Brian Caplen has been editor of The Banker since 2003. He joined the Financial Times Group from Euromoney in 2000 where he had been executive editor of Euromoney magazine for five years. He also worked as a business editor and journalist in Hong Kong and the Middle East for 10 years. He has travelled extensively and done numerous high level interviews with prime ministers, finance ministers, central bank governors and senior executives. He has a first class honours degree In Development Studies from the University of East Anglia.

In February 2001, Chris Clark joined HSBC Holdings plc as Head of E-Marketing, with responsibility for the development of global e-marketing programmes and personal internet banking, in addition to this he was assigned a role in Group Marketing looking at a future brand strategy for the bank. In Oct 2002 he formally moved into Group Marketing as Head of Market Planning and Brand Strategy. He was one of the team responsible for the original work that found ‘the world’s local bank’ positioning. In November 2006 he was appointed as Head of Marketing HSBC Group. In March 2009 he was appointed as Group Head of Customer Experience and in December 2010 he assumed the role as Group Head of Marketing and Customer Experience.

The bulk of his career prior to HSBC was in the advertising business in the UK and USA, having spent 10 years at Saatchi and Saatchi in the 80’s and 90’s with a focus on marketing and brand strategy.

Claire Mai Fulda began her professional career at BNP Paribas as an banker specializing in international trade finance. Subsquently, she joined the Brand, Communication and Quality Department where she was last Head of Advertising, Sponsoring, Brand Identity and Events. She is currently Head of Prospective and Brand Innovations. As part of her current responsibilities, she is also in charge of brand integration for acquisitions made by the Group where she has many years of experience (Ukrsibbank, BNL, Fortis, BGL, Bank of the West, TEB).

David is the CEO and founder of Brand Finance plc, the leading independent brand valuation consultancy. David qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in London. He has worked in the area of branded business, brand and intangible asset valuation since 1991 and since January 1995 has specialised entirely in this area. David has represented the British Standards institute on the International Standards Committee working party on the standardisation of brand valuation methods and practices, whose standard (ISO 10668) is due to be published in early 2010.

David is a passionate writer and has written many articles for the marketing and financial press on branded businesses and brand valuation and is the author of numerous publications. He also lectures on the subject of branded business, brand and intangible asset valuation at many of the leading business schools around the world.

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Sharanjit Leyl is a Singaporean Producer/Presenter, with BBC World News. She regularly anchors Asia Business Report and Newsday from the BBC’s Singapore studio. She is also a reporter and producer on the shows along with World Business Report. She has filed reports for radio on the BBC World Service business programmes as well as its arts and culture programme The Strand, and written for BBC news online.

Sharanjit began her broadcasting career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1997. While there she reported for the award-winning show, “The Pacific Rim Report”. In 1999 Sharanjit moved to Singapore where she had a similar role at the financial news service provider Bridge Information Systems. She joined Bloomberg Television in March 2000 and moved to its headquarters in Tokyo. There she presented its main three-hour newscast, “On The Money Asia”, reporting on breaking financial stories as well as major news events such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Sharanjit played an integral role in editing and influencing the content of Bloomberg’s Asian programming.

Jeremy currently holds dual positions at the Shinhan Bank in South Korea. He is the Senior Vice President in the Brand Strategy & Planning Department and he is also the Internal Professor of Brand Strategy where he regularly provides lectures about the development and management of the Shinhan brand. Prior to these roles, he was the Vice President in the Marketing Strategy Department between 2006 and 2009.
Jeremy graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 2001 and M.S. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 2006.

Charles is a member of the leadership team of Wolff Olins. He heads the Dubai office with responsibility for growing our business the Middle East and India. He has led many of our biggest engagements both internationally and in this region. Before joining Wolff Olins in 1987, Charles worked for Pepsi and as a management consultant. He is a chartered accountant and a graduate of Oxford University.