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Asia PE-VC Summit 2022

27 & 28 September 2022

Sofitel Singapore City Centre

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Speakers

Cyrus Driver

Managing Director
Partners Group

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Kenneth Cheong

Managing Director
Baring Private Equity Asia Pte Ltd (BPEA)

Huai Fong Chew

Regional Lead, East Asia & the Pacific Funds
IFC

Michael Liu

Managing Director
Portfolio Advisors

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Matthew Michelini
CEO
Apollo Asia-Pacific
Bert Kwan

Head of Private Equity
Silverhorn

Jenny Lee

Managing Partner
GGV Capital

Dr. Thomas Lanyi

Head Southeast Asia
CDH Investment Advisory Private Limited

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo

Director / Head of Food and Indonesia Sales & Ops
GoTo

Ronnie Screwvala

Co-Founder & Chairperson
upGrad

Nainesh Jaisingh

Founding Partner & CEO Affirma Capital

Soo Yar Ping
Yar-Ping Soo

Partner
Adams Street Partners

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Rishika Chandan

Managing Director
Venturi Partners

Kerry Goh

Founder, CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Kamet Capital

Nick Nash

Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Asia Partners

Dave Richards

Managing Partner
Capria Ventures

Kabir Narang

Founding General Partner
B Capital Group

Visa Kannan

Partner
Saison Capital

Sunil Thakur

Partner
Quadria Capital

Puiyan Leung
Pui Yan Leung

Partner
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India

Jessica Huang Pouleur

General Partner
Openspace Ventures

Cristina Ventura

General Partner & Chief Catalyst Officer
White Star Capital

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Eddie Ong
Deputy CIO & Head of Private Investments
SeaTown Holdings
Pinn Lawjindakul
Pinn Lawjindakul

Partner
Lightspeed Venture Partners

Andrea Campagnoli
Andrea Campagnoli

Partner
Bain & Company

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Helen Wong

Managing Partner
AC Ventures

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François Pictet
Managing Partner
Pictet Group
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Sui Ling Cheah

Operating Partner
Wavemaker Partners

Doug Coulter

Partner
LGT Capital Partners

Anup Jain

Managing Partner
Orios Venture Partners

Jason Sambanju

Partner, CEO & Founder Foundation PE

Sutapa Amornvivat
Sutapa Amornvivat

Founding CEO
SCB Abacus

Juliet Zhu

Group President and CFO
Carsome

Vadim Shpak

Operating Managing Director
Vickers Venture Partners

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Mohan Kumar
Managing Director
Avataar Ventures
Shilpa Kulkarni

Founder & Managing Partner
Panthera Growth Partners

Chik Wai Chiew

CEO & Executive Director
Heritas Capital

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Avina Sugiarto

Partner
East Ventures

Ganesh Rengaswamy

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Quona Capital

Wei Jian Tor
Wei Jian Tor

Managing Director
EQT Private Equity

Mahesh Joshi
Mahesh Joshi

Head, Private Equity
Investment Asia
BlueOrchard Finance

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Sarah Chen

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Beyond The Billion (launched as The Billion Dollar Fund for Women)

Khailee Ng
Khailee Ng

Managing Partner
500 Global

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Seamon Chan

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Palm Drive Capital

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Yinglan Tan

CEO & Founding
Managing Partner
Insignia Ventures Partners

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Justin Ferrier

Managing Partner, Private Credit
Navis Capital Partners

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Smita Aggarwal

Global Investments Advisor
Flourish Ventures

Paul Robine
Paul Robine

Founder & CEO
TR Capital

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Ivan Kwong
Principal,
Global Impact
KKR
Caroline Wee

Investment Partner, Asia Circulate Capital

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Desmond Lee

Managing Director (Singapore)
NewQuest Capital Partners

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Denny Goenawan

Managing Partner
Indies Capital Partners

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Nicholas Smalle
Partner
Apis Partners
Dmitry Levit

Founder & General Partner
Cento Ventures

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Utari Octavianty
Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer Aruna
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Darius Cheung

CEO
99.co

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Julian Tan
Founder & CEO
FastCo
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Jennifer Ho
Partner
Integra Partners
Anupum Khaitan

Executive Director
Capital Square Partners

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Melissa Guzy

Managing Partner and Founder
Arbor Ventures

Nitish Agarwal
Nitish Agarwal

CEO and CIO
Orion Capital Asia

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Wei Hsien Chan
Managing Director
SeaTown Holdings
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Iwan Suryaputra
Chairman
Volta Indonesia
Abhinay Peddisetty
Abhinay Peddisetty
Co-Founder & CEO
BukuWarung
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Eka Himawan
Managing Director
Xurya Daya Indonesia
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Jon Crandall

Managing Director, Asia Pacific
Ontra

Saima Rehman
Saima Rehman
Investment Officer, Private Equity Funds Group
IFC
Sebastian Togelang
Sebastian Togelang
Co-Founder & CEO
Rigel Capital
Grace Sai
Grace Sai
Co-founder and CEO Unravel Carbon
Swati Baghel
Swati Baghel
Senior Vice President
Blackstone
Jerry Lee
Jerry Li

Founding & Managing Partner
eWTP Arabia Capital

Jennifer Wong
Jessica Wong
Founding & Managing Partner
eWTP Arabia Capital
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Nishant Rao
Founding Partner Avataar Venture Partners
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Ali Fancy

Partner
Cento Ventures 

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En Lee
Managing Director LGT
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Arvind Sankaran

Founder

Imaginarium Advisors
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Ravi Thakran

Ex Group Chairman
LVMH Asia

Kwang Yew See
Kwang Yew See

Principal
The Blackstone Group

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Virtual Session Speakers

Satish Chander
Satish Chander

Partner
True North

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Chibo Tang
Managing Partner
Gobi Partners
Misbah Naqvi
Misbah Naqvi

General Partner & Co-Founder
i2i Ventures

Faisal Aftab
Faisal Aftab

Co-Founder & General Partner
Zayn Capital

Omer Khan
Omer Khan

Founder
PostEx

Halima Iqbal
Halima Iqbal

CEO & Founder
Oraan

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Sameer Brij Verma
Managing Director
Nexus Venture Partners
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Mandar Dandekar 
Partner
Sorin Investments
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Sanjeev Bikhchandani
Founder
Info Edge India
Shailendra Singh
Shailendra Singh

Managing Director Sequoia Capital India Advisors

Virtual Sessions are exclusively curated pre-recorded sessions and will only be sent to participants  with a valid registration for the Asia PE-VE Summit 2022 in Singapore. These content sessions will be sent via email, post-event, to registered participants only. These sessions are not sold individually at a separate price for viewing. 

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Moderators

Michelle Teo 

Managing Editor
DealStreetAsia

Andi Haswidi

Head of ASEAN Research
DealStreetAsia

Akito Tanaka

Chief business news correspondent
Nikkei Asia

Kristie Neo

Senior Writer
DealStreetAsia

Deepshikha Monga

Editor
DealStreetAsia

Paramita Chatterjee

Editor
DealStreetAsia

Eudora Wang

Senior Reporter, Hong Kong
DealStreetAsia

Ariba Shahid

Contributor, Pakistan
DealStreetAsia

Kunal Talgeri

Editor – Commissioned Research
DealStreetAsia

Tsubasa Suruga

Staff Writer
Nikkei Asia

Dylan Loh

Singapore Correspondent
Nikkei Asia

 

 

Joji Philip

Founder & Editor-in-Chief
DealStreetAsia

Agenda

8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration & Morning Networking

 

9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome note

by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

 

9:15 am – 10:00 am | How is private equity in Asia riding the downcycle?

  • Kenneth Cheong, Managing Director, Baring Private Equity Asia Pte Ltd
  • Nainesh Jaisingh, Founding Partner & CEO, Affirma Capital
  • Eddie Ong, Deputy Chief Investment Officer & Managing Director (Private Investments),
  • SeaTown Holdings
  • Doug Coulter, Partner, Head of Private Equity, Asia-Pacific, LGT Capital Partners
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

10:00 am – 10:30 am | Fireside Chat: The LP View – Investing in Asia: Opportunities in

the largest markets and beyond

  • Francois Pictet, Managing Partner, Pictet Group
  • In conversation with Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am | Networking and Coffee break

 

11:00 am – 11:30 am | Fireside Chat: Post-pandemic, has edtech in India fallen out offavour?

  • Ronnie Screwvala, Co-Founder & Chairperson, Upgrad
  • In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

 

11:45 am – 12:30 pm | The LP View: Backing emerging market and first-time managers in

adverse times

  • Soo Yar-Ping, Partner, Primary Investments, Adams Street Partners
  • Huai Fong Chew, Regional Lead, East Asia & the Pacific PE Funds, IFC
  • Dave Richards, Managing Partner, Capria Ventures
  • Sarah Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Beyond The Billion (launched as The
  • Billion Dollar Fund for Women)
  • Tsubasa Suruga, Staff Writer, Nikkei Asia (Moderator)

 

12:30 pm – 1:20 pm | Lunch Networking

 

1:20 pm – 2:00 pm | Time for private credit to shine in Asia

  • Denny Goenawan, Managing Partner, Indies Capital Partners
  • Wei Hsien Chan, Managing Director, Seatown Holdings
  • Nitish Agarwal, CEO and CIO, Orion Capital Asia
  • Matthew Michelini, CEO, Apollo Asia-Pacific
  • Justin Ferrier, Managing Partner, Private Credit, Navis Capital Partners (Moderator)

 

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm | Values vs value: Scaling impact through private capital

  • Chik Wai Chiew, CEO and Executive Director, Heritas Capital
  • Mahesh Joshi, Head, Private Equity Investment Asia, BlueOrchard Finance
  • Ivan Kwong, Principal, KKR & Co. Inc.
  • Utari Octavianty, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer, Aruna
  • Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

2:50 pm – 3:35 pm | PEs & VCs compete on the same turf with rising growth funds and

lure of tech bets

  • Vadim Shpak, Operating Managing Director, Vickers Venture Partners
  • Shilpa Kulkarni, Founder and Managing Partner, Panthera Growth Partners
  • Sunil Thakur, Partner, Quadria Capital
  • Anupum Khaitan, Executive Director, Capital Square Partners (Moderator)

 

3:35 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking and Coffee break

 

4:00 pm – 4:40 pm | Is the time ripe for secondaries as IPOs and trade exits turn cold?

  • Paul Robine, Founder & CEO, TR Capital
  • Michael Liu, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors
  • Desmond Lee, Managing Director, NewQuest Capital Partners
  • Jason Sambanju, Partner, CEO & Founder, Foundation PE (Moderator)

 

4:40 pm – 5:25 pm | What makes PE investors bet on SE Asia’s macro story?

  • Bert Kwan, Head of Private Equity, Silverhorn
  • Kerry Goh, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Kamet Capital
  • Dr Thomas Lanyi, Head Southeast Asia, CDH Investment Advisory Private Limited
  • Wei Jian TOR, Managing Director, EQT Private Equity
  • Andrea Campagnoli, Partner, Bain & Company (Moderator)

 

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Private equity in Asia: What’s the next big play?

  • Ravi Thakran, Ex Group Chairman, LVMH Asia
  • In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

 

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Networking and Cocktails

8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration & Morning Networking

 

9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome address

by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

 

9:15 am – 9:45 am | Opening Keynote: Have we hit the bottom? Where do we go from

here?

by Nick Nash, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Asia Partners

 

9:45 am – 10:30 am | VCs have a diversity problem. What can they do to bridge the gap?

  • Rishika Chandan, Managing Director, Venturi Partners
  • Pinn Lawjindakul, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
  • Cristina Ventura, General Partner & Chief Catalyst Officer, White Star Capital
  • Deepshikha Monga, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am | Networking and Coffee break

 

11:00 am – 11:45 am | Are early-stage deals still hot amid funding winter?

  • Anup Jain, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
  • Avina Sugiarto, Partner, East Ventures
  • Khailee Ng, Managing Partner, 500 Global
  • Jennifer Ho, Partner, Integra Partners
  • Andi Haswidi, Head of ASEAN Research, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

11:45 am – 12:30 pm | Build local, think global: The opportunity for cross-border SaaS

play

  • Kabir Narang, Founding General Partner, B Capital Group
  • Cyrus Driver, Managing Director, Partners Group
  • Nishant Rao, Founding Partner, Avataar Venture Partners
  • Mohan Kumar, Managing Partner, Avataar Ventures (Moderator)

 

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch Networking

 

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Fireside chat: Capturing value in a downturn as private market

valuations hit correction course

  • Jenny Lee, Managing Partner, GGV Capital
  • In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia

 

2:00 pm – 2:50 pm | Fintech in SE Asia turning into an ecosystem play. What next?

  • Juliet Zhu, Group President & CFO, CARSOME
  • Julian Tan, Founder & CEO, FastCo
  • Ganesh Rengaswamy, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Quona Capital
  • Darius Cheung, CEO, 99.co
  • Nicholas Smalle, Partner, Apis Partners
  • Ali Fancy, Partner, Cento Ventures (Moderator)

 

2:50 pm – 3:25 pm | The future of Warung/Kirana tech in India and SE Asia

  • Smita Aggarwal, Global Investments Advisor, Flourish Ventures
  • Abhinay Peddisetty, Co-Founder & CEO, BukuWarung
  • Arvind Sankaran, Founder, Imaginarium Advisors
  • Visa Kannan, Partner, Saison Capital (Moderator)

 

3:25 pm – 3:50 pm | Networking and Coffee break

 

3:50 pm – 4:35 pm | Venture investing and generating alpha in turbulent times

  • Seamon Chan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Palm Drive Capital
  • Helen Wong, Managing Partner, AC Ventures
  • Jessica Huang Pouleur, Partner, Openspace Ventures
  • Yinglan Tan, CEO & Founding Managing Partner, Insignia Ventures Partners
  • Kristie Neo, Senior Writer, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

4:35 pm – 5:15 pm | Driving decarbonisation: How the startup ecosystem can take the

lead

  • Sui Ling Cheah, Operating Partner, Wavemaker Partners
  • Pui Yan Leung, Partner, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India
  • Caroline Wee, Investment Partner, Asia, Circulate Capital
  • Grace Sai, Co-founder and CEO, Unravel Carbon
  • Dylan Loh, Singapore Correspondent, Nikkei Asia (Moderator)

 

5:15 pm – 5:45 pm | Closing Fireside: GoTo: Scaling up ecosystem integration for

greater impact?

  • Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo, Director / Head of Food and Indonesia Sales & Ops, GoTo
  • In conversation with Akito Tanaka, Chief business news correspondent, Singapore
  • Bureau, NIKKEI & Nikkei Asia

 

5:45 pm – 7:30 pm | Networking and Cocktails

Virtual Sessions are exclusively curated pre-recorded sessions and will only

be sent to participants with a valid registration for the Asia PE-VE Summit

2022 in Singapore. These content sessions will be sent via email, post-event,

to registered participants only. These sessions are not sold individually at a

separate price for viewing.

 

Virtual Session 1 | Pakistan’s long-term investment potential intact despite funding

slowdown

  • Faisal Aftab, Co-Founder, Zayn Capital
  • Misbah Naqvi, General Partner & Co-Founder, i2i Ventures
  • Omer Khan, Founder, PostEx
  • Halima Iqbal, CEO and Founder, Oraan
  • Ariba Shahid, Contributor, Pakistan, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

Virtual Session 2 | Fireside Chat: Investment & exit opportunities for private equity in India – The road ahead

  • Satish Chander, Partner, True North
  • In conversation with Paramita Chatterjee, Editor, DealStreetAsia

 

Virtual Session 3 | From unicorn frenzy, the balance tilts to sustainable business models

in India

  • Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder, Info Edge India
  • Mandar Dandekar, Partner, Sorin Investments
  • Sameer Brij Verma, Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners
  • Paramita Chatterjee, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

Virtual Session 4 | Fireside Chat: Top concerns & focuses for China VCs as they up

stakes in global market

  • Chibo Tang, Managing Partner, Gobi Partners
  • Eudora Wang, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

 

Virtual Session 5 | Fireside chat: Balanced growth & governance focus are key to building

sustainable enterprises

  • Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India Advisors
  • In conversation with Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
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About the Summit

In its seventh 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.

Deep dive into current landscape and a functional roadmap for the year ahead

Get LP & GP perspectives on the challenges and opportunities for PE & VC firms in SE Asia, India and Greater China

Exploring the potential of spotlight countries in the region such as Indonesia & Vietnam

A chance to network with an audience of leaders in the investment & start-up community

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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

Kenneth Cheong

Kenneth Cheong is a Partner in the BPEA EQT team. Kenneth worked for BPEA from 1998 until 2022, when the company joined forces with EQT and was renamed BPEA EQT. Kenneth is involved with investments in Southeast Asia, and has also been involved with investments in China, Korea, the U.S. and India. Prior to joining BPEA, Kenneth worked as a manager at BZW Asia for three years, where he was involved in corporate finance and M&A in the Region. Prior to that, Kenneth spent three years at DBS Bank, where he was involved in credit, marketing and loan syndications. Kenneth holds a Bachelor of Science in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics, where he graduated with First Class Honors.
BPEA EQTPartner
BPEA EQT

Huai Fong Chew

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

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

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

Michael Liu

Michael Liu is a Managing Director of Portfolio Advisors and serves as a voting member of the Fund’s Investment. Committee. Michael joined Portfolio Advisors in 2013 and primarily supports Portfolio Advisors’ Asian activities. Previously, he was a Vice President in the UOB Investment Management Division’s alternative investment fund-of-funds advisory business where he had worked with Portfolio Advisors since 2006 through a joint-venture. He joined UOB in July 2006 through the Management Associate program. Michael has served or is serving as an Advisory Board member of five private equity partnership. (B.S. from Nanyang Technological University)
Portfolio AdvisorsManaging Director
Portfolio Advisors

Matthew Michelini

Mr. Michelini is CEO of Apollo Asia-Pacific. He also Co-Leads Apollo’s Hybrid Value strategy. Mr. Michelini has played a pivotal role in the creation and success of a number of Apollo’s largest growth initiatives, including Athene, Hybrid Value, Apollo Dedicated Insurance Program, Natural Resources, and the development of the Financials Group. Upon joining Apollo in 2006, Mr. Michelini spent several years in the firm’s Private Equity business, where he was focused on deals in media, financial services, and metals & mining across a number of geographies.

Previously, Mr. Michelini was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Lazard Frères & Co. Mr. Michelini serves on the board of directors of Athene Holding Ltd. and Venerable Holdings, and previously served on the boards of Aleris Corporation, Metals USA, Noranda Aluminum, One Main Financial, and Warrior Met Coal. Mr. Michelini received his MBA from Columbia University and graduated from Princeton University with a BA in mathematics and a Certificate in finance.
Apollo Asia-PacificCEO
Apollo Asia-Pacific

Bert Kwan

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

Jenny Lee

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

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

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

Dr. Thomas Lanyi

Dr. Thomas Lanyi is Chief Executive Officer (Singapore) and Head Southeast Asia & Co-Head Global Cross Border Transactions at CDH Investments, a leading alternative assets management platform rooted in China, operating across the region. Based in Singapore, Dr. Lanyi and his team pursue private equity investment opportunities across all major markets in Southeast Asia, covering a broad range of sectors, transaction types and stages. Dr. Lanyi has worked in the Asian region since the late 1990s with a focus on Southeast Asia and China related transactions. Prior to joining CDH in 2012, Dr. Lanyi held senior roles at Mekong Capital in Vietnam and Templeton Private Equity in Singapore. Dr. Lanyi earned a Doctorate with distinction in Capital Markets Theory & Econometrics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. He obtained a CEMS Masters degree in International Management from HEC Paris. Dr. Lanyi has been actively involved with the regional alternative assets management community, chairing the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) between 2017 and 2021.
CDH Investment Advisory Private LimitedChief Executive Officer (Singapore), Head Southeast Asia & Co-Head Global Cross Border Transactions
CDH Investment Advisory Private Limited

Catherine Hindra Sutjahyo

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ronnie Screwvala

Ronnie’s first foray was Cable TV in India and for the first two years of that journey he found no takers and only advise was to treat it as a failed start up and move on, but with him staying at it he was credited with having pioneered Cable TV for all of India. Entrepreneurship is about finding and seizing opportunities and moving on from failures and Ronnie saw an opportunity in toothbrush manufacturing and after many setbacks went on to build one of the largest toothbrush operations in India, at a time where there was no eco-system for PE Funding or bank debt to start ups. The other opportunity was TV Home Shopping but it was well before its time and was a big failure, but not enough for him to question if he should stick it out as an entrepreneur. Ronnie went on to build a media and entertainment company - UTV, where post many pivots and four almost near bankruptcies and 15 years of focussed work with strong co-founders and a large team, it scaled to a size spanning all aspects of Content and Platform and then he divested UTV to The Walt Disney Co in 2012. Perception in most cases is larger than reality and so in spite of so many failures, Newsweek termed him the Jack Warner of India, Esquire rated him one
upGradCo-Founder & Chairperson
upGrad

Nainesh Jaisingh

Nainesh Jaisingh is a Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Affirma Capital, and is based in Singapore.

Prior to leading the MBO of Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) to form Affirma Capital, Nainesh was a founding member of the business within Standard Chartered Bank in 2002, and most recently the Global Head of the Principal Finance business of the Bank.

Over two decades as a Private Equity investor in the Emerging Markets, Nainesh has a long track record of successful investments and exits, partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to build leading businesses. During this period, Nainesh has been instrumental in building PE franchises in India, South East Asia and the Middle East, with high calibre teams.

Nainesh is an Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU, and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.
Affirma CapitalFounding Partner & Chief Executive Officer
Affirma Capital

Yar-Ping Soo

Yar-Ping leads the Primary Investment Team‘s practice in Asia and actively participates in all investment decisions. She also manages relationships with several of Adams Street’s GPs in the region.

Prior to joining Adams Street, she was a Senior Vice President of GIC Special Investments (GICSI), which is the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Yar-Ping spent more than a decade at GIC and worked in their New York, Redwood City, and Singapore offices. She was the Head of Asia/Emerging Markets based out of Singapore, leading GIC Private Equity’s investments in leveraged buyout funds, growth capital funds, and co-investments.

Yar-Ping is a member of Adams Street’s Primary Investment Committee.
Adams Street PartnersPartner, Primary Investments
Adams Street Partners

Rishika Chandan

Rishika Chandan is a Managing Director at Venturi Partners. Prior to joining the Venturi team, she was part of Epiq Capital - a growth & later stage tech focused fund in India. She has led & managed several of the firm’s investments in Pristyncare, Cure.fit amongst others. Rishika also brings deep operating experience, having founded & run a consumer tech business in India for several years before exiting it. She was an investment banker prior to that.

At Venturi, Rishika leads the fund's initiatives in India and South East Asia.
Venturi PartnersManaging Director
Venturi Partners

Kerry Goh

Kerry Goh is the Founder, CEO, & CIO of Kamet Capital Partners, a professional multi-family office based in Singapore. Kerry has over 26 years of investment experience across asset management, family office, hedge fund and private bank. His experience spans across 4 global financial centres including London, Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Early in his career, Kerry managed top performing Asian equities funds and investment trusts and received top fund manager awards while at AIB Govett and Foreign & Colonials. In London, Kerry managed the wealth of Lord Jacob Rothschild in his family office. At this time, he founded, managed, and sold a stake in a hedge fund, sponsored by Lord Rothschild. Prior to founding Kamet Capital, Kerry was the Head of Portfolio Management Asia for Bank Julius Baer.

Kerry founded Kamet Capital as the professional family office for Asia's new economy founders, providing comprehensive and bespoke family office and investment services. Kamet was amongst the first group of fund managers given the ability to structure under Singapore Variable Capital Companies (VCC) framework and offers multi-asset and private investment funds to investors.

Kerry holds a degree in Business Studies (Financial Analysis) from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
Kamet CapitalFounder, CEO & Chief Investment Officer
Kamet Capital

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

Dave Richards

A tech entrepreneur for 20 years and a scaler for 15 years in the ‘Global South, Dave Richards, Managing Partner at Capria Ventures, is an early-growth investor which includes strategic investments in local early-stage VC funds in Global South, and passionate to mentor startup CEOs and emerging GPs.

He co-founded Capria in 2012, Unitus Ventures in 2005 and quickly grew into one of South/Southeast Asia’s most experienced global investors. As a Managing Partner, his responsibilities currently include investment sourcing and diligence, portfolio management, fundraising and investor relations, and oversight of finance, business operations, compliance and administration.

Dave brings to Capria deep experience as an entrepreneur, executive, and global early-stage and early-growth venture capital investor. At Capria, he has been on the leadership team launching and operating 2 early-stage India venture funds (under Unitus Ventures brand), and the Capria GP Accelerator and Capria Fund, investing in 40+ early-stage and early-growth funds and tech companies across the global south in sectors including fintech, edtech, logistics, healthtech, agtech, jobtech and consumer.

Dave has constructed a robust position in the Global South startup and VC ecosystem through his continuous work to boost impact. His entrepreneurial experience and success have led him to discover and support many early-stage ventures in the Southeast Asia markets which are front-runners in creating impact-led solutions in the region. Early in his career, Dave had developed and led multiple high-growth technology businesses at RealNetworks, Sybase and Symantec from startup to multiple hundred million dollar global enterprises. He is a Partner with Social Venture Partners Seattle and co-founder of the SVP Fast Pitch startup impact angel fund.
Capria VenturesManaging Partner
Capria Ventures

Kabir Narang

Kabir Narang is a Founding General Partner at B Capital, a multi-stage global investment firm. He leads investments for the firm focused on financial technology and consumer enablement.

Kabir was previously a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures India, Fidelity’s venture capital investment arm. During his tenure at Eight Roads, he led investments in technology and financial services. Kabir was also a member of the Regional Partnership, which actively evaluated investment opportunities across Asia, including China and Japan.

Prior to Eight Roads, Kabir was with Warburg Pincus, India, where he was involved with investments and portfolio management in Max India, Max Healthcare, and Kotak Mahindra Bank. Kabir first began his career in consulting, spanning over six years with McKinsey in India, and the Boston Consulting Group in the US. His work mainly focused on technology and financial services in the areas of strategy and operations.
B Capital GroupFounding General Partner
B Capital Group

Visa Kannan

Visa Kannan is a Partner at Saison Capital. Visa comes with extensive experience scaling companies in the eCommerce industry, having been a zero-to-one operator at two unicorns: Grofers (now blinkit) and Lazada. She was most recently an SVP at Grofers, the largest quick commerce player in India. Prior to Grofers, she was a consultant at BCG and before that an M&A lawyer, which ensures she brings an additional eye for detail to her dealmaking.

Visa is a champion for diversity in the venture and startup ecosystem. She holds weekly hours to connect, support and mentor female founders. Visa sees a distinct opportunity to bring more experts into the sector by identifying ways to include more women and minority groups. She received her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from INSEAD.
Saison CapitalPartner
Saison Capital

Sunil Thakur

Sunil is a Partner with Quadria Capital, an Asian healthcare focused private equity fund with managed assets of US$3 billion. Sunil has an extensive healthcare investment and transaction experience across the Asia-Pacific market and has been involved in some of the landmark deals in the healthcare space. In his career spanning 20+ years, Sunil has led and executed multi-billion-dollar deals across M&A and Capital Raise. Sunil serves on the board and committees of various healthcare companies and few prestigious institutions. Sunil is part of the leadership team at NATHEALTH and a member on CII – National Committee on Pharma and Biotechnology. Prior to Quadria Capital, Sunil has worked with Religare Capital Markets and PNB Gilts at various senior positions. He has a Masters Degree in International Business from Delhi School of Economics.
Quadria CapitalPartner
Quadria Capital

Pui Yan Leung

Pui Yan Leung is currently a partner at Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India and focuses on investment opportunities in Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India, Pui Yan was an Investment Director at Singtel Innov8, the CVC arm of Singtel. Prior to that, she assumed a range of operating roles, including Business Development, Product Marketing and Strategy.

Pui Yan is a Kauffman Fellow and graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree from the National University of Singapore.
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & IndiaPartner
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India

Jessica Huang Pouleur

At Openspace, Jessica is a Partner alongside Shane Chesson and Hian Goh. She leads OSV+, our mid-stage growth fund as well as having a leadership role in the investment team. She has over 14 years of growth- and late-stage investment and corporate strategy experience across Asia Pacific. Her previous roles include leading the investment team in Southeast Asia for Providence Equity Partners – a global telecommunications, media and technology sector focused private equity fund. More recently, she headed Corporate Strategy & Business Development, APAC, for The Walt Disney Company, where she helmed key strategic initiatives and M&A across the region. Earlier in her career, Jessica worked in the Healthcare Investment Banking and Asia Debt Capital Markets teams at Citigroup. Jessica holds a BA in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Openspace VenturesPartner
Openspace Ventures

Cristina Ventura

Cristina has been working in Luxury and technology for over 20 years for the world’s most prestigious luxury companies as LVMH, Gucci, Prada, Apple and Lane Crawford Joyce Group. She represents an international understanding of luxury, strategic planning, creativity digitalization and innovation.

She is General Partner & Chief Catalyst Officer at White Star Capital, a multi-stage global technology investment platform with 1B AUM. Her role is to be a Catalyst for Growth by connecting human capital globally, fostering business growth for our partners by collaborating across ecosystems with family offices, institutional investors and strategic corporates, and optimizing platform value for all our stakeholders

Previously she was Chief Catalyst Officer at Lane Crawford Joyce Group, responsible to create a network for the Group, stimulating ideas and new ways to invest and to partner. LCJGroup.com is Asia's pre-eminent luxury lifestyle Group, with brand management and distribution for over 1,500 lifestyle brands. Cristina founded LUXARITY, the first social venture to implement Blockchain technology to transform the future of luxury ecosystem. It was acquired by LCJG.

Before joining LCJG, Cristina led the opening of APPLE Hong Kong & south China, the fastest and largest market growth for Apple globally. She grew her team to over 1,500 members, which made an important contribution to Apple’s $8.8 billion revenues during the Asia opening.

Previously, Cristina was Regional Director at PRADA Group, where she was responsible for the business development of Prada, Miu Miu and Car Shoe brands, covering 12 countries throughout Asia, being involved in the preparation of Prada’s IPO in Hong Kong. Previously, she was the Operations Director for GUCCI Europe & Middle East, and worked for several years at LVMH Fashion Group in Europe and Asia, where she was responsible for business development & growth. She started her career at Louis Vuitton London through a Leonardo da Vinci grant from the European Union.

She is the founder of VenturaXVentures, with the vision to be a Catalyst for Impact through advisory and investment. Cristina is member of the Global Family Office Circle and co-invests and partners with family offices globally. VXV Mission is to create an ecosystem that ignites impact and creates value for all stakeholders by:
  • Connecting global talent: Human, Financial & Value Capital (Entrepreneurs, FO, PE, VCs)
  • Catalyzing growth and collaborating across ecosystems focusing on sustainable investment
  • Creating value by advising and co-investing in purpose driven entrepreneurs with Family Offices and investment funds, focusing on global growth investments on Consumer Tech, Sustainability, Blockchain & Education

    • Cristina earned the Erasmus Grant and studied Communication Sciences from Ramon Lull University in Barcelona and Milano. She did her Global Executive MBA at IESE & CEIBS China and is Alumni at Insead, Harvard Business School, Stanford and currently part of the Kauffman Fellows Program. She has participated as a luxury specialist and keynote speaker at HBS, MIT, LBS, IMD, INSEAD, GBBC, TechInnovation and taught MBA classes in Hong Kong & Shanghai at HKUST, PolyU, IESE & CEIBS. She is currently teaching her Harvard Case Study: “Leading Innovation in the Luxury Industry” and IESE Case Study “A Catalyst Journey during Corona Times”.

    She is an Officer of the Harvard Alumni in HK & on the Board of HBS Singapore Club, leading HBS New Ventures & SME and is a YPO Asia United member, leading Communications for the chapter. She is on the board of several companies she invests in, on the board of Vogue Singapore & Vogue Foundation, and advisor at TaFF & Design Singapore Tech for Good Program (part of EDB), with the objective of making Singapore the innovative lifestyle hub in Asia. Cristina is ambassador at GBBC - Global Blockchain Business Council - and advisor at Barcelona Tech and The Collider, part of Mobile World Congress, with the focus to represent and grow globally the Blockchain, Digital & Tech sectors.

    Cristina is a certified instructor of Yoga, Meditation and Reiki and started SiliconBali.io decelerator. She speaks English, Spanish, Italian and French, based in Singapore and working globally.
    White Star CapitalGeneral Partner & Chief Catalyst Officer
    White Star Capital

    Eddie Ong

    Eddie is the Deputy CIO and Head of Private Investments at SeaTown. He is responsible for both private credit and private equity investments. Prior to joining SeaTown, Eddie was a Senior Vice President (Head of Private Equity Investments) at Wah Hin & Co. He was also previously a Director (Investments) at DKR Oasis, a multi-strategy hedge fund. Before joining DKR Oasis, Eddie was a Director at Temasek Holding’s direct investment division. Before moving to the buy-side, Eddie was a corporate banker with DBS Bank. He has more than 20 years of experience in the Asian financial industry.
    SeaTown HoldingsDeputy CIO and Head of Private Investments
    SeaTown Holdings

    Pinn Lawjindakul

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

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

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

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

    Andrea Campagnoli

    Andrea Campagnoli is a partner in Bain & Company's Singapore office. He is a leader of Bain's Private Equity practice in Southeast Asia and a co-head of Bain's Technology Private Equity sector for Asia Pacific.

    He has more than 10 years of management consulting experience, advising clients in the technology and fintech sectors first in EMEA and then since 2018 across Southeast Asia. Andrea has deep expertise in M&A advisory, due diligence, and portfolio value creation planning in the tech and fintech sectors, having advised equity investors on early stage, growth and buyout deals.

    Earlier in his career, Andrea spent two years as an investment professional at a European buyout fund focused on the financial services sector. He also founded and managed a sustainable fashion consumer firm called Andro Design.

    Andrea holds master's and bachelor's degrees from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
    Bain & CompanyPartner
    Bain & Company

    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

    François Pictet

    François Pictet has been a Managing Partner of the Pictet Group since 2022. He is responsible for the Technology & Operations division and also oversees Pictet Wealth Management’s Asian and Middle East commercial effort. Before being named Managing Partner, François was Head of the Pictet Investment Office, the ultra-high-net- worth investment arm of Pictet Wealth Management. Prior to joining Pictet in 2015, he worked at the private equity firm AEA Investors in London. Prior to that he was in M&A advisory at Credit Suisse in Zurich and at two non-governmental organizations active in the fields of microfinance and socially responsible investing. François holds a Master’s degree of Advanced Studies in Business Law from the University of Geneva and Lausanne.
    Pictet GroupManaging Partner
    Pictet Group

    Sui Ling Cheah

    Ms Cheah serves as a member of the Audit Committee.

    Ms Cheah is an Operating Partner with Wavemaker Partners, a venture capital firm based in Singapore and Los Angeles that focuses on technology company investments. She also serves as Executive Board Chair of privately held ESG startup ecoSPIRITS. In addition, she holds board directorships at ParkwayLife REIT, CDL Hospitality REIT and Pathology Asia Holdings. She is Chair of Audit Committee at ParkwayLife REIT and Pathology Asia Holdings.

    Ms Cheah has over 20 years of international investment banking and corporate experience. Most of her career was spent across Singapore, Paris, Hong Kong, London and New York, focusing on capital raising transactions and cross border mergers and acquisitions for corporate clients. Between 2010 to 2013, she was Co-Head of Corporate Finance for South East Asia at BNP Paribas. Prior to that, she was a senior coverage banker for Singapore in the investment banking division of JP Morgan. She started out her career at Merrill Lynch Investment Banking.

    Ms Cheah graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French from Wellesley College, Massachusetts in the US.
    Wavemaker PartnersOperating Partner
    Wavemaker Partners

    Doug Coulter

    Doug Coulter joined LGT Capital Partners in 2007 to lead its Asian private equity investment activities. Prior to LGT, Doug was a Senior Investment Officer at the IFC, responsible for direct investments in the TMT, retail & consumer and healthcare sectors. He previously worked at Nomura Securities in Hong Kong and as a lawyer at Fasken in Toronto. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a M.Sc. from the LSE, a law degree from the University of Western Ontario and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Canada.

    LGT Capital Partners is a leading alternative investment specialist with over USD 80 billion in assets under management and over 230 private equity professionals worldwide. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, the firm has offices in New York, Dublin, London, Paris, Frankurt, Vaduz, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney. LGT Capital Partners was selected as Alternatives Manager of the Year in Asia in 2016 and 2017 and Alternatives Fund House of the Year in 2018 by AsianInvestor, was named Alternatives House of the Year in 2020 and 2021 by Asia Asset Management and was named Fund of funds of the year in Asia in 2018 and 2019 by Private Equity International.
    LGT Capital Partners Partner
    LGT Capital Partners

    Anup Jain

    Anup Jain is Managing Partner at Orios Venture Partners, a leading Indian Venture Capital Fund focused on early-stage tech startups across sectors.

    At Orios, Anup focuses on the Ed-tech, Healthtech, Fintech, SME SaaS and Clean energy/ Sustainability sectors. As part of the Orios’ ethos, he spends his time closely mentoring his portfolio companies and helping them accelerate to the next level.

    He is passionate about sustainable investing practices and is spearheading the development and implementation of an ESG strategy at Orios.

    Anup remains active in the startup ecosystem events as a jury or panel member including Yourstory Club, Amazon SMBHV awards, BusinessWorld Awards, NASCOMM conclave, CII, TechSparks, among others. He also contributes articles in leading dailies from time to time on thesis around the fund’s investments.

    Prior to Orios, Anup has 20 years of experience in managing consumer businesses and building brands across India/Asia/Australia. Anup spent most of his corporate career as an "intrapreneur" diving headlong into challenging situations requiring disruptive thinking and delivering step change most often including tech. His prior work-ex includes leadership roles at P&G, Whirlpool, Yum Brands, Bata and as part of the early-stage team at indya.com.

    Orios Venture PartnersManaging Partner
    Orios Venture Partners

    Jason Sambanju

    Jason has 25 years of experience in financial services, the last 22 years of which has been in Asian private equity. Before establishing Foundation Private Equity in July 2017, he was Head of Asia, Secondaries for DB Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Deutsche Bank AG group. Prior to this, he spent 7 years as Co-Head of Asia for Paul Capital Partners, establishing and leading their practice in the region. Jason started his private equity career as a direct investor with Symphony Capital. He has invested in funds and companies in India, China and Southeast Asia and has a broad and deep network of relationships across the region. Jason has a B.Sc. in Finance and B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with honors. Jason is an Indonesian citizen.
    Foundation PEPartner, CEO & Founder
    Foundation PE

    Sutapa Amornvivat

    Sutapa Amornvivat is Founding CEO of SCB Abacus. Sutapa is a mathematician and economist by training and a true believer in democratizing opportunities through power of technology.

    Sutapa started her career in management consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton. After her doctorate studies, she joined Economist Program at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, DC and led Macroeconomic Analysis Division at Thailand’s Fiscal Policy Office. Sutapa’s banking experience ranges from establishing a risk analytics team both at TMB Bank (seconded from ING) and later at Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), to building strategy advisory service as SCB Chief Economist, as well as chairing Risk Management Committee of SCB Asset Management—Thailand’s largest AMC.

    Through these various roles, Sutapa’s continuing work on financial inclusion from international macroeconomic perspective, microfinance in South and Southeast Asia, domestic banking ecosystems, to AI-powered risk analytical techniques leads to strong conviction that creates SCB Abacus.

    Sutapa holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) She was a recipient of Thailand's most prestigious King's Scholarship, and a representative of Thailand in the 23rd International Chemistry Olympiad. Sutapa was appointed as Global Council member by the US-based Asia Society; and sits on several regulatory and academic boards of directors in Thailand.

    SCB Abacus Founding CEO
    SCB Abacus

    Juliet Zhu

    Juliet is the Group President and CFO at Carsome. She heads several functions in the company including investor relations, capital planning, financial reporting and M&A; and leads corporate development initiatives such as strategic partnerships and investment opportunities. Since she joined, she has brought extensive experiences in business growth and capital planning, and led Carsome’s latest fundraising rounds and M&A transactions. Prior to joining Carsome, Juliet has over a decade of experience working in the investment industry across China, India and Southeast Asia.
    CarsomeGroup President and CFO
    Carsome

    Vadim Shpak

    Mr. Vadim Shpak joined Vickers in 2016 as Managing Director. He contributes to Vickers’s overall investment strategy, by, among other things, participating in investment selection and recommendation, and portfolio monitoring. In this regard, he also maintains relationships with portfolio companies and works with them to enhance strategic and financial value.

    Vadim also participates in the ongoing management and monitoring of both the financial and operational aspects of Vickers’s fund investments. He establishes and maintains relationships with institutional and individual investors to provide comprehensive and current updates and reports of the Vickers funds to enhance understanding of the value created by the firm.
    Vickers Venture PartnersOperating Managing Director
    Vickers Venture Partners

    Mohan Kumar

    Mohan is the Founding Partner of Avataar Ventures, investing in growth stage B2B companies in India and cross border with USA/SEA. The focus is on SaaS and technology companies with a cheque size of 15M to 50M. Some of his Key portfolio includes Amagi, Capillary, Elasticrun, RateGain, Sense and Zenoti. The Current asset under management is US$1B+ Prior to founding Avataar, Mohan was a Partner at Norwest India with a focus on Venture investments and also co-founded Mobiliya and Azingo both in mobile technologies. He also worked as Corporate VP in Motorola in charge of their Mobile phones business.
    Avataar VenturesManaging Director
    Avataar Ventures

    Shilpa Kulkarni

    Shilpa Kulkarni is the Founder & General Partner at Singapore-based Panthera Growth Partners. She earlier served as the MD and co-founder of Zodius Funds and has previous experience at eVentures India (Softbank & NewsCorp. JV). She also brings operating experience as part of the founding team and having held various senior management positions at WNS Global Services, a NYSE listed company. Shilpa has over 22 years of investing and operating experience. She holds a MBA from Duke University and BS Engineering from Mumbai University. Panthera Growth Partners is a Growth-stage private equity fund and has invested in well-known companies such Innoviti, Antuit.ai, BigBasket, Markets and Markets, OfBusiness, FreshMenu, Pepperfry, Zivame and Medgenome.
    Panthera Growth PartnersFounder & General Partner
    Panthera Growth Partners

    Chik Wai Chiew

    Wai Chiew has over 25 years of experience in global investment management and strategic business development, having been active in leading various companies on transformational growth strategies, fundraising and M&A. In his previous roles at Temasek and other funds, he has led and managed investments across multiple industries and geographies, deploying capital for institutions as well as multiple family offices.

    Since joining Heritas Capital, Wai Chiew has expanded its private equity investment portfolio and initiated venture capital, fund-of-funds, and impact-first investments into healthcare, education, environment, and technology sectors globally. In line with Heritas’ “invest with purpose, impact across generations” investment philosophy, he has overseen the integration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations and impact investment mandates while building up Heritas’ multi-fund impact investment platform.

    Wai Chiew was awarded the Glaxo-EDB scholarship and holds a BA in Economics from University of Cambridge, UK; MA from Yale University, USA; and completed his EMBA (conducted in Mandarin) from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China. He has served as Honorary Treasurer with the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA), and currently serves as a member of its ESG committee. Wai Chiew also actively serves as a director on multiple boards to advocate sustainable growth and sound governance.
    Heritas CapitalCEO & Executive Director
    Heritas Capital

    Avina Sugiarto

    Avina Sugiarto is a Partner of East Ventures. She has over 12 years of experience in investing across alternative assets including venture capital, private equity, private credit, and special situations across industries from technology, property, logistics, natural resources, to consumers and financial services. Prior to joining East Ventures, Avina was a Senior Vice President at Indies Capital Partners. She was responsible for deal sourcing, analysis, execution, and fundraising across Indies’ investment products. She was also a key member of the investment partnership with Varde Partners, a US$15 billion global alternative asset manager, headquartered in the United States.

    Avina leverages her extensive experiences to invest in growth-stage technology companies and further drive sustainability and integration of ESG practices in East Ventures’ investments.
    East VenturesPartner
    East Ventures

    Ganesh Rengaswamy

    Ganesh Rengaswamy is co-founder and Managing Partner at Quona, where he leads Quona’s South and Southeast Asia investment strategy.

    Before co-founding Quona, Ganesh led Accion Frontier Investments’ work in Asia. Prior to that, Ganesh was a General Partner of Lok Capital, a venture growth fund that invests in financial inclusion and social enterprises. Ganesh previously served as the Asia Director for Unitus Inc., a global organization investing in sustainable solutions in financial inclusion. During these stints, Ganesh invested and advised leading financial institutions and banks including SKS/Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd, Ujjivan, Equitas, IFMR/NorthenArc, Vistaar, TechProcess, and Bandhan.

    He previously led the entry of Greylock Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund, into the Indian market. He also co-founded Travelguru.com, which was acquired by Travelocity. Early in his career, Ganesh worked for Infosys, where he was responsible for customer acquisition and growth engagements for US-based Fortune 1000 clients.
    Quona CapitalCo-founder & Managing Partner
    Quona Capital

    Wei Jian Tor

    Wei Jian joined EQT Partners in 2018 and leads the healthcare and technology sector coverage for Southeast Asia. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Wei Jian was with The Abraaj Group in Singapore focusing on private equity investments in Southeast Asia across various sectors. Before that, he worked at the Investment Banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Singapore. Wei Jian holds a double degree in Bachelor of Accountancy and Bachelor of Business Management (Summa Cum Laude) from the Singapore Management University.

    EQT Private EquityManaging Director
    EQT Private Equity

    Mahesh Joshi

    Mahesh has 15 years of experience in Private Equity including 5 years in impact investing. As Head of Asia Private Equity at BlueOrchard he focuses on investments in insurance and financial services that drive climate adaptation and financial inclusion across South and Southeast Asia. BlueOrchard is a leading global impact investment manager and member of the Schroders Group. It was founded in 2001, by initiative of the UN, as the first commercial manager of microfinance debt investments worldwide. To date, BlueOrchard has invested over USD 9bn across more than 90 countries. About 230 million poor and vulnerable people in emerging and frontier markets received access to financial and related services with the support of BlueOrchard as of December 2021.

    Prior to BlueOrchard, Mahesh was a Director at LeapFrog Investments handling Asia healthcare practice. He previously spent 10 years in Private Equity in India across IDFC Private Equity (now Investcorp) and Darby (Private Equity arm of Franklin Templeton). He holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a Bachelor in Computer science engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad.
    BlueOrchard FinanceHead, Private Equity Investment Asia
    BlueOrchard Finance

    Sarah Chen

    Based in Washington DC, Sarah Chen is Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Beyond The Billion (launched as The Billion Dollar Fund for Women), a global consortium of over 100 venture funds and limited partner investors that have pledged to invest and are actively deploying beyond $1B towards women-founded companies. In under two years, the consortium has deployed $638M and counting into close to 800 female-founded companies, of which 11 have been recognized as unicorns. Previously, she was on the pioneer team of a corporate venture capital unit within a $13B publicly traded Asian conglomerate, investing in later-stage biotechnology companies. Since then, she has been at the forefront of multi-million cross border investments, structuring and executing commercialization plans with her portfolio companies.

    Determined to see more women at the helm, she sits on multiple boards, including 131 & Counting, a bipartisan effort encouraging more women to run for office in the US; and Lean In Malaysia, which she co-founded, a platform accelerating women into leadership in Malaysia. Named Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Forbes Under 30 VC, Chen is a recognized speaker, strategist and commentator on venture capital, startups and women in leadership, having been featured on Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg, Der Spiegel, United Nations et al, and is a celebrated host on the show and podcast #BillionDollarMoves. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Laws, LL.B (Hons.) from King’s College London.
    Beyond The Billion & The Billion Dollar Fund for WomenCo-Founder & Managing Partner
    Beyond The Billion & The Billion Dollar Fund for Women

    Khailee Ng

    Khailee Ng is a managing partner at U.S. venture capital firm 500 Global and its 500 Southeast Asia family of funds. He has led more than 180 seed investments in Southeast Asian tech startups, including unicorns Grab, Carousell, Bukalapak, Carsome, Prenetics, and other regional champions. Prior to 500, he was the founder of Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon) and Malaysia’s largest online media company, Says.com (acquired by Media Prima).

    As new technology and evolving consumer landscapes continue to disrupt industries, Khailee focuses on discovering patterns of economic opportunity and backing the entrepreneurs who realize them. His investment activity and commentaries on industry trends have been featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune.
    500 GlobalManaging Partner
    500 Global

    Seamon Chan

    Seamon is Managing Partner at Palm Drive Capital, a New York-based venture capital and growth equity firm he co-founded with fellow Stanford University alumni Hendrick Lee.

    He brings more than a decade’s worth of experience in entrepreneurship and operations and boasts an impressive track record in technology investments. His various investment and operational roles in the US and Asia prepared him to launch and lead his own VC firm.

    In his role at Palm Drive Capital, Seamon is responsible for new investments, growing the company’s network of stakeholders as well as facilitating cross border collaboration between startups and investors between the US and Asia. Before founding Palm Drive Capital, Seamon worked with Insight Venture Partners – a US$23 billion venture capital and private equity firm that invested in Asian e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com. During this time, Seamon got to know many technology firms globally, especially in Asia. He is also the Co Founder of Lair East and Lair East Labs, a New York-based innovation space and start-up accelerator for global founders interested in launching businesses in the US and Asia.

    Outside of his professional career, Seamon has been on the founding teams of the Stanford Chinese Entrepreneur Organization and the NYC Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization which comprise of thousands of members in both China and the US. He was selected as a Committee of 100 Next Generation Leader in 2018 and is involved in the Young Leader’s Circle at the global economic think tank, the Milken Institute.

    Seamon was selected as a recipient of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award by the Asian American Business Development Center in 2019.

    Seamon is also an advisory board member of Mekong Future Initiative (MFI), a non-profit organization that aims to push young people with big ideas, accelerate young entrepreneurs and develop the evolving markets of the Mekong area. He also supports and pledged a seven-figure amount to The Billion Dollar Fund for Women (TBDF), a global consortium of venture funds committed to tackling the gender investment gap by increasing their investments in women-founded companies.

    Earlier in his career, Seamon served as the Country Manager (USA) for Germany-based mobile ads firm Fyber, a role in which he helped to launch its US product.

    Seamon is a Stanford University alumnus and is completing the Owner/ President of the Management programme at Harvard Business School.
    Palm Drive CapitalCo-Founder and Managing Partner
    Palm Drive Capital

    Yinglan Tan

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

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

    Justin Ferrier

    Mr. Ferrier is a Managing Partner of Navis Private Credit. Mr. Ferrier has more than 30 years of experience, which includes more than 20 years as a credit investor, portfolio manager and business leader. Previously he was a Managing Director at BlackRock where he played a pivotal role in building BlackRock’s Asian-Pacific Private Credit business, growing AUM to $700m and developing a successful regional strategy focusing on Southeast Asia and Australia. Prior to BlackRock, he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Myo Capital. The fund delivered 14% gross returns. Prior to Myo Capital he was a Director / Investment Committee Member with ADM Capital and a Corporate Finance Executive with Peregrine Capital and SG Warburg Group. Mr. Ferrier holds an MBA, majoring in Finance and Accounting from Monash University and a Bachelor in Science from the University of South Australia.
    Navis Capital PartnersManaging Partner, Private Credit
    Navis Capital Partners

    Smita Aggarwal

    Listed in “Top 35 Global Women in Fintech Powerlist”, ‘Top Women in Finance’, “Top 30 Fintech Influencers” and “Women Who Venture”, Smita Aggarwal is a fintech investor and a thought leader with deep expertise in venture capital, financial inclusion, digital banking, micro-insurance and financial regulation. She is Global Investments Advisor for Flourish Ventures, a global fintech focussed fund, and leads investments in innovative fintech start-ups that help advance financial health and inclusion in Asia. Her recent investments include insuretech, embedded finance platforms, digital lenders and fintech models across India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Bangladesh. 

    She is a Member of Fintech Advisory Board of New York University and Global Fintech Fest. She is a member of the Board of Directors of IIFL Asset Management Company. She is a guest faculty for “Fintech in Emerging Markets” at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

    She has three decades of experience in finance as a banker, lender, regulator and an investor that have enriched her with unparalleled domain expertise, unique perspective and empathy for fintech founders. She has held leadership positions with noteworthy names such as Omidyar Network, Fullerton India Credit, Reserve Bank of India and ICICI Bank with a successful track record of building businesses from scratch, introducing new products, and driving growth through innovation. She is a rank-holder chartered accountant and has attended executive programs at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management.
    Flourish VenturesGlobal Investments Advisor
    Flourish Ventures

    Paul Robine

    Paul Robine is the Founder and CEO of TR Capital. He is responsible for all investment and divestment decisions made at the firm, as well as its strategic direction. Mr. Robine has been responsible for the investment activity of TR Capital since 2007. Mr. Robine currently serves as a board member in a number of TR Capital's investee companies. Prior to founding TR Capital, Mr. Robine was Founder and CEO of the Link Group in Asia. Mr. Robine holds a Master's degree from EDHEC Business School.
    TR CapitalFounder & CEO
    TR Capital

    Ivan Kwong

    Ivan Kwong (Singapore) joined KKR in 2017 and is a member of the Global Impact team. He has been involved in the firm's investments in Education Perfect, EQuest, GreenCollar, BBP, PropertyGuru, First Gen Corporation, and 800 Super. Prior to joining KKR, he worked in the investment banking division of UBS in Sydney and Bain & Company in Sydney and Singapore. He received a Bachelor of Engineering (Aeronautical) (Space) and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney (with the University Medal) and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Palmer Scholar).
    KKRPrincipal, Global Impact
    KKR

    Caroline Wee

    Caroline is Circulate Capital’s Investment Partner, Asia. She has extensive experience in managing venture capital and private equity investments in the Asia-Pacific region, across different stages of enterprise development, ranging from start-ups, growth to leveraged buy-outs.

    Over the last three decades, she has identified and supported the business expansion and profitable divestments of numerous companies through trade sales or IPOs on various stock exchange markets, navigating through key financial crises. Prior to joining Circulate Capital, Caroline led Battelle Memorial Institute’s investment operations in Asia Pacific as Managing Director, working alongside a team of scientists to help commercialize and invest in the region’s IP technologies and built strategic partnerships with research labs across China, Korea and Japan. She was also Founding Partner at Crest Capital, the spin-off of the ING-Barings private equity business, and helped to initiate several private equity fund mandates across Asia, including The Enterprise Fund and Value Monetization Fund.

    Caroline graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) Degree from the National University of Singapore as a KPMG scholar; she is also a Certified Public Accountant and a CFA Charter holder and completed the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
    Circulate CapitalInvestment Partner, Asia
    Circulate Capital

    Desmond Lee

    Desmond joined NewQuest in 2015 and is responsible for sourcing, execution and portfolio management of the firm’s investments across Southeast Asia. Desmond has 20 years of private equity experience in the Asia region and prior to NewQuest, he was Managing Director of Fosun, where he led the Southeast Asia investment team. Desmond’s private equity experience also includes prior roles with Morgan Stanley and Arctic Capital in Hong Kong, and CIMB Private Equity and Navis Capital Partners in Malaysia. Desmond started his career as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen in Malaysia. Desmond is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sheffield, England.
    NewQuest Capital Partners Managing Director (Singapore)
    NewQuest Capital Partners

    Denny Goenawan

    Denny founded Indies in 2009 and is a Managing Partner. He oversees investments, operations, and business developments. Denny has built over a 25-year career spanning special situations, investment banking, and asset management with leading financial institutions, including Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney, and Credit Suisse. Prior to Indies, he spent a decade with the special situations investment arm of Salomon (part of Citigroup), becoming its Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia. Denny graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Finance & International Business) from the University of Washington.
    Indies Capital PartnersManaging Partner
    Indies Capital Partners

    Dmitry Levit

    Dmitry is the Founder of Cento Ventures, and is responsible for overseeing all investment and fund activities in Southeast Asia.

    Dmitry formerly served as an advisor to several investment groups and corporations pursuing technology and media opportunities across developing Asia, with Media Development Authority of Singapore, Singtel, ru-Net, IDG Ventures Vietnam, SUP Media, Livejournal.com, Chinese Founders Fund, VIVA Media and Nusantara Ventures among his clients.

    In 2008-2009, Dmitry was part of the investment team at IDG Ventures, where he provided extensive operational support to portfolio companies in Vietnam and was in charge of sourcing and assessment of investment opportunities in Indonesia and Singapore.

    Prior to that, Dmitry spent several years in business development roles with Yahoo! Southeast Asia, negotiating a series of content, distribution, monetisation and technology deals for Yahoo! in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Dmitry also acted as a business strategist for the regional Managing Director, working on vertical strategies for e-commerce, gaming, travel, finance, telecom and other sectors.

    Before his move to Asia, Dmitry served as a CMO at Digital Design, a leading Russian enterprise software solutions provider, focusing on brand development, lead generation, and relationship management of strategic partners, including Microsoft CIS and IBM Russia. Earlier in his career, Dmitry also worked at several FMCG companies in Russia and the UK, including L’Oreal and Procter & Gamble.

    Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Dmitry graduated from St. Petersburg University School of Management, holds an MBA from INSEAD and has lived in Singapore, Indonesia, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, and the UK.
    Cento VenturesFounder & Partner
    Cento Ventures

    Utari Octavianty

    Utari Octavianty is co-founder & chief sustainability officer of Aruna, an integrated fisheries commerce startup focusing on improving the coastal village by creating a fair and transparent marine-fisheries trade through technology innovation. She's determined to create a better living for her hometown and Indonesia's fisheries industry.

    Utari graduated from Telkom University with an ICT Business Management degree. Subsequently, she took the Executive Leadership Education in Said Business School at Oxford University. Utari was also one of Forbes 30 under 30 Asia Class of 2020, together with Farid and Indraka as the founders of Aruna.

    ArunaCo-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer
    Aruna

    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

    Julian Tan

    Julian is the Founder and CEO of FastCo, a startup focused on building innovative technology and solutions for the non-executive job sector. FastCo operates FastJobs, Southeast Asia’s top non-executive job portal and FastGig, Singapore’s first flexi-work recruitment app. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief of Digital Business for Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) where he oversaw SPH’s digital businesses and investments and led the initiative to transform and expand SPH’s digital businesses into the region. From 2008 to 2015, Julian was the Chief Executive Officer of 701Search Pte Ltd, a regional online classifieds joint venture company between SPH, Norway’s Schibsted and Telenor. He grew the business from a start-up in a single location to a leading developer of online marketplaces in the region, with footprints in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Myanmar. The company was sold to Telenor at a valuation of USD330m. Julian was also a Board member of various consumer and technology companies like M1, Qoo10, sgCarMart, Singapore Media Exchange (SMX), Magzter and Asiaone. Julian graduated with First Class Honours in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and earned two Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) degrees from INSEAD and Tsinghua University in 2009.
    FastCoFounder & CEO
    FastCo

    Jennifer Ho

    Jennifer is a partner at Integra Partners and was formerly a principal at Dymon Asia Ventures.

    Jennifer started her career in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division in New York, covering financial sponsors and consumer retail companies She returned to Singapore in 2011 when she joined TPG Capital, evaluating investment opportunities in Southeast Asia Jennifer also spent several years with a family office focusing on investing in and actively managing early stage companies, and served as an advisor to companies like THX, a sound engineering company based in San Francisco and Rate It, a Singapore and Australia based provider of customer experience data analytics Jennifer joined DAV in November 2017.

    Integra Partners leverages Jennifer’s comprehensive training and background in due diligence and deal execution, as well as relationships among later stage investors to assist portfolio companies Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts Honors Magna Cum Laude in Economics from Amherst College On behalf on Integra Partners, Jennifer sits on the board of Naluri Jennifer also sat on the board of ReaQta, up until the acquisition by IBM.
    Integra PartnersPartner
    Integra Partners

    Anupum Khaitan

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

    Melissa Guzy

    Melissa C. Guzy is the Founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures. Before the founding of Arbor Ventures, Melissa was a Managing Partner and a member of the Investment Committee at VantagePoint Capital Partners, where she invested in early stage technology companies in Asia, Europe and Silicon Valley. Her current board positions include EverCompliant, Fundbox, InCountry, Tabby, Planck Re and TrueAccord. Melissa was the investor board member of Paidy which was acquired by Paypal for $2.88 billion. Melissa also sits on the Board of Trustees of The Jackson Laboratory whose mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

    Melissa attended Wellesley College and earned a master’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida. She is the author of the paper “Venture Capital Returns and Public Market Performance”. Melissa is the Co-Chair of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association (“HKVCA”) Venture Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the HKVCA and the Singapore Venture Capital Associate and a former member to the Hong Kong SFC on Innovation. Additionally, she was a guest lecturer on the Venture Capital Industry at the University of Florida, Hong Kong University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Melissa is also a Hopkins Fellow and participated in the Women’s Leadership Program at Harvard University. She has been recognized as a Top 100 Influencer in Fintech (NxtBnk), AlwaysOn Fintech Power Player, as well as one of the Top 13 Women in Asia of Tech Influencers.
    Arbor VenturesManaging Partner
    Arbor Ventures

    Nitish Agarwal

    Mr. Nitish Agarwal has more than 25 years of experience in private debt markets across Asia. During this time, he has completed private debt investments of more than US$5 billion spanning various economic cycles. In 2020, he led the management buyout of the credit platform that he had set up ten years ago backed by Olympus Capital Asia private equity, and brought in OMERS as a significant shareholder. Prior to Orion, he was Managing Director in Global Financing Solutions at Barclays Capital. Mr. Agarwal holds a degree in electronics engineering and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
    Orion Capital AsiaCEO and CIO
    Orion Capital Asia

    Wei Hsien Chan

    Wei Hsien is responsible for private credit investments at SeaTown Holdings. He has over 27 years’ investment experience and has previously worked at UBS, Merrill Lynch, Henderson Global Investors, Morgan Stanley and IFC. He is a CFA charterholder and holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Wharton School and an MBA from INSEAD.
    Seatown HoldingsPortfolio Manager
    Seatown Holdings

    Abhinay Peddisetty

    Abhinay Peddisetty is the Co-founder & CEO of Bukuwarung, a startup focused on accelerating financial success of MSMEs in Indonesia.

    Abhinay's experience consists of building growth, revenue and partnerships across seed to series D companies in India and SEA. Starting with Near, which is a location intelligence platform to expand across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Later, he was a founding team member & head of business at belong.co, a predictive outbound hiring solution where led market expansion, built new business lines, along with hiring early teams. After that, he built Enterprise Business & Financial Services at Carousell, a C2C marketplace in SEA. All these experiences and his personal journey, inspired him to build a company that could touch small merchants' lives in a meaningful way and started Bukuwarung in 2019.

    Bukuwarung now has 350 + employees strong, Series A funded and backed by reputed global, regional and local investors; through its growing business, the company has been adding value to the lives of small merchants in Indonesia. Abhinay is a notable alumni of BITS Pilani graduating from the batch of 2011.
    Co-founder & CEOBukuWarung
    Co-founder & CEO

    Eka Himawan

    Graduated as BsEE in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. Co-founder of Bilna, later merged with Moxy to form Orami, a regional female e-commerce. Barclays Capital, Clients include PLN, Government of Indonesia, Pertamina, IPPs such as Cikarang Listrindo and Star Energy and Mining companies such as J Resources, Merdeka Copper. Independence Capital Asset Partners. One of the key focuses was the solar and renewable energy industry.
    Xurya Daya IndonesiaManaging Director
    Xurya Daya Indonesia

    Jon Crandall

    Jon is Ontra’s Managing Director, APAC. Based in Singapore, he’s responsible for Ontra’s overall strategic direction in APAC, as well as managing Ontra’s relationships with its APAC clients. Jon holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Prior to joining Ontra, Jon spent over 10 years as a practicing corporate lawyer across Singapore, London, and New York, most recently as a partner in the capital markets practice of an international law firm.
    OntraManaging Director, Asia Pacific
    Ontra

    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

    Sebastian Togelang

    Sebastian Togelang is the founder of Rigel Capital. He holds over 25 years of experience in the technology, marketing, finance, and digital commerce sectors and the world of start-ups and ventures investing.

    Sebastian is a serial entrepreneur, has founded several international technology companies, and has served on the boards of major technology companies, such as Onstar Express Pte Ltd, C88 Financial Technologies Pte Ltd (now known as Caxe Technologies), and Qareer Group Asia Pte Ltd. He founded Rigel Capital in 2022 and is committed to building an extensive technology ecosystem throughout Southeast Asia and India.

    Before establishing Rigel Capital, Sebastian was the co-founder, investment committee member, and Managing Partner at Kejora Capital Management, an Indonesian early-stage technology investment firm established in 2013. He founded and grew the company to approximately USD 700 Million in AUM and helped create 4 Unicorns. Sebastian also co-founded the Indonesian FinTech Association and currently serves on its Advisory Board, and in 2018 served as the Secretary General of the Venture Capital Association in Indonesia (AMVESINDO). Sebastian started his career at Deutsche Bank & Deutsche Boerse (German Stock Exchange). He studied at Johann Wolfgang University in Frankfurt, Germany.
    Rigel CapitalFounding Partner
    Rigel Capital

    Grace Sai

    Grace is the Co-founder and CEO of Unravel Carbon, an enterprise software that helps companies track and reduce their carbon emissions, backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator.

    Grace was a VC who invested in early staged tech startups, a Kauffman Fellow and is widely regarded as a node of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Asia. She has been nominated as Gen T by Singapore Tatler (2018), Great Women of our Times by Women's Weekly (2017), and is a UN Women Entrepreneurship Day Ambassador.

    She holds two Masters degrees with Distinction from Oxford and INSEAD.
    Unravel CarbonCo-founder and CEO
    Unravel Carbon

    Swati Baghel

    Swati Baghel is a Senior Vice President at Blackstone. She is the legal and compliance lead at Blackstone’s Singapore office, and advises Blackstone’s businesses in Singapore, Southeast Asia and Korea. Swati has been with Blackstone for five years and relocated from Blackstone’s India office in 2021. She started her career at Amarchand & Mangaldas, where she worked in the PE and M&A group in Mumbai, India.
    BlackstoneSenior Vice President
    Blackstone

    Nishant Rao

    Nishant is a passionate advocate for the Asia startup story…he believes there is huge global value to be created from regional product & SaaS firms operating on the world-stage & winning. He sits on a multiple tech company boards and actively advices several of India’s hyper-growth startups. He has been recognized over several consecutive years as an Economic Times 40-under-40 / Fortune 40-under-40 leader for his impact on shaping industry in the region.

    Nishant & his partner, Mohan Kumar, recently launched India’s first growth-stage, operational VC fund (Avataar Ventures). They are using the ~$400M raised to invest in & actively support portfolio companies build global $100M+ revenue businesses from India & South-East Asia. They are backed by HarbourVest which serves as an LP in many marquee global VC funds; this investment into Avataar marks its first-ever direct exposure to a VC fund operating in India and SE Asia.

    Until very recently, Nishant was advising the broader set of Accel & Sequoia companies in Asia including parachuting in as CEO for SirionLabs, a growth SaaS company in the Sequoia India portfolio. Prior to this, he was Global COO at Freshworks where he ran all day-to-day operations (including Sales, Pre-sales, Channels, Customer success & partner functions from Finance & HR to Facilities & Legal). He was used to serve as the Chairman of the IAMAI (Internet & Mobile Association of India) & sits on the CII National Committee for Skill Development.

    Before joining Freshworks, Nishant used to run LinkedIn and played a pivotal role in scaling their operations in the region – first as the Managing Director @ LinkedIn India and then taking over broader parts of Asia (2012-2015). Prior to that, he was responsible for running global strategy at LinkedIn based in HQ (2011-2012).

    Overall, he has a well-rounded general management experience across technology, sales, strategy and operations. He has developed this experience in a multitude of leadership positions at LinkedIn, McKinsey and Ariba coupled with entrepreneurial experience as a founding member of India’s first voice-based call center - Epicentre Technologies (back in the late 90s). He openly shares learnings from his journey & is rated as a highly energetic & engaging public speaker delivering keynotes at industry forums (eg AIMA, NASSCOM, CII) & top academic institutions (eg. IIT,IIM,ISB,MIT)

    Nishant got his MBA in Entrepreneurship, Marketing and International Business from MIT’s Sloan School of Business in Boston and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a UT Distinguished Scholar with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Business.
    Avataar Venture PartnersFounding Partner
    Avataar Venture Partners

    Ali Fancy

    Ali works across Cento’s portfolio companies, providing performance execution advice, strategy development assistance, and talent acquisition support. Prior to Cento, Ali was CEO / COO for 4 years at ZALORA Thailand, a subsidiary of the largest fashion e-commerce group in Asia. He led a team of 220 people managing customer service, marketing, procurement, warehouse operations, logistics and human resources. He developed strategies to set the company on a clear path to profitability and resulted in a merger of ZALORA Thailand with Central Group, one of Thailand’s largest conglomerates. Before ZALORA, Ali was a consultant for 2 years at BCG South-East Asia working on strategic turnarounds, M&A and growth strategies. Ali started his career in FMCG where he was Co-Founder and General Manager for 9 years at In-Season Foods Ltd, a frozen foods manufacturer. Following the sale of In-Season Foods, Ali was General Manager for Jelly Belly Candy Company, an American confectionery manufacturer. Ali has a joint honours degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is fluent in English and Thai.
    Cento VenturesPartner
    Cento Ventures

    En Lee

    En Lee is Managing Director, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investments in Asia at LGT, the world’s largest family-owned private banking and asset management group with over USD 300Bn in assets under management. He leads and manages the regional impact investment portfolio in Southeast Asia and China. En was a Partner and is currently a Senior Advisor of Lightrock, LGT's global impact investing platform and serves on the Board of LGT Bank (Singapore). Prior to LGT, he was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong advising investment funds.

    A recognized industry leader, En has served on the World Economic Forum ESG Advisory Group, Asia Investor Group on Climate Change, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore Sustainable Finance Working Group. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of Triple P Financial Inclusion Fund and the Boards of UN Global Compact Singapore, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, and the Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association where he co-chairs the ESG Committee. En graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and is a CAIA charterholder. He was selected as an Aspen Institute Finance Leaders Fellow and is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and the Young Presidents' Organization.
    LGTManaging Director
    LGT

    Arvind Sankaran

    Arvind helps institutional fintech investors, global tech leaders and South-East Asian startups accelerate value creation and inclusive impact. He leverages deep operating experience over two decades in multiple Asian markets as a banking leader in retail payments, lending and wealth management. He was previously a Venture Partner at Jungle Venture and continues to remain an active investor/board advisor. Currently on secondment to the Asian Development Bank, he is also a senior advisor at McKinsey’s Asia banking practice and a Board Member at AFG Partners, an Asia-focused fintech fund.

    Arvind serves as a Fellow at raiSE, a Singapore-government supported ecosystem builder for social enterprise startups. He has also been involved in government/industry efforts such as SkillsFuture to help shape career pathways in data science.
    Imaginarium AdvisorsFounder
    Imaginarium Advisors

    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

    Satish Chander

    Satish joined True North in 2005 and is based in Bengaluru. Initially part of the business management team and has worked with companies across healthcare, media, retail, and industrial sectors. He now leads investments in the healthcare and life sciences sector.

    Prior to joining True North, Satish was part of JP Morgan’s equity research team covering Indian companies in the oil & gas sector. Before that, he was a management consultant at Accenture, India and where he worked across pharma, FMCG, auto ancillary sectors, handling projects in strategy, post-merger integration, supply chain restructuring and procurement optimisation.

    He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from IIT, Chennai and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Kolkata.

    Satish enjoys running, distance cycling and playing badminton in his free time.
    True NorthPartner
    True North

    Chibo Tang

    Chibo Tang is the managing partner of venture capital firm Gobi Partners. Tang is one of Hong Kong's most active investors behind the city's fastest-growing companies including Airwallex, Prenetics, WeLab, OneDegree, Animoca Brands, Gogovan, Qupital, Aqumon, and The Sandbox. He joined Gobi Partners in 2009 in Shanghai before moving to Hong Kong in 2015.

    Established in 2002, Gobi has backed more than 270 start-ups in 13 countries. In Hong Kong, it manages the AEF Greater Bay Area Fund, which counts e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's not-for-profit foundation Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF) as an anchor investor.

    He started his career as a strategy consultant at innovation consulting firm Monitor Group, and was also Asia-Pacific senior manager of corporate strategy for engineering and technology company Bosch. His investing acumen has won him recognition, including the Silicon Dragon Venture Capitalist of the Year 2017 and the Global Corporate Venturing Emerging Leader 2020.
    Gobi PartnersManaging Partner
    Gobi Partners

    Misbah Naqvi

    Misbah Naqvi is General Partner and Co-Founder at i2i Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund focusing on technology-enabled high-growth startups in Pakistan. Misbah has 20+ years of global experience in corporate finance, fintech, entrepreneurship, impact investing and development in Pakistan and the US.
    i2i VenturesGeneral Partner & Co-Founder
    i2i Ventures

    Faisal Aftab

    Faisal is a Co-Founder & General Partner of Zayn Capital; He is the Managing Partner of Zayn BitRate Equity Fund, a leading venture capital fund with a primary focus on seed stage ventures in Pakistan.

    His notable investment calls in Pakistan include some of the top names in the local startup ecosystem: NayaPay, Krave Mart, PostEX, Abhi Finance, Bazaar-tech, KTrade, SnappRetail, Laam.pk,Tazah, GrocerApp, Truck It In, Savyour, Bookme.pk, Roomy.pk, Bagallery.com, Trellis Housing Finance and Zaraye.

    As an early Bitcoin and Ethereum investor, Faisal has a deep understanding of global macros and blockchain's implications on the digital economy.

    Faisal has an MBA from Oxford University, joint Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Michigan State University USA. He has also been an investor in Hedge Funds, Venture Capital Funds and an active Angel Investor for over 15 years. Faisal is a limited partner of the Silicon Valley-based Venture Capital Fund 500 Startups.
    Zayn CapitalCo-Founder & General Partner
    Zayn Capital

    Omer Khan

    Omer Khan is the founder of PostEx, a startup that is a hybrid of receivables factoring solution and courier service that pays invoice values upfront to E-commerce companies offering Cash on Delivery as one of their modes of payment.
    PostExFounder
    PostEx

    Halima Iqbal

    Halima Iqbal is the CEO and Founder at Oraan. A former investment banker and consultant with 8 years of experience, Halima moved back to Pakistan in 2017 after a decade in North America with a drive to make finance inclusive and simple for the underserved millions. She is the only female executive on the Pakistan Fintech Association. Along with her finance background she is a certified chef and co-founded Mealsurfers (food-tech) which was acquired in 2016.
    OraanCEO & Founder
    Oraan

    Sameer Brij Verma

    Sameer is an early-stage venture investor in over 70 startups. His operational expertise lies in product management, business development, sales acceleration, recruiting, follow-on fundraising, and scaling. At Nexus, Sameer focuses on consumer internet, enterprise / SaaS, ed-tech, healthcare and b2b commerce domains. He has led investments in Postman, Unacademy, Infra.market, Hasura.io, Animall, Triomics, Ultrahuman, 56 Secure, Joveo, Vahak, SmartStaff, Rocketlane, Tooljet, ZoloStays, Jumbotail, Zomato (via Runnr acquisition), Venwiz, Aerotime, Quandl (NASDAQ), Goodera, MyUpchar, Goals101 & Indix (Avalara). Prior to Nexus, Sameer was the founding member at Reliance Capital’s early stage venture capital fund (Reliance Ventures) where he led investments in PayTM (stake acquired by Chinese internet giant), HealthSpring (Columbia Pacific), Tessolve Semiconductor (Hero Electronix), Dhama Innovations (buy-back), Greendust, Stoke (Mavenir Systems) & EBand Communications (CarrierCom). He is on the advisory board of The Digital Fifth, an Advisor to AngelList India & voted as a “40 under 40 Alternative Investment Professionals” in India by IAAIF. He is also a Global Panel Member at MIT Technology Review and a Kautilya Fellow (Class of 2020). Sameer is a fellow of Class 8 of the Ananta Aspen Centre’s Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship (equivalent of the Henry Crown Fellowship) and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN). He is also an OnDeck Health Fellow (ODH1 2021). Sameer has served in operating roles at UTStarcom, Inc, Ericsson, and American Wireless BroadBand, as a Product Manager, Solutions Architect, and Network Architect. A life-long learner, Sameer earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering as an International & Founders Scholar from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. While at IllinoisTech, he also interned at Hughes Software Systems, UTStarcom, Spectranet and did undergraduate research work for National Science Foundation / Ed-Kaplan Foundation, Molex and IIT Research Institute (IITRI).
    Nexus Venture PartnersManaging Director
    Nexus Venture Partners

    Mandar Dandekar

    Mandar is a Partner and founding member of Sorin where he leads the firm’s investments drawing upon nearly two decades of rich and diverse experience in venture capital, private equity, and technology consulting. Prior to Sorin, Mandar spent close to a decade at VC firm Kalaari Capital where he played a part in helping several companies reach success including Dream11, Elasticrun, Jumbotail, Agnext, Healthplix, Stanplus and many others. He also helped drive exits of Dream11 (large partial secondary), Myntra (acquired by Flipkart), Robosoft (acquired by Technopro) and Perpule (acquired by Amazon). Prior to that, Mandar was with Tata Capital Private Equity, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Tata Power Company Limited.
    PartnerSorin Investments
    Partner

    Sanjeev Bikhchandani

    Sanjeev Bikhchandani is the Founder of Info Edge India Ltd. - the company that owns Naukri.com, India’s leading job site. It also owns 99acres.com, Jeevansathi.com and Shiksha.com. In addition it has invested in approximately fifty start-ups including Zomato, Policybazaar, Shopkirana, Ustraa, Gramophone, Bijnis, Shipsy and Dotpe. Sanjeev schooled at St. Columba’s School in New Delhi. He graduated in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and began his career working in advertising with Lintas. After working for three years he did his post-graduation from IIM Ahmedabad in 1989 and joined the consumer marketing firm HMM Ltd.(now called Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd.). He quit his job for entrepreneurship eighteen months later and co-founded Info Edge. For the first seven years as an entrepreneur, Sanjeev drifted and did a number of small businesses – from salary surveys to databases, to feasibility studies, to training. For a brief period, he was the Consulting Editor of Avenues – the careers supplement of ‘The Pioneer’ newspaper. In 1997, Info Edge launched Naukri.com and transformed itself into an Internet company. Starting off from a servant quarter above a garage and with seed capital of two thousand rupees, the company grew and attracted investment from leading venture capitalists. It was the first Internet company to list on Indian stock exchanges. Today Info Edge employs over 4500 people and has a market capitalization of over USD 8 billion.
    Info Edge IndiaFounder
    Info Edge India

    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

    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

    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

    Deepshikha Monga

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

    Paramita Chatterjee

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

    Eudora Wang

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

    Ariba Shahid

    Ariba Shahid is a business and economics journalist with two years of experience covering the State Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan Stock Exchange, Startups, Macroeconomic Developments, and FMCGs. She is a recipient of an Agahi Award in 2021 for the Pakistan – India Relations Category. She tweets as @aribashahid. In her free time, she is often found reminding Pakistani politicians that the stock market isn’t an accurate indicator of the economy. Her articles can be read at Profit Magazine by Pakistan Today, and she has been featured on BBC News, PTV World, Dawn, and Channel 5.
    DealStreetAsiaContributor, Pakistan
    DealStreetAsia

    Kunal Talgeri

    Kunal is based in Bengaluru, India – and has spent over two decades connecting the dots across technology landscapes. A former journalist, he has chronicled the e-commerce and IT services industries in India for news brands like Fortune, Forbes, The Economic Times, YourStory and The CapTable. He has also tried his hand at entrepreneurship, as Co-founder and Editor of Key Passage, a children’s newsletter.

    Kunal is a foodie, waits to watch films by David Fincher and Christopher Nolan, and likes to go off on a trek. But his first love continues to be at the intersection of technology and business to produce data-backed stories.
    DealStreetAsiaEditor – Commissioned Research
    DealStreetAsia

    Tsubasa Suruga

    Tsubasa is a staff writer for Nikkei and Nikkei Asia, covering business, politics and macroeconomics in Southeast Asia. Before moving to Singapore as a correspondent, he covered the tech industry, telcos and financial institutions based in Tokyo. Prior to joining Nikkei, he spent four years in Singapore working for Jiji Press, a Japanese wire service. Tsubasa graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo with BA in international studies.
    Nikkei AsiaStaff Writer
    Nikkei Asia

    Dylan Loh

    Dylan Loh writes for Nikkei Asia from its Singapore bureau; covering business, politics and macroeconomics in Southeast Asia. He was previously in broadcast journalism as a TV and radio correspondent for regional news network CNA, and also headed marketing communications for Asian financial services conglomerate PhillipCapital. Dylan was a U.K. Chevening scholar who did his postgraduate degree in International Relations at King’s College London.
    Nikkei AsiaSingapore 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