Arowana Inc *
MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Executive Officers
Kevin Tser Fah Chin, 42
Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
In 2007, Mr. Chin founded Arowana & Co., which comprises Arowana Partners Group, Arowana Capital and Arowana International. Arowana Partners Group operates a number of unlisted investment funds and arranges and manages acquisitions and syndicated investments in unlisted companies. Arowana Capital operates as an Early Stage Venture Capital Limited Partnership venture capital fund, having formerly managed a Venture Capital Limited Partnership private equity fund. Arowana International is a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with subsidiaries in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia operating in three segments: education, diagnostic testing and training and events. Mr. Chin served as Managing Partner of Arowana Capital from June 2007 to June 2013 and has served as Chief Executive Officer of Arowana International since January 2013. Prior to founding Arowana & Co., Mr. Chin led the management buyout of an ASX listed software business, SoftLaw Corporation (which was renamed to RuleBurst Haley Limited) in November 2004 and became its Chief Financial Officer (and for a period also its Chief Operating Officer). RuleBurst Haley was acquired by Oracle Corporation in November 2008. Between October 2003 and October 2004, Mr. Chin worked as investment manager / analyst with a family office called the Lowy Family Group. Prior to then, he was with J.P. Morgan as a Vice President in its Investment Banking division, primarily in Sydney, Australia but also in New York. Before joining J.P.Morgan, Mr. Chin worked as a corporate finance executive with an Australian merchant bank, Ord Minnett, from July 1996 to August 1997. He was previously also with Price Waterhouse in their corporate finance and litigation support team (June 1995 to July 1996) and Deloitte in their business consulting division (January 1993 to June 1995).
Gary San Hui, 45
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Director
Mr. Hui joined Arowana International as an Executive Director and Fund Manager in November 2014. From 2007 to November 2014 when he joined Arowana, Mr. Hui was with Indus Capital, a hedge fund founded by former Soros Fund Management Partners. Mr. Hui joined Indus as a senior analyst, before becoming Managing Director and Chief Representative of Indus’ Singapore office in December 2011, prior to relocating to San Francisco in July 2013. From 1999 to 2007, Mr. Hui was with J.P. Morgan, including as an equity capital and derivatives banker responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of mandates in the Asian region. Prior to this, he worked at Deloitte in audit, business consulting and corporate finance.
Board of Directors
John C. Moore, 78
Director
From 1998 until 2001, Mr. Moore was Federal Minister of Defence of Australia. Since retiring from Australian politics in 2001, Mr. Moore has held numerous directorships across a range of industries including power and electrical services, education, and road maintenance. Mr. Moore was previously the Australian Federal Minister for Industry, Science and Tourism from 1996 until 1998, also holding the position of Vice President of the Executive Council. Mr. Moore has also held director or board memberships in a number of Australian companies, including Brandt Limited (Australia), P.F.C.B. Limited and Agricultural Investments Limited, and was a board member of Merrill Lynch Australia and Citinational Australia. He is currently Chairman of the Evolution Road Maintenance Group, Chairman of Ubiquity Power and Maintenance Group Limited, a director of Arowana International and Arowana Australasia Value Opportunities Fund Limited, as well as several other private companies.
Dudley Hoskin, 45
Director
Since October 2011, Mr. Hoskin has been a Portfolio Manager with Tudor Investment Corporation, a global investment firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. From 2007 to September 2011, Mr. Hoskin served as a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs in Australia, before which (from 2000 to 2002) he was based in Hong Kong with the same firm. From 2002 until 2005, he ran the G10 currency trading business for HSBC, at which time returned to Australia to set up the Proprietary Trading Business for Societe Generale Australia before resuming his career with Goldman Sachs in 2007.
Kien Khan Kwan, 35
Director
From February 2012 to October 2014, Mr. Kwan served as Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of Arowana International. Mr. Kwan has significant international experience in transaction origination, structuring, negotiation and execution, including transactions raising in excess of $4.3 billion of listed and unlisted equity. He has led teams involved in multiple merger and acquisition transactions in Australia and Europe across various industries. Prior to this role, Mr. Kwan spent 10 years in various investment and advisory roles in Sydney, Perth and London including at J.P. Morgan (September 2008 to April 2011) and at Macquarie Capital (December 2006 to August 2008). He also was a small caps portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management with direct responsibility for over $1 billion in funds under management.
