13 January 2017 Conrad Hong Kong
ASHK ASIA CONFERENCE
GET
the EDGE
As at 6 January 2017
Theme: Get the Edge Conrad Hong Kong, Nathan Room, Lower Lobby One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong
MC: Ms. Jamie Zuo
09:00 – 09:30
Registration
09:30 – 09:45
Welcome Remarks Kevin Lee, ASHK President
09:45 – 10:30
Chinese Power: Globalisation of Chinese Capital Sofia Liang, ICBC International
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45
APAC Insurance Markets Development Mancy Sun, Goldman Sachs
11:45 – 12:30
Big Data “Financial Services in the Digital Age” Wilson Ho, SAS Hong Kong
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45
Exploring Digital Opportunities in Consumer Healthcare Justin Hareb, AXA Asia
14:45 – 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 – 16:45
Panel on Bancassurance: Overpriced Fad or Here to Stay Edwin Northover, Debevoise & Plimpton Alexander Moore, Morgan Stanley Mark Saunders, AIA Group
16:45 – 17:00
5 CPD HOU RS*
Closing Remarks Sam Yeung, Chairperson of ASHK International Committee
*This seminar qualifies for (Actuaries Institute Australia / ASHK / Casualty Actuarial Society / Canadian Institute of Actuaries / Institute and Faculty of Actuaries / Society of Actuaries) Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Actuarial members may find it a useful contribution to their personal professional development. A maximum of 5 CPD hours (1 CPD hour = 60 minutes) can be claimed. The amount of hours recorded is left to the discretion of the individual.
Sofia Liang is the Managing Director and Head of Financial Institution Group at ICBC International, the whollyowned Hong Kong subsidiary of ICBC, one of the largest banks in the world. Sofia has more than 15 years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining ICBC International, she was Managing Director and Head of Equity Capital Market at Macquarie Capital. Before Macquarie, she was the Executive Director of Equity Capital Market at Morgan Stanley Asia Securities.
Sofia Liang ICBC International
Prior to Morgan Stanley, Sofia had been working at Citigroup Global Market in New York, London and Hong Kong for more than ten years, mainly participating in capital market financing and merger and acquisition of financial institutions. Sofia received her MBA degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Bachelor degree from Peking University.
Mancy Sun, an Executive Director based in Hong Kong, heads up the Greater China Insurance research team. She joined Goldman Sachs in July 2008 and has led/participated in multiple listings of the regional insurers including AIA Group, CPIC and Dai-ichi Life. Mancy holds an MPA in International Affairs and Public Administration from Columbia University, and a BA in Economics from Tsinghua University.
Mancy Sun Goldman Sachs
Wilson Ho is General Manager of SAS Hong Kong, responsible for the company’s overall business operations formulating the go-to-market strategy; driving the company’s “Big Data, Big Analytics” initiatives in the market and helping the enterprises to glean business insights from the data assets with analytics .
Wilson Ho SAS Hong Kong
Since joining SAS in 2015, Wilson has dedicated his energies to building strong and trusted relationships with clients by providing them with advanced analytics solutions to meet the challenges of big data, and collaborating with statistical and analytics pioneers in academia in nurturing new analytics talents and data scientists in Hong Kong who make a notable contribution to the local community. An industry veteran of 25 years, Wilson brings a wealth of leadership and sales management experience, gained with leading technology companies, to SAS Hong Kong. Wilson holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor’s degree in Science from the University of Hong Kong.
Justin Hareb is the Regional Director for Health and Protection in Asia. In 2012 he set up this team which is responsible for the strategy, oversight and technical governance for these lines of business across the value chain and covering 8 markets in Asia (both Life and P&C operations). Under his leadership, the business successfully quadrupled between 2010 and 2015 and is on track to have total premiums in excess of EUR2.2bn in 2016. This portfolio now delivers the lion’s share of operating profits in the region for AXA.
Justin Hareb AXA Asia
Justin started his career in management consulting with Bain & Co, followed by a stint in investment banking before choosing to focus on the insurance industry in 2004. Justin brings a truly global perspective to AXA, having been based across continents including America, Africa, Europe and most recently Asia, where he has been based for the last 8 years.
Edwin Northover is an Asia-based international counsel in the firm’s Corporate Department. Edwin has a broad cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions practice, with a particular focus on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and distribution agreements in the insurance industry. Since moving to Hong Kong office in 2012, he has worked on several of the most significant insurance M&A transactions in Asia. He also has extensive private equity experience, having worked on a number of strategic and co-investments. Edwin joined Debevoise in 2007 and was based in our London office prior to his move to Asia. He is qualified in both England & Wales and Hong Kong.
Edwin Northover Debevoise & Plimpton
During 2013, Edwin spent six months on secondment to the Mergers & Acquisitions team of a multinational insurance company in Paris. In 2015, he spent a period in the Financial Institutions Group of our New York office.
Alexander Moore joined Morgan Stanley in 2001. He has spent 14 years in banking and 10 years in Asia. Alexander Moore is a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group based in Hong Kong, covering the broad insurance sector (direct as well as reinsurance) and asset management sector throughout Asia. He joined Morgan Stanley’s London office as an analyst in 2001, transferring to Morgan Stanley’s Hong Kong office in early 2005. Born in Hong Kong, Alexander speaks French and Mandarin and obtained a First-class BA in Mathematics from Oxford University.
Alexander Moore Morgan Stanley
Mark Saunders is the Group Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer of AIA Group Ltd and a member of the Group Executive Committee. His areas of responsibility have Customer Propositions at the core. AIA is the world's 2nd largest life insurer by market cap and Mark is responsible for the Group’s Strategy including M&A, corporate transactions, partnership and customer propositions, corporate and product development. As CMO, he also leads the group-wide Marketing function covering all 18 markets in which AIA operates. He joined AIA in April 2014. Mark’s responsibilities ensure customers are at the centre of AIA's strategic and corporate development enabling optimisation of the creation of shared value for stakeholders. He is a passionate promoter of the good of insurance for societies and economies. Mark Saunders AIA Group
Prior to joining AIA, Mark was Managing Director of Towers Watson (1997-2014) and in consulting to the leading insurers in Asia, as Practice Leader for the Asia-Pacific Insurance Sector, growing the business to a market leading position. He was also Managing Director of Towers Watson Hong Kong, the firm's largest operation in Asia Pacific. Mark is widely regarded as a leading practitioner in life insurance in Asia and in the fields of strategy, corporate and business development, customer propositions, financial, risk and capital management and economic value determination of life insurers having been involved in nearly every major M&A deal and capital raising exercise of insurers in Asia since the late 1990s and has provided the most Expert Opinions in the Prospectuses of the major high profile IPOs and listings of Asian life insurers.
No Company Name
Name
No
Company Name
Name
1
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Alan Oates
38
Mercer
Elvin Tharm
2
AIA
Sandra Cheung
39
Mercer
Billy Wong
3
AIA
Sai-Cheong Foong
40
MetLife
Des Thomas
4
AIA
Steven Kong
41
Munich Re Japan Life Branch
Hugo Choi
5
AIA
Lim Khang Yee
42
Prudential
May Chun
6
AIA
Alex Wong
43
Prudential
Nigel Knowles
7
AIA
Joan Wong
44
Prudential
Dicky Lam
8
AIA
Daisy Wu
45
Prudential
Luk Ho Shuen
9
AIG
Karen Chang
46
Prudential
Adrian O'Connor
10
Aviva Life
Paddy Choy
47
Prudential
Christine Shen
11
AXA Asia
Stephen Kwan
48
Prudential
Tang Yu Ping
12
AXA China
Dennis Chan
49
Prudential
Stephanie Tse
13
AXA China
Tony Chau
50
Prudential
Oliver Yu
14
AXA China
Kyle Chen
51
RGA
Jonathan Cheung
15
AXA China
Kevin Lee
52
RGA
Priscilla Huang
16
China Taiping
Jamie Zuo
53
RGA
Jiang Yinan
17
CIIHK
Helen Roberts
54
RGA
Christy Lam
18
Chubb
Terry Fung
55
RGA
Heather Lund
19
Chubb
Michelle Lau
56
RGA
Simon Pang
20
Chubb
Steven Poon
57
RGA
Yanum Venkatrathnam
21
Chubb
Victor Wong
58
RGA
Candice Yam
22
Debevoise & Plimpton
Allison Lee
59
RGA
Olivia Yeung
23
Deloitte
Jeremy Menzies
60
RGA
Dominic Yu
24
FTLife Insurance
Iby Cheung
61
SCOR Re
Nora Li
25
FTLife Insurance
Paul Headey
62
Standard Life
Martyn Byott
26
FTLife Insurance
Cannes Tam
63
Standard Life
Sean Deehan
27
General Re
Orchis Li
64
Standard Life
Stanley Wang
28
General Re
Yen Tsang
29
General Re
Tinny Tsun
65 66
Linda Kam Albert Wong
30
Generali Asia
Harry Johnston
Swiss Re The Chinese University of Hong Kong
31
HSBC
Paul Beresford
67
32
HSBC
Jeremy Porter
The Office of The Commissioner Gary Cheng of Insurance
33
HSBC
Robert Thomas Gow
68
Transamerica Life (Bermuda)
Chirag Rathod
34
KPMG
Michael van Vuuren
69
Willis Towers Watson
Dion Heijnen
35
Manulife
Kenneth Dai
70
Willis Towers Watson
Michael Ross
36
Manulife
Rockson Leung
71
Willis Towers Watson
Frank Zhang
37
Manulife
George Tang
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