Fredrik Haren, Author and presenter

Fredrik Härén is an author and speaker on Business Creativity. He has delivered over 1,500 presentations, lectures and workshops in over 45 countries and has inspired hundreds of thousands of business people to become more creative and to look at the world in a new way. He is the author of nine books, including The Idea Book that was included in “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time”.                                                                                 

Cary Burch, SVP - Innovation, Thomson Reuters

Cary Burch has more than 20 years of leadership and business experience.  He currently serves as the Corporate SVP of Innovation for Thomson Reuters. Before his corporate appointment, Cary was President and Managing Director of Thomson Reuters Elite and previously served as president and CEO for private equity backed Lender Support Systems, Inc., a San Diego-based software company that served over 1600 customers in 17 countries.

Cary is a volunteer member of the board of directors for the Public Counsel Law Center, Quest for Stars, The UCSD Rady School of Executive Management and a member of the United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force.  He further serves as an outside board member/investor for the Riverside Company, a global private equity investment firm with more than $4.5 billion of capital under management.

Honored for his accomplishments as one of the top 20 Executives in the financial services industry by The Financial Services Forum in 2002/2003 and was one of three finalists nominated to receive the 2010 Technology Visionary Award sponsored by Source Media. Cary received his MBA from Pepperdine University and has also completed international executive studies at Harvard Business School and Oxford University. Cary and his family share a passion for horses.  

He and his wife Jessica are accomplished equestrian athletes. Holding a professional level handicap rating with the United States Polo Association, Cary is a five time USA National Arena Polo Champion for 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009.

Sharyn Ch’ang, Director and Global Counsel, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sharyn has had a range of interesting roles. She’s been based in Australia, Singapore and now, Hong Kong, and her clients today are located across the world. As Global Counsel for PwC, Sharyn leads the legal team that manages the PwC brand (the world’s 4th most powerful brand, Brand Finance Global 500, 2013 ranking), and oversees the legal development of some of PwC’s most entrepreneurial global projects. She was PwC’s first Asia regional counsel, and in 2012, the Asia legal team won the Euromoney Asia Women in Business Law Award for the Best Inhouse team (under 50 lawyers).

In addition to practice with major law firms where Sharyn specialized in intellectual property, she’s worked in the IT industry with IBM and Silicon Graphics, and in education for the Australian Government, as the founding National Director of IP with responsibility for Australia’s 9,600 schools. She was the National Training Manager for Australia’s first commercial online legal information business – training lawyers to efficiently maximize their online legal research capabilities (in those days that was the forefront of legal technology!) and the first female Associate to Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG - then President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, and one of Australia’s leading judicial personalities. She’s also a former member of the Australian Government’s Advisory Council on Intellectual Property which advises the Federal Minister for Industry on Australia’s IP regime.

A theme that joins the dots in Sharyn’s career is innovation – as a creator, advisor and advocate. At university she had a go at developing a computerised legal expert system. When training lawyers on information retrieval techniques she was a hands-on legal technology pioneer. In private practice, Sharyn had clients from major banks to enterprising small business, helping them to identify and protect their investment in creativity. And as inhouse counsel, Sharyn develops solutions to make innovative commercial ideas, a reality. She is passionate about “doing things better” but well appreciates the challenges of the legal profession to innovate.

Tara Joseph, Editor-in-Charge, Reuters TV Asia

A journalist with more than 20 years financial reporting experience, Tara Joseph currently leads the financial multimedia unit, Reuters TV in Asia. She serves on Reuters Asia news leadership team.

Tara has more than 10 years experience reporting and presenting for TV in Asia, including daily shows for BBC World and China’s CCTV. She has moderated numerous webcasts and panel events including shows hosted at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She was previously the editor and main presenter of Reuters Financial Television based in London.

Tara started in journalism as an emerging markets correspondent covering stories in Russia, South Africa and Turkey. She now oversees video production of video packages, and interviews with staff across Asia. Tara is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, and Smith College in the United States. She is a serving board member of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong.