Hong Kong Data Summit 2025

Robin Xing is a managing director at Morgan Stanley who joined the Firm’s Asia ex-Japan economics research team in 2016 as Chief China Economist, leading the firm’s macro and FX research on China. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he was an investment strategist at Goldman Sachs’ investment management division.

Previously, he worked as director of China macro research at S.A.C Capital, and vice president and economist at China International Capital Corporation. Robin’s team was ranked #1 for Economics from 2021 to 2024 in Institutional Investor All-Asia survey, and he has written extensively on China’s long-term economic outlook, including the Urbanization 2.0 in China, the supply chain transition in a multipolar world, and the transition of China’s capital flows. He has presented his views frequently to senior policymakers in China.

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Tom Zhang leads Man AHL’s Asian systematic equity research. With over 15 years of equity research experience, Tom has been an enthusiastic quantamental investor covering both developed and developing markets. In addition to standardized data products, he has also been involved in early-stage data product designs / commercialization. Tom is currently based in Hong Kong.

Alex is the head of Linklaters China TMT/IP team based in Shanghai. Alex’s practice covers corporate M&A and strategic alliances and regulatory advisory matters in China, advising on cybersecurity, data privacy and data management concerns, tech and IP licensing, and other complex regulatory inquiries.

He also advises clients on the legal, regulatory, and policy impact of emerging tech and disruptive technology, as well as the increasing convergence between technology, data and corporate social responsibility.

Alex has been recognised by Legal 500 as a ‘Next generation partner” in Fintech and TMT in China and won "Fintech: Foreign Firms Lawyer of the Year" at the Legal 500 China Awards 2024.

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Frantz Moudoute was most recently the Quantamental Portfolio Manager at Maso Capital Partners, based in Hong Kong. His investment approach blends fundamental and quantitative strategies to drive portfolio performance. His areas of expertise include data integration, backtesting, rules generation, portfolio management, risk management, and the development of real-time reporting tools to improve decision-making and performance tracking.

Frantz has held roles at Matchpoint Investment Management (Hong Kong), MCM Partners (Hong Kong), J.P. Morgan (Japan), and BNP Paribas (Japan). He is also the founder of irostors.com, a data-driven investor relations platform that enhances corporate access and investor engagement through advanced technology.

Frantz holds a Bachelor of Science, an MBA, and a postgraduate degree in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He is a Certified Data Scientist with expertise in big data, machine learning, and digital transformation, and has spearheaded strategic initiatives in investment management across Hong Kong, China, Japan, and Australia.

Guanhao (Gavin) Feng is an associate professor of finance and statistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Chicago in 2017. Gavin focuses on developing methodological solutions, including machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and financial econometrics, to address big data challenges in empirical asset pricing.

His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, and International Economic Review.

He is the principal investigator for various external research grants, such as the HKRGC ECS and GRF grants, and the NSFC youth science fund. Gavin’s research has been acknowledged by practitioners, receiving research awards from INQUIRE Europe, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, and the AQR Insight Award. 

Gregory leads data sourcing at Pictet Asset Management. He works with investment teams to find, assess and procure data from various data sources.

Gregory holds a MSc in Information Systems from the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne. He is also a certified FRM.

Helena is the Head of Asia Research at Neudata. She covers APAC alternative data suppliers with a particular focus on China. Prior to Neudata, Helena worked as sales operation manager at UBS Evidence Lab and alternative data product manager at 86 Research and Juwai.com. Helena has also worked at Pacific Epoch as Co-Head of Research and senior TMT analyst.

Helena holds a Master's degree in Political Economy of Late Development from the London School of Economics.

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Ian is the Chief Revenue Officer at Neudata, where he heads the Client Engagement group, as well as its busy programme of events. He has spent the last six years helping asset managers, investment banks and retailers to get value out of traditional and alternative data.

Prior to that, Ian's experience encompassed analytical and commercial roles at Vodafone, Bank of Scotland and Liberty Mutual. Ian holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and a Saltire Fellowship in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Massachusetts.