Julie Garside is a M&A tax partner at KPMG Singapore with over 20 years’ experience in advising private equity clients on tax aspects of acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations and refinancings including capital markets transactions. 

Prior to her role at KPMG Singapore, Julie was a M&A tax partner based in London working with a number of US and European private equity investors on large and complex cross-border transactions.

Mr. Edwin Fua is a Senior Partner of Navis based in Malaysia and an Investment Committee member. Mr. Fua joined Navis in 2006 and he is focused on deal origination and transactions in Malaysia, Indonesia and increasingly, in Philippines. He has been involved in evaluating investments across South East Asia including in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India and Australia. His investment experience spans across the consumer, retail, medical, manufacturing, education and the retirement sectors. He also sits on and works closely with the Board of Directors and Executive Committees of several Navis portfolio companies in Malaysia and Australia.

Prior to joining Navis, Mr. Fua was involved in investment research, financial analysis and auditing in JP Morgan and in PwC. Mr. Fua was raised in Malaysia and educated in Malaysia and Australia.

He holds Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance) from Monash University, is a qualified accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder from 2009 to 2013.

Shane Chesson is Founder and Partner of Openspace Ventures (formerly NSI Ventures), a Singapore-headquartered VC focused on Series A and B investments in Southeast Asia-based technology companies. Selected Openspace investments overseen by Mr. Chesson include Go-Jek, Chope, Tradegecko, CXA, Topica, Oway, HaloDoc, Sale Stock and Pathao. Mr. Chesson was previously Managing Director and Co-Head (Technology Investment Banking, of Citigroup Asia-Pacific.

Mr. Chesson has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD Singapore where he was a recipient of the IAA Asian Campus scholarship.

Mervin has almost two decades of private equity, alternatives and management consulting experience. Mervin joined Fullerton in 2022 and is responsible for deal sourcing, execution and portfolio company management for the Fullerton Carbon Action Fund, a US$400m Asia focused decarbonization private equity fund launched in 2024.

Mervin was previously a founding member of Quadria Capital, one of Asia’s largest private equity firms with over US$3.4 billion in assets under management, where he spent the last 10 years driving its Southeast Asia business. He was also a founding executive committee member of Investors for Health (i4H). Prior to that, he spent over 4 years across alternative investments and management consulting at Mizuho and PwC, respectively. He holds a Master of Science in Applied Finance from Singapore Management University, Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and completed the Mini MD executive education program at ESSEC Business School.

Jannie Tsuei is a Partner in the Singapore office with a decade of transaction experience in Southeast Asia.  Prior to joining us, she led Southeast Asia healthcare investment banking at Morgan Stanley, where she drove healthcare coverage, origination, and execution efforts in the region.  She also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Southeast Asia investment banking at Morgan Stanley from 2018 to 2020. Jannie has been integrally involved in c. US$70Bn of strategic and capital transactions across North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

Previously, Jannie worked at Sears Holdings Corporation in a general management rotational program. 

Jannie holds an A.B. in literature (magna cum laude) from Harvard College and holds an MBA in Finance (cum laude) from The Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania.