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Adrian Wong
Adrian Wong is a recognized expert in the energy and infrastructure sector and is currently a Partner of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP providing legal expertise in transactional, commercial, regulatory & disputes advice. He has also worked as a legal counsel with International Power/GDF Suez (now ENGIE).
Adrian has advised power generation, transmission, renewable energy, petrochemical and construction companies as well as companies in the oil and gas industry. He has provided comprehensive and integrated advice on all aspects of infrastructure project development ranging from negotiations with government authorities relating to project concessions; lenders providing project financing (and other forms of financing) to projects, EPC contractors, feedstock and utilities suppliers and potential offtakers and O&M service providers.
Some of his energy related experiences are:
- Advising Sarawak Energy Berhad in relation to a power purchase agreement entered into between Syarikat Sesco Berhad and Sakura Ferroalloys Sdn. Bhd. Adviser in the development and construction of the:
- Baram 1 Hydro-Electric Power Project;
- Baleh Hydro-Electric Power Project;
- 2 x 300MW Balingian Coal Fired Power Plant Project;
- Tanjung Kidurong GT Combined-Cycle Power Plant Project;
- Packages A, B, C and 2 of the 500kV Backbone Transmission Line Project
- The Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund (IIGF) on the provision of a government guarantee for the Sumsel 9 (2 x 600MW) & 10 (1 x 600MW) coal fired mine mouth power projects in Indonesia.
- Advising International Power / GDF Suez on coal and gas power projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Mongolia
- Advise the International Finance Corporation on its debt and equity investment, US$100 million financing of Power Grid Corporation of India and waste to energy power plant project in Sri Lanka
- JBIC on the financing of the Van Phong I BOT power project – one of the largest coal fired power projects in Vietnam.
- Sojitz Corporation on the development and construction of a coal and thermal power plant
- Renewable Energy Corporation on several aspects of their greenfield development of a US$2.5 billion solar manufacturing complex in Singapore
- He is qualified in both English and Singapore law.
Ad Rietveld
Ad has spent most of his professional career in the pricing and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals with positions as a government payer, in consulting and in industry. He is widely seen as one of the foremost experts working in pricing and reimbursement. During his years in consultancy at RJW & partners since 2008 and previously at Cambridge Pharma Consultancy (now part of IMS Health) from 2000, Ad has advised on a wide range of projects in numerous therapeutic areas for many pharmaceutical companies, bringing his experience as a payer to bear in providing comprehensive market access solutions.
Prior to working in consultancy, Ad was Deputy Director of Pharmaceutical Affairs at the Dutch Ministry of Health, responsible for the development and implementation of pharmaceutical cost containment policies, including the development of a reference price system and price controls. He has an in-depth understanding of social health care insurance systems and has acted as a member of international advisory bodies, including the European Commission's Pharmaceutical Pricing Transparency Committee. He has been closely involved with the World Health Organisation and World Bank in the development of international pharmaceutical policies and has helped develop the pricing and reimbursement systems in Vietnam, Serbia, Romania and Albania, among others. Ad founded RJW & Partners in 2008 with other renowned P&R experts including Neil Johnson and Chloe Brown, specialised in providing Pricing strategy development; Evaluation of new opportunities; Value proposition development, validation & communication; Evidence gap analysis and planning; Payer environment assessment; as well as Payer negotiation training. He has since involved in hundreds of projects, advising all therapeutic areas and most of today's leading brands on pricing and market access strategies across Europe, US, Canada, Asia- Pacific and Latin America regions. His multinational clients include Novartis, AstraZeneca, Biogen, Ipsen, Santen, and many more. Some works he has done recently include:
- Payer perspective on new data for an oncology product
- Providing global recommendations for pricing and indication sequencing in oncology
- Pricing & market access recommendations for a product in alcohol dependence
- Evidence requirements and funding of a long-acting intravenous antibiotic
- Global Value Dossier development for a new product in ADHD
- Assessment to inform corporate strategy based on P&MA issues with biosimilars
- Assessment of Future Payer Environment for Pipeline Products using a Payer Advisory Board
- Assessment of the price potential of an intranasal formulation of a benzodiazepine
- Assessment of the P&MA potential of an in-licensing opportunity for a drug replacing surgery
- Delivered a Senior management workshop to aid integration of P&MA principles into development
- Payer objection handling workshop for an orphan drug
Ad has a degree in medicine and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management.
Adrias Tan
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
Fellow, Singapore Institute of Builders
Member, Society of Construction Law, UK
Member, Society of Construction Law, Singapore
Associate Member, Singapore Academy of Law
Panel of Arbitrators, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
Associate Lecturer, Singapore Institute of Management
Adrias Tan graduated with First Class Honours from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh), and obtained his Master of Science in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from the Joint Degree Programme at King's College London and the National University of Singapore. Adrias also read law and graduated with LLB(Hons) from the University of London. Adrias is a trained arbitrator and has handled several institutional and ad-hoc arbitral proceedings. With more than twenty years of practical working experience in the construction milieu, Adrias has established himself considerably in contractual and legal advisory services, specializing in adjudication, arbitration and construction claim disputes, mediation and litigation proceedings.
Adrias is a Fellow at Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and Singapore Institute of Builders; beside Society of Construction Law (both UK & Singapore). He's also Associate Member at Singapore Academy of Law, Panel of Arbitrators at Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and Associate Lecturer at Singapore Institute of Management. He frequently delivers presentations at international forums including Informa KNect365 Law's FIDIC APAC Contract Users' Conference.
At the SIM/RMIT undergraduate degree programme, Bachelor of Applied Science (Construction Management)[Honours], Adrias lectures on Construction Contract Law. He has also tutored in SIArb International Entry Course for Arbitration Law and Practice, and in the dissemination of in-house seminars and conducting of workshops on construction, contractual and legal issues including the many standard forms of construction contracts such as PSSCOC, SIA, REDAS, FIDIC Suite of Contracts, etc.
Contracts and Project Management, Claims, Dispute Avoidance and Resolution;
Litigation, Adjudication, Arbitration, Mediation, Conciliation, Legal Counsel, Construction Law, International Arbitration;
Standard Building Forms of Contract (FIDIC, REDAS, PSSCOC, SIA, RIBA);
Educator, Trainer, Peer Reviewer, Expert Witness
Capt. Axel Kahl
Capt. Axel Kahl founded Chemical Marine in 2012 with the focus on chemical and oil tankers after having experienced 19 years in this specific but prominent industry. He began his career in 1977 sailing from ordinary seaman (OS) to captain in 1990 before working as Superintendent & Quality Manager/Auditor at a company specialised on tank cleaning/sludge & slop disposal, clean-up of oil pollutions between 1990-1997; followed by Pool Quality & Vetting Manager, and Operations Manager at United Chemical Transport GmbH (UCT) until 2006 where he was responsible for ship vetting, cargo operation and tank cleaning supervision. He then became Quality Assessor at STASCO until 2008 when he joined Shell Chemicals as Global Marine Technical Manager – Chemicals.
Axel is currently supporting companies across a range of subjects including crew training, auditing, risk management, incident investigation, tank cleaning, ship vetting and hazard prevention. In particular: TMSA company audits, document review, management reviews; risk management and Hazard Register creation
- TMSA company audits, document reviews, management reviews (over 100 projects completed since 2006)
- Updating HSE and Cargo Operation manuals
- BBS Support & training
- Risk Management and creating a Hazard Register
- Performing Chemical Tanker Seminars for Office members, Senior and Junior Officers
- Incident investigation, support and Expert Witness
- Tank cleaning support together with partners and associates
- Operation audits on board Chemical and Oil Tankers
Until recently, Axel was a member of the CDI Executive Board (Marine and IMPCAS). As a Master Mariner, Axel was certified as an EOQ/DGQ Auditor; Accredited OCIMF Inspector for Oil and Chemicals; ICS 100, 200 and 300 Certificate; Propylene Oxide Training for Ships Command
Since 2000, Axel has been invited to speak at various conferences (including Tanker Shipping & Trade 2013/2017, Tanker Operator 2015/2018, ACI 2014/2015, Navigate 2013, SHELL Chemicals Safety conferences and many more) on Planning & QHSE; SOLAS and Nitrogen; SMS and Procedures, Ship Vetting Process & Tanker Inspections, Safety Standards on Chemical Tankers; as well as in-house training for both senior and junior officers.
Dr. Bart Lucarelli
Dr. Bart Lucarelli is Managing Director of Power and Utilities at AWR Lloyd, a financial advisory services company that provides its clients with strategic planning and transaction support. Its professional focus is on power, fuels and mining and works on behalf of private power producers, coal and gas suppliers, lenders and governments. Dr. Lucarelli has 40 years of professional energy sector experience with most of those years spent in Asia. Since 2006, he has worked extensively on projects related to the procurement and pricing of coal for coal-fired IPP projects in Asia. He has focused his efforts on assisting IPPs design and implement competitive coal tenders for both new and operating coal-fired IPP projects in Asia and assisting them with the negotiation of the coal supply and transportation agreements.
His coal related experiences since 2000 include:
- Assisting 8 international IPPs with power projects located in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and India with the implementation of coal tender packages and then helping them to negotiate long term, coal sales agreements with Indonesian and Australian coal suppliers
- Serving as the General Manager of the Quezon Power Company, a 460 MW coal-fired power plant located in the Philippines, from 2001 to 2004
- Assessing the technical and economic feasibility of implementing coal upgrading systems at Indonesian mine sites
- Evaluating and ranking proposals (for a state government) to demonstrate advanced technologies for upgrading Australian brown coal
- Conducting a due diligence analysis of a prospectus to build and operate advanced coal blending facilities at large coal export terminals in China;
- Conducting a comprehensive "Future of Coal in Asia study, which (i) analysed the coal industries of Australia, Indonesia, China and India and their Asian markets and (ii) compared the economics for coal-fired power plants against natural gas-fired plants and solar and wind
- Publishing 3 chapters in "The Global Coal Markets (Cambridge University Press, covering the coal industries of Indonesia and Australia and technologies for mitigating CO2 emissions from the coal industry.
Dr. Lucarelli resides in Bangkok. He has a PhD from the University in California, Berkeley.
Björn Asplind
Björn Asplind, M.Sc Naval Architect CEO and Founder, Technocean Consulting AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
After working for for large technical and R&D projects/organisations over the years, Björn founded Technocean Consulting AB in 2014. The major principal is currently Stena Rederi AB where he primarily acts as Project Manager in Scrubber Retrofit Projects. Today he is one of few independent experts in the world on exhaust gas scrubbing technology for shipboard applications.
- The assignment covers both technical, economical and contractual aspects of the project. The company has mainly taken assignments concerning exhaust gas cleaning projects, Scrubbers for Ships trading in the ECA areas.
- The assignment includes technical and contract management for the scrubber conversion on the two largest ferries in the world, Stena Hollandica and Stena Britannica.
- Björn has done all technical and economic feasibility studies for the ships being converted, as well as analysing the scrubber suitability for all relevant ships in the fleet.
Björn's earlier work experience includes:
2004- 2014
TTS, Göteborg, Sweden. Various positions in TTS Marine ASA, a global supplier of equipment for the Marine industry. During the years with TTS he worked both on the technical and commercial side of the business selling shipboard equipment to Shipyards and Ship Owners.
2002 – 2004
Ecoship Engineering AB, Malmö, Sweden. Björn worked as the R&D Manager with responsibility for two large R&D projects with high environmental focus. Ship design involving Diesel electric propulsion and SCR catalyst Exhaust gas cleaning.
2000 – 2002
Ocke Mannerfelt Design AB, Stockholm, Sweden. Design, Hydrodynamics and Project Management for pleasure crafts, ferries and extreme race boats.
2000 – 2001
Ecoship Engineering AB. Research on "Developable surfaces in hull design – Hydrodynamic and construction aspects". Investigation of structural and hydrodynamic properties for the patented Ecoship hull design.
During the last few years Björn has studied the scrubber technology for ship applications in detail as well as trying to understand the principle arguments for why there is a need to reduce SOx emissions and how they influence the environment. He has been in seminars and interfaced with researchers on how scrubbers will affect the marine environment.
- He is currently engaged in a study together with IVL (Swedish Environmental Research Institute) about the effects of scrubbers. The project will study among other things how soot and particle exhaust are affected by scrubbers and try to answer the question; Which is better for the environment? Switching fuels or scrubbing?
- He has managed the procurement and installation of both open and closed loop scrubbers
Bret Schroeder
Bret is an experienced management consultant with over 25 years of business strategy and operations experience. He has been working in the healthcare sector in partcular for over 15 years and has implemented projects in data analytics, mobile applications, integration of business and technology, digital strategy and operations, strategy and business planning, growth strategy and IT outsourcing.
He has led and managed numerous teams to identify, analyze and solve client's largest challenges in healthcare -leveraging digital technology as a business enabler. He has also done extensive research in Behavioral Economics and the impact on healthcare costs.
Bret has advised both public and private organizations in the US, UK, Middle East and Asia and is a regular contributor as a Subject Matter Expert for The New York Times, Bloomberg Radio, The Washington Post and Reuters.
He holds a Master of Business Administration in Strategy and Finance from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and an Electrical Engineering Degree from Montana State University.
Bret is presently a Partner and US Healthcare Growth Strategy Lead for PA Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm and he works with healthcare companies in the US, UK, Nordics and Middle East.
Byron Xavier
Byron Xavier is Director of Xavier & Associates LLC. And has specific experience in drafting and negotiating contracts across multiple jurisdictions, managing civil and criminal litigation, directing intellectual property registration and enforcement strategies and handling other general corporate matters.
Byron graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1998 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1999. He has worked as an associate in a Singapore law firm, where he specialised in intellectual property enforcement and litigation, as well as handling commercial IP and technology issues. Byron recently returned to private practice, starting his own firm with a small team in order to translate his in-house experience for the benefit of corporate clients – ranging from start-ups to MNCs – in the areas of corporate and commercial law, as well as advising on IP and IT issues.
Throughout practice Byron has had extensive experience in advising on, drafting, and negotiating a variety of contracts for a wide range of transactions from channel and logistics contracts and intellectual property licenses to outsourcing contracts and cross-border supply agreements.
Cedric Joseph
Cedric has over 20 years of management experience in Information Systems and Technology. He has worked as the Project manager for multi million dollar Port Automation projects at 3 of the largest container terminals in the US and recently completed an executive program at MIT on Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategies. He began his career with
ST Engineering (Singapore), Plexis Services (US) where he gained substantial experience with supply chain, logistics freight forwarding, warehousing and infrastructure management. Prior to founding CBIS, Cedric was the senior project manager of a company wide global innovation program for APM Terminals in Netherlands, and has experience working in terminal operations. He holds a M.S. in Information Technology.
Cedric is currently leading CBIS Inc, a maritime-focused consultancy company providing port automation solutions. He specialises in project management, vendor management, business analyses, process engineering, software design, development (AGILE/SCRUM), system testing, training & implementation and KPI monitoring. Cedric is well-versed in a wide range of technologies, including TOS (Integration and configurations), Position detection systems (PDS) for process automation, OCR/RFID/GPS data collection and tracking systems, automated gates, software development IT infrastructure, container handling equipment upgrades.
Recent projects Cedric has managed include:
- Marine Terminal Process Automation Project – Design
- Development, Integration, and Post-implementation support for TOS, PDS and OCR systems. Total ROI exceeded $12mm per year. (Total Terminals International, LLC).
- Port Automation Projects – TOS and PDS Implementation & Integration (Virginia International Terminals)
- Marine Terminal Process Automation Project – PDS & TOS integration: project planning, cost analysis, monitoring, RFP, stakeholder & vendor management. Cumulative ROI reached $18mm (APM Terminals Pier 400, Los Angeles)
- Terminal Process Automation Project – Design, develop & integrate TOS and PDS solutions. (Yusen Terminals LLC)
Chetan Hans
Chetan has more than 12 years of experience in servicing large national and multinational clients in the areas of Assurance, Indian GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS technical accounting advisory, specifically in the areas of financial instruments, leases, consolidation, revenue recognition and business combinations.
Chetan has extensive international experience on advising clients on IFRS and US GAAP in India, United Kingdom and United States. Chetan has expertise in:
- Advising on technical accounting under IFRS and US GAAP;
- Conduct IFRS and technical accounting trainings for finance teams of clients and workshops on IFRS in Singapore, India and Nepal;
- Experience of various technical topics like leasing, revenue recognition, embedded derivatives, consolidation, joint ventures, service concession arrangements;
- Diverse industry and international experience including working with and within teams from India, United States, United Kingdom, Middle East, Romania, Singapore.
- Chetan has also worked with Accounting Advisory team of another large global accounting firm's and Technical Accounting Group of a major US based financial institution.
Professional qualifications and memberships
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK)
- Chartered Financial Analyst (US)
- Com (Hons), University of Delhi
Chong Jun Tang
Chong Jun is a qualified Lawyer in Singapore and Hong Kong (since 2010 and 2016 respectively), and a Fellow and Council Member (Hon. Secretary) of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. He has extensive experience handling shipping disputes relating to charterparties, bills of lading, MOAs for vessels sale & purchase, shipbuiding & repair contract and vessel-mortgage enforcement. He's also a recognised specialist in international trade disputes, having represented clients in various quality & quantity disputes in connection with commodity sales & purchases (including grain & feed trade sectors). Chong Jun speaks English and Mandarin Chinese and holds Bachelor of Laws from the University of Durham and Master of Laws from Tsinghua University.
Christopher Lennon
Christopher Lennon is the Director of Stone Falcon Corporate and Legal Consulting Ltd – a company that provides consultancy, professional training and academic teaching within the area of Project Management, where he specializes within the 'Special Projects' domain. He has more than 25 years of experience across various market segments, including maritime and power industries, retail, logistics, distribution and the oil & gas industry. He has set up distribution networks supporting the North Sea E&P industry within Aberdeen and managed a variety of 'special projects' internationally – normally strategic or change management focused.
Chris has over 17 years teaching experience at several universities across a wide range of subjects. These include delivering MSc. level courses in Project Management at the Robert Gordon University and the University of Aberdeen as well as the International Oil and Gas MBA programme for Middlesex University. He holds an MBA and LLB from the University of Aberdeen, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators.
Chuan Yao
Chuan Yao, has over 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry and has worked in the industry in China, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and other ASEAN countries. Chuan has held senior positions in the areas of Quality Assurance, Regulatory Compliance and Regulatory Affairs and has been responsible for maintenance of regulatory compliance of active ingredient manufacturer's drug master files (DMF) and European certificates of suitability (CEPs). Chuan also has extensive analytical testing and quality control experience, production engineering experience involving trouble shooting, process optimization and long-term process / product development activities. Chuan also has experience in GMP compliance auditing while employed by China State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). In this role Chuan conducted for regulatory audits to Chinese pharmaceutical company within mainland China. Following his professional experiences at CFDA, Pacific Pharmaceuticals (New Zealand, now Merck Group), Go Medical Industries (Australia), Wyeth (Singapore, now Pfizer), Chuan Yao is currently a principal consultant in ChemPharm, and leading consultant team to participate GMP/GLP/GDP/GVP projects in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN countries. Chuan has a wealth of knowledge in regulatory compliance, validations, project management, GMP/ GLP/GDP/GVP and regulatory affairs, he has designed and conducted series of GxP training courses to train thousands of industry professional. Chuan was a Drug Abuse Inspector with the China Drug Control Center, Beij ing, China and was appointed to the position of a drug inspector at the Beijing 11th Asian Games in which he was awarded an Honorary Diploma from the Olympic Committee. Chuan is fluent in English and Chinese.
Areas of Expertise:
- USFDA, CFDA, PIC/s, EU GMP, GxP and ISO Compliance
- Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
- Compliance Auditing and Gap Analysis
- Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Compliance
- GxP Training
- Analytical Testing
- Process Capability
- Medical Devices – ISO13485 and 21 CFR Part 820
Conrad Chong
Conrad Chong, Conrad brings with him experience of 25 years, all of which are in the Pharmaceutical, Agrochemical and Food industries with major multinational companies such as Pfizer, Syngenta and Wilmar. His technical expertise in Quality Compliance and Regulatory Affairs for Market Authorization in ASEAN countries has established a network of good contacts with the local Health Authority. Conrad is a well-rounded specialist, with expertise in supply chain, manufacturing, project administration, process, GMP, packaging compliance, regulatory affairs, marketing and sales etc. Conrad has been responsible for commercial management of contract manufacturing and has a wealth of experience establishing legal entities in practically any major jurisdiction in ASEAN countries and has worked with clients in
Areas of Expertise:
- GMP, GxP and ISO Compliance
- Packaging and Artwork Compliance
- Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment
- Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Compliance
- GxP Training
- Intellectual Property Rights Process and Registrations
- Supply Chain Operations Planning and Process
- Marketing and Sales Strategy and Execution
- Bar coding System and Setup
- SAP Master Data management
Darrell Bate
Darrell began his maritime career with the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd and has since taken up numerous operations roles across ship management and brokerage houses including Salen Shipping, Genchem Chartering, Yemen Gulf Line, Van Ommeren Marine Management and Kearvaig Shipping. He served as a third officer aboard general cargo vessels trading worldwide, during which time he oversaw a range of port agency services including loading/discharging, laytime statements, bunkering, victualling & manning, etc. He obtained his Class-3 Certificate of Competency and HNC in Nautical Science from the College of Nautical Studies (Warsash), is a member of Chartered Institute of Shipbrokers, and has worked as a shipbroker to the Baltic Exchange-based Van Ommeren Marine.
Darrell has focused his career in education & training and is the Course Director for Diploma in Ship and Port Agency at Lloyd's Maritime Academy. He has trained numerous ship & port agents as well as seafarers from Nord Maritime, Inchcape Shipping, Huntdeltel, Wilhelmsen, CBG Guinea, Neptune Lines Agency, GAC, Sea Pride Enterprise, LBH Group to name a few, on all facets of the Ship and Port Agency business.
Derrick Yuen
Derrick is the co-founder and principal for FYT Consulting with extensive experience in analytics and consulting with top management consulting firms, multinational corporations and government agencies.
Prior to establishing FYT Consulting, he was responsible for co-leading the formation and establishment of the People Analytics Centre of Excellence (COE) for a multinational healthcare company with US$ 30 Billion revenue. Derrick also has extensive experience in corporate strategy and process improvement having led such functions in large multinational corporates in the FMCG and aviation sectors.
Derrick is an associate trainer with the Civil Service College, PSA Academy, HR Academy and Management Development Institute of Singapore where he develops and delivers data analytics, decision-making and analytics culture programs. He also develops and deliver customized analytics workshops and programmes for many organizations across the region spanning multiple sectors and functions; including maritime, aviation, FMCG, F&B and education to name a few.
Derrick holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the National University of Singapore as well as an MBA from the University of Southern California.
Douglas Raitt
Douglas Raitt joined Lloyd's Register in 2005 to strengthen their Fuel Oil Bunkering Advisory Services (FOBAS) after having managed marine fuel oil testing laboratories in Rodderdam and Singapore since 1996. He deals with problem fuels as well as solutions concerning marine fuels for shipowners and managers. Douglas champions bunkering best practice standards as well as promotes continuous education of stakeholders in the bunker supply industry on ongoing regulatory & technological developments concerning fuel oils. He also has extensive knowledge of future fuels, including LNG, Methanol & Biofuels and potential future uptake in the marine industry
Gerald Yee
Gerald is a partner with Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore. His portfolio of contentious shipping work includes admiralty enforcement, drafting Bunker Trading and Supply including Commodity Swap Agreements, oil and gas disputes for well-known oil majors, marine insurance and P&L matters. He has experience in conducting and instructing arbitration proceedings in London, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand.
On the non-contentious front, Gerald handles ship finance, ship sales and purchases, registration and change of flag matters, review and advice of charterparties, ship management and manning agreements.
Some of Gerald's past notable cases and experiences include:
- Reviewing and providing advice for Regulation and Compliance in IPO prospectus for IMO, Shipping and other maritime related regulations and conventions
- Advising and drafting of charterparties (bareboat and long term time CPs) and additional/rider clauses and financial leasing arrangements.
- Advising and drafting Bunker Trading and Supply including Commodity Swap Agreements
- Conversant with Ship Arrests matters. Have also instructed foreign counsel on matters related to carriage of goods by sea and air in Malaysia, Indonesia,Vietnam, Greece, Turkey, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus and Lagos, Nigeria
- Portfolio includes handling and dealing with commercial advice and claims for several well-known multi-national oil and gas companies; and several Protection & Indemnity Clubs for Owners and Charterers of vessels
- Instructed in matters to act for a variety of clients, who are Oil Majors, Ship Owners, Charterers, Shipyards and Banks, including ExxonMobil, Chevron Texaco, UNIPEC, SINOCHEM Oil, International Far Eastern Leasing Co. (part of the Sinochem Group), ABN AMRO BANK NV, Bank of Communication, Rongsheng Heavy Industries and Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard
Prior to joining Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore, Gerald was at a Singapore law firm where he led the Admiralty and Shipping group.
Frans G van Andel
Frans van Andel is a pharmaco-economist and senior public health specialist with more than 30 years of experience in global pricing and reimbursement issues of medicines and medical devices. He holds degrees in health economics and law (Universities of Groningen and Utrecht, NL), public health (Harvard University, USA) and a PhD in pharmaceutical economics (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL).
Frans has held a number of senior roles in market access in the private and public sector. For many years he was Director of Global Market Access at Novartis AG in Switzerland. More recently, he worked for the World Health Organization Regional Office based in Denmark as a Regional Adviser Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technologies for the European region. He's presently a Board Member of PPi HealthCare Ltd, a global market access company as well as Director of International Market Access at the Medicines Optimization Innovation Center (MOIC) in Belfast UK. The MOIC is a public sector institute, sponsored by the NHS aiming to develop methodologies for rational use of medicines and medical devices.
Dr. van Andel has carried out more than 400 projects in pricing and market access of pharmaceuticals and medical devices focussing on pricing and reimbursement and other aspects such as pharmacoeconomics and researches on quality of life, the organization of consensus meetings among clinical experts as well as the preparation of reimbursement dossiers for a range of products including biosimilars, orphans & expensive drugs for oncology, combinations, generics. In his most recent work, he is focussing on "very early market access" providing pricing and reimbursement support to start-up companies with innovative technologies as well as venture capital investors.
Frans began his career with Novartis AG (Switzerland) between 1983-1990 from Product Manager for Disease Control Projects until becoming the company's Director of Global Pricing & Reimbursement Strategies, of which his responsibilities included over 10 major Novartis compounds. Following Novartis, Frans consulted for WHO (Geneva) on Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases Programme and held a number of positions including Director of Medical Technology and Policy Research at Battelle Institute (London), Regional Adviser on Pharmaceutical Policies (drug control, P&R, distribution, market access) at WHO (Copenhagen), Director of Pharmacoeconomics at Abbott Pharmaceuticals (Germany), Director of International Healthcare at Netherlands School of Public Health, and many more.
Geographically, Dr van Andel has worked on projects throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. In Asia, his working experience involves a range of countries (in particular middle East, Indian sub-continent, ASEAN and Far East), in which, in addition to work for the pharmaceutical industry he conducted evaluations on medical technology for the European Union, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.
Several of Frans's hundreds of projects in Pricing & Reimbursement of medicines and medical devices (across Asia) include:
- KOL surveys and pricing work in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and India on various epileptics, indication epilepsy with Novartis
- Pricing work in various Asian markets to introduce new epileptic with Eisai
- Surveying medication products to combat bird influenza in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia with World Bank
- Surveying antimicrobial resistance patterns and products in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia for EU
- Survey on P&R in India & Indonesia for Percutaneous Perfusion Device in combination with oncologic agent melphalan, indication treatment of metastases in the liver due to ocular melanoma with Delcath
- Comprehensive KOL survey on P&R in India and Pakistan on indication palliative treatment of head and neck cancer with Biolitec
Frans van den Berg
Highlight specialties:
- Blending operations for LSFO and sulphur compliance 2020
- Claims and incident investigations
- Developed methods for fuel oil quality measurement (ASTM D7060, FIA Combustion analyser IP541, Filtration test rig, etc)
- Fuel oil quality assurance system
- Industry standards (ISO 8217, SS 524 & 600, ISO 9001, 17025, ASTM / IP / ISO test methodology etc)
- Optimisation in bunker fuel blending; blend control and QA
- Exploration & production of heavy fuel oil
- Transportation, manufacturing and blending of heavy fuel oil products
- In-line blending, lab testing & on-line testing
Frans has 40 years of experience in crude oil, heavy fuel oil and product quality as a senior R&D technologist. He spent the most part of his career at Shell working in a variety of roles, global locations and management positions, directly involved in all elements of the fuel oil supply chain, from manufacturing in the refinery to problem solving for individual bunker fuel customers.
As a senior research technologist, Frans and his team developed new methods for measuring fuel oil quality, such as the Automatic Stability Analyzer (ASTM D7060), the FIA combustion analyzer (IP541, in cooperation with Fueltech) and a filtration test rig.
In his role as Fuel Oil Technology Manager Frans was responsible for a global team supporting Shell fuel oil operations worldwide; he played a significant role in setting up Shell's Fuel Oil Quality Assurance System, supported refineries and terminals in blending operations and led numerous investigations in claims and incidents.
Most recently, as a Principal Scientist in the Emerging Technologies Group of Shell Global Solutions International, Frans was responsible for scouting and evaluating new developments in Heavy Oil technology in both Upstream (exploration and production) and downstream (transport, manufacturing and blending products) around the world. He held an instrumental role in preparing Shell sites for blending low sulphur fuels for shipping, e.g. for the Pernis refinery and the former Argos terminal (now Varo) in Rotterdam. This also included a study into unusual blending components. He and his team gave input to several editions of ISO 8217, notably on the CCAI parameter, on H2S limits in fuel oil, on flashpoint and on silicon and aluminum specifications.
Frans has given many fuel oil courses to both Shell and non-Shell customers in Europe, the Far East, North and South America, Asia Pacific as well as in Africa. Following his retirement from Shell, Frans joined Petrogenium as Principal Consultant for Residue Upgrading, Crude Oil and Product Quality as well as providing training through his private consultancy Black Oil Solutions, focused on fuel oil, crude oil and residue conversion. His recent fuel oil customers include ARQ, Bayern Oil, McKinsey, PTT, SGS, and Vitol.
Fatih Yüceyur
Fatih Yüceyurt has 19 years of experience managing the IT/OT and digital transformation across the power & energy value chain as well as asset-intensive and manufacturing industries. Having designed and led many large-scale programmes, he has subject matter expertise from software, hardware and field installation know-how to project management within an international matrix and diverse team environments.
He has led projects encompassing mainly power, gas and water sectors and has held senior project/programme management and senior systems architect leadership at BTC AG, GE Grid Solutions, GE Digital, CK Energy. At GE Digital, he also established Digital twin initiatives / Industry 4.0 as well as partnership models for co-creation of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science R&D opportunities to grow the Predix ecosystem and a number of regional developers & apps.
His earlier projects focused on SCADA/DMS Integration, SCADA/GIS Integration, Power Demand Forecast, Energy Data Management and Smart Metering for EON, Ayedas, Yedas, Aras EDAS.
As project manager in the energy & power sector, Fatih is specialised in:
- Management of large scale/complex projects, from customer relations, scheduling, budgeting, to tendering, monitoring, progress reporting, dashboard review, committee management and completion
- Financial management of projects: Financial reports, forecasts
- Resource planning: Identify, manage resources, skills, hiring
- Project management based on Prince2 Fast Track methodology
- Detailed tracking of CM, milestones, contractual obligations
- Leadership of a cross-functional project team and leading team of Sub Project Managers/Technical Managers.
- Risk management and mitigation
- Management of EHS and compliance regulations
Other major projects and achievements in recent years include:
- Automations Systems Senior Architect at CK Energy (Turkey)
- Substation Automation Project for TREDAŞ Power Distribution Company
- SCADA/DMS Project manager (EWE)
- Workforce Management and Grid Automation Project (IGDAS): Senior Consultant on IT
- Mobile meter reading software development, SCADA and SCADA/GIS Integration projects (EWE)
- SCADA & Leak Detection Project Management (Mugla and Izmir Water)
- Established energy solutions business in Turkey (BTC AG) and led to 8-10m euros annual revenue
Giles Candy
Giles Candy (Owner, Giles Environmental LLC) has almost 25 years of experience in the water treatment and ballast water management sectors, having spent over 18 years on the latter. He wrote the submittal and received the World's first Type Approval Certificate for a BWTS in 2007; completed ballast water treatment system installations and retrofits onboard many tankers and bulk carriers, with capacity ranging between 500 m3/hr and 6,500 m3/hr. He's previously worked on many projects with shipowners, engineering companies and manufacturers including N.E.I Treatment Systems, Sumitomo Electric, Envirocleanse, Ballast Water Container Ltd, Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha, Samgong Co
Dr. Giovanna Fenster
Dr. Giovanna Fenster has a PhD from the Victoria University, Wellington. This follows her attaining a BA, LLB degree from Wits and an LLM (cum laude) from RAU. She also has a second LLM in advanced contract law from Wits and an MA from the Victoria University, Wellington. She has completed the Association of Arbitrators' specialisation in construction law and the Higher Diploma in Arbitration and was tutor for the Association's well respected courses.
Gigi has taught law for more than twenty years and has written training courses, manuals and seminar notes for the construction and other industries. She has lectured law both to lay people and law students and has conducted numerous training seminars for the construction industry. She provides ongoing consulting services to private firms and government.
Gigi has a particular interest in standard construction contracts, and the FIDIC Contracts in particular. She has provided training on FIDIC in Africa, the Pacific, and Australasia. In her more than 20 years working in the industry, Gigi has presented hundreds of workshops to thousands of construction delegates.
Ian Adams
Ian Adams is Managing Director of IMA Marine Ltd, a Marine Consultancy providing consultancy, training, research and advice within the marine industry. At IMA Marine, Ian's consultancy focuses on fuel oil quality and bunkering; and acting as an expert witness in bunker disputes. He is presently Course Director for Lloyds Maritime Academy's Certificate on Bunkering Operations and Management.
Ian has provided extensive training and consultancy on Bunker fuel blending aspects for more than 30 global clients including Mauritius Shipping Corporation, Narl Refining Ltd, West Indies Petroleum, NCS Fuels, Hapag Lloyd, Plus Petroleum, Sacol Energy, South African Maritime Authority, Taiwan Fuel & Energy Supply, Skips Marine Services, Gaz Metro Transport Solutions, Nova Algoma etc. His areas of expertise include:
- Blend components compatibility, sampling & testing
- Blending properties' calculations, pricing & application
- Blend control and QA
- Optimisation in Bunker fuel blending
- In-Line blending; Lab testing and On-line testing
- Industry standards (ISO 8217, SS 524 & 600, ISO 9001, 17025, ASTM / IP / ISO test methodology etc)
- Blending for sulphur compliance 2020 and beyond
- Bunker fuel contractual, quality & quantity disputes & resolutions
Ian was a member of the IMO Secretary General's Expert/Scientific Panel for the review of MARPOL Annex VI. As an expert witness, he's been engaged in numerous bunker fuel disputes involving product quality & quantity, damages & taxation, charterparties, cargo contamination, contractual disputes by clients including Ban Hoe Leong (Malaysia); West of England P&I Club; Ardmore Chartering.
Ian has been involved in the shipping industry since 1985 in various capacities with P&O Cruises, Deep Sea Seals, Hamworthy (now part of Wärtsilä) and the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA). He was appointed Chief Executive of The International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) in February 2009, after having been its Secretary-General for seven and a half years. With his wide experience in both Asian and international markets, Ian continues to be in demand to present at conferences around the world on the subject of air emissions from ships.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) and has served on the Council as well as being a Past President of the Southern Joint Branch (SJB) in the United Kingdom. In 2017 Ian gained the Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate.
Jeff Vibert
Jeff has significant experience working with the public and private sectors, through a combination of statutory audit assignments, mergers and acquisitions advice, financial advisory assignments, and the provision of accounting advice.
Jeff has acted as the lead audit partner for numerous multi-national companies and Australian entities with offshore activities.
Jeff is also actively involved in professional development activities as a speaker for organizations including the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Western Australia and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Professional qualifications and memberships
- Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) – University of WA
- Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
- Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
- Registered Public Accountant Singapore
Presentations and publications
Jeff is a regular presenter/panellist on technical and other financial issues to professional accounting and director bodies including AICD, CAANZ and ACCA. He also regularly presents at regional and international conferences of Grant Thornton International member firms.
Jens Hansen
Jens Peter Hansen has more than 20 years of R&D and Project Management
experience with technologies for reducing emissions – including SOx, NOx and
Particular Matter (soot).
Jens gained his subject matter expertise through several organisations including
Haldor Topsøe, FLSmidth & Co. A/S and most recently Alfa Laval. At Alfa Laval,
Jens initiated Alfa Laval's first R&D activities with exhaust gas scrubbers involving
pilot scale tests in cooperation with MAN Diesel and which led to successful installation of world's
largest scrubber systems onboard a ship (20 MW MAN engine) in 2010.
Jens started his professional career with making some of the first DeNOx catalysts for NOx removal at
Haldor Topsøe A/S while he was still studying chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark. After
finishing his master, he carried out a PhD thesis about sulphur emissions and how these could be
reduced by aid of both dry and wet absorption methods. In 2008, he joined Aalborg Industries A/S as
project manager to improve their Waste Heat Recovery systems installed on large container ships and
to investigate the possibilities for installing scrubbers' onboard ships. It quickly became the scrubbers
which took up all the time as the first pilot tests were conducted already in the autumn of 2008 together
with MAN Energy Solutions at their test center in DK. As these tests went very successful, they were
followed in 2009 by a full-scale installation onboard DFDS Ro-Ro vessel Ficaria Seaways which became
the world's largest and first hybrid scrubber system. in 2010 Alfa Laval acquired Aalborg Industries A/S
and Jens continued to work as R&D manager for their Exhaust Gas Cleaning activities.
In light of the IMO 2020 global sulphur cap decision, Jens founded ECA Engineering Aps (Denmark) in
2017 to help ship owners in navigating between all the different scrubber options and also to manage
complete scrubber projects involving manufactures, pipe suppliers, and yards. Jens rely on his huge
network of sub-suppliers, institutions, engine builders, marine engineers and yards as well as new
co-operations continuously are formed as the scrubber market rapidly expands. Major principles have
been Danish Ship Owners like Torm A/S and Ultra Ship A/S. Today he is one of few independent
experts in the world on Exhaust Gas Scrubbing technology for shipboard applications.
Jens' expertise with Fuels Systems and Scrubber Systems guide hid daily activities including
- Marine scrubbers' CAPEX, OPEX feasibility studies considering actual operating
profiles and space available
- Specification, evaluation and comparison of different equipment suppliers (and their
- Review of scrubber process diagrams and mechanical drawings
- Design of exhaust pipes, bypass lines and manifolds for connecting the scrubber with
minimal pressure loss
- CFD simulations of the overboard dilution to comply with the pH discharge criteria
- Performance analysis, environmental sampling/evaluation of scrubber water
- Claim handling if the scrubber doesn't perform as specified.
- Technical installation possibilities & planning
- On-board operations, maintenance & repair
- Specification, evaluation and comparison of offers from different equipment suppliers
- Fuel systems' review & upgrade
Jens also still has a very good relationship with Alfa Laval, MAN Energy and DFDS with whom it
all started. The scrubber on Ficaria Seaways is still running and many more are installed so they
have a solid experience with the technology to build upon.
John Simpson
John is a Director of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, a member of the Advisory Board to the National University of Singapore Centre for Maritime Law and a Committee Member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. As a recognised expert in charterparty law, John was appointed to the Singapore Maritime Foundation drafting committee for the Singapore Time Charter Form, which eventually evolved into the new NYPE 2015 charterparty form. John has also advised GlobalORE on revisions to the Standard Iron Ore Trading Agreement (SIOTA). John advises on drafting and negotiation of shipbuilding contracts, charterparties, bills of lading, MOAs and associated disputes. John also has particular expertise in the drafting and negotiation of transhipment project contracts. Some of John's past notable cases and experiences include: – Advising the charterers in relation to a dispute arising out of the withdrawal of the vessel Li Hai for non-payment of hire (see The "Li Hai" – Western Bulk Carriers K/S v. Li Hai Maritime Inc [2005] 2 Lloyd's Law Rep. 389)
- Advising a major shipowner on various disputes (running into hundreds of millions of dollars) arising out of FFA contracts (OTC and cleared) following the global financial crisis.
- Advising a port logistics company on various contracts for loading vessels with iron ore, coal and bauxite and for the movement of these commodities between berths and within ports in various geographical locations, including Indonesia, India, Dubai, East and West Africa.
- Advising an FSRU provider on the drafting and negotiation of the vessel O&M contract for provision of an FSRU into an Asian FSRU project.
- Advising reinsurers in connection with an oil well blowout in Indonesia, resulting from issues relating to an earthquake which occurred during drilling activities.
- Advising an LNG supplier on pro forma medium term contracts for the supply of LNG between ports on both DES and FOB bases.
- Prior to joining Stephenson Harwood LLC, John was Managing Director at ince & Co's Singapore office.
Judith Ganes
Judith Ganes-Chase is a world-renowned soft commodities and futures analyst with over 30 years' experience in the food and agricultural industries. Judy is well-known for her unique ability to not only gather, synthesize and interpret data in both an historical and present-day context, but also for the way she clearly and concisely articulates her findings and insightful opinions.
Prior to starting her independent commodities research and consulting services company, J. Ganes Consulting, Judy was Director of News and Research at InterCommerical Markets. She also spent most of her career on Wall Street working for major brokerage houses Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America) and Shearson Lehman (now Morgan Stanley) as a Senior Softs Analysts for their many institutional and retail clients.
Judy also conducts educational seminars on structured trade finance, and has been interviewed and quoted countless times in the major print, online and broadcast media outlets worldwide including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, MSNBC, Barron's, Bloomberg.com, Financial Times, Futures Industry Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Economist, Fox News and NBC's Today Show.
Dr John Massey
Dr Massey has over 25 years of commercial experience in industry research, analysis, business intelligence and training.
Following ten-years as a Research Director at Informa – a $5bn FTSE-quoted business intelligence leader – he has since worked as an independent energy market analyst and trainer, most recently under his "Grey Cells Energy" brand.
During this time, he has focused on new technology disruption and its market deployment, in particular integrating the analysis of economic, competitive and practical, "on-the-ground" factors. He delivers these insights through internal corporate strategy advice, face-to-face training, online coaching and a variety of written content.
He has helped senior business-people in over twenty-five countries across five continents, representing a wide variety of organisations from start-ups to the world's biggest corporations. They've been from across the value-chain; from finance & policy to manufacturing, operations & project development; all seeking to navigate opportunities and threats during the transition to cleaner, "smarter" power systems.
He has a 1st Class Master's degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, followed by a PhD in Earth Sciences and a Diploma in Economics & Sustainability from the Open University, UK.
James Gardiner
James Gardiner has over 25 years' experience in the LNG marine sector. He advises multinational companies on LNG STS, and from a Marine Engineering and Surveying perspective, he has worked aboard a variety of LNG vessel classes including LNG Carriers, Multi-Purpose Self-loaders, Offshore Anchor Handling Vessels, Offshore Supply Vessels and Heavy Lift Ships.
He has been heavily engaged as an expert regarding LNG vessel and offshore platforms, STS – ports and harbor infrastructure, machinery failure, investigation and safety, LNG propulsion and vessel component integrity and failure. He is an independent expert in the Marine Engineering field dominating matters involving the Oil and LNG – Gas sector.
James lectures in the field of marine survey engineering, LNG auditing and safety throughout South East Asia, the United Kingdom, NZ, Australia and the United States of America [Gulf]. This includes developing and providing expert training in LNG vessel and offshore platform HSE/NEBOSH/SIMOP/LNG/IMO and ILO.
He advises multinational participants in the oil and LNG/STS, and the geotechnical LNG drilling sector in areas regarding offshore LNG and oil platform installations in Australia, USA and throughout South East Asia. From a Marine Engineering and Surveying perspective, he has worked aboard a variety of LNG vessel classes including; LNG Oil/Carriers, Multi-Purpose Self-loaders, Offshore Anchor Handling Vessels, Offshore Supply Vessels – Oil and LNG, Combo – Heavy Lift Ships – Class LNG.
He is an independent Navy and Government advisor; former fleet manager, Class Surveyor and technical superintendent in the LNG Sector. This includes oversight of STS HSE in the North West Shelf [USD $54 Billion Chevron – Gorgon Project on Offshore LNG].
James has previously also been engaged as a qualified Court Litigation Expert, advisor and 'in house' independent consultant to various multinationals within Australia, Europe and South East Asia in LNG Occupational Health and Safety [OH&S]. He also investigated catastrophic (fatal) engineering incident (s) that have occurred at sea, within these ports and ashore on behalf of numerous worldwide Government Agencies in the USA and Australia.
His experience includes LNG/ STS training, research and technical diagnostic experience in the fields of LNG and Offshore Installations and marine engineering. Some of the projects he was involved in are listed below:
- LNG Carrier and Oil Exploration Ships and Offshore Support Vessel Class – Woodside Pty. Ltd North West Shelf (Australia)
- LNG – CHEVRON GORGON Independent Technical Expert – $54 Billion USD Liquid Natural Gas [LNG] – Project – [OMSA Offshore Marine Service Alliance]
- Barrow Island (Western Australia) Marine Engineering and Safety Compliance – LNG/SIMOP/HSE/IMO/ILO
- Port Infrastructure and Safety. LNG – Chevron Gorgon STS Facility and Heavy Lift Loading Facility – Henderson, Western Australia. Stevedoring and Safety Compliance – SIMOP/LNG -HSE/IMO/ILO
- Marine Engineering Surveyor and LNG/STS technical Expert Shipping and transport logistics. LNG – Turbine and Gas Platform infrastructure installation and mobilization
- Technical Independent Expert: Royal New Zealand Navy WARSHIP – RNZS Combat Supply and Multi Role War Ship – HMNZS War Ship 'Canterbury'.
James Booker
James Booker is President Director of PT JBCS Indonesia, a consulting company which provides advisory services to clients in the energy, mining and construction sectors. He has 36 years experience in North America, South America and throughout Asia. Since establishing PT JBCS Indonesia in mid-2009, James has been retained as advisor to a number of clients developing captive or IPP power projects in Indonesia, ranging in size from 2 x 60 MW to 2 x 1,000 MW. He is now advising several clients engaged in major power development projects in the region.
Prior to forming his own consulting company, he was Senior Vice President with PT Paiton Energy, a developer of major IPP projects. During his time with PT Paiton Energy, James was a lead team member on the re-negotiation of the PPA for a 1,230MW coal-fired power project, and later headed their development team for a 815 MW expansion project for which he led the PPA negotiations with PLN, the state utility off-taker.
James is a Chartered Engineer, and has an MBA from NUS, an MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration from King's College, London University, a postgraduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration,and an LLM in International Legal Practice from the College of Law of England and Wales.
Jeff Martin
Jeff Martin [Phd related to strategic management in container logistics and BSs (Hons) in Maritime Economics] is Visiting Professor of International Logistics at Chung Ang University (Seoul, South Korea) and Director of J and S Maritime. He has extensive experience over the past 30 years in international container transport having spent 5 years managing container shipments, 5 years designing shipping line software systems and ten years involved in the development of new container terminals. Since 2005 he has provided management and executive training to terminal operators, shipping lines, logistics service providers and technology companies in thecontainer sector. Jeff has acted as port expert to the International Labour Organization (ILO) providing expertise in port operations to the highly successful Portworker Development Programme (PDP) which provides training to operators in the container sector. Currently he is developing a series short online short courses covering operational and market aspects of the container sector. Jeff is a recognised expert in the development and implementation of computer systems and has providedbusiness expertise and consultancy services on a range of software projects to shipping lines and terminal operators. Leveraging this knowledge, he provides culture change training to support the adoption of innovation and automation by portworkers and frontline managers. During his career he has worked in over thirty countries and had the opportunity to live in North America, Eastern Europe and the Far East. He currently delivers training courses each year in Europe, Asia and North America.
Jeffrey Blum
Jeffrey Blum's involvement in shipping and trading spans over 45 years. He is the fourth generation of a shipping family, has been an active member of the Baltic Exchange since 1976 and has worked with a Lloyd's underwriter and as a shipbroker, ship owner and operator, gasoil futures broker, charterer and commodities trader in London and abroad.
He achieved Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers by examination in 1979 and since 1983 has served on the ICS International Controlling Council, the International Membership Committee and the UK & Ireland Zone Committee. He has served on the London & South East Branch Committee since 1983, including its Education Officer 2000 – 2015, Chairman 2005-2007 and Vice Chairman 2015-2017. Jeffrey has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 1997 (Associate since 1979), is an active Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) and has been an arbitrator (both sole and tribunal) since 1994 and an expert witness since 1983. He has been on the controlling council of the International Commodity and Shipping Arbitration Service (ICSAS) since its creation in 2005.
Since 1984 he has been lecturing on maritime commercial subjects and law at universities and colleges throughout the UK. Since 2002 he is the founder director and principal lecturer of METL (Maritime Education & Training Ltd), a college in central London which prepares examinees for the ICS worldwide exams in eight core subjects. Since 2007 he is a Visiting Professor at the UN IMO's World Maritime University in Malmo and at the Shanghai Maritime University and is a frequent presenter at conferences and masterclass workshops worldwide. For many years he has contributed to trade magazines and books and is currently editing the 12th edition of a long-established textbook on Chartering. Jeffrey provides maritime and commodities commercial claims consultancy and training through Interlink International Trading (UK) Ltd which he founded in 1994. His clients include oil majors, commodity traders, shipowners, P&I Clubs, shipbrokers, law firms, banks, governments and international shipping organisations.
Jolanda ter Maten
Jolanda ter Maten has more than 25 years of experience in educating innovation and new technology to a broad audience. As a very early adapter she started her career implementing and teaching computer automation in the late 1980's in Central America.
Back in the Netherlands Jolanda has worked for corporates and government,
advising on innovation, change management and technical and management development programs. Covering a broad field of ICT-, HR and management positions, she clearly understands the needs of professionals of different levels and fields of expertise.
She has a Master of Science Degree from the Technical University Twente in the field of Human Resource Development, and a post-doctoral education in Strategic HR-Business Management.
She is currently working on projects for different organisations as a Blockchain Expert:
- for the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, researching and developing educational programs to prepare the Dutch business and society for Blockchain technology;
- for Xurux Blockchain Training and Consultancy as a project manager to initiate new Blockchain Education initiatives and Blockchain use case implementation and documentation;
- as well as developing and providing Blockchain training for entrepreneurs, IT-auditors, business architects, and a variety of other professionals.
- Member of Use Cases and Transitions Working Group for the Blockchain Observatory & Forum, EU Commission
- Expert at Dutch Blockchain Coalition / Dutch Digital Delta workgroup Human Capital Agenda, researching and developing educational programs to prepare the Dutch educational institutes, businesses and society for Blockchain technology
- Field Labs Blockchain: expert Use Cases in corporates and industries, with a focus on Rotterdam Harbour Logistics and Supply Chain Finance
- Member of ISO TC307/SG2 Study Group Use Cases: Advisor and Linking Pin Use Cases for ISO and NEN on Blockchain and DLT standardization
Jolanda has a clear view on innovation, change management processes and the 'human' factor within organisations. She is an enthusiastic and versatile professional with a strong strategic vision. As a fast and analytic thinker she connects (technological) innovations with today's and tomorrow's practical use. As no other she is able to translate complex information into understandable material and helps professionals to map this across to their own situation. \
Her focus is on Blockchain technology and its impact on business and society.
Joelle Chia
Joelle has over 12 years' experience in regulatory affairs in Asia working with biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical companies. After completion of her pharmacy studies in Singapore and various hospital assignments, Joelle started her Regulatory Affairs career in the pharmaceutical industry and has assignments spanning regional specialty pharmaceutical companies, large global pharmaceutical companies and other global biotechnology companies. On some assignments, she has headed the regulatory affairs, pharmacovigilance and quality departments in the affiliate of these companies.
With these assignments, Joelle has acquired a vast and diverse experience in key therapeutic areas as well as pre-and post- marketing regulatory and pharmacovigilance activities in various geographical areas in the Asian region. As Director of Pharma To Market – Asia, Joelle coordinates services to companies in the region including regulatory affairs strategy, dossier preparation and submission management, lifecycle maintenance of marketed products, as well as regulatory due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
John Cruickshank
John Cruickshank is a recognised thought leader as the lead author of seven published reports for the think-tank 2020health that measurably impacted UK government policy on healthcare IT and digital health. A graduate from Cambridge University, John specialises in strategic advisory work in IT and digitalization for the health and care sectors.
Over his 35-year career working with healthcare providers (both public & private),CIO, board management, commissioners, central policy organisations and ICT providers across UK, EMEA and beyond, he has gained deep insights of healthcare culture, processes, people and systems internationally. Throughout his career, John has advised over 50 NHS Trusts on IT and digital transformation strategies, including the first new-build PFI (Private-finance initiative) hospital with hospital-wide electronic patient record (EPR) system.
Most recently, his advisory works in the healthcare IT and digital investment & planning include:
- Adult social care – digital and assistive technology strategy development (NHS)
- Channel Islands – Lead consultant on ICT Planning for its Future Hospital
- Leading children's hospital – lead consultant on an EPR business case
- IT strategy and service management review (for a major northern UK Cancer centre)
- Commercial advisor for Market Access/Entry to remote monitoring sector (2 years for a major pharmaceutical company)
- Consultant for market entry to telehealth sector for a major medical device company
- Member of UK advisory board for a leading Scandinavian EPR company
- 2020health's lead on digital health in the NHS (2010-2015) – frequently presented at exclusive conferences and delivered 7 published reports for the government and NHS, including "Making Connections" – a foundational report for the Leadership Exchange Programme in digital health between NHS and US VA;
- "Healthcare without walls – a frame work for delivering telehealth at scale" – comprehensive analyses of how telehealth can help NHS support the rapidly growing numbers of patients with chronic conditions
- "Personal health records – putting patients in control?" – An overall vision for PHRs and practical activities to generate patient take-up
- "Fixing NHS IT – a plan of action for a new Government" – a detailed rescue plan for the £10b National Programme for IT (NPfIT/CfH)
- External strategic advisor for NHS informatics and digital health for UK National Audit Office
- Industry lead on confidential NPfIT Health Check and assurance reviews of two >£1bn contracts, commissioned by and reporting to Director General, leading to new action plans between clients and contractors
- Ran the combined Electronic data system (EDS) and HP £100m EMEA healthcare applications service line, covering strategy, sales & delivery (200 healthcare IT professionals)
- Led EDS's healthcare practice in EMEA with focus on providing deep industry expertise to mega-sales pursuits for business and IT transformation including deal support, partnering, governance across Europe and UAE
- Integral member of the core project teams that developed two published NHS IT strategies including "Information for Health"
Kirindeep Singh
Kirindeep Singh is a senior partner Dentons Rodyk & Davidson. His primary practice areas are construction and engineering, energy, arbitration and general civil and commercial litigation. In construction and engineering, Kirin has been involved in numerous disputes in adjudication, arbitration and litigation. He represents owners, developers, consultants, and contractors under standard form (SIA, PSSCOC, REDAS, SCAL, FIDIC Forms) and bespoke contracts.
Kirin has been involved in various major infrastructure, building and redevelopment projects in Singapore such as the MRT North- East Line Projects, the MRT Circle Line Projects, the Deep Tunnel Sewage System, the construction of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and the redevelopment of the National University Hospital. In addition, Kirin has been involved in the drafting of various construction, engineering, EPC Contracts and often advises on planning and risk management issues from inception to completion of the projects. Internationally, Kirin has been involved in various regional matters and commercial arbitrations in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Mauritius, India, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and many more.
He is an Associate Lecturer for Construction Law, Bachelor of Building and Project Management Programme at Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS); Trainer for the Law Society of Singapore's SILE Advocacy Course; and Tutor for the National University of Singapore's Trial Advocacy Course.
Kirin's recent works (with regards to FIDIC, PSSCOC, REDAS, SIA, HDB, etc) include
- Acting for the employer in Mauritius in a dispute against the contractor concerning the construction of a holiday resort.
- Acting for a major GLC in Singapore; and a main contractor in Malaysia in disputes against their respective employers concerning the carrying out of reclamation works.
- Acting for a main contractor in a dispute involving the construction of a sewage disposal system on claims against their insurers and the employers of the project (Hong Kong).
- Acting for a consortium of main contractors in Thailand for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in a major province on potential claims against the employer.
- Advising on the building of the new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital; the expansion and redevelopment of National University Hospital; the construction of Republic Polytechnic, Singapore (including respective documentations for project inception, selection of project managers, consultants, contractors and subcontractors, and management of project risks).
- Acting for a major MRT's sub-contractor in a dispute pertaining to the final account arising from the construction of a major interchange on the Downtown Line
- Advising a private investment/credit entity on the New Rail Financing Framework and investment in the railway transportation development industry in Singapore.
- Acting for a developer's insurer in disputes pertaining to the defective foundational/ sub-structure works of a major commercial building (Singapore)
Recognition, Activities and Affiliations
- Chambers Asia Pacific: Recognised Practitioner for Construction, 2016 – 2019
- Euromoney: Guide to the World's Leading Construction Lawyers
- Excellent Legal Paper Award for the paper "Arbitration and Public Policy – Is The Unruly Horse Being Tamed?" at the IPBA 2013 Conference in Seoul, South Korea.
- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
- Accredited Adjudicator, Building & Construction Security of Payment Act, Singapore
- Associate Lecturer for Construction Law, Bachelor of Building and Project Management Programme, SUSS
- Chair, International Construction Projects Committee, Inter Pacific Bar Association
- Teaching Excellence Award, 2018 by SUSS for his role as lecturer for construction law
Kirin graduated with LLB (Hons) from the University of Leeds and with a BCL from Oxford University. He is a contributor to the Singapore Precedents of Pleadings and speaks on a regular basis at conferences globally, including FIDIC New Forms (IPBA Manila 2018); Construction Law Updates at SISV-SIBL 2017 (Singapore), Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference 2017 (New Zealand), IPBA Vancouver 2014.
Koh C-u Pinn
Koh C-u Pinn is the founder at Arielle Law, having practised more than 21 years in the legal industry, both in private practice and in-house. C-u Pinn holds a law degree from the National University of Singapore's Law School and has been qualified as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1999. In addition, she's a Registered Patent Agent with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, and holds a Master Degree in Counseling.
C-u Pinn began practice as a lawyer with Lee & Lee, one of Singapore's most venerated law firms founded by the first Prime Minister of Singapore and Senior Statesman, and subsequently become in-house corporate counsel for SMEs such as the home-grown Full Mark Pte Ltd and the iconic Singapore Flyer, as well as the global market leader in the payment industry, Visa Worldwide. Her expertise lies in advising on and drafting all forms of commercial contracts needed for the running of a business. These include shareholder agreements, distribution and licensing agreements, and employment agreements, just to name a few. With regard to the handling of contracts, she is experienced in negotiation and protecting her clients' interests. Leveraging from her in-house counseling experience, C-u Pinn is able to advise in practical terms the legality of all aspects in running a business, as well as the documentation required to protect each transaction.
Common forms of commercial contracts C-u Pinn is specialised at advising and drafting include
- Fundraising and Investment Agreements
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Sale and Purchase Agreements
- Joint Venture / Collaboration Agreements
- OEM Agreements
- Distribution Agreements
- Franchising / Licensing Agreements
- Fintech Related Contracts
- Employment Contracts
- Employee Share Option Plans & Grants
- IT Agreements
- SAAS Agreements
- Tenancy Agreements
- Privacy Policies
- Website Terms and Conditions
- and other commercial agreements
- Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA)
- Commissioning and Certification of documents
- Intellectual Property Protection and Advisory ( Trademarks, patents, registered desgins, copyright, trade secrets)
Lars Jensen
Lars Jensen has 17 years of experience from inside the shipping industry. This covers a combined period of 8 years as Director of driving and developing market intelligence & analysis for Maersk Line, Maersk Logistics and The Containership Company. Additionally Lars Jensen has for 2 years been CEO of the purely online container carrier Youship, as well as in charge of developing and implementing eCommerce strategy in Maersk Line.
Since 2011, Lars Jensen has acted as an independent strategic analyst, advisor and thought leader in the container shipping industry with customers including container lines, ports and terminals, universities as
well as innovative digital and IT companies in the shipping sector. Lars Jensen is CEO and Partner of SeaIntelligence Consulting, which is focused on providing expert assistance in strategic decision making, analysis, process improvement and revenue management in the shipping sector. Additionally, Lars Jensen is the co-founder of SeaIntel Maritime Analysis which was founded in 2011 and focused on providing impartial as well as actionable market intelligence for the container shipping industry. The information is often used by all market participants from carriers and shippers to ports and financial institutions.
Lars Jensen is also the CEO and founder of CyberKeel, focusing on cybersecurity in the maritime industry, providing cyber security assessments onshore and on vessels as well as assist in improving cyber security readiness. In 2016 Lars Jensen co-founded LinerGrid providing advanced tools to optimize network design for container carriers and also joined the board of the New York Shipping Exchange.
Prior to entering the shipping industry, Lars Jensen completed a Ph.D. on complex mathematical analysis in physics, as well as worked with technological innovation and modelling in the Oil&Gas industry.
Lars Jensen is a recognized thought leader on strategic developments in the liner shipping industry, and is often used as a speaker at international shipping conferences. Additionally, Lars has experience in designing and executing training courses for the Maersk Line Shipping Education as well as tailor-made training courses for individual companies and is acting as both teacher and coach at the maritime MBA at Copenhagen Business School. He is the cofounder of LinerGame which is focused on providing innovative training and teambuilding in the liner shipping industry.
He is also the author of the book "Culture Shock in Maersk Line" outlining the changes in the world's largest container line over the past 15 years and "Liner Shipping 2025" focusing on the changes to come in the industry and how carriers, terminals, shippers and forwards should navigate to be successful.
Law Peng Keat
Law Peng Keat, PPA is the founding Director of Asia Ports & Terminals Consultants Pte. Ltd. (AP&TC), which provides consultancy services for the port and liquid bulk terminal industries. Prior to establishing the consulting firm, he has had over 30 years of hands-on experience in the management of ports. He graduated with the Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree and obtained post-graduate qualifications in General Management and Marketing Management.
He received training in Port & Harbour Management from the Ministry of Transport, Japan. In addition, he is full Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and the Singapore Institute of Directors.
His entire career centred mainly on ports and terminals. In his early career, he worked for Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) for 16 years managing an offshore supply base and the industrial port, Jurong Port, which was then a gateway of the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA). Whilst serving at Jurong Port, he was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) by the then President of the Republic of Singapore, Mr. Wee Kim Wee.
Subsequently, he worked for 10 years at GATX Terminals Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between GATX Terminals Corporation (GTC), USA, PSA and JTC, as its Senior Vice President. Concurrently, he served as an alternate Director for 15 years representing JTC and then GTC. GATX Terminals Pte. Ltd. was then one of the largest petrochemical terminals in South East Asia with two joint venture terminals in Malaysia and China.
Prior to establishing AP&TC, he rejoined Jurong Port Pte. Ltd. as its Senior Consultant. In that role he was involved in managing the shift of Pasir Panjang Terminal's conventional operations to Jurong Port, securing the Offshore Marine Centre O&M tender, logistics shipping contract for coal and biomass and the proposed development of a new liquid bulk terminal.
In addition to his consulting work, Peng Keat also serves as a guest lecturer appointed by the Nanyang Technological University, School of Maritime Studies, for the Maritime Port Leaders' Programme hosted by the Maritime Port Authority, Singapore.
Malcolm Sullivan
Malcolm has had a career in the financial services industry and financial training for over 40 years.
Malcolm started his career with National Westminster Bank (now part of RBS) before moving to Mellon Bank NA, a major regional US bank (now part of Bank of New York Mellon). At Mellon Bank, Malcolm held several credit analysis and account management positions in London, focusing on large UK corporates and UK subsidiaries of US corporations. After 11 years at Mellon Bank, Malcolm joined Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS) in London.
Since 1992 Malcolm has been primarily focussed on training in the areas of Corporate Credit Analysis, Financial Restructuring, Project, Infrastructure and Structured Debt Finance, such as Real Estate Finance and Asset Securitisation. He has designed and delivered tailored and public courses in more than 60 countries. In these areas, he has worked with a wide range of corporate and investment banking firms; Development Finance Institutions; public sector organisations; Export Credit Agencies; and several major corporations. Participants on courses run by Malcolm range from recent graduates to experienced line managers, and in areas as diverse as bond sales and trading to credit research and Relationship Management positions in financial institutions, as well as project engineers and professional advisers and public sector employees in Project Finance.
In Project Finance, Malcolm has run numerous public training programmes on a global basis. He has also provided tailored Project Finance training programmes for a range of financial institutions including Development Finance Institutions covering Project Finance in general as well as specific areas such as PPP and Infrastructure Finance and Renewable Energy.
Malcolm is the co-author of "Financial Products: A Survival Guide" published by Euromoney Publications in 1996.
Manish Chawda
Manish Chawda, Partner in Pragma Singapore, has over 24 years of experience at multi-national companies, and extensive experience developing innovative technical solutions to address complex business issues. Before Pragma, Manish was with Grant Thornton and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the Technology Risk practices.
Manish is responsible for advising clients on strategic and tactical solutions for technology regulation, information security, cybersecurity, governance, risk, and compliance. Manish also assists government agencies, international law enforcement agencies and Maritime Authorities on cybersecurity matters.
Manish recently launched the Seawall product; SEAWALL is the first integrated risk management solution for the global shipping community. This solution aims to address the escalating cyber-attack incidents in the recent years by providing technical, operational, IT backup, legal and media crisis management. Major projects Manish has been working on the following projects:
- Security testing onboard and offshore of 200 vessels in Asia
- Investigation of cyber-attacks in shipping companies, where the criminals used social engineering and email spoofing to compromise companies
- Assessment and remediation of technology issues found by assessing banks against the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Technology Risk Management guidelines
Manish holds the following memberships ISACA, ISC2, BCS and certifications; CISM, CRISC, CISSP, Check Point Security Expert CCSE, Actividentity CMS, IBM Tivoli, LogLogic, and RSA SecurID. As part of my experience, I have trained with US ex-blackhat hackers to obtain a greater understanding of the hacker's mind-set.
Professor Martin Davies
Professor Martin Davies
INTERTANKO Documentary Committee
Maritime Law and Director of the Maritime Law Center, Tulane University Law School, USA; Consultant to Norton Rose Fulbright, an international law firm.
Martin Davies is author (and co-author) of text books on maritime law, international trade law, conflict of laws, and the law of torts. He has taught maritime law at universities in the United States, Australia, China, Singapore and Italy. He frequently speaks at conferences and seminars around the world. He also has extensive practical experience as a consultant in maritime matters and general international litigation and arbitration.
Martin has advised on cargo claims, arrest and admiralty matters, drafting bills of lading, sea waybills and charterparties, collisions and limitation of liability, oil pollution, salvage, marine insurance, maritime arbitrations and international sale of goods. He is a member of the Documentary Committee of Intertanko.
Dr Malcolm Ross
Dr Malcolm Ross, President, Generapharm. Dr. Ross has over 30 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry, the last 20 being at corporate level. He qualified in the UK with a degree in Pharmacy and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry. In his academic career he was a lecturer at the Welsh School of Pharmacy and later a Senior Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of Bar Ilan University.
Technically, Malcolm specialized in development, both of formulations and analytical methodologies and holds a number of patents for novel formulations. He has set up R&D departments from scratch and has upgraded existing departments to European standards. Experienced in GMP and QA issues Malcolm has carried out many audits in different companies around the world, both for API and Finished dosage forms.
He has been intimately involved in strategic planning, pipeline management and related activities. His early industrial experience with Teva and Taro were directed primarily to the US markets but later as Presiden
t of IPR, a company jointly owned by PAR and Merck Generics his role expanded to include development for both US and European markets and the European experience continued with his appointment to Polpharma the largest Pharmaceutical Company in Poland.
In 2006 Malcolm moved to Basel in Switzerland and established Generapharm, a specialist training and consultancy company. Since that time he has consulted for a major pharma company in Basel, numerous generic companies and several start-ups.
He is a frequent presenter at international conferences on a range of topics, from strategic matters, quality issues and project management through to technical subjects including formulation development and analytical procedures and has run internal and public training courses for a wide range of companies around the world.
Martin Bellamy
(BEng, CPhys, CEng, CSci, MIET MIoP)
Marin has over 30 years of engineering experience, with the last 20 working directly with solar PV. he specialises in product assessment, contract & project management and strategic business services for energy organisations as well as the international investment sector.
His technical experience includes the design and implementation of thousands of complex PV products and systems for urban areas, extreme environments and highly specialised applications, from explosion-proof systems for industry, commercial projects to domestic services and off-grid systems. Commercially, Martin specialises in developing world energy services provision, including global energy access strategy. His business support experience includes IPO, start-up and expansion strategies.
Martin began his career as Systems and Project Engineers with Inco Alloyds Ltd and EEV Ltd, following which he became Systems & Project Engineer for GEC (Hong Kong) where he led project management, design and installation of active displays and customer training for the new Hong Kong airport. These early experiences led him to solar industry in 1999.
He held various technical designer, project management and commercial strategist at Solapak (UK), Solarcentury and G24 Innovation. Martin set up Moyo Energy in 2008 to focus on developing world energy markets consultancy; and Solapak Systems in 2015 specialised in the design and supply of off-grid PV systems for industrial and commercial use.
Martin provides strategic business advice for investors, manufacturers and institutional stakeholders including energy assessment (from refugee settlements to commercial telecoms), PV market intelligence for financial investors; IPO and business development assistance and manufacturing expertise for systems suppliers. With Solapak Energy, he has won 2 UK Government Innovation Grants to lead multi-partner off-grid energy development projects.
An ethically motivated chartered engineer, physicist and scientist with a commitment to the promotion of renewable energy – particularly solar electric services in energy-poor regions, Martin has been supporting Mercy Corps and UNHCR in conducting field assessments and producing report on the economic justification for replacing diesel generators with off-grid solar in Humanitarian settings.
Michael Lee
Michael Lee (MBA) is an associate of FYT Consulting Pte Ltd. He's an IT professional by training with more than 25 years of consulting & practical experience across many functions (sales, client management, business operations & customer service) throughout various roles (Vendor, Systems Integrator, Distributor and End-user) in both the public & private sector.
Prior to joining FYT Consulting, Michael has done consultancy and process re-engineering for several SMEs. He has also conducted numerous training sessions on Virtual Teaming for international banks and corporations, including Rolls Royce, IP Academy, Tripartite Alliance and many more. In addition, he has made many speaking engagements in Customer & Partner events, as well as in major international Sales Conferences.
Michael has managed the Asia Pacific Sales Operations for Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems. His main responsibility included the management of day-to-day operations within Asia Pacific. He was also running the China's sales for almost a year. Prior to that, Michael led the Asia Pacific Sales Operations for Cisco System and the Business Operations for Customer Service in Asia Pacific & Japan in Cisco. In addition, he headed a global Metrics & Business Intelligence team comprising members from Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Before joining Cisco, Michael worked for Peoplesoft, AT&T GIS, SAP and National Computer Systems (SCO).
Michael holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Mathematics as well as an MBA from the National University of Singapore.
Peter Motteram
Peter Motteram is Director of P.A.S.M. Limited with offices in both London, UK and Boston, US. He has had 18 years advising companies on their clinical trials strategy, project management and CRO outsourcing. He has a wide range of experience with different types of clients operating in territories around the world, including India and Singapore.
He originally trained in biochemistry at the Universities of Birmingham and London, and after working in a London teaching hospital, he started his pharmaceutical work at Sterling Research Group as GCP Quality Assurance auditor.
He moved to Quintiles, first founding their Quality Assurance department and then leading and developing their Business Development group outside US. As General Manager of Clinical Trials Research, Peter had responsibility for offices in the non-Americas regions.
Prior to founding PASM, Peter was General Manager of ClinTrials Research for all non-Americas offices. ClinTrials Research was at that time the third largest global clinical trials CRO and was the first to do an IPO. A significant component of Peter's work is in running training courses, both public and tailored to inhouse needs.
Neil Macnab
Neil has been involved with the Maritime and Shipping industry for over 34 years where his foundation was built with Shell from Cadetship to Master.
With 23 years at sea, he completed numerous STS transfers for Crude Oil on VLCCs in the Gulf of Mexico and he performed weekly STS operations from 30,000 tons Product Carriers to small coasters in the Gulf of Thailand.
He was deeply engaged on trade in the Far East, Australia and Japan when he became Master on LNG carriers.
More recently Neil has carried out training and attended a number of LNG STS operations for Ship Management Companies in South America.
Aside from Shell, he has also worked for 12 years in shore side roles for global maritime companies such as K Line Shipping UK Limited, MOL LNG Transport Europe Ltd and BG Global LNG Shipping, where he has held HSSE Manager and operations roles.
Neil also has experience in accident and incident investigation and expert witness roles in numerous cases while working for marine consultancies, including collisions, groundings, unsafe ports, cargo loss and damage claims.
He has been a Speaker in various industry seminars and conferences for the Oil, Gas and Off-shore Renewables industry as well as organising in-house conferences for Ship Managers.
Some of his roster of clients includes Maritime Port Authority of Singapore, British Wind Energy Association (UK), MOL Commercial (London), CNOOC, PSA Marine Pte Ltd, Pavilion Gas, V-Ships Greece. BP Shipping (Singapore), Marshall Islands Flag Administration, Conrad LNG and the USCG.
Peter Wittner
Peter Wittner, B.Sc., is an independent consultant specialising in the commercial aspects of generics with nearly 40 years' pharmaceutical experience. The major part of this has been spent in the generic industry. He was Managing Director for the UK subsidiary of the Indian generic leader Ranbaxy, having joined them to set up the business before returning to consultancy work.
Before that, Peter had headed the European Sales & Marketing department of the UK generics companies Evans Medical and H.N. Norton, which later became part of IVAX and then Teva.
In the field of generics, Interpharm works with new market entrants on developing commercial strategies, compiling competitor intelligence, assisting in business development and gaining EU-GMP approval for companies outside the EU that are trying to enter the market. Peter has also assisted in generic product in- and out-licensing negotiations both in the EU and US markets. Recently, he has become increasingly involved in the field of biosimilars.
On the other side of the equation, Interpharm has also worked with originator companies that are looking at ways of defending their major brands from generic incursion or are themselves considering entry in to the field of generics.
Peter is a regular speaker at generic and biosimilars conferences, and runs workshops on generic and Biosimilars topics for various organisations as well as conducting training seminars. He has written a number of reports on generics industry topics and a series of reports for Decision Resources and other publishers. Originally based in north London, Peter has now relocated to Israel.
Capt. Robert Gordon
Capt. Robert Gordon, LLB, LLM, Master Mariner & Solicitor (England & Wales) Managing Director, SeaProf Executive Education Former MD and Chairman, SEAsia P&I Services
Capt. Gordon spent 20 years at sea as a deck officer, shipmaster and pilot before coming ashore to study maritime law at the University of Southampton. He then qualified as a Solicitor and practiced as a partner with admiralty law firm, Thomas Cooper in London. Capt. Gordon founded SEAsia P&I Services, which specialises in marine casualty investigation and P&I correspondent defence work. SEAsia then expanded rapidly by creating a unique franchised network of 20 P&I correspondent offices throughout Asia. The network continues to operate successfully, providing high profile P&I claims investigation and resolution as well as loss prevention services to both International Group P&I Clubs and the fixed premium P&I insurance market.
Capt. Gordon has a special interest in sharing knowledge with the next generation of maritime industry professionals. He has been engaged for many years as an Adjunct Lecturer and Professor by the BI Norwegian School of Business in providing lecture modules on marine insurance, ship management and maritime law for NTU's highly regarded MSc in Shipping programme.
Capt. Gordon, as MD of SeaProf Executive Education, also collaborates with BI and the Hamburg Business School (HSBA) in the production and presentation of maritime executive education short courses in Singapore and the Asian region.
Rodeina Challand
Rodeina Challand has over 30 years of experience in healthcare, cancer research and the pharmaceutical and CRO industries. She's held a wide range of roles, including developing and implementing clinical development strategies for biosimilars and complex generics.
Rodeina is experienced in all aspects of biosimilar development, from study design to regulatory considerations (including EMA, FDA, MENA, GCC, Australia, Singapore, India, Japan, South Korea). In the last few years, she has conducted several meetings with regulatory agencies across regions in order to better understand their expectations when licensing biosimilars, support them in implementing clinical trial regulations and educate potential investigators.
For over 10 years, she has worked on over 15 biosimilar molecules across a range of products and indications, including ESAs, filgrastims, heparins, insulins, LMWH, growth hormones, monoclonal antibodies, and more recently, biosimilar orphan drugs. Her therapeutic experience includes oncology, nephrology, anaemia, radiation chemistry, hematology, rheumatology, infectious disease, immunology, cystic fibrosis, female health, contraception & HRT, orphan drug, dermatology, and optahlmology. Rodeina has been providing consulting services for both sponsors, biotech and CROs, specialising in
- Developing regulatory and clinical strategies
- Project management for optimal timelines & minimized cost
- Due diligence & determining feasibility
- Portfolio's gap analysis
- Risk management plan
- Oversee study delivery across all phases of development (phase I to IV)
- CRO selection and overall management
- Budget responsibility ($300 million)
- Executing biosimilar trials across the world
- Patient and Investigator education on biosimilars
- Leading cross-functional teams developing biosimilar products, from CMC through to launch and post-marketing product evaluation
- Setting and managing Scientific Advisory Boards with internal personnel
- and external KOLs
- Biosimilar publications, webinars and podcast covering various "hot
- topics"
Rodeina developed and implemented clinical development strategies for biosimilars at Hospira Inc. as Director of Clinical Projects and Head of Clinical Operations in the EU. She was the lead in the development of Hospira's first biosimilar, Hospira GCSF, from lab to clinic and Hospira Epoetin biosimilar Retacrit, for both the EU and the US programmes. She was the company's representative in several EMA consultations with regard to the development of the EMA Biosimilar Guidelines and was a member of the European Biopharmaceutical Group, a sector of the European Generic Association.
Rodeina has been a speaker in several international biosimilar conferences across the world, including Biosimilars Congress UK, Annual Conference on Biosimilars & Biobetters), Biologics and Biosimilars Congress Asia.
DI Dr. Salma Michor
Salma Michor is founder and CEO of Michor Consulting and Trade Services GmbH, serving such clients as Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Pfizer and Shire. Previously, Michor worked for Chiesi-Torrex, Wyeth Whitehall Export Croma Pharma GmbH.
Prior to this she was the Director of Global Supporting Operations– Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals (Ophthalmology & Orthopedics). At Croma Pharma GmbH, she was incharge of technical and human resource leadership and supervision of four departments including Regulatory Affairs and compliance department, Medical and Vigilance department, Change Control and life cycle management department and Packaging and pharmaceutical editing department. Duties included management of human resources, budgeting and strategic planning, liaison with external contractors, doctors and customers in 60 countries worldwide. Here she also got first hand experience with submission of clinical trials phases: I-III as well as turnaround management of post- Mergers and Acquisitions integration operations.
Examples of Projects undertaken at Michor Consulting
- Post-acquisition phase-out and closedown after an acquisition
- Managing a DCP registration in Europe
- Consolidation of Multilanguage labeling texts for a medical device for the EMEA region
- Registration of the H1N1 Vaccine in Germany (rolling submission)
- Authoring CMC sections for drug products
- Authoring CMC sections for drug/device combination products
- Forming a registration strategy for drug/device combination products
- Managing variations and ensuring Quality assurance of documents
- Setting up and managing a change control and QA system
- Labeling compliance for a food supplement
- Compliance of drug registrations in EMEA region for a large multinational
- Introducing various food supplements and novel foods in the EU.
- Preparing a small medical device company for an internal and FDA audit (ISO 13458,
- Training on Medical device EU regulations for marketing staff
- Training staff (in-house) for RAC certification
- Forming a registration strategy for a combination product for Centralized registration
with the European Medicines Agency
- Managing a large company wide compliance project for a pharmaceutical company
- Forming a clinical and registration strategy for drug/device combination products –
wound dressing
- Forming a clinical and registration strategy for drug/device combination products –
dialyse adsorber (EMA)
- Managing a large company wide project for an acquisition of a food supplement
- Managing a renewal in Turkey of a borderline product
- Forming a clinical and registration strategy for a drug monitoring system consisting of
an asthma product and various software and medical apps (EU/USA).
- Classification of a drug/device borderline product
- Internal audits to ISO 13485 ISO 9001 and GMP
- Preparing a medium sized company in a 3rd country for EMA, MHRA and AGES
inspections and managing the whole biotech registration and clinical testing in the EU.
- Managing Clinical trial applications for a medical device implant in several EU
countries and the US.
- CE marking several class I devices and acting as European Authorized Representative.
- Leading a large company wide compliance project for a large Multinational Company: CAPA and quality assurance.
Dr. Stavros Tsolakis
Dr. Stavros Tsolakis is a Visiting Professor at the Singapore Management University and also the Vice President of a Greek drybulk carrier DST Shipping Group, the largest shipping and logistics group in Northern Greece. He is also the Director of the Group's Newbuilding Programme. Since 2000, he has been lecturing in various universities and companies around the world including the Rotterdam School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Athens University of Economics and Business, University of Nantes, National University of Singapore, Neptune Orient Line, American President Lines, and the Panama Canal Authority.
Dr. Tsolakis is regularly invited as a speaker in big shipping events and quoted in articles and interviews in shipping and business/economics newspapers and magazines. He lectures and provides trainings on Ship Finance, Econometric Modelling and Forecasting of the Shipping Markets, Financial Risk Management in Shipping, Portfolio Investment and Management, Futures and Options, Real Options Theory, Financial Management, Shipping Investment and Finance, Investment and Finance Analysis, and Maritime Economics. His research has been presented in conferences worldwide including Athens, Alexandria (Egypt), Rotterdam, Genoa (Italy), Ghent (Belgium), London, Panama, Busan (South Korea), Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and Montreal (Canada). References to his work have been made by the Governments of Australia, Croatia and South Korea in Green Papers regarding their Shipping and Ports Policy.
Dr. Tsolakis graduated with high honours at the American College of Thessaloniki where he was also included in the Dean's List both as a student and an athlete. He earned his BSc Shipping Economics in Southampton England, Masters in both International Business Economics and Financial Economics in Rotterdam School of Economics and School of Management respectively, and finally his PhD in Economics (Applied Econometrics) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has also studied under some of the world's most prominent econometricians (P.H.B.F Franses, R. Mariano and R. Engle).
He is Member elect of the Board of Directors of the Mediterranean Committee of China Classification Society, the Union of Shipowners of Northern Greece and the Federation of Industrialists of Northern Greece.
Dr. Tsolakis is the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Korea in Northern Greece.
Tom Koh
Tom Koh is the CEO of MediaOne Business Group, a leading digital marketing firm. His love affair with digital marketing was cultivated over 2 decades with media firms like Cityneon, Singapore Press Holdings, Thomson, POAD and Terrapinn.
As a digital marketer operating in the US and international arena for the last 10 years, Tom has helped thousands of clients achieve success and was one of the first in Asia to pioneer techniques in search engine optimisation which brought him prominence in the Internet scene. Tom consults with various marketing departments in multi-national and government-linked corporations for their digital transformation; ranging from Fuji Xerox Singapore, SingTel Media, SingTel Business, Sheraton Hotel, ST Electronics, Changi Airports International, Economic Development Singapore, SATA, and Ministry of Law.
Tom holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computational Science from National University of Singapore (NUS).
V Bala
As a trained marine engineer with sailing experience, V Bala regularly instructs leading shipping companies and terminals as Counsel in a wide range of matters. His contentious practice has seen him appear before all levels of Singapore's courts and arbitral tribunals on a wide range of commercial disputes, with particular focus on shipping, energy and offshore and international trade / commodities sectors. Being adept in dealing with engineering disputes and matters of a technical nature, he has acted for ship builders, repairers and equipment suppliers. He also advises drafting of documents essential for ship finance, ship sale & purchase, charterparties, contracts of affreightment, pooling arrangements, tankage, pilotage bunkering, trade finance & port documentation.
Wayne Quek
Wayne Quek is the Head of Operations at MediaOne who spearheaded the agency's ISO-certified processes which has won the admiration of peers in the industry. He also heads the Search Engine Marketing arm for the Company responsible for clients like SingTel, Goldbell, Stratus, IBC Asia and Economic Development Board Singapore.
MediaOne is a Google Partner which has won many accolades over the years such as being voted "Top SEO", "Promising SME 500", "Prominent Digital Agency" and "Recommended Agency" by various independent rating agencies. For its excellent work, the agency has been featured in The Straits Times, Yahoo! Finance, Marketwatch, e-Consultancy and international media.