CHINA INVESTMENT TRENDS

 Speakers

Joel A. Gallo

Chief Strategy Officer, ETAO International

Joel A. Gallo is Chief Strategy Officer of ETAO International, an Adjunct Faculty at New York University in Shanghai and on the Board of Directors of Hywin Wealth Management – a Nasdaq listed Chinese firm. He has spent nearly 30 years in global banking/capital markets, asset/wealth management and technology.

Joel was previously Director in the Advisory practice at PwC and the Head of Investment Operations at Scudder Kemper Investments (Deutsche Bank Asset Management). He was also a senior executive at Deloitte, Dell EMC and E&Y, where he advised more than 100 global financial firms including: Bank of America, Barclays, Blackrock, Blackstone, BNP Paribas, Bridgewater, Carlyle, Cerberus, Citigroup, Fidelity, IMF, JP Morgan, Legg Mason, Morgan Stanley, UBS, The World Bank Group.

Joel is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and has published extensively in Caixin, South China Morning Post, Ignites Asia, China-US Focus and other publications on global finance/economics, U.S./China relations and technology. His academic training includes: Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, Binghamton University – State University of New York. Joel lives in Shanghai.

Lester Chan

Head of Wealth Management, Saxo Markets

Lester is the Head of Wealth Management for Greater China at Saxo Markets.

Previously, he was a global multi-asset portfolio manager at CMB Wing Lung Asset Management (a subsidiary of the China Merchants Bank Group) and Director: Global Asset Allocation Portfolio Manager & Strategist at Harvest Global Investments/Harvest Fund Management.
At Harvest, he wrote a substantial amount of research (in both Chinese and English) on topics ranging from portfolio strategy to economic trends that were well received by both internal and external parties. In addition, he co-managed Harvest’s two global asset allocation funds. The Harvest Global Allocation Fund was awarded first place in the category "Best Total Return - Multi-Asset Allocation (1 Year)" by Bloomberg-HKCAMA in 2016. He joined Harvest in Beijing before relocating to Hong Kong.

Arthur Yu

CEO & Founder, Onemile

Arthur Yu is an experienced entrepreneur, who has worked many years in the global mobility facilities and services industry. He is the CEO and Founder of Onemile, a leading technology company that focuses on MaaS Concept and aims at building a global mobility platform with IoT integrated vehicles, which includes products such as Two Wheel \Three Wheel and Four Wheel Electric vehicles.
Onemile has distributions in both China/Asia, U.S. and Europe, and is the only company in the world to win the top three design awards in mobility; RedDot: Best of the Best/ RedDot:Luminary / IF Design Award/ IDEA awards for its foldable scooter, Halo.

Peter lisbygd

CEO, China Experience

Peter Lisbygd is the founder of for China Experience and Nordic Experience. He held various management positions in Europe and China before establishing China Experience in Shanghai in 2005. 

Peter has the lead on the overall strategic development of the company, but he is also in the frontline, delivery valuable insight to our clients and partners. 

He is a knowledge broker and an often-used program leader and facilitator for Executive Learning and Business Deep Dive programs in China. Peter has a background as a Perry Officer at the Royal Danish Navy, and more than 10 years of management in the Nordic travel industry before venturing into China.