HALE GLOBAL ECONOMICS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founding Chairman
• Economist

David Hale is a Chicago-based global economist whose clients include asset management companies in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is the founding chairman of David Hale Global Economics. He formerly worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services and Zurich Financial Services. He advised the groups on both the economic outlook and a wide range of public policy issues until 2002, when he founded his own consultancy.

Job Titles:

• Analyst
• Consultant
• Australian Analyst and Writer

Mark Roeder is an Australian analyst and writer who focuses on the powerful technological undercurrents that are reshaping the modern world. He examines how these forces affect economics, society, and culture. Roeder's books and articles include "The Big Mo: Why Momentum Rules Our World" and" Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth". Roeder has worked as a senior executive at UBS Bank, Zurich Financial Services and Westpac Bank in London, New York, Sydney and Zurich. Roeder holds a masters degree in business and technology from the University of New South Wales.

Job Titles:

• Director of Research
• Director of Research for David

Mark Zoff is director of research for David Hale Global Economics. His research specialties include econometric forecasting, growth accounting analysis, and exchange rate structures. He has written about topics as varied as the outlook for global infrastructure, US consumption and wage trends, Asian growth dynamics, and the European Monetary Union. He has contributed to the expansion of the firm's bespoke research practice, and has worked at the firm for the past seven years. He is a 2006 graduate of Northwestern University. He also received his MS degree from the University of Minnesota in Applied Economics in 2014.

Job Titles:

• Director of Marketing & Client Services

Ms. Zhan is primarily responsible for marketing and client services at David Hale Global Economics. She also manages consulting and business development projects that are related to China. She has over twenty years of experience working with multinational companies with business interests in China. In the early 1990s, Ms. Zhan worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan in Guangzhou, China, responsible for conducting marketing research projects in Southern China in order to provide investment advice to its corporate headquarters. Ms. Zhan came to the U.S. in 1995 to pursue graduate studies, and joined Thrace Investments.