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Shareholders of Asia Frontier Capital Ltd.

Thomas Hugger, Director

Thomas Hugger, Director
has spent 27 years in private banking where he specialized in managing portfolios of listed and unlisted equities. He has been investing in Asian and African Frontier Markets since 1993. He is the former Managing Partner, CFO & COO of Leopard Capital; and was previously a Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management at LGT Bank in Hong Kong. He also held senior investment positions at Bank Julius Baer in Zurich and Hong Kong. Mr. Hugger was the founding shareholder of one of the largest brokerage companies in Bangladesh. He is also a Certified Financial Investment Analyst (CFIA) and Investment Adviser (Switzerland) and a Certified European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) Financial Analyst.

 
Dr. Marc Faber

Dr. Marc Faber
is CEO, investment advisor and fund manager of Marc Faber Limited. He is the publisher of a widely read monthly investment newsletter the Gloom, Boom and Doom report which highlights global investment opportunities.  Dr. Faber is respected around the world for his market forecasts over the past three decades.

 
 
 
Ruchir Desai, Senior Investment Analyst

Ruchir Desai, CFA, Fund Manager
is the co-fund manager of the AFC Asia Frontier Fund and has been with Asia Frontier Capital since July 2013. As part of managing the fund, he covers markets such as Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Prior to this role, he was based in Mumbai, India and spent two years at HandsOn Ventures LLC which is a private equity firm making investments in business services companies. He holds an MBA in Finance from CUHK Business School, The Chinese University of Hong Kong during which time he spent a semester on exchange at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He is also a CFA® charterholder since September 2015.