ASIA PE-VC Summit 2025
Discover, Learn & Connect with
Asian Private Capital Ecosystem's Biggest Movers & Shakers
- Grand Copthorne Waterfront, Singapore
- Sept 10 - 11, 2025
Since 2016, our summit has hosted
AGENDA
8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration & Networking Coffee
9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome Address by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
9:20 am – 10:10 am | Opening Session – Navigating the Storm: Are Global Headwinds Reshaping Asia’s Private Equity Playbook?
- Nikhil Srivastava, Co-Head of Private Equity, PAG
- Maxime Franzetti, Senior Partner & Co-Head of Solutions, Mubadala Capital
- Huanan Yang, Partner & Chief Financial Officer, HOPU Investments
- Kerrine Koh, Head of South East Asia, Hamilton Lane
- Saurabh Agarwal, Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia Private Equity, Warburg Pincus
- Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
10:10 am – 10:40 am | Networking Coffee Break
10:40 am – 11:30 am | A Region Recalibrated: How Southeast Asia’s GPs Are Navigating a Changed Private Equity Landscape
- Dickson Loo, Managing Director, Private Equity, SeaTown Holdings International
- Omar Mahmoud, Managing Director, Creador Private Equity
- Alex Yang, Managing Partner and head of Greater China and SE Asia, Brookfield’s Private Equity Group
- Amit Kunal, Managing Partner, Growtheum Capital Partners
- Jason Rosenblatt, Partner & Head of Southeast Asia Private Equity, Ares Management Corporation
- Pimfha Chan, Correspondent, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
11:35 am – 12:25 pm | China’s PEs design new playbooks to capture upsides in shifting market
- Lane Zhao, Founder and CEO, InnoVision Capital Infrastructure Partners
- Jun Qian, Head of Private Equity China, Schroders Capital
- Philip Hu, Founding Member & Managing Director, Primavera Capital
- Boon Chew, Managing Partner and Senior Managing Director, Trustar Capital
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm | From Niche to Necessary: Can Private Credit in Asia Deliver at Scale?
- Nilesh Shrivastava, Partner, Strategic Opportunities Fund, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
- Johnny Adji, Head of Alternative Investments, Mercer Asia
- Sumit Bhandari, Lead Portfolio Manager, Asia Private Credit, Allianz Global Investors
- Justin Hooley, Managing Director, Barings’ Asia Pacific Private Finance Group
- Benjamin Fanger, Managing Partner, ShoreVest Partners
- Ngoc Nguyen, Deputy Editor (Vietnam), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
2:25 pm – 3:20 pm | Private equity’s prescription for Asia’s healthcare boom
- Dr Amit Kakar, Head of Asia, Novo Holdings Asia
- Fu Wei, CEO, CBC Group
- Hoda Abou-Jamra, Founding Partner & Managing Director Southeast Asia, TVM Capital Healthcare
- Ramesh Kannan, Partner, Somerset Indus Capital Partners
- Kavitha Nair, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
3:25 pm – 3:55 pm | Networking Coffee Break
3:55 pm – 4:35 pm | Anchors, Builders, Partners: How Gulf Capital is Scaling Asia’s Private Platforms
- Taimoor Labib, Founding Partner, Head of MENA and Chairman of Africa, Affirma Capital
- Shantanu Mukerji, Managing Director, Private Equity, Gulf Capital
- Cliff Chau, Managing Partner, ewpartners
- Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
4:40 pm – 5:20 pm | India’s Private Equity Comeback: Exits, Evolution, and Endgames
- Roshini Bakshi, Head of Impact & MD, Private Equity, Everstone Capital Asia
- Shaun Khubchandani, Partner, Co-Head of Emerging Markets, Siguler Guff & Company
- Jason Sambanju, Partner, CEO & Founder, Foundation Private Equity
- Dr. Amit Varma, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Quadria Capital
- Sudhir Maheshwari, Founder & Managing Partner, Synergy Capital
- Paramita Chatterjee, India Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
5:20 pm – 6:00 pm | Closing Session: Asia’s Infrastructure Revolution: The multi-trillion-dollar opportunity?
- Niels Christian Holst, Partner, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners
- Yuyu Peng, Head of China Renewable Infrastructure, Schroders Capital
- Khan Yow, Managing Director, Seraya Partners
- Katrina Bianca Cuaresma, Correspondent, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
10:40 am – 10:45 am | Welcome Address by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
10:45 am – 11:35 am | Opening Session: How are global LPs assessing Asia’s potential?
- Kelvin Yap, Managing Director, Singapore, HarbourVest
- Brian Lim, Partner & Head of Asia and Emerging Markets Investment Teams, Pantheon Ventures
- Serena Tan, Co-Founder and CEO, Gaia Investment Partners
- Michael Liu, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors
- Brooke Zhou, Partner, LGT Capital Partners
- Kavitha Nair, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
11:35 am – 12:25 pm | Can LPs ignore China despite macro headwinds?
- Kent Chen, Managing Director and Head of Asia Private Equity, Neuberger Berman
- Gary Hui, Senior VP, Head of Hong Kong Office, Wilshire
- Frankie Fang, Founding Managing Partner, Starquest Capital
- Stephanie Li, Reporter, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:25 pm | Can Asia’s Secondaries Market Deliver on Investor Expectations?
- Lay Hong Lee, Managing Director, Flexstone Partners
- Karen Tse, Principal, Investment, Coller Capital
- Yuliang Chen, Founding Partner, Bee Alternatives Ltd. (BAL)
- Vincent Hsu, Partner, StepStone
- Desmond Lee, Business Unit Partner, TPG NewQuest
- Pimfha Chan, Correspondent, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
2:25 pm – 3:25 pm | Private wealth is having its moment in the sun
- Henry Chui, Co-Head of Asia & Head of Private Wealth Asia Pacific, Partners Group
- Sueann Yeo, Managing Director and Head of Asia-Pacific Private Wealth Client Relations and Capital Raising, EQT Partners
- Jacqueline Zhuang, Managing Director, Head of Global Wealth Solutions Asia Pacific ex-Japan, KKR
- Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-chief, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
3:25 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Japan’s Private Equity Moment: Real Momentum or Cyclical Mirage?
- Gregory Rokuro Hara, Chief Executive and Managing Partner, Chairman of the Investment Committee, J-STAR
- Kazushige Kobayashi, Managing Director, MCP Asset Management
- CK Choun, Partner, Representative Director, Integral Global Tech Partners
- Stephanie Li, Reporter, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
4:45 pm to 5:30 pm | Closing Session: The case for emerging fund managers
- Vishnu Amble, Director and Head of Investments, GreenBear Group LLC
- Sam Robinson, Senior Advisor, North-East Asset Management Singapore
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Andi Haswidi, Head of Data Research, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Networking and Cocktails
The Trillion Dollar Question: What is it going to take to close the climate finance gap?
- Kean Ng, Senior Investment Officer, responsAbility
- Fay Chetnakarnkul, Regional Director (Asia), Norfund
- Marat Zapparov, Chief Executive Officer, Pentagreen Capital
- Nishant Kumar, Head of Asia Coverage, PIDG
- Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Fireside Chat: Catalysing climate capital and cross-border collaboration
- Krishna Kumar, Partner, India-Japan Fund, National and Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF)
- In conversation with Kavitha Nair, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia
Decarbonising Asia: Driving the transition to clean energy and industries
- Deepa Hingorani, Partner, Novo Holdings Asia
- Melvyn Yeo, Managing Partner, TRIREC
- Sebastien Guillaud, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Shift4Good
- Namrata Singh, Investments Principal, Clime Capital
- Katrina Bianca Cuaresma, Correspondent, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Impact Investing: How has it driven positive outcomes for investors?
- Linda Mok, Director of Investment, Sarona Fund Management
- Mahesh Joshi, Head of Asia Private Equity, BlueOrchard Finance
- Leslie Zambelli, Impact Investment Director, Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia
- Ngoc Nguyen, Deputy Editor (Vietnam), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank
J-STAR
National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
EQT Partners
Brookfield’s Private Equity Group
Kyoto University & Kyoto iCAP (Kyoto University Innovation Capital)
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Join 1,300+ GPs, LPs, founders, and family offices shaping the future of private capital in Asia. Here's a glimpse of the firms who attend.
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PAST SPEAKERS
AGENDA
Jan 15, 6.00pm – 9.00pm | Ups, Downs & Resets: A Decade of Indonesia’s Startup, PE/VC Ecosystem
- Achmad Zaky, Founding Partner, Init-6 & Former Bukalapak CEO
- Pandu Sjahrir, COO, Daya Anagata Nusantara Investment Management Agency (BPI Danantara); Managing Partner, Indies Capital Partners; Founding Partner, AC Ventures; Vice President Director, TBS Energi
- Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
Location: The Bimasena, Jakarta
By Invitation Only
7.55am – 8.55am | Registration & Morning Networking
9.00am – 9.20am | Welcome Note
- by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
9.20am – 9.50am | How are global asset allocators and investors reading Indonesia’s potential?
- David Harrity, Head of Corporate & Structured Finance, Commercial Banking, HSBC Asia Pacific
- Sharon Liang, Principal and Head of Southeast Asia, Siguler Guff
- Pradita Astarina, Venture Partner, Strategic Year Holdings Limited
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, Greater China, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
9.55am – 10.45am | Keynote session: What will drive the next phase of tech disruption in SE Asia?
- Patrick Walujo, Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner, Northstar Group; and CEO, GoTo Group
- In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder and Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
10.45am – 11.10am | Networking & Coffee Break
11.10am – 11.50am | Unlocking Indonesia’s Potential: Integrating Tech Enablement, Capital Solutions, and Partnerships
- Stefanus Ade Hadiwidjaja, Chief Investment Officer, Indonesia Investment Authority
- Ming Eng, Partner, Granite Asia
- Pandu Sjahrir, Managing Partner, Indies Capital Partners; Founding Partner, AC Ventures; Vice President Director, TBS Energi Utama
- Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
11.50am – 12.35pm | Balancing impact and alpha in climate and ESG investments
- Sebastian Togelang, Founder & Managing Partner, Rigel Capital
- Winston Mandrawa, Managing Director & Head of ASEAN, Affirma Capital
- Lisa Genasci, Managing Director, Sustainable Finance, ADM Capital
- Abhishek Mittal, Partner, Aavishkaar Capital
- Michelle Teo, Senior Journalist & Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
12.35pm – 1.45pm | Networking Lunch
1.45pm – 2.30pm | Will consumption tech theme put startup funding on recovery path?
- Randolph Hsu, Founder, Ondine Capital
- Mesty Ariotedjo, CEO, Tentang Anak
- Roderick Purwana, Managing Partner, East Ventures
- Christin Djuarto, Executive Director, Shopee Indonesia
- Andi Haswidi, Head of Data Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
2.35pm – 3.20pm | Tech innovation and scalable models key to fight food security challenges
- Ronald Simorangkir, CEO, Mandiri Capital Indonesia
- Jeremy Phua, Associate Director, Seviora Capital
- Tubagus Syailendra Wangsadisastra, CEO & Co-Founder, Chickin
- Muhammad Yoga Anindito, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Semaai
- Aastha Maheshwari, Senior Reporter, Indonesia, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3.20pm – 4.00pm | Alternative financing strategies turn mainstream amid funding winter
- Paul Ong, Partner, Innoven Capital SEA
- Gena Bijaksana, CEO & Co-Founder, Qverse
- Darryl Ratulangi, Managing Director, OCBC Ventura
- Pimfha Chan, Correspondent, Singapore, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
4.00pm to 4.30pm | Networking & Coffee Break
4.30pm – 5.00pm | Digital infra sees PE attention and M&A action
- Herson Suindah, President Director & CEO, SM+ Holdings
- Vikram Sinha, President Director & CEO, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH)
- Matthew Goh, Director of Infrastructure, KKR
- Ngoc Nguyen, Deputy Editor, Vietnam, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
5.00pm – 5.40pm | Fixing SE Asia’s exit conundrum
- Saptono Adi Junarso, Senior Advisor to Listing Directorate, PT Bursa Efek Indonesia (Indonesia Stock Exchange)
- Helen Wong, Managing Partner, AC Ventures
- Abhijay Sethia, Chief Strategy Officer, Kredivo
- Patrick Yip, Founding Partner, Intudo Ventures
- Michelle Teo, Senior Journalist & Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
5.45pm – 6.30pm | Closing session: Fintech shows promise but needs new monetisation strategies
- Claudia Kolonas, Founder, Pluang
- Gavin Guo, CFO, YUP
- Pratyush Prasanna, Group CEO, Flip
- Dino Setiawan, CEO, AwanTunai
- Dmitry Levit, Founder & General Partner, Cento Ventures (Moderator)
8:00am – 9:00am | Sustainable Impact: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Environmental Challenges
- Handhi Kentjono, Co-CEO, Manna Agribio
- Philippe Micone, CEO, Noovoleum
- Tika Diagnestya, Director of, Sustainability and Impacts, Nafas Group
- Justin Patrick, Director, Rigel Capital (Moderator)
Location: Newport 1, The St. Regis Jakarta
[Sponsored by Rigel Capital]
12:45pm – 1:45pm | Connecting SE Asian firms with global capital in HK as IPO window reopens in 2025 – Opportunities & Perspectives
- Rita Lau, Director, Equity Capital Markets (Southeast Asia), CLSA
- Mandy Wong, Partner, Latham & Watkins
- Katherine Ng, Head of Listing, HKEX
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, Greater China, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
Location: Newport 1, The St. Regis Jakarta
[Sponsored by HKEX]
12:45pm – 1:45pm | Digital Indonesia: Uninvestable No More
- Dmitry Levit, Founder & General Partner, Cento Ventures
- Ali Fancy, Partner, Cento Ventures
- Ronald Kang, Investor Relations, Cento Ventures
- Andi Haswidi, Head of Data Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
Location: Newport 2, The St. Regis Jakarta
[Sponsored by Cento Ventures]
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REVIEWS
FROM OUR PAST ATTENDEES
I have known DealStreetAsia for 15 years and I think the firm has done really well, really gathering the right insights and the right target audience in one place so that we can have a very good, clear, honest and transparent exchange.
Granite Asia
So this is a great event.This is my second year attending, super packed room, standing room only, lots of great speakers. I really enjoyed my panel earlier, where we talked about the opportunities in what appears to be a challenging backdrop for Asia, but lots of insights from the panelists, lots of questions from the audience as well. I’m looking forward to the many other panels that are dotted across the day, today and tomorrow.
Pantheon Ventures
Well, first off, I’d like to thank the DealStreetAsia for inviting me to the event as always, very wonderful event and engaged audience, and always good to come to these sessions. And I think this time its particularly interesting. In past events, we’ve seen participation, but seems like there’s a real sort of engagement building up, which is always good to see. Look, I’ve enjoyed being part of the panel here. Always interesting when you learn from the other panelists as much as you contribute. And you know that’s why I like coming to these things, and certainly didn’t disappoint me this time as well. So I look forward to more such interactions, and thank you everyone again for having me here.
Warburg Pincus
All right. Well, it was great to participate to the conference today. Great show. Lots of the attendance is amazing. Had a very good panel discussion with private credit. We went through all the attractiveness of private credit in Asia at the moment, and why? Really, global investors cannot miss the investment opportunities that private credit has to offer in Asia as a very differentiated product from what they might have seen for years now in US and Europe. So I would really encourage people to attend this conference going forward, to meet a lot of LPs GPs and mingle with the investment community that is very, very active in this part of the world. Thank you.
Keppel Credit
I’ve been attending Dealstreet Asia’s events for a few years now. In Singapore, have been on a few panels. I always enjoyed that the other panelists are always very well informed. I get to meet quite a few friends in the private equity world that are very active, few LPs from around the world. So it’s a very efficient spot to just come and meet other market participants. This year’s event was surprisingly large, maybe the largest ever. We had a packed audience during our panel in the morning. So always a pleasure.
Partners Group
It’s been a great day. Today, I was on the first panel, and the entire room is just full of people that are so enthusiastic about what they’re going to learn about investment , the market. And, under the current uncertain environment, how people and how different capital market will be doing. And so this is actually very exciting for me. And I think the overall arrangement of the event is also very smooth and very, you know, flawless, and everything is kind of very, very well defined and well organized and okay. Overall, I think that for myself and my platform a lot of reward and result coming out of it. Yeah. The other thing I realized that the DealStreetAsia platform is actually providing a lot of useful and insightful market information, and oftentimes very timely. For instance, today’s event, after the session, I realized that the news already coming out from the LinkedIn web page less than an hour after all this event happening. So I think that the team is really doing a great job. Yeah. Thank you.
Ewpartners
Very excited to see so many people attending this year’s conference. And I really love that we have so many parallel tracks and addressing a lot of the topics that are very pertinent and the top of everybody’s minds today, particularly around ESG, and investing in gender topics. Very happy to be here. Thank you very much for inviting me DealStreetAsia, and I’m looking forward to being back again next year.
Sarona Asset Management
I think this year has been a turnout year. It looks like there’s a lot of networking going on outside the sessions whilst there are plenty of people inside the sessions. I think this year you guys have done a really good job in the four tracks you’ve had.
World Bank
I think that turnout is fantastic. It’s a great networking event, which is one of the reasons I wanted to come here. Spent a lot of my time networking. I’ve gone for a couple of the select sessions, which have been super interesting.
Bain Capital
This is bigger than last year and extremely well attended. And the speaker lineup is probably one of the best. The panel that we were on was great. There were extremely good questions. I think that’s probably one of the things that I liked the most. Great discussion and good to be here and look forward to being here next year.
Adams Street Partners
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