Mahesh Joshi
Mahesh has 18+ years of experience in Private Equity including 8 years in impact investing. As Head of Asia Private Equity at BlueOrchard he focuses on investments that drive climate adaptation and resilience across South and Southeast Asia. Prior to BlueOrchard, Mahesh was a Director at LeapFrog Investments handling Asia healthcare practice. He previously spent […]
Nishant Kumar
Nishant Kumar joined PIDG’s guarantees solution, GuarantCo in November 2016 as Executive Director and was Regional Director for South Asia since January 2019 where he led origination and execution of transactions in the region. In June 2020, Nishant became Managing Director of Asia Investments and in October 2024, he was given the additional responsibility as […]
Jixun Foo
Jixun Foo is a senior managing partner at Granite Asia. He leads the firm’s overall investment strategy and portfolio management. Jixun has spent the last 20 years working with entrepreneurs in the mobility, transportation and< enterprise services sectors in Asia. He is best known for his early investments into companies like Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), Grab, […]
Sam Robinson
Sam Robinson is Senior Advisor to North-East Asset Management Singapore, which focuses on Asia private equity funds. Sam is based in Singapore and has worked in private equity since 1998, initially joining Schroder Ventures in the UK. In 2001, he was one of the founder members of SVG Advisers, a fund of funds business, where […]
Gregory Rokuro Hara
Gregory Rokuro Hara founded J-STAR in February 2006. He made three investments in Burn Repair (now CANDEAL, Construction ), Iki Iki (now Halmek Corporation, Publishing and Mail Order), and ECOS Factory/Green Loop/Recycle One (now RENOVA, Inc., Recycling Waste Plastic), and executed all three successful exits. In addition to formulating growth/purchasing strategies, deploying human resources, designing/supervising […]
Pratip Mazumdar
Pratip is a Partner at Inflexor. An engineer by training with early stints at Wärtsilä and Infosys, Pratip immersed himself in the alternate asset investment game in the early 2000s, starting off at SBI Capital Markets, before moving to an alternate asset management firm Babcock and Brown. Subsequently, he had a decade long stint at […]
Arpit Agarwal
Arpit is an Investment Partner at Blume Ventures. Blume is one of India’s leading early-stage venture capital firms with investments in winners like Purplle, Spinny, Unacademy, Slice, Turtlemint, Servify, GreyOrange and Carbon Clean. Arpit has been covering a variety of sectors for Blume, currently focused deeply on ClimateTech, Electric Mobility, Logistics, Healthcare and DeepTech. Over […]
Dr. BJ Han, PhD
Dr. Byung Joon (BJ) Han is the CEO and co-founder of Silicon Box, a leading independent semiconductor integration and advanced packaging company. As an inventor with over 300 patents, he brings considerable know-how and expertise in advanced packaging to Silicon Box, addressing the current lack of chiplet integration infrastructure in the industry. In 2024, he […]
Boon Chew
Boon Chew is Trustar Capital’s Senior Managing Director, Managing Partner of Trustar Capital Partners. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Chew worked for Whitney & Co., joining as an Associate in 2000. Previously, he worked in the Private Equity and Corporate Finance divisions of Morgan Stanley in New York City and Singapore and at Charterhouse […]
Nikhil Srivastava
Nikhil Srivastava is a Partner and Co-Head of Private Equity at PAG, one of Asia’s largest alternative investment managers with USD 55 billion in assets under management. He started PAG’s India office. Prior to joining PAG, Mr. Srivastava spent almost a decade at KKR in India, Singapore, and the United States. Previously, he worked in […]
