Andrew Doyle

Andrew has over 20 years of international trading experience in Asia and Australia. He is currently an independent consultant and Managing Director of FRA Solutions, based in Singapore and remains active in the areas of currency, interest rates and equity trading and marketing as well as operational and technological support.

His previous experience includes being Regional Marketer for Derivatives at ABN AMRO Bank NV in Singapore. His responsibilities included structuring and pricing complex derivative risk management solutions for bank, corporate and government customers as well as training & new product development. These products covered then entire scope of the bank's suite including Spot & Forward Currency & Money Markets, Non Deliverable Forwards (NDFs) Fixed Income, Forward Rate Agreements, Asset & Liability Swaps, Interest Rate and Cross Currency Swaps, Interest Rate & Currency Options, Equity & Fixed Income Derivatives and Exotic Options. He was the driving force behind the bank's development of swap trading books in New Taiwan Dollars & Indian Rupee.

Before joining ABN AMRO, Andrew was the Manager for Australian and New Zealand Dollar Bond Options at BZW, Sydney. His responsibilities included price making, risk management and strategic marketing of Australian and New Zealand Bond options globally. During his time there, he grew the business of BZW to be both the largest Bond option business in Australia as well as the largest within the Barclays group.

Andrew also spent several years working for State Bank of New South Wales as a Treasury Manager in Interest Rate Options and Foreign Exchange. He also has extensive trading experience in FX, Interest Rate, Equity and Commodity Markets.

Andrew has been a member of the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) OTC Interest Rate Options Market Committee.

Andrew has conducted seminars in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, The Philippines and Vietnam as well as in Europe, Africa and the United States. His courses cover all aspects of banking, risk management and treasury products including option & other derivative pricing, valuation, risk management and trading strategies.

As well as being regularly interviewed on CNBC on matters of interest to the Asian financial community, Andrew has conducted training programmes for organisations including Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Indonesian Banking Reconstruction Agency (IBRA/BPPN), Securities Industry Development Centre (SIDC) in Malaysia, The Ratings Agency of Malaysia (RAM), Institute Bank-Bank Malaysia (IBBM), Association of Merchant Banks Malaysia (AMBM), Malaysian Derivatives Exchange (MDEX), Research Institute Asia Pacific (RIAP), Development Bank of Southern Africa, ABN Amro, Citibank, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and JPMorgan as well as a large number of Asian-based banks.

He remains an active trader for his own account.

Andrew holds degrees in Finance, Economics and Psychology.

Daniel Stone

Daniel has, provided training and development and other knowledge and research-based services to large financial concerns doing business in Asia. These services include technical curriculum design, implementation, and delivery, research and business-analysis, development of training and assessment content, program design and management of new-hire induction programs, electronic learning advisory services and e-content research and development.

Daniel's professional background prior to learning and development was as a banker, with his career beginning in the early 1980s. He held roles as a currency and interest rate derivatives dealer and product structurer, commercial lender, and credit analyst. He entered treasury and capital markets with First Chicago in 1988, as an interest rate derivatives sales specialist and later as an FX Options dealer. He later held similar more senior roles with Barclays London, Bank Indosuez Paris, and NationsBank London.

Moving into consulting in 1997, he first worked as a freelance instructor. In this time, he delivered hundreds of days of workshop and seminar raining in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Clients included European and American banks, inter-dealer brokers, software houses, and financial training firms. In 2001, he joined Standard Chartered Bank, to head training globally for the Wholesale Bank. Serving as key L+D liaison to the various business lines for needs analysis, training strategy, globally offered product-knowledge workshops, soft skills training, compliance, and regulatory topics. His mandate encompassed thousands of delegate training-days, a large funded annual budget, and deployment of dozens of internal and external instructors. He directed design and production of electronic content for wealth management product training, managed global roll-out and implementation of e-Learning. He was program director for SCB's 12-week long international graduates program.

Joining FRA as a partner in 2005, Daniel has since brought his technical and L+D expertise to bear in three major Asian growth areas: knowledge-process centralisation, wealth management, and risk and regulation. Notable projects he has recently designed and implemented include (1) a multi-year internal certification program for a private bank, in which 150 employees were trained and assessed for internal certification in areas of product knowledge and risk management, (2) a year-long development and roll-out program involving business process analysis and content development of re-usable web-based training materials for major investment bank operating in 17 Asian countries, and (3) in 2007 and 2008, he was program director and lead instructor of a six-week long multi-topical annual training program for an Asian central bank.

Daniel holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School, belongs to the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and holds their Financial Risk Manager certificate.

Stuart Sutton

Stuart is a Quality Risk Management practitioner with over 25 years’ experience practicing Assurance, Compliance, Operational Excellence and Operational Risk Management in a variety of fields such as Pharmaceutical operations, Logistics, System development and Group Operational Risk Banking within North and South Asia, North America and Australia.

His previous experience was Group Assurance and Operational Excellence for Operational Risk Management and Governance at Standard Chartered bank. Prior to this he was Asia Pacific Quality Lead for Merck responsible for all quality and risk matters.

Stuart developed his passion for Quality and Risk Management at a range of multinational companies such as Eli Lilly, Merck, Schering Plough and Pfizer where he has a depth of experience ranging from Greenfield site design/startup, operations as well as Site closure and Global technology transfer.

Stuart has extensive experience implementing systems to measure and improve compliance, quality and operational risk management ranging from design of processes, development of solutions, training as well as audit preparedness and deep dive review looking for systemic issues and areas for improvement. He is passionate about Balanced Score Cards and the use of performance measurement to drive sustainable workplace productivity/compliance and risk management.

Stuart has an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University U.K. Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemistry from the University of Technology, Sydney. As well he is a retired Captain of the Australian Army graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon, Diploma in Military Operations.

Jennifer Stratton

Jennifer has 18 years experience working in financial markets in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Korea, South Africa and Dubai. Having recently returned to Singapore, Jennifer is one of the senior consultants at FRA.

Previous to joining FRA Jennifer was a one of the managers of the Bloomberg Analytics department, where she worked in Australia, Japan and Singapore where she managed the regional analytics team. At her time at Bloomberg Jennifer ran extensive training courses in house for her staff, those new to financial markets and the more experienced members of the team for continued training. She also ran client seminars all around Asia, with courses for graduates or those very new to financial markets to product professionals in equities, equity derivatives, fixed income and fixed income derivatives and cash and portfolio management techniques.

Jennifer's regional focus has meant that she has conducted training sessions all over Asia.

Analysis covered by the Bloomberg sales support team included equities markets analysis, the construction and risk analysis of portfolio equity portfolios. For fixed interest client's analysis of portfolio construction techniques, risk analysis, hedging strategies and yield curve analysis. For derivative clients Jennifer assisted with understanding of derivative products, markets and investment strategies.

Previous to joining Bloomberg, Jennifer experience was in the funds management sector of the Australian market beginning in the late 1980's. Jennifer's experience with several different investment divisions was focused on portfolio strategy and analysis, asset allocation - both strategic and tactical and risk management roles. And the assessment and management of portfolio risk. Her experience covers leading the asset allocation: strategic and tactical committees developing the long term neutral benchmark strategies for client funds, based on analysis of client risk appetite. As a lead the tactical asset allocation committees Jennifer analysed macro market and economic themes and developed quantitative models to forecast broad market movements in the Asia-Pacific region. To take views on the direction of the global economy with an emphasis on Asia-Pacific and make tactical asset allocation decisions for the portfolios.

As part of the risk analysis side of the roles Jennifer set up risk management standards and monitored and reported these to fund managers and fund owners on a regular basis. She also managed the performance attribution models, performance presentations and client liaison. She also built and maintained studies of peer funds management philosophies and performance. Jennifer also worked at intra asset class levels, building stock ranking models, managing the “analysts alpha” equity portfolios and analysing strategy and market timing models.

Jennifer has completed both a Masters and Bachelors degrees in Finance.

Benny Chan

Benny started his own learning & development consultancy practice after more than 26 years in the banking and financial services industry. He has worked at UBS AG, Standard Chartered Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Price Waterhouse Coopers and KPMG Peat Marwick (Australia). His passion is to deliver significant value for clients to drive business performance and build world-class human capital capabilities from his broad experience and exposure in organizational development.

For over 10 years he has held senior management positions in training functions at major financial institutions. His relevant experience covers consumer banking, corporate & institutional banking, investment banking, global markets and wealth management division. He has developed strong leadership and management track record in providing consulting advice and building successful partnership with senior management to execute business strategies across Asia.

His most recent position as Executive Director at UBS AG, Wealth Management Division, he was the Head of Education & Development function for the Greater China region. Previous to that he was appointed the Head of Learning & Development at Standard Chartered Bank responsible for North East Asia. Benny was selected as a Key Talent at UBS AG as one of the top performers with high potential for 3 consecutive years. At Standard Chartered Bank, he had received the bank’s Chairman’s Award for Excellence for his contributions.

His subject matter expertise includes strategic management & planning, delivering high impact sales training programs, building sales coaching culture, finance & investment knowledge, leadership competencies assessment & development, mentoring and talent development. He has extensive experience in the design and development of comprehensive training curriculum. It includes customized programs covering trusted based selling, client advisor certification, new joiners’ induction and integration, key client education and structured trainings for new private banker transformation during high growth period.

As the Head of Advisory and Sales training he was instrumental in implementing training programs that focused on the consistent execution of the Client Experience framework and prospecting management to support the bank’s aggressive business expansion and ambitions. Benny achieved strong recognition in the training, integration of new staff and leadership team development following the UBS investment in Beijing Securities in China. He also led the development of simulated client meeting training and coaching programs for enhancing the performance of client advisors.

At Standard Chartered Bank Benny was a member of the top leadership team in Hong Kong. He had successfully implemented the bank’s Graduate Trainee structured training program, the Gallup Q12 employee engagement, new corporate values launch, mentoring for talents and change implementation programs for line managers. Benny is certified as a Gallup Strengthsfinders coach and provided coaching for the bank’s top talents.

He successfully implemented the training function re-engineering and restructuring project that included the introduction of new Learning Management System and the migration of training administration support to India resulting in significant reduction in training staff headcount and major cost savings. Other business contributions include the development of Wholesale Bank Structured Derivatives Sales Clinics and Customer Sales & Service Re-engineering for Consumer Bank (CB) and new CB branch launch in China and Korea locations.

Benny has previously spent 7 years in front line senior sales positions at Standard Chartered Bank, Global Derivatives team and the Sanwa Bank group (now Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) responsible Asia Pacific region client relationships, structuring and marketing of interest rate, currency and equity derivatives to meet corporate and financial institution requirements. Prior to that, he had been involved in bank consulting, IPO and audit as a banking specialist at Price Waterhouse Coopers and KPMG Peat Marwick.

Benny holds a Master of Applied Finance degree from the Macquarie University in Australia and a Bachelor of Commerce degree majoring in Accounting from the University of New South Wales. He holds a Graduate Certificate in Technology Management from the University of Queensland. Since 1990 he is a member of the Australian Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia.

Dr. Ronald Chung

Dr. Ronald Chung, an independent consultant and Senior Associate of FRA Solutions, is an expert in finance and strategy, providing training in topics as wide ranging as structured investment products, corporate finance, investment banking, and corporate governance.