Mr. Yeong Wai Cheong started his career at the International Department (Investment Management) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore where he was last Head of Japanese Investments. In this role, he managed the bond portfolio and other Japanese capital market instruments. He also actively managed a Japanese equities portfolio. During his early professional training in investment management, he traded in foreign exchange, commodities, equities and bonds.

Mr. Yeong Wai Cheong is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds an MBA with Honours from the University of Chicago. He graduated with First Class Honours in Economics and Statistics from the NUS, topping the whole University in 1976 and won another gold medal in 1979.

He was the CEO at two financial companies (subsidiaries of Bank of America and Kuwait Investment Office) in futures and derivative products brokerage. During this period, he organized the brokerage, proprietary trading and fund management businesses of these companies. Between 1983 and 1985, Wai Cheong was the Assistant General Manager (Deputy CEO) of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX) where he was a member of the team that set it up. This was the first futures exchange in Asia and has remained a top derivative marketplace in the world.

He was also a Director of the Man-Drapeau Group, a global fund management company associated with Man Investment Products, the largest hedge fund in the world. Man is also part of one largest futures brokerage firms in the world. Man-Drapeau was ranked as the top fund manager in the US in terms of consistency of returns during the mid-1990s. During this time, he also acted as an advisor to the Malaysian government and its futures exchanges on their formation and operations.

Wai Cheong founded Algorithms Research & Trading, a developer of quantitative trading strategies, which provided trading strategies for two US Hedge Funds, the Ronin Group and Phoenix Asset Management, both of Chicago. He also worked closely with Development Financial Institutions to fund cleantech projects in Asia, having successfully completed such exercises in Indonesia and China, and is continuing to work on such co-financing opportunities.

Wai Cheong is on the Investment Committee of Sinostar Asset Management, a regulated fund management firm based in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was a Consultant to Nanyang Technological University in the area of start-up company financing and was CEO of several of its start-ups. He was formerly Group MD and CEO of the Konzen Group, an environmental solutions provider.

Mr. Christian Avrillon has more than 10 years' experience in the financial services industry and joined Mauri Experta in January 2012. From 1990 to 2003 he gained extensive experience working for large corporations based in South Africa and the UK.

After returning to his home country at the end of 2003, he was appointed as finance and administrative manager for Robert le Maire Group, a Mauritian conglomerate, and in 2005 became finance director for the VAM group of companies.

He has a Bachelor of Accounting Science degree from the University of South Africa and is a Fellow Certified Chartered Accountant. He is also a member of the Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants (MIPA) and a Fellow of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (FMIoD).

Mr. Kiran Kumar Seechurn has worked in the fund accounting and administration industry for more than 11 years. He was employed for nearly 4 years as an account’s manager for a leading offshore management company, gaining extensive experience in fund administration.

He holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Curtin University of Technology in Australia and is a Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA). He is also a member of the Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants (MIPA).

Mr. Elton Lim graduated from the National University of Singapore majoring in economics. He has a decade of experience in the financial services industry, specializing in risk management and portfolio management.

He started his career in the wealth management industry in 2009 and later moved on to the fund management as Vice President of sales and business development. More recently he has been integral in the structuring and establishment of Olympus Asset Ltd and now sits on its Investment committee. Elton is also the director of ARQ Cap, a proprietary trading and consultancy company that provides services for private clients and brokerages.