About

Company formed in Hong Kong and operated in Shanghai. Initially a vehicle to assist in indirect investment into the China Mainland market, Merchant Pacific focused in its early days on the food and beverage industry. Baan Rim Pa Group from Thailand, Windows on the World Group from New York City, Sydney Café from Australia, The Diner Bar and Bistro Co., Ltd., Indochine Singapore, and Number Five Jazz were the businesses that leveraged the services of MPACI to formulate expansion strategy and money movement into/out of China. Location scouting, government relations, compliance, supply chain and partnerships development, marketing and distribution were the core offerings. A great, tough industry to cut our teeth on.

Expansion of services portfolio. Extending the core competencies of market entry from the F&B vertical, MPACI aligned go-to-market design and execution services to focus on technology businesses. Moneta International MINT Card was the first customer. Assembled a team at Moneta and set out to build Moneta’s strategy focused on the extension of contact-less RFID technology into the realm of traditionally cash-based and new realm transactions such as transportation, loyalty and healthcare.

Start up advisory and board work culminating in directorship and investment. Non-Executive Director and investor, Gridmarkets: www.gridmarkets.com GridMarkets’ platform gives computational chemists, animators, and visual effects artists a fast and affordable way to render animations or simulate mathematical models in the cloud. Advisory Board member and investor, Talkpush: www.talkpush.com Talkpush is the first conversational recruitment software. It is designed to make recruitment faster, more real-time, more conversational, and to get AI bots to work for recruiters.

Stepped out and Co-founded the management consulting practice ReedHamilton. A boutique strategy management/human capital consulting and executive search firm based in Singapore and Hong Kong. Built and led the technology and innovation practice. Areas of concentration included emerging and environmental technologies, cloud computing, new media, mobility applications, social networking, big-data, in memory computing, analytics, and core software.

Engagement with Permira Funds, independently seconded for the transformation of Tricor Group commercial business. Placed in commercial leadership role and tasked to design, deploy, and scale the value creation plan across the global business. Built and led strategy to design and deploy single platform, multi-country HR software stack, culminating in an M&A exercise that spun out into a new profit centre for the business. Teamed on the effort to establish robotic process automation deployment in a new shared services model for Tricor. The results of the engagement created the environment for acquisition of the business for a market value of $2.8B USD by Baring Private Equity Asia.

Engagement with Ceridian corporate M&A team assessing opportunities in APAC, culminating in the acquisition of Excelity human capital management business. This due-diligence process and eventual acquisition cemented Ceridians move into Asia. Founded in 1997, Excelity works with more than 300 customers across the APAC region. It operates its proprietary native payroll platform in India, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand delivered through the Managed Services, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) models. A leading HR outsourcing services partner in the region, Excelity delivers over 1.2 million payslips per month.

Brought into Advent International private equity as an Industry Advisor. Advent has developed relationships with senior industry executives who act as independent advisors to Advent and the companies in which they invest. These executives work alongside sector teams and management to support the development of opportunities and businesses through their industry knowledge, operational know-how, leadership experience and contact networks.

Joined Workplace Accelerator as advisory and mentor provider. The Workplace Accelerator invests in early seed-stage HR Tech start-ups focused on Southeast Asia. They partner with entrepreneurs to increase their chance of success by providing hands on coaching from expert advisors as well as enhanced market access through a curated Mentor network.

Assisted Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”) and its affiliates on evaluation of a Target Company in an investment thesis, including due diligence support, assistance with the review of information memoranda, conducting industry analysis, and assistance with KKR’s analysis of the terms of a potential acquisition of or investment in the Target Company.

Brought into Bain and Company as a professional services external advisor. Member of the Bain Advisor Network, a global community of Advisors who work with Bain and their clients on high-impact projects, add value through their insights, expertise and connections.

Investment into Antler Venture Capital International Fund. Antler is a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world’s most exceptional people. Investment placed into two vehicles, the Global Fund and the Southeast Asia Fund.

Brought into Baring Private Equity Asia to look at deal landscape, market mapping and origination opportunities. Deal origination involves pitching buyers, generating leads, and managing relationships with intermediaries. For an investment firm to succeed in identifying investment opportunities, it must possess a wide network of contacts and a good reputation, and establish itself as a credible investment partner.

Joined Huawei Spark Accelerator as advisory and mentor provider. As a startup, you will encounter the following: technical dilemmas, setting go-to-market strategies, chasing after customers, and fundraising rounds. In partnership with Huawei, we are here to co-create with you, and help you to access the resources necessary to start growing exponentially. There are many reasons why a startup succeeds, and it usually takes a village.