Carrie Cheung joined Principle Partners Hong Kong to lead their expansion in the Greater China region and Japan. She has extensive experience in electronic and systematic trading and has worked at global financial institutions including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and BNP Paribas. Prior to joining Principle Partners, Carrie was COO for APAC systematic trading at Citadel Securities and before that, was Head of Electronic Trading APAC at BNP Paribas. She has over 20 years in the industry and is recognised in the buyside and sellside for her expertise in electronic and quantitative trading. Carrie was also the first female and foreign co-chair of the Japan FPL chapter. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and is a certified executive coach from The Coach Partnership.

Emma Quinn is President, Cboe Australia at Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe). A proven leader with significant experience in global capital markets, she is responsible for defining and executing the company’s strategy and increasing adoption of its products and services.In 2023, Emma joined Cboe from AllianceBernstein, where she was Global Co-Head of Equity Trading. Previously, she served as head of Asia-Pacific Trading, head of Asia-Pacific Fixed Income and Australia Equities Trading, and head of Trading for Australia and New Zealand for the firm. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein in 2001, she worked as an equity trader at AMP Henderson Global Investors. Emma also provides strategic leadership and participation on a number of boards and committees to help drive innovation and influence industry development. She is currently a Director and Chairperson of FIX Protocol Limited and FIX Protocol Trading Limited boards. She was previously an advisory board member of Quorum 15; a member of the Markets Advisory Panel for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; a member of Asia Trader Forum; and a member of various Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association committees. Emma holds a Bachelor of Business in finance and business law from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Joel Hurewitz is Managing Director, Head of Sales & Global Head of Broker Dealer Strategy and Product Development for Instinet. He is responsible for sales of the group to buy and sell side clients across the Asia Pacific Region as well as the broker dealer strategy globally. Joel joined Instinet in 2008 to run broker dealer sales, but in the course of his 8 years with the firm has held a number of positions including Head of Product Strategy and Head of Electronic Trading. With over 20 years equities experience in Asia, Mr. Hurewitz has been an active member, pioneer, and supporter of FIX Trading Community since the early days of electronic trading in Asia. Prior to joining Instinet, Joel held roles within Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and CLSA where he built electronic businesses, products, and teams.

Mel Cooper is an Associate Director, Futures Division at Macquarie Bank. Mel has over 25 years experience trading financial markets, across equities and futures markets.   At Macquarie Mel is responsible for the Sales and implementation of Electronic Futures trading and Clearing businesses. Interestingly, Mel commenced her career with Macquarie Futures trading on the open outcry SFE trading floor, reflecting her career evolution. Prior to joining Macquarie, Mel was Director, Electronic Equities Trading at Credit Suisse where she was instrumental in building the number 1 ranked electronic trading desk in the Australian equity market. During this time Mel’s achievements were recognised with the Excellence in Sell Side Trading, Women in Finance Asia Award, 2021. Mel’s career also spanned time at the ASX where she helped increase equity market share through her Business Development role and successful promotion of ASX’s trading capabilities across APAC with buy-side and sell-side participants. Beyond her career, Mel is deeply passionate about driving progress for women in financial markets. As the former Chair of the Credit Suisse Women’s Network and a dedicated member of diversity, equity and inclusion committees across each company she has worked with, she actively champions gender diversity and equality in the workplace. Mel’s commitment extends to nurturing the next generation of talent, actively engaging in mentoring and recruitment initiatives to showcase the rewarding opportunities within financial markets. Despite demanding professional endeavours Mel finds joys spending quality time with her husband and 3 children.   She finds solace in running and excels as a natural networker, effortlessly connecting with peers and forging meaningful relationships within her industry and beyond.

Nasrine Ghozali re-joined Oasis as Chief Risk Officer & Member of the Strategies Group in February 2016 and is based in Hong Kong. She was previously a Convertible Bonds Strategist and Equity Derivatives Trader for Oasis between January 2006 and March 2010. Prior to re-joining Oasis, Ms. Ghozali co-founded Silver Tree, an Asia-focused event driven hedge fund, in June 2010, and served as Principal Portfolio Manager and Responsible Officer until January 2016. Prior to joining Oasis, she was Co-Head of Convertible Bond Arbitrage at Natexis Arbitrage, Group Banques Populaires in Paris from August 2001 to December 2005. Before that, she was a Convertible Bond Trader with BNP Paribas Arbitrage in Paris between August 2000 and August 2001. Ms. Ghozali received a Master of International Finance & Economics, a Master of Economics majoring in Bank Finance Insurance, and a Bachelor of Economics majoring in Applied Economics from University Paris IX-Dauphine. Ms. Ghozali co-founded the Board Diversity Hong Kong Investors’ Initiative, which aims to improve gender diversity on boards of Hong Kong-listed companies, and she is a member of the steering committee of the 30% Club Hong Kong Chapter and of the investor group of the 30% Club Japan Chapter.

Puja Bharwani is a Senior trader at Fidelity International, where she is focused on trading Hong Kong and China equities, she joined Fidelity in 2018. Prior to joining Fidelity, she worked on the trading desk at Blackrock where she gained exposure to both fundamental and systematic trading across multiple markets. Puja also has experience from the sell side at HSBC where she worked in program trading. With a total of 10 years of trading experience across buy side, sell side and operations, Puja has the built up the knowledge across the various execution channels from Low touch to working with sell side partners in sourcing block liquidity. Puja holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and a Minor in Business from Boston University, Boston, MA.

Stella Jaeger is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and is the co-Head of Institutional Equity, Southeast Asia, based in Singapore.

 

She joined the firm in 1998 in New York and relocated to Hong Kong in 2005 with the Institutional Equity business and subsequently to Singapore in 2007 to establish our Prime Brokerage team. During her career at Morgan Stanley, Stella has held a variety of roles including International Equity Operations, Corporate Treasury, Head of Prime Brokerage Singapore and Asia Head of Derivatives Clearing.  Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, she worked at ING Barings on the Asia Emerging Markets Sales & Trading desk in New York.

 

Stella graduated from Long Island University in NY with a Bachelor of Business degree in Finance.  Additionally, she was a founding executive member for the global non-profit organization 100 Women in Finance in Singapore and is an active member of the Alternative Investment Management Association Executive Committee in Singapore.

Vivian Peng, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Asset ManagementVivian Peng, specializes in systematic and quant driven trading on APAC equity trading desk at JP Morgan Asset Management. Vivian Peng joined the APAC equity trading desk at JP Morgan Asset Management in year 2016 and is responsible for automation and establish quant driven trading on JPM’s Hong Kong desk. Vivian started her career working in Lehman’s equity division in New York. Subsequently, she moved to Hong Kong and joined Barclays Asia where she spent five years to buildout their electronic trading business across APAC markets. She then joined JPM investment bank to work on their equities algorithmic product and electronic sales trading before moved into JPM Asset Management world. Vivian studied in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics.