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Asia PE-VC Summit

DealstreetAsia‘s first, full-scale virtual event

24-25 November 2020

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Asia PE-VC Summit

Over the last four years, the Asia PE-VC Summit has established itself as the leading event addressing this segment in the region. So far, the summit has drawn in over 3,500 attendees from 40 plus countries. 

There is no better place to get an overview of and be a part of the discussions surrounding Asia’s new Golden Age of investing, as this year we take our event virtual. No commute, no worrying about social safety – enjoy all our sessions (both days) from the comfort of your living room.

What’s on the agenda?

Through the course of the two-day summit, issues addressed include private equity, venture capital investment outlook and trends, LP/GP narratives, founder stories, fireside chats with unicorns, country and sector focus tracks as well as discussions on frontier markets, and future growth sectors. 

What makes the Asia PE-VC Summit worth attending? 

DealStreetAsia brings to the event the same exacting levels of rigour that have powered its editorial coverage.

At the Asia PE-VC Summit, attendees can expect true perspective and insight with no blatant company pitches or spin, and the chance to network with an audience of leaders – 80% of our delegates in previous summits have held senior management roles.  

Highlights

Keynote Presentation by Asia Partners’ Nick Nash

Fireside Chat with Creador’s Brahmal Vasudevan

Fireside Chat with Grab’s Tan Hooi Ling

Fireside Chat with Everstone’s Sameer Sain

Founders’ perspective panel discussion

Fireside Chat with GoGoVan’s Steven Lam

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Speakers

Jeffrey Perlman

Managing Director
Head of SE Asia and Asia-Pacific Real Estate
Warburg Pincus

Ravi Thakran

Chairman & CEO
Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp

Former Group Chairman, South and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand
LVMH

Ex- Chairman & Managing Partner
L Catterton Asia

Jie Gong

Partner
Pantheon

Jonathan Larsen

CIO
Ping An Group

CEO
Ping An Global Voyager Fund

Kenneth Gaw

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

Brian Gu

Vice Chairman and President
Xpeng Motors

Rebekah Woo

Managing Director
Fosun

Rodney Muse

Co-Managing Partner
Navis Capital Partners

Iesan Tsai

Managing Director
Head of Private Investments

Kiri Capital

Cyrus Driver

Managing Director,
PE Asia
Partners Group

Sunata Tjiterosampurno
Co-Chief Investment Officer and Member of Investment Committee

Northstar

Jixun Foo

Managing Partner
GGV Capital

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founder & CEO
Paytm Mobile Solutions Pte Ltd

Founder & CEO
One97 Communications Ltd

Ming Maa

President
Grab

Huai Fong Chew

Regional Lead,
East Asia & the Pacific Funds
International Finance Corporation

Weijian Shan

Chairman & CEO
PAG

Joe Dische

Chief Financial Officer
PropertyGuru Group

Henry Hendrawan
President

Traveloka Group Operations at Traveloka

Alexandre Schmitz

Managing Partner, Head of Asia Pacific
Capstone Partners

Soo Boon Koh

Founding Managing Partner
iGlobe Partners

Dave Ng
General Partner

Altara Ventures

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Stefanus Hadiwidjaja

Managing Director
Creador

Pandu Patria Sjahrir

Managing Partner
Indies Capital

Joydeep Chakraborty

Chief Strategy Officer
Traveloka

Nicholas Cator

Managing Partner
Venturi Partners

Vy Le

General Partner
Do Ventures

Andy Ho

CIO
VinaCapital Group

Dr Thomas Lanyi

Managing Director
CDH Investments

Wallace Guo

Managing Partner
Taihecap
(Formerly TH Capital)

Teh Hua Fung

Group President
ONE Championship

Larry Li

Managing Partner
AMINO Capital

SC Moatti

Managing Partner
Mighty Capital

Founder 
Products That Count

Dr Sandhya Sriram

CEO 
Co-Founder
Shiok Meats Pte Ltd

Jason Thompson

CEO
OVO

Akshay Garg

Co-Founder & CEO
FinAccel

Chua Kee Lock

CEO
Vertex Holdings

Niraan de Silva

Managing Director
VN Life 

Chris Freund

Partner
Mekong Capital

Abheek Anand

Managing Director
Sequoia Capital, India

Paul Santos

Managing Partner
Wavemaker Partners

Joseph Phua

Non-Executive Chairman
17 Media

Deepak Shahdadpuri

Managing Director
DSG Consumer Partners

Rachmat Kaimuddin

CEO
Bukalapak

David Gowdey
David Gowdey
Managing Parther

Jungle Ventures

Rajan Anandan

Managing Director
Surge & Sequoia Capital India LLP

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo
Chief Food Officer 
Gojek
Alfred Chuang

General Partner
Race Capital

Andy Wang

Partner, Primary Investments (Beijing)
Adams Street

Bert Kwan
Managing Partner

BDA Capital Partners

Yinglan Tan

Founding Managing Partner & CEO
Insignia Venture Partners

Hang Do

COO
Scommerce

Akshay Bhushan

Partner
Lightspeed

Haresh Chawla

Partner
True North

Donald Lacey
Managing Director & COO

Ping An Global Voyager Fund

VT Bharadwaj

General Partner
A91 Partners

Andree Susanto

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Waresix

Anand Lunia

General Partner
IndiaQuotient

Kuldeep Singh Rajput
CEO & Founder

Biofourmis

Thura Ko
Thura Ko Ko
Founding Partner

YGA Capital

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Roderick Purwana
Managing Partner

SMDV

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Arjun Sethi
Co-Founder & Partner

Tribe Capital

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Honorio Poblador IV
Managing Partner

Navegar Fund

Anupum Khaitan

Principal
Symphony Asia Holdings
Pte. Ltd

David Ireland

Partner
Navis Capital Partners

Amit Saberwal
Founder & CEO

RedDoorz

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Raditya Wibowo
Group Head of Transport

Gojek

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Kunal Shroff

Managing Partner
ChrysCapital

rajesh
Rajesh Sawhney

Founder  & CEO
GSF Accelerator

Melisa Irene
Partner

East ventures

Valerie Law

Research Team Lead
DealStreetAsia

Govindraj Ethiraj

Founder & Director
BOOM & IndiaSpend


Moderators

Michelle Teo 

Managing Editor
DealStreetAsia

Paramita Chatterjee

Editor
DealStreetAsia

Andi Haswidi

Head of ASEAN Research
DealStreetAsia

Ardi Wirdana

Indonesia Correspondent
DealStreetAsia

Pankaj Mishra

Journalist & Co-Founder
FactorDaily

Eudora Wang

Senior Reporter, Hong kong
DealStreetAsia

Shotaro Tani

Indonesia Correspondent
Nikkei Asian Review

Mercedes Ruehl

Asia Tech Reporter
Financial Times

Ngoc Nguyen

Vietnam Correspondent
DealStreetAsia

Stefania Palma

Singapore Correspondent
Financial Times

Deepshikha Monga

Editor
DealStreetAsia

Kristie Neo

Senior Writer
DealStreetAsia

Vedica Kant

Consultant
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

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Sharmilpal Kaur

Senior Researcher
DealStreetAsia

Stephanie Findlay

South Asia Correspondent
Financial Times

Joji Philip

Founder & Editor-in-Chief
DealStreetAsia

Atul Kapur

Co-Founder & CIO
Everstone Group

Chatri Sityodtong

Chairman & CEO
ONE Championship

Amit Saberwal

Founder
RedDoorz

Hans Tung

Managing Partner
GGV Capital

Saifulbahri Hassan

Senior VP
KWAP

Dr. Amit Varma

Managing Partner
Quadria Capital

Ralph Keitel

Regional Lead, PE Funds in East Asia & Pacific 
IFC (World Bank)

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner
GGV Capital

Yar-Ping Soo

Partner
Adams Street Partners

Yinglan Tan

Founding Managing Partner
Insignia Ventures Partners

Steven Lam

Co-Founder and CEO
GOGOVAN

Nick Nash

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Asia Partners

Muneeb Maayr

Founder
Bykea

Joel Bar-El

CEO
Trax Technology Solutions

Johan Bygge

Senior Advisor
EQT Asia

Ritu Arora

CEO & CIO
Allianz Investment Management

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Bert Kwan
Managing Partner,
BDA Capital Partners
DealStreetAsia has a lot of credibility when it comes to hosting informative and constructive events for all participants.
Sarah Chen
Principal, FedTech;
Founding Partner, TBDF
The content is great, people are great and if you want to be on top of everything in Asia in an emerging market - this is the place to be.
Reshmi Khurana
MD & Head, SE Asia,
Kroll
The PE and VC space in this region is evolving so fast and this venue and production is a great way to capture that change.
Andre Soelistyo
Co-CEO,
Gojek
The amount of thought leadership that participated in this conference has been amazing.
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Sofitel Singapore City Centre

 

9 Wallich Street, Singapore 078885

(Enter via Peck Seah Street).

Tel. +(65) 6428 5041.

Please Note: Special room rates are available for attendees. Find the booking form below.

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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

Ravi Thakran

Ravi Thakran is the ex-Group Chairman of LVMH Asia. He led the development of luxury market in Asia while at the helm of LVMH for two decades.

As ex-founder of L Capital Asia, he has helped many brands like Charles & Keith, Gentle Monster, RM Williams to become global majors and numerous regional leaders like PVR Cinemas, Fabindia, Bateel, Sasseur, Marubi, GXG, Trendy, YG Entertainment, Owndays, among others.
LVMH AsiaEx Group Chairman
LVMH Asia

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

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

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

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

Rebekah Woo

With degrees from LSE, Yale and CFA, CAIA professional designations, Rebekah has 20 years of investing and relationship management experience. Rebekah started her career with the the government of Singapore (EDB), in Singapore and New York. She then spent more than 6 years with a multi-billion single family office in New York, investing across asset classes, with focus on emerging markets and philanthropy. She then joined J.P. Morgan Asset Management, first in New York before moving back to Singapore in a new role called Global Strategic Relationship Group. Headhunted into Canada’s 2nd largest pension plan, CDPQ, Rebekah became the 1st local employee when it opened its Asia Pacific HQ in Singapore, responsible for developing key partnerships with major families in emerging Asia, sourcing and executing direct and co-investments. After a stint at Lufax, a leading fintech company by Ping An Group, Rebekah is now with Fosun, responsible for international investments and business partnerships in Maternal Infant & Family /Healthcare Holdings, especially in fast growing regions such as Southeast Asia.
fosun groupManaging Director
fosun group

Rodney Muse

Mr. Muse is one of two Managing Partners of Navis and an Investment Committee member. At Navis, Mr. Muse leads investment teams in making, monitoring and exiting investments and sits on the boards and/or executive committees of several Navis portfolio companies. He has been active in many of Navis’ investments in consumer goods, food, business services, industrial goods and services.

Mr. Muse co-founded Navis in 1998 with Mr. Bloy and Mr. Foyston, with whom he worked while at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG, he worked in Sydney and Kuala Lumpur, where he gained experience in a number of industries including consumer goods, retail, oil and gas, distribution, primary resources and more. He started his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1985 in New York and Hong Kong.

Mr. Muse has been a resident in Asia since 1993, having been raised and educated in the US. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Hons degree from St. Lawrence University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Navis CapitalCo-managing Partner
Navis Capital

Iesan Tsai

Iesan leads Kiri’s investments across the private markets asset class. After working in the US with leading financial institutions including JP Morgan and UBS for investment banking and real estate acquisitions, Iesan headed the Asia office for Hermes GPE, a UK-headquartered asset management firm investing in private equity, where she sat on the Global Investment Committee.

Iesan received an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a BA from Stanford University.

Kiri capitalManaging Director and Head of Private Investments
Kiri capital

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

Sunata Tjiterosampurno

Sunata Tjiterosampurno is the Co-Chief Investment Officer and a Member of the Investment Committee of the Northstar Group. Sunata joined Northstar in 2006. Prior to joining Northstar, he served as a director in the investment banking division of PT Danareksa Sekuritas and as consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

The Northstar Group is a Singapore headquartered private equity firm managing more than US$2.2 billion in committed equity capital dedicated to investing in growth companies in Indonesia and to a lesser extent, other countries in Southeast Asia. The Northstar Group has a solid track record of actively growing the businesses of its investee companies over its investment horizon. Since its founding in 2003, the Northstar Group has raised five private equity funds and invested in more than 35 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$3.3 billion with its co-investors in the Southeast Asian region.
NorthStarCo-Chief Investment Officer and Member of Investment Committee
NorthStar

Jixun Foo

Jixun Foo is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital and joined the firm in 2006. He is consistently recognized among the top VCs in China and counts 13 of his investments as mega-unicorns or unicorns, including Baidu, Boss Zhipin, Didi, Grab, Hello, Manbang, Meicai, Qunar/Ctrip, Tujia, Mogu, UCWeb, Youku Tudou, and Xpeng Motors.

Jixun has spent the last 20 years working with entrepreneurs in the travel and transportation, social media and commerce, and enterprise services sectors in China. He led GGV’s investments in Didi, Grab, Mogujie/Meilishuo, MediaV, Qunar (NASDAQ: QUNR), UCWeb, Youku-Tudou (Acq: Alibaba), Manbang (fka Yunmanman), and currently serves on the boards of Baidu, Boss Zhipin, Hello, Kujiale, Tujia, Xiangwushuo, XPeng Motors and Zuiyou. Jixun played critical roles in many key strategic mergers and acquisitions, such as those of Youku-Tudou (first ever multi-billion dollar tech merger in China), Baidu/Qunar, Ctrip/Qunar, Mogujie/Meilishuo (NYSE: MOGU) and Manbang (Yunmanman/Huachebang).
GGV CapitalManaging Partner
GGV 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

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

Huai Fong Chew

Huai Fong is the Regional Lead for the East Asia & the Pacific Private Equity Funds team of the IFC where she is responsible for leading investments into funds in the region.

Prior to joining IFC, Huai Fong spent five years with Deutsche Investitions-Und Entwicklungsgesellschaft MBH (“DEG”) where she had a primary coverage of Southeast Asia. She led fund investments and co-investments in the region as well as managed a portfolio of funds through her Advisory Committee positions. Before DEG, Huai Fong was with UOB Venture Management where she did direct equity investments into growth stage companies in Southeast Asia and China.

Huai Fong holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and in Economics (Honors and Dean’s list) from the Singapore Management University. She has also passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst program. Huai Fong is also a Board member on the Singapore Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (SVCA) where she chairs the Professional Development Committee.
International Finance CorporationRegional Lead, East Asia & the Pacific Funds
International Finance Corporation

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

Joe Dische

As Chief Financial Officer, Joe leads the Finance, Strategy and Corporate functions across the Group. He is responsible for achieving the balance between delivering ambitious growth and the highest possible standards of governance and control. He has led successful fundraising and M&A activity during his tenure as the Company has delivered strong organic revenue growth and become operating EBITDA profitable.

Joe brings to PropertyGuru over two decades of global financial experience across listed and private companies in the online, media and telecommunication industries as an Executive and Board member.

Prior to joining PropertyGuru, Joe was Chief Financial Officer at ASX-listed iCar Asia Limited that operate online automotive portals in SE Asia, and he was responsible for leading Finance and Operations. iCar successfully executed on major M&A during his tenure and raised circa $100m to fund growth. Previously, Joe spent 6 years at Vodafone Hutchison Australia where he was Financial Controller and began his career at KPMG in London.

Joe holds a Bachelor of Biology at the University of Nottingham, is a qualified accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
PropertyGuru GroupChief Financial Officer
PropertyGuru Group

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

Alexandre Schmitz

Based out of Singapore, Alexandre heads the Asia Pacific operations of Capstone Partners, a global placement agent for private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate closed end funds. He is responsible for both distribution and client origination in Asia Pacific.

Alexandre joined Capstone Partners in 2012. Prior to that, Alexandre worked for over 15 years within the Cobepa Group, as an Investment Director at PAI Partners, a Member of the Executive Committee at Cobepa, and CEO of BeCapital. Previously, Alexandre served as an active non-executive board member of nine industrial companies within a wide range of industries, business maturity profiles, corporate contexts and countries. Earlier in his career, he was a professor at the National Economics University of Hanoi, the Open University in Ho Chi Minh City and was a lecturer at the Solvay Business School.

Alexandre graduated magna cum laude from Université Catholique de Louvain with an MS in economics and is also a Certified European Financial Analyst.
Capstone PartnersManaging Partner | Head of Asia Pacific
Capstone Partners

Soo Boon Koh

Soo Boon founded iGlobe in December 1999 when venture capital (VC) was experiencing the onset of globalisation. As a veteran in the global VC industry with a specialisation in technology investing, she has achieved consistent top-quartile fund return for her investments. Working alongside prominent VCs such as Sequoia Capital, IVP, RRE, Tencent and Qualcomm Ventures, she has since established herself as a prominent leader in the investing community.

Under Soo Boon’s leadership, notable IPOs among iGlobe’s portfolio companies in recent years are Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U) on 18 September 2020, Twist Bioscience Corp (NASDAQ: TWST) on 31 October 2018, Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory Ltd. (TYO: 6232) on 21 December 2018 and VeriSilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (SHA: 688521) on 18 August 2020. Past exits include u-blox AG (SWX: UBXN), Telenav Inc. (NASDAQ: TNAV), Celestry Inc. (sold to Cadence), Aicent Inc. (acquired by TA Associates) and Anacle Systems Limited (HKGEM: 8353).

Currently, Soo Boon serves as a board observer of several VC-backed companies based in San Francisco. This includes Nerdwallet Inc. and Matterport Inc. Soo Boon is also a board member of Hoolah (Singapore), The Great Room (Singapore) and ForteMedia Inc.

Prior to founding iGlobe, she held senior management positions in Vertex Management Inc. (previously the venture capital arm of Singapore Technologies and now under Temasek Holdings). Soo Boon played a critical role in establishing the operations of Vertex, based in Redwood City in 1988 and ran the operation until October 1996 when she set up Vertex Europe based in London. During that period , she was closely associated with several companies based in Silicon Valley, such as Lattice Semiconductor, Quick Logic, Pie(merged with Quickturn), Premisys Còmmunications, Proxim Inc.., and European companies e.g. SCM Microsystems (Germany ), Brokat (Germany) , Gemplus (France ) and ActivCard(France) etc.

Soo Boon‘s ability to nurture founders and connect syndication coinvestors across continents came from her experience in DBS early in her career. Her clients range come from a range of industries, including electronics, financial services and petrochemical. With this experience, she has built a network of trusted partners whom she rode through multiple business cycles with.
iGlobe PartnersFounding Managing Partner
iGlobe Partners

Dave Ng

Dave Ng is a General Partner at Altara Ventures, a leading Southeast Asia early stage venture capital firm. At Altara, he focuses on backing the next generation of promising entrepreneurs building for the region and beyond.

Previously, Dave was the Head of Southeast Asia for Eight Roads Ventures where he led investment and portfolio activities for the region. Before that, he was Venture Partner at B Capital Group, where he helped launched the Asia office. Over the past decade, Dave has the opportunity to partner up with many talented founders in this region and beyond, including Ninja Van, Carro, Akulaku, StashAway, Icertis and LeadIQ.

Besides investing, Dave has also spent many years building and operating within the technology industry. He previously led strategy for the Cloud business at Oracle, was an early employee at enterprise SaaS pioneer Zuora (NYSE: ZUO) and has advised major corporate leaders as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He began his career in product development and engineering as a software engineer at Oracle, delivering multiple major product releases. Dave graduated from Carnegie Mellon and Harvard. In his free time, he enjoys sharing his experiences and discussing exciting innovations with fellow entrepreneurs.

Altara VenturesGeneral Partner
Altara Ventures

Stefanus Hadiwidjaja

Stefanus Ade Hadiwidjaja is a Managing Director of Creador and member of the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Creador, Stefanus was a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group where he focused on financial, retail, and telecommunication sectors. Prior to BCG, Stefanus worked at Indonesia’s leading boutique financial and management consulting firms, Arghajata Consulting and Skha Consulting. He previously worked for IBM as a Territory Manager. Stefanus obtained an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (as Fulbright-Sampoerna scholar) and a B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from Universitas Pelita Harapan.
CreadorManaging Director
Creador

Pandu Sjahrir

Pandu Sjahrir is one of Southeast Asia’s leading investors in the seed and early growth stages. He is a Managing Partner of Indies Capital, an alternative asset manager in South East Asia, with a focus on Indonesia. The firm has invested over $700m in the past 7 years, and currently manages over $600m in total assets, commitments and co-investments, on behalf of institutional investors and private clients. Indies Capital Partners manages Indies Special Opportunities, the leading mezzanine and structured equity provider in the region, Indies Pelago Investments, the leading secondary tech fund in Southeast Asia, and has a strategic alliance with AC Ventures, an ASEAN focused seed and early stage fund (where Pandu is also the founder and the General Partner representative of Indies Capital). Indies Capital and AC Ventures have invested in over 100 companies. These companies have generated over US$ 40 billion in shareholder’s value, 100,000 new employment opportunities and more than 200 new entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia.

Pandu serves as the Chairman of Indonesia for SEA, a leading Southeast Asian tech company, the Board Member of Gojek, one of Indonesia’s first unicorn technology companies, and the Director of Toba Bara, a leading publicly listed energy enterprise in Indonesia. Pandu further serves in multiple organizations to promote entrepreneurship and education in Southeast Asia. He is the Head of Energy in Indonesia’s Chamber of Commerce, a Board Member of Endeavor, a global non-profit organization for entrepreneurs, and is the Chairman for Stanford University’s Alumni Association in Indonesia and the Phillips Academy Alumni Association. In 2014 he was selected as Asia’s 21 Young Leaders by Asia Society, an award presented to leaders under 40 years old who have made a significant difference in their field.

Pandu Patria Sjahrir received his Master of Business Administration from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Indies CapitalManaging Partner
Indies Capital

Joydeep Chakraborty

Joydeep is the Chief Strategy and Investment Officer for Traveloka, SE Asia's leading digital travel and lifestyle platform. Prior to Traveloka, Joydeep was in investment banking, most recently as the head of TMT for UBS in SE Asia.
TravelokaChief Strategy Officer
Traveloka

Nicholas Cator

Nick, a long-time executive at Belgium’s family-owned investment firm Verlinvest SA, launched Venturi Partners in 2019.

Nick joined Verlinvest in 2006 and was appointed Director of Business Development of Armonea, the largest nursing home operator in Belgium. He joined the Verlinvest investment team after 2,5 years and made investments in Europe, India and the US in a range of industries. In 2012 Nick returned to Armonea, this time as CEO, with a view of improving operations and growth.

In October 2014 Nick rejoined Verlinvest as Executive Director, responsible for opening the Singapore office and with a focus on the E-commerce, Education and Healthcare Services sectors. Nick holds a Masters in Economics and complemented his education in executive leadership and strategic marketing at INSEAD and Stanford.
Venturi partnersManaging partner
Venturi partners

Vy Le

Vy is the Co founder and General Partner of Do Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that focuses on making investments in information technology companies in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. The fund is looking for pioneers with a desire to create disruptive products that can bring about outstanding values to the society.

Vy is an innovative serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in operations and keen insights into the Vietnam market. At 13, she founded TmSpeed Network, specialized in web development and hosting service. In 2010, Vy founded Chon.vn and served as CEO, developing the platform into one of the most popular online fashion shopping centers in Vietnam. In 2014, she exited Chon.vn to Vingroup, the largest private conglomerate in Vietnam. She then served as the CEO of Vingroup’s ecommerce subsidiary, Adayroi.com, and successfully scaled the company from scratch to reach a few hundred million USD in revenue. Throughout her career, she is known as an innovative leader with an outstanding ability to inspire employees and facilitate teamwork, creativity, and productivity.

Vy graduated as Valedictorian from Georgetown University (United States). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance.
Do VenturesGeneral Partner
Do Ventures

Andy Ho

Andy Ho serves as Chief Investment Officer of VinaCapital Group and Managing Director of the VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund (VOF), which is traded on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. Since joining VinaCapital in 2007, Andy has helped VOF’s net asset value surpass the USD1 billion mark, deployed over USD1 billion on privately negotiated deals and led over USD700 million in exits via strategic trade sales. Andy is a leading authority on investing in developing markets, privatizations, and private equity deals in Vietnam, regularly speaking at events around the region and appearing in the media.

Prior to joining VinaCapital, Andy was director of investment at Prudential Vietnam, where he looked after the company’s capital market portfolio and developed its bank investment strategy, which provided a return of four times over an 18-month period. He also served as manager of Prudential’s mutual fund, PruBF1. Andy also held various management positions at Dell Ventures (the investment group of Dell Computer Corp.) and Ernst & Young.

Andy earned a BS in Finance and Accounting from the University of Colorado Boulder, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the US.

VinaCapital GroupChief Investment Officer
VinaCapital Group

Dr Thomas Lanyi

Dr. Thomas Lanyi is a Managing Director at CDH Investments, a leading China-focused alternative assets management platform. Based in Singapore, Dr. Lanyi co-leads his firm’s Southeast Asian and global cross-border investment activities. Dr. Lanyi has worked in the Asian region since the late 1990s with a focus on Southeast Asia and China related transactions. Prior to joining CDH, Dr. Lanyi held senior roles at Mekong Capital in Vietnam and Templeton Private Equity in Singapore.

Dr. Lanyi has been an Executive Committee Member of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) since 2015, and been its Chairman since 2017.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Dr. Lanyi holds a Doctorate from the Vienna University of Economics and a Masters degree from HEC Paris, graduating on the subjects of The Asian Financial Crisis and Capital Markets Theory. Dr. Lanyi has been a CFA charter holder, Singapore Chapter, since 2004.

CDH InvestmentsManaging Director
CDH Investments

Wallace Guo

Wallace Guo is a Managing Partner at Taihecap, focusing on technology, automotive, logistics and enterprise services sectors.

He is also in charge of emerging market business, focusing on consumption, logistics and finance sectors. He is responsible for the deal closing in Guazi.com (largest used-car platform), with a total of over US$3 billion in financing since 2016.

As a well-recognized investment banker, Mr.Guo has led top deals including Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD, pioneer of new e-commerce), G7 (Leading intelligent IOT company mainly serving logistics industry), Manbang (Largest freight service provider to maximize the power of big data to improve logistics efficiency), Renrendai (Pioneer of personal financial platform)，ShareChat (India’s largest regional social network), Kuaidi Dache (One of the top two taxi-hailing apps, merged with Didi in 2015), Aihuishou (Largest platform for recycling and selling second-hand electronic items), Horizon Robotics (Pioneer in AI edge computing for smart mobility), Lixiang Automotive (Leading new energy intelligent vehicle manufacturer), and Xiaozhu.com (Leading short-term rental and home sharing platform)，which are all top leading players in new economy.

Prior to this, he worked in KPMG's Financial Advisory, participating in the investment and M&A transactions of international funds and large foreign-funded enterprises in China. He also served in Accenture, providing Fortune 500 companies with business and strategic advisory services. Mr.Guo was honored “Fortune's 2018 40 Under 40” in China, an annual selection of the most influential young people in business. He became the only investment banker on the list.
TaihecapManaging Partner
Taihecap

Teh Hua Fung

Hua Fung Teh is the Group President of ONE Championship. Together with the CEO, he leads the company day-to-day with a focus on strategic, commercial and media partnerships, as well as international expansion.

Teh was previously the Chief Financial Officer and Chairman, Greater China of the company. In that role he was responsible for finance, human resources, corporate development, media rights and digital partnerships.

He also oversaw the company’s Greater China business. Prior to ONE, Teh was a Principal at global private equity firm TPG Capital (TPG), where he was a senior member of the Southeast Asia investment team. He also served on TPG’s China and US teams. Prior to TPG, Teh was a member of the Singapore Administrative Service and an aviator with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).

He held leadership positions both at the RSAF and at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, where he was a key member of the team that brought the Formula One Grand Prix (F1) to Singapore and organized the first night race in F1 history in 2008. Teh holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MEng and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He sits on the Global Steering Committee of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle and is a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum.

One ChampionshipGroup President
One Championship

Larry Li

Larry Li is a Founder and Managing Partner at AMINO Capital. He leads over 150 investments in companies with success exits and high growth, such as Assemblage (acquired by Cisco), Orbeus (acquired by Amazon), Ozlo (acquired by Facebook), Woomoo (acquired by Priceline), Contastic (acquired by Sugar CRM), Mobike (acquired by Meituan/Tencent), Evertoon (Acquired by Niantic | PokemonGo), Yiqixie (Acquired by Kuaishou/Tencent), Voyage, AIFI.io, Vicarious, Paperspace, Skycatch, Webflow, Chime Bank (Invested in 2013, and $5.8B valuation in 2019), Grail and et al. Larry also co-founded TAF (invested in ZOOM in 2011), and currently serves on the board of TEEC.

Larry completed his B.E degree from Tsinghua University, attended Tsinghua Graduate School of Economics and Management in 1987, and completed M.E degree at University of Florida. Larry started his career at Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo), and came to Silicon Valley joining Veritas Technologies in 2000. Larry is a founding contributor of Tsinghua 100 Education Fund.
AMINO Capital Managing Partner
AMINO Capital

SC Moatti

SC Moatti is the managing partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Products That Count, one of the largest networks of product managers, leaders and entrepreneurs in the world.

Previously, she built products that billions of people use at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts.

She also serves on boards of both public and private companies, including mobile technology giant Opera Software (OPERA:Oslo). A16Z general partner Andrew Chen called SC “a genius at making mobile products people love.”

Mighty Capital & Products That CountFounder
Mighty Capital & Products That Count

Dr Sandhya Sriram

Dr Sandhya Sriram is the CEO and co-founder of Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd., Singapore. Sandhya is a stem cell scientist with over 10 years of experience working with muscle, adipose, cells and stem cells. After graduating with a PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Sandhya pursued her postdoc at A*STAR in Singapore.

Following 4 years of postdoctoral work, she took up business development at a research institute. Alongside, she co-founded 2 companies, Biotech In Asia and SciGlo.

Sandhya has been featured on Forbes Women in Tech for her entrepreneurial ventures, a TEDx speaker and is an author for Nature Biotechnology blog. Currently, Sandhya and Dr Ka Yi Ling, her co-founder and CTO of Shiok Meats, are working on cell-based meat (seafood), based out of Singapore.

Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd.CEO & Co-Founder
Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd.

Jason Thompson

Jason Thompson is currently leading Indonesia’s leading payments platform. He is responsible to oversee the business expansion, strategic partnerships and product development at OVO, and lead OVO to drive financial inclusion deeper and serve 260M Indonesians. Since its inception in 2017, OVO has become the #1 digital payments platform, growing its user base over 400% in 2018 and onboarding over 500,000 merchants from modern retail merchants to SMEs. Jason is set to lead OVO and provide equal economy access South East Asia’s most populated nation. Prior to joining OVO, Jason was the Head of GrabPay. In this role, Jason oversaw the development of new payments technologies to deepen financial inclusion and increased access to mobile payments services across Southeast Asia. In 2011, Jason was also the Managing Director EMEA & Asia for Euronet, where he led Euronet’s electronic payments subsidiaries in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, developing Euronet’s e-pay services to a full-service provider in the company’s key product verticals for five years. Jason has more than 15 years of experience in leadership roles, including senior positions at companies such as Microsoft and Canon.
OVOCEO
OVO

Akshay Garg

Akshay Garg is the cofounder and CEO of FinAccel, Southeast Asia’s leading VC backed financial technology company that leverages deep data analytics to automate credit risk scoring and access to credit for consumers. FinAccel’s flagship product Kredivo enables consumers to borrow and buy from leading ecommerce merchants at bank-like interest rates with the simplicity of a few clicks.

Kredivo is currently available at the checkout of 250+ ecommerce merchants in Indonesia. Akshay previously cofounded Komli Media, one of Asia’s leading adtech companies, which raised over US$70m from top tier investors and was part acquired by Axiata in 2015. Komli pioneered RTB (Real Time Bidding) and audience profiling in Asia.
FinAccelCo-founder & CEO
FinAccel

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

Niraan de Silva

Niraan is Managing Director and a Board member for VNLife, one of Vietnam’s largest and fastest growing technology groups. VNLife operates across digital banking, e-payments, online travel and new retail. VNLife’s largest subsidiary is VNPay, the largest financial technology and payments company in Vietnam.

Prior to VNLife, Niraan was a senior executive at a diverse Vietnamese conglomerate as well as having a long career in Investment Banking.
VNlifeManaging Director
VNlife

Chris Freund

Chris Freund, who was fueled by the possibility of launching a business in Vietnam, founded the first hands-on Private Equity firm in the country, Mekong Capital, in March 2001. Six years later, he initiated Mekong Capital’s first two-year journey of transformation, a permanent shift out of the past and into the future. Since then, the journey of transformation and reinvention has continued, and even accelerated in recent years.

Chris has been closely involved in all stages of sourcing, due diligence & implementation, post-investment value creation, and exiting for a wide range of investments in Mekong Capital's funds since 2001, both poor investments and successful investments. Chris was Mekong Capital’s Deal Leader for a wide variety of investee companies, including MobileWorld, an investment which resulted in a 57x return for Mekong Enterprise Fund II, marking it one of the most pre-eminent investments in the history of Asian Private Equity. MobileWorld was also one of the core models of success that was an inspiration for the Vision Driven Investing framework.

Since then, Chris has played a central role in the development of the Vision Driven Investing framework, like a coordinating architect. Currently, Chris is not active as a Deal Leader, rather he focuses more broadly on the successful implementation of Vision Driven Investing across Mekong’s portfolio of investee companies and other big-picture initiatives. Chris is involved in some investee companies as an Alternate Deal Leader, a member of the Board of Directors, and also via his role as a member of Mekong’s Investment Recommendation Committee.

Prior to Mekong, he was the Former Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Templeton Asset Management and co-founder at VietnamWorks (which later became Navigos Group), which would ultimately become Vietnam’s largest recruitment services firm.
MEKONG CAPITALPARTNER
MEKONG CAPITAL

Abheek Anand

Abheek is a Managing Director with Sequoia India, based in Singapore. He focuses on range of sectors, including fintech, education and consumer internet, across Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Sequoia, he was a product manager at Facebook in Menlo Park, where he led teams building various advertising products for the company. Previously Abheek was co-founder and CEO of Tagtile, a technology startup in San Francisco that was acquired at Facebook.

Abheek has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, an MSCS from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Stanford University.

Sequoia IndiaMD
Sequoia India

Paul Santos

Paul Santos is Managing Partner at Wavemaker Partners and led the establishment of the Singapore-headquartered Southeast Asia office in 2012. He has made over 100 investments across Southeast Asia with more than 80% of them in enterprise and deep tech startups. Companies that have managed to raise significant financing rounds include Zilingo, ThinCI, Moka, and CashShield. Companies that have achieved significant traction include Wavecell, Red Dot Payment, Lynk, Structo, Growsari, and Silent Eight. Exits include Luxola (acquired by LVMH), Pie (acquired by Google), and Coins.ph (acquired by Gojek).

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Paul was an entrepreneur who had co-founded six companies across multiple industries and sold three of them. His angel investments are in non-tech companies in industries like distribution, education, and logistics. Paul sits on the Advisory Board of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Innovation Center. He is an Advisor to the Singapore Management University (SMU) Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) where he is also an Adjunct Faculty Member. He is also a member of the Singapore chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).
Wavemaker PartnersManaging Partner
Wavemaker Partners

Joseph Phua

Mr. Joseph Phua led the merger of Paktor, the region's leading dating group, and 17 Media, a Taiwan based livestreaming startup. M17 Group was officially established in 2017, giving birth to 17 Live, which Joseph led to become the global leader in livestreaming entertainment with over 35,000 exclusive contracted artistes and 1,000 employees.

Joseph co-founded Paktor in 2013 while completing his M.B.A., and served as CEO of Paktor from 2013 to 2017. He previously held positions in the consulting and banking industries, at McKinsey & Company and Citigroup, and spent a few years in luxury retail with Da Vinci Asia, based in Shanghai and Beijing, China, from 2008 to 2011, where he oversaw nationwide operations for the company's fine watch and jewelry businesses.

Joseph holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.
17 MediaNon-Executive Chairman
17 Media

Deepak Shahdadpuri

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of DSG Consumer Partners and has over 15 years of private equity experience. Before DSGCP, he co-founded and managed the Beacon India Private Equity Fund and GEM India. Prior to that, Deepak worked with Reuters Venture Capital, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young. Deepak currently serves on multiple boards including Veeba Food Services, Raw Pressery, Eazydiner, Mswipe, Sula Wines, Impresario, Epigamia, IndoStar Capital, Furtados, Saraf Foods, India Lends and Saffronart. His investment experience also includes RBL Bank, National Stock Exchange, OYO Rooms, Cleartrip, GOQii, Redmart, Chope, F&B Asia and Hostmaker.

Deepak has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD where he graduated on the Deans list, an LLB (Hons) from King’s College London and an FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.
DSG Consumer PartnersManaging Director
DSG Consumer Partners

David Gowdey

Prior to Jungle, David spent about four years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the TPG Growth fund. David was involved in several investments at TPG, including Lenskart (India’s largest eyewear brand) and Propertyguru (largest online real estate platform in SEA) and he continues to be an advisor to TPG Capital in Asia. Prior to TPG, David spent 12 years at Yahoo! Inc where he was the Head of International M&A on the Corporate Development team. In this role, he was responsible for driving all acquisitions, minority investments and mergers. As part of his role, he also lead the investment strategy for Yahoo! outside of North America, including their expansion in to new markets, such as Russia, Turkey, Middle East, Africa and SE Asia. In 2011, David was also the Managing Partner at Xplorer Capital, a growth equity venture capital firm which spun out from Yahoo! to focus on internet and digital media opportunities in the emerging markets. At Jungle, David works especially closely with the founders of our later stage investments, including iMoney (exit to iSelect), Pokkt (exit to Anymind), iFlix (exit to Tencent), Kredivo, Pomelo Fashion, Sociolla, KiotViet, Saltmine amongst others. David holds an undergraduate Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Radford University and a Master’s degree from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney.
Jungle VenturesManaging Partner
Jungle Ventures

Rajan Anandan

As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital, Rajan is focusing on developing Surge into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders.

Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionate access to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.

Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
Surge & Sequoia Capital India LLPManaging Director
Surge & Sequoia Capital India LLP

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo ​is the ​Chief Food Officer of Gojek Group, Southeast Asia’s leading Super App whose mission is to solve consumers’ daily friction while empowering informal sectors and Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through technology. With services ranging from transportation, food delivery, groceries, massage, house cleaning to logistics, as well as e-money and customer loyalty programs, Gojek today has become a central part in enriching the lives of millions of consumers every day. Catherine has been leading Gojek’s Food team through their contribution in growing GoFood as the largest app-based food delivery service in Southeast Asia today, based on total number of orders.

Catherine joined Gojek from Alfacart (PT Sumber Alfaria Trijaya) where she was responsible for the overall business as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Catherine played a key role in building Zalora – currently one of the most successful e-commerce businesses in Indonesia – as Managing Director and Co-founder. Earlier in her career, Catherine gained experience with the world’s top consulting firm McKinsey & Company as Senior Associate, and with Innosight as a venture leader. Catherine also founded and run her own business namely FranNet Indonesia.

In 2014, Catherine received her Bachelor of Business majoring in Banking & Finance, from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

gojekChief food officer
gojek

Alfred Chuang

Alfred Chuang is a general partner at Race Capital. Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO, Alfred Chuang an accomplished entrepreneur and venture investor. Known for being the co-founder and CEO of BEA Systems, Alfred led BEA Systems to its acquisition by Oracle for $8.5 billion. Alfred’s notable awards include CIO Magazine 20/20 Vision Award Honoree, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, among others. Alfred is a proud Hong Kong entrepreneur and alumnus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong. He also received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master’s degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis
Race CapitalGeneral Partner
Race Capital

Andy Wang

Andy is based in Beijing and supports the Primary Investment Team in all aspects of the investment decision-making process. Prior to joining Adams Street, Andy was an Executive Director in charge of CICC Wealth Management’s private market product development and investment management in China. Previously, he was with the private equity division of GIC Private Limited, where he focused on fund investments and co-investments in Asia. He also worked with Swiss Reinsurance Company’s asset management division in Hong Kong.
Adams StreetPartner, Primary Investments (Beijing)
Adams Street

Bert Kwan

Bert Kwan is the Managing Partner of BDA Capital Partners. In his 25 years of private equity investment experience, Bert has consummated over USD 3.5bn of transactions in Asia and led over USD 600mn of direct investments, among which include early-stage rounds in Vietnamese unicorns Momo and Tiki. Previously, Bert was a Managing Director at Northstar Group, the Head of Southeast Asia for Standard Chartered Private Equity, and a Principal at Lehman Brothers Private Equity Asia.
BDA Capital PartnersManaging Partner
BDA Capital Partners

Yinglan Tan

Tan Yinglan founded Insignia Ventures Partners in late 2017 and is the Founding Managing Partner. Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia started in 2017 and manages more than US$450 million from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of “Deal of the Year (Small Cap / VC)” for Ajaib (2021) by AVCJ, two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia.

He also co-hosts the On Call with Insignia Ventures podcast, where he chats with portfolio founders and regional investors. An author on venture capital, startups and innovation, he recently published his fourth book, Navigating ASEANnovation (World Scientific, 2020). He also serves on the International Board of Stars – Leaders of the Next Generation, the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and is a Board Member at Hwa Chong Institution.
Insignia Venture PartnersCEO & Founding Managing Partner
Insignia Venture Partners

Hang Do

Hang is currently COO at GHN & AhaMove, Vietnam’s leading integrated logistics services provider that covers all 63/63 provinces in Vietnam, employs nearly 10,000 staff and serves 100,000+ SME merchants. Our suite of services include ecommerce last mile delivery, point to point delivery, warehouse & fulfillment, truck & air transportation. Hang oversees finance & investment, marketing, legal and special business development & operational projects. GHN founded in 2012 and AhaMove in 2015, both are among the most valuable and pioneering startups in Vietnam's new economy. Previously, Hang was General Manager at iVIVU.com, a leading local online travel agency.

Hang obtained her MBA from Harvard Business School, and BA from Oberlin College
ScommerceCOO
Scommerce

Akshay Bhushan

Akshay Bhushan is a Partner at Lightspeed where he leads the firm’s Southeast Asia offices and focuses on consumer tech investing across both Southeast Asia and India investing in companies like Sharechat (India’s leading social network), Freight Tiger (Logistics Tech), Chilibeli (Social commerce) and several more.

Prior to Lightspeed he was a senior leader and a founding member of the corporate development team leading strategic investments & acquisitions for Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace with a registered customer base of over 100 million. Earlier in his career, Akshay spent time with Bain & Company, Accel Partners India and also co-founded/ran Whalelogix, a customer analytics platform for e-commerce and retail based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also serves on the advisory boards of Oracle Startup Accelerator and a VC fund in Africa.

Akshay has an MBA from The Wharton School, Philadelphia and graduated with Highest Honors with a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Lightspeed (India and SEA)Partner
Lightspeed (India and SEA)

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

Donald Lacey

Donald Lacey is Chief Operating Officer and a managing director at Ping An Global Voyager, a $1bn venture fund focused on opportunities in Fintech and Healthtech. Mr. Lacey joined Ping An from Citigroup, where he worked as a managing director in a variety of corporate and investment banking roles across Asia Pacific. Prior to moving to Asia in 2007, he held investment and advisory positions at Citigroup Global Markets and Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York. Mr. Lacey has an SB from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a JD from Harvard Law School.
PING AN GLOBAL VOYAGER FUNDManaging Director & COO
PING AN GLOBAL VOYAGER FUND

VT Bharadwaj

VT Bharadwaj is a General Partner at A91 Partners, an Indian private investment firm that seeks to partner with founders to build enduring businesses for tomorrow’s India.

Prior to co-founding A91 Partners,  VT was a Managing Director at Sequoia Capital, a global venture capital firm in India. Prior to that he worked at McKinsey & Co.

VT has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani

A91 partnersGeneral Partner
A91 partners

Andree Susanto

Andree Susanto is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Oicer of Waresix, a technology platform oering trucking, logistics and warehousing solutions for companies in Indonesia. He co-founded the company in 2017, with the aim of connecting shippers and businesses with available trucks and warehouses across Indonesia to improve availability, eiciency, and simpliication of logistics processes.

At Waresix, Andree is responsible for operations and business development, and has led the start-up to become a leading logistics technology platform in Indonesia, with a presence in more than 100 cities and over 40,000 trucks and 375 warehouses under management.

Andree has over seven years of experience in distribution and business process optimisation, with a key focus on the logistics and transportation industries.

He started his career as an engineer at one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, Chevron Corporation, based in California, where he was responsible for increasing the productivity, quality, and proitability of the lubricant and grease department through process design.

Before founding Waresix, Andree spent a year in China where he was exposed to China’s e-commerce boom and similar consumer trends in Indonesia. He was then inspired to develop a successful distribution platform to serve Indonesian consumers.

He left Chevron in 2012 and returned to Jakarta to set up his own business focusing on commercial vehicle lubricant distribution, building a network of 200 distribution points. During that time, he reconnected with Waresix’s other Co-Founder, Edwin Wibowo, a fellow university alumni, who worked at a transportation company and was one of his clients buying lubricants.

Andree and Edwin lived 450 kilometers apart at the time, with Andree in Jakarta and Edwin in Semarang. While working together, they discovered how cumbersome the shipment process was. They decided to come up with a technology platform to solve this problem and in 2017, Waresix was born.

Andree graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the Endeavor Outliers community of young entrepreneurs and made the Gen.T list 2020 of young leaders shaping Asia’s future. Waresix was also awarded the 2020 Indonesia Emerging Logistics Technology Platform of the Year.
WaresixCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Waresix

Anand Lunia

Anand is a founding Partner at India Quotient. He loves writing on startups, studying market opportunities and helping entrepreneurs. He has been an entrepreneur, angel investor, fund manager. Earlier, he was a partner at Seedfund, known for its exits in Carwale and Redbus. He co-founded Brainvisa, an ed-tech company which he sold in 2005. His angel investments include Faasos, Mydentist and Inkfruit. His twitter handle says “Entrepreneur is the king. Not the VC”.
India QuotientPartner
India Quotient

Kuldeep Singh Rajput

Kuldeep Singh Rajput is the CEO and Founder of Biofourmis, a fast-growing digital health company filled with committed, passionate people who care about augmenting personalized care and empowering people with complex chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives. Biofourmis is pioneering an entirely new category of digital health, by developing clinically-validated software-based therapeutics to provide better outcomes for patients, smarter engagement and tracking tools for clinicians, and cost-effective solutions for payers.

Recognized as a “Forbes 30 Under 30”, Kuldeep has demonstrated strong leadership experience with building teams, developing talent, and successfully growing, and managing strategic partnerships with global pharmaceutical manufacturers, health systems and payers. Under his leadership, Biofourmis has raised over USD $45 Million in venture capital from leading Venture Capital firms including Sequoia Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Aviva plc, and Mayo Clinic Ventures.

He uses his background and experience in biomedical engineering and data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to unfold his vision of “Predicting and Preventing Serious Medical Events using AI”. During his Ph.D. studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS), he built bioelectronic implants, which aim to control biological processes and treat disease by modulating electric impulses.

He believes in giving back and is part of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (YLC), supporting the mission of providing people access to education and healthcare for stable economic growth. Kuldeep has been featured in major publications and has been a keynote speaker at numerous prestigious conferences like TED. Specialties: Entrepreneur, Fund Raising, Building Companies, Digital Therapeutics, Licensing and Deal Structure, Healthcare Strategy, Digital Healthcare, Wearable Biosensors, Pharmaceuticals
BiofourmisCEO and Founder
Biofourmis

Thura Ko Ko

Thura Ko Ko is the founding partner of YGA Capital, a Myanmar-registered advisory company focused on identifying and investing in attractive growth opportunities in Myanmar for global and regional PE funds.

Prior to returning to Myanmar in 2010, Mr. Ko worked for over 12 years in global investment banking and private equity firms covering Asia out of Hong Kong. He was most recently a Vice President at Providence Equity, the global telecom and media fund. Prior to this, he worked for Goldman Sachs, the global investment bank, and N.M. Rothschild, the U.K.-based privatization and M&A house.

Transactions completed included the privatization of Philippines national electricity grid, Transco, and advising on foreign direct investments into Vietnam’s water distribution and treatment plants. In Myanmar, he is currently a member of the board of directors for Apollo Towers Myanmar Limited, a telecom tower operator with over 1,700 towers installed and Pacific Star Finance Limited, a pilot urban micro-finance company. Until end of 2017, he was also a member of the board of Myanmar Distillery Company Limited, a leading local beverage company.

Mr. Ko holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, University of London and was elected as a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum in 2013.

YGA CapitalFounding Partner
YGA Capital

Roderick Purwana

Roderick is Managing Partner for SMDV, a digital platform for technology based out of Indonesia and affiliated with the Sinarmas Group. SMDV was started in 2014 and manages a global venture investment portfolio with direct stakes in funds and in tech companies. Roderick is also a Partner at EV Growth. EV Growth is a joint venture between East Ventures, SMDV and Yahoo! Japan Capital that focuses on providing growth capital to startups in Indonesia and the rest of South-east Asia with an industry agnostic focus. Roderick has a diverse background with experiences in management, operations, investment and portfolio management through his work as an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and in Southeast Asia. He received his M.S from Stanford University and his B.S from Cornell University.
SMDVManaging Partner
SMDV

Arjun Sethi

Arjun Sethi is a Co-Founder of Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm built by engineers, scientists, and founders. Arjun sits on the board of Carta, Relativity, and Bolt. As a founder and operator, he has also been an active angel investor in over 100 companies, including Lyft, Opendoor, Gusto, and Front.

Prior to founding Tribe, Arjun was a partner at Social Capital, where he led the team investing in companies such as Slack, Cloud Kitchens, and Box. He also served on the executive team at Yahoo, where he grew product usage to over 1 billion monthly active unique users. He joined Yahoo as part of its acquisition of MessageMe, a messaging app he founded in 2012. Prior to that, Arjun founded LOLapps, a mobile gaming and apps company in which he grew to 100 million monthly users which sold to Nexon.
Tribe CapitalCo-founder & Partner
Tribe Capital

Honorio Gonzales Poblador IV

Honorio Gonzales Poblador IV is a Partner at Navegar.

He has 20 years of investment banking and private equity experience and has completed transactions throughout Asia. Immediately prior to establishing Navegar, he was a Managing Director at Rothschild, responsible for its Philippine business and financial sponsors coverage for South East Asia. Notable Philippine transactions completed include, the privatization of the National Transmission Corporation, the acquisition by Providence Equity Partners and Ayala Corporation of eTelecare, the sale of British Gas's stake in Santa Rita and San Lorenzo power plants and the acquisition by FEMSA of Coca Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. He has held positions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley Private Equity. He is currently a member of the Board of BDO Nomura Securities, Inc. and the Board of Advisors of ABS-CBN Corporation. He holds a degree in Management Economics from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines and has completed his MBA from Columbia University in New York.

Navegar FundManaging Partner
Navegar Fund

Anupum Khaitan

Anupum is Executive Director at Capital Square Partners (“CSP”), which represents an Asia-focused private equity firm with headquarters Singapore. He is responsible for fundraising, origination, deal-making, oversight for its investments, and importantly, the firm’s key growth initiatives, including a new Impact & ESG strategy, and works closely with the Singapore-based team. In addition, he assists CSP’s portfolio company, StarTek Inc. (“Startek”), on Corporate Development initiatives alongside its executive management. Anupum has a variety of deal exposure to various sectors including technology, logistics, hospitals and healthcare, hospitality and consumer, and education primarily across Asia including Southeast Asia and India, the United States, and Europe. Anupum joined CSP after having spent nearly a decade in private equity and venture capital in Asia and Southeast Asia representing approximately $400mm in total deal value and brings 17 years of prior investment and advisory experience to CSP. He has led and co-led investment expansion across Asia including Vietnam and India, while supporting origination and portfolio management in Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Anupum is routinely invited as a guest speaker to conferences and seminars, and provides thought leadership on a variety of topics within the investment community. Current and past board memberships include the Yale Club of Singapore, the Oxford & Cambridge Society of Singapore, and the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. Anupum is a graduate of Berkeley’s Computer Science division, Oxford’s Computer Science division, and Yale’s School of Management.
Capital Square PartnersExecutive Director
Capital Square Partners

David Ireland

Mr. Ireland is a Partner of Navis based in Thailand and an Investment Committee member. Mr. Ireland joined Navis in 2001 where he focuses on investments in Thailand, Vietnam and the Greater Mekong region and has been involved in transactions across South East Asia and Australia.

Mr. Ireland serves as a Director or Executive Committee Member at a number of portfolio companies including Hanoi French Hospital, TTC Education, Saitex Group, DZ Cards, Sri Thai Daily Foods, Christian Liaigre and Nitipon Clinics.

Prior to joining Navis, Mr. Ireland was based in Vietnam working in a private equity firm, The Vietnam Fund, as an investment professional. He has also worked as an attorney in both the US and Hong Kong.

Mr. Ireland has been resident as an adult in Asia since 1993 and spent significant portions of his childhood in Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam. He has a JD from the College of William & Mary, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Virginia.

Navis CapitalPartner
Navis Capital

Amit Saberwal

Amit Saberwal is the innovator behind RedDoorz, Southeast Asia’s largest and fastest-growing budget hotel brand. After a 20-year career in hospitality and travel tech, he identified an opportunity to help both the region’s emerging middle-class consumers and the struggling budget hotel owners. Singapore-based RedDoorz is on its way to operating with more than 1,800 properties in more than 150 cities in Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore.

Prior to founding RedDoorz, he was the Chief Business Officer – Hotel and International Markets at India’s premier travel and airline booking site MakeMyTrip.com. He was instrumental in shaping the company and was also part of the leadership team growing it to IPO in three years and getting it listed on NASDAQ in 2010, with 85,000 properties globally. He was also turnkey in spearheading MakeMyTrip largest acquisition of Thailand-based HotelTravel.com.

Amit has also previously worked as Director Sales and Marketing with The Park Hotels in Bangalore and New Delhi. He is a Hotel Management graduate with a Post Graduate Diploma in Sales & Marketing from National Institute for Sales, New Delhi.

He also spent time at Cornell University honing his professional skills as a hotelier. He spent his childhood in Delhi, India. He lives in Singapore with his banker wife and two children.
RedDoorzFounder & CEO
RedDoorz

Raditya Wibowo

Raditya Wibowo (Dito) is the Group Head of Transportation at Gojek. He’s responsible for overseeing Gojek’s Transportation businesses, or everything related to the mobility of people through Gojek’s two-wheeled and four-wheeled services. Dito joined Gojek in June 2015, six months after the launch of the Gojek app, when the company was run out of a two-story house. He started out overseeing the logistics team and built GoBox, Gojek’s on-demand truck service, from scratch. From 2016-2018, he led the product engineering team which scaled Gojek’s backend systems to survive a period of exponential growth, focusing on the technical infrastructure and algorithms that match driver-partners and customers. Prior to Gojek, Dito was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Dito holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology.
GojekGroup head of transportation
Gojek

Kunal Shroff

Kunal has been with ChrysCapital since November 1999 and is the Managing Partner at the firm. He manages the organization, leads the client relations function and also plays a critical role across all sectors, overseeing and assisting the various sector teams. Kunal was previously at Chilton Investment Company where he covered technology stocks, and at Goldman Sachs in their principal investment area in New York where he focused on private equity and mezzanine investments. He received a BS in computer science with magna cum laude honours from Cornell University.
ChrysCapitalManaging Partner
ChrysCapital

Rajesh Sawhney

Rajesh is the CEO and co-founder of InnerChef, India's leading cloud kitchen company. Rajesh is also the founder of GSF, India's leading multi-city Tech Accelerator which has funded over 50 startups so far. Rajesh also serves on the boards of Microland, Neilsoft, and Indiamart,. Additionally, he advises Trident Capital, a multi-billion AUM venture firm based in Palo Alto, California. Rajesh is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School (AMP), and has a fellowship from the London School of Economics.
GSF AcceleratorFounder & CEO
GSF Accelerator

Melisa Irene

Melisa Irene is Partner of East Ventures, an early-stage investment fund with B2C and B2B focus industry. Over 5 years, she has worked closely with startup founders across SEA to provide coordination and support for venture growth and fund raising.

East Ventures has funded hundreds of early-stage companies in Southeast Asia since their early days. Most of the companies have received subsequent funding round and riding on top of Indonesia’s middle-class consumer growth. The firm has also exited investments through M&A to local and international companies. This year, East Ventures crowned as the most consistent top performing VC fund globally and is the most active investor in SEA and Indonesia.
East VenturesPartner
East Ventures

Valerie Law

Valerie has worked for over a decade in the investment research field. As part of the investment strategy team at Standard Chartered Bank, she frequently presented investment outlook to clients and internal stakeholders. During her years with Macquarie and HSBC Securities as equities analyst, she covered technology, consumer, transport companies listed in Singapore and the region. In the last few years, she focused on research writing and consulting projects in the transport and fintech sectors, and was quoted by Bloomberg, Straits Times, and TechInAsia. For one of her projects, she successfully raised seed funding for a fashion-commerce startup.
dealstreetasiateam lead, research
dealstreetasia

Govindraj Ethiraj

Govindraj Ethiraj is a television and print journalist who has reported and written on Indian business for over 22 years.

He is a media executive and entrepreneur whose public interest journalism ventures are safeguarding the transparency, accuracy, and integrity of news in specific and the internet in general in India and world-wide.

Most recently, he founded BOOM ( www.boomlive.in ), an independent journalism initiative that fights misinformation and explains issues with the larger objective of making the internet safer.

He also founded the award-winning IndiaSpend ( indiaspend.org ), a public interest journalism outfit which use data to write and syndicate stories in areas like health, education, environment and FactChecker (factchecker.in )which monitors media, politicians and other figures for accuracy.

BOOM and FactChecker were India’s first verified members of the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN), affiliated with Poynter Institute. IndiaSpend is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).

Previously, he was Founder-Editor in Chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hours business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008. He continues to anchor seasonal shows on Indian broadcast television, in the business and economy space.

Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as Editor (New Media), and before that, Govindraj spent five years with television channel CNBC-TV18 where he actively drove most of the channels’ programming growth and expansion. Prior to television, he worked in print in The Economic Times and leading business magazines.

Govindraj was named a 2018 McNulty Prize Laureate in recognition for his leadership with BOOM, IndiaSpend, and FactChecker. He is a Fellow of the Inaugural Class of Ananta Aspen’s India Leadership Initiative and the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and winner of the 2014 BMW Responsible Leaders Awards.
BOOM & IndiaSpend Founder & Director
BOOM & IndiaSpend

Michelle Teo

Michelle is a journalist with nearly two decades of experience covering business and international affairs. She is deeply concerned about the growing gaps in the global economy and believes there is a need to reform capitalism for a more equitable and sustainable system. She was part of Al Jazeera English’s global launch team in Kuala Lumpur, and her last role was Chief Editor at The Edge Singapore. Michelle obtained her Master of Science in International Relations at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
DealstreetasiaManaging Editor
Dealstreetasia

Paramita Chatterjee

Based in Delhi, Paramita is a business journalist with over 16 years of experience. Over the years, she has reported on Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity and Venture Capital. Prior to joining DEALSTREETASIA, she was with The Economic Times, Businessworld and Forbes India. She has also had a brief stint at the Confederation of Indian Industry wherein she undertook policy advocacy work to facilitate growth in the infrastructure sector. Paramita is a guest faculty at The Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Dhenkenal).
DealstreetasiaEditor, India
Dealstreetasia

Andi Haswidi

Based in Jakarta, Andi Haswidi is an accomplished researcher, journalist and author. Prior to his current role with DEALSTREETASIA, he was the head of Asean research for FT Confidential, a research unit of the Financial Times. He started his career as a journalist in 2005 when he joined Indonesia’s leading English newspaper, The Jakarta Post, where he later became a business editor. He also had a brief stint as a business editor for Tempo weekly magazine before switching to the field of research for the FT in 2013. Andi is a recipient of the British Chevening Scholarship, with a master’s degree in public policy from University of Bristol. His first book, KOPI: Indonesian Coffee Craft & Culture, was published in 2018 by Afterhours Books, with a foreword by President Joko Widodo.
dealstreetasiaHead of Data Research
dealstreetasia

Ardi Wirdana

Ardi Wirdana is the correspondent for DealStreetAsia in Indonesia. Since starting his career as a journalist for Indonesia’s leading English daily, The Jakarta Post, in 2011, Ardi has gone on to write for various different publications, covering a range of topics including city, politics, and law. He started covering the Indonesian business scene in 2014 as the Indonesian Correspondent for Singapore-based news and views site Asean Today, before becoming a contributing writer for Nikkei Asian Review. Ardi’s works have also appeared in Indonesia Expat, South China Morning Post, My Salaam and Global Business Guide Indonesia.
dealstreetasiaIndonesia Correspondent
dealstreetasia

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra has been a technology journalist and editor since the year 2000 with several publications including The Economic Times, Mint and TechCrunch. Based in Bengaluru, he writes about people and companies taking technology mainstream in India. Pankaj is the cofounder, writer and CEO of FactorDaily.
FactorDailyJournalist & Co-Founder
FactorDaily

Eudora Wang

Eudora Wang is a Senior Reporter with DealStreetAsia, primarily tracking and covering the venture capital, private equity and the start-up ecosystem in Hong Kong and China. Eudora previously served as the Chief Reporter at Hong Kong-based online media outlet China Money Network, where she focused on technology innovation, smart investments and special situations in Greater China. Prior to China Money Network, Wang worked with Bloomberg Businessweek (Beijing) and Hunan TV Station, China. She has a Master’s degree in International Journalism Studies from Hong Kong Baptist University and a Bachelor’s degree in Radio & Television from Xi’an International Studies University, China.
dealstreetasiaDeputy Editor, Greater China
dealstreetasia

Shotaro Tani

Shotaro Tani is the correspondent for Nikkei Asia in Indonesia. He started his career as an editor for Japan’s leading business daily Nikkei in 2011, afterwards moving to the economics department covering central bank news and market news. He moved to Jakarta in 2018 and now extensively covers all things Indonesia, from corporate news, startups to politics and macro economy.
Nikkei AsiaIndonesia Correspondent
Nikkei Asia

Mercedes Ruehl

Mercedes Ruehl is the Financial Times’ Asia Tech reporter based in Hong Kong. She writes about technology and investment in Asia, from start-ups and entrepreneurs to the region’s biggest companies. She previously led the Financial Times’ newsletters and audience engagement team in Asia, and prior to that spent six years reporting in Australia on business, finance and politics for The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Financial TimesAsia Tech Reporter
Financial Times

Ngoc Nguyen

Ngoc has 8 years of experience working in media and communication. She was DealStreetAsia's Vietnam-based reporter during the 2015-2017 period, when she was a frequent moderator for local startup events. Ngoc also worked for Mekong Capital, Vietnam’s earliest private equity firm, as the company’s corporate communications officer, before she joined DealStreetAsia again in September 2018. Prior to DealStreetAsia and Mekong Capital, Ngoc was a financial markets reporter at Vietnam News, the first English-language publication in Vietnam. She was awarded Vietnam Startup Journalist of the Year 2016 by the ASEAN Ricebowl Startup Awards.
dealstreetasiaDeputy Editor, Vietnam
dealstreetasia

Stefania Palma

Stefania Palma is the Financial Times Singapore correspondent covering the city state, Malaysia and Indonesia. Travelling extensively across these markets, she reports on local economics, politics, finance and social issues. Prior to joining the Financial Times, she was Asia Editor at The Banker magazine. In that role, she reported from across Asia-Pacific interviewing finance ministers, central bank governors, bank CEOs and economists. Her reporting took her to all corners of the region, from China to India, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepal, Brunei, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines, to name but a few countries. She read for a MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford, during which she completed archival research and a language exchange at Peking University (北京大学). She has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, UK, where she first started studying Mandarin Chinese.
Financial TimesSingapore Correspondent
Financial Times

Deepshikha Monga

Deepshikha has over 15 years of experience in media and communication. She started her career as a business journalist with Business Standard and The Economic Times where she reported on information technology, retail and consumer goods. Prior to joining DealStreetAsia, she was a digital marketer at Honeywell, a Fortune 100 technology firm.
dealstreetasiaSenior Editor
dealstreetasia

Kristie Neo

Kristie, based in Singapore, is an Editor, VC, Southeast Asia at DEALSTREETASIA. Prior to joining DEALSTREETASIA, she was with CNBC International and Channel NewsAsia, where she wrote and produced business stories for television. At We Are Social, a digital agency, Kristie launched iQ Asia, Intel’s first online magazine for the Asia Pacific region. She has also built content strategies for brands such as Twentieth Century Fox and Lavazza. When not writing or reporting, Kristie gives walking tours at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore. She is an advocate for anti-human and anti-sex trafficking in Asia.
dealstreetasiaEditor, VC, Southeast Asia
dealstreetasia

Vedica Kant

Vedica Kant is a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group's Private Equity and Principal Investors practice based in San Francisco. Vedica co-edits a daily and weekly newsletter covering the latest news from the Indian start-up ecosystem, and has studied and worked in India, Singapore, Turkey, and the UK.
Boston Consultancy Group’s Private Equity & Principal Investors practice (San Fransisco)Consultant
Boston Consultancy Group’s Private Equity & Principal Investors practice (San Fransisco)

Sharmilpal Kaur

Sharmilpal is a Senior Researcher at DealStreetAsia. She started off her career in 1999 as a journalist for the Straits Times, covering health and environment issues. She won a UNEP award for her coverage of environment issues in Singapore. Since then, she has covered markets across multiple industries – healthcare, environment, oil, shipping, payments and ride-hailing. Her latest stint was with regional super-app Grab, where she managed a team of data analysts across industry verticals.
dealstreetasiaSenior researcher
dealstreetasia

Stephanie Findlay

Stephanie Findlay is South Asia Correspondent for the Financial Times. She was previously West Africa regional correspondent for Agence France-Presse in Lagos, Nigeria. Before taking that role, she reported from Johannesburg, South Africa, and worked for the Toronto Star and Maclean's Magazine in Toronto, Canada.
Financial TIMESSouth Asia Correspondent
Financial TIMES

Joji Philip

Joji is the founder of DealStreetAsia. He is a 24×7 information enthusiast, currently based in Singapore, and leads a pan-Asia team. Prior to this, he was among the most prolific journalists in India, and chronicled the communications/telecoms segment, breaking some of the biggest stories in these sectors, during his tenure at The Economic Times, and Business Standard. Since 2013, he has also been with Mint, a financial daily from HT Media Ltd. Joji has won the Business Standard-Seema Nazareth Award for Excellence in Journalism in March 2006. He is a twitterholic and a soccer fan who is only off the internet when motorcycling in the Himalayas.
dealstreetasiaFounder & Editor-in-Chief
dealstreetasia