19
Nov
Asian private equity: Boots on the ground (Joint session with the LP Summit and Venture Capital Summit)
- Is Asian private equity moving towards the Western model?
- What makes the region compelling as a diversity and growth play?
- How can a thematic approach help identify quality assets in the right sectors?
- What are the key value creation levers – add-ons, AI, ESG, cash management?
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SpeakersAndy Wang Partner, Primary Investments, Singapore ADAMS STREET PARTNERS
Mark Chiba Group Chairman & Partner THE LONGREACH GROUP
Steve Duncan Managing Director TPG CAPITAL ASIA
Alex Ovchar Managing Director PACIFIC EQUITY PARTNERS
Scott Chen Managing Partner L CATTERTON
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Andy is responsible for the Primary Investment Team’s investments in Asia. He participates in all aspects of the fund investment decision-making process and manages relationships with several of Adams Street’s managers including sitting on advisory boards. He also is involved in the sourcing, decision-making, and execution of growth and buyout co-investments in Asia.
Prior to joining Adams Street, he was an Executive Director in charge of CICC wealth management division’s private market investment management in China.
Previously, Andy was a Vice President with GIC’s private equity division based in Singapore and Beijing, where he focused on Asia fund investments and co-investments in China, Japan, and Southeast Asia markets. He also worked with Swiss Reinsurance Company’s asset management division in Hong Kong with a focus on Asia private equity direct investments.
Mark Chiba is Group Chairman and Partner of The Longreach Group. The Longreach Group is an established independent private equity firm with offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. The firm focuses on Japan and related Greater China control buyouts in the mature industrial and technology, consumer, business services and financial services sectors. The firm manages three Funds which have accumulated approximately US$2.1 billion of committed limited partner and co-investment capital.
Mark co-founded The Longreach Group in late 2003. Mark's lead responsibilities at Longreach include firm management, senior relationship driven deal sourcing and execution, investments in the financial services sector, and building the firm's capital base and global networks.
Before co-founding Longreach, Mark served as Chief Executive Officer and President of UBS Securities Japan, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Management Committee, Head of Japan Investment Banking and as a member of the UBS Global Investment Bank Board. Previous to this role in Japan, Mark headed the UBS Asia-Pacific Financial Institutions Group.
Mark is an Australian citizen, resident in Hong Kong. He holds First Class Honours degrees in Economics (University of Melbourne) and Law (University of Sydney). Mark is a Rhodes Scholar with a Master of Philosophy degree in International Relations (with Distinction) from Oxford University.
Steve Duncan is a Managing Director at TPG Capital Asia based in Melbourne and has been with TPG since 2020. Steve is the current Chairman of Made Group, one of Australia’s largest healthy food and beverage businesses. He also sits on the Board of iNova Pharmaceuticals and was previously a director of logistics software company Containerchain.
Prior to joining TPG, Steve worked with CPE Capital across their Australia and Singapore offices for approximately nine years.
Steve holds a B.Commerce (Hons) Finance & Accounting from the University of New South Wales and an MBA jointly issued by Columbia Business School and London Business School.
Alex is a Managing Director at PEP and member of the Partner & Client Group. Alex joined PEP in 2011. Alex was an investor in the Private Equity strategy for the first decade, after which he joined the Partner & Client Group. Before joining PEP, Alex was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and prior to then, a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Sydney. Alex received a PLD from Harvard Business School, a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Adelaide, where he was the Valedictorian.
Mr. Chen is a managing partner at L Catterton, where he oversees the firm's Asia and RMB fund strategies.
Prior to joining L Catterton in 2020, Mr. Chen spent nearly 20 years at TPG investing across the broad consumer and healthcare landscape throughout Asia Pacific, most recently serving as a partner and managing director. During his second decade at TPG, he also led the firm’s investments in Greater China and drove the expansion of its China franchise. Before joining TPG, Mr. Chen worked in the Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Lehman Brothers in New York.
Mr. Chen received a BS in Business Administration with honors from the University of Colorado.