He holds undergraduate degrees from Queen's University, Canada and an MBA from INSEAD France. He is certified with the Canadian Securities Institute and has attended executive programmes at IMD, Stanford, USC and UCSF.

He is presently the Group Managing Director of Southgate Ventures, a PE-owned education platform company with eight international schools in Indonesia. His 30 years of corporate experience covers private equity at The Abraaj Group; financial advisory and private equity at H2O Capital; commercial banking at TD Bank; investment banking at Lancaster Financial; business development and marketing at P&G in Switzerland, Vietnam, Southeast Asia and Australia; and top management and regional board experience at L'Oreal where he was the President of its companies in Malaysia and Taiwan. He served on the boards of the European Chamber of Commerce in Taipei from 2006-2009 and Taipei American School from 2011-2014. In 2004, he was conferred the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre Nationale du Merite by French President, Jacques Chirac, in recognition of his business achievements.

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