BFI@SMU Developments and Investment Trends in Family Offices

Dr Jeremy LOH, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Genesis Alternative Ventures

Jeremy LOH is a seasoned venture equity and venture debt executive with over a decade of experience investing and nurturing early and growth stage start-ups. In 2018, he co-founded Southeast Asia first dedicated venture debt fund, making private debt in the venture capital industry available as an alternative asset class for family offices and institutions. 

Jeremy has more than 15 years of venture capital investment experience and spent 4 years in the heart of Silicon Valley, California where he headed up Singapore’s EDBI USA office. Jeremy is a pioneer of venture lending in Southeast Asia, helping entrepreneurs to understand the value of debt and making venture debt more widely available. At DBS, he also worked closely with the bank’s Private Bank relationship managers and their clients who were keen to understand venture debt as a new asset class and to bring venture deals to these wealthy clients. 

Jeremy also teaches at Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business as an adjunct professor. He designed a course in entrepreneurship and business creation to provide undergraduates with a fresh peek into the startup world. Jeremy leverages his network to bring startup founders and venture capital investors to his class for his students to be able to interact with industry practitioner.

Ms Serena WONG, Head of Advisory, Kamet Capital Partners

Serena is Head of Client Advisory at Kamet Capital Partners, a professional multi-family office to new economy founders in Asia. She delivers the firm’s services across investment management, wealth planning, administrative services and philanthropy, to Asia’s most innovative entrepreneurs. 
  
Prior to Kamet, Serena was Head of Indonesia market for JPMorgan Private Bank where she worked with families and family offices and won the Business Partnership Award for cross-business lines transactions. Serena honed Investment Banking experience with Société Générale Corporate & Investment Bank in the Paris and London offices where she covered Metals & Mining and Project Financing. She started her career at GIC Private Limited, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. 
  
Serena holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Tuck School Business at Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Social Science (with Honours) degree from National University of Singapore. Serena is passionate to amplify women’s voice in Business; she was a founding committee member of JPMorgan’s Women Interactive Network in Asia. She is Co-Founder of Women in Family Office, a professional group that supports and grows the number of women decision makers in Asia’s family office sector. To give back to her alma mater, Serena is Council Member for Asia Pacific region for Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.