2023 Next Wave Sohn Hong Kong

2023 Next Wave Sohn Hong Kong

May 17th 2023
1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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About the event

The Karen Leung Foundation is proud to present the Annual Next Wave Sohn Hong Kong. The Next Wave program is the emerging managers stage - an integral part of the conference to date.

Together with this year’s Co-Host‘s, we are proud to present a compelling and interesting speaker line-up.  The Next Wave programme will ring in the conference and the Main Stage proceedings will follow right after.

All proceeds from the conference will go to support both the Sohn Conference Foundation‘s and Karen Leung Foundation’s missions.

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To sponsor and for more information on the event, please email to info@karenleungfoundation.org.

Address

HKEX Connect Hall - 1/F, One and Two Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong

Program

1:00 pm

Registration

1:30 pm

Next Wave

3:00 pm

Main Stage

6:30 pm

Cocktail

Next Wave Co-Hosts

Mitch Golden

Managing Director, Hedge Fund Solutions Group, Blackstone

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Patrick Andersen

Partner, East Rock Capital

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Shane Galie, CFA

Partner and MD, CornerStone Partners Capital Management

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Tony Rettig

Partner, Winston Partners

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Next Wave Keynote Speaker

Alia Rahman

Founder and CEO, Amplexd Therapeutics

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Next Wave Speakers

Edward Lei

Managing Partner and CIO, Astroll Management Ltd.

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Eric Wong

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Stillpoint Investments

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Fei Sun

Chief Investment Officer, Epimelis Capital

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May Yu

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Expecta Capital

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Sean Ho, CFA

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Triata Capital

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Moderator

Yvonne Man

Co-anchor, Bloomberg Television

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Mitch Golden

Managing Director, Hedge Fund Solutions Group, Blackstone

Mitch Golden is a Managing Director of the Hedge Fund Solutions Group. Mr. Golden focuses on portfolio development, manager selection and evaluation, and ongoing monitoring for global hedge fund equity strategies. Before joining Blackstone in 2022, Mr. Golden founded Kyndle Capital. Prior to founding Kyndle Capital, Mr. Golden was the Portfolio Manager of Greenlight Masters, a multi-manager fund affiliate of Greenlight Capital where he managed a portfolio of hedge fund, SPV, and direct investments. Mr. Golden held portfolio management and investment research roles at Senator Investment Group, Motu Capital and RH Capital. He also worked at private equity firm Oak Hill Capital and was a co-founder of Quova Inc., an Internet infrastructure company. Mr. Golden began his career as a financial analyst at Wolfensohn & Co., a boutique M&A advisory firm. Mr. Golden received a B.A. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University in 1994 and earned an M.B.A. with Honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2003.

Patrick Andersen

Partner, East Rock Capital

Patrick Andersen is a Partner at East Rock Capital. Previously Mr. Andersen worked at Luxor Capital, a special situations fund, where he covered Asian equity investments and event driven investments in the U.S. Prior to Luxor, he worked at Putnam Investments as a high yield analyst. Mr. Andersen graduated from Williams College with a BA in Mathematics and Economics.

Shane Galie, CFA

Partner and MD, CornerStone Partners Capital Management

Shane Galie, CFA, is a Partner and Managing Director at CornerStone Partners Capital Management, LLC with co-head responsibility for hedge fund and public equity investments. As a member of CornerStone’s Management Committee and Investment Committee, he is involved in all aspects of the investment process for CornerStone client assets (approximately $11.6 billion as of December 31, 2022). His prior experience includes work for the Dartmouth College Investment Office and for the University of Virginia Investment Management Company. Shane graduated summa cum laude and University Valedictorian from James Madison University with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Finance.

Tony Rettig

Partner, Winston Partners

Tony joined Winston in March 2011 and has more than 20 years of investment experience. Tony, together with Jon Scanlon, is a portfolio manager of Winston’s three investment strategies. Prior to joining the firm, Tony spent nearly five years as an Investment Analyst at Lane Five Capital Management, where he assisted in founding the firm and then focused on the research and selection of long and short equities for the firm’s funds Prior to joining Lane Five, Tony was an Investment Analyst at another long/short equity firm, Matador Capital Management. He began his career in the Equity Research Department at Raymond James Associates. Tony received an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he received a Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, and a BS from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Alia Rahman

Founder and CEO, Amplexd Therapeutics

Founder & CEO of Amplexd Therapeutics, Co-Inventor of Two Non-Invasive Early Cervical Cancer Treatments. Alia Rahman is the founder of Amplexd Therapeutics, an early-stage biotech company that has developed two novel, non-invasive treatments for HPV-induced cervical dysplasia, the precursor to cervical cancer. In 2007, Alia was herself diagnosed with cervical dysplasia. After undergoing a traumatic surgery and continuing to have dysplasia, she set out on a mission to develop a non-invasive therapy. In her kitchen, she combined two active ingredients and treated herself, resulting in her first normal screening in over a decade. This finding formed the basis of Amplexd. Amplexd has developed and patented two treatments: an intravaginal suppository and photodynamic therapy system as alternatives to “watch and wait” and invasive surgery, addressing all stages of dysplasia. Alia’s hopes are two-fold: to make non-invasive, low-cost treatments readily accessible to women all over the globe, where screening and treatment options are often scarce; and secondly, to see non-invasive therapies become the norm in dysplasia-care and gynecology more broadly. Alia holds a BASc in Engineering from the University of Waterloo and currently resides in Montreal, Canada. Alia is a multi-time medtech founder.

Edward Lei

Managing Partner and CIO, Astroll Management Ltd.

Edward (Huanzhong) Lei is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Astroll Management Limited. Prior to founding Astroll in 2022, Edward was a Partner and Head of China public investing at Tiger Global. He had been with Tiger Global since 2013. He also served as the legal representative for Tiger Global’s China headquarter in Shanghai. Prior to joining Tiger Global, Edward worked at Warburg Pincus and Morgan Stanley, in New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelor of Finance from Tsinghua University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Eric Wong

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Stillpoint Investments

Eric is Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Stillpoint Investments and brings over two decades of investment experience with China’s capital markets. Prior to founding Stillpoint, Eric was Managing Director at Blue Ridge Capital, based across Beijing and New York for 11 years. Responsible for the global hedge fund’s sole international outpost, he led research efforts across various industries in Asia and China in particular. Eric began his career in 2002 with Morgan Stanley China’s Investment Banking Division, working with leading corporates across Greater China. Eric has served as Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama’s Foundation and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also currently a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Asia Society’s Asia 21 Fellowship. Eric earned a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Fei Sun

Chief Investment Officer, Epimelis Capital

Fei Sun founded Epimelis Capital in 2023. Fei co-founded Apeiron Capital in 2017 together with Wanyi Yao. Fei managed the research process and provided guidance for the team to collaborate on in-depth research projects. He developed and reviewed the hedging strategy that offered uncorrelated alpha and reduced volatilities. He also facilitated internal risk review of portfolio positions. Prior to founding Apeiron, Fei was responsible for China onshore and offshore equities and global equities with China exposure at Hutchin Hill from Mar 2015 to Nov 2016. Fei was part of a team managing an equity long-short/event driven strategy. From Sep 2006 to Jan 2015, Fei was Vice President at Goldman Sachs based in London and Hong Kong. Fei was part of a team called Fundamental Strategies which was responsible for a global mandate with focus in US, Europe and China across equities, credit, CDS and other structured products. The focus shifted to China onshore and offshore equities when he relocated to the Hong Kong office in 2013. Fei graduated from Imperial College with a BSc Degree in Physics, London.

May Yu

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Expecta Capital

May Yu is Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Expecta Capital. Prior to co-founding Expecta in 2022, May was a Co-Head of Asia in the Emerging Markets Equity Team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Hong Kong. She has been with MSIMHK since 2012. She holds a MBA from New York University, Leonard N. Stem School of Business, majoring in Finance.

Sean Ho, CFA

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Triata Capital

Sean Ho is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Triata Capital, an investment management firm based in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. Triata Capital invests in the Great China region with a focus on concentrated fundamental research through on the ground due diligence and deep sector research which are fully integrated with alternative data analysis. He is a strong believer in fundamental investment philosophy and has been investing in stocks for more than 20 years now. Prior to founding Triata in 2019, Sean spent close to four years as an Investment Analyst at Tybourne Capital Management where he researched companies and investment themes in the TMT and Consumer sectors in China. Sean was also responsible for setting up and leading the alternative data team within Tybourne. Previously, Sean worked in Segantii Capital Management, Hong Kong. Sean started off his career in Susquehanna International Group in the U.S. and later moving to Nomura International in Hong Kong. Sean completed his masters in Math of Finance in Columbia University and he holds a Bachelors of Mathematics, Double-major in Operational Research and Statistics, from Waterloo University.

Yvonne Man

Co-anchor, Bloomberg Television

Yvonne Man co-anchors “Bloomberg Markets: China Open” and “Bloomberg Markets: Asia” from Bloomberg Television’s Asian headquarters in Hong Kong, bringing viewers the most pressing global business, political and financial information as Asian markets open. Since joining Bloomberg in 2014, Man has covered several key events around the region, including reporting live from the front lines of Hong Kong’s anti-government protests, the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, and G20 in Osaka. She has interviewed many influential government officials and business leaders, from Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Bank Indonesia’s Governor Perry Warjiyo, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn, Credit Suisse Chairman Axel Lehmann, to Oaktree Capital’s Co-Chairman Howard Marks. Prior to Bloomberg Television, Man was a reporter and anchor with Fox-affiliate WXIN in Indianapolis. Earlier in her career, she covered the 2012 U.S. elections and conducted a one-on-one interview with Republican front-runner Mitt Romney. Raised in Toronto and Hong Kong, Man received her Bachelor’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism and Business Institutions from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Man speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

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