Markus Winkler was educated at the University of Zurich and the Business School of St. Gall, where he graduated. After training with Bank Leu AG and UBS AG, he founded VGZ Vermoegensverwaltungs-Gesellschaft Zurich, a wealth management company of which he is the President of the Board of Directors. He is a founder-member and a former Vice-President of the Swiss Association of Asset Managers as well as a founder and board member of the Swiss Shareholders’ Association. Mr. Winkler is widely experienced in the investment world and, in addition to his professional commitments, is a regular lecturer and writer on investment matters. Mr. Winkler is a member of a number of advisory and supervisory boards of emerging market funds. He advised 6 top Vietnam funds regarding positioning, structuring and fund raising.

Chris Chung is the founder and CEO of Titanium Group of companies, an infrastructure development company which includes Titanium Management, Titanium Construction, and Titanium Engineering. Titanium specializes in building roads, ports, power stations, manufacturing plants, shopping centers, and participated in building over 400 bridges in Asia over a period of 8 years. Prior to founding Titanium, Mr. Chung was Senior Business Development executive of Sarwaja Timur, a construction company responsible for major infrastructure projects in Malaysia. Prior to that, he was a Corporate Investment Executive of Sarawak Securities responsible for corporate finance, asset management, project financing, underwriting, and road-shows. Mr. Chung holds a Master degree in Finance from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a post graduate degree in Management from the University of East London. He also earned a BA in Business Administration from the London International College.

Mark Pedretti serves as Chair of the Private Equity Group and as Deputy Managing Partner of Reed Smith's New York office. He focuses his practice in the areas of private equity, mergers and acquisitions, securities, and transactional intellectual property. He regularly represents private equity funds, venture capital funds, corporate venture funds and start-up companies in structuring companies and investments in various types of complex private equity transactions. His practice also focuses on public mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and recapitalizations and management buyouts, particularly in the financial services, media and telecommunications, software and technology, real estate, health care, apparel and entertainment industries. Mark also has extensive capital markets experience, representing both issuers and investors in public offerings and private placements. He has extensive experience as well in joint ventures, strategic alliances and license arrangements. Mark is the author of various articles on securities law and mergers and acquisitions.

Dr. Steven Le has over 30 years of experience in the areas of securities analysis and portfolio management. Dr. Le was chief Investment Officer at SVL Investment Management, an investment advisory company in California (USA) that is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Pegasus Global Capital, LLC, a private equity management company.

Since 1999, on behalf of the United Nations, Dr. Le led a team of experts to provide assistance to the Vietnamese government in developing policies and guidelines in Valuation and Financial Settlements fro Equitization of State-Owned Enterprises. Some of these equitized companies are currently listed of the Vietnam Stock Exchange. In addition, he also provided training and consulting to the Ministry of Finance – Vietnam in the area of Financial Settlements. As Founder of Pegasus Fund-1 (Vietnam), LLC and Pegasus Fund-2 (Vietnam), LLC, he led a real estate investment team in the development of two ocean-front luxury resorts-hotels & villas in Danang (Vietnam). In 2001, Dr. Le and PricewaterhouseCoopers raised substantial amount of capital for the feasibility study and construction of the Danang airport terminal in Vietnam.

Dr. Le was Managing Director of a national economic consulting firm in Washington, DC (1983), Director of Economics at the State of Maryland, USA (1979), and a key member of the corporate strategic planning team of a billion-dollar asset company located in Kansas City (1977). Dr. Le was a Professor and Chairman of the Finance, Real Estate and Law Department at the College of Business Administration, California State University, Long Beach. He completed his post-graduate studies at Harvard University majoring in Finance & Investment Decisions. Dr. Le is a Vietnamese-American and is fluent in both English and Vietnamese.