SEAPEC Speakers and Moderators

Room: Gallery I
KEYNOTES
Opening of the Conference
08:45 - 09:00
Dr. Jeffrey Chi
Chairman - SVCA
Managing Director - Vickers Venture Partners
Dr. Jeffrey Chi is Vice Chairman and a Managing
Director of Vickers Venture Partners and a member of
its Investment Committee and has been the Chairman
of the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity
Association since 2013 and has been on the committee
since 2009.
Dr Chi has investments in SE Asia & China in online
games, education, online travel, e-commerce and financial
services. He is a member of the board of directors of
Jing Jin Electric, Matchmove Pay, Lumina Louque,
Roomorama, Affordable Luxury Network, Spicy Horse,
Play Peli, California Intercontinental University, Mobinex,
Inc., Alo7.com, Chinaway, Lotaris and Tenfen Technology.
He was formerly a board member of Cambridge REIT,
Sunfun Info and UUCUN as well as an alternate director
of the Asian Food Channel. Dr Chi was also involved
in the exits/partial exits of UUCUN (trade sale, China),
Sunfun Info (IPO TT:5278, Taiwan), Cambridge Real
Estate (IPO SGX: J91U & Trade Sale, Singapore), Real
Time Gaming Asia (Trade Sale, Singapore), TWG Tea
(Trade Sale, Singapore) and Asian Food Channel (Trade
Sale, Singapore).
Dr. Chi is a C.F.A. Charter holder and graduated from
Cambridge University with 1st Class Honours in
Engineering. He earned his PhD from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in organizational knowledge and
information technology.
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KEYNOTES
Gallery I
Lunch Keynote
14:00 - 14:30
Durreen Shahnaz
Founder and Chairperson - Impact Investment
Exchange Asia (IIX)
In a career spanning over two decades, Durreen has
built a track record as a successful academic, banker,
media executive and social entrepreneur with stints at
Morgan Stanley (New York), Merrill Lynch (Hong Kong),
Grameen Bank (Bangladesh), World Bank/IFC (Washington
DC), Hearst Magazines International, Readers Digest
and Asia City Publishing.
Durreen serves as a Program Advisor for the Clinton
Global Initiative and sits on the advisory board for CASE
i3 at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Durreen is the
2014 recipient of the prestigious Joseph Wharton Social
Impact Award given by the Wharton School of University
of Pennsylvania. She is a TED 2010 Fellow as well as
an Asia Society 21 Fellow. Durreen was an appointed
member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda
Council on Social Innovation. Durreen is also a regular
participant for Channel News Asia’s morning program
News on Views and a contributor to World Economic
Forum publications, South China Morning Post in Hong
Kong, Wharton Magazine and ADB blog.
Durreen has been recently appointed to the Board
of Director of National Book Development Council
of National Library Singapore. Durreen founded the
Program for Social Innovation and Change at the Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University
of Singapore and until recently was an Adjunct Associate
Professor. Durreen is also a published author and recently
co-authored the chapter on “Social and Environmental
Exchanges” in New Frontiers of Philanthropy, published
by Oxford University Press.
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Room: Gallery I
OPENING PANEL
A bright future for Private Equity in
South East Asia in the coming years?
Moderator
Peggy Wang
Head of Private Equity, Asia - White & Case
Peggy Wang is a Partner at White & Case’s Corporate/
M&A and Private Equity practice in Hong Kong and
Head of Asia Private Equity.
She advises on public and private M&A and has
experience practicing in both Hong Kong and New
York. Her extensive expertise in this space, which spans
a period of more than 17 years, has made her a valued
resource for major private equity houses, financial
institutions and corporates. Prior to joining White &
Case in 2015, she was a Partner at a Magic Circle Firm.
Peggy Wang holds a JD/LLM from Duke University
School of Law and a BA from The University of Michigan.
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OPENING PANEL
Gallery I
Jeffrey Perlman
Managing Director - Warburg Pincus
Jeffrey Perlman is based in Hong Kong, joined Warburg
Pincus in 2006 and leads the firm’s investments in
Southeast Asia. Additionally, Mr. Perlman focuses on
real estate investments across the greater Asia-Pacific
region. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he worked in
the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for e-Shang
Warehousing Service Co., Ltd, Cubic City (China) Service
Apartment Group Holdings Ltd, Nova Property Investment
Co., Ltd, PT. Nirvana Wastu Pratama and Vincom Retail
Joint Stock Company.
Mr. Perlman received a bachelor’s degree in business
administration (B.B.A.) from the Ross School of Business
at the University of Michigan.
Ivan Chern
Managing Director - RRJ Capital
Ivan Chern is a Managing Director of RRJ Capital. Mr.
Chern joined RRJ Capital in 2011 and is based in Hong
Kong where he has led the firm’s investments in personal
care, healthcare, hospitality, mobile payment, packaging,
beverage and education sectors. He currently serves
as a director on the board of multiple portfolio companies.
Before joining RRJ Capital, he was responsible for principal
investments at Morgan Stanley Special Situations Group
in Asia. Mr. Chern was also previously a M&A and private
equity lawyer at O’ Melveny & Myers LLP.
Mr. Chern earned his M.B.A. from INSEAD and his
LL.B. (Hons) from National University of Singapore.
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Gallery I
OPENING PANEL
Jean-Christophe Marti
Senior Partner - Navis Capital Partners
Mr. Marti is a Senior Partner of Navis based in Singapore
and an Investment Committee member. Mr. Marti joined
Navis in 2003 where he focuses on origination in Singapore
and Indonesia, leads investment teams in making, monitoring
and exiting investments, and sits on the boards and/or
executive committees of several Navis portfolio companies.
He has contributed to numerous investments
including Kings Safetywear, Celebrity Fitness and Eng
Kong. Prior to joining Navis, Mr. Marti worked across
financial restructuring, venture capital and infrastructure
finance with Cypress-Woods, K1 Ventures Limited, Bechtel
Enterprises and Suez-Lyonnaise Des Eaux in Asia and
the United States. Mr. Marti has been resident in Asia
since 1992. He was raised and educated in France and
the USA. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in
Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Materials
Science and All-Tech Innovations from Université de
Technologie de Compiegne, France; and a MBA in Finance
from The Anderson School at UCLA, Los Angeles.
Harold Tjiptadjaja
Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer PT Indonesia Infrastructure Fin
Harold Tjiptadjaja joined IIF in 2011 as Managing
Director and Chief Investment Officer - Domestic Client
in IIF in December 2011. Prior to joining IIF, he was a
Vice President of Earth Investment Group (2010-2011)
and a Corporate Finance Partner of Indoconsult Prima
(2009-2011). Prior to that, he worked for Sinarmas Group,
Northstar Equity Partner in Indonesia as well as for KPMG,
PWC and Indover Bank in the Netherlands He obtained a
Master of Science in Financial Economics from Erasmus
University, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1997.
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Gallery I
Sam Robinson
Head of Asia PE Fund Investment Aberdeen Asset Management Asia
Sam Robinson joined SVG Advisers in 1998 and is
Head of Asia Private Equity Fund Investment based
in Singapore. Before joining the Singapore office,
Sam played a significant role in the creation, investment
and portfolio management of all fund of funds managed
by SVG Advisers, including the SVG Diamond, Asia and
SPEFoF programmes. He brings a wealth of experience
in the private equity industry across all three regions
and has been involved with both primary and secondary
investments. He serves on the advisory board of a
number of investee funds. Prior to joining SVG Advisers
he worked at KPMG.
Nathaniel Childres
Managing Director - CHAMP Private Equiy
Mr Childres is a Managing Director of CHAMP and the
head of CHAMP’s office in Singapore with responsibility
for the Group’s investment activities in Asia. Mr Childres
has worked in financial services since 1993, first as an
attorney in mergers and acquisitions/ direct investment
with White & Case in New York, Singapore and Jakarta,
and since 1998 in private equity. Prior to joining CHAMP
in 2001, Mr. Childres worked at Edgewater Capital, a US
private equity fund.
Mr Childres holds a Graduate Degree in Law (J.D.)
from Columbia University, and a Bachelors Degree (B.A.)
with High Honors from the University of California at Berkeley
in History and International Development Studies.
Mr Childres is a member of the Board of Directors
and Investment Committee of the CHAMP Group. He
is also a director of Shelf Drilling and Miclyn Express
Offshore and was previously a Director of International
Energy Services Ltd and Bradken Resources Pty Ltd.
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Room: Atelier I
REGULATORY
LANDSCAPE
How to deal with the different
regulatory requirements and what
are the best practices?
Moderator
Paul R. Chan
Principal - Capital Governance
Paul has over 20 years’ experience in capital markets
and consulting, including in central banking. He is a
dedicated business consultant, with experience across
many industries in Asia.
Prior to joining Foo Kon Tan and Capital Governance,
Paul founded a consultancy in foreign direct investment
(FDI) specialising in the finance sector, which was instrumental in guiding some reputable financial institutions
through their expansion into Singapore.
He has helped clients navigate the growing and
complex financial regulations, providing key support to
ensure that governance, risk management and compliance
processes are properly instituted.
His experience in financial regulations is supplemented
by substantial experience in Asian capital markets, having
been an equity strategist and investment banker serving a
number of large international fund managers and clients
from Asia, UK and USA. Paul also worked several years as
a management consultant in strategic and performance
management with public companies and governmentlinked corporations. In the area of venture capital and
private equity, Paul has worked in internet media, software
distribution, consumer electronics and lifestyle goods.
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REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
Atelier I
Nimisha Tailor
Deputy Director (Policy and Markets) Competition Commission Of Singapore
Nimisha is a Deputy Director in the Policy and Markets
Division at the Competition Commission of Singapore
(CCS), where she provides advice to government
agencies on competition matters involving government
regulations and policy. She also conducts competition
economics research, market studies, and participates and
presents at outreach sessions to business associations and
business schools in Singapore. In addition, Nimisha
provides expert economics input to antitrust investigations.
Nimisha has extensive experience of working on mergers
and acquisitions and has worked at the competition
authority in New Zealand and the UK where she provided
advice on the competition impact of UK and European
mergers. Nimisha has also worked as an Economics
Consultant and has previously provided competition
advice to merging companies.
Nimisha has a MSc degree in Economics from the
London School of Economics and Political Science. She
also has a BSc (Hons) degree in Economics from University
College London.
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Atelier I
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
Hemali Mehta
Head of Legal & Compliance Symphony Asia Holdings
Hemali joined the Symphony team this year. She has
a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from Mumbai University,
a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from Duke University
and a Masters in Counselling (M. Coun) degree from
Monash University. She is qualified to practice law in
India and New York.
Based in Singapore since 2006, Hemali has worked
as a transactional lawyer at White & Case LLP and
Ashurst LLP, handling cross-border financing and capital
markets transactions in South and Southeast Asia. Hemali
has also worked at ANZ as part of the deal execution
team for bonds and loans syndication. Prior to joining
Symphony, she was a Senior Compliance Officer at
BNP Paribas in the AML/CFT department. In her spare
time, Hemali volunteers as a youth counsellor.
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REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
Atelier I
Nicholas Serwer
General Counsel - Ancora Capital Management
Nicholas is the General Counsel of Ancora Capital
Management Pte. Ltd., a fund management company
registered with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Ancora is the manager of Ancora Fund II, L.P., a Cayman
Islands limited partnership, which invests primarily in the
consumer and natural resources sectors in Indonesia.
He is also the General Counsel of PT Ancora Internasional
Manajemen, the Indonesian sub-manager of Ancora
Capital Management Pte. Ltd. Originally from New York
City, Nicholas has been resident in Singapore and Jakarta
for over 20 years.
Prior to joining Ancora, Nicholas was the General
Counsel of Quvat Management Pte. Ltd. and its predecessors. Quvat is also a private equity fund management
company focusing on investments in Indonesia.
Nicholas had his own sole-practice international law
firm in Singapore and prior to that was a partner of Sidley
& Austin and earlier of Baker & McKenzie, in both cases
based in their Singapore offices. Before coming to Asia,
Nicholas was counsel at Baker & McKenzie in New York
City and earlier, an associate at Skadden Arps.
Nicholas’ experience includes organization and
operation of private equity and other investment
funds; organization, operation and regulation of fund
management companies in Singapore and the United
States; mergers and acquisitions and international capital
markets transactions.
Nicholas received the BA degree from Columbia
College and the JD from Columbia Law School.
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REGULATORY LANDSCAPE
Atelier I
Annapoorna Jayaseelan
Lead Transactional Counsel - LeapFrog Investments
Annapoorna is legal lead for transactions across Asia
and Africa; her LeapFrog experience has traversed
deals in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Nigeria, Kenya
and Ghana.
Before joining LeapFrog, she worked in private practice
in India. At Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai, Annapoorna
was an associate with the tax practice, where she won
the International Bar Association tax scholarship for
young lawyers. She later moved to AZB & Partners in
New Delhi, where she was a senior associate. She has
led advisory work on tax, corporate transactions and
foreign exchange laws. Annapoorna’s clients have
included leading private equity funds, multinational
corporations, educational institutions and social funds.
Annapoorna has an honors degree in Law from NALSAR
University in India and an MSc in Law and Finance from
Oxford.
Kirti Hariharan
Deputy General Counsel - Baring Private Equity Asia
- Deputy General Counsel - Baring Private Equity
Asia, May 2011 – Present
- Senior Associate - Paul Hastings, July 2009 –
March 2011
- Analyst - Och-Ziff Capital Management, September
2008 – March 2009
- Partner - Amarchand Mangaldas, July 2000 –
July 2008
- Singapore Management University - Master of Laws
(LLM) 2014 – 2015
- National Law School of India University B.A., LL.B.
(Hons.) 1995 – 2000
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Room: Gallery I
OPERATIONAL
EXCELLENCE
How to generate alpha in the region?
Moderator
Suvir Varma
Partner - Bain & Company
Suvir Varma is a Senior Partner with Bain & Company
and heads the firm’s Asia Pacific Private Equity and
Sovereign Wealth Fund Practice.
Mr. Varma works with leading Global and Asia-based
financial investors to help them realize value across the
investment value chain - from fund strategy and sector
scans to commercial due diligence and portfolio company
value enhancement.
Mr. Varma sits on Bain’s Global Investment Committee,
which manages funds on behalf of Bain’s accredited investors.
Mr. Varma is also active on the Board of the Singapore
Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA)
and works with a number of other bodies focused on
advancing the PE industry in Asia. He has authored several
reports and articles on PE in Asia and speaks regularly
at PE/M&A conferences across the region.
Prior to joining Bain over 10 years ago, Mr. Varma
worked at A.T. Kearney as a Principal and started his
career with stints in investing banking in the US and in
Hong Kong.
Mr. Varma holds an MBA from The Booth Graduate
School of Business at the University of Chicago and a
BSc in Business Administration from Babson College.
He and his family have lived in Singapore since 1996.
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OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Gallery I
Edward Foo
Managing Director - Pacific Harbor Group
Edward is a Founding Member and Managing Director
of Pacific Harbor Group. He is responsible for investment
origination, structuring and execution in South East Asia
with an emphasis on Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Edward has over 15 years of experience in handling
financial transactions in global markets. Edward holds
a B.Com. from Murdoch University and has completed
Executive Programs at both Oxford University and at
a joint executive program by the National University
of Singapore, Johns Hopkins University and Stanford
University.
Pacific Harbor Group is an Alternative Investment
Manager that focuses on Private Debt and Equity
Investments involving Special Situations in Asia and
Frontier Emerging Markets. Pacific Harbor has historically
made investments in Basic industries, Real Estate, Shipping,
Natural Resources, Commodities and related infrastructure.
Founded by Key Principals of Amroc Asia in 2006, the
Firm has since completed over 500 transactions, investing approximately US$2.5 billion since its inception.
Atiff Gill
Managing Director - CVC Capital Partners
Managing Director, joined CVC in 2014. Atiff is a
member of the CVC Operations team in Asia. He is
based in Singapore. He has worked in the retail and
consumer goods field for 20 years. Prior to joining CVC,
he worked as CEO of Lacoste (China) based in Shanghai.
Prior to that, he worked for Kingfisher plc, Kurt Salmon
Associates, Metersbonwe, and Williamson-Dickie. Atiff
holds a BSc Degree from London University and is a
Post-Graduate from Oxford University.
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Gallery I
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Mike Nikkel
Managing Director - China-ASEAN Investment
Cooperation Fund
Mike has been in Asia for more than 25 years since
first arriving and working in China in 1988. His career
and long-term relationships are in the infrastructure
and resources sectors. Mike has held senior executive
positions or been regional head variously at the Jardine
Matheson group, Global Infrastructure Partners, CLP
Holdings and the AES Corporation. He earned his
doctorate in law cum laude while serving as Editor-inChief of the Minnesota Law Review.
Rainer Gumpert
COO & CFO - KV Asia Capital
Rainer has over 20 years of experience both as a private
equity professional and senior management executive in
South East and North Asia.
He previously held key management roles at Financial
Investor owned Global Tender Barges, BW Group and
Metalform Asia Group where he drove key corporate
development and operational improvement initiatives.
He was also a Principal at UBS Capital / Affinity
Equity Partners where he was involved in all facets of
control-oriented private equity investments across Asia
Pacific.
Rainer is a qualified lean six sigma practitioner from
Pera Neville Clarke and Kaizen Consulting Group. He
also holds an Organisational Psychology Masters (EMCCC) from INSEAD, MBA from UNSW-AGSM/Ivey Business
School and BEng (Honours) Naval Architecture from
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Rainer is the Operating Partner and Investment
Committee Member at KV Asia Capital and a Director
of Eldercare Pte Ltd, IMR Holdings Pte. Ltd, Executive
Director at Aesthetics Holdings. He has served as interim
CEO at Orange Valley Nursing Homes and at DRx.
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Room: Atelier II
FUNDRAISING
Where to source for funds in the region?
Who puts money on the table?
Moderator
Graham Sheward
Managing Director - Cim Global Business
Graham Sheward has over 30 years of financial
services experience gained initially in the UK, Jersey,
Guernsey and Isle of Man. Prior to joining the Cim
Group, Graham was Country Director, International
Banking, Barclays Bank (Mauritius Limited), where he
was responsible for a diverse client proposition including
Global Corporates, Intermediaries and HNW Private Clients.
His previous roles include Head of the NatWest
Expatriate Service in the Isle of Man, Head of Retail
Savings and Investments for Zurich Financial Services,
and Managing Director of Close Brothers Group Offshore Banking Division.
Graham holds the Diploma in Company Direction
from the Institute of Directors and has held multiple
board directorships and regulator-approved positions.
He has served as a member of several industry bodies,
including the Mauritius Bankers’ Association International Sub-Committee, Global Finance Mauritius and the
Financial Services Promotion Committee.
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Atelier II
FUNDRAISING
Emily Goh
Director, IR - Tembusu Partners
Emily Goh is Director of Tembusu Partners is responsible
for investor relations and fund raising. She was appointed
as Tembusu’s representative to the Board of listed investee
companies Hong Wei Technologies Limited and Artivision
Technologies Limited. She was previously on the Board
of Directors Tongji Environment, Ying Tai Bio-technology,
OOBMedia as well as Globalroam as Audit Chairperson.
Emily has more than 12 years of field experience with
regional start up and growth companies in service sectors
such as foreign exchange, education and has actively
engaged in business advisory activities covering strategic
alliances, cross border M&A and fund raising.
Emily graduated from the University of Singapore
with a Bachelor of Arts & Social Science in 1998. She
is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors,
the CFA Institute of Singapore and was previously
Honorary Secretary of the New Zealand Chamber of
Commerce for 3 consecutive terms.
Arjun Bawa
Senior Vice President - Pinebridge Investments
Arjun Bawa is a Senior Vice President of PineBridge
Investments and joined the firm in 2006 at its headquarters
in New York. Arjun has been actively involved in investing
in Asia for many years and relocated to the firm’s office
in Singapore in 2012. He is responsible for sourcing,
executing and monitoring Primary and Secondary
private equity fund investments in Asia and is actively
involved in investment decisions on a global basis. He
is also involved with supporting marketing and fundraising
for the group’s various strategies in Asia Pacific.
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Atelier II
FUNDRAISING
Christian Kim
Head of Asia - SL Capital
Christian is based in the Hong Kong office and joined
SL Capital in 2013. He is responsible for fundraising and
client relations in the Far East and Asia.
Prior to joining SL Capital Christian spent eight years
at a real estate advisory firm in New York, and two
years at asset management firms in the UK, selling a
range of asset classes, including private equity, hedge
funds, real estate and infrastructure.
He holds an MBA from Cass Business School, London,
a Masters from University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors
Science from University of Massachusetts.
Abrar Mir
Managing Partner - Quadria Capital
Abrar Mir is the co-founder and Managing Partner of
Quadria Capital, the largest healthcare focused private
equity firm in Asia with the recent closing of its third
investment vehicle, a US$304m healthcare private
equity fund, in June 2015.
Abrar is actively involved in managing the firm and
serves on the fund’s Investment Committee. Abrar has
led private equity and capital markets transactions with
an aggregate value of over US$40 billion across Asia,
US and Europe. Abrar currently serves on the boards
of Medica Synergie, Soho Global Health, Orilus Investments and Medisia Investment Holdings.
Prior to founding Quadria Capital, Abrar was Global
Head of Healthcare at Religare Capital Markets. Before
that he was a Managing Director at Bank of America
Merrill Lynch in London where he was part of the senior
leadership team that led the bank’s healthcare investment
banking strategy in Europe and Emerging Markets.
Abrar received a M.Phil in International Law from the
University of Cambridge and is fluent in five languages.
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Atelier II
FUNDRAISING
Vinnie Lauria
Managing Partner - Golden Gate Ventures
Vinnie is entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is
a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early-stage
VC firm in Southeast Asia with over 20 investments to
date. He is a Kauffman Fellow, and a guest lecturer at the
National University of Singapore. He was rated by the
Founder Institute as highest startup mentor in Asia from
a pool of 2,500 mentors.
Prior to setting up Golden Gate Ventures, Vinnie built
two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro, a location-based
chat service which was dissolved with many lessons
learned in 2007; and Lefora, a forum hosting platform
which grew to over 100,000 communities and was
acquired by CrowdGather in 2010. He founded the
Silicon Valley NewTech meetup, featuring hundreds of
startups to a monthly audience w/ more than 10,000
members.
Earlier in his career, Vinnie spent four years within
IBM, helping to shape how IBM was approaching social
software for the enterprise. Vinnie is a graduate of Boston
University’s College of Engineering.
Vinnie is passionate about building startup ecosystems.
He joined his first startup while still in high school. His latest
activities can be followed here: @vlauria
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Room: Atelier II
LP PERSPECTIVE
How do LP’s select the best performing
funds in the region to invest their money?
Moderator
Anu Sahai
Director - ASEAN Private Equity & Venture
Capital Association
Anu Sahai is a Founding Director of the ASEAN Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, an industry
network of investors that are interested in investing in the
ASEAN region. From 2010 until 2013, she was the CEO
and Director of Aditya Birla Sun Life Asset Management
Company in Singapore, where she was responsible for
building the international business footprint for Birla Sun
Life Asset Management, a $15 billion Indian asset manager.
She is an accomplished professional with over two
decades of global investment experience across alternative and traditional asset classes in the US and Asia.
She was also the founder of Anew Capital Management
LLC and Portfolio Manager of a multi-strategy hedge
fund, for which she received a Rising Hedge Fund Stars
of 2008 award from Institutional Investor. Anu has had
a successful career in the financial services industry,
including previously with ING Investment Management
Americas, where she managed equities, high yield and
convertible bond portfolios.
Ms Sahai is part of the Investment Advisory Committee
of the Singapore American School and a member of the
Indian Business-leaders Roundtable in Singapore. She
is also actively engaged with the Singapore Institute of
Directors, Women Corporate Directors, BoardAgender
and the Financial Women’s Association. She was previously on the Asian-American Advisory Council to the
former Arizona State Governor Janet Napolitano, a director
on the board of the Arizona Foundation for Women, a member
of the CFA Institute and the American Mensa.
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Atelier II
LP PERSPECTIVE
Peter Pfister
Partner & Head of Asia-Pacific - Altius Associates
Peter Pfister is a Partner and Head of Asia-Pacific on
the Global Investment Team, based in Singapore. He
is responsible for leading the investment and business
development activities in Asia-Pacific. Mr. Pfister joined
Altius in 2013 and started working in Private Equity in
2001, covering the Asia-Pacific region since 2005.
Prior to joining Altius, Mr. Pfister was Head of AsiaPacific for Deutsche Bank’s private equity business (DB
Private Equity) overseeing investments and business
development across the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Pfister was previously Vice President for LGT Capital Partners where he focused on business development
and helped develop the firms’ marketing and client services
activities. Before joining LGT, he worked for MettlerToledo in business development covering Emerging
Markets and for Caterpillar in planning and product
marketing.
Mr. Pfister holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering
from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
and a MBA from IMD.
Jacob Chiu
Managing Director - HQ Capital Asia
Jacob Chiu is a Managing Director and head of
Asian private equity fund manager research and
co-investments for HQ Capital, a leading global independent alternative investment manager. Previously,
he was a Partner with FLAG Squadron Asia where he
was responsible for overseeing investments in China
and pan-Asian-focused funds. Prior that, Mr. Chiu was
a Managing Director of Search Investment Group, a
family investment office, with responsibility for direct
investments and funds in China. He previously held
senior operating and financial management roles with
Glaxo, Kraft Foods Asia Pacific and TigerPack. He holds
an MSc in Financial Management from the University of
London.
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Atelier II
LP PERSPECTIVE
Bruce Merivale-Austin
Managing Principal - DM Partners Asia
Bruce is the Principal (family member) and Managing
Director of DM Partners Asia Pte. Ltd., a multi-generational
Single Family Office which migrated to Singapore in
2004. DMP Asia runs a multi-asset class investment
strategy with a global macro overlay and a proprietary
in house technology research capability. As a complement
to this, DMP is active in private equity/venture capital,
third party manager selection, and international property
management.
Prior to establishing DMP Asia in Singapore Bruce
served as: Senior Managing Director and head of Bear
Stearns’ Structured Products Sales in Europe; board
member of Tricadia Capital Management, a New-York
based multi-strategy and CDO collateral manager with
AUM in excess of $3.7B; and board member of Eiger
Capital where he coordinated the sourcing, analysis
and valuation of asset securitization strategies including
the restructuring of a $1.2B Structured Investment Vehicle
(SIV).
Bruce recently graduated from the three-year Owners
and Presidents Management program (OPM) at Harvard
Business School, and holds an LLB honors degree in
Law from the University of Buckingham. In addition, he
is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
and served as 1st lieutenant and tank commander with
The Blues and Royals Regiment of the British Army in
Germany.
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LP PERSPECTIVE
Sunil Mishra
Partner - Adams Street Partners
Sunil is a Partner who primarily specializes in the
sourcing and execution of Asian investments specifically
in India, Australia, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. He
actively participates in all fund investment decisions
at Adams Street.
Prior to joining our organization in 2007, Sunil
worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore
performing financial and business analyses of local and
regional companies and advising them. Prior to this,
Sunil worked in India as an Investment and Strategy
Associate in Tacogroup, the automotive technology and
engineering investment arm of the Tata Group of India.
Sunil is a native Indian with permanent residency in
Singapore. He is fluent in Hindi and has basic working
knowledge of several Indian languages.
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Atelier II
LP PERSPECTIVE
Melissa Kang
Executive Director - Morgan Stanley Alternative
Investment Partners
Melissa is an executive director and a portfolio manager
for the Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners
Private Equity Fund of Funds group. Prior to joining AIP,
Melissa worked at IFC, the private sector arm of World
Bank Group, where she was a Principal Investment Officer and Regional Lead for East Asia Pacific, responsible
for private equity funds investments, based in Indonesia.
In that role, she was responsible for new business that
covers 15 countries and oversaw $1 billion of portfolio
investments and sat on several advisory boards. In
addition, Melissa was also the Global Lead for gender
investment for funds. Previously, she was CEO for a
private equity fund of funds business in Asia, a joint
venture between ING Investment Management and
Pomona Capital, based in Hong Kong. Before that,
Melissa had held senior positions at 3i and DBS Bank,
responsible for direct investments in Asia. Prior to her
private equity career, Melissa spent 8 years in equity
investment research and SME finance. Melissa received
a B.A in economics and political science from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Applied
Finance from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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GROWTH INVESTMENTS
What are the VCs looking
for and where?
Moderator
Namita Sethi
CPA Managing Partner - Futurebooks
Namita Sethi, Managing Partner at Futurebooks, is a
finance professional with the ability to conceive, strategize
and execute business expansion plans.
Namita has over 10 years’ experience in finance and
accounting in Australia and Singapore across multinational Chartered Accounting firms and consumer
finance organisations.
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Atelier I
Khailee Ng
Managing Partner - 500Startups
Khailee Ng is Managing Partner at 500 Startups, the
Silicon Valley based venture capital firm. 500 Startups
is the worlds most active seed stage investor, with over
1,000 companies in 50 countries invested.
Born and raised in Malaysia, he started creating web
products at age 15. By the age of 30, he has built a news
company SAYS.com (now listed in the Malaysian stock
exchange as REV Asia) and e-commerce company
GroupsMore (acquired by Groupon).
His focus areas at 500 Startups managing the Southeast Asian fund, setting up new regions, and building
bridges between emerging markets and Silicon Valley.
Patrick Grove
Group CEO - Catcha Group
Patrick Grove is the co-founder and CEO of Catcha
Group, a leading international investment firm focused
on disruptive opportunities in emerging markets
globally. He is co-founder and Chairman of Catcha
Group’s ASX-listed companies, including iProperty
Group (ASX:IPP), iCar Asia (ASX:ICQ), and iBuy Group
(ASX:IBY). He is additionally co-founder and a Director
of Rev Asia Berhad (ACE:0173), one of Southeast Asia’s
leading digital media groups. He is also the co- founder
and Chariman of Catcha Group’s latest venture, iflix Ltd,
Southeast Asia’s leading Internet TV service.
Over the last decade, Patrick has since built several
high profile businesses in Asia and has been independently and widley recognised with numerous international awards, including: Global Leader of Tomorrow
by the World Economic Forum; New Asian Leader by
the World Economic Forum; Young Entrepreneur of the
Year by the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Singapore; Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur by Bloomberg
Business Week; and Australia Unlimited’s Global 50.
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Atelier I
Dr. Alex Lin
Partner and Head of Milan Office at L Capital
As Head of Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd, Dr. Alex
LIN led the team of investment professionals to develop
the infocomm start-ups ecosystem in Singapore, through
strategic investments in promising companies.
For last 10 years, Alex had been actively building
companies, mentoring entrepreneurs and investing in
promising start-ups. He held entrepreneurship and investment related roles in several organizations working closely with Singapore universities promoting creation of rapid-prototyping capabilities and incubators.
He invests and coaches young technology startups
from ideation to maturity. Regionally, Alex led several
technology infrastructure investments in China, such as
technology park development, and High Temperature
Conversion of Waste installations.
Alex is active in community service especially in the
entrepreneurship development space. He is an active
member of Action Community for Entrepreneurship
(ACE), and ACE grant review panelist. He is also an engaging speaker promoting innovative thinking amongst
aspiring start-ups and hackathons in Asia.
Alex obtained his Electrical & Computer Engineering
degree at University of Wisconsin (Madison) and Doctorate at Stanford University.
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Atelier I
Mark Hon
Business Angel & Chairman - BANSEA
Dr Mark Hon is an accredited private investor with
experience in leading early stage company to IPO. He
is co-founder of Sugar venture builder and venture
partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He is also the
deputy chairman of the Business Angel Network South East
Asia (BANSEA), vice chairman of the Action Community for
Entrepreneurship (ACE), and panelist on public sector
funds that support entrepreneurship.
A former professor of finance, he was also visiting
professor to universities in Oxford, United Kingdom
and Deggendorf, Germany. In the private sector, he has
formulated R&D commercialisation strategies for MNCs in
the defense industry, consumer electronics procurement
road maps and mobile application strategies in the
telecommunications industry, and acquisition strategies
in the energy sector. ​He has served as c-level officer at
a publicly traded company, and economic index expert
to a Swiss bank.
Mark serves on the boards and committees of various
voluntary welfare organisations such as the Singapore
Disability Sports Council, Singapore National Paralympic
Council, Singapore Red Cross and the Foundation of
Rotary Clubs. He is also member of the board of trustees of
the Rotary Wish and the Cotton On Foundation Youth funds.
Mark was a member of the American Finance Association and faculty associate of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was recently
featured in Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in
America.
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Atelier I
Marc Syz
Managing Director - ACE & Company
Marc Syz is the managing director of ACE & Company
Hong Kong. A leading global co-investment group
specialized in direct investments across stages. ACE
focuses on unique opportunities in the most attractive
industries and markets on a risk adjusted basis. ACE
strives to ensure alignment of interest of all parties by
being actively involved in every transaction it undertakes.
Marc moved to Asia as the Executive Vice President
of Syz & Co Hong Kong to develop the Asian expansion
of the family owned parent company. The Syz group is
an award winning Swiss financial institution specialized
in Private Banking, Asset Management and Investment
Funds.
Prior to joining the Syz group he was Head of Capital
Markets & Equity Sales at Union Bancaire Privée in Geneva, a leading Swiss Private Bank. He was responsible
for the proprietary investments of the Bank’s Trading
and Treasury division managing a range of alternative investments. Marc started at UBP as a derivatives
trader on the currency and precious metals markets
and subsequently built the active advisory and direct
access trading for the bank’s UHNW clients and independent asset managers. He has a broad expertise in
private banking, capital markets, asset management
and alternative investments across geographies.
Marc started his career at Credit Suisse First Boston
in the Structured Products division.
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Room: Gallery I
DEAL SOURCING
Where and how to find the best
opportunities in the SEA market?
Where will the returns come next?
Moderator
Nancy Yu
Regional Managing Director - Merrill Corporation
Nancy Yu leads Merrill Corporation in Asia as Regional Managing Director. Over the spread of her career,
Nancy has held strategic and leadership positions in
the financial as well as technology sectors in mainland
China and Hong Kong.
Nancy joins Merrill from CITIC Private Equity Fund
Management Company (CITICPE), headquartered in
Beijing, China. In her role as Vice President, Portfolio Management, Nancy was based in Shanghai and
responsible for overseeing business performance for
a number of business-to-business portfolio companies.
Alongside her core management accountability, Nancy
also had responsibility for building sales management
capability across CITICPE companies, delivering strong
year on year growth of up to 30 percent in revenue.
Prior to her tenure with CITICPE, she was China Head
of Sales and Account Management for DST Global Solutions. At DST she built their mainland China business
and went on to successfully transform her sales and
account management team to drive results in the areas
of investment accounting and performance analysis.
Nancy holds both Bachelor and master degrees
from the University of Hong Kong.
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Gallery I
Kyle Shaw
Managing Director - Shaw Kwei & Partners
Kyle Shaw is the founder and managing director of
Shaw Kwei & Partners, a private equity fund manager
based in Hong Kong and Singapore targeting investment
opportunities in Asia’s manufacturing and service industries. Shaw Kwei & Partners is dedicated to building
better businesses by partnering with management to
identify and realize sustainable performance improvements in areas such as revenue growth, margin expansion, and capital efficiency. Shaw Kwei & Partners has
expertise in complicated corporate finance structures
with mid-market firms and a deep knowledge of Asian
business practices.
Kyle is a pioneer in Asian private equity having managed
investment portfolios since 1990 with Security Pacific
National Bank in Hong Kong and the Tudor Group in
Shanghai, and then in 1999 establishing Shaw Kwei
& Partners. Kyle received an M.B.A. from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania, studied Mandarin
Chinese at Taiwan’s National Normal University, and a
Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University
of Virginia.
Devin Wirawan
Principal - Saratoga Capital
Devin Wirawan is a Principal at Saratoga Capital, a
leading Indonesia-focused private equity fund with
about US$1 billion in AUM. He joined Saratoga in 2009
and has contributed to several deals in the consumer
and infrastructure sectors. He focuses in origination, execution, and serves as director and executive committee
member of several Saratoga portfolio companies. Devin
Wirawan is a CFA charter holder and graduated with
high distinction from the University of Minnesota with a
BSB in Finance and Management Information System.
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Gallery I
DEAL SOURCING
Sanjay Gujral
Regional Managing Director - L Capital Asia (LVMH)
Sanjay Gujral is a part of the leadership team and
responsible for risk management & deal structuring and
investor relations & fund raising at L Capital Asia, the
Asian private equity business sponsored by LVMH Moët
Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world leader in high-quality
products with a unique portfolio of over 60 prestigious
brands.
Backed by a strong corporate sponsor, L Capital Asia
is a value-added investor focused on businesses that
will benefit from the growth in lifestyle consumption in
emerging Asian markets. Focus sectors include consumer brands, beauty & wellness, lifestyle retail, food &
beverage, boutique hospitality and media & entertainment.
The firm has over US$ 1.6 bn assets under management
across two private equity funds.
Mr Gujral possesses 20 years of experience in
private equity, M&A and financial advisory. He joined L
Capital Asia in April 2011 to lead the Firm’s operations
in India and moved to Singapore in July 2012 to take
on his current regional role. Prior to L Capital Asia, Mr
Gujral was an Executive Director at Everstone Capital,
a leading India-focused private equity manager. Before
moving to the buy-side in 2006, Mr Gujral spent 11 years
in corporate finance advisory at Arthur Andersen, Ernst
& Young and Ambit Corporate Finance.
Mr Gujral holds a post-graduate diploma in management
from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and
is a commerce graduate from the Shri Ram College of
Commerce, Delhi University.
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Gallery I
Nainesh Jaisingh
Managing Director & Global Co-Head - Standard
Chartered Private Equity
Nainesh Jaisingh is the Managing Director and Global
Co-Head of Standard Chartered Private Equity, and has
been with Standard Chartered’s Principal Investments
business for over 15 years.
With SCPE, Nainesh has made and managed successful investments in a variety of sectors, partnering
with entrepreneurs and management teams to build
leading businesses. He serves on the Board of Directors
of several companies, including Redington India Limited,
Crystal Jade Holdings Pte Ltd., Café Coffee Day, Wellard
Group Holdings Pty Ltd., Interglobe Technologies and
the Prime Focus Group.
In 2003, Nainesh was instrumental in the launch of the
Merlion India Fund, a Joint Venture between SCPE and
Temasek, the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Singapore. In
2001, he co-founded Fin Ventures, a proprietary global
Venture Capital Fund sponsored by Standard Chartered
bank, headquartered at Singapore.
Nainesh’s early career was in Investment Banking
and Commercial Banking with ANZ Investment Bank and
ANZ Grindlays.
Nainesh is an Engineer from the Indian Institute of
Technology, BHU, and an MBA from the Indian Institute
of Management, Bangalore.
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DEAL SOURCING
Eugene Lai
Co-Managing Partner - Southern Capital Group
Eugene Lai is a Managing Director and Co-Managing
Partner of Southern Capital Group, a private equity
firm that makes mid-market control investments in
Southeast Asia. Southern Capital invests in businesses
with proven track records, predictable cash flows and
strong management teams.
Eugene has extensive experience in investments,
finance, business and law, including having been
Managing Director of JPMorgan, Managing Director of
The Carlyle Group, Asia, and CEO of The Ascott Group
Limited, one of the largest serviced apartment businesses in the world.
Eugene graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law
(first class honors, top of his class) from The London
School of Economics & Political Science, London
University, and a master’s degree in law from Harvard
University.
Eugene sits on a number of boards, including the
Securities Industry Council, Design Singapore Council,
AIMS AMP Capital Industrial REIT Management Limited,
Perennial Real Estate Holdings Limited as well as various
Southern Capital portfolio companies.
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Room: Atelier II
CEO PERSPECTIVE
How does the PE ownership affect the
dynamics of a company? How can
we create a winning relationship
between the executive management
and the owners?
Moderator
Mike Goldstone
Managing Partner, Asia-Pacific & Japan Heads! International
Mike is one of six co-owners of Heads! International,
a global top-tier executive search firm with 120 employees across 12 offices worldwide. Around 40 percent of the
firm’s work is with leading Private Equity firms. Prior to
Heads! , Mike founded his own very successful executive search boutique focused on the Digital, Internet and
Technology sectors across Asia-Pacific/Japan. Earlier,
Mike was one of the founder management team that
set up Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE) in Asia,
where he had responsibility for all strategic hiring of
executive talent for the holding company and its investee
companies. He also led ICG Asia’s investment activities
in the telecommunications sector.
Previously, Mike spent 14 years with Heidrick &
Struggles. From 1994 to 2000 he was the Managing
Partner of its IT & Telecommunications Practice across
the firm’s nine offices in the Asia Pacific region, which
he led from its establishment. Previously based in London,
he was a founding member of its European Technology
Practice and a co-founder of the firm’s worldwide Telecommunications Practice.
Mike received a Bachelor of Arts in History with a Chinese concentration, and a Master of Business Administration from the Cranfield School of Management in UK.
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Atelier II
Steve Melhuish
Co-Founder & CEO - Property Guru
Steve is an award-winning entrepreneur. In the last
two decades, he built profitable companies throughout
Asia and Europe. He co-founded PropertyGuru due to
his personal frustrations at trying to find a new home
in 2006. Today, PropertyGuru is the leading online
property group in South East Asia used by over 11 million
property seekers and 31,000 property advertisers every
month.
Prior to Steve’s current role, he held advised various
firms including Skype, AOL, Virgin Media, Vodafone,
Extreme Media, iPass and Ariadne Capital. He also led
global teams and a US$500 million turnover business
unit for Cable & Wireless. In 2007, Steve was awarded
the Spirit of Enterprise Award in recognition of his
contributions to entrepreneurship in Singapore. Steve
has invested in 4 digital media firms and is passionate
about Asia + Digital.
Matthias Koh
Co-CEO - Nurture Education Group
- Currently the Co-CEO of an education company,
NURTURE EDUCATION GROUP, with 20 schools in Singapore and China.
- Was an avid sportsman during my younger days,
having don national colours in competitions such as
SEA Games and Asian Games.
- Degree (Computer Science)
- Believed that there are aspects in Sports that is
able to apply to the business arena
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CEO PERSPECTIVE
Dr Christopher Tay
CEO - The DRx Group
Dr Christopher Tay is currently the group CEO of a
well-established Medical Aesthetics group, DRx and he
holds a doctoral degree in International Business and
his corporate experiences includes, senior appointments,
in Corporate Development & Services, Hospitality and
Resort, SME businesses, logistics, Healthcare and Hospital and Logistics and co-founded and listed a China
Pharmaceutical Company in the USA OTCBB.
Dr. Tay also served in several business and Government
related appointments ( past and present ); Councillor
and Vice Chairman Finance Committee, of Town Council,
Business Adviser of Medical Tourism, Board member of
the Centre for Seniors, Industrial Park venture in Yichun/
Jiangxi Province, Institute of Mental Health Medifund
Committee, Chairman of Citizens Consultative Committee, Chairman, Advisory Council, Member of School
Advisory Board of Primary and Secondary Schools,
Chairman of Education & Welfare Committee, Board
member of NTUC Eldercare Cooperative Limited and
Patron, Citizens` Management Club Committee. He also
conducts ad-hoc teaching in University and was also a
board member of the Johns Hopkin Singapore IMC and
serving as a resource member of the Singapore Group
Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for health.
Due to his outstanding performance during 2003
SARS as Chief Operations Officer of Tan Tock Seng
Hospital, he was awarded the National Day Award,
Pingat Kepujian (Commendation Medal for SARS), and
the Courage Medal, Singapore Courage Fund for SARS
and the National Military Long and Good Service Medal,
Pingat Bakti Setia.
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Atelier II
Rudijanto Tanoesoedibjo
CEO, PT MNC SKY VISION Tbk
Indonesian citizen, 51 years old, born in Surabaya
in 1964. Earned his Master of Business Administration degree from University of San Francisco, San
Francisco, USA in 1989 and Bachelor of Commerce
degree from Carleston University, Ottawa, Canada in
1987. He is affiliated with President Commissioner of PT
MNC Sky Vision Tbk, Mr. Hary Tanoesoedibjo. He has
served as President Director since June 29, 2004, by
the decision of the Extraordinary General Meeting of
Shareholders on June 29, 2004, set forth in the Deed
of Meeting Decisions No. 137 dated August 31, 2004.
Currently, he serves as: President Director of PT
European Hospital Development (1994-Present), President Director of PT Bhakti Panjiwira (1997-Present),
President Commissioner of PT MNC Asset Management (1999-Present), Commissioner of PT Mahanusa
Persada (2001-Present), Commissioner of PT Rajawali
Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI) (2002-Present), Vice
President Commissioner of PT Global Mediacom Tbk
(2002-Present), Commissioner of PT MNC Investama
Tbk (2002-Present), President Director of PT MNC Sky
Vision Tbk (2004-Present), President Commissioner of
PT Dos Ni Roha (2007-Present), Commissioner of PT
Global Informasi Bermutu (2008-Present).
In the past, he held a number of positions namely;
President Commissioner of PT Agis Tbk. (1998-2001),
President Director of PT Agis Tbk (2001-2006), Commissioner of PT Cardig Air (2002-2003).
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Atelier II
Venkatraman Sheshashayee
CEO - Miclyn Express Offshore
Venkatraman Sheshashayee (Shesh) is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Miclyn Express Offshore. Shesh is responsible for the promotion, development
and extension of the business of the Group as well as
the overall management of the Group’s operations.
Prior to joining the MEO Group, Shesh has had over
28 years of experience in manufacturing, shipping and
offshore oil & gas services. He has set up three greenfield companies, building them into regional industry
leaders in their domains. Between 2012 and 2014, he
was responsible for the turnaround of Jaya Holdings
Limited, which was completed in a record 30 months.
His knowledge of the offshore oilfield services domain
is vast, and his network is diverse and extensive.
Shesh is a Marine Engineer, and has an MBA from
IIM Bangalore.
When not working, Shesh reads voraciously, writes
creatively and plays tennis enthusiastically.
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MARKET SELECTION
How to approach the SEA market?
Moderator
Rick Marchese
Director - Lares Loreno Private Capital
Rick is a director of Lares Loreno Private Capital,
a private investment bank focused on advising family
businesses and middle market companies in the region.
He has over 20 years of experience in emerging and
frontier markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America and
Asia.
Prior to Lares Loreno, he spent time with Deutsche
Bank, Merrill Lynch and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
advising private equity firms on acquisitions, acquisition
financing and exits.
Rick is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst
(CAIA) and has an MBA from The University of Chicago
Booth School of Business.
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MARKET SELECTION
Atelier I
Serge Devieux
Co-Head IFC Financial Institutions Funds International Finance Corportation
Mr.Serge Devieux is Co-Head of the AMC Financial
Institutions Funds group, which currently manages over
$3.7billion across four funds. In addition, Mr. Devieux
sits on the Investment Committees of each AMC Financial
Institutions fund. He has more than 30 years of principal
investment experience focused on the financial services
sector across Emerging Markets.
Serge joined IFC’s Asset Management Company in
December of last year – moving from the IFC, which he
joined in 2000, in the FIG department of Latin America.
During his tenure at IFC, he led more than 40 equity
transactions with a value of $1.4 billion. He also held
regional responsibilities at IFC, until recently leading
government and client relations for South Asia. While at
IFC, he lived successively in Washington, Rio, Bogota,
Hong Kong, New Delhi and now Singapore. Prior to
joining IFC, he spent 12 years at the head of various
financial institutions in frontier markets, from mortgage
to commercial banking.
Mr. Devieux holds a BS in Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a Master of Engineering degree from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
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MARKET SELECTION
Mohammad Afdal Pamilih
President Director - PT Danareksa Capital
Obtained an M.Sc degree in Mathematical Sciences
from The University of Texas, Arlington, USA in 1984
and a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from
Jacksonville State University, USA, in 1982. Through
1980 he was enrolled in the Industrial Engineering department of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). Started
his career with JP Morgan, New York, USA as programmer
analyst in forex analytics in 1984, before then continued
to County NatWest Government Securities in the same
city as fixed-income quantitative analyst until 1989.
As he returned to Indonesia, he joined Bank Niaga
with Head of Treasury as his last position in 1995. He
then served as Director of Treasury in Bank Papan Sejahtera for one year, prior to the position of Danareksa
Chief Representative in London for the following two
years. Served as President Commissioner PT Brent Asset Management before joining PT Danareksa Capital
as the Director in 2010. CFA charterholder since 1995.
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Atelier I
Douglas Clayton
CEO - Leopard Capital
Douglas Clayton oversees Leopard Capital’s
investment activities and business expansion in preemerging economies. With 26 years of experience in
frontier markets, Douglas is a commentator of the asset class at investment conferences, on financial television programs, and in print media publications. Prior to
founding Leopard Capital in 2007 Douglas held senior
executive positions at multi-national equities firms such
as CLSA and Indosuez WI Carr, gaining frontline experience building and managing teams across Asia and
Latin America. In 1999 Douglas founded Abacus Equity
Partners which sourced and arranged two 10x private
equity investments in two years. He is a Trustee of the
Center for Khmer Studies and formerly served as Technical
Advisor to the Director-General of Cambodia’s Securities & Exchange Commission. Douglas holds an MM
from Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University and a BA in
History from Cornell University.
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MARKET SELECTION
Michael Sng
Managing Partner - TAEL Partners
Michael Sng is the managing partner and CEO of
TAEL Partners Ltd, a private equity growth capital fund
which he co-founded in 2007. TAEL Partners manages
about US$1 billion in AUM and invests in influential
minority positions in leading growth-oriented familyowned businesses in ASEAN.
He has over 30 years of experience in transactions, and is well connected with relationships across
Southeast Asia. Prior to TAEL, Michael spent 16 years
at Schroders where he held various senior positions
including the first Schroder’s country head of Malaysia,
head of financial markets division for Southeast Asia
and board director at Schroders Singapore. In 1998,
Michael was recruited to establish UOB Asia, the investment banking subsidiary of UOB where he successfully built its entire business with presence in
Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Michael
graduated from the National University of Singapore
with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in economics.
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Room: Gallery I
EXIT ROUTES
What is the best exit strategy in the
region right now? How to execute
it in the best way and make sure it
pays off?
Moderator
Simon Lim
Senior VP, Head of Listings, SEA & Sectors - SGX
Simon Lim is Senior Vice President and Head of
Listings, South East Asia and Sectors, at Singapore Exchange (SGX). Simon leads the coverage of South East
Asia, Australia, Japan, Korea and Sectors, and originates
companies to list on the SGX.
Simon was Deputy Director at Infocomm Investments
Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) where
he originated, evaluated & executed private equity
investment opportunities worldwide, and managed a
portfolio of investee companies.
Before joining IDA, Simon acquired experience in the
private and public sectors in equity investment analysis and
business development. He was an Investment Analyst
with Smith Barney Shearson HG Asia Securities, and in
that capacity he acted as an investment representative
to institutional investors and fund managers. Simon also
held the position of Assistant Director at Singapore’s
Ministry of Trade & Industry. Simon is a Full Member of
the Singapore Institute of Directors and held a past directorship in System Access Limited. Simon is serving on
SPRING Singapore’s Money Policy Advisory Committee,
which reviews the financing initiatives for SMEs.
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Gallery I
Ashish Shastry
Managing Partner - Northstar Group
Ashish Shastry is a Managing Partner at Northstar
Group. Prior to joining Northstar in January 2012, Mr.
Shastry was at TPG Capital for over 13 years, most recently as the partner responsible for TPG’s business in
Southeast Asia. Before joining TPG, Mr. Shastry was an
investment banker at Lehman Brothers in New York. He
currently serves as a non-executive director on several
company boards, including Bank Tabungan Pensiunan
Nasional, Triputra Agro Persada, Nera Telecommunications
and ERA Realty Network. Mr. Shastry attended Princeton
University and graduated with an A.B. degree in economics (with honors).
Gary Ng
Managing Director - CLSA Capital Partners
Mr. Ng joined CLSA Capital Partners in 2000 and has
20 years’ experience in finance and private equity. He
was responsible for a number of the funds’ investments
in India and South-East Asia. He had also participated in
a number of transactions in the consumer and industrial
sectors across Asia. He currently oversees the SouthEast Asia and South Asia investments. Prior to CLSA
Capital Partners, he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers
for almost 4 years. Mr. Ng received his Bachelor of
Accountancy from the Nanyang Business School
in Singapore and is a Chartered Financial Analyst
(CFA). He had actively volunteered as a Board Member
of CFA Singapore from 2006-2014 and is the currently
the Vice-Chair of the Singapore Venture Capital and
Private Equity Association.
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David Lai
Co-Founder - Affinity Equity Partners
Adjunct Professor - INSEAD
David co-founded Affinity Equity Partner (“Affinity”),
one of the largest independent private equity managers
in the Asia Pacific region with assets under management of over US$ 3 billion, focusing primarily in LBOs
and MBOs. Affinity was the result of the management
spin-off from UBS Capital Asia Pacific in late 2003, led
by David who was then the President, Region Asia
for UBS Capital. UBS Capital was the UBS AG private
equity arm in the region for LBOs and MBOs. David
joined UBS Capital in 1996 where he was responsible
for pioneering and building the buy-out business in
Asia/Australasia. Prior to joining UBS, he was a Director
with Prudential Asset Management Asia. He was first
involved in the industry in the early 1990s with Suez
Apac, the private equity arm of Banque Indosuez. David
has over 17 years of private equity experience in the region
making him one of the pioneers in Asia. During this period he had seen up close the evolution and vagaries of
the private equity industry in this region and to this end,
he was involved in various stages and types of investment
models spanning an array of industries.
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Andy Ho
Managing Director & Head of Investment - Vina Capital
Andy Ho is currently the managing director of VinaCapital and Head of Investment. Since joining VinaCapital
in April 2007, Andy has helped VOF’s NAV surpass the
$1bn mark, deployed over $800m on privately negotiated
deals, lead over US$200m in exits via strategic trade
sales and managed VOF to be one of Vietnam’s best
performing and largest fund since 2007.
Previously, Andy was the director of investment at
Prudential Vietnam where he looked after the Capital
Market portfolio as well as Prudential’s bank investment
strategy that returned four times over a period of 18
months. Andy also led a number of large private equity
deals in Vietnam totaling almost $200m in market value. Andy was the Fund Manager of Prudential’s mutual
fund, PruBF1.
Before joining Prudential, Andy held various management positions at Dell Ventures (Investment Group
of Dell Computer Corporation) and Ernst & Young.
Andy is a leading authority on investments in the developing capital markets and privatization opportunities,
as well as private equity deals and structures in Vietnam.
Andy is a CPA from the United States and hold MBA
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
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Craig Martin
Co-CEO - CapAsia
Craig has more than 18 years of private equity and
investment advisory experience in South East Asia.
Previously, Craig was the Head of Private Equity at Prudential Vietnam Fund Management Company, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Prudential Plc. In this role he was
responsible for investing in private equity opportunities
on behalf of a Life Insurance client and also successfully
raised and fully invested a US$283 million third party
fund. Over the course of a five year period in Vietnam
Craig invested and managed approximately US$250
million in private equity assets on behalf of these two
Vietnam focused funds. Prior to Prudential, Craig was
an Associate Director at Standard Chartered Private
Equity, where he made several investments across different sectors and in different geographies, including
South East Asia and India, and sourced investment opportunities in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Craig began his career at a boutique investment
advisory firm in the Indo China region and spent six
years advising various multinational companies on investments across the region.
He holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD and a
Masters degree with Honors in Electronic Systems Engineering from University of York, UK.
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