The HPL Annual Investor Conference, hosted by Mark Holowesko is a powerhouse event, with many of the speakers returning later as guests. Business, Academia and Military Leaders are key witnesses to events in history and provide unique insights from experience that other investors can learn from.
Leaders from around the world are eager to be a part of this conference, and share in the tremendous learning and growth that comes out of each one.
ANNUAL INVESTOR CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
2023:
Mr. Matthew Pottinger, Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch (Ret.), Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
Mr. Russell Napier, Independent Investment Strategist & Author
Mr. Chris Miller, Author of Financial Times’ Business Book of the Year 2022, Chip War, Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Director, Greenmantle
2021*:
Mr. Russell Napier, Author of The Solid Ground investment report, Chairman, Mid Wynd International Investment Trust Plc.
2020:
Mr. Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Senior Faculty Fellow, BelferCenter for Science, and Int’l Affairs, Harvard University
Mr. Ronen Bergman, Investigative journalist, historian, lawyer and author, Staff writer with The New York Times, and Senior correspondent with Yedioth Ahronoth
Mr. Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
2019:
Mr. Jonathan Taplin, Director Emeritus, University of Southern California
XigingGao, Yu-Tong Cheng Chair Professor, Tsinghua University of Law
Mr. Russell Napier, Consultant Investment Strategist
Hon. David Mulford, Vice Chairman Credit Suisse Intl,
Former U.S. Ambassador to India Ms. Karen Elliott House, Sr Fellow BelferCtr Science and International Affairs
2018:
Dr. Lawrence B. Lindsey,President & CEO, The Lindsey Group
Prof Nathan S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Prof of Chemistry, California Inst of Tech
Prof Michael Pettis, Finance Prof, Guanghua School of Management Peking University
2017:
Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State
Ms. Karen Elliott House, Former Publisher WSJ & Former Sr. VP Dow Jones & Co
Mr. Ken Sena, Sr. Managing Director, Evercore Partners
2016:
Hon. Kevin M. Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
Ms. Emma Sky, Director Yale World Fellows & Senior Fellow Jackson Institute, former Advisor to Commanding General of US Forces Iraq
Mr. James Sweeney, Managing Director of Credit Suisse
Mr. Paul Greenberg, Author
2015:
The Rt. Hon. Lord Patten of Barnes CH, Former Governor of Hong Kong
Mr. Vladimir Pozner, Award-Winning Journalist & Author
Mr. Jesper Koll, Managing Director of Research, J.P. Morgan Japan
Members of Investment Advisory Group of Holowesko Partners Ltd.
2014:
Dr. Andrew P. McAfee, Principal, MIT Sloan School of Management
Dr. Robert D. Ballard, Professor & Director, Center for Ocean Exploration and Archaeological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
Mr. Jason DeSena Trennert, Managing Partner, Strategas Research
Mr. William Anderson, Jr., Partner, Goldman Sachs M&A Group
2013:
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State
Dr. Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Dr. Megan L. O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of Intl Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Dr. Andy Xie, Director, Rosetta Stone Advisors
Mr. James Aitken, Founding Partner, Aitken Advisors LLP
The names listed on this slide do not represent an endorsement by these individuals to invest in the Funds described in the presentation. *Held virtually due to Covid-19.
2012:
Mr. Alan Simpson, Former Co-Chair, US National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010)
Dr. Robert M. Gates, 22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense
Mr. David Scott, Founder & Chief Strategist, Cha-Am Advisors
Mr. Michael Goldstein, Managing Partner, Empirical Research
2011:
Dr. Donald Kohn, Vice Chairman of The Federal Reserve System (2006-2010)
General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.), Former Commander of U.S. & Intl Forces in Afghanistan Hon. Nicholas F. Brady, Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. David Mulford, Vice Chairman Credit Suisse Intl,
Former U.S. Ambassador to India Mr. Russell Napier, Consultant Investment Strategist Mr. Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor of Charlie Rose
2010:
Mr. Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State, Founder, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Mr. Duncan L. Niederauer, Chief Executive Officer, NYSE Euronext
Dr. Edward I. Altman, Max L. Heine Prof of Finance, Stern School of Business, NYU
Dr. George Friedman, Founder & Chairman, Stratfor
Mr. Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor ofCharlie Rose
2009:
General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.), 65thSecretary of State
Sir John Bond, Chairman, Vodafone Group Plc
Mr. Joseph Rosenberg, CIO, Loews Corporation
Mr. Richard Ramsden, Head of Financial Services Investment Research, Goldman Sachs
2008:
General Peter Pace, Former Chairman, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mr. James Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
Mr. Marc Faber, Gloom, Boom & Doom Report
Mr. Tim Ryan, President & CEO of Securities Industry & Financial Markets Assoc (SIFMA)
2007:
President George H. W. Bush, 41st President of United States
Mr. KirilSokoloff, 13-D Research
Mr. Richard Bove, Punk, Ziegel& Co.
Mr. Claes Dahlback, Chairman StoraEnso Oyj
2006:
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State
Dr. Bernard Duroc-Danner, Chairman, President & CEO Weatherford International
Mr. James McGregor, Author & Journalist
Mr. Amir Taheri, Author & Journalist
2005:
Dr. Glen Hubbard, Former Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisors
Mr. Morris Goldstein, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics Prof.
Dr. Norbert Walter, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank
Prof. F. Warren McFarlan, Professor, Harvard Business School
2004:
Mr. Stephen Roach, Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley
Dr. George Friedman, Founder & Chairman, Stratfor
Mr. Fred Hickey, Editor, High Tech Strategist
Mr. David Scott, Asia Strategist, Deutsche Bank
2003:
Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former National Security Advisor to President Carter
Mr. James Grant, Founder & Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
Mr. Robert M. Teeter, Former National Chairman 1992 Bush Campaign
Mr. John Hess, Chairman & CEO, Hess Corporation
2002:
Mr. Paul A. Volcker, Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve System
Mr. Russell Napier, Equity Strategist, CLSA
Mr. Mitchell L. Lieberman, Head of Prime Brokerage, Goldman Sachs
