Arif P. Rachmat oversees Triputra Group, a private holding company with significant investments in various industries including energy, agriculture, auto parts manufacturing, auto rental, marketplace, dealerships, and logistics, integrated industrial gas and petrochemical, garment manufacturing, and education with over 100,000 employees. He also manages family offices and serves as a Board Advisor for Asia Partners and Growtheum Private Equities.
Mr. Rachmat holds leadership roles as the Chairman of Asia Business Council, founding member of Indonesia Business Council, Vice Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and Indonesia Business Association for Agriculture/Plantation. He serves as the ASEAN-BAC 2023 Food Security Leader, B20 Chair for Trade and Investment in 2022, B20 Co-Chair for Global Value Chain in 2023, and the Chair of Endeavor Indonesia in 2020-2024.
In philanthropy and stewardship, Mr. Rachmat serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Temasek Foundation Ltd. He is an active member of the Board of Trustees of Singapore Management University, Prasetiya Mulya University, The Nature Conservancy Indonesia and Singapore, the Partnership for Indonesia’s Sustainable Agriculture, and Prasasti Junior Indonesia.
Mr. Rachmat is a member of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum and the Young Presidents’ Organization. He graduated cum laude with B.S. and Master’s degrees in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and an E.M.B.A. from Tsinghua University. Upon graduation, he worked for General Electric Co. in the U.S. and globally in various leadership roles, including Six Sigma and Corporate Audit Staff.
Joe Tsai is a Co-founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group. He is a member of the boards of directors of Alibaba Group and its financial services affiliate Ant Group.
Mr. Tsai is the owner of several American professional sports teams, including the NBA Brooklyn Nets, 2024 WNBA Champions New York Liberty, and the San Diego Seals and Las Vegas Desert Dogs in the National Lacrosse League. He is also an investor and Board Member of the Premier Lacrosse League.
Mr. Tsai and his wife Clara are active philanthropists supporting education, research, economic mobility, and arts and culture. He is a founding Board Member of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), a non-profit whose mission is to combat discrimination and support prosperity and representation for Asian Americans.
He is a member of the J.P. Morgan International Council, EXOR Partners Council, and International Advisory Council of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He is a Trustee of The Lawrenceville School and Asia Business Council.
Prior to Alibaba Group, Mr. Tsai was a private equity investor in Asia for Investor AB of Sweden’s Wallenberg family. He practiced tax law as an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. He is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. ’86) and Yale Law School (J.D. ’90).
Mr. Tsai is a member of the J.P. Morgan International Council, EXOR Partners Council, and International Advisory Council of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He is a Trustee of The Lawrenceville School.
Prior to Alibaba Group, Mr. Tsai was a private equity investor in Asia for Investor AB of Sweden’s Wallenberg family. He practiced tax law as an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. He is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. ’86) and Yale Law School (J.D. ’90).
Cheng Wai Keung is Chairman and Managing Director of Wing Tai Holdings Ltd. He also holds directorships at a number of companies both locally and overseas. He is the Chairman of Singapore Health Services Pte. Ltd., Deputy Chairman of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., Vice Chairman of Singapore-Suzhou Township Development Pte. Ltd., and Director of MOH Holdings Pte. Ltd. He also serves as an Advisor to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. Singapore and sits on the Board of Supervisors of the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co. (People’s Republic of China). He has chaired the boards of power, utilities, media, and broadcasting companies, as well as multinational corporations engaged in global shipping and logistics and international hospitality businesses. He has also been involved with grassroots organizations for nearly 30 years. Mr. Cheng was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DUBC) by the government of Singapore in August 2007 and received the Public Service Star (Bar) in 1997 and the Public Service Star in 1987. He was appointed Justice of the Peace by the President of the Republic of Singapore and served from 2000 to 2020. He was awarded the Alumni Service Medal in 2006 by the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with an M.B.A. in 1973. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University in 1971.
Doan Viet Dai Tu is Chairman of Openasia Group.
He created his first company in Sydney when he was 23 years old, then he resettled in Vietnam in 1994 to found Openasia, Lazard Frères’ investment banking arm for Indochina. After a management buyout in 1998, he diversified and developed Openasia Group into the retail, distribution, hospitality, real estate, high-end manufacturing, and investment banking sectors.
Openasia is a leading lifestyle group platform in Vietnam, with a large retail portfolio of brands, including Hermès, Patek Philippe, Chopard, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, Chaumet, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Sandro, Maje, Hugo Boss, Rimowa, Audi, Azimut Yachts, and Starbucks.
Mr. Doan Viet is former Vice Chairman of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Vice Chairman of the French Foreign Trade Advisors in Vietnam. He studied management and finance at Paris Dauphine University.
Based in Seoul, Yongsoo Huh is the Vice Chairman and CEO of GS Energy, the intermediate holding company, principal business, and investment arm of GS Group.
GS Group became an independent business group in 2005 following its separation from LG Group, concluding a long-standing partnership between the Huh and Koo families. Today, the Group’s core business domains span energy, retail, trading, and construction. GS Energy leads the Group’s energy platform, focusing on investments across oil, gas, power, and petrochemicals, while advancing decarbonization-oriented portfolios including renewables, virtual power plants (VPP), battery recycling, electric vehicle charging, and small modular reactors (SMRs).
Prior to his current role, Mr. Huh was responsible for strategy, M&A, and portfolio management at GS Holdings until 2012. He later served as Chief Executive Officer of GS EPS, South Korea’s largest independent power producer, until 2018.
In addition to his corporate leadership, Mr. Huh is deeply engaged in cultural and philanthropic activities. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the Korean National Ballet and Chairman of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Support Association and is Vice Chairman of the Friends of the National Museum of Korea.
Internationally, Mr. Huh is a Member of the International Council of the Serpentine Galleries in London, an International Trustee of the Prado Museum in Madrid, and a Trustee of the American Ballet Theatre.
In recognition of his contributions to culture and the arts, Mr. Huh received the ‘Hwa-Gwan’ (Flower-Crown) Order of Cultural Merit from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea in 2020, and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic from the Kingdom of Spain in 2024.
Mr. Huh received a B.Sc. in business administration from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and an E.M.B.A. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Jenny Lee is a Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia and has been with the firm since 2005.
Ms. Lee brings decades of experience investing in innovation and technology across Asia and around the world, with a proven track record of translating capital into real economic impact. At Granite Asia, she has led the firm through a significant evolution — expanding its focus from venture capital to a multi-asset investment platform spanning private credit, growth equity and beyond.
A self-starter, an investor and an entrepreneur, she has been instrumental in backing technology-enabled businesses that drive productivity, digitization, and new innovative consumer applications and products. Connecting businesses and founders across markets, industries and applications with technology innovation, she is best known for investments in sectors like edtech, fintech, food and agritech, metaverse, and energy sustainability and automation technologies. Her portfolio includes 21 companies valued at over $1 billion each. She has had 17 IPOs up to date, including 4 recent IPOs since 2021, across five different global exchanges, and numerous portfolio companies exit via M&A.
Ms. Lee’s global investment track record over two decades and early operation and finance work experience with Singapore Aerospace in Singapore; Morgan Stanley, and JAFCO Asia in Hong Kong enhanced her role as a preferred board member with deep domain expertise and global investment experience.
Born and raised in Singapore, Ms. Lee is highly respected in the Asia business community and has served as a Board Member of Temasek since 2022. She also serves on the governing boards of both Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Duke-NUS Medical School. In addition, she is also a member of Singapore’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council; Singapore Business Federation; Asia Business Council; and the International Advisory Council of Edmond de Rothschild.
Ms. Lee has been a member of the Forbes Global 100 VC Midas list since 2012 and was the first woman to break the top 10 in 2015. She was also recognized by Forbes as one of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women in the past three years. In 2019, she was named to the Forbes Asia Power Businesswomen 25 list and received the Business Times’s Outstanding Overseas Executive Award. In 2016, she was named to the Vanity Fair New Establishment list, Fast Company Most Creative People in Business list, and is consistently recognized by The New York Times and CB Insights among the top 100 venture capital investors worldwide, ranking eighth among top venture capitalists in Asia.
Ms. Lee graduated from Cornell University with an M.S. and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering and an M.B.A. from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Federico R. Lopez is Chairman and CEO of First Philippine Holdings Corp. (FPH), First Gen Corp., and Energy Development Corp. (EDC). First Gen and EDC are publicly listed power generation companies that supply clean and indigenous energy and are part of the FPH portfolio. Mr. Lopez is currently the Vice Chairman of Rockwell Land Corp. and sits on the Board of ABS-CBN Corp. He is the Chairman of the Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation and the Sikat Solar Challenge Foundation. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation and the Forest Foundation Philippines. He is a member of the World Presidents’ Organization, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra International Advisory Board, the ASEAN Business Club, the Management Association of the Philippines, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and the Makati Business Club. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in economics and international relations, cum laude (1983).
Nazir Razak is currently the Chairman and founding Partner of Ikhlas Capital. He retired as Chairman of CIMB Group in October 2018 after a 29-year career with the ASEAN banking group. He served on the Investment Panel for the Employees Provident Fund from 2002 to 2017, on the board of Khazanah Nasional from 2014 to 2018, and on the board of PLS Plantation as Chairman from 2021 to 2024.
Tan Sri Nazir was recognized as Malaysia’s top executive/CEO several times and was the youngest recipient of Finance Asia’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He was awarded Euromoney’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 2012 and was the winner of the prestigious Asia House Asian Business Leaders Award in 2015.
An advocate of ASEAN economic integration, Tan Sri Nazir currently chairs the ASEAN Business Advisory Council for Malaysia, which, in 2025, has taken on the chairmanship for ASEAN.
Tan Sri Nazir graduated from the University of Bristol in 1988 and obtained an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge in 1989. In 2009, he was the Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and in 2019, he was the Transformational Leadership Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG), Oxford University. He is also currently a member of the BSG’s International Advisory Board.
Salil Singhal is the Chairman Emeritus of PI Industries Ltd., a leading agrochemical company in India. His other businesses in the group are Secure Meters Ltd. and Wolkem India Ltd. He was Chair- man of the Pesticides Association of India, now called the Crop Care Federation of India; he was elected Chairman Emeritus for life. He was the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Northern Region and headed the CII National Council for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises. He is the Chairman of the CII National Council on Agriculture and a member of the CII National Council. He has been named Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 (Life Sciences and Agrochemicals) by Ernst & Young, and Best CEO for 2014 (Mid-sized Chemical Industry segment), as well as India’s Best CEO for 2015 (Agriculture & Allied) by Business Today. He received the Global Corporate Leader of the Year award from Power Brands, the Agricultural Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement at the seventh International Agriculture Summit, the Leadership for Business Transformation award given by KPMG at the Horasis Conference in Malaga Spain, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the CNBC- AWAAZ Rajasthan Ratna Awards ceremony, and the Special Achievement Award at the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards. He is an Independent Director of steel, building, construction, and hospitality companies.
Jane Sun is the CEO and a Member of the Board of Directors of Trip.com Group Ltd., the largest travel company in China and Asia and the second largest in the world. She first joined the company as the Chief Financial Officer in 2005 and later served as the Chief Operating Officer and the Co-President, before moving into the CEO role in 2016.
She is an International Chamber of Commerce Executive Board member, a J.P. Morgan Asia Pacific Council member, a Standard Chartered Bank International Advisory Board member, Vice Chair of the World Travel & Tourism Council, a member of the Vice-Chancellor’s Circle at the University of Oxford, a member of the President’s Advisory Council for Public Health at Brown University, Co-Chair of the Development Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute, and a Board Member and Business Leaders Group committee member of Business China, which was established by Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
In 2019, Ms. Sun was presented with the Asia Society Asia Game Changer Award and joined the Asia Society Board of Trustees. Forbes named her one of the “Emergent 25 Asia’s Latest Star Businesswomen” in 2018 and one of the “Most Influential and Outstanding Businesswomen in China” in 2017. She was also one of Fortune’s “Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business” and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” in 2017. During her tenure at Trip.com Group, she won the Institutional Investor Awards for Best CEO and Best CFO. She also serves on the Boards of Directors of TripAdvisor, Inc., MakeMyTrip Ltd., iQIYI, Inc., and TAL Education Group.
Peter Voser has been Chairman of ABB’s Board of Directors since 2015. He also served as ABB’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Executive Committee from April 2019 to February 2020 and as Chief Financial Officer and EC member from 2002 to 2004.
Before returning to ABB as Chairman in 2015, Mr. Voser was CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from 2009 to 2013, and CFO and Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell from 2004 to 2009. He began his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982 and held several senior management and executive roles in Europe and Latin America, including CFO of Shell Europe Oil Products, CFO of the Global Oil Products Business, and member of the Oil Products Executive Committee.
Mr. Voser is a member of the Board of Directors of IBM Corp., and of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., as well as Group Chairman of the Board of Directors of Temasek’s subsidiary PSA International Pte. Ltd. He is also a Board Member of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies and of Europe Delivers, a business-led partnership working to build future-fit growth in Europe. In June 2019, he was made an Honorary Director of Catalyst, a non-profit organization that champions women leaders, in recognition of his nine years of service on the Catalyst Board of Directors, including six as Chairman.
Mr. Voser has served as a Board Member of Roche Holding Ltd., Switzerland (2011-2019), of the Swiss Federal Auditor Oversight Authority (2006-2010), and of UBS (2005-2010), as well as a member of the Supervisory Board of Aegon N.V. in the Netherlands (2004-2006).
He obtained his degree in business administration from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. In 2011, Mr. Voser was awarded the title Dato Seri Laila Jasa by His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei in recognition of his services to the state of Brunei.
In 2021, Mr. Voser was awarded the title Honorary Citizen of Singapore by the Singapore Government, which is the highest form of national recognition for a non-Singaporean.
James Wei Wang currently serves as the Chairman and CEO of Sercomm Corp. Over the past 25 years, he has propelled Sercomm into a multi-billion-dollar company, achieving a 22 percent compound annual growth rate. He navigated Sercomm through significant market disruptions and demonstrated global leadership in the broadband networking equipment industry.
He was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Taiwan in 2014, Best Executive in Taiwan by Asiamoney in 2016, and the Best CEO by FinanceAsia in 2022.
Mr. Wang holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (HBS) and an M.E. from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently a member of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors.
After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo, Mr. Yoshida joined Sony Corp. (currently Sony Group Corp.) in 1983. He gained experience in finance and investor relations, was assigned to a U.S. subsidiary and then served as Chief of Staff to the Chief Executive Officer for 2 years.
In 2000, Mr. Yoshida was seconded to Sony Communication Network (currently Sony Network Communications), an internet service provider based in Japan, where he was appointed President in 2005. In December of the same year, he led its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market (now known as the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market), and in 2008, oversaw its transition to the First Section (now known as the Prime Market). In 2013, Mr. Yoshida returned to Sony Corp. in as EVP, CSO and Deputy CFO. From 2014, he assumed the role of CFO and led Sony’s restructuring efforts, playing a key role in its financial recovery. In fiscal year 2017, Sony achieved record high operating income for the first time since 1997. In April 2018, Mr. Yoshida was appointed President and CEO of Sony Corp. He defined Sony’s Purpose to “fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology,” and its identity as a “creative entertainment company with a solid foundation of technology.”
Positioning Kando (emotion) as a core value, he focused on Sony’s entertainment businesses of gaming, music and pictures. In 2021, he established Sony Group Corp. and reorganized the Group architecture to connect each business at an equal distance, and thereby accelerate Group synergies. He also drove the Sony group to shift towards the creative side across Sony’s three business layers of content, products and services, and semiconductors.
Mr. Yoshida is Executive Chairman and board member of Sony Group Corp. He also serves as a Vice Chair of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Business Association (Keidanren) and an International Advisory Board Member of Hakluyt & Company Ltd.
John Zhao is the Chairman of Hony Capital, an alternative investment management group focusing on opportunities in China. Since its founding in 2003, Hony Capital has gained leading market positions in private equity and real estate investments.
Mr. Zhao holds an M.B.A. degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, master’s degrees in electronic engineering and physics from Northern Illinois University, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University.
