36th AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum 2023 | ION Analytics | 12 November 2023 | Four Seasons Hotel, 8 Finance St, Central, Hong Kong

The event, convened by ION Analytics, is comprised of 6 conferences and an awards ceremony that highlights key market opportunities, macroeconomic and strategical issues facing the private equity industry ranging from the latest investment themes and fundraising strategies to best practice ESG and DE&I.

Chosen and supported by the industry’s leading players, the AVCJ Forum will engage over 4,200 senior investors, advisors and regulators focused on the private markets of Asia and globally into one platform live in Hong Kong and online creating an unrivalled connected community of your peers.

Find out who attended and spoke at last year's event - click here to download last year's forum review.

2023 Speakers

Erwin Afinidad
Senior Investment Manager, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation(CSC)

Gaurav Ahuja
Partner, CHRYSCapital

Shohei Akiyama
Chief Administrative Officer, NSSK

Dr. Virginia Alzina
Managing Director & Head of Sustainability, EMERGEVEST

Giovanni Amodeo
Member of the Executive Team, ION Analytics

Roxanne Anderson
Senior Partner, AZB & Partners

Mike Arougheti
Co-Founder, CEO and President, Ares Management Corporation

Kiran Aziz
Head Responsible Investments, KLP

Troy Barnett
Partner, Secondaries, Adams Street Partners

Matthew S. Belcher
Global Private Equity COO, KPMG LLP

Toby Belsom
Director of Guidance, PRI

Rahul Bhargava
Co-Head of Asia, Advantage Partners

Richard Blair
Senior Managing Director, Blackstone

Nicholas Bloy
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Navis Capital Partners

Thomas Bremner
Partner, Growth Equity, Adams Street Partners

Jennifer Buckley
Founder and Managing Director, SWEEF Capital

Tim Burroughs
Managing Editor, Asian Venture Capital Journal

Pablo Calo
Founding Partner, Fairview Capital Group

Michael Caristo
Co-Founder & Partner, Genesis Capital

Christophe Cerisier
Managing Director – Co-Head of Loans & Specialized Finance Asia-Pacific, BNP Paribas

Edwin Chan
Managing Director, Head of Client Solutions, Asia, iCapital

Bonnie Chan
Co-Chief Operating Officer, Hong Kong Exchanges And Clearing Limited(HKEX)

Donald Chan
Managing Director-Asia Pacific, CDP

Darryl Chan, JP
Deputy Chief Executive, HONG KONG MONETARY AUTHORITY (HKMA)

Sanjoy Chatterjee
Global Head of Business Development and President of America, Everstone Capital Asia PTE LTD

Saurabh Chatterjee
Director, CHRYSCapital Advisors

Shan Chen
Lead Portfolio Manager, PSPRS

Scott Chen
Managing Partner, L Catterton

Hongwei Chen
Partner and Managing Director, Forebright Capital

Michael Chen
Managing Director, Member of Investment Committee, Centurium Capital

Scarlett Chen
Managing Partner, Verge Healthtech Fund

Shane Chesson
Partner, Openspace Ventures

Mark Chiba
Group Chairman & Partner, The Longreach Group

Leo Chiu
Managing Director, Tencent Investments

Sarit Chopra
Head of Special Situations, Asia, Bain Capital

Shannon Chow
Managing Director, Head of Greater China Client Solutions, Hamilton Lane

Liam Coppinger
Senior Managing Director, Head of Private Equity Asia, Manulife Investment Management

Doug Coulter
Partner, Head of Private Equity, Asia-Pacific, LGT Capital Partners

Mitesh Daga
Partner, TPG Capital Asia

Toby Damek
Partner, Ares Management

Michael Dennis
Managing Director, Head of Alternatives Strategy & Capital Markets, Asia Pacific, Blackrock

Eric Deram
Managing Partner, Flexstone Partners

Brian Dillard
Partner and Head of Asia Credit, KKR

Fi Dinh
Managing Director, Head of Fund Finance APAC, MUFG Investor Services

James Dubow
Managing Director, Head of North Asia, Alvarez & Marsal Asia

Patrik Edsparr
Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder, TOR Investment Management

Luke Edwards
Managing Director, Brookfield

Markus Egloff
Managing Director and Head of Global Wealth Solutions – International, KKR

Marcia Ellis
Global Co-Chair, Private Equity Group, Morrison Foerster

Carolina Espinal
Managing Director, Harbourvest Partners

Alison Ewings
General Manager ESG, QIC

Frankie Fang
Founding Managing Partner, Starquest Capital

Sarah Farrell
Head of Private Equity for Europe and Asia, Allstate Investments

Xinyi Feng
Managing Director, Growth and Corporate Equity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Richard Folsom
Representative Partner, Advantage Partners

Amy Fong
Managing Director, FountainVest Partners (Asia) Limited

Mathieu Forcioli
Global Head and Asia-Pacific Head of Alternatives, HSBC Wealth

Pamela Fung
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Private Equity Solutions

JP Gan
Founding Partner, INCE Capital

Robin Ganguly
Global Executive Editor, INFRALOGIC

Manav Garg
Founding Partner, Together Fund

Stefano Ghezzi
Director, Infrastructure & Natural Resources Asia Pacific, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Dominic Goh
Managing Director, Harbourvest Partners

Vincent Gombault
Managing Partner & Founding Partner, CLIPWAY

Anil Gorthy
Senior Portfolio Manager, Avenue Capital Group

Evan Greenfield
Managing Director of ESG, Private Equity NYC, BCI

Lucinda Guthrie
Executive Editor, Mergermarket

Lydia Hao
Managing Director, Harbourvest Partners

Andrew Harline
Partner, Cooley LLP

Yuka Hata
Managing Director, Head of Fund Investments, Japan Investment Corporation

Queenie Ho
Partner, Affinity Equity Partners

Priscilla Huang
Partner, Deal Advisory, KPMG

Jessica Huang Pouleur
Partner, Openspace Ventures

Stephanie Hui
Head of Private and Growth Equity in Asia Pacific, Co-Head of Asia Pacific Private Investment and Global-Head and Co-CIO of Growth Equity, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Charles-Antoine Janssen
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Healthquad

Kaiser Jasrai
Managing Director, Head of Investor Relations & Fundraising, Gulf Capital

Yan Jiao
Partner, BPEA EQT

James Jin
Managing Partner, Ventech China

Wataru Kano
Executive Director, Head of Asia Investments, Japan Post Bank

Manish Kejriwal
Founder and Managing Partner, Kedaara Capital

Manish Kheterpal
Managing Partner, Waterbridge Ventures

Jay Kim
Partner, Orchestra Private Equity

Peter Kim
Partner, Head of Asia, Coller Capital

Youngrok Kim
Partner, Head of Investment, GREE LP FUND

Steve Ko
Founding Partner, BayPine

Huiting Koh
Founding Managing Partner, Blueprint Ventures

Katherine Koh
Global Climate Lead for Infrastructure & Energy, IFC

T.J. Kono
Partner, UNISON Capital

Dr. Mark Konyn
Group Chief Investment Officer, AIA Group

Archana Kotecha
Founder & CEO, The Remedy Project

Kate Kui
Partner, Harvest Capital

Sanjay Kukreja
Partner and Chief Investment Officer, CHRYSCapital

Rashmi Kumar
Editor, Mergermarket

Alvin Lam
Operating Partner, CVC Capital Partners

Thomas Lanyi
Head Southeast Asia, CDH Investments

Brian Lau
Managing Director, Shawkwei & Partners

Jeffrey Lau
CIO of Private Credit & Special Situations, Partner, Primavera Capital Group

Joe Lee
Managing Director, Underwriting and Portfolio Management, Churchill Asset Management (Investment Specialist Of Nuveen)

Edan Lee
Managing Director, Olympus Capital Asia

Pang Lee
Partner, Cooley LLP

Brian Lee
General Counsel, Fountainvest Partners

Geoff Lee
Executive Director, Head, Private Markets and Head, Technology, Khazanah Nasional

Grace Lee
Partner & Group COO, Qiming Venture Partners

Chulmin Lee
Managing Partner, VIG Partners

John Y.S. Lee
Partner, Lexington Partners

Chris Lerner
Operating Partner & CEO, Bonaccord Capital Asia & Asia Heritage Management

Nisa Leung
Managing Partner, Qiming Venture Partners

Nana Li
Head of Sustainability & Stewardship, Asia-Pacific, Impax Asset Management

Adrian Li
Founder & Managing Partner, AC Ventures

Alvin Lim
Senior Managing Director, CVC Capital Partners

Shaun Lim
Co-President, Partner, Hopu Investments

Beatrice Lion
General Partner, True Global Ventures

Sally Little
Head of Financial Institutions Lending APAC, ING

Xuong Liu
Managing Director, Asia Transaction Advisory Leader, Alvarez & Marsal

Michael Liu
Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors

Jeff Livingston
Partner, Integrum

Poman Lo
Vice Chairman, Century City International

Bonnie Lo
Partner & COO, TPG NEWQUEST

William Lo
Principal, Secondary Investments, Hamilton Lane

Eimund Loo
Partner, Digital Advisory, ERM

Jiali Mao
Chief Operating Officer, MSA Capital

Alexis Maskell
Partner, Global Head of Investor Relations, BC Partners

Benjamin Masson
Executive Director – Global Structured Credit & Solutions, Asia Pacific, Natixis CIB

Avnish Mehra
Vice Chairman & Head Private Equity, Everstone Capital

Leon Meng
Chairman and CEO, Ascendent Capital Partners

Abrar Mir
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Quadria Capital

Hemal Mirani
Managing Director, Harbourvest Partners (Asia) Limited

Luca Molinari
Executive Director – Head of Asia, Direct Investments, MUBADALA

Yana Morris
Chief Content Officer, Ion Analytics

Shantanu Mukerji
Managing Director, Consumer, Head, Singapore Office, Gulf Capital

Rodney Muse
Managing Partner, Navis Capital Partners

Shankar Narayanan
Founder, Sanaka Group

Nitin Nayar
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Filter Capital

Ann Ng
Partner, Maples Group and Member, 100 WOMEN IN FINANCE

Yipin Ng
Co-founder and Managing Partner, YUNQI Partners

Josh O'Neill
Head of Private Capital, DEBTWIRE

Michael Octoman
Senior Partner, Navis Capital Partners

Nozomi Oda
Partner & Co–Head Asia Private Equity, Morrison & Foerster

Moon-Suk (Moon) Oh
Partner, Altos Ventures

Steven Okun
Senior Advisor, Global Private Capital Association

Deepak Padaki
President, Catamaran

Jeffrey Paine
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Lincoln Pan
Partner and Co-Head of Private Equity, PAG

Abhay Pandey
General Partner, A91 Partners

Ferish Patel
Partner in Charge – Singapore, Cooley LLP

Simon Pearson
Managing Director, Emergevest

Ted Persson
Partner, EQT

Field Pickering
Managing Partner, Vulpes Ventures

Simon Pillar
Founder, Pacific Equity Partners

Kelly Pu
Partner, Bain & Company

Renuka Ramnath
Founder, Managing Director & CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management

Rafael Ratzel
Managing Partner, TH Capital International

Ben Ridley
Partner, ERM

Erika Rodriguez
Principal, Sustainable Investing, KKR

Shivani Sahai
Head of Impact & ESG, Quadria Capital

Jean Eric Salata
Head and Chairperson, BPEA EQT & EQT ASIA

Jussi Salovaara
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ANTLER

Kyle Shaw
Founder and Managing Partner, Shawkwei & Partners

Kenta Shima
Partner, J-Star Co., LTD.

Toshitaka (Taka) Shimizu
Partner, L CATTERTON

Jason Shin
Managing Partner, VIG Partners

Jacob Shu
Associate Director, Private Markets, University Pension Plan

Alex Shum
Managing Director, TPG Newquest

Christian Sinding
CEO and Managing Partner, EQT Partners

Torsten Slok
Partner & Chief Economist, Apollo Global Management

Kaushik Sriram
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal Asia

Nikos Stathopoulos
Chairman, Europe, BC Partners

Josh Stern
Managing Director, Private Investments, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Sue Su
Global Industry Analyst, Health Care, Wellington Management

Mary Sullivan
Senior Managing Director & Chief Talent Officer, CPP Investments

Bence Szegedi
Senior Director-ESG Portfolio Operations, Navis Capital Partners

Shinichi Takamiya
Managing Partner, Globis Capital Partners

James Tam
Partner, Bain Capital

Manas Tamotia
Managing Director, Alvarez And Marsal

Jui Tan
Managing Partner, Lanchi Ventures

Frank Tang
Chairman and CEO, Fountainvest Partners

Kok Yew Tang
Chairman and Managing Partner, Affinity Equity Partners

Eddie Thai
Co-founder & General Partner, AVV

Andrew Thompson
Asia Pacific, Head of Deal Advisory, Head of Private Equity, KPMG

Steven Tran
Partner, Private Equity, Morrison Foerster

Conrad Tsang
Founder and Chairman, Strategic Year Holdings Limited

Gregory Van
Chief Executive Officer, ENDOWUS

Ivan Vercoutere
Managing Partner, CIO, LGT Capital Partners

Aditya Vikram
Head of Private Equity, PRI

Ed Vinales
M&A Editor-Asia Pacific, DEALREPORTER

Andy Wang
Partner, Primary Investments, Beijing,Adams Street Partners

Emma Wang
Deputy General Manager of HK Branch, East West Bank

Hans Wang
Managing Partner, CVC Capital Partners

Oscar Wang
Director of APAC Business Development, ONTRA

Yiqing Wang
Managing Editor, M&A and ECM, APAC, MERGERMARKET

Dr. Mark Watson
Senior Managing Director & Head of ESG Advisory Asia Pacific, TENEO

Stephen Wesson
Managing Director and Head of Global Private Equity, HQ Capital

John White
Partner, Next Capital

Alex Wilmerding
Partner, Pantheon Ventures

Ken Wong
Partner and Head of Asia Pacific Infrastructure, EQT

Samson Wong
Chief Investment Officer (Private Markets), Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Liam Woods
Head of Business Development, Asia Pacific, Apex Group

Sophia Xia
Managing Director, Co-head of China Restructuring, Houlihan Lokey

Yi Xiao
Vice President, Permira Advisers

Eric Xin
Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner, Trustar Capital

Rebecca Xu
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Asia Alternatives

Kiki Yang
Senior Partner and Co-head, APAC Private Equity Practice, Bain & Company

Ling Yang
China Editor, Mergermarket

Zhan Yang
Principal, Coller Capital

Sharon Yang
Director, Climate, KKR

Kelvin Yap
Managing Director, Harbourvest Partners (Asia) Limited

Maggie Ye
Director, NIO Capital

Michael Yu
Partner, Cooley LLP

Emre Hidekazu Yuasa
General Partner, Globis Capital Partners

Martin Yung
Principal, Harbourvest Partners (Asia) Limited

Heath Zarin
Founder, Chair & CEO, Emergevest

Xun Zeng
Partner, Cooley LLP

Jie Zhang
Partner, Cooley LLP

Cindy Zhang
Executive Director, Gobi Partners

Yichen Zhang
Chairman and CEO, Trustar Capital

Jinjian Zhang
Founding Partner, VitalBridge

Michael Zhang
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, BA Capital

Lane Zhao
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Innovision Capital

Hao Zhou
Partner; Head, Greater China Private Equity practice, Bain & Company

Wei Zhou
Founding Managing Partner, CCV

Ping Zhou
Assistant Editor, China Bureau Chief, Debtwire

Brooke Zhou
Partner, LGT Capital Partners

Tang Zongzhong
Head of Sustainability, BPEA EQT

2023 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSORS:
• Affinity Equity Partners
• Apollo
• BC Partners
• CVC
• EmergeVest
• EQT
• iCapital
• Pacific Equity Partners (PEP)
• TPG
• Trustar Capital

ASIA SERIES SPONSOR:
• KPMG

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• Bain & Company

CO-SPONSORS:
• Alvarez & Marsal
• Ares Management Corporation
• BA Capital
• Bain Capital
• BayPine
• Bonaccord Capital Partners
• Clipway
• Coller Capital
• EverSource Capital
• Fairview Capital Group
• Goldman Sachs
• Gulf Capital
• HQ Capital
• InnoVision Capital
• Integrum
• J-STAR
• L Catterton
• Lexington Partners
• Loyal Valley Capital
• Madison India Capital
• Mubadala Investment Company
• Natixis Investment Managers
• Navis Capital Partners
• Nuveen
• Permira
• Primavera Capital
• ShawKwei & Partners
• Tencent Investment
• The Longreach Group
• Tor Investment Management
• VIG Partners
• Vitalbridge

INVESTMENT SUMMIT LEGAL SPONSORS:
• AZB & Partners
• Morrison Foerster

PE LEADERS SUMMIT SPONSORS:
• Apex Group
• Harneys
• Ontra

VC SUMMIT SPONSORS:
• Alois Ventures
• Globis Capital Partners
• GREE LP Fund
• HIKE Capital
• MSA Capital
• TH Capital
• True Global Ventures (TGV)
• Ventech China
• Waterbridge Ventures

VC SUMMIT LEGAL SPONSOR:
• Cooley

LP SUMMIT SPONSORS:
• Adams Street Partners
• Flexstone Partners (an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers)
• HarbourVest Partners
• LGT Capital Partners

ESG SUMMIT LEAD SPONSORS:
• ERM
• KKR

ESG SUMMIT CO-SPONSORS:
• Bain Capital
• EmergeVest
• EQT
• LGT Capital Partners
• Morrison Foerster
• Navis Capital Partners
• Nio Capital
• Starquest Capital

AWARDS SPONSORS:
• AlphaSights
• Alvarez & Marsal

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR:
• Intralinks

LP BREAKFAST SPONSOR:
• Asia Alternatives

OPENING COCKTAILS SPONSOR:
• EmergeVest

GALA DINNER SPONSOR:
• Affinity Equity Partners