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Carmen Lee
Head of Equity Research, OCBC Group Research
Carmen Lee is an equity strategist and analyst with research experience across leading global and regional institutions, including UBS, Standard Chartered and OCBC. She has covered a broad spectrum of Asian and Singapore sectors, from Technology to Financials, providing deep market insights and actionable strategies to institutional and private clients.
During her 25 years with OCBC Group, she has headed the bank’s equity research team in five key business units, starting with Global Investment Banking followed by Group Consumer Financial Services, Group Finance, Bank of Singapore, and most recently, Global Markets. In her latest role as Head of Equity Research at Global Markets, she aspires to strengthen the group’s equity franchise through strategic research and market insights.

Phil Mackintosh
Chief Economist, Nasdaq
Phil is the Chief Economist and a Senior Vice President at Nasdaq. Currently, he manages Nasdaq’s microeconomic research. He joined Nasdaq in 2018, bringing over 30 years of financial, operational and trading experience.

Gene Lai
Assistant Vice President, OCBC Group Research
Gene is a technology equity research analyst with experience across both equity research and investment banking. He was most recently at OCBC Corporate Finance, where he advised on equity capital markets (ECM) and M&A transactions, primarily within the technology sector, spanning both software and hardware companies. Prior to that, Gene was an equity research analyst at Maybank, covering the technology hardware, internet and healthcare sectors.
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