Chief Executive

Hugh Simon


Hugh Simon, Chief Executive Officer, established Hamon Investment Group in 1989. Hugh has been responsible for building Hamon's institutional client base with leading groups such as Mellon Bank and HSBC. Hugh has developed one of the top performing relative as well as absolute return funds, and built up an experienced team of fund management professionals to manage these assets.

In 1998, The Bank of New York Mellon became a strategic institutional partner to help increase the US client base of the group. Over the last few years, Hugh has focused Hamon's fund management efforts on increasing its specialization in areas of hedge fund management and technology.

Formerly the Managing Director and President, respectively of Lazard's Hong Kong and Japan offices and a director of Lazard Investors in London, Hugh was responsible for establishing Lazard's offices in the Far East and was in charge of overall investment and marketing for the Asian region. Before joining Lazards in 1984, he worked for Schroders in London, Australia and Hong Kong for five years. He has over 20 years of experience in Asian regional investments.

Email: hasimon@hamon.com.hk




Director

Alfredo Lobo


 

Alfredo Lobo is a director of Hamon Investment Group Pte Ltd and of its principal operating subsidiaries. Until February 2000, Alfredo was responsible for Hamon's private equity investment and business development activities. Subsequently, Alfredo co-founded a boutique Asian investment banking firm, Latitude Capital Group, in which Hamon was a strategic shareholder. Latitude was sold to Cowen Group Inc. in 2008 and renamed Cowen Latitude Asia. Mr Lobo is currently a partner of Puji Investments Limited, a private equity and real estate fund management company focused on Greater China.

Before joining Hamon, Alfredo was part of the Investment Banking Group within JP Morgan, based in Hong Kong and later New York. Alfredo graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and has over 20 years of Asian investment experience. He was born in Hong Kong where he currently resides.




Chief Financial Officer

Edmond Wong


 

Edmond Wong is the Chief Financial Officer of Hamon Investment Group and is responsible for the Group's finance and accounting, fund administration, operational risk management, and company secretarial and regulatory compliance.

Edmond has over 12 years of experience in finance and risk control in the financial services industry and has worked for Chase Manhattan Bank (HK) and Indosuez W. I. Carr Securities (HK). In 1997, he joined Dresdner Bank AG Hong Kong Branch as the Head of Accounting and was subsequently appointed as the Head of Finance overseeing the Dresdner group's asset management business, investment banking and corporate banking in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Hamon, he run a high-technology venture with veteran partners and served as the Chief Financial Officer supervising the back office operations.

Edmond graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor Degree of Business Administration and obtained his MBA from Warwick Business School of United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FCPA), a Fellow of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), a Member of Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (ACS) and a Member of Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ACIS).

Email: edmondwong@hamon.com.hk