More About Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd Corporate Philosophies
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More About Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd Corporate Philosophies
1 ! 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 Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 2 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. . Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 3 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 Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 4 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”. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 5 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 6 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 7 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 Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 8 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 9 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 10 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 11 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 12 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 13 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 14 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd 15 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. Maxgroup Rights Holdings Ltd