Ms Zhang completed her postgraduate certificate in laws at the City University of Hong Kong. She obtained a bachelor of commerce and bachelor of laws degrees from the University of New South Wales.

Jessica Grady

Consultant

Habitat Property

Ms Grady will be instrumental in marketing residential leasing and sales. She will also play a key role in business development and assist in promoting the Habitat Property website.

Annie Wong

Managing director, wealth management section

Tanrich Asset Management

Ms Wong had worked previously as senior vice-president of Smith Barney Shearson (HK) and as a senior bond trader of Sumitomo Group.

Marco Faulhaber

Managing director for Greater China

MAN Roland

Mr Faulhaber, who has profound knowledge of the printing industry, will oversee the company's overall operations across China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Peter Heavyside

Managing director

third-i international

Mr Heavyside will oversee the global expansion of third-i's network intelligence services to large enterprises in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.

Hubert Lam

Director

Alvarez & Marsal Asia

Mr Lam has been doing professional accounting and corporate advisory work for the past 10 years. He has worked with distressed firms in various jurisdictions including Hong Kong and China.

Kenneth Chen

Director

Alvarez & Marsal Asia

Mr Chen's key focus is formal and informal corporate insolvency and forensic investigations in cross-border cases. He has extensive experience in cross-border issues.

Ivan Ko

Managing director, real estate division

Kingsway Group

Mr Ko will be setting up a real estate fund and managing assets. He has 13 years' experience in property development and financing in Hong Kong and China.

Connie Chung

Head of marketing and corporate communications

Kingsway Group

Ms Chung is responsible for brand building, developing and implementing marketing and communications plans for the group.

Bethy Tam

Chief operating officer, Hong Kong

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong)

Mrs Tam joined the bank in 1993 as a management trainee and has more than 19 years of commercial banking experience.

Robin Gvozden

Head of strategy research, non-Japan Asia

Barclays Capital

Mr Gvozden will be responsible for driving the regional strategy team's analysis of individual Asian foreign exchange, interest rate and credit markets.

Simon Cooper

President and chief executive

HSBC Korea

Mr Cooper replaces Rick Pudner, who will leave HSBC on March 31. Mr Cooper is currently head of corporate and investment banking in Singapore. He first joined HSBC in 1989.

Orlando Camargo

President

Ogilvy PR Japan

Mr Camargo was former vice-president, director of corporate communications, at Goldman Sachs in Japan for six years, overseeing media relations, marketing and branding.

Terence Yiu

Head of foreign exchange options, Asia

ING Wholesale Banking, Asia

Based in Singapore, Mr Yiu will be responsible for leveraging ING's existing options expertise and technology to enhance foreign exchange option coverage in Asia.