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09:30Regional and global private equity insights: Moving the needle on diversity and inclusion
The upheaval and disruption caused by the pandemic and various social justice movements globally has had a significant impact on the private equity industry. Private equity firms are now increasing their focus on diversity and inclusion initiatives due to increased pressure from institutional investors and LPs, as well as heightened expectations from employees. While the conversation and progress in Asia may be slower, the momentum will undoubtedly continue to build. Our panel of regional and global GP leaders will share their companies’ initiatives, and discuss how private equity firms can provide the catalyst for change during these pivotal times.
- How has COVID-19 impacted the industry’s progress in moving the needle on diversity and inclusion, and how have conversations and initiatives been progressing in Asia?
- What best practices and strategies have GPs and LPs put in place to look at diversity and inclusion beyond gender, in areas such as ethnicity, age, background, education, and skillset?
- Are Asian GPs feeling increased pressure from their regional and global LPs to make real progress in diversity, especially given the past two years?
- Moving forward: What are senior private equity leaders doing in Asia to ensure that they meaningfully back up their commitment to diversity, instead of treating it as a tick box exercise?
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10:30
Networking coffee break
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10:45Implementing diversity and inclusion into the venture capital ecosystem
According to a recent human capital survey, the venture capital industry has made some progress in terms of advancing gender and racial diversity at the firm level in recent years, with higher representation of women in both junior and senior level positions, and with more firms implementing internal diversity and inclusion strategies. However, much more must be done to support women and minority entrepreneurs, particularly in light of COVID-19, where statistics have shown that venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a sobering 2% during this period. Our panel of leading regional venture capital investors and entrepreneurs will highlight their journeys, including their experiences and challenges in fundraising, and their thoughts on how the industry can move forwards.
- Building the pipeline: The business case for why diversity in the venture capital industry leads to better returns, performance, and enhanced innovation.
- How can the Asian venture capital industry help create an inclusive environment for female/minority entrepreneurs?
- Are venture capital firms in Asia increasingly monitoring diversity and inclusion within their portfolio companies?
- What are some successful examples of female-founded funds in the region that have invested in female-founded/diverse companies?
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11:45Presentation/case study: The case for gender lens investing in Asia
Led by an investment expert, this session will cover the growing conversation surrounding gender lens investing in Asia, why this investment strategy is gaining momentum, as well as fundraising opportunities and challenges in the region.
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12:15
Intermission
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13:00Recruitment and retention in a post-COVID-19 environment
As the next generation of employees entering the workforce seeks out more diverse and inclusive workplaces, the private equity industry must continue to devote resources to ensuring that they recruit, retain, and manage their next generation of talent through a multi-faceted approach of expanding their hiring pool, fostering an inclusive internal culture, and increasing gender and ethnic minority representation within the firm. However, true change can only come from a top-down approach. Our panel of private equity leaders and professionals will discuss their strategies and insights towards paving the way for future generations.
- How have working practices and talent retention changed since the beginning of the pandemic, especially as women have been disproportionately affected, and what are some of the new challenges firms are facing?
- How do approaches differ between small/mid to large private equity firms when it comes to recruitment and retention?
- How can senior leaders effect policy changes at their respective firms, as well as set the tone from the top?
- What are some of the diversity and recruitment initiatives in Asia that have made concerted efforts to bring about concrete change?
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14:30
Networking break
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15:00Private equity LPs: Advancing the diversity agenda
Spurred on by the pandemic and societal movements in 2020, global LPs have increasingly prioritised and stepped up the pressure on their GPs to take diversity and inclusion seriously. According to a recent report conducted by The Institutional Limited Partners Association, many LP signatories have implemented various actions in the past year, including assigning senior-level accountability for diversity and inclusion, as well as promoting diversity at the portfolio company board level. However, as a major influence on GP behaviour in the industry, much more needs to be done. Our panel of global and regional LPs will discuss and debate the best practices to enhance diversity and inclusion in Asia and beyond.
- How are LPs engaging with external managers and portfolio companies, and has the conversation shifted in the past year to encompass diversity beyond gender equality?
- What have LPs been doing internally within their organisations to promote diversity and inclusion?
- What are some of the challenges LPs have faced when pushing diversity and inclusion targets and initiatives in Asia?
- What are lessons that Asian LPs can learn from their Western counterparts when making diversity efforts?
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16:30
Roundtable discussion sessions and cocktails
Moderated by industry leaders, these discussion groups will cover different facets of the industry to encourage discussion between attendees.
- Building your network: Making industry connections and finding allies in your company.
- Preparing for interviews and presenting yourself for a promotion.
- The importance of mentoring and reverse mentoring.
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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.
As Chief Diversity Officer, Wendy Garcia is responsible for increasing contracting opportunities for Women- and Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs) and managing the Comptroller Office’s internal supplier diversity initiative, as well as other diversity related projects across all bureaus of the agency. Ms. Garcia also leads the Comptroller’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth through Diversity and Inclusion – a group comprised of national, local, corporate, and government experts seeking to increase supplier diversity in the public and private sectors.
The Comptroller’s Office of Diversity Initiatives, led by Ms. Garcia, releases “Making the Grade: New York City Agency Report Card on Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises,” a report that examines how well City agencies meet existing supplier diversity goals while outlining additional measures that could be taken to increase the participation of MWBEs in City contracting.
Previously, Ms. Garcia served as the Deputy Chief Diversity Officer at the Office of New York City Comptroller, Director of Community Outreach and Partnerships at the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), Deputy Director of the Manhattan Borough President’s Northern Manhattan Office, and Immigrant Research Analyst for the Rockefeller Foundation through Baruch College.
Ms. Garcia earned a Master’s degree in Urban Policy and Management from New School University with a concentration in Economic Development, and a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Delaware.
Darren is a partner in KPMG’s Hong Kong tax practice and leads the M&A Tax team as well as the Alternative Investments practice group. He has more than 25 years experience of serving institutions in a wide range of industries in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific. Darren has been involved in developing appropriate structures for investing into the Hong Kong and other countries within Asia Pacific, along tax and financial due diligence reviews in connection with M&A transactions and advising on cross border transactions. Darren has extensive experience in working with the mainland Chinese market, including structuring acquisitions of investments in China. Darren is also a Member of the Technical Committee of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association (HKVCA), a Member of Tax Committee of Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the Chair of the Finance, Legal and Tax Committee of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Deputy Chair of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AustCham).
Victoria Budson is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As Global Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Victoria leads Bain Capital’s DEI strategy and execution as it relates to recruitment, development, culture, and community across the firm and in support of its portfolio companies.
Prior to joining Bain Capital, she spent 25 years at Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she was co-founder and Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program. She consulted on a range of diversity and inclusion matters to a wide variety of clients across sectors and global regions including many in the financial services industry.
Victoria’s policy advice has been regularly sought by leaders. She testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion on key diversity strategies for organizational performance. Her expertise has also been sought by the Global Thinkers Forum, the World Economic Forum, the Obama-Biden Administration’s White House Council on Women and Girls, the Presidential Personnel Office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Labor, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, NASA, the U.S. Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Army and Air Force, as well as multinational corporations leading on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Working regularly with national, provincial, state, and local governments she has impacted equity policies. As an appointee of Governor Deval Patrick, she served as the Chairperson of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women from 2011-2016, which led the coalition and efforts of the passage of the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act now replicated in cities and states across the country. She also worked with the Cities of Boston and Cambridge designing their equal pay practices, the state of New York setting up the NY Commission on the Status of Women, the UK Government Equalities Office, the French Government, and many others in the designing of DEI focused strategies.
Victoria’s expertise is drawn upon by news publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, Fortune, NBC Nightly News, CNN Money, NPR Marketplace, CNN, Fox News, CNBC, C-SPAN, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, New York Times Magazine, US News & World Report, USA Today, and the Washington Post.
She was recognized by CNN as one of Ten Visionary Women from across the globe and by Boston Magazine, as a member of the “The new Power Class; the visionaries, idealists and thinkers whose insights are transforming the way we live, work, learn and play.” Recently, she was honored by the United Nations as a member of Generation Equality for her global role furthering gender equity.
Ms. Budson received an MPA from The Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Littauer Scholar. She graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors receiving a BA from Wellesley College.
Amy is the Chief Operating Officer at FountainVest Partners (Asia) Limited. FountainVest Partners was founded in 2007 and is a leading China-focused private equity fund headquartered in Hong Kong. Prior to joining FountainVest in late 2019, Amy worked for 4 years as the CEO of Save the Children Hong Kong, the HK member of a global movement that works in 120 countries focusing on the most marginalized and deprived children.
Before Save the Children, Amy spent nearly two decades in financial services with institutions including JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, and Merrill Lynch, working in the US and Asia, having worked as an investment banker, head of strategy, COO and Head of Regulatory Change Management. Amy serves on the Board of Rädda Barnen Service AB, a Swedish social enterprise focusing on Child Rights in business. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and has an MBA from Columbia University and she was also a Certified Public Accountant qualified in the District of Columbia, USA. Amy is a Hong Kong native and has a 20-year old daughter and a 15-year old son. Since 2015, Amy has been an dedicated practitioner of meditation which she credits for her clarity in her life’s purpose.
Kara Helander is a Managing Director and Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. She is based in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Ms. Helander was a Managing Director at BlackRock, where she led the firm’s global inclusion and diversity, and philanthropy initiatives. Harvard Business School profiled those efforts she directed in the case study, “BlackRock: Diversity as a Driver of Success”. More recently, Ms. Helander consulted with organizations to develop corporate social responsibility and diversity strategies. She founded the Science of Diversity and Inclusion (SODI), a coalition of top companies and behavioral scientists working to design and test new approaches to accelerate diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Ms. Helander also led corporate social responsibility at Barclay’s Global Investors (BGI). Prior to BGI, she launched and led the Western Region for Catalyst in Silicon Valley.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Leading Educators.
Ms. Helander received her MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Vanderbilt University.
Carol Kim is a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Institutional Client Solutions Group in Asia and is based in Hong Kong. Since joining Blackstone, Ms. Kim has been involved with investor relations and new business development in Asia. Before joining Blackstone in 2008, Ms. Kim was based in New York as a Vice President in the Absolute Return Strategies Group at Lehman Brothers, where she was responsible for client communications and reporting to its hedge fund and fund of hedge funds clients. Prior to joining Lehman, she was Director of Marketing at Continuity Capital, LLC and a Marketing Associate at P. Schoenfeld Asset Management. Ms. Kim began her career in investor relations at LG Electronics in Korea and Allied Properties in Toronto. Ms. Kim received a BA in Urban and Economic Studies from the University of Toronto. She is a Co-Founder and Board member of 100 Women in Finance.
Maureen Ho is Of Counsel in Morrison & Foerster’s Hong Kong office. Her practice focuses on advising private equity and real estate funds, financial and corporate investors in their private and public M&A, infrastructure investments and joint ventures as well as pre-IPO investments and corporate restructurings. She has been recently named ‘Rising Star’ in Private Equity category in Asia-Pacific region by International Financial Law Review (IFLR).
Maureen actively drives gender diversity initiatives and has been shortlisted as one of only four future leaders for gender diversity by Chambers Diversity & Inclusion Awards: Asia-Pacific 2020. She has been a committee member and co-chair of the Mentoring Program with Women in Law Hong Kong since 2017, which aims at enhancing the profiles, skills and networking opportunities of women in the legal field. Upon successful completion of the mentoring programme at The Women’s Foundation, Maureen continued to be involved in fundraising and other alumni events to strengthen the representation of women in the local community. Maureen is also a member of the AmCham Women of Influence committee.
Managing Director, Ecosystems
Prudential Corporation Asia
Scarlett Chen, Managing Director, manages Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Prudential Corporation Asia. In this capacity, she looks for innovative technologies, products and services which are relevant for Prudential's innovation and long-term growth, as partnership and/or investment opportunities. Her focus sectors are Healthtech, Insurtech and Fintech. Ms Chen’s second role at Prudential is founding a new technology business for Prudential.
In addition to her professional investor capacity, Ms Chen is a passionate investor in the healthtech space. She has her personal company called Global Healthtech Capital, which is dedicated to making early stage investments in healthtech.
Before joining Prudential in 2016, Ms Chen headed up FIG (Financial Institutions Group) for Anbang Capital and co-headed APAC-region Investments. Before this, Ms Chen was an investment banker for more than a decade, having worked at Merrill Lynch and Barclays, mostly in the New York, focused on capital markets and advisory transactions.
Judith Li, is a Partner at Lilly Asia Ventures (LAV), based in Hong Kong / Shanghai and focused on early and growth stage investments across biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics both domestically and cross-border. Judith holds board appointments at a variety of LAV’s portfolio companies, including Nextcure, Just Biotherapeutics, Gritstone Oncology, and Tmunity. Her prior experience includes McKinsey’s New York office, hospital administration at Partners Healthcare, and co-founding an interventional nephrology medical device venture. Judith holds a B.A. in Neurobiology from Harvard and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and currently resides in Hong Kong, splitting her time between Hong Kong, Shanghai, and the Bay Area.
Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need in order to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor, and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. He joined the firm in 2013 and is currently leading growth venture efforts, which include LP fundraising and portfolio management for Golden Gate Venture's investments at Series B and beyond.
Michael’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2000 when he co-founded an IT managed services startup in Europe that was acquired by a large data and telecom company six years later. In 2007, Michael founded a venture fund focused on Dutch small- and medium-sized enterprises to help them with capital financing, business development, and strategy. During the same period, he was invited to join the Economic Development Board Rotterdam as Vice Chairman. In that role, he launched the Young Economic Development Board where he brought together a highly influential Dutch network to develop a sustainable framework for public-private relationships that increased local business investment while leveraging the public infrastructure.
Michael has helped support firm and portfolio-level priorities that have spanned fundraising, capital allocation, and corporate development. He has helped to raise over USD $60M for Golden Gate Ventures and its portfolio companies, including helping to raise later stage rounds from external investors as well as leading two early strategic acquisitions.
Outside of work, sport is an essential part of Michael’s life. He is a former member of the Dutch karate team and the former ambassador for Treknology (Trek bikes distributor in Singapore). Michael actively participates in Ironman 70.3 races and marathons. He is also passionate about social justice and uses sport as a vehicle to raise awareness for important issues such as civil rights, economic opportunity, and education. Besides sport, Michael is an active writer and writes articles regarding life, balance, and venture capital on michaellints.com.
Eriko Suzuki is Managing Director of Japan’s first ESG focused Venture Capital Fund and former General Partner at global venture capital fund Fresco Capital, and also former Director at Taizo Son’s social impact focused venture capital Mistletoe Inc.
Eriko has lived abroad from North America to the Middle East, and whilst obtaining an Honors Economics degree at McGill University, interned in Kenya at a World Bank affiliated microfinance organization. She started her career in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, and later established the Japan business of a Silicon Valley drone startup.
Eriko is also a mother of two children and author of a Future of Work book - “How we live, will be how we work” (Daiwashobo, 2018) .
Shuyin is a Partner at Patamar Capital, a leading impact investing firm in Southeast Asia, and also the co-founder and CEO of the Beacon Fund, a boundary-breaking fund for female entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia's emerging markets. She has led investments into education, FinTech, employee benefits and healthcare companies and serves as a Board Director / Observer at a number of portfolio companies including Kim An Group, Topica, Supahands and Canal Circle. She spearheads Patamar’s gender lens investing efforts, including managing one of the first gender lens investing funds in Southeast Asia, the Investing in Women Fund.
She has experience spanning strategy consulting (Bain & Company), development consulting (TechnoServe) and impact investing (Patamar Capital, LGT Venture Philanthropy), across Australia, India and Southeast Asia. She has also worked in U.S. Congress and the Australian public service, as well as at The Lowy Institute for International Policy and UNICEF.
Shuyin was named one of Australia's "100 Women of Influence" by the Australian Financial Review in 2015, an Asia 21 Young Leader by the Asia Society in 2016, and one of the “40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians” in 2020. She currently serves on the Investment Advisory Council of the Equality Fund and from 2018 to 2020 she served on the Southeast Asia Advisory Council of Women’s World Banking, a global NGO promoting women’s financial inclusion. She graduated summa cum laude from the Australian National University where she was also awarded the University Medal.
A visionary thinker and forward leader, Gigi has more than 25 years of experience working in market-leading organizations in the Financial Services industry. Her rare background of having led both the Business Development and People Team functions in Asia Pacific in a Senior Regional leadership capacity lets her bring front-line experience to talent acquisition and organizational optimization.
She is responsible for the People function in Asia, working closely to define and bring to life what this means for local teams, and the firm’s global presence.
At AlixPartners, she is in charge of diversity and inclusion in Asia, also preparing the global firm for Next Generation with the goal of marrying people development and business development.
Gigi holds a BA degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia and various Postgraduate qualifications from the Australia Graduate School of Management and Queensland University of Technology.
Whilst she has a strong track record of designing and driving strategic direction of the full People team function in:
Purpose driven organization
Future-back workforce Planning
Talent Management & Acquisition strategies
Learning & Development
Compensation and Benefits
Retention and Engagement
Employer branding
Change Management
Market intelligence
Prior to AlixPartners, Gigi was also Sales leader for Ernst & Young Australia and Asia Pacific, focusing on the Private Equity area and Entrepreneurs circles. She has facilitated and secured major mergers and acquisitions transactions in the region.
Gigi has spearheaded the Entrepreneur of the Year Award program in EY Australia and is renowned for her ability to engage and build strong relationships with founders and entrepreneurs.
Andrew Bullock is a Managing Director of Adamantem Capital. He is recognised as one of Australia’s most experienced corporate lawyers specialising in private equity and public market deals and he is also an experienced company director.
Andrew was previously a Partner at Gilbert + Tobin from 2006 to 2017, serving as head of the firm’s corporate advisory team and its market-leading private equity practice. Prior to Gilbert + Tobin, Andrew was a Partner at Minter Ellison and also spent three years in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He is a current director of Bailador Technology Investments Limited and of the Foundation of the Scots College, Sydney.
He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales.
Mr. Patrick Cordes, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, joined BPEA in 2006. Mr. Cordes is a member of the BPEA Portfolio Management Committee and Exit and Liquidity Committee and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s professional support functions, including investment structuring, firm and fund operations, portfolio monitoring, legal and compliance and market risk and jointly oversees the firm’s human capital function. Mr. Cordes is also responsible for overseeing BPEA’s philanthropic activities and serves on the Board of Social Impact Partners.
Haide Lui is the Head of Investor Relations at Ascendent Capital Partners. Prior to Ascendent, Ms. Lui spent close to 11 years at HarbourVest Partners based in Hong Kong focused on private equity fund investments across Asia. During that time, she served on the limited partner advisory committees of a number of private equity partnerships, including a range of venture, growth, and buyout funds in China, as well as several Asian funds of global private equity firms. Before that, Ms. Lui was with Morgan Stanley in the Global Capital Markets group in Hong Kong, focused on the origination and execution of equity financings, advising Asian and Chinese companies. Ms. Lui graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA Honours in Natural Sciences.
Lincoln Pan is a Partner of PAG, a leading Asia-based alternative investment fund managing over US$40bn in capital, and the co-head of the Private Equity business.
Lincoln has led work for many of PAG’s overseas investments, including Unispace, Edelweiss Wealth Management, Gamot API, Craveable Brands, Joyson Safety Systems, Cushman & Wakefield, Lexmark International, Fenix Technologies, Food Union Group, The Cheesecake Shop and Young Toys. He is on the public board of Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) where he chairs the Nomination & Governance Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee, and Regional Express Limited (ASX: REX) where he is a member of the Audit Committee.
Prior to joining PAG, Lincoln was Regional CEO, Greater China for Willis Towers Watson. He previously worked with Advantage Partners, a leading private equity firm in Japan, GE Capital, McKinsey & Company and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Lincoln holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Williams College.
Brooke Zhou is Partner of LGT Capital Partners, and leads the firm’s overall China business, as well as secondary investment activities in Asia.
LGT Capital Partners is a leading institutional alternative asset and fund of funds manager, currently managing over USD 60 billion AuM on a global basis. The firm is headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland (near Zurich) and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, New York, Dublin, London, Paris and Dubai.
Prior to joining LGT Capital Partners in 2010, Ms. Zhou was with CDH Investments, a leading Chinese private equity manager, based in Beijing. Prior to CDH Investments, Ms. Zhou spent her career at Bain & Company in Shanghai, as well as Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, California.
Ms. Zhou earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Zhou grew up in Shanghai and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
As Managing Director of Industry Affairs for the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), Jennifer Choi directs the association’s engagement with industry stakeholders to inform and enhance ILPA’s advocacy and best practices in response to emerging issues impacting the asset class. Ms. Choi leads ILPA’s efforts around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, including the Diversity in Action Initiative, which includes participation from more than 180 signatories today.
Prior to joining ILPA, Ms. Choi served as Vice President of Industry and External Affairs for the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), where she led the association’s member and industry engagement activities, including efforts to encourage policy frameworks that support the growth of the asset class. As EMPEA’s Research Director, she built the industry’s first global database of private equity activity in the emerging markets. Previously, Ms. Choi was a consultant with Boston-based Stax Inc., leading due diligence engagements and providing advisory services for private equity and venture capital firms.
Jennifer holds a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics and Political Science from Augustana College.
Chi is an Investment Principal responsible for origination and execution and is based in the firm’s Hong Kong office.
Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2021, Chi was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, responsible for its private equity investments in Asia. Previously, she worked at Temasek in their investment group.
Chi has a BSc in Economics from Tsinghua University.
Shannon is a Principal in Hamilton Lane’s Relationship Management Department, based in the firm’s Hong Kong office, where she is responsible for all aspects of client relations in the Asia ex-Japan & Korea region. In this capacity, she works closely with clients and the investment team in portfolio construction and development.
Prior to joining Hamilton Lane, Shannon was a Vice President, Sales in BMO Global Asset Management where she was responsible for the distribution of investment products including private equity funds. Previously, she was a Vice President, Lead Relationship Manager in Northern Trust for institutional clients including central bank, pension funds and university endowments. Shannon also worked in HSBC and Invesco Asset Management where she was a Relationship Manager for institutional clients in the Asia Pacific region.
Shannon received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Hong Kong. She also obtained a qualification of Certified Financial Planner and is an ordinary member of the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong.
Pamela is a partner for the Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners Private Equity Fund group and has 16 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.
Alicia is currently Head of Private Equity at Future Fund, Australia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund where she has responsibility for in excess of $30bn in assets invested in private equity. Prior to that she worked for MLC for 17 years, most recently as Head of Private Equity.
Alicia has over 23 years’ experience in the financial services sector and holds a Bachelor of Business from University of Technology, Sydney, is a CFA charter holder and has completed the General Management Programme at INSEAD.
Phok Jui (PJ) is a Managing Director at CDPQ, leading Asia PE fund investments. Prior to joining CDPQ in 2019, PJ had spent over 14 years in PE, including 4 years at Bank of Singapore as Head of PE and 10 years at GIC’s PE team investing across both funds and co-investments. PJ started his career at Singapore’s JTC Corporation. He holds a MEng from Imperial College London, and an MBA from INSEAD.