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 a number of 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.

Desmond Lin has over 14 years of on-the-ground experience in investment management and value creation in Vietnam. Mr. Lin is a renowned shareholder in Vietnam and a key investment liaison with Taiwan. Prior to joining Saigon Asset Management, Mr. Lin was a Managing Director at GrandFord Venture Capital, an investment fund specialized in listed, OTC, private equity, and infrastructure development. GrandFord was responsible for investments and building of over 500 bridges in Asia. In addition, Mr. Lin was the lead shareholder in various key targets including the Phu My Bridge, a US$180 million project in Ho Chi Minh City; International Creative Kids, a franchise of international schools in Vietnam; Horwath Technologies and Momentum Corporation, two leading banking and payment system companies, and How Yu, a major construction company with key joint venture contracts with Manila Water and Vietnam Ministry of Defense’ Company 59. Mr. Lin was Deputy General Director at various landmark projects and major joint ventures in Vietnam including the Legend Hotel, Saigon & Riverside Office Building, Hai Thanh Kotobuki, Fei-Yei/Futsu, and Dat Viet. In addition, he held senior management positions at Hallyard Resort, Peito & WuLai in Taiwan. Mr. Lin received his MBA from the University of Southern California and a BS from the University of Oregon. He is fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Vietnamese

Hoang Nguyen has over 18 years of experience in banking and investment management. Mr Nguyen can count on a significant network within the investment community in Europe and especially in Vietnam. Mr Nguyen was co-founder of AsiaFirst Asset Management, a boutique asset manager with focus on investments in Vietnam. Mr Nguyen was an investment manager at Zurich Financial Services in Zurich, the biggest insurance company in Switzerland, where he had managed a portfolio of five billions Swiss Francs focusing on investments in Continental Europe. Prior to joining Zurich he was portfolio manager at UBS, the biggest Swiss bank and the biggest asset manager in the world in terms of asset under management, in Zurich, Luxembourg and New York, where he was responsible for a portfolio of US$500 millions of private wealth clients with focus on European, North American, and Japanese markets. Mr Nguyen has a master degree in business and administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He is currently a lecturer of the program “Executive Master in Finance and Banking” at the Ho Chi Minh University of Finance and Banking in co-operation with the North-West University of Switzerland. He is an overseas Vietnamese and Swiss citizen. He is fluent in Vietnamese, German, and English.