Chiap Seng has over 15 years’ experience in Legal work, having practiced as a litigation lawyer for about 7 years prior to assuming various in-house legal positions in several companies, including a local listed company and a foreign- owned multi-national corporation prior to assuming his current position as the head of legal department and regional counsel for Canon Singapore.Chiap Seng has worked on a broad range of contractual and intellectual property issues in a variety of industries, including shipping, industrial construction, logistics and business and consumer electronics across several jurisdictions in Asia. Chiap Seng holds a LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore. He is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a committee and founding member of the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association

After formal training with the UK Civil Aviation Authority and a first degree from Loughborough University of Technology, Martin joined Ernst & Young in 1985. He held a variety of internal senior management positions before moving on to consulting, offering technology advice to SMEs. From there Martin joined Masons (Solicitors) as IT Director and worked with Professor Richard Susskind pioneering the use of today’s commonplace techniques such as Hypertext and scanning for litigation support. In 1990 Martin joined Mallesons Stephen Jaques as Executive Director, Information and Technology and over the next four years delivered a completely new infrastructure and application set to 2000 staff across 8 offices in 3 countries. From there, Martin moved to Minter Ellison as CIO before joining Baker & McKenzie in 2005 as Asia Pacific Regional IT Director, looking after 14 offices across the region.

Alan is the Sydney Managing Partner of Minter Ellison. He is responsible for the firm’s Human Resources, Technology and Know How services, as well as having national key client responsibility for eight of the firm’s top 20 clients.His passion is leadership in professional service organisations and he is one of the few lawyers to have made the successful transition from legal practice to a career in management.Alan was in full-time practice as a litigation partner until 1987. Since then, he has held positions as Chief Executive and Managing Partner in four organisations, including four years in an offshore partnership. His experience has been extremely valuable in managing the firm’s growth and its large number of offices in the Asia Pacific. Alan has been primarily responsible for developing the firm’s values and working to align them to its vision. He has also made a significant contribution to the creation of the firm’s Learning and Development program.

Of Swedish origin, Herman Lundquist is now based in Singapore as Senior Marketing Manager with the Regional Office of Canon Singapore’s Business Imaging Solutions. One of his core responsibilities is to oversee the business development of Canon’s hardware, software and professional services across the South and South East Asia region. Lundquist joined Canon in 1995. Prior to his present appointment, Herman was the Solutions Marketing Manager at Canon Svenska AB. During his tenure at Canon Svenska AB, Herman also held various management positions in regional sales management and sales consulting. Herman was responsible for improving the external communications of the sales team in the European market. During recent years, he developed several uniform sales and marketing tools to support Canon’s transition from being a hardware provider to a solutions provider. These tools are now widely used by the Canon business solutions sales team in the European market. The sales team is able to more effectively demonstrate and communicate the customer benefits of working with Canon’s solutions in the office environment with the deployment of such tools. Besides working for Canon, Mr. Lundquist has held several senior positions in the Motion Media Production Industry. He was also once a broadcast journalist and co-host for a prominent television station.

Michael Klug practices in the area of commercial corporate litigation and dispute resolution. He advises primarily large corporate and Government clients on dispute resolution and also has a particular interest in products liability litigation and also defamation. His primary area of professional recognition is in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution where he is one of Australia’s pioneering lawyers, having been one of the original directors who founded LEADR. He is also a founding Director of the Australasian Disputes Centre (Queensland) and currently serves and has served on many other ADR committees, both in Queensland and in other Australian states. He has also served on a University Council and has been a director of a number of corporations, including Mack Trucks Australia Limited.

Under Nigel McBride’s leadership as Chief Executive Partner, the Adelaide office has grown in a few short years to be South Australia’s largest law firm with a leading reputation and dominant market position. The success of the Adelaide practice has lead to opening a dedicated Darwin office after many years experience of servicing client needs in the Territory either remotely or through a local agent. Nigel often provides input to other Chief Executives on the key strategic and operational issues affecting their businesses. This reflects his own management experience as well as his years of practise advising private & public sector clients in relation to corporate governance and leadership, regulatory and human resources challenges, contractual issues and common law duties. Nigel is unusual as a lawyer in the sense that he has had significant experience in operational management. For example, as former Director of Legal Administration for the Health Department of Western Australia, he was in the Department’s senior management team as well as managing the provision of legal & legislative services for a $A1.6b industry. He has also advised a range of government agencies for well over a decade and has first-hand knowledge of the statutory, legal, policy and logistical issues surrounding the public sector and its statutory entities. He has what we believe to be a unique practice in public sector risk management, having undertaken comprehensive risk assessments with a number of statutory corporations and public sector agencies.

Jeff has been dealing with law firms in Asia Pacific for the past 18 years. Jeff has many dealings with many of the top 10 law firms in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Australia. He has assisted them to keep pace with the ever-changing environment of law firm management. Jeff is the Director - Asia Pacific for leading Practice Management suppliers to Australasia, Locus Pty Limited. Jeff has in-depth knowledge of law firms and will be presenting on current thinking in legal practice management.

Michael is managing partner of the Sydney office & has over 15 years’ experience in commercial disputes. His practice includes advisory, compliance & litigation work arising out of the Trade Practices Act and related legislation for corporate clients of the firm. His advisory work includes issues relating to restrictive & anti-competitive practices, competition law & telecommunications provisions. Michael has prepared numerous authorisation applications to the ACCC in relations to mergers and other transactions. He has conducted litigation based on trade practices & corporations laws relating to corporate takeovers. He has also advised on numerous intellectual property cases, mainly in trade marks and copyright. He has particular expertise in copyright relating to new technology, parallel importation issues and domain name passing off cases. Michael deals frequently with the ACCC and ASIC on behalf of clients on trade practices issues and has defended clients against prosecutions by both regulators. He is a trained mediator.

Julian Fenwick is the National Business Development Manager for the Legal Technology Group of Blake Dawson Waldron (BDW) an international law firm with offices throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Julian has been with BDW for six years, in which time he has been instrumental in the development of BDWs Online Compliance Training product Salt(TM) now used by over 40,000 people globally. Prior to joining BDW Julian held a number of senior management and marketing positions in hospitality and retail fashion industries. Julian holds an MBA from the University of Sydney & has lectured on marketing, entrepreneurship, &, written several articles on marketing new technologies, including contributing to the current university text, “Principles of Marketing” by Philip Kotler.

Benjamin Ang was the Administrative Director of White & Case LLP’s Singapore office, with responsibility for all operations in Singapore as well as Manila, Jakarta, Hanoi and Bombay. He also conducts IT training for his Firm. Benjamin was previously a Litigation lawyer, Director of Technology, a Partner and the Executive Director at Rajah & Tann. He has a Masters in MIS and MBA from Boston University, and is a Certified Network Administrator. He has also practiced as an IT consultant to small and medium sized law firms.

Damien manages operations for CCH Workflow Solutions in Asia. Damien has over a decade of experience in technology and bureau service consulting in support of a range of complex litigation, arbitration and due diligence projects. He has designed and implemented information based solutions to support major projects for law firms, courts and corporations, regionally and internationally. Damien is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences in the Asia Pacific region, and is actively supporting educational programs in Singapore based on his core expertise, including eDiscovery workflow management. Damien holds a Master of Business in Information Innovation, Graduate Diploma in Document Management and has previously studied information technology and information management and law with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

DP Naban is the senior counsel for litigation matters in Lee Hishammuddin Allen and Gledhill. He was called to the English Bar in 1980 and admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1981. He has extensive litigation experience in many practice areas including defamation, company law, banking, industrial and employment law, intellectual property matters and tax. He appears regularly in the superior courts including the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court.

Karen K. Loewenstein, Ph.D. is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice. She joined the firm as a technical specialist/patent agent in October 1995, and became an associate with the firm in February 1998 after receiving her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. In December 2003, she joined Honeywell International Inc. as the Assistant General Counsel of Intellectual Property, for Engines, Systems & Services business unit of Honeywell. She returned to the firm in September 2004, to continue her legal practice in the IP area, and also to devote a significant amount of her time helping the firm to develop the Chinese legal market. Dr. Loewenstein graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude. She holds a Ph.D. degree and a Master of Science degree from Virginia Tech where she majored in physics. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Beijing University in Beijing, China. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.