Speakers:

Gillian Wu, Partner, Mulana Capital

Joy Lam, Virtual Assets Specialist, Baker McKenzie

Kevin Loo, Managing Director, Head of Investment Insights, IDEG

Yvette Chan, Managing Director, Asia Tax Practice Leader, Alvarez & Marsal

Digital Asset Investing

About the speakers

Gillian Wu is the Co-Founder of Neptune Mutual, an parametric on chain  protocol and founder of Mulana Capital, a crypto-focused venture capital manager seeking to grow with founders who have the passion and strength to build real use case for blockchain and broaden utility and adoption for crypto. 
 
Gillian has more than 17 years of investment management experience.  Prior to founding Neptune Mutual and Mulana Capital, Gillian was previously the CEO of Huobi Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited and she was also previously the Chief Investment Officer and Chairman of the Investment Committee for Anbang Asset Management (HK) Limited overseeing more than US$4.5 billion of assets under management.

Joy Lam is a Partner (registered foreign lawyer) in Baker McKenzie's Hong Kong office and a member of the Firm's Financial Services Group. Joy's practice focuses on advising clients within the virtual assets ecosystem in relation to virtual asset funds, tokenized funds, non-fund tokenized offerings, and the complex and rapidly evolving regulatory requirements for providing infrastructure that services the virtual assets ecosystem.

Joy regularly advises clients on the formation of investment funds with a wide range of investment strategies focused on liquid virtual assets, private digital tokens and companies in the blockchain ecosystem.

Joy's representative experience includes advising on Asia's first open ended tokenized fund, Asia's first closed ended tokenized fund and securing the first approval from Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission for a 100% virtual assets fund that permits subscriptions and redemptions to be effected in the form of virtual assets.

Joy was named a "Rising Star" in asset management by Law360 in its 2018 report that recognizes the "top legal talent under 40" who are practicing at a level "usually seen from veteran attorneys". Joy is recognized as "Up and Coming" in Investment Funds by Chambers 2021 and was named a "Rising Star" in 2022 by China Business Law Journal as one of 20 young elite lawyers from international firms engaged in China-related business.

Kevin is a Managing Director, Head of Investment Insights for IDEG. He helps to develop corporate strategy for the firm's institutional asset management activities, leveraging his two decades of experience across traditional finance and digital assets. He works closely with the investment and technical development teams to help uncover investment strategies, ensuring they are well supported and commercialized. Since late 2017, Kevin has previously been the CIO and Head of Digital Asset Management of two proprietary digital asset hedge funds. He has over 5 years experience within the digital asset space, including being an early investor in Bitcoin since 2016.

Additionally, with an established institutional track record, he has experience of asset allocation, debt capital markets, including Global Bonds, EM Debt and Asia Credit, FX and Venture Capital. He has worked with international asset management companies, including PIMCO, Fidelity International, BNP Paribas, across both London and Hong Kong. 

Previously, he has been a mentor to the Cyberport Incubator Fund where he helped start-ups with strategic and technology advisory and has made various partnership investments across early-stage projects across blockchain, digital assets, e-Sports, FinTech, Fitness and Wellness and Technical Education.

Yvette Chan is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Hong Kong and leads the firm’s Asia Tax Practice. She brings more than 15 years of tax advisory experience. Before joining A&M, Ms. Chan spent 5 years with KPMG in London and over 9 years in their Hong Kong office, most recently serving as partner in the M&A tax team.
 
Ms. Chan has advised on a number of investment fund structuring, investment tax structuring, tax due diligence, tax modeling review, M&A, corporate restructuring, pre-IPO restructuring, leasing, and tax compliance projects, and specialises in the structuring of M&A and financial transactions from a tax perspective.

Ms. Chan services clients in a wide range of industries including private equity and investment fund, virtual assets and blockchain, TMT, consumer and industrial markets, education, healthcare, real estate, financial services, and infrastructure.

Ms. Chan earned a master degree in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Taxation in the United Kingdom, and the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). 

This event is hosted by David Graham.

Ticket includes a full hot English breakfast buffet.

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• Start-up Member: HK$440
• Member: HK$550
• Non-Member: HK$680
  

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