David Singh has a long and distinguished career in finance and banking spanning more than three decades, with a focus on Wealth Management and Investment Banking.

 

David established the Swiss Alpha Group in Switzerland in 1999, and the Group has expanded it's services and operations across several countries, most recenlty in the USA where the Company operates an 'SEC Registered Fund' and has secured a 'Money Service Business License' authorised and regulated by FINCEN (The Financial Crimes & Enforcement Network, USA) which is a divsion of the United States Treasury Department.

 

With over 20 years Wealth Management & Advisory experience with family offices, David oversees a susbtantial portolfio of assets from some of the world's premier families and UHNWI based mainly in Asia and the Middle East. David has deep relationships, developed over decades, and whereby David provides bespoke asset management and structured solutions to generate revenues and mitigate risk.

 

During his Investment Banking career, David gained over 9 years of multi-asset class Trading experience during which time David was a Proprietary and Structured Derivatives Trader, covering all asset classes, including: Derivatives (Equities, Fixed Income, FX etc); Commodities and 'physical settlement / delivery' mechanisms (Oil & Gas; LME, Precious Metals); Private Equity. As an investor in his own right, David has in depth experience of Private Equity, and Capital Markets (Debt & Equity) where he has an extensive network of Funding sources, both Institutional and Family Office.

 

David spent 2.5 years as an Independent advisor at Board level to Credit Suisse Group (2005) & Depfa Bank (2007), whereby he lead Projects on behalf of the Executive Management & Board (Reporting to Group CEO & Chairman).

 

In 2007, David lead the restructuring and subsequent sale of a listed European Bank for €5.7Bn: his largest M&A deal to date.

 

In addition to the above, and for more than a decade, David has been the CEO of the Family Office for a prominent Abu Dhabi Royal Family. David has developed a robust and elite network of investors and financial institutions across the GCC and Asia.

 

David's last position in banking was as Managing Director of Julius Baer (Switzerland's second largest bank)

SRE has managed and led the international global and regional private banking segments of four systemically important banks. He has built on extensive corporate finance and trade & project finance experience from his early career to underpin his leadership roles too in private equity, UHNW proposition development and family office boutiques’ advisory work and in acquiring and managing their portfolio companies for example latterly as the Western Hemisphere CEO of a global digital payments company.

 

He has conceived go-to-market strategies, targeted and championed acquisitions, transactions and integrations and the assembling, deployment and ongoing management of all capital resources (financial and human) of complex start up financial services businesses (including as a founding member of Standard Chartered Private Bank), segments (developed UHNW segment from scratch at SCB) or product lines (international residential property finance at Lloyds Bank; Islamic wealth management propositions at HSBC and SCB), across multiple operating contexts and borders, principally based out of or covering Asia, Africa, Europe & the Middle East. SRE is currently the CEO for Europe, Middle East & Africa for Aleta Planet, a Singapore-headquartered, MAS-regulated leading China-centric, innovative and transformational digital payments fintech. He is also Managing Partner, Asset Management of Asia Capital Pioneers Group, a private equity partnership, fund and family office which is a member of the same group as - and the principle institutional investor in - Aleta Planet. SRE has built substantive expertise and deep personal affinity for growing businesses operating in or serving the world’s growth / emerging markets on four continents. He has managed cross-discipline, cross-geography and cross-cultural teams throughout his career. He has built full-scale wealth management businesses and global and local sub-segments (e.g. SCB Private Bank; UHNW segment; cross-border residential property finance; domestic private banking offers etc) from scratch (Lloyds Bank, Standard Chartered, HSBC) and led integrations / organizational alignment for acquisitions and key people retention outreach (Standard Chartered / American Express Bank and Lloyds Bank / Hill Samuel); re-invigorated leading segment brands’ international / global appeal (Coutts & Co); he has leant-in global offerings to regional contexts and led special segments (HSBC NRI, Islamic, International Clients).

 

He has particular skills in business transformations (honed all the foregoing organisations and Aleta Planet is itself an engine for digital transformation). He has led risk management, activity-specific (e.g. money markets) regulatory and governance committees and acted as the face of the organisation to multiple stakeholders including regulators. He has always had full P&L responsibility for the units under his leadership. He has an outstanding track record of accelerating business profitability and growth in diverse operational contexts, particularly with businesses operating in emerging markets at mid-cycle and also, from turnarounds to start ups. Through his family office activities he has advised families involved in multiple business sectors (FMCG, hospitality, healthcare, property development, financial services, aviation, sports / hospitality).

 

SRE is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Hong Institute of Securities. SRE is a native English speaker and is fluent in German, French, Italian. Masters intermediate Chinese and basic Arabic. Keen sportsman: has completed over 20 marathons and is a master SCUBA diver.

Kamran Naqvi has varied and extensive experience in international banking and finance with a career spanning 22 years; 16 years of Wealth Management and advisory experience with UHNWI; 6 years of Investment Banking where he served several years on London’s prominent Trading desks at tier 1 Investment banks covering equities and equity derivatives across a number of global markets.

He has also advised, set-up, and Head Private Banking niche area of Sports, Media & Entertainment Divisions from inception in two prestigious banks alongside other senior roles held in Europe, Middle East, and North America segments of Private Banking and Wealth Management.

Kamran has also engaged in Infrastructure and project finance business development and execution. He has advised a number of large corporates and assisted in structuring transactions, co-investment with various international banks, hedge funds, and sovereign wealth funds.

He has detailed knowledge of both the finance and business methodology that drives profit and efficiency across a number of businesses including, investment banking, asset management, brokerage, infrastructure finance, public sector investment, trade finance, treasury, and liquidity management.

Dalil Gordeev, is an international business development manager. He has launched and raised a number of retail and trading firms where he was CEO and Vice-Chairman.

 

Dalil has more than 10 years of work experience with healthcare and medical service organisations including MIPT research University where he held a position of project manager for Life science center. As an independent consultant he advised on developing and implementing innovating approach in the biopharmaceutical companies facilitating registration, production and market introduction of the new medications and healing meathods. Thus made a great contribution especially for patients with life-impacting diseases.

 

Since 2017 Dalil has held a position as a CEO of marketing and advertisement company. Using his knowledge and experienced business methods a company became a reliable partner for a Ministry of Atomic energy of Russia, Ministry of Sports of Russia, Ministry of Healthcare of Russia and a number of privately owned businesses.

Linda Li holds Master degree in computer science and artificial intelligence.

Linda has held Trading roles in Tier 1 Investment Banks including: Barclays Bank; HSBC; JP Morgan; and ING. Specifically, Linda has worked in Equity derivatives trading; Fixed Income & Bond trading; Interest Rates derivatives; Market Making; and Algorithm trading.

She as also held senior roles in the ‘Quantitative Financial Model Development Units attached to the Trading businesses where Linda has worked in: AI trading model development; ‘Real Time’ pricing trade platforms; ‘Real Time’ market risk P&L Platforms; Robotic process automation in major investment banks. She has developed multiple ‘AI Trading Robots’ with latest AI technology for trading desks and banking operations. More recently, Linda developed multiple high profile front office Fintech application platforms for investment banks. She has gained broad experience in trading ,banking , Artificial Intelligence And Fintech fields .