Career and Trading Opportunities in Derivatives Market

Andrew Tan heads the Participant Management at Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad and has been instrumental in bringing in high volume traders and individual professional traders to trade on the Malaysian derivatives market. He started his career in the Bursa Malaysia Depository, which operates as a subsidiary of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. He brings with him over 20 years of Exchange experience in the equities and derivatives market. He holds a Master of Business Administration from University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Stephen Kwong is currently the Head of Futures Broking for the AmBank Group. He started his derivatives career in 1994 as part of the pioneer team that set-up TA Futures Sdn Bhd. He later joined RHB Futures S/B as Dealing Manager before extending his services to AMMB Futures as the General Manager in 1998. In 2006, his portfolio included the Head of Equity Foreign Institutional Desk and subsequently in 2012, Equity Retail Business was included as well. Stephen Noel Kwong holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematical Operational Research and Economics from Essex University, East Anglia, United Kingdom.

Salleh Hassan brings with him years of experience in corporate governance and professional education. Salleh is currently the Director of Professional Standards & Qualifications with the Securities Industry Development Corporation. He oversees the initiatives and activities that lead towards strengthening the competency and capacity of professionals in the Malaysian capital market via the industry-wide competency framework (ICF), certification and qualification. As the subject matter expert on corporate governance, Salleh also leads in the development of curriculum, courses and industry insights initiatives. He was involved in a project to develop the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard and thereafter, had been an assessor of the Malaysian, Philippines and Vietnamese listed companies against the Scorecard. He has also served as an Associate and as a member of the adjudication committee for the corporate governance award by the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group (MSWG). Salleh is a committee member of the Corporate Integrity System Malaysia initiative, a member of the National Advisory Group for the Business Integrity Country Agenda (BICA) study by Transparency International (TI-Malaysia), a member of the judging panel of the Malaysian Sustainability Reporting Award (MaSRA) organised by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council Training Advisory Group. He also advises corporations in their efforts to cultivate corporate governance culture and to develop effective sustainability reporting. He speaks regularly at local and international platforms to directors and senior management of listed and unlisted companies on corporate governance. He was the Deputy Director of the Nottingham University Business School (Malaysia) between 2005 and 2009. He had published papers on financial reporting, accounting policy choice and corporate governance/sustainability issues and presented them at international conferences. Salleh holds a Bachelor of Business (Hons) in Accounting & Finance and also a Master of Business (Accounting) from Edith Cowan University, Australia. He is a Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM).