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Invitation
Together with our Knowledge Partners,
China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group and Greenwillow Capital Management,
Business Families Institute @ Singapore Management University
Warmly invites you to our Knowledge Series
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Singapore-Sino Cross-border Investment Opportunities:
Unlocking the Potential of Tech Investment
Synopsis
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Interest in tech start-ups amongst business families has increased recently as these technologies present opportunities for strategic growth and investment. For many start-ups, their primary goals are to gain market traction, talent, and production capabilities. With its immense market size, talent pool, and investment capital, China presents many opportunities for start-ups to scale up rapidly.
In this Knowledge Series, we explore how Singapore tech start-ups can unlock opportunities in China to scale up and compete in international markets through live case discussions of tech start-ups venturing into China. In addition, with the strong reverse flow of Chinese investment coming to Singapore - both as an attractive investment destination and using it as a springboard to enter SE Asia markets, the session will also provide insights on cross-border investments
Please join Professor Emeritus Annie Koh, Professor Kenneth Goh, and our guests - Mr Bernard Teo, Consultant of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd. (CSSD); Mr Loh Wai Keong, former Managing Director and Region Head for Asia (Real Estate) in GIC, and the founders of ProfilePrint, Mr Alan Lai, and Willowmore, Mr Joseph Tey, as we expound on this topic.
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Date:
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Friday, 6 May 2022
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Time:
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3:00pm to 5:00pm (Registration starts at 2:30pm)
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Venue:
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Suzhou Industrial Park International Business Cooperation Centre (Singapore)
one-north, Blk 55 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Level 1 Gardens Gallery
Singapore 139949
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- Invitation is open to family principals and their family members only. BFI@SMU reserves the right to the acceptance of registration.
- In compliance with the Vaccine-Differentiated Safe Management Measures, all guests are required to be vaccinated, as indicated in the TraceTogether app.
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Time
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Programme
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2:30pm
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Registration & Networking (with on-site technology demo)
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3:00pm
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Welcome Address
By Professor Annie Koh, Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice) and Senior Advisor, Business Families Institute, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
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3:05pm
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Ready to embrace the wave of Chinese Investment in Singapore
Presentation by Mr Bernard Teo, Consultant, China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd. (CSSD)
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3:15pm
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Navigating through China’s Multi-Trillion Market Opportunity
Presentation by Mr Tan Choon Kian, Managing Partner for Venture Capital Funds, Greenwillow Capital Management
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3:30pm
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Live Case Discussion - How SG tech start-ups can scale through opportunities in China
Discussants:
- Mr Alan Lai, Founder & CEO, ProfilePrint
- Mr Loh Wai Keong, CEO & Managing Director, Greenwillow Capital Management
- Mr Bernard Teo, Consultant, China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd. (CSSD)
- Mr Joseph Tey, Founder & Managing Partner, Willowmore
Moderated by Assistant Professor Kenneth Goh, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management; Academic Director, Business Families Institute; V3 Group Fellow in Family Entrepreneurship, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
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4:30pm
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Networking Session
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5:00pm
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End of Event
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Speakers & Panellists
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Assistant Professor Kenneth Goh
Assistant Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director, Business Families Institute
V3 Group Fellow in Family Entrepreneurship
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University
Assistant Professor Kenneth Goh leads BFI in its engagement with business families and ecosystem advisors to enhance their growth and impact. He obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University under the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship and also holds degrees from Wharton and Harvard. As the V3 Group Research Fellow on Family Entrepreneurship, his research has been published in the leading academic journals in Management. Prof. Goh has won teaching awards at SMU and the Ivey Business School for courses in sustainability, entrepreneurship, and leadership in consecutive years. He has also authored best-selling case studies on family business, innovation, entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship used by business schools globally. Prior to academia, Prof. Goh was previously an investment banker and entrepreneur.
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Professor Annie Koh
Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice)
Senior Advisor, Business Families Institute
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University
Professor Annie Koh is Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice) at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). She is a renowned conference speaker, panel moderator and commentator, and had previously held several leadership positions at SMU. In addition to being a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on New Agenda for Work, Wages and Job Creation, Professor Koh also chairs the Asian Bond Fund 2 supervisory committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and a committee member of Singapore’s Customs Advisory Council and HR Transformation Advisory Panel. She is currently an independent director of AMTD International Inc., PBA Group, Prime US REIT, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore and Yoma Strategic Holdings.
Professor Koh also advises privately owned enterprises such as Flexxon Pte Ltd, Hendricks Corp, TOP International, and startups such as AvePoint EduTech, Dedoco, Elevate Tech, RootAnt Global, StashAway, StaffOnDemand, SWAT Mobility, and non-profits such as Cyber Youth Singapore and WWF Singapore. Professor Koh received her Ph.D. degree in International Finance as a Fulbright scholar from Stern School of Business, New York University in 1988.
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Mr Alan Lai
Founder & CEO
ProfilePrint
Mr Alan Lai is the Founder & CEO of ProfilePrint, an agri-food tech start-up funded by leading institutional venture capital funds and global food ingredient conglomerates.
Before starting ProfilePrint, Alan was the Assistant CEO of IHDpay Group, a Hong Kong investment firm focusing on digital payment KYC in China. His professional experience also includes a stint with CapitaLand (SGX: C31) heading M&A / investment in the United Kingdom, General Manager South China Ascott and Assistant to Group CEO President CapitaLand. He is concurrently a reserve deputy Squadron Commander at the Singapore Air Force with previous key appointments including Flight Commander and Staff Officer at Chief of Air Force Office.
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Mr Loh Wai Keong
CEO & Managing Director
Greenwillow Capital Management
Mr Loh Wai Keong has over 15 years of experience in investments and fund management, most recently as Managing Director in GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, holding senior leadership positions, including Head of Enterprise Strategy, Co-Head (Asia) for Real Estate and Investment Services (Private Markets). Prior to joining GIC, he also held key positions as Deputy Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Trade Industry, Country Head (India) for CapitaMalls Asia Capitaland, and CEO (South East Asia) at Ascendas.
Wai Keong is currently the CEO of Greenwillow Capital Management, an MAS licensed fund management company that he started in 2018. He is one of the Managing Partners of the Oriza Greenwillow Technology Fund, which has an investment focus on technology start ups in Southeast Asia. He also drives the real estate fund business of the company, which is preparing to launch a series of real estate development funds across the region.
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Mr Tan Choon Kian
Managing Partner
Greenwillow Capital Management
Mr Tan Choon Kian (aka CK Tan) has over 20 years of experience as an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur to multiple technology start-ups across Asia. Prior to joining Greenwillow, CK spent more than 10 years in Vertex Ventures, the premier Venture Capital arm of Temasek Holdings and served as the Executive Director (Investments), where he led and managed the investments into mobile game operator, IGG (HK799) as well as participated in the early investment into Grab (NASDAQ: GRAB). He also served as a member of Vertex’s Investment Committee, managing a portfolio of over US$1bn. CK has previously held roles in Whispir (ASX: WSP), an Australian Software Company, Singapore Technologies (ST) and Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore.
Currently, CK is the Managing Partner for Greenwillow’s Venture Capital Funds, responsible for the investment and fund management activities for the Oriza Greenwillow Technology fund, focused on making investments into promising early-stage technology start-ups in Southeast Asia.
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Mr Bernard Teo
Consultant
China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd.
Mr Bernard Teo is the Consultant of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd. (CSSD). He has been actively involved in the development of Suzhou Industrial Park project since 1995.
Bernard has extensive marketing experience in promoting Suzhou Industrial Park and its related Townships. He was awarded the model marketer (标兵) in Suzhou Industrial Park for 20 consecutive years from year 2001 to 2020, as well as the Labour Model of Suzhou (苏州劳动模范) in year 2005 and Labour Model of Jiangsu (江苏省劳动模范) in year 2011. He travelled extensively to USA, Europe and Southeast Asian countries. Prior to his stint in China, he was a military officer working in the Ministry of Defence, General Staff Department.
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Mr Joseph Tey
Founder & Managing Partner
Willowmore
Mr Joseph Tey is the Founder & Managing Partner of Willowmore, a Singapore-based keyless, IoT-enabled smart lock solution born out of the various challenges that telecom owners and operators faced in accessibility and security of telecom sites.
Joseph has over 20 years of experience in the IT, logistics and telecom industries, with a focus in strategic sourcing and leading network building, modernization, supply chain design and procurement activities. Prior to starting Willowmore, Joseph held key positions as a Director of Services Sourcing at Ooredoo, and the Regional Sourcing Manager for the Nokia Network and NSN Singapore in APAC. He has also served as an advisor to the Head of Procurement the establishment of 2 telco companies, Indosat (Philippines) and Ooredoo (Myanmar).
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About Knowledge Partners
China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd. (CSSD) is the joint-venture master developer set up in August 1994, for the development of the first government-to-government project between China and Singapore, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP). SIP has consistently been ranked as one of the most competitive development zones in China. CSSD has also emerged as one of China’s leading township developers and was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in December 2019, in an IPO that raised RMB 1.36 billion.
CSSD’s portfolio currently includes 5 integrated township developments in various parts of China and an integrated urban development project in Myanmar that was jointly set up with Singapore’s Sembcorp Development in 2020. Since the company’s successful listing, CSSD has also enhanced its own value proposition, venturing into fund management and direct investments into high potential tech start-ups. In 2021, CSSD set up the Suzhou Industrial Park International Business Cooperation Centre in Singapore that focuses on creating an eco-system for both Singapore-bound Chinese investments and Singapore-based tech start-ups looking to venture to the Greater China market.
Greenwillow Capital Management is a fund and asset management company formed in 2018 with a Capital Markets Services License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. With deep investment experience and strong network of relationships in the region’s local markets, Greenwillow’s core focus is on real estate investments in the fast growing emerging markets of China, India and Southeast Asia, as well as venture capital in early stage technology companies across Southeast Asia.
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Tech Start-Ups based in Singapore
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Microtube Technologies develops patented thin and stretchable microfiber sensors for applications across gaming, virtual reality, healthcare and consumer products.
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ProfilePrint is a food ingredient search engine platform powered by a patented A.I. fingerprint technology, rapidly predicting the quality and profile of a food sample within seconds.
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Respiree provides AI-assisted virtual care with their cardiopulmonary wearable sensors and physiologic analysis software to support patient monitoring in the healthcare space.
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Willowmore is a smart access control solutions provider producing enterprise-grade keyless, IoT-enabled locks and software solutions for critical infrastructure assets.
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About Business Families Institute
In response to the growing needs for Asian-centric family business research and education, the Singapore Management University (SMU) established the Business Families Institute (BFI) in August 2012 to help business families build sustainable, impactful enterprises across generations. Through SMU’s core competence as a thought leader, BFI aims to strengthen the ecosystem of entrepreneurial business families and stakeholders in their creation of sustainable impact by addressing business family-specific issues such as succession, family governance, entrepreneurship and wealth management. The Institute also encourages business families to Think Generations, Think Growth, Think Giving and Think Global.
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