Ilyas Tariq Khan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Ilyas, aged 47, founded Techpacific Capital Limited (now renamed Crosby Capital Limited) in December 1998 and is also responsible for the Merchant Banking activities of the Group. Prior to this, Ilyas was a senior member of the management team and a Managing Director of Nomura, responsible for a regional (non-Japan Asia) investment banking and fixed income business.

Ilyas has worked at financial institutions such as Citicorp, UBS, Nomura and Schroders. At Citicorp and UBS, Ilyas initiated, built, and then managed regional corporate finance and capital market businesses in Asia and was responsible for a number of landmark transactions and "deals of the year" across Asia.

Ilyas is a founding director of Australian based White Energy Company Limited, and an independent Non-executive Director of London listed Manx Financial Group Plc.

Ilyas also serves as Chairman of Leonard Cheshire Disability, which sees him campaigning actively with the board and management team to change attitudes to disability in the UK and globally. He has established and supported a number of charities in the UK and Hong Kong.

Ilyas is a sponsor and former director of the Hong Kong Literary Festival and a patron of the Asia Arts Archive. He founded Creative Work Limited, Publisher of the highly acclaimed Asia Literary Review.

Johnny Chan Kok Chung
Non-executive Director

Johnny, aged 48, co-founded Techpacific Capital Limited (now renamed Crosby Capital Limited) with Ilyas and currently directs the strategic development of the Group's asset management businesses. He also oversees the development of Crosby Wealth Management. He is Chairman and CEO of Crosby Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd, a vehicle which is licensed by the SFC in Hong Kong. Johnny is a Director of IB Daiwa Corporation and a Director of Crosby Asset Management Inc.

Johnny has over 20 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience in leading global financial institutions. In 1999, he was Managing Director of Bear Stearns Asia Limited. Prior to that, he was an Executive Director at UBS and Director at Citicorp, where he worked with Ilyas. At UBS and Bear Stearns Johnny was responsible for a number of innovative capital market and corporate finance transactions, including several landmark deals for Chinese and Asian issuers.

Johnny is the principal portfolio manager for the Hong Kong SAR Government's Applied Research Fund.

Ahmad S. Al-Khaled
Non-executive Director

Ahmad, aged 41, is the Chief Operating Officer of TBV Holdings Limited, a global venture capital firm that invests in private and publicly held companies in high growth sectors. Ahmad is also the Assistant Deputy Director and Head of Investment Funds Division at the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development which he joined in 1995. His responsibility is to lead a team of investment professionals in strategizing, analysing, investing and monitoring a portfolio of investment funds that include hedge funds, long only equity, fixed income, private equity and real estate funds.

Daniel Yen Tzu Chen
Independent Non-executive Director

Daniel, aged 52, joined the Board in December 2002. He currently serves on the board of Hudson Holding Pte Ltd., a property and investment holding company based in Singapore. He is also Managing Director and Founder of P.T. Universal Sejati, an Indonesian trading company that deals in commodity metals, chemicals, machinery and mining products.

Daniel has an accounting and business background and has over 20 years experience throughout the Southeast Asian region particularly in Indonesia and Singapore.

Peter Mclntyre Koenig
Independent Non-executive Director

Peter, aged 63, joined the Board in May 2004 with a financial and business background having over 30 years experience in journalism, including senior editorial positions for respected financial publications including the Institutional Investor, Euromoney, the Independent on Sunday Bloomberg News and the Sunday Times. Peter is a director of the Food Commission, a non-profit group concerned with food and health issues.