2024 Conference Keynote Speakers
John Coleman
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John Coleman is the Co-CEO of Sovereign’s Capital. Previously, John held a variety of leadership positions at Invesco, Ltd., including Head of Invesco Private Capital Partners, COO of Private Markets, CAO of Global Institutional Client, and global Head of Strategy and Business Planning.
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Other past professional experience includes positions in energy arbitrage, consulting, asset management, and housing and community development with McKinsey & Company, Bridgewater Associates, and the Housing Partnership Network. He has a passion for education and has served on a number of boards related to both K-12 and higher education.
John is a frequent writer and public speaker, with a recurring series of articles at Harvard Business Review, and has previously published four books. John is a summa cum laude
graduate of Berry College, a graduate with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School where he was a Dean’s Award winner and Class Day Speaker, and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School where he was both a Zuckerman and a George Fellow. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Jackie, and their four children.
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John Coleman holds the Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses and is registered with Paralel Distributors LLC.
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Gracia Ugut
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Gracia Ugut, Ph.D has extensive experience in managing Higher Education institutions and international partnerships, with a strong academic background as a Full Professor of Finance and as business developer in academic settings. From 2001-2013, she was the Dean-Executive Education at the Asian Institute of Management, the oldest business school in Asia, set up by Harvard Business School in Manila, in 1968. During her stint at the Institute, she had an opportunity to do a series of research on corporate governance in ASEAN banks, sponsored by CV Starr and AIG, and research on the development of local debt/ bond market in ASEAN and presented her paper on ASEAN Regional Currency Arrangement in the ASEAN Forums in the region as a response to the Asian Financial Crisis.
Before joining the institute, she had been working as a banker in in Europe and Southeast Asia. She is also a certified trainer from Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP-World Bank) for microfinance in Asia. She was serving as a Senior Advisor to the Board
of CARD MRI, the largest Microfinance Institution in the Philippines, from 2005-2012 and Head of Panel of Jury of Arabia CSR Forum Award in Dubai, UAE, from 2008-2016.
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​Since returning to Jakarta in 2014, she has been the Dean of Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) Business School and Executive Dean for College of Business and Technology. She served as Council Member of Global Education Council at the World Economic Forum (WEF) between 2015-2017 and Chairperson of Permanent Committee for Vocational Education at Indonesia Chamber of Commerce (KADIN Pusat) from 2015-2020. Trained as a financial economist, her research interest is in capital markets, derivatives and fixed income market and strategies. She also continuously explores the ideas at the intersection between modern finance, capital market and sustainability/ ESG issues.
Gracia Ugut earned her Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Vienna University of Economics (Austria) in 1995. She is married with two adult children.