Mr Ravinder was appointed to our Board on 6 June 2014 and has extensive experience in private equity and corporate finance. He was with Standard Chartered Bank from 1997 to April 2014, with his last position as a Managing Director in the private equity division. He has more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance and private equity. His corporate finance deals have included IPOs and bond issues in Singapore, merger and acquisition transactions in South-East Asia as well as debt restructuring transactions in Malaysia and Indonesia. His private equity deals have included development capital investments and buy–outs in the region. He previously worked for DBS Bank Ltd in Singapore. Mr Ravinder is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, Australia, with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. He is also a member of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia.

 

 

Mr Fabian Sven Bahadur Scheler Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

 

Mr Fabian was appointed to our Board on 7 May 2019 and is presently the portfolio manager of Amadeus Capital SA, a limited company based in Geneva which is owned by the private holding company of Mr Tim Brockmann’s family. Mr Fabian started his career in 2011 at BHF-BANK in Frankfurt, nowadays Oddo BHF, through their training program and worked in their Equity Sales and Trading department, focusing on Special Situations and German Small-and Mid Caps. In 2015, he joined ETHENEA Independent Investors, a Luxembourg based multi-asset house, in Zurich as an equity specialist. Aside from covering US and European single stocks, he worked on the development of quantitative models for asset allocation and market timing. Mr Fabian holds a master degree in Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

 

 

 

Mr James Daiji Yamada Executive Director

 

Mr James Daiji was appointed to our Board on 14 May 2020. As Executive Director, he is responsible for the day to day operations and involved in corporate exercises, including the fund raising and business diversification of the Group. He has more than 25 years of experience in the corporate restructuring and education business. He was previously the President and Chief Executive Officer for NPO Asnaro Japan, United Vision Inc and MasterLingual Academy of Communication, Japan. Mr James Daiji graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the Almeda University.  

 

Mr Max Ng Chee Weng    Independent Non-Executive Director