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Mr.
Tan has over 25 years of experience in fund
management, entrepreneurship, banking,
engineering and training. He is the Managing
Director and co-founder of 3V SourceOne Capital,
a regional private equity firm with presence in
Singapore, China and USA. He has previously
served as the Chairman of its Industry
Development Committee, Valuation Committee and
is the current Honorary Treasurer of the
Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity
Association.
Since 1994, he has been involved in direct
investments in Greater China, USA and ASEAN in
various industries ranging from IT,
semiconductor, communications, biomedical, F&B,
materials, cleantech, consumers goods and real
estate. He was previously an Executive Director
and Principle Fund Manager of UOB Venture
Management responsible for fund management
activities and setting up of joint-venture VC
funds in China.
Mr. Tan started his engineering career with
Texas Instruments Singapore specialising in
process automation and subsequently joined
Northern Telecom as a section head responsible
for new digital communication products
introduction in Asia.
He successfully ventured into banking industry
in 1990 as an Assistant Vice President with
commercial banking of the United Overseas Bank
Group. He was involved in retail banking,
corporate banking, trade banking and fund
management for 10 years with UOB. He served as
the Chairman of Retail Electronic Banking
Committee of the Association of Banks in
Singapore and Operation Committee Member of NETS
Singapore in 1991/1992.
He has served as a member of the final panel for
Technology Enterprise Commercialisation Scheme (TECS),
Spring Singapore.
He is an Honarary Secretary of the Board of Hwa
Chong Institution, a Singapore's premier
independent school founded in 1919. Mr. Tan is
also the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Hwa Chong International School.
Mr. Tan holds a M.Sc. (Industrial Eng.) and a
B.Eng. (EE) (Hons) degree from the National
University of Singapore. He is an alumnus of the
US Venture Capital Institute. |
