Mr Chau is a risk management professional with extensive experience working in bourse and stock exchange. He has worked in Hong Kong and Singapore including time with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, RHB Bank, Lloyds TSB and DUTA International Finance.

Ting Wee-ming

Head of Asian fixed income, Singapore

Pictet Asset Management

Mr Ting will oversee Asian bond management within the global emerging debt team. He has been a senior portfolio manager for the Investment Company of the People's Republic of China. Previously, he was with the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

Edward Lo

Training manager

InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong

Mr Lo will oversee the professional development of 600 of the hotel's personnel. He will be based in a new dedicated training facility at the hotel - the first in its 25-year history. Mr Lo joins from Wynn Casino and Resorts in Macau where he held a regional position.

Desmond Wee

Head of sales Asia-Pacific, trade services and supply chain

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp

Mr Wee will lead efforts across the Asia-Pacific to develop and execute a sales strategy for business customers. He has served as HSBC's sector sales head Asia-Pacific, payments and cash management.

Jakob H. Jensen

Animation director, AstroBoy

Imagi Animation Studios

Jakob H. Jensen has joined Imagi Animation Studios as animation director on AstroBoy which will be released in late 2009. In 1995, he joined DreamWorks Animation where he served as senior animator. Mr Jensen has also worked with Walt Disney Pictures.

Norman Tsui

Assurance principal

Grant Thornton

Mr Tsui is assurance principal at Grant Thornton. He has more than 16 years experience of audit and business advisory services. Mr Tsui leads due diligence reviews for mergers and acquisitions and duties acting as reporting accountants of companies in initial public offerings.

Alice Law

Principal - China practice

Grant Thornton

Ms Law manages day-to-day operations of the Shanghai office. She has 13 years of professional assurance experience in the mainland. Before her Shanghai posting, she worked in Hong Kong and Beijing. She has extensive knowledge of local compliance in accounting and taxation in China.

Claudio d'Agostino

Of counsel, Shanghai

DLA Piper

Mr d'Agostino is a seasoned corporate lawyer with 10 years of experience in Shanghai advising European companies on foreign direct investment and mergers and acquisitions. His appointment is a strategic move in line with DLA Piper's booming growth in the mainland.

John W. Serbrock

General manager

Kempinski Hotel Suzhou

Kempinski Hotel Suzhou has appointed Mr Serbrock as its general manager. Mr Serbrock will be responsible for selecting and managing the executive and key operating staff for the property which is under construction. He has worked at the Marriott, Conrad and InterContinental.

Jeff Bennett

Managing director, leveraged and acquisition finance, Asia-Pacific, in corporate, investment banking and markets

HSBC

Mr Bennett has 20 years of leveraged finance experience, including seven years at Morgan Stanley where he was a managing director in the leveraged finance team.

Elaine Lo

Senior partner

Johnson Stokes & Master

Ms Lo, JSM's first female senior partner, has more than 28 years of experience in corporate and finance, specialising in China-related mergers, joint ventures and foreign direct investment and acting for government, project sponsors, lenders and equity participants in project finance deals.

John Marsden

Managing partner, commercial department

Johnson Stokes & Master

John Marsden is the new departmental managing partner of JSM's commercial department. His previous assignments include financing transactions, non performing loan disposals and corporate restructuring. He is familiar with property acquisition in the mainland.

Wilfred Tong

Partner, real estate department

Johnson Stokes & Master

Mr Tong specialises in real estate matters including acquisition and financing of properties in Hong Kong and Macau, acquisition, financing and disposal of property-owning local and foreign companies, and all leasing and tenancy matters.

Jason Choi

Partner, real estate

Johnson Stokes & Master

Mr Choi has extensive experience in real estate and financing related transactions including sales and purchase of real estate, redevelopment, tenancy matters, loan and security documentation, project sales as well as acquisition of shares of real estate holding companies.