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Patrick Walujo

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Member of the Investment Committee Northstar Group

Kevin Aluwi

Commissioner & Co-Founder
GoTo

Budi Gunadi Sadikin
Budi Gunadi Sadikin

Minister, Ministry of Health
Republic of Indonesia

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner
GGV Capital

Pandu Sjahrir
Pandu Sjahrir

Managing Partner
Indies Capital Partners

Founding Partner
AC Ventures

Tanah Sullivan

Group Head of Sustainability
GoTo

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Willson Cuaca

Co-Founder and Managing Partner
East Ventures

John riady
John Riady
CEO, President Commissioner, Executive Director
PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk, PT Siloam International Hospitals Tbk, Lippo Group
Gibran Huzaifah Amsi El Farizy

CEO
eFishery

Dayu Dara Permata
Dayu Dara Permata

CEO and Founder
 Pinhome

Jefrey Joe
Jefrey Joe

Co-Founder & General Partner
Alpha JWC Ventures

Claudia Kolonas

Founder
Pluang

Donald Wihardja
Donald Wihardja

CEO
MDI Ventures

Eddi Danusaputro

Chief Executive Officer
BNI Ventures

Nick Nash

Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Asia Partners

Louis Casey

Principal, Private Equity KKR

Saurabh N. Agarwal

Managing Director Warburg Pincus

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Tessa Wijaya,

COO & Co-Founder
 Xendit

Sandeep Naik

Managing Director and Head of India & Southeast Asia
General Atlantic

Pinn Lawjindakul
Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner
Lightspeed Venture Partners

Krishnan Menon

Founder & CEO
Lummo

Edward Tirtanata
Edward Tirtanata

Co-Founder & CEO
Kopi Kenangan

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo

Director / Head of Food and Indonesia Sales & Ops
GoTo

Carmen Yuen

Partner
Vertex Ventures

Christopher Madiam

Co-Founder & President Sociolla

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Harold Ong

Partner
Indies Capital

Vincent Henry Iswaratioso

Co-Founder & CEO
DANA

Howard Gani
Howard Gani

CEO
Mitra Bukalapak

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Sandeep Patil

Partner, Head of Asia
QED Investors

Adrian Li

Managing Partner and Founder
AC Ventures

Sachin Bhanot

Head of SE Asia investments
Prosus Ventures

Billy Kurniawan

Founder
Jiwa Group

Farid Aslam

CEO & Co-Founder
Aruna

Stefanus Ade Hadiwidjaja

CIO
Indonesia Investment Authority

Amit Saberwal

CEO & Founder RedDoorz

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Tuck Lye Koh

Founding Partner & CEO
Shunwei Capital

Ridzki Kramadibrata

President
Grab Indonesia

Nipun Mehra

Co-Founder
Ula

David Setyadi Gunawan

Chief Executive Officer EdenFarm

Akshay Garg

Co-Founder & CEO Kredivo

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Chairman & CEO, Turmeric Capital

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Partner, Indies Capital

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Co-founder/CEO, Shunwei Capital

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Patrick Walujo

Patrick Walujo is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Northstar Group. The Northstar Group is a Singapore headquartered private equity firm managing more than US$2.5 billion in committed equity capital dedicated to investing in growth companies in Indonesia and to a lesser extent other countries in Southeast Asia. Since its founding in 2003, the Northstar Group has raised four private equity funds and invested in more than 30 companies across the banking, insurance, consumer/retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, coal and mining services, technology, telecom, and agribusiness sectors. The Northstar Group has invested over US$2.8 billion with its co-investors in the Southeast Asian region.

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

Budi Gunadi Sadikin

His Excellency Budi Gunadi Sadikin was named Indonesia’s health minister in December 2020 at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic when he was tasked with the enormous responsibility of prevention and mitigation strategies. The former banker is a big advocate of the power of technology and innovation in improving access to reliable, affordable and effective healthcare solutions for Indonesia’s 280-million-strong population.

Prior to taking charge as health minister, Budi Gunadi Sadikin served as president of Bank Mandiri from 2013 to 2016 followed by the role of senior advisor to the minister of state-owned enterprises.

A nuclear science graduate from the Bandung Institute of Technology, Budi Gunadi Sadikin started his career in 1988 as an information technology officer at IBM Asia-Pacific in Tokyo and later joined PT Bank Bali. Subsequently, he served as director of consumer and commercial banking for ABN AMRO Bank Indonesia & Malaysia. He has also served stints at Bank Danamon and Adira Quantum Multi Finance.
Republic of IndonesiaMinister, Ministry of Health
Republic of Indonesia

Jenny Lee

Jenny Lee is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital and is best known for investing at the front of innovation in areas such EdTech, Fintech, Robotics/AI, EV, and Web3. She started her career as a jet engineer with Singapore Aerospace and became the first VC to invest in flying cars with eHang (NASDAQ; EH). Similarly, her lifelong passion for gaming led to investments in the metaverse and companies such as YY, and desire to help tackle food insecurity around the world have led to many investments in foodtech and sustainability around the world.

She has had 8 IPOs in the last 5 years, including two in 2021, across the NYSE, Nasdaq, ChiNext, HKSE and SSE STAR Market exchanges, and numerous portfolio companies exits via M&A. Jenny launched GGV’s first office in China in 2005 and re-opened GGV’s Singapore office in 2019. She also leads the firm’s USD fund raising activities.

Jenny is currently a board director with Agora (NASDAQ: API), SATS Ltd, Government Technology Agency of Singapore, and Temasek. She has been a member of the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list since 2012 and was the first woman to break the top 10 in 2015. Most recently, she was named World’s Top 5 Female Venture Capitalists by Forbes’ 2021. Jenny is a graduate of Cornell University and Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
GGV CapitalManaging Partner
GGV Capital

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

Tanah Sullivan

Tanah Sullivan is the Group Head of Sustainability at GoTo and leads its environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts across Gojek, GoTo Financial and Tokopedia.

Before GoTo, Tanah was at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where she led partnerships for a range of sustainability-focused initiatives in ASEAN and globally. She led the Forum’s efforts on issues such as energy transition, circular economy, food security, gender equality, deforestation and financial inclusion, among others.

Previously, Tanah held various public sector roles with the Canadian and Australian governments, covering international security, development, natural resource security as well as foreign trade and investment.

Tanah holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Bond University and a Master of Political Economy from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
GoTo Group Head of Sustainability
GoTo

Wilson Cuaca

Willson Cuaca is the Founding Partner at East Ventures, the most active venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Willson manages both the Seed and Growth funds at East Ventures, which has invested in 250+ tech companies across Southeast Asia, with a central focus in Indonesia, the largest archipelago in the world. Under Willson’s leadership, East Ventures captured the early wave of digital transformation in Indonesia by becoming the 1st investor of Indonesia’s unicorns, Tokopedia and Traveloka. East Ventures is also the early backer of many fast-growing companies in Southeast Asia such as Ruangguru, Shopback, Moladin, Sociolla, Xendit, SIRCLO and Waresix and is a shareholder of Grab and Gojek. Willson was listed in Asia’s Top 100 People Transforming Business in 2020 by Business Insider and named Fortune Indonesia Businessperson of the Year 2022.
East VenturesFounding Partner
East Ventures

John Riady

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

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

Dayu Dara Permata

Dayu Dara Permata is currently the CEO and Founder of Pinhome. Founded in 2019 by former Gojek executives Dayu Dara Permata and Ahmed Aljunied, Pinhome is Indonesia’s largest property transaction platform. Pinhome's online-to-offline property brokerage platform tackles the fragmented real estate market in Indonesia. The company works with banks, property developers, and other service providers, and leverages its algorithm and wealth of property data to enable seamless discovery, transactions, and post-transaction services for property buyers and sellers in the country. Previously she was the Senior Vice President of Gojek. As part of GoJek's early management team, Dara was responsible for Gojek's rapid expansion across Indonesia. She also collected extensive experience in business strategy from being a consultant at McKinsey, a Corporate Strategy Analyst at XL Axiata, and an Investment and Infrastructure Analyst at Tusk Advisory. Dara graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology with a degree in Industrial Engineering.
PinhomeCEO and Founder
Pinhome

Jefrey Joe

Jefrey Joe is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor. In 2015, he co-founded Alpha JWC Ventures, an early- to growth-stage Southeast Asian ventures capital firm with an Indonesia focus. The firm currently manages around $650mn across three active funds and 70 active portfolio companies. Jefrey was an early board member of some of the fastest growing startups in SEA including Kopi Kenangan, Ajaib and Kredivo. He obtained his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and graduated from Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.
Alpha JWC VenturesCo-Founder & General Partner
Alpha JWC Ventures

Claudia Kolonas

Before starting Pluang, Claudia has worked in the financial services industry in Indonesia for more than 10 years, through Celebes Capital, a leading Venture Capital fund focused on financial institutions. The Harvard Business School graduate has the goal of leveling the playing field for Indonesians by increasing access to investment products.
PluangFounder
Pluang

Donald Wihardja

Donald Wihardja is the CEO of MDI Ventures. He has over 20 years of experience working in the technology sector in Indonesia as an entrepreneur, operator and investor. His breadth of exposure and expertise in technology, finance, consulting, and management makes him a professional with a unique blend whose proven track record ranges from investing, running and managing technology companies to raising investments.

Donald has spent combined over 5 years in the Digital Payment space: recently as GM for Indonesia in 2C2P, a regional Payment Gateway with over $500 million annual transaction value processed, and previously as CIO in Indomog, a payment solution company to digital content providers in Indonesia as Chief Information Officer. In Indomog, he designed the systems that facilitates tens of thousands of transaction daily to vendors, payment providers and customers, and grew the company 3x annually for 4 consecutive years reaching $15M annual revenue in 2012, and holding 15-20% of Indonesia’s online gaming payment market.

Donald previously worked in Quvat (Private Equity), where he helped manage the over $100M investment into Matrix Cable Network, the first non-telco Indonesian submarine cable operator. Completed in 2008, The Matrix Cable ushered the country into the Internet Age by drastically reducing the cost of Internet for Indonesian customers. Independently, Donald also advised and assisted various technology startups to raise over several million dollars of funding from investors.

Donald graduated with high honors from University of California at Berkeley with a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and received his master’s degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

As the largest Corporate VC to an Indonesian State-owned Enterprise, MDI seeks to invest in all stages of tech companies, from Seed to Series C and beyond. We invest mainly in Southeast Asia, but we have a global mandate as well. We put extra emphasis in synergy with our Telkom parent companies, as well as other SOE of Indonesia, with a dedicated team to bridge the gap between the agile and growing tech startups, and the established, dominant SOE with a large reach and dedication to finding the next frontier.
MDI VenturesCEO
MDI Ventures

Eddi Danusaputro

Eddi currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at BNI Ventures since July 2022.

He has over 20 years of experience in several sectors including Financial Services (Morgan Stanley, AXA, and Makara Capital), Management Consulting (Booz Allen Hamilton, and AT Kearney) and Consumer Goods (Procter & Gamble). He spent most of his career in Singapore. Eddi also has experience in angel investing and social entrepreneurship.

Eddi Received his bachelor's degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada, followed by an MBA from Duke University, and a PhD from the University of Indonesia

BNI VenturesChief Executive Officer
BNI Ventures

Nick Nash

Nicholas A. Nash is the Managing Partner and a co-founder of Asia Partners, a leading growth equity technology investment firm in Southeast Asia.

Prior to Asia Partners, Mr. Nash was the Group President of Sea, Greater Southeast Asia’s leading internet company, from 2014 to 2018. Sea is today a $9.5bn U.S. public company and the region’s market leader in e-commerce and e-sports.

Mr. Nash led Sea’s landmark initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SE), which raised approximately $1 billion of primary capital and which was the largest ever U.S. IPO of a company from Southeast Asia. It was one of the largest IPOs worldwide in 2017 and was also the largest ex-China emerging markets technology IPO in the U.S. since 2011.

Mr. Nash joined Sea after more than a decade with General Atlantic (GA), most recently as the co-founder and head of GA’s Southeast Asia business. Three of Mr. Nash’s successful investments while with General Atlantic are now multi-billion dollar NYSE publicly traded companies. Prior to GA, Mr. Nash was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York.

Mr. Nash was a member of the World Economic Forum’s ASEAN Regional Strategy Group from 2017-2018. Mr. Nash was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 2013-2018 and is a member of the global Kauffman Society for leadership in venture capital, a member of the Young Presidents Organization, a board member for Room to Read in Singapore, and a board member of Endeavor Indonesia.

He received an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2007, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in Chemistry and Physics, magna cum laude, in 2000. In 1996 he was named a United States Presidential Scholar, one of the nation’s highest academic honors for graduating secondary school students.
Asia PartnersCo-founder and Managing Partner
Asia Partners

Louis Casey

Louis Casey (Singapore) joined KKR in 2016 and is a member of the Next Generation Technology team, focusing on growth equity investments in the Asia region. He has been involved in KKR’s investments in Laser Clinics Australia, MYOB and Arnotts as well as KKR’s exit and subsequent reinvestment in GenesisCare and has led a number of portfolio company add-on investments in technology, such as MYOB’s investment in FlareHR. Prior to KKR, Mr. Casey was at Investec and worked within their growth equity investments and corporate advisory teams. He has also spent time working within the renewable energy industry, starting his career in finance as an energy trader. Mr. Casey holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Tasmania and a Masters of Finance from Monash University (Melbourne).
kkrPrincipal, Private Equity
kkr

Saurabh N. Agarwal

Saurabh N. Agarwal joined Warburg Pincus in 2009 and is based in Singapore, where he relocated from New York in 2016 to focus on the firm’s investment activities in Asia. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Agarwal worked at McKinsey & Company in New Jersey and New Delhi, and Temasek Holdings in Mumbai. Mr. Agarwal is currently a Director of Advance Intelligence Group, Circles.Life, Converge ICT, MoMo Pay and Techcombank (HOSE:TCB), and previously served on the boards of several companies, including AAG Energy (HKG:2686), Competitive Power Ventures, Mosaic Inc., RimRock, RSEG Inc. and Trident. Mr. Agarwal holds a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Microelectronics from IIT Bombay, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Warburg Pincus Managing Director
Warburg Pincus

Tessa Wijaya

Tessa Wijaya is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Xendit. She is responsible for the overall business operations of the company, including service and support, partnerships, government, and public relations, as well as compliance. Her ability to multitask played a significant role in Xendit’s business landscape that brings the company to where it is now, making her known as the leader that “can make things work”.

Prior to building Xendit, Tessa had a successful career at various private equity firms for 7 years, QUVAT, Fairways, and Mizuho,  before embarking on a new journey in the sphere of financial technology in 2015. Tessa earned her bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University in the United States of America and a master’s degree in the University of Sydney in Australia.

Tessa has always had the dream of becoming an entrepreneur and liking the variety of challenges that she had to overcome along the way. And now, being one of the few women in the payments landscape that is continuously evolving, Tessa believes in changing the world at scale through technology. With her expertise, she is keen on building Indonesia and South East Asia’s digital infrastructure by providing the best payment solutions.
XenditCo-Founder & COO
Xendit

Sandeep Naik

Sandeep Naik is a Managing Director and Head of General Atlantic’s business in India & Southeast Asia. He is also a member of the firm’s Management and Portfolio Committees. Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, Sandeep served as a Partner and Co-Head of India for Apax, leading investments in the healthcare, financial and business services and retail and consumer sectors. Earlier in his career, he was Global Marketing Manager at Medtronic Inc., a scientist at Mayo Clinic, and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He is also the Co-Founder of InfraScan Inc., a medical device business focused on detecting bleeding inside the brain using a handheld device. Sandeep was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has served on the Global Agenda Council of New Order of Economic Thinking.
General AtlanticManaging Director, Head of India & Southeast Asia
General Atlantic

Pinn Lawjindakul

Pinn Lawjindakul is Partner at Lightspeed, and is part of the firm’s Southeast Asia team. She focuses on growing the Lightspeed platform in the region, and provides the necessary counsel and direction for the firm’s investments primarily in consumer and financial technology companies.

Prior to Lightspeed, she worked alongside founders across all business life stages in China and India, most notably companies such as Flipkart, Ola, Hike, Razorpay, and Uxin. She was also a board member of Flip, an Indonesian FinTech company. Her first foray into the investment world was with Bain & Company, where she advised private equity clients on due diligence in the first wave of technology start-ups in South East Asia. She was enticed by the possibility to radically transform the region through innovation, and decided to join Grab – the first Decacorn of SEA – in several operations roles where she understood the intricacies of scaling a business across multiple countries and markets.

As she continued to develop her career, she has spent time in the U.S. and around the world in various roles and capacities. The myriad of experiences has helped boost her understanding of trends in mature tech economies and enables her to contextualize those learnings to emerging markets in SEA.

Pinn has a double degree in Finance and Psychology from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lightspeed Venture PartnersPartner
Lightspeed Venture Partners

Krishnan Menon

Krishnan Menon is the Founder and CEO of Lummo (previously BukuKas). Krishnan, with his co-founder Lorenzo Peracchione, founded Lummo as BukuKas in 2019 with a mission to empower aspiring entrepreneurs and brands to accelerate their growth and to serve their customers by giving them the best technology and partner solutions. Krishnan has been the driving force behind Lummo’s explosive growth, playing a significant role in guiding product development and strategy.

Krishnan is a seasoned entrepreneur in the Southeast Asian region. Prior to starting Lummo, he led the expansion of FreeCharge, a fintech enterprise in Singapore and Mumbai. Other roles in his storied career include Regional Operations Manager of Marketplace at ZALORA, the Head of Buying/Merchandising and Sales at Lazada Group, and the Head of Sales and Ops at AlphaBeta Labs.

Krishnan holds a Masters in Chemistry from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Krishnan Menon hails from Ottapalam in Kerala.
Lummo (previously BukuKas)Founder and CEO
Lummo (previously BukuKas)

Edward Tirtanata

He graduated Magna Cum Laude in finance and accounting from Northeastern University. After a brief stint in Ernst & Young Tax, he became a serial entrepreneur in a range of different businesses. In 2015, he started Lewis & Carroll tea, one of the largest premium tea house chains in Indonesia where he quickly realized the importance of online delivery, affordability, and technology in F&B business. The experience triggered him to start Kopi Kenangan, a tech enabled grab & go premium affordable coffee chain, which became one of the largest coffee chain in Indonesia in just 2 years.
Kopi KenanganCEO and Co-Founder
Kopi Kenangan

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo

An Indonesian citizen, born in 1983, Catherine has served as a Director of GoTo since 2021. She is also the Head of Food and Indonesia Sales & Ops at Gojek, and is responsible for setting the overall strategy for GoFood and leading the operations and sales for Gojek’s Indonesia business.

Catherine first joined Gojek in 2018 and has led GoFood with a focus on developing innovative strategies and products to meet consumer demand, while empowering micro, small and medium enterprises across the region. Under her leadership, GoFood has grown to become Southeast Asia’s leader in food delivery services.

In March 2019, Catherine was invited by the United Nations (UN) to speak on how the Company empowers women entrepreneurs, during the annual meeting for the organisation’s Commission on the Status of Women. She has also been named to Prestige Indonesia’s “40 under 40: The Indonesian Vanguard of 2020” list, which recognises rising young personalities who are helping Indonesia remain a matchless agency of change and growth in these unprecedented times.

She previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of PT Sumber Trijaya Lestari (Alfacart), from 2016 to 2017. Prior to that, Catherine played a key role in building PT Fashion Eservice (Zalora Indonesia) as Managing Director and Co-Founder. Earlier in her career, Catherine gained experience with the world’s top consulting firm McKinsey & Company as Business Analyst from 2004 to 2006 and most recently as Senior Associate from 2010 to 2012, and with Innosight as a Venture Leader from 2006 to 2009.

Catherine received her Bachelor of Business in Banking & Finance from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2004.

She has no family relationship with any other members of the Board of Commissioners, Board of Directors or Shareholders.
GoToDirector / Head of Food and Indonesia Sales & Ops
GoTo

Harold Ong

Harold is a Partner at Indies Capital Partners, 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. Harold leads the technology investments of Indies Capital Partners, which is focused on a) mezzanine and/or structured equity alternative financing, and b) secondary equity purchases of mid-to-late stage technology companies in South East Asia. For both our mezzanine and equity strategy, we target technology sector leaders at their growth phase.
Indies Capital Partners Partner
Indies Capital Partners

Vincent Henry Iswaratioso

Vince is the Co-Founder and CEO of DANA. He has been a tech-fin entrepreneur for more than a decade. Prior to DANA, he founded one of the first FinTech companies in SEA in 2008 called INDOMOG. The company was one of the first successful payment companies in the region and the market leader in Indonesia, solving for the issue of gamers paying for digital goods.

He was a co-founder of other early tech startups such as a cloud-consulting company - PointStar PTE LTD in 2007, a digital marketing company - Polaris 3D in 2002, a co-working space - Polaris Tech Center in 2001 and he has been an active investor in tech startups.

Vince was awarded as the 1st Endeavor Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014. Vince is recognized in both the technology and financial industries for his contribution to building a cashless society and he is well-known in the engineering community. He is currently a Board Member of ASPI (Indonesia Payments Systems Association) and Vince was a speaker at various worldwide conferences.
DANACo-Founder and CEO
DANA

Howard Gani

Howard is an all-round business leaders with a strong background in a variety of field, such as business & product initiatives, partnership and dealing management, and disruption & growth hacking strategy.

Howard started his first career at Ericsson Australia as an Engineer. Before he came back to Indonesia, he finishes his MBA Degree in INSEAD. Then he continue his journey to work at Bain & Company for more than 3 years, before he joined Bukalapak.

Currently, Howard holds the role as the CEO of Mitra Bukalapak at Bukalapak.
Buka Mitra Indonesia - BukalapakCEO
Buka Mitra Indonesia - Bukalapak

Sandeep Patil

Sandeep joined QED in 2020 in London as a partner and heads the fund’s investments into Asia. His current portfolio includes Refyne, OneCard, Jupiter and Upswing.

He has extensive experience in consumer internet and is a global veteran of the banking and financial services industry. Over his career spanning more than two decades, he has developed and executed major growth strategies and led, operated, advised, and invested in companies of all sizes in the U.S., the U.K., India and Southeast Asia.

Sandeep was based in the U.S. and the U.K. in the first 15 years of his professional life. He started at Capital One in the U.S. developing product and credit strategies for underserved and upmarket consumers. Later, he was part of the investment team at Actis Capital, a London-based growth equity fund and covered opportunities in India and Africa. After that, at McKinsey and Company, he served prominent banks, insurers, and investors in Southeast Asia, the U.S. and Europe, on matters of growth and mergers and acquisitions.

Over the next five years, Sandeep led several consumer internet businesses in India. He was part of the senior leadership team at Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company. As business unit head, he was the general manager and P&L owner for the home and furniture division. He served as the head of corporate strategy for the group contributing to a $4 billion fundraise in 2017 and the successful acquisition by Walmart in 2018. As the head of fintech, he scaled consumer, SME and vendor financing products to 1.3 million borrowers.

Thereafter, he was the managing director and chief executive officer for India at Truecaller, a consumer technology company with over 250 million monthly users. He directed global adtech, fintech and enterprise businesses, overseeing an increase of 4x in revenues to around $100 million in two years and paving the way for the company’s IPO.

Sandeep holds a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), Mumbai, India and an MBA from the London Business School (L.B.S.).

Though an avid traveller, paragliding pilot and deep-sea diver, Sandeep’s most incredible adventures these days are with his two sons in the parks of London.

QED InvestorsPartner, Head of Asia
QED Investors

Adrian Li

Adrian is Founder & Managing Partner at AC Ventures (“ACV”), formerly Convergence Ventures. He has over 15 years of technology entrepreneur and investment experience in emerging markets China and Indonesia. ACV is a leading early stage Indonesia focused technology venture capital fund. ACV manages over US$380M in AUM invested across four funds. Notable investments include, Stockbit, Koinworks, Julo, Carsome and Shipper. Previously, Adrian co-founded several ventures in China and Indonesia.

Adrian’s 1st Internet venture was in China, 2006 where he built a venture backed online Education business to an eventual acquisition in 2010. He later joined Rocket Internet as a Managing Director where he worked on incubating new technology ventures in China and South East Asia. At the end of 2014 he launched Convergence Ventures which became ACV in 2019.

He is a business mentor at several organizations including Endeavour, Founders Institute and Antler. He has served on the board of Entrepreneurs Organization is several roles including Beijing Chapter President and Regional Communications Director. He is also a member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) in Indonesia.

Adrian graduated from Cambridge University with a BA and MA in Economics and was elected a Hawk in recognition of his contributions to University and National level Judo. He obtained his MBA from Stanford and is currently enrolled in the Tsinghua OBOR EMBA program. He is a Kauffman Fellow in Class 21. He speaks Mandarin and English fluently and is proficient in Cantonese and basic Bahasa.

Specialties: Leadership, Start up Operations, Strategy, China & Indonesia tech, Internet and Technology, fitness and endurance training
AC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner
AC Ventures

Sachin Bhanot

Sachin Bhanot is the Head of Southeast Asia Investments at Prosus Ventures, where he spends his time covering a range of sectors including consumer enablement, B2B commerce, fintech, logistics and more. Prior to joining Prosus Ventures, Sachin was a member of the investment team at B Capital Group, where he focused on venture investments in Southeast Asia. Before B Capital, Sachin was part of The Abraaj Group’s Private Equity team in Southeast Asia and MENA for five and a half years. Prior to that, he was the Special Assistant to the former CEO / Chairman of CIMB Group. Sachin graduated with a Masters of Engineering Science from Oxford University.
Prosus VenturesHead of Southeast Asia Investments
Prosus Ventures

Billy Kurniawan

Billy Kurniawan is the founder and CEO of Jiwa Group leading tech enabled F&B brands of Kopi Janji Jiwa & Jiwa Toast. In his 3 years of leadership, Kopi Janji Jiwa & Jiwa Toast has grown to more than 900 stores across Indonesia. The brands are popular choices for Grab & Go consumers and the go to neighborhood coffee spots for the locals. Prior to founding Jiwa Group, Billy had been in the industry for 7 years helping to scale local F&B brands.

In 2008, Billy received his Bachelor of Business majoring in Finance & Marketing, from Seattle University.
Jiwa GroupFounder
Jiwa Group

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

Tuck Lye Koh

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

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

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

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

Nipun Mehra

Nipun is a co-founder of Ula and CEO. Nipun has had previous stints building out businesses and categories at Amazon and Flipkart, has been an investment advisor with Sequoia Capital and been part of the leadership team at payments unicorn Pine Labs. Nipun holds a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School.
UlaCo-founder and CEO
Ula

David Setyadi Gunawan

David Setyadi Gunawan earned his bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Universitas Katolik Parahyangan and completed his MBA degree from Prasetiya Mulya Business School. In 2017, he founded Eden Farm, one of the country’s fastest growing B2B agri-tech startup company, together with Febrianto Gamal and Ramavito Mountaino.

Eden Farm focuses on revolutionizing the supply chain for fresh produce and creating powerful defensibility in the upstream agri-tech space. Partnering up with direct local producers across Indonesia to provide various food ingredients needed by the culinary businesses, EdenFarm develops healthy food ecosystem to sustainably empower farmers in improving their production consistency through demand forecast and guaranteed demand, and provide B2B customers with food price stabilization to support their culinary business.
EdenFarm Chief Executive Officer
EdenFarm

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