Cover the European FMCG sector, with particular focus on beverages and tobacco.

Led cross-sector team of 11 analysts and associates covering A-shares and H-shares in the Greater China markets. Mentored the analysts and provided research and career coaching. Continued to cover full list of pan-European FMCG companies.Lead analyst on pre-IPO research on consumer companies in China on behalf of BNP Paribas-Morningstar co-branded research.

Led and mentor team of cross-sector analysts in Japan. Continued to cover full list of pan-European FMCG companies.

Publishing analyst covering FMCG / staples. Coverage spanned large cap and mid cap across food, beverages, tobacco and home and personal care.Correctly called the top of the tobacco group valuation by anticipating slowdown of heated tobacco adoption using Bass model forecasting. Early call on the erosion of competitive advantages among large-cap consumer products manufacturers. Price-driven sector growth has subsequently slowed.Collaborated with cross-regional consumer analysts to redefine the economic moat framework for consumer staples categories.

Buy side analyst covering retail and consumer staples for large-cap core and mid-cap growth funds. Created infrastructure for covering the consumer staples and discretionary sectors using empirical data. Carried out top-down macro, industry, and fundamental bottoms-up analysis of companies. Produced financial models and made investment recommendations to portfolio managers.In retail, generated 8.3 percentage points of positive alpha over the S&P consumer discretionary index in 2012. Top picks were MOV (69.1pp positive alpha), LULU (29.6pp), FRAN (28.2pp) and FIVE (23.0pp).In staples, generated 4.7 percentage points of positive alpha over the S&P staples index in 2012. Top picks were SAM (33.4pp positive alpha), MKC (17.2pp), PM (9.7pp) and KMB (7.6pp).

Associate Director of Equity Research in the FMCG/staples sector, spanning the packaged food, beverages, tobacco, household and personal care, and food retailer industries.

Made early bullish calls on Boston Beer (SAM), due to the long-term, secular premiumization trend in the US alcoholic beverage market that had not been fully priced into the market value of the stock, and Lorillard due to the below-industry volume decline rate of its core brand and low probability of a menthol ban. Preferred PepsiCo over Coca-Cola for several years due to the underappreciated snacks business.Mean annualized outperformance of buy calls versus S&P 500 was +24.4% between 2008 and 2010; median outperformance was +7.4%.

Equity research analyst covering consumer staples and discretionary, including Philip Morris, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Harley-Davidson. Media appearances include BusinessWeek, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Equity analyst in long/short hedge fund, focused on small and micro cap US equities. Analyzed a broad range of companies and industries, particularly the alternative energy sector.

Market risk analyst for Treasury Middle Office. Built and maintained risk models to monitor fixed income, foreign exchange and cash positions of the offshore bank within the Basel II framework, and communicated data to the bank's ALCO. Responsible for value-at-risk, liquidity and stress test analysis, as well as marking to market the loan book. Improved risk management processes by creating stress tests using historical and mechanical scenarios. Strengthened capitalization and alleviated credit risk by identifying assets to be securitized.

Management trainee in Investment department. Responsible for valuing funds, funding foreign exchange requirements and covering asset / liability mismatches.