Sean Murphy Partner COOLEY LLP

Sean Murphy is a fund formation partner in Cooley’s Singapore office. Sean’s practice focuses on the formation and operation of private funds across venture capital, growth equity, buy-out, special situations, real estate and infrastructure strategies. First resident in Singapore in 2004, he has advised fund sponsors and investors for more than a decade from offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and New York. Sean also regularly advises clients on co-investments, managed accounts, feeder funds for HNWIs, carried interest plans, strategic partnerships and US securities and investment advisory laws.

Sean has a JD from the George Washington University Law School with honors, and a BS from University of Pennsylvania.

Yash Sankrityayan Managing Partner JUNGLE VENTURES

Yash is a Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures leading Jungle's Southeast Asia investments and portfolio support efforts. He joined the firm in 2016. Yash has been named to Asia’s Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020 and has been an active venture investor since 2014 focused on the India and SE Asia markets.

At Jungle, Yash primarily focuses on Consumer, B2B and SME facing investments and has led our investments in companies such as Leap, Waresix, Ofload, Evermos, Hypefast, Medici and many more. He loves getting deeply involved with founders to help identify and collaborate on key accelerants for growth, business building and organization development. Prior to Jungle, Yash was a venture investor at the Venture Capital team for IFC (International Finance Corporation), the private investment arm of the World Bank, from 2014 to 2016. Also, prior to his venture investing journey, Yash worked in investment banking at O3 Capital focused on capital raising and M&A for technology companies.

Yash holds an MBA from FMS Delhi, and a Bachelors of Engineering from BITS Pilani.

Jenny Lee Senior Managing Partner GRANITE ASIA

Jenny Lee, is a senior managing partner at Granite Asia. She leads global investor relations and strategy, and was instrumental in setting up GGV’s first China office in 2005 and re-opening the Singapore office in 2019.A self-starter, an investor and an entrepreneur, Jenny spent the last 23 years overseas and is frequently the first to invest in new innovative applications and products. She is best known for investments in sectors like Edtech, Fintech, Food and Agritech, Metaverse, and Energy Sustainability and Automation Technologies. Her portfolio includes 21 companies valued at over $1 billion each. She has had nine IPOs in the last five years, including one in 2023 and two in 2021 across five different global exchanges, and numerous portfolio companies exits via M&A. 

Jenny’s global investment track record over two decades and early operation and finance work experience with Singapore Aerospace in Singapore; Morgan Stanley, and JAFCO Asia in Hong Kong enhanced her role as a preferred board member with deep domain expertise and global investment experience.Born and raised in Singapore, Jenny is highly respected in the Asia business community and serves as a board member of Temasek and SATS Ltd (SGX: S58). She serves on the governing boards of both Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Duke-NUS Medical School. In addition, she is a member of Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC), chaired by Singapore’s Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong, as well as a member of the Asia Business Council, and Future Economy Advisory Panel chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Mr Heng Swee Keat.

Jenny 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. She was also recognised by Forbes as one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in 2023 and 2022 and in 2019 was named to the Forbes Asia Power Businesswomen 25 list and received the Business Times’s Outstanding Overseas Executive Award. In 2016, she was named to the Vanity Fair New Establishment list, Fast Company Most Creative People in Business list, and is consistently recognised by The New York Times and CB Insights among the top 100 venture capital investors worldwide, ranking #8 among top venture capitalists in Asia.Jenny graduated from Cornell University with an M.S. and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Adrian Li Founder & Managing Partner AC VENTURES

Adrian is Founder & Managing Partner at AC Ventures, formerly Convergence Ventures. ACV is an early stage Indonesia focused technology venture capital fund. ACV managed 3 funds with a portfolio of over 80 businesses. Notable investments include, Payfazz, Koinworks, Julo, Carsome and M17.

Previously, he co-founded several ventures in China and Indonesia. Adrian’s 1st Internet venture was Idapted where as CEO & cofounder he raised 2 rounds of venture financing and led the company to be the largest live 1:1 online English test preparation service in China. Idapted was acquired by Eleutian in 2011. He then joined Rocket Internet as a Managing Director where he worked on new technology ventures in China and South East Asia. At the end of 2014 he launched Convergence Ventures.

Adrian is also involved in non-profit work. He founded and chairs a UK Charity called CNYTrust, which supports children in rural China continue schooling. He is a business mentor at several organisations including Endeavour, Founders Institute and Antler. He has served on the board of Entrepreneurs Organisation is several roles including Beijing Chapter President and Regional Communications Director. He is also a member of Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) in Indonesia.

Sang Han Partner EAST VENTURES

Sang Han is Partner at East Ventures. Sang has served 20 years in various roles within venture capital and technology investments, comprising direct investments, fund-of-fund investments, fund marketing, corporate synergies, incubation & business building at various regional venture capital firms and venture builders organized by leading research institutions, such as Temasek Life Sciences, covering Southeast Asia, Korea, and the US.

Until 2023, Sang served in critical roles at various industry associations, such as a member of the venture capital committee of SVCA (Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association), chairperson of the start-up subcommittee of KOCHAM (Korea Chamber of Commerce in Singapore), and as member of the Seoul Global Investment Promotion Board of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, among other appointments.

He received a BSc in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University and an MBA from INSEAD and has lived in Korea, Singapore, China, Germany, Austria, and France.