Yiwei Liu is a trader at a hedge fund with a focus on global fixed income market. Prior to this role, she was a Vice President at Credit Suisse, responsible for trading and risk management for the XVA management group. She also worked as a desk quant at the Credit Suisse Securitized Product Group where she was responsible for pricing model development, regulatory modelling and trading analytics development.
Yiwei received her Master of Financial Engineering degree from Columbia University. She graduated with dual Bachelor's Degree in Applied Math and Economics from Peking University.
Hui Shao is a Director in Quantitative Strategy Group in the equity Global Market of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The team is mainly responsible for the quantitative solution development and financial engineering in equity sales and trading business. Previously, he was a Director in the Global Risk Analytics of BofA. The team is responsible for the development of models and system for fair value adjustment, counterparty risk management, regulatory capital calculation, stressed testing. Before BofA, Hui worked as a Senior Manager in the Quantitative Advisory Service in Ernst and Young and quantitative analyst in Moody’s Investors Service. Hui holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.
Dr. Kun Gao has extensive investment management experience at leading Wall Street hedge funds and investment banks, including Tudor Investment Corporation, Balyasny Asset Management and Morgan Stanley. As Senior Portfolio Manager, he leads, manages and grows all aspects of his trading business operation with a focus on global equity market. He runs one of the largest quantitative books at these leading hedge funds for many years.
Kun received a B.S. in Statistics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale University. He contributed a book chapter about quantitative equity trading for Financial Engineering (Wiley, 2011). He won Excellent Debater Prize in the International Collegiate Debate Contest representing the Yale Chinese Debate Team.
Angelene Huang is the Founder of Chinese Coffee Club, a NY registered 501(3)© nonprofit, providing professional lectures and conferences for Chinese communities and promote collaboration and alliances among Chinese organizations. She also founded Wisdom Academy in July 2020, a finance and career education and training startup company. Before this, Ms. Huang works for Two Sigma Investments, one of the top global quantitative hedge funds based in New York. During her nine years' career at Two Sigma, she managed over 20 billion cash investment portfolio and was the head of Treasury. Ms. Huang is an experienced treasury and capital market profession, a strategic leader for technology automation, and a detail-oriented risk manager focusing on daily excellence and consistent improvement. She also manages various cross-team projects and embraces transparency and a high standard of work ethics.
Ms. Huang holds an MBA degree from Yale School of Management, a Master's degree in Computer Science and Civil Engineering and a bachelor's degree in Environmental science from Tsinghua University.
Ms. Huang started her Finance career as a senior analyst and foreign currency trader at IBM's treasury. Before that she worked for an international environmental consulting company as a engineering project manager. She has a passion for advocating for Chinese community's knowledge sharing and collaboration.
During the recent Covid-19 pandemics, Chinese Coffee Club, with the support from TCFA, AFS and many other TCFA’s current board members such as Henry Mo, David Zhang, and Christine Zhao, together launched American Chinese United Care (ACUC) Alliance to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and aid the healthcare workers in the greater New York area. The alliance of 159 Chinese companies, nonprofits, university alumni associations, and many Chinese community associations collectively donated near $6 million PPEs and cash to local hospitals and communities. ACUC's donation effort created a substantial positive impact on Chinese Americans community, and its result has been recorded and praised on various media channels. She helped TCFA earn a merit certificate from NY assemblywoman for Covid-19 contribution.During the pandemic, Chinese Coffee Club launched "Friday Night Coffee Talk" to cater the current needs of people, sharing high quality content from industry leaders and professionals and shared among communities for free. Later on, the club launched another free talk – "Sunday Night Investment Talk." These free talks are free to public and benefit people from China, Europe, and all over the U.S.
Joy Zhang is currently an Executive Director and head of Non-Agency Securitization Research at MSCI. Her group is responsible for research in non-agency securitization including MBS, ABS, CLO and development of securitized products factors. She has applied machine learning and big data analysis in securitized products modelling and published the results in The Journal of Structured Finance.
Previously, Joy was a Director at Credit Suisse, responsible for mortgage collateral and regulatory modelling for securitized products trading. Her team was ranked by Institutional Investor as All-American Research Team for Prepayments Strategy. Prior to Credit Suisse, she worked as a senior developer at Goldman Sachs responsible for developing a firm-wide risk management system.
Joy Zhang is the co-head of Women’s Leadership Forum of MSCI, New York Chapter. She is also a member of the steering committee of PRMIA New York Chapter.
Joy Zhang has an M.S. in Computational Finance from the Carnegie Mellon University, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Kansas and a B.S. in Chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China
Wenzhe Zhao is a Director at Credit Suisse, in both the Global Markets Division and the International Wealth Management Division. He works with the Chief Economist and the Investment Committee to generate outlooks for the global economy and major financial markets, which impact the bank’s and its clients’ investment portfolios.
Wenzhe possesses in depth knowledge of the world’s largest economies and financial markets. His area of expertise includes world manufacturing sectors, international trade, economic growth, and Chinese economic development. Before coming to New York, he was based in London, working with the Chief Global Strategist of Credit Suisse. Wenzhe has worked closely with financial professionals of various types in major global financial centers.
Wenzhe holds a Master of Philosophy in Economics from Cambridge University and a First Class BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is on the Philanthropy and External Engagement Committee of the Asian Professional Network at Credit Suisse and active in helping unprivileged communities in New York.