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Robert G. Vergara
President and General Manager Government Service Insurance System
Robert G. Vergara, 50 years old, is the President and General Manager of the Government Service Insurance System. Prior to his appointment to GSIS, Mr Vergara was Managing Director and the Founding Partner of Cannizaro Limited (Hong Kong), a multi-strategy hedge fund manager organization investing in the Asian markets. From 2002 and 2006, Mr Vergara was Managing Director of Lionhart Ltd. (Hong Kong), the precursor to Cannizaro, managing the Asian portfolios of the firm's stable of hedge funds, focusing on market neutral and long-short relative value strategies. He was Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Securities (Asia) Ltd. from June to August 2001 and Principal of Morgan Stanley Asia Ltd. from 1997 to 2001 where he set up and managed its profitable Asian proprietary trading activities. Immediately before that, Mr Vergara worked at IFM Trading, a pioneering hedge fund based in the city of London that specialized in arbitrage and derivative trading strategies in global capital markets. He graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Massachusetts, USA, in 1986, with emphasis on finance and corporate strategy. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degrees in Management Engineering and Mathematics, magna cum laude, from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1982.