Speaker
Phua Lee Kerk, CFA, is currently the Chief Strategist of Phillip Capital. He has wide and varied experience in the financial advisory and portfolio management fields, having worked in Japan, Malaysia and Singapore for more than 23 years with companies like Smith Barney (now Salomon Smith Barney), Barings Securities (now ING Baring), Vickers Ballas, Jupiter Research, APS Asset Management and Pheim Unit Trusts Berhad. He has presented various papers on investment (equity, bond, derivatives, risk management, financial planning and others), corporate finance and M&A both locally and overseas in conferences and seminars organized by World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO, Securities Commission, Bursa Malaysia, Bank Negara, MII, FPAM and others. He serves as a Director of the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies and ASJA International, Governor of ASCOJA, President of Japan Graduates’ Association in Malaysia, committee member of the Economic Research Board of The Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia (FeCAM) and Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce. He is also the working member of Malaysia Plan of Actions. He is also co-writer of the book “A Practical Approach To Mergers And Acquisitions In Financial Services Industry”.