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Peter R. Ryder

Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Indochina Capital Vietnam Holdings
Hanoi

Residing and investing in Vietnam since 1992, Peter is an expert on Vietnam’s rapidly emerging equities investment and real estate markets. Peter is a founding Managing Director of Indochina Capital, Vietnam’s leading investment firm, which is involved in the following activities:

• Managing Indochina Capital Vietnam Holdings, Vietnam’s first investment fund to be listed on a major global stock exchange (the LSE), capitalized at US$500 million focused on the equities and privatization market.
  
  
• Managing Vietnam’s first real estate fund, Indochina Land Holdings, and its successor Indochina Land Holdings 2, together capitalized at over US$300 million.
  
  
• Managing a series of separate investment accounts concentrated on the equities and privatization market for more than 20 international family offices and institutional investors.
  
  
• Owning and operating Mekong Securities, a Vietnamese investment bank and licensed broker-dealer.
  
  
• Providing market entry and capital raising services to a diverse multinational clientele.

Peter was formerly head of the Asia-Pacific real estate finance group for Salomon Brothers where he spent 9 years in Tokyo and New York (1983 to 1991). As Director of Asia-Pacific real estate (1987-1990), Peter’s group was responsible for US$3 billion of worldwide financing and brokering investments in a wide range of property types. In addition, Peter has been the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (1999-2001) and was a Board member through 2006.