Meet GATE ONE’s Distinguished Speakers Allen Chien Allen Chien is Managing Director and Head of Transport & Logistics Sector investment banking for HSBC in Asia. During his investment banking career he has been providing strategic, financial, privatisation, IPO, equity and debt advisory services to governments, agencies and corporates in sectors including transportation, telecom, financial services, energy, infrastructure and consumer products in Asia and, in particular, the Greater China Region. Before joining HSBC he worked at Salmon Smith Barney and BZW. He has an MBA degree from the Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Tony Davis Tony Davis is Chief Executive Officer of Tiger Airways, a low fare carrier serving Asia Pacific. From its establishment in December 2003, Tiger Airways has responded well to the tremendous growth of air travel and the rise of budget travel in the region. Based at Singapore’s Changi International Airport, it serves ten cities in six countries with its fleet of four new Airbus A320s. Robbie Gill Co-founder and Managing Director of The Design Solution, Robbie Gill is a qualified architect and has been responsible for the airports’ consulting and transportation projects for the last 15 years. The Design Solution is a UK based company of architects and designers that specialises in the retail sector, including shopping centres, department stores, food courts, restaurants and bars. Its expertise in the design of airport retail and passenger spaces covers the design of new terminals through to the expansion and refurbishment of existing terminals. Its projects include BAA airports in the UK and the US, consulting on Xi’an in China and Beijing’s Capital Airport’s T3, Hamburg’s T3 and the new Doha International Airport in Qatar. Peter Harbison Managing Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, Peter Harbison is one of the region’s foremost aviation and tourism strategists and commentators. With his 30+ years experience in aviation, he regularly provides analyses on commercial industry matters, the inter-relationship between aviation and tourism, government policy development, bilateral structures and infrastructure requirements. Harbison previously worked with the Australian Department of Aviation, ICAO and IATA. As a consultant, he has worked with international aviation policy development, airport and airline privatisations, airline advisory and business planning and airport pricing strategies. He was until recently Chairman of IATA’s World Aviation Regulatory Monitor Group and is immediate past President of the Aviation Law Association of Australia and New Zealand. He is Managing Director of a tourism development company and sits on a number of industry committees providing advice on tourism and aviation policy. Colin Hargrave One year after joining BAA in 1997, Colin Hargrave was named its UK Airports Retail Director, responsible for developing the overall strategy and direction of the UK business, as well as for marketing and managing all commercial activity across the company’s seven UK airports. With a total of 1.2 million sq ft of retail space, these activities range from airside and landside shops, to restaurants, cafes, bars, bureau de change and car rental. Together with car park and advertising/sponsorship revenues, the UK airports retail revenue was £743 million last year. Peck Hoon Lim Lim Peck Hoon is the Director (Commercial) of CAAS. Ms. Lim has over 10 years in airport retail and airport business development and other civil aviation experience. Ms. Lim is responsible for optimising revenue generation from the commercial facilities and activities at Changi Airport, including management of concessions, properties, franchises, land leases, aeronautical/non-aeronautical fees and charges, marketing and promotional activities. She is responsible for the planning and development of concession facilities at Changi Airport, which generates an annual revenue of over S$300 million. Ms. Lim graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Business Administration, majoring in Management and Organisation, from the National University of Singapore.
Kerrie Mather Kerrie Mather is the Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Airports, a Macquarie Bank managed fund which invests in airports globally. Macquarie Airports listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation on A$1 billion in April 2002. Today, Macquarie Airports is a top 50 company in Australia with a market capitalisation of A$4.5 billion.
At the time it listed Macquarie Airports owned seed investments in Bristol and Birmingham Airport in the United Kingdom. Since then Macquarie Airports has successfully bid for and invested in Sydney Airport in June 2002, Rome Airport in March 2003, Brussels Airport in December 2004 and Copenhagen Airports in February 2005.
Macquarie Airports is now the second largest owner and manager of privatised airports in the world. Its airports have a combined passenger throughput of over 110 million passengers per annum. Martin Moodie After more than a decade at Raven Fox, publishers of the trade magazine Duty-Free News International (DFNI), Martin Moodie launched The Moodie Report e-newsletter and later www.TheMoodieReport.com in September 2002 in joint venture with Sweden’s Generation Group. The Moodie Report specializes in fast, analytical and accurate travel retail intelligence to a diverse global industry. Moodie International provides Generation’s editorial services; runs industry conferences and has a publishing division specialising in new media and travel retail. The company also offers consultancy services to select private clients.
Bruce Musick Bruce Musick
Executive Director
SkyServ Holdings Pte Ltd
Director
CrunchTime Culinary Services Sdn Bhd
(AirAsia In-Flight Services)
Mr. Musick, USA, is a 23 year veteran of the US, European and Asian foodservice industries. He has developed, operated and managed commercial and institutional foodservice businesses in Asia for the past 11 years. Mr. Musick is a 1981 graduate from the University of California (BS in business). He returned to the university in 1998 as a guest of the Dean of the School of Business to serve as the very first Entrepreneur in Residence. In this role, Mr. Musick conducted a series of lectures with both undergraduate and graduate (MBA) students in entrepreneurial ventures. Doug Newhouse As Editorial Director of The Travel Retail Business, Doug Newhouse is the creator of the leading monthly trade magazine serving the duty free and travel retail industry. He has written about these sectors for the past 26 years and contributed to numerous other publications and film media, including: International Herald Tribune; Financial Times; Marketing; The Economist; BBC; ACI Communiqué Airport Business; and of course, TFWA Voice. He has also moderated and spoken at various industry conferences over the years, including several organised by TFWA, ACI Europe and ACI World. Dr. David J Pang Dr. David Pang was appointed CEO of Airport Authority Hong Kong in January 2001 following a distinguished career with E.I. DuPont, where he was Corporate Vice President in charge of DuPont worldwide nonwovens business and Chairman, DuPont Greater China. On the academic front, Dr. Pang is currently the Adjunct Professor in both the Faculty of Business Administration of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Faculty of Business of City University of Hong Kong. He was a visiting professor in the engineering college of University of Kentucky in 1974 and was an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University from 1977-1979. Dr Pang is currently President and an Executive Committee Member of Airports Council International, Pacific Region. He is also a Member of the worldwide ACI Governing Board. Dominique Pannier Currently Chief Executive Officer of ADP Management and Vice President ADP Group Strategy, Dominique Pannier has held a long and distinguished career in public finance, first with France’s Ministry of Financ and then French Telecommunications. More recently he served as Senior Public Sector Management Specialist with the World Bank and then as Vice President Control, Financial and Legal Affairs with Aeroports de Paris (ADP). Pannier is a past Chairman of ACI’s World Standing Economics Committee and a Member of the Boards of Operadora Mexicana de Aeropuertos (OMA - Mexico), Alyzia Airport Services (France), ADP Télécoms (France), Beijing International Airport (BCIA – Chine) and ADP engineering (France).
Alessandra Piovesana Managing Director of Nuance-Watson, Alessandra Piovesana takes a customer-led approach to business using professional operational practices supported by up-to-date technology, uplifted staff skills, marketing innovations and products and, solid alliances with business partners and the Airport Authority. Throughout her career she successfully managed marketing developments, product turnarounds, corporate start-ups, and lately a successful re-tendering of the whole company at Nuance-Watson (HK), where she secured the winning of a viable and profitable portfolio of licences. Piovesana has enjoyed a distinguished career in luxury goods, most recently as a Regional Division General Manager at Guerlain Asia Pacific, a Division General Manager at Scental and General Manager Hong Kong at Lancome. Anindya Roychowdhury As Associate Director with KPMG India, Anindya Roychowdhury has 15 years of experience in infrastructure and project finance, strategic consulting and investment banking. Prior postings include AIA Capital (the investment banking arm of AIG Inc.), Larsen & Toubro (India’s largest infrastructure and engineering concern) and IDBI (India’s premier financial institution). Roychowdhury led KPMG’s infrastructure and project finance initiative for the Middle East & South Asia region. He managed several large transactions in infrastructure from origination to financial closure, including the Aviation, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and urban infrastructure projects. In his current role, he focuses on cross-border, cross-functional business development and relationship-building at KPMG.
Mike Tyquin Since joining Eye as General Manager Regional Analysis & Development in December 2002, Mike Tyquin has held responsibility for Eye’s business interests in SE Asia, including Eye Indonesia and Eye’s investment in Big Tree Outdoor Malaysia. Tyquin has a bachelor of Commerce and a Masters of Business Degree, specialising in Accounting and Marketing respectively. Prior to joining Eye, Mike spent 11 years working in the Outdoor sector, having joined Outdoor Plus in 1993. Mike’s experience in this arena makes him a key player to Eyes Strategy Development team. Rene Riedi Rene Reidi is Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for the Retail Region Eurasia & Asia, including the Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Asia / Pacific and office in Sharjah, United Arab Emir-ates.
Stephen Vineburg As Head of Infrastructure Investment at Colonial First State Investments, Stephen Vineburg oversees the bank’s direct investment in major infrastructure projects, including airports, tollroads, power stations and pipelines. He has been closely involved in the privatisation of the Australian airport sector and is currently responsible for a portfolio of airport investments, including holdings in Brisbane Airport, Perth Airport and Adelaide Airport. Stephen has extensive experience in the capital and investment markets as well as a corporate advisory and risk management background. He is a director on the boards of a range of investee companies and is also Special Adviser on Infrastructure for TTF Australia; the tourism and transport forum. Airports Council International Airports Council International (ACI) was created more than a decade ago to be the representative body of the world's airports. With its world headquarters in Geneva, ACI’s prime purpose is to foster co-operation among its 554 member airports and airport authorities in 169 countries and with other partners in world aviation, including governments, airlines and aircraft manufacturers. Through this co-operation and that of its 700 industry associates, ACI makes a significant contribution to providing an air transport system that is safe, secure, efficient and environmentally compatible. Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation The Centre is a specialist aviation management consulting company. It performs a wide range of consulting assignments in the Asia Pacific region and elsewhere. These include airline restructuring, airport and airline privatisation, airport marketing and advice, advices to government agencies on policy, bilateral and multilateral issues, airline startup business planning and implementation, traffic forecasting and airline management education. The Centre also presents significant industry conferences on such issues as low cost airlines and industry outlook. A major event was recently held in January 2005 in Singapore. The Centre’s specialist aviation publications are widely read throughout the world. |
