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Hartmut Issel (Managing Director, Head of APAC Equities at UBS Global Wealth Management)

Hartmut Issel

Managing Director, Head of APAC Equities at UBS Global Wealth Management

Hartmut Issel is Managing Director, Head of APAC Equities, UBS Global Wealth Management. He started his career at UBS in 1998 as a buy side analyst for Germany (including responsibility for the country equity portfolio) and Scandinavian countries, and later assumed coverage of the IT and telecom sectors. Since 1999 he has been in charge of the global IT sector. In 2005-2006, he lead the North American research unit of WMR in the United States, focusing on stock markets and general financial market outlook presentations for clients. Starting 2007, he built up and was heading WMR India. In July 2009 he joined UBS Singapore as WMR Head for the location and deputy head of APAC. From May 2012 to February 2014, he was the Head of CIO WM Research for the APAC region.

Hartmut studied finance with a concentration on statistics at the Technical University of Berlin and received a Masters degree. He is a CFA® charter holder since 2001.

Georg Von Wattenwyl (Chief Executive Officer at Vontobel Ptd Ltd)

Georg Von Wattenwyl

Chief Executive Officer at Vontobel Ptd Ltd

Georg von Wattenwyl is a financial industry veteran with over 20 years of experience with leading firms in the banking and finance sector. He brings with him a wide breadth of corporate and association experience, having been appointed as Managing Director and Head EAM Asia and Global Head Family Offices at Vontobel in 2019.

Bolstering his association credentials, von Wattenwyl has been serving as Chairman of the Swiss Structured Products Association (SSPA) since 2014.

On August 1, 2019, von Wattenwyl was appointed Chairman of the board of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore, succeeding his predecessor Dr Tom Ludescher. With more than 200 active members, SwissCham represents the diversity of the Swiss Business Community in Singapore.

Kelly Chia (Deputy Head of Research Asia at Bank Julius Baer & Co Ltd)

Kelly Chia

Deputy Head of Research Asia at Bank Julius Baer & Co Ltd

Kelly Chia is the Deputy Head of Research Asia, Julius Baer, covering digital assets, macro strategy, ESG and thematic investing.

Prior to joining Julius Baer in 2011, Kelly worked for Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.

Graduating as an engineer from Nanyang Technological University, he first worked at a General Electric joint venture designing complex repairs for aircraft engines. Mr. Chia then transited into business development with the Singapore
government and finally made the leap to be a sell-side analyst for OCBC Bank and Standard Chartered more than a decade ago.