Michael Lints has over 20 years of experience helping innovative businesses obtain the resources, insights, and expertise they need to be successful. Michael has been a startup operator, investor, and mentor and is currently a Partner at the Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures. He joined the firm in 2013 and focuses his time predominantly on institutional fundraising and managing Golden Gate Ventures' MENA fund. Michael has helped support firm and portfolio-level priorities that have spanned fundraising, capital allocation, M&A, and corporate development.

Michael’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2000 when he co-founded an IT-managed services startup in Europe that was acquired by a large data and telecom company six years later. In 2007, Michael founded a venture fund focused on Dutch small- and medium-sized enterprises to help them with capital financing, business development, and strategy. During the same period, he was invited to join the Economic Development Board Rotterdam as Vice Chairman. In that role, he launched the Young Economic Development Board, where he brought together a highly influential Dutch network to develop a sustainable framework for public-private relationships that increased local business investment while leveraging the public infrastructure.

He is also passionate about social justice and leverages his network to raise awareness for important issues such as civil rights, economic opportunity, and education. Michael is an active writer and a co-director of an award-winning social impact documentary called Broken Chains.

Vishnu Amble serves as a Director of GreenBear Group LLC, a single-family office founded in 2006 based in Miami, Florida and Singapore. The GreenBear Group LLC investment program has been active across private markets in developed and emerging regions of the globe, with a specific focus on spinning out and seeding emerging GPs, as well as being active investors in funds and companies focused on the intersection of infrastructure, technology and sustainability, and are members of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA).

Vishnu also serves as a Director of the family office’s foundation focused on funding access to energy, education, healthcare, and climate change solutions in South and SE Asia. Vishnu has built his 20+ year career in investments and capital markets at the intersection of Technology, Infrastructure, Energy, and Sustainability with such companies as Saudi Aramco, E.ON, The Carlyle Group and Lehman Brothers.Vishnu earned his Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.

Serge is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Cabot Capital Partners (CCP) established in 2018. CCP advises Family Offices and institutional investors on governance, strategy, portfolio construction, manager selection and direct investment opportunities.

Prior to establishing CCP, Serge has worked with sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, Asia and Canada; In the Middle East, Serge was latterly the founding CEO of QADIC, a US$2bn global investment platform jointly funded by Qatar Investment Authority and Mubadala; Chief Investment Officer for Mumtalakat (Bahrain) and had been appointed to senior roles at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) establishing the co-investment and direct investment business units respectively.

Before relocating to the Gulf in 2004, Serge had been based in Asia since 1996 establishing the initial private equity operations of the Caisse de Dépot et Placement du Québec (CDPQ).

Serge’s early career encompassed working in Montreal for CDPQ as well as other leading Canadian financial institutions, focused on direct investment, mergers and acquisitions advisory and corporate finance.

Fatima has over 15 years’ experience in various international roles (London, Dubai, Taipei, Bangkok and Singapore covering ME and Africa and East Asia) in strategy consulting, inbound and outbound investment and bilateral trade while leveraging on public and private sector partnerships. During her executive career she has achieved average deal sizes between USD$5-10M, established over 10 significant PPPs that enabled private sector access and has led Ministerial trade and business missions including PM Jacinda Arden to Singapore. Fatima is uniquely placed in understanding cultural nuances between East and West and is a proud Bahraini speaking both Mandarin and Arabic, sector agnostic, speaks 4 languages and graduated from London School of Economics and Political Science and has master’s degree in International Relations. Fatima is often described as creative innovator.

Fatima is responsible for building strategic blueprints, establishing, and strengthening Bahrain’s positioning in APAC to attract FDI and enable companies to expand their footprint into the Middle East and Africa via Bahrain.

Fatima has helped other countries grow over the last decade of her career and is excited to finally be rooted back to helping her own country.

Cliff has over 30 years of experience in investments, capital markets, risk management, and operations. He is currently the Managing Partner of ewpartners, a private equity firm focused on expanding Asian businesses into the Middle East. From 2012 to 2023, Cliff was a Partner at HOPU Investments, where he co-founded CMH Healthcare Investments. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director and Head of Finance at China Investment Corporation (CIC), contributing to risk management and investment decisions. Earlier in his career, Cliff was a Partner at KPMG in China and held senior positions at KPMG Los Angeles, Global Crossing, and Earth Tech in the United States.

Since 2018, Cliff has been a board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee at SINOPEC Marketing Company. He has also served on the boards of several major companies, including GCL-Poly and Adisseo.