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
Mr. Wheatley was the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) from its establishment in April 2013. He joined the previous body, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), in 2011, to establish the new regulator. Prior to that he was CEO of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from 2005 to 2011. During his career Mr. Wheatley has overseen many important developments in financial services. He was the author of the ‘Wheatley Review’ of LIBOR and made a series of proposals for its restructuring following the LIBOR rate fixing scandal. He subsequently developed standards for the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to apply to all important finically benchmarks. He established, also for IOSCO where he was an Executive and Technical committee member, the global standard for the regulation of short selling and chaired the Task Force on short selling. Prior to his role as a regulator, Mr. Wheatley was the Deputy CEO of the London Stock Exchange and directed the development of electronic trading. He has a degree in English and Philosophy from York University and an MBA from CASS Business School. Mr. Wheatley lives in London.
Masaharu Hino
Mr. Hino is the Chairman of the Financial Instruments Mediation Assistance Center, an ADR institution for financial instrument firms in Japan, having previously served as Commissioner of the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the Superintending Prosecutor of the Nagoya High Public Prosecutors Office, among other roles. Previous roles also include serving as Chief of Asian United Nations Far Eastern Crime Prevention Training Institute since March 1984; Assistant Director General of The Minister of Justice Secretariat (In-charge, Criminal Affairs Bureau); Head of Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, Public Security Department; Chief of Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice; and Superintending Prosecutor of Sendai High Public Prosecutor’s Office. He has been registered as an Attorney at Law and a member of the Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association since February 2001. Mr. Hino serves as an outside director of several Japanese public companies including Japan Post Insurance Co. Ltd. and has served as an outside director of Fujita Corp. and as an Outside Statutory Auditor of Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Company, Limited, Seven Bank Ltd, and Toyo Kanetsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Mr. Hino lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Philip Tye
Mr. Tye is a director of HFL Advisors Limited, a company which provides independent director and strategic advisory services to hedge funds. Mr. Tye is also the Chairman of Hong Kong Chapter and Member of Global Council, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). He has served on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKEx) Listing Committee since July 2014, and currently serves as an independent director for various hedge funds and hedge fund management companies and was previously a Founding Partner and Managing Director of DragonBack Capital Limited. He is a Senior Fellow of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI) and is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. Mr. Tye is a member of the SFC (HKEC Listing) Committee and the SFC’s Public Shareholders Group. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Mr. Tye graduated from the University of Essex with a degree in biological sciences. Mr. Tye lives in Hong Kong.
Pru Bennett
Pru Bennett joined the Oasis Advisory Council in February 2019. Previously she was a Managing Director at BlackRock and Head of BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team for the Asia Pacific Region based in Hong Kong. In that role Ms. Bennett led a team responsible for engagement and proxy voting activities in relation to the companies in which BlackRock invests on behalf of clients. Ms. Bennett is an active participant in the public debate on corporate governance, stewardship, and responsible investment, and as such regularly speaks and writes on the importance of these issues for company performance and investment decisions. In 2018, Ms. Bennett received the Asia Industry Leadership Award from 100 Women in Finance. In 2013, Ms. Bennett was named as one of Australia’s top 10 Women of Influence in Corporate Governance. She is a member of the Public Shareholder Group of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore Corporate Governance Advisory Committee. Ms. Bennett is a champion of diversity and inclusion of all kinds. She is an alumna of BlackRock’s Women’s Leadership Forum. She is a member of steering groups for the Australian and Hong Kong chapters of the 30% club, a market initiative to increase the number of women on boards and in senior management, and in 2018 she co-founded the new Board Diversity investor initiative in Hong Kong designed to raise awareness around issues of board diversity in Hong Kong. Ms. Bennett has also published a number of papers on board diversity. Prior to Blackrock, Ms. Bennett was head of Corporate Governance at institutional advisor Regnan Governance and Research until 2010. From 1998 to 2009, Ms. Bennett was a director of Australian proxy advisor Corporate Governance International, which was acquired by Glass Lewis & Co in 2006 and is now known as CGI Glass Lewis. Prior to working in the area of corporate governance, Ms. Bennett was Investor Relations Manager for Qantas Airways Limited. Ms. Bennett has a BCom from the University of New South Wales and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She is based in Sydney.
COUNCIL ALUMNI
