team
Team
Tan Kim Seng

 

 

Tan Kim Seng

Managing Director

 

 
Kim Seng is based in Singapore and is a co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital. He brings with him 19 years of venture capital management and banking experience in addition to 5 years of operating experience within the IT and electronics industries. He is the Chairman of Industry Development Committee of the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association and has previously served as the Treasurer.

Before he co-founded 3V SourceOne Capital, Kim Seng served as an Executive Director with UOB Venture Management in Singapore and was the Principal Fund Manager of a S$105 million venture capital fund. His past portfolio includes investments in the Asia Pacific region covering SEA countries, Greater China, and the US.

He has worked on projects in various industries including cleantech, information technology, life sciences and medical instruments, food and beverages, real estate and infrastructure. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Kim Seng worked as an Assistant Vice President, Commercial Banking in United Overseas Bank, Singapore where he was involved in retail banking, electronic banking, trade banking and commercial banking.

He set up a business unit to focus on Electronics/IT Industries and was responsible for credit marketing and portfolio strategy. In the area of IT planning and development, he was involved in the management of a large-scale electronics banking network, nation-wide stored value smart-card project and EDI system. He was a member of the Operation Committee of the Network for Electronics Transfer System (NETS), which owns and manages the EFTPOS network in Singapore. Kim Seng was also the Chairman of the Retail Electronic Banking Committee of the Association of Banks in Singapore from 1991 to 1992.

Kim Seng previously managed the Product Integrity Section at Northern Telecom Asia and was responsible for the introduction of new telecommunication products, including ISDN, digital communication systems and terminals in the South-East Asia and Australia regions. He started his career with Texas Instruments in Singapore as a systems engineer with the Process Automation Design Centre.

Kim Seng holds a MSc in Industrial Engineering and a BE in Electrical Engineering (Honors) from the National University of Singapore. He is an alumnus of the US Venture Capital Institute. Kim Seng currently serves as the Honorary Secretary of the Board of Hwa Chong Institution, a premier school in Singapore, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Hwa Chong International School. He has been invited to sit on the final panel for the Technology Enterprise Commercialisation Scheme (TECS) with Spring Singapore.
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Michael Wu

 

 

Michael Wu

Managing Director

 

 
Michael is based in the US and is a co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital. He travels to Asia extensively and has been active in venture capital and international business for the past 24 years.

Michael was an Executive Director at UOB Venture Management in Singapore where he led US and China investments in the high-tech area. He also set up the UOB Venture Technology Fund in 1999 with a "Technology Triangle" strategy (North America, Greater China and ASEAN), and helped in setting up a China technology fund with Chinese partners. Michael also served as Senior Vice President at H&Q Asia Pacific, a venture capital firm, where he was responsible for the China portfolio. Prior to that, Michael was the Managing Director of Prime Group (China and Hong Kong) and was involved in large-scale real estate development in Shanghai where he dealt extensively with project financing within China.

Michael also served as the CFO and a Director of the Asian-American Manufacturer's Association in Silicon Valley. In 1987, he co-founded venture-backed Knights Technology Inc., a Silicon Valley company devoted to integrated circuit design, verification and yield enhancement and served as its CFO (until 1991) and a member of the Board of Directors (until 1996). He also previously acted as the Japan Business Manager, working with top-tier Japanese electronics firms.

Michael received his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1983 and BS in Forest Management from National Taiwan University in 1977. In between, he served in the army of the Republic of China (Taiwan) as a platoon commander and attended the graduate school in Economics at National Taiwan University studying automobile and steel industries. Michael was born in Taiwan and later became a US citizen.
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Jeffrey Khoo

 

 

Jeffrey Khoo

Managing Director

 

 
Jeffrey is based in Singapore and is a co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital. He actively looks at regional cleantech projects and integrated industrial park developments in Greater China and IndoChina.

Mr. Khoo has more than 19 years of working experience in varied industries including semiconductor, medical devices, fund management, property development, travel and leisure.

He has co-founded Erimos Pharmaceuticals, LLC (North Carolina, U.S.A.) which developed small molecule drugs for serious diseases including cancer.

His expertise is in the areas of financial planning and control, mergers and acquisitions, business development, strategic planning and fund management.

Jeffrey was the CEO of Commonwealth Travel Services Corporation, a regional travel services company with annual sales in excess of US$100 million. Prior to that, he was at the Real Estate Division of Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and managed its property investment portfolio in Silicon Valley and the greater Seattle area. Jeffrey also worked with Eli Lilly & Company's Strategic Planning Team in the Medical Instrument Division. Besides being a member of the planning and M&A team, he was directly in-charge of certain cost-down plans and new technology implementation. Mr. Khoo was the pioneer project leader between 1989 and 1990 in converting the design and manufacturing process of the LifePak series of defibrillators of Physio Control International Corp., then a subsidiary of Eli Lilly, from conventional PCB technology to SMT.

Jeffrey currently sits on the boards of several family-owned real estate development companies in Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. He is also actively involved at the board level with several IT and medical devices companies in Singapore and the US.

Jeffrey graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1986 with a BE in Electrical Engineering (1st Class Honors). He was a DuPont Scholar and was awarded the Shell Eastern Petroleum Book Prize in 1986. He obtained his MBA degree majoring in Finance from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and was elected to membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, the highest scholastic honor that a student in a school of business or management can achieve. Mr. Khoo is a member of the Singapore Society of Financial Analysts and an affiliate member of AIMR. Mr. Khoo is a charter holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is also an alumnus of the US Venture Capital Association.
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Terence Zou

 

 

Brandon Soon

Managing Director

 

 
Brandon is based in Singapore and he has more than 15 years of capital markets and direct investment experience.

Prior to joining 3VS1, Brandon ran a business advisory practice focusing on the provision of transactional advisory and support services to several private equity and venture capital funds and small and medium enterprises and advising on deal structures, corporate strategy and transactional support requirements. Brandon also advised various Singapore and offshore funds on fund structuring, documentation and their capital raising efforts.

Before Brandon's advisory stint, he was a co-founder and Partner at Gobi Partners, Inc ("Gobi") which is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm specializing in Digital Media investments in China. He was based in Shanghai, PRC and was instrumental in the initial set up and fund raising efforts of Gobi.

Prior to Gobi, Brandon was a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Springboard-Harper Investment Pte Ltd ("Springboard"), a Singapore-based venture capital firm managing the US$70 million Springboard-Harper Technology Fund and investing in the IT, Communications and biosciences sectors globally. Before Springboard, Brandon was a Portfolio Manager with NIF Management Singapore Pte Ltd with a regional coverage that included Singapore, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Taiwan. NIF is the venture capital arm of Japan's second largest securities firm, Daiwa Securities.

Before his foray into the private equity industry, Brandon held research positions in the stock-broking industry in one of Singapore's largest retail stock-broking firms Phillip Securities Pte Ltd and subsequently RHB-Cathay Research Pte Ltd, the research arm of one of Malaysian's top broking firms. Before entering the investment field, Brandon worked as an Engineer with Singapore Telecommunications Limited handling the design and implementation of data-communication network solutions for MNCs, military and government agencies.

Brandon graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of the National University of Singapore with honors and received post-graduate investments training from the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore.
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Li Chunyu

 

 

Li Chunyu

Vice President

 

 
Chunyu joined 3V SourceOne Capital in 2008 and currently works as a Vice President. He has been working in the semiconductor industry for years and is familiar with the semiconductor, consumer electronics and advanced materials industries, as well as with manufacturing processes and plant operations. Prior to 3V SourceOne Capital, Chunyu was a manager at ASM Technology Singapore, where he built a team for semiconductor packaging equipment and technology development.

He developed the smallest automatic molding equipment for semiconductor manufacturers in the world. Chunyu led initiatives to improve product design and manufacturing processes which successfully reduced manufacturing cost and product lead time for the company. He also did business development in Asia and Europe, creating various partnerships with client companies by product co-development.

During his career in the semiconductor industry, Chunyu invented and received patents of various disruptive IC packaging solutions which significantly reduced the assembly cost of memories and processors. These technologies won industry awards for innovation. In addition to technology achievements, Chunyu is also experienced in project management and customer service, working with more than 50 companies around the world.

Chunyu has also worked as VP of Finance for Solar Engineering Solutions, a cleantech start-up company in the US concentrating on applications of solar technology in building efficiencies. Chunyu grew up in China and graduated from Tsinghua University with both a M.S. and B.S in Chemical Engineering. He received his MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. At Sloan, he won the 1st prize for operation management simulation.

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Zheng Le

 

 

Zheng Le

Assistant Vice President

 

 
Zheng Le was in the real estate industry for many years in the areas of marketing and business development. He previous led a specialized team to provide real estate investment consultancy to more than two hundred high-net-worth clients and assisted with their relocation to Singapore. Subsequently, he was posted to China to run a regional office for a large real estate developer. His relationships and experience with high-net-worth investors and business partners strengthens 3VS1’s client relationships and expands our network across China and Singapore.

Zheng Le holds a Master’s degree in Taxation from Bournemouth University in the UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Plant Protection from China Agricultural University.
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Andrew

 

 

Andrew Sui

Investment Analyst

 

 
Andrew joined 3V SourceOne Capital in 2012. He was formerly an accountant and qualified as an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). His prior work involved auditing and providing due diligence for a wide range of clients within the retail and service sectors, including listed companies, private companies and limited liability partnerships.

Andrew grew up in the UK and graduated from Imperial College London with a Master's degree in Bioengineering.
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Wan Chuiping

 

 

Wan Chui Ping

Finance and Administrative Manager

 

 

Chui Ping joined 3V SourceOne Capital in 2008 as a Finance and Administration Manager. She oversees the Management Accounting and Shareholders Reporting functions of the management company and its funds. She was formerly an auditor with Deloitte and Touche and subsequently joined DBS Finance as a Finance Manager. She subsequently joined DBS Bank Ltd and was responsible for the compliance and financial reporting of the DBS Bank Group.

Chui Ping graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honors) degree and is a qualified Chartered Public Accountant.

 

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Wong Yin Far

Administrative Executive

 

 

Yin Far is responsible for office administration, managing investor relationships and documentation, and liaising with the Corporate Secretary and CPA firms.

Prior to joining, Yin Far worked as Marketing Executive with a scientific products trading company, Scientific Resources Pte Ltd. Prior to entering sales and marketing, she was a microbiologist and food chemist in Chemical Laboratory (M) Sdn. Bhd. in Penang, Malaysia. She graduated from the University of Malaysia in Sabah with a Bachelor of Science (Honors) Degree, majoring in Food Technology and Bioprocessing.

 

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