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FULL: Managing Private Equity Investments in China & Enforcing Risk Management in Mist of Global Uncertainty
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Time : 9:30am - 12:00pm
Venue : The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, 1301 Kinwick Centree, 32 Hollywood Road, Central
About the Event
CMA BC HK Branch and Canadian Chamber of Commerce would like to invite you to a seminar on Managing Private Equity Investments & Enforcing Risk Management in China.

** For CMA members, 4 CPD will be offered for this event. **

On private equity investment, the speaker is a seasoned investment strategist stationed in China with hand on experience, from identifying investment opportunities to grooming it to maturity stage for listing. His insights in managing PE is particularly interesting in face of the slow-down in demand in US capital market of IPO listing from Chins′s investments.

The second speaker is a well experienced risk management professional from one of the big-4 assurance providers. He is stationed in China and observes how multinationals and major Chinese firms manage risk and their internal controls for investments in China. He will discuss evolution of risk management, introduction of ERM framework, KPMG′s risk management methodology, case studies for rolling out an effective risk management system, and proactive risk management.


About the Speakers

Challenge and opportunities of managing private equity investments in China

Ronald Kong
Senior Vice President, China Hand Fund

Alumnus of Manchester University (BSc and MBA)
Chairman of MBSAA China (2007-08)
Member of 15th Anniversary MBS in Asia organising committee 2007

Mr. Kong is the Senior Vice President of China Hand Fund Management LLC, a Private Equity Fund focusing on opportunities in Mainland China. In the past 3 years, the fund has invested over 500 million USD in China and has several successful IPOs outside China.

Mr. Kong is a seasoned international business executive with more than 20 years of experience in China, Hong Kong, Europe and North America. Mr. Kong has held senior positions with multinationals including the Chief Representative and Business Development Director for Orange Business Services in China, helping Orange Business Services to develop its service portfolios in China, and the Managing Director of SITA Greater China\u65292 ?the world′s leading provider of global information technology and telecommunications solutions to the air transport and related industries. Furthermore, Mr. Kong was the General Manager of InfoSky in Beijing; the joint venture company between SITA and TravelSky, providing information services to air transportation industry in China. In the 1980′s, Mr. Kong was with Cathay Pacific Airways in the capacity of Senior System Specialist.

Due to his extensive international exposure within the last 20 years Mr. Kong has established extensive connections, from academics in leading universities to senior management in government officials in China and investment experience esp PE and JV.


How risks management and controls help corporations to operate in China market

Michael Lai
Partner, Risk Consulting
KPMG Advisory (China) Limited

Member of the Society of Management Accountants of British Columbia
International affiliate member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Internal Auditors
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
Certified Management Accountant
Certified Internal Auditor

Michael is the head of Internal Audit, Risk Consulting (“RC”) practice in Eastern and Western China, having joined KPMG in Hong Kong to establish the internal audit services practice in 1997. Michael is part of the KPMG Corporate Governance leadership team, which publishes corporate governance, risk management and internal audit articles as well as maintaining the Audit Committee Institute web site ( "http://aci.kpmg.com.hk/HK/home.html" http://aci.kpmg.com.hk/HK/home.html ) in China and Hong Kong.

Michael is well-versed in KPMG′s risk-based internal audit methodology and has considerable experience in addressing corporate governance, risk management and internal audit issues and advising on internal control matters. He has extensive experience in serving KPMG′s global clients and has experience in many industries including industrial and consumer markets. His professional knowledge and business acumen is key to securing various internal audit engagements in our Risk Consulting practice.

His recent risk consulting projects included: Internal audit strategic outsourcing and co-sourcing projects, assisting to establish internal audit departments (including strategies, internal audit mandates, audit plans and reviews), assisting listed companies to comply with the Basic Standards | Enterprise Risk and Controls, Sarbanes-Oxley S404 and/or Stock Exchange of Hong Kong′s Code Provision C2.1 by conducting high-level risk assessment and entity-level and process-level control gap analysis and internal audit performance enhancement reviews for a number of companies listed in Hong Kong and China.\ql

Prices : HK$150 for members
HK$250 for non-members


 

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