The Future is Now

Anderson holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Previously, Anderson worked at IBM (New York) as Chief Analytics Office before joining the Boston Consulting Group. Anderson is also listed as "Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia'' in 2020 along with his co-founder, Yada Piyajomkwan. Anderson is very passionate about financial technology which translates into Ajaib's vision of "Welcoming a new generation of investors into modern financial services." Ajaib was founded in 2019 and currently has reached 1 million stock accounts as of Sep 2021.

Spaceship is a branded direct-to-consumer business which enables younger generations to invest in their future - all the way to retirement - by providing them with simple, engaging, low-cost digital products. In less than 5 years Spaceship has grown to manage over A$1.25 billion on behalf of over 200,000 customers. The company is now recognised as a leading investment platform in Australia for Millennials and GenZ’s.

Andrew has over 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry. He has held senior executive roles in retail banking, digital product delivery and M&A. His career includes time with PwC, Bankers Trust, GE Capital and Westpac Bank.

The father of three GenZ boys, Andrew has a passion for helping young people to learn about investing, so they can begin their wealth building journey and habits from an early age.

Powering Smart City economies, it is an investor, business builder and operator of Smart Citytech infrastructure companies. Creating value by transforming the future of city living, Venturous leverages the latest deep Citytech, strategic partnerships and digital transformation to make cities more liveable, sustainable and productive, in China and beyond. The Group’s corporate structure allows for venture capital, private equity, pre-IPO deals, M&A, co-investments, incubation, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, and it has its own IPO on the horizon.

Benson is a “3-in-1” civil engineer, software engineer and financial engineer. He combines deep finance, technology and China insights.

He has been a private equity investor in Asia for 30 years, including being a Partner at Fidelity Growth Partners Asia. During his ten years at Fidelity he was involved in multiple China “Super-Unicorns” such as Alibaba, AsiaInfo (software and IT services provider) and WuXi AppTec (pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device provider).

Benson started his journey into finance in 1989 as an investment banker at S.G. Warburg in London, followed by East Asia Warburg in Hong Kong. In 1992, he began his private equity career at Hellman & Friedman Asia in Hong Kong.

For the past 20 years since 2002 Benson has been based in Beijing. He holds a MSc in Computing from University of Oxford and a “double first” BSc in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London, and is also a UK Chartered Accountant.

The company was started in 2014 by him and his two other Co-Founders Boxian and Shaun when they realised the market potential of catering to the logistics needs of the e-commerce industry. With a focus on taking the hassle out of the parcel deliveries for customers, Chang Wen and his team are dedicated to ensuring that logistics is a simple and seamless affair for our business partners and consumers.

Specialising in e-commerce deliveries, Ninja Van believes in powering businesses with innovative logistics solutions. The company believes in offering a consistent hassle-free delivery experience for merchants across Southeast Asia and providing clients with a singular access point into the region.

With plans to continue expanding and serving in the current markets the company operates in, Chang Wen’s vision is for Ninja Van to open Southeast Asia to a world of possibilities, one delightful delivery at a time.

Chang Wen graduated with a Bachelor of Finance from Singapore Management University and worked as a derivatives trader at Barclays before setting up men’s custom fashion retailer Marcella. His experience with the online retail business made him realise there could be a more efficient way of delivering and tracking packages, resulting in the creation of Ninja Van.

A natural-born entrepreneur, Chang Wen conceived his first business venture when he was a student, having discovered that putting together second-hand bicycle parts and selling the finished product could land him a neat profit. He is passionate about harnessing technology to improve lives and enjoys adapting classical mathematical models to provide real-world solutions.

He also has deep and forward-looking insights into global and cross-industry management and starting new businesses.

In 2016, Mr. Daniel Huang founded MEGAROBO, which integrates advanced robotics and AI technologies deeply into industry applications, helps to promote the automation and intelligent upgrade of various industries, and strives for unremitting innovations for creating a more efficient, healthier and better world for everyone. Over the past five years, MEGAROBO has rapidly grown into a leading innovative tech giant in China under the leadership and management of Mr. Daniel Huang. Headquartered in Beijing, MEGAROBO also launches operations in Beijing, Suzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Detroit, and Munich, and hires over 600 cross-field high-performing professionals. MEGAROBO boasts a number of core technologies that are competitive worldwide, and has applied for more than 260 invention patents.

MEGAROBO mainly focuses on the research and development of robotics and AI technologies and deeply integrates them into industry applications, and empowers smart changes in life sciences, advanced manufacturing and simultaneously explores innovative applications in smart retail and other scenarios. Additionally, MEGAROBO’s technical applications and solutions have been well-received by lighthouse customers.

The high-throughput pathogen testing pre-processing stations for nucleic acid testing produced by MEGAROBO have played an important role in the fight against COVID-19, and the daily processing capacity of each robot is 20 times higher than that of manual detection. No manual intervention is required throughout the whole process, greatly reducing the risk of infection for front-line medical personnel. MEGAROBO's pathogen testing pre-processing product line is expanding rapidly and its products have been distributed to dozens of hospitals and disease control centers in China.
Though MEGAROBO, as an innovation-driven startup, has gone through the hardest time, Mr. Daniel Huang and his team have never slacked off and will stay true to their original aspiration. “It is acceptable that we fail in 9 things out of the 10. This is the price for innovation.”

Mr. Daniel Huang has obtained an MBA from Tsinghua University after graduating from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He used to work for a leading test and measurement institution in China. In 2020, he was selected into The Gen.T List, a list of young leaders shaping Asia’s future.

Prior to Jungle, David spent 3.5 years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the TPG Growth fund.

Prior to TPG, David spent 12 years at Yahoo! Inc where he was the Head of International M&A on the Corporate Development team. In this role, he was responsible for driving all transaction activity
and the investment strategy for Yahoo! outside of North America, including their expansion into new markets, such as Russia, Turkey, Middle East, Africa and SE Asia. In 2011, David was also the Managing Partner at Xplorer Capital, a growth equity venture capital firm which spun out from Yahoo! to focus on internet and digital media opportunities in the emerging markets.

David continues to be an Advisor to TPG Capital and represents them as a non-executive director on the board of Propertyguru, the largest online real estate platform in SE Asia. 

David holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Radford University and a Master’s Degree from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney.

He obtained the Doctor Degree of artificial intelligence from University of Texas at Dallas and was one of the first students of basic science Yao Class of Tsinghua University and the top 1 of the Department of Mathematical Science. He was once the No.1 in Science in college entrance examination of Hunan Province in the year. As a team leader, Dr. Zhou once was in charge of the auto driving robot in agriculture project in Texas Instruments. In 2016, Zhou entered Automatic driving division of Baidu American Research Institute, in charge of multi-sensor fusion and perceptual depth learning algorithm. During that period, he helped Baidu improve detection accuracy of traffic signs to 99% through calibration of internal and external parameters of lidar, global positioning system, camera and millimeter wave radar. He also led the team to win the No.1 in global developers’ competition sponsored by DJI, participated by over 200 teams all over the world. In 2009, he won the third prize of Challenge Cup. In 2004, he obtained the first prize in Chinese Physics Olympiad and National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces. In 2003, he won the golden medal in robot soccer competition.

Prior to joining Tiger Global, Jason was a Director for TA Associates, where he focused on investments in growth companies in China. Prior to this, he was leading Asia Pacific investments for Summit Partners. Representative investments include Alibaba, Meituan, Didi, Beke, 58 Ganji, Meitu, Momo, Grab, Bilibili and TuSimple. Jason has over 15 years of investment experience in Asia and the US. Jason graduated from Northwestern University with both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Economics.

He, representing MioTech, is a member of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association and the Director of the Alliance of Carbon Emissions Trading in China. He has been invited to speak at world-renowned conferences such as at IOSCO and at UNEP FI to address the role of technology in the global sustainability push.

He joined Grab from SoftBank Group Corp., a leading global technology company and one of Grab’s key strategic investors, where he was based in Tokyo and helped to oversee SoftBank’s investments in leading companies in the ridesharing and e-commerce industries, including SoftBank’s April 2015 Series D investment in Grab and additional Series F investment in September 2016.

Prior to joining SoftBank, Ming was a Principal at Ancora Capital Management Pte Ltd based in Jakarta. Prior to Ancora, between 2000-2012, Ming was a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, the firm’s global private equity group, and was based in Tokyo, New York and San Francisco. At Goldman Sachs, he managed investments across a wide spectrum of industries and served on the boards of several technology and media companies. Ming received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From 2013 to 2020, Mr Aguzin was CEO, J.P. Morgan, Asia Pacific where he was responsible for all the firm’s business across 17 markets. Mr Aguzin presided over some of the firm’s major expansion efforts during the period, including establishing itself in China as one of the few international financial institutions with a full range of services and capabilities; including a fully-owned locally incorporated commercial bank, a majority-owned securities company, an asset management company and a futures and options company. Concurrent with his Asia CEO role, Mr Aguzin also ran J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking division in Asia. During his tenure the bank rose to become one of the leading investment banks in the Asia Pacific region.

Mr Aguzin joined J.P. Morgan in 1990 in Buenos Aires as a financial analyst. Between 1990 and 2005, he held a variety of roles in New York and Buenos Aires, and in 2005 he was appointed as CEO, Latin America. In 2008 and 2009, in addition to his responsibilities as CEO, Latin America and Head of Latin America Investment Banking, he served as Senior Country Officer for Brazil.

Mr Aguzin holds a bachelor degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the US and is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

At AWAK, in addition to building a vibrant start-up team and achieving notable success in completing the first-in-human safety trial, under his leadership, the company’s valuation grew significantly over the last few years and secured a whopping $40million in late 2019.

Before becoming CEO at AWAK Technologies, he worked for Hill-Rom, a US$7.0B (market cap) medical devices company (NYSE: HRC), as the Director for Front Line Care business. He was responsible for developing and commercializing multiple medical devices globally through 510 (K) and CE clearance processes and spearheading innovation culture.

Before joining Hill-Rom, Suresha worked as a technical/software lead at Robert Bosch, a Euro 73B automotive component supplier. He provided leadership to a talented software engineering team in developing cutting-edge engine control systems for Daimler Chrysler and Mercedes.

Suresha received a Master of Science degree in Computer Control Systems from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India.

Yoshi started his career at Lehman Brothers securitization team followed by full-time day trading where he learned about retail brokerage platforms.

During his doctoral study, Joshua, the open source machine translation software developed by Li Zhifei, was one of the two mainstream machine translation software in the world academic circle. After graduation, Li Zhifei joined Google headquarters as a scientist, engaged in the research and development of machine translation, mainly developed Google's offline machine translation system for mobile phones.

In 2012, Li Zhifei resigned from Google and returned to China to set up an AI company Mobvoi. Li Zhifei gathered engineers from Stanford, Maryland, MIT, Tsinghua, Peking University and other famous universities to form the initial core founding team of Mobvoi. Through nearly one year of technical research and development, he built the foundation of core technologies such as speech recognition, semantic understanding, dialogue management and vertical search.

In order to realize the goal of putting the leading artificial intelligence technology into daily life, Li Zhifei led his team to explore and try constantly. Mobvoi has successively applied artificial intelligence technology to many scenes such as AI wearable, AI vehicle-mounted and AI enterprise services, so that AI technology can truly serve every ordinary person's daily life.

Prior to founding 23andMe, Anne spent a decade on Wall Street investing in healthcare and felt frustrated by a system built around monetizing illness instead of incentivizing prevention. She wanted to flip that model on its head and build a business that helps people prevent illness rather than profit from it. Anne focused on empowering people with direct access to genetic information so that they could use their data to make decisions that could lower their risks for disease. Under her leadership, 23andMe now provides the only personal genetic test with FDA authorization to deliver health information directly to consumers.

From the beginning, Anne's goal and 23andMe’s mission has not wavered. Along with empowering consumers with health information, Anne wanted 23andMe to transform how research discoveries are made and revolutionize the development of treatments for disease. By inviting people to participate in research, 23andMe is able to crowdsource billions of data points resulting in the world’s largest resource for genetic research. This novel, web-based approach has already resulted in thousands of new genetic insights and allows 23andMe to rapidly recruit participants to multiple studies at once, reducing the time and resources needed to make discoveries and is integral to 23andMe’s mission of understanding and benefiting from the human genome This new approach to research also powers 23andMe’s therapeutics group, which is helping to translate this knowledge into new treatments for serious unmet medical needs. In line with this, 23andMe is now also using its unique model to speed recruitment for clinical trials.

Anne is a pioneer in the direct-to-consumer DNA testing space and her vision and persistence have allowed 23andMe to provide people with unprecedented access to genetic information. Through its research platform, 23andMe has brought personalized medicine directly to millions of consumers.

Anne graduated from Yale University with a BS in Biology.

He also leads the cooperative insect industry association, the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), and is a Board Member of Protéine France consortium and LFD. Prior to co-founding Ÿnsect, Antoine worked on scientific projects in environmental risk assessment, biomass, and plastics recycling. He is an agronomy engineer graduate from AgroCampus-Ouest and AgroParisTech.

Antonio served as Lead Independent Director at Tesla from September 2010 until April 2019 and continues to serve as a Director of the company. He is a Director of several Valor portfolio companies, including Space Exploration Technologies. He is a member of all Valor Investment Committees.

Antonio is actively involved in philanthropic activities. He is a trustee of The Aspen Institute, a member of the board of visitors of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a member of the board of visitors of the University of Chicago Law School. Additionally, he is a member of the board of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago and a member of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.

In 2015, Antonio was appointed to the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship Program, chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. The program was a first-of-kind collaboration among the White House, entrepreneurs, the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow, an Aspen Institute program designed to engage the next generation of leaders in the challenge of community spirited leadership. In 2008, Antonio received the Immigrant & Refugee Contributions Award for Entrepreneurial & Business Leadership from Changing Worlds, an educational arts non-profit organization.

Prior to founding Valor, Antonio was the Founder and Managing Member of MG Capital where he acquired and acted as Chief Executive Officer for a number of manufacturing and technology related companies. At MG Capital, together with the team that is still together at Valor today, he developed the operational skills that Valor uses to help its portfolio companies achieve scale and enhance their value. Prior to MG Capital he was at Goldman Sachs.

Antonio holds a joint B.S. and M.S.F.S. (Honors Degree) in International Finance and Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He also studied corporate structures and economic development at Waseda University in Tokyo. Prior to completing his Masters, Antonio returned to Japan as a Nikko Securities Fellow. Antonio holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Many of her portfolio companies have become public companies in 2021, such as Hippo (NYSE: HIPO), Doma (NYSE: DOMA) and Bakkt, etc., and many more of her early investments are multi-billion dollar businesses today, for example, N26, WeFox, Blockstream, Airwallex and Ajaib. In addition, Frances is working on expanding Horizons’ investment footprint into South East Asia in recent years.

Warren has been instrumental in developing the firm’s presence with New Economy companies across the region. In his role in Private Financing Markets, he has also collaborated closely with Global Wealth Management and Global Markets to provide unique opportunities for investor clients.

He previously worked for JPMorgan and Credit Suisse as a technology banker and capital markets specialist. He has been based in Hong Kong since 2010 and previously on the West Coast in the US.

Warren graduated with distinction from Stanford University where he received his B.A. in Economics and was Phi Beta Kappa.

He is responsible for all the views on commodities and currencies, as well as the underlying recommendations. Previously, Dominic was running the Non-Traditional Asset Class (NTAC) Research team from May 2012 to January 2014. Prior to that, he was in charge of the macroeconomics team in APAC with his move to Singapore in September 2010, in addition to his role as Head Commodity Research on a global level since 2008.

From 2004 to 2007, Dominic was a forex analyst at the firm’s headquarters in Zurich and in Singapore where he focused on G10 and Asian currencies. He also worked as an equity analyst in UBS Wealth Management Research and in the research department of Bank Leu (Credit Suisse).

Dominic Schnider holds a master’s degree in economics and finance from the University of St. Gallenin Switzerland. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation as well as the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charter.

Between 2016 and 2020, Mattoli was Head of the Global Family Office, Greater China with responsibility for providing clients with a full range of WM/IB/AM services encompassing both their family and business needs. During his tenure, Asian Private Banker named UBS Wealth Management Best Bank for Family Office Services for three years in a row.

Between 2009 and 2015, Mattoli was Asia Pacific Head for Investment Products and Services for the UHNW segment where, levering on the integrated bank platform, his team provided client solutions across asset classes. In this role he worked closely with client advisors to provide UHNW clients with access to the institutional-type products and services available from UBS's investment banking and asset management businesses.

Mattoli came to Asia in 2005 as Head of Active Advisory, Asia, a specialist team providing customised non-discretionary portfolio management services and advice on strategic and tactical asset allocation.

In Milan, he was responsible for the Investment Consulting Business Development for Italian domestic clients. In New York he was front-line investment advisor in Active Advisory

Mattoli holds an LLB from Kings College London, University of London, an MBA from Ivey Business School at Western University, Canada and a Masters in Real Estate from University College of Estate Management.

His responsibility is coverage of the healthcare and chemicals sectors. Lachlan originally joined UBS Investment Bank in 2000 as a corporate finance analyst, before moving to equity research where he covered biotechnology and medical technology stocks. He subsequently covered European pharmaceuticals as a sell-side analyst at HSBC, and global healthcare as a sector specialist salesperson at Societe Generale and Kepler Capital Markets. Lachlan re-joined UBS in March 2015 in the CIO. He holds a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham, the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing, and is a CFA charterholder.