Private Equity Asia Forum

Thomas is Managing Partner and Head of Southeast Asia at CDH Investments, a leading private capital management platform in Asia. Based in Singapore, Dr. Lanyi and his team pursue structured investment opportunities across all major markets in Southeast Asia, 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 in Vietnam and acts as an advisor to the Vietnam Private Capital Association (VPCA).

Peng is Head of Overseas Investment Department of China Merchants Capital, a leading alternative asset manager in China with a total AUM of approximately 43B USD.  He has held positions including Executive Director at China Merchants Capital, Deputy General Manager of the Capital Investment Department at China Merchants Investment Development Co., Ltd., and Senior Manager of the Investment and Development Department at China Merchants Ports Group. He has over a decade of investment experience in infrastructure investments, private equity, cross-boarder M&As, and capital market financing. He has been involved in investment projects across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia, with total investments exceeding USD 4 billion. He holds a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, and a Phd's degree from City University of Hong Kong.

Philip is a Founding Member and Managing Director of Primavera Capital. He sits on the Leadership Committee, Investment Committees, Strategic Partnerships Committee, Portfolio Management Committee, ESG Committee, Operations Committee, among others. His board experience has been across for-profit and non-profit sectors.

Prior to Primavera, he held positions in investment banking based in Hong Kong and in a hedge fund based in San Francisco.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.

Globally, Primavera Capital manages USD20 billion in AUM with 100+ portfolio companies and 100+ professionals across PE, VC, and Credit strategies. 

Amit is a Managing Director and heads AlpInvest’s co-investment effort in the Asia Pacific region, where he focuses on equity transactions in Asia and Australia. Amit rejoined AlpInvest in 2018 after about 3 years at Neuberger Berman in Asia. Prior to NB, Amit worked at AlpInvest for 8 years in our Hong Kong based co-investment team between 2008-2016. Before that, he was with JP Morgan IBD based in New York. He started his working career in 2000 as a supply chain management consultant in the US at i2 Technologies and LogicTools respectively. Amit received a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Master Science from Northwestern University and an MBA with a major in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anna Chan is a Managing Director in the Legal and Compliance Department at Blackstone. She is involved with a variety of regulatory and compliance matters for Blackstone in Greater China and Korea. Ms. Chan worked at Blackstone from 2016 to 2019. Before rejoining the firm in 2022, Ms. Chan was a Senior Manager in First Sentier Investors for about 2 years. She had previously spent more than 9 years at Goldman Sachs in the Private Wealth Management Compliance department in Hong Kong.

Bharati Agarwal is a Managing Director at TPG NewQuest based in Singapore. Bharati has over 15 years of experience with close to a decade of investing experience in India and Southeast Asia. She has been a part of deals that include both direct secondary as well as fund solution transactions, overseeing over US$1B in capital invested. Some of her investments include FirstCry, Cloudnine Hospitals, Sapphire Foods, Halonix, Forus Medical and ID Foods. She has also held Board positions on five portfolio companies. Her work on fund solutions transactions include the Everbridge Continuation Fund, Basil, Navis, Epiq and Megadelta, of which she holds LP Advisory positions on several of these. Prior to joining TPG NewQuest, Bharati was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, having worked in their Mumbai and London offices. She has also been a consultant with the United Nations World Food Program in Rome and Johannesburg and worked in her family business in construction. Bharati holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she was an S. M. Shah Scholar, an MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she was a PJD Wiles Scholar, and a BSc in Economics (Mathematics, Statistics Minor) from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, where she ranked in the university’s top 1%. She is fluent in English, Hindi and Bengali.

Dominic Goh joined HarbourVest in 2012 and focuses on secondary investments. This includes analyzing, structuring, and monitoring a wide range of secondary transaction types. Dominic was previously at Coller Capital where he evaluated secondary opportunities, and contributed to deal sourcing and fundraising efforts in Asia. Prior to that, he was an investment banking associate at ABN AMRO London in the Financial Institutions Group. Dominic received a BSc (first class honours) in Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2005. Dominic is fluent in Mandarin.

Dr. Varma is a critical care physician having practiced for almost 30 years in the United States and Asia. He has been on the founding team of large Asian healthcare companies like Narayana Hrudayalaya and Fortis Healthcare. He has served on the board of various companies around Asia in healthcare delivery, life sciences, medical tech and consumer healthcare including Parkway Healthcare in Singapore. Dr. Varma is currently the co-founder and managing partner of Quadria Capital, one of the largest healthcare dedicated private equity funds in Asia with almost USD 3.4 billion in AUM. He has also sponsored Healthquad, a venture healthcare investment firm, with USD 200 million AUM to work with start ups and early stage healthcare companies. He continues to be involved in academics and research and works hard to demystify problems in healthcare.

Gabriel Ng is a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman Private Equity in 2018, Gabriel was part of the GIC Private Equity Funds and Co-investments Group, where he focused on global secondary transactions. Previously, he worked at Providence Equity Partners in Hong Kong, where he focused on buyout and growth transactions in the Asia Pacific region. Gabriel also worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Asia M&A group. Gabriel received a BS in Economics, with honors (Magna Cum Laude), from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Kunal is a Managing Director at Pantheon, a global private markets manager with US$68bn in AuM. Kunal is a member of Pantheon’s Asia Investment Committee, and he is responsible for investments across primary (fund), secondary, and co-investment opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining Pantheon, Kunal worked at a middle-market direct private equity firm, and previously held roles at Citi Group and ICICI Bank. He holds a Master's from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a Bachelor's in Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology. Kunal is the Chair of the Limited Partners Council and a member of the Secondaries Special Interest Group at the India Venture Capital Association (IVCA). He was formerly based in Hong Kong and is now based in Singapore.

Lincoln Pan is a Partner of PAG, a leading Asia-based alternative investment fund managing over US$50bn in capital. He is a co-head of Private Equity and a member of the PAG Group Management Committee.

Lincoln has led work for many of PAG’s overseas investments, including Australian Venue Co, Huis Ten Bosch, Patties and Vesco, Cordina Foods, Nuvama Wealth, Rex Acme, Gamot API, Craveable Brands, Joyson Safety Systems, Cushman & Wakefield, Lexmark International and Food Union Group.

Prior to joining PAG, Lincoln was Regional CEO, Greater China for Willis Towers Watson. He previously worked with Advantage Partners, GE Capital and McKinsey & Company. Lincoln holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA from Williams College.

Neal Kok is a Managing Director at General Atlantic. Neal is based in Singapore where he focuses on investments in the firm’s portfolio companies that operate in the Southeast Asia and Australia region. Before joining General Atlantic in 2024, Neal worked at the KKR offices of Sydney and Singapore. Prior to that, Neal worked at Treadstone Partners and Goldman Sachs in Australia.

Education: The University of Notre Dame Australia, Bachelor of Laws & Bachelor of Commerce 

Pamela is a partner and investment committee member for the Morgan Stanley Private Equity Solutions Team and has 18 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.

Pinn is a founding member of Lightspeed Southeast Asia, a global early-stage investment fund. Prior to Lightspeed, she was at Insignia Venture Partners and Tiger Global Management, where she focused on consumer and financial technology across SEA, India and China. She worked closely with Flipkart (sold to Walmart), Ola, Policybazaar, Hike, Games 24x7, Razorpay, Uxin (IPO exit). Pinn started her career as a management consultant at Bain & Company and also founded Grab’s motorcycle-on-demand in Bangkok, Thailand. Pinn graduated from Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania with a double degree in Psychology and Finance.

Ritika is responsible for deepening ESG integration across TA’s investment process and partnering with management teams to identify and progress ESG-related value creation opportunities post-investment. Ritika also leads cross-portfolio initiatives to drive value across the TA portfolio. Prior to joining TA in 2021, Ritika was an Associate Partner at Bain & Company. Previously, Ritika was an Investment Banking Associate at Credit Suisse. She received a BA in Economics, First Class Honours, from the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) and an MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School of Business.

Shivani has over 12 years of experience in sustainability and impact strategy. Since joining Quadria in January 2022, she has led the firm’s efforts to assess, measure, and advance ESG and impact outcomes across its portfolio companies. The firm strives to deliver compelling market rate risk-adjusted financial returns alongside evidence-based, positive and measurable impact to society. Prior to Quadria, Shivani held key roles at KPMG, and PwC.

Simon Feiglin joined Riverside in 2007. He leads the RAF transacting and operating teams in the acquisition, growth and sale of portfolio companies, as well as the development of the strategic direction of the fund. Prior to Riverside, he was a founding Partner of Silver Oak Services Partners, a private equity fund focused on investing in the services sector. He also served as the Vice President of Corporate Development at CBIZ Inc., where he managed the merger, acquisition and divestiture effort for a $600 million publicly traded company. His earlier career includes four years at Morgenthaler Partners, a private equity firm. He holds a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Yoshi focuses innovative strategies and products with the investment horizon structures. He has more than 35 years of experience in investment and risk management. Before that, Mr. Kiguchi was a managing director of Russell Investments in Japan, where he supervised several teams, and delivered a wide range of consulting and solutions to the institutional clients including Toyota, Fujitsu, NEC, Sekisui, Toray, and Mazda. He joined Russell as a consultant in 1998.Prior to joining Russell, Mr. Kiguchi was with Sumitomo Life for ten years. He was placed in charge of corporate strategy, equity investments, researching capital markets, including private equities, and performing quanti-tative risk management and ALM.B.S., Precision Machinery (Robotics), the University of Tokyo, 1988.

Ms. Lu is a Managing Director and Head of Execution and Portfolio Monitoring for APAC Private Credit at BlackRock. She is responsible for overall APAC private credit deal execution, portfolio monitoring and investment oversight. Ms. Lu has over 20 years of experience in private credit investing, corporate finance and investment banking.