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Amazed with how busy and successful the event is.

Brahmal Vasudevan

Founder/CEO, Creador

It brings together old and new friends. Very efficient way to network.

Tuck Lye Koh

Co-founder/CEO, Shunwei Capital

It’s a good mix of investors, LPs and GPs, and at the same time, business owners.

Saifulbahri Hassan

Vice President, KWAP

Our Highlights

Indonesia PE VC Summit 2022
Southeast Asia’s tech sector enters golden age with accelerated digital adoption
Indonesia PE VC Summit 2022
SE Asia’s macro trends point to a long runway for growth in tech
Asia PE VC Summit 2021
Strong capital structures, liquidity and credit access key to navigate the crisis
Asia PE VC Summit 2021
The art and science of making PE investments during crisis times

Asia PE VC Summit 2020
The road ahead for Gojek

Asia PE-VC Summit 2019
Founders’ Perspective with Traveloka & Tokopedia

Asia PE VC Summit 2019
PEs enter VC territory to capture early deals in Southeast Asia

Asia PE-VC Summit 2019
Keynote chat with Grab’s
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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

DealstreetAsia brings its readers and industry watchers closer to its editorial mission through several events across its calendar, that feature the best names from its coverage markets. 

We launched our first conference in 2016 in our HQ city, Singapore. It has been a stellar journey since then. We have now expanded to Indonesia, and have also hosted several subscriber specials and online events to great success.

In all our offerings, we keep aside time and space for your networking benefit. From closed door roundtables to evening cocktail sessions, we ensure that your time and attendance are well worth it.

Our Past Events

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PE-VC Summit 2021

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PE-VC Summit 2020

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PE-VC Summit 2020

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PE-VC Summit 2019

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PE-VC Summit 2018

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PE-VC Summit 2017

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Our Past Attendees

Recent Speakers

Andre Soelistyo

President
GOJEK

Brian Gu

Vice Chairman and President
Xpeng Motors

Cyrus Driver

Managing Director, Private Equity Asia
Partners Group

Dr. Finian Tan

Chairman
Vickers Venture Partners

Haresh Chawla

Partner
True North

Hari Krishnan

CEO
PropertyGuru Group

Jeffrey Perlman

Managing Director
Warburg Pincus LLC

Jie Gong

Partner
Pantheon

Helen Wong

Partner
Qiming Ventures

Henry Hendrawan

President
Traveloka Group Operations at Traveloka

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner
GGV Capitals

John Lim

Co-Founder & Group CEO ARA Asset Management

John Riady

CEO
PT. Lippo Karawaci

Jonathan Larsen

CIO
Ping An Group

CEO
Ping An Global Voyager Fund

Chua Kee Lock

CEO
Vertex Holdings

Kenneth Gaw

President, Managing Principal, Member of Investment Committee and Founder
Gaw Capital Partners

Kevin Aluwi

Co-founder
GOJEK

Minette B. Navarrete

Vice-Chairman & President
Kickstart Ventures, Inc.

Ming Maa

President
Grab

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Nicholas Bloy

Co-Managing Partner
Navis Capital Partners

Patrick Walujo

Co-Founder
Northstar Group

Piyush Gupta

CEO and Director
DBS Group

Ravi Thakran

Chairman & CEO
Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp

Founder
Asia 3.0

Sameer Sain

Co-founder & CEO
Everstone Group

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Steven Lam

Co-Founder and CEO
GOGOVAN

Tan Hooi Ling

Co-founder
Grab

Tuck Lye Koh

Co-founder & CEO
Shunwei Capital

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founder & CEO
Paytm Mobile Solutions Pte Ltd

Founder & CEO
One97 Communications Ltd

Weijian Shan

Chairman & CEO
PAG

Wilson Cuaca

Co-founder/Managing Partner
East Ventures

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Andre Soelistyo

Since joining Gojek in 2016, Andre has taken pivotal roles in the pursuit of the company’s mission – minimising the frictions of everyday problems through the use of technology. As the Co-CEO of Gojek, Andre puts his expertise into growing the company into Southeast Asia’s leading mobile on-demand service and payments platform, which acts as a transactional ecosystem that connects millions of customers to millions of driver-partners, merchants, and service providers daily. On Gojek day to day operations, Andre runs all business functions and manages capital allocation in the company.

Prior to joining Gojek, Andre was the Executive Director for Northstar Group – Indonesia’s largest private equity fund. He was previously the Head of Corporate Finance at one of Indonesia’s largest coal mining contractors, PT Delta Dunia Makmur Tbk.

Andre received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Technology Sydney in 2005. During his term, he was also the Head of the Indonesian Students Association in Australia, for the state of New South Wales.
GojekPresident
Gojek

Brian Gu

Brian Gu is Vice Chairman and President of Xpeng Motors, a leading electric vehicle company in China. He is responsible for Xpeng's strategy, finance, fundraising, investments and globalization efforts. Prior to joining Xpeng, Dr. Gu was a Managing Director, Chairman of Asia Pacific Investment Banking and a member of J.P. Morgan’s Global Strategic Advisory Council, and was instrumental in building J.P. Morgan’s franchise in the Asia Pacific region. Between 1998 and 2004, Dr. Gu also served as an M&A banker at Lehman Brothers in New York. Dr. Gu has advised numerous global leading companies on their strategy and landmark transactions totaling over $200 billion volume. He currently serves as a Co-Chairman of J.P. Morgan’s Asia Pacific Council. He is a member of the Greater China Advisory Committee of Yale School of Management, as well as a trustee of Yale China Association. Dr. Gu holds an MBA from Yale University, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Washington Medical School, and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Oregon.
Vice Chairman and PresidentXpeng Motors
Vice Chairman and President

Cyrus Driver

Cyrus Driver heads Partners Group's Private Equity Technology team in Asia and is based in Singapore. He is part of the investment committee for the Technology vertical as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio companies Guardian Early Learning and SirionLabs. Cyrus has been with Partners Group since 2012, has 22 years of private equity investing experience. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at J.P. Morgan Partners (Private Equity, South and Southeast Asia) and Helix Investments (India Head, Private Equity). He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Partners GroupManaging Director, Private Equity Asia
Partners Group

Dr. Finian Tan

Dr. Finian Tan founded Vickers Venture Partners in 2005 with four partners. He is currently based in Singapore.

Before starting Vickers, Finian was a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, acting also as the founding partner of its Asia Pacific Operations, he led the investment into Baidu and remained its largest backer until IPO.

Prior to DFJ, Finian was Deputy Secretary of Trade and Industry for the Singapore Government where he oversaw the creation of the billion dollar TIF fund and was subsequently appointed as chairman of the fund.

As part of his earlier career path, Finian ran Goldman Sachs Asian trading arm.

Finian received his Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Philosophy in Engineering from Cambridge University. He received his B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Glasgow.
Vickers Venture PartnersChairman
Vickers Venture Partners

Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla is currently a Partner at True North, one of India’s most experienced and respected private equity funds, with over $3.0 billion under management. At True North, he focuses on investments in the food and consumer sectors where he identifies and helps transform mid-size businesses.

Chawla is one of the most influential commentators in the Indian digital space. His work on Founding Fuel is considered the gold standard in thought leadership. He is visiting faculty at the SP Jain Institute of Management. He is best known though for his leadership in transforming the Network18 Group into a formidable media network. Under his watch as Founding CEO, Network 18 became India’s fastest growing Media and Entertainment network. His career at Network18 spanned 12 years, and he grew revenues from $3 million in 1999 to $500 million in 2012. Chawla has also been keenly engaged in the consumer internet revolution in India from the early nineties. He is credited with building India’s largest, most well-known internet businesses like Moneycontrol, Bookmyshow, Yatra, Firstpost and Homeshop18. He continues as a successful investor and mentor to several internet and consumer start-ups today.

Haresh holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Master's degree in Business Management from IIM Calcutta. He lives with his wife and two children in Mumbai. You can find him on twitter @hchawlah.

True NorthPartner
True North

Hari V Krishnan

Hari is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of PropertyGurus Board of Directors. He currently manages the firms corporate direction and strategy, focusing on leadership, innovation and consumers, and oversees the day-to-day operations of the group across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Prior to PropertyGuru, Hari was the Vice President & Managing Director for APAC & Japan at LinkedIn, where he led more than 1,000 employees across 10 offices, having joined the company as the first hire in the Asia Pacific region. He has also worked in leadership positions in companies such as Fox Interactive Media, Yahoo! and Cisco as well as startups like Travelguru.

He sits on the board for the Singapore chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), an organisation focused on fostering entrepreneurship, and is an advisor to startups BillionBricks, DataStreamX and HackerTrail. Hari has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado.

PropertyGuru GroupCEO
PropertyGuru Group

Jeffrey Perlman

Jeffrey Perlman is a Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific Real Estate and a member of the Firm’s Executive Management Group at Warburg Pincus. Mr. Perlman leads Warburg Pincus’ investments in Southeast Asia in addition to the firm’s real estate efforts across the greater Asia-Pacific region.

He currently serves as the Chairman of ESR Cayman Limited (1821.HK) and also serves on the Board of Directors for ESR Cayman Limited, ESR Fund Management (ESR REIT), ARA Asset Management Holdings, Gojek, Lodgis Hospitality Holdings, Mofang Apartments, Nova Property Investment, NWP Retail, Trax Technology Solutions, Online Pajak, Momo, Weave Co-Living Cayman Limited, Asia Self Storage and Circles Asia Cayman Limited. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2006, he worked in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse.

Mr. Perlman received a bachelor's degree in business administration (B.B.A.) from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Warburg Pincus Managing Director & Head of Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific Real Estate
Warburg Pincus

Jie Gong

Jie Gong is a Partner at Pantheon, and a member of the firm’s Asia Regional Investment Committee and the Global Co-investment Committee. Jie joined Pantheon from Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners’ private equity fund of funds group, where she was head of Asia, and before that she worked at JP Morgan in leverage finance. Jie holds a BA in Economics and International Trade from Shanghai International Studies University, an MA in Economics from the University of Miami and a Master’s degree in Finance from the London Business School. Jie is a Vice Chairman at the Hong Kong Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.
PantheonPartner
Pantheon

Helen Wong

Helen Wong is a Managing Partner at AC Ventures. She was ranked among Top 100 VCs in China and Top 25 female VCs in China by Forbes. Prior to joining AC Ventures, she was a Partner at Qiming Venture Partners, focusing on its internet and consumer sectors. Ms. Wong’s successful exits include Mobike (unicorn), LuoJiSiWei (unicorn) and Lagou. Ms. Wong led the firm’s SE Asian investment strategy and has invested in Akulaku (unicorn), and RedDoorz.

Prior to Qiming, Ms. Wong was a founding member at GGV Capital for approximately 10 years in China and Silicon Valley. At GGV, Ms. Wong was an early investor in Tudou (which went public on NASDAQ, now under Alibaba).

Ms. Wong holds degrees from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, INSEAD and Oxford University.
AC VenturesManaging Partner
AC Ventures

Henry Hendrawan

As the President, Henry currently manages various business, commercial and administrative activities at Traveloka. He also leads Traveloka’s capital raising effort and engagement with investors. Henry joined Traveloka in 2015 as Chief Financial Officer and has helped the company’s operations to grow to cover Southeast Asia and beyond with 4 major business verticals: Transport, Accommodation, Lifestyle and Financial Services.

Before Traveloka, Henry was a management consultant for 5 years at BCG where, in his last role as Principal, he led the execution of strategic projects for leading companies in Telecommunication, Airlines and FMCG industries.

Prior to moving back to Indonesia to join BCG, Henry spent almost 13 years in the United States. He worked in the Investment Banking and Private Equity industry in the United States.

Henry received his MBA and Master of Engineering (Financial Engineering option) from Cornell University. Additionally, Henry has dual Bachelor of Science degrees from Northwestern University with a third major in Economics.
Traveloka Group OperationsPresident
Traveloka Group Operations

Jenny Lee

Jenny, ranked 19th on Forbes’ 2019 Midas List of top tech investors, is among the most respected venture capital executives in China. She helped set up GGV’s first office in China in 2005 as well as its Singapore office, the firm’s first in Southeast Asia, this year. As GGV Capital sharpens its focus on Southeast Asia and India, our premium subscribers will have the opportunity to hear directly from Jenny about the opportunity and challenges in these markets and how the leading VC plans to apply global insights from its US and China presence here.
GGV CapitalManaging Partner
GGV Capital

Lim Hwee Chiang John

Mr John Lim is Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of ARA Asset Management Limited. He is a Non-Executive Director of ARA Asset Management (Fortune) Limited, ARA Trust Management (Suntec) Limited, ARA Asset Management (Prosperity) Limited and Hui Xian Asset Management Limited. Mr Lim is also the Chairman of Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Services Pte. Ltd.

Mr Lim is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (“APREA”), the Consultative Committee to the Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore, Straits Real Estate and Lim Hoon Foundation. He is a Patron of Jurong Spring Citizens’ Consultative Committee and the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (“SIAS”). He is also a Council Member of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and an Independent Director and Chairman of the remuneration committee of Singapore-listed Teckwah Industrial Corporation Limited.

Mr Lim has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate industry and has received many notable corporate awards. These include the PERE Global Awards 2016 Industry Figure of the Year: Asia, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of the Year Singapore 2012 and the Outstanding CEO of the Year 2011 at the Singapore Business Awards 2012. Mr Lim, along with the Board of Directors of ARA, is also a recipient of the prestigious Best Managed Board (Gold) Award at the Singapore Corporate Awards 2012. In 2017, he was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) by the President of Singapore in recognition of his contributions to the community.

Mr Lim holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, as well as a Diploma in Business Administration, each from the National University of Singapore.
ARA Asset ManagementCo-Founder & Group CEO
ARA Asset Management

John Riady

John Riady is CEO of PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk and President Commissioner of PT Siloam International Hospitals Tbk, respectively the largest real estate and hospitals company in Indonesia. He is also Executive Director at Lippo Group and is an active investor in the Southeast Asia technology sector, including in OVO, where he currently serves as President Commissioner.

John is a licensed attorney in the State of New York and holds degrees in Political Philosophy and Economics from Georgetown University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School. John also serves on the Columbia University International Advisory Board, the Wharton Business School Asia Executive Board, and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (YGL).
PT. Lippo KarawaciCEO
PT. Lippo Karawaci

Jonathan Larsen

Jonathan Larsen is now Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund. Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues and spanning 19 countries.

He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for the last 29 years across the Asia Pacific region and globally. He brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. He has led multiple large-scale, successful businesses across a wide range of markets and has extensive experience in negotiating and managing partnerships and M&A transactions.

Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton where he spent eight years advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe.

Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and was named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker magazine.

He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist as well as local media throughout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.
Ping An Group Chief Innovation Office
Ping An Group

Chua Kee Lock

CHUA Kee Lock is CEO of Vertex Holdings (“VH”), a Singapore-headquartered venture capital investment holding company.

Vertex Group is a global venture capital network comprising four early stage technology-focused funds (Vertex Ventures China, Vertex Ventures Israel, Vertex Ventures US, Vertex Ventures SEA & India), an early stage healthcare-focused fund (Vertex Ventures HC) and a growth stage fund (Vertex Growth). Each of these funds are managed by independent and separate General Partnerships and investment teams, with VH providing anchor funding alongside significant third-party capital commitments. Mr. Chua is concurrently Managing Partner of Vertex Ventures SEA & India as well as Chairman of Vertex Growth Fund.

Prior to this, he held senior positions in Biosensors International Group, Ltd., a developer/manufacturer of medical devices, Walden International, a US-headquartered venture capital firm, NatSteel Ltd., a Singapore industrial products company, and Intraco Ltd., a Singapore-listed trading/distribution company. Mr. Chua co-founded MediaRing, provider of voice-over-internet, which later listed on Singapore’s stock exchange.

Mr. Chua was appointed by the Singapore Government as a Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba and the Republic of Panama in 2020. He also serves on the boards of several companies, including Yongmao, a Singapore public-listed company.

Mr. Chua graduated with a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin and a M.Sc. degree from Stanford University.

VERTEX HOLDINGSCEO
VERTEX HOLDINGS

Kenneth Gaw

Kenneth co-founded Gaw Capital Partners in 2005, and has been its President and Managing Principal. Gaw Capital is a uniquely positioned private equity real estate fund management company focusing on selected markets globally. The firm has raised five commingled funds targeting the Greater China and Asia Pacific region since its inception. In addition to managing opportunistic funds in Vietnam and the US along with a Pan-Asia hospitality fund and European hospitality fund, the firm also provides services for separate account direct investments globally. It has raised equity in excess of USD$ 9.8 billion so far and currently commands assets of USD$ 18.3 billion under management.

Kenneth joined Pioneer Global Group (224: Hong Kong Exchange) since 1994 and remains to be Managing Director. Notable transactions under his direction include acquisition and repositioning of Pullman Hotel G Pattaya and Pullman Hotel G Bangkok, Thailand; AIA Tower in Macau; and Global Gateway, 68 Yee Woo Street building, Club Lusitano building, Kowloon City Plaza in Hong Kong. Additionally, Kenneth holds directorships at Dusit Thani Public Company Limited (DCT: Bangkok Exchange) and Hong Kong Thailand Business Council. Kenneth graduated with a B.Sc degree (Mangna Cum Laude) from Brown University in 1992 and began his career at Goldman Sachs.
Gaw Capital PartnersPresident and Managing Principal
Gaw Capital Partners

Kevin Aluwi

Kevin Aluwi is Co-Founder of GO-JEK, the leading on-demand multi service platform in Indonesia committed to empower informal sectors and MSMEs in Indonesia through technology. With services ranging from transportation, food delivery, groceries, massage, house cleaning to logistics, as well as e-money and customer loyalty programs, GO-JEK today has become a central part in enriching the lives of millions of consumers every day.

Since Kevin joined GO-JEK in 2014, Kevin has been holding significant roles in strategically adopting business intelligence data to track and optimize pricing, driver’s income, and customer retention strategy. His role is strengthened by his expertise of building data science within the GO-JEK ecosystem. Preceding his role in GO-JEK, Kevin spent two years at Zalora Indonesia as Head of Business Intelligence. Prior to Zalora, he was responsible as Business Development Manager at Merah Putih Inc. Earlier in his career he served as an Investment Banking Analyst at Salem Partners LLC.

His motivation of continuously creating innovations led him to be awarded “Forbes 30 under 30 Asia” for Consumer Technology category in year 2016, which features young innovators that are propelling change and disrupting industries. Kevin obtained his Bachelor of Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, and International Relations degree from University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business.
GOJEKCo-founder
GOJEK

Minette B. Navarrete

Minette is Vice-Chairman and President of Kickstart Ventures, Inc., the corporate venture capital subsidiary of Globe Telecom. She is a member of the Ayala Corporation’s Innovation Advisory Council, and of Globe’s Innovation Advisory Board. She is a Senior Vice President at Globe Telecom, focusing on New Business, and a member of the Board of Directors of AdSpark, Globe’s wholly owned digital advertising subsidiary. Minette has held a number of CEO/COO positions in various industries, ranging from scrappy Philippine startups to iconic global companies.
Kickstart Ventures, Inc.Vice-Chairman & President
Kickstart Ventures, Inc.

Ming Maa

Ming has over 12 years of finance and investment experience across the U.S. and Asia. He joined Grab from SoftBank Group Corp., a leading global technology company and one of Grab’s key strategic investors, where he was based in Tokyo and played a key role in overseeing SoftBank’s investments in leading companies in the ridesharing and e-commerce industries, including SoftBank’s April 2015 Series D investment in Grab and additional Series F investment in September 2016.

Prior to joining SoftBank, Ming was a Principal at Ancora Capital Management Pte Ltd based in Jakarta. Prior to Ancora, between 2000-2012, Ming was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, the firm’s global private equity group, and was based in Tokyo and San Francisco. At Goldman Sachs, he managed investments across a wide spectrum of industries and served on the boards of several technology and media companies. Ming received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
GrabPresident
Grab

Nicholas Bloy

Nicholas Bloy is one of two Managing Partners of Navis and an Investment Committee member. At Navis, he leads investment teams, works with company management and sits on the boards of a number of portfolio companies. He is also responsible for fundraising. He co-founded Navis after spending ten years in Asia with The Boston Consulting Group, where he held various positions, including managing partner of the Kuala Lumpur office, Head of The Boston Consulting Group’s Energy and Utilities Practice in Asia, and Head of The Boston Consulting Group’s Asia Marketing Committee.
Navis Capital PartnersCo-Managing Partner
Navis Capital Partners

Patrick Walujo

Patrick Walujo is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Northstar Group. The Northstar Group is a Singapore headquartered private equity firm managing more than US$2.0 billion in committed equity capital dedicated to investing in growth companies in Indonesia and to a lesser extent other countries in Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 2003, the Northstar Group has raised four private equity funds and invested in more than 30 companies across the banking, insurance, consumer/retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, coal and mining services, technology, telecom, and agribusiness sectors. The Northstar Group has invested over US$2.8 billion with its co-investors in the Southeast Asian region.

Prior to co-founding the Northstar Group, Patrick was Senior Vice President of Pacific Century Ventures Ltd. In Tokyo, where he played a key role in the firm’s mergers, acquisitions and corporate business development. He started his career at Goldman Sachs & Co. in London and New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, USA. In 2009, Patrick was awarded Ernst & Young’s prestigious ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ award. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations New York.
Northstar GroupCo-Founder & Managing Partner
Northstar Group

Piyush Gupta

Piyush heads Singapore-based DBS, a leading financial services group in Asia, with assets of approximately $350 billion, and with over 280 branches across 18 markets. DBS has over four million customers and is expanding its presence in Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Previously, Piyush spent several years at Citibank, where he held various leadership roles in India and Southeast Asia, including Country Officer for Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
DBS GroupCEO and Director
DBS Group

Ravi Thakran

Ravi Thakran is the Chairman & CEO, Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp & Founder, Asia 3.0

Launched in September 2020, Aspirational is a partnership of experienced consumer investors and former LVMH executives alongside L Catterton, the largest global consumer-focused private equity firm, as a minority partner. The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, raised $240 million towards the end of 2020 and recently announced plans to merge with Wheels Up Partners Holdings LLC, a leading provider of private aviation services in the U.S., at a valuation of more than $2 billion.

Thakran has also launched and heads two private equity funds: GCC Asia Growth Fund, a small-cap investment vehicle that focuses on the Middle East, India, and the emerging markets in Southeast Asia; and Asia 3.0, a mid-cap fund that looks at investments in Japan, Korea, China, Southeast Asia, and Australia.

Prior to Aspirational & Asia 3.0, Thakran founded L Capital Asia in 2008 and led it as Chairman and Managing Partner from its inception. Ravi led the development of L Capital Asia to become the largest consumer-focused growth investor in Asia. With L Capital Asia, Ravi invested in more than 35 companies across Asia Pacific. Five of these companies are unicorns today.

Thakran has also served in many senior roles at the world’s largest luxury goods company: LVMH Group. Over two decades at LVMH, Ravi led many business verticals and eventually became Group President for LVMH for South Asia & South East Asia, Australia & New Zealand and Middle East in 2009 and Group Chairman for LVMH for South Asia & South East Asia, Australia & New Zealand and Middle East in 2015.

Thakran has also held senior management positions at the Swatch Group, Nike and the Tata Group.

He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle CorpChairman & CEO
Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp

Sameer Sain

Sameer Sain is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Everstone Group, a leading alternative investment firm. Headquartered in Singapore, Everstone manages assets in excess of USD 5 billion with approximately 250 people across Asia, Europe and North America.

The Everstone Group has a significant private equity business, which largely makes control investments across India and South East Asia. In addition, it also operates a large real estate business and is the leading developer of industrial and warehousing assets in India. The Group also has a consumer venture as well as infrastructure businesses.

Sameer has a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting from Sydenham College in Mumbai, a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Everstone GroupCo-founder & CEO
Everstone Group

Steven Lam

Steven Lam is the Co-Founder and CEO of GOGOVAN, which was founded in 2013. Steven is responsible for developing the overall business strategy and driving the growth and profitability of the business across the region. This also includes establishing business partnerships and securing funding.

GOGOVAN is committed to making daily lives easier, through decreasing idling time of drivers by efficiently connecting drivers and users using its platform. GOGOVAN has expanded rapidly in recent years from Hong Kong to Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Mainland China and India. In August 2017, GOGOVAN merged with 58 Suyun, the leader in China’s intra-city logistics market, and with operations in over 300 cities and over 8 million registered drivers, the new company becomes the largest delivery platform in Asia. Steven is the CEO and is responsible for the development of the overall business strategy.

Steven brings with him a wealth of entrepreneurial skills. Prior to founding GOGOVAN, Steven started BoxAd in 2010, an advertising company which advertises on lunch boxes in Hong Kong. Steven earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus on global management from the University of California, Berkeley – Walter A. Haas School of Business.
GOGOVANCo-Founder and CEO
GOGOVAN

Tan Hooi Ling

Tan Hooi Ling is the Co-Founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform. She oversees critical pillars of Grab’s operations, focused on business strategy and growth, analytics, customer experience and people operations. Prior to returning to Grab in 2015, Hooi Ling led high priority strategic and operational projects for Salesforce.com in San Francisco. There, she specialised in Corporate Strategy, Corporate Operations, Pricing Intelligence & Monetisation. She was also previously a consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising global corporations in Southeast Asia, North America, Latin America and Australia. Hooi Ling has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) from the University of Bath, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She finds joy in picking up new skills and experiences. Some of her favourite activities include swing dancing, snowboarding, and playing the ukulele.
GrabCo-founder
Grab

Tuck Lye Koh

Mr. Koh is co-founder and CEO of Shunwei Capital, an early to growth stage venture fund with over US$3 billion in funds under management. Shunwei Capital invests primarily in China, and also in India and Indonesia.

Mr. Koh has extensive investment experience, spanning multiple industries, including TMT, manufacturing, retail & consumer and logistics. At Shunwei Capital, Mr. Koh is responsible for overall investment and management, and has led the firm’s investments in mobile internet, IoT, Internet+, deep technology, India and Indonesia.

Mr. Koh’s representative investments include Xiaomi (1810.HK), 17zuoye, DXY, Patsnap, Onemore, Kingsoft (3888.HK), BlueD, ShareChat, Meesho, KrazyBee and Gojek. He was formerly a board member of Xiaomi and was involved in fund raising, investments and strategy in the early years of its founding.

Before co-founding Shunwei Capital, he held various positions with C.V. Starr, GIC, AIG and Deutsche Bank. Mr. Koh graduated from the National University of Singapore and Stanford University. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Council in China of Singapore Management University.
Shunwei CapitalCo-founder & CEO
Shunwei Capital

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Founder of Paytm Mobile Solutions Private Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.

Sharma Founded One97 Communications Ltd in 2000 and serves as its Chairman, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. He is a Partner of One97 Mobility Fund. He has more than 10 years of experience in the telecom and new media industries, having founded his first venture XS Corps while he was at college, which he sold to Lotus Interworks LLC, New Jersey in 1999.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.
Paytm Mobile Solutions Pte LtdFounder & CEO
Paytm Mobile Solutions Pte Ltd

Weijian Shan

Weijian Shan is chairman and CEO of PAG, a private equity firm which currently has $38 billion in capital under management. Prior to PAG, he was a partner at TPG, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, and co-managing partner at TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital).

He led a number of landmark transactions, including the acquisitions of two Asian banks, both of which made his investors billions of dollars in profits and were made into case studies by Harvard Business School. Previously, Shan was a managing director at JP Morgan, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a farm laborer in China's Gobi Desert.

He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. Shan’s first book Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America hit the LA Times bestseller list and was one of the FT’s 2019 top ten Best Books of the Year. Now, Shan, who Fortune calls "China's private equity champion," writes an insider account of one of the most successful and dramatic PE deals in history: MONEY GAMES: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank.

PAGChairman and CEO
PAG

Wilson Cuaca

Willson Cuaca is the founding and managing partner of East Ventures, an early stage investment fund with a focus on consumer Internet, mobile and SaaS. East Ventures started investing in Indonesia in 2010 when no one believed in Indonesia’s consumer Internet potential.

East Ventures has funded hundreds of early stage companies in South East Asia. Most of the companies have received subsequent funding rounds, riding on top of Indonesia middle class consumer growth. East Ventures has also exited investments through M&A to local and international companies.

Notable portfolio including Tokopedia, Traveloka, Kudo (now Grab), Loket (now Go-Tix), Shopback, IDNTimes, MokaPos, Ruangguru, Xendit, Julo, 99co, Sociolla, Cermati, Cicil, Bridestory, SweetEscape, Ralali, Member.ID, Warung Pintar, EV Hive and Fore Coffee.

Willson sits on the advisory board of Indonesia VC association.
East VenturesCo-founder/Managing Partner
East Ventures