Speaker Bios - Alumni - Cornell University

The 5th Cornell Asia Alumni Leadership Conference
March 16-18, 2012
The Mira Hotel Hong Kong
118 Nathan Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Speaker Bios
Nell CADY-KRUSE
Nell Cady-Kruse joined Standard Chartered as Chief Risk Officer, Wholesale
Banking in January 2011 and is based in Singapore.
Nell has over 25 years of banking experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
15 years was spent with Bankers Trust Company where she started with the
Leveraged Buyout Group in New York and worked through various positions in
leveraged finance, high yield bonds, private equity, portfolio management and
risk.
After a stint as CFO of an Internet company during the dotcom bubble, Nell
went on to spend 9 years with Credit Suisse. She joined in London and became
the Head of Credit Risk Management for Europe, Middle East & Africa for
CSFB. Most recently Nell was the Chief Risk Officer for the Asia Pacific region,
based in Hong Kong. In this role she was responsible for Credit, Market and
Operational Risk in Investment Banking, Private Banking, and Asset
Management.
Nell received her MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School. She
received her B.S. with Honors in Agricultural Economics from Cornell
University. Nell is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute
and the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts (HKSFA). She serves as
member of the Cornell Alumni Council, the President’s Council of Cornell
Women and Cornell's Johnson School Advisory Council, where she chairs the
Global Committee.
Joseph CHERIAN
Management Research & Investments (CAMRI) at NUS Business School. He
was formerly an Executive-in-Residence at Cornell University’s Johnson
Graduate School of Management, where he is a member of the Dean’s Advisory
Council. Prior to that, Joe was Managing Director, Global Head, and CIO of the
Quantitative Strategies Group within Credit Suisse Alternative Investments in
New York, where he had direct responsibility for over US$ 67 billion in client
assets managed to a quantitative discipline. While at Credit Suisse, Joe also
served on the Global Executive Committee and various senior management,
investments, and risk committees of the Asset Management division. Joe joined
Credit Suisse in 2004 from Banc of America Capital Management, also in New
York, where he was Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of their

asset allocation funds. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at
Boston University. He has authored numerous articles for financial journals, and
serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Orissa Group, a pioneer in the
development and dissemination of liquidity-based data and analytical products
across multiple asset classes. He formerly served as a review board member of
the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, and on the Scientific Advisory
Boards of netDecide Corp. and SKG Inc. Joe holds a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from MIT, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Cornell
University.
Ming HUANG
Professor of Finance, Johnson School of Management
Cornell University
Professor Huang's academic research interests have focused mainly on
behavioral finance and, in particular, the applications of cognitive psychology to
understanding the pricing of financial assets. He has also worked on credit risk
and derivatives, on the effects of illiquidity on asset prices, and on the
application of auction theory to takeovers. He has published in the Journal of
Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic
Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Journal of Finance, and has
won awards for both research and teaching. Prior to coming to Johnson, Huang
taught at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and at the
Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. In recent years,
Professor Huang has also conducted in-depth research on financial markets and
corporate finance in China.
Andrew KAROLYI
Faculty Co-Director of Emerging Markets Institute
Alumni Professor in Asset Management
Professor of Finance, Johnson School of Management
Cornell University
Professor Karolyi is an internationally-known scholar in the area of investment
management, with a specialization in the study of international financial
markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics,
including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of
Financial Studies, and has published several books and monographs. His
research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including
The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York
Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC.
Karolyi currently serves as editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the
top-tier journals in finance. He is also an associate editor for a variety of
journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical
Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance and the Pacific
Basin Finance Journal. He is a recipient of the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital
Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship
in Finance (2001), the Journal of Empirical Finance's Biennial Best Paper Prize

(2006), the Fisher College of Business' Pace Setter Awards for Excellence in
Research and Graduate Teaching and the Johnson School’s Prize for Excellence
in Research in 2010.
He joined Johnson in 2009, after teaching for 19 years at the Fisher College of
Business of The Ohio State University. He leads various executive education
programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is actively involved in
consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law
firms. He has been elected to serve in 2011-2012 as President of the Financial
Management Association International, an association of more than 4,000
academics and practitioners worldwide.
Karolyi received his BA (Honors) in economics from McGill University in 1983
and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department.
He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the Graduate
School of Business of the University of Chicago.
Geoffrey LIM, MBA ’00
Geoffrey Lim, MBA '00, is director of CLSA Capital Partners, the alternative
investment arm of CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Previously, Mr. Lim was
managing director and chief representative of Founder China Partners, a Beijingbased
private equity firm sponsored by the Founder Group, one of China's
largest state-owned conglomerates. Prior to that, he was vice president of
Lombard Investments and was based in Hong Kong, where he helped to manage
the firm's investments in China and other Asian markets. Mr. Lim started his
career in private equity with Cowen & Company's Private Equity Group in New
York. He received his BA from Hunter College, City University of New York,
and his MBA from Johnson School, Cornell University.
Joseph THOMAS
Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean
Professor of Operations Management, Johnson School of Management
Dean Thomas is the 10th dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of
Management at Cornell University. He brings more than 30 years of experience
as a Cornell University faculty member to his post as dean. Most recently, he
was associate dean for academic affairs, responsible for all faculty-related
matters at Johnson. He has also served as director of the doctoral program, and
director of executive education. Dean Thomas is an award-winning teacher,
having twice won the Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award. This
award is voted upon by members of the five-year reunion class. The award is
given to a faculty member whose teaching and example have continued to
influence graduates five years into their post-MBA careers.
Dean Thomas' teaching and research focus on topics in operations management
and supply-chain management. He has consulted for and led managementeducation
programs for several Fortune-100 companies, including Osram (and
Osram-Sylvania), Accenture, and Sanofi-Aventis (Rhone-Poulenc Rorer).

With degrees in Chemical Engineering (BS) and Operations Research (PhD) and
a long history of academic scholarship and publishing, Dean Thomas is one the
nation's foremost experts in operations management and manufacturing.
His work has been widely published on a variety of topics, including redesign of
global manufacturing and supply networks, manufacturing strategy, inventory
systems, human resources management, and worker motivation. He has also
studied models for managing complex production-distribution systems and their
effective implementation.
Dean Thomas has written four books and more than 50 articles in journals such
as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Services
Operations Management, and Journal of Manufacturing and Operations
Management. He was a departmental editor of Management Science for six
years and has served on many editorial boards and committees for professional
organizations.