Roland Wang
Regional CEO, China at World Gold Council
oland Wang first joined the World Gold Council in 1995 and was promoted to General Manager of China in 2001. From 2012 to 2014, Roland was President and General Manager of Jingyi Gold Co. Ltd., a gold investment and jewelry company, before returning to the World Gold Council as Managing Director of China in 2015. During his 20-year career in the gold industry, Roland has participated in the reform plan to open up the Chinese gold market. He was also actively engaged in the establishment of the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Previously, Roland worked for J. Walter Thompson and Hill & Knowlton, as well as the International Department of the China Enterprise Management Association (CEMA), an organization authorized by the State Economic and Planning Commission. Roland received his bachelor’s degree from the University of International Relations in Beijing. He later received his MBA from the City University of Seattle.
WEI LI
Global Chief Investment Strategist
WEI LI was born in Chongqing, China. She moved to Shenzhen in junior high school and later received a scholarship to study in Singapore. She graduated from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge with both her undergraduate and master's degrees. Not only did she have excellent academic performance, she also won the gold medal in the China Mathematical Olympiad twice. She worked as an intern trader at Lehman Brothers for 4 months, and then joined Citibank as a Delta One ETF trader.
In 2010, WEI LI joined BlackRock as the head of investment strategy for ETFs and index investments in the EMEA region. With her outstanding performance, she was appointed BlackRock's global chief investment strategist in 2021 at the age of 35, becoming the company's spokesperson for conveying investment opinions to the outside world.
Leonard M. Tannenbaum
Founder and Executive Chairman of TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group
In 1998, he founded Fifth Street Finance, and in January 2005, he launched his second fund, Fifth Street Mezzanine Partners II, which was valued at $157 million. In 2007, he launched his third fund, and in 2008, following the advice of David Einhorn, he transformed the fund into a business development company (BDC). This entity, Fifth Street Finance Corp., went public in May 2008. In 2017, Fifth Street Asset Management was sold to Oaktree Asset Management. In 2023, he founded TCG/Tannenbaum Capital Group from his family office, and in July 2024, he listed the mortgage REIT Sunrise Realty Trust on the Nasdaq under the ticker SUNS. The company provides loans to qualified commercial real estate borrowers.
Sallie Krawcheck
Founder and former CEO of Ellevest
Krawcheck began her career as a stock analyst covering Wall Street firms, rising through the ranks to become head of research and eventually chairman and CEO of sell-side research firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. She became known for providing unbiased advice and her decision to move Bernstein out of its lucrative but conflict-of-interest underwriting business led Fortune magazine to call her "the last honest analyst."
Daniel S. Loeb
Founder and CEO of Third Point
From 1984 to 1987, Loeb worked at Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm. He then served as director of corporate development for Island Records, a record label, where he focused on debt financing. After leaving Island Records, Loeb worked as a risk arbitrage analyst at Lafer Equity Investors. From 1991 to 1994, he served as senior vice president of the distressed debt department at Jefferies LLC, where he focused on bankruptcy analysis, bank loan transactions, and distressed securities sales. From 1994 to 1995, he served as vice president at Citigroup, where he was responsible for high-yield bond sales.