ABACUS CAPITAL

• Introduction
• Management
• Competencies
• Social Responsibility
• News and Events

Management

Abacus has a seasoned team that possesses hands-on expertise in the Asian financial markets. In particular, the Abacus team is comprised of a number of financial professionals with extensive experience in the origination, distribution, trading and management of debt and equity securities, as well as in structuring and execution of corporate finance transactions. 

		Hogi Hyun Managing Director
	Hogi is responsible for overseeing all investment and advisory activities. He was formerly a Managing Director at Bankers Trust Company in Singapore where he established and managed its corporate finance, risk management and investment management businesses for Southeast Asia. While in Singapore, Hogi conceived and ran the Bankers Trust Regional Currency Funds and Global Guaranteed Funds. Prior to his move to Singapore, he was based in Bankers Trust Company's Hong Kong office where he established its Capital Markets Division for Southeast Asia. Hogi joined Bankers Trust, New York in 1987 where he began his career in the sales and trading of capital markets products. In 1989, he moved to London to develop Banker's Trust's equity derivatives business. Hogi has been a member of the Investment Panel of The Enterprise Challenge, a venture fund backed by the Singapore Prime Minster's Office; a member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore Civil Service College; and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore National Library Board. Hogi graduated Magna cum laude from Yale University, USA in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies. He studied at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute and Fudan University in Shanghai, and holds the Grand Diplôme from La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in Paris.

		Casey Kwan Director
	Casey is responsible for managing investments in Asian fixed income and distressed assets. Casey was a former Director at CIBC-CEF responsible for marketing interest rate, foreign exchange and equity risk management instruments to corporate and financial institutions in Southeast Asia. Prior to joining CIBC-CEF, Casey was a Vice President at Bankers Trust Company, where he worked in various areas including equity research, corporate finance, risk management and investment management. Casey started his career in 1989 as an equity analyst at Morgan Grenfell where he specialized in researching Singapore property and hotel companies and participated in the development of a stock index performance measure. Casey received his Bachelor of Science degree in Estate Management from the National University of Singapore in 1989.

		Chandrashekhar Gupta Director
	Shekhar is responsible for institutional clients in South East Asia. He was formerly a General Manager at Bayerische Landesbank in Singapore responsible for corporate and investment banking where he set up various business divisions including syndications, project finance, trade finance, structured finance and debt restructuring. His earlier banking and finance roles were at Sanwa International Finance in Hong Kong as Executive Director with responsibility for expanding client relationships and capital market and syndication products in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent; and with Ernst & Young FSI in Singapore as Corporate Banking Adviser advising on structured & project financing, restructuring and re-engineering, fund-raising and credit risk management. His work experience includes university teaching and e-commerce. Shekhar is a mathematics & science graduate from University of Jabalpur in India and was an Atomic Energy Commission of India scholar and University Gold Medallist. He completed his master's degree in physics from the University of Southern California in 1971. Shekhar is also a qualified cricket umpire and has officiated cricket matches in India.

		Joan Sybuenasenso Director
	Joan is responsible for marketing & communications and execution support for Abacus’ investment and advisory businesses. Prior to Abacus, Joan was an associate at Quisumbing Torres (“QT”), Baker & Mckenzie’s Manila Associate Office. At QT, Joan was with the Banking and Finance Practice Group where she participated in the negotiation and preparation of legal documents for corporate and project finance related deals. Joan obtained her Master of Business Administration degree from the Melbourne Business School in 2000. She also holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law (1995) and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Management Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University (1991).

		Arief Budiman Associate Director
	Arief is responsible for supporting the asset management and advisory businesses in Indonesia. Arief had previously worked as a Finance Manager & Controller at Kilang Rintai S.A. Sdn Bhd. where he was principally in charge of the supervision of the day-to-day operations of the finance department. Prior to this, Arief worked as a Securities Analyst at Daiwa Indonesia Securities where his main focus was the banking, financial and agricultural sectors. Arief holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance and Management Information System from Iowa State University in 1996. He is a member of the university’s Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society for the School of Business and the Golden Key National Honor Society

		Raghavendra Maru Associate
	Raghav is an Associate focusing on research and Advisory transaction execution. Raghav was previously a research assistant at PT. Siddhartha Consulting – KPMG in Indonesia where he was involved in various consumer industries and energy sector projects. Raghav received an Honours Degree in Economics and Management from the University of London in 2007.