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Alex Boulton

Partner at Bain & Company (Singapore)

Alex has been working with Bain for 12 years, across regions but primarily focused on Southeast Asia. He is leader of
Bain’s healthcare private equity vertical across APAC, and member of Bain’s SEA private equity practice. He has led
more than 80 commercial due diligence engagements and supported financial investor clients across a range of topics
from fund/investment strategy through to portfolio value creation and exit value maximization.

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Chino Esguerra

Senior Manager at Bain & Company (Manila)

Chino has been working with Bain for 4 years, he started in the Singapore office (2017-2020) before moving back
home to be part of the founding leadership team for the Manila office (opened in 2021). He is a member of Bain’s SEA
private equity practice, with particular focus on digital platforms, e-commerce, and financial services. Chino has
helped lead more than 25 commercial due diligence projects and advised financial investor clients on investment
strategy and sector scans. He was previously Vice President with HSBC (investment banking and financial markets).
Chino has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD

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Hoo Jiunn Yih

Associate Director, Valuation Service of Deloitte

Jiunn Yih is a Valuation & Modelling Services Director with over 13 years of collective experience in valuation, mergers
and acquisitions and audit experience serving private equity, multinationals and local listed companies.

Jiunn Yih has completed numerous engagements on acquisition and divestiture pricing, purchase price allocation,
litigation support, and intellectual property. His experience spans across various industries which include Real Estate
and Hospitality, Manufacturing, Retail / Consumer Business, Media & Telecommunications, and Technology.

He was the engagement manager in the independent expert team acting for both parties in a landmark arbitration
requiring an estimation of the value of a 55% equity stake in a Myanmar based alcohol and beverage joint venture
company.

He was also the engagement manager on the valuation of Singapore’s first successful loan application case using
intellectual property as collateral by Masai Group International under iPOS’ IP Financing Scheme (“IPFS”).

As per of his duties, he is responsible for annual portfolio valuation for private equity clients as well as review of
impairment, property valuations and PPA reports performed for audit clients.

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Tan Kim Seng

Venture Advisor at Insignia Ventures Partners

Professor TAN Kim Seng has over 35 years of experience in fund management, banking, engineering,
entrepreneurship and training. He co-founded and served as the CEO of 3V SourceOne Capital, a cross-Pacific
venture capital firm. He was a former Executive Director of UOB Venture Management responsible for direct
investments in China, USA and ASEAN, primarily in technology projects in IT, biomedical, cleantech, fintech and
industrial products. He had served as the Treasurer and chaired the Industry Development Committee and Valuation
Committee of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

Kim Seng was involved in retail electronic banking infrastructure projects while serving as the committee chair with
the Association of Banks in Singapore and also operation committee member of NETS. He had 5 years of experience
in engineering, automation and digital communication system with Texas Instruments and Northern Telecom. He is
a member of the investment panel of the Nanyang Technological University’s Strategic Research Innovation Fund and
has served for 6.5 years previously as an investment panel member of SEEDS Capital, Enterprise Singapore. He holds
a M.Sc. (Industrial Eng.) and a B.Eng. (EE) (Hons) degree from the National University of Singapore and is an alumnus
of the US Venture Capital Institute.

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Dennis Le

Senior Investment Associate at Openspace Ventures

Dennis is currently a Senior Investment Associate at Openspace Ventures where he covers seed-to-growth stage
investment opportunities in Vietnam and Singapore. He was previously a Consultant at Roland Berger and Analysys
Mason, where he focused on strategy development, operational improvement and transaction support in the TMT
sector. Dennis holds a CEMS Masters’ in International Management from the London School of Economics and HEC
Paris, as well as a BBA (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore.

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Jonathan Pentzien

Managing Partner at Gunderson Dettmer, Singapore

Jon is the managing and founding partner of Gunderson Dettmer’s Singapore office. Previously based in the firm’s
New York office, Jon has extensive experience advising global emerging growth technology companies throughout
their lifecycle as well as acting for venture and growth equity investors on some of the largest financing rounds and
M&A transactions in India and Southeast Asia.

Jon is recognized as a Band 1 Leading Individual for Startups & Emerging Companies by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021
and named to India Business Law Journal’s A-List 2021. With nearly 15 years of experience, Jon has advised on
numerous private and public cross-border transactions in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea, China, Middle
East/North Africa, Europe, Australia, and the United States, including private securities offerings, mergers and
acquisitions, and U.S.- listed initial public offerings of foreign private issuers and domestic issuers. He also advises his
clients on matters of corporate governance, public disclosure, and executive compensation.

A Notre Dame graduate, Jon served as an officer in the United States Navy before receiving his J.D. from Rutgers Law
School with Highest Honors, after which he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Chester J. Straub of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Joseph E. Irenas of the United States District Court
for the District of New Jersey. Prior to joining Gunderson Dettmer, Jon practiced with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New
York.

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Joel Seow

Partner at Linklaters Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Joel is a private investment funds partner at Linklaters. He has over a decade of experience in top-tier investment funds practices in London and Singapore. Joel has extensive experience advising sponsors in Asia on the establishment of private investment funds across various asset classes and jurisdictions, with a particular focus on private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, hedge and special situations funds. He regularly interacts with the Monetary Authority of Singapore on issues relating to fund management and is an active contributor and participant on major initiatives within the funds industry. Joel is a member of the SVCA Advocacy Committee.

Xuan Yong Soh (Managing Director of Tower Capital Asia)

Xuan Yong Soh

Managing Director of Tower Capital Asia

Xuan Yong is Managing Director and Investment Committee Member at Tower Capital. He has focused on private
equity and credit investments since 2005 and has led deals in buyouts, growth capital and structured leveraged
transactions across education, consumer, logistics and business services sectors. Previously, he was with ICG, 3i and
global hedge funds based in Singapore, Hong Kong and New York. Xuan Yong began his career at Merrill Lynch in
investment banking. Xuan Yong has a Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) from Cornell University with triple majors in
Computer Science, Economics and Independent Major (College Scholar Program). He also holds CFA and FRM
charters. Besides being on the boards of portfolio companies, he sits on the Professional Development committee of
the Singapore Venture & Private Equity Association (SVCA).