Theme: Path to Success

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Ana Scherer

Douglas Morin

A Washington DC native, Douglas Morin is the Chief Executive Officer of Crosby Securities Limited, a Hong Kong based merchant bank with a 30 year track record of providing “growth capital” to Asian companies. In 2008, prior to joining Crosby, Mr. Morin was a Managing Director at China Construction Bank International Securities ("CCBIS"), a wholly owned subsidiary of the second largest bank in the world, China Construction Bank. Mr. Morin was tasked with building out their equity distribution business and was incidentally the first non-Chinese hire out of 400,000 employees. Prior to working for CCBIS, Mr. Morin worked for 12 years at Bears Stearns in specializing in IPO distribution and hedge fund sales. He sits on the Hong Kong International School Advancement Committee, is a Cub Scout Pack and Den Leader, ultramarathon runner and plays soccer for the United States Consulate football team.

Mitchell Presnick

Mitchell Presnick is Founder and Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of Super 8 Hotels (China) Co., Ltd, a brand operated in Greater China under master license granted by Wyndham Ho- tel Group International (NYSE: WYN). Super 8 China entered the market in 2004 and currently operates over 700 franchised and lease-managed economy hotel properties in the P.R.C. Con- currently, Mr. Presnick is a venture capitalist active in Greater China India and Asia. He has been a resident of Asia for over twenty-five years.

Rachael Rae Lee

Rachael been dancing for her whole life, since she was 3. Rachael started off learning classical ballet and that is all the dance she did until the age of 8, when she started learning hip hop. It wasn’t until Rachael was 12, that one of her old dance teach- ers invited her to perform in a piece for the 85th anniversary of the Peninsula Hotel. She met some really amazing dancers and realized that there was a lot more to learn. Now 14, Rachael has explored many styles of dance, ballet, contemporary, modern, hip-hop, jazz, tap and Chinese. During a busy school week, she dances for about 10 hours a week. In Rachael’s mind, dance and friends are truly the best combination in the entire world: the encouragement and the support is amazing and is why she truly loves dance.

Samantha Kong

Samantha was awarded by the HKSAR Home Affairs Bureau as the dual winner of the HK Top 10 Outstanding Youth and Social Service Award in 2014. She is a fresh graduate from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with her Bachelors in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and is now working as a Graduate Environmental Engineer at an international consultancy in HK. Her passion for international relations and environmental issues brought her to represent Hong Kong as one of the 10 representatives from all over the world to work at an NGO on health and environmental literacy in New York, based at the United Na- tions Headquarters. She also previously represented Hong Kong at the G20 Youth Summit 2013 to discuss the global environmental issues with the experts. She co-founded Eldpathy, a social enterprise aims at promoting empathy towards elderly while she was at university.

Sanjukta Sharma

After spending 14 years in India’s Financial Services, San- jukta moved to HK where she re-trained as a teacher of Special Education and Food & Textiles Technology. The company she directs, KSMT Ventures, manages charitable projects in HK, which Sanjukta plans, develops and implements. Sanju has also helped develop "Arts and Enterprise for Women", a program that helps women refugees and asylum seekers in HK, and The BRIDGE program which helps a local non-Chinese speaking school in areas of education, combining the skills she has collected over the past 27 years in business and education.

Simon Squibb

Tal Moriah

Tal Moriah is a former U.S National Taekwondo Champion and alternate/training partner for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. After representing the Israeli National Taekwondo Team at world class competitions, he moved to Texas to train with the U.S Olympic Coach and represent the U.S at the ‘08 Olympic Games. While he was there, Tal received his B.A from Rice University majoring in Asia Studies with the focus on Mandarin and a Minor in Business. After completing his training in 2012, Tal relocated to Hong Kong to work with the NBA's Global Marketing Partnership and Business Development Group. Tal currently resides in Hong Kong.