Board of Director
David Goldman - CEO
Mr. Goldman joined the Company in January 2021 as co-managing director. Mr. Goldman was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company on April 1, 2022. Starting in April 2016, Mr. Goldman has served as Business Editor for Asia Times, a major English-language pan-Asian news platform, with responsibility for economics and business coverage, including regular contributions to the publication as well as direction of story assignments to Asia Times correspondents and freelancers. His books include How Civilizations Die (2011), It’s Not the End of the World – It’s Just the End of You (2011), and You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-Form the World (2020). He publishes in The Wall Street Journal, Claremont Review of Books, First Things, Tablet Magazine, Law and Liberty, PJ Media and many other venues. His academic articles on financial markets have appeared in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and other professional journals. From September 2013 to February 2016, Mr. Goldman was the Managing Director and Head of Americas with Reorient Group Limited, a financial services firm listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Prior to this, he was global head of fixed income research at Bank of America from 2002 to 2005 and global head of credit strategies at Credit Suisse from 1998 to 2002. He also held senior positions at Bear Stearns and Cantor Fitzgerald. Mr. Goldman won Institutional Investor magazine’s award for General Strategy, one of the highest honors in investment research. Mr. Goldman received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Master’s Degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Jannu Binti Babjan - Independent Director
Ms. Babjan has been a Director since April 15, 2022. She is an Advocate & Solicitor practicing in Malaysia operating her own proprietary business since April 2016. From April 2021 to August 2021, Ms. Babjan was an independent director of IMTE. She has over 29 years of experience in civil litigations in a wide range of areas, including commercial disputes, employment and industrial matters, and shareholder disputes. Ms. Babjan has acted for clients in all tiers of the Malaysian Legal System from the magistrate courts right up to the Federal Court of Malaysia. Ms. Babjan graduated from the University of Malaya – LLB (Hons) Malaya.
James Kelly - Independent Director
Mr. Kelly has been a Director since August 2, 2022. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial markets. He currently serves as Managing Director of fixed-income trading at PNC Capital Markets in New York City, where has been since January 2021. Prior to his arrival at PNC, Mr. Kelly was a Senior Vice President and traded U.S. Government and Agency bonds at JVB Financial, also in New York from 2016 to 2020. Mr. Kelly’s experience includes managing fixed-income trading, underwriting new issues in the primary markets, sales coverage, and risk management. Additionally, he has provided interest rates derivatives and fixed-income sale coverage to large financial institutions while working at J.P. Morgan’s corporate and investment bank from 2004 to 2014. He has advised clients on accessing the debt capital markets and conducted meetings and roadshows for U.S. government-sponsored enterprises with global investors. Prior to working at J.P. Morgan, he was manager of the Capital Markets division of the Federal Home Loan Bank System in Washington, DC, the largest issuer of debt securities after the U.S. Treasury, from 1999 to 2004. In addition to overseeing day-to-day debt market operations on behalf of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, he was project manager for the development of an online issuance platform that transformed the way debt securities are issued. Mr. Kelly was also responsible for maintaining relations with the Federal Home Loan Bank System’s large network of global investment banks. James has also provided advice and consultation as a subject matter expert for the capital markets, derivatives, and financial regulations.