GOIR is the biggest online investor event of its kind, with broadest reach in terms of regional and time zone coverage, and numbers of languages with simultaneous interpretation. By invitation only, each session will include a state of the market keynote from industry experts, and presentations from high-quality projects that are carefully selected from a judging panel composed of experienced investment bankers and professional investors. All speeches and presentations will be simultaneously interpreted from English into fifteen languages.
Agenda
Keynote Speakers
Chris Carlin
Head of Alliances Redistribution Solutions & Data Products, Asia at Morningstar
Topic: Ratings for Digital Assets
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Chris Carlin is Head of Alliances, Redistribution Solutions, and Data Products, Asia for Morningstar, overseeing the business in North Asia, Japan, and ASEAN markets. Carlin spent 16 years at Thomson Reuters where he held many roles, and most recently served as Director of Investment & Advisory products for Asia Pacific. In his career he has worked in the United States, Australia, and Hong Kong. In addition, Carlin was a key member of Irish Funds, an industry body, which promotes Ireland as a domicile for funds and asset servicing.
Carlin holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance from Arizona State University, and earned his MBA from the Manchester Business School.
Nick Cowan
Founder & CEO of Gibraltar Stock Exchange and GSX Group
Topic: Convergence of Traditional and Digital Assets
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Nick Cowan is CEO of GSX Group and founder of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange. Nick has over 30 years of experience in capital markets, including being the head of Equities at ING Barings, managing up to 2,500 employees in 43 countries, including 40 stock exchange memberships.
Nitin Gaur
Director of IBM WW Digital Asset Labs at IBM
Topic: Overall Investment Landscape – Technology, New Business models, Transformation and disruption
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Nitin Gaur, Director of IBM WW Digital Asset Labs is renowned for his ability to analyse opportunities, anticipate trends, and create technologies that align with operational needs, catapult profitability, and dramatically improve the end-customer experience.
Since taking this role in 2015, Nitin has designed “blockchain for enterprise” solutions for large customers in regulated industries by working with various entities such as IBM research, large financial services industry clients, regulators and startup community addressing the fragmented blockchain landscape with existing application and transaction infrastructure.
Prior to this role, Nitin was the Chief Technology Officer for IBM Mobile Payments globally where he led IBM’s work globally around mobile wallets, mobile payments, and different forms of money. He has achieved numerous industry recognitions and accolades, is a regular presenter at conferences globally.
He is an advisor on crypto-economic models to startups and has authored numerous papers and articles providing thought leadership across blockchain and different forms of payment technologies.
Nitin has over 70+ patents in the fields of blockchain, digital currencies and digital payments; and has been recognized as both an IBM Master Inventor and an IBM Distinguished Engineer for his contributions to the field.
Richard Rappaport
Founder & CEO of WestPark Capital
Topic: Opportunities in the new paradigm
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Prior to founding WestPark, Mr. Rappaport had over 28 years of extensive experience in the small cap investment banking and securities markets. Throughout his career he has completed the financings of hundreds of companies, both in the United States and around the world. Before founding WestPark Capital he was the Managing Director of Investment Banking at internationally based Global Capital Securities, and was Managing Director of Investment Banking at Joseph Charles & Associates from 1995 to 1999. At both firms he was in charge of the Investment Banking departments and responsible for all aspects of the firms’ corporate finance activities.
From 1987 to 1995, Mr. Rappaport was Managing Director at a Beverly Hills based boutique Investment Bank. He was responsible for all aspects of the firm’s public offerings, including new business development. During this period he completed over 25 public offerings and numerous private transactions.
Mr. Rappaport received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, and his M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA, Mr. Rappaport was a recipient of the Wittenberg-Livingston Fellowship and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honorary Society.
Presenters of 4 Unique Projects For All 4 Sessions
Frank D. Heuszel
President and Chief Executive Officer, American Pacific Bancorp, Inc.
American Pacific Bancorp (APB) is a bank holding company, focused on acquiring controlling equity positions of commercial bank(s) in the United States. APB will inject digital banking capabilities into the banks to provide global banking services to global clients, increasing profitability.
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APB is offering a unit deal to purchase a Class A common share with a bonus Perpetual Preferred Stocked. APB is targeting to go public by the end of the year, with a firm commitment from investment banks to underwriting the public offering. The expected ROI when listed is a capital appreciation of 66.67% with a coupon rate of 13.37%.
Mr. Chan Heng Fai
Executive Chairman
Jeffrey Busch
Director
Frank D. Heuszel
Chief Executive Officer
Jorn Husemoen
Chair & Co-Founder of CROWN-LNG
India is aggressively switching the energy mix from Coal to Gas. The long term demand for LNG regasification capacity is increasing massively. Asia First is part of the Crown LNG group of companies designed for providing the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal to the Kakinada Port on an exclusive 30 year “Use or Pay” contract. The project already has the license and government approvals.
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Project Details
Driven by AF, this project is to arrange project finance, own and operate a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in order to capture the huge market opportunity of an anticipated exponential growth period for aggressive switching from Coal to Gas in the India energy market in the near term, while the long-term demand for LNG regasification capacity in India will continue to increase massively.
On the engineering side, AF will deliver the project with the some of the best EPCIC and Solutions partners on the market, including – Kvaerner, as EPCIC Main Contractor; Wärtsilä, as regasification solution provider; and Siemens for Electrical system & Power generation.
On the business side, AF has entered into an exclusive agreement with the license holder of the import terminal in Kakinada, East LNGPTE Ltd who has the license and government approvals for importation of LNG to India, for providing LNG storage and regasification as a service on a 30-year day-rate “Use or Pay” contract to the Kakinada Port (India), with 7.2 Million Ton Per Annum (MTPA) capacity of production. The project will be in production for at least 30 years after start of operation. It is expected to yield profit from the first year of operation.
Gunnar Knutsen
CEO
Jørn Husemoen
CFO & Co-Founder
Swapan Kataria
Global Sales & Co-Founder
Jeff Wiseman
Lead Analyst
Suradech Taweesaengsakulthai
President & CEO of Cho Thavee, Co-founder & Executive Chairman of ARK
ARK operates its own fleet of city buses and will become one of the largest city bus operator in Thailand through a consolidation exercise. ARK envisions the modernisation of public transportation by creating Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform with powerful network effect called AMORN. This smart transportation solution will leverage on big data analytics and location-based e-commerce to create transformative experience for commuters. Participate in ARK investment offering that provides interesting revenue sharing payout and conversion to equity on its IPO.
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ARK will be one of the largest city bus operators and manage over 45% of bus routes in Bangkok while collaborating with the government operator, BMTA (Bangkok Mass Transit Authority) for the rest of bus routes in Bangkok as well as upgrading all existing buses in ARK and equip them with various sensors and WiFi service for data collection.
Together building a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform that is integrated with unified payment, multi-modal transportation and location-based e-commerce service to encourage all users to switch to the app and capturing all relevant data such as traffic data, user data, air quality data, safety data and location data while making sure proper data privacy is maintained at all times.
Suradech Taweesaengsakulthai
Co-founder & Executive Chairman
Raymond Chee
Co-founder & CEO
David Henderson
Chief Information Officer
Ong Sheng Jie
Finance Head
Vincent Choy
Investment Officer
Piya Chansrakaew
Senior IT Manager
Nisachon Rattanamanee
Data Protection Officer & Operations Manager
Chris Thorne
Chairman of Broadline Capital
Broadline Capital, the global alternative investment firm founded in 2005, is focused on capturing the unfolding value-based deals emerging from the current global financial downturn. The firm has developed privileged access to unique financial buy-in opportunities with favorable pricing and mitigated deal structures. Current emphasis is placed on its pipeline of innovative biotech companies whose disruptive technologies can positively change the world. Standing out among them is the immediate opportunity created by its negotiated warrant with Cytonus Therapeutics — developer of the Cargocyte biomolecular delivery platform (a highly differentiated and vast platform technology having numerous applications in multiple therapeutic areas). Cytonus has been called upon by the US government to accelerate its development and deployment of its patented Covid-19 Therapeutic to treat ICU patients suffering high mortality rates due to the respiratory inflammation damage caused by Covid-19 infection.
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Cytonus has created a disruptive new category of biologic devices which have immediate applications in the Covid-19 era. Cytonus has received positive feedback on these novel solutions from both government sponsors (NIH) and industry experts (KOLs). The current financing will fund the development and deployment of two flagship products: (i) Cytonus’ proprietary Covid-19 Therapeutic (first in class) to cure the respiratory damage caused by Covid- 19 infection in ICU patients around the world, as well as (ii) its Covid-19 Rapid Vaccine (first in class) as prevention for those not already infected by the virus. Cytonus expects to apply for, and receive, US FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) regulatory status for both products – the novel therapeutic to address respiratory damage in ICU patients, as well as the rapid vaccine technology.
Chris Thorne
Chairman
Manisha Narasimhan
Independent Director
Remo Moomiaie-Qajar
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Richard Klemke
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer