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After starting his career in Indonesian automotive conglomerate Astra, businessman Kiwi Aliwarga left the country in 1998 to establish United Machinery in Myanmar with business partner Daw Marlar Win. The United Machinery Group (UMG) is now one of Myanmar's biggest conglomerates. Its original core business, ranging from distribution of generators and other heavy machinery, has been transformed and expanded to include media, leisure and F&B.The venture capital arm UMG Idealab seeks and supports innovative business ideas from the region to bring back to Myanmar. Through UMG Idealab, Aliwarga is exploring various new technologies including passenger-carrying drone taxis. He recently co-founded FROGS in Indonesia with former aircraft engineer Asro Nasiri.

Michael Su is a veteran in the footwear business, an entrepreneur and a startup coach.He read Biology and Business at Washington University in St Louis from 1993 to 1998. After graduation, he worked for Morgan Stanley and Thomson Reuters for several years. He completed an MBA at Cornell University in 2005.He started his career as a brand architect with the Michael Antonio Footwear Group, working his way up to its head of product and later its CEO until 2019. He was also a founder partner at Shoe Dazzle from 2008 to 2011. In 2016, he joined the team to set up 4D ShoeTech before the company was officially launched in 2017.

Adrian Lim is PopBox Asia’s co-founder and CEO, establishing the smart locker startup in 2015. Between 2001 and 2003, Lim worked as an engineer at Lucent Technologies (which merged with Alcatel). He was later a director at the TAK Group, a multinational property conglomerate. He is also an advisor to Block71, the startup incubator run by the National University of Singapore.Lim holds a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of London, as well as a master’s in the same field from the University of Michigan, USA.

Founded in 1996, HMC Venture is a subsidiary of the Harmony Group, a conglomerate that specializes in startup investment and chemical trade. HMC Venture’s investments focus on Internet-based FinTech and the enterprise service business, the medical and biological business and private equity.

Founded in 2014, Giant Innovation Capital is a venture capital fund by Giant Interactive Group, an online game developer and operator listed on the NYSE. It focuses on early stage investing in Internet startups.

After six years of building innovative products and new businesses in Singapore and India, Nigel Hembrow has made Indonesia his home and headquarters for Astronaut Technologies, his latest venture in HR tech. Hailing from Australia, Queensland civil engineer Nigel started out in project management and engineering design for construction company Mace. After an MBA from the University of Melbourne in 2009, he worked at The Great Little Water Company and Amida Recruitment. Nigel is also currently a director at Rayjon Group, a family-owned property investment and development conglomerate that was co-founded by managing director John Hembrow in 1976.

Gayuh Tri Satria graduated from Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia with a bachelor's degree in Physics. While still in university, he and Bachtiar Rifai established Jogja Web Services, which provides digital advertising and other services to SMEs. The duo continued on to establish digital marketing consultancy WireHub, digital ad automation company Kofera and, most recently, AI-ready, “data unification” platform Volantis Technology. Between 2012 and 2018, he took on various jobs in other companies, including travel aggregator website Pegipegi, the Lazada Group and now-defunct, social travel site Burufly. He also worked as a blogger and graphic designer on a freelance basis.

Zhou Ying graduated in 1993 with a BSc Thermal Engineering and Computer Applications from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.He has over 20 years of experience in hardware development and has been working as a senior product manager at Haier since October 2014. Based in Beijing, he also co-founded medtech Modoo in 2015 as CTO. Zhou has worked for over three years at Nokia as senior engineeering manager, system design manager and system architect. He also worked for the Microsoft Device Group as a senior engineering manager for six months, leading a team for innovation project development until September 2014.

Boc&Utrust Private Equity Fund Management (Guangdong) Co., Ltd., was co-founded by Bank of China Group Investment Ltd., a subsidiary of the Bank of China, and Guangdong Yuecai Investment Co., Ltd., which is authorized by the Guangdong government to manage state-owned capital.

Pedro Bizarro is Chief Science Officer and co-founder at Feedzai, the world’s market-leading solution in fighting online fraud and the fourth Portuguese unicorn, where he has worked full-time since 2008, from before its official launch. He is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council and a member of the IEEE’s Algorithmic Bias Working Group.His previous background involved working in academia in various posts. He spent five years at the University of Coimbra, where fellow Feedzai co-founder Nuno Sebastião was once his student, and occasionally taught at the US Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to these, he was a research assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US.Bizarro holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chris Winston graduated from Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland in 2013, with a diploma in Hospitality Management. His work experience included two months at the Ritz Carlton and four months at Eleven Madison Park. On returning home, he became the head chef of Winston Manusama Hospitality Group for eight months in Jakarta in 2014. He was also a consultant for Il Cielo restaurant in Bali for seven months. Chris met Votinc co-founders Markus Liman Rahardja and Alvin Evander Subagyo while working at a dining event. The three later co-founded an automated job matchmaking platform Zelos.

A former investment banker, Wen Ronghui holds an MBA from Peking University. Before founding Talkmate, Wen spent five years in education both as a university lecturer and as a principal of a Beijing language school owned by Nasdaq-listed China Bilingual Technology & Education Group. Prior to that, he was an investment banker for eight years, taking more than 10 companies public.

Part of the larger Sonae Group of companies, Sonae IM was launched in 2015 and is the corporate venture arm for tech-based investments. Since their launch, they have backed various companies particularly in the retail technology sector. These include StyleSage (fashion tech in predictive analytics) and InovRetail (demand forecasting for retailers).

Mariko Asmara Yoshihara is the managing director and chairperson of PT JAC Indonesia, which is part of the multinational JAC Recruitment group. She is also one of the most active angel investors in ANGIN, a prominent network of Indonesia’s top angel investors. Her investment focus lies in empowerment, capacity building and agriculture.

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