Australian Business Forum

Prior to joining Riverstone Advisory in May 2010, Kevin served as Group Executive and General Counsel for Sino Gold Mining Limited, an Australian listed company and the most successful resources industry investor in China, until the take-over of Sino Gold by Canadian listed Eldorado Gold. Kevin has over 25 years of management and legal experience in the Asia Pacific region and has been based in Sydney since 1996. He was one of a small group of international lawyers to work in Beijing in the early 1980’s.
Kevin was an international law firm partner for 18 years, in which capacity he had postings in Beijing, San Francisco, Taipei and Sydney. He handled investment projects throughout China and in almost all of Australia’s major Asian trading partners.
Kevin is the Deputy Chairman of the Australian government’s eight-member Australia-China Council and serves on the Audit Committee of the Council. He is the Immediate-Past Chairman of the Australia China Business Council, having served on the Board of Directors of the ACBC since 1999. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the China Studies Centre of Sydney University. Kevin is a member of the Global Council of the Asia Society and taught at the Law School of Beijing University from 1983-87.
Kevin is the Managing Director of the Foundation for Australian Studies in China, a non-profit foundation created to support the BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Beijing University and to support the 31 Australian Studies centres located at Chinese universities and institutes throughout China.
Kevin has Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the United States and a Diploma in Chinese Law. He is a member of the California and Texas Bar Associations and the Law Society of New South Wales.

Andrew Skinner is the Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance in Australia for HSBC.
In Australia, Andrew is responsible for trade customer service and product development as well as the sales aspects of the HSBC Group’s trade operations in Australia. Andrew specialises in structured trade finance such as limited recourse discounting structures and integrated trade, working capital, treasury and corporate financing packages for large private companies, public companies and multinationals.
With a banking career of over 20 years, Andrew joined the HSBC Group in July 2002 as a corporate relationship manager. Prior to joining HSBC, Andrew held various management positions in Corporate Banking with various banks such as Westpac Banking Corporation, St George Bank and State Street Bank and Trust Co in Sydney.

Joy is an Intellectual Property Litigation Lawyer and a Registered Trade Marks Attorney. She has extensive experience in conducting litigation and resolving disputes concerning trade marks, copyright, designs, patents, product get-up, trade dress, unjustified threats and misuse of confidential information.
Joy has long experience working closely with in-house designers, product developers and marketing departments of fashion, food and FMCG businesses from the original conception of an idea through to creation, packaging and labelling, advertising, promotion and merchandising.

Marcus Moufarrige is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Servcorp Limited, an ASX listed company that operates in 22 countries, 51 cities and 130 locations.
Previously as Chief Information Officer, Marcus was responsible for building Servcorp’s global technology platform starting with a single sign-on software as a service delivery platform (2000), a global interconnected VOIP platform across 24 countries (2002), a cloud style information system (2004), a Smart Building auto provisioning and telecommunications system (2008), and a commercialised cloud telecommunications services (2010).
Marcus has spoken publicly at many events on issues ranging from commercialisation of voice over Internet, the evolution of flexible workspace, and the future of cloud services. He has spoken on behalf of Cisco Systems, Servcorp and is currently a member on the National Standing Committee for Cloud Computing.