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AMCG benefits from a Board of Counselors whose members it consults on a regular basis, and who assist in the identification of transaction opportunities, market and industry intelligence, selective due diligence assistance, and overall strategic advice and assistance in areas of each member's respective expertise.

Members of the Manager's Board of Counselors are currently as follows (in alphabetical order):

Dr. Thanong Bidaya

Dr. Thanong Bidaya is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board, TMB Asset Management, an affiliate of TMB Bank, Bangkok. Formerly, Dr. Thanong was President of TMB Bank, Bangkok and Finance Minister of the Royal Kingdom of Thailand. He has been active in finance in Thailand for 30 years.

 

A. B. Colayco

A. B. Colayco is Jardine Matheson Country Chairman, Philippines and concurrently Managing Director of Argosy Partners Inc, a private equity advisory firm based in the Philippines. Mr. Colayco is a Director of Genesis Emerging Markets Fund (London) and a Member of the Advisory Board of JG Summit Holdings, Inc. in the Philippines. He is also Chairman of Colliers Philippines and Republic Cement Corporation and a director of Aboitiz Transport Systems Inc. Previously, he was president of AIG Investment Corporation in New York, the AIG subsidiary responsible for managing AIG’s investment portfolios in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

 

Ambassador Victor Frank

Ambassador Frank is currently a private investor and President of the Asian Programs Foundation. He was formerly Vice President of CPC International, Inc, a large conglomerate with operations in Asia, and previously practiced law in New York. Ambassador Frank served as the U.S. Director at the Asian Development Bank from June 1987 to March 1993 in Manila, Philippines. During his tenure, he played a leading role in the reformulation of the ADB’s vision, objectives and strategies, in particular, in the development of the Bank’s Private Sector Group.

 

Thomas Haubenstricker

Mr. Haubenstricker joined New York Life in 1991 and is currently a Senior Managing Principal responsible for mezzanine and fund investing. Previously, Mr. Haubenstricker was Co-Head of the Private Finance Group overseeing US$14 billion in assets. Since joining New York Life, Mr. Haubenstricker has assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including an overseas assignment when he established New York Life’s London affiliate in 1994. Prior to joining New York Life, Mr. Haubenstricker worked at Prudential Financial where he focused on leveraged financings in their Private Placement Group.

 

Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull is former Chairman of Bechtel Enterprises, the Bechtel Group’s global project financing, development and investment subsidiary. He is also a former Executive Vice President of the Bechtel Group, where he served in positions that included president of Bechtel Power, where he was responsible for Bechtel’s global power business, as well as senior management roles in Bechtel’s civil engineering business. He is a former director of the Fremont Group, a Bechtel-related major investment company and previously served on the Executive Committee of Fremont. Mr. Hull also previously served as director of Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd.

 

Edward H. Ladd

Edward H. Ladd is Chairman Emeritus of Standish Asset Management, an affiliate of Mellon Financial, with assets under management of US$160 billion. Mr. Ladd was Chairman and Managing Director of the firm and is a former director of Harvard Management Company, Greylock Management Corporation; and was previously a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

 

Ravi Parthasarathy

Ravi Parthasarathy is Chairman of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited with responsibility for all operations of the Group, a role he has played since the commencement of IL&FS operations in 1988. IL&FS focuses on the commercialization of infrastructure projects and is currently promoting diverse projects in surface transport, power, telecommunications, water supply and area development, with an aggregate investment in excess of US$25 billion. IL&FS is the parent company of IIML, the Advisor for India to AMCG.

 

Washington SyCip

Washington SyCip is the Founder of the SGV Group, a leading firm of auditors and management consultants, with operations throughout East Asia since 1946. He is a founder of the Asian Institute of Management and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Board of Governors. He is also a member of the Harvard University Asia Center Advisory Committee and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the American International Group, and was chairman of the Asia Pacific Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange. He was on the International Advisory Board of Chase Manhattan Bank from 1984 to 2000.

 

Francis Tjia

Francis Tjia is co-founder and Managing Partner of Income Partners Asset Management, a specialist fund manager focusing on Asian fixed income markets with approximately US$800 million in Asian fixed income assets under management on behalf of world-wide institutional investors. Resident in Hong Kong since 1990, Mr. Tjia is a Dutch citizen of Dutch and Chinese-Indonesian descent, having grown up in Indonesia and later, Canada.

 

Michael Triguboff

Michael Triguboff is the Founder and Managing Director of the MIR Group of companies, a group of asset management companies headquartered in Australia and focused on Asia, including Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Triguboff is the former managing director of Lazard Asset Management Pacific and a partner of Lazard Freres & Co. and the Lazard Asia Fund.

 

Dr. Leo Wang

Dr. Leo Wang is a managing director of Good Hope Capital, a private equity fund manager focused on the China market with current asset under management at RMB 700 million. Formerly, Dr. Wang was a senior advisor of Asia Mezzanine Capital Group. Prior to his involvement with AMCG, Dr. Leo Wang was a managing director/senior advisor in the Shanghai office for CCMP Capital Asia (formerly JP Morgan Capital Partners and now known as “Unitas”). Previously he was a senior manager for a state-owned Chinese tobacco group, where he established two investment companies which grew to RMB 12 billion of assets. He has completed buyout deals for Chinese listed companies and invested in numerous growth and venture companies. From 1998 to 2004, he was a member of the board of directors for a dozen top-ranked Chinese banks, securities companies and listed companies. Dr. Leo Wang has more than 17 years of multi-level management experience and 7 years with top Chinese State Owned Enterprise group management experience. Dr. Leo Wang earned a PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from University of London. He also had a Master of Science degree in Space Physics and a Bachelor of Science in Space Physics and Astrophysics from Peking University.

 

Hiroaki Yano

Hiroaki Yano is currently President of Ignite Japan, the principal Japanese operating subsidiary of the Ignite Group, a venture capital fund management firm headquartered in Redwood City, California. Mr. Yano previously worked for more than 35 years at Mitsubishi Corporation, in a variety of roles that most recently included Managing Director of Mitsubishi Corporation, and President of Mitsubishi International Corporation, the group’s principal US operating subsidiary.

 
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