More About Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd Corporate Philosophies

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More About Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd Corporate Philosophies
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More About Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd
September 2013
Registered No 1613702 and related companies
Administration Headquarters
Rm. 403 Sen Fat Building, 6-8 Bonham Strand, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Website: www.maxgroup.asia
Corporate Philosophies
”We cannot solve problems
with the same thinking we used
when we created them”
- Albert Einstein
“I hear I forget
I see I remember
I do I understand”
- Confucius
“Be humble
Be straight
Don’t be crooked
Don’t take advantage of people”
- Robert Kuok
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About Our Maxgroup Green SIM Card Concept
Geoff Baker and Ilya Bennett as the two Executive Directors of Maxgroup, are committed to
businesses which use, develop and ”grow” technology and thereby add intrinsic value to
solving problems of climate change, deforestation, conservation and agriculture including
reinvigorating denuded soils. We apply new thinking to solve problems in new ways.
That Green Sim is the unique combination of new thinking, technology, with technical &
business skills Maxgroup brings together. Our core strength is the quality of the people &
the quality and years of relationships with them. Our capacity and capability, with them,
builds teams which convert complex ideas into simple, practical and manageable business
plans for which Maxgroup has strong skills, contacts and common values.
Both Ilya and Geoff are interested in Carbon Markets and monetising Conservation and
have invested in businesses, supported NGOs and developed close relationships which
have increased knowledge of the Carbon Compliance Market and Voluntary Carbon
Markets.
Maxgroup also invested to develop, Agricultural initiatives and Food Security initiatives.
Investments and Teams are developing Projects in Africa, China, South America,
Malaysia ,Sri Lanka and Australia.
The Concept includes incubating ideas and growing needed and profitable technology
which is environmentally friendly, in a manageable way which can succeed and then
scaling up with teams.
In the above category of projects, with considerable and long term experience and tried
and tested relationships, successful Pilot Projects can then be scaled up, like planting the
healthy growing Green Sim Card offshoots outside of the pot plant into the renewed vitality
of fertile ground, allowing new plants to grow and projects to expand .
New thinking under-pins Maxgroup strength to solve problems created by others.
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Maxgroup Executive Directors
Geoff Baker
geoff@maxgroup.asia
HK Mob:
+852 5147 8023
Australian Mob:
+61 414 642 952
Primary Business Locations
Hong Kong
Beijing
Sydney
Ilya Bennett
ilya@maxgroup.asia
Australian Mob:
+61 419 248 148
Primary Business Locations
Melbourne Australia
Kuala Lumpur
Corporate Associations
David Thomas of Think Global Consulting-Sydney
Steve Lowe-Sydney
Zhu Yang Yang – Beijing
Asgari Stephens-Kuala Lumpur
Anthony Hobley of Norton Rose Fulbright Lawyers global-London
Ian Redmond OBE, Biologist and Conservationist-UK
Leonard Cohen of Australian Carbon Biosequestration Initiative Ltd, South Australia
Monica Oliphant, Ex President of The International Solar Energy Society,
NGOs participating in Environmental problem solving in Africa and other countries
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Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd Relationships
Geoffrey Robert Baker
Executive Director
Geoff is an Australian lawyer residing in Hong Kong.
He is also a qualified lawyer in Hong Kong. He has three degrees Commerce degree (Accounting and Financial management), a Law
degree and MBA.
Over the past 11 years Geoff has been active in China conducting a
practice in assisting companies to do business in the region. Focused on corporate
services and inward investment, he has been active in founding operational representative
offices and investing in building businesses in China.
He also provides advice in: Mining and Resources, Finance;Telecommunications, Funds
Management, Human Resources, Real Estate - development and retail, Overseas Listing
and Fundraising, Franchising, and Intellectual Property. Geoff has helped many companies
around the world to operate successfully in China by guiding them through the country’s cultural, political, and regulatory spheres.
Previously, as a CEO of an Australian Investment Bank, Geoff specialized in mergers,
acquisitions, and fundraising. Activity operated across various industries including
specializing in overseas companies operating in Australia and investment in Asia,
particularly China and Japan. In 2002 Geoff set up the Beijing office of Deacons Lawyers
and assisted in the development of the practice in China. Geoff's involvement in these
wide-ranging fields and major projects has required him to work closely with many
international companies. He helps them develop a clear understanding of how business
and Chinese business and authorities can work together to deliver mutually beneficial
commercial results. He is a director of a number of listed and private companies, including
ASF Group Ltd, and has been a businessman in China and Asia for many years.
He is working towards projects which will profitably invest in and monetise conservation
areas and surrounding buffer zone commercial projects sensitive to conservation.
Geoff also recently co-authored a critically acclaimed book called “Think Like Chinese” which was launched in June 2008 (Federation Press, 2008) which was translated into
Chinese and published in China in 2010. A 2nd Book has also been published that is a
mirror of the first written in Chinese for the Chinese market called “Act Like a Foreigner”.
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Ilya Alexander Bennett
Executive Director
He is a director of diverse private companies and has experience in
Real Estate Development, Environmental Business, Health, Medical
and Food businesses.
Taking a worldview was easy, given his Russian and Czech ancestry, and studies in Japan
to complete his Australian law degree. To further broaden his outlook beyond helping in the
family export business based in Melbourne, Australia, he worked in London with a global
giant, Bunge, for which his uncle’s bank was financial advisor. Australia’s wave of financial deregulation in the 1980’s saw him help attract and develop some of the largest tourism investments ever then made by foreign corporations,
particularly Japanese. Further to those earlier investments, he was also associated with
several billion dollar sales of Australian Tourism Real Estate to Asian developers and
investors.
Ilya is known to the CEO’s and Chairmen of several Banks, and world leading Law Firms who
have participated in his track record in Real Estate Development Tourism, Eco Tourism and are
now following his steady progress in monetised conservation and biological fertiliser categories
with Maxgroup.
With his economics, law and property and business development skills, further roles
covered directorships and project management to corporate counselling of major
enterprises such as, Henry Pollack and Associates (HPA-Mirvac), ANA Hotels, other Hotel
brands including Shangri-la, Kerry Properties Ltd, building of new suburbs, tourism
precincts and university campuses, and central business district developments in several
countries.
He also holds the IP for several Chinese Medicine ingredients on an exclusive basis outside
of China as active ingredients licensed to build clinically tested Complimentary Medicine to
a global US based company.
Aside from his own businesses, Ilya serves in public and private sector Indigenous
interests, animal habitat conservation businesses and issues.
Today his consuming interests are focussed on overcoming child malnutrition.
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Steve Lowe
Steve is engaged in structuring and managing
Maxgroup projects
He is licensed as a Responsible Manager for a
Corporation by Australian Securities and
Investments, to manage large Funds
Steve resides in Sydney, Australia.
He has worked in capital and financial markets for more than 30 years with a focus on
energy commodities for the last 13 years.
He brings senior relationships with major energy and mining companies, investment banks
and fund managers in national and international markets.
In June 2013 Steve accepted the prestigious context of being sole and senior visiting
lecturer for a business being engaged by Chinese Government to educate Chinese bank
staff globally and in particular in Australia where staff will be flown, and in China re financial
markets, risk management and structured finance principles re all aspects of interest rates
foreign exchange securities and commodities
His most recent role was as the Chairman of Carbon Conscious Ltd, having executed the
largest carbon sequestration deal in Australia, whilst prior he has held the positions of Head
of Energy Services with Tricom and that of General Manager Trading with Integral Energy,
a government owned electricity, distribution and retailing company, for over five years.
He is also well acquainted with the renewable energy market, having a personal interest in
a waste to energy technology business currently being finalised, and also has been at the
forefront of renewable energy and carbon markets for the last 15 years.
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David Thomas-Sydney
David is founder and CEO of Think Global Consulting, a business he
established to fulfil his passion to facilitate business connections
between developed and emerging countries.
He resides in Sydney, Australia.
He is the Maxgroup Associate with BRIC specialist knowledge who
has project-relevant networks.
He is from a well respected family which has had a significant impact on the legal and
economic directions followed by Hong Kong.
He is also a Board Member of the Australia China Business Council in NSW, and was a
finalist in the Business Entrepreneurial and Business Innovation categories for the
Austcham Australia China Business Awards 2007. In 2009, David was presented with the
prestigious Australian Thought Leaders Expert of the Year Award.
He speaks with authority about global hotspots, business trends and cross border
opportunities, and trains business leaders on cross-cultural exchange, global trade and
market entry strategies.
David consults to organisations of all sizes who seek to create viable, profitable and
sustainable businesses in business leaders by leveraging a unique and long established
network of contacts, connections and friends from around the world. and he leads business
delegations, missions, study tours and leadership programs to selected countries, notably
the “BRIC countries” – Brazil, Russia, India and China
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Helen Zhang
Principal, China Time Inc
Helen is an experienced corporate and business advisor with broad
experience in the China region, leveraging off her previous international
experience and network developed in the APAC Region and Europe for
over 20 years
She is passionate about connecting China with the West by facilitating
multi-beneficial dialogues among global business and thought leaders.
Born and raised in China, Helen lived and worked in Australia for 8 years before relocating
back to Beijing in 2002. She has over 20 years experience working in management
consulting, executive training and in management positions in Australia and the China
region. She has worked in senior consulting, investment banking and management
positions in China, Australia and Hong Kong. Companies she has worked in include
Citigroup, Bain and Co Consulting, and major Chinese state owned and private
corporations.
With a unique, in-depth and intimate understanding of both the Chinese and Western
cultures, Helen is committed to assisting foreign businesses entering into China, and
helping Chinese companies go Global.
She joined Cambridge University by invitation in the If as a PhD candidate in October 2010.
Her Thesis challenge is to find the convergence between culture and engineering, and
contribute to the integration of global manufacturing networks. Helen holds an MBA, a
Master of Business in Finance from University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and a BA
(English Language and Literature) from Beijing University.
A published author, her book titles including :Think Like Chinese (English version), coauthored with Geoff Baker, Federation Press, 2008, Think Like Chinese (Chinese version),
co- authored with Geoff Baker, China Industry and Commerce Federation Publishing, 2010,
"Act Like Westerners" (Chinese version), co- authored with Geoff Baker, China Industry and
Commerce Federation Publishing, 2010.
She is a sought after business consultant and speaker on China related topics, as well as
regularly contributing to 'China Daily', China's only national/international news.
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Zhu Yang Yang
Yang Yang works with Maxgroup in projects and in negotiations in
China. He is an Australian Citizen with residence in Beijing. He is
founding director and majority shareholder of several successful
China based Resources companies with Wholly Owned Foreign
Investment (WOFI) status situated in Beijing, China.
He and his associated companies as mining technology promoters
and project generators are recognized and well-respected by the Ministry of Land and
Resources of the Peoples Republic of China (MOLAR) by provincial bureaus of geological,
non-ferrous geological and metallurgy geological; and by many State Owned Enterprises
(SOE) in China. Yang Yang and other members of the companies are regularly invited to
deliver presentations to seminars organized by the central, regional government or
company conferences along with their international and local partners.
As China becomes arguably, the most influential country for metal prices and mining
investments in the world, the demand for mining and mining technologies is huge and
expanding. The company’s “Mining Centre of Excellence” in Beijing has partnered with many internationally–bound mining companies, to assist those Chinese mining company’s with overseas investments and project valuations.
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Asgari Mohd Fuad Stephens,
Asgari holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from University of
Melbourne, Australia and a Masters of Business Administration from
Cranfield University, United Kingdom.
His brother, The Late Tuan Hj. Affendi Bin Tun Mohd Fuad Stephens,
was one of the three inaugural Executive Directors of Maxgroup Asia
Pty Ltd at Ilya Bennett’s invitation.
Ilya Bennett of Maxgroup has had a long association with the Stephens family via Affendi.
Asgari is one of three siblings and the son of the “Founder of The Federation of Malaysia”.
His family hails from Sabah in Malaysia where many of his family members have served as
respected, helpful politicians. He has been a Director of a diverse group of family, public
and private companies in Asia including Mudajaya, Mulpha and Maxis, a Malaysian
Telecommunications Company.
Asgari is a director of diverse private companies and Chairman of Mudajaya Berhad a large
business based out of Kuala Lumpur in Power Generation, Quarries, Construction and
Property and Trading
He has served as Chairman of Malaysia’s Venture Capital Association. Between 1998 and 1999, he was advisor to the National Economic Action Council (NEAC)
on issues relating to the finance industry in Malaysia. In September 1999, he founded
Intelligent Capital Sdn Bhd, a venture capital firm where he was principal until recently He
has been a Director of TIME dotcom Berhad and a member of the Audit Committee. He is
also a Director of Jaycorp Berhad (Formally known as Yeo Aik Resources Berhad) and
Pan Global Insurance Berhad.
He has extensive experience in both public and private equity investing in Malaysia.
Between 1988 to 1995, he worked in various capacities in Usaha Tegas, part of the
Tanjong Group. In 1995, he co-founded and started Kumpulan Sentiasa Cemerlang, an
investment advisory and fund management group.
He was the Asian Director for Leighton Holdings, a large Australian Resources
development and Real Estate company.
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MAXGROUP ADVISORY BOARD
Anthony Hobley, London, UK
President of The Climate Markets and Investment Association with membership
representing 75% of the Global Carbon Market valued at USD $120million.
As Global Head of Climate Change and Carbon Finance and Partner of Norton Rose
Fulbright, Anthony became acquainted with Ilya Bennett because of Ilya’s long history with The Firm.
He is interested in advising on scaling-up renewable energy in Africa and working with Ilya
Bennett and Geoff Baker on Maxgroup in initiatives. Including carbon markets, forestry, and
environmentally friendly commercial projects.
Qualified as solicitor of England and Wales 1994, he has a first class degree in Chemistry
and Physics, and Masters Degree in Environmental Law
Anthony was General Counsel to Climate Change and Carbon Project Capital. He has
appeared on UK television and radio has been quoted in the Economist, The Financial
Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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Ian Redmond OBE, Biologist, UK
Ian advises Maxgroup on Africa in particular, and the relationships between communities
who are stakeholders in ecologically changed areas, Politics , Nations, Businesses and
funds investing in those areas.
Ian is best known for his work with the Mountain Gorilla and Conservation in Africa.
He became a conservation consultant and advisor for organisations such as the Born Free
Foundation, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, Wildlifeline and the International Fund for Animal
Welfare.He established and chairs the Ape Alliance (70 organisations linked via
www.4apes.com), African Ele-Fund and tUK Rhino Group (www.rhinogroup.org.uk). He is
Chief Consultant for GRASP - UNEP/ UNESCO Great Apes Survival Project he helped
launch in 2001.
Born in Malaysia, where he met Ilya Bennett, Ian’s passion for animals and conservation
developed during boyhood in Beverley in Yorkshire, and after University, took him in 1976
to Africa. There he joined Dian Fossey, studying and protecting mountain gorillas of
Rwanda and Zaire. This led him into documentary film-making. He introduced Sir David
Attenborough to gorillas in 1978, for famous BBC ‘Life on Earth’ sequences, and taught
Sigourney Weaver to grunt like a gorilla in 1987, for her award-winning role in the film
‘Gorillas in the Mist’.
He directed and/or appeared in more than 50 documentary films for the BBC, National
Geographic Society, Discovery Channel, TF1, etc. His books have been translated into
many languages.
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Merv Jaensch, Melbourne, Australia.
Merv is working with Maxgroup on formulation of a better technology fertiliser and the
design of a Pilot plant to produce the Fertiliser. He is also advising on other Manufacturing
projects along a value added food chain from soil through to exported meals. He and Ilya
Bennett of Maxgroup have known each other for more than 40 years.
He is a mechanical engineer who focused on meat and food manufacturing process design
with over 40 years experience in multi-million dollar plants, concentrating in the meat
industry. With his past teams, he has built Meat Works for Major Suppliers in Australia,
World Bank in Africa and for clients in other countries. He has successfully negotiated and
implemented complex projects with enterprises and Governments managing many
relationships.
Leonard Cohen,
CEO, Australian Carbon Biosequestration Initiative Ltd (ACBI), trading as Canopy
ACBI and Maxgroup are working together in Australia in Conservation and leveraging
Biosphere rights including securing carbon on International assets and Aboriginal People’s land in Australia with capacities in New Zealand where Leonard’s family resides.
Leonard has been a nation-leader in Australia carbon measurement, management and
mitigation since establishing in 2004. Canopy’s clients include Commonwealth Bank of
Australia, CMI Toyota, Lexus, South Australia (SA) Water, Fosters, Mitsubishi Motors, SA
State and local governments.
Canopy provides training and information to businesses and primary producers about the
carbon market.
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In an arrangement with the South Australia Government and Greening Australia SA,
Canopy shares and manages on their behalf seven carbon sinks from Renmark to the
Coorong. It has been instrumental in putting over 600 hectares back under native forest.
Professor Sun Han Xiang (Lily)
Lily has many significant friendships in China being a Wushu master for over 30 years and
having studied Wushu for over 45 years.
She is a member of The Maxgroup Advisory Board on china helping develop commercial
relationships.
At Wuhan university, china she was Professor in Chinese Martial Arts and full time Chief
Instructor Martial Arts for 18 years in the physical education department of the prestigious
Wuhan University. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
She studied WuShu including Tai Chi for over 40 years and has instructed many of the
leaders and entrepreneurs in China. She was awarded Wushu 7th Duan by Chinese Wushu
Association.
In Australia, Lily is the only recognized Associate Professor in Martial Arts. She is a
cofounder and business partner in the YuLong Wushu-Tai Chi schools. She represented
Australia as International Judge in Sanshou at the 8th World Wushu Competitions in Hanoi,
Vietnam.
She has been in several Chinese films in China, filmed as a heroic martial artist. She has
published theses in China. Lily published many theses in China on exercise physiology
health and Wushu in Chinese Culture.
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Vineet Tawani,
Maxgroup Company Secretary
and Consultant India Specialist
Raised in INDIA, Vineet migrated to Australia as an International student in 2004.
His cross cultural understanding and international business network contribute in expanding
business for Maxgroup
Vineet hails from the lineage of a Business family where in his parents, grand-parents,
uncles and close relatives ran or were closely associated with various businesses. Through
his friends and relatives, his personal network extends to various multinational corporations.
He is completing his PhD in Finance specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions and is
qualifying with his Chartered Financial Analyst (USA) program.
Before long after arriving in Australia, Vineet successfully made an arrangement with his
University for teaching and research work. He gives lectures at RMIT University Melbourne
and is a visiting Lecturer at Singapore Institute of Management.
Being professionally qualified in IT, he started his career as an IT Trainer and worked in
public and private Institutes and Schools as an Instructor.
Prior to migrating to Australia, he was promoted to being a Quality Supervisor for the
computer giant Hewlett Packard through their associates in INDIA, led a team of 50
members and was assigned the task of enhancing their efficiency in resolving technical
issues with HP’s products.
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