OASIS ADVISORY COUNCIL
Oasis anticipates and navigates the most important legal, regulatory, and business challenges facing its business — including reputational, regulatory, strategic, compliance, and corporate governance issues – and adapts its policies, procedures, and conduct in accordance with best practices within the investment industry.
The Oasis Advisory Council comprises a diverse group of industry experts who consider these issues in order to provide Oasis with advice and counsel regarding Oasis’s activities related to managing capital and conducting its businesses in a dynamic and multi-jurisdictional legal, regulatory, and business environment.
The Council is an invaluable resource for Oasis management to leverage as it navigates a wide array of regulatory, corporate governance, and legal regimes to effectively manage the concomitant risks.
COUNCIL MEMBERS

Martin Wheatley

Masaharu Hino

Philip Tye

Pru Bennett
COUNCIL ALUMNI

James Shipton
Mr. Shipton was appointed chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) effective February 2018. Prior to leading ASIC, Mr. Shipton was the executive director of the Program on International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School. Prior to joining Harvard, Mr. Shipton was a commission member at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) with responsibility for its Intermediaries (Supervision & Licensing) Division. Previously he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs as head of government & regulatory affairs in Asia Pacific. Prior to Goldman, Mr. Shipton ran the hedge fund consultancy business of Eurekahedge in Singapore and was a cofounder of Compliance Asia. Mr. Shipton has served on the executive committees of various financial industry bodies in Asia, including the Asian Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) as a vice-chairman, the Alternative Investment Management Association’s (AIMA) Hong Kong & China Chapter as deputy chairman and the Hong Kong Treasury Markets Association. In addition, he served on the business advisory councils of the United Nations Economics and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. Mr. Shipton earned a B.A. in Asian politics, history and economics from Melbourne University and an LLB (Honors) from Monash University. He undertook postgraduate studies in Asian law at Hong Kong University and was a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems. Mr. Shipton is qualified to practice law in Australia, Hong Kong and England.