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The Genesis Forum casts the spotlight on Asia’s trailblazing founders and thought-leaders who share their experiences about the innovation ecosystem in Southeast Asia and discuss entrepreneurship financing in a startup’s growth journey.

Aadarsh Baijal
Senior partner at Bain & Company and co-author of the Google, Temasek, Bain & Company e-Conomy SEA 2019 Report, Aadarsh shares his research on the Founder’s Mentality.

Tony Huang
Tony is based in Silicon Valley and has provided over US$200 million in venture debt financing to over 100 companies. Tony will share insights about funding growth with debt capital.

Vanessa Hendriadi Li
GoWork CEO & Founder
GoWork & Vanessa – GoWork is Indonesia’s leading premium coworking space with a mission to provide world-class facilities and style, without breaking the bank. GoWork builds beautiful and inspiring workspaces to empower artists, creators, and entrepreneurs to reach new heights of success. Co-founder and CEO Vanessa Hendriadi believes today’s working environment should be based around community and collaboration and started ReWork which merged to form GoWork after leaving her consumer-group family business.

Yoan Kamalski
Hmlet CEO & Founder
Hmlet & Yoan – Hmlet’s journey began when Yoan realised how much meaningful life became when people shared their living space. Hmlet create co-living communities to accommodate the urban, millennial workforce who have a desire to connect with likeminded individuals across the largest cities in the Asia-Pacific. With a background in large-scale real estate project management, Yoan turned his drive and his family-rooted interest in real estate to create Hmlet.
Paul Hadjy
Horangi CEO & Founder
Horangi & Paul – Horangi provides best-in-class security software and services backed by a team of global cybersecurity experts in Asia. Paul is Horangi’s CEO and Co-Founder, a Palantir alum and cybersecurity veteran who has a wealth of experience in growing tech companies in Asia Pacific.

Evan Xiao Han
Lynx CEO & Founder
Lynx Global & Evan – Lynk is changing the way business decisions are made, powering a knowledge sharing economy to democratize access to expert knowledge. With the ability to curate the right experts to answer questions, Lynk’s Knowledge-as-a-Service (KaaS) platform has the potential to disrupt many knowledge and human capital-related industries and categories, allowing companies to get the specific, tailored information they need quickly and cost effectively.
Chief Revenue Officer Evan was part of a small group of UPenn alumni that started Lynk Global, prior to which he had stints in investment banking and sales & trading. He grew up in Chicago, went to UChicago for undergrad and Wharton for MBA.
2.00pm
| Guest Arrival and Registration |
2.30pm
| Opening Remarks | |
| by Citibank |
2.35pm
| Welcome Remarks | |
| Dr Jeremy Loh | |
| Managing Partner & Founder, Genesis Alternative Ventures |
2.40pm
| Keynote Address-The Founders Mentality | |
| Aadarsh Baijal | |
| Partner, Bain & Company | |
| “Most large, successful companies began as insurgents—fast, agile and adaptable. They focused on customers. They hated complexity. But too many companies accept a troubling trade-off. They achieve scale, but lose their Founder’s Mentality—the very core strengths and values that helped them succeed and grow. Our research shows that of the one in nine companies that achieve a decade or more of sustained, profitable growth, the majority are those that have preserved—or restored—their Founder’s Mentality.” |
Founders Forum:
3.10pm
| Vanessa Hendriadi Li, Founder & CEO GoWork |
3.20pm
| Yoan Kamalski, Founder & CEO Hmlet |
3.30pm
| Paul Hadjy, Founder & CEO Horangi |
3.40pm
| Evan Xiao Han, Founder & CRO Lynk Global |
3.50pm
| Introduction to Citi Commercial Bank |
4.00pm
| Panel Discussion: “Building your Capital Structure; the critical role of debt financing” | |
| Q&A moderated by Dr Tommy Tan Founder and CEO TC Capital |
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| Panelists: Tony Huang, Advisor, Genesis Alternative Ventures Richard Li, Co-Founder & CFO GoWork Sagar Khatri, Head of Corporate Development, Hmlet Velisarios Kattoulas, CEO Lanturm |
4.55pm
| Closing Remarks Jyrki Rauhio | |
| Head, Citi Private Bank (ASEAN, India, Australia and New Zealand) |
5.00pm
| Networking (Wine & Bites) |

About Genesis Alternative Ventures
Genesis Alternative Ventures is Southeast Asia’s leading private lender to venture and growth stage companies funded by tier-one VCs. Genesis is founded by a team of venture lending pioneers who have backed some of Southeast Asia’s
best loved companies. Armed with a strong reputation among entrepreneurs and investors, Genesis is your trusted partner in empowering your company’s growth while minimising shareholders’ equity dilution.
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