Capital Markets Conference 2017

Simon Long is the Finance and Economics Editor for The Economist Magazine; a post he took up for the second time in September 2016. Before that, he had been "Banyan", the magazine’s Asia columnist, based in Singapore for six years. Before that, he had worked in London for four years, as the magazine’s Asia Editor, and for four years prior to that as South Asia Bureau Chief based in Delhi. He joined The Economist in 1995, as South-East Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok. He had previously spent nine years with the BBC, as an analyst on East Asian affairs based in London, as Beijing correspondent from 1989-1991, and Hong Kong correspondent from 1993. He also wrote extensively for the Guardian newspaper, and many other outlets.

In an earlier career as an investment banker, with Morgan Grenfell, he worked in London and Singapore.

Mr. Zangana is responsible for formulating the house view on the UK and Eurozone economies. He is based in the Economics Group in London. Investment career commenced when he joined Schroders in 2009.

Prior to joining Schroders he was an Economist at Her Majesty Treasury working on UK macroeconomic analysis and eastern Europe.

Mr. Zangana is a regular contributor to the press including television and radio appearances.

Nagraj is Corporate Vice President and Global Head for Microsoft Ventures, corporate vc arm of Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft in January, 2016, he was Senior Vice President for Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., where he oversaw Qualcomm’s $1 billion strategic venture investment portfolio of 140+ investments. Prior to Qualcomm, Nagraj was an engagement manager at strategy consulting firm PRTM (now PwC). Nagraj has over 20 years’ experience in mobile and software with an emphasis on venture capital, and has been recognized as a leader in corporate venturing through the GCV Powerlist awards in 2013, 2014 and 2016.

Nagraj built up Qualcomm Ventures from a US/China focused team of three in 2003 to a global leader in corporate venture capital with 25 investment professionals and direct investments in US, China, India, Brazil, Europe, Israel, Korea and Australia. Nagraj pioneered the first corporate VC seed investment program with the Qualcomm Ventures early stage fund. In addition, he started QPrize™ ( www.qprize.com ), the highly successful global business plan competition for early stage companies.

Under Nagraj’s leadership, the group experienced significant strategic and financial success with early investments in companies such as Xiaomi and Matterport, as well as strong investment exits including Fitbit (IPO - FIT); Invensense (IPO: INVN); Thundersoft (IPO - SZSE:300496); Ravello (acquired by Oracle); Cruise Automation (acquired by GM) and Waze (acquired by Google). Qualcomm Ventures evolved and considerably expanded the investment scope from mobile and wireless to include investments in Frontier technologies like drones and robotics and AR/VR where the application of mobile technologies is advancing the pace of innovation. Investments included leading companies such as 3DR and Magic Leap.

Prior to Qualcomm, Nagraj was an engagement manager at strategy consulting firm PRTM (now PwC). Nagraj currently serves on the CNS advisory council at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Dr. Beth Ann Bovino is the U.S. Chief Economist at Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings Services, based in New York. In this position, she develops S&P’s U.S. economic forecasts and authors the monthly U.S. Economic Forecast , the quarterly U.S. Risks To The Forecast , the weekly Financial Notes and the Weekly Economics Call Beth Ann has created Industry Drivers reports for analyst research. She is quoted regularly in the press and has appeared on many major television programs. Further, she has written many articles for popular and professional publications.
Before joining Standard & Poor’s in February 2004, Beth Ann spent over ten years doing economic and market research with Sungard Institutional Brokerage, UBS Warburg, and the Federal Reserve.
The Wall Street Journal recognized Beth Ann as the most accurate forecaster of the U.S. economy in 2013.
Beth Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in International and Development Economics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

Jennifer M. Harris is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining the Council, Harris was a member of the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, responsible for global markets, geoeconomic issues, and energy security. In that role, Harris was a lead architect of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's economic statecraft agenda, which launched in 2011. Before joining the State Department, Harris served on the U.S. National Intelligence Council staff, covering a range of economic and financial issues. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , Foreign Affairs , Washington Post , and CNN, among other outlets. A Truman and Rhodes scholar, she holds degrees in economics and international relations from Wake Forest University (BA) and the University of Oxford (MPhil), and a JD from Yale Law School. Harris is the author of War By Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft (2016), coauthored with Robert Blackwill.

Jonathan Penkin is head of Growth Markets Equity Capital Markets and chairman of Equity Capital Markets for Asia Ex-Japan at Goldman Sachs.
He was previously co head of the Financing Group in Asia PacificEx-Japan. He served on the Asia Pacific Commitments Committee and the Asia Pacific Risk Committee.
Jonathan joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2006 and was named
partner in 2010.Prior to joining the firm, Jonathan was a managing director at NM
Rothschild & Sons,where he worked for 14 years in the Investment Banking
Division. He was also a managing director at Rothschild’s equity capital markets
joint venture, ABN AMRO Rothschild