Swee-Yeok Chu

CEO, President & Director

Ms. Swee-Yeok Chu has been the Chief Executive Officer of EDB Investments since late 2008 and serves as its President and Director. She is responsible for transforming EDBI into an active strategic investor, supporting the fast growing innovative sectors of Information and Communication Technology, Biomedical Sciences, Smart and Sustainable Technology, and other strategic sectors.

Ms. Chu is a Partner at Ooyala, Inc. Prior to EDBI, Ms. Chu was the Chief Executive Officer at Bio*One Capital since 2004. Under her leadership, Bio*One Capital became a globally recognized and reputable investment entity. Ms. Chu previously held senior positions at the Singapore Economic Development Board where she was instrumental for industry strategy development and implementation including establishing several venture funds and providing oversight to their management.

Ms Chu previously held senior positions at EDB and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) where she played a pioneering role in developing major policies and executing the industry, research and commercialisation strategies leading to the growth of the biomedical sector and its contribution as a major pillar of Singapore’s economy today.

Ms. Chu also serves on the boards of Merlion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd, S*Bio Pte Ltd, Triton Water AG, Silecs Oy, Xinya Media Pte Ltd, and Singapore-Suzhou Township Development Pte Ltd. She also serves on the board of Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD). She served as a Director of ES Cell International Pte Ltd. She has over 25 years of track record and extensive experience in equity investments of start-up to growth and late-stage ventures, strategic planning, business and technology development for industries.

SzeKi Sim

Head of Brand

A seasoned and passionate marketer, SzeKi joined SGInnovate as part of its pioneer team in Sep 2016. She is entrusted with building the brand and marketing team from scratch, to achieve SGInnovate’s mission of enabling ambitious and talented men and women to build, commercialise and scale deep technology-based innovations from Singapore that will have global impact. She leads the team in promoting Singapore as a place of thriving innovation in deep tech entrepreneurship and spearheads activities to create a holistic ecosystem, providing a platform where founders, researchers, academics, venture capitalists, corporations come together to share and discuss ideas of innovation in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and MedTech.

Her leadership has seen SGInnovate, in less than 2 years, establish itself as a leading force in driving deep tech innovation and entrepreneurship in Singapore and internationally, having built a thriving community with 22,000 followers across its social media platforms, and clinching silver in the Best B2B PR Campaign at the Marketing PR Awards 2017.

Prior to SGInnovate, SzeKi’s long career in marketing included leading teams with global technology brands such as Hewlett Packard, Motorola and Nokia regionally and globally. Her 15 years at Motorola saw her in various leadership positions including Head of Marketing - Asia Pacific for Motorola Networks, and Head of Marketing - Asia and Middle East for Motorola Solutions. At Nokia Siemens Networks (now Nokia), SzeKi was the Global Head of Customer Marketing for their Global Services organisation.

Rahul Magan

Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Treasury Consulting

Treasury Consulting Group: Treasury Consulting is a Singaporean Multinational Group with 8 Business Verticals, 44 Business Domains. Sitting today we are 100% Cash Rich, 0% VC Funded. As a Group we are serving Clients in 60+ Countries, $ 10 Million Business Valuation, Holding our own Intellectual Property - www.fixedincome.global (World's 1st Fixed Income Platform, Watched in 148 Countries, Amongst 1 Million Websites of the Globe). Next Year we are adding Subsidiary in Australia - Treasury Consulting Pty Ltd (June'19), E Commerce Merchandise Store (June'19) and World's 1st Monetization Desk - Monitfund.

Paul Burmester

Head of Innovation & Partnerships

With over 30 years experience in the technology industry, Paul still continues to be amazed and excited by the latest developments and opportunities. Paul has focused on successfully turning around and/or building early stage technology businesses to the point of global market success. Leading to over $4.7B in increased shareholder value gained through profitable exits via IPO and/or aquiaition.

Currently based in Singapore Paul has lived and worked in various countries acros Europe, Asia and the Americas. Paul is the Herad of Innovation & Partnerships at Innov8, the venture capital arm of the Singtel group and is always seeking new challenges.

Kai Hoo Quek

Vice President

Mr Kai Hoo Quek serves as the Vice President of Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd – the commercialization arm of A*STAR, a government-owned research organisation with 5,000 plus headcount. Previously, Mr Quek served as the Head of Investments at Rowsley Ltd. since August 2010 until May 2016. 

Mr. Quek also served as a Director of Investment & Corporate Affairs of Unisteel Technology Ltd. and served as its Director of Strategic Business. He led the M&A activities and served as a General Manager at Unisteel Technology Ltd., a company that was listed on Singapore Exchange and later bought out by private equity firm KKR. He has extensive experience in private equity, mergers & acquisition ("M&A") and operations management. He evaluated and carried out direct investments and fund-of-fund investments with Rothschild Ventures, Temasek Holdings, HRJ Capital and Kestrel Capital Partners.

He was based in Shanghai for two years as the Chief Rep of HRJ Capital’s representative office there.  Mr Quek holds Master of Science degree in Industrial & Operation Engineering and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Additionally, he is also a CFA charterholder, which he obtained in 2004.

Jeffrey Paine

Managing Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Jeffrey Paine is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, an early stage technology venture capital fund based in Singapore investing in Southeast Asia with over US$175 million under management investing in over 35 companies since 2012.

Jeff started and manages the Founder Institute in Singapore where he is currently overseeing its expansion in Southeast Asia, and Japan. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore has graduated over 100 companies. He is a recipient of the Founder Institute Director Award 2012 for “Greatest Ecosystem Impact” Worldwide (Singapore).

He is a Singapore native and graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Misha Graboi

CEO, Asia & Global

Misha Graboi, JD, CFA, FRM is a Managing Director, Partner, Global Sector Specialist, and Chief Executive Officer of PAAMCO Asia at Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company, LLC. Prior to this, he was a Founder and Director of Rigel Associates.

Before this, he was an Executive Director and Head of European Internet Research at Goldman Sachs International in their Equity Research division, where he covered both the B2B and B2C internet sectors.His coverage included the Internet arms of national incumbent telecommunications operators, as well as independent Internet enterprises. Prior to this, Mr. Graboi was an Internet Research Analyst at CIBC World Markets., Research Division covering the ISP, digital media, e-commerce, enabling technology, and infomediary sub-sectors.

Prior to his research experience, Mr. Graboi was a founding member of CIBC World Markets' Internet team. Before that, he was a general technology investment banker, with transactional experience in the telecommunications equipment, infrastructure and enterprise software and semiconductor equipment, device and component spaces. His transaction experience includes M&A and strategic advisory assignments, and equity financing. Mr. Graboi has also worked for the Center for Business-Government Relations. He was a Senior Research Analyst at Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC.

He received a B.S. in Finance and International Business, Magna Cum Laude, from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker scholar, and a Juris Doctor (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School.

Lawrence Wee

Managing Director, Head of Institutional Sales, South Asia

Lawrence Wee is Manulife Asset Management Head of Institutional Sales, South Asia, based in Singapore.

In this role, Mr. Wee is responsible for the sale of Manulife Asset Management’s investment solutions to institutional clients in South Asia.

Lawrence has over ten years of institutional experience in the region, most recently from Tokio Marine Asset Management and First State Investments and United Overseas Bank in Singapore.

Working with institutional investors looking for asset managers that can offer local market expertise in Asia with world class standards of investment process and risk management. Part of an established and award-winning team of fixed income and equity portfolio managers underpinning a comprehensive suite of institutional products, a compelling investment offering across South East Asia.

Vikas Datt

Partner & Managing Director

Vikas has over 15 years of cross functional experience in leading Digital Strategy, Business Transformation, Business Planning, Analytics and IT projects. In his last role, as Sr Director and Head Asia Pacific for a leading IT services company, Vikas was working with clients across industries on Digital Strategy and its implementation across the value chain. He successfully built the services business in APAC from scratch and was recognized for his contributions to create the fastest growing region across the world, for the company.

Vikas spent a decade with one of the largest private life insurance company. As Head of Distribution Operations he led complete responsibility for Sales Strategy, Planning, Compensation, Sales Promotions, Technology and Compliance for all distribution channels. Other remarkable achievements for Vikas include, setting up the Middle Office for Investments function, setting up Market Intelligence and supporting transformation of the Training function.

Choo Tatt Saw

Senior Vice President, Head of Business Partner & Solutions (Corporate Services), Technology Group

A Senior Technology Leader with over 20 years’ experience predominantly working in the Investment Management industry and possess a range of technical skills and abilities including IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Computing, Digital Transformation and Strategic Planning.

Choo Tatt has extensive expertise in practice and leadership that spans a wide spectrum of the technology landscape in areas like IT Infra, Operations, Applications Delivery and Business Partnership. He lead's and manages high-performing diverse global technology teams in Singapore, US and Europe driving strategic Technology goals that deliver business value.

Henry Soediarko

Investment Director

Henry has worked in the Asian equity long short hedge fund for the past 12 years with experience from trading, risk management to portfolio management. He holds an MBA from Vlerick Business School in Belgium and an MSC in Investment from Cass Business School in England. Henry joined Milltrust International since October 2018 as senior associate in its Singapore office.

Zoltan Gelencser

Innovation Advisor, Senior Director

Oracle

An inspiring consultant with passion for business and technology with exposure to startup culture.

The increased speed of change requires constant innovation at the heart of our customer journey. Providing business and technology advice to drive digital transformation for key global accounts.

With experience covering emerging technology like AR, VR, IoT, wearables.

Jenny Morel

Managing Partner

Jenny Morel founded No 8 Ventures Management in 1999. For No 8 Ventures, Jenny is a director of the Martin Aircraft Company – producer of the Martin Jetpack and Open Cloud, which provides a platform for rapid deployment of new telecommunications services.

Jenny also founded and runs the annual Morgo conference, a gathering of people building high growth companies from New Zealand.

Before No 8 Ventures Jenny built a niche investment bank to work with technology companies in New Zealand. She has also been a director of a number of large companies, including NZ Rail, Centreport, the Rural Bank, Trust Bank and AgResearch,.

In 2006, Jenny was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to business. In 2011 she was given an award at the Hi Tech Awards for her Outstanding Contribution to the Industry. In 2012 she was named a Wellington Icon at the Gold Awards.

Jenny now divides her time between Singapore and New Zealand.

Nitin Bansal

Associate Vice President & Head APAC

Business Leader for KPIT's IT Consulting Services, Engineering solutions and Products in APAC region. Responsible for ensuring a culture of hyper growth through Digital Evangelism, as well as growing and leveraging a strong partner ecosystem (for Engineering services & Products) across the region. Developing new business engagement models relevant in the Digital Transformation era - working closely with customers and product partners in defining & executing relevant Use cases for IoT, Mobility and cloud adoption.

Responsible for the Engineering & Mobility / IoT solutions business.

Ronnie Thomas

Head of Strategy and Planning

PHD Media

Ronnie is the Head of Strategy & Planning for PHD Singapore. His expertise lies in strategic communications planning, as well as the implementation of tech solutions that deliver purposeful innovation. He has worked on the biggest FMCG brands, as well as iconic brands in the tech and alcohol sectors, where he has delivered work that has won innovation and effectiveness awards at Cannes, AMES, WARC and the Festival of Media. A computer engineer by training, he is extremely excited at the merge of marketing and technology, and the many opportunities that this creates.

PHD is one of the most acclaimed media and communication agency networks with numerous recognition from around the world. Founded in the UK in the year 1990, PHD combines the latest industry insights with the best creative minds to deliver smart strategic thinking and creative innovation for some of the world’s largest advertisers. With over 28 years of experience, PHD is a global network with 6,000 employees and 80 offices in multiple countries, and continue to lead the way in the evolution of communications planning around the world.

Cyndi Pei

Senior Vice President, Group Finance and Group Financial Controller

Yeo Hiap Seng Limited

Cyndi Pei, Group Financial Controller, leads the Finance function in Yeo Hiap Seng Limited Group and is also responsible for Treasury, Tax, Investor Relations and M&A.  She is constantly finding the next area for change or improvement to create value for the Group and one of the improvements made is the implementation of foreign exchange risk management policy.  Prior to this, she spent 14 years with PwC Singapore providing audit and advisory services while also leading business development for Real Estate and TMT industries.

Vicky Shi

Senior Advisor, Financial Services

Vicky Shi joined CEA Group in 2017 as a Senior Advisor focusing on financial services and advising companies on investor relationships, financial advisory, and investments. 

Tomithy Too

Impact Investor

Tomithy is a strategic investor of growth stage tech companies in the AI, Cybersecurity and Cloud.

- Technology and business evaluation of high tech growth stage companies in the AI / Machine Learning, Cybersecurity and Cloud Technologies & Services. 

- Investment due diligence: focusing on technology, product and business strategy

- Research & competitive analysis refine our investment strategy

- Corporate development through pursuing synergies and collaboration between investee 

- Current team portfolio includes: 

(A) Telcos/Carriers - StarHub, UMobile, SkyCable, Lao Telco

(B) High tech companies - Datameer (Data analytics), Greenwave (IOT gateway), Moogsoft (IT Ops Management), Armor (Cloud Cybersecurity & MSSP), Instart Logic (Next gen CDN), Bespin Global (Managed Cloud Service Provider)

Tomithy an investment manager at ST Telemedia, spending time between seeking great technology companies, refining investment thesis and driving operational synergies. His focus is tech businesses and innovations like AI, big data, cybersecurity/crime disrupt markets, culture and livelihood. At his core he's a technologist and an entrepreneur with the goal of developing technologies and conscious businesses that can create a positive difference in the world.

Adrian Ho

Vice President

Adrian helps companies enhance stakeholder value through the multitude of levers (strategic, financial, digital, operational) and reorganisation options available to Management. I am committed to leading & managing such opportunities to realise exceptional results and positive change.

With 9 yeasrs experienced in private equity, startup, MNC and banking roles across Europe, Asia and Africa, Adrian is skilled in corporate development and M&A, investing, strategy, business development and management. A well-rounded thinker, doer and communicator; an independent self-starter who is equally at home in highly-matrixed structures or in agile autonomous teams.

Adrian won the Harvard Global Case Competition 2017, representing London Business School (LBS), he is a scholarship recipient for LBS Masters in Finance awarded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.