The Manila member firm of Baker & McKenzie International. He is a member of the Policy Committee and the Asia Pacific Regional Council of Baker & McKenzie. His practice includes litigation, domestic & international arbitration & immigration. He received his Bachelor of Laws degree and his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from the University of San Agustin. He holds a Master of Management degree from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas. He was a fellow and participant to the 1986 Academy of American and International Law of the Southwestern Legal Foundation in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. He attended special courses in management of professional service firms in Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for International and Comparative Law of the Center for American and International Law based in Texas, U.S.A. He is a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, International Bar Association, Inter-Pacific Bar Association and Immigration Lawyers Association of the Philippines. He was a bar examiner during the Philippine 2004 Bar Examinations.

As Sales Director, Southeast Asia, Riverbed Technology, Mr. Roberto Galbiati is in charge of overall sales and business development throughout the region. Mr. Galbiati brings with him 20 years of IT industry experience with 12 years of technology sales based in Asia Pacific, having served as Country Manager at The Santa Cruz Operations, Hewlett Packard Verifone and RSA Security, where he developed direct sales, OEM and distribution channels throughout Asia.

Neil Cameron is one of the leading law firm technology consultants. In a review of IT consultants offering services to law firms in The Lawyer magazine he was “named by many consultants as one of the best around”, and held to be “recognised as among the leading experts”. In 2003 he was awarded a LOTIE by In BrieF magazine for the “biggest contribution to legal IT” in that year. Originally a barrister he moved into technology when he joined Butterworths to help set up the UK LEXIS service in 1980. Four years later he went to Allen & Overy to work on the development and implementation of professional support IT systems for lawyers, primarily know-how and document management. In 1986 he joined KPMG Management Consulting and was largely responsible for building the KPMG Solicitors Consulting Unit over a period of time during which he and his team assisted over forty law firms and legal departments with technology projects. These ranged from IT strategy and related high-level work, the review of technology- related working practices to establishing requirements and evaluating and selecting systems such as document management, office systems; practice management, CRM, Intranet/Extranet and client collaboration as well as know-how and library systems. He has also been retained by a number of vendors to advise on product development and design, particularly practice management systems.

With over 17 years of industry and consulting experience, he is responsible for the development and maintenance of key client relationships. Anand specializes in Business Vision creation and integration with Organizational Structures and People Capabilities. Anand regularly assists organizations identify their strategic thrust areas and translating that into people and business needs, develop and execute successful people strategies that are integrated across various practices, regions and countries to meet clients’ strategic business needs and contribute towards improving their business results.

Alban has been in legal practice for over 22 years. Alban has been recognised consistently as a leading practitioner in the field of Intellectual Property. He has been named as a leading individual for Intellectual Property law in Singapore in The Asia Pacific Legal 500 2005/2006 editions and consistently in the last 4 preceding editions. He has also been recognised for his expertise in Intellectual Property in AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 editions). Alban has also been named as a leading Trade Mark Lawyer in International Who’s Who of Trademark Lawyers (2004 & 2006 editions) and Guide To The World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners (2002, 2004, 2006 editions) as well as a leading Patent Lawyer in the Guide To The World’s Leading Patent Law Experts (2001, 2003, 2005 editions). Alban graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB (Hons)) and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1984.

With extensive experience in maritime litigation, dry and wet work including personal injury and multimodal transport. He has delivered several papers in the maritime law committees of the International Bar Association and the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. He is president of the Philippine Maritime Voluntary Arbitrators Association. He was a member of the tripartite conference that drafted the amended POEA contract. He was president of the Maritime Law Association of the Philippines and the Makati Law Foundation. He was director of the Philippine Bar Association, Vice President of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, honorary director of the Propeller Club of the Philippines and past president of the Rotary Club of the Philippines. He has been writing on Shipping Law for the past 15 years.

Jeff has been the head of Information Systems for Herbert Smith Asia region since 2000. He has over 17 years of experience in the industry. Based in Hong Kong, Jeff oversees the IT management and operations across Herbert Smith offices in Asia, including Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore and Bangkok, and also an associated office in Jakarta. Jeff and his team are responsible for implementing and managing quality technology solutions for all Asia offices in a wide range of fields including computer systems, business application systems, software and hardware applications, server and networking infrastructure, security, risk management and business continuity. He ensures that all these are aligned with the standards of our headquarters in London and bring business effectiveness and efficiency to the firm. Jeff’s professional back ground comes from a well mix of international business enterprises: Sime Darby Hong Kong and BMG International Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Herbert Smith, Jeff was the Information System and Technology Director of Asia Pacific at Hill and Knowlton Asia Pacific Ltd.

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.

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 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