Joseph Wan
Baron Group – Founder and Group Chairman

Founder of Baron Group, Mr. Wan has extensive experience in corporate finance, merger and acquisitions, direct investments and project finance. Over his 30 years tenure in the field, he has held senior positions in Citibank (Hong Kong) (now Citigroup), Credit Commercial de France (now merge with HSBC), First National Bank of Chicago and Arab Asia International Limited. In 1993, he founded a merchant bank specialized in M&A advisory, takeovers and IPOs.

Mr. Wan obtained his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his MBA from the University of Chicago.

Rabo Leung
Baron Capital Limited – Chairman and Managing Director

Mr. Leung is an active participant in the capital markets of Hong Kong for about 20 years. With his extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and financial advisory, he has supervised over 10 successful listings in Hong Kong, including Chinese State Owned Enterprises.

Throughout these years, Mr. Leung has developed solid relationships at the senior levels with key regulatory bodies in China. Mr. Leung is a senior member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute.

Bill Majcher
Baron International Limited – Managing Director

Mr. Majcher is a highly accomplished visionary with over 20 years combined experience in public services, international finance and capital markets. His background includes management, public stewardship, structured finance, emerging markets, product development, strategic planning and position, and risk management.

Mr. Majcher worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for over 20 years, where Mr. Majcher enjoyed remarkable success in covert and public market investigations and often worked alongside with law enforcement and securities regulators from around the globe. Mr. Majcher has lectured extensively on abuse within the international capital markets, including sophisticated money laundering cases. He has also worked as Euro-bond trader and futures and option brokers.

Mr. Majcher obtained a bachelor degree in Commerce from St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada.

Alexander (Sandy) Logie
Baron Asset Management Limited – Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Logie has over 25 years of investment experience initially in fixed income and derivatives trading and more recently with hedge funds and private equity funds. He has worked with numerous Silicon Valley venture capital funds, global and regional private equity funds, and asset backed lending, long-short equity and event driven hedge funds advising them on both fund raising and investment strategies.

Mr. Logie began his career as a bond trader and market maker for Prudential Securities. From 1985-1997, he served as Vice President and Head Trader for Citibank Canada in the Global Debt Derivatives and Fixed Income Arbitrage Group where he managed a US $60 billion currency and interest rate swap portfolio.

Mr. Logie was an advisory member of Canadian Venture Capital Association and the Founding Director of Mapleridge Capital Corporation, a Commodity Trading Advisory (“CTA”) firm with assets currently under management in excess of US$1 billion. He has also served as an advisor to various hedge funds and private equity funds throughout his career.

In 1998, Mr. Logie co-founded Crane Capital Associates, the only Canadian-based international private placement firm specializing in Alternative Assets. With offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, Munich and Melbourne the Company built a global footprint prior to being acquired by Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc., NY in 2007.

David Eaton
Baron Global Financial (Canada) Limited – Managing Director

Mr. Eaton began his career on the floor of the dynamic Vancouver Stock Exchange (now the TSX Venture Exchange). He worked in every aspect of the investment business before structuring transactions as a financier and investment banker. He has become an expert on bringing ventures to the public market through the CNQ, Canada’s newest venture Exchange.

Mr. Eaton has structured and participated in numerous IPOs, arranged financing for private placement. His expertise lies in introducing capital to opportunities, ideas to financing, management to projects. Through his work he has developed a significant client base which can bring aftermarket liquidity. Mr. Eaton has also developed land projects in North and Central America, giving him a wide ranging exposure to the business issues in land development, financing and property offerings.

As an experienced generalist, Mr. Eaton is able to provide objective and accurate advice to investors seeking significant returns and to entrepreneurs whose vision requires capital and access to public markets.

Yang Li Bin
Baron International Consulting (Beijing) Co. Ltd. – Managing Director

Ms. Yang has 20 years of experience in management of large state-owned enterprises and investment banking fields. Ms. Yang held a number of senior positions in the Chinese government and large state owned enterprises, including the Commission of Science and Technology and Industry for National Defence, Beijing Municipal Finance Bureau, Siwei (Beijing) Co. Ltd., and China New ERA Group Corporation.

At China ERA Group Corporation, Ms. Yang, as president of the company, along with her project team acted as the financial advisor for the venture funding of Shenzhou V project, one of the China’s highest profile space programs. Ms. Yang has been interviewed by CCTV-1, “People.”

Ms. Yang graduated from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics.

Larry Berk
Baron Group (USA) Limited – Managing Director

Mr. Berk is a corporate finance specialist and money manager with over 30 years’ experience working with New York Stock Exchange companies. He provides strategic planning services to many top corporations around the world, and has held executive positions with investment banking firms, including Oppenheimer & company, where he was a partner. Mr. Berk has directed over 50 underwritings and private placements.

Mr. Berk is an active volunteer in both professional and community based organizations. He is a founding member of the Financial Investment Analyst Association and National Investment Bankers Association, an advisor to the American Theater Wing (Tony Awards), a member of the Executive Council of New York and a Board member of the New York University, stern School of Business Executive Forum.

Michael Sze
Ping An Securities Limited – Managing Director

Mr. Sze has over 30 years of experience in the financial and securities field and is currently active in concluding numerous currency and interest rate swaps with a China nexus. He also sits as Independent Non-executive Director on a number of major Hong Kong and Chinese public companies.

Mr. Sze has held various positions with the regulatory bodies and professional groups. He was a former Council Member from 1996 to 2000 and a former Member of the Main Board Listing Committee from 1997 and 2003 of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Chartered Accountants. Mr. Sze is also a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a Committee Member of the Hong Kong Stockbrokers Association Limited. He has served as a Member of the Insider Dealing Tribunal and the Market Misconduct Tribunal reporting directly to the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong.

He graduated with a Master of Law (LLM) degree from the University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Lawrence A. Dick Ph.D., P.Geo
Resources Group – Managing Director

As Exploration Manager for Chevron Resources in Chile, Dr. Dick led the team that discovered the giant Collahuasi district copper/ molybdenum depsoits and the Can Can epithermal gold deposit. Collahuasi is one of the largest copper producers in the world currently.

Earlier in this career, Dr. Dick discovered the Golden Bear gold deposit in northern British Columbia for the Hunter Dickenson Group. As the executive vice president and the director for General Minerals Corporation, he led the exploration that discovered copper and silver prospects in Chile, Peru and Bolivia. He has also helped Continuum Resources Ltd. to identify and develop the Natividad and San Jose deposits advancing them from "depleted" properties to potentially viable gold and silver mines.

Samuel Au-Yong
Managing Director

Mr. Au-Yong graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton, UK. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mr. Au-Yong has over 16 years' experience in the investment, corporate finance, accounting and auditing fields. Before joining Baron, Mr. Au-Yong was the Director of Corporate Finance of CITIC Capital Markets Limited, responsible for managing the firm's equity corporate finance and equity capital markets, marketing and execution of all primary and secondary equity and equity-linked issues, M&A, financial advisory, restructuring and syndication.

Joining CITIC Capital, Mr. Au-Yong worked as the Executive Director and Head of Corporate Finance of Core Pacific Yamaichi Capital Limited and as a Senior Manager at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

Ringo Hui
Director

Mr. Hui graduated from the London School of Economics with a master degree and a bachelor degree in Management. He began his career with Bates Hong Kong, a 4A's advertising agency account service team with clients such as Nokia, KFC, Wyeth and Simmons.

He then moved to a private equity firm based in Hong Kong and helped the listing of a number of public companies including Neo Alliance Minerals Inc. (TSXV: NAM).

He left the company in December 2006 and joined the Baron Group in May 2007. Mr. Hui is currently the director of Baron Capital Limited in Hong Kong, responsible for cross-border M&A activities, IPO's and other direct investment initiatives.