Mr Sean K.(Seung Kul) Lee is a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Public market Division at KIC. In this role, he oversees Equity investment & Strategy group, Global Equity Investment group, Quant Equity investment group and Fixed Income group, totaling over US $190billion of assets under management. He joined KIC in 2010 and held a variety of investment and strategic roles. His previous responsibilities in KIC include head of Alternative Investment division, head of Investment Strategy & Innovation Division and head of Real Estate Group.   

Mr. Lee has over 27 years of experience related to fixed income, asset allocation, infrastructure and real estate. Prior to joining KIC, he was head of product development team for IBK - Société Générale asset management where he initiated and launched various global products such as Market neutral strategy, India Infrastructure and Gold Mining equity fund. Previously he spent over 6 years in Investment Banking at Samsung Group.   

Mr. Lee earns Ph.D. in Seoul School of Integrated Science and Technology. He also holds LL.B. degree from Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, Master’s degree in finance from Michigan State University and Master’s degree in real estate from National University of Singapore. 

He is also a Member of Management Board at ANREV, and Advisory board member of MOEF, KAMCO, PMAA and KORAD.  

Ajay has overall responsibility for the Bonaccord business and is a member of Bonaccord’s investment committee.

‍Prior to forming Bonaccord, Ajay was a Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, where his activities focused on strategic development within alternatives. Previously, Ajay was a Managing Director and Head of Europe for Swiss Re’s Equity and Fund-Linked Group. Ajay spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley, where he held a variety of roles spanning Capital Markets and Investment Banking in both London and New York.  

‍Ajay earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Ben Hart is a senior managing director and head of Evercore’s Asia Private Capital Advisory division. He is based in Singapore.

Mr. Hart has more than 20 years of experience in private markets fundraising, institutional investor relations, capital formation and business development across the Asia-Pacific region. He previously served as partner and head of investor relations (Asia) at Adams Street Partners, where he led the firm’s business development and client-service efforts across institutional and private wealth channels.

Mr. Kim is the Head of Private Equity and Venture Capital at Hanwha Life Insurance, where he manages the PE/VC portfolio and leads investing in funds and co-investment opportunities. Before joining Hanwha in 2016, Mr. Kim worked at the Corporate and Investment Banking franchise of BNP Paribas Seoul Branch. He began his career in the Investment Banking Division at NH Investment & Securities. Mr. Kim holds a BA in Business Administration from Seoul National University.

Dongkun (DK) Cho is based in Singapore, joined Warburg Pincus in 2022, and is a Principal, focusing on investments activities in Korea across sectors in addition to real estate efforts in the country. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, DK worked for the M&A and real estate investment divisions of SK Inc. He is currently a Board Director of QUBE Industrial, QUBE Industrial AMC, Wide Creek Investments Ventures, DC Connects, and SK D&D Senior Housing. He received an MBA from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University and a BA in Business Administration from Sogang University.

EC Cho joined CVC in 2021. He is Co-Head of CVC South Korea team and based in Seoul.

Prior to joining, EC was a Director of the investment team at Hahn & Company. He also worked at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as an R&D Staff Member in the Therapeutic Antibody Group.

EC holds a master's degree in Materials Science & Engineering from MIT and a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.

Heeeun Park is a Partner at Altos Ventures. She has invested in more than 80 companies with a focus on Korea and throughout Japan and Southeast Asia. When Altos Ventures expanded its presence to Korea with its first Korea fund in 2014, Heeeun joined as the first member of the Korea team. She has played a key role and actively contributed to the growth and success of the firm's investments in Korea. Last year, Altos closed its sixth Korea fund with $600 million. Prior to Altos, Heeeun was the founder and CEO of an online dating app in Korea, where she grew the company from a business plan to the largest mobile dating service in Korea.

Hi Joo Hong (Seoul) joined KKR in 2022 as a member of the Private Equity team. Prior to joining KKR, she was a director at Unison Capital Korea, where she spent eight years building its Korea private equity business as one of early members. She was involved in a number of control and minority investments. Ms. Hong began her career in Goldman Sachs' investment banking division, where she spent four years in Seoul and Hong Kong. Subsequently, she worked at Samsung Cheil Industries (current Samsung C&T). Ms. Hong holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Jin is an Investing Partner at Goodwater Capital. He supports Goodwater’s global investment efforts, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region.

Jin was previously an executive at Toss, where he joined as an early employee. He helped the company raise capital from global investors and make critical acquisitions, propelling Toss to over $1B of revenue within four years. Toss today is the leading fintech platform in South Korea, serving over 40% of the population monthly.

Prior to joining Toss, Jin was a Principal at NamuCorp, a private equity firm focused on global buyouts of financial services companies. Jin started his career in investment banking at BMO Capital Markets and MergerTech Advisors, focusing on TMT.

Kevin is an Investment Managing Director based in the firm’s Hong Kong office.

Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2018, Kevin was an Associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, where he focused on M&A executions across the Asia Pacific region. Previously, he worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Strategic Analysis Group based in London.

Kevin has a BA in Business Administration in Sungkyunkwan University in Korea and an MBA from London Business School.

Kihong Bae is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Strong Ventures. He has invested in more than 300 Korean and Korean-American startups, with Strong serving as the very first institutional investor in 240 of them. He likes to make early bets on category leaders and has a deep respect for “cockroach” founders - entrepreneurs who refuse to die, always finding ways to survive and thrive. He strongly believes VCs should work as hard as the founders they back, and he leads by example, working seven days a week.

Loy Song is currently serving as the Head of the Private Market Investment Team at the Government Employees Pension Service (GEPS). At GEPS, he has played a pivotal role in spearheading the pension fund’s "first-ever" global private market investment mandates and pioneering its inaugural Sidecar program, significantly advancing the fund’s global asset allocation strategy. He successfully managed large-scale commitments and co-investments with world-renowned alternative asset managers, including Advent International, Apollo, EQT, Warburg Pincus, Bridgepoint, Triton Partners, and HGGC. His extensive institutional background also includes fixed income sales at Barclays Capital, alongside structured global cross-border investment experiences(inc. infrastructure and real estate) at domestic firms, including Meritz Securities and Korea Investment Management.  He started his career through prestigious early roles and internships at global investment banks and strategic consulting firms, including Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, UBS, McKinsey & Company, and Booz Allen Hamilton in 2006. 

He acts as the Korean Representative for the Korea Finance Society LP Council and represents GEPS on the Tax Consultation Committee in Korea. He completed military service as a Navy Interpreter for the Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command at its spokesman office from 2001 to 2003.

He earned a B.S. in Earth System Sciences from Yonsei 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.

Michael Chen is a partner and member of Investment Committee at Centurium Capital. Mr. Chen also serves as a Director of Luckin Coffee  (OTC: LKNCY) and Co-chairman of the company’s Sustainable Development Committee, and Chairman of ANE Logistics. Mr. Chen is an experienced private equity investor in China with a proven track record of successful investments. Prior to joining Centurium, he led Warburg Pincus’ consumer and services investments in China.  Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2011, Mr. Chen was a vice president in Crescent Point, a Pan-Asia growth capital fund. Before Crescent, Mr. Chen was an associate in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and a consultant with Accenture in China. He received a B.A. of economics from Fudan University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.

Mr. Chae is a Partner in the Capital Solutions team at L Catterton, based in Singapore. Prior to joining the firm, he was a Principal in Client Relations at IFC Asset Management Company, responsible for fundraising and investor engagement across alternative asset classes in the Asia-Pacific region.

Previously, Mr. Chae held senior roles in alternative investments at PineBridge Investments in Tokyo and Singapore. His prior experience includes leadership positions at Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Chase Manhattan Bank, across New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Mr. Chae graduated with honors from the University of Rochester with a BA in Economics and Japanese.

Michelle Cheh is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Hong Kong office, focusing on Private Funds and Funds Transactions. She has extensive experience in advising on both fund formation and secondary transactions in the Asia-Pacific region. She advises sponsors on the formation and structuring of private investment funds across numerous asset classes, including private equity, private credit and real estate. Her practice also focuses on GP-led and LP-led secondaries and liquidity solution transactions including continuation funds, LP portfolio sales, stapled secondary offerings, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and management team spin-outs.

Pamela is a partner and investment committee member for the Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions Team and has 20 years of industry experience. Prior to joining the firm, Pamela was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company's corporate finance practice in Hong Kong, responsible for investment opportunity identification, deal advisory, merger management and strategy development. Previously, she was a management consultant with Monitor Group, specializing in marketing strategy for clients across Asia, and a member of the corporate finance team with Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong. Pamela has a Law degree (first class honors) from the University of Hong Kong and an M.B.A. with honors in finance and management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Muse is one of two Managing Partners of Navis and an Investment Committee member. At Navis, Mr. Muse 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 been active in many of Navis’ investments in consumer goods, food, business services, industrial goods and services.

Mr. Muse co-founded Navis in 1998 with Mr. Bloy and Mr. Foyston, with whom he worked while at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). At BCG, he worked in Sydney and Kuala Lumpur, where he gained experience in a number of industries including consumer goods, retail, oil and gas, distribution, primary resources and more. He started his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1985 in New York and Hong Kong.

Mr. Muse has been a resident in Asia since 1993, having been raised and educated in the US. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Hons degree from St. Lawrence University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Roy Kim is a Partner of TPG NewQuest, based in Hong Kong. Roy joined TPG NewQuest in 2024 and is responsible for the sourcing, execution, and portfolio management of investments across Developed Asia markets. Prior to joining TPG NewQuest, Roy was a Managing Director in CPPIB’s Private Equity Asia group. In that role, Roy helped lead the firm’s private equity investments in APAC across primary fund commitments, co-investments, and secondary investments. He also served on CPPIB’s Asia PE Investment Committee. Prior to that, Roy held various investment roles, covering multiple alternative asset classes at BlackRock’s Alternative Solutions Group, and global PE Secondaries at HarbourVest Partners. Roy started his career in Healthcare M&A at Lazard. Roy received an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Samuel Kim joined Affinity Equity Partners in 2013 and is Co-Head of Affinity Equity Partners Korea. He oversees the full spectrum of the firm's investment activities in Korea, with a particular focus on driving operational transformation and long-term value creation across the B2B services, healthcare, and technology sectors. Prior to joining Affinity, Samuel spent five years at McKinsey & Company in Seoul, where he advised Korean conglomerates and global firms on business transformation, operational turnaround, and post-merger integrations.

Samuel holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from Harvard University.

Sangbum Choo is Head of the Private Equity Investment Team and a member of the PE Investment Committee at Samsung Asset Management. Prior to joining Samsung Asset Management, he was with National Pension Service of Korea(NPS) as a senior portfolio manager for 7 years. Among the 7 years in NPS, he worked for the London office of NPS for 3 years. Before joining NPS, he worked for 5 years at the Global Investment Team of the KTB Asset Management and its Hong Kong based subsidiary, KTB Asia.

Sangbum is a graduate of London Business School and holds a BBA from Seoul National University.

Saurabh Chatterjee is a Managing Director at ChrysCapital where he manages the Fundraising and LP Relations functions, and is also a voting member of the firm’s investment committee. Prior to joining ChrysCapital in 2016, he was with Providence Equity Partners’ investment team in their New Delhi Office. Before Providence, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group and CIVC Partners, a Chicago-based middle market private equity firm. Saurabh received an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Economics from Carleton College.

Se-Min (Min) is a corporate finance partner at KPMG Korea with over a decade of M&A, valuation, due diligence and other advisory experiences. During his tenure at KPMG, Min developed a robust foundation in executing complex financial transactions and guiding corporate strategy. Throughout his career, Min has built a proven track record of successfully partnering with leading global conglomerates and top-tier PE firms, consistently delivering actionable insights and driving value creation in high-stakes deal environments.

Seung-ki Jeong is the Head of the Alternative Investment Team at Kiwoom Asset Management, where he oversees the firm's alternative investment activities across both domestic and global markets. His responsibilities include managing separate managed accounts (SMAs), fund-of-funds (FoF) investments, and direct investments across a broad range of alternative asset classes and strategies. Prior to joining Kiwoom Asset Management, he served as an Alternative Investment Manager at DGB Life Insurance. Earlier in his career, he worked as an Alternative Investment Analyst at DB Financial Investment, specializing in alternative investment research.

Sudhir Variyar is the Managing Director & Deputy CEO of Multiples Alternate Asset Management Private Limited. In his capacity as a leader and seasoned professional, he plays a pivotal role in firm building and ensuring the continued growth and success of Multiples. He is a member of the Investment Committee and oversees the fund-raising and portfolio management functions.

Sudhir has almost three decades of experience, of which the last eighteen years has been in private equity. He has a strong investment track record and has led investments across a range of sectors including financial services, health care, logistics and infrastructure services.

Sudhir holds a postgraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from IT-BHU.

Sung Park is a Managing Director of Asia Alternatives and is based in the Firm’s Hong Kong office. Ms. Park is on the Firm’s Investment Committee and co-leads Asia Alternatives’ investments in Korea and Japan. Ms. Park is primarily responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, deal execution and portfolio management of private equity fund investments and direct co-investments in Japan and Korea. Ms. Park also co-leads the Firm’s Special Situations and Secondaries and is an integral member of Asia Alternatives’ market research team. Ms. Park has over 17 years of experience in private equity investing, management consulting and business operations in Asia. Prior to joining Asia Alternatives, Ms. Park was a Senior Consultant at Corporate Value Associates (CVA) in the Seoul office, focusing on corporate strategy, operational improvement and due diligence for Korean conglomerates and multinational companies in technology, financial services and consumer industries. Previously, she worked at Sony Group as a product manager of semiconductor and electronic devices, focusing on marketing and sales functions. Ms. Park holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Seoul National University. She is fluent in Korean and conversant in Japanese.

Sung Woo Ahn is a Partner at 500 Global, where he leads investment activities in Korea. Prior to joining 500 Global, he served as President and Chief Investment Officer at Mirae Asset Private Equity and spent over a decade in investment banking at Citigroup Global Markets in New York in the Technology, Media and Telecom group and Seoul. Sung Woo focuses on AI, enterprise software, semiconductors, robotics, and other deep technology investments. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Tadasu Matsuo leads JST’s alternative investment from January, 2022.

Before joining JST, he led HarbourVest Partners Japan as a managing director and co-head from April, 2020.  As a head of alternative investment, he oversaw Japan Post Insurance’s alternative investment, ranging from private equity and infrastructure funds to real estate and hedge funds since September 2016.  Before joining JP Insurance, he headed Daido Life’s alternative investment. 

Served as Senior Managing Director, he also engaged in private equity fund investment and headed a business development of Alternative Investment Capital (AIC), a leading private equity FOF manager and gatekeeper in Japan. Before seconded from Daido Life to AIC, he managed Daido Life's private equity and other alternative investment for five years. Previously he was in charge of group's business development and investor relations at T&D Holdings, a listed holding company of Daido Life.

Prior to joining Daido Life, Mr. Matsuo held such posts as Director and Managing Director and served as an M&A advisor to various insurers' transactions at PwC Financial Advisory Services Japan from 1999 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he worked for Nippon Life Insurance Company for 13 years, where he managed overseas sovereign credit loans and investments.

Mr. Matsuo received his MBA from Duke University and BA in Economics from The University of Tokyo. He passed the US CPA exams.

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.

Weston Wilkinson is an Investment Partner in the Investcorp Strategic Capital Group, based in New York. His primary responsibilities include sourcing and executing new investment opportunities. Weston is a member of the investment committee.

Prior to his current role, Weston was the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Azimut Alternative Capital Partners, Azimut Group’s GP Stakes and GP Seeding investment business, where he led the Firm’s investment team and process. Prior to that, he was a Director at Perella Weinberg Partners, serving as a senior member of the Firm’s asset management business and overseeing strategic growth initiatives. Previously, Weston was an Associate at Berkshire Global Advisors, where he advised asset and wealth management clients on mergers and acquisitions.

Weston holds a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Economics from the University of London.

Yu Kyeong Kim has been based in South Korea since 2010, where she heads a team of financial journalists across Seoul and other key parts of Asia for Mergermarket. With extensive experience in investigative reporting on M&A, private equity,  and a range of arbitrage and corporate finance transactions, her expertise spans multiple APAC markets beyond South Korea. She is also a holder of the CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) certification.

지난 25년 이상 한국 및 아시아 전역에서 투자자 및 기업금융 전문가로서 활동해 왔습니다.  글로벌 사모투자회사 TPG의 2014년 한국 재진입을 주도하였으며, 골드만삭스 및 씨티그룹의 기업금융 부문 및 PwC컨설팅 등에서 다양한 산업에 걸친 폭넓은 경험과 전문성을 쌓았습니다.

이승준 대표는 2000년 서울대학교 경영학과를 졸업했습니다.