Mr Abhishek Bakshi is the Senior Vice President of Global Issuer Services at HKEX. He joined the exchange in July 2022 and is responsible for leading corporate client engagement for HKEX across ASEAN region. He brings over sixteen years of Investment Banking experience, with ABN AMRO, Royal Bank of Scotland (Natwest Group), CIMB and Maybank.

 Over the past decade, Abhishek has been based in Singapore covering ASEAN Equity Capital Markets and in his last role before joining HKEX, Abhishek was a Director, responsible for leading coverage of the ASEAN (ex-Malaysia) Equity Capital Markets business for Maybank. His diverse experience includes client coverage, equity origination, execution and distribution responsibilities across Asia.

Abhishek has an MBA in Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and spent eight years in Hong Kong before relocating to Singapore.

Amit is the Managing Partner at Growtheum Capital Partners. Previously, Amit was the Managing Director and Head of Direct Investment Group, Southeast Asia, at GIC where he led private equity investments in Southeast Asia. Amit was also an Investment Committee Member at GIC's Private Equity group and co-led the ASEAN Business Group. Prior to GIC, he was in the Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York and Singapore. 

Anirban Bhattacharya is a Partner at the Firm and specialises in private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures in private as well as public market deals.

Anirban has advised foreign and Indian clients on domestic and cross-border transactions and acquisitions, including mergers, buyouts, open offers, public market transactions, direct sales and secondary equity acquisitions.

Anirban has been recognised among the Top 40 Under 40 lawyers by BW Legal World and was also named among the Top 100 Individual Lawyers in the Forbes India Legal Powerlist, 2022.

Aravind Krishnan is a Managing Director in the Private Equity Group based in Singapore and leads the Private Equity business in Southeast Asia. Before moving to Singapore, Mr. Krishnan was based in Mumbai. Since joining Blackstone in 2013, Mr. Krishnan has been involved in the execution of Blackstone’s investments in TaskUs, Aakash Education, Simplilearn, Xpressbees, Blue Yonder, and International Tractors.

Before joining Blackstone in 2013, Mr. Krishnan worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Krishnan received a Bachelor and Masters in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He currently serves on the boards of Simplilearn and Xpressbees.

Principal, joined CVC in 2014. Atiff is a Partner of the Operations team and is based in Singapore. Prior to joining CVC, he worked as CEO of Lacoste (China) based in Shanghai. Atiff holds a BSc degree from London University and is a postgraduate from Oxford University.

Bhavik Vashi is the Managing Director for Asia Pacific & Middle East at Carta. Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Carta manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally and is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more.

Prior to this, Bhavik was Area Vice President & General Manager for Asia at Anaplan, a global cloud-based planning software company that empowers customers to be agile and resilient to change, and make better, faster decisions by enabling connecting planning across the enterprise. Bhavik was an early employee at Anaplan and spent nearly a decade there, serving in various different GTM roles in both the AMER and APAC regions. He helped build and scale the company from a disruptive start-up with ~80 employees and

Bhavik is passionate about supporting the startup ecosystem, and is an active angel investor and advisor to startups globally. He has also previously been interviewed on numerous podcasts and Singapore radio stations, such as MoneyFM, and has spoken at a range of events within the tech and finance space, including the Future of Finance Summit.

Managing Partner, joined CVC in 2006. Based in Singapore, Brian is Co-Head of the Asia Executive Committee, Co-Head of Southeast Asia and he also leads our Asia Financial Services team. Prior to joining CVC, Brian spent nine years working in J.P. Morgan's M&A department in New York, Hong Kong and Korea offices, advising on a wide range of M&A and corporate finance transactions. Brian holds a BA degree in Business Economics and Political Science from Brown University, US.

Colin Dunne is a Partner based in the Singapore office. He leads the Singapore team in making, monitoring and exiting investments and sits on the Boards of Directors and Executive Committees of several Navis portolio companies. Colin is also a member of the Navis investment commitee.

Prior to joining Navis, Colin was an investment professional at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career, he worked in investment banking and in operations as an engineer. Colin graduated from University of Galway with a Bachelor of Engineering and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

 Mr Danny Wong is the Head of Investment Group at Seviora Capital where he leads the Pavilion Capital private equity platform. In this role, Danny oversees its investment activities, portfolio construction, and broader platform initiatives. Danny joined Seviora Capital in 2026 through the amalgamation of Pavilion Capital into Seviora Capital. At Pavilion Capital, Danny was its Head of Investment Group.

Danny brings over 30 years of experience spanning both the buyside and sellside across Asia and global markets. He spent more than a decade based in Hong Kong, where he led and built the Asian investment banking franchises at Jefferies and Macquarie.

Prior to joining Pavilion Capital, he was Asia Head of Equity Capital Markets and Head of Industrials Investment Banking at Jefferies. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Macquarie, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse.

 Danny holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Accounting (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.

David has spent more than a decade working closely with VC/PE funds and high-growth technology companies on a variety of matters, including cross-border equity and debt financings, buy-side and sell-side acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, board fiduciary matters and general corporate governance. During this time, David has advised on hundreds of successful venture, growth and private equity transactions and has led negotiations involving investors and management teams based in the US, India, China, the Middle East, Africa, the UK/European Union, Australia and all across Southeast Asia.

David was recognized by The Legal 500 as a “Next Generation Partner” in the Startup and Venture Capital – Foreign Firms in Singapore category. He is recognized by Chambers and Partners and was named on the India Business Law Journal’s A-List as one of the top 100 India-focused lawyers at international law firms. David also was named on Asian Legal Business’ list of Asia’s 40 Under 40 Lawyers for 2022, which recognizes the top young lawyers from international and domestic firms across Greater China, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and India. 

Before joining Cooley, David was a partner at another US-based international law firm and previously practiced at firms in Silicon Valley and New York. David received his JD from Columbia Law School, where he served as the chief articles editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. He received his BS in applied economics and management from Cornell University.

David is a native English speaker and fluent in Mandarin. He is a member of the State Bars of California and New York.

David Markson is a senior managing director in Evercore’s Private Capital Advisory group, where he advises limited partners on secondary market liquidity transactions. He focuses on strategic sales and structured liquidity alternatives, providing tailored execution services to institutional investors.

Mr. Markson maintains deep relationships with institutional investors globally and works closely with leading US university endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, public and private pension funds, insurance companies, financial institutions, family offices and other owners of private financial assets. Over his career, Mr. Markson has led more than 250 sell-side LP mandates totaling over $60 billion in aggregate transaction volume.

Prior to joining Evercore in 2021, Mr. Markson worked at Triago since 2009, where he served as head of the secondary advisory group in North America and co-head of the New York office. In that role, he provided strategic advice and executed liquidity solutions for institutional investors in the secondary market.

Mr. Markson holds a Master in Management from ESSEC Business School in Paris and studied at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Desmond Lee is a Partner of TPG NewQuest, based in Singapore leading the platform’s business in Southeast Asia and Australia. With more than 20 years of private equity experience in the Asia Pacific region, Desmond joined TPG NewQuest in 2015 and prior to that was a Managing Director of Fosun, where he led the Southeast Asia investment team. Desmond’s private equity experience also includes prior roles with Morgan Stanley and Arctic Capital in Hong Kong, and CIMB Private Equity and Navis Capital Partners in Malaysia. Desmond started his career as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen in Malaysia. Desmond is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sheffield, England.

Doug Coulter joined LGT Capital Partners in 2007 to lead its Asia-Pacific private equity investment activities. Prior to LGT, Doug was a Senior Investment Officer at the IFC, the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, responsible for direct investments in the TMT, retail & consumer and healthcare sectors. He previously worked at Nomura Securities in Hong Kong and as a lawyer at Fasken in Toronto. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a M.Sc. from the LSE, a law degree from the University of Western Ontario and a B.A. from Queen’s University in Canada.

LGT Capital Partners is a leading alternative investment specialist with over USD 100 billion in assets under management and over 800 private equity professionals worldwide. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, the firm has offices in New York, Dublin, London, Paris, Frankurt, Vaduz, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney. LGT Capital Partners was selected as Alternatives Manager of the Year in Asia in 2016 and 2017 and Alternatives Fund House of the Year in 2018 by AsianInvestor, was named Fund of Funds of the year in Asia in 2018 and 2019 by Private Equity International, and was named Alternatives House of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024 by Asia Asset Management.

Elwin is a Managing Director at La Caisse in the Private Equity team, focusing on leading direct and co-investments in Japan, Korea and South East Asia. Prior to joining La Caisse in 2018, Elwin had spent over 13 years at GIC’s Private Equity team, where he had taken various roles, including being a Vice President in the Europe direct investment team between 2011 and 2015, in the South East Asia direct investment team between 2015 and 2016 as well as in the Asia funds and co-investment team between 2017 and 2018. He holds a BSc (Engineering) in Computer Science and a BSc (Economics) in Finance, both from the University of Pennsylvania, US.

Eric Tam is a Managing Director, having joined Strategic Partners in 2016. Mr. Tam leads the international activities of Strategic Partners’ Real Estate funds and is responsible for establishing and leading Strategic Partners in Asia across all strategies. Mr. Tam sits on Strategic Partners’ Real Estate Investment Committee and is an advisory board member of multiple funds. Mr. Tam is based in Singapore after previously spending seven years in Strategic Partners’ London office.

Prior to joining Strategic Partners, Mr. Tam was a Vice President at H/2 Capital Partners, where he focused on commercial real estate credit investments and capital markets activities. Before joining H/2, Mr. Tam worked at Morgan Stanley for the Real Estate Investment group, focused on acquisitions. Prior to that, Mr. Tam was a Manager at Accenture in their Financial Services practice, specializing in mortgage banking strategy.

Mr. Tam received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Mr. Tam serves on the development board of Place2Be, a UK-based children’s and young people’s mental health charity. 

Gaurav Ahuja is a Senior Partner at ChrysCapital and has been with the firm since 2004. He is responsible for the LP Relations and Fundraising functions at ChrysCapital. Mr. Ahuja is a member of the Investment Committee and until recently was part of ChrysCapital’s Business Services investment team. Prior to joining ChrysCapital, he was in the M&A group at Lazard Freres in San Francisco and Merrill Lynch in New York. Mr. Ahuja received an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Virginia.

Geetali leads IFC’s equity investments in early to growth stage technology businesses as well as VC Funds across emerging markets in Asia. She also represents IFC on the boards and LP advisory committees of these companies and funds. 

Prior to joining IFC, Geetali spent 15 years as an investment professional with leading private equity and venture capital funds including Actis Capital, Leapfrog Investments, DEG (German DFI) and Bamboo Capital Partners. She was primarily focused on early and growth stage investments in consumer, technology, financial services and healthcare sectors. She began her career in investment banking at Citigroup. 

Geetali holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore (Dean’s List) and Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Mumbai (Honors).

Imran is a Managing Partner at Gaja Capital. He is responsible for investing activities, operations and team development. At Gaja Capital, Imran leads investments in the Education, Software and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja Capital’s investments in Amber Student (Global marketplace for student accommodation), Signzy (SaaS platform for BFSI), LeadSquared (Sales automation SaaS platform), Ei (B2B Learning Software), Sportz Village (Youth Sports), Lighthouse Learning (Pre-K and K-12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev) and CL Educate (Supplemental Education.

He holds a master’s of science degree in software engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan and has completed a post-graduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Karnataka. He has over 26 years of experience in various industries which includes 19 years of experience in private equity.

Isabella Xue is the Business Development Director at Apex Group Ltd, where she leads strategic growth initiatives for fund administration and corporate solutions across the APAC alternative investment ecosystem. A top revenue performer, she has assisted an institutional portfolio representing more than $6Bn in AuM, with deep expertise across Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Debt and Infrastructure.

Recognized as a high potential female professional, Isabella was selected for the Apex Global Women’s Accelerator Program (Top 10%) and is known for building high impact strategic alliances, including prior collaboration with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) in her previous role. She holds certifications in Private Equity Economics from the ILPA Institute and Fundamentals of Alternative Investments from CAIA. Isabella is fluent in English, Chinese, and proficient in Japanese.

Jacqueline Zhuang (Singapore) joined KKR in 2021 and is a Managing Director in Global Client Solutions. She is Head of Global Wealth Solutions Asia Pacific ex-Japan and works with private banks, wealth management platforms and family offices to deliver KKR’s investment solutions to their advisors and clients. Ms. Zhuang joined from Credit Suisse Private Banking, where she led the investment advisory efforts for managed solutions in South Asia. Prior to Credit Suisse, she spent thirteen years at Morgan Stanley Asia Private Wealth Management in various roles. She was head of alternative investments for the Asia Pacific region and a portfolio manager. Ms. Zhuang started her career at Goldman Sachs. She holds a Bachelor of Business Management with Honours (majors in Finance and Law) from Singapore Management University.

James Posnett is General Manager, Listings at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Sydney.  He has over 20 years’ experience in capital markets in Australia, Europe, and the US. 

Since joining ASX in 2012 he has been responsible for the development of the listings and capital raising business.  He oversees both new listings and listed company services.  In this role he works with prospective and existing issuers, private and public market investors, asset owners, and financial intermediaries.  James was formerly Managing Director, International Listings at New York Stock Exchange and Euronext (NYSE Euronext).  He has also worked for BNP Paribas Equities.  James holds a BSc (Hons) from Loughborough University and an MBA from the University of Adelaide.

Jenny Lee is a senior managing partner at Granite Asia and has been with the firm senior leadership since 2005. 

Jenny brings decades of experience investing in innovation and technology across Asia and globally, with a proven track record of translating capital into real economic impact. At Granite Asia, she has led the firm through a significant evolution — from a venture capital specialist into a multi-asset investment platform spanning private credit and growth equity. 

A self-starter, an investor and an entrepreneur, she has been instrumental in backing technology-enabled businesses that drive productivity, digitization, and new innovative consumer applications and products. Connecting businesses and founders across markets, industries and applications with technology innovation, she is best known for investments in sectors like Consumer Tech, Food and Agritech, Energy Sustainability and Automation Technologies. Her portfolio includes 21 companies valued at over $1 billion each. She has had 18 IPOs up to date, including 5 recent IPOs since 2021, across 5 different global exchanges, and numerous portfolio company 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 since 2022. She also serves on the governing board of Duke-NUS Medical School. In addition, she is also a member of Singapore’s RIEC; Singapore Business Federation; Asia Business Council; and the International Advisory Council of Edmond de Rothschild. 

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 the past 3 years (2022-2024). In 2019, Jenny 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. 

Jessica leads our growth strategy, Openspace Growth, and is based in Singapore. She is a member of the Openspace Growth Investment Committee, our Executive Committee and chairs our ESG committee.

Previously, she headed Corporate Strategy & Business Development, APAC & the Middle East, at The Walt Disney Company. Prior to that, she led the investment team for Providence Equity Partners in Southeast Asia and worked in Investment Banking at Citigroup.

Jessica is a member of the Global Tech Council for the Global Private Capital Association (GPCA), Co-chairs the Singapore chapter of PEWIN and was a member of the Milken Institute’s Young Leaders Circle.

She holds a Bachelor's of Arts in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University.

  Mr Koh Jin Hoe is Executive Director and Head of Capital Markets in Global Sales and Origination at SGX Group. He is responsible for capital market deals origination as well as business and relationship management with senior clients.  

Jin Hoe joined SGX Group in June 2022. Prior to that, he spent 24 years in various senior roles in the Singapore Public Service. He was last Senior Vice President and Head, Asia Pacific and Greater China at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).  In that role, he was responsible for formulating policies, developing strategies and executing the operational plans to attract Asian conglomerates and Asian enterprises to Singapore. 

Jin Hoe joined EDB in June 1998 and has held various portfolios within EDB, ranging from manpower capabilities and industry development to global operations with overseas stints in Stockholm and Shanghai. He was also Director of Contact Singapore from 2011 to 2016, where he was responsible for the investor permanent resident (PR) scheme - Global Investor Programme (GIP). 

Jin Hoe graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Engineering degree.  He was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in August 2017 and the Long Service Medal in August 2021.

Jun Tsusaka is CEO, CIO and Chairperson of the ESG Committee of Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko Ltd. (NSSK), an investment firm established in 2014 and focused on Japan’ s middle market. NSSK currently manages five investment funds (including its flagship fund and regional impact funds) on behalf of Japanese and international government and private sector pension plans, institutional investors, endowments and family offices.

Prior to Founding NSSK, from 2006, Jun Tsusaka was a Global Partner, Investment Committee Member and Partner Selection Committee Member for TPG Capital and was responsible for establishing and building up the Japan investment and operating team, which make up the core of NSSK today.

Jun Tsusaka is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and has an Advanced Management Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from MIT. He is a former Business Trustee of Japan’s Bankruptcy Court, is a member of the Keizai Doyukai and Seiwajuku and the President of the Harvard Club of Japan.

Kyle is the Founder and Managing Partner of ShawKwei & Partners, a private equity investment firm established in 1998.   ShawKwei & Partners has offices in Singapore, San Francisco and Shanghai managing investments in Asia, Europe, and the USA.   Kyle’s private equity experience before ShawKwei & Partners included managing Asian private equity businesses for Security Pacific National Bank (Hong Kong) and then the Tudor Group (Shanghai) as well as in the energy industry with Union Texas Petroleum (Houston), Tidewater (Louisiana & Singapore) and McDermott (Indonesia).  Kyle has served as a director of several Asian and European industrial and service companies including as founder and director of Flex Ltd. (formerly known as Flextronics International Ltd).

Kyle received an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, a BS in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, as well as studied Mandarin Chinese at Taiwan’s National Normal University.

 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 related control buyouts in the mature industrial and technology, consumer related and business services sectors. The Firm manages four Funds which have accumulated approximately US$2.7 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 investment sourcing and execution, and building the firm's global capital base and networks. 

Before co-founding Longreach, Mark served as Chief Executive Officer of UBS Securities Japan, Member of the Global Investment Banking Management Committee and 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 these roles, Mark headed the UBS Asia-Pacific Financial Institutions Group. 

Mark is an Australian citizen, resident in Hong Kong. He holds First Class Honours Bachelors degrees in Economics (University of Melbourne) and Law (University of Sydney). Mark is a Rhodes Scholar with a Masters degree in International Relations (with Distinction) from Oxford University.

Neil joined IQ-EQ in November 2017, bringing a wealth of experience and expertise in the financial services sector. As the Regional Chief Commercial Officer for APAC, Neil plays a pivotal role in shaping and executing the region's commercial and segment strategy. His responsibilities include devising growth plans, go-to-market approaches, and cultivating a unified commercial and sales culture across Asia.

In addition to his strategic role, Neil serves as a key client relationship manager, overseeing a dedicated portfolio of Real Estate and Private Equity clients. In 2020, recognising the burgeoning demand for real estate funds and investment vehicles in the Asia-Pacific region, Neil made the strategic move to Singapore. This further solidified IQ-EQ's support for existing real estate clients and enhanced the company's presence in the region.

Neil has an impressive track record of over 15 years, marked by international experience and a deep understanding of a diverse range of fund clients and asset classes. His commitment to excellence extends beyond IQ-EQ. Neil serves on the executive committee of the Singapore Fund Administration Association, contributes to various committees of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and Luxembourg Private Equity Association (LPEA), and serves as a voting member for Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV).

At Navis, Mr Bloy leads investment teams in making, monitoring and exiting investments, sits on Navis’ Investment Committee and sits on the boards and/or executive committees of several Navis portfolio companies. Prior to co-founding Navis, Mr Bloy worked at Boston Consulting Group in Asia from 1989 to 1999 after spending 3 years with Bain & Co. In London. He holds a BA Hons degree from University College, London and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Nicholas Macksey is a Partner at EQT, Deputy Co-Head of Private Capital Asia and Head of MidMarket Growth within the EQT Private Capital Asia team. He is a member of both the Investment Committee and the Exit & Liquidity Committee, playing a key role in investment selection, portfolio value creation and realisation strategy across the region.

 With nearly two decades of private equity experience in Asia Pacific, Nicholas has deep expertise in partnering with founder- and management-led businesses to scale regional champions into global leaders. His sector focus spans education, technology, information services, professional services and tech-enabled business services. 

Nicholas has served as Deal Partner on a number of leading investments, including Nord Anglia Education, Clarivate Analytics, Vistra, PageUp, Quantios, Compass Education and PropertyMe. Across these investments, he has supported international expansion, digital transformation, M&Adriven growth and strategic exits to global strategic and financial buyers. 

Nicholas joined BPEA in 2006, which combined with EQT in 2022 to form BPEA EQT (now EQT Private Capital Asia). Prior to that, he worked at Westpac Institutional Bank and began his career at Deloitte. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland and is a CFA charterholder.

Omar is the Managing Director and Country Head for the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand at Creador. 

He sits on the boards of Dali, Asialink and Angkas in the Philippines.

He specializes in identifying investment opportunities and expanding Creador's presence across Southeast Asia. With 15 years of experience at HSBC, including roles in global banking and specialized finance, Omar brings a wealth of international expertise from roles across Europe and Asia. He is a qualified barrister, holding degrees in Law and Finance.

He is also responsible for fundraising at Creador and managing the firms’ new investors.

Pavan has over 20 years experience in finance and banking starting his career in Australia working as a lawyer. He then moved to New York to take up a number of roles at Citigroup, including Investment banking and working on their Private Equity Fund of Funds. He then returned to Australia in 2011 to work for Quentin Ayers, one of Australia’s premier alternative asset consultants, where he advised Australian Superannuation funds on their private equity, credit and infrastructure portfolios. In 2016 he moved to Singapore to join a new family office, Golden Alpha, where he is currently leading the private market investments globally. 

Prashant Kumar (Singapore) joined KKR in 2018 and is a Partner. He is the head of the Southeast Asia Private Equity team. Mr. Kumar has led a number of the firm’s investments, including Ascend Asia, Mat Sai Gon Vietnam, Max Healthcare, JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Vini Cosmetics, and Advanta India. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Kumar was a director and member of the investment committee at ChrysCapital, a leading India-focused private equity fund. Previously, he was with Warburg Pincus where led investments in various sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Kumar worked at Karsch Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund, and SUN Capital, an emerging markets focused private equity firm. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Kumar holds a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rahul Bhargava joined Advantage Partners and assumed the role of Head of Asia in December 2022. Prior to joining Advantage Partners, he spent over 2 years as Head of Southeast Asia at ADV Partners, and 5 years as a Director at KKR & Co.  He has invested across multiple verticals in the alternative investments space including buyouts, growth minority investing and special situations. Rahul started his career at Henderson Global Investors as a founding member of the pan-Asian equity team, where he spent 12 years, with his last role being head of the Singapore office. Rahul is a CFA Charterholder, earned his MBA from the AGSM at the University of New South Wales and graduated from the University of Calcutta with a BSc in Economics. He is an Indian national and a permanent resident of Singapore.

Ravi Jeyaraj joined Ontario Teachers' in 2024 and is part of the senior team leading investing activities in the Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Ontario Teachers', Ravi had over 15 years investing experience in the Australian, New Zealand and Southeast Asian markets. Before his investing career, Ravi was a management consultant

Rishi is a Portfolio Manager in Aware Super’s Private Equity team covering primary and co-investment activity. 

Prior to Aware Super, Rishi worked in the Private Equity team at the Future Fund, and at KPMG in the Mergers and Acquisition team. 

He holds a Bachelor of Laws and Commerce and a Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accounting.

Ruoyu Han is a Director at Japan Post Bank Asset Management (formerly Japan Post Investment Corporation), where he is involved in the Asia private equity fund investment advisory program while on secondment from Japan Post Bank. He has prior experience in Asia private equity fund investments at Japan Post Bank. Earlier in his career, he worked at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank in Tokyo and New York, covering private equity and private debt fund investments, structured finance, and corporate finance.

He holds an M.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Waseda University, Japan.

Sakshi Mehra is a Partner heading the General Corporate, Transactional and Banking & Finance practice of the Kolkata office of SAM & Co. 

Sakshi specializes in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, financing and other strategic transactions. Over her 18 years of private practice experience, she has advised several national and multi-national clients on a broad range of legal issues including general corporate and commercial law matters, foreign investment and entry strategies, securities and takeover laws, joint venture formation, share and asset acquisitions and dispositions and regulatory issues. Ms. Mehra has represented various foreign and Indian corporates across diverse industry sectors. This includes advising strategic and financial investors, Indian promoters and foreign entities interested in establishing collaborations or a foothold in India. 

She was recognised among 40 under 40 Rising Stars by Legal Era, 2020. She was among Top 10 Global Deal Makers in terms of deal volume on Mergermarket annual Individual league table with 26 deals to her credit in 2020. She was also featured in the Top 100 Individual Lawyers in the Forbes Legal Powerlist, 2022.

She has particular experience in financing transactions and has advised banks/financial institutions on general lending, corporate finance, project finance transactions and external commercial borrowings.

Before permanently shifting to Kolkata from Mumbai and joining the Firm in mid-2012, Sakshi has worked at Desai & Diwanji, Mumbai for 10 years. Sakshi received her LL.B from Government Law College, University of Mumbai and is also a Solicitor registered with the Bombay Incorporated Law Society.

Since July 2019, he has served as a Vice Chairman of CT Bright Holdings, a wholly owned investment subsidiary of C.P. Group, where he coordinates investment activities and strategic partnerships for the Chairman’s office across C.P. Group companies. He has also served as a Senior Advisor to C.P. Group Chairman Soopakij Chearavanont since July 2018.   From June 2017 to June 2018, he was managing partner of R3 Capital Partners. From September 2011 to May 2017, Mr. Glodek was a Deputy CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and a Director of the Russia China Investment Fund (RCIF), where he coordinated investment activity and a number of key strategic partnerships with Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds across the world to invest in Russia and selectively in China.   Prior to RDIF, Mr. Glodek was based in Warsaw, Poland where he led a regional office of Darby Private Equity, a wholly owned private markets investment arm of Franklin Templeton and in Germany where he co-founded surplex.com, an industrial equipment internet trading platform. Earlier in his career, Mr. Glodek worked at a private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in both New York and London and as an M&A investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in New York. Mr. Glodek received a B.A. in Economics with Honors from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

SJ Lim (Singapore) joined KKR in 2019 and is the Head and Portfolio Manager of Asia Private Credit. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Lim spent 13 years at Credit Suisse where he was responsible for the private financing business in Southeast Asia, India and Australia, which spanned corporate loans, leveraged finance, structure credit and share financing for corporates and ultra high net worth counterparties. Mr. Lim holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a first class honors in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Sueann Yeo is a Managing Director and Head of Asia-Pacific Private Wealth Client Relations and Capital Raising, based in Singapore. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Sueann was an Executive Director and Head of Alternative Investments (Southeast Asia) at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Sueann received a BBM with a major in Finance from Singapore Management University. She is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charter holder.
 

Sunil leads the Primary Investment Team’s practice in Asia and specializes in fund selection, due diligence, negotiations, and monitoring of Asian investments ex-China, specifically in India, Australia, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Korea. He also actively participates in all fund investment decisions and is involved in the sourcing, screening, execution, monitoring, and exiting of growth and buyout co-investments.

Prior to joining Adams Street, Sunil worked for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore performing financial and business analyses of local and regional companies. Previously, he worked in India as an Investment and Strategy Associate in Tacogroup, the automotive technology and engineering investment arm of the Tata Group of India, where he worked on business planning, feasibility studies, and localization plans for new ventures. 

Sunil manages relationships with several of Adams Street’s managers and sits on advisory boards of more than a dozen private equity firms within the Adams Street Partners portfolio. He is currently Chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) and has been a member of the SVCA Board since 2016.

He is a member of Adams Street’s Impact Investment Committee.

Thomas is Managing Partner and Head of Southeast Asia at CDH Investments, a leading alternative asset manager in Asia. Based in Singapore, Dr. Lanyi and his team pursue structured investment opportunities across all major markets in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Vietnam, covering a broad range of sectors, transaction types and stages. Dr. Lanyi also co-leads CDH’s global China cross-border practice.  

 Dr. Lanyi has worked in Private Equity in Asia since the late 1990s. Prior to joining CDH in 2012, he held senior management roles at Mekong Capital in Vietnam and Templeton Private Equity in Singapore. 

Dr. Lanyi earned a Doctorate with distinction in Capital Markets Theory & Econometrics from the Vienna University of Economics and obtained a CEMS Masters degree in International Management from HEC Paris. 

 He has been actively involved with developing the regional alternative assets management industry and community, chairing the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) between 2017 and 2021. Dr. Lanyi makes an impact by serving on a number of corporate and charitable boards such as the German European School of Singapore, and he acts as an advisor to the Vietnam Private Capital Association (VPCA).

Tim Burroughs is managing editor of Asian Venture Capital Journal, having joined the publication in May 2011. He is responsible for all editorial content put out under the AVCJ brand, including Asian Venture Capital Journal, AVCJtv, AVCJ Awards and AVCJ.com. Tim previously spent five years at China Economic Review, serving as editor-in-chief and then editorial director. Located in Greater China since 2003, during which time he has lived in Beijing, Qingdao and Hong Kong, Tim has been a China-based contributor for publications including The Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, BBC and China Daily. Prior to moving to China, he trained and worked as a journalist in the UK. He was honored at the Society of Publishers in Asia awards in 2007, 2008 and 2010, and at the State Street Institutional Press Awards - Asia in 2012.

Mr. Kumaraswamy is a Partner at L Catterton based in India. He joined L Catterton in 2025 following around 27 years at Unilever PLC Group, where he held various roles culminating with him being the Group’s Global Head of Corporate Development and Treasury, leading its strategic capital allocation and portfolio development initiatives, as well as spearheading deal sourcing and execution. Other roles Mr. Kumaraswamy held at the Group over the years span several business segments, functions, and geographies in strategic oversight, financial leadership, and operational transformation capacities.

He is a Non-Executive Director at Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. 

Wee Yang is a Managing Director at HSBC’s Capital Markets and Advisory business based in Singapore, where he leads the Financial Sponsors Group for Southeast Asia. With 19 years of experience across Asia and Europe, he has built a strong track record advising private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and infrastructure investors on M&A, IPOs, and financing transactions. Since returning to Asia in 2019, he has played a key role in scaling HSBC’s sponsor franchise in Southeast Asia, and is known for his ability to originate, structure and execute high-impact transactions across a broad range of sectors. Wee Yang holds a First Class Honours degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Willson Cuaca is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at East Ventures, a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm in Southeast Asia. Willson transformed East Ventures into a multi-asset platform, managing multiple funds from seed to growth with over 300 portfolio companies across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia that is the firm’s central focus.

Under Willson’s leadership, East Ventures captured Indonesia’s early wave of digital transformation and is an early backer of some of the largest tech companies in Southeast Asia, such as Tokopedia, Traveloka, Ruangguru, waresix, Sociolla, ShopBack, Mighty Jaxx, Xendit, Fore Coffee, and IDN.

East Ventures was awarded The Most Consistent Top Performing GP Globally by Preqin; 1st Top Asia Investor and 4th Top Global Investor in 2022 by CB Insights; named The Most Active Investor in Southeast Asia and Indonesia; and listed as one of the top 10 global seed investors headquartered in Asia in the Crunchbase 2021 report.

In 2020, Willson was listed in Asia’s Top 100 People Transforming Business by Business Insider. Willson was also named Fortune Indonesia Businessperson of the Year 2022.

Winston is a Managing Director and Head of ASEAN at Affirma Capital. He currently manages a team of 6 investment professionals, covering Southeast Asia with permanent offices across Singapore and Indonesia. Winston currently sits on the boards of 8 of Affirma Capital’s ASEAN portfolio companies. He is a seasoned private equity investor and investment banker with almost 20 years of investing, transaction and strategic value creation experience.

Winston first joined Affirma Capital’s predecessor firm, Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) in 2015. Prior to SCPE, Winston was based in Deutsche Bank Australia’s Investment Banking Group and played a key part role in leading the Utilities and Infrastructure practice, where he advised, structured and executed over USD 60bn of M&A, equity, debt and structured solutions both within Australia and those with cross-border angles.

Winston holds a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, a Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace) / Bachelor of Business (Business Administration) from RMIT University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Xiang Li is a Principal in CPP Investments’ Credit Investments Department, based in Hong Kong. He focuses on sourcing, evaluating, and managing credit investments across the Asia Pacific region. He is a member of the APAC Credit Investment Committee.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2015, Xiang worked at the Investment Banking Department of UBS AG, servicing clients in the industrials sector in Asia. 

Xiang holds a Hon. Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto.

Yinglan Tan founded Insignia Venture Partners in 2017, an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia and has partnered with regional champions like Carro Payfazz, Cohive, Janio and Logivan amongst others. Prior to founding Insignia Venture Partners, Mr. Tan was Sequoia Capital’s first hire and Venture Partner in Southeast Asia. He sourced multiple investment opportunities for Sequoia including Tokopedia, Go-jek, Traveloka, Carousell and Appier (where he represented Sequoia on the board). He had also been a member of the elite Singapore Administrative Service, where he served in a variety of positions in the Prime Minister’s Office (where he was part of a team that managed a S$360 million fund for innovation and enterprise), Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Defence. He was also the founding Director of 3i Venturelab China, a jointventure between private equity firm 3i (LSE:III) and INSEAD.

Mr. Tan has been named as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012 – 2017), a WEF Technology Pioneer Selection Committee Panel (2015-2017), Eisenhower Fellow - Innovation Program (2018), Top “40 leaders under 40” by Prestige Magazine (2015), Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle (2016), one of 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium (2010), 100 Global Thinkers (2011) by think-tank Lo Spazio della Politica, a World Cities Summit Young Leader (2014), a WEF Global Agenda Council member on Fostering Entrepreneurship (2011-2013) and a Kauffman Fellow. He also serves on the

Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and the Committee on the Future Economy's Sub-Committee on Future Corporate Capabilities and Innovation. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. He is also a Strategic Research Innovation Fund Investment Committee Member at Nanyang Technology University, advisory board member at Duke University CE, author of 3 books - The Way Of the VC (Wiley, 2009), Chinnovation (Wiley 2010) and textbook New Venture Creation - An Asian Perspective (Mcgraw Hill 2011). He was educated at Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.