Venture Philanthropy in Practice – Hong Kong Duke of Windsor Building 15 Hennessy Road Wanchai, Hong Kong
14 October 2011 Seminar (3.00 pm – 6.15 pm) – 2nd floor Reception (6.30 pm – 8.30 pm) – 2nd floor Today’s reception is generously sponsored by
AVPN is supported by
Program 2.30 pm
Registration Opens
3.00 pm
Welcome & Introduction Simon Chadwick Chief Executive Officer Asian Venture Philanthropy Network What is Venture Philanthropy? Kevin Teo Chief Operating Officer Asian Venture Philanthropy Network Introduction to New Profit Inc Shruti Sehra Partner New Profit Inc Introduction to Impetus Trust Nat Sloane Co-founder and Vice-chair Impetus Trust
Program (continued) 4.10 pm
Panel Discussion and Q&A Panellists: Cliff Cheung Chairman & Chief Executive Officer InterLeader Capital Lisa Genasci Chief Executive Officer and Founder ADM Capital Foundation Francis Ngai Chief Executive Officer and Founder Social Ventures Hong Kong Shruti Sehra Partner New Profit Inc Nat Sloane Co-founder and Vice-chair Impetus Trust Moderated by: Simon Chadwick Chief Executive Officer Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
5.15 pm
Coffee Break
Program (continued) 5.30 pm
Focus on China Speaker: Yuan Jia Kai Executive Deputy Secretary General YouChange Interviewed by: Doug Miller Chairman Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
6.15 pm
End of seminar and invitation to reception
Speaker Biographies (alphabetical)
Simon Chadwick Chief Executive Officer Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
Simon is Chief Executive Officer at the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN). He was previously a partner at a global private equity fund placement group and founded his own private equity advisory firm. Before that he worked for the Schroder Group for 12 years in a range of marketing, business development and management roles. He worked on a pro-bono basis at Impetus Trust in 2005 where he supported the fund raising and business development of this pioneering, London-based venture philanthropy fund. He has previously lived and worked in Asia for 8 years. He has an MBA from IMD, an MA from SOAS (University of London) and an MA from Oxford University.
Cliff Cheung Chairman & Chief Executive Officer InterLeader Capital
Cliff is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of InterLeader Capital, a private investment company focused on private equity, real estate and special situation investments in Greater China. Cliff is among the pioneers in Asian private equity with more than 25 years of experience in Asia‐Pacific and the United States. Prior to founding InterLeader, he was partner, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of PAMA Group Inc. (originally known as Prudential Asia). Cliff is a former Chairman of The Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and has served on the Listing Committee of the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Financial Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Asia‐Pacific Advocacy Committee of the CFA Institute. Cliff is currently a member of the investment committee of QMA Capital, a venture capital fund sponsored by Malaysia Venture Capital Management Bhd., the venture capital arm of the Malaysian Government. Cliff is a co‐founder and chairman of Social Investors Club, a founding director of SOW Asia Foundation and also a long‐term supporter of Chi Heng Foundation. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Cliff is married with two children. He received his Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and EMBA from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management and HKUST Business School. Cliff completed an advanced leadership program at the Tsinghua University in Beijing and is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Lisa Genasci Chief Executive Officer and Founder ADM Capital Foundation
Lisa is the CEO and founder of ADM Capital Foundation (ADMCF), which she established five years ago for the partners of a Hong Kong-based investment manager. Now with a staff of eight, employing rigorous due diligence and focused on impact, ADMCF provides support to some of Asia’s most marginalized children and works to combat intransigent environmental challenges facing the region. Currently partnered with 23 local non-profit organisations in eight Asian countries, ADMCF has invested more than seven million U.S. dollars in philanthropic initiatives and social enterprises since inception. ADMCF has provided 150,000 children, with access to education, vocational training, health care, nutritional support and development programs and has built innovative environmental initiatives in areas as diverse as China’s water crisis, Hong Kong’s air pollution, deforestation in Indonesia and marine conservation in Vietnam. Before working in the non-profit sector, Lisa worked for ten years with the Associated Press, three as a correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, three on the AP foreign desk and four as a financial reporter in New York. She currently writes a blog on Asian philanthropy and on some of the region’s most significant environmental and poverty challenges. Lisa holds a BA degree Cum Laude with High Honors from Smith College and an LLM in Human Rights Law from Hong Kong University.
Francis Ngai Chief Executive Officer and Founder Social Ventures Hong Kong
Francis is the founder and CEO of Social Ventures Hong Kong (SVhk, www.sv-hk.org) and also a core-organizer of the 30S Group. With experience in marketing, advertising and strategy profession, Francis was Assistant Vice President/Head of Strategy of PCCW – a listed ICT conglomerate in HK, and responsible for the corporate development and strategy in China. He was a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government in 2009/2010 and is now serving in a number of government advisory bodies, e.g. Advisory Committee of Enhancing SelfReliance Fund of Home Affairs Bureau and Sustainable Development Council of Environment Bureau. He is also a part-time visiting lecturer in universities, e.g. The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, focusing on social innovation and entrepreneurship. Francis has served in various roles of marketing and strategy in wellrecognized corporations like PCCW Group, Hutchison Whampoa, Ogilvy and Mather, Nielson Group etc. He obtained a B.A. (Hon) Quantitative Analysis from City University of Hong Kong and has obtained scholarship for non-profit executive programs at INSEAD Business School (2009) and at Harvard Business School (2011).
Doug Miller Chairman Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
Doug is an American citizen who has lived 30 years in the UK. He has a 38year career in investment banking and private equity. He is founder of International Private Equity Limited, a fund placement boutique. Doug is founding trustee of Impetus Trust in the UK; founding chairman and honorary president of European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA); and founder of European Venture Philanthropy Fund. He has been active in philanthropy for 30 years – mainly in education, the environment and microcredit. Following the success of the EVPA that now has more than 130 members, Doug has been developing the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network of which he serves as founding chairman.
Shruti Sehra Partner New Profit Inc.
As a Partner at New Profit, Shruti leads critical elements of portfolio management for the core New Profit Fund, including ensuring organizations are receiving the support and resources they need both from New Profit and from the Monitor Group through pro-bono strategic engagements. She also leads efforts to measure, evaluate, and report aggregate and organization-specific performance. In addition to her internal management responsibilities, Shruti serves as a portfolio manager for Stand for Children and BUILD, supporting their efforts to create and execute against aggressive plans to accelerate their impact. Shruti joined New Profit in 2006 after finishing a joint MBA/MPA. Prior to graduate school, she managed a campaign for State Assembly in California while starting up a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping critically ill workers. Before that, she spent seven years working in the private sector, initially as an engineer at Honeywell, an aerospace engine manufacturer, and later in a series of quality management positions at Howmet Castings, an aerospace casting manufacturer, and Jabil Circuit, an electronics manufacturing services company. Shruti holds an SB in Chemistry from MIT, an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.
Nat Sloane Co-founder and Vice-chair Impetus Trust
Nat Sloane is the co-founder of Impetus Trust, the pioneer of venture philanthropy in the UK. A successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, management consultant and social investor, he brings a wealth of experience to the role. Prior to Impetus, Nat was a partner in Accenture, where he also chaired their UK charitable foundation, and was vice chairman of Crime Concern. He is currently the England Committee Chair of the Big Lottery Fund, an independent member of the Bridges Social Enterprise Fund investment Committee and a member of the Social Finance Social Impact Advisory Board. Nat has established three private businesses in the UK and the US.
Kevin Teo Chief Operating Officer Asian Venture Philanthropy Network
Kevin is Chief Operating Officer at AVPN. Prior to that, he was a CoFounder of Volans, a Social Innovation company with offices in London and Singapore. Kevin was previously Head of East and Southeast Asia at the Schwab Foundation of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. Prior to that, Kevin had a nine year stint in the enterprise software arena, which included work at two Sequoia Capital startups that were acquired by Sun Microsystems and Symantec respectively. Kevin is a Trustee of the Southeast Asian Service Leadership Network (SEALNet), a non-profit he co-founded with offices in California and Singapore. He is also Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the NUS Business School’s Asia Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy. Kevin graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with an MS in Information Networking, and holds a BEng with Honors in Computing from Imperial College, London.
Yuan Jia Kai Executive Deputy Secretary General YouChange
Jia Kai is Executive Deputy Secretary General at YouChange and joined the organization in August of 2010. Jia Kai graduated with a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Before joining YouChange, he was the Strategic Planning Director for the Jet Li One Foundation, responsible for strategic cooperation and exploration in the field of social enterprise, involved in projects including the Dannon Dumex infant food supplement "quick start program", Climate Organization's Rural Clean Energy "1,000 Village Plan", a minority culture assistance program called the "Qiang embroidery assistance plan", and in coordinating post-disaster reconstruction efforts through the Renren Yijia Volunteers Project. Before joining the One Foundation, he worked in New York at Credit Suisse, responsible for leveraged buyouts and asset restructuring bankruptcy protection, as well as direct investment of non-performing assets. Jia Kai also previously worked on several internal consulting projects at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle, and has more than four years of entrepreneurial experience in Toronto, Canada. His message: together with friends, create a public service platform, with common universal values, to create a philanthropy hurricane.
About AVPN AVPN’s mission is to encourage and facilitate the development of venture philanthropy across the Asia Pacific region. We envision an Asian philanthropy landscape that responds effectively to the resource needs of high-potential social purpose organizations (SPO); a landscape where businesses, grant-makers, government funders and business schools collaborate to help SPOs deliver maximum social value. AVPN will create a network of organizations practicing and supporting venture philanthropy in the Asia Pacific region. This network will support its members through peer learning and will promote venture philanthropy to the wider community, including private equity firms, hedge funds, grant-making foundations, universities, family offices and governmentrelated institutions. Over time we intend for venture philanthropy to be a well-established and respected segment of the philanthropy industry.
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