worked with the Kwan Fong Institute, Hong Kong on "Trading and Investing in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China." In conjunction with the Global Economic Action Committee, he researched "Modernization of the Chinese Economy and its Role in the Global Economy."
For twelve years Dr. Vambery served as the Director of the Lubin School of Business Center for International Business Studies, overseeing the Institute for U.S.-Brazilian Business Studies, the Institute for U.S.-Canada Business Studies, the Institute for German-American Business Studies, the Swedish Program, the Tokyo Keisai Program, the Hakou University Program, the Middlesex University Graduate School of Business Program, the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (San Paolo) Advanced Marketing Program, and more than twenty other international seminars involving executives and graduate students from France, South Korea, Romania, Hungary, and Russia. For six years, Dr. Vambery also headed Lubin's graduate programs in international business.
In 2012, Dr. Vambery received the Global Business and Technology Association's GLOBAL EXCELLENCE AWARD for his work in the international business studies field. Earlier, in 2008 he received the Global Business and Technology Association's GLOBAL EXCELLENCE AWARD for his keynote presentation entitled "When Transparency Is Not Enough: from Global Financial Crises to Ethical and Environmental Challenges" delivered before 200 professors from some 40 countries at the Association's Tenth Annual International Conference held in Madrid, Spain. He made related presentations on the International Financial Crisis and on Ethics in Global Business before senior financial industry executives in Geneva, Switzerland, before mid-level executives in London, England and in New York City before members of various associations of African citizens and executives currently living and working in the United States.
His current research and publications focus on the marketing of large size loans, international debt defaults, the causes of the trade deficits of the United States, and on global competition in strategic industries. |
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