Presenters Information

Comprise of highly experienced professionals from international and local faculty.

Lead Presenters

• Nicholas Krasno
  
  Nicholas Krasno is a New York-based consultant specialising in corporate governance, risk management, and strategic development for corporations and financial institutions. His practice includes corporate governance assessments and implementation for banks and companies, as well as advising governments, central banks and stock exchanges on corporate governance codes and practices. He has over thirty years of experience in the financial and banking world, and began his consultancy practice in 2003 after eleven years with Moody’s Investors Service, where he was Senior Vice President of Moody’s Financial Institutions, Banking & Sovereign Risk Group, responsible for the management and credit analysis of banks and other companies in the emerging markets of East and South Asia. Prior to his service with Moody’s, Mr Krasno was a banker working in London, Toronto and New York.
  
  
• Dr David S Bobker
  
  Dr. Bobker is founder and Director of Real Assurance Risk Management Ltd., a company dedicated to helping clients to manage their risks and implement corporate frameworks and technologies for operational and credit risk management, internal auditing and corporate governance. He has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, working in various capacity including internal and external audit, compliance officer and IT manager and as a regulator. He has been commissioned by financial institutions and regulatory authority in the UK for projects in risk management and policy impact studies. Dr Bobker has authored articles on risk management, internal auditing and corporate governance and made numerous presentations to both national and international conferences on these subjects.
  
  
• Professor Nabil N. El-Hage
  
  Professor Nabil N. El-Hage is Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School in the Finance Area. Prof Nabil graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean's Doctoral Fellowship. His areas of interest are corporate governance, corporate restructuring, leveraged buyouts and private equity in the financial services, airline, private equity, real estate and retail industries.
  
  Nabil was a Research Consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc., before business school. He also served on a dozen boards of private and public companies, ranging from start-ups to several billion dollars in revenues. Prior to returning to HBS in 2003, Prof. Nabil gained experience in private equity and venture capital with TA Associates and Advent International, as well as on the operating side, as CFO of Back Bay Restaurant Group. He was the president of the Yale Club of Boston from 2005 until June 2007. He is currently the independent Chairman of the MassMutual Premier Funds, a $10 billion mutual fund complex.

Programme coordinator

• David Berry
  
  David Berry is Managing Director, at Columbus Circle Governance Sdn Bhd, a company providing consulting and advisory services in all areas of corporate governance. Mr. Berry heads the Corporate Governance, Investor Relations and Financial Communications practice. He has over thirty-five years experience in financial services and corporate consulting, and five years in the commercial sector. Mr. Berry provides high level training to the Boards and executive management of clients in his areas of expertise and advises and assists clients with the practical development corporate governance practices, their investor relations programmes and financial communications.
  
  
• Navin Pasricha
  
  Navin Pasricha is Chairman of Columbus Circle Governance Sdn Bhd, which he founded in 2003. He specialise in risk management and internal audit, where he had thirty years of experience internationally as having held senior positions in Malaysia, India, Australia, Bahrain and the UK. In the past, Navin has also been the Chief Risk Officer of a major Malaysian Bank, an Executive Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Regional head of Audit for an Australian Bank, the Chief Auditor for one of Australia's top three listed companies and the Financial Controller of a major international airport. He has been a member of a number of audit committees in Australia and was a governor of the Institute of Internal Auditors both in Malaysia and in Australia. Navin is also the author of two industry standard manuals called "Audit Committee Adviser" and "Auditman" and is very active in providing corporate governance training for boards and senior management both national and international.