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Family Office Circle April 25 – 26, 2012 Swiss Re Centre Rüschlikon CONTENT List of speakers Uwe R. Feuersenger 4 Prof. Heinrich Liechtenstein 5 James J Liu 6 Sandra Navidi 7 R.P. Eddy 8 David Baxby 9 Marko Papic 10 Robert Johnson 11 Dr. Anil K. Gupta 12 Haiyan Wang 13 Eliza Lau 14 Ganhuyag Chuluun Hutagt 15 Dr. Philipp Rösler 16 William R. White 17 Annette Heuser 18 Deven Sharma 19 Dr. Markus Krall 20 Stewart J. Paperin 21 Michael Kuhndt 22 Knut Eichler 23 Dr. John Llewellyn 24 Richard M. Samans 25 Uli Grabenwarter 26 Niall Davis 27 Kurt von Emster 28 3 SPEAKERS SPEAKERS Uwe R. Feuersenger Heinrich Liechtenstein Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer Professor of Financial Management aeris CAPITAL AG IESE Business School Before initiating the launch of aeris CAPITAL and being ap- Dr. Heinrich Liechtenstein is professor of Financial Manage- pointed CEO in 2006, Uwe Feuersenger worked primarily as ment in IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. He spe- a venture capitalist, strategic advisor and company founder cializes in entrepreneurial finance and the management of in the IT sector. In 2000, he co founded the venture capital wealth and is co-author on several publications on private firm firstVentury GmbH. In 1997, he established Digital Future equity and angel investing. His ongoing research in this field Corporation, which was sold to Thyssen Informationssysteme focuses on operational value creation in private equity. in 1998. His earlier positions and responsibilities include his role as Head of Marketing and PR at the software firm He is co-leading “The Family Office Research Project”, which Astarte and the successful reorganization and sale of the di- is a cross-continental effort within the Wharton Global Fam- rect sales company ASIX Technology. In 1990, he established ily Alliance that aims to serve global families by researching the firm Bold Buyer$ Academic Computing, which he trans- and sharing best practices of globally influential family en- formed into the German market leader in the distribution of terprises, and in establishing a framework for understanding academic software within three years and sold to a rival firm the evolution of family offices. in 1993. Prior to his academic career, Professor Liechtenstein was en- Uwe Feuersenger studied Law at the University of Mannheim gaged in the family owned Liechtenstein Global Trust (LGT) from 1984 to 1986 before completing a four-year degree in dealing with ultra high net worth individuals. He also advised Economics at the University of Heidelberg and the University families within the Boston Consulting Group and established of Toronto. Immediately after obtaining his school-leaving and sold two successful businesses. certificate, he trained as a financial advisor. Dr. Liechtenstein was born in Leoben, Austria and received an MA in Business Administration degree from the Uni- versity of Graz, an MBA from IESE Business School, and a Doctoral degree of Business and Economics Sciences from University of Vienna. 4 5 SPEAKERS SPEAKERS James J Liu Sandra Navidi Founder and Managing Partner Chief Executive Officer OAKS Family Office, Singapore Family Office Circle Foundation Mr. Liu started his career with Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia Ms. Navidi is CEO of the Family Office Circle Foundation. and served as interim Representative in Brazil. At Chase In addition, she is the Founder and CEO of BeyondGlobal, Manhattan Bank New York he was variously head of the cor- LLC, an independent macroeconomic advisory firm. porate and institutional lending team for the Eastern Arab States and North Africa, Deputy General Manager in Lebanon, Previously, Ms. Navidi was Director of Research Strategies and Head of Strategic Planning for Asia Pacific, and Head of Non Senior Relationship Manager at Roubini Global Economics Presence countries for the Western Hemisphere. At Arab (RGE). She represented RGE internationally and managed Bank he was Chief Executive for Asia Pacific, Chairman of the the most senior relationships. Ms. Navidi joined RGE from Executive Committee for Global Personal Banking and Global Scarsdale Equities, a broker dealer, where she was engaged Investment Management, where he had oversight of the in investment banking. private banking and asset management activities of the bank. In 2001, Ms. Navidi moved to the United States from Ger- He has a BA from American University of Beirut, MBA from many to accept a position as General Counsel at Muzinich University of Chicago Booth of Business and AMP from & Company, a $6 billion alternative asset management com- Harvard Business School. pany based in New York. Until 2001, Ms. Navidi was a manager in the international capital markets department at Deloitte & Touche in Germany, where she specialized in alternative investment structures. Ms. Navidi holds a law degree from the University of Cologne School of Law, Germany, and a Master-of-Law Degree in Banking Corporate and Finance law from Fordham University School of Law, USA. She served as a Law Clerk at the Appellate Court of Cologne, Germany and is admitted to practice law in the State of New York as well as in the Federal Republic of Germany. Ms. Navidi has served as an expert commentator on inter- national media outlets and as a guest speaker at a variety of institutions. 6 7 SPEAKERS SPEAKERS R.P. Eddy David Baxby Chief Executive Officer Co-Chief Executive Officer Ergo Virgin Group R.P. Eddy is CEO of Ergo, a global intelligence and advisory As Co-CEO of the Virgin Group, David is responsible for all firm which the Harvard Business Review praised as, “break- Virgin investments and corporate development globally. This ing from industry orthodoxy with a radically new model.” includes managing the current portfolio and developing further investment opportunities for the Virgin Group. David currently Previously, he served as Director at the White House National sits on the boards of Virgin Australia (formerly Virgin Blue), Security Council, Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America. David was appointed by the UN, Richard Holbrooke, and Senior Policy Officer to the Virgin in June 2004. UN Secretary-General, where he served as an architect of the Global Fund to Prevent AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and was a David began his association with Virgin in 1999, as an group recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Advisor to Virgin for Goldman Sachs in the United Kingdom. He then returned to Australia where he was the co-head of the Eddy was a Managing Director at the Gerson Lehrman Group consumer and industrials group at Goldman Sachs. During this and a Team Leader at the Monitor Group. The World Econom- time he was responsible for the sale of 50% of Virgin Australia ic Forum honored him as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” to Patrick Corporation and the successful public float of Virgin Australia. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Associate at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science Prior to this he held roles at Rothschild and Arthur Anderson in and International Affairs, and a Senior Fellow at the Madison Corporate Finance. Policy Forum. He has a B.Sc. in Neuroscience from Brown University. David has degrees in Law and Commerce. 8 9 SPEAKERS SPEAKERS Marko Papic Robert Johnson Senior Editor Geopolitical Strategy Executive Director of INET, BCA Research Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Finance Project for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York Marko Papic joined BCA Research in 2011, as a Senior Editor Rob is the Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic and strategist for BCA’s Geopolitical Strategy service. Prior to Thinking (INET) and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Global joining BCA, he was a Senior Analyst at STRATFOR, a premier Finance Project for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute global intelligence agency. Marko was in charge of the firm’s in New York. global geopolitical strategy and net assessment as well as its analyst recruitment and training program. Rob is an international investor and consultant to investment funds on issues of portfolio strategy. He recently served on He was also the firm’s senior political risk strategist for Europe, the United Nations Commission of Experts on International shaping forecasts and maintaining flows of intelligence in the Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. region. Previously, Rob was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Man- In his role at the firm, Marko has been interviewed by numer- agement, where he managed a global currency, bond and ous media organizations – including The New York Times, equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to work- CNN, BBC, the Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, Associated ing at Soros Fund Management, Rob was a Managing Director Press, etc. at Bankers Trust Company, managing a global currency fund. Before joining STRATFOR, Marko helped create the Center for Rob served as Chief Economist of the U.S .Senate Banking European Union Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire and holds graduate degrees from the University of Texas at (D., Wisconsin). Before that, Rob was Senior Economist of the Austin and the University of British Columbia. U.S. Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chair- man Pete Domenici (R., New Mexico). Rob was an Executive Producer of the Oscar winning documen- tary, Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, and is the former President of the National Scholastic Chess Foundation. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of both the Eco- nomic Policy Institute and the Campaign for America’s Future. Rob received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Eco- nomics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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