ABOUT US

Mr. Che Guan is a Vice President and Principal Data Scientist at AllianceBernstein. Over the years, Dr. Guan has been actively engaged in development and research of machine learning, data science, quantitative strategy, and financial application of natural language processing with top financial firms of J. P. Morgan, AllianceBernstein, and Raymond James. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering.

Sean Li is currently a Chief Investment Officer at Bridger Investment Partners with extensive experience and skill set of Loans, MBS, Mortgage Lending, Valuation, Fixed Income, and FinTech AI application. His industry experience also includes Roosevelt Management Company, Sunny Capital Partners Management, Structured Portfolio Management and BlackRock. Sean Li holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

Maggie Wang is a Managing Director and the Global Head of CLO and Private Credit Research at Citigroup. Maggie advises over 900 global institutional clients on fixed-income investments, including banks, insurers, hedge funds, private equity, and family offices. Maggie started her career at JP. Morgan and has been a top-ranked analyst in the All-American Institutional Investors survey since 2007. She regularly speaks at global conferences and publishes research on relative value, trade ideas, and CLO manager evaluations, and she is frequently featured on Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the WSJ, and Barron's.

Eli Han is an experienced transactional and regulatory attorney practicing in financial services. He specializes in capital markets, structured financing, complex financial products, private investment funds, and securities and financial market regulations with work experiences at both Wall Street law firms and global financial institutions. Mr. Han, as a partner, joined King & Wood Mallesons in 2017. Prior to that, he served on two secondment stints as in-house counsel at Deutsche Bank’s Investment Banking Division and JPMorgan Asset Management. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, and J.D. from Cornell Law School.

William Liu is a 20-years Wall Street veteran and has extensive investment and management experience at leading Wall Street firms, including Credit Suisse First Boston, Bank of New York, Ivy Asset Management, and Lyra Capital. He is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Global Lights Acquisition Corp. and a partner at Global Business Strategy Corporation. As a senior executive, Dr. Liu has focused on hedge fund investment, development of FoF/MoM solutions and global asset allocation. He has also managed multi-billion alternative fund risk platforms, implemented investment guidelines, and oversaw multi-strategy fund products, investment due diligence of HF, PE and VC, and quantitative analysis and applications of machine learning in business. Prior to joining financial firms on Wall Street, Dr. Liu worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University, New York.

Gang Wu is the chairman of DoubleBridge Group and president and CEO of DoubleBridge Technologies Inc, and the President of DoubleBridge Capital. He served also as the global chief technology officer of ChinaSoft International and the director of the New York consulting department of Oracle Corporation and the project director at Citibank. The American DoubleBridge Group is a multinational company with diversified operations including investment, software and information technology, energy and culture. Dr. Wu once served as a member of the Asian Advisory Committee to the President of the Colorado State Senate and was named the Outstanding Asian Entrepreneur in North America. Mr. Wu is a member of the board of directors of the New York Chapter of the International Leadership Foundation. He won the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award and the “Excellent Leadership Award” from the International Leadership Foundation. Mr. Wu Gang holds a Doctor of Science degree.

Dapeng Hu, PhD, CFA, Managing Director, Global Head of Aladdin Sustainability Analytics and Co-Chair of Aladdin Sustainability Lab in BlackRock. He is responsible for the research and development of sustainability and climate analytics of BlackRock's portfolio management and enterprise risk management system. Dr. Hu manages a global cross-functional team of professionals with deep expertise in climate, sustainability, AI and financial modeling. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2003, Dr. Hu was a Director with Wells Fargo and a Vice President at Citigroup. Before joining the industry, Dr. Hu was a member of the research faculty in the Real Estate Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hu holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania

John Shen serves as the Chief Investment Officer at Horizon Vision Capital Advisors LLC, a position he has focused on real estate investing since 2019. Prior to his current roles, Mr. Shen held the position of Chief Operating Officer at ABL Global Asset Management in Seoul and other leadership positions, including Chief Risk Officer at ACTIAM N.V. in the Netherlands and Chief Investment Officer at China Everbright Limited in Hong Kong. During his tenure at China Everbright Limited, he spearheaded a multi-strategy hedge fund platform and led a team of 25 professionals, including 7 Portfolio Managers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shen held senior roles in risk management and quantitative analytics at renowned firms such as Chilton Investment Company, Cheyne Capital in the UK and Rochdale Investment Company, where he managed 3 funds, earning 5-star rankings by Morningstar. He earned his CFA designation in 1999 and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Dr. Eugene Xu is currently a Managing Partner of New Jersey based real estate investment firm GardenStar Group, LLC. He was a Co-Founder, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Investing Technology at LibreMax Capital, LLC, a New York based hedge fund from 2010 until he retired from the firm at the end of 2019. From 2000 to 2010, he worked in Deutsche Bank Securities’ New York office, where he served as Director and Head of Residential Mortgage-related ABS Research, and then Managing Director and Head of ABS Trading Strategy and Quantitative Modeling. From 1997 to 2000, he served as a Vice President at ABS Research at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for quantitative analysis, subordinate MBS strategies, and other research projects. Dr. Xu served as Vice President in MBS Research at Chase Securities from 1996 to 1997 and Smith Barney from 1993 to 1996. He was also a Research Member for the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Dr. Xu holds a B.Sc. degree, a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Xu’s research work on subprime mortgages before 2008 was widely known in the MBS investment circle as it was extensively covered in Baron’s feature article Coming Home to Roost on its February 13, 2006 issue. It was also covered by two New York Times non-fiction bestsellers: Gregory Zuckerman’s The Greatest Trade Ever and Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, the latter was adapted into a motion picture which won 2016 Academy Awards in five categories, including the Best Picture. His profile was also featured in March 21, 2011’s Institutional Investors Magazine article The Future Faces of Hedge Funds, among other media coverages.