Wayne Bi  CFA
CEO

Mr. Bi has more than 22 years of experience across domestic and international asset management industry. He used to serve as Executive Vice President of ICBC Credit Suisse Asset Management, overseeing the firm's middle and back-office functions. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Risk Officer of Harvest Fund Management and was a member of the firm's Investment Committee and Risk Management Committee. Previously, he worked for leading asset management companies in the U.S. including Vanguard Group, Evergreen Investments and ING Investment.

Mr. Bi holds an MBA from Duke University and a Master's Degree of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the CFA Global Institute and was a former advisor to Asset Management Association of China and China Financial Futures Exchange.

Daniel Li
Chief Investment Officer - Equity

Mr. Li has 20 years of experience in asset management and global hedge fund. Prior to joining GaoTeng, he was the founder and CIO of Milvus Capital. Previously, Mr. Li served as Head of Equity Investment at DH Fund Management, Portfolio Manager at Millennium, Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, and Trader at SAC Capital.

In 2021, his Equity Long/Short Strategy has been awarded as Outstanding Achiever (Long/Short Equity in Alternatives) in BENCHMARK Fund of the Year Awards (Hong Kong). He also won the One-Year Overseas Golden Bull Private Hedge Fund Investment Manager (Equity Hedge) in the First Overseas Golden Bull Fund Awards organized by China Securities Journal in 2017. Mr. Li held a Bachelor’s Degree from Tongji University. He obtained Master’s Degree in Economics from Fudan University and Master’s Degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

River Cai
CTO

Mr. Cai has 23 years of experience in Product R&D and Technology Management, as well as 3 years of experience in angel investment. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree of Engineering from Tsinghua University and an MBA from Fudan University. He has also graduated from QingTeng University amongst the two-year program of Future Technology. He used to work for China Telecom Shenzhen, also served as General Manager overseeing multiple departments in Tencent, and an angel investor.

In his 13 years at Tencent, Mr. Cai played a critical role in the launch of Tencent Wireless Products, R&D, Data Platforms, and Billing Platforms departments. He engaged in the design of Tencent's technical career promotion policy and supervised internal system of research and development. He also took the lead to set up Tencent's big data platform and effect advertising algorithm, built the Tencent financial cloud core system, and provided extensive oversight of various departments.

Desmond How
Chief Investment Officer - Fixed Income

Desmond How has over 26 years of investment experience. At GaoTeng, he has won Outstanding Manager (Emerging Markets Fixed Income) by BENCHMARK and Star Manager (Hedge Fund, Hong Kong) of the Year by Insights & Mandate in 2021. His flagship Long/Short Credit Strategy has been awarded as Best in Class (Credit Focus in Alternatives) by BENCHMARK, Best Credit Hedge Fund by Bloomberg Businessweek and Best Performing Fund in 2020 (Emerging Market Long/Short Fixed Income) by Hedge Fund Journal over the course of 2021.

He has also won the Most Astute Investors by the Asset for Asian G3 Bonds 14 times from 2006 through to 2021, 8 of which were ranked No.1. Prior to joining GaoTeng, he was Managing Director, Head of Global Capital Management (GCM) at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited, a proprietary investment desk that was ranked No.1 Top Investment House (Hedge Fund) in Asian G3 Bonds by The Asset in 2015 and 2016. Served as Senior Portfolio Manager for Prudential Investment Fixed Income-Emerging Markets Sector team at PGIM, Mr. How won the Best Asia Fixed Income Fund (3-Year Risk Adjusted) from Asian Investor in 2007. He holds a Master of Science (Financial Engineering) degree, a Bachelor of Business Administration (Second Upper Honor) from the National University of Singapore.

Jonathan Mo
COO

Mr. Mo has 18 years of asset management experience in Hong Kong. He was the COO and then CAO of Value Partners Group, and used to oversee the middle and back-office functions including fund operations and IT. Prior to that, He served as Head of Client Services (Alternative Products) at HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Asia) Limited. He also served as a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Hong Kong) before joining HSBC.

Mr. Mo holds a Bachelor’s Degree in accountancy. He is a certified public accountant and a member of The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Wonnie Chu
Managing Director, Fixed Income

Ms. Chu has 18 years of research and investment experience in fixed income. At GaoTeng, she has been selected as the Most Astute Investors in Asian G3 Bonds for both 2020 (Ranked Top 3) and 2021 by the Asset (Hong Kong). In 2020, her first public bond fund with GaoTeng is awarded as Fund Launch of the Year (Hong Kong) by Asia Asset Management and One Year Golden Bull Overseas China Fixed Income Fund by China Securities Journal. Previously, she was Director at Harvest Global Investments and managed funds that were rated Morningstar five-star. Ms. Chu won the Most Astute Investors in Asian G3 Bonds and Asian Local Currency Bonds by the Asset in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Prior to joining Harvest, she served as Associate Director of Credit Research at MetLife Investments Asia Ltd., Credit Analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, and Equity Research Analyst at Lehman Brothers (Hong Kong). Ms. Chu holds an M.B.A in Finance from New York University and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Joe Charoensiddhi
Managing Director, Credit Strategist

Joe Charoensiddhi has 24 years of experience in fixed income research and investment. At GaoTeng, he has been voted as the Most Astute Investors (Highly commended) by the Asset in Asian G3 Bonds throughout 2019 to 2021. He used to serve as Managing Director, Credit Research at Claren Road Asset Management (Hong Kong), responsible for credit investment research in Asia. Before joining Claren Road, Mr. Charoensiddhi was the Head of Credit Sector Specialist (APAC region) at Citi Global Markets Asia Limited. He was voted as one of the Best Sell-Side Analysts by FinanceAsia in 2009 and 2010, and his team was ranked by FinanceAsia as one of the Best Fixed-income Research Houses in Asia from 2006 to 2011. He also served as Credit Rating Analyst at Moody's Investor Service (Hong Kong) before joining Citi.

James Wong
Executive Director, Fixed Income

Mr. Wong has nearly 20 years of investment and research experience in fixed income, including 11 years of China US dollar bond investment experience. At GaoTeng, he is ranked Top 3 as the Most Astute Investors in Asian G3 Bonds for 2021 by The Asset (Hong Kong). Prior to GaoTeng, he served as Deputy Fixed Income Chief Investment Officer at BOCHK Asset Management Limited. At BOCHK, the High Yield Bond Funds under his management were awarded Best RMB Bonds, Offshore <3 Years (2014, 2015) & 5 Years (2016, 2018)> by Asia Asset Management, Best-in-Class of High Yield Fixed Income (2015, 2018), Best-in-Class of RMB Fixed Income (2014, 2018) and Best-in-Class of China Fixed Income (2017) by Benchmark, Best Total Return-Greater China Fixed Income, 1st Runner-up <3 Years (2018, 2019) & 5 Years (2019)> by China Asset Management Association of Hong Kong/Bloomberg, and One Year Overseas Golden Bull Mutual Recognition Fund (2018) by China Securities Journal.

Personally, Mr. Wong has been awarded as the Most Astute Investors in Asian G3 Bonds by The Asset for five times from 2013 to 2021, and The Most Astute Investors in Asian Local Currency Bonds in 2015. Prior to BOCHK, Mr. Wong performed various investment-related research duties at Standard Chartered Bank, Moody’s Investors Service, BNP Paribas, Sumitomo Trust & Banking and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Vincent LU
Director, Fixed Income Portfolio

Mr. Lu (Vincent) has been focused on fixed income investment and research for over 15 years. He has been sole-managing China onshore fixed income public funds and mandates since 2013, covering both convertible bonds and straight bonds. Prior to GaoTeng, he was a portfolio manager in SAMSUNG Asset Management HK and Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management HK, managing China onshore RQFII public straight bond fund and balanced fund. Before that, he was a portfolio manager in AXA SPDB Asset Management Shanghai and managed China onshore public funds including straight bond funds, convertible bond/balanced funds and money market funds. Vincent started his career with Dillon Read Capital Management (Hedge Fund Unit) under UBS AG as a fixed income quant.