Career and Trading Opportunities in Derivatives Market

Esther joined Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad in 2019 as Head of Marketing & Retail Development. With 10 years’ experience in financial product marketing, she is primarily responsible for driving initiatives to raise awareness on Malaysian derivatives and promote futures and options contracts of the Exchange to all segments of market participants both domestically and abroad. Prior to joining the Exchange, Esther was a product management specialist and strategic partnership manager in Citibank Berhad and has served various business development roles in the financial industry. She holds a master’s degree in International Business Management from Newcastle University and a bachelor’s degree in Law from Northumbria University.

Royce Teh is a professional trader since 2001, experienced in local and global futures products. He has conducted over 3000 investment seminars that includes educational training for private institutions, universities, colleges, broker firms and private fund house. Through his training academy, he has coached both retail and professional investors in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, & Indonesia. Possess an in-depth knowledge in Technical Analysis (TA) & Fundamental Analysis (FA) that can be applied to any trading instrument from a short term perspective to a longer term time frame. He is also an established commodities trainer in local market and Asia Pacific region. He was frequently invited by broker firm, public social media, investment bank to share his outlook and opinion on major commodities and financial market. With 20 years in trading arena, he has successfully formulated time-tested “Price Traps” strategy that focus mainly on Strategy Analysis (SA) to identify profit potentialities. Through his guidance, he has been successfully guided investors to maximize profits while managing their risk to minimum level.

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).