About Dr. Gordian Gaeta

Dr. Gordian Gaeta has been an advisor, consultant and partner to investment banks, and corporate finance boutiques within the region for more than 20 years. He has developed strategies and business plans for capital markets businesses in all major Asian economies as well as for many of the region's stock exchanges, capital markets associations and financial institutions. He currently operates his own private equity investments, risk advisory business and undertakes corporate restructurings.

Dr. Gaeta began his career in commercial and private banking that took him across several countries before moving to consulting in the early 1980s. Having started at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in London, Dr. Gaeta left and co-founded Spicer & Oppenheim Consultants, a specialised financial services business based in London and Hong Kong. He subsequently also became the strategy advisor to Standard Chartered Bank for Asia. In 1991, Dr Gaeta returned to Booz-Allen and became the company's managing partner in Hong Kong for Asia financial services until 1998.

Dr. Gaeta is or has been a partner in corporate finance firms in Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Europe. He has lectured and given seminars to management of investment banks across Asia. He has a master and doctorate in law and studied mathematics and business sciences. He is a director and fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Management Consultants and chairman of the Ethics Committee. He is a well known figure on the international conference circuit, the editor and co-author of Frontiers in Credit Risk, former academic and guest lecturer at several universities.