His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC
Designated Mercantile Judge,
Birmingham Civil Justice Centre, UK

His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC is a Designated Mercantile Judge assigned to the Birmingham Civil Justice Centre. The BCJC is a sophisticated and efficient place by virtue equally of its facilities and its people.

Seamus E. Byrne
Solicitor and Barrister, Australia

Seamus E. Byrne delivers expert Asia-Pacific advisory services that enable organisations to successfully manage their information compliance obligations and resolve disputes in relation to the discovery of electronic evidence. With diligence, Seamus independently assists legal counsel and their clients, government agencies, corporate bodies and the judiciary. Seamus is an author of the LexisNexis Australia Federal Civil Litigation Precedents and was recently appointed as an Information Hero by HP, the world’s largest technology company.

Gary Clarke
Detective Senior Inspector, Technology Crime Division,
Hong Kong Police Force

Gary Clarke has 19 years service with the Hong Kong Police Force. He currently oversees a team of computer examiners that provide forensic support to the whole force in all manner of criminal investigations involving digital evidence. His responsibilities include supervising the forensic workflow process and ensuring that digital evidence is acquired and examined in accordance with established best practice and legal requirements.

Roger Clay
Associate Director,
Ernst & Young

Roger is an Associate Director with Ernst & Young and leads their Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team in the ASEAN area.

He has been involved in the field of forensic technology for over 10 years with experience in electronic discovery, computer forensics and electronic investigations. Prior to joining the Singapore practice, Roger worked with the Ernst & Young Australia where he led the Oceania forensic technology team.

Roger has performed forensic engagements on behalf of Ernst & Young for a number of major clients including large corporations, educational institutions and government departments. This includes assignments on behalf of a number of key national and international clients. Roger has coordinated forensic services throughout Australia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, United Kingdom, Korea and Japan. Roger has written a number of articles on computer forensics and recently co-authored an Electronic Discovery Primer which was published in the Singapore Law Gazette, March 2009.

He is a Certified Encase Examiner, Certified Computer Examiner and Certified Attenex Patterns Trainer.

Roger holds a Master of eForensics & Enterprise Security, Graduate Certificate in eCrime Investigation and a Bachelor of Management Information Systems. He is currently completing a Master of Business Administration.

Dr. K.P. Chow
Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science,
The University of Hong Kong

Dr. K. P. Chow is the Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science and the Associate Director of the Center for Information Security and Cryptography at The University of Hong Kong.  Dr. Chow’s areas of research interest are computer forensics and computer security.  He was the chief designer of the computer forensic tool Digital Evidence Search Kit (DESK).  Dr. Chow has been working on the Internet piracy monitoring system Lineament, which is adopted by HKSAR Customs and Excise Department in 2007.  He has also published research papers on computer forensics and computer security in local and international conferences and journals.  Dr. Chow has been a member of the Program Committee of the international computer forensic workshop SADFE.  He is the conference chairman of the Sixth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics to be held in 2010 in Hong Kong.  From 2008, Dr. Chow is the Vice Chairman of the Information Security and Forensics Society (ISFS).  Dr. Chow is also a committee member of the IT Division, Hong Kong Institutions of Engineers, and a council member of the Hong Kong Forensics Science Society.   In the past few years, Dr. Chow has been invited to be a computer forensic expert to assist the Court and the HK law enforcement agencies, and to give advice to counsels on understanding and interpreting digital evidence for both criminal and civil proceedings in Hong Kong.

Torsten Duwenhorst
Associate Director,
Ernst & Young Advisory Services Ltd.

Torsten Duwenhorst is an Associate Director in Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services. He leads the Forensic Technology & Discovery Services group in the Far East Area, covering 17 countries.

He has worked in the fraud mitigation industry in Greater China for the last ten years and was previously based in Beijing and Shanghai.

Torsten has extensive computer forensic incident response experience, executed under discreet and overt circumstances, in Africa, India and the Asia Pacific region, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Australia.

Torsten provides computer forensic, e-discovery and forensic data analytics services to Fortune 500 clients with a focus on investigation and litigation support.

Additionally, Torsten works with multinational law firms, advising and providing them with electronic discovery solutions for regional and global projects.

Torsten’s technological skills include an array of computer forensic tools including EnCase amongst others. He is a certified Attenex Patterns Trainer.

Torsten is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 6: International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure and a member of the HTCIA (High Tech Crime Investigation Association) Asia chapter.

Menachem Hasofer
Partner and Member of the Electronic Discovery and Records Management Practice,
JSM (in association with Mayer Brown LLP)

Mr. Hasofer’s main practices focus on litigation, arbitration and mediation, with an emphasis on disputes arising from building construction, engineering and infrastructure projects; experienced in handling document-intensive cases.

Besides advising companies on records retention and management, including storage and retrieval of electronically stored information and e-discovery, Menachem also advise clients on construction insurance claims and contractor insolvency as well as represents applicants in real estate related judicial review.

Menachem has represented land owners and NGOs in judicial review proceedings concerning town planning and land lease decisions, involved in the legal proceedings arising from non conforming foundations at Tin Shui Wai for Hong Kong Housing Authority as well as the ancillary proceedings in Hong Kong and Germany concerning insolvency and global liability insurance. He also acted for the Hong Kong Government in arbitration with joint venture of European/Asian contractors involving questions of Mainland PRC law and for a German drilling contractor in disputes arising from horizontal directional drilling works.

Mr. Hasofer is also a guest lecturer for the Department of Civil Engineering of University of Hong Kong.

Micky Lo
Managing Director, Head of Asia Information & Technology Risk Management,
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.

Micky’s current responsibilities include management of the Information, Technology and Business Resilience risk. A core component of his responsibility is the monitoring of the firm’s Information & Technology security exposure in the region – including provision of security/recovery technology solutions to business and governance of business units’ IT Control Self Assessment (CSA) deliverables. He has global responsibility of JPMorgan’s IT Control Policies & Standards. He is the global owner of the automation of the firm-wide IT control assessment practice.

Browning Merean
Partner and Co-chair of the Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group,
DLA Piper US LLP, USA

Browning E. Marean is Snior Counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego office, and is one of the worldwide leaders of the firm's e-discovery task force.  He advises firm clients about best practices for the preservation of electronic data to avoid litigation risks and to meet the other challenges of e-discovery in a cost effective manner.  He is co-chair of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. 

 Mr. Marean also specializes in complex business litigation, technology matters, knowledge management and professional responsibility.  He is a frequent and an internationally known teacher and lecturer on various topics including electronic discovery, computer technology, matter management, knowledge management, risk and decision analysis and legal ethics issues.

Mr. Marean joined the firm (then Gray Cary Ames & Frye) in 1969.  He is a member of DLA Piper’s Technology Committee, as well as a member of the Sedona Conference.  He also is on the San Diego County Bar Association Ethics Committee and an emeritus member of the California State Bar Law Practice Management Committee, a member of the ABA Tech Show Board, and the EDRM group.

Mr. Marean is Co-author of “Electronic Discovery and Records Management Guide, Rules, Checklists and Forms” 2009 Edition published by Thomson West, and “Conducting Discovery in an Electronic World: Electronic Data and Discovery” published in California Civil Discovery Practice.

Mr. Marean received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and his undergraduate degree from Stanford University.  He is admitted to practice in California and Texas.

Scott Nonaka
Partner,
O'Melveny & Myers, Japan

Scott Nonaka is a partner in the Litigation Department of O'Melveny & Myers LLP and leads the international dispute resolution practice in O'Melveny's Tokyo office.  He is also a member of O'Melveny's Electronic Discovery Group.  Mr. Nonaka litigates and arbitrates a broad range of complex international commercial disputes and regularly represents clients in internal corporate investigations and in connection with Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice investigations.  Before joining O'Melveny, Mr. Nonaka served as an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of California.

Mr. Nonaka is admitted to practice in New York and California, and he is a registered foreign lawyer in Japan.  Mr. Nonaka is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School.

Anthony Poon
Partner,
Baker & McKenzie

Anthony Poon is a partner of Baker & McKenzie. Anthony’s practice focuses on general commercial litigation, including tax and insurance litigation, corporate governance and directors’ liabilities, shareholder disputes, insolvency, media liability and defamation, regulatory and enforcement aspects under the Securities and Futures Ordinance of Hong Kong and Corporate Compliance issues. He is a frequent speaker in seminars and talks to clients on directors & officers liability, media liability, insolvency, insider dealing, fraud prevention, corporate compliance such as anti bribery and corruption investigation and banking fraud issues.

Diana Purdy- Tsang
Special Counsel,
Baker & McKenzie

Diana Purdy-Tsang is a Special Counsel* of Baker & McKenzie. Diana specialises in commercial dispute resolution matters in Hong Kong, focusing primarily on litigation, advice, investigations and conciliation in the areas of employment, discrimination, data privacy and employee fraud/corruption. She is a member of Baker & McKenzie's Global Privacy Team and the Hong Kong office's Privacy and Data Protection Group. She is a regular speaker and publisher of articles on topics relating to her areas of practice.

David C. Shonka
Principal Deputy General Counsel,
Federal Trade Commission USA

David C. Shonka is the Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission and he heads the FTC’s E-Discovery Steering Committee.  Until recently he has served as the agency’s Acting General Counsel.  Before becoming the Principal Deputy, he served as the Assistant General Counsel for Litigation at the FTC from 1993.  Before joining the FTC, Mr. Shonka was an associate in a Washington D.C. law firm and a litigator in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.  In his career at the FTC, Mr. Shonka has tried and argued competition and consumer protection cases in the federal district courts; tried cases in administrative proceedings, represented the Commission in numerous appellate cases; and contributed to the government’s briefs in several Supreme Court cases.  He has spoken at numerous E-Discovery conferences, and has been an instructor in deposition, trial, and motion practice courses.  Besides having been an active litigator, Mr. Shonka has advised the Commission on the entire range of legal and policy issues that have come before the Commission; and he has represented the Commission in several international programs.

Dr. Yun Zhao
Representative,
Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC)

Dr. Yun ZHAO studied at China University of Political Science and law in Beijing (LL.M. in 1998 and LL.B. in 1995), Leiden University, the Netherlands (LL.M. in 1999) and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Ph.D. in 2003). He is Associate Professor at the Department of Law of The University of Hong Kong. He is Guest Professor of Yunnan University in China, Arbitrator of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center and Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, Arbitrator of Lehman-Brothers-related Investment Products Dispute Mediation and Arbitration Scheme, Panelist of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center and of the Online Dispute Resolution Center of the CIETAC in Beijing. He is also founding Council Member of Hong Kong Internet Forum (HKIF), elected Member of International Institute of Space Law at Paris, Member of Asia Pacific Law Association and Beijing International Law Society, Vice President of the CUPL Hong Kong Alumni Association, Judge of Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, researcher at GLODIS Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World. He is winner of Prof.Dr. I.H.Ph. Diederiks-Verschoor Award 2006 by International Institute of Space Law in France, the first winner of Isa Diederiks-Verschoor Prize in the Netherlands and also first winner of SATA Prize by the Foundation of Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). He has more than 80 publications on various topics including particularly Dispute Resolution, Space Law, E-Commerce Law, International Economic Law. His recent publication include Dispute Resolution in Electronic Commerce (Martinus Nijhoff, 2005), Liberalization of Electronic Commerce and Law (Peking University Press, 2005), Space Commercialization and the Development of Space Law (Intellectual Property Press, 2008).

Rongsheng Xu
Chairman, China Computer Forensics Research Center Chief Scientist, Network Security Lab of Institute of High Energy Physics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Xu is the Chairman of China Computer Forensics Research Center. He has intensive experience and knowledge in dealing with cyber security and digital forensics fields. He currently also advises the ministries and commissions under the PRC government on issues related to information security.

Professor Xu received his PhD from the University of California Santa Cruz in the USA.

Damien Adams
Executive Director,
EPIQ SYSTEMS

Damien has 15 years of experience in litigation project management, technology, bureau service and e-Discovery consulting in support of a range of complex litigation, arbitration, regulatory investigations and due diligence projects in Australia, Asia and internationally.

He has designed and implemented information and evidence based solutions to support many major projects for law firms, courts and corporations in numerous jurisdictions throughout in Australia and Asia.

Having spent the past 7 years working in Asia, he is considered a pioneer in the development and provision of litigation support solutions in Asia, and is widely acknowledged as one of few people who can provide localised and pragmatic advice to law firms and litigation support professionals in the Asia pacific region.

Damien is also a regular speaker at seminars and conferences in Asia, and is actively supporting continuing legal education programs based on his experience gained through working with legal practitioners and digital forensic professionals in support of litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters.

Damien is currently employed by Epiq Systems in Hong Kong as an Executive Director in the International Electronic Discovery Solutions division.

Prior to relocating to Hong Kong with Epiq Systems, Damien managed operations for CCH Workflow Solutions in Asia, based out of Singapore.

Before re-locating to Asia, Damien worked for a top tier law firm in Australia before joining Australia’s leading litigation support solutions division of Diskcovery Information Management Solutions where he provided consulting services to many of the top tier firms in Australia.

Damien holds a Master of Business in Information Innovation, Graduate Diploma in Document Management having previously studied information technology, information management and legal practice with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Richard Kershaw
Principal,
LECG HONG KONG LIMITED

Richard is a principal in LECG’s legal technology and analytic consulting practice, based in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience managing large-scale investigations in multiple jurisdictions. Recent engagements have included managing collection of digital data in six jurisdictions relating to a fraud investigation, planning and conducting the collection of nearly 10TB of data in line with the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for a securities-related litigation, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations in Japan and Indonesia.

Prior to joining LECG, Richard was head of forensic technology for a security and investigations consultancy, with responsibility for the Asia region. He also served as country manager for Japan for the same firm, overseeing all fraud investigations, reputation and compliance due diligence reporting, and civil litigation investigations, in addition to managing computer forensics engagements. Projects included investigation of collusion among vendors to defraud a high tech company in recycling and disposal, travel expense fraud investigation, fraudulent reporting of medical equipment testing, and the dismissal with cause of the Japan representative of a US apparel company’s Japan subsidiary.

He has spoken on computer forensics issues at organizations ranging from the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), International Bankers Association, Information Systems Security Association, and the Asia Pacific Information Security Summit, and is a lecturer for a UK university MSc course in computer forensics delivered in Hong Kong. He has also written for the Asian Counsel law journal on conducting forensic collections in Asia.

Richard holds undergraduate and masters degrees in history from the University of Oxford and gained a First on the University of London postgraduate Japanese diploma course. He is currently first vice president of the HTCIA Asia Pacific chapter. Mr. Kershaw speaks English and Japanese.