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Asia PE-VC Summit

In its sixth year now, Asia PE-VC Summit is where you’d want to be for the most well-rounded conference experience for the investment and startup community alike. So far, the annual summit has drawn over 4000 attendees from 50 plus countries, the majority of whom are senior executives.

Stay ahead of the curve as our topline sessions offer you exclusive insight into the next big opportunity. Build relationships with professionals at the top of their game as we make available to you our growing list of 600+ attendees. And, zero in on trends and sectoral bets in Asia’s constantly evolving markets against the pandemic backdrop.

What’s on the agenda?

The Asia PE-VC Summit promises deep dive into the current landscape and a functional roadmap for the year ahead, with LP/GP perspectives on Southeast Asia, India and Greater China; the challenge and opportunities for PE & VC firms, frontier market plays and strategies, and deep dives into the potential of the spotlight countries in region, like India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

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. 

Speakers

Weijian Shan

Chairman & CEO
PAG

 
Patrick Cao

President
GoTo

Jie Gong

Partner
Pantheon

Rachmat Kaimuddin

CEO
Bukalapak

Sunil Mishra

Partner, Primary Investments Adams Street Partners

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Wai Leng Leong

Managing Director and Regional Head of Asia Pacific
CDPQ Global, CDPQ Singapore

Cyrus Driver

Managing Director, Private Equity Asia
 Partners Group

Prateek Maheshwari

Managing Director and Head of Asia
OMERS Infrastructure

Reuben Lai

Senior Managing Director
Grab Financial Group

Minette B. Navarrete

Co-founder, President & Vice-Chairman
Kickstart Ventures, Inc.

Richard Trieu Pham, Tiki (1)
Richard Trieu Pham

President, CFO
Tiki

Atul Kapur, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Everstone Capital
Atul Kapur

Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer
Everstone Group

John Riady

CEO
PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk

Managing Director
PT Multipolar Tbk

 
Dr. Finian Tan

Chairman
Vickers Venture Partners

Ravi Thakran

Chairman & CEO
Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp

Saima Rehman

Investment Officer, Private Equity & Funds
IFC

Chua Kee Lock

CEO
Vertex Holdings

Gillian Tee
Gillian Tee

Co-Founder & CEO
Homage

Edwin Wong
Edwin Wong

Managing Partner and CEO Ares SSG

Ashish Saboo, Managing Director and Head of Jakarta, General Atlantic
Ashish Saboo

Managing Director & Head of Indonesia
General Atlantic

Sarah Chen
Sarah Chen

Co-founder and Managing Partner
The Billion Dollar Fund for Women & Beyond the Billion

Hari V. Krishnan

CEO & Managing Director
PropertyGuru

Weihan Liew

Venture Partner
GGV Capital

Soon Sze Meng

President, South East Asia JD.com

JP Lee 2021 June
JP Lee

CEO
SoftBank Ventures Asia

Fernanda Lima

Partner
LeapFrog Investments

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Patrick Walujo

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

Pandu Sjahrir

Commissioner
Indonesia Stock Exchange

Managing Partner
Indies Capital

GV Ravishankar

Managing Director
Sequoia Capital India LLP

Ashwini Asokan

Founder & CEO
Mad Street Den

Chinta Bhagat

Managing Partner, Asia
L Catterton

Aaron Tan

Founder, Group CEO
Carro

Amanda Susanti

Co-Founder & CEO
Sayurbox

nicholas bloy
Nicholas Bloy

Co-Managing Partner
Navis Capital Partners

Myron Zhu

Head of Private Markets Asia
Manulife Investment Management

Jefrey Joe

Co-Founder & General Partner Alpha JWC Ventures

Sanjay Nath
Sanjay Nath

Founder
Blume

Edith Yeung

General Partner
Race Capital

Tilman Ehrbeck

Managing Partner
Flourish Ventures

Haresh Chawla

Partner
True North

Kiran Mysore

Principal
UTEC Japan

Hemal Mirani

Managing Director
HarbourVest Partners

Edward Tirtanata

CEO & Co-Founder
Kopi Kenangan

Hemant Mohapatra​

Partner
Lightspeed

Darius Cheung
Darius Cheung

CEO
99.co

Helen-Wong-Qiming
Helen Wong

Seasoned Venture Capitalist

Rajive Keshup
Rajive Keshup

Director
Cathay Innovation

Sheel Mohnot

Co-Founder
Better Tomorrow

Jeth Soetoyo

Founder & CEO
Pintu

Sunitha Ramaswamy​

President – Early Stage
Letsventure

Nicholas Cator
Nicholas Cator

Founder & Managing Partner Venturi Partners

Dr. Amit Varma

Managing Partner
Quadria Capital

Franco Varona
Franco Varona

Founding Partner
Foxmont Capital Partners

Tai Lin

Managing Partner
Proterra Asia

Rui Ma

China Tech Analyst
Tech Buzz China

Lawrence Chu

Co-Founder
Oriente

Deepak Shahdadpuri

Managing Director
DSG Consumer Partners

Shobhit Shukla

Co-founder and President
Near

Akshay Bhushan

Partner
Lightspeed

Nick Nash

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Asia Partners

Albert Tseng

Co-Founder
Dao Foods International

Anderson
Anderson Sumarli

Co-Founder & CEO
Ajaib

Govindraj Ethiraj

Founder
BoomFactCheck

Founder & Managing Trustee
IndiaSpend.org & Factchecker.in

Conrad Tsang

Founder and Chairman
Strategic Year Holdings Limited

Venkat Vallabhaneni

Managing Partner Inflexor Ventures

Alex Svanevik

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Nansen

Sachin Bhanot

Head of Southeast Asia Investments
Prosus Ventures

Dr Zhou Lihan

Co-founder and CEO
MiRXES

XQ Lin

Chairman and CEO
Esco Lifesciences Group

Chairman & Founder
EVX Ventures, Carmine Therapeutics

Quang Pham
Quang Pham​

Director
Crescent Point

William Koo

Managing Director
Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator

Tan Shao Ming

Managing Director
ABC World Asia

Philip Thomas

Co-Founder
Bonza

Abheek Anand

Managing Director Sequoia Capital

James Tan
James Tan

Managing Partner
Quest Ventures

David Gowdey
David Gowdey

Managing Partner
Jungle Ventures

Peter McMillan

Founding Partner & CEO Affirma Capital

Indra Gunawan - Bobobox
Indra Gunawan

CEO
Bobobox

Shinta Nurfauzia

Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Lemonilo

Abraham Viktor

CEO
Hangry

Stephanie Siu
Stephanie Siu

Legal Counsel and Project Manager
eBrevia

Moderators

Sriram Mani

Senior Correspondent
Network18

Pankaj Mishra

Journalist & Co-Founder
FactorDaily

Michelle Teo 

Managing Editor
DealStreetAsia

Andi Haswidi

Head of ASEAN Research
DealStreetAsia

Kristie Neo

Senior Writer
DealStreetAsia

Ngoc Nguyen

Vietnam Correspondent
DealStreetAsia

Eudora Wang

Senior Reporter, Hong kong
DealStreetAsia

Deepshikha Monga

Editor
DealStreetAsia

Paramita Chatterjee

Editor
DealStreetAsia

Rachel Phua

Writer, Southeast Asia
DealStreetAsia

Mars Mosqueda Jr

Correspondent, Philippines
DealStreetAsia

Shotaro Tani

Indonesia Correspondent
Nikkei Asia

Takehiko Ken Koyanagi

Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Board Member
Nikkei Asia

Harveen Ahluwalia

Editor, Internet
The Morning Context

Akito Tanaka

Chief business news correspondent
Nikkei Asia

Joji Philip

Founder & Editor-in-Chief
DealStreetAsia

The amount of thought leadership that participated in this conference has been amazing.
Andre Soelistyo
Co-CEO, Gojek

Agenda

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration and Networking 

9:00 am – 9:25 am: Welcome note

  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia

9:25 am – 9:55 am: Fireside chat: Trendspotting & identifying the next big wave of digital economy winners

  • Patrick Walujo, Co-founder, Managing Partner and Member of the Investment Committee, Northstar Group 
  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

10:00 am – 10:30 am: Keynote presentation – SE Asia in Spotlight: Of unicorns, mega exits and the big digital advantage

  • Nick Nash, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Asia Partners 10:30 am – 11:00 am: Networking

11:00 am – 11:40 am: Panel: Evolving LP-GP dynamics, private markets opportunities & Asian co-investments

  • Jie Gong, Partner, Pantheon 
  • Myron Zhu, Head of Private Markets (Asia), Manulife Investment Management 
  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

11:45 am – 12:30 pm: LP allocations and bias to Asia: What has changed?

  • Sunil Mishra, Partner, Primary Investments, Adams Street Partners 
  • Hemal Mirani, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners 
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Networking

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Fireside chat: Consolidation & turnaround trends to boost demand for alternative capital in Asia

  • Edwin Wong, Managing Partner and CEO, Ares SSG 
  • Eudora Wang, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

2:00 pm to 2:40 pm: Big Picture: How China’s crackdown on tech will play out in the long-term & its impact on the investment landscape

  • Helen Wong, Seasoned Venture Capitalist 
  • James Tan, Managing Partner, Quest Ventures 
  • Rui Ma, China Tech Analyst, Tech Buzz China

2:40 pm – 3:10 pm: Fireside chat: The “next big what” opportunities unfolding in the life sciences space

  • Dr Amit Varma, Managing Partner, Quadria Capital
  • Paramita Chatterjee, Editor, DealStreetasia (Moderator)

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm: Networking

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm: Fireside chat: The art and science of making PE investments during crisis times

  • Weijian Shan, Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PAG 
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

4:50 pm – 5:30 pm: Keynote chat: New digital scripts India will play to in the post- pandemic world and beyond

  • Haresh Chawla, Partner, True North
  • Govindraj Ethiraj, Founder, BoomFactCheck; Founder & Managing Trustee, IndiaSpend.org & Factchecker.in (Moderator)

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Networking

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration and Networking

9:00 am – 9:10 am: Welcome note and lineup for the day

  • Stephen André Jacob, Chief Operating Officer, DealStreetAsia

9:15 am – 9:45 am: Fireside chat: Applying global lessons to Asian tech investments

  • Cyrus Driver, Managing Director, Partners Group
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

9:50 am – 10:20 am: Fireside chat: The post-Covid exit landscape and new fundraising order in SE Asia

  • Nicholas Bloy, Co-managing partner, Navis Capital Partners
  • Ngoc Nguyen, Vietnam Correspondent, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

10:20 am – 11:00 am: Networking

Parallel Tracks 

**Stage 1**

11:00 am – 11:40 am: Fireside chat: Taking Indonesia’s first tech unicorn to a successful listing and the road ahead

  • Rachmat Kaimuddin, CEO, Bukalapak 
  • Andi Haswidi, Head of ASEAN Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

**Stage 1**
 11:45 am – 12:30 pm: Canadian pension funds making a big shift towards SE Asia

  • Prateek Maheshwari, Managing Director and Head of Asia, OMERS Infrastructure 
  • Wai Leng Leong, Managing Director and Regional Head of Asia Pacific, CDPQ Global, CDPQ Singapore
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator) **Stage 2**

**Stage 2**

11:00 am – 11:45 am: The Future of Dealmaking: how to leverage on AI and technology to save time, costs, mitigate risks and seal the deal

In partnership with DFIN

  • Stephanie Siu, APAC Project Manager and Legal Counsel, eBrevia DFIN
  • Valerie Law, Team Lead, Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

Parallel Tracks

**Stage 1**
12:30 pm – 1:10 pm: The Philippines catching investors’ attention but can it deliver?

  • Minette B. Navarrete, Co-founder, President & Vice-Chairman, Kickstart Ventures, Inc.
  • Franco Varona, Founding Partner, Foxmont Capital Partners
  • Lawrence Chu, Co-founder, Oriente
  • Mars Mosqueda Jr, Correspondent, Philippines, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

**Stage 2**
 12:30 pm – 1 pm: How will Vietnam rewrite its recovery script amid pandemic drag?

  • Richard Trieu Pham, President and Group CFO, Tiki
  • Conrad Tsang, Founder & Chairman, Strategic Year Holdings Limited 
  • Quang Pham, Director, Crescent Group Capital Management 
  • Ngoc Nguyen, Vietnam Correspondent, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

1:10 pm – 2:00 pm: Networking

2:00 pm – 2:40 pm: Impact investing turns mainstream: What’s changing and what are the implications?

  • Fernanda Lim, Partner, LeapFrog Investments
  • Tan Shao Ming, Managing Director, ABC World Asia
  • Saima Rehman, Investment Officer, Private Equity & Funds, IFC 
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm: Fireside chat: Strong capital structures, liquidity and credit access key to navigate the crisis

  • Atul Kapur, Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, Everstone Group
  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

3:20 pm – 3.50 pm: Fireside chat: Private equity and the next generation of consumers 

  • Chinta Bhagat, Managing Partner, Asia, L Catterton
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator) 

3:50 pm – 4:30 pm: Networking

Parallel Tracks 

**Stage 1**

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Fireside chat: Moving beyond payments to grow as a formidable fintech business in Asia

  • Reuben Lai, Senior Managing Director, Grab Financial Group 
  • Kristie Neo, Senior Writer, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

**Stage 1**
 5:00 pm – 5:40 pm: SPACside story: Behind the euphoria and frenzy, a viable exit for investors?

  • Ravi Thakran, Chairman and CEO, Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp 
  • Dr Finian Tan, Founder and Chairman, Vickers Venture Partners
  • Kristie Neo, Senior Writer, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

**Stage 2**
 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: The DFIN Deals Barometer Launch – Tracking the revival of startup funding in the new normal

In partnership with DFIN

  • Peter McMillan, Head of Sales for APAC, DFIN
  • Pramugdha Mamgain, Correspondent & Content Specialist, India, DealStreetAsia 
  • Mars Mosqueda Jr, Correspondent, Philippines, DealStreetAsia
  • Eudora Wang, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Networking

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration and networking

9:00 am – 9:20 am: Welcome note on the VC day tracks and lineup for the day

  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia 

9:20 am – 10:00 am: DealStreetAsia Data Vantage Product Deepdive

  • Andi Haswidi, Head – Asean Research, DealStreetAsia 
  • Valerie Law, Team Lead – Research, DealStreetAsia
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

10:00 am – 10:30 am: Fireside chat: The road to building a regional property marketplace leader

  • Hari V. Krishnan, CEO & Managing Director, PropertyGuru 
  • Kristie Neo, Senior Writer, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

10:30 – 11:00 am: Networking

11:00 am – 11:40 am: How US investors are gauging SE Asia’s fintech potential

  • Tilman Ehrbeck, Managing Partner, Flourish Ventures
  • Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder, Better Tomorrow Ventures
  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

11:40 am – 12:20 pm: New angel tribe: Rise of the founder-investor

  • Edward Tirtanata, CEO and co-founder, Kopi Kenangan 
  • Darius Cheung, CEO, 99.co
  • Weihan Liew, GGV Capital
  • Rajive Keshup, Director, Cathay Innovation (Moderator)

12:20 pm – 1:00 pm: Global investors see value in sharpening focus on SE Asia

  • Akshay Bhushan, Partner, Lightspeed (India and SEA) 
  • JP Lee, CEO, SoftBank Ventures Asia
  • Takehiko Ken Koyanagi, Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Board Member, Nikkei Inc. (Moderator)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Networking

2:00 pm – 2:40 pm: Alternative proteins: The future of food in Asia

  • Albert Tseng, Co-founder, Dao Foods International
  • Tai Lin, Managing Partner, Proterra Asia
  • William Koo, Managing Director, Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator (Moderator)

2:40 pm – 3:20 pm: Building global life science champions from Singapore hub

  • XQ Lin, Chairman and CEO, Esco Lifesciences Group 
  • ZHOU Lihan, Co-founder & CEO, MiRXES
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

3:20 to 4:00 pm Rise of the crypto asset class in SE Asia: Will the frenzy last?

  • Jeth Soetoyo, Founder & CEO, Pintu
  • Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed
  • Alex Svanevik, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Nansen
  • Andi Haswidi, Head of ASEAN Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

4:00 – 4:30 pm: Networking

Parallel Tracks 

**Stage 1**

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Fireside chat: Taking AI out of science labs and creating scalable models

  • Ashwini Asokan, CEO & co-founder, Mad Street Den
  • Harveen Ahluwalia, Editor, Internet, The Morning Context (Moderator)

**Stage 1**
 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Fireside chat: An approach to early-stage investing, building unicorns and getting startups IPO-ready in India

  • Sanjay Nath, Founder, Blume Ventures
  • Sriram Mani, Senior Correspondent, Network18 (Moderator)

**Stage 2**
 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm: Tales of resilience and growth from Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic

In partnership with Alpha JWC Ventures

  • Abraham Viktor, CEO, Hangry
  • Indra Gunawan, CEO, Bobobox
  • Jefrey Joe, Co-Founder & General Partner, Alpha JWC Ventures 
  • Shinta Nurfauzia, Co-CEO and Co-founder, Lemonilo
  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Networking

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration and networking

9:00 am – 9:10 am: Welcome note + lineup for the day

  • Stephen André Jacob, Chief Operating Officer, DealStreetAsia

9:15 am – 10:00 am: Fireside chat: Straddling real estate, healthcare and tech bets: The pillars transforming the Lippo Group

  • John Riady, CEO, PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk & Managing Director, PT Multipolar Tbk 
  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

10:00 am – 10:40 am: Fireside chat: How Indonesia’s IDX is getting ready to host mega tech listings

  • Pandu Sjahrir, Commissioner, Indonesia Stock Exchange & Managing Partner, Indies Capital
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

10:40 am – 11:10 am: Networking

Parallel Tracks

**Stage 1**

11:10 am – 11:50 am: SE Asian startups ready to take on global stage as they tap growth and exit avenues

  • Abheek Anand, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital 
  • David Gowdey, Managing Partner, Jungle Ventures 
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

**Stage 2**
 11:10 am – 11:50 am: The evolving deep-tech landscape in South and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Kiran Mysore, Principal, UTEC, Japan
  • Venkat Vallabhaneni, Managing Partner, Inflexor Ventures 
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

11:50 am – 12:30 pm: Riding Indonesia’s mega digital opportunity wave

  • Soon Sze Meng, President, South East Asia, JD.com
  • Sachin Bhanot, Head of Southeast Asia Investments, Prosus Ventures 
  • Aaron Tan, Founder, Group CEO, Carro
  • Shotaro Tani, Indonesia Correspondent, Nikkei Asia (Moderator)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Networking

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm: Fireside chat: Venture investing is about betting on people to build great businesses

  • Chua Kee Lock, CEO, Vertex Holdings
  • Kristie Neo, Senior Writer, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

2:00 pm – 2:40 pm: How the pandemic has altered consumption trends in South Asia

  • Jefrey Joe, Co-Founder & General Partner, Alpha JWC Ventures
  • Nicholas Cator, Founder & Managing Partner, Venturi Partners
  • Deepak Shahdadpuri, Managing Director, DSG Consumer Partners (Moderator)

2:40 pm – 3:30 pm: Bridging the gaping funding gap for women founders

  • GV Ravishankar, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India LLP
  • Sunitha KR, President of Early-Stage Investments, LetsVenture
  • Nacitta Kanyandara, Partner and Chief of Growth, Sayurbox
  • Sarah Chen, Co-founder and Managing Partner, The Billion Dollar Fund for Women & Beyond the Billion (Moderator)

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Networking

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Keynote chat: GoTo: Value creation where the whole is greater than the sum of parts

  • Patrick Cao, President, GoTo
  • Akito Tanaka, Chief business news correspondent, Nikkei Asia (Moderator)

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Fireside chat: The Near Story: Leveraging data intelligence and analytics to drive digital transformation

  • Shobhit Shukla, Co-founder and President, Near
  • Pankaj Mishra, Journalist & Co-Founder, FactorDaily (Moderator)

5:00 pm – 5:40 pm: AMA Founder Edition: Staying agile and chartering high-growth markets

  • Anderson Sumarli, Co-Founder & CEO, Ajaib
  • Philip Thomas, Co-founder, Bonza
  • Rachel Phua, Writer, Southeast Asia, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

5:40 pm – 5:45 pm: Closing note

  • Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, DealStreetAsia

5:45 pm – 7:00 pm: Networking 

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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

Patrick Cao

Patrick Cao is the President of GoTo, the largest technology group in Indonesia and the “go to” ecosystem for digital daily life. He is responsible for overseeing the finance, corporate development, investor relations and investment activities of GoTo.

GoTo brings together the strengths of two Indonesian champions - Gojek, Southeast Asia’s leading mobile on demand services and payments platform, and Tokopedia, Indonesia’s leading e-commerce marketplace. The group combines e-commerce, on-demand and financial services under one roof, creating a globally unique ecosystem.

Previously the President of Tokopedia since 2016, Patrick was responsible for the CFO Office, Financial Technology businesses and global partnerships.

Before joining Tokopedia, Patrick was a Principal at Formation 8. In this role, he focused on diversified technology investments in Asia. Prior to Formation 8, Patrick was an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank, specializing in M&A and capital markets advisory in the consumer and industrials sectors.

Patrick received a B.S. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently studying for his MBA at Tsinghua University.
GoToPresident
GoTo

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

Sunil Mishra

Sunil Mishra is a Partner at Adams Street Partners and specializes in the sourcing and execution of Asian investments ex-China, specifically in India, Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Korea.

Sunil manages relationships with several of Adams Street’s managers and sits on advisory boards of more than a dozen private equity firms within the Adams Street Partners portfolio.

Sunil is a member of Adams Street’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Committee.
Adams Street PartnersPartner, Primary Investments
Adams Street Partners

Wai Leng Leong

Leong Wai Leng is responsible for the regional management of CDPQ Global in Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, she coordinates all CDPQ activities in the region and ensures optimal positioning and outreach. CDPQ has offices in Singapore, New Delhi, Shanghai and Sydney in Asia Pacific.

Ms. Leong has over 30 years of experience in the finance and banking sectors, including 13 years in China, where she built a commercial banking business from the ground up. She has an extensive business network in China and in South-East Asia, including in Singapore. Over the course of her career, she has worked in both the buy and sell sides of the industry, in developed and developing financial markets.

Before joining CDPQ in 2018 as Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Ms. Leong was Managing Director and Head of Business Management Unit at the Bank of Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of OCBC Bank. Prior to that, she was the Chairman and CEO of OCBC Bank (China). In 2010, she became the first banker from a non-Japanese Asian bank to win a Gold Magnolia Award, one of the highest recognitions from the Shanghai government. Perhaps most noteworthy was the fact it was the Chinese regulatory body, CBRC (Central Banking Regulatory Commission), that nominated her for this award.

Ms. Leong was also Managing Director and Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking at HSBC China. Previously, she held senior positions at multinational corporations such as Philips Electronics China Group, as well as at JP Morgan Bank and at Citibank, in Singapore.
CDPQ Global, CDPQ Singapore Managing Director and Regional Head of Asia Pacific
CDPQ Global, CDPQ Singapore

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

Prateek Maheshwari

Prateek joined OMERS Infrastructure in 2019 as a Managing Director based in London and leads investment efforts in transport and renewable energy infrastructure. Prateek also serves on the boards of Associated British Ports and London City Airport.

Prior to joining OMERS, Prateek was a Senior Principal with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for 12 years, where he has worked in the power, energy and transport sectors across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Before GIP, he worked as an investment banker with Dresdner Kleinwort, Barclays Capital and ICICI Bank in M&A, leverage and project finance, debt capital markets and derivative structuring.

Prateek has a Bachelor of Engineering with a specialisation in Electrical and Industrial Electronics from Pune University. He also has a Masters in Finance from London Business School and an MBA from HEC Paris.
OMERS InfrastructureManaging Director and Head of Asia
OMERS Infrastructure

Reuben Lai

Reuben Lai is the Senior Managing Director of Grab Financial Group that spans across payments, lending, insurance, and retail wealth management services. He is passionate about leveraging his experience as founder of multiple technology businesses to empower people with financial services to learn, earn and save more towards their dreams.

At Grab, Reuben has launched multiple successful businesses, including a car leasing platform, Grab for Business, and Grab Ventures. He was also the Chief of Staff to Grab’s CEO.

Before joining Grab, Reuben was a co-founder and CEO in a telemedicine start-up. Prior to that, he was at The Walt Disney Company, driving corporate strategy and business development.

He was also previously a management consultant at Bain. Reuben holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD.
Grab Financial GroupSenior Managing Director
Grab Financial Group

Minette Navarrete

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

Richard Trieu Pham

Richard Trieu Pham is President and Group CFO at Tiki Corporation, an integrated commerce platform in Vietnam, including a no. 1 trusted e-commerce marketplace in Vietnam(*), TikiNOW Smart Logistics - an integrated supply chain platform, and Tiki Trading - a retail subsidiary.

He graduated from Rhodes College in the U.S. with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business Administration and soon after moved to Silicon Valley, California to begin his career.

Since then, he has spent over 20 years working in the Technology industry, especially eCommerce and Marketplace at both private and listed companies.

He lived and worked in the U.S. for over 30 years, was Chief Financial Officer at 1stdibs, Vice President at Shutterfly and Tiny Print prior to coming back to Vietnam and joining Tiki in early 2019.

At Tiki, he oversees Strategic Finance, Accounting, Legal, Corporate Development, People Operations, and Digital Services.

He and his team play a crucial role in formulating the strategies and delivering Tiki’s aspiration to deliver the best and most convenient shopping and selling experiences for Vietnamese consumers and businesses.
TikiPresident, CFO
Tiki

Atul Kapur

Atul Kapur co-founded the Everstone Group and currently serves as the Chief Investment Officer. Based in Singapore, he divides his time between all the Everstone offices to successfully oversee investments in each location.

Before the foundation of Everstone in 2006, Atul spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Managing Director in the Principal Strategies group (Goldman Sachs proprietary capital), based out of London. Prior to this, Atul worked in the Principal Investment Area group of Goldman Sachs in both Asia and Europe, deploying the Goldman Sachs Capital Partners family of funds.

Atul holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Everstone GroupCo-founder and Chief Investment Officer
Everstone Group

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

Dr. Finian Tan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saima Rehman

Saima Rehman is an Investment Officer in the Private Equity Funds group of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), responsible for leading investments and managing portfolio in the East Asia Pacific region. Saima has 17 years of investment experience across principal investments, syndications, structured finance and PE/VC fund investing covering South Asia and East Asia Pacific.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), World BankInvestment Officer, Disruptive Technology & Funds Group
International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank

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

Gillian Tee

Gillian Tee is the co-founder and CEO of Homage, a senior home care solution that combines professional caregivers with smart technology to provide home caregiving to seniors, allowing them to age at home with grace, control and dignity. To date, Homage has provided more than 100,000 hours of home caregiving to seniors in Singapore and Malaysia and raised over $7mil SGD from venture capital firms Golden Gate Ventures, Seed Plus, 500Startups and grants from DBS Foundation, RaiSE and Singapore International Chamber of Commerce.

Prior to Homage, she co-founded Rocketrip, a Y-Combinator and Bessemer Ventures-backed travel tech startup based in New York City and Silicon Valley that's raised more than $30mil USD. Prior to Rocketrip, Gillian held various sales, business development, product management and technology leadership positions at Amazon and Accenture. As a Singaporean Native, Gillian studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne and got an MBA and Master of International Affairs from Columbia Business School.
HomageCo-founder and CEO
Homage

Edwin Wong

Mr. Wong is Managing Partner and CEO of Ares SSG. He serves on the Ares Executive Management Committee. He additionally serves as the chair of Ares SSG Investment Committee and is a Director of Ares SSG Hong Kong. Mr. Wong primarily focuses on investment activities, as well as overseeing strategic matters and business operations of Ares SSG. Prior to joining Ares in 2020, Mr. Wong founded SSG Capital Management in 2009 and served as its Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, where he focused on special situations and private debt investments across Asia-Pacific. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong from 1997 to 2008, where he ran their Asia Special Situations Group and other credit businesses. Mr. Wong started his career at Coopers & Lybrand, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1994, and went on to join JP Morgan Securities Asia in Hong Kong. He is a founding member of the APAC Alternative Credit Council (ACC), which helps in developing the private credit markets in the region. Mr. Wong holds a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan in Business Administration and an M.B.A. from Manchester Business School and the University of Wales
Ares SSGManaging Partner and CEO
Ares SSG

Ashish Saboo

Ashish Saboo is a Managing Director and leads the firm’s Indonesia operations. Before joining General Atlantic in 2019, Ashish was a Business Development Director at CT CORPORA for over 12 years where he helped make the company one of the leading diversified consumer players in Indonesia. Prior to joining CT CORPORA, he was an Executive Director at PwC, based in Jakarta, for almost 10 years. Ashish is also a Co-Founder of Mansionly, a global service platform for interior and lifestyle solutions.
General AtlanticManaging Director & Head of Indonesia
General Atlantic

Hari V. Krishnan

Hari is a seasoned General Manager & Board director with a deep digital technology pedigree. He is a TEDx speaker and vocal advocate for sustainable urban living solutions.

He has over two decades of industry leadership in technology and digital organisations across Asia and the US. driving digital transformation for industries like music, travel, recruitment, and now real estate.

As the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at PropertyGuru Group, Hari leads a team of over 1,200 employees of the Group across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, for Asia’s leading proptech company. He currently serves on the Singapore Government’s Future Economy Council Modern Services Sub-committee, and has advised the government on Real estate industry transformation and Skills development.

Prior to PropertyGuru, he started up, scaled and led LinkedIn in the Asia Pacific region, as their Vice President & Managing Director. He has also worked in leadership positions at Fox Interactive, Yahoo! and Cisco, and market-changing start-ups like Travelguru.

He is a long-time investor and advisor to multiple innovative startups. Hari has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.S. in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado.
PropertyGuruChief Executive Officer and Managing Director
PropertyGuru

Weihan Liew

Weihan is a serial technology entrepreneur in Southeast Asia with twenty years of experience, having founded and successfully exited companies in the media and gaming space.

Before joining GGV, Weihan started “BaBe", the No.1 mobile news app in Indonesia that serves up more than a billion news clicks every month to millions of readers, by applying machine learning to the aggregation and recommendation of news and local content. He also is the founder of Main Games, the largest management platform for gaming live streamers in Indonesia as well as being a leading mobile games publisher.

Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Weihan was a Principal at Nokia Growth Partners in Beijing, where he led growth stage investments into Chinese Internet companies such as UC Web and Ganji.com. He previously also held product management roles at Microsoft Windows Phone in its pioneering days. Weihan started his career as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group.

Weihan has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Monash University.
GGV CAPITALVenture Partner
GGV CAPITAL

Soon Sze Meng

As President, South East Asia for JD.com, Sze Meng is responsible for JD’s businesses in South East Asia. He also serves as a board member of GO-JEK, JD.ID, JD Central and Tiki.

Sze Meng joined JD.com from Singtel where he was the Vice President for Business in the International Group of Singtel, responsible for developing new businesses in mobile financials, digital entertainment and microenterprises.

Previously, he was the General Manager responsible for PayPal businesses in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea. Prior to that, he was Vice President for Marketing where he led strategy and insight across the Asia Pacific region and was the Chief Marketing Officer for China in Visa. He was also a management consultant with McKinsey & Co in Chicago and Monitor Deloitte in Singapore.

He is a member of the board of trustee of Singapore Institute of Technology and holds an MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a BA degree in Public Policy from Stanford University.
JD.comPresident, South East Asia
JD.com

Joonpyo Lee, (JP Lee)

JP is the CEO and Managing Partner of SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA), where he oversees and makes investments for the corporate venture capital firm into high-tech startups in Asia, Israel, the US, and the EU. Before becoming CEO in 2018, JP was a Partner at SBVA for three years. He also currently holds eight board and advisory roles, including as Board Member at Toss Lab, a SaaS enterprise software company and as Member of Board of Directors at medical artificial intelligence (AI) company, Lunit and MyMusicTaste, a fan-initiated concert making platform.

A serial technology entrepreneur and investor, JP has been exploring the phenomenon of technological disruption and aims to discover start-ups that have the potential to greatly impact economies, business models and people. Prior to joining SBVA, he was Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Enswers, a video search technology company acquired by Tribune Media in 2015. There, he commercialised and drove the development of Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), negotiating with Samsung Electronics to apply ACR technology to all Smart TVs in North America. Prior to Enswers, JP was Vice President of Business Development at Gretech- GOMTV, South Korea’s largest internet video service. He also ran the GOM Star League –the world’s first e-sports league serving over 100 million viewers and negotiated multi-million dollar licensing deals with Google, Intel and Warner Brothers.

Earlier in his career, JP was the Founder and CEO of start-up Evixar Inc., a web-based remote control platform that developed and provided the largest PC remote control service in Japan. Evixar was acquired by public company Dacom in 2004.

JP studied at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), majoring in Computer Science.
SoftBank Ventures Asia CEO & Managing Partner
SoftBank Ventures Asia

Fernanda Lima

Fernanda is a key leader in LeapFrog’s Asia financial services team, responsible for originating investments and driving value and growth across the firm’s portfolio. She has accumulated more than 18 years of hands-on experience in turning around and growing inclusive finance banks and institutions across Asia. Since 2008, Fernanda has focused on Asia private equity investment and active management of fast growing and evolving financial institutions.

Fernanda joined LeapFrog from Developing World Markets, one of the largest impact asset managers in inclusive finance globally, where she was Managing Director. She invested and managed the equity portfolio for two funds with portfolio companies in Cambodia, China, Indonesia and Sri Lanka and held Board seats and leadership roles managing diverse teams, Boards and senior staff.

Fernanda holds a Master of Science in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics and a Master in Business Administration from the University of London and Imperial College. She was a British Chevening Scholar (funded by UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office) and speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish.
LeapFrog InvestmentsPartner
LeapFrog Investments

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

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

GV Ravishankar

At Sequoia, GV Ravishankar advises on both technology as well as non-technology investments. He’s deeply interested in technology’s role in helping to drive efficiencies, reduce costs and improve access in consumer and healthcare markets.

He currently serves on the boards of BYJUs, Capital Float, Eruditus Learning, Faces Cosmetics, Five Star finance, Finova Capital, HomeLane, India Shelter Finance Corporation, Indigo Paints, K12 Technoservices, Prataap Snacks (NSE: DIAMONDYD), Rebel Foods, Rupeek, Suburban Diagnostics and Turtlemint. He has also served as board member/observer of companies like Via (sold to NASDAQ: EBIX ), Manappuram (NSE: MANAPPURAM) and Equitas (NSE: EQUITAS).

Prior to this, GV worked at McKinsey & Company, where he advised senior management of top Indian companies on a variety of issues including business building, channel management and leadership development. He also had a prior stint with Wipro Technologies in their Embedded and Internet Access division.

GV has an MBA from IIMA and holds a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT Trichy.
Sequoia IndiaMD
Sequoia India

Ashwini Asokan

Ashwini Asokan is the CEO & Co-Founder of Mad Street Den, a Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence company. Mad Street Den is a computer vision and artificial intelligence company, founded with a mission to make people all over the globe, A.I natives. The team’s mission is to build models of generalizable intelligence and create meaningful experiences with AI on scale, helping millions of people across the globe to become A.I native. Working across US, India, LatAm, Europe, UAE and Japan, her team has been known to build some of the most cutting edge AI tech, while bringing about significant change in how companies think about the future, with AI.

With Vue.ai, the company's first vertical that helps the retail industry reimagine and automate workflows and with Blox.ai, the platform and horizontal that powers businesses education, healthcare, finance, entertainment and more - Ashwini and her team look to empower every business and their employees across the world with their AI to solve complex business problems.

Ashwini has been exploring how Artificial Intelligence can be brought out of the Science and Tech labs of the world, applied meaningfully and made accessible to people across the globe. Prior to starting her own company, she led Mobile Innovation efforts as part of Intel Labs in California, driving research and development of AI & mobile products.
Mad Street DenFounder & CEO
Mad Street Den

Chinta Bhagat

Mr. Bhagat is Managing Partner, Asia at L Catterton. In this role over the last two years, he has been responsible for driving the integration of the Asian franchise into the global firm, reshaping the strategy and focus of the firm in Asia, and leading marquee transactions including investments in Jio Platforms, ETVOS, PHC Holdings, and Sociolla. Mr. Bhagat is also the CEO of L Catterton Asia Acquisition Corp, the firm’s first directly sponsored $285 million SPAC, targeting consumer tech companies in Asia.

Prior to joining L Catterton, Mr. Bhagat was Head of Private Markets for South Asia and concurrently head of the global healthcare portfolio at Khazanah Nasional Berhad. Mr. Bhagat also spent 14 years at McKinsey & Company, including six years as Managing Partner of the Singapore office. He was a leader in the principal investor, healthcare and operations practices and worked extensively with private equity and sovereign wealth funds to develop strategies, execute transactions, manage risk, and implement board governance initiatives.

Mr. Bhagat received a degree in Architecture from the University of Mumbai and an M.B.A. in International Business from INSEAD.
L CattertonManaging Partner, Asia
L Catterton

Aaron Tan

A programmer by training and a venture capitalist by profession. Aaron founded his first startup at 13 and subsequently sold two companies before turning 21.

Former IT Youth of the Year, Aaron represented Singapore in programming competitions overseas. Aaron subsequently took a scholarship from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and read computer science at Carnegie Mellon and Singapore Management University.

As a returning scholar, Aaron helped start Singtel’s venture fund - Singtel Innov8 ventures. Aaron spearheaded the setup of Blk71– Singapore’s largest startup ecosystem. He subsequently relocated to the United States and started Block71 San Francisco and the firm’s San Francisco operations before returning to Singapore in 2015. While at Innov8, Aaron oversees the fund’s investments in South East Asia.

Aaron left the fund in 2016 and founded Carro – SEA’s largest online marketplace for cars. In 2021, Carro was named the fastest growing company in Asia Pacific with revenues of over $300M annually.

Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSc and MSc from Singapore Management University School of Information Systems and Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.
CarroFounder, Group CEO
Carro

Amanda Susanti

Amanda Susanti earned a BSc Management from the University of Manchester in 2011. After 2.5 years at Chemifin as the head of supply chain, she became the Indonesia start-up manager for LHN Group. In 2015, she quit her job to set up her own farm, Amantani Farms. The experience inspired her to build Sayurbox, Indonesia's leading farm-to-table e-commerce grocery, providing over thousands of high quality vegetables, fruits, meats, seafood, and grocery items sourced directly from local farmers, producers, and suppliers.
SayurboxCEO and Co-Founder
Sayurbox

Nicholas Bloy

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

Myron Zhu, CFA

Myron leads Manulife’s private markets business in Asia. Prior that, Myron was Co-Head of Private Equity Asia Pacific at Aberdeen Standard Investments, overseeing its Asia Private Equity strategy. Myron was a Partner at FLAG prior to joining Aberdeen via the firm’s acquisition in 2015. Prior to joining FLAG in 2014, Myron was Head of Alternative Investments - CIO Asia, at JP Morgan Chase Bank, where he founded and built the firm's Asia business as a major player in the region. Prior to that, Myron was a Vice President with DBS Private Equity in Hong Kong, where he led the firm's investment activities in Greater China. Myron joined DBS from AIG Capital Partners in New York, where he originated, analyzed and executed on investments principally in the Pacific Rim. Prior to AIG, Myron held risk management and marketing positions at Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets in New York after launching his career with Credit Suisse First Boston. Myron is a native speaker of Mandarin. Myron holds a BS from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Manulife Investment Management Head of Private Markets Asia
Manulife Investment Management

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

Sanjay Nath

Sanjay Nath is a Co-founder and Managing Partner at Blume Ventures, one of India's leading early stage venture funds. He also represents Blume on the boards of Arka Venture Labs and the Draper Venture Network. Blume focuses on Seed to Pre-Series A stages of funding and has made over 100 investments across its 10-year history across multiple funds. Sanjay has invested in and advises a wide portfolio of startups including GreyOrange Robotics, Dataweave, Locus, Tricog, LBB, Lulu, Lambdatest, TapChief (acquired by Unacademy), Nektar.ai and Obviously.ai amongst others.

Prior to Blume, Sanjay held consulting and management roles at Sun Microsystems, PwC and IBM Global Services (all in Silicon Valley). Sanjay got his start in venture capital as an active angel investor through the Mumbai Angels. His angel investments include InMobi, LittleEye Labs (acquired by Facebook), Tonbo Imaging and Svasti Microfinance amongst others. Sanjay holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Blume Ventures Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Blume Ventures

Edith Yeung

Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.

Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.

Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.
Race CapitalGeneral Partner
Race Capital

Tilman Ehrbeck

Tilman Ehrbeck is managing partner with Flourish, an evergreen fund investing in entrepreneurs whose innovations help people achieve financial health and prosperity.

Before Flourish, Tilman was a partner at Omidyar Network, where he built the global financial inclusion team. Prior to that, he served as CEO of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global partnership to advance financial inclusion. Before CGAP, Tilman grew from associate to partner at McKinsey & Company, where he helped build the global financial services and healthcare practices and worked for more than a decade with leading businesses in North America and India. He currently serves as chair of the Advisory Council to the U.N. Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance in Development and as a Board member or observer for a number of Flourish’s portfolio organizations.

Tilman started his professional journey as a journalist in Germany before earning a PhD in Economics from the EU affiliated European University Institute in Italy and joining the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.
Flourish VenturesManaging Partner
Flourish Ventures

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

Kiran Mysore

Kiran Mysore is a Principal at UTEC Japan, a deep-tech VC fund with an AUM of $800 million. He is an AI-researcher-turned-VC. Kiran leads UTEC’s global AI investments. Since joining UTEC in 2018, Kiran has led investments of close to $30 Million in frontier science & deep-tech companies in Singapore, India and USA. Prior to that, Kiran worked on Open innovation in Deloitte Japan, and was an AI/ML researcher at The University of Tokyo where he also co-founded a student-led social enterprise named 'Kriya'. For his contribution to the ecosystem, Kiran was featured in the 2020 FORBES Asia 30 Under 30 list in the Finance & VC category.
UTEC JapanPrincipal
UTEC Japan

Hemal Mirani

Hemal Mirani rejoined HarbourVest's senior management team in Asia in 2015 to focus on investments and investor relations across the Asia Pacific region.

Hemal first joined HarbourVest in 1997 and spent eleven years developing relationships with leading Asian private equity managers and working with our investors and consultants across the region to advance and optimize their private market investment programs. She rejoined HarbourVest after six years with CVC Capital Partners in Hong Kong, where she was head of investor relations in Asia and Chief Administrative Officer.

Hemal received a BA in Commerce from Sydenham College (Bombay) in 1989, an MA in International Studies with a Japanese language concentration from the Joseph H. Lauder Institute, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School in 1997. The latter two were part of a joint degree program at the University of Pennsylvania. Hemal speaks fluent Japanese.
HarbourVest PartnersManaging Director
HarbourVest Partners

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

Hemant Mohapatra

Hemant is a partner at Lightspeed and also happens to be a poet who excels at math. All his life, he’s been attracted to careers where he gets to use both sides of his brain. His journey into VC, however, was anything but linear. Growing up, he wanted to be a writer and fell in love with computer science during his undergrad at IIT Bombay. After IIT, he reinvented himself a few times as a hardware engineer, then a software engineer, a product manager, and later, as a deal-maker for Google. His portfolio at Lightspeed includes Hubilo, Pixxel, Pepper Content, Nextbillion.ai, Yellow Messenger and Neuu.
Lightspeed Partner
Lightspeed

Darius Cheung

Darius Cheung is the founder and CEO of 99.co, the leading real estate technology company in Southeast Asia.

With a mission to build the most trusted property marketplace, 99.co fuses data, design and technology to help property buyers make the best decision on the biggest purchase in their life. 99.co is the fastest growing property platform in Southeast Asia, operating brands including 99.co, iProperty.com.sg, Srx.com.sg and Rumah123.com, and garnered investment from top investors including Sequoia, East Ventures, REA, AllianzX and Eduardo Saverin.

Prior to founding 99.co, Darius was the Director of Consumer Mobile Technology at McAfee, the world leader in software security, which he joined through the acquisition tenCube, a Singapore-based mobile security company he founded and served as CEO for 5 years. At tenCube, Darius grew the startup to a team of 26 people in 2 locations, raised 2 rounds of financing, created award-winning mobile security product WaveSecure and led the startup to profitability. Darius was awarded the Singapore Youth Award, Singapore's highest youth accolade. He is an angel investor in over a dozen startups, an Alumni of NUS Overseas College.
99.coCEO
99.co

Helen Wong

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

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

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

Rajive Keshup

Rajive is a Director at Cathay Innovation, a $1.5B global venture capital fund (part of Cathay Capital) headquartered in Paris. Based out of the firm’s Singapore office, he is focused on investing in Series A through C companies in Southeast Asia and broader South Asia with initial checks ranging from $5-20M. The firm’s notable investments in the region include Finaccel, Coherent, Igloo Insuretech and KaiOS.

Prior to venture capital, Rajive has been a founder, operator, and strategy consultant based out of New York City. Rajive has an MBA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a BSc. from Bentley University in Boston, MA.
Cathay InnovationDirector
Cathay Innovation

Sheel Mohnot

Sheel is a co-founder of Better Tomorrow, a $75M seed stage venture capital fund investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company, and he is GP of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at the non-profit p2p lender Kiva.
Better TomorrowCo-Founder
Better Tomorrow

Jeth Soetoyo

Jeth Soetoyo is a Harvard Business School alumni and the Founder & CEO of Pintu, a mobile-first digital asset platform in Indonesia. Jeth had previously worked at ConsenSys, a leading Brooklyn-based Blockchain venture lab and solutions company. There, Jeth worked on development of a cross-chain atomic swap solution called Liquality, which allowed participants to trustfully swap digital assets without intermediation. He had also conducted research with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative on crypto assets valuations.
PintuFounder & CEO
Pintu

Sunitha Ramaswamy

Sunitha heads the early stage team at LetsVenture. An MBA in finance with a Computer Science background, Sunitha comes with a strong knowledge of the startup ecosystem with excellent due diligence,financial analysis, modeling skills along with coding skills. She has aptitude to assess the requirements of early stage businesses and the ability to build strong, value-adding relationships.

In the last 6+ years, startups have raised INR 1,469 crore across 400+ rounds under the leadership of Sunitha. Sunitha was also the brainchild of the only Women Angel Network in India that was launched as part of the women's day in March 2021. Prior to LetsVenture, Sunitha was with Aavishkaar, an impact investment VC firm
President - Early StageLetsventure
President - Early Stage

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

Dr. Amit Varma

Dr. Varma is the co-founder and managing partner of Quadria Capital, the largest healthcare focused private equity firm with almost 3bn USD in AUM.

Amit is a trained Critical care physician with over 30 years of experience in the United States and Asia. His expertise allows him to offer insightful knowledge relating to strategic and operational leadership processes and grow private health businesses in emerging markets.

He has served on the founding teams and boards of large Asian healthcare companies in delivery, life sciences, pharma, medical tech, and consumer healthcare such as Narayan Hrudayalaya, Fortis Healthcare, HCG, Parkway Healthcare and various others.

He co-sponsored a dedicated venture healthcare firm ‘HealthQuad’ with 300mn USD AUM to work with startups and early-stage companies in India focused on health and tech.

He maintains his passion as critical care physician by actively taking part in academic and research endeavors and is founder and mentor of one of Asia’s largest TeleICU network of over 500 ICU beds across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Amit is a visiting faculty at National University of Singapore Business School, Singapore University of Technology and Design, and University of Pittsburgh.

To promote the business of local and global sustainable healthcare, he has been a member of the National Skill Council in India, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, Member of the International Council at the National University of Singapore (NUS) - School of Medicine and the Board of Orbis international (an international non-profit non – governmental organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide).

He is also actively involved through self-initiated non-profit organization, Vimakr with the philosophy that healthcare is not a privilege, but a fundamental right by promoting women health and innovative solutions for rural healthcare in India.
Quadria CapitalCo-founder and Managing Partner
Quadria Capital

Franco Varona

Franco is the Managing Partner at Foxmont Capital Partners. Franco is also a Co-Founder and Director in Global Media Post, a boutique agency based in Singapore specializing in media production and sales, and business intelligence, supply chain sourcing, and M&A advisory services. He is also a Partner at Vintage Grail, a Manila and Hong Kong-based watch shop specializing in vintage and extremely hard to find watches. Prior to Foxmont, Franco was the Founding General Manager of Grab Philippines. Franco started his career as an analyst at the Woodrow Wilson International Center (Washington, DC). His focus was on cross-border trade and the economic benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Foxmont Capital Partners Founding Partner
Foxmont Capital Partners

Tai Lin

Mr. Lin is the Managing Partner of Proterra Asia.

Prior to Proterra, Mr. Lin served as a Managing Director for Black River Asset Management, a division of Cargill, where he focused on food sector investments across Asia. Mr. Lin joined Black River from Credit Suisse First Boston. He spent multiple years in M&A investment banking in London, Hong Kong and New York. Mr. Lin is currently helping the World Food Center of UC Davis’ establish the Asian Council as a Founding Member.

Mr. Lin holds a Master’s degree in Business & Finance from the Vienna University of Economics in Austria. He is a CFA Charterholder. Mr. Lin speaks English, German and Chinese.
Proterra AsiaManaging Partner
Proterra Asia

Rui Ma

Rui Ma has sixteen years of experience in technology and finance, spanning seed stage to pre-IPO investing, with a decade focused on China. She founded Tech Buzz China in 2018 to educate and consult investors, funds and entrepreneurs on Chinese tech companies products, strategies and trends. She previously worked at 500 Startups as an investment partner, and spent a decade in private equity and mergers & acquisitions roles at the Raine Group, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch in both Silicon Valley and China. Rui holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and additional degrees from Tsinghua, INSEAD, UIUC and Harvard University.
Tech Buzz ChinaChina Tech Analyst
Tech Buzz China

Lawrence Chu

Lawrence has over 16 years of international investment experience and founded BlackPine, an investment company that has provided capital and advice to companies such as VSFG, Kenetic, Lufax, C2FO, WH Group, Evergrande and GCL Polysilicon. Prior to this, he served as Portfolio Manager at UBS O’Connor in Hong Kong and as Strategy Executive in the Chairman’s office of EMI music in London. Lawrence began his career at the TMT M&A investment banking division at UBS in London and Hong Kong. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.
OrienteCo-founder
Oriente

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

Shobhit Shukla

Shobhit is the Co-founder of Near which is a B2B SaaS platform providing data intelligence on online and offline consumer behavior. The platform aggregates anonymized data on 1.6 billion monthly users across 70 million places and leveraged by 2 out of 3 Fortune 500 businesses. Near has raised $134 million from marquee investors such as Sequoia Capital, JP Morgan, Telstra and Cisco and has presence across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Prior to Near, Shobhit worked with InMobi, Qualcomm Ventures and Morgan Stanley. Shobhit holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Bachelor’s degree from IIT BHU. He is an early stage investor in multiple startups. Shobhit is an avid traveler, a yoga practitioner and loves nothing more than spending time with his two sons.
NearCo-founder and President
Near

Akshay Bhushan

Akshay Bhushan is a Partner at Lightspeed where he leads the firm’s Southeast Asia investments 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 for Indonesia) 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 Partner
Lightspeed

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

Albert Tseng

Albert is co-founder of Dao Foods International which is a cross-border impact investing firm established to help talented entrepreneurs introduce exciting new plant-based meat and alternative protein products in China. With rapidly rising incomes and increasing meat consumption in China, our aim is to introduce alternative products into the China market to reduce the consumer demand for animal products which has had growing negative climate, environmental, food safety and health impact.

Over his career, Albert has managed a portfolio of impact investments, been COO of a venture backed social enterprise, has consulted to United Nations on social business models, has worked in Africa on HIV health system efficiency, and has worked in business development for a major multinational as a biomedical engineer. Albert has a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, a MHSc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto, and a BASc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Dao Foods InternationalCo-founder
Dao Foods International

Anderson Sumarli

Anderson Sumarli is the co-founder and CEO of Ajaib, an online wealth management tool that brings personalized mutual fund and stock investing to the masses, potentially mobilizing billions of investable assets across Southeast Asia.an online investment advisory startup. The company is a YCombinator graduate and has recently raised a $25mn Series A funding from Horizons Ventures and Alpha JWC Ventures.
AjaibCo-Founder & CEO
Ajaib

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

Conrad Tsang

Mr Tsang has been in the private equity and venture capital industry for over 20 years. Mr Tsang’s industry experience includes: education and professional services, TMT, retail and consumer products, real estate, natural resources/mining, advanced manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, logistics, environmental products/services, energy and alternative energy, financial services etc. The companies he has been involved with include Noah Education Holdings Limited, Minsheng Education Group (1569.HK), Galloping Horse Media Group Limited, Kangda International Environmental Protection Holding Limited (6136.HK), Pansoft Group Limited, Ambow Education, Hidili Industry International Development Limited (1393.HK), Launch Tech Co Ltd (2488.HK), Great Wall Auto (2333.HK, 601633.CN), Nord Anglia Education, Kasca Education, China Mini-Storage, Teky Holdings, Carsome, Cakap, Sayurbox, Halodoc. Prior to founding Strategic Year Holdings Limited, he spent 13 years at Baring Private Equity Asia (“Baring Asia”), where he was Managing Director. He was the Founding Partner of Baring Asia’s Beijing office. Prior to that, he was with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific doing equity research, focusing on media and retail sectors. In the 1990s, Mr Tsang began his career at Peregrine Investment Holdings, where he was involved with Asian fixed income sales and marketing. Since 2016, he became Founder and Chairman of Strategic Year Holdings Limited.

Mr Tsang is currently President and Executive Director of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HKVCA). Previously, he was Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s Chairman of the Board (2013-2015). Mr Tsang is also General Member of the Hong Kong Cyberport Investors Network. Prior to founding Strategic Year Holdings Limited, he was Senior Advisor, Asia with Apollo Education Group, a US higher education company.
Strategic Year Holdings Limited Founder and Chairman
Strategic Year Holdings Limited

Venkat Vallabhaneni

Venkat is currently a Managing Partner at Inflexor Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in seed to Series-A+ stage startups with a focus on Tech IP / Deeptech Innovation.

A Serial Entrepreneur and technology evangelist with 25 years of experience in technology and management, close to two decades of experience in the USA and 5+ years in India. Venkat is investor/entrepreneur focused on incubating technology and engineering companies by providing the required capital and expertise.

Prior to this, Venkat was part of the senior management for Bank of America’s Global Delivery Centers, leading the technology division for Global Delivery Centers and established leadership depth, best practices across all the LOBs.

Prior to joining Bank Of America, Venkat was the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Accurum Inc. He was responsible for coordinating the company’s vision, executing the company’s strategy and growth through innovative solutions and client relations. He was instrumental in transforming the company to be a focused solutions provider in the Capital Markets segment. Accurum, Inc was acquired by Kanbay, Inc in March 2005.

He worked with many start-up companies, where he gained significant knowledge of the intricacies of growing the technology business in the financial industry. Venkat holds a MastersDegree in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Bachelors Degree from Manipal Institute of Technology.
Inflexor VenturesManaging Partner
Inflexor Ventures

Alex Svanevik

Alex has over 10 years of experience in data science, management consulting, and cryptocurrencies. His academic background is in artificial intelligence and machine learning. As the CEO of Nansen, Alex drives the growth and adoption of the blockchain data analytics firm to provide crypto traders, hedge funds, institutional investors and VCs with insights into the crypto markets.
NansenCo-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Nansen

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

Dr Zhou Lihan

Dr Zhou Lihan is a scientist-turned-entrepreneur who is transforming the way diagnostics are delivered to those who need them, so that diseases are detected early and lives are saved. Lihan started his career as a scientist who developed a world-leading RNA detection technology platform. He started his entrepreneurship journey by co-founding a Singapore-based biotech start-up, MiRXES, to develop practical applications from this technology platform. Along the way, Lihan moved from discovering scientific breakthroughs, to building diagnostic product development expertise and manufacturing capabilities, to launching an approved in vitro diagnostic (IVD) product for early cancer detection. As a scientist-entrepreneur, Lihan is driving ground-breaking RNA research and actively champions a global ecosystem and standards to accelerate clinical adoption of RNA diagnostics.

When the COVID-19 outbreak reached Singapore in January 2020, MiRXES was called upon to mass produce and commercialise the first COVID-19 test (Fortitude Kit 2.0) approved for use in Singapore. Within a week, MiRXES ramped up manufacturing of the COVID-19 test kit which was deployed nationally to hospitals in Singapore and also sent to more than 10 countries worldwide. Technological expertise and having Singapore-based RNA diagnostic manufacturing capabilities were key factors in MiRXES being activated for this purpose during this time of national emergency.

From advocating clinical adoption of accurate early cancer diagnostics, to mass producing novel coronavirus test kits to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Lihan experienced first-hand the importance of working with governments to ensure that effective diagnostics are delivered to the people who need them. He has also witnessed how the public may shun effective tests and services because of misconceptions and anxiety over results. This led Lihan to embark on the mission of transforming the way diagnostic tests and medical services are delivered to the public, by pushing for innovative platforms, both digital or offline, to enhance delivery of diagnostics that can detect disease early and save lives.

Lihan obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the National University of Singapore. In 2015, he was recognized by the MIT Technology Review as one of its Innovators Under 35. In 2017, he received the A*STAR Scientist-Entrepreneur Award together with his co-founders. Lihan has co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 8 patent applications.
MiRXESCo-founder and CEO
MiRXES

XQ Lin

XQ Lin is building a global life sciences ecosystem, and he has personally led over 1B in transactions. Products he has developed have cumulative revenues over 1B. Lin is a Wharton graduate who has lived and work in the US, China and Singapore, plus extensive experience in Europe. Proven partner to entrepreneurial scientists. Founder/major shareholder of multiple business platforms: He is the Chairman and CEO, Esco Lifesciences Group which provides enabling technologies, products and services to the life sciences and healthcare industries, supporting academic research and scientific discoveries, clinical practice, as well as biopharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing. Headquartered in Singapore, Esco has an extensive sales network in over 100 countries, direct sales and service offices in over 20 countries, 8 manufacturing and R&D hubs in the US, Europe, the UK, China, Singapore, and over 1300 employees worldwide. Recently, the firm closed a 200M USD Series A round with Vivo Capital, Novo Holdings, CIC, EDBI and other sophisticated investors. Lin is also the Chairman and Founder, Carmine Therapeutics, which is headquartered in Cambridge MA, and is pioneering non-viral gene therapies based on red blood cells extracellular vesicles. The firm was co founded with Prof. Harvey Lodish. The company has Inked a 900M deal with Takeda and received the Fierce 15 award only a year or so after founding. He is also the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, EVX Ventures which is based in Boston/Singapore, and builds and invests in biotech companies across Asia and the US. Portfolio companies include Carmine Therapeutics, PairX Bio, Hummingbird Biosciences, Nuevocor and others. EVX Ventures also invests in US/European biotech companies, bridging them to the Asian markets, especially China. Founder/Chairman of EVX Ventures. Lin is also building a stealth-stage Shanghai-Boston biotech company focused on novel modalities 2.0.
Esco Lifesciences GroupChairman and CEO
Esco Lifesciences Group

Quang Pham

Quang has 17-year working experience in the banking and finance industry. He is currently a Director at Crescent Group Capital Management (“Crescent Point”) – a Singapore-headquartered private equity firm with $3 billion asset under management. At Crescent Point, he oversees Vietnam as well as other Southeast Asia markets. He also serves as an independent Board Member at VNDirect Securities – a leading Vietnamese HOSE-listed broker for equities, debt, structure finance and derivative products. Prior to Crescent Point, he was a co-founder and a senior investment manager at VI (Vietnam Investments) Group - a Vietnam-focused private equity fund with $510 million AUM - where he led investments in such diverse sectors as TMT, retail, FMCG and financial services. Quang started his career as a retail specialist at Asia Commercial Bank and then spent two years at Indochina Capital/Mekong Securities as a senior equities trader.
Crescent PointDirector
Crescent Point

William Koo

William is Managing Director at Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator, a joint venture between Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory and Vertex Holdings. Headquartered in Singapore, William is based out of the accelerator’s operations, located within the National University of Singapore.

He is focused on nurturing and growing disruptive life science innovations in the areas of Agri-Food Technology, Industrial & Synthetic Biology, as well as Human & Veterinary Sciences. William also oversees early-stage investments through the firm’s Life Sciences Innovation Fund.

Prior to joining Temasek Life Sciences, William was a founder, consultant and early-stage investor in Singapore and China. He also held senior management roles in public and private sectors. William graduated with an EMBA from Peking University and MSc in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Temasek Life Sciences AcceleratorManaging Director
Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator

Tan Shao Ming

As Managing Director, Shao Ming oversees investments at ABC World Asia.

Shao Ming has over 20 years of institutional investing experience.

Before ABC World Asia, Shao Ming founded and led Peer Capita, a Singapore-based start-up providing mezzanine debt to middle market companies. He was previously Director at Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI), where he started up the Singapore office and led the firm’s private equity investment activities in Southeast Asia.

Prior to CVCI, Shao Ming was Director at Citadel Investment Group (Hong Kong), where he focused on special situations and structured credit opportunities in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Shao Ming was awarded the Temasek scholarship and started his career with Temasek Holdings in the Financial Services cluster, investing in banks across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, China and Taiwan.

Shao Ming holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honors) and a Master of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) from the National University of Singapore. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Shao Ming currently holds directorships in Sunseap Group, Kim Healthcare Group and Banco Laguna, Inc.
ABC World AsiaManaging Director
ABC World Asia

Philip Thomas

Philip Thomas is the Co-Founder/ Chief Product and Data officer of Bonza, a big data analytics platform with a mission to empower organizations to turn data into business impact. At Bonza, he oversees product development and data solutions. He led the development of Bonza's Rt modelling that is being used extensively by many organizations to track the spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia.

Before co-founding Bonza, Philip was a data scientist lead in several technology companies in Southeast Asia. Philip received his PhD from University of Stavanger, Norway, in the area of decision making under uncertainty.
BonzaCo-Founder
Bonza

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

James Tan

James Tan is Managing Partner at Quest Ventures, a top venture capital fund in Asia. Prior to this, James was co-founder and COO of 55tuan, a NASDAQ listed e-commerce group that grew to more than 200 cities and 5,000 employees across China.

As the first Singaporean and one of the rarefied few foreigners to found a public listed internet company in China, and for his investments in the next generation of entrepreneurs, James was recognised as an outstanding overseas Chinese by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China. For his outstanding global contributions, James received the Alumni Award from the University of South Australia.

James currently serves as advisor, board member or trustee on the Action Community for Entrepreneurship, Applied Innovation Institute, Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia, Beijing CYL Joint Committee on Entrepreneurship Development, National Research Foundation CGAP Fund, Social Impact Catalyst, Sports Excellence Business, and Vietnam Angel Network.

James has been guest speaker at China-focused and entrepreneurship events such as ITB Berlin, Private Equity Insights, Stanford-PARC Digital Cities, SWITCH, and World Islamic Economic Forum. He is an advisor or mentor at Chinaccelerator, Founder Institute, and PSA unboXed. He has guest lectured at Fudan, IE, Tsinghua, and UC Berkeley.

James is a graduate of the University of South Australia, and received scholarships from both Beijing and Singapore governments for his MBA from Tsinghua University in partnership with MIT. He studied and dropped out of computer science at NUS during the first dot-com era to work on two-sided markets.

For leisure, James enjoys photography and has been featured in ComputerWorld, Readers' Digest, and commercially represented by Liaison Agency. He backpacks Asia and volunteers in marine conservation as a PADI scuba-diving and DAN dive-safety instructor.
Quest VenturesManaging Partner
Quest Ventures

David Gowdey

David Gowdey is the Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures, a Singapore based venture capital firm focused on internet and technology investments in SE Asia and India. He represents Jungle on the boards of Pomelo, Kredivo, Sociolla, Kiotviet, Saltmine and other companies. Prior to Jungle, David spent 4 years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the TPG Growth fund. He continues to be a Senior Advisor at 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.
Jungle VenturesManaging Partner
Jungle Ventures

Peter McMillan

Peter McMillan is Managing Director and Head of Sales at Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN), a global leader in risk and compliance solutions that helps companies to meet their regulatory requirements as well as facilitate their capital markets transactions. He focuses on growing the Global Capital Markets business across all of Asia Pacific with offices in key locations including Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul.

As a seasoned technology and financial services veteran with over 23 years of experience, he has held both global and regional senior management positions at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters.

In this capacity, he has primarily been engaged in assisting Financial Institutions including Banks, Private Equity Firms, Hedge Funds and Asset Managers with their digital transformation aspirations in various areas including Risk and Compliance, Wealth Management, Digital Distribution and Deal Execution.
DFINManaging Director and Head of Sales
DFIN

Indra Gunawan

Indra Gunawan comes from a family that runs a hotel business, with himself having and experience in the manufacturing and gaming industry. His expertise in the manufacturing world has brought his previous company, PT Cahaya Berlian Lestari, to earn an SGS ISO:9001 certification in 2008 and GMI certification in 2012. In 2012, he founded a game development company Artoncode Indonesia where he successfully managed his team to bag several awards, including the 2012 Winner of Sparx Up Awards and the 2012 Winner of Game Development Indonesia ICT Award, as well as strategic partnership with Bandai Namco Japan.

Indra finished his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Melbourne, majoring in Accounting and Finance. He internalizes his expertise into Bobobox’s operational standards and services, providing a one-of-a-kind and joyful experience to its guests.
BoboboxCEO
Bobobox

Shinta Nurfauzia

Shinta Nurfauzia is a graduate from Harvard Law School and the University of Indonesia. She later concluded, however, that a career as a lawyer was not for her. Leaving her law career behind, Shinta has found success as a Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Lemonilo. Lemonilo is Indonesia’s first tech-driven healthy lifestyle consumer goods that creates healthy, affordable, and practical products for all daily needs with a mission to create an accessible healthy lifestyle for everyone. Lemonilo has released more than 40 products and its instant noodles are now available at more than 32 regions and 100k+ selling points across Indonesia.

Shinta believes that the most important task of any entrepreneur is to provide customers with solutions. She has a goal in life to empower people and contribute to society. Now, Shinta is a mom-of-one enjoying her new experience as a ‘mompreneur.’ She is actively balancing the role of mom and the role of entrepreneur.
LemoniloCo-CEO & Co-Founder
Lemonilo

Abraham Viktor

Serial entrepreneur Abraham Viktor co-founded a bread enterprise Kayafood and a light concrete business Ixacon, while still a Finance undergraduate at Universitas Indonesia. After graduating in 2013, he worked as an analyst at the Boston Consulting Group and Nomura. He then co-founded and became CEO of Taralite, a financial technology company that focuses on People-to-People (P2P) lending and was later acquired by Indonesia's unicorn digital payment platform. Most recently in November 2019, Abraham established the first multi-brand virtual restaurant in Indonesia, Hangry.
HangryCEO
Hangry

Stephanie Siu

Stephanie is the legal counsel and representative of eBrevia – a legal tech company under Donnelley Financial Solutions specialising in contract review. She oversees the APAC region, and regularly works with lawyers on integrating the platform into their practice. She is also a lecturer at ULaw and teaches the Legal Ethics and Professional Practice course. Prior to joining eBrevia, she practised as a corporate lawyer at Reed Smith Richards Butler.
eBreviaLegal Counsel and Project Manager
eBrevia

Sriram Mani

Sriram breaks stories on startups and venture capital for Network18, one of India's largest media conglomerates. He was earlier with Indian business daily Mint, where he had broken news on funds such as SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, and Tiger Global, as well as companies such as Byju's, Dream11 and Alibaba, in addition to writing long form stories, trends and critical analysis.

A post-graduate student from the Asian College Of Journalism- Bloomberg course, the premier financial journalism programme, Siriram loves analyzing and diving into news and business and is adept at using the Bloomberg Terminal.
Network18Senior Correspondent
Network18

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

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

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

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

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.
dealstreetasiaVietnam Correspondent
dealstreetasia

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.
dealstreetasiaSenior Reporter, Hong Kong
dealstreetasia

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.
dealstreetasiaEditor
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
Dealstreetasia

Rachel Phua

Rachel Phua is a reporter for DealStreetAsia based in Singapore. She was previously with Channel NewsAsia with both the digital and broadcast teams.
DealStreetAsiaWriter, Southeast Asia
DealStreetAsia

Mars Mosqueda Jr

Mars is a Philippine-based journalist with over 15 years of experience covering business and major events in the Philippines and some parts of Southeast Asia. He was Cebu news bureau chief of a leading national newspaper from 2001 to 2016 and was correspondent of Reader’s Digest (Asia) magazine from 2004 to 2013. He was also freelance reporter for ChinaTopix.com, Pasadena Now, Asia Golf Monthly, ParGolf Asia, Business Mirror, and a number of niche business news sites in the region. Mars is a member of the Cebu Federation of Beat Journalists, the only duly-registered organization of beat reporters in the Philippines.
DealStreetAsiaCorrespondent, Philippines
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

Takehiko Ken Koyanagi

Ken Koyanagi writes editorials and commentaries about the tech industry and Asian affairs based out of Tokyo. Prior to the current role, he was a Nikkei Asia Editor-at-large based first in Southeast Asia and then in India for seven years. Prior to that, he was the Founding Publisher of the Nikkei Asian Review (renamed to Nikkei Asia in 2020), after leading online service development projects for the Japanese Nikkei. After joining Nikkei in 1988, Ken covered such beats as the Japanese capital markets, financial and technology sectors in Tokyo, and the U.S. tech sector at Silicon Valley bureau in the 2000’s.
Nikkei Inc.Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Board Member
Nikkei Inc.

Harveen Ahluwalia

Harveen is a co-founder at The Morning Context, and leads coverage for the Internet section. Harveen has previously worked at The Ken and Mint. She is a graduate of the Shri Ram College of Commerce, the batch of 2015. At The Morning Context, Harveen stays on top of all things media: traditional, digital and social, and occasionally, dabbles in the food and beverage sector and retail.
The Morning Context Editor, Internet
The Morning Context

Akito Tanaka

Akito Tanaka is a Chief business news correspondent at Nikkei Asia, covering Tech and business in Asia from Singapore.

Tanaka has over twenty years of reporting experience and has been covering global companies in Japan, the United States and Asia.

Tanaka graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with BA in political science. He spent his childhood years in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the American International School.
Nikkei AsiaChief business news correspondent
Nikkei Asia

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