To pastures new: Asia PE people moves

LIMITED PARTNERS

ADAMS STREET PARTNERS Doris Guo, a principal in charge of primary investments in Greater China, is promoted to partner, while Ben Hart arrives from Capital Dynamics as partner and head of business development for Asia

ADIA Dong-Sinh Ngo is appointed chief representative for Asia Pacific, to be based in the sovereign wealth fund's new Hong Kong office

CANADA PENSION PLAN INVESTMENT BOARD Mark Machin, head of international and Asia president, is promoted to global president and CEO. Suyi Kim takes over as head of Asia and her previous position - head of Asia private equity - is filled by Deborah Orida, who previously led the group's relationship investments business

GIC PRIVATE Chow-Kiat Lim is appointed CEO, replacing Siong-Guan Lim. Jeffrey Jaensubhakij succeeds Lim as CIO, relinquishing his position as deputy CIO and president for public markets. Lim-Hock Tay becomes deputy CIO and president for Europe, and in doing so, swaps his position as president for private equity and infrastructure for an advisory role. Yong-Cheen Choo is named CIO for private equity, alongside similar appointments across infrastructure, real estate, fixed income and public equities

HAMILTON LANE Tomoko Kitao, the head of operations in Japan, and Hong Kong-based Mingchen Xia and Josh Jacob are promoted to managing director

JAPAN POST Hideya Sadanaga, previously of Nissay Asset Management and Nippon Life Insurance, becomes head of private equity at Japan Post Bank, under Tokihiko Shimizu, head of private markets. Tadasu Matsuo, general manager for alternative investment at Daido Life, moves to Japan Post Insurance to oversee alternatives coverage

KOREA INVESTMENT CORPORATION Sung-Soo Eun, previously an executive director at the World Bank, is named CEO and board chairman. Shin-Woo Kang, most recently CEO of Hanwa Asset Management, becomes CIO

MLC Alicia Gregory becomes head of private equity, having spent the previous three years as head of European private equity. She replaces Natalie Meyenn

NATIONAL PENSION SERVICE Myun-Wook Kang, formerly CEO of Meritz Asset Management, is named CIO, replacing Wan-Sun Hong. It follows the appointment of Hyung-Pyo Moon as chairman. NPS subsequently restructures its alternative investment divisions from domestic and global to private equity, real estate and infrastructure, with no geographic delineation

NEW ZEALAND VENTURE INVESTMENT FUND Richard Dellabarca is named CEO in place of Franceska Banga, who led the government-sponsored fund-of-funds since its inception

NOAH HOLDINGS Piau-Voon Wang, formerly a partner and head of Asian investments at Adams Street Partners, becomes co-CIO, tasked with leading international investments. He is also appointed partner at Gopher Asset Management, Noah's asset management arm

NORTH-EAST FAMILY OFFICE Sam Robinson, previously head of regional private equity fund investment at Aberdeen Asset Management, joins as managing partner for Asia

ONTARIO TEACHERS' PENSION PLAN Nicole Musicco, the head of Asia Pacific, returns to Toronto to lead the pension plan's public equities unit. She is succeeded - on an interim basis only - by Jo Taylor, who is promoted to senior international managing director

SUN HUNG KAI Sebastiaan van den Berg, previously a managing director at HarbourVest Partners, becomes CIO and head of principal investments

TEMASEK HOLDINGS Song Hwee Chia and Dilhan Pillay, who co-lead the portfolio management group and the investment group, become presidents alongside Gregory Curl and Theng Kiat Lee. This comes as Temasek combines its sector and market investment teams under a single investment group

UNIGESTION Edouard Merette, formerly a managing director at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), becomes non-executive chairman of the Asia board

GENERAL PARTNERS

ACTIS Pamela Fang, who leads the firm's investor development group in Asia, is appointed head of the new Hong Kong office, which will primarily be used for investor relations

BARING PRIVATE EQUITY ASIA Bala Naidu, an India-based managing director, departs to launch his own PE firm

THE BLACKSTONE GROUP Chris Heady becomes chairman of Asia Pacific, adding to his existing responsibilities as head of real estate in the region. Jan Nielsen is promoted to COO for Asia Pacific, having previously led PE activities in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea.

BLUE SKY ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS Founder Mark Sowerby retires, with COO Rob Shand assuming the role of managing director

THE CARLYLE GROUP David Bluff is promoted to head of the buyout team in Australia and New Zealand, in place of Simon Moore, who leaves the firm. Brian Wilson is named senior advisor to the firm's Asia buyout team but subsequently delays taking up the role until completing his tenure as chairman of the Australian Foreign Investment Review Board. Neeraj Bharadwaj, a Mumbai-based member of the firm's Asia buyout team, is promoted to partner

CVC CAPITAL PARTNERS Eugene Suh, formerly CIO at Unitas Capital, joins as partner and Asia COO. Yi Luo, previously of The Blackstone Group, is hired as partner and head of China

CX PARTNERS Co-founder Ajay Relan steps back with Jayanta Basu assuming responsibility for daily operations as managing partner

EIG GLOBAL ENERGY PARTNERS Rex Chung, formerly of KKR, joins as co-head of Asia

EIGHT ROADS VENTURES SBCVC's Joe Chang joins as a partner on its China team

EVERSTONE CAPITAL Avnish Mehra, ex-India country director at Advent International, becomes a managing director in the PE unit

FOSUN GROUP Three senior executives at VC arm Fosun Kinzon Capital - Jun Wang, the managing partner and chairman, and managing directors Jack Liang and Brad Bao - depart to set up their own firm. Donghui Pan takes over as chairman and president of Fosun Kinzon

GENERAL ATLANTIC Eric Zhang, formerly of The Carlyle Group, becomes managing director and head of China. Shantanu Rastogi, who leads investments for the Mumbai office, is promoted to managing director, while Hong Kong-based Erin Chang becomes a principal

GOLDMAN SACHS Vishal Bakshi, an India-based managing director with the firm, leaves to establish Avatar Growth Capital Partners

HEADLAND CAPITAL PARTNERS The firm is renamed HPEF Capital Partners and continues to shed partners following a decision to suspend fundraising. Paul Kang, Brian Chang and William Shen are among those to depart, with the latter forming Osmanthus Capital Partners

HELION VENTURE PARTNERS Alok Goyal, Rahul Chowdhri and Ritesh Banglani - three of the firm's six partners - depart to form early-stage India VC investor Stellaris Venture Partners

INTEL CAPITAL Anthony Lin, a member of Intel Corp's M&A team since 2008, becomes managing director and head of Asia

IFM INVESTORS Stuart Wardman-Browne, previously of CHAMP Ventures, is appointed executive director in the private capital team, focusing on fundraising and direct investment

J-STAR Yuki Kashiyama and Tomoko Ando are promoted to partner level

KKR Paul Yang, president and CEO of Taiwan-headquartered China Development Financial Corporation, is named head of Greater China. This comes as David Liu, co-head of Asia private equity and head of China, and Julian Wolhardt, the regional leader of China, prepare to leave the firm to raise a China fund. Ashish Shastry is hired from Northstar Group to become head of Southeast Asia, with Zhen Ji and Hyoung-Seok Lim joining as managing directors, to be based in China and Korea, respectively. Scott Bookmyer, COO of the firm's Asian operation, relocates to Sydney as head of Australia

L CAPITAL ASIA Philip Corne, CEO of Louis Vuitton Australia, is named executive chairman for Australia

LIGHTSPEED CHINA PARTNERS Co-founder Ron Cao leaves to set up Yunjiu Capital, a China-focused early-stage VC firm

MATRIX PARTNERS INDIA Co-founder Rishi Navani departs to launch Epiq Capital

MBK PARTNERS Kuo-Chan Kung, partner and head of Greater China, leaves after 11 years

MEKONG CAPITAL Thanh Giang Vu Pham, an investment professional, and Truong Dieu Le, head of operations, are promoted to partner

NEWQUEST CAPITAL PARTNERS Daizong Wong, formerly a Beijing-based managing director at CVC Capital Partners, joins as a partner

OAKTREE CAPITAL Byron Beath, previously of Macquarie Bank, is appointed to lead investment activities in Australia as head of the newly-opened Sydney office

PURPLESKY CAPITAL Brett Krause, former president of J.P. Morgan Chase China, joins as managing partner with a view to helping the Chinese VC firm launch a US dollar fund

THE RIVERSIDE COMPANY Australia-based Nicholas Speer, who joined from Catalyst Investment Managers in 2014, is named partner

THE ROHATYN GROUP Gordon Cho, a managing director in the firm's Hong Kong office, is appointed head of the new South Korea base. Christopher Seaver, ex-CEO of CLSA Capital Partners, becomes a partner in Hong Kong

SAIF PARTNERS Mukul Singhal and Rohit Jain, both principals at SAIF India, leave to start their own early-stage venture capital firm

SAMARA CAPITAL Sanjay Purohit, the managing director for India at global clothing manufacturer Levi Strauss, joins as a partner

SAMENA CAPITAL Vincent Chan, founder of China-focused GP Spring Capital, becomes a senior managing director and head of Asia

SEQUOIA CAPITAL CHINA Herbert Chia, ex-head of the data committee and vice president at Alibaba Group, joins as a venture partner

SHAW KWEI & PARTNERS Peter Ko, previously of H&Q Asia Pacific and William E. Simon & Sons, joins as a managing director in the Hong Kong office, while ex-Darby Private Equity executive becomes a senior advisor in New York

SHORELINE CAPITAL Ben Fanger, co-founder of Shoreline Capital, departs the firm and establishes ShoreVest where he is joined by seven of the 12 senior investment, legal and compliance members from Shoreline's previous funds. Other former Shoreline executives re-emerge at distressed investment start-up DCL Investments and PAG Asia Capital

SOFTBANK Ken Miyauchi, president and CEO of the company's Japanese telecom operations, becomes president and COO of the overall group, following Nikesh Arora''s departure

STANDARD CHARTERED PRIVATE EQUITY CEO Joe Stevens and Bert Kwan, who was responsible for investment activity in Southeast Asia, both leave the firm, leaving Nainesh Jaisingh in sole charge of the bank-owned private equity unit

TA ASSOCIATES Naveen Wadhera, the firm's London-based Asia co-head, is promoted to managing director, while Dhiraj Poddar, co-head of the firm's India business, becomes a principal

TPG CAPITAL Joel Thickins, a director at CHAMP Private Equity, becomes Australia country head, taking over from Ben Gray, who is preparing to launch his own firm. Sanghoon Lee, formerly a managing director with Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia, becomes a partner tasked with leading investments in South Korea. Jin-Yong Cai, the former executive vice president and CEO of the International Finance Corporation, is appointed as a partner. Sing Wang, previously co-chairman for Greater China, leaves to become CEO of China Minsheng Financial Holding

UNITAS CAPITAL The China team, led by Jim Tsao, joins Permira after Unitas decides against raising a fourth fund

WARBURG PINCUS David Li, managing director and head of China, resigns to set up his own firm. Julian Cheng and Frank Wei assume responsibility for the China business

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